HUNTER S. THOMPSON'S SANDUSKY NEXUS

THE GONE ZONE

When A Devilish Deal Goes Bad

by Fabian Colbachi for CPW News Service

     It was inevitable that someone would draw connections between the first Gonzolian and a "gone zone"....a "gone over the edge zone".  After all, he was embedded with the Hell’s Angels in Oakland not far from the Bohemian Grove and made it a point to live as outrageous a life style as possible, traveling in the highest of celebrity and political circles and collecting a small arsenal of high powered guns….22 according to his first wife...which he always kept loaded... like his blood flow with alcohol and psychotropic drugs.  A dangerous combination. 
     "Like his friend, Johnny Depp's tattoo artist who was arrested for having an arsenal of loaded weapons, Hunter romanced the stoned and the stoned cold reptilians," said one New York 5th Avenue tattoo artist. "Forget that Johnny Dipp," he said as I corrected, "You mean Depp."  "He's Depp to you, but he's a Dipp to me," he continued.  "Forget that Dipp's closest friend is Marilyn Manson or that Dipp was up to his pierced nipples in helping the West Memphis 3 who were convicted of a Wiccan ritual of murdering three little boys," he continued.

     Then there was the $1,000,000 settlement in the civil suit of Paul Bonacci in Omaha, Nebraska’s Franklin Savings scandal and the collaborating witness of Rusty Nelson, the gonzo-photographer for Omaha’s high ranking Black Republican fund raiser and head of Omaha’s Franklin Savings, Larry King.  Eventually a documentary of the Franklin scandal based on John DeCamp's book, The Franklin Cover-Up, which included King’s connection to a pedophile ring linked to Boy’s Town, the famous orphan’s home in Omaha run by the Roman Catholic Church, would surface.  It showed the lines linking the pedofile-pleagued jet-setting sky ways of a perverted core of corrupt power elites.  Someone  had mysteriously purchased the original proofs of the English documentary, Conspiracy of Silence, to silence it.   It is now viewable in its entirety on the Internet.  King was providing boys to wealthy high-profile pedophiles and the documentary may have been a  tool believed powerful enough to do what every English nobleman beholding to his own screwed up elites secretly desires...to bring the former colony and it leaders to their knees.

     Gonzo journalist, Hunter S. Thompson, who reported during the Edmund Muskie presidential campaign that Muskie was rumored to be a drug addict, found rumors flying around about his own prurient interests.   It focused on what Bonacci, Nelson and Bonacci’s lawyer from Omaha, John DeCamp, a former aide to CIA Director William Colby, described as Thompson’s production of a snuff film made at the Bohemian Grove north of San Francisco.

     The film was reportedly shot in 1984 during which a boy was brutally murdered.  Four years later in November 1988 Thompson appeared on the David Letterman Show in a bizarre reference to killing people, his innocence, his rejection of psychotherapy, guilt, justice, Jesuits and an acquired hatred of George H.W. Bush whose frequent visits to the Bohemian Grove are well documented and whose nickname in the Yale Skull and Bones fraternity is Molloch, which he rarely uses in his Sunday school class at his Anglican Church.

     Included in the Franklin Cover-Up and the Nebraska pedophile ring was the abduction of Johnny Goosh who many believed was the Bush White House’s reporter known as Jeff Gannon.  Gannon was exposed as a gay escort photographed in Nazi attire, thus raising questions about White House Security.  Gannon appeared on national television with his spokesman, New York private detective and security expert, Bo Dietl, and admitted friend of NY's Teflon Don, John Gotti.  Dietl was also a character witness for Rudy Giuliani's discredited NY City Police Commissioner, Bernard Kerik, who from May to September, 2003 was L. Paul Bremer's security chief in Iraq, helping to set in place the program inherited by US Army Col. Theodore Westhusing who reportedly committed suicide after a bitter confrontation with General David Petraeus over the corruption he had encountered there.   
     In July 2008, John De Camp won a libel suit against the Omaha Chief of Police, Robert Wadman, who was implicated in the Franklin Cover-up.  Wadman left Omaha to help the U.S. government train police on the streets of Iraq.   
     While Gannon claimed not to be Johnny Goosh, the mystery surrounding his name and place in the White House continued.  Many believed that Gannon’s high profile exposure and name were meant to send a message to Washington insiders to not uncover the nationwide and international pedophile ring that would continue to unravel with the 2012 Sandusky scandal which clearly connects to the Nebraska pedophile scandal.  Outed as it was in the week of the Penn State vs. Nebraska football game Sandusky's little problem hardwired together the high voltage story sending an unmistakable message to all of those along the freaky food chain including Burger King and Pizza mogul, Herman Cain, whose connections to Pennsylvania and Omaha have also been made clear.  The scandal at Happy Valley, Pennsylvania was preceded  by  the indictment of over 30 Philadelphia priests protected by Monsignor William Lynn.  Herman Cain, an associate pastor in Atlanta, Georgia's Antioch Baptist Church had been given honorary degree by Omaha's Creighton University a Roman Catholic college run by the Jesuits and by the University of Nebraska along with a Horatio Alger Award named for the American author of books for young boys...the Ragged Dick series.

     Many have speculated that the Jeff Gannon incident served to intimidate CIA insiders with a reminder of the death of Matt Gannon, son-in-law of CIA Deputy Director of Operations, Thomas Tweeton. Matt Gannon was returning to Washington in 1988 to press CIA officials about why the rank and file CIA agents had nothing in their records on the Muslim Brotherhood from which Al Qaeda was spawned.  Gannon never had the chance to press his question.  His plane, Pan Am 103, went down over Lockerbie, Scotland.  Everyone died.

     During this same time CIA agent,  Mark Phillips, rescued Cathy O’Brien, a victim of the CIA’s MK-Ultra mind control project which was also a pedophile black operations unit.   Called Project Monarch, the operation followed within 40 years of the CIA’s Operation Paper Clip conducted by Director, Alan Dulles,  which brought Nazi Germany’s leading scientists to the U.S. supported, in large measure, by members of the “Business Plot”.  That plot was led by leading American industrialists including Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone and William Burroughs whose grandson was Hunter S. Thompson’s writing mentor according to his 1997 article on Burroughs for Rolling Stone and his later book Hey Rube. The business plot even included American aviation hero Charles Lindbergh and Prescott Bush.  
     William S. Burroughs had snuffed his wife during a shooting prank in 1951 in Mexico, but his father and friend's business plot had sought to oust President Franklin Roosevelt with a coup led by two-time Congressional Medal of Honor winner, General Smedley Darlington Butler.  Butler would go on to write the book War Is A Racket, fingering the U.S. military industrial complex’s climate of evil.  John O. Rogge would likewise write his report on the German American Bund’s connection to Nazi leaders while Edwin Black’s War Against The Weak chronicled the place of Mrs. Mary Harriman, wife of Averill Harriman and son of Union Pacific’s founder , E.H. Harriman, who funded the American eugenics program at Cold Spring Harbor, New York that informed the Nazi push for racial purity.  The Harrimans had employed Prescott Bush, father of George Herbert Walker Bush, while Samuel Prescott Bush, Prescott’s father, had been in charge of America’ small arms weapons during World War I.  It appears from every angle that Hunter S. Thompson was a hurricane hunter in the eye of the American Nazi storm trooping around like a wayward boyscout who has fallen...no jumped....into a rabbit hole of dark forbidden decadence.  Was his summation in Kingdom of Fear a confession before the hammer snap?  There's no mountain of evidence, but it's clearly larger than a mole or gofer mound or a gravel pile.

