"Liberal CIA" and Antifa Operations in Rock and Heavy Metal: Pro-Third World Immigration & "Anti-Racism" Only Opinions Acceptable

By: Joel van der Reijden | Date: June 6, 2022 | Updated: June 15, 2024

Contents

1. Intro
   
   
   Basics
2. The exact same "new left" opinions, always
3. "Conservative CIA" and disinformation
4. Control
   
   
   Specifics
5. Punk
6. RATM and Tool's "Rockefeller CIA" origin; Pearl Jam in the middle


7. Notes

Classic and modern rock and pop bands -- pro-immigration

"There was, after all, a vision. The potential functions of the CIA were calculated to become immense. They became immense. All intelligence was the purview. There was no reason, for instance, why the best long-term weather forecasts in America should not derive from CIA weather experts--knowledge of the weather helped crops; large crops were an instrument of foreign policy. No vein, therefore, of American business or culture was independent of Intelligence: not finance, media, economic production, labor-management relations, cinema, statistical theory, fringe groups, Olympic teams. There was no natural end to topics the CIA could legitimately interest itself in."

August 16, 1976, Norman Mailer for New York Magazine, 'A Harlot High and Lowe: Reconnoitering Through the Secret Government'.

"Yeah, so years of touring and spending time in DC and New York, I've managed to make a few friends in the intelligence community. And I guess this is about a year ago, we were having dinner and they were REALLY concerned, partially based on this - not to go too much into the weeds — Fusion GPS report on Trump essentially being run as a Russian agent. And these are some active and former CIA agents who [are] truly concerned. They were like, 'This is the Manchurian Candidate. We have a Russian agent as the President of the United States.' And so they passed on some information to me and they said like, 'Look, you have more of a social media following than any of us do, can you please post some of these things just in a way that sort of puts it out there.'"

Jan. 12, 2018, Moby to Kyle Meredith on WFPK, when asked about his lengthy, absolutely ridiculously propagandist anti-Trump post on Instagram on Feb. 13, 2017. Moby quickly "conspiracy-theoried" his own statements a bit when he drew online questioning about these statements of his.

For what it's worth: This author gets approached non-stop by an endless army of shady individuals trying to push their (very systematic, organized) conspiracy disinformation onto the site. Probably 20 attempts just involving COVID conspiracy theories. It never works, but the non-stop attempts at infiltrating and influencing is at an absolutely unbelievable scale. It must be the same for famous people. The only shocking thing with Moby is that he actually talks about the source of his disinformation. Or maybe the fact that these people actually identified themselves as being intelligence.

"My dude, [now with Jay-Z] you are asking for answers that we could expound on... *hesitating* but that shit is dangerous, nigga. ... They control all media, all outlets of everything. It's Lucifer, and directly under him. You know what I mean? They control that. Any form of anything that you see that comes through your eyes or comes through your ears, they own it. And if it ain't in accordance with what they are rocking with, they are going to eliminate you or cut you off. That's it. You've seen it a million fucking times. ...

"[Russell Simmons] is my uncle, so I love him at that level. [But] nobody is going to be allowed up there, without going through a lot of shit. A LOT of shit."

Feb. 11, 2016, Jamal Simmons, a nephew of soon-to-be-disgraced Def Jam founder Russell Simmons, on the 'Murder Master Music Show' podcast. Jamal seemingly also pointed at a lot of the transsexualism that has increasingly become rampant in the music industry since then. 1 Jay-Z, the husband of Beyonce and mentor of Rihanna, has been at New Years' parties with globalist and "liberal CIA" kingpin George Soros, as did members of the Simmons family and the Def Jam leadership. 2 Simmons was chair of the Bronfman- and Harvey Weinstein-funded globalist interfaith group Foundation for Ethnic Understanding (FFEU) from 2002 until his disgrace in 2018.

Intro

Despite working on it for many months in 2018 and 2019, a rock and metal music article in relation to "liberal CIA" and "conservative CIA" activism was never fully finished. Maybe it didn't need to be finished. This oversight with dozens and dozens of bands, and a short, well-sourced introduction, might be all that is needed. Everyone is interested in different artists, so read the intro and take your pick.

BASICS

The exact same "new left" opinions, always

The usual "liberal CIA" and the more minor set-up-to-lose "conservative CIA" deep cover operations we observe here among musicians, are by no means an exception. ISGP has documented the same phenomenon everywhere already, from today's Hollywood (and also going back decades) to the street activism of Martin Luther King in the 1950s.

The financial interests and the way the game is rigged tends to be the same. The only difference is that in today's society this globalist agenda is becoming exponentially more visible due to all the friction generated from whites quickly becoming minorities on their own continents: "the great replacement", or "great extermination", if you will. In order to "hold the line", especially at times when carefully-prepared, rather self-destructive "populist" candidates still manage to rise in the election polls, it appears the globalist movement has to visibly "activate" all the assets it clandestinely built up over the decades in order to force people into quiet acceptance.

Is that a bit of a sweeping conclusion? Maybe... a little. There are definitely bands and certainly plenty of band members who don't engage in the spreading of open borders and related propaganda. In other cases it seems a band or band members feel the pressure to support something as Black Lives Matter.

The problem is, even among "rebellious" hard rock and metal bands, these two categories actually are a tiny minority, especially after one also scraps all bands that spread typical "conservative CIA" propaganda or conspiracy disinformation. So few "clean", recognizable bands are left at that point - with many of those from outside the United States - that this author has little intention of listing them, worried that tomorrow they have to be edited out again.

The information gathered here is likely to make one wonder: Can really anybody become president? Or even an actor or successful musician? Are the only necessary prerequisites talent and hard work?

It doesn't appear to be quite that simple. There seems to be "another" aspect to fame and recognition. Because there must be a reason that all the musicians and bands listed here are not just casually token-supporting Black Lives Matter (which receives billions upon billion in globalist-multinational funding through all kinds of related groups), or speaking out against a "conservative CIA" candidate as Trump... No, they go from being normal, "chill" human beings, to literal venom-spitting Manchurian candidates in the blink of an eye. Through the media an issue comes up on which the globalist movement does not tolerate dissent, and next thing you know these band members (too) are frothing at the mouth, really laying down some emotion, and, most tellingly, more often than not using all the same buzzwords that simply must be part of a centrally-produced strategy:

• A lack of "love".
• "Hate".
• "Fear".
• "Islamophobia".
• "Unconscious racism" or "unconscious bias".
• "A history of slavery".
• "Systemic racism".
• White people needing to "listen", "learn" and "educate themselves".
• "Non-racism" isn't enough; white people need to police each other on it by becoming dedicated "anti-racists".
• "Police brutality".

This is not a made-up list. The reader can randomly click on whichever band they like here and in no time find this narrative being pushed, a narrative that uses the exact same terminology as antifa activists, the media, and which often is so over-the-top that even the most propagandist politician during an election cycle will try to avoid using it. After all, polls on immigration show - certainly when corrected for the usual manipulations - that white people overwhelmingly disapprove of Third World immigration.

Similar to the elites the represent, most of your "rebel rockers" - your "heroes" - do not care though. And certainly no "cool-as-f*ck" rocker has ever simply said, "No, sorry, I'm not a big fan of immigration." Even if they were aware of the polls, the serious racial IQ differences, and the FBI-published vastly higher heavy crime levels of blacks, Arabs and Latinos, it's doubtful they would ever bring it up in interviews.

"Conservative CIA" and disinformation

While most rock and metal bands adhere to the "lefty" globalist narrative when it comes to Third World immigration and related issues, there are a few outliers to this narrative. However, as the reader will quickly find out, these outliers tend to push an equally extreme and manipulative "conservative CIA" narrative. We can actually find this type of opposition within bands on occasion. Examples here would Slayer and System of a Down.

In addition, there's the conspiracy disinformation aspect. Whenever a musician is known as a "conspiracy theorist", he or she almost invariably turns out to be a "conspiracy disinformer", once again seemingly just reading off a script. Members of Rage Against the Machine, UFO guru Tom Delonge of Blink 182, the Christian conservative Dave Mustaine, past members of Misfits, Billy Corgan of Smashing Pumpkins, and Al Jourgensen of Ministry are among the examples. Jonathan Davis of Korn spread borderline conspiracy disinformation in the 2011-2014 period. Even Tool's spirituality is tied to LSD guru Timothy Leary, whose clique can be tied to anything from Laurance Rockefeller and Paul Mellon to the Trilateral Commission and a variety of "liberal CIA" and more deep cover "conspiracy-type"-NGOs. In fact, Leary was part of the entourage of Tool and Rage Against the Machine at Lollapalooza 1993, with Al Jourgensen living with Leary in the last two years of the LSD guru's life. Leary died in 1996.

Control

All these elite, "liberal CIA", "conservative CIA", and more deep cover antifa and conspiracy disinformation ties have previously been observed and documented by ISGP. It just gets exponentially more disconcerting when it does not involve politicians, the media, or big business-tied street activists. More so even than Hollywood movies, the music we listen to forms an important part of our identity. And now it turns out that much, if not all, of that identity has been strictly managed by unseen forces from even before we were born.

This author remembers being introduced through friends, colleagues, acquaintances and family to all these bands here from the age of 11. Luckily no one realized and no one would have listened anyway to the politics of these bands, but they were a huge part of our upbringing - to the point of Marilyn Manson and the whole false "Satanism is just atheism" debate. Definitely the more outspoken bands become on politics, the more fluent children speak English at younger ages, and the less alternative sources of reference are available, the more influence these bands will have on the youth. Hence, it's very likely that this is the route elites are looking to travel over time.

Once one realizes it's achievable, the control does make sense: music is just too powerful a force to organize people for it to be left unsupervised. There are many benefits to steering it:

1. In contrast to politicians and the evening news, these artists have a huge amount of influence with people - teenagers in particular. All too often they are seen as "gods". At the very least it will be hard for most people to harshly stand against their favorite artists, certainly in public with all the media and countless bought-and-paid-for activists supporting them.


2. As a politician or activist, you are going to get a hard time getting permission to play this music, as Trump found out. Whether it's due to political pressure or personal conviction, the bands will just ban you from playing it.


3. Due to its heavy antifa undertones, it will always be an additional challenge to use this type of heavy music for political organizing without being turned into a laughing stock by the media. It has already happened on occasion to right-wing Rage Against the Machine fans.


4. You get to decide which talented artists eat and which starve, from the earliest stage.
   
   An important question to ask here is where would militant opposition to powers-that-be most likely originate? To the point of running a covert war of assassination and terrorism against elites? Well, where a lot of "real men" come together: apart from the military and gun- and survival-oriented clubs, that would be something like rock and heavy metal concerts, with a giant mass of people tuning into criticism of social injustices, abuse of power, and God forbid, tapping into their "viking genes".
   
   Instead of tying its work to antifa and "liberal CIA" assets Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, or Michael Moore - as has often been done - imagine a band creating a timeless "Master of Puppets"-type album based on the work of ISGP? Something like that cannot be allowed by any establishment. If it can't be suppressed, it has to be managed.
   
   Of course, one could argue that the wholesale "feminization" of our society fits the same agenda.


5. Over the line, black and Arab youths don't listen to hard rock and heavy metal. Hence, it's terrible for "race mixing". Whether it's part of the agenda or not, once an elite realizes that, and it's unlikely that ours hasn't, it becomes possible to obstruct the re-emergence of "mega-bands" along these lines.
   
   Granted, the ever dwindling white population numbers in western society make this type of music an increasingly hard sell. But at the same time, this author cannot help but wonder why record labels think it's sensible to waste so many amazing riffs on obscure black and death metal bands that ruin the music with their screaming and gurgling. It's like they don't even care about "Making metal great again."
   
   There's a reason why there's so much nostalgia with bands as Metallica, Bon Jovi, Guns N' Roses, AC/DC, Motley Crue, Iron Maiden, Megadeth, Sepultura, Slayer, and latter-day groups as Rage Against The Machine, Tool, and Disturbed: on top of good music, they had "widely acceptable" to very good singers. Heavy metal has always been filled with horrible singers ruining all the riffs (listening to Merciful Fate - 'Devil Eyes' at the moment...), but we've got to wonder why there remains such a thirst for "heavy metal greats" with none arising... All we get is the occasional tribute band, even sometimes at festivals.


6. Meanwhile, you can hook the youths to rap and hip hop - which a ton of white people, and certainly the hottest of girls, love listening to. Concerts of Travis Scott - with Kylie Jenner, her sisters and their army of mixed black-white babies on the side - are the perfect globalist race mixing experiment: black, Arab, Latino, white and Asian kids all "coming together". We see the same trend not just on social media, but also over here in the Netherlands with the antifa label Top Notch, that since the early 2000s has been helping to cram an army of Arab and black (gangsta) rappers onto the Dutch airwaves.

So what would an establishment tell their intelligence agencies to do? That's right, subvert and manage these music trends before they even get off the ground, preferably twisting them around so they support *your* elite causes: in this case open borders, LGBTQ, feminism, and a degree of working class social justice to simulate a democratic society.

Punk has been considered the wheels of the antifa for a long time. The fact is, however, that the *entire* music industry is antifa, including the media outlets, with only a limited amount of controlled "conservative" opposition.

Somebody has been busy. Very busy. We don't know exactly how it is done, but rock and metal have been as subverted by the globalist movement as any other aspect of society.

SPECIFICS

Punk

Despite this originally meant to be little more than a quick introduction, readers might want to have some general descriptions and specific examples of propaganda pushing and peculiar ties in rock music.

One important area of discussion would be the punk bands in general, which since the 1970s have formed a sort of "social glue" for a youthful antifa movement 3, conveniently always fighting little gangs of punk Nazis at their gigs. 4 Fact is, these punk bands express even less variety in their political (antifa) convictions then there is to be found in their music.

A traditional way to classify punk is "hardcore" versus "regular" or "pop" punk. The former is faster and more angry and aggressive, although stands out primarily really in its obscurity and lack of recording quality. Few people today have ever heard of Minor Threat, Black Flag, Circle Jerks, MDC, Fugazi, or even for that matter Jello Biafra, a kind of antifa kingpin who for the past 40 years has popped up everywhere where an antifa activist was needed.

Likely the most famous of hardcore punkers has been Henry Rollins, an old Black Flag singer who grew with Ian MacKaye of Minor Threat, Fugazi and the similarly antifa Dischords Records. It's just the name "Henry Rollins" and "Rollins Band" that stuck though; arguably less because of the music and more because of an uber-jacked body and neck.

More people, and certainly those of a slightly younger generation, have heard of and listened to "regular" punk bands as NOFX, Offspring, Rancid and Pennywise. All four here saw their early albums released by the Noam Chomsky-obsessed Epitaph label, owned by the frontman of Bad Religion, another "regular" punk band many people have heard about. The most famous of this latter category probably are Offspring, Green Day, Blink 182, and, maybe, Sum 41.

It's all semantics though. Punk is punk. It is a very recognizable brand of music, despite minor variations. Most important here is that both "hardcore" and "regular" punk bands have always represented a left-wing, "socially conscious", anti-establishment movement. While there all too often was a peculiar obsession with Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn, similar to some of the grunge and "alternative rock" bands of the 1990s that still need discussing, only in recent times with "populist" candidates as Trump arriving on the scene, has it become obvious just how propagandist these bands are. They are all falling over each other to bash "racism", with many also pushing LGBTQ and veganism. Even after all these decades, NOFX still shamelessly performs the anti-white colonialist 'Kill All the White Men' while wearing rainbow flags.

Even at the time of George W. Bush and the War on Terror, almost all listed bands here organized themselves into Punkvoter.com in an effort to try and defeat Bush in the reelection of 2004. It was a very similar effort to the Soros-funded MoveOn group that was in operation in the same period, organizing more mainstream bands. In fact, Punkvoter.com asked its supporters to support MoveOn.org, The Nation, Mother Jones, Truth Out, In These Times, Naral Pro-Choice America, Electronic Frontier Foundation, all of them media and action groups that take money from "liberal CIA" foundations as Ford, Soros and Rockefeller.

Looking at the uniform opinions and NGOs as Punkvoter.com, it is very clear that punk never has been an independent, grassroots group of bands.

Even modern punk bands that are more fun-loving than political, like Blink 182 or MGK, when push comes to shove, they denounce (white) "racism" and walk the streets holding up Black Lives Matter signs. Or, in case of MGK, adhering to the "pink is punk" line in a pretty extreme manner, part of a thinly-veiled agenda to push the trannyism aspect of LGBTQ, a movement extremely heavily financed "liberal CIA" foundations and multinational corporations. Considering much of his clothing is sponsered by brands as Prada, Louis Vuitton, Gucci, YSL, Stella McCarthy and the elite-tied "punk fashion godmother" Vivienne Westwood, he's getting paid very well for it too.

RATM and Tool's "Rockefeller CIA" origin

What Punkvoter.com was to punk music, Axis of Justice was to "grunge". "Axis of Antifa" essentially was a full blown antifa network founded by Tom Morello and Serj Tankian in 2002 to counter President Bush's "Axis of Evil", as well as some apparent remaining Nazism at rock concerts. Part of various live performances until about 2011 were:

• Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine.
• Serj Tankian of System of Down.
• Maynard James Keenan of Tool.
• Flea of Red Hot Chili Peppers.
• Chris Cornell of Soundgarden.
• Jerry Cantrell of Alice in Chains.
• Corey Taylor of Slipknot.
• Perry Farrell and Dave Navarro of Jane's Addiction.
• Slash of Guns N' Roses.
• Mike Einzinger, the founding guitarist of Incubus.
• The members of Anti-Flag.
• Davey Havok of AFI.
• Country music star Shooter Jennings.
• B-Real and other members of Cypress Hill.
• Black communist rapper Boots Riley. 5

Axis of Justice's radio program, and its released albums, feature many additional bands of a variety of genres, all of them coincidentally with a "lefty" viewpoint: U2, Peter Gabriel, Steve Earle, Neil Young, Sting, the Dixie Chicks, Immortal Technique, Public Enemy, the earlier-listed Cypress Hill, etc. 6

The Axis of Justice radio show, which ran from April 2003 to February 2007, was aired on KPFK 7, owned by Pacifica Radio 8, for decades financed by "liberal CIA" foundations as Ford, Soros, Tides and Park. 9 Unsurprisingly, we find key founders Serj Tankian of System of Down and Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine inviting guests representing such NGOs as the National Lawyer's Guild, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), United for Peace and Justice, Free Press and Brave New Films 10, all of whom receive funding from such foundations as Ford, Soros and Rockefeller. 11 Among the show's favorite guests have been key "liberal CIA" activists Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn, as well as more recent left-wing activist Cindy Sheehan and "anarcho-communist" UFC fighter Jeff Monson, who ended up moving to Russia and supporting Russia's war against Ukraine. 12

Who's Tom Morello? Well, his grandfather on his mother's side was some kind of "way left" bank director. 13. His mother - a teacher at Morello's Libertyville High School - was a decades-long antifa activist working for such "liberal CIA"-funded NGOs as the NAACP 14 and Urban League 15, with "posters of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara [decorating] her home" 16. Morello's (black) father was an old Mau Mau guerrilla fighting the British who, among other diplomatic positions, became Kenya's first ambassador to the United Nations for Kenya's first president, Jomo Kenyatta. 17 Morello's father and Kenyatta weren't just from the same Kikuyu tribe; Morello's father was his nephew 18, with Morello referring to Kenyatta as his "grand uncle". 19

Kenyatta has a peculiar history, which is documented in detail, and with sources, in ISGP's "liberal CIA": Immigration oversight. He spent time in the Soviet Union in the summer of 1929, becoming a dedicated communist and African nationalist. He moved to London in late 1929 and ended up at "Fabian summer school in Surrey in August 1931" 20, a reference to the elite-tied, mixed Stalinist-socialist Fabian Society by 1931. His occasional association with the Fabian Society lasted until the post-World War II years. 21 In 1935-1937, his education at the London School of Economics was sponsored through a Rockefeller Foundation grant 22, his mentor being Rockefeller man Bronislaw Malinowski. 23 Elspeth Huxley, whose husband was a cousin of Aldous Huxley, was among his classmates. 24 David Rockefeller was studying at LSI in 1938, as was JFK. In 1938 Malinowski wrote the foreword of Kenyatta's book 'Facing Mount Kenya'. 25 In the book Kenyatta promoted Kenyan nationalism with his Kikuyu tribe at the center, considering it preferable over European Democracy. He also provided a rather positive picture of female genital mutilation, a long-time practice of his tribe. 26

It took a few decades, including a Mau Mau rebellion against the British, but Kenyatta would become Kenya's first prime minister in 1963-1964, and first president in 1964-1978. Having abandoned communism, his administration was among those financially backed by the CIA. 27 At the same time, the CIA aided Kenyatta's main non-communist left-wing rival: Tom Mboya 28, whose protege was a certain Barack Obama Sr. 29, the father of a future U.S. president. In fact, Obama Sr. was present when Mboya was murdered by what is generally assumed to have been on orders of Kenyatta.30

Ironically, the history of President Barack Obama and Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello is very similar. Both had well-educated white mothers with deep "liberal CIA" ties, both of whom married elite Kenyan nationalists airlifted to the United States for education, with sons that went to Harvard, became prominent, and continued the "liberal CIA" activist tradition.

In case of Obama's mother, Ann Dunham, she has a history involving the Asia Foundation, Ford Foundation, and USAID 31 - all three CIA front and conduits at one point or another. 32 Obama's career ran through Ralph Nader's NYPIRG, the Gamaliel Foundation, Joyce Foundation, Woods Fund, and Annenberg Foundation, all of them with similar Soros, Ford and Rockefeller foundations-backing. 33 We're not even mentioning his friendship here with Bill Ayers, a former member of the "Weathermen" 34, a peculiar left-wing terrorist organization that has all the hallmarks of having been yet another deep cover "liberal CIA"-type operation. In the years before his presidential election, Obama's wife served as a director of the Chicago Council on Foreign Affairs, alongside superclass member Margot Pritzker, both under the presidency Lester Crown, a top Zionist superclass member whose family has controlled defense giant General Dynamics for decades. 35

Moving beyond Morello's parallels with President Obama, Morello himself graduated Harvard in 1986. He moved to Los Angeles to meet up with large group of old friends from his Libertyville High School, who had moved here in part to try and make it in the entertainment industry. 36 Despite barely having any money, his Harvard degree and family connections did land him a most interesing job. In Morello's own words: "I kind of stumbled into working with Senator Alan Cranston and was his scheduling secretary for about two years." 37 That would roughly be in 1987-1988.

If we look at ISGP's Index of 2,000 NGOs, we can quickly figure out who this Senator Alan Cranston is. From 1949 to 1952 Cranston was the second president of United World Federalists (UWF), a position he took over from CFR and CIA man Cord Meyer Jr., wo continued to serve alongside him as executive chairman of the UWF. The two of them testified to congress in 1949 about creating a "world federation" involving the United Nations. 38 Meyer was a close professional and social friend of covert operations chief and eventual CIA director Richard Helms. 39

For those interested, Helms father, Gates McGarrah, was a founding CFR member, executive chairman of the Rockefeller's Chase National Bank 1926-1927, a director of the Astor Trust and Astor Foundation, a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York 1923-1926, an American director of the general council of the Reichsbank starting in 1924, and the founding president of the Bank for International Settlements 1930-1933. Once again these ties makes one wonder what "the CIA" actually is...

Cranston, who served as Senator from California between 1969 and 1993, in 1970 was a founding member of the Commission on Population Growth, chaired by John D. Rockefeller III. 40

In the late 1970s he was one of the earliest North American members of David Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission 41, in a period that the Trilateral Commission had become controversial for spawning almost the entire Carter administration:

1. president;
2. vice president;
3. national security advisor;
4. secretary of state;
5. deputy secretary of state;
6. secretary of defense;
7. secretary of the treasury;
8. U.S. ambassador to the U.N.;
9. and more.

