GOD'S CARTOONIST

Easter might be a very appropriate time to watch Kurt Kuersteiner's 2008 documentary, GOD'S CARTOONIST: THE COMIC CRUSADE OF JACK T. CHICK.

Manly P. Hall: Easter Lecture 1986: Christ in the Realms of the Dead

Manly P. Hall, 33rd Degree Scottish Rite Freemason and author of such important books as THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES (1928) and THE SECRET DESTINY OF AMERICA (1944), discusses "Christ in the Realms of the Dead" in the lecture below.... 

TONIGHT!!! ON WHERE DID THE ROAD GO? (Part 2)

After you've finished looking at this sinister and uncanny photo of my upside down birthday cake, you might want to consider listening to PART 2 of my epic WHERE DID THE ROAD GO? interview, which will air later tonight on WVBR 93.5 FM Ithaca NY (10pm EST/7pm PST). On tonight's show, I'll be giving a thorough update on CHAMELEO and all manner of High Weirdness. TUNE IN!

 

Near Intelligence/Azira

From Dhruv Mehrotra and Dell Cameron's 3-28-24 WIRED article entitled "Jeffrey Epstein’s Island Visitors Exposed by Data Broker":

NEARLY 200 MOBILE devices of people who visited Jeffrey Epstein’s notorious “pedophile island” in the years prior to his death left an invisible trail of data pointing back to their own homes and offices. Maps of these visitations generated by a troubled international data broker with defense industry ties, discovered last week by WIRED, document the numerous trips of wealthy and influential individuals seemingly undeterred by Epstein’s status as a convicted sex offender.

The data amassed by Near Intelligence, a location data broker roiled by allegations of mismanagement and fraud, reveals with high precision the residences of many guests of Little Saint James, a United States Virgin Islands property where Epstein is accused of having groomed, assaulted, and trafficked countless women and girls [...].

The coordinates that Near Intelligence collected and left exposed online pinpoint locations to within a few centimeters of space. Visitors were tracked as they moved from the Ritz-Carlton on neighboring St. Thomas Island, for instance, to a specific dock at the American Yacht Harbor—a marina once co-owned by Epstein that hosts an “impressive array” of pleasure boats and mega-yachts. The data pinpointed their movements as they were transported to Epstein’s dock on Little St. James, revealing the exact routes taken to the island.

The tracking continued after they arrived. From inside Epstein's enigmatic waterfront temple to the pristine beaches, pools, and cabanas scattered across his 71-acres of prime archipelagic real estate, the data compiled by Near captures the movements of scores of people who sojourned at Little St. James as early as July 2016. The recorded surveillance concludes on July 6, 2019—the day of Epstein’s final arrest [...].

Near Intelligence, for example, tracked devices visiting Little St. James from locations in 80 cities crisscrossing 26 US states and territories, with Florida, Massachusetts, Texas, Michigan, and New York topping the list. The coordinates point to mansions in gated communities in Michigan and Florida; homes in Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket in Massachusetts; a nightclub in Miami; and the sidewalk across the street from Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue in New York City.

The coordinates also point to various Epstein properties beyond Little St. James, including his 8,000-acre New Mexico ranch and a waterfront mansion on El Brillo Way in Palm Beach, where prosecutors said in an indictment that Epstein trafficked numerous “minor girls” for the purposes of molesting and abusing them. Near’s data is notably missing any locations in Europe, where citizens are safeguarded by comprehensive privacy laws [...].

Before a targeted advertisement appears on an app or website, phones and other devices send information about their owners to real-time bidding platforms and ad exchanges, frequently including users’ location data. While advertisers can use this data to inform their bidding decisions, companies like Near Intelligence will siphon, repackage, analyze, and sell it [...].