     George Herbert Walker Bush followed Dulles as CIA Director and the Franklin Cover-up does not leave President Bush out of the pedophile loop and nor does Mark Phillips the CIA agent who rescued Cathy O'brien. 

     “It’s very possible that when Jeff Gannon’s story broke, Hunter S. Thompson thought that the veil was about to come off of the incident at Bohemian Grove and so he killed himself,” that according to John Baker of the Center for Ethical Intelligence in Washington D.C.. "It's an old ploy.  People's excesses are exploited and used as blackmailing leverage.  Pedophilia and the fear of its exposure is one of the most powerful tools of reptilian extortionists," said Baker who added....  "The Gonzo reporter wrote himself into the story and into a corner and he couldn't gracefully get out of it.  Hunter Thompson's book Kingdom of Fear describes America's descent into the abyss, but it misses a profound point.  The United States is not a kingdom, but a democratic republic, that has a long history of doing serious battle with monarchical pricks and demonic Luceiferians assholes."

LEGALIZATION OF MARIJUANA or GUNJA IS ORDAINED

Mendocino, California Ready To Demand Change In U.S. Drug Policy

by Aldous Baldus McGivney for CPW News Services 

     Unlike the Ethiopian Zion Coptic Church’s leader, Thomas Francis Reilly, whose Jamaica-based Florida church with what it calls "an Embassy" on Star Island in Biscayne Bay, Miami and whose ganja, the Jamaican name for it, also known as hemp or marijuana, was a sacramental element in their worship,  the Mendocino Christians don’t smoke dope.   This new "reformed" Christian fellowship is much different from Reilly's reefer rolling, pot-puffing, Hail Mary Jane reciting church-goers.

Ethiopian Zion Coptic Church's leader Thomas F. Reilly or
"Brother Louv"

     “Just as the Lord’s Supper required the grains of the good earth as both bread and wine to be celebrated, so we include gunja in our blessed communion,” said the leader of Mendocino County's  Reformed Mennonite Coptic Church, Walter “Brother Beaming” Barnett.  "You mean ganja," I said. "Reily and the Jamiacans call it ganja.  I call it gunja," said Barnett.

     “Thomas Francis Reilly’s group made billions of dollars from the smuggling of  marijuana and even contributed hundreds of millions to the government of Jamaica…..Jamaica….you know…..’Come to Jamaica. It’ll be alright,’” said Barnett.

     “Well, when Walter Potter, a Miami reporter took cameras to Reilly’s Coptic Church compound on Star Island it all backfired.  The children were sitting around smoking gunja.  That was when the church lost any public sympathy,” said Barnett whose Mendocino church imports and locally grows its own marijuana,  does not distribute it outside of its immediate religious usage, doesn't sell it, nor charge for its use, nor smoke it, nor allow children to partake of it. 

     “How stupid can you get?” asked Barnett whose church will only allow children who pass an age of accountability to have the Lord’s Supper.  “We know that some children are capable of understanding the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper about the time they are post-pubescent, but maturity and accountability is something that changes in the culture over time.  Like when girls married at 13 or 14, but no longer” he said.  “So we adjust our confirmation classes to the legal age for drinking which is 21 years old in California,” said Barnett.

     “Do girls in your church marry at 13 or 14?” I asked.

     “What are you a pedophile?” snapped Brother Beaming.

     Barnett, a former missionary to Africa came to his theological conclusions concerning marijuana while literally ministering in the field. 

     “Yes it’s true.  I was working on a translation in a native unwritten tongue of the Gospel of John.  My translators were helping me to translate the passage where Jesus said “I am the bread of life.”  They said to me ‘what is bread?’  I said, ‘you know.  Bread.  Made from wheat and baked in an oven or in a pot.’  They said, ‘we don’t know what that is.  Our common communal meal is a bowl of modovu.  That was the name of a tasty pâté that they shared in a communal bowl.  Later I ran across a tribe that raised marijuana, just at the Egyptians and Ethopians have done for thousands of years, but they put the hemp in their modovu on their high holy days.  I came to realize that when Jesus said  ‘I am the bread of life’ he meant ‘I am whatever God has given you to sustain you…..the pâté of life applied to modovu that was about 40% gunja.   Jesus meant that, too, and if that is a better communicator of his sustaining power than wheat bread and fermented wine, then good.   Just as he used bread from wheat or wine from fermented grapes with its ten or fifteen percent alcohol level, so he doesn’t mind a little gunja, which nowhere has the image of Caesar on it.  Now if methamphetamines were the staple of the Nazi soldier during World War II because IG Farben had synthesized it in the laboratory and the soldiers were energized by it for their killing blitz kreigs could I drop that into the pâté?  No, because it’s not a natural part of life…. a harmless part of God’s sustenance.  I mean even grape juice ferments naturally on its own, but not synthesized drugs.  Those must be used also in a religious context....as a tool of science and humanity and within an ethical framework of 'first do no harm'," said Brother Beaming.

     "I decided then and there that wherever I pastored, the Lord’s Supper would be made up of whatever sustained the people in their daily life if it was harmless….and that I would not personally profit from it and the church would not profit from it like the Coptics of Star Island, Florida.  The love of money is the root of all evil, but not the roots of the wheat plant or grape vine or gunja plant.   I decided that our worship would remind people that by partaking  of communion together  God sustains us.  On the other hand, I would feel awful if a parishioner dropped dead after taking a Nazified communion wafer laced with a heart stopping dose of methamphetamines.  We leave that to the Hell’s Angels and other snaggle-toothed demon dogs.   To me that’s sheer evil.  I can’t grow meth in the church courtyard like I can gunja or like the early monks noticing the power of coffee beans to energize their goat herds,” said Barnett who said that he wished his church could grow coffee beans, too.  "Whatever sustains us.  That eliminates Hemlock wine right off the bat.  We are not a Jim Jones Peoples’ Temple or Heaven’s Gate cult,” said Barnett.

