Earthquake Shaken National Cathedral Sees Hope In New Gargoyles

Damaged National Cathedral Brings New Opportunities For New Gargoyles

by Winsip Custer CPW News Service

     Often seen as an inspiration for young and old alike, the gargoyles at the National Cathedral, all 112 of them, provide the subject for mythic tales and interesting speculation.  The Cathedral completed over a 90 year span, found ancient samples of gargoyles as well as newer ones.  Most notably, the Darth Vader gargoyle was submitted to the Cathedral by a Midwestern schoolboy who provided the winning sketch in a gargoyle contest.  Darth is now seen on the Northwest parapet of the bell tower looking down from what some envision is his perch near the top of his Evil Empire.

     As comparisons between Vader and Dick Cheney arose around the Vice President's outspoken support of water boarding and other enhanced interrogation techniques, one well-humored Wall Street financier offered to replace the gargoyle opposite Darth with the likeness of Mr. Cheney.

     George Mason Chisselman, president of the independent mason and stonecarver’s group, The International Fraternity of Gargoyle Carvers or IFGC, sees the recent earthquake damage to the National Cathedral as a wonderful teaching moment that he feels was missed in the contest won by the Vader entry.
    “When the often brutal monarchs and Popes who commissioned the building of Europe’s massive basilicas and cathedrals mistreated the stone masons, they rebelled.  They organized into trade unions and as a reminder to what they perceived as the rulers of their Evil Empire, they placed gargoyles on the parapets to mock the tyrannical dictators.  What happened with the placement of Darth was a subtle shift from the truth of the original intent of Europe’s greatest stone masons whose ties to the Masonic order are well documented.  The recent destruction at the Cathedral provides a wonderful opportunity to teach the truth of this history and to put up some gargoyles to help highlight and continue the tradition,” said Chisselman.
     So far Chisselman, who has no connection to the Cathedral, has received requests from a variety of interested parties who are hopeful that he will represent them in their quest to adorn the massive structure with gargoyles of special interest.

Proposed Freddie Kreuger gargoyle, left. 
Ozzie Osbourne gargoyle, right.

      “Yes, well we received a request from a group calling themselves the ‘B Movie Gaffers Union for Freddie Krueger’s Gargoyle’.   There is also a group calling themselves ‘Friends of Mahatmas Ghandi’ who want Ghandi’s likeness on the church.  Another group calling themselves ‘Knights of the Hoffa Teamsters’ want murdered Teamster president and union organizer, Jimmy Hoffa, on the church.  Another from South America calling themselves ‘Doctors For Che’ sent a photo that they envisioned would help get their point across.  Even Malcolm X has inspired one group to ask that a bust of Malcolm X be placed there with the word ‘Praise Alah’, beneath his likeness.  Another group calling themselves ‘The Geronimo Gang’ has asked that a skull of Geronimo be set in stone as a National Cathedral gargoyle with the inscription beneath it of ‘Ezekiel 37:10’,” said Chisselman.

Geronimo's Skull.  Beneath is carved
Ezekiel 37:10

     We attempted to contact church member and former General Counsel for the George Herbert Walker Bush administration, C. Boyden Gray, heir of the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco fortune for his impressions of the proposal for new gargoyles, but he was out of the country.  Sources close to Mr. Gray and other church members said "it'll be a cold day in hell and a hot day in heaven when Che Guavara's likeness goes up on that church."  When told that the first gargoyles were placed on Europe's churches by union masons, we were told 'go xxxx yourself, you xxxxxxx communist," said Chisselman.  Gray, whose brother was a founding member of the Federalist Society told the 2007 annual meeting of the 40,000 member group that the office of the Independent Counsel, of which Lawrence Walsh, author of the book Firewall, was one, had "made the conduct of U.S. foreign policy a crime."

Che gargoyles on church
in San Leon, Bolivia

     Meanwhile, human rights watchers in Egypt, Syria and Libya we're being shown evidence that U.S. foreign policy in those nations has been as much a crime as Iran-Contra was in Central America.   "Add to that the revelation that the Geneva Convention is violated by secret elements of American foreign policy in Libya or Egypt or Syria and whoa!  These places provided secret CIA renditioning sites.    Qaddafi's secret service was as brutal as that of the Shah of Iran whose empire was established by displacement of a democratically elected leader with the help of the father of Gulf War hero, General Norman Schwarzkopf and...whoa... again.  Saddam Hussein, likewise, was supported by the U.S. in his war against Iran until Schwarzkopf Sr.'s son subdued him after Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait presumably with the initial nod of American diplomat, April Glasby, and.... whoa... a third time."  What was that about?  I asked.  "Justification for an invasion, perhaps.  Then there's the other dictators including the Saudi Royal family," said Mr. Chisselman who continued...."and the teaching moment has never been better for placing new gargoyles on church buildings that will help the Christian community worhipping inside to better embrace the need to practice love on the outside!"

THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX

NATIONWIDE  BOXER DAY CELEBRATION, MONDAY DECEMBER 26, 2011

by Winsip Custer CPW News Service

     In England it is called Boxer Day.  December 26^th of each year on the first or second weekday after Christmas.    It is a legal holiday.

     Sometimes called the Feast of St. Stephen (for the first Christian martyr, Saint Stephen, whom scripture says was stoned by a group of anti-Christian followers of Saul of Tarsus, also known as Saint Paul)  Boxer Day originated in the middle of the nineteenth century under Queen Victoria who enjoyed annually sharing a gift box with her servants, especially her butler, John Brown.  Boxing Day spread as a  holiday for members of the merchant class who gave boxes containing food and fruit, clothing, and money to the working class tradesmen and women as an expression of gratitude, affection and domination.  With the gifts placed in boxes the tradition caught on in the British Commonwealth nations around the world including India where all but the Untouchables participated.  By the time gifts tricked down to the Untouchables it was known as Maundy Thursday with gift remnants often stirring street riots and causing the day to literally become associated with boxing and fist fights.