How on Earth the media even dared dismiss the existence of a conspiracy 42 can only mean one thing: they fear no consequences. In any case, Cranston was part of this group in this period. And the "anti-establishment" Tom Morello would be allowed to become his scheduling secretary a few years later. It wouldn't be the last time either that Morello would cross paths with a Trilateral Commission member. When invited to a discussion on the Bill Maher show in 2011, he was sitting across from Jane Harman, who had just become a longtime Trilateral Commission member. More on Bill Maher later.

In the 1970s and 1980s Cranston also was a council member of the Wilson Center, alongside a variety of Trilateral Commission members and other elites. 43 He was trustee chair of the Gorbachev Foundation/USA, founded in 1992, with George Shultz serving as advisory board chair. 44 In 1994, Cranston, under the auspices of the Gorbachev Foundation, co-founded the green, new age, United Nations-allied State of the World Forum, becoming a co-chairman alongside Mikhail Gorbachev, George Shultz, Maurice Strong, Ted Turner, James Baker III and Queen Noor of Jordan, all elites high up in ISGP's Superclass Index. Anybody from David Rockefeller to Zbigniew Brzezinki attended. 45

Back in 1987-1988, Morello was considered too vocally "anti-racist" for Cranston's office though. 46 He also was distraught to find out that much of Cranston's time was spent lobbying powerful interests whose funds kept him in power. 47 As a result he moved out of politics by 1988 and started putting together what would soon become the band Rage Against the Machine.

Once again, Morello followed into the footsteps of his mother, who in 1987 founded Parents for Rock and Rap. This action group came to serve as a counterweight to Parents Music Resource Center ("The PMRC") 48, a group founded by the wives of Al Gore and James Baker III 49 that to this day is responsible for the 'Parental Advisory: Explicit Content' stickers. Hard-right, Contra-funding, Reagan ally Joseph Coors was one of the main funders of the PMRC 50, its purpose being to limit sexual, violent, "occult" and drug-related content in music. It was frequently attacked in the music of rap and metal bands, and is often said to have only increased the sales of "devil music". 51

In 1989, two years after his mother founded Parents for Rock and Rap, Morello released a first album through David Geffen Records with a band he joined, called Lock up. Complaining the band was "so screwed over by the music business", its members quickly split up. Morello and the band's drummer, Brad Wilk, stuck together though, recruited frontman Zack de la Rocha, and in 1991 formed Rage Against the Machine. 52 According to Morello, the band set out to create songs "so extreme, lyrically and musically, that not only would we not get signed, but we'd never even get a gig!" 53 While likely partly to have been the motive, certainly looking at song names as 'Bombtrack', 'Killing in the Name', and 'Bullet in the Head', the opposite happened: Rage Against the Machine signed with top label Epic Records, went on tour with Cypress Hill, and soon became a huge success with mostly very positive reviews in the media. They stayed with Epic until De la Rocha left in 2000 and the band fell apart.

Similar to Morello, Zack de la Rocha was an intense antifa activist. Interestingly, his father, Robert "Beto" de la Rocha, used to be part of the Chicano "Los Four" artist group, founded in 1973. 54 In 1974 "Los Four" became nationally famous when their art became part of an exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). 55 LACMA's president in that period, Dr. Franklin D. Murphy 56 was also instrumental in creating the museum in 1960 after he "helped forge a new alliance of the LA Jewish Community and the WASP old guard". 57 Murphy had been a member of the Bohemian Grove from at least 1971, belonging to the Silverado Squatters camp with Kenneth Bechtel, then-Rockefeller Brothers Fund trustee John W. Gardner, and soon-to-be Trilateral Commission member David Packard 58 (also a council member of the Wilson Center with Morello-employer Senator Alan Cranston in the 1970s and 1980s 59). People like David Rockefeller and Henry Kissinger were also annual visitors of the Bohemian Grove from at least the 1970s. 60 Murphy, a pillar of Los Angeles' establishment, was chair and CEO of the Los Angeles Times parent company from 1968 to 1980, a director of Bank of America and Ford Motors in the 1970s, and a UCLA chancellor in the 1960s. 61

Looking at historic trustee lists of LACMA, we also find Armand Hammer sitting on the board over 1968-1989. Notorious for his trade with the Soviet Union, from 1973 on, Hammer was a director of the U.S.-USSR Trade and Economic Council, alongside David Rockefeller, George Shultz, David Packard and various other Trilateral Commission members, as well as well-known West Coast Bohemian Grove participants A. W. Clausen and Edward Kaiser. 62 We can find other names on the LACMA board tied to the Bohemian Grove, David Rockefeller, and even the East Coast-situated Pilgrims Society, although not all relevant trustee lists are available. Coincidence or not, the point is that we continually see the same small clique of elites being tied to the two most prominent members of Rage Against the Machine.

We're not entirely there yet. Upon moving to Los Angeles in 1986-1987 and coming to work for Senator Alan Cranston, once again Morello's closest friend became Adam Jones. Adam Jones had also been Morello's best friend in high school, where the two of them had set up their first band: the Electric Sheep. After their reunion in Los Angeles, Adam Jones soon became the founding guitarist of another successful band: Tool, whose curious (future) antifa singer, Maynard James Keenan, had ingrained himself with the Libertyville group of friends in LA. 63 Tool was founded in 1990. Rage Against the Machine in 1991. Both became mainstays of the 1990s heavy metal scene, coming up alongside the "grunge" movement.

In that regard, it is interesting to note that founding Rage Against the Machine drummer Brad Wilk briefly lived together with future Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder in the mid 1980s, also playing together in a band called Indian Style. 64 Vedder left to sing for a prominent local band Bad Radio 65, but the two remained friends. A picture of them together exists from 1990 66, when Wilk already had teamed up with Morello and was in the process of creating Rage Against the Machine. Pearl Jam's first album, 'Ten', released in August 1991, became a huge international success, arguably making the band the leaders of "grunge", over Nirvana.

Vedder's antifa activism was already present from at least his Bad Radio days 1988-1990, when he joined Musicians Who Care, a West Coast music-charity liaison agency with about 25 members 67, playing concerts in support of groups as Amnesty International. 68 Amnesty International has a good name, but do we really need to spell out which foundations have been pouring money into it? That's right: Ford, Soros and a little bit of Rockefeller. 69 Musicians Who Care was largely coordinated by a local Green Party candidate obsessed with "race-relations", who on the side played in a banned called "Club of Rome". 70 In September 1990 Musicians Who Care released an EP named 'The Care'. It's the first official vinyl release Vedder is featured on, appearing alongside "Club of Rome" and "Baba Yaga" on an album that is shockingly new age. For three and a half minutes, amidst Martin Luther King speeches, the only thing Vedder and his choir sings is:

"We shall live in peace. ... We shall overcome! ... One daaahaaay!" 71

Vedder quickly moved on to higher spheres. However, as a huge fan of antifa punk bands Fugazi 72 and Bad Religion 73 - whose frontmen also ran key punk antifa labels Dischord Records (released Minor threat, the Senator Inouye-tied Marginal Man and tons of obscure hardcore bands) and Epitaph (released NOFX, Offspring, Rancid, Pennywise) - the antifa in Vedder stayed strong.

By January 1995 he was broadcasting a pirate channel from tour locations and his Seattle home, mixing music from fellow-grunge bands as Soundgarden and Nirvana with lectures of Noam Chomsky. 74 Fellow-"grunge giants" Mudhoney and Krist Novoselic of Nirvana, who would later become chairman of the Soros, Ford and Rockefeller-funded 75 FairVote.org NGO 76; were part of one of the these broadcasts from Vedder's home in January 1995. 77 He also became a supporter and lifelong friend of Howard Zinn in the same period. 78 Vedder was a "feminist" from early on as well. Already during his famous 1992 MTV Unplugged session, you can hear him shout in between songs, "You should be able to have a fucking abortion!" A freshly-elected Bill Clinton liked Pearl Jam so much, that the whole band was allowed to visit him at the White House on April 9, 1994. 79

In 2000 Vedder rallied for the Ford Foundation, Ted Turner- and Laurance Rockefeller-tied 80 Green Party candidate Ralph Nader. 81 In 2001 he was co-funding the Afghan Women's Summit alongside the Ford Foundation and Soros' Open society Foundations. 82 In 2004 he was part of Soros' MoveOn political group against Bush. 83 In later years he vacationed with Obama 84, with Vedder and his wife going into the charity business alongside veterans of Soros Fund Management, Lazard Freres and Bain & Company. 85 Not very surprising, Vedder is always busy supporting "refugees" 86, criticizing Israel 87 and populist presidential candidates 88, taking knees in favor of Black Lives Matter 89, and telling people they suffer from "unconscious racism". 90 With all that activism, he remains a spiritual ally of Tom Morello to the present day. 91

Very interesting is that already in 1994-1995 Pearl Jam, REM and Chomsky were to be combined on an album that was contracted by Fairness in Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), which would also be the recipient of the proceeds. 92 That is interesting, because here we encounter yet another old friend and classmate of Tom Morello (and Adam Jones): Jim Naureckas. 93 Naureckas similarly graduated Libertyville High School in 1982, went to Stanford, graduated in 1985, and received his first job at "liberal CIA" magazine In These Times, covering no less than the Iran-Contra scandal. 94 Next Naureckas received employment at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA) 95, a "liberal CIA" outfit set up at the Ford Foundation to criticize big business CIA coups and "U.S. imperialism". 96 From 1990 on - here it comes - he was the lead editor of Fairness in Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) 97, another "new left" outfit funded by Ford, Rockefeller and related "liberal CIA" foundations. 98 Just a few years later FAIR was looking to promote Pearl Jam and Chomsky together.

As the reader can see, there's this continuous trend among Tom Morello, his family, and friends pointing towards "Rockefeller CIA":

1. his "grand uncle", Kenyan president Jomo Kenyatta;
2. his Kenyan father;
3. his mother, Mary Morello;
4. his employer, Senator Alan Cranston;
5. his RATM bandmate, Zack de la Rocha;
6. his friend, Jim Naureckas at FAIR;
7. Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder, who in turn was hanging out with Nirvana's Krist Novoselic by 1995, spreading Chomsky speeches.

We haven't really discussed them, but through Morello these ties automatically extend to Tool's Adam Jones and Maynard James Keenan as well.

It's not surprising then, despite all his anti-racist, anti-CIA and anti-"U.S. imperialism" activism, that Morello nervously bounces off *all* questions surrounding 9/11 when asked about it. 99

Rage Against the Machine's main hero, Noam Chomsky 100, always did the same, of course. 101 Chomsky even published a book in 1993 - 'Rethinking Camelot' - irrationally painting JFK as a monstrous warmonger, just to take some steam out of questions surrounding the JFK assassination. 102 Another long-time ally of the group, the white-hating antifa Michael Moore, asked serious questions about 9/11 for the first half hour in his 2004 documentary 'Fahrenheit 9/11', but then prematurely dropped the whole subject, switching over to more acceptable criticism of the War in Iraq.

Bill Maher, to whom's show Morello has been invited at least twice 103, once in 2017 to promote the idea of bashing in the skulls of Nazis and once in 2011 to have a talk with Michael Moore and Trilateral Commission member Jane Harman on gay rights and foreign policy, despite being a heavy government critic, is a vicious opponent to anything "9/11 Truth". Fittingly, in 2019-2022 Maher was invited to the advisory council of Justice for Kurds Network of Student Ambassadors, along with leading neocons as William Kristol and Dov Zakheim, former JSOC terrorist-assassin-in-chief General Stanley McChrystal, former CIA director David Petraeus, former CIA associate deputy director of operations Robert Richer, Eric de Rothschild and various other elites. 104 Hence, a trend can be spotted here as well.

Talent or elite ties as the cause for success? It's an interesting question in this case.

