Ingersoll Lockwood was born in Ossining, New York, on August 2, 1841 and died in Troy, New York on September 30, 1918. He was an American lawyer. He was born into a well-known legal family and was the second child of six. Ingersoll was the son of Munson Lockwood and Sarah Lewis (nee Smith) Lockwood.
Munson Lockwood was a lawyer and a personal friend of Henry Clay. Munson rose to prominence as a brigadier general, having served in the New York State Militia's 7th Brigade, and as a civic activist. Having achieved prominent status in society, Munson was one of the founders of Ossining's first bank, founded the Dale Cemetery, and served as a warden in New York's infamous Sing Sing Prison.
Like his father and uncles, Ingersoll Lockwood also trained as a lawyer. This was not his first occupation though. His first position was as a diplomat. In 1862 he was appointed Consul to the Kingdom of Hanover by Abraham Lincoln. He served in that post for four years. He then established a legal practice in New York City with his older brother Henry.
In 1884, Ingersoll Lockwood married Winifred Wallace Tinker. She was a graduate of Vassar College and an aspiring author. By 1892, they were divorced. Winifred was remarried to Edward R. Johnes later that year.
Ingersoll Lockwood spent his retirement years in Saratoga Springs, New York where he published his last book, a collection of poetry in 1912. It opens with juxtaposed photographs of Lockwood at age 35 and at age 70. In the preface, he wrote:"The end has almost come. I'm only waiting for the signal to push off and begin my voyage to the Isles of the Blest in the far Western Seas. I was troubled in my mind at first, for my little bark, staunch though it may be, sat too deep in the water. It was overladen with conceits that wouldn't be current and merchandise that wouldn't be saleable in the Isles of the Blest. Overboard with it! Now that I have lightened ship I feel better."
Find a Grave: Ingersoll Lockwood
Wikipedia: Wardens of Sing Sing
Ingersoll Lockwood and the 2016 US Presidential Elections
Ingersoll Lockwood was not notable for anything but his children's novels and speculative fiction. Only his books at the time didn't get much attention during Ingersoll's lifetime. In fact, at the time and the years past, they remained largely forgotten.
It wasn't until the 2016 U.S. presidential election. It was at this point that Ingersoll Lockwood's books gained popularity due to the coincidental name of the protagonist and the son of President Donald Trump, Barron Trump. This coincidence has led to various conspiracy theories and speculative discussions online. Ingersoll Lockwood's legacy as an author is now intertwined with these curious historical connections, and his works are studied not only for their literary content but also for their prophetic cultural relevance.
Prophecy. No one has a crystal ball. No one can see into the future... especially an unknown author from over 100 years ago. Basically, no one is God.
But in case you were curious, here are a list of his publications by order of publication:
Laconics of Cult - 1881
The Second Book of the Chronicles of the Three Sisters - 1884
Travels and Adventures of Little Baron Trump and His Wonderful Dog Bulger - 1890
Baron Trump's Marvelous Underground Journey - 1893
The Last President (also known as 1900 or The last President) - 1896
Ingersoll Lockwood, Inc.
There is a lot to say about Ingersoll Lockwood's website. First of all, it changes frequently. I think this is done on purpose in order to keep you confused and divert attention. Secondly, none of the information on there is genuine. The videos are produced by various government agencies. The links go to other website pages. It seems that there are no real services or products listed on the website itself. And the venture capitalism part of the website is done through various GoFundMe pages.
Ingersoll Lockwood, Inc. is a company that, on the surface, is involved in the development and investment in new technologies. There is an emphasis on cyber security. They state they are a non-partisan group of Americans with careers serving the nation.
Ingersoll Lockwood states that their clients include:
- Government, Commercial, International
- Veteran-owned 501-c(3) support
- Focus on the American innovation
- Deliver next-generation solutions
"Ingersoll Lockwood’s team researches, develops and/or invests in new and innovative technologies that fit the needs of our growing US Government and US Government Contractor customers."
At the bottom of the each page the following footer is included:
The above 1717 Pennsylvania Avenue address in Washington, DC might be important to remember.
Despite having a 2023 copyright listed on their website, there is no copyright on record for Ingersoll Lockwood.
Here is Ingersoll Lockwood’s profile on Built In and Owler.
