Another excellent Salem Witchcraft Crisis read— Norton's "In the Devil's Snare" assembles compelling evidence that the terrifying frontier warfare of King Philip's and King William's Wars supercharged the psychological atmosphere of the time, precipitating the trials #Occult
The book rlly soars in the Conclusion, when Norton hints at various motivations governmental officials & the Court of Oyer & Terminer had to allow the accusations to tear through the community unchecked. Some of the most scandalous pieces of evidence she presents... #witchcraft
...gesture at the possibility Governor Phips & his wife Mary Spencer Phips were in fact witches themselves—and that Gov. Phips defense of the murderous judicial proceedings was in part motivated by his desire to shield his wife (& even himself) from scrutiny. #occulthistory
... In fact, Gov. Phips encouraged Cotton Mather to write his defense of the judicial proceedings and the use of spectral evidence, and directed him to ask Judge Samuel Sewall for assistance in his efforts. This would lead to Mather's "Wonders of the Invisible World", of course.
Gov. Phips was a client of fortune-tellers, a successful treasure-hunter (some methods involved the use of talismans or dowsing rods at the time), & had direct connections to Rev. George Burroughs. Lady Phips was related to a woman that had been accused of witchcraft in the 1650s
Not only that, but Lady Phips actually ordered the discharge of one of the accused witches while her husband Gov. Phips was away—a singular event that resulted in the jailer that obeyed her request getting fired. Very curious. #History
Finally, just a reminder that stories of a "confederacy of witches" were prevalent throughout testimony—and that there were multiple stories claiming the leader of the witches was a well-dressed man from Boston. Make of that what you will. One thing that is certain...
...is the hypocrisy of the Court of Oyer & Terminer judges, the colonial gov't, and the various reverends whose fire & brimstone sermonizing contributed to the paranoia of the villagers & townsfolk–—as many of these early-Enlightenment elite owned magical, alchemical, or esoteric
...texts themselves. Take Cotton Mather, for instance, who was into bibliomancy and whose library included alchemical and demonological texts. Gimme a follow if you're interested in a deep dive into the prevalence of folk magic in Colonial New England—coming soon!
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Dude. Wtf? Peter Thiel was also in New York on 9/10 for a meeting w/ Morgan Stanley and coincidentally “missed” dying on UA Flight 93 by mere hours? Why have I literally never seen anyone talk about this? 👀
I chose to QT my old tweet about Cantor_Fitzgerald head Howard Lutnick conveniently breaking his routine and avoiding his WTC office on the 11th bc he and Thiel are both Epstein associates, invested in Rumble, and are closely involved w/ the current Trump admin
It should be noted that Palantir was founded only 2 yrs after this, financed by Thiel & the C👁️A’s VC firm In-Q-Tel, and that their origin myth holds up 9/11 as inspiration for the surveillance, data mining, and AI Co. George Tenet & Petraeus sung its praises early on
Breaking: the alleged MN lawmaker shootings suspect works for a MN-based security firm and has “security situations” exp in lands as far flung as Congo, the Gaza Strip, West Bank, S. Lebanon, E. Europe, etc. He’s also seemingly a “Black Rifle Crusader” type lol 👀
Boelter has “security exp” in both the Congo & Occupied Palestine… Recall the Christian Malanga “coup attempt” in the Congo last May, which was coordinated w/ a dual citizen named Benjamin Zalman-Polun and the 2 did photo ops w/ the I•D•F & Golan Spy Shop shortly prior? Lol
Major RW tabloids are running that Boelter is wanted by LE as a person of interest in the shootings. Let’s wait & see if outlets on the other side of the non-horseshoe touch this, but we’re getting closer to confirmation he’s at least linked to the case & SUV is prob in his name
They’re really downplaying that this woman is from Overland Park, Kansas lol
So she was one of the chosen spokespeople for the Jewish community in the Kansas City, Kansas suburbs in 2017 when there was one of those quintessential antisemitic graffiti incidents at her high school Shawnee Mission, which the Israel lobby promptly glommed onto, ofc
Sarah was a member of KU Chabad, to which I am duty bound to post one of my fave screenshots in response lol
Add the embassy employment, Chabad & Israel lobby ties, & work w/ an NGO building bridges b/w Israelis and Palestinians, and there’s a decent chance she was a spy
John Podhoretz already has an article out on Commentary about the alleged Capital Jewish Museum attack that ends with the JDL-esque call to action: “We Jews will be arming ourselves”.
Great…💀
This sequencing re the alleged suspect letting himself into the Museum’s interior after the shooting had already occurred w/ none the wiser, asking for a safe space, & then only getting detained once he unfurled a keffiyeh doesn’t exactly instill confidence he’s the shooter lol
I just discovered Theo Von’s Polish aristocratic Dad was reportedly “chairman of the Un-American Activities Committee of the US Senate”, an editor of a LatAm report for a NOLA newspaper, and he propagandized on behalf of the Contras in the ‘80s lol
Theo’s father Roland Sr. founded the Nat’l Children’s Transplant Foundation in 1985 after his 3 yr old daughter Rolanda (Theo’s sister) was diagnosed w/ chronic liver disease, and he seems to have used the tax exempt fund to raise monies for her transplant. US Senator J. Bennet Johnston (D-La.) announced the foundation and served as Honorary Chairman, just showing the strength of the con Kurnatowski fam’s contacts in local politics and Washington
Okay, the von Kurnatowski story and Theo Von’s background is about to get even more insane and instructive. I need you all to strap yourselves in again