Florida Woman Kills Son, Then Herself at Gun Range
April 8th, 2009I’ve lost track of all the recent bizarre shooting incidents. On the one hand, there’s a generalized crackup underway in the U.S. On the other hand, the regime is getting ready to try to get HR45 enacted.
My guess is that we haven’t seen anything yet.
Chillingly, hours before I read about this latest incident, I wrote a brief comment on the subreddit about my dealings with schizophrenics/alleged gang stalking victims due to my work on Cryptogon. This was in response to Jiverly Wong’s letter, where he lays out a standard paranoid schizophrenic/gang stalking scenario:
I’ve been contacted by many people who claim to be victims of gang stalking. When I’d tell them to do simple things like videotape their tormentors, get witnesses, etc. they’d never do it. There’s always some excuse about why nobody else can see it.
The people who have contacted me have been VERY religious (Christians). I have no idea if that is a component of this, or just a coincidence.
When they submit their “systems” to me, the level of detail and complexity, the fact that the people are alone, isolated, (except for the Internet) really looks like schizophrenia in my casual, untrained opinion.
However, when you look into this, holy crap, there’s an entire ecosystem of people who are existing in a living hell because of this… Whatever it is.
And then there’s the one about the Kuykendalls, the Prices and the McKays, which is pretty weird. That’s a unique one, as far as I know.
From psychology classes that I took in high school and college, I knew what schizophrenia was, in theory. But I never had any interactions with schizophrenics until I started running Cryptogon. Unfortunately, the Internet makes life much worse for schizophrenics because confirmation of all of their paranoia is just a Google search away. Because I’ve looked at trauma induced mind control and ritual abuse before, Cryptogon sometimes winds up in the mix of deeply troubled people. I’ve been sent documents that are hundreds of pages in length. Patents. Poster size flow charts. Daily journals. The stuff I have been sent to support gang stalking scenarios has been clinically nuts. Having said that, I don’t rule out the possibility that some gang stalking is happening to people. Again, look at that one above about the Kuykendalls, et al. It’s not schizophrenia when multiple individuals are being harassed.
Initially, I confused the two worlds of run-of-the-mill schizophrenia/gang stalking and trauma induced mind control/ritual abuse. I thought that all of it was same thing, at first. It isn’t, and the fact that engineered mind control cases look a lot like schizophrenia isn’t a coincidence. While I’m pretty confident that gang stalking is mostly schizophrenia, there is also no doubt that trauma induced mind control and ritual abuse are producing a distinct category of victim.
In this latest tragedy, it looks like schizophrenia (notice her 65 journals) was to blame. I’m starting to wonder: Is something triggering these people en masse?
Maybe a grad student in psychology out there can tell us what the average rate of schizophrenic breakdowns involving firearms is vs. what we’re seeing now?
Via: Orlando Sentinel:
Newly released notes and audio recordings left behind by a woman who shot her son and then took her own life leave little doubt that she planned the attack.
In rambling messages to family, friends, police and the owners of Shoot Straight, the Casselberry gun range she chose for Sunday’s fatal shooting, Marie Moore said the murder-suicide was the only way to save her son Mitchell Moore, her family and the world from violence and eternal damnation.
God decreed it, she wrote in documents released Tuesday.
“I’m so sorry,” Marie Moore, 44, wrote in one note. “I had to send my son to heaven and myself to Hell.”
The shooting was captured by security video at the gun range. Marie Moore walked behind her son, put a revolver to the back of his head and fired a single shot. Then she put the pistol in her mouth and fired.
Mitchell Moore, 20, died at the scene. His mother died a short time later at Florida Hospital Altamonte.
“The act appeared to be deliberate,” Casselberry police Officer Jeffrey Shumway wrote in his report.
The revolver was rented from the shooting range, Casselberry police Deputy Chief Bill McNeil said.
There are restrictions about gun ownership in some cases of mental incompetence, but they do not bar a person from renting a gun at a shooting range, McNeil said.
Late Monday, family members found three notes and two audio tapes and turned them over to police, McNeil said. Each note was addressed to “King,” a nickname for her boyfriend. Two were signed “Failed Queen.”
In these documents, Marie Moore described long struggles over whether to kill herself, stays at mental hospitals and attempts to make sense of the messages she said she received from God.
During a 2003 suicide attempt, her son stopped her from killing herself, she said in one recording. She thought God punished her for her failure by making her the “antichrist,” and that she must die to save the world from violence.
“You have a gun, you can do it,” she said God told her.
A prior suicide attempt at a gun range ended with her being thrown out.
This time, Marie Moore concealed her plans so she wouldn’t be hospitalized, she said in the recordings.
Why God chose Marie Moore for this fate made little sense to her.
