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

yes jill, it is a little scary

I'd planned on turning my posts into MP3 blog style posts in 2008, but never really got around to it. To make up for it, here are my favorite songs released in the year 2008. Perhaps 2009 will find me doing this over time rather than all at once. It's in two parts for YSI-compatibility.

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1 - Death To Los Campesinos! - Los Campesinos!
2 - Nowheres Nigh - Parts & Labor
3 - Boo Hoo - Von Hayes
4 - Our Age - The Constantines
5 - Lipstick - Lemuria
6 - Soldier's Grin - Wolf Parade
7 - California Girls - The Magnetic Fields
8 - Mean God - Times New Viking
9 - This Is Not A Test - She & Him
10 - One Cross Apiece - The Obits
11 - If You Don't Care - Smoking Popes
12 - You Want The Candy - The Raveonettes
13 - Moorestown - Sun Kil Moon
14 - Gobbledigook - Sigur Rós
15 - Weightless - Nada Surf
16 - Teen Creeps - No Age
17 - Good Lies - The Notwist
18 - Kim & Jessie - M83
19 - Hungry Ghost - The Cure
20 - As You Wish - Birdsting
21 - Agoraphobia - Deerhunter
22 - Nowhere To Go - Palmyra
23 - Death of the Life of the Party - Drag The River
24 - Documented Minor Emotional Breakdown # 1 - Los Campesinos!

Part 1:
https://rcpt.yousendit.com/643474826/c464c0780bc410507bf86ce0aa243723

Part 2:
https://rcpt.yousendit.com/643485990/4a935fbad5ffadbd0161e6b261698609

all me kids

What gave the nazis the right to kill 6 million Jews?
What gives Israel the right to kill Palestinians?
The answer to both questions is simple, nothing gives them the right.
In the old testement of the bible, the first 4 books say that Jewish people do not get their land until the second coming of God. Well why in 1948 when we stole this land and gave it to the Jews did the middle east go to shit? A large majority of the middle east hate Americans because of our support for Israel. Civilization must set a precedent of love or the world will end up in a grave and there will be no one to save. 010109 Joshua

This article is very good.

that is all

Some random quotes...

"Believing there is no God gives me more room for belief in family, people, love, truth, beauty, sex, Jell-O and all the other things I can prove and that make this life the best life I will ever have."

~Penn Jillette

"When I was a baby my feet didn't touch the ground for 3 years. Ladies kept passing me around, that's why I'm so confident"
~Ron Bennington

"You don't know what pressure is until you've played for five dollars a hole with only two in your pocket."
-Lee Trevino

"The fundamental problem with golf is that every so often, no matter how lacking you may be in the essential virtues required of a steady player, the odds are that one day you will hit the ball straight, hard, and out of sight. This is the essential frustration of this excruciating sport. For when you've done it once, you make the fundamental error of asking yourself why you can't do this all the time."
-Colin Bowles

there is more, of course.

Blake Schwarzenbach and Aaron Cometbus' new band, playing at some house in Brooklyn:

continued

we're not scare mongering

this is really happening