Notes

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1. Feb. 11, 2016 YouTube upload by "Murder Master Music Show", 'Flatlinerz asked about Ritualistic Behavior at Def Jam Jay-Z Russell Simmons' (interview with Jamel Simmons, a nephew of Def Jam founder Russell Simmons through his father, Danny Simmons, an older brother of Russell and Run-DMC founder Rev Run; FlatLinerz released the 1995 Def Jam album "U.S.A" (Under Satan's Authority), a horror version of hip hop): "Yep [we've seen crazy shit going on]. I'm not going to get too crazy about crazy, but I ain't seeking to go there. ... Good luck [boys and girls who wanna be famous] because you are going to have to walk through them doors. ... Some doors I ain't willing to walk through, dude. I'm not giving my soul up. And I'm not giving my hole up. ... First you ain't wanna deal with it, but now you liking it. You know what I mean? You all be out here dancing for little baby nigger with nail polish on. ...
   Man, like I said, everybody's got a good side and an evil side. And I'm not gonna say nothing more. ... He's my uncle, so I love him at that level. On other levels, we could talk, but not right now. ... Nobody is going to be allowed up there, without going through a lot of shit. A LOT of shit ... of which I'm not willing to go through. No disrespect to people who go through that."
2. Jan. 2, 2008, Fox News, 'Stars Party: A-List Celebs Are Yachting Types'; Jan. 1, 2009, New York Post, 'Party Guy Soros is Afloat'.
3. Sep. 9, 2017, The Guardian, ''No Fascist USA!': how hardcore punk fuels the Antifa movement'.
4. *) Ibid.
   *) Jan. 16, 2018, GQ, 'Nazi Punks F**k Off: How Black Flag, Bad Brains, and More Took Back Their Scene from White Supremacists'.
   *) June 14, 2011, The Guardian, 'Ian Mackaye meets Bad Brains and invents hardcore': "MacKaye founded the fiercely independent [antifa] Dischord Records and steered hardcore away from flirtations with skinhead violence."
5. July 20, 2004, Blabbermouth, 'Axis of Justice: Photos From Hollywood Concert Posted Online': "Maynard James Keenan ... bassist Flea ... Serj Tankian, and ... Tom Morello and Brad Wilk..."
   *)
   *) April 13, 2007, Blabbermouth, 'Alice in Chains Performs Surprise Show In Support Of Axis of Justice': "[Line up at the time: William DuVall, Jerry Cantrell, Mike Inez, Sean Kinney.] Other performers at this great event included Extreme, B-Real of Cypress Hill and Ben Harper."
   *) April 2, 2008, Blabbermouth, 'Tom Morello's 'Justice Tour' To Feature Slash, Maynard James Keenan': "... Perry Farrell, Sen Dog of Cypress Hill, Davey Havok of AFI, Boots Riley... Shooter Jennings... Mike Einzinger of Incubus..."
   *) myspace.com/thenightwatchman (accessed: August 20, 2008; Tom Morello's page): "The Justice Tour ... featured ... Perry Farrell, Slash... Dave Navarro [Jane's Addiction], Jerry Cantrell of Alice in Chains..."
   *) March 5, 2009, Blabbermouth, 'Slipknot Frontman To Perform With Tom Morello In San Francisco': "Corey Taylor... [and] ANTI-FLAG. The show is a benefit for Axis of Justice..."
6. axisofjustice.net/radio_archive.htm (accessed: September 19, 2018). See the Axis of Justice entry for a written-out source.
7. *) March 14, 2003, MTV, 'For The Record: Quick News On...': "Serj Tankian and Audioslave's Tom Morello are taking their Axis of Justice organization to the airwaves with a new radio show on the progressive-politics-minded Los Angeles station KPFK."
   *) axisofjustice.net/radio.htm (accessed: Aug. 15, 2022): "The Axis of Justice Radio Network can be heard at 7pm, the first, second and third Friday of each month on KPFK in Los Angeles..."
   *) axisofjustice.net/radio_archive.htm (accessed: Aug. 15, 2022): "April 9, 2003 ... GUEST: Oscar Winning Director Michael Moore. ... February 9, 2007: ... GUEST: Rickie Lee Jones, singer/songwriter..."
8. pacifica.org/about_history.php (accessed: November 21, 2015): "KPFK is the most powerful of the Pacifica stations and indeed is the most powerful public radio station in the Western United States." More information in the Pacifica Radio entry on ISGP's "liberal CIA" page.
9. *) 2005, Bob Feldman, 'Alternative Media censorship: Sponsored by CIA's Ford Foundation?': "In the early 1950s ... the Pacifica Foundation was given a $150,000 grant in 1951 by the Ford Foundation's Fund for Education. ... In the early 1990s, some Pacifica administrators decided to again seek grants from the Ford Foundation and other Establishment foundations."
   *) opensocietyfoundations.org/ sites/default/files/ pdia_20040101.pdf, p. 7 (accessed: November 21, 2015; Soros' foundation): "Grants Program 1994 - 1997: ... KPFA Radio/Pacifica Foundation ... $40,000 | One Year."
   *) More info on Tides and Park Foundation grants to Pacifica in the Pacifica Radio entry on ISGP's "liberal CIA" page. More donations directly went to its Democracy Now! program.
10. axisofjustice.net/radio_archive.htm (accessed: Aug. 15, 2022): "#2: ... Jim Lafferty Director of the Los Angeles chapter of the National Lawyer's Guild [received financed from Soros and the Ford Foundation]...
    #4: ... [Morello's old high school friend] Jim Naureckas of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting [funded by millions of the Ford, Rockefeller, MacArthur, Mott and Schumann foundations; linked to Chomsky]...
    #15: ... Leslie Cagan of United for Peace and Justice [massive anti-Iraq War group, which includes communist elements, and had the Rockefeller, Ford, Soros foundations-financed Institute for Policy Studies as its premier partner]...
    #34: ... Prof. Robert McChesney [founder] of Free Press [which has received millions from the Ford Foundation alone]...
    #40 [and] #57: ... Robert Greenwald [founder of Brave New Films, financed by Soros and the Ford Foundation]..."
11. *) bravenewfilms.org/partners (accessed: September 19, 2018): "Open Society Foundations ... People for the American Way ... Indivisible ... The Nation [etc.]"..."
    *) For all the details, the reader will have to follow the provided links to ISGP's "liberal CIA" page for exact sources and citations for funding.
12. axisofjustice.net/radio_archive.htm (accessed: Aug. 15, 2022): "#1: ... Michael Moore...
    #20: ... Michael Moore [at the 2004 Republican National Convention] ...
    #43: ... January 13, 2006: ... Noam Chomsky...
    #44: ... March 10, 2006: ... Howard Zinn...
    #55: ... Cindy Sheehan...
    #56: ... Jeff "The Snowman" Monson [extremist anarchist-communist activist who went to live in Russia]."
13. Sep. 5, 2020, elainesir.com (blog of an Asian attorney who interviewed various "rock and roll moms"), 'Black Lives Matter: An Interview With Mary Morello - Part III'.
14. *) Ibid.
    *) lhsdoi.com/24236/ uncategorized/mary-morello/ (accessed: June 19, 2022; Libertyville High School Drops of Ink magazine; Mary Morello was a teacher at this high school; her son and his friends were students, often involved with the magazine): "Mary Morello, is an American activist who was involved in the Civil Rights Movement and the NAACP. She moved to Libertyville in 1965 where she taught social studies and US History at Libertyville High School."
15. May 13, 2018 post of @tommorello on Instagram about his mother, Mary Morello.
16. Aug. 23, 1995, Chicago Tribune, 'Freedom Fighter'.
17. Nov. 1, 2006, loudersound.com, 'My Life Story: Tom Morello': "I am an only child. My mother, Mary Morello, met my dad, Ngethe Njoroge, in Nairobi, Kenya. ... My dad was a freedom fighter for Kenyan independence (part of the Mau Mau guerilla movement [that fought the British]), and then became his country's first ambassador to the UN.
18. Dec. 15, 2021, Tom Morello opinion piece in the New York Times, 'Radical Passion is a Family Matter for Me and My 98-year-old Mom': "My dad, Ng'ethe Njoroge, was a Kenyan anti-colonialist and Jomo Kenyatta’s nephew. [He] insists [his grandchildren] call him Guka. That's the playful Kikuyu word for "grandpa.""
19. Nov. 1, 2006, loudersound.com, 'My Life Story: Tom Morello': "My great uncle was Jomo Kenyatta – the first president of Kenya."
20. 1992, 'Jomo Kenyatta: A Biography', p. 25: "In England, he and Kenyatta were to attend the Fabian summer school in Surrey in August 1931. ... He was to enjoy the personal friendship of some of the most distinguished people in English political and intellectual society."
21. open.ac.uk/researchprojects/ makingbritain/taxonomy/ term/607 (accessed: Aug. 16, 2022; The Open University): "Kenyatta ... participated in Fabian Society conferences on post-war colonial affairs."
22. 2013, The Rockefeller Foundation Centennial Series, 'Shared Journey: The Rockefeller Foundation, Human Capital, and Development in Africa', p. 64: "Then, in 1935, with a scholarship from the Rockefeller Foundation, he enrolled at the London School of Economics in an anthropology seminar chaired by the renowned cultural anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski."
23. *) August 1985, Helena Wayne Malinowska for American Ethnologist, 'Bronislaw Malinowski: The Influence of Various Women on His Life and Works', pp. 529, 536: "Bronislaw Malinowski ["Bronio"], my father... In 1926 he spent six gloriously successful months as guest of the Rockefeller Foundation in the USA.. ... I suppose the most famous [student of Malinowski at LSI] now is Jomo Kenyatta, to whose book Facing Mount Kenya [1938] my father wrote the introduction."
    *) June 13, 2017, blogs.lse.ac.uk, 'Bronislaw Malinowski – LSE pioneer of social anthropology': "On 1 August 1927 [one year after his Rockefeller Foundation sponsorship], Bronislaw Malinowski took up the Chair in Social Anthropology at LSE,[1] the first of its kind in London. ... The 1927 Anthropology Chair was one outcome of [Laura Spelman] Rockefeller [the wife of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.] largesse towards LSE social sciences.[9]"
24. March 22, 1987, New York Times, 'Steaming to Mombasa': "Elspeth Huxley ... recalls that in 1937 ... she returned to Britain and enrolled in Bronislaw Malinowski's seminar in anthropology at the London School of Economics - Jomo Kenyatta, the future President of Kenya, was a classmate..."
25. August 1985, Helena Wayne Malinowska for American Ethnologist, 'Bronislaw Malinowski: The Influence of Various Women on His Life and Works', pp. 529, 536: "Bronislaw Malinowski ["Bronio"], my father... I suppose the most famous [student of Malinowski at LSI] now is Jomo Kenyatta, to whose book Facing Mount Kenya [1938] my father wrote the introduction."
26. 1978, Jomo Kenyatta, 'Facing Mount Kenya: The Traditional Life of the Gikuyu', p. 90: "No proper Gikuyu [Kikuyu] would dream of marrying a girl who has not been circumcised, and vice versa. It is taboo for a Gikuyu man or woman to have sexual relations with someone who has not undergone this operation."
27. *) February 19, 1977, Washington Post, 'White House Reviewing Intelligence Operations': "The Dalai Lama [a decades-long globalist Rockefeller ally], the exiled god-king of Tibet, was on the CIA payroll for some time after he fled to India in 1959 to escape the Communist Chinese take over of Tibet... The sources said that there are six to eight other leaders of countries who have at one time or another received covert payments from the CIA: [King] Hussein [of Jordan - and also part of the CIA's Cercle group] along with [the Rockefeller Foundation-educated] Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya, Joseph Mobutu of Zaire [of the Prince Bernhard-Rockefeller-Rothschild-Bechtel-tied 1001 Club], Forbes Burnham of Guyana [on whose watch the 1978 CIA-tied Jonestown massacre took place], Nuguyen Van Thieu of South Vietnam [who was a reported CIA drug trafficking partner] and Willy Brandt of West Germany as national leaders who had secret financial relationships with the CIA."
    *) 1987, Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi (University of Haifa), 'Who Israel Arms and Why', p. 66: "The CIA has been involved in Kenyan politics, offering regular payments to national leaders such as Tom Mboya and to Kenyatta himself (Kwitny, 1984b), and Nairobi has become a base for various Western intelligence services, including [an unofficial] Israeli one."
28. 1980, Ellen Ray, William Schaap, a.o., 'The CIA in Africa', pp. 60-63, 76: "At the end of the 1950s, Maida Springer Kemp (the CIA contact officer for Mboya)...The CIA's program in Kenya could be summed up as one of selective liberation. The chief beneficiary was Tom Mboya, who in 1953 became general secretary of the Kenya Federation of Labor. ... Jomo Kenyatta [was] not being considered sufficiently safe. Mboya even propounded a brand of African socialism which favored "free" (i.e. anticommunist) trade unions and encouraged foreign investment, foreign banking, and foreign land ownership. African socialism..."
29. July 23, 2015, BBC, 'Obama Kenya visit: 'I want to finish what my father started'': "Tom Mboya, the man largely credited with sending Barack Obama Sr. to America on a scholarship."
30. 2011, Sally H. Roberts, 'The Other Barack: The Bold and Reckless Life of President Obama's Father': "The morning of July 5, 1969 [in] downtown Nairobi... Obama was pleased to see Tom Mboya pull up in front of Chhani's Pharamcy and get out of his car. ... Two shots sounded. Mboya sank to the ground. ... Obama was in a highly vulnerable position. His longtime mentor was now gone. ... Obama may have known more than the little he revealed in the witness box. Years later Obama confided in two of his friends that he had seen Mboya's killer and believed that he was the only witness who could identify him."
31. *) eastwestcenter.org/news-center/web-articles/spotlight-on-alumni-ewc-alumna-ann-dunham-mother-to-president-obama-and-champion-of-womens-rights-and-e (accessed: February 21, 2017): "[Obama's mother Ann] Dunham's research and consulting work took her around the world. She became a consultant for the [CIA-tied] United States Agency for International Development [USAID] setting up village credit programs, then a [CIA-tied] Ford Foundation program officer in Jakarta championing women's issues..."
    *) 2009, Ann Dunham, 'Surviving against the odds: village industry in Indonesia', pp. xli–xliv (January 8, 1976 letter): "I ... was unable to win a contract release from my old school in Jakarta (they sponsored me via an Asia Foundation [CIA-tied] grant for my first two years in Hawaii)."
32. Examples:
    *) April 27, 1976, New York Times, "The extent of the agency's involvement with charitable foundations, which the Senate report characterized as "massive," was never made clear. ... Between 1963 and 1966, the report says, the agency was involved to some degree in nearly half of all charitable grants by American foundations exclusive of the Ford, Rockefeller and Carnegie organizations, known collectively as the "Big Three.""
    *) Dec. 6, 1977, New York Times, 'Worldwide Propaganda Network Built by the C.I.A.': "The Committee for Free Asia, according to former C.I.A. officials, was founded as the Eastern counterpart of the Free Europe Committee. It later changed its name to the Asia Foundation. It still exists, though its ties to the C.I.A. were severed a decade ago. The Asia Foundation was headed for years by the late Robert Blum, who, several sources said, resigned from the C.I.A. to take it over. The foundation provided cover for at least one C.I.A. operative and..."
    *) Dec. 16, 2014, "liberal CIA" activist Peter Kornbluh for the New York Times, 'Secret Programs Hurt Foreign Aid Efforts': "U.S.A.I.D. was created in 1961 to help the United States win the “hearts and minds” of citizens in poor countries through civic action, economic aid and humanitarian assistance. As a cold war policy tool, the agency was, at times, used as a front for C.I.A. operations and operatives. Among the most infamous examples was the Office of Public Safety, a U.S.A.I.D. police training program in the Southern Cone that also trained torturers."
    *) April 3, 2014, Foreign Policy, ''Cuban Twitter' and Other Times USAID Pretended To Be an Intelligence Agency': "Foreign governments have long accused the U.S. Agency for International Development of being a front for the CIA or other groups dedicated to their collapse. In the case of Cuba [in 2010], they appear to have been right."
33. It's best to read and follow all the links provided in the Barack Obama entry of ISGP's "liberal CIA": Immigration oversight.
34. *) Oct. 3, 2008, New York Times, 'Obama and ’60s Bomber: A Look Into Crossed Paths'
    *) Oct. 6, 2008, NPR, 'Obama's Links To Ex-Radical Examined'.
35. thechicagocouncil.org/ chicago_council_board_directors.php (accessed: December 19 2008): "Lester Crown BOARD CHAIRMAN. Chairman, Henry Crown & Company ... Michelle Obama: Vice President for Community and External Affairs, The University of Chicago Medical Center. ... Margot Pritzker..." Most directors belong to leading U.S. multinationals.
36. 2016, Maynard James Keenan and Sarah Jensen, 'A Perfect Union of Contrary Things': "By virtue of his relationship with Gloria [a Libertyville classmate of Tom Morello], the Libertyville transplants--his hosts Tom Morello and Jack Olsen and their classmates who'd followed their passions to L.A. [like Adam Jones]... Before long, Maynard was a fixture at the weekend barbecues, cookouts attended by as many as 25 Libertyville alumni [in Los Angeles]. They brought potato salad and six-packs to Tom and Jack's pool or Adam's loft, where they reported on the week's auditions and job offers..."
37. Oct. 23, 2009, nme.com, 'Tom Morello – What Rock'n'Roll Has Taught Me'.
38. Oct. 13, 1949, Congressional Record - Daily Digest, p. D702, "Testifying [to the House of Representatives] on behalf of the proposed world federation were ... Alan Cranston, president, United World Federalists, Inc. ... Cord Meyer, Jr. chairman, executiove committee, United World Federalists..."
39. *) December 20, 1998, Nina Burleigh's biography 'A Very Private Woman', as published in the New York Times Books, 'Murder in Georgetown': "Cord Meyer had sponsored Helms and his wife for membership in the Waltz Group, which hosted dinner-dances for the Washington elite several times a year. The two went back more than a decade in the CIA and had weathered many crises together."
    *) 2004, David Heymann, 'The Georgetown Ladies' Social Club', pp. 157-158: "Like most Georgetown residents, Barbara Miller heard all the cocktail hour chitchat concerning the Cord and Mary Meyer divorce. "I belonged," she said , "to something called the Waltz Group, not to be confused with the Dancing Class, although both drew their memberships chiefly from the select corps of social revelers whose home base was Georgetown. The Meyers also belonged. Cord Meyer began coming to every event by himself, particularly after his divorce."
40. July 1970, Statistical Reporter, p. 172: "The Commission on Population Growth and the American Future was established in March of 1970 by act of Congress in response to President Nixon's request in his Population Message of July 1969. The Commission is chaired by John D. Rockefeller 3rd and includes Senator Alan Cranston..."
41. Oct. 15, 1978 Trilateral Commission membership list: "David Rockefeller, North American Chairman ... John Brademas ... Alan Cranston, United States Senate. ... Hedley Donovan... William A. Hewitt ... *Henry A. Kissinger ... Sol M. Linowitz... David Packard..."
42. Jan. 16, 1977, Washinton Post, 'Trilateral Commission-Web Enough for the Plot-Minded'.
43. 1977-1978 annual report, Wilson Center, p. 8: "Trustees: ...Wilson Council: William E. Simon, Chairman ... John Brademas ... Alan Cranston. Hedley W. Donovan. Robert Ellsworth. ... William A. Hewitt ... Donald M. Kendall. Sol Linowitz ... David Packard..."
44. Sep. 25, 1995, San Francisco Chronicle / Gate, 'Gorbachev Foundation's S.F. Meeting / Celebrities, scholars to discuss world's future': "Gorbachev's connections and the respect he has earned from many of his contemporaries is illustrated by the lineup of the foundation's co- chairs, which include South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu; George Shultz ... former Senator Alan Cranston, D-California, the foundation's chairman."
45. May 31, 1995, San Francisco Weekly, 'One World, Under Gorby (Part II)'; September 25, 1995, San Francisco Chronicle, 'Gorbachev Foundation's S.F. Meeting / Celebrities, scholars to discuss world's future'; October 16, 1995, Weekly Standard, 'The Global Brain Trust: A Vivisection'; October 30, 1995, The New American, 'Global Gorby'; 2004, James Garrison, 'America As Empire: Global Leader Or Rogue Power?'. These sources can be read in full in the State of the World Forum conferences entry of ISGP's main "Liberal CIA" article.
46. October 23, 2009, nme.com, 'Tom Morello – What Rock'n'Roll Has Taught Me': "[After graduating Harvard in 1986] I kind of stumbled into working with Senator Alan Cranston and was his scheduling secretary for about two years [over 1987-1988]. I never had any real desire to work in politics but if there was any ember burning in me, it was extinguished working in that job because of two things: one of them was the fact that 80 per cent of the time I spent with the Senator, he was on the phone asking rich people for money.
    It just made me understand that the whole business was dirty. He had to compromise his entire being every day. The other was the time a woman phoned up the office and wanted to complain that there were Mexicans moving into her neighbourhood. I said to her, 'Ma'am, you're a damn racist' and she was indignant. I thought I was representing our cause well, but I got yelled at for a week by everyone for saying that! I thought to myself that if I'm in a job where I can't call a damn racist a damn racist, then it's not for me."
47. Ibid.
48. July 2, 2000, Chicago Tribune, 'Left-Wing Radical, Anti-Authorian Troublemaker, Free-Speech Guerilla': "While her son was still a struggling musician in Los Angeles, Morello had organized Parents for Rock and Rap [by 1987], in response to a Tipper Gore-led [PMRC] campaign of the 1980s aimed at policing the sale and packaging of albums with explicit content."
49. July 20, 2021, The Telegraph, 'Tipper Gore versus the 'Filthy Fifteen': why the PMRC’s war on 'vulgar' rock failed; The 'Washington Wives' behind the Parents Music Resource Center wanted to protect children from obscenity. Instead, they sold more records': "It seems peculiar to think that a gang of political operatives – along with Gore, Susan Baker was the wife of Treasury Secretary James Baker – would have such a limited grasp of the laws of unintended consequences."
50. Ibid.: "Coors brewery owner Joseph Coors, became one of the PMRC's main financial backers."
51. Ibid.
52. Nov. 1, 2006, loudersound.com, 'My Life Story: Tom Morello'.
53. Ibid.
54. Nov. 21, 1999, Washington Post, 'Rage Before Beauty': "De la Rocha's mother was an anthropologist, his father part of the politically charged Chicano painting collective Los Four [Robert "Beto" de La Rocha]; Zack was the only Mexican American in his Irvine, Calif., high school."
55. Feb. 24, 1995, Los Angeles Times, 'Out of the Dark : He destroyed his art and began a 20-year journey of solitude and soul-searching. But now Beto de la Rocha wants to create again.': "Twenty years ago, Rocha defected from the Chicano art scene, broke and disenchanted by the glamour and attention that a record-breaking 1974 exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art had brought him and members of Los Four--artists whose work had finally found mainstream acceptance. ... "With the museum thing, I expected the whole world to open up to me. (But) nothing happened," he says, recalling that time as a young, hot artist toasted at parties and lauded for his talent. ...
    His only son, Zack... now 25 and a member of the rock band Rage Against the Machine..."
56. Online Archive of California (oac.cdlib.org), 'Finding Aid for the Franklin D. Murphy Papers, 1948-1994' (accessed: Aug. 16, 2022): "Box 76, Folder 1... Dr. Franklin D. Murphy, President, Board of Trustees 1970 - 1974, Los Angeles County Museum of Art."
57. May 6, 2019, The Forward, 'Why Did This Pioneering Trustee Leave LACMA And Place His Prized Collection With The Getty?': "According to [the blackDr. Richard A.] Simms, two board members at the time became his supporters as he made his ascent: Dr. Franklin D. Murphy and Richard Sherwood. Murphy was a committed philo-Semitic pillar of the city's establishment who helped forge a new alliance of the LA Jewish Community and the WASP old guard that played a big role in the birth of the museum. Sherwood was a prominent Jewish lawyer."
58. 1994, Peter Martin Phillips, 'A Relative Advantage', pp. 184, 191 (appendices, 1971, 1991). LACMA president, Dr. Franklin Murphy, was assigned to the Silverado Squatters camp in 1971 and 1991, along with David Packard for both years. Kenneth Bechtel and John W. Gardner were assigned to Silverado Squatters in 1971.
59. 1977-1978 annual report, Wilson Center, p. 8: "Trustees: ...Wilson Council: William E. Simon, Chairman ... John Brademas ... Alan Cranston. Hedley W. Donovan. Robert Ellsworth. ... William A. Hewitt ... Donald M. Kendall. Sol Linowitz ... David Packard..."
60. 2020, Pehr Gyllenhammar, 'Character is Destiny': "Some [organizations] I have joined, some I have declined to join, and occasionally there has been one I have felt it necessary to simply quit. Bohemian Grove falls into the last of those categories. I was invited to go to Bohemian Grove by David Rockefeller, with whom I'd been friends since our first meeting in 1971 in Gothenburg. ... Both he and his brother Nelson Rockefeller were longtime members of the Bohemian Club in San Francisco... Henry Kissinger was often there, as was David's and my mutual friend Paul Volcker. ... One of the first [Lakeside Talks] that I attended was a talk given by Warren Buffett. ... David Rockefeller invited me to go to Bohemian Grove for three consecutive summers as his guest."
61. Online Archive of California (oac.cdlib.org), 'Finding Aid for the Franklin D. Murphy Papers, 1948-1994' (accessed: Aug. 16, 2022): "Franklin David Murphy (1916-1994) was the Chancellor at the University of Kansas (1951-60), Chancellor at UCLA (1960-68), Chairman of the Board and CEO (1968) and Chairman of the Executive Committee (1981-86) of the Times Mirror Company."
62. Oct. 7, 1975, Gerald Ford White House memorandum: "Administratively confidential ... Subject: President's Reception for US-Soviet Directors of US-USSR Trade and Economic Council. ... Participants: [Russian officials] ... Donald Kendall ... A. W. Clausen ... David Packard ... Armand Hammer ... William Hewitt ... Edgar Kaiser ... David ROckefeller ... George Shultz ... [[U.S. officials:] President Ford ... Brent Scowcroft..." See PDF.
63. 2016, Maynard James Keenan and Sarah Jensen, 'A Perfect Union of Contrary Things': "By virtue of his relationship with Gloria [a Libertyville classmate of Tom Morello and Adam Jones], the Libertyville transplants ... accepted Maynard as one of their own."
64. >1998, Kim Neely, 'Five against One: The Pearl Jam Story', Chapter 5: "Eddie Vedder [was in] Indian Style (a punk outfit that also featured future Rage Against the Machine drummer Brad Wilk)--before settling in as frontman for Bad Radio, a position he won in 1986 [1988 really; in 1986 Bad Radio was founded] after answering a want ad in the San Diego Reader... Between 1987 and 1989 [was], growing into one of the top bands on the San Diego scene..."
65. Ibid.
66. Jan. 17, 2017 (date needs double checking) Instagram post of @bradwilk: "Just friends hangin out at a pub in London pre Pearl Jam and pre RATM. #eddievedder #me ... #1990."
67. July 31, 1989, Los Angeles Times, 'Musicians Who Care Perform for Good Causes'.
68. 1998, Kim Neely, 'Five against One: The Pearl Jam Story', Chapter 5: "Vedder ... also steered Bad Radio in a more socially conscious direction after joining Musicians Who Care, an Encinitas-based network of charity-minded artists that sponsored a number of benefits Bad Radio played, including a November 1989 Human Rights Now! concert [to] raise money for Amnesty International. "
69. *) Ford Foundation grants list 2006-2021: "Amnesty International USA: ... 2006: $400,000. ... 2008: $1,000,000. ... 2009: $500,000. ... [Skipped a good number of years] ... Amnesty International Limited: ... 2017: $200,000 [and] $1,000,000 [and] $3,000,000."
    *) 2015 income report, Amnesty International Limited (Amnesty.org), p. 2: "Donations ... Ford Foundation: 630[,000 pounds] ... Open Society Foundation: ... 309[,000 pounds]..."
    *) 2016 income report, Amnesty International Limited (Amnesty.org), p. 2: "Donations ... Dutch Postcode Lottery: 259[,000 pounds] ... Ford Foundation: 468[,000 pounds] ... Open Society Foundation: ... 631[,000 pounds]..."
    *) rbf.org/grantees/amnesty-international-usa-inc (accessed: Aug. 18, 2022; Rockefeller Brothers Fund): " Amnesty International of the USA, Inc.: ... $50,000 for 12 months Awarded Jul 23, 2019."
70. *) July 31, 1989, Los Angeles Times, 'Musicians Who Care Perform for Good Causes': ""And that’s exactly what Musicians Who Care has become, particularly since (expatriate L.A. musician) Steve Saint signed on as co-coordinator a year ago...""
    *) July 18, 1992, Los Angeles Times, 'Rock Musician Says He’ll Seek a Seat on La Mesa City Council : Politics: Steve Saint, a member of the Green Party, announced he will run for election during a concert at the Spirit.': "Several hours after presidential candidate Bill Clinton had delivered his acceptance... San Diego rock musician Steve Saint made an announcement from the stage of the Spirit club. ... Much of the original repertoire of his band, Club of Rome, is topical or directly political. Through his involvement in the local Musicians Who Care organization... "I was indoctrinated into the realities of race-relations... [Now] I think it will be really important for a Green (party) officeholder in La Mesa to focus on race and human relations issues...""
71. March 19, 2010 YouTube upload by 'In It To Spin It', 'Eddie Vedder's First Vinyl Appearance - The Care 1990': "Way back in 1990, a group of peace-loving, tree-hugging musicians in San Diego put out a compilation record called "The Care.""
72. *) June 16, 2018, demorgen.be, 'Pearl Jam op Pinkpop: duivel en koning in een wijwatervat': "Playing in 1992 still 'Suggestion' of Fugazi..."
    *) dischord.com/fugazi_live_series/los-angeles-ca-usa-12492: "Show Date: 1992-01-24. Venue: Hollywood Palladium. Door Price: 8. Attendance: 4000. ... To conclude, it is worth mentioning that the lineup of the January 24 benefit is rather remarkable, in that Fugazi headlined with the opening acts including Pearl Jam, which released its famed debut album Ten about six months earlier and would soon break into the mainstream. ... Reference to their shared January, 1992 benefit can even be found in the 2011 "Pearl Jam Twenty" chronicle... "Eddie Vedder had recently become enthralled with Fugazi's striking punk-powered hardcore sound, as well as the band's staunchly antimainstream bent and insistence on charging only five dollars for its always all-ages shows. At the show, he meets Fugazi's members for the first time and forms a quick and long-lasting bond with singer-guitarist Ian MacKaye, even accompanying him for a late-night meal at Denny's afterward." The book further quotes Ian as saying "[t]here was a lot of excitement about them, which, to me, was coming out of nowhere. "
    *) April 6, 2017, billboard.com, 'Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder Talks Surfing, Story Behind 'Jeremy' In Rediscovered 1991 Interview': "I did an interview with [MTV's] Headbangers Ball last night and I drew Fugazi all over my arms with marker. ... I love Fugazi."
    *) July 19, 2007, magnetmagazine.com, 'Q&A With Eddie Vedder': "When you interviewed Sleater-Kinney for MAGNET in issue #67, you talked about the importance of Fugazi and Sonic Youth as bands that do what's right and correct. [Eddie Vedder:] Although I would put Ian MacKaye [of Fugazi] up for sainthood..."
73. 2007, Robert F. Barsky, 'The Chomsky Effect', pp. 16-17: ""Around the time of the [first] Gulf War, MaximumRocknRoll [magazine] released a record called "New World Order." One one side is "music of resistance" by the group Bad Religion. ... On the flip side Chomsky takes a solo: ... "American troops walking into what could be a meat grinder."
    Interestingly, according to Billingsley, "This seven-inch vinyl release may have been the inspiration that made Chomskyites of Pearl Jam. The group's leader, Eddie Vedder, 'is a big Bad Religions fan,' according to Andy Kaulkin of Epitaph records, a ["kind of anarchist"] label owned by former Bad Religion member and Chomsky devotee Brett Gurewitz. [Epitaph negotiated] for the rights to release Noam Chomsky CDs... Other bands on the Epitaph label, it is worth noting, include Offspring ... NOFX..."
74. *) January 20, 2015 YouTube upload by 'xmascleanlove', 'Pearl Jam - Self-Pollution Radio 01 08 1995' ("Pearl Jam: Self-Pollution Radio. Live from Eddie Vedder's Seattle Home, with Stone Gossard a co-host. ... Mix tape with Iggy, Tom, Veruca, Henry, and Noam Chomsky ... Dave Grohl/Foo Fighters ... Mudhoney [band members of which are present live] ... Soundgarden ... Eddie & Krist Novoselic [of Nirvana, who is present live] ... Krist Novoselic reads from his book -- Chapter 1 - Surprise, Surprise" )... [1:48:22: "Iggy, Tom, Veruca, Henry, Noam Chomsky - Jeff Ament Mix"]..."
    *) March 1996, K.L. Billingsley for Heterodoxy, 'Noam Chomsky, Punk Hero': "Pearl Jam set up a 75-watt 'pirate' radio station on every stop on its [winter 1995] tour. Th station broadcast selections from their albums. ... In between cuts, a male monotone voice oozing vulgar Marxism droned on about manipulation of the media, the evils of corporations, and the sins of America generally. The recorded voice belonged to ... Noam Chomsky..."
75. *) 2006-2017 Ford Foundation grants list: "FAIRVOTE. 2007: $80,000."
    *) March 9, 2017, Washington Times, 'Billionaire George Soros fuels Democrats' push to lower voting age to 17': "Soros' ... Open Society Foundations is among the left-wing philanthropies backing FairVote, which has pushed to allow 17-year-olds who will turn 18 before the general election to vote [because young people more often vote Democrat]..."
    *) Rockefeller Brothers Fund: rbf.org/grantees/fairvote (accessed: October 9, 2018): "Grants: $80,000 [in] 2016 ... $40,000 [in] 2015 ... $80,000 [in] 2014..."
76. fairvote.org/krist_novoselic (accessed: October 9, 2018): "Krist joined FairVote's Board in 2005 and was elected chair in 2008."
77. Ibid., two sources back.
78. *) May 6, 2011, feelnumb.com, 'Eddie Vedder Tribute To Howard Zinn On His Fender Telecaster Guitar': "Zinn said: "I was sitting at home one day and the phone rang and a polite young man said 'Mr. Zinn, my name is Eddie Vedder and I like to do an article with you for Interview Magazine, and I said OK, who are you?" This led to a friendship with Vedder and Pearl Jam. [Shows picture of Vedder and Zinn together and Vedder playing with a a guitar that reads "ZINN".]"
    *) March 1999 issue, Interview magazine, 'The Rocker and the Teacher: Howard Zinn & Eddie Vedder': "HZ: Well, going to a Pearl Jam concert was an experience I would not have had in my life if it hadn't been for you. Just to take in that whole scene, and to be affected by it, was something I never would have imagined."
    *) January 27, 2010 Eddie Vedder pearljam.com statement on the death of Howard Zinn: "I'm so grateful for his friendship... Fortunately he has left us with a body of work so extraordinary that it will be drawn upon for centuries to come... He was a true and constant source of inspiration for myself and countless others... For me, he was the true embodiment of hope..."
79. Sep. 19, 2021, Seattle Times, 'How Pearl Jam ended up in that White House photo with Bill Clinton': "On April 9, 1994, Pearl Jam visited the White House..."
80. *) 1990, Earth Day Network, U.S. national board of directors (PDF): "Ralph Nader, Special Counsel. ... Albert Gore ... [Sen.] John Heinz ... Teresa Heinz ... John Kerry ... [Sen.] George J. Mitchell ... Laurance Rockefeller ... R.E. "Ted" Turner ..."
    *) Ford Foundation grants to Ralph Nader's US-PIRG (Excel sheet downloadable from website listing all grants over 2006-2015): " - United States Public Interest Research Group Education Fund. ... 2006. $410,000. - 2008. $250,000. - 2010. $225,000. - 2009. $300,000. - 2008. $200,000. - 2008. $120,000. - 2011. $450,000. - 2010. $400,000. - 2015. $100,000. - 2013. $700,000. - 2013. $250,000." Total: $3,405,000 in the 2006-2015 period.
    *) U.S. PIRG was founded in 1973 by Ralph Nader and Donald Ross. Ross' biography: proposed the USPIRG model and first executive director; secretary and director Rockefeller Family Fund 1985-1999; chair Greenpeace US after that.
81. *) Sep. 25, 2000, MTV.com, 'Pearl Jam's Vedder Rallies For Ralph Nader'.
    *) Oct. 12, 2000, MTV.com, 'Pearl Jam's Vedder Explains Nader Support'.
82. 2001 annual report, Equality Now, pp. 2, 29: "Equality Now convened a coalition of international organizations to host the Afghan Women’s S ummit for Democracy, held at the European Commission in Brussels on December 4-5, in collaboration with the Gender Adviser to the Secretary-General of the United Nations and UNIFEM. Forty Afghan women leaders from Afghanistan, P akistan, Iran, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Australia, Europe and North America ... took part in the Summit, bringing the voices of Afghan women into the international political discourse. ...
    Afghan Women's Summit for Democracy: On behalf of the Summit convenors, Equality Now wishes to thank the following for their support of the Afghan Women’s Summit [7 donors listed]: Ford Foundation... Open Society Institute ... Pearl Jam... UNIFEM ... V-Day Fund."
83. Sep. 29, 2004, Financial Times, 'Devil is in the detail with "Satan" Soros': "Soros, who has emerged as a potent one-man mission against Mr Bush's re-election, is doing what he can. ... Backed by [the Soros-funded] MoveOn.org, the pro-Kerry group, a coalition of 21 artists including R.E.M., Pearl Jam..."
84. January 4, 2015, Daily Mail, 'They're with the band: President Obama and daughters Malia and Sasha hang with Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder on last day of Hawaiian vacation'.
85. ebresearch.org/board-of-directors.html (accessed: May 17, 2018): "The Executive Board: ...
    - Alexander Silver is a founder and Chairman of EBRP. ... Prior to starting P2, Alex held positions at Soros Fund Management, Karsch Capital Management and Lazard Freres. ...
    - Jill Vedder [wife of Eddie Vedder since 2010] is a founder and Vice Chairman of EBRP. ...
    - Activist and front man of Pearl Jam, Eddie Vedder is a founder of EBRP...
    - Jamie Silver is a founder of EBRP. Jamie chairs ACTion for Jackson, a fundraising event in NYC that raises upwards of $1,100,000 for EB research annually. She has appeared on the Today Show and in the Huffington Post...
    - Stephen Evans: ... Previously, Stephen spent five years at Bain & Company."
86. April 25, 2021 YouTube upload, 'Pearl Jam Live from Rome, Italy June 26th 2018'. At 1:48:30 Eddie Vedder starts reading up a plea from boat refugees who want to be taken in by Italy or other southern European countries.
87. *) July 21, 2014, Spin, ' Nirvana's Krist Novoselic Supports Eddie Vedder in Israel Flap'.
    *) July 17, 2014, Rolling Stone, 'Eddie Vedder Reiterates Anti-War Stance After Anti-Israel Accusations'.
88. March 12, 2018, AlternativeNation.net, 'Eddie Vedder's 10 Biggest Trump Insults In New Pearl Jam Song'.
89. Oct. 5, 2017, Stubhub.co.uk, '7 music stars taking a knee against racism'.
90. June 5, 2020, NME, 'Pearl Jam reflect on "unconscious racism": "It is the responsibility of each of us to listen and educate ourselves".
91. *) Sep. 10, 2012, CBS News, 'Bruce Springsteen rocks out with Tom Morello and Eddie Vedder'.
    *) Feb. 17, 2014, https://loudwire, 'Eddie Vedder Joins Bruce Springsteen + Tom Morello Onstage for AC/DC's 'Highway to Hell'.
    *) Dec. 23, 2014 @tommorello tweet, 'Happy 50th Eddie Vedder! Excellent rocker, great dude, Cubs fan. Here we are rocking "Highway To Hell"'.
    *) Jan. 11, 2022, Variety, 'Pearl Jam, Tom Morello Urge U.S. to Act on Afghanistan Humanitarian Crisis'
92. March-April 1995, Center for the Study of Popular Culture, ' Heterodoxy', pp. 12-14: "It was not just Pearl Jam that was sponsoring Chomsky. REM has asked Chomsky to go on tour with them and open their concerts with a speech. The punk band Bad Religion put a Chomsky lecture on the B side of one of its records. ... [Don] Was is now working on an album that combines Chomsky readings with original music by REM, Pearl Jam and other groups. ... Proceeds of the album will go to FAIR. ... A portrait of Noam Chomsky sits above the drum kit at Was's studio, which he has dubbed "The Chomsky Ranch". According to the leftwing magazine The Nation, a staffer of the "progressive" media organization FAIR ... got the idea of a Chomsky CD and Was volunteerd to make it. ... Chomsky says he had never heard of MAXIMUMROCKNROLL and Bad Religion, but complied with their request for material. 'Seemed fine to me,' he said, 'but I know very little about this scene.'"
93. Nov. 21, 1999, Washington Post, 'Rage Before Beauty': ""Tom [Morello] grew up as a black kid in a white suburb and as a left-wing kid in a Republican suburb," says Jim Naureckas, a classmate at Libertyville High School who is now editor of Extra, a bimonthly published by Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, one of several media watchdog groups supported by Rage."
94. inthesetimes.com/authors/jim-naureckas (accessed: June 19, 2022): "James Weinstein gave him his first job in journalism, when he hired him in 1987 to write about the Iran/​Contra Scandal for In These Times."
95. fair.org/author /jim/page/64/ (accessed: June 19, 2022): "Jim Naureckas ... was an investigative reporter for In These Times and managing editor of [COHA's publication] the Washington Report on the Hemisphere. Born in Libertyville, Illinois, he has a poli sci degree from Stanford."
96. Encyclopedia of U.S. - Latin American Relations', p. 222: "Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA): ... organization promoting human rights and democratic institutions throughout Latin America. It emerged in 1975 in the aftermath of the 1973 Pinochet coup in Chile that overthrew ... Allende. As a result of the later revelations of White House complicity in that coup, as well as in Washington's subsequent interventionist backing of military-led juntas elsewhere in Latin America, a group of U.S.-area specialists ... gathered at the Ford Foundation in 1975 to create COHA."
97. fair.org/author /jim/page/64/ (accessed: June 19, 2022): "Jim Naureckas is the editor of FAIR.org, and has edited FAIR's print publication Extra! since 1990. ... Since 1997 he has been married to Janine Jackson, FAIR’s program director."
98. *) Ford Foundation grants to Fair.org (Excel sheet downloadable from website listing all grants 2006-2016): "Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting Inc. 2009: $150,000 ... 2007: $100,000. ... 2011: $200,000."
    *) 2007, Bob Feldman for the peer-reviewed journal Critical Sociology, 'Left Media & Left Think Tanks: Foundation-Managed Protest?' (PDF), p. 432: "Table 2. Foundation Grants to Extra!/Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR), 1990 to 1995. ... Rockefeller Family Foundation: $20,000 in 1991. ... MacArthur Foundation: $300,000 between 1992 and 1995. ... Schumann Foundation: $150,000 in 1995."
99. May 30, 2013 YouTube upload by "TrueBliu Nineleven", 'Tom Morello Epic 9/11 Truth Fail' (Morello is uncomfortably laughing all the time): "["I was wondering if you supported a new question into 9/11 and get some [answers] to the questions, the open-ended questions"] Yeah, I gotta be honest. Quite frankly, nobody is a bigger fan of conspiracy theories than me, but that's one that I don't subscribe to. ["But as far as all the unanswered question. I'm not talking about conspiracy theory."] Yeah, yeah. Let me tell you, it's a low priority for me right now, if I'm gonna be frank."
100. *) chomsky.info/1996summer/ (accessed: Aug. 17, 2022; 'On Democracy: Noam Chomsky interviewed by Tom Morello, Summer, 1996').
     *) Oct. 30, 2019 YouTube upload by 'Rage Against the Machine', 'Rage Against The Machine - Interview with Noam Chomsky (from The Battle Of Mexico City)'. Zack de la Rocha interviewing Noam Chomsky, part of Rage Against the Machine's 1999 DVD 'The Battle Of Mexico City'.
     *) Jan. 20, 2015 tweet of Tom Morello: "Noam Chomsky (as usual) making perfect sense of the world in light of #CharlieHebdo attack. Must read & RT." Links to Jan. 19, 2015, Noam Chomsky for "liberal CIA" outlet Alternet.org, 'Noam Chomsky Slams West's Charlie Hebdo Outrage: 'Many Journalists Were Killed by Israel in Gaza Too''.
     *) Dec. 6, 2016 Facebook post of "liberal CIA" outlet Democracy Now!: "Tom Morello takes in Noam Chomsky's words." Morello listening to Noam Chomsky speaking in a church.
     *) Sep. 10, 2018 tweet of @tmorello: "Noam Chomsky explains the Trump administration’s effects on the planet."
     *) Dec. 7, 2021 Instagram post of @tomorello: "Happy birthday Noam Chomsky!".
101. Youtube, 'Noam Chomsky Debunks 9/11 and JFK Murder' (accessed: December 27, 2012). For Chomsky denouncing JFK and 9/11 conspiracy theories, go to the Noam Chomsky entry of ISGP's "liberal CIA" article.
102. Ibid. Also: Throughout Chomsky's 1993 'Project Camelot' book one finds weird little jabs as "Kennedy's war", "Kennedy's terrorist war", "Kennedy's CIA" and "Kennedy's incipient radicalism". Read ISGP's article on the JFK assassination to see how little sense these jabs make.
103. *) Sep. 27, 2011, Guitarworld.com, 'Video: Tom Morello on 'Real Time With Bill Maher''. Here Morello is debating Michael Moore and Trilateral Commission member Jane Harman.
     *) Sep. 30, 2017 YouTube upload by 'Real Time with Bill Maher'. 'Punching Nazis | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)': "Bill and his panelists – Tom Morello, April Ryan, and John Heilemann – discuss whether punching neo-Nazis is a legitimate form of resistance." Morello makes the case for, "Yes."
104. justiceforkurds.org/about/ (accessed: Aug. 17, 2022): "Advisory Council: ... Bill Maher ... [former CIA director] General (Ret.) David H. Petraeus ... Robert Richer, Former Associate Deputy Director of Operations of the Central Intelligence Agency ... [former JSOC chief] General (Ret.) Stanley A. McChrystal ... William Kristol ... Dov Zakheim ... Joseph I. Lieberman ... [head ADL 1987-2015] Abraham Foxman ... Michael Steinhardt ... Jeb Bush ... Richard Clarke ... Anne-Marie Slaughter ... Eric de Rothschild, Chairman, Memorial de la Shoah. ... The Honorable Bill Richardson ... Eric Edelman ... Radoslaw Sikorski ... Laurent Dassault, Co-Managing Director, Dassault Group ... Norman T. Roule, Former National Intelligence Manager for Iran ... Maurice Levy ... Arnaud de Puyfontaine, Chief Executive Officer, Vivendi ... Ambassador Peter Galbraith ... Mia Farrow ... Marina Abramovic ... Ina Giscard d'Estaing ... Ayaan Hirsi Ali ... Garry Kasparov ... Gloria Steinem ... Anne Applebaum ... Howard L. Berman ... Timothy Simon Spicer, OBE, Former Lieutenant-Colonel in the United Kingdom Scots Guards and Founder of Aegis Defense Services ... John Kerr, The Lord Kerr of Kinlochard GCMG ... Tom Tugendhat ... Jonathan Neil Mendelsohn, The Lord Mendelsohn ... Alain Minc ... Daniel Cohn-Bendit ... Sting..."