     “We have decided to Americanize Boxing Day,” said Patrick McDougal McKinney McCleod of South Boston’s Friends of the Boxer Day Rebellion Compact.  “We follow Christmas Carols with a routing rendition of the Star Spangled Banner, drink lots of Irish grog or Scotch, salute the Magna Carta and U.S. Constitution, all followed by more grog and Scotch with pop corn and Mel Gibson’s movie The Patriot,  and this year we’ll follow that with a video of Prince William’s wedding  and his beautiful red, brass buttoned Eaton jacket, followed by the John Deere tractor episode, Episode 3.6,  of the popular HBO television series The Mad Men,” said McCleod.  "We might even throw in that Dr. Pepper scene at the hospital, remembering that it was probably the British that invented golf for the Scots at St. Andrews so that they'd swing at little balls with a stick instead of the Brit's heads with their  Scottish Claymores," said McCleod.

When asked why that episode of Mad Men seemed appropriate when it was set on July 3rd instead of Boxer Day, McCleod said "Yea, but the presention of the Brit's gift box to their stooge in New York, Lane Pryce, seemed to us to capture the essense of the British snobbery which we feel flys in the face of the real Christmas spirit, so we'll be repeating the American Boxer Day Rebellion Celebration semi-annually on December 26 and July 4th, said McCleod who admitted that "Southies love a good reason to party hardy!"

National Cathedral Shaken But Not Yet Stirred

Earthquake Damages National Cathedral

By Winsip Custer

     The recent 5.8 Richter scale earthquake in the Northeast caused significant damage to Washington D.C.’s National Cathedral.  Limestone gargoyles, reminiscent of the cathedrals of Europe had fallen from the structure and some indicated that they heard the giant bells of the Cathedral ringing during the quake.

     President Obama was scheduled to speak at the Cathedral on the anniversary of the September 11 attack.  In an effort to repair the structure before the event a 500 ton crane was being used to hoist fallen limestone and equipment to the church roof when the crane fell injuring the crane operator.  President Obama's speech and the musical event had to be moved to the Kennedy Center where Alan Jackson and other performers provided a star-studded musical tribute. Unfortunately, singer Carole King's rocking tribute was cancelled because it was inappropriate to the timing and mood of the occassion.

     We attempted to contact former White House Personnel Director for the George W. Bush administration, now Vicar of the church, Jan Naylor Cope, for an assessment of the situation.  Rev. Cope, a summa cum laude graduate of Wesley Theological Seminary, is a member of the Episcopal Church General Convention for 2012 and is a member of the Compass Rose Society which seeks the support of England's Archbishop of Canterbury and the Anglican Communion.  With her connections with First Washington Bank on whose board is Wesley Theological Seminary board member, former Secretary of the U.S. Navy,  Adm. John H. Dalton, it seemed likely that though the church building is uninsured, financial resources for repairs should not be a major issue.  Adm. Dalton who also ran the San Antonio, Texas office of the Little Rock, Arkansas Stephens Investment Co. banking firm may continue to have significant banking connections which could help the church with its repair issues.   Stephens was founded by Witt Stephens in 1933. Witt was joined by his brother, Jackson T. Stephens, in 1946.  Jackson T. Stephens was key to the establishment of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International or BCCI.

     “Jackson T Stephens gave over $30 million dollars to the Episcopal Collegiate School endowment in 2004”, said Fulbright Searcy Wellbrace, a Washington CPA.   “Jackson Stephens  would have been a good source for repair money.  He had lined up Abdullah Bakhsh whose business partners in BCCI became Harken Energy’s third-largest stockholder, also owning 10 percent of Stephen’s Worthen Banking.  You can read about it in Common Cause Magazine, spring 1992 with more in the San Diego Union Tribune, January 17, 1992,” said Wellbrace.  “Stephens was Harken Energy’s investment banker which in early 1990 won the offshore drilling rights for the nation of  Bahrain, which was a wonderful windfall for Harken.  Harken had never drilled an offshore well before, but of course the recent events in Bahrain shook the Bahrain Royal Family almost as much as the recent earthquake in Washington shook the National Cathedral.  They had to rely on the Saudi Royal Family's army whose deep pockets could also be tapped to help restore the Cathedral  just as the Saudi Royals are counted on by their Muslim subjects to maintain their holy places of Mecca and Medina.   There is no separation of church and state in Saudi Arabia.  Come to think of it, there doesn't appear to be much here either, does there?   Well getting help to restore the National Cathedral would be chump change for them and for the British Royal family whose Queen Elizabeth is the titular head of the Anglican Church to which Canterbury owes allegiance.  Sadly it won't be Jackson T. Stephens who'll fetch it.  He died on July 23, 2005,” said Wellbrace.

     Meanwhile, those close to the situation and with concerns about the fate of the National Cathedral have questioned the wisdom of building high rise structures that may be subject to earthquakes and other natural or man-made disasters such as 9/11.  One blogger on The Atlantic Wire wrote:

     I believe that churches in the future, given science's increased understanding of the shifting nature of the earth's crust, will need to be decreasing density structures. The church steeple is a good start, but not if it is stuck on top of a glass-sharded nave with limestone gargoyles that can fall and bop you on your head. Better an American Indian teepee with a small cross on top.

Rather than naming this religious facility the National Cathedral, it would be better to call it Willows Of Babylon Church, since we're still in Babylon (Iraq) and will probably be for some time to come if our nation's leaders have their way.  Babylon, you know, from the Israelites' experiences of finding faith even in Babylon. Under the willows there where they hung up their liars, I mean lyres, and obviously they were NOT Church of Christ who don't believe in instruments in church.  So keep the organ, or at least some guitars, so the organ pipes don't bop the worshippers, too.

And didn't the Pope speak ex cathedra or "from the chair" so that a cathedral is the "seat of the Bishop's authority"? Yet, I don't see a Bishop listed on the National Cathedral staff roster. In the case of the Pope, the Bishop of Rome, he rightly has a cathedral, St. Peters, from which he speaks with unquestioned authority....except when it comes to telling where the pedophile priests are located and he's very quiet about that.

Pretty smart those American Indians with their teepees.

USS San Jacinto Photo, Chester Mierzejewski and An Alien Tale

Was Japanese Canadian, Ken Adachi, Suffering From Applewhite Syndrome

 by Winsip Custer CPW News Service

     Committing suicide on February 9, 1989, Canadian writer and literary critic, Ken Adachi, may have been suffering from Applewhite Syndrome according to celebrated Applewhite Syndrome expert,  Dr. Lawrence T. Sydewunder.

