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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Just found convicted fraudster Martha Stewart’s blog of the Diddler’s 40th Bday Party from ‘09 thanks to this ancient post from rapist-in-exile Russell, which he’s hilariously failed to scrub from his profile.
Let’s take a look at Martha’s revealing coverage of the event:
Kids present, including Diddy’s—reminds of a former Playboy bunny who’s attended Freak-Offs that recently claimed the one characteristic distinguishing the Diddler’s blowouts from Hugh Hefner’s were the children present.
Also, the Diddler’s “intern” from Columbia University 😬
Oh, Juilliard ballet students were enlisted to strike poses at the party & serve as human decor? That doesn’t at all evoke Epstein’s alleged patronage of cellist Melissa Solomon, who he supposedly groomed for Prince Andie & tried to coerce into recruiting her Juilliard classmates
In light of the Mike Jeffries bust, here’s a 🧵on Ashton Kutcher’s so-glowing-it’s luminescent career, evincing how he personally entwines the Epstein nexus, Diddy trafficking ring, Church of Scient•ology, and Israel
Pulling from Diddy Declassified research & a @coexistinc ep
To begin, you need to know how both Ashton & the Diddler (good buddies going back to their MTV heydays) had their thick portfolios & entrée into the upper echelons of the capitalist class enabled by billionaire Epstein client Ron Burkle, w/ whom they’re mutually invested
We have to touch on the anti sex trafficking initiative & tech startup “Thorn” that Kutch founded w/ then-wife Demi Moore in ‘11 (who married a man more than 10 yrs her senior as a teen starlet, btw), which is ironic considering Ashton’s repeat defense of rapists & pedo-enablers
Shai’s grampa’s sus recruitment of SpecOps vets to serve as plainclothes mercs on El Al airlines & subsequent public disavowal to coverup the policy after a PFLP fighter was killed and violence broke out on runways on more than one occasion.
Shai’s work as an ad hoc grant reviewer for the US - Is Not Real Binat’l Science Foundation, meaning he’s directly employed by various State Dep’t & public health officials from both countries. And needless to say, some of this nat’l security motivated research is SUS AF.
HOLY FUCKING SHIT. There’s Bill smack dab b/w the Diddler and Epstein client (a Lolita Express frequent flyer) billionaire Ron Burkle, one of the primary interlocks b/w Diddy & the Epstein nexus and also one of Diddy’s main business collaborators… 👀
There’s more… Jesus. Bill Maher literally dated one of the Diddler’s trafficking victims, seemingly.
Kanye stands accused of drugging & raping his ex-assistant Lauren Pisciotta at a Diddy party in a lawsuit chock full of salacious details (i.e. deliberately trying to screw his targets’ mothers)
We’ll be covering this incendiary development in “Diddy Declassified (Dossier 6)” ⏳
Also have to direct people’s attention to a “Pillow Talk” podcast host alleging Kanye would watch their streams & episodes, selecting from the sex workers that guest on the show and then soliciting their services from the host directly… In light of the lawsuit’s allegations
In the new ep, Laihall walks us thru anthropologist Phillipe Blouin’s affidavit in support of Mohawk Mothers’ investigation into Ewen Cameron’s Montreal Experiments & search for unmarked graves containing the bodies of indigenous MK•ULTRA patients—the doc’s a tour de force
^^ “Indigenous families have reported… 88 children who have disappeared after being institutionalized in Quebec since the 1950s…”
vvv Rockefeller Foundation funding the Royal Vic Hospital (the site w/ alleged unmarked MKed indigenous graves). Cameron’s collab lobotomies. Etc
The “Behavioral Lab” (renovated stables) where Cameron’s “sensory deprivation, psychic driving, electroshock, and use of testosterone on women patients” experiments were held. Magnetic tape & movie projection equipment installed as early as ‘55.