“I don’t know how all this happened. It’s not in the Bible,” she said.
She wrote that she signed over the title to her truck, and left behind $7,900 cash and a check.
“I’m sorry King thats all thats left,” she wrote in one note.
Her jewelry would go to her boyfriend and others, she said in the recordings. She also left 65 journals explaining her ordeal.
“I’m a good person. But the Devil and God turned me into the worst person in the world. I’m so ashamed. And I’m so afraid,” she said. “And I’ll pay forever and ever.”
U.S. Apartment Market Worsens with Economy
April 8th, 2009Via: Reuters:
The vacancy rate for U.S. apartments hit a three-year high in the first quarter and asking rents dropped the most in at least 10 years as the number of excess apartments on the market ballooned, according to real estate research firm Reis Inc.
And the figures are forecast to get even worse as more apartment buildings are expected to open this year, increasing supply, and as the U.S. employment picture gets uglier, Reis said.
Job creation is the No. 1 driver of demand for apartments.
“Given that things are weakening right now, any new buildings that come on will add additional pressure to landlords,” Victor Calanog, Reis director of research, said.
The national apartment vacancy rate rose to 7.2 percent in the first quarter, up 0.60 percentage points from the prior quarter and 1.1 percentage points from a year earlier, according to the report, released on Tuesday.
Since reaching a cyclical low of 5.5 percent in the third quarter of 2008, the U.S. apartment vacancy rate has surged 1.7 percentage points, Reis said.
It was the highest vacancy rate since the first quarter of 2002. That was right before the last downturn bottomed out, but Reis expects the picture to get a lot darker as “we are arguably only at the beginning of the current downturn.”
Behind the rising vacancy rate is a build-up of available apartments. The number of vacant apartments added was 31,878 units in the first quarter. This was the largest amount of excess apartments the sector has seen since the first quarter of 2002 and does not include empty condos for rent.
Asking rents fell by 0.6 percent to $1,046 per month, the largest single-quarter decline since Reis began reporting quarterly performance data in 1999.
White House Approves Costly, New Spy Satellites
April 8th, 2009Via: Houston Chronicle:
The Obama administration on Tuesday approved the purchase of pricey new spy satellites and will buy more commercial imagery from the private sector to plug immediate gaps in satellite coverage.
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Defense giant Lockheed Martin, of Bethesda, Md., is almost certain to win the secret multibillion-dollar contract for the two new high-altitude spy satellites. It built the spacecraft now in orbit that will be roughly duplicated in the “2-plus-2” program.
The intelligence official acknowledged the possibility that the massive contract could be awarded this year to Lockheed without a competitive bidding process.
New and Worse Secrecy and Immunity Claims from the Obama DOJ
April 7th, 2009Via: Salon:
When Congress immunized telecoms last August for their illegal participation in Bush’s warrantless eavesdropping program, Senate Democratic apologists for telecom immunity repeatedly justified that action by pointing out that Bush officials who broke the law were not immunized — only the telecoms. Here, for instance, is how Sen. Jay Rockefeller justified telecom immunity in a Washington Post Op-Ed:
Second, lawsuits against the government can go forward. There is little doubt that the government was operating in, at best, a legal gray area. If administration officials abused their power or improperly violated the privacy of innocent people, they must be held accountable. That is exactly why we rejected the White House’s year-long push for blanket immunity covering government officials.
Taking them at their word, EFF — which was the lead counsel in the lawsuits against the telecoms — thereafter filed suit, in October, 2008, against the Bush administration and various Bush officials for illegally spying on the communications of Americans. They were seeking to make good on the promise made by Congressional Democrats: namely, that even though lawsuits against telecoms for illegal spying will not be allowed any longer, government officials who broke the law can still be held accountable.
But late Friday afternoon, the Obama DOJ filed the government’s first response to EFF’s lawsuit (.pdf), the first of its kind to seek damages against government officials under FISA, the Wiretap Act and other statutes, arising out of Bush’s NSA program. But the Obama DOJ demanded dismissal of the entire lawsuit based on (1) its Bush-mimicking claim that the “state secrets” privilege bars any lawsuits against the Bush administration for illegal spying, and (2) a brand new “sovereign immunity” claim of breathtaking scope — never before advanced even by the Bush administration — that the Patriot Act bars any lawsuits of any kind for illegal government surveillance unless there is “willful disclosure” of the illegally intercepted communications.
In other words, beyond even the outrageously broad “state secrets” privilege invented by the Bush administration and now embraced fully by the Obama administration, the Obama DOJ has now invented a brand new claim of government immunity, one which literally asserts that the U.S. Government is free to intercept all of your communications (calls, emails and the like) and — even if what they’re doing is blatantly illegal and they know it’s illegal — you are barred from suing them unless they “willfully disclose” to the public what they have learned.