USN aviator, George Herbert Walker Bush
and friend.

  Adachi’s interests were not unlike Marshall Applewhite’s, but they came several years earlier and contained no attempts to hop a passing comet.  Instead, Mr. Adachi, editor for the New Canadian, a Japanese Canadian newspaper, studied English literature at the University of Vancouver and went on to teach at the University of Toronto and the University of Maryland, later rising to the position of editor of the books section of the Toronto Star in 1976.   He was fascinated with what he believed was a space alien looking into George Herbert Walker Bush’s left ear during a photo session during World War II.  Bush, a torpedo bomber on the USS San Jacinto, was believed by Mr. Adachi to have had a close working relationship with this shadowy alien that was perhaps an advanced scout from the approaching Hale-Bopp comet.     “Unfortunately, Mr. Adachi’s story which shows close associations with the Heaven’s Gate myth, was attached to the very true story of a tail gunner on another torpedo bomber aboard the USS San Jacinto, Chester Mierzejewski," said Dr. Sydewunder.  “Sadly Mr. Adachi’s motive for making up such a wildly spectacular connection and linking it with Mr. Bush and Mr. Mierzejewski , may never come to light,” said Dr. Sydewunder.
     “Mr. Adachi was fired from his position with the Star in 1981.   He was accused of plagiarism and he couldn’t adequately defend himself against the charges.   He was, however, rehired as a book reviewer and literary columnist and remained with the Star until 1989.  It is believe that he committed suicide after another accusation of plagiarism using three paragraphs from a 1982 book review in Time Magazine,” said Dr. Sydewunder.  “I could never figure out why a Toronto writer of Japanese descent took such an interest in the shadowy image in the GHWB photo, but I believe that it was a case of Applewhite Syndrome.  Somewhere along the line he either inhaled or ingested a shot of petro-chemicals that etched his brain beyond repair just like Marshall Applewhite,” said Dr. Sydewunder. “That another Ken Adachi has picked up on this story, leads me to believe that it may be his son, or that the story transmogrified within a single family unit.   My people are trying to confirm this, but to drop Mr. Mierzejewski’s  honest account of the way he remembered what happened as he followed Mr. Bush’s plane at ChiChi Jima with an “alien” gleaned from a blurred photo, leads me to believe that it’s a clear case of Applewhite Syndrome,” said Dr. Sydewunder.
     In the tail gunner position in Mr. Bush's plane, the Barbara II, was William Gardner "Ted" White, a member of a prominent Minnesota family that had hosted England's Duke of Windsor and wife Wallace Simpson at their Minnesota estate on Gem Lake prior to the war.  "Ted" White had led the Yale Political Union Debate on isolationism vs. intervention in the war between Germany and Great Britain in 1940, supporting intervention.  The Duke of Windsor and Wallace Simpson were allied with Hitler's Germany and left Gem Lake to take the Duke's position as Ambassador to the Bahamas where the two celebrities rode out the war.  The alien in Mr. Adachi photo does not appear to be either the Duke of Windsor or Wallace Simpson,  though some have seen a striking resemblance to Winston Churchill's deceased father or Germany's Arch Duke Ferdinand.  "And those who make such a claim are probably suffering from Applewhite Syndrome as well," concluded Dr. Sydewunder.

The Problem With Overkill

Overkill in the Sandbox of Bright Ideas

By Winsip Custer CPW News Service

     Somewhere amid his genetic makeup, biological and psychological amalgamations or training, Mr. Whitman embraced homicide.  Or rather, homicides.  If one of something was good, many times that was even better, so like the little boy who had carried his toy shovels, rakes and hoes to the sandbox in the back yard, he hauled his rifles and ammo to the top of the University of Texas tower and began firing on the people in the streets below with exemplary accuracy.  During the autopsy following his death a rapid growing tumor was found in his brain.  The philosophy of cancer is basic: overkill.

     Early cavemen may have behaved similarly and when they did, they were likely dragged to the edge of the forest clearing and into the thicket for a lesson in community rock throwing.  Overkill repeatedly arises in the sandbox of bright ideas.  Consider how the West was won.  Or more importantly, why.  Lewis and Clark were not propelled by visions of salmon fishing on the Columbia River or bear hunting in the Yukon.  Already the East Coast whalers and importers had discovered the lucrative products in the Orient and wanted to make a quicker killing in the market place at home.  This has been written about in another story called Cormac McCarthy and the White Stuff on the Road, but suffice it to say that one of the most profitable imports with the smallest transportation cost was opium.  Harvested in Turkey and Afghanistan and dumped by the American China Traders of New England just as had done the British opium smugglers, this had the long term effect of alienating the Chinese people and leaders.  “What the hell are the drug pushers doing screwing up our neighborhood?” they asked in a way similar to  the people of South and Central Los Angeles after Gary Webb’s book Dark Alliance revealed the same practice continuing on this side of the Pacific.

     In an interview with American historian, Damian Romy Nation, a great, great grandson of Carrie A. Nation, this tendency to overkill was explored with great clarity.  “Carrie figured that if a really big weapon got into the hands of a bunch of drunken American Indians the Anglo-Americans would be doomed.  So she started swinging her sledge hammer and hatchet.  Ruined some really good Scotch, in my opinion and she was always fighting some Jaybird-Woodpecker War which may have been why her first husband drank himself to death before she moved South from Missouri to what is today Rand and Ron Paul's querky Congressional District in Texas, a smuggler-petro-chem hide-away if their ever was one.  This explains most of their Libertarian leanings which morphed out of a fear mongering and strickly segregationist practices into Libertarianism in this region of backwoods and bayous," said Nation.