OVERSIGHT OF COMPROMISED BANDS AND ARTISTS

• Full name is Anouk Teeuwe. Active since 1996. Her 1997 (feminist) single Nobody's Wife became a huge hit and turned her into the premier female Dutch rock singer - who sings in English. Kept winning awards primarily until 2011.
• From 2007 on she was managed by antifa label Top Notch of Kees de Koning, a connection that ties back to her earliest black husband, rapper Postman. From 2013 she started campaigning against Black Pete, making her a pariah to large swaths of the Dutch public, who literally thought she had gone off the deep end. She kept releasing music, however, and kept in the limelight by becoming a judge on The Voice of Holland over 2015, 2016-2022 of billionaire John de Mol, until that show crashed down in flames over a "male sexuel misconduct" scandal in early 2022. She remains regularly on TV shows and in the gossip magazines.
• Anouk is a major supporter of Black Lives Matter in Dutch society, opposing in that regard a few tiny "populist" cliques surrounding anything from Johan Derksen to Geert Wilders. As said, from 2007 on, she has been signed (in terms of management) to Top Notch and is a good friend of its owner, the rather shady-looking Kees de Koning. Top Notch is a hardcore Dutch antifa record label - very popular with the government and the media - that is flooding the country with black and Arab rap, meanwhile campaigning against "racism" and "historic white slavery". De Koning even wants to turn the Muslim Sugar Fest into an official Dutch holiday.

  

  • Anno 2022, 6 kids with 4 black baby daddies: black rapper Remon Stotijn of Postmen (3 kids; married 2004-2008), the 6-year-younger black rapper Unorthadox (1 kid in '10), black basketballer Seraino Dalgliesh (1 kid in '15), and the 19-year-younger black basketball player and MMA figther Dominique Schemmekes. Before all this she had a relationship with her Surinam drummer Satindra Kalpoe, who helped write her initial 1997 hit 'Nobody's Wife'. Kalpoe later went to drum for Keith Caputo, who became a transgender renaming himself "she", with the name "Mina".
  • Nov. 23, 2007, 3voor12.vpro.nl, 'Kees de Koning nieuwe manager Anouk' ('Kees de Koning new manager of Anouk') (Kees de Koning should be called "the Antifa King", as he is a major Dutch BLM-type activist): "De Koning, who normally releases hiphop albums, looks at this new career step as a new personal challenge. ... In the past De Koning released the first album of the partner of Anouk, The Anonymous a.ka. Remon Stotijn a.k.a. Postman [1998, still as part of The Postmen]."
  • Dec. 15, 2011, Algemeen Dagblad, 'Anouk: Het wordt tijd om Zwarte Piet te verbannen' ('Anouk: It is time to ban Black Pete'). This was a very early stage of debate that Anouk started pushing for this.
  • Oct. 28, 2013, hln.be, 'Anouk oogst storm van racisme nadat ze zich tegen Zwarte Piet uitspreekt' ('Anouk reaps storm of racism after she expresses opposition to Black Pete'): "Anouk plaatste afgelopen vrijdag dit bericht op haar Facebook, vergezeld van een artikel in [the Rockefeller and Ford Foundation "liberal CIA" newspaper] The Guardian. "Wat staan wij Nederlanders voor lul!" ...
    The remark that her position against the tradition of Black Pete would cost her fans, did not phase the singer. "I am glad that I'm rid of that. I don't want to make one dime from you ugly haters (and a couple of racists).""

  

  • December 25, 2016, Het Parool, 'Kees de Koning: 'Mensen moeten mijn goede smaak horen'': "De Koning jumped in to support Ismail Ilgun [a Turkish street terrorist-turned-media-darling whom De Koning then signed as rapper]... He was talking about it with Anouk - singer and good friend - who also got remarks from the open sewer ('Nigger whore') slung in her face. when she speaks out against Black Pete [Zwarte Piet]. ... He thinks it's really creepy and sad that people have so much hate. "Al that cursing on social media really polarizes. He becomes more grim. ...
    As far as [De Koning] is concerned Black Pete would have already been banned, the Coentunnel would have another name, and the [Muslim] Sugar Fest would have been part of the Dutch holidays. De Knoning calls himself progressive, evem an old socialist. "No party is left enough for me." ...
    That opposition and anger is about the fear of people with another color. And racism is also part of that. ... This year at Top Notch we republished the book 'Roofstaat' (' Plunder State') van Ewald Vanvugt: about the black pages of the Dutch history, as slavery and the repression in the former colonies. ... Now even school teaching-packages are made with it. That is why we did it. ...
    For the first time the streaming (via Spotify, Deezer, or Apple) of music counts in the hit lists. Because of that only now it has become visible that one-third of the charts consists of hiphop. ... This year the album Hard Work Pays Off 2 of Broederliefde, a hiphop group from Rotterdam signed to Top Notch, was fourteen weeks on number 1 in the album top 100. With that they broke the record of Frans Bauer. "Still they are being seen as a niche, as a freak accident.""
  • June 17, 2020, Televizier.nl, 'Anouk haalt flink uit naar Veronica Inside-mannen [criticizing BLM]': ""Om te kotsen. Are you fucking real?!" Anouk was niet de enige die kritiek uitte op de Veronica inside-mannen. ...
    Derksen noemde Akwasi 'een ontzettende vervelende raaskallende rapper'. Daarnaast zei hij over de Black lives matter-protesten dat hij op tv 'alleen maar schreeuwende gekkies ziet die de ruimte krijgen'. Hij en zijn tafelgenoot René van der Gijp kunnen zich niet voorstellen dat het racismeprobleem in Nederland 'zo erg is als ze zeggen'. Ze noemden de man die in Leeuwarden verkleed als Zwarte Piet een BLM-demonstratie bezocht een held. "Weten we zeker dat dat niet Akwasi is", grapte Derksen vervolgens."
• Anouk stayed in the spotlights after 2011 in no small part by being one of the coaches of The Voice of Holland over 2016, 2017-2022. Eventually she resigned after various men part of the program were accused of (partially overblown) sexual misconduct, which reportedly had been covered up over the years. A key person accused was the program's band leader, Jeroen Rietbergen, who happens to be the brother-in-law of program creator and billionaire media tycoon John de Mol. Subsequently, Ali B., Holland's favorite Moroccan rapper and a fellow-coach of Anouk for 9 seasons in total (2013–2022), was also accused (of rape, but the most prominent incident seems like voluntary "starfucker" sex). Fellow Dutch superstar (way bigger arguably than Anouk) and The Voice coach (2011-2016), Marco Borsato, apart from various sexual affairs, was repeatedly accused of fondling 13 and 14 year old girls as coach of The Voice Kids (2012–2020). It's all a huge "scandal" in the Netherlands, but overlooked is the area of "groupie-ism" and "starfuckery"; in many other cases no clear rejections were given:
  • Jan. 24, 2022, HartVanNederland.nl, 'Negentien vrouwen doen in uitzending BOOS beklag over wangedrag Rietbergen' ('19 women complain about misconduct Rietbergen in BOOS broadcast'; much of it comes down to simply making sexual suggestions, whom the women didn't shut down).
  • Jan. 24, 2022, HartVanNederland.nl, ''Marco Borsato betastte ook Voice Kids-kandidaten, jongste was 13 jaar''. (''Marco Borsato also fondled Voice Kids candidates, youngest was 13 years''.)
  • Jan. 24, 2022, hartvannederland.nl, 'Ali B door 18-jarige Voice-deelneemster beschuldigd van verkrachting' (note: sounds like voluntary sex to get higher up): "Ali beloofde dat de kandidaat bij een volgende deelname ver zou komen. "Als je volgend jaar weer meedoet moet je het effe laten weten, want dan kom je bij mij in mijn team en zorg ik dat je heel ver komt." "Ik was eigenlijk zo in shock dat ik geen nee durfde te zeggen en me niet durfde te verzetten", zegt de voormalig deelnemer aan de talentenjacht. "Ik vind het moeilijk om het verkrachting te noemen, maar dat is wel wat het is.""
  • Jan. 20, 2022, Shownieuws.nl, 'Maan reageert eindelijk op Voice-schandaal' ('Maan finally responds to Voice-scandal') (Maan won the 2017 Voice of Holland with Borsato as her coach, and Ali B. another coach; doesn't deny she slept with both): ""Omdat ook over mij verhalen de ronde hebben gedaan wil ik hier voor eens en voor altijd duidelijk over zijn", vervolgt ze, doelend op de geruchten dat ze seks zou hebben gehad met haar coach Marco Borsato en zijn collega Ali B... er is nooit sprake geweest van grensoverschrijdend gedrag, fysieke toenadering of machtsmisbruik naar mij toe", zegt Maan stellig."
  • May 8, 2022, Mediacourant.nl, ''Iris Hond heeft geen spijt van avontuurtjes met Ali B en Marco B' [says image expert]' (''Iris Hond has no regrets about adventures with Ali B and Marco B''; Iris Hond was banned from performing in a The Voice final as an (extra) pianist by Borsato's wife, due to an earlier affair with him)

• Popular Canadian pop band founded in 2001 by Win Butler and Josh Deu. It's largely a family band: Will Butler is Will's younger brother, and was a band member from 2003 to 2021. Win Butler's wife, Regine Chassagne, has been playing in the band since 2001, from almost immediately after it was founded.
• Memmbers aggressively don't like Trump:
  • July 22, 2016, Win Butler on stage at New York's Panorama Festival: "Donald Trump will f—ing never, ever be the President of the f—ing United States of America. There's no f—ing way, there's no f—ing chance... Black Lives Matter!"
  • October 3, 2016, Win Butler interview with Red Bull Music Academy: "F-ck Donald Trump. [Applause] Please register to vote today everyone, please. I know that it's not ideal, but Hillary Clinton will be a great president. Donald Trump is a complete fuckin' nightmare and a clown and a joke. It really is an extremely important election. You don't have to hang out with Hillary, but Jesus Christ, vote for Hillary Clinton and just everyone register. It could not be heavier. The consequences can't be more dire."
• Elite ties:
  • Regine Chassagne, as said, the wife of Win Butler and sister-in-law of Will Butler, is a member of a white Haitian family that fought dictator Papa Doc Duvalier.
  • October 23, 2017, nbcsandiego.com, 'PICS: Arcade Fire at Viejas Arena': "Butler founded Arcade Fire with classmate Josh Deu. ... Butler and Deu first met at [the elite] Phillips Exeter Academy [where names as Sen. Jay Rockefeller, H.J. Heinz III [father founded Bilderberg with David Rockefeller], John Negroponte, Joseph Coors, Steward Brand and Mark Zuckerberg are among the alumni]. They continued to collaborate throughout college. ... In late 2003, however, Deu left the band after having a "profound spiritual experience." He is now a teacher in film and new media."
  • July 23, 2010, The Independent, 'Spontaneous combustion: The return of Arcade Fire': "Edwin Farnham Butler III [Arcade founder Win Butler] was born in Houston, Texas, in 1980, scion of a rich geologist who worked for multinational oil giant Halliburton, and a mother who played the harp. She wasn't the only musical member of the family... Butler was schooled at New Hampshire's elite Phillips Exeter Academy and liberal-arts centre Sarah Lawrence College, before fetching up at Montreal's McGill University...
    [Win Butler's wife Regine] Chassagne came from an entirely different source, her family having fled Haiti back in the deadly days of the "Papa Doc" Duvalier regime. Her great-uncle was a former Haitian ambassador, a doctor and a diplomat; but as part of the intellectual elite, the family posed a threat to the dictator, and ... several were killed. The ambassador became an exile, training with Castro's men in Cuba to try to transform himself into a freedom fighter, and learn how to liberate his homeland. Nothing ever came of the putative revolution, which was betrayed by a priest and crushed."
  • March 18, 2007, The Guardian, 'Keep the faith': "I first met Arcade Fire in Montreal towards the end of 2005. As newly celebrated local heroes the group were supporting [Bono's] U2... U2 tried to persuade Arcade Fire to join them as they continued their world tour... Bono used his most lowery persuasive powers to convince the group to come with them. 'I wouldn't want any other group to support us ever again,' enthused an infatuated Bono. The group, though, had their own plans. ...
    David Bowie, spotting kindred spirits and blood relations as much as Bono, bought the album in bulk to hand out as gifts to friends."
  • July 31, 2011 YouTube upload by "flashspacer", 'Bono/U2 thanks and praises Arcade Fire': "U2's frontman Bono thanks Arcade Fire for opening for them in Moncton on the final night, July 30th (2011)."
  • July 28, 2010, nme.com, 'Arcade Fire's Win Butler praises Bono for 'engaging' with George W Bush [Aids relief in Africa]; 'I will forever give him credit', says frontman'.