150,000 People in the U.S. Have Been Implanted with Defective Medtronic Defibrillator Cables
April 7th, 2009If you think that Medtronic is going to get nailed to the wall with endless lawsuits over this… Guess again!
Via: New York Times:
Consider the Sprint Fidelis, a heart defibrillator cable. In 2007 its maker, Medtronic, stopped selling it after five patients who had the cables died.
But only now is the full scope of the public health problem becoming clear for the Sprint Fidelis, which is still used by 150,000 people in this country.
In the next few years, thousands of those patients may face risky surgical procedures to remove and replace the electrical cable, which connects a defibrillator to a chamber of the heart.
Medtronic estimates that the cable has failed in a little more than 5 percent of patients after 45 months of being implanted. But as a preventive measure, some patients with working cables are having them removed.
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Medtronic has been shielded so far from legal claims over the recalled device. More than 1,000 patient lawsuits involving the Sprint Fidelis have been thrown out because of a ruling last year by the Supreme Court. The court held in a ruling involving a different medical device that federal law protects device makers from liability suits involving some products, as long as the F.D.A. has approved their products.
Some Democrats in Congress have vowed to pass legislation that would override the Supreme Court decision. They cite the Sprint Fidelis problem as one reason, also noting the F.D.A. let it onto the market without extensive testing.
Medtronic is supplying replacement cables, but the cost of the operation to implant a cable, which can run $15,000 to $20,000 is being borne by Medicare or private insurers.
St. Francis of Afece and Craptonite: Meet the Sodfather
April 7th, 2009This is a long article about an old time compost freak, nothing more, nothing less. I enjoyed it.
One problem: About making compost, the article says, “no meat, cat, dog or human poop.” Please see The Humanure Handbook for clarification on this. You can compost that stuff, no problem, if you know the rules. If you don’t know the rules, yeah, keep that shit out of your pile.
I just put out a batch of compost that contained a bunch of beef bones that Becky had previously boiled up in her stockpot, as well as as some blood from our last heifer slaughter. I wanted to see if the bones would succumb to the ravages of my new barrel-based compost system. The bones didn’t disappear, but they broke up into dust with ease. These would be the biggest no-way-would-those-break-down type of bones. Corn cobs? Nope. Not really. They were still…corn cobs. I’ll have to write about this in more detail in Farmlet.
Via: Arthur:
“That’s the powder that makes you prouder and prouder,” he says, bringing up a handful of rich humus. He lets it run through his fingers and sings a verse from Creedence’s “Proud Mary:” “Big wheel keeps on turnin’/ Proud Mary keeps on burnin’.” He smiles. “See, it’s burning with the fire of life. I call it yea-palm instead of napalm. Rather than burn people to death it brings ‘em more alive. This stuff here, the raw material?” he comes up with another handful of the same fine black soil. “I call that craptonite. Craptonite does to the forces of evil what kryptonite does to Superman.
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“I had a vision in early ‘73—I was right over there,” he points through the trees to a spot a hundred yards or so from where we’re sitting. “All of a sudden it dawned on me that that this was something that could change the whole world. People could create their own well-being, their own good health, happiness, have peace on earth, just by using organic material, turning it into a game or a competition or whatever to get everyone excited and involved. Something that could really work.”
Research Credit: ltcolonelnemo
Man Shoots Himself in a Movie Theater Midway Through a Showing of The Watchmen
April 7th, 2009If you know of any info that looks at MK related triggers or themes in The Watchmen, let me know. I haven’t seen the film.
Note: If your comment has anything to do with how bad the film is/”I don’t blame the guy”/making a joke out of this etc.: Please don’t bother. We get it already. I must have come across two dozen of these so far, and it was old after the first one.
Via: Register Guard:
Police said a 24-year-old man shot and killed himself early this morning during a movie screening at a Eugene theater.
About 10 people were seated in the Regal Cinema theater at Valley River Center when the man used a handgun to commit suicide midway through a showing of the film “Watchmen,” Eugene police spokeswoman Jenna LaBounty said.
The closest patrons were seated two rows in front of the man, who was a Eugene resident.
LaBounty said police were called to the theater just after midnight, after patrons reportedly heard a loud “popping sound” behind them. Investigators determined that the man died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
LaBounty said theater managers stopped the movie and refunded patrons’ money following the shooting.
March Earnings
April 7th, 2009In March, earnings from all sources came to a total of $1759.59. That’s a great month!
Big Thank Yous to everyone who sent direct contributions and/or used any of the affiliate links in March.