     Nation sees the taming of the American West much as this writer has.  “Yes, it was a tightly controlled stampede for the China Trade and often Christian missionaries were used as cross-cultural prostitutes of sorts.  I mean you don’t have to be too bright to see it.  Consider that the easiest route to the Pacific was across the flat Southwest from Savannah or Charleston to San Diego.  Much flatter.  No mountains.  The Indians were there, which is probably why Geronimo’s skull was carried off to Yale where the Skull and Bonesmen urinate on it.   They probably still kick it around as when Bin Laden was given his name as secret code name, but the Indians were far less of a problem than the mountains.  So what do you do to quickly lay a tightly controlled rail line across the Southwest?  You start a war with your Southern Anglo brothers and take the land away from them using the high moral ground.  You have to be weary of those taking the high moral ground, because it is usually only one foot up high.  The other is stuck in the mud.  Of course they didn't plan on Nathan Bedford Forest figuring it out.”

     “Figuring what out?” I asked.  “That as misguided as Forrest was about slavery, he was clear that Confederate Genral Braxton Bragg was a sorry turncoat working for the Northern Railroad interests.  By the time Forrest figured it out the war was lost, but that was one hell of a man, Forrest.    His picture was the only one hanging in Shelby Foote’s Memphis study and remember that Foote was a protégé’ of Walker Percy….of the Percy-Pierce clan….again, the railroad barons,” said Nation who also pointed out that Shelby's research and chronicling of the Civil War was not supported by a shred of original material or investivation of any original sources. "Bragg's descendant, C. Wright Mills figured it out and wrote about it.  Some say Mills was quickly becoming an earlier version of William Ayers and Albert Lasater Maher, rejecting the family history he had inherited and then debunking it," Nation carried on.

     Nation went on to explain that overkill has always trumped negotiation.  “It’s a huge snowballing effect,” he said.  “If we start a war, we can keep it going for a long time.  Our friends at Phelps-Dodge will win.   DuPont wins.  George Luther Stearns will win.  Remington will win. Colt will win.  Whitney will win.  Dow wins.  Guns and butter. One Great Society built on the backs of the Great Balls of Fire Society, with the real wealth going to an insulated elite removed from the fray.  The only real losers, they reasoned, would be the poor dumb Southerners who won’t have an inkling that we're rolling across their land NOT to liberate slaves, but to import opium to re-enslave them!   That's what Forrest understood instinctively and he felt the fool for it.  Human skunks have a more subtle aroma than the black and white fury ones, but we see in Forrest's disgust with Bragg the fact that he figured out the screwing his army of men, which included his own contigent of black body guards, was taking. That was essentially what finally came out in Gary Webb’s story Dark Alliance and bless his heart, he killed himself with two bullet wounds to the head...you have to be fast to do that.... on December 10, 2005, but not before showing the intricate relationship between our tightly controlled government of tyrants and the bull-shit that they spin for us,” said Nation.
      “You were talking earlier about Mr. Whitman on top of the University of Texas Tower," said Nation.  "What a shot he was.  Just ask Robert Heard, a reporter for the Associated Press.   Heard, a student at UT, took one of Whitman’s bullets in the shoulder," he continued.
     "Years earlier his older brother, an FBI agent, would lead the interviews with Albert Einstein and Robert Oppenheimer to determine their trustworthiness as leading American scientists.  They failed.  Robert Heard wrote: 'To cite a Heard connection, my brother Wyatt, as an FBI agent in the early 1950s, interviewed Einstein three or four times between late 1952 and May of 1953 at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study. The interviews regarded security clearance for persons seeking to do nuclear research. The interviews lasted 15 or 20 minutes. Einstein cooperated fully. Keep in mind that Republican Sen. Joe McCarthy of Wisconsin dominated national news during this period with his reckless charges about communists in the government,'" quoted Nation reading Heard's words.

     “Oppy”, a Jew like Einstein, was stripped of his security clearance.  Einstein was not let anywhere near the Manhattan project, but both Einstein and “Oppy” believed that overkill would reign.   "They promoted peace instead.  Edward Teller took over "Oppy's" role to continue the overkill with bigger bombs and to become the character for Dr. Strangelove while actor Dan Blocker, turned down the opportunity to ride down the bomb in the movie and the part went to actor Slim Pickens instead.   The human race, they believed is led by narrow minded, dim-witted, parochial little weasel types who want you to shove opium into a pipe and smoke it so their kids can go to school at Phillips-Exeter Academy or Vassar or Smith or Yale or Brown or Princeton,” said Nation.

     “Brown. There. Follow that thought.  It would go without saying that if the railroad barons were leading the charge to the West, that someone like Alexander Brown, also an American China Trader with deep roots in England and its history of China Trading, would be leading the efforts West.  'China Trading' is a polite way of saying 'drug pusher'.  So Brown pushed West.  The Texan Indian fighter, John Henry Brown, would send to Alexander’s hometown of Baltimore and ask for the support of English speaking Catholic priests. Enter the poor Irish.  They came from the Bishops' meeting at Baltimore both before and during the Texas Revolution with the promise that they could hold on to that leg of the route without losing the Texas Irish over to the Mexican Catholics, having already lost the far western leg of the San Diego extension to the failed filibustering attempt of William Walker who would high tail it to Galveston, home of John Henry Brown, so that he could raise an army, steal a nation in Central America and cut a sea channel across Central American if the U.S. Transcontinental rail route, Southern, Central or Northern failed to materialize.  The pesky Southerns resented a Reconstruction that would have disassociated them from their assets, so the barons went with the middle route even with the moutains.  The Southern route would come ten years later after Reconstruction had ended and liberation of slaves as the motive for the war all but forgotten.  In the decades before the Civil War, you will find that future Confederate President, Jefferson Davis, was charting the rail route across the Southwest.  The South's power brokers were aware of the game.   And if I’m wrong you would not find the Texas and Mexico Railroad cutting across Texas with the help of Uriah Lott….one of the biggest transporters of drugs to this day from the orient and now Central and South America, but with cocaine instead of opium or perhaps cocaine and opium.  Hell, I’d look to Alexander Brown, progenitor of Brown Brother Harriman and then Brown & Root and KBR/Halliburton and ask if, for example, their key leaders were sent West from Brown’s hometown of Baltimore so that they could cultivate the trail with judges, sheriffs, preachers, teachers, doctors and the like who were in their back pocket.  I suppose some of these folks were sincere and hadn't a clue.  It was a subtle conspiracy.  Often motivated by culture mixed with religion, but there were also extremely ruthless culture vultures within it.  John Joel Glanton comes to mind, the subject of Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, but his methods were an embarassment and basically peeled back the true nature of the race west....greed.  Culture, all cultures, primitive native, Greek, Roman, British, French, Spanish or American are always a two edged sword. This isn’t the same level of science that Einstein and Oppenheimer practiced and upon which the world of the future will depend more and more...and upon true religion without the sham.”