     Contributions to the church are used for the cultivation of healthy, organic, all natural food products including gunja through micro-loans to families in theThird-World's underdeveloped nations.  Half of the benevolence budget goes to these life sustaining loans and half to healthcare which is available to all families practicing birth-control.    “We love kids, but believe people have to act responsibly.  We're not rabbits.  If another Walter Potter came with a camera crew, the only thing he would see is peace loving and caring people breaking bread together each Sunday in shared meditation on a day that the Lord has set aside for spiritual renewal and peaceful reflection,” said Barnett, aka “Brother Beaming”, who celebrates the fact that the church's eight Sunday services are all standing room only.  Though smoking is not prohibited, no one is ever seen smoking cigarettes nor gunja on the church grounds.  "Given my strong teaching about the risks of inhailing any kind of smoke, people just avoid its as a quaint, but rediculous, habit," said Brother Beaming who said that he had a long-standing relationship with many powerful people who distributed Lucky Strike cigarettes to the U.S. military only to deny them healthcare for smoking related diseases as veterans.

     “Contributions are strong and even contributions from the non-member community is substantial.  If the government wants to shut us down, we will go to court and fight them by standing as the nit-wit Star Islanders had done on the U.S. Constitution, but with real substance and conviction, not a charade to hide drug smuggling.  We call them the Star Islanders  because they starred in their own dim-witted demise, but we will use, as the Star Island Coptics did, the First Amendment and its razor sharp teeth  combined with evidence of the U.S. power elites' hypocritical drug policies and practices.  Key members of the Cushing, Taft, Cabot, Lodge, Roosevelt, Kennedy and other families will come out of the closet to help us win our case by confirming the hypocracy and to slam-dunk a Supreme Court decision.  We're counting on Justice Roberts to give another example of enlightened leadership to a reversal of the insanity and embarassment of the nation's inept drug policies that infringe on religious and scientific sensibilities.   We already give away 95% of our annual budget to pro-bono health programs of legitimate non-profit hospitals across California and we grow our communion bread-loaf grains, grinding them into flour and meal on real grindstones, right here in Mendocino County.  John D. Rockefellar's food initiatives pale in comparison.  Our fields are inconspicuous among the medical marijuana crops.  We also import our own gunja quietly through our young missionaries who like the Mormons spend two years in foreign mission fields on bicycles evangelizing, educating and administering the micro-loan program, returning every two years with a year's worth of gunja for the church's communion needs.  Between import and local production the Lord provides  as he did in the Biblical story of  the loaves and fishes,” said Barnett who maintains an 80 hour work week and makes $39,500 a year as the church’s pastor, but also cuts the church's grass and cleans the restrooms in his spare time.  “Our budget of $48,851,341. 08 per year is audited by the world's most respected accounting firm, not by  corrupt dingbats like Arthur Anderson who watched over Ken Lay's ENRON debacle as he was being seriously considered as George W. Bush's Energy Secretary," said Brother Beaming noting that fossil fuels are doomed as a sustainable energy source.
       "Our charitable giving goes essentially for healthcare for the needy, for food....gunja and butter, not guns and butter,” said parishioner Susan Longoria O’Donnell Nitti.  “That helps a ton of people and everyone looks forward to the celebration of communion Sunday after Sunday.  Our only problem is finding physicians who will provide the same example that Brother Beaming does operating on a 5% margin,” said the pleasant church member and mother of four who joined the church after her children were born, but who counsels them to "reproduce only yourself."
      "We think that wisdom dictates having only two children per couple....gay, lesbian or straight," said Nitti who favors the church's Sacrament of Faith Unioning which replaced marriage or civil unions.  "The question of abortions rarely ever comes up," she admitted. 

     Dr. June Smithers and Dr. Frank Freppingham provide healthcare at half the going-rate for people needing non-elective surgery,” said Brother Beaming.

   When asked if people came to get high on marijuana on Sundays or to worship God, he said "No".   "The small amount of alcohol in communion wine is a tactile reminder of the warmth of the Holy Spirit." Similarily, the gentle intoxication provided by the communion loaves of various Reformed Mennonite Coptic seeds including wheat, rye, flax and gunja provide... along with fine wines from Napa Valley... an earthy reminder that a full belly and a wet palate received by God’s grace and the earth’s abundance makes for a living reminder that  Jesus is the Lord of Life and the Prince of Peace.   Selective Napa Valley wineries provide wine at no cost  for all communion services from donated kegs and the givers receive as a benefit both a tax write-off and a place to showcase their newest products to California's most progressive Christian citizens.   “When people share what they have in a spirit of humility and peace, the world is a better place,” said Brother Beaming whose flock does not celebrate communion with little flat bread wafers but in whole boules of the Coptic Host breads.

       “So communion is only celebrated on Sunday?” I asked.

     “No,” said Brother Beaming.  “Every adult in the church is consecrated as a Eucharistic Minister and are encouraged to celebrate the Lord’s Supper often,” he said.

     It has been widely reported that Brother Beaming left a life of position and privilege after he witnessed first-hand the hypocrisy of the U.S. and  South Florida drug cultures while he lived at the  Ocean Reef Club on Key Largo.  The Ocean Reef Club is less than thirty nautical miles from Thomas Francis Reilly's #43 Star Island address in Miami.

     Brother Beaming insists that the nutritional value of gunja is as significant as soy and wheat. “Yes, 30–35% of the weight of hempseed is oil containing 80% of the unsaturated essential fatty acids (EFAs), linoleic acid (LA, 55%) and linolenic acid (ALA, 21–25%),” he said.

     “The body does not naturally manufacture these elements and they must be supplied by food. The proportions of linoleic acid and linolenic acid in hempseed oil are perfectly balanced.  They are balanced to meet human requirements for EFAs, including gamma-linoleic acid (GLA).  Gunja oil is different from flax oil and other seed oils, gunja or hempseed oil can be used continuously without developing a deficiency or other imbalance of EFAs.  Gunja contains 31% complete and highly-digestible protein.  It is 1/3 edestin protein and 2/3 albumin protein. This protein level is second only to raw uncooked soybeans (35% vs. 31%). The amino acid level is superior to soybean, human milk, and cow's milk, and is similar to egg whites which we all know is good for you with many of the nation’s cities now allowing chickens to be kept as family pets.  A half-dozen Rhode Island Reds that produce an egg every 24-30 hours can provide 30-40 eggs a week.  Similarly, gunja plants are fast growing.  A six foot plant grows in four months and is chocked with nutricious seeds,” said Brother Beaming.
     “The ALA contained in plant seed oils is alone sufficient for nutrition. Your body is capable of converting it into other fatty acids. This conversion process is less efficient than in the broader spectrum of omega-3 fatty acids obtained from oily fish which is easier for the body to immediately utilize, but gunja is more nutritional than, say, popcorn and nobody is protesting the sale of popcorn…..unless that was the hidden agenda of the that weird guy with the orange hair in Aurora, Colorado,” said Brother Beaming who admitted he would have "shot the damn bastard had I been there with a weapon.  I'm not a pacificst, though I do counsel young people to find creative ways to avoid military service until they are old enough to understand just why we are really in Iraq and Afghanistan and the sad shape of VA medicine and the 870,000 case backlog from those two unnecessary wars."