That Amazon result is a shocker. (In a good way.) $551.38 in commissions… It’s everything from used paperbacks that cost about a buck to multi-thousand dollar whizzbangery that I never knew existed. Whatever it was that you guys bought, a little bit of it came our way.
Thanks to the owners of the following domains for signing up for hosting with BlueHost:
BlueHost represents an astonishing webhosting value. I’ve hosted Cryptogon with them since 2005. If you’re looking for webhosting for the first time, or dissatisfied with your present host, check out what BlueHost has to offer.
Professional web developers in at least four countries—who also happen to be Cryptogon readers—are placing their clients with BlueHost…via Cryptogon, of course. (Thanks guys. Make sure to tell me when appearances need to be maintained for your clients and I won’t link to their sites. Lots of people like getting hundreds of visits from Cryptogon readers. Others might collapse in shock.) The reason I’m mentioning this is that these guys wouldn’t place their clients with a webhost that was going to let them down.
How can it be that BlueHost will pay me $90 if you sign up for hosting via Cryptogon? Man, I don’t know, but the hosting business is obviously a white-knuckle death match. They must be assuming that you will be so impressed with the service that you’ll stick around for a while… Like I have. Anyway, we both benefit. You get an outstanding hosting deal, I get $90.
Goldbugs remain active on BullionVault. Thanks for thinking of Cryptogon when you established your BullionVault accounts.
Finally, NitroPak and Swanson Vitamins had a couple of orders. Thanks for that.
Pfizer to Pay £50 Million After Deaths of Nigerian Children in Drug Trial Experiment
April 7th, 2009Via: Independent:
A divorce case was all that passed for excitement at Richard P Altschuler’s “kinda small” lawyer’s office in West Haven, Connecticut, when the phone rang nine years ago. On the other end of the line, a world away in the heat of Nigeria, was Etigwe Uwo, a young lawyer with “an incredible story about Pfizer”. The Lagos attorney was going to take on the largest pharmaceutical company in the world in an unprecedented class action pitting African parents against an American corporate giant. And he needed help.
Mr Etigwe had chosen Mr Altschuler because, back in 1979, the Connecticut lawyer had successfully defended a friend of the Nigerian. The unlikely pair were about to embark on a marathon journey into the world of “big pharma”. Nine years on and their efforts have finally been rewarded with a reported $75m (£50m) settlement, the terms of which are likely to be released this week.
If it sounds like the script of a Hollywood blockbuster that’s because it was this story that prompted John Le Carre to write The Constant Gardener, according to Mr Altschuler.
In real life it was to Nigeria, not Kenya, that Pfizer turned. In 1996, the company needed a human trial for what it hoped would be a pharmaceutical “blockbuster”, a broad spectrum antibiotic that could be taken in tablet form. The US-based company sent a team of its doctors into the Nigerian slum city of Kano in the midst of an appaling meningitis epidemic to perform what it calls a “humanitarian mission”. However the accusers claim it was an unlicensed medical trial on critically-ill children.
U.S. Fighter Jets Scrambled to Intercept Stolen Plane
April 7th, 2009Uh… Um. Hmm.
I don’t have any idea what category to even use for this. I’ll just use War for now because it involves U.S. fighter planes.
Via: Reuters:
A pilot stole a small airplane in Canada on Monday and headed south, forcing U.S. military officials to scramble F-16 fighter jets to trail him, before landing on a highway in Missouri and fleeing on foot.
The pilot was captured and arrested by Missouri State Troopers a short time after landing the Cessna 172, news reports said.
Lt. Commander Gary Ross of the North American Aerospace Defense Command said the plane was not believed to be a terrorist threat nor a threat to civilians. Still, the state capitol in Madison, Wisconsin, was evacuated as a precaution while the plane was in its area.
The incident started at Confederation College in Thunder Bay, Ontario, about 785 miles north of where the pilot eventually landed near Piedmont, Missouri.
“Apparently somebody jumped over the fence and just jumped into an aircraft,” Confederation College Vice President Judi Maundrell said. “It was sitting as usual parked on the ramp. The keys are in all the aircraft because students are using them.”
Only the pilot, who was not immediately identified, was believed aboard the plane.
The F-16s intercepted the Cessna at about 3:30 p.m. EDTand shadowed it for about seven hours over Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois and Missouri until it landed on the highway near Piedmont, NORAD said. CNN reported the pilot ran away after landing.
The pilot acknowledged the trailing fighters early on but did not respond to non-verbal commands, Ross said in a telephone interview.
“The pilot was not talking to us at all,” Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Laura Brown said.
Ross said the Cessna 172 was a “long-range variant” and that it was fully fueled when it left Canada and capable of flying for about seven hours without refueling.