Officially, this data is intended to be used by companies hoping to determine where potential customers work and reside. But in October 2023, the Journal revealed that Near had once provided data to the US military via a maze of obscure marketing companies, cutouts, and conduits to defense contractors. Bankruptcy records reviewed by WIRED show that in April 2023, Near Intelligence signed a yearlong contract with another firm called nContext, a subsidiary of the defense contractor Sierra Nevada.

nContext secured six federal contracts to provide data in support of the National Security Agency and the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency, according to reporting by Byron Tau, author of Means of Control, an exposé of the data-broker industry and its ties to the US surveillance state. According to information released during a $100 million funding round in 2019, Near claims to have information on roughly 1.6 billion people in 44 countries.

“The pervasive surveillance machine that has been developed for digital advertising now enables other uses completely unrelated to marketing, including government mass surveillance,” says Wolfie Christl, a Vienna-based researcher at Cracked Labs who investigates the data industry.

The data on Epstein’s guests was produced using an intelligence platform formerly known as Vista, which has now been folded into a product called Pinnacle. WIRED discovered several so-called Vista reports while examining Pinnacle’s publicly accessible code. While the specific URLs for the reports are difficult to find, Google’s web crawlers were able to locate at least two other publicly accessible Vista reports: one geofencing the Westfield Mall of the Netherlands and another targeting Saipan-Ledo Park in El Paso, Texas [...].

Near Intelligence has since quietly resumed operations, under the same leadership that initiated the bankruptcy proceedings, rebranding itself as a newly incorporated entity called Azira.

US senator Ron Wyden in early February urged federal regulators to launch investigations into Near Intelligence, citing reporting by The Wall Street Journal that found its platform had been used by a third party to geofence “sensitive locations,” including roughly 600 reproductive health clinics at the behest of a conservative group that waged a multiyear antiabortion campaign. US regulators have begun to designate certain types of locations “sensitive,” including health clinics, domestic abuse shelters, and places of religious worship, in an attempt to shield Americans from predatory data brokers amid the US Congress’s years-long failure to pass a comprehensive privacy law.

In an email to WIRED, Kathleen Wailes, speaking on behalf of Azira, acknowledged that Near Intelligence had deliberately collected the data on Epstein’s island for its own purposes. Wailes declined multiple invitations to discuss how the data was collected, which prospective client may have created the report of Epstein’s island, and what purpose it served [...].

Although the discovery of the Epstein island data involved many additional steps, WIRED also found it could be easily retrieved with a simple Google search.

To read the entire article, click HERE. 

From Lucas Ropek's 3-28-24 GIZMODO article entitled "A Data Broker Reportedly Tracked Visitors to Jeffrey Epstein’s Island":

If Near Intelligence was able to methodically identify the trajectories of visitors to Epstein’s secretive haven, it doesn’t seem to have spent much effort protecting the data that it accumulated. That is, Wired journalists somehow stumbled upon the Epstein report, which they say had been left exposed to the open internet [...].

For years, privacy advocates have warned that the data brokerage industry is a civil liberties nightmare that threatens the very basic tenets of personal digital autonomy. This story would seem to hammer that point home. Jeffrey Epstein’s island is alleged to have been a secret haven for the misdeeds of the wealthy and the powerful. Yet somehow a private company found location data which, under the right circumstances, could be used to unmask the visitors to that super private island. It then seems to have sloppily left the information exposed to the internet. If even Epstein’s secret cabal is exposed to this kind of mediocre corporate espionage, then there truly is no place anybody can hide from the roving eye of the data brokerage industry.

To read the entire article, click HERE.

EXTRA-SPECIAL BIRTHDAY MESSAGE POSTSCRIPT

EXTRA-SPECIAL BIRTHDAY MESSAGE POSTSCRIPT: After you've finished voting for DEAD MONKEY RUM in the 22nd Annual Rondo Awards, today would be a most excellent day to procure a copy of my latest book, CRYPTOPOLIS & OTHER STORIES!

PRAISE FOR CRYPTOPOLIS:

"The stories in Cryptopolis feel like the bloody, star-filled lovechildren of Burroughs and Delany, with each tale ostensibly one part of a greater whole; abstract limbs and organs tethered together by strained flesh. Cryptopolis will take readers on a hallucinogenic journey through worlds fractured by time and place—slipping through liminal dimensions with seamless abandon to unveil unsettling illusions and heartbreaking realities—and totally worth the trip."