For a company that deals in 501(c)(3) organizations, there are no Form 990's on file for Ingersoll Lockwood. In fact there are no tax filings for Ingersoll Lockwood. Nor is there an EIN number or Tax ID.
The only reference to Ingersoll Lockwood being a company is a registration in New Castle, Delaware from February 19, 2020. Remember this date.
We are going to come back to some of these in Part 2.
1717 Pennsylvania Avenue
Virtual Offices
Impress your clients with a prestigious central business address and a dedicated receptionist fielding your calls. You’ll have access to boardrooms, private offices and coworking space - all at a fraction of the cost of a physical office.
Ingersoll Lockwood's 1717 Pennsylvania Avenue address is important. First, it is going to come up again in this dive. Secondly, it is the location of a virtual office. In other words, you don't actually have to have an office there in order to use it as your business address. So you can have multiple businesses at the same exact address who don't actually have offices there.
Located just minutes from the White House, 1717 Pennsylvania Avenue is one of the most prestigious addresses in the heart of America’s capital. Located on one of the city’s most important streets, 1717 Pennsylvania Avenue offers close proximity to the city’s key government offices, major banking and financial institutions such as the World Bank, International Monetary Building and the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.
A full 13 stories of Class A office space, 1717 Pennsylvania Avenue offers awe-inspiring views from every window. In addition to having windowed offices on three sides of the building, the floor-to-ceiling bay windows provide a “corner office” effect for up to 12 offices on Pennsylvania Avenue. The White House, World Bank, the Old Executive Office Building and the Washington Monument are all visible from various vantage points, creating a spectacular panoramic view. Inside, the prestigious lobby features a patterned marble floor, limestone and lacewood walls and elegant bronze elevator doors.
Conveniently located in the Central Business District, restaurants and retail amenities are just steps away, as are the Farragut West and Farragut North Metro stations that provide easy access to all of Washington and its suburbs.
Building occupants include prestigious law firms, fortune 500 government affairs offices, wealth management firms and government agencies.
ServCorp: 1717 Pennsylvania Avenue
Mystery Man: Steven G. Samuels
Does Steven G. Samuels, the CEO of Ingersoll Lockwood, actually exist? If you search the web, you will have a very hard time finding him. Seems strange for someone who is a CEO of a prestigious innovator of new technologies.
Search long enough, however, and you will find a Steven G. Samuels, LLC which has been active since 2012. The agent address for Steven G. Samuels is located at:
MAIL LINK LLC, 848 N RAINBOW BLVD, LAS VEGAS, NV, 89107
It might be important to remember that address. It is going to come up again.
It's directors and officers are listed as Gary S. Miliefsky and Stevin V. Miliefsky.
Other information about this company includes a trademark registration for Cyber Defense Magazine with the same information.
The company was registered in Nevada on January 5, 2012. The registering agent was MAIL LINK LLC. The officers are listed as Gary S. Miliefsky, Stevin V. Miliefsky, and Jessica Quinn. The two addresses given are:
7260 W. AZURE DR STE 140-523, LAS VEGAS, 89130, NV
848 N. RAINBOW BLVD., LAS VEGAS, 89107-1103, NV
848 N. RAINBOW BLVD., LAS VEGAS, 89107-1103, NV
7260 W. AZURE DR STE 140-523, LAS VEGAS, 89130, NV
Cyber Defense Magazine is partnered with Ingersoll Lockwood. They didn't just partner with them, they put out a public statement claiming they acquired Ingersoll Lockwood on April 20, 2020... or two months after Ingersoll Lockwood became a corporation on February 19, 2020.
From Civision PRWeb:
WASHINGTON, April 20, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Today, Ingersoll Lockwood, Inc. has announced the acquisition of the Cyber Defense Media Group, which it will fold into its portfolio in the coming months.
"Nothing in how CDMG operates will change with the exception of continued growth and additional focus on American Exceptionalism while we help spin out additional platforms for the Global commercial and international sectors in the coming months," said James Gorman, Vice Chairman of Ingersoll Lockwood.
"This is an incredible time for us and I'm especially excited to be able to help other divisions of Ingersoll Lockwood as they solve complex problems in different market sectors including cybersecurity, health care, critical infrastructure, big data, a.i. and space. This also gives me a chance to help cross pollinate activities and investments that we're doing in Stony Lonesome Group, where we focus exclusively on investing in US Military Veteran run startups," said Gary S. Miliefsky, Chairman & CEO of Cyber Defense Media Group and Publisher of Cyber Defense Magazine.
