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Did you know at Jonestown the night before the "mass suicide" they sang the Soviet Anthem?


I hand-wrote a thread months ago using notes from a bunch of my "lockdown reads".

Jonestown tentacles *everywhere*, even current events.

Postin it this weekend
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I take LOTS of photos. I carry a real camera everywhere. I spend lots of time repeatedly looking at my own photos and (often) historical photos. I skimmed through Jonestown Getty archives one night [1] and two photos in particularly just captured me.
[1] gettyimages.com/photos/jonesto…
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For days I kept going back to them. staring at them. Photos like this are narrative-defying" photos. Hints. This first one is a sign that was hung on the Jonestown stage/altar.
(I blurred it out of respect for the dead, and you, the reader)
gettyimages.com/detail/news-ph…
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Now why would someone hang that up?
Was it a message to the parishoners?
Or was it a message to us, the viewer?
If so, WHO exactly was doing the warning?

This thread is an exploration of these questions.
The second photo that captured me was this one:
(I again blurred it but i encourage you to look at the full photos)

During "lockdown", this photo "John Wick"ed me into furious weeks of Jonestown research. gettyimages.com/detail/news-ph…
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I'd read long ago that when people didnt drink the medicated koolaid at Jonestown, they started injecting one another, including the children. Even if that were the case...why'd these ****** jab the dogs too?
gettyimages.com/detail/news-ph…
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Are we really expected to believe that the people who administered the final shots were all among the dead? Also, why were most of these folks black? Did someone use my people yet again?
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Turns out, a good chunk of these people came from inner city. Specifically San Francisco. The People's Temple. It is marked here on this map. We'll start with this marker, but add more markers as we explore the other neighbors of the People's Temple. Image
I wont go much into Jim Jones and how the People's Temple got to Guyana (the Marxist Cheddi Jagan, and Prime Minister Burnham who Jim Jones was really close to)

Archive:
Author interview: covertactionmagazine.com/2022/10/07/was…
archive.is/LtgGg
pca.st/2glumjqh
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To summarize, the People's temple started in Indianapolis but grew dramatically in San Francisco. Guess what else was a few blocks away from this church in San Fran?

Charles Manson
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The Patty Hearst debacle (Symbionese Liberation ARmy) features prominently in Haight Ashbury
Excellent Thread on that here:

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Eldridge Cleaver, the founder of the Black Panthers, and the original Black Panther Headquarters HQ Image
Anton LeVey. Founder of Church of Satan. But also connected to the Manson family (through a woman named Susan Atkins who worked for him that eventually joined the Manson family). Image
Also nearby the People's Temple was "Process Church of the Final Judgement", an odd group with a....uh..."strange" logo. Image
Robert and Mary Ann DeGrimston founded it in London (it had chapters all over) but moved to and opened a chapter in Haight-Ashbury. Charlie Manson lived two blocks from the Grimstons and reportedly joined their Church that was on the same block he lived. Image
The Process Church had as members the "serial killer" Sam Berkowitz known as the "Son of Sam" and Sirhan Sirhan (RFK's supposed assassin) was also associated.

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I put "serial killer" in quotes above because...well....
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L. Ron Hubbard founder of Scientology was friends with founder of the Process Church.
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Side Note: Frank Malina, Jack Parson's JPL colleague later worked under Julian Huxley at UNESCO and has a son married to the sister of Ghislaine Maxwell. (small world)


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Many Jonestown parishioners were recruited out of the Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic. Image
John Money and Alfred Kinsey also both worked out of the Haight clinics. Image
John Money (the psychologist that helped contribute to "sex and gender studies" coining the terms "gender role" and "gender identity") did horrible experiments on children.
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Alfred Kinsey also documented horrific experiments on children. He was responsible for the infamous and incredibly disturbing "Table 34" (which is right there on Wikipedia, I'm not putting it here) and lesser known "Table 31"
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- govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BI…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinsey_sc…
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It's worth noting here that years after the 60's in 1986 news of the Presidio Child Abuse Case broke.
express.co.uk/news/weird/722…

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Here is that base relative to Haight Ashbury. This story (like many of these) can tentacle in many different direction, but it is noteworthy that a Colonel who I have mentioned before ( author of "The Satanic Bible") was implicated in articles about it.