--Philip Fracassi, author of Boys in the Valley

 

"If you're tired of the same wines and you're curious about the vintage only just whispered about, have a deep draught of Robert Guffey's Cryptopolis. You don't have to descend with Fortunato to the deepest cellars to find this bottle of Amontillado. Here it is! If Poe collaborated with Robert Anton Wilson...if Borges had a lovechild with Lovecraft, which was subsequently adopted by Kafka...you might get Cryptopolis. I think too that Clark Ashton Smith would admire this collection. Written with the obsessive precision of a mysterious staircase descending into the abyss, Cryptopolis will take you to strange epiphanies..."  

 

--John Shirley, author of The Feverish Stars

 

"Once upon a time, weird and speculative fiction had an underground full of stories that were not written as calling cards or as film treatments or as extended internet memes. Guffey's tales resist genre gentrification; they move into your mind to turn it into a punk house squat!" 

--Nick Mamatas, author of Move Under Ground and The Second Shooter

 

"Guffey brings together 25 horror shorts that swing wildly between terrifying mindtrips and gritty realism. Throughout, Guffey’s blunt prose lends a sense of normalcy to the fantastic as his cast of losers from all walks of life face the cruelties of their existence—sexual violence, drugs, war, parenthood, and poverty [...]. Though not for the faint of heart, this bizarre and over-the-top collection is sure to thrill devotees of weird fiction."

--Publishers Weekly

HAPPY BIRTHDAY... TO ME!!!

I can no longer deny it! The breaking international news is true! Yes, it's my BIRTHDAY! Instead of mailing me yet another semi-comedic card, a $20,000 automobile, or a plastic bag overflowing with furanyl fentanyl, why not take the easy route this time? Simply vote for me in the 22nd Annual Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards! Did you know that ANYONE can vote in the Rondo Awards? Shocking but true! My latest novel, DEAD MONKEY RUM, has been nominated for "Best Classic Monster Fiction." YOU CAN VOTE FOR DEAD MONKEY RUM IN 3 EASY STEPS....

1. Copy-and-paste the ballot below into an e-mail.
 
2. Choose DEAD MONKEY RUM in the BEST CLASSIC MONSTER FICTION category.
 
3. Then email to David Colton (taraco@aol.com) by midnight on April 16th, 2024.

Don’t forget to include your name in the e-mail!

--START COPYING--

BEST CLASSIC MONSTER FICTION:
— DEAD MONKEY RUM, by Robert Guffey (Planet Bizarro, softcover, 192 pages, $12.99). Cryptozoic beasts race adventurers in Los Angeles.

--END COPYING--

Thank Ye, Thank Ye! And Happy Birthday... to me!!!

General Chaos, Kremlin Propaganda, the Attack of the Snow Monster, and Elizabeth Clare Prophet

From David Edwards' 3-26-24 RAW STORY article entitled "Michael Flynn Responds to Bridge Collapse by Pushing Kremlin Propaganda": 

Former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn suggested that a bridge collapse in Baltimore was connected to a terrorist attack in Russia.

Flynn joined conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on his Tuesday broadcast to talk about the tragedy that was caused by a ship hitting the Francis Scott Key Bridge.

"I've read the reports that, statistically, we're seeing about triple the number of these that we normally see," Jones began. "So obviously, that means some of this is just normal accidents, but a lot of it is some type of sabotage."

"You're saying this appears to be a Black Swan event," he told Flynn.

"So everything that I see here and, you know, I mean, the jury is going to be out for a while," Flynn responded. "This is not, you know, I was asked earlier today, Alex, can we take the idea that this was a terrorist attack off the table? And absolutely, we cannot do that."

The former national security adviser repeated Russian government talking points while connecting the bridge collapse to a terrorist attack in Moscow.

To read the entire article, click HERE.

