Oh Captain my Captain

Tim Footman is a writer based in Bangkok. One day through his blog roll I came across a link which I felt was something quite different. It was the blog of Brian, a 45 year old advertising copywriter and soon to be published author based in Donegal who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and only six to twelve months to live. I wrote about it here.

There is no happy ending in blogging I guess. I assumed that one day I would be thinking about Brian, realise he hadn't posted for a while, and that maybe there would be a slow but increasing sense of 'The End' parading as radio silence. This indeed happened early last month as Capt. Pancreas had gone quiet for a few weeks but then he reappeared with news of being in treatment. I guess there was no online access in the hospital.

Brian is responsible for coming up with the phrase "trying to squeeze the sweetness out of every second" and I just discovered he died on Friday.

He leaves a seven year old son, a wife and a bunch of people that never met him in real life but could feel his warmth and generosity.

O Captain my Captain
O Captain my Captain! our fearful trip is done,
The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won,
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring;
But O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.

O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;
Rise up--for you the flag is flung for you the bugle trills,
For you bouquets and ribboned wreaths for you the shores a-crowding,
For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;
Here Captain! dear father!
This arm beneath your head!
It is some dream that on the deck,
You've fallen cold and dead.

My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still;
My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will;
The ship is anchored safe and sound, its voyage closed and done;
From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won;
Exult O shores, and ring O bells!
But I, with mournful tread,
Walk the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.

- Walt Whitman

The Nutcracker - English National Ballet

The ticket fairy flew by and dropped an invitation in my lap, so I got to see the English National Ballet's 'The Nutcracker' last night and it was worth it for the last six minutes alone. Helicopter view first. When the opening curtains parted the set was dripping in richness, luxury and elegance, and this continued with every set change throughout the performance. The art of set designing has improved beyond description since my theatre days in London. If like me for quite some, you haven't been to the theatre, I urge you to try again. It's so much more immersive.

The first act caught me by surprise, there were about 25 ballet dancing children as the mice or skating soldiers, and they were really good, I didn't see a single mistake. How do they get all those children off school and performing around the country? All of them transformed into real mice at one point with collective fingers waggling like the whiskers and paws twitching as mice eat. However I was anticipating the grown ups to take over and to be candid, I didn't see the kind of performance I was expecting. Now, it might have been the view I had or the excessively hot theatre, or even the version being watched, but the only performance worth noting was the lead female dancer. I believe her name is Fernanda Oliveira from Brazil. Where Yijing Zhang of Birmingham Royal Ballet was magnetically tall, Fernanda's Sugar Plum fairy was diminutively hypnotic. Precision, levitation and elegant symmetry all rolled into one. Superb stuff.

The second act was closer to my expectations. More Corp de Ballet, more Batterie and an astonishing Coda. I think it says more about me than anything but I don't understand why Swan Lake, not The Nutcracker is most popular in the United States. I've also come to the conclusion that if there's no orchestra I'm not going to attend. The richness of sound, in this case the ENB Philharmonic, is something no sound system can come close to. When I went to see Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty earlier this year I didn't write it up as I thought it was crap for various reasons but more expensive tickets and no Philharmonic Orchestra will suffice. Anyway, the wrap up Coda of ENB's The Nutcracker was a dazzlingly baroque, twisting Rubik's Cube of light, shadow and writhing bodies, internally-externalising with the mechanism and precision of a watch. I'll add close examples to the post below. It was worth every penny just for that and I left delighted.

Drop It Like It's Hot

British PM David Cameron - 8/11/12

"There is a danger, if we’re not careful, that this could turn into a sort of witch hunt"

"no matter how high up in British Society they are, that is what the police are four" [Not Channel 4] https://t.co/n3XMo25xoI

— CharlesEdwardFrlth ⚔️ (@CharlesFrlth) September 21, 2023

When the Channel Four - Dispatches Scandal broke, I jerked upright, like a BOLT of electricity had gone through me, and sort of glazed over robotically like a Manchurian Candidate about to dive off the high board into the second most divisive 'conspiracy theory ' scrap on the internet since Julian Assange was framed for rape in Sweden.

Remember when they said Julian raped a woman and it turned out she'd worked for the CIA in Cuba?