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Jolly West is another character that frequented the area. He is featured in the book "CHAOS" above. He worked with Manson Family, also did eval of Timothy McVeigh, testified at Patty Hearst trial, and much more "sus" stuff. odd figure.
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Jolly West established the "Hippie Crash Pad" in a Victorian House on Frederick Street. In reality which it was an indirect government-funded laboratory for West's studies on the human mind. Image
Jolly West's "Crash Pad" was in an ideal place to "observe" (or perhaps be more proactive and perform tests). Image
Given Jolly West's interests, it is also important to remember where LSD came from in the first place. It wasnt just Ken Kesey, Timothy Leary, Alan Watts, and all those quirky characters. It came from earlier than that. Image
NOTEWORTHY: Richard Helms' so-called "LSD Sex-House" from Operation Midnight Climax was crosstown in Telegraph hill at 225 Chestnut St. but folks from there frequented Haight-Ashbury. Image
There's more on all of this in the Sidney Gottlieb book also
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Kenneth Anger the occultist/filmmaker was also in Haight-Ashbury. He was in a house nicknamed "The Russian Embassy" (1198 Fulton St). He filmed "Lucifer Rising" there and in the area. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucifer_R…
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He is associated with many odd types.
theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…

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So, all of the pivotal cultural things that came to define the 60s, 70s, and partially the 80s and are seemingly disconnected were in-fact all ACTUALLY incubated within like a 10 block radius. Image
What common thread runs through all these groups, events and music? They feature some "leader" convincing a groups of people to "do stuff" w/ some form of dissociation or hypnosis (music, drugs, trauma, etc) ia904508.us.archive.org/21/items/joost…

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It all seems so very "Clockwork Orangish" doesn't it?
Maybe Stanley Kubrick was an "accidental documentarian" trying to allegorically hint at something? Image
Side note: Patty Heart's hideout was on "Masonic Street" that runs thru Haight-Ashbury.
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It is almost as if Haight-Ashbury was actually not an organic "hippie free love" movement after all....but instead a more astroturfed "open air" research laboratory with lots of "operations" incubating what would become the next 50+ years of "pop culture". Image
From the race-relations (Black Panther Party) to the gender-sex stuff...from the music and drugs and cults...all of it. All of this nation-wide societal change incubated organically within a 15-block radius in ONE CITY, that was also home to highly state-funded "research"?
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Remember Harvey Milk, the assassinated Mayor of San Fran? Well Harvey Milk refused to condemn the events at Jonestown for some VERY ODD reason. Made crude jokes and veiled statements. This is an odd thing to say isnt it? Image
What exactly "didnt work" according to Harvey Milk? Well maybe we can get a hint from congressman Leo Ryan who had a penchant for doing investigative journalism. And why's he buried at Arlinton Cemetery? Image
There's a great podcast by @JimmyFalunGong on Jonestown, Leo Ryan, Holsinger, et al. So you should check his work out on that if you want details, he does a much better job than I could, and I'd just be repeating his research. Image
@JimmyFalunGong I cant remember if I heard it in his podcast or read it somewhere, but I think it also tentacles out to the Thelemites and Theosophists via Timothy Leary.
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@JimmyFalunGong To summarize though, Leo Ryan was going deep undercover (getting himself arrested or admitted to mental hospitals, and joining cults) because he had a hunch that there was a massive covert "mind control" program going on nationwide archive.org/details/the-pe…
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@JimmyFalunGong prescient? foreboding for sure. Image
@JimmyFalunGong Well, Congressman Leo Ryan (wanted vehemently to defund U.S. intel agencies for abuses) and was undercover at Jonestown studying what he believed to be mind-control programs. And guess what?