     I asked Nation if John Brown, Potawatomie Brown, the radical abolitionist, was part of the Alexander Brown galaxy of players.  “What do you think?” asked Nation.  “Read the book The Secret Six and look at George Luther Stearn’s connection to Alexander and you will have your answer, but you will also need to look at Abel Stearns in charge of routing William Walker out of California.  The husband of California’s most beautiful woman and a daughter of Juan Bandini from the Bernardo Bandini family of Florence, Italy, where the American China Traders vacationed and envisioned that they were the world’s new Medici’s,” said Nation.  “But it’s all about overkill.  The buffalo herds gone.  The whales are going.  Opium and heroin is still around, but they cannot allow us to harvest poppies in our back yards in regions similar to Turkey and Afghanistan or their whole profit stream evaporates, plus the profits from the war materials in those regions will mean that an Ivy League education for their kiddos will go ‘bye-bye’,” said Nation.

     “Now you’d have to expect that in the years since the discovery of nuclear energy that the feud between the oil boys and the nuke boys would be waged and that a type of shadow capital based on oil would take the place of the perceived government of the U.S..  Having gobbled up the land atop the fossil fuels in the American Southwest the thought of splitting atoms out of thin air was a bit unsettling for the China Trading, railroad laying, oil drilling, Civil War igniters.  If you think about it what better way to control the masses than with the fear that those hot little atoms would create a hugh world-wide fireball.  Better a Cold War.  Meanwhile the powerbase's big movers and shakers would control Washington from the Reconstructed South, their South, especially in Tulsa where the benchmark for oil prices was originally controlled through a single pipeline at Cushing, Oklahoma and then from  Tulsa the shift in power was to Houston. Cushing.  There’s another China Trader family, but from just up the coast from Alexander Brown’s city of Baltimore, in Boston,” said Nation.  "One of their kin would become a powerful Roman Catholic Cardinal, just as later, another of the CIA-insider families would do likewise, with Avery Dulles becoming the first American Cardinal to skip the rank of Bishop.  Dating from the Texas Revolution and before, however, the Catholics knew that they were beholding pawns of the New England Protestant Anglo community," said Nation.

     “So it was.  The discrediting of Oppenheimer and Einstein, I have already mentioned, but I didn’t mention that in 1941 at the Yale Political Union debate, a young man who worked as a reporter for the Yale newspaper led the debate on war or isolationism, William Gardiner “Ted” White.  He wanted to get into the war as soon as possible citing reports from Louis Nizer and others that Hitler was the tyrant that we now know he was.  Not all Americans believed that.  Some embraced Hitler anyway as evidenced by America's titan capitalists like Ford, Firestone, Burroughs and Lindberg who approached celebrated Marine General Smedley Butler to lead a coup to overthrow FDR replacing him with their own man so we could stay out of the war, making profits from the brewing conflict in Europe and the Orient and later show our solidarity with the Germans.  White would end up the tail gunner in George Herbert Walker Bush’s torpedo bomber during the war.  White died in the back seat of the Barbara II and his story with him, which I believe would have been a really remarkable insider’s insight from one of the disillusioned elites of Yale.  But even more importantly is the Yale newspaper’s other reporter at the time. William Liscum Borden.  Borden along with Rice University President and petroleum engineer who was working on improvements in jet fuel at the time, Kenneth Pitzer, would team up to strip ‘Oppy’ and Einstein of their credibility thus further fueling Joseph McCarthy's high profile dog and pony show.  That would have been a crushing blow to peace time development of nuclear power and a boom to the petroleum cartel with its dope money from the China shippers who insured their shipments in the same way that Lloyd's of London had done with the East India Company....through AIG... the big winner in the recent  Wallstreet bail outs.  That bailout included the forced Bank of America purchase of Merrill, Lynch, Pierce Fenner and Smith, for which Don Regan, Ronald Reagan's Chief of Staff was CEO, and whose partner, Pierce can trace his history to Presiden Franklin Pierce who backed filibuster William Walker, Barbara Pierce Bush and the Percy/Pierce American family constellation.  Again, the bright idea of overkill comes into play...as in killing the American tax payers over and over and over again with both over and under the table taxes .  So what happens?  Pitzer and Borden lead the charges against Einstein and Oppenheimer and they have the interviews by FBI agent Wyatt Heard, brother of Robert Heard, who might have been, but for the grace of God, killed in Austin by ex-Marine Charles Whitman.  So the world moves another step toward the ever escalating game of overkill.  Today it is ‘terrorists’ who become such, not unlike the increasingly unwilling opium smoking Chinese, some believe because of the overkill we have practiced in China Trading, Vietnam, Cambodia and Burma, now Miranmar's Golden Triangle or Iran, Iraq, Egypt and, as shown this week, even in Libya if we are to believe the letters of Qadaffi's security chief and the testimony discovered by the group Human Rights Watch and of many former CIA agents like Robert Baer who long ago spoke out about secret CIA renditioning sites in Syria and Egypt.  Hey, and remember that Pamela Pitzer Willeford was with ‘Ole’ Dead-eye Dick Cheney’ in Texas when he decorated Harry M. Whittington’s face with buckshot.  What was that about?  Maybe Whittington got wind of White’s story or maybe he didn’t want to play ‘spin the water board’ at the ranch house that night.  So anyway, the cold war escalated and the Jews were surely thinking ‘What?  Our guys do the hard breakthroughs and aren’t good enough to be trusted?’ So the Israelites develop their own bombs after the Ruskies do theirs, everyone blaming “Oppy” while pointing to the Rosenbergs and now there’s Britain, France, China, North Korea, India, Pakistan, all the NATO nations and most of the former Soviet states with nukes to spare.  Overkill!   All as a result of distrust and dumbed down doctrines of overkill, overkill, overkill, overkill, overkill, overkill.  That ever growing, cancerious philosophy from the sandbox of human imperfections.....Overkill.”