     Indeed, Brother Beaming was correct.  A widely circulated breakdown of gunja’s nutritional benchmarks revealed:

Calories/100 g 567
Protein (Nx5.46) 30.6%
Fat 47.2%
Saturated fat 5.2%
Monounsaturated fat 5.8%
Polyunsaturated fat 36.2%
Carbohydrate 10.9%
Oleic 18:1 (Omega-9) 5.8%
Linoleic 18:2 (Omega-6) 27.56%
Linolenic 18:3 (Omega-3) 8.68%
Cholesterol 0.0%
Total dietary fiber 6.0%
Vitamin A (B-Carotene) 4 IU/100 g
Thiamine (Vit B1) 1.38 mg/100 g
Riboflavin (Vit B2) 0.33 mg/100 g
Vitamin B6 0.12 mg/100 g
Vitamin C 1.0 mg/100 g
Vitamin D 2277.5 IU/100 g
Vitamin E (dl-A-Tocopherol) 8.96 IU/100 g
Sodium 9.0 mg/100 g
Calcium 74.0 mg/100 g
Iron 4.7 mg/100 g

MACY'S MAY SEE AFGHANISTANI RUGS

US CHAMBER OF COMMERCE BRINGS PHENOMENAL INDUSTRIAL ADVANCES TO AFGHANISTAN

Henry Ford’s Assembly Line Process Helping  To Improve Production of Rug Making

By Sidney Bloomingthaw for CPW News Service

     While documentaries like No End In Sight decry the $1.86 trillion cost of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, with hundreds of thousands dead and maimed and two nations’ with already limited infrastructure decimated, their national treasures and cultural heritage plundered, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce  in concert with the U.S. Department of Commerce has announced that beautiful wool rugs will be shipped from Afghanistan to Macy’s in the U.S.A.

     Spokespersons for AIRTF, the Afghanistan Investment Reconstruction Task Force, which was fashioned after a similar task force in Iraq, have announced that Afghanistan will be openning to a new era of increased merchantilism and industrial advancement.

     When asked “But haven’t the Afghanistani’s been making these rugs for hundreds, perhaps thousands of years without help from Macy’s and selling them at a premium on the world market?”  One spokesperson who wished not to be identified said “yea, but we plan to compartmentalize the process so the wool provider’s wife who braids the wool and the weavers are isolated in the production process so that we can speed up shipments and lower wages.  Kind of like what happened to the Navaho rugs in the Great American Southwest.”

     A fight broke out between the AIRTF spokesperson, a serious devotee of Ayn Rand, when a reporter suggested that Ms. Rand's highest principle was "achievement without plunder."

JAMES HOLMES: A WINGNUT ORANGE

By Farbonifar Gilbignas for CPW News Services

     James Holmes, the University of Colorado Student who massacred unarmed movie-goers in Aurora, Colorado, had only one prior encounter with law enforcement….a minor traffic ticket. 

     Dr. Karl Kroncrackle of the Clockwork Orange Deprogramming Association of lower Pikes Peak, Colorado, said that Holmes’ bizarre behavior does not fit as well into the Batman motif….even as “The Joker”... as it does into the Stanley Kubric Clockwork Orange scenario.  “If I could have gotten to Holmes two months ago when he was only beginning to develop his homicidal ideations, I could have deprogrammed him and put him on an entirely different track by exposing him to four hundred hours of sleep deprivation mixed with streaming images of historic homicides.  After that we give him an E-meter analysis of his inner Thetan to see if that Thetan is cured of its homicidal disposition.  Of course, if his inner Thetan is John Wayne Gacy or Jack the Ripper, there’s not much we can do.”

     Noting that Holmes’ family is Presbyterian, Kroncrackle argued that his Scientology-based psychotherapy is as reliable as any mainstream approach to defusing the violent nature in people like Mr. Holmes.  Kroncrackle noted that the Heaven’s Gate cult was led by the son of a Presbyterian minister, Marshall Applewhite.  “Applewhite syndrome is seen in Holmes’ stare, but it has also been seen in the gaze of many people that we associate with stability, reliability and health,” said Kroncrackle.

     When asked if he thought that Mr. Holmes could use the Applewhite Syndrome as a defense, Kroncrackle said "I wouldn't be surprised if a good lawyer looked into it.  On the other hand, the brutality of this event and the innocence of the victims mitigates against a soft sentence.  Now, if Mr. Holmes had pulled this batty little prank in, say, the halls of the U.S. Congress where Congress members have an 8% approval rating he would have fared much better with or without the Applewhite Syndrome defense."

WOLF DANCE IN GASLAND CAN'T CURE FRAC FLUID NIGHTMARE

Debra Winger’s Film Uncovers Problem That Kevin Costner’s

 Centrifugal Pump Can’t Filter

by H. D. Thoreau for CPW News Service 

     The film, Gasland, directed by Josh Fox and produced partly by actor Debra Winger documents the nightmare of the U.S. water supply polluted by the hydraulic fracturing process refined by Halliburton and now used by most horizontal gas well drillers across the U.S..

     “I don’t know what else to call it but a nightmare,” said  Rufus “Frackhappy” Rumbledown.  Rumbledown sold his company Frack-Happy LLC after seeing the Winger film and reading an article on the inability of Kevin Costner’s pump and pumps purchased by BP to the tune of $50,000,000 after the BP Gulf of Mexico spill, to clean water.  “Costner's pump could not extricated all toxins from polluted water as we were led to believe following the BP’s Deep Water Horizon disaster,” said Rumbledown.  “Humpty Dumpty is broke and can’t be fixed when it comes to fracking,” he concluded.

     Former Vice President of Mitchell Energy, Dan Stewart, has chronicled the development of the frack fluid  noting that the U.S. government started exploring the fracking of shale back in the 1970’s.  Then it handed off the process to the “entrepreneurs” like those that Mitt Romney said worked independently of anyone else and with no help from others.

    Stewart notes that his company’s founder did not apologize for the help he received from the U.S. Government’s Department of Energy or DOE nor from the suppliers of increasingly efficient, if more toxic, fracking fluids.  Stewart said when asked “where did your fracking method come from?" replied... “Mitchell got the slickwater frack from UPR (Union Pacific Resources).  They developed it.  Nick Steinburger, one of our engineers, who was working on the Barnett, asked to talk to UPR about Barnett if they would share slickwater, and UPR was fine with that, and he went to talk with them about slickwater, and in May of 1997 we did our first slickwater frack and it had cut our costs down, it had been $375k per well, and our first slickwater was $85k.”