From Joanna Slater's 2-17-24 WASHINGTON POST article entitled "How the Decision to Honor a Trump Ally Tore Apart a Hall of Fame":

For nearly 60 years, the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame has inducted notables into its ranks, providing this tiny state with a boost of pride [...].

Then came the matter of Michael Flynn.

In December, it emerged that Flynn — a Rhode Island native, retired lieutenant general and former national security adviser who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI and was later pardoned by Donald Trump — would be inducted into the Hall of Fame at its annual banquet this spring.

At least nine members of the organization’s board resigned in response. Some of this year’s other inductees said they would decline the honor. The husband of one of the board members who had resigned reported the group’s former longtime president to the Internal Revenue Service [...].

John Parrillo teaches history at a local university and served on the Hall of Fame’s board for seven years before stepping down in late December, saying he disagreed with Flynn’s “far-right, militaristic” vision for America.

“It tears my heart out that I had to leave it,” Parrillo said. “We’ve never talked politics.”

Inductees are celebrated at an annual ceremony opened by bagpipes and studded with local dignitaries. Each receives a statuette, a replica of the “Independent Man” atop Rhode Island’s State House. Parrillo already had his nominee for 2025 picked out: novelist Cormac McCarthy, who was born in Providence and died last year [...].

The controversy around Flynn goes beyond pleading guilty to a felony, a plea he later sought to withdraw before receiving a presidential pardon. He is also a high-profile proponent of conspiracy theories surrounding the 2020 election, which he baselessly claims was stolen.

In December 2020, he was part of a group that urged Trump to direct the military to seize voting machines, witnesses told a congressional committee. When Flynn was questioned by legislators investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, he repeatedly invoked his Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate himself. He has toured the country telling audiences that America is in the middle of a “spiritual war” and called for the nation to embrace “one religion” during an appearance at an evangelical megachurch.

To read the entire article, click HERE.

From Derek Barichello's 1-20-24 SHAW LOCAL NEWS NETWORK article entitled "Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn’s Book Reading to Take Place at Sheridan Church":

Former President Donald Trump’s national security adviser Michael Flynn will hold a children’s book reading, initially set to take place at the Somonauk Public Library, next week at the Fox River Lutheran Church in Sheridan.

The Somonauk library will not be able to accommodate the number of people expected to attend, said Kiara Tyrrell of the Children’s Department at the library.

Flynn’s expected visit garnered attention Tuesday as about 75 people showed up to the Somonauk library board meeting to voice their displeasure with the library’s previous decision to cancel the book reading with Flynn.

Trump pardoned the retired general in November 2020 after Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI.

Flynn had been scheduled to read from his children’s book, “The Night the Snow Monster Attacked,” but the event was canceled hastily after library officials received some complaints, board President Roberta Mickelson said.

At the beginning of Tuesday’s meeting, before taking public comments, the library board said it would do what it could to reschedule the event.

To read the entire article, click HERE.

General Michael Flynn's The Night The Snow Monster Attacked

From Tom Nichols' 12-8-23 ATLANTIC article entitled "A Military Loyal to Trump":

If Donald Trump wins the next election, he will attempt to turn the men and women of the United States armed forces into praetorians loyal not to the Constitution, but only to him. This project will likely be among his administration’s highest priorities. It will not be easy: The overwhelming majority of America’s service people are professionals and patriots. I know this from teaching senior officers for 25 years at the Naval War College. As president, Trump came to understand it too, when he found that “his generals” were not, in fact, mere employees of a Trump property.

But the former president and the people around him have learned from that experience. The last time around, Trump’s efforts to pack the Defense Department with cranks and flunkies came too late to bring the military under his full political control [...].

 

The 2020 election, of course, is the source of Trump’s chief grudge against senior military leaders. General Mark Milley, then the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was especially determined to keep the armed forces out of the various schemes to stay in office devised by the Trump team and its allies, including a delusional plan, proposed by retired Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, to have the military go into swing states and seize voting machines [...].