Rick Perry Denies He's Suffering From Applewhite Syndrome

Scientists Say High Numbers of Applewhite Syndrome Cases Cause For Major Alarm

by Winsip Custer CPW News Service

     With the fire and smoke raging in Central and South Texas causing lung and breathing related illnesses, scientists are warning that this may also cause a spike in Applewhite Syndrome, a condition linked to the petroleum and chemical refinery toxins associated with Texas' petro-chemical industry. 

George Carlin
 may have suffered
 from
the non-religious form of
Applewhite Syndrome.

     It was first discovered when Rev. Marshall Applewhite, Sr. registered his concern for his son, Marshall, Jr. who on wind-stagnant days would shove lead paint chips up his nose while reading his father's Greek New Testament, upside down and backward, thinking that it was Hebrew.  The preacher's son told his father that  he was visiting a Koch Brother's refinery near a Texas ship channel when the vapors released from the facility etched the glass windshields on the cars in the parking lot.  Afterward, Marshall became more and more eccentric and unusual, said a friend who reasoned "It could have taken a non-religious turn...this etching of Marshall's brain cells.  I'm not convinced that George Carlin didn't suffer from the non-religious form the syndrome," said the man who not wanting to be identified  admitted that before seeing a doctor and psychiatrist he was considering following Marshall through Heaven's Gate.....whatever that is. 
      The story of Marshall Applewhite's Heaven's Gate Cult and its attempt to catch a ride on the Hale Bopp Comet in 1997 was covered by freelance reporter Travis Austin Burleson who said that he especially liked the coverage by the newspaper in Amarillo, Texas, an article by David Bowser of the Amarillo Globe News.
     Dr. Lawrence T. Sydewunder, of the Applewhite Syndrome Association in Bathesda, Maryland, said "we are worried about anybody whose brain cells may have been etched with significant amounts of Benzine or other gaseous toxins.  Dr. Ron Paul, whose work as a physician along the Texas Coast is in a Congressional region especially effected by Applewhite Syndrome, has yet to come out and take a stance like that of Ralph Nader in his recent report "Unsafe At Any Toxicity Level," said Sydewunder.  "Ron Paul and his son, Rand, may be too far gone.  You can first begin to see the effects in people's eyes.  They being to look like Marshall Applewhite," said Sydewunder who played a copy of Marshall Applewhite's Heaven's Gate training tape pointing out the tell-tale signs of the increasingly diagnosed condition.

     "Be aware," said Dr. Sydewunder, "if you live in a community where an increasing number of people appear to be like Stepford Wives with a kind of glazed crazy look in their eyes and if they are battier than bed bugs and nuttier than Skippy Peanut Butter....crunchy, that is, it may be Applewhite Syndrome.  They can hide behind their religiosity OR their anger at organized religion, either way.  It may just mean that their brains have been etched beyond repair.  We see a shocking number of these sad cases in oil rich developing nations which are not unlike Texas.  I asked Governor Perry to call attention to this tragic condition by submitting to a simple diagnostic analysis.  He denied that he has the problem, but he kept eyeing the bowl of lead paint chips I put on the table in front of him, so I still have my doubts," said Sydewunder whose new book Applewhite Syndrome: Airing America's Dirty Little Secret, will be published by Simonson and Brewster Publishing in January, 2012.

     Dr. Sydewunder is convinced that though President Ronald Reagan was not himself afflicted with Applewhite Syndrome, his wife and her close friend, astrologer Joan Quigley, were both stricken with an advanced form of the malady.  "Ms. Quigley seems to have begun to develop it when she was unable to find a university in the free world that provided a PhD. in Tarrot cards and palm and tea leaf reading," said Sydewunder.  "The eyes are nearly always tell-tale.  I can always tell by the eyes," said Sydewunder.



Joan Quigley, Nancy Reagan's astrologer had Applewhite
Syndrome.







Florida Governor Richard Scott showing
signs of Applewhite Syndrome

          


Former Senator, William
Frist, show increasing
Applewhite Syndrome
benchmarks.

    















    


















     Meanwhile, former Texan,   Richard Scott, partner with Richard Rainwater (a partner with George W. Bush in the Texans baseball francise) and with Dr. William Frist in Columbia/HCA hospitals, is now governor or Florida and is reportedly showing extreme signs of Applewhite Syndrome according to Dr. Sydewunder's fact finding and medical investigation team in Florida. "Mr. Scott's downfall at Columbia/HCA was that he promoted a cult of personality that was out of this world," said Sydewunder. 
    
     "New York Times reporter, Kurt Eichenwald, has covered Scott's Applewhite issues well, though Eichenwald helps to resurrect, at the same time, the myth that HCA's leadership is somehow disassociated from Columbia which is totally false," said Sydewunder who maintains that "even Senator Frist is showing substantial Applewhite Syndrome benchmarks."

     Sources close to surviving members of the Heaven's Gate Cult, believe that Mr. Scott was taking mind-control lessons from Mr. Applegate in Texas and that the secret code name for their vision of the emerging U.S. healthcare program is "Heaven's Gate".

Rick Perry and Other GOP Hopefuls Go At It

Brutal Name Calling Tarnishes GOP Debate

by Winsip Custer CPW News Services

Taking aim at the Texas Governor Rick Perry, Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney cornered the Texas presidential hopeful following this weeks presidential debate.  Gingrich had raised the issue of Perry not consulting with the Texas Congress before requiring 12 year old Texas school girls to receive a vaccination for sexually transmitted viruses linked to cervical cancer. "You're a fine one to talk Newt, after it was obvious that you've slept around more than Heidi Fleist."

Turning to Mitt Romney, Perry accused him of "piling on."   Romney told reporters that he had never been called a "retarded moron" before by any political candidate.  To which Perry interjected that "I didn't call Nitt a retarded moron, but a brain-farted Mormon."

Texas Progressive critic of Governor Rick Perry, Jim Hightower, pointed out that the criticism of Perry is justified.  "He's calling the governement a ponzi scheme, but takes state bailout money without bating an eye, then he laments the raging fires leaving the campaign trail to return to the state to show solidarity with all the firemen whose jobs he slashed by 75%.  He's put the 'guber' in 'gubernatorial', " said Hightower.   "I mean Perry leaves more crap behind him than a herd of Texas Longhorns on X-Lax.  If it wouldn't get me in trouble with MHMR and a thousand other organizations I say he got Ass-booger Disease."