SOURCE Cyber Defense Magazine
From Cyber Defense Magazine:
Gary Miliefsky founded and remains the Publisher of Cyber Defense Magazine since 2012 and on it’s 10th anniversary, has reacquired it from Ingersoll Lockwood, Inc.
To further this, Steven G. Samuels was awarded government loans. They weren't from the Department of Defense. They all came from the Small Business Association for COVID relief and totaled $123,547. Two of them were for Steven G. Samuels doing business as Cyber Defense Magazine.
Ingersoll Lockwood PAC
When you click on the PAC information on the Ingersoll Lockwood website, it would redirect back to the home page. Was there an Ingersoll Lockwood PAC?
NOTE: They didn't even bother running this document through a spellchecker.
Ingersoll Lockwood, Inc.
P.A.C. = Peaceful American Constitutionalists
By joining our organization, with annual membership donations of $99 for individuals and $199 for small business owners (1-25 employees) and $399 for medium size business owners (26-2500 employees), like Medi-Share, we will pool the finnancial resources, with very low overhead, to provide services to members. We plan to use legal tactics and law suits to protect our members rights. We will create case law or prove/reiterate that the government of each town, city, state and at the federal level operates for #WETHEPEOPLE. Thiis organization is by and for American citizens only. Feel free to copy our model in other countries and try to take back your rights, where possible.
Please read this more than once and email stevengsamuels@ingersolllockwood.com if you have any questions relevant to this fund raise for launching Peaceful American Constitutionalists by October 17, 2021.
SMALL BUSINESS OWNER DONATION (FOR 12 MONTHS MEMBERSHIP): $199
MEDIUM SIZE BUSINESS OWNER DONATION (FOR 12 MONTHS MEMBERSHIP): $399
PDF of Ingersoll Lockwood, Inc PAC
However, if you look on Open Secrets, you will find no PACs for Ingersoll Lockwood, Steven G. Samuels, or Peaceful American Constitutionalists. In fact the only time this so-called PAC comes up is from a newsletter coming out of Lancaster County in Pennsylvania. Here is the October, 2021 Notes and Calls To Action for the FreePA Lancaster County Chapter. At the top of the email, you will see "FYI re: health/pharmacy info..."
Please check out a national group, Ingersoll Lockwood at: . I am attaching a summary document to this email describing the mission and scope of this organization.
Knowing that it is only a matter of time before they come for us all, so to speak, FreePA is exploring the potential for us to legally organize in such a way that we become a 'private membership organization' under the law. This would give us certain immunities from government overreach.
In fact, it isn't a PAC. It is a "private membership organization." Does this so-called PAC support any candidates?
Caroline Kane
Caroline Kane is a Republican running for election to the U.S. House to represent Texas' 7th Congressional District. She declared her candidacy for the Republican primary on March 5, 2024.
Caroline is a mother, wife and has been a successful businesswoman in the Houston area for the past 25 years. Caroline currently serves as CEO of Prosperity Management Services. Caroline leads a time-tested team of professionals in the full-service multi-family property management industry.
Caroline is running for congress to restore a government that works FOR the people and BY the people.
Caroline believes in substantially reducing the size and reach of the federal government and its agencies to promote free market solutions.
You can read Caroline Kane’s Candidate Connection survey here.
If you go to the section titled "What organizations or individuals have endorsed your campaign?" on her Candidate Connection survey, you will see that Peaceful American Constitutionalists endorsed her.
To Be Continued…
This isn’t the end to the saga. In fact, we are only beginning. Remember how I said the addresses are important. This is bigger than you could possibly imagine. What else are we possibly going to find?
848 N. RAINBOW BLVD., LAS VEGAS, 89107-1103, NV
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Last night I was on a space and mentioned Adam Walsh's missing FBI file. Adam Walsh is the son of John Walsh. You know John Walsh from America's Most Wanted and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
This is page 16 from said missing FBI file.
