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Paul Fitzgerald & Elizabeth Gould - The Valediction
In a fascinating interview Paul and Elizabeth tell Ed a tale of deception, drugs and diplomacy. But behind it all lies one common factor; greed. And with American spokespeople saying Afghanistan was marxist because ‘the women can read’, what chance does the truth have?
BACKGROUND
Afghanistan was an American crusade to win the war against the “Evil Soviet Empire” and remake the world in its own image.
This goes right to the heart of understanding the destiny of the Western Dream. Instead of a dream the US is caught in a nightmare. Now Americans long for a spiritual regeneration away from the vision of war as an honorable sacrifice to a vision of peace that serves all. No one seems able to make the process move in the right direction. We assimilated a profound understanding over four decades of how to envision moving from war to peace that is now in our novelized memoir, The Valediction: Three Nights of Desmond at the Kabul Hotel.
Book : The Valediction: Three Nights of Desmond
Website : Invisible History
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The Last Days of John Lennon
The greatest true-crime story in music history, as only James Patterson can tell it.
With the Beatles, John Lennon surpasses his youthful dreams, achieving a level of superstardom that defies classification. “We were the best bloody band there was,” he says. “There was nobody to touch us.” Nobody except the original nowhere man, Mark David Chapman. Chapman once worshipped his idols from afar—but now harbors grudges against those, like Lennon, whom he feels betrayed him. He’s convinced Lennon has misled fans with his message of hope and peace. And Chapman’s not staying away any longer.
By the summer of 1980, Lennon is recording new music for the first time in years, energized and ready for it to be “(Just Like) Starting Over.” He can’t wait to show the world what he will do.
Neither can Chapman, who quits his security job and boards a flight to New York, a handgun and bullets stowed in his luggage.
The greatest true-crime story in music history, as only James Patterson can tell it. Enriched by exclusive interviews with Lennon’s friends and associates, including Paul McCartney, The Last Days of John Lennon is the thrilling true story of two men who changed history: One whose indelible songs enliven our world to this day—and the other who ended the beautiful music with five pulls of a trigger.
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Matt Sergiou – The Beatles, The Stones, the 60’s and Mind Control.
Matt Sergiou has made a big effort to research not only the Beatles and their occult references and connections, but also the infiltration of the 60s counter culture and psychodelic influences.
Were the Beatles and the Stones involved, albeit indirectly, in Decca Records funnelling money into military research? Were they coerced into giving an illusion that the peace movement could achieve it’s stated aims? How were the drugs which were responsible for one of the most creative and anarchic periods in music and art, so readily available to so many people?
In a concise interview, Matt puts forward his case that much of the more successful music and acts were unwitting pawns in a game of distraction; at best they were innocent contributors for sinister operators, at worst they were willingly complicit in a mind control operation which altered the course of history.
Website: Conspiro Media/ Occult Beatles
Twitter: Matt Sergiou
Facebook: Conspiro Media
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Sean MacLeod - Behind the Wall of Illusion
Sean MacLeod joins Ed Opperman to discuss one of the greatest bands who ever graced the stage.
1962 and the Beatles had started on a road to fame and fortune. Signed to a record deal, their simple upbeat melodies could have faded into the noise of history; but the Beatles did something different from most of their contemporaries.
In a mixture of expert marketing, musicianship and appearances on almost every mainstream television show, they launched themselves from a simple skiffle band - albeit with above average melodies - which grew into a movement changing forever the scope and depth of music. Almost every one of their 206 song catalogue offers something different; as different as the men who created them grew to be.
Experimental sounds, new instruments like the melotron and sitar were utilised in their work, as were backwards masking, clips from radio plays and contemporary references.
But what was the driving force behind the group? How did four average lads from a largely deprived area of the UK come to conquer the world and gain immortality through their legend and legacy?
In Sean MacLeod's book on the Fab Four, Behind the Wall of Illusion - the religious, occult and esoteric world of the Beatles, he takes us not only behind their music and personalities but examines the phenomenon that was the Beatles and puts them into perspective as heralds of a new age and conscious development of mankind.
Books :Behind The Wall of Illusion: The Religious, Occult and Esoteric World of the Beatles Phil Spector: Sound of the Sixties (Tempo: A Rowman & Littlefield Music Series on Rock, Pop, and Culture) Leaders of the Pack: Girl Groups of the 1960s and Their Influence on Popular Culture in Britain and America
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Scott Kaiser - Son of JFK Assassin & Watergate Burglar
Edwin Benjamin Kaiser was a thrill-seeking patriot who became enmeshed with many of America’s biggest conspiracies, the full significance of which is pieced together and explored in this exciting account by his son, Scott Kaiser. Through handwritten letters and contact book entries left by Edwin Kaiser, and a bevy of discovered government documents, an exciting puzzle forms around the life of a man who was at once a patriot, an arms smuggler, a revolutionary leader, an assassin, and a husband and father. In the 1970s Edwin was the military head of an anti-Castro movement called Cubanos Unidos, and during his life he was frequently in contact with Frank Sturgis—during which time Edwin confessed to the author an assassination plot against President Nixon and confirmed Sturgis’ role in the death of JFK. This thrilling mix of paramilitary bravado, government conspiracy, family history, and firsthand anecdote shows how Edwin Kaiser was willing to lay it all on the line to accomplish what he thought was right.
