Conspiracy Music (Part 3)

Now let’s move back to 1984 and the release of Frank Zappa’s three-album experimental rock opera Thing-Fish, a truly bizarre send-up of Broadway musicals based on the conspiracy theory that the U.S. government manufactured AIDS as a biowarfare weapon to eradicate homosexuals and African-Americans.  In a parasatirical world, it shouldn’t be a surprise that at least four well-researched books subsequently (or concurrently, in the case of the first book mentioned below) verified Zappa’s satirical notion: 

1)      AIDS AND THE DOCTORS OF DEATH:  AN INQUIRY INTO THE ORIGIN OF THE AIDS EPIDEMIC by Dr. Alan Cantwell (Aries Rising Press, 1984). 

2)      AIDS INC.:  SCANDAL OF THE CENTURY by investigative journalist Jon Rappoport (Human Energy Press, 1988). 

3)      QUEER BLOOD:  THE SECRET AIDS GENOCIDE PLOT by Dr. Alan Cantwell (Aries Rising Press, 1993). 

4)      EMERGING VIRUSES:  AIDS & EBOLA—NATURE, ACCIDENT OR INTENTIONAL? by Dr. Leonard G. Horowitz (Tetrahedron Publishing, 1996).

Related sources about the overall subject of germ warfare include the book CLOUDS OF SECRECY:  THE ARMY’S GERM WARFARE TESTS OVER POPULATED AREAS by bioterrorism expert Leonard A. Cole (Rowman & Littlefield, 1989) and a little-known scientific paper entitled “Ethnic Weapons” by Carl A. Larson that was originally published in the Nov. 1970 issue of Military Review (Vol. L, No. 11), a revelatory article worth tracking down in a well-stocked library near you. 

To groove to Thing-Fish, click HERE.

Conspiracy Music (Part 2)

Our roundup of the obscure musical genre I’ve chosen to christen “Conspiracy Music” now moves forward to the epic “Full Metal Jackoff” by Jello Biafra and DOA from their 1989 album Last Scream of the Missing Neighbors.  This fourteen-minute song references various conspiracy theories, particularly the one that contends that the Central Intelligence Agency has purposely been dumping drugs into African-American neighborhoods—e.g., South-Central Los Angeles—for several decades.  In 1996 this theory was researched and verified by a Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist named Gary Webb of the San Jose Mercury News.  Webb’s thorough investigation led to the publication of his 1999 book DARK ALLIANCE: THE CIA, THE CONTRAS, AND THE CRACK COCAINE EXPLOSION (Seven Stories Press).  As a reward for his diligence and ingenuity, Webb was driven out of the San Jose Mercury News by the executive editor of the newspaper.  Five years after the publication of DARK ALLIANCE, Webb ostensibly committed suicide by shooting himself in the head… twice.

Conspiracy theory, indeed.

A subsequent internal investigation headed by Frederick Porter Hitz, Inspector General of the CIA, eventually verified all of Webb’s findings and more, but very few mainstream media outlets even bothered to take note of this.  Needless to say, this validation came far too late for Webb. 

The entirety of “Full Metal Jackoff” can be heard HERE.

What follows are choice excerpts from Jello Biafra’s lyrics:

On the Washington D.C. Beltway
Around and around I go
In the black van with no windows
And a chimney puffing smoke
Bloody headlines in the news each day
Drug "crisis" everywhere
So much comes in so easy
It's as though someone wants it there

It would be a little obvious
To fence off all the slums
Hand out machine guns
To the poor in the projects
And watch 'em kill each other off
A more subtle genocide is when
The only hope for the young
Is to join the Army and slowly die
Wall Street or Crack Dealer Avenue
The last roads left to the American Dream

Wall Street or Crack Dealer Avenue
Wall Street or Crack Dealer Avenue
Only one road leads to this neighborhood
Little kids wanna sell drugs when they grow up

The folks might get just a little upset
If they knew where that dope comes from
From Columbia to the Contras
To our Air Force bases, where we trade it for guns
The moral equivalent of a serial killer
And his CIA friends
Call the shots from the White House
But now that we own the media too
Those stories just aren't run

On the Washington D.C. Beltway, 'round and 'round I go
In a black van with no windows, and a chimney puffing smoke
Some gang that ran smack in Viet Nam
Ain't got no reason to fear
Just get a Vice President so dumb
The crook at the top never gets impeached

That sure was easy wasn't it?
That sure was easy wasn't it?
More crack-more panic-more cops-more jails

You see emergency-total war
You see emergency-total war
You see a black face-you see a crackhead
You see a black face-you see a crackhead
You see a black face-you see Willie Horton with a knife
You see Willie Horton with a knife

You see one Willie Horton you've seen them all
They're everywhere, I know
You asked for it, you've got it
Drug suspects have no rights at all
Property seized and sold before trial
Labor camps on American soil!
Neo-Nazi bootboys
That the cops never seem to arrest
Prowl neighborhoods with baseball bats
Why now? Why do they get so much press...?