You know who paid the price. Real victims of rape not bogus trumped up charges squashing free speech. It's you they want to stfu by making an example. Obv to all but retards/haters https://t.co/yadJo0s8bQ pic.twitter.com/L2MKYWpyKH

— CharlesEdwardFrlth ⚔️ (@CharlesFrlth) September 16, 2023

At first the mediated version of events (tear jerking sax solos, female silhouettes texting hurriedly in the UBER enroute to console the sex addict and Z-list junkie Rusty McDusty AKA Russell 'Rocket' Brand.

People I've followed for anywhere between 15 days to 15 years, from Twitter to X had gone insane. These people are good people; the very best. They don't trust the mob, the media or DOT.gov-MAFIA AKA the Uniparty wings of the same craven bird.

We have always inexplicably concurred on some of the thorniest issues of our time without waiting to share our views. Emancipated from partisan political hymn sheets, we've long flown from that bickering nest to climbing the air through storm clouds alone, before soaring down, scientifically descending closer, before landing together, on the same tree of life.

I was last to the felicitous fracas. By then it had been a raging Sqwawkbox for half a day (maybe half a night) or so before I chirped in. People who have never cussed online were now dropping obscenities and severing friendships that may or may not reconcile.

It's for the better though. It's good we don't agree on this, not because anyone is right or wrong, but because this has obliged me to look deeper and ask more questions about a space I'm ignorant of as a lifestyle decision.

I know very little about celebrities, TV faves and the adjacent hyperbole such as "ant&dec saved british TV a couple of decades ago". Again, I didn't care if they saved it, or tanked the TV industry programming model. Fame is only a friend when coupled with pure motives.

Good job it didn't. Because eventually, after the biggest online punch-up at a wedding subsided, I had the freedom to start sniffing around on how that seldom seen thing, or uncommon event if you will, hadn't happened since Julian Assange was falsely accused of rape. That was the last time the global village beef kicked off, good and proper.

That uncommon thing that I don't have a name for had a common factor.

Julian & Russell were/are both accused of rape but they are not the same rapists.

I rape

You rape

We rape

We don't rape

We get raped

You get raped

I got raped

Those are the six variables I think we can describe as a set (theory) of rapes. Theoretically one of 7 permutations (8 if we include 'We weren't raped', but that opens up a ball-ache of past present future events. Can we stick to 7?

I now have the evidence and you're not going to like it but I provided my phone number and all the rape victims have that if they need to talk. I have unlimited time for victims of sexual crimes. It's not funny being sexually assaulted and its worse when it's a woman with a penis locked up with incarcerated females to rape.

Now you know

You have more than you know.

State Department Paedophiles In South East Asia

Ralph Boyce, former US ambassador.

Allegedly, Ralph 'Skip' Boyce "conspired with pedophiles and traffickers in women and children to traffic prostitutes and children to Europe and the United States."

Diplomats in Pedophile Scandal

Ralph Boyce was the US ambassador to Indonesia at the time of the Bali Bombing, which some believe was the work of the US government.

"After the 2002 terrorist car bombings in Bali, orphaned children fell prey to foreign pedophiles." pedophile cases et alia 

Boyce was United States Ambassador to Thailand from 2004 to 2007. 

In 2008, Boyce became President of Boeing Southeast Asia.

An American Christian missionary in Thailand. arthur zbygniew: thailand: pedophilia

In August 1995, Christopher Richard, of the American Embassy in Bangkok, "conspired with pedophiles in Belgium, Thailand and United States to traffic a young Thai child to pedophiles in Belgium...

"The child's mother, a Laos woman who worked as a bar maid, was part of a criminal gang of pedophiles, pimps and prostitutes operating in the notorious Thai resort town of Pattaya and in Antwerp, Belgium.

'A child abuser arrested in Pattaya', the city where the CIA meets its al Qaeda friends.

"The child was procured to a pedophile and child trafficking gang in Belgium shortly afterward. His fate is unknown.

"Traffickers in children, operating with the complcitiy of Belgian and Thai officials of local government and NGO's and international agencies, including the local branches of the Red Cross and UNICEF, have obstructed the family's efforts to trace the child.

"Ralph Boyce ignored complaints about Richard's misconduct..."

Diplomats in Pedophile Scandal

Boy prostitute in Bangkok.