Trump [...] prizes military people who serve his ego and support his antidemocratic instincts. He thinks highly of Flynn, for example, who had to resign after 22 days as national security adviser and is now the marquee attraction at various gatherings of Christian nationalists and conspiracy theorists around the country. In late 2020, angered by his election loss and what he saw as the disloyalty within the national-security community, Trump fired or forced out top Defense Department leaders and tried to replace them with people more like Flynn. The brazen actions that the 45th president took in his final, desperate weeks in office—however haphazard—illustrate the magnitude of the threat he may pose to the military if he is reelected.

 

To read the entire article, click HERE.

From Paul Squire and Erin Snodgrass's 11-13-23 BUSINESS INSIDER article entitled "Michael Flynn and His Family Kept Leftover Donations Sent in by QAnon Supporters, Sister Says According to Court Filing":

Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn's family fundraised for his legal defense fund from QAnon supporters and then kept the extra money once his lawyers were paid off, according to new court filings unsealed in a defamation case.

The court documents — filed by CNN as part of a defamation lawsuit brought by Flynn's wife, Lori, and sister-in-law, Valerie, against the network — cite deposition by Flynn's sister, Barbara Flynn Redgate, who was a trustee of Flynn's legal fund.

Semafor first reported on the unsealed documents.

Lori and Valerie Flynn allege that in 2021 CNN defamed them by airing a clip it said was of Flynn taking an "oath" connected to the QAnon conspiracy theory while his family members stand beside him with their right hands raised.

The unsealed court documents were part of CNN's attempt to have the defamation case tossed.

Flynn Redgate, who oversaw donations to Flynn's legal fund, agreed in testimony that she "didn't mind taking money from people who [used QAnon] hashtags" as long as they were "directing [people] to the legal defense fund," the court documents state.

"Barbara testified that, once legal fees were paid, the Flynns themselves received the remainder of the funds," the filing from CNN says.

Flynn is a retired US Army lieutenant general and Donald Trump ally who briefly served as the president's national security adviser and later pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI in 2017.

To read the entire article, click HERE. 

THE YOUNG TURKS: QAnon Poster-Boy Calls The Group “Total Nonsense” (11-29-21)

From Jackie Flynn Mogensen's 4-5-20 MOTHER JONES article entitled "To Celebrate the Fourth, Michael Flynn Posts a Pledge to Conspiracy Group QAnon":

Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, posted a video on Independence Day in which he recites an oath for QAnon conspiracy theorists along with five others.

Flynn had been circling the QAnon world for months, but this takes his flirtation with the group a step further. As the QAnon conspiracy theory goes, powerful liberal politicos are running an underground child sex trafficking operation but will ultimately be exposed and charged for their crimes after “The Storm.” There is, of course, no evidence that such a scheme exists. The oath, which includes the QAnon slogan “Where we go one, we go all,” refers to “an oath to become ‘digital soldiers’ to defend the Constitution,” explains the Daily Beast‘s Will Sommer. In the last month, following other cryptic messages of support for the QAnon conspiracy, Flynn added #TakeTheOath to his Twitter bio.

 

To read the entire article, click HERE.

What follow are some relevant excerpts from Nicholas Schmidle's 2-18-17 NEW YORKER article entitled "Michael Flynn, General Chaos":

Now, after months of unrelenting scrutiny, [Michael] Flynn seemed to believe that he could find a measure of obscurity in the West Wing, steps away from Trump and the Oval Office. “I want to go back to having an out-of-sight role,” he told me [...].

On August 7, 2014, at a ceremony in the atrium of the D.I.A.’s headquarters, Flynn retired from the military, after thirty-three years. His wife and two sons attended, as did Michael Ledeen. The senior military intelligence official, who was present, told me that Flynn was obviously bitter: “He was loading up, and he was not going to go quietly.”

Flynn, who was fifty-five, began fashioning a post-military life. He started his own business, the Flynn Intel Group, which offered clients a range of private intelligence and security services. He did some freelance consulting and also worked with SBD Advisors, a strategic consulting firm whose roster included the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Michael Mullen; former chief of the Special Operations Command Admiral Eric Olson; and other retired military officers. In January, 2015, Flynn signed with Leading Authorities, a speakers’ bureau, which promoted his expertise in leadership, cybersecurity, and terrorism [...].