This was Scott Kaiser's last interview on this subject; you will not hear this information ANYWHERE else.
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Alice Kayhill - Under a Full Moon
UNDER A FULL MOON: The Last Lynching in Kansas tells of the tragic abduction and death of an eight-year-old girl at the hands of a repeat offender in 1932. This crime stands apart as the last mob lynching in Kansas. Based on true events, this account takes a deep dive into the psycho-social complexities of pioneer times and their impact on this particular crime and the justice meted out to the perpetrator.
Beginning in the year 1881, and written in a chronological narrative non-fiction format, author Alice Kay Hill vividly weaves the stories of the victims and the families involved. She reveals how mental and physical abuse, social isolation, privations of homesteading, strong dreams and even stronger personalities all factored into the criminal and his crimes.
Spanning the years of settlement to the beginnings of the Dust Bowl, historic events are lived as daily news by the seven families whose lives become intertwined. Historically accurate and written with an intimate knowledge of the area, UNDER A FULL MOON is as personal as a family diary, as vivid as a photo album found in an attic trunk, and will remain with the reader long after the book is closed.
Book : Under a Full Moon
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David Whelan - The Killing of John Lennon, pt3
If you need further evidence that John Lennon was not the victim of a deranged fan but in fact the object of a very organised and thorough conspiracy, David Whelan has uncovered even more evidence that Chapman was the patsy for someone else.
In a murder which was NEVER properly investigated, questions have arisen about the witnesses, the gunman and the aftermath which followed, which allowed those who perpetrated the plot to cover themselves for almost forty years now.
Who profited? Who planned? And who walked away in a better situation following the death of an unhappy icon?
First Interview
Second Interview
Twitter : David Whelan
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David Whelan Returns - Update on the John Lennon murder
When John Lennon was shot in December 1980, the world went into shock. Lennon was truly a man of his age - or at least he played such very well - and his death meant no one, no matter their wealth and fame were immortal.
The furore which followed the assassination provided cover for the weak story causing it. Where did Chapman stand? How did he have so much money? How does a man, losing blood and oxygen at a fatal rate, stagger up to an office, open a heavy mahogany door and say 'I'm shot'? There's questions regarding the security around Lennon, the conversation taped with Jack Douglas which Douglas deleted that night, and, yes, the changing of the will shortly before the event.
Witnesses say there was a second gunman, and Whelan has evidence to back this up.
Whatever the truth of Lennon's demise, we never got the full story. In the decades since, revisiting it with a cold, keen eye, reveal the all too obvious tall tale the killing was.
This interview is one of two detailing the revelations and research David Whelan has undertaken, the first hand witnesses he has spoken to and the facts *someone* tried to conceal.
You can hear the first interview here
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David Whelan - The John Lennon Assassination
December the 8th, 1980. New York. West 72nd. The building which is one of the oldest in New York City, so old there were not even roads around it at first, was the location for one of the most notorious killings of the 20th Century.
Waiting outside the Dakota is Mark Chapman, a fan from Hawaii who will, at about 11:23pm, claim his place in history by firing his hollow point bullets from his .38 into John Lennon.
Instantly the media branded him a lone nut. The world mourned while Chapman was arrested and charged in an investigation which was anything but thorough.
Since then questions have started to arise about the exact sequence of events, the handling of evidence and the lack of either a proper forensic investigation or indeed, almost any other kind. It was a slam dunk for NYPD. Or so it seemed.
David Whelan is a documentary filmmaker and writer who has been researching the Lennon assassination, and has evidence and statements from those there on the night which gives a strong possibility Chapman didn't kill Lennon. At least, not alone.
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Arielle Holmes - Mad Love in NYC
Ten years ago, Arielle Holmes was working as a dominatrix named Siouxsie at a club called Pandora’s Box. After she finished her shift she’d sleep in a doorway or park bench, then, when morning dawned, supplement her income by panhandling on New York’s Upper West Side..
One day, she was stopped by a man as she went into the subway. He was researching a movie, he said, and asked her if she might want to be in it. “I figured: what do I have to lose? I looked him up. He made movies. So I thought, you know, maybe it’ll work, maybe it won’t.”
As they became friends, Holmes opened up about being homeless, her drug habit, her destructive relationship with another addict, Ilya, and her troubled upbringing. The director – Josh Safdie, part of an acclaimed Manhattan collective – encouraged Holmes to write about her experiences. She did, and her candid recollections – soon to be published as a memoir, Mad Love in New York City - convinced him to abandon the project he was working on and instead shoot a movie based on her life-story. Starring her.
It's a story of strength, life and survival through epically bad times.
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