"There is evidence that Boyce, Richard, Furey and another consular official, Paul O. Mayer, were involved with international criminal gangs, including La Cosa Nostra and Chinese triads, in trafficking and procuring women and children for prostitution."

Diplomats in Pedophile Scandal

US Embassy, Bangkok

"Former Jakarta Post editor Finnegan is well aware of Boyce’s modus operandi...

"State Department sources ... cite one example of a U.S. diplomat in Phnom Penh, Cambodia who was openly living with two underage boys - one Cambodian and the other Lao. 

"After being transferred to the U.S. embassy in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei, his secret was discovered....

"He now serves at the American embassy in Dhaka, Bangladesh, a hornets’ nest for pedophiles operating bordellos filled with child prostitutes.

Thai Embassy Sex Scandal - bangkokscore.com

"According to a higher education source in Thailand, one ... American procurer who worked for an American university in Thailand ... procured young boys for orgies, many of them pre-teen children mostly from the Muslim south. 

"He had worked for an American university in Malaysia. The procurer drove young boys in a station wagon from the south of the country to Bangkok for parties with his friends and important American clients...

Thai Embassy Sex Scandal - bangkokscore.com

The US has a presence in Thailand.

On 1 September 2009, Wayne Madsen wrote about child abuse involving people linked to the US government.

(http://arthurzbygniew.blogspot.com/2009/09/thailand-pedophilia-us-diplomats.html)

According to Wayne Madsen:

1. There are reports that Blackwater had a camp in Baghdad where Iraqi children were used as prostitutes.

2. Reportedly people linked to private security companies search for kids in Thailand's bars and alleyways.

3. Reportedly the US embassy in Bangkok would arrange meetings between child prostitutes and visiting American VIPs.

4. Robert Finnegan was editor of the Jakarta Post at the time of the first Bali Bomb.

(Finnegan clashed with Ralph Boyce, the then U.S. ambassador to Indonesia, and got sacked. Reportedly, Finnegan had produced evidence linking the Bali Bombing to the CIA. aangirfan: The Bali Bomb, Ralph Boyce and Robert Finnegan)

Ralph Boyce became ambassador to Thailand.

"Finnegan said that while he was with the Jakarta Post, he became aware that Boyce, while ambassador in Jakarta, used the services of two known local procurers of child prostitutes and sex slaves.

"They were both Indonesian nationals; one was a CIA asset operating as a businessman and the other was a journalist."

Boyce

5. "The U.S. embassy in Bangkok is at the center of the State Department’s pedophile activities in Asia.

"According to journalistic sources posted to the region, the pedophilia activity has centered around Ambassador Ralph Boyce...

(See also: Diplomats in Pedophile Scandal)

6. Reportedly, Boyce took early retirement in 2007.

7. Reportedly, "Thai children who are preyed upon for sex are killed and their bodies are disposed of after they are abused.

"The bodies are dumped in clusters of five to ten at a time.

"While Boyce was U.S. ambassador to Jakarta, there were reports of similar murders of children used as prostitutes with their skeletal remains later being discovered in caves in Bali and Java."

"After the Vietnam war, expatriate American drunkards, druggies, pederasts, and killers produced by the Vietnam morass found haven in small bars in red light districts of Bangkok and Pattaya Beach.

"One such bar is the Madrid in the Patpong District of Bangkok.

"One long-time employee recalled some of the most famous and infamous veterans of America’s secret wars in Laos and Cambodia.

"She recalled such names as CIA agent Jack Shirley, Golden Triangle middleman Richard Armitage (who she referred to as “Dick”), and various CIA officers stationed at the U.S. embassy in Bangkok." 

Asian PedoGate Scandal Americas Most Indidious Scandal ... 

American Diplomats in Pedophile Scandal - Tripod

In Bosnia U.S. contractors bought children as personal sex slaves.

Middle-Aged Men Having Sex With 12-15 Year olds

The children were from Russia, Romania and other places, and they were imported by DynCorp and the mafia. 

The U.N. was Running Brothels in Bosnia - foxnews.com.

A British firm was accused in the UN 'sex scandal' - guardian 

The U.N. halted a probe of officers' role in sex trafficking - washingtonpost.

Reportedly, the Russian and Ukrainian Jewish mafia flooded Bosnia and Kosovo with sex slave children - orphans, refugees and children of the poor.

Reportedly, the purchasers were people working for the Western security services, NATO, the UN, and military contractors.