But, even before Flynn’s rapid fall, his closest military colleagues had been struggling to make sense of what had happened to the talented and grounded general they once knew. “Mike is inarguably one of the finest leaders the Army has ever produced,” James (Spider) Marks, a retired major general, told me. And yet, watching the first night of the Republican National Convention, last July, Marks was taken aback when his old friend appeared onscreen.

“Wake up, America!” Flynn said, his jaw set and his hands gripping the sides of the lectern. The United States was in peril: “Our very existence is threatened.” The moment demanded a President with “guts,” he declared, not a “weak, spineless” one who “believes she is above the law.”

In the early two-thousands, Marks was Flynn’s commanding officer at the Army’s intelligence academy, in Fort Huachuca, Arizona; one of his daughters went to school with one of Flynn’s sons. Marks regarded Flynn as “smart, humble, and funny.” What he saw on TV was something else: “That’s a vitriolic side of Mike that I never knew.”

When, twenty minutes into the speech, Flynn mentioned Hillary Clinton, the Convention audience responded with chants of “Lock her up!” Flynn nodded, leading the chant: “That’s right—lock her up.” He went on, “Damn right. . . . And you know why we’re saying that? We’re saying that because, if I, a guy who knows this business, if I did a tenth—a tenth—of what she did, I would be in jail today.”

Marks’s thirty-five-year-old daughter, who was watching with him, turned to her father and said, “Dad, General Flynn is scaring me” [...].

During the summer of 2016, the Trump campaign floated Flynn, a lifelong Democrat, as a Vice-Presidential candidate. After the Republican Convention, Flynn became a regular presence at Trump campaign events, sometimes accompanied by his older son, Michael, Jr. Flynn had been absent for long stretches of Michael, Jr.,’s, teen-age years and early adulthood—he reportedly missed his wedding while deployed in Iraq. Flynn made Michael, Jr., his chief of staff.

In part through his son, Flynn began flirting with an online community of conspiracy theorists and white nationalists who referred to themselves as the “alt-right.” The neo-Nazis among them called Trump the “God Emperor.” On Twitter, Flynn frequently tagged Mike Cernovich, an alt-right activist, in tweets, and encouraged others to follow his feed. Michael, Jr., promoted stories from Alex Jones, the right-wing radio host who believes that the 9/11 attacks, and the 2012 school shooting in Sandy Hook, were inside jobs. A little more than a year ago, Michael, Jr., tweeted @billclinton, “You’re a Rapist.”

Flynn’s own views seemed to be tilting increasingly toward the fringe. He, as Trump has, publicly insinuated that Obama was a secret Muslim, and not a true American. “I’m not going to sit here and say he’s Islamic,” Flynn said of Obama, during remarks last year before the American Congress for Truth, an anti-Muslim group. But Obama “didn’t grow up an American kid,” Flynn said, adding that the President’s values were “totally different than mine.”

Flynn also stoked fear about Muslims and, in a tweet that used the hashtag #NeverHillary, shared an anti-Semitic comment that read, in part, “Not anymore, Jews. Not anymore.” (He subsequently deleted the tweet, calling it “a mistake.”) “I’m not perfect. I’m not a very good social-media person,” he told me in one of our conversations. Stanley McChrystal and Mike Mullen, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs, both contacted Flynn and tried, unsuccessfully, to get him to tone it down.

Flynn predicted a Trump win, but he was making contingency plans. He began reorienting his firm, the Flynn Intel Group, so that it would be able to compete for lobbying clients after the election. The firm arranged to work with Sphere Consulting, a public-relations and lobbying business in Washington [...].

After the election, Flynn spent his days at Trump Tower, down the hall from Bannon and Reince Priebus. “My sched is so tight, literally from sunrise to well past sunset,” Flynn wrote me, in a text message. He was “consumed with reading.”