[BLANK] indicated he learned from his source that one [BLANK] was a close associate of known OC figures. Most notably Alfred James Rivenbark, and [BLANK]. Indeed [BLANK] name and address were found on the body of Rivenbark, who was killed in a plane crash in Colorado Springs, Colorado, along with others, including Ken Ogala. [BLANK] indicated [BLANK] has a DOB of either [BLANK]. The former DOB is associated with an individual who has FBI Number [BLANK].
[BLANK] stated that [BLANK] identified the crash victims of the plane crash and also attended to matters affecting Rivenbark's business. [BLANK] noted that the purpose of the travel to Colorado was drug related.
Who identified the bodies? What does a plane crash in Colorado and drugs have to do with a missing boy in Florida?
Let's start at the beginning.
Adam Walsh was the son of John Walsh, who was the host of America's Most Wanted. He went missing from a Sears department store at the Hollywood Mall in Hollywood, Florida, on July 27, 1981.
The official story was that he was there with his mom, Reve. She went off to look at lamps and left him alone for 10 minutes to play a video game that was on display in the store. The other children there were causing issues. So the whole group of children were asked to leave the store.
Testimony from the security guards, store cameras, and Jim Campbell tell a different story than this. But let's leave it alone for now.
The point is Adam Walsh was never seen again.
On August 10, a severed head was found in a drainage canal alongside the Florida Turnpike near Vero Beach. It was badly decomposed. This was identified to be Adam Walsh.
How was the identification made and who identified Adam Walsh's remains?
Family friend and business partner, John Monahan.
The Walshes certainly weren’t at the Vero Beach morgue when the ID was made. They were in New York, where they had just appeared on Good Morning America to ask a national audience for help in looking for their missing son.
It was in the overnight hours when police first called them, at their hotel, and said that a dead child had been found the evening before. They didn’t know it was Adam, but at least to themselves, they felt pretty sure. I spoke to the show producer who told me she immediately offered to return the couple to Florida on the first flight out, but John turned it down. I also spoke to the show host, David Hartman, who told me he’d later offered the same thing. Instead, they went on the show that morning; Mrs. Walsh looked catatonic and said nothing. On air, John said this:
“Well, amongst many sightings and reported possible clues on Adam they have found the remains of a young person in Florida that at this time they are trying to identify whether it is Adam or not. At this point they feel there is a good possibility it is not Adam. Therefore they felt we should come on and carry the word of Adam to the public because there is a good likelihood that he is still out there with his abductors.”
Also in his book, Walsh wrote that his friend, John Monahan, who was at the morgue for them, did not immediately recognize the child as Adam. He made the ID only after he asked the M.E. to open the mouth and he saw a “small, emerging tooth.” This is elaborated on nowhere in the official files or in Walsh’s writing or interviews over the years.
McKinley's Assassination and the Creation of the FBI
Did you catch where President Trump mentioned President McKinley in his speech today?
Doing research into this project, I had to engage in some serious tunnel vision. There was so much violence that compounded — a series of events that led into the next event and so on which ultimately led to the formation of the FBI and an accumulation of power by that particular institution. Whether this was by design with a puppet master pulling the strings or just a series of circumstances that were taken advantage of, I do not know.
I found myself sympathizing with the men and women of this time. They fought the same groups as we do ourselves today. It only became more apparent as time went on and as I read more of their own words.
I went down this rabbit hole and found that I am not impartial.
I am looking at the circumstances of the time and I see them mirror the circumstances of today. I see the same outcry of the people, the same issues plaguing society, and the same justifiable anger. The fight has never stopped. It has just been passed down through the generations. Have we not learned?
...It is not Alexander, Umberto, William, Nicholas, and Chamberlain who guide the oppressions and wars of the nations, or who are the authors of the oppressions of the masses and the murders in wars, but those who have put them in the positions of rulers over the lives of men, and support them in these positions. And so Alexander, Nicholas, William, and Umberto are not to be killed, but men are to stop supporting the order of society that produces them. What supports the present order of society is the egotism and stupidity of men who sell their freedom and honor for their insignificant material advantages...
Above all, we must not permit them to kill people; we must refuse to kill by their command.
— Errico Malatesta on Bresci's Deed
There are admittedly many similarities between President McKinley and President Trump. In who they were and how they governed. They were both beloved by the people and were the People's Presidents. This is probably what touched me the most while doing this dig.
If I did not convey that in this thread, it was due to me trying to stick to the facts. Know my emotions now. These are two great men.
