I've been listening to Ron and Fez, and I guess I'm a little behind, the Phillies just won the World Series and there isn't a new President yet. Being a Mets fan I'm not celebrating this fact too much, but Ron grew up in PA and his Father is a big Phillies fan, so in a rare, serious moment for Ronny B, he talks a bit about his relationship with his Dad and their connection through baseball, as a heads up it clocks in a little under ten minutes...

Ron and Fez - Oct 30 08 by Hangout Collective

On another note, the link above was generously hosted by Sound Cloud. Pretty cool, they let me upload a 150MB file for you to stream and/or download. I dig that.

On November 18, 1978, a tragedy occurred in the South American nation of Guyana. More than 900 men, women, and children were mysteriously murdered in an isolated religious commune known as the “People’s Temple” (“Jonestown”). A large vat of drink containing poison was found at the scene, leading to an initial assumption that the deaths were caused by suicide. The victims’ bodies were discovered lying side by side in neat rows as though the people had drank the poison and had then lain down together and died. However, when autopsies were performed on the victims, it was discovered that 700 of the 900 people had died of gunshot and strangulation, not poison.

They had not committed suicide at all; they were brutally mass murdered. It is very likely that those who drank the poison either did so involuntarily or did not know what they were drinking. The only people to escape the tragedy were not present when the 900 victims were murdered. There are no known witnesses to the entire event. The question is:

• who murdered the inhabitants of Jonestown?

On September 27, 1980, investigative journalist Jack Anderson ran a column about the Jonestown incident. One newspaper headlined the column, “CIA Involved in Jonestown Massacre?” Mr. Anderson cites a tape recording made of People’s Temple leader, Jim Jones, in which Jones referred to a man named Dwyer. According to Mr. Anderson, investigators have concluded that this was Richard Dwyer, deputy chief of the U.S. mission to Guyana. Dwyer had accompanied U.S. Representative Leo Ryan to the Jonestown encampment on that ill-fated day.

Leo Ryan became one of the murder victims, but Richard Dwyer somehow was not affected and even claimed later that the reference to him by Jim Jones was “mistaken.” Richard Dwyer, as it turns out, has been listed in the East German publication, “Who’s Who in the CIA,” as a long-time CIA agent. Dwyer had reportedly begun his career with the spy agency in 1959. According to Mr. Anderson’s column, Dwyer replied “no comment” when asked if he was a CIA agent.

After the massacre, investigators found at Jonestown large quantities of weapons and drugs. The drugs included powerful psychotropics: Quaaludes, Valium, Demerol and Thorazine. Another drug found at Jonestown was chloral hydrate, which had been used in the CIA’s secret mind control program known as “MK-ULTRA.” Was Jonestown a CIA mind control experiment which recruited subjects, especially poorer black people, through the guise of religion? The Jonestown massacre was triggered when a U.S. Congressman, Leo Ryan, flew to Guyana to investigate Jones-town personally after he had failed to obtain information about it from the State Department.

Leo Ryan never lived to tell what he discovered and nearly every last man, woman, and child was silenced. The massacre occurred during a time when many American newspapers were carrying stories about CIA mind-control experiments—experiments which the CIA claimed that it was no longer conducting. Did the CIA slaughter 900 people to cover up the fact that it was still conducting such experiments on a massive scale in a small jungle compound in Guyana?

Additional questions to be researched are:

• What is the true history of the People’s Temple prior to Jonestown?

• What is Jim Jones’ background?

• Who supported him and his early ”church”?

from: gods of eden