Mein Kampf-the mini series
Ollie North-"patriotic" hero
The leader for tomorrow is yours today
Finally gotcha psyched for a police state

On the Washington D.C. Beltway
Around and around I go
In a black van with no windows
And a chimney puffing smoke
My van's a mobile oven now
That burns the bodies you never see
Just like in Chile or Guatemala
People just seem to disappear

Just like Rome
We fell asleep when we got spoiled
Ignore human rights in the rest of the world
Ya might just lose your own

As the noose of narco-militarism
Tightens 'round your necks

We worry about burning flags
And pee in jars at work
To keep our jobs

But if someone came for you one night
And dragged you away
Do you really think your neighbors
Would even care...

L.A. SECRET POLICE

To check out Loren Coleman’s ongoing analysis of the multiple “synchromystic” levels of significance embedded in the current Christopher Dorner manhunt, simply click HERE.  By now many of you will have read the infamous manifesto that is being attributed to Dorner (reproduced in full on Coleman’s Twilight Language blog).  If you’re wondering whether or not Dorner’s allegations against the Los Angeles Police Department have any basis in reality, you might want to read an illuminating book entitled L.A. SECRET POLICE:  INSIDE THE LAPD ELITE SPY NETWORK by former LAPD officer Mike Rothmiller and journalist Ivan G. Goldman (Pocket Books, 1992). 

The description on the back cover of L.A. SECRET POLICE reads as follows:

"One night in Orange County, a helmeted figure on a motorcycle pulled alongside an unmarked LAPD car and emptied a machine pistol at the cop inside.  Elite OCID [Organized Crime Intelligence Division] Detective Mike Rothmiller lived to tell the story.  Now, with veteran journalist Ivan Goldman, he rips the lid off Chief of Police Daryl Gates' LAPD - and reveals, for the first time, the dirty secrets of the elite unit whose crushing power and vast influence kept many of America's most citizens in its iron grip."

Upon reading the Dorner manifesto, my mind immediately turned back to Rothmiller and his book.  Only yesterday (2-11-13) Rothmiller spoke to ABC News about Dorner’s less-than-laudatory descriptions of the LAPD:  “I was a detective and I was a sergeant and the issues that he describes regarding racism, brutality, corruption, internal affairs malfeasance, so forth.... That is absolutely true,” says Rothmiller. “I saw it firsthand.”  Rothmiller served with the LAPD for ten years.  ABC’s entire report on Rothmiller can be read HERE.  

To place Dorner’s allegations within a broader historical perspective, I also encourage you to read the book THE POLICE ESTABLISHMENT by former FBI agent William W. Turner (Putnam, 1968), which will definitely establish that these allegations are by no means new and certainly not the figment of a mad man’s brain. 

"Perhaps the Most Important Book You Will Ever Read"

Here are further excerpts from Tessa Dick's book review of Cryptoscatology (entitled "Cryptoscatology: Perhaps the Most Important Book You Will Ever Read"):

"Cryptoscataology confirms my suspicion that schools are designed to teach us not to think.  They teach us to be good soldiers or factory workers, to line up and march, to do what we are told without asking any questions and without thinking.

"There is so much more to this volume, that I can’t cover even a tenth of it here.  Robert Guffey has packed decades of information into 350 pages of highly readable text.  The extensive index is useful, but I prefer to read the entire book in order, then to reread it and read it again.  It takes persistence to allow the implications of mind control to sink in, but it is well worth it.

"Highly recommended."

You can read the full review HERE.