Umberto I was born in 1844. He ascended to the Italian throne on January 9, 1878. This king was loathed for his policies.
The first assassination attempt on his life was on November 17, 1878. It was carried out by Giovanni Passasnnante, an Italian anarchist. Giovanni pulled out a knife and attacked him yelling "Long live Orsini! Long live the Universal Republic!"
Giovanni was arrested, tried, convicted, and sent hard labor for life. He died 3 decades later in a psychiatric institution.
In 1897, the price of food dramatically increased in Italy. With the people starving, demonstrations started in the streets of Southern Italy. People rose in mass demanding "bread and work!" Protests spread like wildfire. Widespread revolts took hold across Italy from a population who was on the brink of destruction. The whole country was a powder keg waiting to happen.
Police, outnumbered by the rising mobs, escalated the situation when protestors were shot.
On May 5, 1898, first blood was drawn when police shot the son of Giuseppe Mussi, who was a deputy in Milan. The next day, more riots broke out. Two more were killed. The next the riots went further reaching into Florence and Livorno.
On May 7 1898, over 60,000 people were demonstrating. Bava Beccaris, a general in the Royal Italian Army, sent out his troops in order to get the protestors to disperse.
Two days later, Bava Beccaris ordered his troops to fire on demonstrators. Guns and artillery were shot into the crowd. The repercussions were reported thusly.
The Italian Government: 80 dead, 450 wounded
The Italian Protestors: 400 dead, 2,000 wounded
The New York Times: 300 dead, 1,000 wounded
Military tribunals came shortly after. Bava Beccaris, the same man who shot at protestors, presided over them and sentencing 1,500 people to prison. Newspapers were suppressed from reporting any opposing views. History would later view these trials as a travesty of justice and a mockery of the legal system. (Military tribunals are the only way, huh? There was absolutely no conflict of interest here.)
Bava ended up being award the Great Cross of the Order of Savoy by King Umberto I.
Beth Cook, Attorney for DOJ: "Do you know the Angel of Death?"
Hayes: "I know him well."
Janet Reno (allegedly): "The Justice Department will leave the Angel of Death alone if he will leave the Justice Department alone."
What happened on September 11, 1991?
What happened 10 years later on September 11, 2001?
We will call this the 25,000 foot view. This doesn't just stop in the 90's. So much of what we talk about today is tied in. When you see the timeline, it will all make sense. I may do this thread as a substack later.
Who is the Angel of Death?
Charles Hayes was supposedly either one of, or a contact person for, "The Fifth Column", a group of ex-CIA computer hackers who have become so torqued off about corruption in the government that they have started their own crusade against it.
It was rumored that they acquired their own Cray Supercomputer (previously from Clark Air Force Base), which they keep in a semi-tractor trailer and move around at random intervals.
For several years the Fifth Column had searched computer data bases, including foreign bank accounts, looking for evidence of political bribery, kickbacks, and related subversion of the U.S. Constitution and political process.
One of the people they had been investigating was Hillary Clinton and Vincent Foster and espionage. The money they uncovered was transferred by the Angel of Death from politically-related illegal accounts at off-shore banks in the Cayman Islands, Switzerland, and elsewhere to a holding account at the US Federal Reserve.
On top of this, they were sending these politicians envelopes containing all the information on their favorite Swiss bank accounts with transactions to and from. Included in the envelope was a little letter which "requested" that they resign or the information will be made public.
At this time, there were over 50 resignations from Congress.
Hayes has recently acquired the Internet label of AOD ("Angel of Death" or "Angel of Doom") due to his efforts in encouraging the early retirement of corrupt politicians.
The Octopus
On April 2, 1996, Charles S. Hayes -- retired CIA operative, Air Force Colonel, and Kentucky salvage dealer -- was deposed by the U.S. Department of Justice with respect to the Inslaw case. Hayes' extensive testimony was redacted under the National Security Act.
Hayes testimony led to a tangled web of freelance arms dealers, drug runners, assassins, and government miscreants. Hayes dubbed this "the Octopus." Hayes is said to have testified to detailed criminal violations of U.S. law by employees of the Department of Justice and other government agencies.
Freelance journalist Danny Casolaro also adopted the term "the Octopus." Danny used Hayes as a frequent source of information.