The team he assembled drew heavily from his former military colleagues, but the qualifications of others were less apparent. K. T. McFarland, until recently a Fox News analyst, became his deputy. Flynn’s son, Michael, Jr., did a brief stint on the transition, before he was dismissed, after continuing to push on Twitter the fake-news story about Hillary Clinton’s role in a child-sex-trafficking ring in a pizzeria in northwest Washington, D.C. [...].

The end for Flynn came rather abruptly. He had spent the weekend with the President and the Prime Minister of Japan at Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s resort in Palm Beach, Florida, where they had used a table in an open dining area as an impromptu—and unsecured—situation room after a ballistic missile test by North Korea. But, back in Washington on Monday afternoon, there was confusion about Flynn’s standing. During a television interview, Kellyanne Conway, a senior White House adviser, said that Flynn enjoyed Trump’s “full confidence.” Then, within the hour, Spicer said that Trump was “evaluating the situation.” Flynn went about his duties as usual that afternoon, participating in foreign-policy discussions in the Oval Office, an Administration official told me.

But, that evening, another Post article appeared online, this time about the Justice Department’s blackmail fears. Soon afterward, Trump asked for Flynn’s resignation. The news broke just before eleven.

Since the election, Flynn had been “read in” to dozens of “special access programs,” the country’s most highly classified intelligence operations. By protocol, he would have spent his final moments in the White House being “read out” of each program, a process that involves signing multiple confidentiality forms. At around 11:30 p.m., he walked out of the White House and called his wife.

At that hour, the roads were empty and Flynn drove, alone, to his home, in Old Town Alexandria. He barely slept that night. On Tuesday, a government representative came to his home to collect his phones, badges, and keys. He spent the next few days with his wife, taking long walks, “reflecting and capturing his thoughts,” the close associate told me. As Washington, just across the Potomac River, convulsed, Flynn was going through his own “range of emotional swings,” the associate said.

To read the entire article, click HERE.

To wrap it all up, here's a video of General Chaos channeling the wit and wisdom of Elizabeth Clare Prophet....

Trump Media & Technology Group (Part 2)

From Tom Maloney's 3-25-24 BLOOMBERG article entitled "Trump’s Net Worth Hits $6.5 Billion, Making Him One of World’s 500 Richest People":

Facing a deadline to post a bond of more than $500 million in a New York fraud lawsuit, a state appeals court tossed him a lifeline, slashing the amount he’d have to post to $175 million — an amount he says he’ll cover. Around the same time, his social media company Trump Media & Technology Group wrapped up a 29-month-long merger process, meaning shares worth billions of dollars on paper are now officially Trump’s.

All told, his net worth increased by more than $4 billion. That means for the first time ever, Trump joined the ranks of the world’s wealthiest 500 people on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, with a fortune of $6.5 billion.

 

To read the entire article, click HERE.

RONDO REMINDER REDUX!

Here's another gentle reminder to vote for Yours Truly in the 22nd Annual Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards! Did you know that ANYONE can vote in the Rondo Awards? Shocking but true! My latest novel, DEAD MONKEY RUM, has been nominated for "Best Classic Monster Fiction." YOU CAN VOTE FOR DEAD MONKEY RUM IN 3 EASY STEPS....

1. Copy-and-paste the ballot below into an e-mail.
 
2. Choose DEAD MONKEY RUM in the BEST CLASSIC MONSTER FICTION category.
 
3. Then email to David Colton (taraco@aol.com) by midnight on April 16th, 2024.

Don’t forget to include your name in the e-mail!

 
--START COPYING--   

 

BEST CLASSIC MONSTER FICTION:

 
— DEAD MONKEY RUM, by Robert Guffey (Planet Bizarro, softcover, 192 pages, $12.99). Cryptozoic beasts race adventurers in Los Angeles.

--END COPYING--

 

MAHALO, FRIENDS!!!

TONIGHT!!! ON WHERE DID THE ROAD GO?