• Famous singer from the late 1950s to the 1970s. Discovered Bob Dylan in 1961, with whom she had a relationship. Both became leaders of the anti-Vietnam War and pro-(black) Civil Rights movement, although Dylan often did not show up for protests. Today, Dylan's son is a filmmaker for the CFR and created a very positive insider film on George Soros.
• Lived at Laurance Rockefeller's Esalen Institute in the late 1950s and the part of the 1960s, alongside psychedelic gurus and emerging disinformers on spirituality and alien-type conspiracy.
  • April 6, 2014, New York Times, 'A Big Sur Bath by the Light of the Moon': "Joan Baez composed music from a cabin on the Esalen grounds, Timothy Leary was a resident master of mind-altering drugs, [fellow psychedelic guru] Alan Watts [was there, etc.]"
  • esalen.org/page/lodge (accessed: March 5, 2020): "If the hot springs are Esalen's soul, then the Lodge must be its heart. Both pre-date the [Esalen] Institute. ... In the late 1950s you might have seen Steve McQueen, Joan Baez, or a young Hunter S. Thompson... In 1962, Michael Murphy and Richard Price started Esalen Institute [here]."
  • 2008, Jess Winfield, 'My Name Is Will: A Novel of Sex, Drugs, and Shakespeare': "[Baez] stepped up to the microphone. "Hi, I'm Joan Baez." ... [Baez] finally stopped shouting, and the crowd cheered again. Then ... Timothy Leary [appeared for a speech]..."
• Hates Trump:
  • April 7, 2017, Huffington Post, 'Joan Baez Tears Into 'Future Dictator' Donald Trump In New 'Nasty Man' Song; "You better talk to a shrink because you've got serious psychological disorders."': "Baez tells the president that he "owes the Earth a pardon" before ridiculing his plans for a Mexico-U.S. border wall."
  • February 21, 2018, Los Angeles Times, 'Column: Joan Baez on 'Nasty Man' Donald Trump, #MeToo and her final tour as a musician': "Joan Baez takes her new album on tour in early March, and last month, she visited the California state Assembly, to mark the 70th anniversary of the crash of a plane sending migrant workers back to Mexico. For decades, Baez has sung "Deportee"... ["You went to Occupy Wall Street. You've been to women's marches."]"

• Famous frontman of U2, a band founded in Dublin, Ireland, in 1976.
• Together with Bobby Shriver, Bono founded Debt, AIDS, Trade, Africa (DATA) in January 2002. Start-up funding was provided by Bill Gates and George Soros, with whom Bono would develop a close relationship into pressuring G8 and European leaders into supporting their African causes. In 2008 DATA became the ONE Campaign, its board consisting of Bono, Shriver, Warren Buffett's daughter, Bill Gates and Open Society (Soros) represpentives, and persons tied to MTV, Facebook, USAID, the Enough Project and U.S. government. Quite a few of Bono's media friends are tied to the Sun Valley Meetings. A list of sources:

  

  • December 18, 2005, Time, 'The inside story of how the world's biggest rock star mastered the political game and persuaded the world's leaders to take on global poverty.': "Bono, as is his custom, invited pretty much everyone he thought would be interesting to drop by, which explains how George Clooney, Hollywood's leading lefty, and Paul Wolfowitz, president of the World Bank... Clooney: "He's so affectless. You felt like you're in the living room with your buddy who just happens to be a global rock star and has the world's best interests at heart." Says Wolfowitz: "Pomposity and arrogance are the enemies of getting things done. And Bono knows how to get things done." ...
    Ashley Judd mixes in the greenroom at a U2 show with Dean Kamen, inventor of the Segway scooter...
    At Gleneagles—where Bono and his policy-and-advocacy body, DATA, met with five of the eight heads of state at the summit—the G-8 approved an unprecedented $50 billion aid package—including $25 billion for Africa...
    Through Shriver's brother-in-law Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bono met Ohio Republican John Kasich... Bob Geldof, one of Bono's closest friends, came up with the name DATA...
    After coaxing $1 million grants out of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, George Soros and software businessman Ed Scott, DATA got real office space and hired lobbyists... DATA employees churned out policy papers, while Hatch, Sheridan and Shriver organized intimate, bipartisan dinner parties (sample guest list: Senators Jesse Helms, Patrick Leahy and Orrin Hatch; former World Bank president Jim Wolfensohn [Rockefeller-Soros favorite]; Clinton Treasury Secretary Larry Summers [Rockefeller-soros favorite]) to cement relationships...
    After 9/11, DATA seized the opportunity to lobby for new policy. Africa is 40% Muslim, and Tom Hart, DATA's director of government relations, argued that it might be nice to make some friends there. ...
    Tony Blair and Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown (dubbed by Bono the "John and Paul of global development")..."
  • one.org/us/about/oneboard.html (accessed: August 1, 2009): "Bono ... Joshua Bolten ... spent the last eight years working in the White House under President George W. Bush... from April 2006 through January 2009, he served as White House Chief of Staff. ... Susan A. Buffett [daughter of Warren Buffett] ... Joe Cerrell: Director, Global Health Policy & Advocacy, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ... John Doerr... Jamie Drummond ... Tom Freston: Chairman of the Board, ONE [and 1987-2004 MTV CEO]... Morton H. Halperin: [Soros'] Open Society Institute ... David Lane: President & CEO, ONE [formerly of the] Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation [and] Clinton Administration [as well as] a member of the Council on Foreign Relations... Jeff Raikes: Chief Executive Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ... Bobby Shriver: Co-Founder..."
  • one.org/canada/about/leadership/: "Bono ... Bobby Shriver ... David Cameron ... Gayle E. Smith, President and CEO, ONE [and co-founder Enough Project with National Security Council and Soros asset John Prendergast, a close ally of George Clooney and other actors in the Not On Our Watch group]. ... Joe Cerrell [of the] Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. John Doerr ... Joshua Bolten, President & CEO, Business Roundtable... Kevin Sheekey [Bloomberg] ... Lawrence Summers ... Mark Suzman [of the] Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. ... Morton H. Halperin, Senior Advisor, Open Society Foundations. Ronald O. Perelman ... Sheryl Sandberg [Facebook] ... Susan A. Buffett ... "
  • February 6, 2009, Fortune, 'The most wanted man on the planet': "A friend since the early days of U2 and MTV, Bono chased Freston with more intensity than Winfrey did. "We ganged up on Tom," says Bono, explaining that he tapped Bill Gates, Rupert Murdoch, and venture capitalist John Doerr in his recruiting effort. "Steve Jobs called me and said, 'Why don't you run RED?'" recalls Freston. "I told him, 'I don't want to run RED.'" But as Oprah learned, the guy's a sucker for a higher calling. Freston read voluminous data, traveled to Washington to talk poverty with Condoleezza Rice, studied Bono's organizations, and recommended merging DATA and ONE. He oversaw restaffings and helped recruit new CEOs for ONE and RED. A year ago, after enough arm-twisting, he agreed to chair ONE and join the RED board. ...
    He followed the advice of his billionaire pal David Geffen to get out of the stock market... Last summer, if you had the right map, you could have found Freston running around Kabul with a cameraman, researching one of two film projects there. Says Katzenberg: "In his heart and his gut, Tom is a mad adventurer.""
• Bono-Soros relationship more in-depth:
  • September 22, 2013, The Guardian, 'Bono: 'There's a difference between cosying up to power and being close to power'': "I shook the hand of Condoleezza Rice. And I walked out of there thinking I had done a decent job, and then I got our board on the phone. We have quite a demanding board [it has included Bill Gates and Warren Buffett among others]. George Soros in particular was horrified. Out of the speakerphone, Soros, one of my great heroes, says to me: "You have sold out for a bowl of lentils! What have you done? How could you take these people at their word?" He was right to question it..."
  • September 22, 2013, The Blaze, '83-Year-Old Billionaire George Soros Weds 42-Year-Old Woman': "Among the reception guests [for Soros' wedding] were World Bank President Jim Yong Kim and some foreign leaders, including Hendrik Toomas Ilves, president of Estonia; Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, president of Liberia; and Edi Rama, prime minister of Albania. [IMF manager] Christine Lagarde ... and Bono... Also expected to attend were fellow titans of the hedge fund world, Paul Tudor Jones... Nancy Pelosi [also invited] ... On Friday night, the couple held a reception for 300 guests at the [Rockefeller's] Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan... In lieu of gifts, the couple asked that donations be made to charities, including Global Witness [and] Planned Parenthood..."
  • January 31, 2011, De Morgen, 'Bono en George Soros op de koffie bij Van Rompuy in Zwitserse Davos' (translated): "On Saturday European president Herman Van Rompuy has has had a meeting at the Swiss Davos with ... Bono and ... George Soros. The duo came to Van Rompuy for support in the struggle against 'blood minerals'. ... The frontman of U2 is loyal guest at Davos..."
  • One of various One.org commercials with famous actors: April 24, 2007 upload by "ONE", 'ONE TV Spot (April 2007)': "ONE Vote TV Spot, featuring Brad Pitt, Penelope Cruz, P Didddy, Susan Surandon, Edward Norton, Cameron Diaz, Dennis Hopper, Justin Timberlake, Al Pacino, Antonio Banderas, Alfre Woodard, Noah Wiley, Jack Valente, Jewel, Bono, Kevin Bacon, Tom Hanks, Benicio Del Toro, Ryan Gosling, Ellen Degeneres, Rita Wilson, George Clooney, Bishop Frank Griswold, Emma Thompson and Jamie Fox."
• Controversy surrounding Bono and One:
  • November 11, 2017, New York Post, 'Inside Bono's boundless hypocrisy': (article primarily criticizes that Bono is deeply involved in tax evasion while calling on people and corporations to pay their taxes): "In 2015, One spent $768,000 in "direct expenses" on the star-studded Red Gala at Carnegie Hall attended by Miley Cyrus, Bill Clinton, Stephen Colbert and Joe Biden. That $768,000 could have paid for 57 primary schools — or sent 256 women to university for a year."
  • September 23, 2010, Daily Mail, 'Bono's ONE foundation under fire for giving little over 1% of funds to charity' (note: it's a pure actvism group): "The non-profit organisation set up by the U2 frontman received almost £9.6million in donations in 2008 but handed out only £118,000 to good causes (1.2 per cent). The figures published by the New York Post also show that £5.1million went towards paying salaries. ... ONE said it took no money from the public and that most of its funding came from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation."
• Friends with Sean Penn and Johnny Depp, whose daughters all also are friends.

• Famous artist. Born 1947. Very eccentric. Age age 13 he became fascinated with Tibetan Buddhism through stories of Shangri-La. Entered the Dalai Lama's (old?) CIA/MI6-backed circle around 1963-1964, which advised him to focus on his music. First album in 1967, but didn't slowly break through until the early 1970s over the space of several albums. Moved to West-Berlin, Germany, together with his friend Iggy Pop, in 1976. Became a devout Nazi in this period and apparently continued his interest in Nazi mythology. Later on became a champion of the black cause.
• At age 16-17 (1963-1964), Bowie tried to become a Buddhist monk and spent several months studying at under Chime Rinpoche, one of the key founders of Buddhism in Great Britain. Before fleeing to India in 1959 and being allowed to study at Oxford University in 1965, Chime had gone to see Chinese communist dictator Mao alongside the Dala Lama (Tenzin Gyatso, since 1940). Chime's father had been a teacher of the Dalai Lama - who was CIA-supported after he fled to India and since then a major Rockefeller globalist ally.
  • samyeling.org/about/ (accessed: September 18, 2018): "Founded in 1967 by two spiritual masters, Dr. Akong Tulku Rinpoche and Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche [with whom David Bowie mentor Chime came over to the UK, with Chime still being in charge anno 2018], Samye Ling was the first Tibetan Buddhist Centre to be established in the West and was named after Samye, the very first monastery to be established in Tibet. ... Samye Ling is part of ROKPA Trust... [Located in] Eskdalemuir... Scotland..."
  • May 22, 2016, Telegraph, David Bowie's Buddhist Master: 'David rang me up and said I have a very big problem': "Chime Rinpoche, who arrived in Britain as a refugee in 1965, and who proudly notes that he is the only Tibetan lama to qualify for a pension and a Freedom Pass for London transport, was David Bowie's teacher and friend for almost 50 years. ...
    In 1956 he was among the party of lamas that accompanied the young Dalai Lama to China to meet Mao Tse-tung, when Mao smothered the Dalai Lama in blandishments and then issued the ominous pronouncement that 'religion is poison'."
  • February 21, 2001, Newsday, 'Stardust Memories / Without Tibet House, David Bowie never may have gotten Ziggy with it. Now the pop star returns the favor by performing at the annual benefit concert.': "Over the next four years [from age 13], his interest in Buddhism and Tibet grew until he was visiting the Tibet House in London up to four times a week. ...
    [At age 16] the man in the saffron robes, Chime Yong Dong Rinpoche, became Jones' guru for several months [Chime Rinpoche also mentored Tony Visconti, who regularly worked with David Bowie since 1969]. "After a few months of study, he told me, 'You don't want to be Buddhist,'" Bowie said. "He said, 'You should follow music.'" That is what he did. Since his debut in 1966, David Bowie... The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer has topped the charts consistently since 1969 with his first hit, "Space Oddity.""
  • October 2, 1998, New York Times, 'World News Briefs; Dalai Lama Group Says It Got Money From C.I.A.': "The Dalai Lama's administration acknowledged today that it received $1.7 million a year in the 1960's from the Central Intelligence Agency, but denied reports that the Tibetan leader benefited personally from an annual subsidy of $180,000. ...
    The Dalai Lama, 63, a revered spiritual leader both in his Himalayan homeland and in Western nations, fled Tibet in 1959 after a failed uprising against a Chinese military occupation, which began in 1950.
    The decade-long covert program to support the Tibetan independence movement was part of the C.I.A.'s worldwide effort to undermine Communist governments..."
• David Bowie supported Tibet House in New York City, an NGO deeply linked to the "liberal CIA", Rockefeller network:
  • June 18, 2018 YouTube upload by "DB and TM Mostly Live", 'David Bowie Tibet House Benefit 2002 and 2003'.
  • March 1, 2010, Rolling Stone, 'David Bowie Through the Years': "Like his friends Lou Reed and Iggy Pop, Bowie supported Tibet House. He performed at the Tibet House Benefit Concert at Carnegie Hall in 2001."
• Prominent Nazi in the 1970s:
  • January 18, 2012, Rolling Stone, 'Cover Story Excerpt: David Bowie': "He became intrigued by Third Reich history and Nazi mythology. He had said years earlier in an interview, "I believe very strongly in fascism." In 1974 he told Playboy, "Adolf Hitler was one of the first rock stars. Look at some of the films and see how he moved. I think he was quite as good as Jagger." In Strange Fascination, Buckley reports that customs officers detained Bowie at the Russian-Polish border in April 1976, and seized a collection of Nazi memorabilia. ... The worst moment came in 1976, when Bowie arrived in an open-top Mercedes-Benz convertible at London's Victoria Station and was photographed giving what some people wrongly thought was a Nazi salute. ...
    The longer Bowie stayed in Berlin, the more he came to understand the ruin that fascism had done to Germany and Europe. He was repelled by nationalists and racists, and was horrified to see his name made into a swastika in graffiti. He later called his interests "ghastly," and said he had been coming out of a year of terrible duress. "I was out of my mind, totally, completely crazed.""
• From the early 1980s on he turned in the exact opposite, an antifa/pro-black "liberal CIA" asset:
  • 1983 David Bowie interview with Mark Goodman on MTV, with David Bowie asking (Bowie looks scarily "outraged" near the end; even more scary is 13k likes vs 300 dislikes of the video, with nobody understanding the propaganda or that only a decade before, Bowie was a devout Nazi): "It occurred to me, having watched MTV over the last few months, it's a solid enterprise and it's got a lot going for it, but I'm just floored by the fact that so few black artists are featured on it. ... The only few black artists that one does see, are on about 2:30 in the morning to around 6. very few are featured prodominantly during the day. ... I'll say that over the last couple of weeks, these things have been changing, but it's a slow process. ... It seems that there are a lot of black artists making very good videos which, I'm surprised, aren't used on MTV. ... Do you not find it's a frightening predicament to be in?"
  • Past involvement in the Tides, Ford and Nathan Cummings Foundation-financed Artists for a New South Africa, along with countless "liberal CIA" actors and musicians.
  • February 2, 2016, Rolling Stone, 'Michael Moore: Bob Dylan Loved 'Fahrenheit 9/11'; "Had a bit more trouble when he tried to secure David Bowie's "Panic in Detroit" for his 1997 documentary, The Big One. "Whoever determines these things initially turned us down," says Moore. "I finally just made a call to David myself and he gave me the song. I've read stuff since his death saying that he wasn't that political and he stayed away from politics. But that wasn't the conversation that I had with him. ... We live in a better world as a result of the Springsteens and the David Bowies and the Dylans.""
• In 2000 he became a neighbor of Moby, with whom he grew very close. In the Trump era, Moby claimed to have all kinds of CIA friends who clearly were feeding him disinformation on Trump - with Moby all to happy to go along with it.
  • January 18, 2018, radiomilwaukee.org, 'Moby talks Kurt Vonnegut, David Bowie, and Donald Trump': "In 2000 my manager called me and said, "Is it okay if I pass your email address onto David Bowie?" ... Turns out that he had moved across the street from me. So we were neighbors and we would get coffee together and we had holidays together and we went on tour together and we worked on music together."

• Famous singer who earned hundreds of millions in revenues.
• Married to singer, Palm Springs mayor (1988-1992), congressman (1995 until his death in 1998) Sonny Bono 1969-1975. Hosted The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour on CBS 1971-1974, and the The Sonny and Cher Show 1976-1977. Their child, Chaz Bono, became a hugely famous transgender. Sonny Bono was broken after the breakup with Cher and claimed Scientology saved him:
  • February 1998, Variety, 'Solo Bono': "According to Sonny, he stayed in the state of confusion for nearly ten years, until he got exposed to Scientology. "I took acting lessons two years ago at Milton Katselas's—a lot of people study with him—and he's a Scientologist. And a friend of ours, Mimi Rogers, who's now married to Tom Cruise, was a Scientologist auditor. And she knew there was something there, and she was going on and on, and I said, 'Mimi, I don't want to hear all this bullshit about Scientology.' She goes, 'Look, great. Just let me go over some stuff with you. If you use it, fine. If not, fine.' So she was like my first auditor on it. And it was helpful, it was real helpful." The breakup [with Cher] was so shattering that it took him ten years and Scientology to get over it?"
• Around this same time, Cher had a fling with new Scientology recruit Tom Cruise:
  • May 30, 2017, eonline.com, 'Tom Cruise's Romantic History: Cher': "It wasn't until around 2008 that the entertainment icon opened up about her mid-'80s fling with Cruise. "I was crazy about him," Cher told Oprah Winfrey. Reminiscent of what De Mornay said about him being an innocent, the singer recalled, "He was shy. He said he felt like such a boob in school and nobody talked to him. We went on a date once for dinner in a New York restaurant and the waitress was from his old school. He told me she never talked to him back in school, but now he was recognized he got all her attention. It could have been a great big romance because I was crazy for him."
    On Watch What Happens Live! in 2013, Cher said Cruise definitely made her "top five" list of lovers in life. "It was a long, long time ago and neither one of us ever talked about it and I don't know why," she told Andy Cohen. "When we were together he was such a private person. He always has been until lately. He didn't mention it and I didn't mention it. I loved him though, he was amazing.""
• Supporter of the American Foundation for AIDS Research (amFAR), discussed in the biography of Sharon Stone as receiving funds from Ford Foundation and undoubtedly a lot of other foundations and groups. Madonna has also been deeply involved with amFAR.
• Supporter of Keep a Child Alive, a group discussed in the biography of Alicia Keys as receiving funds from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and a variety of corporations and other groups.
• Since 2016 a counsellor of the big business-founded One Young World group, together with former International Crisis Group (Soros) trustees Kofi Annan and Desmond Tutu, former president Bill Clinton, John Kerry, Richard Branson and many other elites, including actors and actresses.
  • oneyoungworld.com/counsellors (accessed: May 15, 2018): "Justin Trudeau ... Kofi Annan ... Emma Watson ... Muhammad Yunus ... Desmond Tutu ... Cher ... Mary Robinson, Former President of Ireland ... Bill Clinton ... Bob Geldof ... Meghan Markle ... Jamie Oliver ... Arianna Huffington ... Sir Richard Branson ... Paul Polman, CEO, Unilever ... Natalia Vodianova ... Bruce Dickinson, Lead Singer, Iron Maiden ... Ahmed Kathrada, South African Politician ... Jack Dorsey, Co-founder & CEO of Twitter ... Angelica Cheung, Editor-in-Chief, Vogue China ... Boris Becker ... Fatima Bhutto ... Jimmy Wales ... Jean-Paul Agon, Chairman and CEO of L'Oreal ... Roger Federer ... Clarence Seedorf ... John Simpson, BBC World Affairs Editor ... Jon Landau, Oscar-winning Film Producer, "Titanic" and "Avatar". Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway. Crown Prince Haakon, Crown Prince of Norway. ... Nadya Tolokonnikova, Pussy Riot Member and Political Activist. President Vicente Fox ... President Vinicio Cerezo ... Lauren Bush ... President Jorge Quiroga ... Maajid Nawaz ... Carl-Henric Svanberg, Chairman, BP & Volvo ... Joss Stone ... Doutzen Kroes ... Harley Finkelstein, Chief Operating Officer at Shopify ... Alvaro Uribe, Ex-President of Colombia. Tawakkol Karman [Muslim]. Kathy Calvin, President and CEO, United Nations Foundation. ... Nick Haysom, United Nations Director of Political Affairs. ... John Kerry ... President Santos, President of Colombia. Mayor Pauline Krikke, Mayor of the Hague. ... Jan Peter Balkenende: ... former Prime Minister of The Netherlands. ... Lord Michael Hastings ... Ken Costa: Chairman of Lazard International. ... Carolyn Everson: Vice President, Global Marketing Solutions at Facebook and Instagram. Kal Penn: Actor and Ex-Associate Director at the White House Office. ... Oscar Morales: Founder One Million Voices Against FARC. ... Vinicio Cerezo: President of Guatemala, 1986-91. ... Eberhard von Koerber: Co-President of the Club of Rome. Kenneth Roth: Executive Director, Human Rights Watch. ... Wyclef Jean ... Mike Davis: Asia Director, Global Witness. ... Nargis Fakhri: Model and actress."
• January 21, 2017, ibtimes.co.uk, 'Hollywood women Julia Roberts, Charlize Theron and Madonna join marches against President Donald Trump; Hollywood's biggest female stars took to the streets to raise their voices in defence of women's rights.': "Just a day after Donald Trump was sworn in as President, Oscar winners Julia Roberts and Charlize Theron, Jessica Chastain, Scarlett Johhanson, Emma Watson, Ashley Judd, Bella Thorne, sixties star Cher, models Chrissy Teigen and Padma Lakshmi and comedians Amy Schumer and Lena Dunham [partnered with Planned Parenthood] protested the President's stand on abortion, diversity and climate change. ...
  Singer Cher, who famously said she wanted to move to 'another planet' if Trump was elected President joined the march on DC. The I Got You Babe singer told Mario Lopez at Extra in October: "I'm horrified. With every fibre of my real self I could not imagine a world where there was a President Trump. I don't know how other people cannot see he really is unhinged.""