My grandfather was in the Navy during the entirety of World War II. Years ago, he documented his experience from before the war to after its conclusion. I have taken his journals, removed personal identifying information, and am publishing them here. Names have been shorted to initials. The name of my grandmother was changed to “My Love.” What is a story without some romance in it? I hope you enjoy and find them as insightful as I have.
If you missed the first part of this series, you can find it in the quote post here.
WE MEET THE ENEMY
The day after we arrived at Pearl Harbor we were told to remove all wood furniture, radios and certain other items from the ship. Wooden furniture would splinter and burn if it was in an explosion. Radios could possibly tell the enemy our location at sea. All day long a Marine air group moved on board. The next morning we left port. As soon as we cleared the harbor our captain told us we were going to Wake Island, a U.S. possession in the Western Pacific. There was a Marine garrison stationed on Wake, also about 300 construction workers who had been building an airstrip. Our mission was to reinforce the Marines and remove the civilians form the island.
Our task force crossed the International Date Line going West on December 21-22, 1941. Normally anyone crossing the date line for the first time is initiated into the "Silent Mysteries of the Far East." We had no initiations due to the enemy's presence but we were all given "Golden Dragon" certificates to commemorate the occasion.
We arrived in the vicinity of Wake the morning of December 23. Our planes flew over the island and returned, reporting a large Japanese convoy surrounding the island. After considering the odds, our task force commander decided not to attack the Japanese. The next day Wake Island fell to the Japs.
We left Wake and headed for Midway Island, another American outpost. We crossed the International Dateline, going east, on Christmas Day, 10 A.M. Since our crossing set the date back to December 24, the next day was December 25 again. So the sailors on the Saratoga and the other 12 ships in our task force had two Christmases in 1941. Of course, there was no time for celebrating. We sailed on to Midway and launched our marine planes and sent their support group ashore. Most of these young pilots would lose their lives in another Japanese attack in five short months.
We returned to Pearl Harbor, remaining in port only a few days. We headed west again toward Wake looking for Japanese ships. Every morning we were awakened by a bugle blaring "General Quarters" (call to battle stations). It was believed that daybreak and sunset were the best times for submarines to spot ships and launch their torpedoes. We were soon to get our taste of this underwater peril. On the evening of January 11, 1942, as we were returning to Pearl Harbor, we were torpedoed. I was in the "head" preparing to take a shower. The torpedo hit the ship two decks below where I was located. I was blown to the ceiling and must have hit my head as I "saw" a bright flash of light; however, this could have been from the explosion. The lights went out and I started groping my way thru the darkened passageways. I soon reached the lighted area and hurried to my battle station. Later, when I went back to the "head" I realized how lucky I had been. The tile had been blown off the deck and lavatories and other items were laying on the deck. I was unscratched but several men had been killed on the deck immediately below me.
My battle station at that time was an ammunition conveyor which moved projectiles and powder up from the magazines and on to the guns above. We stayed on our battle stations for over an hour while the destroyers in our task force dropped many depth charges, trying to get the sub that torpedoed us. The sub got away and a few days later the Japanese radio bragged that one of its subs had torpedoed a "Lexington type" American Carrier, but did not know whether it sank.
We went back to Pearl Harbor where the dead were removed for burial and a patch was welded over the huge hole in the side of the "Sara." The patch was a temporary "fix" and a few days later we left for the Bremerton, Washington shipyard for permanent repairs. The second day out from Pearl Harbor the patch ripped off and took about 100 feet of the outer "blister" hull with it. Of course our problem was supposed to be top secret but when we sailed into Puget Sound near Seattle, there were thousands of sightseers lining the shores to see the crippled "Sara" come into port.
We remained in the Navy Yard until late April, 1941. While there we were equipped with radar, a new invention. One day while in the yard we were visited by Frank Knox, the Secretary of Navy. All hands were lined up on the flight deck for inspection by Mr. Knox, when a marine orderly ran up and gave a message to the inspection party. We were dismissed from inspection and soon found out that the USS Lexington had been destroyed in the Battle of the Coral Sea.
We were all shocked at the news. We had felt that the Lexington and Saratoga were indestructible. The Lexington caught fire when hit by torpedoes and bombs. The many layers of paint burned so hot that fire on one side of a bulkhead would ignite the other side. Since the fire could not be contained the ship was abandoned and was sent to the bottom by torpedoes from our own destroyers.