   “This means, of course,” said Rumbledown, "that Union Pacific created the fluids for fracking that it hauls on its own rails.  So it’s making a killing in both slurries, fracking chemicals and transportation….and of course also on the polyurethane and other plastics that it hauls from the petro-chemical refineries to make bottles to hold the water made by the distilling and reverse osmosis water purification companies that will be needed because Costner’s miracle pump can’t get the chemicals out like we were led to believe it would.  You want to drink a glass from Costner's pump water with Corexit, the oil dispersant dumped on the Deepwater Horizon spill, in it?" asked Rumbledown noting the work of Wilma Subra in better understanding the toxins dumped on the Deepwater Horizon spill.  "I don't!" he said.  "Meanwhile with drought conditions in the U.S. the fracking across our nation's 'bread basket' goes on and on and no one's telling us what that's doing to cattle, other live stock and crops since 2005 we frackers were exempted from water quality regulation....thank you Mr. Bush and Cheney!"

     “There’s an even bigger issue,” said Rumbledown.  “The planet is two-thirds water and the natural choice for future power is hydrogen.  Well if the oil cartel…and it’s a cartel…. was willing to derail the development of nuclear energy because it was potentially less expensive….why else were their biggest weapons….atomic subs and gigantic aircraft carriers powered with nuclear reactors?  If they were willing to derail nuclear energy claiming its dangers on the one hand while selectively using it on the other, can you imagine the threat of ubiquitous hydrogen to their business model?"

   “I ran across the following letter shortly after Austin, Texas began building a motor speedway for Formula I race cars that use high octane fossil fuels….the high octane fuels like the ones the president of Rice University was developing as aviation fuel for the oil industry.  That was at the same time he served as a witness for the panel that stripped the head of the Manhattan Project, J. Robert Oppenheimer, of his national security clearance because he favored the peaceful use of nuclear energy.  The Robert Oppenheimer Security Hearings were chaired by Gordon Gray, father of George Herbert Walker Bush's chief legal council, C. Boyden Gray.

Gordon Gray, chair of the Oppenheimer
Security Hearing and father of
George Herbert Walker Bush's chief
legal counsel, C. Boyden Gray

     This letter indicated that there was a professor at the University of Texas who was working on the permeable membrane used in hydrogen fuel cells and that his death may not have been accidental,” said Rumbledown.  I contacted the letter’s author and he shared all of his contacts with Professor Gardiner’s colleagues.  Also at Rice University is the James A. Baker Center for Public Policy and Bakers’ father and grandfather worked for the Union Pacific Railroad of E.H. Harriman who employed Prescott Bush, father and grandfather of two U.S. presidents.  Union Pacific....fracking fluids….Halliburton….follow the money,” said Rumbledown.

     Rumbledown noted that in his letter the author reveals that while the mysterious bicycle death of Dr. William Gardiner was explained as an accident created by the misplacement of metal plates covering a road repair, there were no witnesses to his accident which led to his subsequent death.  While the jury was deciding the verdict in a law suit by the Gardiner family against the City of Austin another cyclist, an Austin environmental activist named Keith Vick, was run down by a truck as he stood directly in front of the same courthouse where the jury was in deliberation on the Gardiner case.  “The impact of that event was inestimable, both in the determination of the verdict, the amount of the settlement and in soothing the feelings of those who might otherwise have suspected something far more sinister at work,” said Rumbledown who first noted the author’s letter to another Austin environmental activist named Stefan Wray.  The author was also concerned because his son frequented the Hyde Park Bar and Grill which was also a favorite jaunt for Dr. Norman Hackerman and Dr. Gardiner and owned by Corpus Christi native, “Bick” Brown.

Dear Mr. Wray:

     My name is Will Carr. I live in Corpus Christi, TX. I read your letter to the police re. Keith Vick's story. I may have spoken to your wife about my concerns, but I never heard back from you so I can't be sure.I lived in Austin while at Austin Seminary. I am a retired Presbyterian minister.  My son who died in 2000 was an avid cycler in Austin so this is where my interest in the Austin cycle scene comes into play.
     I was investigating his death and exploring possible connections to family members in Texas which led me down many trails and to a chemistry researcher (not a suspect) in Austin named Adcock who was on  staff at UT with another chemist who was working on fuel cell technology named  Dr. William Gardiner. Professor Gardiner apparently was studying the increasing efficiency of the fuel cell polymer membrane that is essential in creating electricity from oxygen and hydrogen. Anyway, I'm no scientist, but his death on Congress Ave. that was blamed on the joint between two steel road plates came at a time when his research could have been at a pivotal point. His daughter in Houston, Grace Baker, is, I believe, married into the James A Baker family, which could explain some of Gardiner's connections with fellow chemistry professor, Norman Hackerman, who like Kenneth Pitzer, was a former President at Rice University. Rice is home to the James A. Baker Center for Public Policy. It was Kenneth Pitzer's congressional testimony that stripped J Robert Oppenheimer of his national security clearance when he was pushing for peaceful uses of nuclear energy and a larger share of the fossil fuel market. Pitzer's testimony against Oppenheimer came at a time when Pitzer was working on aviation fuel for the petro-chem industry.
     The timing on Mr. Vick's death could not have more serendipitous to the Gardiner law suit....days before the jury considering the award in the Gardiner case reached a decision ....and RIGHT OUTSIDE the Travis County Courthouse....with....as with Dr. Gardiner.....no witnesses....save in Mr. Vicks case the driver....Clarence Ray Rivers. No juror's sympathies would have gone unmoved.
     Did anyone look into Mr. River's background? Did he have a history that might shed light? How do you explain the police report discrepancies? Were there any witnesses?
     I'd love to talk with you about this....especially given your concern about Formula One racing in Austin. Maybe you should help sponsor a e-car road race to off-set their plans....using electric cars that outpace Formula One racers.
     The problem in getting anyone from the Gardiner family interested in these questions is the size of the award in his law suit, but it still begs the question. Yes? No?

Will Carr

     In addition to the letter to Stefan Wray, the author sent queries to Dr. Gardiner’s colleagues in the UT Chemistry Dept.

From: Steve Webber

To: Will Carr

Monday, August 23, 2010 10:29 AM

     Please excuse the slow reply but I was out of the country (and email contact) this past month, returning late last week.
     The memorial honoring Bill Gardiner was written by several of us (and I confess I do not have the final version) and I was not aware that he was preparing a book on the subject you mention (which would not be a typical research topic for him, but Bill was interested in everything).
Sorry I can't be of more help.

