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Antarctica Strangeness: Hess, Apollo Astronauts, Ketchup Kerry, Patriarchs of Moscow, and …
by Joseph P. Farrell
Well, there's yet another Antarctica strangeness story to relate. If you're a regular reader here, you know the long (and very strange) list of people associated with, or who have actually visited, the place. For those of you who are relatively new to this website and its blogs, however, it would be helpful to have a brief review and resume of that list of people associated with the southern continent in modern times:
Reichmarschall Hermann Goering, who among other "achievements" founded both the Gestapo and the Luftwaffe, and co-sponsored the 1938-39 Nazi expedition to that continent, along with
Stellvertreter Rudolf Hess, "Deputy" Fuehrer of Nazi Germany,
American Admiral Richard Byrd, who helped brief the Nazi expedition on what conditions they would encounter, and who was later chosen to lead the post-war Operation High Jump expedition to the continent in 1946-1947. We were told that the operation was necessary because the Arctic might become a theater of war, and that it was necessary to test our equipment and tactics in Arctic conditions. Yes, but we had Alaska and Canada available for that, and they were easier to reach. We even built the Alcan Road during World War Two to be able to ship supplies by road through Canada to Alaska. We did not need to send an entire flotilla to Antarctica. Initial tentative conclusion: there was some other reason for our (and the Nazis') interest in the continent. Oh.... did I mention that the planning for Admiral Byrd's expedition involved Fleet Admiral Nimitz, and more importantly, Secretary of Defense James Forrestal? So you can add
Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, and
Secretary of Defense James Forrestal to the list of people strangely associated with the place. More recently this list has come to include:
King Juan Carlos, who actually visited the place;
Apollo 11 Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, who not only visited the place, but who had to be medically evacuated from it, after allegedly tweeting that what he had seen there was "absolutely evil", or words to that effect;
All sorts of British royals beginning with Prince Philipp;
Secretary of State John "ketchup" Kerry, who took time during a diplomatic junket in 2016, during the height of the presidential election, to divert to the polar continent, ostensibly to get a first-hand look at "global warming" (q.v. my frozen water pipes of Monday). The fact that this occurred during a diplomatic junket led me to speculate that perhaps the real purpose of the diversion was to conduct high level secret diplomacy, perhaps with a world leader, or perhaps with "someone else", away from prying public eyes. Or was "Ketchup" Kerry summoned there?
Russian Orthodox Patriarch of Moscow Kirill III, who, fresh from a meeting with "Novis Ordo Roman Catholic" Pope Francis in Havana, travelled to Antarctica. Again, there was a "story" that was put out that the Patriarch of Moscow and All the Russias went there to bless the Orthodox chapel that had been built. Indeed, the Russians did build a chapel there, but basically any hierarch could have blessed it. But the Patriarch? At approximately the same time, Turkey announced that it wanted a "share" in Antarctica and would be starting its own outposts there, and there was a strange story from Saudi Arabia that they had found a "something" while excavating parts of Mecca, and that the "something" was so dangerous they contacted the infidel Patriarch of Moscow to take it and deal with it, a story that I found, and still find, to be incredible and highly unlikely, but I mention it here for completeness' sake. The blessing and consecration of the chapel done, the Patriarch then posed for some photo-ops with the penguins, and returned to balmy Moscow.
Oh... and in case you'd forgotten, Colonel Fletcher Prouty, one time Pentagon-CIA-White House liaison officer under president John F. Kennedy, was dispatched by his boss, none other than General Ed Lansdale of Yamashita's gold-Three-tramps-in-Dallas-on-the-day-of-the-assassination fame, to accompany some dignitaries to and from Antarctica during the time period of the assassination. You'll remember Prouty from his book The Secret Team and from Donald Sutherland's portrayal of him in Oliver Stone's movie JFK...
A Rant for Everyone Who Thinks Government and Masters Are Vital and Necessary
by Gary D. Barnett
“To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be placed under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality.”
~ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, The General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century
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