He died in the shootout on the tarmac in Jonestown as survivors were trying to escape. Image
@JimmyFalunGong Let's keep going: Another San Fran oddity.
The now-recalled DA of San Fran is Chesa Boudin. He's associated with the infamous Open-Societies Foundation. Boudin had to be raised by other people because his parents were serving prison terms. Image
@JimmyFalunGong His mom Kathy Boudin and Susan Rosenberg robbed a Brinks Truck
vault.fbi.gov/Weather%20Unde…
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@JimmyFalunGong They also made bombs Image
@JimmyFalunGong What were the bombs used for? Well some of them were smuggled them into Clinton Correctional in New Jersey to break a prisoner out?....
Who they were breaking out of jail?

A communist activist by the name of Assata Shakur...the mother of Tupac Shakur.

theguardian.com/books/2014/jul…

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@JimmyFalunGong Other members of the group also fled to communist Cuba in the 70s and stayed there safely to this day. And to end this thread, this seems noteworthy: Obama opened up Cuba for tourism.

In a way this is "FULL CIRCLE".
Why?
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@JimmyFalunGong What is it they like so much about Cuba ? lol
@JimmyFalunGong Odd. Image
@JimmyFalunGong It was interesting to rediscover (in my reading) that it was actually the Hillary Clinton campaign that revealed these Obama links back during the 2008 campaign season. Image
@JimmyFalunGong Anyway William "Bill" Ayers acted as a kinda "ringleader" for many of these folks, which is why he features so prominently in the FBI vault screenshots from above
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@JimmyFalunGong Also, on his way out of office, Clinton pardoned Susan Rosenberg and she went on to sit on the board of Black Lives Matter Worldwide and helped fundraise for them. (see my pinned video for more on the BLM/Eric Mann connection too) Image
@JimmyFalunGong Curiously, a few days after the 6Jan Capitol riots, her wikipedia page was edited and locked to remove explicit reference to her involvement in the 1983 Capitol bombing and her subsequent pardoning by Bill clinton. (I collaged it in the days directly following it ) Image
@JimmyFalunGong Aside: the username with the authority to make *and lock* those exclusive edits should not be lost on us. Image
@JimmyFalunGong Side note: Andrew Cuomo commuted Judith Clark in May 2019. Odd. Note the top right corner of the collage.
@JimmyFalunGong Another strange Jonestown connection?
We have a congresswoman that "survived Jonestown".
She was elected well after events at Jonestown, and went on to serve 7 terms. So, Leo Ryan's assistant survived the poisoning and shootout, to return on the one plane that survived. Image
@JimmyFalunGong Another Jonestown "survivor" was one of the Nation's first indescriminant school shooters.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_s…
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@JimmyFalunGong Tyrone Mitchell was his name. the story and details of how he survived (like many of the others) are fuzzy or disputed. Image
@JimmyFalunGong speaking of survivors, Every year the survivors of Jonestown and family members of those lost meet at a Cemetary near Oakland California.
flickr.com/photos/peoples…
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@JimmyFalunGong At Evergreen Cemetery.
Dunno if it is "the same" Evergreen.
Great museum tho. I used to visit it frequently (to see the SR71) on my way to the Oregon Coast from Portland when I lived there. Image
@JimmyFalunGong The cemetery has been a privately held corporation since 1902 but starting in 2007 they dont stopped accepting new burials (still operating their crematorium though). Image
@JimmyFalunGong HOWEVER, 2014 five more victims were added to the Jonestown mass grave at Evergreen (despite the 2007 "closure") after being found abandoned in a Delaware mortuary.
Fourty years later? Found at a warehouse.
Odd. Image
@JimmyFalunGong Remember I mentioned Eldridge Cleaver lived in Oakland? And Original Black Panther HQ was in Haight? Well Huey P Newton, co-founder and leader of the Black Panthers (!!!) party is buried at Evergreen Cemetery also. Image
@JimmyFalunGong Anyway thats how you can hopscotch from Jonestown to Cuba. Largely via San Francisco
@JimmyFalunGong I'll bookend this thread w/ this photo.
For me, the most sobering thought is that the architects of Jonestown may still be among us.

What was learned there about psychology perhaps became institutional knowledge somewhere.

Maybe one day they'll come clean with us.
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