• British soft-rock band founded in 1996. Became world-famous in 2000 with their album Parachutes.
• Anti-Trump and pro-Third World immigration climate activists, but VERY soft with the former two topics:
  • July 18, 2017, middleeasteye.net, 'Rock band Coldplay releases song praising US immigrants; Guest rapper Big Sean speaks of struggling in contemporary America': "Coldplay hailed the contributions of immigrants to the United States on Saturday as the English rockers released a video for a new song called Miracles (Someone Special).
    Without any explicit reference to President Donald Trump and his crackdown on immigration, Coldplay made clear that the history of the United States goes beyond people of European heritage. ...
    The band said proceeds from Aliens would support a charity that rescues migrants attempting the perilous trip across the Mediterranean into Europe. ...
    Coldplay earlier this month released the track Aliens after performing at the Global Citizen concert against global poverty on the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit in Hamburg."
  • November 21, 2019, BBC, 'Coldplay to pause touring until concerts are 'environmentally beneficial'': "By putting their concerts on hold, they're giving up a huge pay day: The Head Full of Dream tour made $523m."
• Started promote vegetarianism in 2009 through Meat Free Monday, alongside PETA, top globalist Sir Richard Branson and son, a window of Giovanni Agnelli (a key Bilderberg family), David de Rothschild, the MI6 and Rothschild Zac Goldsmith, Hollywood and several other musicians:
  • coldplay.com/newsdetail.php?id=426&page=0 (accessed: June 20, 2009): "Good afternoon. Chris and the band have asked us to let you know that they're supporting the new Meat Free Monday campaign which launched this week, encouraging people to help slow climate change by having at least one meat free day a week."
  • supportmfm.org/supporters.php (accessed: June 18, 2009): "Sir Paul McCartney [the only one]"
  • supportmfm.org/supporters/ (accessed: February 6, 2010): "[top globalist] Sir Richard Branson: "I love eating meat, but I love our planet even more, so I will join this campaign and stop eating meat at least one day a week"...
    Sir David King, Director, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, Oxford University...
    Suzanne Barnard. Charity manager, The PETA Foundation (PETAF.org.uk)...
    Annette Pinner, Chief Executive of the Vegetarian Society...
    More celebrity supporters: Kate Bosworth ... David de Rothschild ... Woody Harrelson ... Kevin Spacey ... Bryan Adams. Gillian Anderson. Alec Baldwin. ... Sheryl Crow ... Ricky Gervais ... Yoko Ono ... Zac Goldsmith ... Moby ... Kelly Osbourne..."
  • supportmfm.org/supporters/ (accessed: March 20, 2011): "[New names only:] Gwyneth Paltrow ... Avery Agnelli [widow of Giovanni Agnelli, of the Bilderberg and 1001 Club family] ... Sam Branson [son of Sir Richard Branson] ..."
  • meatfreemondays.com/supporter_categories/people/ (accessed: March 14, 2020): "Sir Richard Branson ... Leona Lewis ... Emma Thompson ... "
• Coldplay is a patron of climate change NGO ClientEarth - supported by Pink Floyd - alongside the MI6, disinformation and Rothschild-tied Zac Goldsmith. This NGO also has Frances Beinecke on both its US and UK branch's board of trustees. Beinecke was chair of the Rockefeller, Soros, Ford, etc. foundations-financed Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). She is a major elitist in the conservation world.
  • November 16, 2010, coldplay.com, 'Coldplay become patrons of ClientEarth': "The band's creative director and fifth member Phil Harvey is one of ClientEarth's trustees. The band join the producer of their last album Brian Eno, as well as the MP and former editor of the Ecologist Zac Goldsmith, as patrons of the organisation."
  • Zac Goldsmith: Son of the MI6-tied, Henry Kissinger friend Sir James Goldsmith. One son of Sir James, Ben Goldsmith, was married to Kate Emma Rothschild (1982-) from 2003 to 2012. Sir James' other son, the above Zac Goldsmith (1975-), married to Alice Miranda Rothschild (1983-) in 2013. Both Rothschilds were daughters of Amschel Rothschild (1955-1996), a half-brother of Lord Jacob Rothschild. Amschel mysteriously committed suicide in 1996. Zac Goldsmith was the most prominent UK MP involved in pushing the Carl Beech disinformation on elite pedophile networks in the UK.
  • clientearth.org/community/patrons/ (accessed: March 14, 2020): "Coldplay [only ones left]"
  • clientearth.org/people/beinecke-frances/ (accessed: March 14, 2020): "Trustee [UK and US]. Her career with NRDC spanned more than 40 years, and prior to becoming President in 2006, Ms. Beinecke served as the organisation's Executive Director for 8 years. ... In 2010, Ms. Beinecke was appointed by President Obama to the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling. She is a member of the Secretary of Energy's Advisory Board (SEAB), the Advisory Board of the MIT Energy Initiative, and the board of World Resources Institute (WRI). She also serves on the boards of the National Academies of Science, the Energy Future Coalition, the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions and the American Conservation Association.
    Ms. Beinecke has co-chaired the Leadership Council of Yale School of Forestry, is a member of the Yale School of Management's Advisory Board and is a former member of the Yale Corporation, Yale's governing board."
  • 2016 annual report, ClientEarth, p. 53: "[Income:] Adessium Foundation ... Walton Family Foundation ... European Climate Foundation ... JMG Foundation..."

• Country group whose first CD was in 1990. They only broke through with their fourth CD, Wide Open Spaces (1998) and kept doing well over the years. Their last album was in 2006, Taking the Long Way, which debuted at #1 and won 5 grammy awards.
• In March 2003, during the run up to the Iraq War, Dixie Chicks lead singer, Maines, criticized the Bush administration and its very obviously criminal Iraq War aspirations. As a result, 30% of country music stations around the U.S. stopped playing their new hit songs. After laughing off initial criticism, singer Natalie Maines actually issued an apology to the Bush regime when the (obviously contrived) "controversy" grew and her hit songs started dropping in the charts, completely undermining her credibility as an activist:
• March 20, 2003, BBC, 'Dixies dropped over Bush remark': "Country superstars the Dixie Chicks have been dropped from many US radio playlists after one of the singers criticised President Bush's stance on Iraq.
  Airplay for the group's songs is down 29% on country stations, and 20% on general music stations around the country, a monitoring group has said. ...
  In a statement she said: "As a concerned American citizen, I apologise to President Bush because my remark was disrespectful."I feel that whoever holds that office should be treated with the utmost respect."I just want to see every possible alternative exhausted before children and American soldiers' lives are lost. I love my country. I am a proud American."Despite the furore, the Grammy-winning group's album Home did not budge from the top spot in the country charts. Their single Travelin' Soldier fell briefly from the number one spot, but climbed back to the top again."
• In 2004, right before the elections, the Dixie Chicks were part of a Soros-funded tour to help unseat Bush. Some other leading groups on this tour also are known globalist / "liberal CIA" assets.
  • September 29, 2004, Financial Times, 'Devil is in the detail with "Satan" Soros': "Soros, who has emerged as a potent one-man mission against Mr Bush's re-election, is doing what he can. ... Backed by [the Soros-funded] MoveOn.org, the pro-Kerry group, a coalition of 21 artists including R.E.M., Pearl Jam, ... and the Dixie Chicks embarks this week on an 11-day tour through battleground states to rock the "Vote for Change" [to get rid of Bush]."
• Starting in 2015, the Dixie Chicks, its lead singer Nathalie Maines in particular, started a hostile "liberal CIA"-type propaganda campaign against Trump:
  • June 4, 2016, EW, 'Dixie Chicks mock Donald Trump with photo at Cincinnati concert': "The country group performed "Goodbye Earl" in front of a photo slideshow, which included a defaced picture of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump [looking like the devil]."
  • August 11, 2016 tweet of Nathalie Maines, lead singer of the Dixie Chicks: "I get banned for not liking Bush and now Trump can practically put a hit out on Hillary and he's still all over country radio! Hypocrites!"
  • April 4, 2017, Washington Times, 'Dixie Chicks frontwoman Natalie Maines to Trump: 'I hate you' for bringing out worst in me': ""So, @realDonaldTrump I'm just desperate for you to care about all people. Black, white, poor, rich, gay, straight. I need you to care," she continued. "Because @realDonaldTrump in the end it's all that really matters. How pure was your heart? Not how much $ did you make?""
  • May 19, 2017 tweet of Nathalie Maines, lead singer of the Dixie Chicks: "Please don't get us killed while you're abroad. Zip it!! Your actions from such deep insecurity effect us all now. @realDonaldTrump."
  • August 4, 2017 tweet of Nathalie Maines: "Happy Birthday to Obama! The world misses your sanity and your smile and you voice and your sanity and your family and your sanity and your compassion and your grasp of the English language and your heart and your soul and your brain and your leadership and your class and your swagger! And did I mention that we miss your sanity?"
  • August 15, 2017 tweet of Nathalie Maines: "Sometimes you don't wait for a permit to fight racism and antisemites. FYI Donald Trump...both..."
  • August 28, 2017 tweet of Nathalie Maines: "This is how I feel every morning when I wake up and see that Trump still hasn't choked on a Trump steak."
  • January 15, 2018, ''Dixie Chicks' Singer Attacks Trump for Being 'Elderly'': "Natalie Maines ... took to Instagram Sunday to mock President Donald Trump's age and accuse him of senility."
  • March 24, 2018 tweet of Nathalie Maines: "I love this picture from the Houston March [police officer with make up it seems hand in hand with a white, Asian and black girl, with countless Third World immigrants behind]. This says it all. 97% of Americans want more gun control!"
  • March 25, 2018 tweet of Nathalie Maines: "Hey, @realDonaldTrump , Whatcha up to this weekend? #marchforourlives"
  • July 3, 2018 tweet of Nathalie Maines, lead singer of the Dixie Chicks: "Donate to help families reunite. Since Trump is doing nothing, it's up to us. @FLOTUS #ICare: Immigrant Families Together."
  • July 17, 2018 tweets of Nathalie Maines, lead singer of the Dixie Chicks: "Such a relief that Putin cleared up the whole issue of hacking and influencing our elections. Breathing easy now. I was actually starting to get worried Trump was an idiot. [and] You are guilty of something. So arrogant and scared. A weak coward. Admiring and capitulating to a much smarter dictator [Trump]."

• Pop, rock, country, and blues singer and song-writer who became a huge success in the mid 1990s.
• Anti-Trump and pro-Third World immigration:
  • June 24, 2018, The Independent.ie, 'Sheryl Crow blasts Trump immigration policy at Isle of Wight Festival': "Singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow has said US President Donald Trump is without compassion and empathy over his immigration policy. ... The 56-year-old said: "Well, it would be interesting if his wife was deported. Our country was founded on immigrants.""
  • May 18, 2017, Sheryl Crow on Good Morning Britain (YouTube channel), ''Sheryl Crow Wants Donald Trump to Be Impeached | Good Morning Britain' (words loaded with fake empathy and the twisting of facts): "I'm on the Outlaws Tour, which is like ["liberal CIA" assets] Willie Nelson and maybe some Neil Young and some Bob Dylan...
    We don't know what the truth is [with Trump]. There is so much money in Washington. And I feel sad for the people that voted for him, who are still really hoping that they are going to deliver for them [not with liberal elites sabotaging every single move he makes]. There are a lot of people who are hurting in America [i.e. in their "pain" they voted for strict immigration policies]. Just as all over the world. And they believed in him. And it has been my worry from the very beginning. Well, it's my hope that sooner than later he's not in office anymore. The word impeachment definitely comes out of my mouth. We need a functioning government and it has been for the last 144 days nothing but chaos. [note: chaos caused by liberal elites; and that's a very, very specific number of days...]"
  • Elite ties:
    • In 2000 she was invited to the rather secret Forstmann Little Conference, attended by elites as Henry Kissinger, George Shultz, Colin Powell, Lynn Forester de Rothschild, Nelson Mandela, etc. Noticing this was the first time ISGP started asking questions about Crow.
    • enoughproject.org/upstanders/celebrity (accessed: February 23, 2018): "Kristen Bell ... Sheryl Crow ... Ryan Gosling [very close friend of Prendergast] ..." The Enough Project was founded in 2007 by former Clinton National Security Council Africa experts Gayle Smith and especially International Crisis Group (Soros) employee and Clinton Global Initiative visitor John Prendergast to stop conflict in Sudan (Darfur), Northern Uganda and the Eastern Congo. The project is tied to many other Hollywood stars.
    • Part of Stephen Colbert's Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear in 2010.
    • Appears to have been regularly involved with the Rockefeller family-owned Museum of Modern Art.
• September 6, 2018 tweet of Sheryl Crow (quite a bit of Trump bashing): "Best day ever!!! Guess who I ran into in the hall at @fallontonight... Sir Paul McCartney! Amazingly beautiful man!"

• World-famous musician of the 1960s-1970s deeply involved in the counterculture of the time. Thus, one would expect "anti-Trump" and "anti-racism" views from him in the modern era, as well as a continued allegiance to "liberal CIA" asset Howard Zinn. This indeed is the case.

  

  • December 9, 2009, 'Bob Dylan performs Woody Guthrie's "Do Re Me" in The People Speak' [of Howard Zinn and countless allies].
  • May 24, 2017, blastingnews.com, 'How Bob Dylan hinted at the rise of Trump back in 2012: Five years ago, Bob Dylan warned of the dangers of ignoring racism in America': "In a September, 2012, issue of "Rolling Stone," with the headline, "Bob Dylan Unleashed," the music legend covered a myriad of issues [including racism]...
    When asked if he found any similarities between America in the 1860s, and 2012, Dylan pulled no punches. "The United States burned and destroyed itself for the sake of slavery ... People at each other's throats just because they are of a different color ... Blacks know that some whites didn't want to give up slavery ... It's doubtful that America's ever going to get rid of that stigmatization ... If slavery had been given up in a more peaceful way, America would be far ahead today. ... If you got a slave master or Klan in your blood, blacks can sense that. That stuff lingers to this day. Just like Jews can sense Nazi blood and the Serbs can sense Croatian blood...""
  • June 14, 2020, NME, 'Bob Dylan calls George Floyd death "beyond ugly" and hopes "justice comes swift"; "It sickened me no end to see George tortured to death like that"'.
  • June 5, 2020 Reddit post, 'Why hasn't Bob posted support for #BLM on his social media?': "[Answer:] "Thirty-some years, whenever I go to a march or a sit-in, or a lie-in, or a be-in, or a jail-in, people'd say 'Is Bob coming?' I'd say, 'He never comes, you moron!' You know, 'When are you going to get it? Never did, probably never will.'" --Joan Baez."
• Ended up a huge fan of Michael Moore's rather manipulative, white-hating Bowling for Columbine, and outright cover up movie Faherenheit 9/11.
  • February 2, 2016, Rolling Stone, 'Michael Moore: Bob Dylan Loved 'Fahrenheit 9/11'; "He just kept going on and on about the importance of 'Fahrenheit 9/11,'" says filmmaker of 2005 meeting with Dylan': "[After seeing me at one of his concerts he invited me backstage.] "He started talking about Bowling for Columbine and Fahrenheit 9/11," he says. "He goes, 'You won the Oscar for Bowling for Columbine, but I think you should have gotten it for Fahrenheit 9/11 too.' He just kept going on and on about the importance of Fahrenheit 9/11." ...
    "One time after Roger and Me came out, I went with a bunch of friends to see [Bruce Springsteen] at the Palace of Auburn Hills. We were up in the pre-nosebleed section. When he finished a song, he went, 'Michael Moore, this is for you.' One of my friends just couldn't stop crying."
• While Dylan doesn't seem to be particularly active politically, one of his sons, Jesse Dylan, is a CFR member and - more stunningly - the CFR's filmmaker for its promotion videos. Jesse als is a Huffington Post contributor, and movie director in "liberal CIA"-dominated Hollywood, crusades against "racism", and directed an insider film about about George Soros:
  • cfr.org/membership/membership-roster-a-f (accessed: September 12, 2018): "Jesse Dylan..."
  • linkedin.com/in/lshieldslks/: "Lisa Shields: Vice President, Global Communications and Media Relations, Council on Foreign Relations... Jan. 2003 – present... Produced, with award-winning director Jesse Dylan, "About CFR" and "About Foreign Affairs" brand videos (below)."
  • May 12, 2017 YouTube upload by "Council on Foreign Relations", 'About the Council on Foreign Relations': "Political turmoil. National security. Climate change [twice]. Humanitarian crises. Violent extremism. The drug war. Women's rights. Nuclear proliferation.
    - [CFR president] Richard Haass: ... We don't have the luxury of saying nuclear proliferation, or climate, or terrorism, or anything else is the next existential threat. It's gonna be a crowded agenda. ... We don't take institutional positions here. We don't take money from goverments [just from multinationals and multibillion dollar NGOs]. ...
    - [HSAC member and CNN national security analyst] Juliette Kayyem [fake smile]: If you wanna live in a society that is receptive to new people and new ideas [i.e. open borders] and commerce and travel and globalization, it means in a world of 7 or 8 billion people. ... The Council is so grounded in facts and in what's happening in the world - without an agenda. ...
    - [Goldman Sachs and CFR co-chair] Robert Rubin: ... We're not political. We're not ideological...
    - [ABC Nightline anchor] Juju Chang: The Council on Foreign Relations is an unbiased, unvarnished view of policy. ... People have differences of opinion, even on the same panel. They appreciate their esteemed college, but they disagree.
    - Richard Haass: And what we wanna do is start a conversation in this country about the need for Americans to be better prepared for the world they are about to enter.
    - [Secular Muslim Palestinian Israel-Italian] Rula Jebreal: The debate among the thinkers, the intellectuals, the writers, the battle of ideas that is raging around the world, is taking place in the Council on Foreign Relations. ...
    - [Top globalist] Condoleezza Rice: The Council on Foreign Relations is a place where people can try to get to some kind of common understanding.
    - Angelina Jolie: Foreign policy can be so daunting. It can be so scary for people. And yet, the CFR makes it very accessible.
    - [Executive VP of Random House] Jon Meacham: We've never had a generation more globally attuned. The internet has totally broken down national barriers. ...
    - [FT associate editor] Rana Foroohar: People feel that they can really speak out and they can ask difficult questions get real answers."
  • Jan. 29, 2021, Atlanta Jewish Times, 'AJFF Intro: Soros': ""Soros" is admittedly a positive presentation... [It's] thorough and extremely well produced. It was directed by Jesse Dylan, son of Bob, which is probably why he was able to access the Soros family and his inner circle and follow him around the world [documenting how he became one of the] biggest contributors and crusaders against authoritarianism and hate."

• Rock, country and folk singer-songwriter who first broke through in the mid 1980s.
• Anti-Trump:
  • August 17, 2017, Rolling Stone, 'Steve Earle Talks Outlaws, Guy Clark and 'Fascist' Trump': "We've never had an orangutan in the White House before. ... He really is a fascist. Whether he intended to be or not, he's a real live fascist. ... There's a core problem and the best way to define it is: George W. Bush got into Yale. ... Trump's scary because he has the button."
  • June 27, 2018, Rolling Stone, 'Marc Ribot, Steve Earle Protest Trump on New Song 'Srinivas'': ""Madman pulled the trigger; Donald Trump loaded the gun," [Steve Earle] belts over a strummed acoustic guitar. ...
    [Ribot:] "I'm kind of an accidental internationalist [term used by David Rockefeller and Zbig Brzezinski as a stand-in for "globalist"] – and I see that he's not an isolated phenomenon.""
• Part of the antifa group Axis of Justice, founded in 2002 by Serj Tankian of System of a Down and the globalist and CIA-tied Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine. Axis of Justice was allied with the older antifa group Anti-Racist Action and, more importantly, with countless NGOs and individuals taking money from "liberal CIA" foundations as Soros and Ford.
• Part of the mid 2010 of the antifa / "liberal CIA" The Sound Strike group, a failed protest against Arizona's SB 1070 bill, meant to curb illegal immigration into the state, mainly from Mexico and other Central American countries.

• Cuban-American singerm who first international success with the song Conga in 1985.
• Very anti-Trump and open borders pusher:
  • September 10, 2015, Billboard, 'Emilio Estefan Drafts Wife Gloria Estefan, Santana and More to Battle Trump, Bigotry With 'We're All Mexican' Recording: Exclusive': "Grammy-winning producer Emilio Estefan has enlisted an all-star small army of famous friends -- including Carlos Santana, Thalia, Pepe Aguilar and his wife, singer Gloria Estefan -- to combat the spate of anti-Mexican rhetoric that Donald Trump sparked earlier this summer. ... With this song, [Emilio] adds, "I want to send a message that represents unity.""
  • December 3, 2017, Variety, 'Kennedy Center Honorees Talk American Dream, Overcoming Adversity in Trump-Free Ceremony': "This year's KenCen spotlight has fallen on ... Gloria Estefan, LL Cool J, Lionel Richie, and pioneering writer-producer and entrepreneur [and chief Soros-Rockefeller agent] Norman Lear."
• Elite ties:
  • Long-time husband Emilio Estefan: Appointed to the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities by President George W. Bush.
  • November 16, 2015, obamawhitehouse, 'President Obama Names Recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom': "Emilio Estefan ... Gloria Estefan..."
  • May 11, 2018, NBC News, ''The embodiment of the American Dream': Gloria Estefan honored with Atlantic Council award': "[Photo of] Gloria Estefan, with Gen. Curtis Scaparotti [and] former Pres. George W. Bush [with his arms around Estefan]... "
  • January 6, 2017, Variety, 'George Clooney, Paul McCartney, Meryl Streep Among Stars at Obamas' Farewell Bash': "[Present] along with Gloria Estefan, Magic Johnson, ... Bradley Cooper, Harvey Weinstein, ... John Legend and Chrissy Teigen, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Kelly Rowland, ... Tyler Perry, Robert De Niro, ... Stevie Wonder, Al Roker, Chris Rock, and Lena Dunham."

• English singer-songwriter and record producer going back to 1969.
• Peter Gabriel's name regularly surfaces in elite NGOs. Examples since the 1990s include the super-elite State of the World Forum and the similarly bizarre, new age, globalist conspiracy disinformation-linked World Commission for Global Consciousness and Spirituality, as well as the World Affairs Council of Northern California, The Elders in South Africa, and the Edge Foundation.
• Gabriel's WITNESS NGO has received "liberal CIA" financing:
  • petergabriel.com/focus/witness/ (accessed: May 10, 2018): "Peter co-founded WITNESS in 1992. A year earlier, a bystander, George Holliday, recorded the brutal beating of [the black] Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers. For the first time, people around the world saw the power of video to expose hidden abuses and catalyze social movements. This event started a global conversation around accountability. In response, Peter with the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (now Human Rights First) and the Reebok Foundation for Human Rights, established WITNESS with the vision that video technology could be used as a tool for the advancement of human rights."
  • witness.org/portfolio_page/peter-gabriel-chair/ (accessed: May 10, 2018): "In 1980 he founded WOMAD (World of Music Arts and Dance), which has presented 150 festivals in over 40 countries."
  • 2006-2017 Ford Foundation grants list: "Witness, Inc. ... 2006: $100,000. ... 2007: $100,000. ... 2008: $100,000. ... 2009: $200,000. ... 2010: $500,000 [and] $285,000. ... 2011: $350,000. ... 2013: $150,000 [and] $700,000. ... 2015: $300,000."