Be sure to tune in for tonight's special edition of Seriah Azkath's radio show WHERE DID THE ROAD GO? on WVBR 93.5 FM Ithaca NY or online at the WVBR website (10pm EST/7pm PST). On tonight's show, Seriah and I will be discussing my latest book, CRYPTOPOLIS & OTHER STORIES, my NEXUS MAGAZINE article "Invisible Predators: Strange Creatures, Secret Weapons, and Shadow Biospheres" (a follow-up to my 2015 book CHAMELEO), and related matters of High Weirdness. 

CRYPTOPOLIS & OTHER STORIES (available from Amazon) received this five star review just a few days ago:

Top review from the United States

Christopher B Pelton

5.0 out of 5 stars A collection of shorts that grabs your attention and doesn't let go.

Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2024

Verified Purchase

I love a great short story collection and folks, this is one of the best I've read in years. Robert Guffey brings us 25 short tales of terror that range from terrifying trips inside the mind to scenes so real you think you might need to wash the blood off your hands. Guffey spares no thought to the "nicest" way to present things and just comes at you with a blunt tool. Life is cruel and none of Guffey's characters have escaped that harsh reality.

Without spoiling anything, I would highly recommend "The Detective with the Glass Gun” and "On the Bus."

If you are as passionate about short fiction as I am, don't miss out on this amazing body of work. 

Trump Media & Technology Group

From Kit Norton's 3-21-24 INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY article entitled "Donald Trump Needs Cash. DWAC To Vote On Trump Media Merger This Week.":

Shareholders of Digital World Acquisition (DWAC), the special purpose acquisition company aiming to take former President Donald Trump's tech and social-media platform public, are scheduled Friday to vote on the long-awaited merger with Trump Media & Technology Group. DWAC shares fell Thursday.

DWAC stockholders are currently set to hold a meeting Friday to approve the special purpose acquisition company's merger with Trump Media, according to federal filings. Meanwhile, Trump is having trouble securing a nearly half a billion dollar bond to appeal his $454 million civil business fraud judgment.

The Miami-based SPAC has a history of postponing and rescheduling shareholder votes.

DWAC aims to take Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG) public in a reverse merger. Trump Media is the parent of the conservative social-media platform Truth Social.

If DWAC shareholders approve the merger Friday, TMTG will be a wholly owned subsidiary of Digital World. DWAC will then change its name to Trump Media & Technology Group, according to regulatory filings. If the merger is completed, Trump's 90% stake in TMTG could be valued at around $4 billion, based on DWAC's current stock price.

To read the entire article, click HERE.

If you enjoyed listening to Robert Anton Wilson's lecture about Ireland (the link to which can be found in the previous post), I recommend watching the following RAW presentation about "The Vatican/Cocaine/CIA Connection," no doubt delivered in Los Angeles at some point in the late 1980s or early 1990s.

Robert Anton Wilson - The Vatican / Cocaine / CIA connection

St. Patrick's Day might be an appropriate time to listen to Robert Anton Wilson discussing Ireland and Irish Poetry. The following lecture was recorded in Santa Monica in 1988....

Robert Anton Wilson △ Ireland & Irish Poetry (1988)

RONDO REMINDER!

Here's a gentle reminder to vote for Yours Truly in the 22nd Annual Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards! Did you know that ANYONE can vote in the Rondo Awards? Shocking but true! My latest novel, DEAD MONKEY RUM, has been nominated for "Best Classic Monster Fiction." YOU CAN VOTE FOR DEAD MONKEY RUM IN 3 EASY STEPS....

1. Copy-and-paste the ballot below into an e-mail.
 
2. Choose DEAD MONKEY RUM in the BEST CLASSIC MONSTER FICTION category.
 
3. Then email to David Colton (taraco@aol.com) by midnight on April 16th, 2024.

Don’t forget to include your name in the e-mail!

 
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BEST CLASSIC MONSTER FICTION:

 
— DEAD MONKEY RUM, by Robert Guffey (Planet Bizarro, softcover, 192 pages, $12.99). Cryptozoic beasts race adventurers in Los Angeles.

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MAHALO, FRIENDS!!!