Child sexual abuse by UN peacekeepers

"Western troops, policemen, and civilians are largely to blame for the rapid growth of the sex slavery industry in Kosovo 

"The international presence in Kosovo continues to generate 80% of the income for the pimps, brothel-owners, and mafiosi who abduct local girls or traffic women mainly from Moldova, Romania, Ukraine, and Russia to Kosovo via Serbia."

Guardian | May 7 2004

Over 2,000 children, orphaned after the earthquake in Haiti in January 2010, have been sold as sex slaves.

2,000 Haiti quake orphans sold as sex slaves | NDTV.com

Aaron Swartz

Yoichi Shimatsu, former editor of the Japan Times Weekly, asks:

"Was Aaron Swartz killed by a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Satanic Child Porn Ring?"

Reportedly, MIT is linked to an elite child abuse ring, and Aaron Swartz was trying to expose this ring.

Bernard Krisher :: The Arrows of Truth

In Cambodia, "a world-famous professor arranged underage sexual services for visiting dignitaries and sent encrypted child porn via satellite to illicit databases on the MIT campus."

Bernard Krisher

"From 2003 till 2009, I worked on-and-off in Cambodia with an international team of anti-pedophilia activists, who were volunteers and all of them fathers.

"The team came to Cambodia following up on a slew of leads, including photos of naked infants taken by Newsweek Tokyo bureau chief Bernard Krisher on display at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Hong Kong..."

Bernard Krisher :: The Arrows of Truth

Bernard Krisher (center)

"Lionized by CNN and TIME, Krisher is the publisher of the English-language Cambodia Daily, whose staff was hostile to our presence in Phnom Penh. 

"Earlier, I had known of Krisher’s visits to North Korea, supposedly to provide food relief, when in fact he was visiting orphanages in the secretive dictatorship to select children for overseas 'education'. 

"In that same period, from the late 1980s throughout the 1990s, 'Chinese' orphans were arriving at Boys Town in Nebraska, which became entangled in a scandal involving Senate pages supplied for underage sex services..."

Obama in Cambodia

Yoichi Shimatsu investigated an orphanage in Cambodia.

"Queen Monica, the wife of the late King Sihanouk, put the troubled orphanage under her royal protection.

"The Cambodian police shut down the orphanage’s satellite-link tower, which was being used to uplink child-porn videos and connect American pedophiles to their little sweethearts.

Nicholas Negroponte with the notorious President Kagame. "The 'One Laptop per Child' project was initiated by the MIT Media Lab founder, who is the brother of former UN ambassador and intelligence official John Negroponte." 

"The teachers told me that computers and satellite communication system were installed and maintained by Nicholas Negroponte, the founder of the MIT Media Lab.

"'Nick was a frequent visitor and one of the orphanage sponsors who arranged the weekend pajama parties in the city whenever foreign VIPs arrived,' a teacher told me. 'Since he gave us the computer equipment, our staff was in no position to say no. The average age of the abused orphans was 10 years old.'"

Child inmates, extermination gaol, Phnom Penh.  By lightfan. Remember that Britain's SAS trained the Khmer Rouge

"Following the royal intervention, Bernie Krisher flew into Thailand to attend the opening of another orphanage, where he got a tap on the shoulder from the national chief of police.

"He was told to leave on the next plane out of Cambodia..."

Nicholas Negroponte

"The 'One Laptop per Child' project was initiated by the MIT Media Lab founder, who is the brother of former UN ambassador and intelligence official John Negroponte...

"A quick look at MIT Media Lab reveals some questionable characters at the helm...

1. "Frank Moss, who was trained at the Technion Institute in Haifa, a center for the Israeli Defense Force’s cyberwarfare R and D projects.

"The Media Lab itself is heavily involved in military-related projects with the US Air Force, the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, the Army Research Office and Google, which is a high-tech contractor in artificial intelligence for DARPA.

2. "Joi Ito, who once ran a nightclub in Roppongi, Tokyo’s drug-peddling and prostitution district run by a yakuza boss whose interest lies in Caucasian models performing coprophilia and bondage, increasingly favorite video themes besides child porn among the American university technocrati...

"Ito’s main qualification is apparently his status as godson of Timothy Leary...Leary began his drug experimentation as a psychologist for the MK-ULTRA mind-control program and became a proselytizer of hallucinogens under a CIA psy-op campaign to disable the antiwar movement.