• Rose to prominence as the lead singer of the Irish rock band The Boomtown Rats in the late 1970s and early 1980s, writing several major hits. Starred in Pink Floyd's 1982 film Pink Floyd – The Wall as "Pink".
• Radically anti-Trump, anti-Brexit, but pro-Third World immigration:
  • September 5, 2015, Telegraph, 'Bob Geldof's offer to house refugees is 'pie in the sky'; Bob Geldof's offer to put up four Syrian refugee families at his homes in London and Kent is impractical "pie in the sky", says leading council official'.
  • September 29, 2016, Newsweek, 'Bob Geldof: Donald Trump is a 'Racist Liar Vomiting Bile Over The U.S.'': "Bob Geldof [said during] his opening ceremony speech at the One Young World Summit... "Let us [not] surrender to the post-truth politicians, those reality television actors, the Trumps, the Putins, the Erdogans, the Brexiters. We must not succumb to the fools. We must not be galled by the awful thuggishness of Putin, Erdogan, Xi or Trump, or the many other commanders in the armies of stupidity.""
• Co-founder of Bono's ONE Campaign, initially known as DATA and primarily financed by George Soros and Bill Gates (in later years the Buffett and Omidyar families also became involved):
  • December 2, 2009, The Independent, 'Bob Geldof: 'Who says aid doesn't work?'': "With Geldof throughout the trip was Jamie Drummond, the master strategist for the One campaign, the group set up by Bono and Geldof, with funding from Bill Gates, to lobby the US Congress."
  • one.org/10years/ (accessed: August 11, 2018): "The DATA Report is launched by Bob Geldof, Bono, and singer Angelique Kidjo. IT showed an increase of more than $3 billion in overseas development assistance since the 2005 G8."
• February 19, 2016, International Business Times, 'Idris Elba, Gillian Anderson and Simon Pegg ask David Cameron to open doors to child refugees' (from the out-of-control tent camp in Calais, with African migrants throwing rocks at passing vehicles and trying to climb into trailer trucks): "The celebrities who signed the letter: ... Gillian Anderson ... Benedict Cumberbatch ... Bianca Jagger [ex-wife of Mick Jagger 1971-1978], Bob Geldof ... Idris Elba ... Jude Law ... [top superclass member] Richard Branson, Richard Curtis ... Stephen Fry ..."
• Plenty of additional globalist ties, but for the time being this is considered more than enough for a listing.

• Psychedelic soft rock band active 1965 to 1995, when Jerry Garcia died. Remaining members occasionally came together from 2004, including for Obama's initial presidential election in 2008. Key members were original vocalist Ron "Pigpen" McKernan (1965-, died in 1972 from complications of an autoimmune disease), vocalist and lead guitarist Jerry Garcia (1965-1995), rhytm guitarist Bob Weir (1965-1995), drummer Mickey Hart (1967–1971; 1974–1995), bassist Phil Lesh (1965-1995), fellow-drummer Bill Kreutzmann (1965-1995).


• The Grateful Dead blew up during the 1967 "Summer of Love", a reference to roughly 100,000 hippies descending onto the LSD-infested, new age college student Haight-Ashbury neighborhood in San Francisco's Bay Area. The Grateful Dead moved into the neighborhood in September 1966 at 710 Ashbury St., right across the Hell's Angels chapter at 719 Ashbury St. The band fled Haight-Ashbury in March 1968, after the media attention and giant wave of hippies (many of them more problematic than the original inhabitants) had trashed the neighborhood. During this period everybody was using LSD. In fact, "Acid King" Owsley Stanley financed the Grateful Dead's stay in the neighborhood (he also served as their soundman), where Ken Kesey's Acid Tests took place with both "the Dead" and the "Hell's Angels".
  
  
  • Oct 31, 2011, GoldMineMag.com, 'Weir recalls the Grateful Dead's Summer of Love and Haight': "The Grateful Dead was started (as The Warlocks) in Southern California in 1965, but the band relocated to the Haight community in late 1966 [at 710 Ashbury Street], just as it started to become the center of the then-new hippie counterculture. ... The Dead built up a following of obsessive devotees, partially due to its original approach to music and ... by being associated with author and LSD guru Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters. By 1966, The Dead had become the house band for Kesey's psychedelic parties, known as the Acid Tests. The group signed with Warner Brothers Records, and their self-titled debut album was unleashed to a somewhat indifferent world in March 1967. ...
    "Before the Summer of Love, the Haight-Ashbury was a youth ghetto where the students who went to San Francisco State all stayed," recalls Weir, who was himself 19 years old at the time. "It was a low-rent area where kids would flock to, and there were lots of artists and musicians and writers. It was a really fun place. The horizons were totally limitless.
    "The media just couldn't understand (the environment). It was beyond them," Weir continues. "So they sensationalized what they could understand: the drugs, the free love — all those aspects of what may or may not have been happening there. So the area became immediately a magnet for all the riffraff and misfits who were rattling around the country. They rattled on out to the coast and set up camp in the Haight-Ashbury. And it changed overnight, the complexion of the place. Suddenly the streets were full of speed freaks and drug addicts, and it was just a very different place. We moved out.""
  
  
  • Feb. 26, 1976, Rolling Stone, 'From Eternity To Here': "Particularly when a new batch of Owsley's acid would hit the market and his lieutenants would walk up and down Haight Street passing out free samples. ... The Dead's new friend, Owsley. ... [Meanwhile Ken Kesey] had opened his acid parties to the most notorious outlaw motorcycle gang, the Hell's Angels, to whom he had been introduced by a journalist named Hunter S. Thompson. ... the Acid Test with the Grateful Dead was the greatest success of the three nights ....
    Life [at the Haight-Ashbury hippie neighborhood] was an adventure. There were intellectual adventures in books — yoga, occultism, Wilhelm Reich's sexual liberation theories and Zen were established features of bohemian communities, and the Haight brought in the uniquely psychedelic elements of American Indian lore, the oracular I Ching and texts of Tibetan Buddhism, valued for their descriptions of acidlike visions. ... Ken Kesey ... Rock Scully...
    May 30th [1967]: ... The Grateful Dead play a benefit for the Haight-Ashbury Legal Organization, whose offices are across the street from the Dead house. ...
    June 9th [1967]: Dr. David Smith, who has been treating drug reactions at San Francisco General Hospital (then accounting for 100 beds a day), opens the Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic at Happening House. The immediate crisis is the introduction of a new kind of psychedelic, related both to mescaline and amphetamines, known as STP. ...
    Early July: An agency is formed on the model of suicide-prevention groups, LSD Rescue Mission."


• From April tot November 1967 violent convict Charles Manson lived at 636 Cole Street, 300 meters from the crossing of Haight St. and Ashbury St. and thus solidly in the Haight-Ashbury Hippie Community right during the 1967 "Summer of Love" when 100,000 hippies descended on the neighborhood. Similar to the Grateful Dead living at Ashbury St. across from the Hell's Angels, Manson was deeply involved in LSD and recruited 20 of his initial "Family members" with the use of this substance.
  
  

  

  
  Stranger still, Manson's (very lenient) parole officer Roger Smith was given a job at the Haigh-Ashbury Free Medical Clinic, located 3 minutes from Manson's home, on Haight St. (technically at Clayton St.). At this clinic controversial CIA MKULTRA psychologist Dr. Jolly West was conducting clandestine LSD research and "recruiting" patients from here that he found interesting. Manson's "Family" would go on to become famous cult murderers and give a very negative spin on LSD.
  In addition, Clinic founder Dr. David E. Smith was actually studying his "Manson Family" and even followed Manson out to his ranch to study his "Family" there in April-May 1968, all before the "Manson Murders" took place.
  
  
  • July 31, 2019, Curbed San Francisco, 'Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic to close': "In 1967, in the midst of what became known as the Summer of Love, tens of thousands of mostly young people packed the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood to practice counterculture lifestyles, perhaps even as many as 100,000 in all. ... Haight was simply not designed for that many people all at once, and many ended up living in crowded flophouses with unsanitary conditions. Problems related to drug use and unsafe sex proliferated, too.
    Dr. David Smith, at the time an intern at SF General Hospital, opened the free clinic in the Haight in June of 1967 with some donated supplies and colleagues' promises of providing a few pro-bono treatment hours to the community each week.
    According to Jeff Guinn's 2013 book Manson (which chronicles infamous cult leader Charles Manson's time in the Haight scene), the clinic:
    "Operated under a simple philosophy: Anybody would be treated without charge, and staff would make no moral judgments about the patients. More than 250 hippies lined up for treatment on the first day... There were 350 the next day, and by the third the clinic had run out of antibiotics."
    Concert promoter Bill Graham raised money to keep the clinic open in its early days."
  
  
  • Sep. 26, 1971, New York Times, 'Pathology of the pill and the needle': "It was no accident that Charlie Manson's followers, who frequently visited the clinic, called themselves a "family." [because so many youngsters came to find that]."
  
  
  • Dr. David E. Smith (founder in June 1967 of the San Francisco Haight Ashbury Free Medical Clinic and also the 1967 founder of Journal of Psychoactive Drugs in 1967) interview (source unknown, but transcribed by author from audio recording): "I used to laugh at him. Jolly is deceased now. [When] I heard "Jolly" West, I thought he was a drug dealer. ["'Cause of his name?"] Yeah. ... So he was like this very distinguished professor of psychiatry, that in this little world here that people came in and out of, there were these bits of information. ... Well, he studied people at our clinic. Our clinic is where they came in. And then people from our clinic - In other words, in a certain sense, he recruited subjects from our clinic."
  
  
  • February 1, 1970, newspaper not listed, 'Drug Expert Says Manson Tripped On Sex, Mysticism': "Dr. David E. Smith, founder of the free clinic in the hippie Haight-Ashbury District, conducted a four-month study of the Manson "family" long before the Sharon Tate murder case.
    "It wasn't a drug thing," Smith said. "The trouble was that Charlie was disturbed. He developed a paranoid delusional system that led to violence."
    But Charlie also was very persuasive, particularly with girls and particularly about sex. He felt that "getting rid of sexual inhibitions would free people of most of their other inhibitions and problems," Smith said.
    "Charlie set himself up as the initiator of new females into the commune. He would spend most of their first day making love to them, wanting to see if they were just on a 'sex trip' or were seriously interested in joining the family," Smith said.
    If a girl refused any sex request, regardless of how bizarre, it was grounds for immediate expulsion and few members of the cult left voluntarily.
    Smith wrote a scientific paper on the Manson family for the spring issue of the Journal of Psychedelic Drugs. He released a first draft to the underground Los Angeles Free Press and confirmed its contents to the Chicago Daily News.
    Smith said he first became interested in the unusual "group marriage" commune when members visited his clinic for ordinary medical treatments back in 1968. When the group came south, a Haight clinic researcher came with them and stayed about four months.
    At the time the commune consisted of about 20 members, including 14 women.
    "He (Charlie) was an extroverted, persuasive individual and served as absolute ruler of this group marriage commune," Smith wrote."
  
  
  • Haight-Ashbury Clinic founder David Smith was studying Manson and his family in great detail. They even published papers on the group after things had turned murderous. Sep. 1970, David E. Smith and Al Rose ofr the Journal of Psychedelic Studies, 'The Group Marriage Commune: A Case Study' / 'A Case Study of the Charles Manson Group Marriage Commune': "This research was conducted 15 months prior to the highly publicized [August 9, 1969] "Sharon Tate murder." [So in April-May 1968] The authors take no position or have no information relative to the involvement of this commune in this violent crime. ...
    America, too, has a long history of communal living, primarily involving religious groups such as the Amish and the Mennonites. Recently, however, through the national media, the dominant culture in the United States has been made aware of a new style of commune which has evolved primarily in America's "hippie subculture." Unfortunately, we know relatively little about this pattern of alternative cooperative living. ...
    Manson was thirty-five years of age, and had no college education. He was an extroverted, persuasive individual who served as absolute ruler of the group marriage commune. What he sanctioned was approved by the rest of the group, but what he disapproved was forbidden.
    Tales of Manson's sexual prowess were related to all new members. One of the most popular stories concerned his daily activities before the group moved to the ranch, and were they were being supported by a "wealthy cousin." One popular story often told was that Manson would get up in the morning, make love, eat breakfast, make love, and go back to sleep. ... Such stories, although not validated, helped him maintain his leadership role. ...
    The economic level of this commune was low and there was no stable source of income. Money would be brought into the group by new members or through gifts from the "cousins." Gifts of food, money and clothing, also came from friends and acquaintances of the group, although such presents were rare. At the time of our observation, the group lived on a "ranch" which had as its sole means of support money coming from the rental of horses for riding. ...
    Because they had little money, food procurement was a daily "adventure" (a term used by the group because of the risks involved in getting food). Two or three people would take the ranch truck to the nearby town. Parking behind the grocery store or supermarket they proceeded to rummage through the garbage bins. Meat which had begun to discolor, dented cans of food, open bags of fruit and vegetables, etc., made up the daily meals. ...
    LSD-induced psychedelic philosophy was not a major motivational force. ... Since the group had extremely permissive sexual attitudes, the members felt no need for conventional marriage relationships which they considered psychologically destructive. The large number of divorces in the larger society and in their own family backgrounds helped them to rationalize or reinforce this attitude."


• The initial manager of the Grateful Dead (also when they were still known as The Warlocks), Hank Harrison, was already working for leading "liberal CIA" asset Saul Alinsky at that point. Harrison's subsequent history involves additional "liberal CIA" activism and - involving his own daughter, Courtney Love, no less - conspiracy disinformation history tied to Saul Alinsky:
  
  
  • 1980, Hank Harrison, 'The Dead: Volume II', 1985 preface, pp. 6-7: "I remember meeting each of the musicians in the Dead at critical points in their careers. Phil Lesh, the bass player, and I were roommates in 1960, and again from 1970-1973. He was always called "Professor." We absorbed Nietzsche and idolized the nihilist samurai...
    I met Jerry Garcia in San Carlos at the Book Stall and at Kepler's Bookstore down in Menlo Park [city part of the San Francisco Bay Area] back in 1961. ... With Bob Hunter who wrote most of the Grateful Dead lyrics. ... Most of us went to school at the College of San Mateo at onetime or another, except Pig [Pen]. ...
    I met [actor] Marshall Brickman and Paul Mittig and Willy Legate, all spiritual and antisocial movers, catalysts, anarchists, misfits, and nonconformists, and ran into lots of street people. We used to go over and see [actor] Ronnie Schell and Lord Buckley [who took LSD under Dr. Oscar Janiger], two hip comics, at the Upstairs at the Downstairs above Zack's Electronics in Palo Alto. It was a college crowd. ...
    By the time 1965 rolled around, Jerry Garcia had managed to talent scout the whole Bayside population looking for weird crazies [for a new band.] Dana Morgan was a fairly good bass player, so Garcia got him and got Bill Kreutzmann, a drum instructor down there, and took Pig Pen out of his little Zodiacs band, and got Bob Weir, his best student, who was also teaching guitar himself, to form a proto-band [which became the Warlocks and then the Grateful Dead]."
  
  
  • Courtney Love's father was Hank Harrison. Bizarrely, he has written a book claiming his daughter plotted and then murdered her husband, Kurt Cobain. This is pure disinfomation. Courtney saved Cobain on a number of occasions, tried to get him into therapy for his heroin addiction, and hired a private detective after his escape from a clinic. Claims that Courtney later claimed that the CIA plotted to kill Cobain have been posted only by fake news websites.
  
  
  • diva.sfsu.edu/collections/ sfbatv/bundles/239145 (accessed: June 6, 2022; note: Harrison's LSD Rescue was inspired by Saul Alinsky): "KPIX-TV news footage from 1966 [of] an interview with Hank Harrison and another as yet unidentified representative of the San Francisco LSD Rescue Mission. They explain how over the past 2 years they have been providing immediate support to LSD users by "responding to bad LSD experiences" and want to set up an institute to continue addressing this issue."
  
  
  • 1970, Pigpen and Hank Harrison interview: "[Harrison:] Do you remember? You telling us about that when I started running LSD rescue [in 1965, until 1968]? That girl – I used that technique on kids – [Bobby: That's far-out, man.] – on bad trips, and it works, you reverse that technique, you de-loop it, 'cause they get into these loops, see, and it's a very common thing, and when you told me about that, I had just had [--] – you remember Mary? ... [Pigpen:] Mary Corot? [Harrison:] Mary Corot."
  
  
  • Harrison, while deeply involved in the Grateful Dead and the LSD network, worked as an agent of the FDR-, Marshall Field III- and Rockefeller Foundation-backed "community organizer" Saul Alinsky:
    
    
    • May 20, 2010, Alan Waite (PraxisForLife.org president) interview with (loose-lipped Coast to Coast AM disinformer who developed elite CIA and Rockefeller ties) Jack Sarfatti (video transcript): "Apparently there was a similar [MKULTRA-type] program at Berkeley – there's a friend of mine named Hank Harrison who was a part of it, who's the father of Courtney Love, actually Courtney Love's dad. And he apparently ... You might want to actually talk to him about the program. ... It was tied up with the intelligence community, definitely with the government. ... Telepathy, psychokinesis, and things like that. There were experiments, and they would just sit with the kids, you know, trying to get them to move objects. We never moved anything, but there was a whole program going on about this. Also, they talked about aliens and flying saucers..."
    
    
    • 1972, Hank Harrison, 'The Dead: Volume I', 1985 preface: "During the 1964 season, the year before the Warlocks were formed [first gig of The Warlocks: May 5, 1965; first gig under The Grateful Dead, at a Ken Kesey Acid Test: December 4, 1965], I was recruited by the great Saul Alinsky to help organize shop-ins. ... I managed the Warlocks for about four months in 1965 and then went back to Chicago to visit Alinsky at [his] Industrial Areas Foundation [founded in 1940 by Alinsky, and funded by Marshall Field III]. Alinsky introduced me to [Chicago radio host] Studs Terkel and Nelson Algren.
      Alinsky, who was to die in Carmel a few years later, convinced me that bringing people down from bad acid trips was a good way of organizing a social movement. This was two years before the Haight–Ashbury clinic started. ... The car club was growing into an army. ...
      In 1968, I burnt out on the acid gig, went to Tassajara for a few months of Za Zen under Roshi Susuki and Dick Baker and decided to call Alinsky again. It turned out Algren was the heavy-weight guest at the Rocky Mountain Writers Conference that year. I went there, had a ball, and decided to write a book aboutmy friends.
      In 1969, Alinsky got me a job at Honeywell Corporation in Minneapolis right alongside Dennis Banks, one of the founders of the American Indian Movement**. ... I was getting top dollar, plus they let me work on my writing.
      In the fall of 1969, I ... called Phil Lesh [of The Grateful Dead] in Fairfax. That's where the idea for this book took concrete form. I would live with The Dead in Marinand write the book. ...
      By 1973, I was gone to Vancouver and then to London where I studied with the late Dame Frances Yates for many seasons at the Warburg Institute."
      
      
      • **Dennis Banks: participant in the 1969-1971 occupation of Alcatraz island by the "Red Power" and American Indian movements; in 1972 co-organized the Trail of Broken Treaties caravan, which ended up ransacking the Interior Department's Bureau of Indian Affairs; leader of the AIM invasion force of the town of Wounded Knee in 1973, leading to looting, several murders and the paralyzing of a federal agent; given amnesty by Gov. Jerry Brown; financial support from Marlon Brando; ran a small, underground, armed AIM band 1973-1976, which included his girlfriend Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, who was executed in early 1976 over suspicions she was an FBI informant; got himself educated and ended up teaching at Stanford in 1979; fled Californina for upstate New York after Jerry Brown left office in 1985; has organized Indian "spiritual runs" since then, one of them ending in Washington, D.C. on Earth Day, in 2006; joined forces with Golden Globe and Grammy Award-winning artist Kitaro in celebration of the Earth on the CD Let Mother Earth Speak; vice presidential candidate for the Peace and Freedom Party in 2016
      
      
      • Leonard Peltier: active member of the American Indian Movement (AIM), founded by Dennis Banks and others. Given a life sentence for aiding and abetting in a June 26, 1975 shooting that got two FBI agents killed. Peltier admitted to participating in the shootout in his 1999 memoir, but denied being the person who shot the agents. For some reason, antifa/"liberal CIA" elites want him freed.
      
      
      • whoisleonardpeltier.info/ home/support/ (accessed:"August 13, 2020): "Noam Chomsky ... The Dalai Lama ... Nelson Mandela ... Mother Teresa ... Desmond Tutu ... Danielle Mitterand, former First Lady of France ... Martin Luther King, III ... Rev. Al Sharpton ... "


• A school friend of Bob Weir since about 1962, John Perry Barlow was one of two lyricists for The Grateful Dead. Initially he worked indirectly with the band through primary lyricist Robert Hunter, but in 1971 started to take a more hands on approach. Barlow stayed with the band until it ended in 1995, at which point he had developed deep "liberal CIA" ties in the field of digital and (emerging) online privacy:
  
  
  • In the 1960s deeply involved with LSD guru Timothy Leary group at Mellon-owned Millbrook estate, along with others of The Grateful Dead crew.
  
  
  • In the late 1970s Barlow was double dating with John F. Kennedy, Jr., son of the assassinated President Kennedy.
  
  
  • In 1986 Barlow joined Stewart Brand, Larry Brilliant, and Nicholas Negroponte's The Well online community as a director. [224]
  
  
  • In 1990 Barlow was one of the co-founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a non-profit watchdog against government encroachment on online personal liberties and fair use, today more relevant than ever. The group has been partially financed by Rockefeller Brothers Fund and is partnered with eBay's Omidyar Network. Stewart Brand later joined the EFF. A co-founder of the EFF was Mitch Kapor, at the time one of the long-time directors of the Earth Day Network, together with Laurance Rockefeller, Ted Turner, Al Gore and special counsel Ralph Nader.
  
  
  • In 1992 Barlow was contacted by Robert Steele, a CIA asset and Association of Former Intelligence Officers (AFIO) member who later played an important role in managing Occupy Wall Street, became a presidential candidate for Ross Perot's Reform Party (Perot is linked to CIA through his involvement in OSS Society parties), and remains active in the alternative conspiracy movement though his Public Intelligence blog (phibetaiota.net) and Earth Intelligence Network (earth-intelligence.net).
  
  
  • In 2012 Barlow co-founded the Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF), together with Daniel Ellsberg, who brought out the Pentagon Papers; a co-founder of the Bradley Manning Support Network (of Wikileaks fame), and Edward Snowden's group of journalists. Edward Snowden himself later joined the board of the FPF. The FPF provides funding to Wikileaks and itself is financed by the Foundation for National Progress (FNP), the publisher of the decades old left-wing Mother Jones magazine. The FNP is financed by George Soros' Open Society Foundations, the MacArthur Foundation, and has also received at least one minor grant in recent years from Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
  
  
  • Anno 2017 Barlow sits on the advisory board of the Courage Foundation with Julian Assange boyfriend and PETA activist Pamela Anderson, NSA whistleblowers William Binney and Thomas Drake, Pentagon Papers pusher Daniel Ellsberg, John Kiriakou, the CIA veteran who disclosed the CIA's use of waterboarding; girls from Pussy Riot and the bizarre 9/11 no-plane promoting MI5 "whistleblower" Annie Machon.
  
  
  • Barlow has appeared in interviews with Julian Assange of WikiLeaks.


• Elite ties of some of the other Grateful Dead members:
  
  
  • Mickey Hart and Bob Weir both appeared on 2008 and 2018 membership lists of the Bohemian Grove. LSD and general psychedelic expert Alexander Shulgin's name appeared on the name 2008 membership, although in his books he makes it clear that he has been involved in "The Owl Club" since the late 1950s.
  
  
  • March 24, 2012, Bob Weir, part of a panel of Music Democracy Action (part of voter registration group headcount.org, where Bob Weir was a director at the time), when asked by a viewer about his involvent in the Bohemian Grove: "I don't talk much about the Bohemian Grove because it's a place where people go to get away from the spotlight. You know, a lot of relatively well-known guys are members of that club. But basically it was founded 130 years ago by artists and writers ... and still in order to get in you have to have a have to offer something in that regard. A lot of the members are successful entrepeneurs and businessmen of one sort or another, but they all have an artistic bent. The stuff you hear about it in the rumor mill is, while entertaining, I never caught any ritual sacrifices. Anything even remotely like that. ... I enjoy to get the chance to get together with those guys and knock a couple back and talk it down. One time I spent a weekend up there and I ran into a guy named General Bill Quinn. And we had a couple of drinks together, sitting in front of a fireplace. And we fell in together. We just started telling war stories. He was the guy that Herman Goering surrendered his ... mace to. He sought out Bill Quinn, who is also the original head of the OSS, which became the CIA. It was a very, very interesting guy. We just went back and forth and we just had a crowd of people gathered around us at all times. ... These kinds of meetings and stuff like that, they are only gonna happen there. ... So it's a great opportunity for me. ... They have a hard and fast rule for membership: no jerks. And they have an entrance committee, they can sniff 'em out."
  