Gay Marriage Good For The Environment Says Multitude of Groups

Gay Marriage Good For Planet Earth

by Winsip Custer CPW News Service

     California is only the second state in the U.S. that allowed same sex marriages and then discontinued the practice based on the passage of Proposition 8.  From June 16, 2008 to November 5, 2008 it was allowed.  With Proposition 8's passage the California Constitution limited marriages to a union between a man and a woman.  Presumably this still allows for marriages between what may not appear to be men or women.  Some have asked that sexual genetic identification for marriage be determined by the 1905 discovery which identified women as having the XX and men as having the XY chromosomes, but so far such testing is not required except in professional and Olympic sports competition.  Proponents of heterosexual marriage argue that there is no greater competitive sport in the world than heterosexual marriage as evidenced by the statistics chronicling mental, emotional and physical abuse as well as divorce.
     With emotions in California rising over Proposition 8 a variety of diverse groups are supporting same sex marriage citing its demonstrated positive impact on the environment.  "There is virtually no better way to guarantee a lower human population than through abstinence, birth control methods like condoms and pills and other devices, abortions, gay marriage, war and plagues.  Fewer people will improve everything.  We believe that of all the methods, gay marriage is the most environmentally friendly method of population control especially if gay couples continue to practice the same level of attention to cleanliness for which they are currently known.  Heterosexual marriages are especially messy in comparison and the little nippers that follow are especially problematic," said Farnsworth P. Willowwick of the citizens group Less than Zero.
     Virginia Rodmann, spokesperson for LeFemmine de Butche', the largest pro-no-child-producing gay women's group in the San Francisco area said "when gay marriage amendments are accompanied with a ban against semen sharing, there is a 100% chance that population decline will continue to good effect, but this will inevitably create a large black market in underground semen sample production.  Just as prohibition created an explosion in criminal enterprises, so would the banning of lesbian, homosexual and heterosexual semen and egg sharing," said Rodmann.  "But even so, I can't imagine that gay and lesbian couples will ever produce the number of offspring that we currently see among heterosexuals, especially Roman Catholic ones," said Rodmann.  Rodmann's group is exploring the possibility that a new Proposition 9 which  repeals Proposition 8 if an iron-clad prohibition on egg and semen exchange will help to reinstate the short-lived gay and lesbian marriage arrangement.  Fearing Proposition 9's passage, conservative evangelical California cryonics entrepreneur, Redman Duval Turgeson, has initiated record levels of egg and semen storage in his five California storage facilities.  "Some have said that I've decided that if I can't lick 'em I'll join  'em, but I can assure you that I'm not lickin' anybody and I'm certainly not join' 'em.  I'm not giving up, I'm just hedging my bets," said Turgeson who also said that the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, without God's people lifting a finger in contempt or retaliation, was a Biblical example of God cleaning house of planet polluters, though he can't understand why most Gays and Lesbians have a higher level of concern for keeping  their "cages clean" and their domiciles neatly appointed and color coordinated.
     Creating a new advertising consortium aimed at promoting the favorable zero-population aspects of same sex relationships and marriages and underwriting advertising and public relations campaigns with some of Madison Avenue's leading advertising firms are:

Gays For No PopGrow
EGay and ELesbian Harmony.Com
Les Is More
Gay Is Good For Planet Earth
ByeByeBabyByeBye LLP
Greater San Francisco SeeManNoSeMen Society
The GenderNoEngending Assocation of Anneheim
Conservative Evangelical Gays for Childrens' Playground Conversions
Gays and Lesbians Against Lactation
Gay Baby Sitters for State Sponsored Hospice Worker Training
Gay Scout Masters for Disposition of BSA Real Estate
Gays Against Toys-R-US
Gay Gunmen for Blank Shooting Gun Clubs of America
Lesbian Horticulturists for Sterile Human Hybridization
The Gay and Lesbian Anti-Chucky Cheese Alliance
The Bay Area Onan Assembly

     Draper Donaldson of the Madison Avenue advertising and public relation's firm of Donaldson, Nicholson and Steele said "getting the world to rethink it's sexual orientation is perhaps the greatest public relations challenge since the discovery of tobacco's negative health effects, but we believe we are up to the job," said Donaldson who jokingly called the new emphasis "pubic relations".  Donaldson and Steele, who spent a week in California gathering research for their work said that they enjoyed the fellowship of the Bay Area Onan Assembly the most, but felt some emotional trauma during their target practice with the Gay Gunmen for Blank Shooting Gun Clubs of America and the dinner they hosted in their honor.  "The whole world depends on this campaign and producing effective ads that reach India, China and Africa is perhaps the greatest challenge of my life," Donaldson concluded.

Petraeus, Westhusing and the Lessons of Belisarius

General David Petraeus, Col. Theodore Westhusing and The Lessons of Belisarius

The great General Belisarius, blind and begging in the street.
By painter Jacques-Louis David.

By Winsip Custer CPW News Service

      Legend has it that one of Rome's most celebrated Generals was never really appreciated by his Emperor, Justinian. Embedded with Roman General Belisarius was historian Procopius, a forerunner of a battlefield chronicler like Christian T. Miller whose book on the second Iraq War, Blood Money, begins with the death of beloved West Point soldier, professor and Greek scholar, Col. Theodore Westhusing.  Assigned the task of training an indigenous security force of Iraqi soldiers, but seeing the American corruption of empire builders and private contractors and the unreported civilian “collateral damage”, Westhusing confronted America’s Bellasarius, General Petraeus.  Four hours later Westhusing was dead of a disputed suicide.

     Perhaps Westhusing was thinking of Thomas Jefferson's words from the Declaration of Independence....that when the corruption becomes so widespread it is the citizen's right, indeed duty, to throw off that goverment's tyrrany.  With the President as “Commander in Chief” it is hard to know whether a General is working for the best interests of the Republic or for a President who has severed himself from the values of the body politik.  If the President’s policies are at odds with the Republic what is a soldier to do? Resign?  The short answer is “yes”, but the lengthier one is mitigated by many other concerns.