Best wishes,
Steve Webber
Professor emeritus
UT-Chemistry

From: William Carr

To: JF Stanton
Sent: Sun, July 25, 2010 6:56:23 PM
Subject: William Gardiner

Dear Dr. Stanton:
I read with interest your eulogy of Dr. William Gardiner. I have read elsewhere that he was about to release a book just before his death. Do you know if he was working on the permeable membrane used in hydrogen fuel cells? Was this book ever published? Under what title?

Dr. William H Carr
Corpus Christi, TX.

From: John Stanton
To: William Carr

Sent: Sun, August 15, 2010 8:40:30 PM
Subject: Re: William Gardiner

Dr. Carr,

My apologies for the late reply. I was just going through my spam box (gmail) to see if there was anything that didn't belong there and, uncharacteristically for google, there was. Your email.

I do not know about any book that Bill had in the works. Nor do I think it likely that there was one, because Bill and I talked a fair amount (probably he spoke to me more than anyone else on the faculty except perhaps the late Mike White), and I know nothing about it.

He did, of course (and you probably know this), write a well-known book on chemical kinetics.

John

ps. Where did you find this eulogy? Is it online?

On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 11:06 PM, William Carr wrote:

Dear Dr. Stanton,

     Thank you for responding. Yes, I found the eulogy online by Googling. I was aware of his book on chemical kinetics. If he was working on a break through in fuel cell efficiency for commercialization would his colleagues have likely known about it? Would this have been dangerous knowledge?

WHC

One day later on August 16th, 2010 after considering his earlier response, Dr. Stanton wrote.....

From: John Stanton

To: William Carr

RE: William Gardiner

Monday, August 16, 2010 11:47 AM

   I suspect he wouldn't have talked about it. Bill was something of a polymath, and I wouldn't have been a bit surprised if he had been working in that area. He had a good nose for science.
       
     John

 

Gas-Phase Combustion Chemistry by
W.C. Gardiner, Jr., not the
book on hydrogen fuel cell membranes, but
representative of Professor Gardiner's
work in chemistry.

     "And so it goes," said Rumbledown.  Since then, Lou Kilzer and Andrew Conte of the Pittsburgh Tribune have reported that while the gas well drillers claim to be contributing to the nation’s energy independence, China is purchasing an ever increasing share of the nation’s Marcellus gas reserves. The same will be true of the Texas Eagle Ford field where an increasing number of patriotic land men working for companies like Chesapeake Energy are jumping ship while decrying the abandonment of America’s traditional patriotic values.  One land man said “I wouldn’t mind selling to a free country, but China isn’t free.”

     The colleague of Dr. Gardiner, Professor Mike  White who died in 2007 at the age of 68 while visiting his son, was working on Interfacial Catalysis for the Pacific Northwest National Laboratories that led to the establishment of the Department of Energy's Institute for Interfacial Catalysis.  "I'd want some brilliant fearless scientist to explain the connections of Interfacial Catalysis and Gas-Phase Combustion to the permeable membrane in hydrogen fuel cells," said Rufus "Frackhappy" Rumbledown who noted that he had just read that the Pacific Northwest National Laboraories or PNNL Labs where Mike White worked in addition to UT, just announced that they have a high effeciency fuel cell that uses the by-product of the nation's polluted water supply.....CNG or compressed natural gas. 
     In August 2008 the PNNL labs hosted a symposium in Mike White's honor and in memory of his contribution to hydrogen fuel cell development, stating...."One way PNNL scientists are harnessing the power of catalysis is through hydrogen oxidation and production, two processes necessary for fuel cells to function. So far, however, such chemical conversions are expensive, requiring the precious metal platinum. DuBois is exploring how to design alternative catalysts that use inexpensive metals such as nickel and cobalt."
     The symposium summary said of William Gardiner's close colleague in research, Mike White...."White, a Robert A. Welch Chair of Materials Chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin and founding director of the Institute for Integrated Catalysis, passed away unexpectedly on August 31, 2007. White was internationally recognized as a pioneer in many areas of surface chemistry, catalysis, the dynamics of surface reactions, and light-stimulated surface reactions. White had published more than 700 research papers in a career that spanned more than four decades."

     "Attempts to move public opinion away from hydrogen toward fossil fuels are no more clearly seen than in the Ford Motor Company CEO's confession that he manipulated the media and gave plausible deniability to President George W. Bush when Bush was being shown a hybrid hydrogen/electric automobile at the White House.  In reality, the President's family generations of historical investment in oil and rail, specifically Union Pacific, had predetermined this course, along with Mr. Henry Ford's close friendship with Thomas Alva Edison, whose technology will use fracking assisted, water polluting, CNG, and which now is even finding a use in hydrogen fuel cells which don't need it," said Rumbledown who continued...."This is one frackin' mess."
     Rumbledown was fascinated by the work of Regina Monaco, Gardiner's wife and a former NASA scientist with great interest in the Cassini Mission which revealed that the Saturn moon, Titan, may have a methane-based life form that lives on hydrogen.  "Would that give a kind of justification for methane to be a catalyst in hydrogen fuel cells here on earth contributing to the argument for CNG in hydrogen fuel cell efficiency?  Is that a distant stretch?" asked Rumbledown as he watched a Youtube about who killed the hydrogen car. 
     Highly efficient hydrogen splitting devices have already been produced without the unnecessary step of buring CNG.  Stanley Meyer's work in this field has been both remarkable and then invisible.  As with the oil cartel's silencing of Robert Oppenheimer through Kenneth Pitzer and William Liscum Borden, Joseph McCarthy and others, someone has silenced Meyers and now two fuel cell scientists at the University of Texas, home to the most powerful fossil fuel coalition and cartel in the world and oil's official shadow capital.

     "Allowing our best scientists to do their work without fear or intimidation would be the equivalent of the Pope releasing Copernicus and Galileo from house arrest.  If they aren't freed, history has a way of invalidating the authority of the tyrants that imprison them.  I read somewhere that Momano, the cave dweller who invented the first wheel, was eclipsed by others who wished not to use his invention for its original purpose....flattening the bodies of his human sacrifices," said Rumbledown.

MITT MUMBLES PREVARIFICATION

MITT ROMNEY’S RHETORIC UNINFORMED

ENTREPRENEURS DON'T ACT ALONE

By Harvey Daniel Thoreau

     When we think of the American experience and the French word used to describe it…. “entrepreneur”…..we often lose our sense of humor, wisdom and deeper insight, according to Rufus “Frackhappy” Rumbledown the CEO of Frackhappy LLC.