One of the aims of the CIA's MK ULTRA programme is to produce sex slaves for the elite.

"MIT Media Lab is yet another spin-off from the all-powerful MK-ULTRA and DARPA. No wonder it’s been producing child porn and involved in overseas pedophilia.

"The One Laptop program is a clever vehicle to provide early sex education to children across impoverished Asia and Africa who have yet to reach pubescence...

Nina Weiner, Edmond J. Safra, Lily Safra

"Swartz was a research fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, which is based at Harvard and in Israel...

"Edmond Safra was a banker for the Aleppo Jewish community, which over the millennia has been renowned for scholarship and good relations with Muslim and Christian neighbors.

Aleppo

"The Aleppo synagogue... was the center of traditionalist Sephardic moral resistance to the secular, authoritarian and Eurocentric Zionists led by the Rothschild clan...

Sean Parlaman.

"Another young American, Sean Parlaman, who 'fell' from a high-rise window in Pattaya, Thailand, in 2002, was the leading anti-pedophile activist of his generation.

"Like Swartz, he was falsely accused by his foes...

"Parlaman started investigating child-trafficking across the Burma border.

"Along that militarized frontier, the Mossad and CIA under the cover of refugee aid programs have continuously smuggled in weapons and explosives, used for killing civilians in Myanmar, in exchange for opium and children.

"It is an injustice indeed that Sean did not live to see the 2009 police arrest of the politically connected second-generation Baptist missionary Robert Moss, aka Bobby Morse, on charges of sex with preteen tribal girls. At least, Parlaman is vindicated.

"The pedophiles have been able to abduct, abuse and sometimes murder children across Southeast Asia because of protection from U.S. embassies in the region...

Source: (1) Bernard Krisher :: The Arrows of Truth

De Haan

"The Zionist killing of dissenting Jews was a policy of the Haganah militia.

"The newborn Israeli state, under President Yitzak Ben-Zvi, a leader of the Rothschild-backed Haganah, ordered the extrajudicial execution of outspoken Dutch Jewish activist Jacob de Haan, who proposed that Jews should support a non-religious state of Palestine shared with Arabs, instead of endorsing the bigotry of a separatist entity..."

Bernard Krisher :: The Arrows of Truth

The American island of Saipan has been linked to child slavery, child abuse and the CIA.

Saipan is the largest island of the United States Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

In 1991, Levi Strauss and Co. was involved in a scandal involving six of its subsidiary factories on Saipan.

It was revealed that workers in those factories suffered under what the U.S. Department of Labor called "slavelike" conditions.

(Tan_Holdings_Corporation)

Jack Abramoff lobbied on behalf of Saipan and its factories.

Abramoff gained nearly $11 million in fees from the Marianas government and from the islands’ garment manufacturers between 1995 and 2004. 

("Paradise Lost: Greed, Sex Slavery, Forced Abortion and Right-Wing Moralists".)

Saipan's strip clubs and massage parlours are popular with the US navy.

An estimated 90 percent of the island’s prostitutes are former garment workers. 

("Paradise Lost: Greed, Sex Slavery, Forced Abortion and Right-Wing Moralists".)

On 30 December 2009, we read an article by Wayne Madsen about CIA Involvement in the Child Sex Trade Since 1978

saipanpictures.blogspot.com

According to Wayne Madsen:

Girls would be taken out of Thailand to places like Saipan in the US territory of the Northern Marianas.

There they would be used as child labourers and prostitutes.

Young Vietnamese girls would also be taken to Saipan.

The status quo in Saipan was reportedly supported by such Republicans as Tom DeLay, Ralph Hall, then-Representative Bob Riley of Alabama, and James Doolittle.

Saipan has become the 'Guantanamo Bay of child slavery and prostitution'.

Saipan's sweat shops and 'corrupt government' had a powerful Republican party lobbyist working for them, Jack Abramoff.

Wayne Madsen is a Washington, DC-based investigative journalist, author and syndicated columnist. He is a frequent political and national security commentator on Television News and is a regular contributor to Russia Today. Madsen is the author of Jaded Tasks: Big Oil, Black Ops & Brass Plates and Overthrow a Fascist Regime on $15 a Day.