With the loss of the Lexington it was determined that all interior paint must be stripped from the interior of the "Sara." For the remainder of the time we were in the "yard" is was pure hell. Chipping hammers operated continuously by both the ship's crew and by yard personnel. In order to sleep, one had to either go ashore or plug one's ears.
BATTLE OF MIDWAY
We left Bremerton and sailed down the coast to San Diego with civilian technicians testing and adjusting our new radars. We were in port at San Diego for only one day. It had been reported that a large Japanese carrier task force was heading east towards Hawaii and Midway. We headed west as fast as we could sail, about 34 knots an hour, to the area where the Battle of Midway was being fought. Actually, the battle was already over when we arrived. One American Aircraft Carrier, the USS Yorktown, and several Japanese ships had been sunk. Many of the survivors from the Yorktown who had been picked up by the escorting destroyers were transferred to the Saratoga for transportation back to Pearl Harbor. Nearly all of the planes based at Midway, including the ones we left there in December, had been destroyed. As soon as we got back to Pearl Harbor, we loaded an Army air group of P-40 fighter planes on board and returned to Midway. None of these pilots had ever flown from a carrier before, but they never lost a plane!
We returned to Pearl Harbor and spent the next two months making short scouting missions to the west of Hawaii. The in late June 1941, we started loading all the ammunition and supplies we could get on board. We left port under secret orders with a large task force of cruisers, destroyers, and supply ships. After a few days at sea, we were told we were to join other ships for an assault on Japanese held islands in the South Pacific.
Normally when a ship crosses the equator, the Shellbacks (those who have crossed before) initiate the Pollywogs (those who haven't). Our task force crossed the equator on July 12, 1942. We had some initiations but there were more Pollywogs than Shellbacks. So the activity was somewhat reduced. Some of the unlucky Pollywogs got their heads shaved and painted purple. Others got beat with canvas straps. And some were half drowned with the fire hoses. Of course, our lookouts maintained their "watches" and our scouting planes remained in the air. I, like most, did not have much of an initiation. We were all given certificates from "King Neptune" making us Shellbacks.
The actual number of federal organizations is laughably unknown. There are 15 executive departments. However, depending on definition, there are either 137 independent executive agencies and 268 units within the Cabinet departments according to USA.gov OR over 430 departments, agencies, and sub-agencies according to the Federal Register.
The actual number may be around 428 to 438 federal agencies or entities.
The following is a (probably incomplete) list to give you an idea.
This is what we have to clean up just within the government. Bookmark it and share it.
The Legislative Branch
· Architect of the Capitol
o United States Botanic Garden
· Congressional Budget Office
· Government Accountability Office
· Government Publishing Office
· Library of Congress
o Congressional Research Service
o United States Copyright Office
· Office of Compliance
· United States Capitol Guide Service
· United States Capitol Police
The Judicial Branch
· Administrative Office of the United States Courts
· Federal Judicial Center
· Judicial Conference of the United States
· Office of Probation and Pretrial Services
· United States Sentencing Commission
How do you define your relationship with your government?
I have made it no secret that I was in a bad marriage at one time in my life. After getting out, I went through a lot of counseling. At some point or another, when you go through abuse counseling, you will be handed this. The Power and Control Wheel. If you go through counseling long enough, you will end up seeing it several times.
During my journey in this movement, I keep thinking about this wheel. It is meant to outline the abuse and control within a relationship. However, don't we all have a relationship with our government in some form or another?
I want you to read through this and think about your relationship with the government. Do all of these not apply?
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USING INTIMIDATION
Making someone afraid by using looks, actions, gestures
Smashing things
Destroying their property
Abusing pets
Displaying weapons
USING EMOTIONAL ABUSE
Putting someone down
Making them feel bad about themselves
Name calling
Playing mind games
Humiliation
Speaking at a fundraiser in New York City on Friday, Hillary Clinton said half of Donald Trump’s supporters belong in a “basket of deplorables” characterized by “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic” views.
“You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right?” Clinton said. “The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic—you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up.”
Time: Read Hillary Clinton’s ‘Basket of Deplorables’ Remarks About Donald Trump Supporters time.com/4486502/hillar…