     “You ought to know,” he said,   “Your last name is Thoreau.   Do you think at Walden Pond, Henry David Thoreau started out with nothing?  Remember that his ancestors had to catch a ride across the Atlantic and I guarantee you they didn’t pay for the ships out of their own pockets.  Then the American Indians showed them how to plant corn to stay alive.  Thoreau had to borrow a hammer to build his Walden cabin and when Ayn Rand imagined Dominique Francon's lusty thoughts of being drilled into ecstasy was it alone she reached that height?  Or with the collective of at least two including Howard Roark whose sky scrapers needed fearless beam walkers, brick layers and proud plumbers?” asked Rumbledown noting Einstein's love of the plumbing profession.  "Pharaoh always imagined himself as a lone wolf entrepreneur and Moses was forever caught between motivating the unimaginative and lazy and the misguided tyrant who enhanced their bonds. All human progress is dependent upon the upward momentum toward enlightenment," said Rumbledown who noted that Congressman Paul Ryan is a devotee of Ayn Rand.

     Dan Stewart, former Vice President of Mitchell energy said of the U.S. Government…"They did a hell of a lot of work....and I can't give them enough credit for that. DOE started it, and other people took the ball and ran with it. You cannot diminish DOE's involvement."
     
     "Of course, that raises the question," said Rumbledown, "who was running the DOE and toward what conclusions?  That fracking fluid was essential for our national security?  And who in the DOE was making that decision?  For how long?" he wondered.  "Who benefits?"

     Steward directly refutes Romney’s claim that the energy entrepreneur acts as a Lone Ranger to develop his product.  As for Romney's bad mouthing Obama's support of wind and solar energy, some of which proved as unprofitable as one of Rumbledown's many dry holes, Stewart said....

     “I don't bad mouth government involvement in solar and wind because we have to be experimenting with that. We're not far enough along in them for solar and wind to provide much energy. Gas has bought us the time to develop the other things. Renewable and nuclear alone cannot provide us the base load energy we need today, but we need to get started in developing them. Government has to be looking down the road. We really cannot wait to develop those other energies. Industry doesn't look as far down the road as the government should. And politicians are often looking for their next election,” said Stewart
     "Government has to be looking down the road?" said Rumbledown.  "I buy that.  It damn well better have its vision checked regularly!" said Rumbledown who had just seen a documentary on wind energy leases that had one community up in arms.

SERENITY PRAYER STOLEN

Prayer Stolen By American Industrialist

By Marcus B. Solem for CPW News Service

     You know it as the “Serenity Prayer”.  It is widely credited to H. Richard Niebuhr's older brother, Reinhold Niebuhr, who used it to focus the hearts and minds of Americans in the pre-war years as they contemplated the evils of genocide during the approaching World War II.  Both H. Richard and Reinhold Niebuhr were powerfully influential theologians and ethicists during the mid-Twentieth Century.

     One of Niebuhr’s parishioners became a leading Old Testament scholar and the president of the Texas seminary where Niebuhr was asked to be the special guest lecturer.  He was also baptized as a child by  Niebuhr in the Michigan parish were Niebuhr was the pastor with a front row seat to routine business practices and the workers' responses.

     Among brother H. Richard Niebuhr’s books were Christ and Culture which he wrote as the lecture for the seminary presentation.  Reinhold Niebuhr's parish was a middle-class Michigan community where the majority of the parishioners were labor union members working in automotive plants.  Hearing of the atrocities coming out of Nazi, Germany Niebuhr penned the short prayer.                   

     The prayer, however, was mysteriously appropriated for use not as a prayer for righteous corporate social action in opposing Fascism, but as a personal prayer for overcoming the evils of alcoholism.  Alcoholics Anonymous’ founders included a close personal friend of auto maker and Fascism-friendly Henry Ford, himself a strong supporter of the American German Bund that embraced Hitler’s regime from  within the USA.  Although the creation of AA is often credited to Anglican clergyman, Rev. Samuel Shoemaker, it was Henry Ford’s good friend, Frank Buchman, who was the real force behind AA and the effort to redirect Niebuhr’s prayer for an altogether different purpose….more in keeping with Ford’s political and financial agenda.  Among the other founding members of AA were Rowland Hazard, Jim Newton, Eleanor Forde, Ebby Thacher, Shepard Cornell, Henrietta Seiberling, Rev. Walter Tunks, Norman Shepherd, Russell Firestone and T. Henry and Clarace Williams....a veritable "who's who" of the 1930's "Business Plot" that sought to overthrow FDR and import the values of the German American Bund to the U.S. main street. 

   “Niebuhr should have copyrighted that prayer,” said Sidney Forbes Peabody of the law firm of Lowe’s Tavern Legal Services, LLC.  When asked if Mr. Peabody’s firm operated out of the same Lowe’s Tavern purchased by Henry Ford in 1923 in Sudbury, Massachusetts where in 1925 a KKK rally was responsible for the shooting deaths of Irish Catholic protesters by Klansmen, Mr. Peabody said only, “What’s it to ya?  They were probably drinking heavily and needed to join AA….had it been organized.”

   An attempt was made to confirm the theft of the prayer by contacting a relative of Henry Ford’s chauffeur, A.G.Collins, a close personal friend of Milton Bryant, Henry Ford’s brother-in-law, but Mr. Collins’ kin could not be reached for comment.  Not surprisingly, A.G. Collins' had settled in Hutto, Texas not far from where William Rhodes Davis, Hitler's oil agent in America, procured Nazi oil for the war in Europe.  William Rhodes Davis was the grandfather of California Governor Gray Davis without whom Enron would not have been able to economically rape that state through it manipulation of U.S. power grids.

   Sadly, Frank Buchman's Oxford Group that supported Hitler's potential to ward off the threat of communism found the Oxford Group which started Alcoholics Anonymous appropriating Niebuhr's prayer invoking resistance to any political movement that jack-boots the humanitarian principles in Christianity into the mantra of a sobriety society.  Hitler did not drink.

    Reinhold Niebuhr, the eminent theologian who was the author of the Serenity Prayer, was outraged. Buchman and AA's founder, Sam Shoemaker by association received Niebuhr's response in Christianity and Power Politics' chapter titled "Hitler and Buchman":

       "In other words, a Nazi social philosophy has been a covert presumption of the whole Oxford group enterprise from the very beginning. We may be grateful to the leader for revealing so clearly what has been slightly hidden. Now we can see how unbelievably naïve this movement is in its efforts to save the world. If it would content itself with preaching repentance to drunkards and adulterers one might be willing to respect it as a religious revival method which knows how to confront the sinner with God. But when it runs to Geneva, the seat of the League of Nations, or to Prince Starhemberg or Hitler, or to any seat of power, always with the idea that it is on the verge of saving the world by bringing the people who control the world under God-control, it is difficult to restrain the contempt which one feels for this dangerous childishness."