General Petraeus fainting during his testimony before Congress.

     Roman Emperor, Justinian I (Flavius Anicius Justinianus), the nephew of Justin I, was born at Tauresium in Illyria..  He was educated at Constantinople and in 527 was proclaimed sole emperor and was crowned along with his wife, Theodora.
      Justinian’s war with Persia ended with a treaty favorable to Justinian, but the victory was followed by the Nika riots, which culminated in the election of a rival emperor. Justinian prepared to flee Constantinople but thanks to Theodora and his Generals the riots were contained with 35,000 rioters killed in a single day.   It was not unreminescent of today's Middle Eastern rebellions. Through Belisarius, the Vandal kingdom of Africa was re-annexed to the empire.  He defeated the Parthnians, the Vandals.   He beat the  Ostrogoths and the Bulgars doubling the size of the Byzantine empire less than a generation after the fall of the Western Empire, but as we know, “war is hell”.
     So Procopius wrote two histories of Justinian's wars which were designed and waged to re-establish the limits of the Roman Empire….a short, pity real version and the much longer sanitized one.  There was Procopius' official history, on the one hand, and the secret one on the other with its “Secret History”, also known as Anectoda, buried in the Vatican Library for centuries, from the 6th until the 15th,  when it was "rediscovered".
     With the Holy Roman Empires' slipping grip on its inherited assets and fearing the 15^th Century assault that the church felt from Copernicus and Galileo whose discoveries had challenged the centricity of the earth as the center of all things, narcissistic Popes and embattled monarch's who depended on the church's blessing kept Procopius's secret history hidden. Why add fuel to the growing fire by telling the truth about Justinian's corruption? What good would it do to reveal that the Pope's wife, Theodora, danced naked on stage and laid covered in barley grains as geese plucked the seed from her navel and groin while brave soldiers died to protect and expand Justian and Theodora's playground?  Why reinvigorate the parallel images of Solame dancing in the court of Herod as John the Baptist awaited his fate in a dreary dungeon?
      To tell the truth in time of war, as did Col. Theodore Westhusing, is always dangerous.  Procopius had no world-wide web along which to send his lightning bolt and perhaps inoculate Belisarius.  Westhusing never had the chance, though his story is saved, as was Belisarius’  by Procopius in the book by Christian T. Miller, Blood Money. 
     Whether Justinian's gouging of General Belisarius' eyes is merely legend or fact, we cannot say, but the poet Longfellow saw in the potential threat of Belisarius as a leader of  men and repository for the facts of Justinian’s methods and motivations as reason to pen one of his most memorable poems……

Belisarius

I am poor and old and blind;

The sun burns me, and the wind

Blows through the city gate

And covers me with dust

From the Wheels of the august

Justinian the Great

It was for him I chased

The Persians o’er wild and waste,

As Generals of the East;

Night after night I lay

In their camps of yesterday;

Their forage was my feast.

For him, with sails of red, and torches at mast-head,

Piloting the great fleet,

I swept the Fric coasts

And scattered the Vandal hosts,

Like dust in a windy street.

For him I won again

The Ausonian realm and reign,

Rome and Parthenope;

And all the land has mine

From the summits of Apennine

To the shores of either sea.

For him in my feeble age,

I dared the battle rage,

To save Byzantium’s state,

When the tents of Zabergan,

Like snow-drifts overran

The road to the Golden Gate.

And for this, for this, behold!

Infirm and blind and old.

With gray, uncovered head,

Beneath the very arch

Of my triumphal march,

I stand and beg my bread!

Methinks I can still hear

Sounding distinct and near,

The Vandal monarch’s cry,

As, captive and disgraced,

With majestic step he paced,--

“All, all is Vanity!”

Ah! Vainest of all things

Is the gratitude of kings;

The plaudits of the crowd

Are but the clatter of feet

At midnight in the street,

Hollow and restless and loud.

But the bitterest disgrace

Is to see forever the face

Of the Monk of Ephesus!

The unconquerable will

This, too, can bear;--I still

Am Belisarius.

     How many Theodore Westhusings’ had Belisarius silenced at the command of Justinian in his assent?  Procopius of Ceasarea, a Greek, unlike Christian T. Miller, doesn’t say.  Remaining embedded with a General’s army had its price especially in the 5^th Century.  General Petraeus surely knows of Belisarius as would have Colonel Westhusing who studied the Greek Classics at the University  of Texas.

Col. Theodore Westhusing
and friend.

     Westhusing, a devout Catholic, scholar, historian, ethicist whose deep interest in “just warfare” unlike Petraeus, and if we are to believe Westhusing's heart-rending journal, counted the cost of “the bitterest disgrace”….of forever seeing the face “Of the Monk of Ephesus”.   Petraeus, on the other hand, having owed his life to the Senator/Surgeon from Nashville and close ally of President Bush, Dr. William  Frist, who had plugged the hole in his lung from that mysterious errant bullet received at Fort Campbell, would not be traumatized again, and especially not from the bullet of Westhusing’s poignant critique in the Green Zone.
     Now that Libyan rebels have secured the capital city of Tripoli and opened the office of the head of Libya’s feared security officer exposing communication between our CIA and Libya’s General Qaddafi, letters that show Libya to be a secret CIA renditioning site for supposed terrorists, the value of embedded human rights watchers is enhanced.  With nationalism a disguise for the treachery of family dynastic desires the life of Col. Ted Westhusing is forever honored and the official report of the circumstances of his death forever disputed.

     Now the head of our CIA, General Petraeus, who had married the West Point Commandant's daughter, like countless Vatican librarians from Procopius to the Reformation, can try to keep the real story hidden, while the world, even the Muslim world, longs for truth and freedom and light.  As the song goes, “kings and kingdoms shall all pass away, but there’s something about that name,” ….the one to which the “Monk of Ephesus”, in his best longings and for which he retreated to the solitude of Ephesus, gave compelling testimony and to whom Col. Westhusing gave his undying allegiance.  It's a name to which even significant parts of the Muslim world, as the recent rebellions attest, look for a “Great Physician” and healer of humanity’s ills while others fear that the Emperor will pluck out their eyes and leave them begging in the streets.