Tessa B. Dick, Wife of the Late Philip K. Dick, Endorses Cryptoscatology

Tessa B. Dick, author of several books including two recent memoirs entitled PHILIP K. DICK:  REMEMBERING FIREBRIGHT (2009) and TESSA B.DICK:  MY LIFE ON THE EDGE OF REALITY (2011), contacted me about a week ago to let me know that a friend of hers had, unbidden, sent her a copy of CRYPTOSCATOLOGY in the mail.  Tessa read the book at a swift pace, then generously volunteered the following endorsement:

“Finally, a scholarly book takes conspiracy theory seriously.  Yes, Robert Guffey does point out a few problems with some of the theories.  He debunks more than one.  On the other hand, he also demonstrates with evidence and logic that some conspiracy theories are at least partially true [...].  I cannot recommend this book highly enough.  For fans of science fiction, conspiracy theory or a good spy story (a true story, at that), Cryptoscatology is required reading.”

Conspiracy Music

Though few people are aware of it, conspiracy theories and rock 'n' roll have always been intimately connected. From the beginning of its popularity among American youth in the 1950s, rock 'n' roll was believed—by some—to be a Communist conspiracy to surreptitiously corrupt the future generations of the United States. (The Lyndon LaRouche organization advocates that point of view to this day and demands that its adherents listen to classical music only.) The overlap between conspiracies and rock 'n' roll eventually spawned an entire book: Alex Constantine’s The Covert War Against Rock (Feral House, 2000) which accuses various intelligence agencies of having been behind the deaths of Brian Jones, Jim Morrison, John Lennon, Bob Marley, Tupac Shakur, etc. 

Some musicians have been conspiracy buffs themselves, and their obsessions are reflected in their songs. Among the very best of these musicians was punk rock legend Stiv Bators (1949-1990) whose stage name was inspired by a conspiracy theorist named Dr. Peter Beter (yes, that was his real name), an eccentric attorney who authored a book entitled The Conspiracy Against the Dollar in 1973. Throughout the 1970s and early ‘80s, Beter disseminated his peculiar conspiracy theories (e.g., President Jimmy Carter was assassinated by Soviet agents and replaced with anorganic robotoid) through a regular series of “audio letters”-- cassette tapes distributed through the mail--to which one could subscribe as if it were a dark, surreal, mirror-world version of the Reader’s Digest. Bators must have been one of the good doctor’s most loyal subscribers, since Beter’s unique conspiracy theories eventually inspired an entire concept album in 1981, Only Lovers Left Alive by Bators’ band The Wanderers (who, to this day, are far less notorious than Bators’ other bands, The Dead Boys and Lords of the New Church). Only Lovers Left Alive is probably one of my favorite albums of all time, and my favorite track from the album is “Dr. Beter,” which gets my vote as the greatest conspiracy song ever recorded. The album is hard to find these days, but you can still stumble across it in the obscure byways of the internet it if you send out the right brain waves. The album is well worth the effort.   

Future posts will spotlight other examples in the weird and little-known subgenre I’m calling “Conspiracy Music.” Stay tuned….

(Oh, and everything you ever wanted to know about Dr. Peter Beter can be found HERE.)

"Dr. Beter" by Stiv Bators:

Beter's audio letters believe in what they say
He warned us of the cosmospheres that wiped the USA
Particle beam weapons came bouncing off the moon
Of Operation Tabletop, Battle of the Harvest Moon
Dr. Beter, Peter Beter, Dr. Beter
His claims are even more amazing than at first appears
The Rockefeller murders, assassinations through the years
You watch your bruised and battered world in your vacuum jaws
Your robotoid president lost the Third World War
Many men took part in it, four set the stage
Politicians and the Pope, you would be amazed
The Rockefeller dynasty, the mid-east oil trick
Ft. Knox gold, all was stole, by the Bolsheviks
In only thirty seconds the message will begin
His information service of all the world sins
The actor Pope conspiracy, can't learn it off the tube
Send off now, don't be late, you've everything to lose

 

 

Dr. Beter

 

Journey to the Hollow Earth

Wisdom dictates that it’s always invigorating to begin the new year with a basic primer of the Hollow Earth.

Courtesy of UFOTV and YouTube, here’s everything you ever wanted to know about the Hollow Earth but were reticent to ask (all in 25 minutes and 41 seconds).  Click on the title below: 

JOURNEY TO THE HOLLOW EARTH: THE HISTORY, MYTHOLOGY AND FOLKLORE THAT THE EARTH HAS A HOLLOW REALM

Here are some favorite quotes from the documentary:

“What do the Hopi Indians, Adolf Hitler, Tibetan monks, and Icelanders all have in common?”

“And now, back to Hitler....”

“Or more importantly, if you’re an adventurer and would like to join this journey to the center of the Earth, please contact the International Society for a Complete Earth.  This could be the most exciting adventure of your life!”