Priest From Goa Says People See What They Want To See

by Winsip Custer CPW News Service
reprinted from April 24, 2011

    Father Francis Nasrani was standing in the emergency room of the local Southern California trauma hospital waiting for the Life Flight helicopter to deliver a trauma patient. It was Saturday night before Easter and he was the chaplain on duty. He read his email as he waited for the twenty minute flight from the accident scene to the hospital. It had come from a friend in the Mid-West who had been impressed by the discovery that human T-cells were shaped like the cross of Christ.

     Nasrani had come to America from India where the immigrant Syrian Christian community that owed its conversion from Judaism to Christianity to their founder Saint Thomas...the doubting disciple who told the Lord that he would not believe unless he was able to stick his hands into the wound in Christ's side and into the nail holes in his hands and feet... had relocated. Migrating from Syria Father Francis' small Christian community had settled in India in the Third Century A.D..

Human t-cell

     This community was caught up in the theological debate over the nature of Jesus Christ and of his humanity and divinity that led to the religious persecution by the Roman Catholic Church as it sought to define orthodox belief and to the split between the Latin and Eastern Orthodox churches. Father Francis had just read Dr. Teotonio R. de Souza's book on the subject, Details of the Inquisition of Goa which was about the later persecution of Hindus by the church in India that in some ways paralleled the earlier period of persecution among Christians. Many of Father Francis' ancestors had died a horrendous death at the hands of the grand inquisitors of the same Christian faith. T.R. de Souza's analysis is eye-opening and chilling.
     From 1560 to 1812 the blood of Hindus ran in the streets as had his ancestors' in the lead up to the Council of Chalcedon in 451 AD. The Jesuits would hold mass baptisms but a few days before the event they would go out two by two as the Lord had instructed, but with the added help of African slaves who were compelled to capture the native Hindus and rub their lips with beef steak which immediately made them Untouchables and with nowhere else to go other than into the Christian church as neophytes. Baptism followed this form of not-so-gentle persuasion which had been endorsed by the Portuguese king and the Roman Pope. "To this day the Roman Catholic Church of which we are now a part denies that Madras was the site where Saint Thomas was martyred, but at the same time they maintain the shrine there because of its profitability as a tourist destination. Thomas' relevance was denied in order to enhance the primacy of Peter and Paul, but Thomas is believed to have carried to India several paintings by Luke the Evangelist, the physician companion of the Apostle Paul, whom tradition claims was the first icon painter. Thomas and Luke are the great link in the Christian tradition to the scientific minds that, had they been revered in the church from the beginning and during the Copernican Revolution, may have mediated the church's juvenile response to the age of scientific inquiry that the Protestants instinctively embraced," said Father Francis. "Luke's remains were moved from what is today Kosovo to Padua, Italy sometime after 1492. This means that Luke's remains were the talk of the town in Padua which was the home of the university where both Copernicus and Galileo as well as the great anatomist, Vesalius, studied science and medicine."

      Father Nasrani had also just read Richard Zimler's book Guardian of the Dawn which showed that the average Portuguese citizen knew nothing of the brutality that was being used in the name of Portuguese Christianity in Goa, the center for the Indian spice trade. Father Francis, as a recent Indian immigrant, wondered if the American people ever asked questions about their leaders' tactics in foreign places.Now Father Francis Nasrani stood in the emergency room where in minutes the physicians would be putting their hands into the head wound of a truck driver whose oil field drilling pipe had shifted forward separating the top of the man's cranium. Father Francis was reading the following words as the man on the bloody gurney was wheeled by him by the two young EMS nurses in blue flight uniforms. The email read....

'Laminins are a family of proteins that are an integral part of the structural scaffolding of basement membranes in almost every animal tissue' You see.... Laminins are what hold us together... LITERALLY. They are cell adhesion molecules. They are what holds one cell of our bodies to the next cell. Without them, we would literally fall apart. And I knew all this already. But what I didn't know is what they LOOKED LIKE..

But now I do. And I have thought about it a thousand times since (already)....Here is what the structure of laminin looks like... AND THIS IS NOT a 'Christian portrayal' of it.... If you look up laminin in any scientific/medical piece of literature, this is what you will see.... the cross of Christ.

     Father Nasrani knew the procedure well as he looked up to see the blood trail on the linoleum following the gurney down the ER hallway. The medical team would go into high gear with x-rays to determine the extent of the man's injuries and at some point he would be asked to phone the family and to intercept them as they rush in to the hospital and as the man makes his way to surgery. Nasrani thought of the man's tissues coming apart under the weight of the shifting payload and applied the image of the Laminin's t-cells to what had just happened....and to the history of his own ancestors whose deviations from the church's teachings had led to their separation and excommunication and persecution before a future Pope extended an olive branch and reincorporated them into the Roman Catholic Church. He thought of how the Apostles Peter and Paul had battled over the place of the Gentiles in the new Jewish-Christian community and their own authority in the church as a by-product in the First Century A.D.... and how the Goa Christians' founding Apostle, Thomas, would have made a good modern scientist or doctor because of his unapologetic passion for hands-on and evidential analysis of reality. Was Thomas influenced by another disciple, Luke the physician whose faith seemed to propel them toward the greater uncertainty of the East rather than down the alreadly established Roman highways toward the West?  Nasarani wondered, why else would the center of science and learning in Padua have imported Luke's remains for memorialization  to Italy's most progressive region where a reformation movement predated Luther's German advances under Peter Waldo and to a region near Florence and Venice where the world's leading merchant traders marveled at the wonders of their world?  Why move Luke's remains there instead of leaving them where they were or to Rome?  "Oh yes, that would have diminished the places of Peter and Paul!" he thought.  "Politics as usual and we wonder why the pagan's follow our lead!"

    In the next few moments, as he waited for the injured man's family to arrive, Father Nasrani pecked out an email message on his cell phone and finished it in his car as he sat in the dark in the hospital parking lot.

Dear Samuel,

Thank you for reminding us of the meaning of creation in your analysis of the cross-like shape of the human t-cells. There is a church near here that had a cross on top of the steeple that had the cross member at the bottom rather than at the top. Kids in the town spread the rumor that it was a satanic symbol and the church suffered from the rumor. It wasn't a satanic cross, but the cross of Saint Peter who asked not to be crucified in the same manor as Christ because he was not worthy so they flipped him upside down and drove in the nails. So no matter how you look at it.... right side up or cross-wise or upside down....those T-cells still make a cross in my eyes, too!

Physicist Stephen Hawking said that creation was made out of nothing without a first cause....God... and Max Planck is namesake of the smallest sub-atomic particle called a Planck which is 100 billion times smaller than a quark and looks like a black hole. I don't care if it looks like a black hole or not....I still see a halo above the Christ! We see what we want to see I guess.