  
  • ctforum.org/panelists/ (accessed: June 6, 2022; historic panelists, all trusted elites on the left and right): "Bob Weir [appeared on Nov. 29, 2011]... Henry Kissinger ... Zbigniew Brzezinski... Richard Perle ... Richard Armitage ... Jeane Kirkpatrick ... Robert Reich ... Walter Cronkite ... Walter Isaacson ... [etc.]"
  
  
  • March 14, 2018, Rolling Stone, 'Mickey Hart's Sonic Playground': "[Hart] on a yacht with Walter Cronkite [the old CIA director-tied newscaster] – the two men struck up a great friendship after Hart wrote the theme for an America's Cup introduction [in 1987] that Cronkite narrated."
  
  
  • oceanelders.org/ocean-elders/ (accessed: May 6, 2022; members Elders Council): "Bob Weir [early 2018-] ... Ted Turner [key founder 2011-] ... Sir Richard Branson [key founder 2011-] ... H.M. Queen Noor (Jordan) [2011-] ... H.S.H. Prince Albert II [2013-] ... James Cameron [2013-] ... Dr. Jane Goodall [2017-] ... "


• While often trying to come as a-political, Grateful Dead members consistently have supported Democrat candidates while opposing Republican ones, and also have spoken out against Trump and in favor of Black Lives Matter:
  
  
  • Sep. 12, 2004, Tulsa World, 'Throwing Stones': "Although Weir was raised a Republican, he has been a Democrat ever since John Kennedy wowed him in the early '60s. "[JFK] just managed to turn me around," he said.
    Although one might think Weir would say Richard Nixon was the worst president in history, Weir pointed the finger at Bush [43]. "Nixon had some amount of compassion for under-privileged people. He did some stuff for them," Weir said. "But this administration plays to the people who have no interest in doing anything for anyone but themselves. They don't understand we are creatures of the fabric of the culture that we make."
    Even though the Grateful Dead veered away from politics in its music, Weir figures the late Jerry Garcia would be against Bush as well. "Jerry didn't care much for Reagan," Weir said. "And he didn't care much for Bush Sr., and I think he would have been disgusted with Bush Jr."
    So what would Weir say to a young fan who asked him why he should bother voting? "If you ever intend to vote in in any meaningful sort of election, you had better vote in this one," he would tell the fan. "Around the world, there are countries that are democracies, but in name only. "This country could very, very easily slide into that hopper.""
  
  
  • Feb. 5, 2008, Reuters, 'Grateful Dead and Deadheads reunite for Obama': ""Every few generations a guy like this comes along," drummer Mickey Hart told a news conference a day before California's primary, in which Obama, a senator from Illinois, faces New York Sen. Hillary Clinton. "It seems like desperate times and we're desperate people." ...
    "The last time hope was in the air, it was ended by a bullet," Weir said, referring to Kennedy, who was assassinated on the night he won the California Democratic primary in 1968. "We've been reluctant to do political events all along."
    Bassist Phil Lesh, 67, said he met Obama, who told him he has some Grateful Dead songs on his iPod music player, last year.
    The concert started with a short video from Obama, filmed on an airplane, thanking the band."
  
  
  • Bob Weir's Headcount.org (since about 2008) is focused on registering young people - who overwhelmingly vote Democrat - and through that pretends to be politically independent due to that.
  
  
  • July 14, 2015 tweet of @JPBarlow (John Perry Barlow): "Mexican immigrant designs Donald Trump butt plug | Dangerous Minds."
  
  
  • March 14, 2018, Rolling Stone, 'Mickey Hart's Sonic Playground': "He segues into another imminent catastrophe: Donald Trump – RAMU, the album"[he released in Nov. 2017], is in part a response to "the freak" in the White House. ... Barack Obama makes a cameo in another anecdote. (In his capacity as an archivist helping the Smithsonian and the Library of Congress organize their music collections, Hart occasionally sent the president "gift baskets of music ... to stretch your ear." After the drummer sent him some Indonesian music to help the president get in tune with his roots, Obama wrote back: "My ear, you did stretch.")"
  
  
  • May 15, 2018, Newsweek,'Dead & Company's Mickey Hart on Trump's 'Bad Rhythm...': "Look at the Dalai Lama: Talk about a rhythm master! The Chinese destroyed his culture, and he doesn't hate them…. I would hope our president would learn a bit from the Dalai Lama. It's very sad. Mr. Trump needs a lot of schooling. He doesn't know how to dance. He has bad rhythm. I don't see anything good coming from this president."
  
  
  • June 3, 2020, Jambands.com, 'Bob Weir Postpones 'Weir Wednesday' Stream in Solidarity with George Floyd Protests': "Bob Weir is the latest artist to pause his weekly full-concert broadcast in solidarity with nationwide protests against police brutality and the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
    "We are taking a knee and postponing tonight's Weir Wednesday to let the voices of the black community be heard," reads a statement on Weir's social media. It closes with the all-caps message, "BLACK LIVES MATTER.""
  
  
  • Oct. 31, 2020, MSNBC, 'As Trump Trails Biden In The Polls, Bob Weir Rallies First-Time Voters | The Beat With Ari Melber': "I've been with Headcount for 10 or 12 years. And in this time we've registered well over a million voters, but in this cycle alone we have registered nearly half of those. ... COVID is also going to bring us together I think. ... You know, uh, one of the things on the ballot is, uh, kinda on the ballot, is whether or not we are going to remain sort of divided as a nation or, uh, try to work ourselves together as a nation."
  
  
  • September 29, 2018, jimheath.tv, 'Grateful Dead Bassist Donates $10K To Kavanaugh [Sexual Assault] Accuser': "Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh contributed $10,000 to a GoFundMe campaign benefiting Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and her family." Christine Ford is a Stanford and Palo Alto psychology professor. Her testimony very much appeared to be a last-ditch attempt to prevent the appointment of Brett Kavanaugh as supreme court judge by Trump.

• Cousin of songwriter and producer Ellie Greenwich, which got him a job at the Record Plant in the early 1970s.
• Produced: John Lennon's Walls and Bridges (1974; and two more albums, according to Iovine's own words), David Bowie's Young Americans (1975; at least partly involved), Bruce Springsteen's Born to Run (1975), Darkness on the Edge of Town (1978) and The River (1980), and U2's Under a Blood Red Sky (1983) and Rattle and Hum (1988).
  • July 11, 2017, Huffington Post, ''The Defiant Ones': How Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine Made a Lot of Music and, Yeah, Money': "By chance [Jimmy Iovine] happened to be cousins with major 1960s songwriter Ellie Greenwich. She landed him a job at a record production studio and on Easter Sunday 1973 he came to work and discovered the client that day was John Lennon [with whom he produced three albums and worked with both Lennon and Elton John on the 1974 song "Whatever Gets You thru the Night"]. That got him to Bruce Springsteen, and Iovine joined the long march that produced Bruce's Born to Run album [1975]."
• Interscope:
  • In 1990 he founded Interscope Records in a $20 million joint venture with Warner Music Group's Atlantic Records. After Sony passed for being the distributor of Death Row Records of Suge Knight and Dr. Dre for "the crazy things going on around Death Row", Interscope accepted in 1992, while Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg were working on their first album for Death Row, The Chronic (1992) - which became a successful album. Snoop Dogg's Doggystyle (November 1993) subsequently was a huge hit, making Interscope a very profitable venture. Both albums established a clear nexus of West Coast hip hop.
    Worryingly, Death Row Records, founded in 1990 by major Crips and Bloods-tied gangster Suge Knight, received initial backing from CIA crack-cocaine drug lords Ricky Ross (who soon went to prison and today appears to be a "liberal CIA"-type propagandist) and Harry O.
    After political controversy arose about gangsta-rap music in 1995, Warner Music sold its shares in Interscope back to Iovine and a partner. In 1996, however, with Interscope continuing to do extremely well, MCA (MCA/Universal was owned by the Bronfman family 1995-2000) bought the 50% stake in Interscope. In 1999 the name of the company changed to Interscope Geffen A&M Records.
    In mid 1996 Dr. Dre left Death Row and founded Aftermath Entertainment, an extension of Interscope, where Dr. Dre had been working since 1992. In late 1997 Jimmy Iovine let Dr. Dre listen to the album of Eminem, who had just placed second in the Rap Olympics - which Iovine had picked up on. Dr. Dre, impressed, started working with Eminem and a phenomenon was born in 1999 with The Slim Shady LP.
  • Interscope also released rock albums, many of which wildly successful: Nine Inch Nails' The Downward Spiral (March 1994), Marilyn Manson's Portrait of an American Family (debut album; July 1994), Bush's Sixteen Stone (December 1994),
• Friend and ally of Apple founder Steven Jobs (Sun Valley Meetings; Laurance Rockefeller was major early investor in Apple). After Apple bought Dr. Dre and Iovine's Beats headphone business for $3 billion in 2014, Iovine became an Apple Music executive overseeing the company's streaming - until 2018:
  • May 13, 2014, Telegraph, 'Jimmy Iovine and Dr Dre to take 'senior roles' at Apple; Rumours suggest that Iovine and Dre will both be given executive roles at Apple following the purchase of headphone maker Beats'.
  • October 16, 2014, CNET.com, 'Beats' Iovine: When you met Steve Jobs, you found the party': "Apple founder Steve Jobs and Jimmy Iovine worked together repeatedly after meeting as Jobs was creating iTunes in 2003."
• Hates Trump:
  • February 7, 2017, 9to5mac.com, 'Apple's Jimmy Iovine shares thoughts on Trump ('he's f-ing crazy'), paid streams, & more in new interview': "As Apple battles President Trump's immigration order in several different fashions, Iovine offered his not-so-eloquent opinion on the situation. "The guy is f–king crazy," he said referring to Trump."
  • November 3, 2020, news.artnet.com, 'In the Art World, Revolution Is in the Air': "As these people vote, they may look up to see a harrowing image: a six-by-12 foot painting of a tattered American flag that seems to be disintegrating in the midst of a stiff wind, with torn bits flying off like apocalyptic confetti. Titled Our Flag, the painting is a vivid representation of the battered state of the country's unity today, and it's the work of the great artist Ed Ruscha... The painting in the Brooklyn museum was originally commissioned in 2017 by the music legend Jimmy Iovine..."
• Himself a victim of the insane, hyper-sensitive feminist agenda:
  • Nov. 20, 2015, CNN, 'Apple's Jimmy Iovine thinks women can't find music': "Iovine was on "CBS This Morning" alongside Blige to talk about the newest Apple Music ad. ... "I just thought of a problem, you know. Girls are sitting around talking about boys, right? Or complaining about boys because they've had their heart broken or whatever. And they need music for that," said Iovine. "It's hard to find the right music. Not everybody has the right list or knows a DJ." ...
    Update: Iovine issued an apology for his statements on Thursday evening. "We created Apple Music to make finding the right music easier for everyone -- men and women, young and old. Our new ad focuses on women, which is why I answered the way I did, but of course the same applies equally for men. I could have chosen my words better, and I apologize."" Somehow this became a "controversy".

• Successful gay British singer. Very close friend of rapper Eminem since 2001.
• Doesn't support Trump and greatly opposed Brexit:
  • November 13, 2016, PinkNews.co.uk, 'Sir Elton John: 'Hatred has come to the surface'': "The music legend described the atmosphere of anti-gay rhetoric to hatred bubbling up to the surface.  ... "People have been OK about gay marriage and things like that and suddenly they're not. I have never, ever thought this of this country until now." [not sure how he drew this conclusion; only Muslim immigrants hate gays - as Elton John has experienced plenty of times]"
  • November 15, 2016, ABCnewsRadioOnline.com, 'Elton John Says "It's Horrible" in Post-Brexit UK: "I Don't Like It Here at the Moment"'.
• His Elton John AIDS Foundation has received close to half a billion dollars from key foundations and multinationals since the 1993-1994:
  • 2017 annual report, Elton John AIDS Foundation, p. 53: "Officers: Sir Elton John ... Advisory Board: ... [Soros-Ford Foundation-funded feminist] Jane Fonda ... Whoopie Goldberg ..."
  • newyork.ejaf.org/about-ejaf/ (accessed: September 14, 2018): "[Large top image reads:] Children ... LGBTQ Rights & Equality. Immigrants. ... Sir Elton John created EJAF 25 years ago, first in the United States in 1992 and then in the United Kingdom in 1993. ... Raised more than $400 million over the past quarter century..."
  • 2013 annual report, Elton John AIDS Foundation, pp. 33-34: "Mrs. Lily Safra [$1.3 billion widow of questionable Mossad-tied 1001 Club member Edmond Safra] ... has provided millions of dollars in support for our work over many years. ... Over $1,000,000: Lily Safra. $250,000 to $999,000: ... Rockefeller Foundation. Wells Fargo. $100,000 to $249,000: ... Microsoft ... Ronald O. Perelman ... $25,000 to $99,999: Audi of America ... CBS ... Cravath, Swaine & Moore, LLP ... Roland Emmerich ... David Geffen Foundation ... Katzenberg Foundation ..."
  • 2015 annual report, Elton John AIDS Foundation, pp. 55-56: "Supporter List: $250,000 to $999,999: ... Wells Fargo ... $100,000 to $249,999: ... Ford Foundation ... Rockefeller Foundation ... Lili Safra ... $25,000 to $99,999: ... Bloomberg Philanthropies ... Hilaria and Alec Baldwin Foundation ... Marilyn and Jeffrey Katzenberg Foundation ... $10,000 to $24,999: ... The Marshall Mathers Foundation ... Sylvie Meis..."
  • 2016 annual report, Elton John AIDS Foundation, p. 51: "Supporter List: Over $1,000,000: Gilead Sciences. $250,000 to $999,999: ... Audi ... Ford Foundation ... Lily Safra ... Walls Fargo ... $100,000 to $249,999: ... Apple ... Paul G. Allen ... $10,000 to $24,999: ... Alec Baldwin Foundation ... Heidi Klum ... The Marshall Mathers Foundation ... Walt Disney ..."
  • 2017 annual report, Elton John AIDS Foundation, p. 43: "Over $1,000,000: Gilead Sciences. Lily Safra. UCLA Dream Fund. $250,000 to $999,000: ... Ford Foundation ... Wells Fargo ... $100,000 to $249,000: ... Google ... Katzenberg Foundation ... $25,000-$99,000: ... Bank of America ... Sheryl Crow ... Goldman Sachs Gives ... Gucci America ... Alec Baldwin Foundation ... Walt Disney ... $10,000-$24,999: ... Marshall Mathers Foundation ... Julianne Moore..."
• Involved in all kinds of additional globalist charities. Three random examples:
  • July 21, 2016, World Council of Churches, 'Star power shines light on AIDS epidemic': "Prince Harry, Elton John, Charlize Theron, Archbishop Thabo Makgoba, Bill Gates ... at the 21st International AIDS Conference in Durban."
  • March 21, 2016, Emily Huie, Policy Officer for Inclusive Growth at The ONE Campaign for the UNfoundation.org blog, 'Povery is Sexist' (letter signers) (directors of One.com include Bono, the wives of Warren Buffett and Bill Gates (who provided seed funding), Soros agent Morton Halperin, Rockefeller banker Larry Summers, anti-Brexit British PM David Cameron, the COO of Facebook, etc.): "Nowhere on earth do women have as many opportunities as men. Nowhere. ... International Women's Day must be about advancing girls and women everywhere. Signed, ... Arianna Huffington ... Ashley Judd ... Bobby Shriver. Bono. ... Charlize Theron ... Colin Farrell ... Condoleezza Rice ... Sir Elton John ... Emma Watson ... Emma Watson ... Jeff Skoll ... Jennifer Lopez ... Lady Gaga ... [Prince] Mabel van Oranje [a key Soros ally] ... Mark Zuckerberg, CEO, Facebook ... Melinda Gates, Co-Chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ... Meryl Streep ... Muhammed Ali ... Oprah Winfrey ... Robert Redford ... Samantha Bee ... Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer, Facebook..."
  • Present at the 2013 annual Robin Hood Foundation gala with Bilderberg and Trilateral Commission elites as Google's Eric Schmidt, Henry and Marie-Josee Kravis and Michael Bloomberg. George Soros also was present in past years and a major donor to the foundation. The disgraced Harvey Weinstein was a long-time board member of the foundation.
• Good friends with the British royal family.
• No further research.

• Successful jazz singer.
• Involved in the globalist Earth Communications Office in the early 1990s. Also a close ally of the George Soros and Bill Gates-backed Bono of U2.
• May 28, 2018, Independent.ie, 'Music producer Quincy Jones says Ireland is 'so racist it's frightening'': "Speaking about Bono and Ireland, Jones described the time Bono invited him to the Vatican to meet Pope John Paul in 1999. ... "I stay at [Bono's] castle in Dublin, because Ireland and Scotland are so racist it's frightening. He said, 'Trying, Quincy, to assimilate, but it's not coming easy.' So I stay in his castle." ...
  He said: "I got 22 girlfriends...Hell yeah. Everywhere. Cape Town. Cairo. Stockholm - she's coming in next week." ... But the 'Thriller' producer insists he'd never date anyone his own age and wishes he could keep the "fat and old" away from his house." ...
  Jones said he thought he wanted to be a gangster when he was younger, and saw his first dead body "at seven or eight years old". He also revealed how they ate rats for dinner, when living with his grandmother in Louisville after his mother was "taken away in a straitjacket" and his father said he was unable to mind them."
• Past involvement in the Tides, Ford and Nathan Cummings Foundation-financed Artists for a New South Africa, along with countless "liberal CIA" actors and musicians.
• Founder of Vibe magazine, which would cross different music genres (although predominantly R&B and hip hop, in 1993 in partnership with Time, Inc. The magazine was in print until 2009.

• English psychedelic-inclined rock band formed in London in 1968. Despite some initial bad reviews in the U.S media, the 1969 tour and the release of albums Led Zeppelin I and Led Zeppelin II that year made the band famous. More successful albums followed, continuing the fame of the band into the 1970s. Led Zeppelin disbanded in 1980 in response to the death of drummer John Bonham.
• Lifetime frontman Robert Plant has given some token-support for anti-Trump and typical "libera; CIA" propaganda, mainly right after Trump was elected:
  • November 18, 2016 post of @robertplantofficial on Instagram: ""Global Justice Now: This is not a 'migrant crisis'."
  • November 28, 2016 post of @robertplantofficial on Instagram (poster with a Native Indian on it): ["Solidarity With Standing Rock: Stop the Dakota Access Pipeline: Defend The Land - Protect the Water'."]
  • September 16, 2019 post of @robertplantofficial on Instagram: "The vicious circle! [Poster: "[Trump picture] Take a Break From Fake News. ... Sept 25-29... Animationfestival.ca"]" This post was interpreted by some media as being Trump ridicule, which it seems to be.
  • September 17, 2019, Ahmet Hakan Cengiz for classicrockworld.org, 'Led Zeppelin's Robert Plant Mocks Donald Trump By An Interesting Photo Of Trump'.
• Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones have been rather quiet on Trump, so, for the time being, led Zeppelin does not appear to be a serious propaganda band.

• Former Beatles member who was a very close associate - including political activism - of "liberal CIA" LSD guru Timothy Leary in the 1960s and 1970s.

• Member of The Beatles. His songwriting partnership with John Lennon was the most successful of the post-war era. Estimated net worth of $1.2 billion.
• Not exactly the most committed globalist here it appears, but definitely goes along with the agenda and certainly a radical vegan/vegetarian.
• Anti-Trump, "anti-racist", but undecided on Brexit:
  • September 29, 2016, Newsweek, 'Bob Geldof: Donald Trump is a 'Racist Liar Vomiting Bile Over The U.S.'': "Last year, McCartney copped flak from his Republican-leaning US fans when he was photographed with Hillary Clinton. ... "I'm not a fan at all [of Trump], " McCartney says. He's unleashed a kind of violent prejudice that is sometimes latent among people. Most people don't feel it's OK to be like that. When there were protesters at his rallies, Trump would say, 'Oh beat them up, give them a good punch' — wait a minute, I'm not sure that's cool for a leader of a country to be saying that. Maybe for a hockey player. He's unleashed the ugly side of America. People feel like they have got a free pass to be, if not violent, at least antagonistic towards people of a different colour or a different race. I think we all thought we'd got past that a long time ago.""
  • June 6, 2016, Time, 'Paul McCartney Says He was 'Racist' Without Knowing it As a Kid'.
  • September 14, 2017, politico.eu, 'Ringo Starr calls Brexit a 'great move'': "Paul McCartney, the only other living Beatles member, also didn't vote in the EU referendum, but said he would have probably backed Remain. "I think I would have come down on the Remain side because people like the governor of the Bank of England, a lot of financial experts, were saying that," McCartney told the Washington Post in July."
  • September 16, 2018, The Independent, 'Paul McCartney uses song on new album to attack Donald Trump: 'We've got a mad captain sailing this boat''.
  • June 5, 2020, RockCellerMagazine.com, 'Paul McCartney on Black Lives Matter: 'I Want Justice for George Floyd's Family, I Want Justice for All Those Who Have Died and Suffered'': "The message, in which McCartney says "All of us here support and stand alongside all those who are protesting and raising their voices at this time...""
• Organizer of the Concert for New York City in the wake of 9/11. Looking at the line-up, the Concert for New York City was dominated by artists with "liberal CIA" ties: Paul McCartney (organizer), Robert De Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jon Bon Jovi, Will Ferrell (ridiculing Bush), Harrison Ford, Spike Lee, John Cusack, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, and Natalie Portman, who introduced Elton John. All these actors are to be found in ISGP's Hollywood article, as they all are hardcore globalist propagandists. A lot of money raised for the 9/11 rescue workers went to the super-elite Robin Hood Foundation.
• Present at the 2015 annual Robin Hood Foundation gala, also regularly or occasionally attended by Bilderberg and Trilateral Commission elites as Google's Eric Schmidt, Larry Summers, Henry and Marie-Josee Kravis, Michael Bloomberg and George Soros. The disgraced Harvey Weinstein was a long-time board member of the foundation.
  • May 13, 2015, New York Post, 'Star-studded Robin Hood Foundation galas raise $101M': "The Robin Hood Foundation raised a jaw-dropping and record-setting $101 million at its gala Tuesday night. ... a crowd of more than 4,000 donors — including Wall Street tycoons David Tepper, Henry Kravis and David Einhorn — were entertained by the likes of Paul McCartney, Jimmy Fallon and Jon Bon Jovi, sources at the event told The Post."
• July 15, 2014, People, 'Kid Snaps Once-in-a-Lifetime Selfie with Paul McCartney and Warren Buffett in the Background' (taken in Omaha, Nebraska, where Buffett lives).
• November 7, 2017, mercyforanimals.org, 'Paul McCartney, Woody Harrelson, and Emma Stone Want You to Go Vegan': "[The video's] release [is] strategically coordinated with this week's U.N. Climate Change Conference, One Day a Week sheds light on animal agriculture's absence from climate change discussions." Woody Harrelson (has hung out with McCartney on other occasions) is a first-rate "liberal CIA" asset. Emma Stone is quite similar in thinking, but doesn't have the elite ties (yet).
• Founder of the Meat Free Monday campaign in 2009 (mainly to reduce CO2 emissions). Major supporters soon became PETA, top globalist Sir Richard Branson and son, a window of Giovanni Agnelli (a key Bilderberg family), David de Rothschild, the MI6 and Rothschild Zac Goldsmith, Hollywood and several other musicians:
  • supportmfm.org/supporters.php (accessed: June 18, 2009): "Sir Paul McCartney [the only one]"
  • supportmfm.org/supporters/ (accessed: February 6, 2010): "[top globalist] Sir Richard Branson: "I love eating meat, but I love our planet even more, so I will join this campaign and stop eating meat at least one day a week"...
    Sir David King, Director, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, Oxford University...
    Suzanne Barnard. Charity manager, The PETA Foundation (PETAF.org.uk)...
    Annette Pinner, Chief Executive of the Vegetarian Society...
    More celebrity supporters: Kate Bosworth ... David de Rothschild ... Woody Harrelson ... Kevin Spacey ... Bryan Adams. Gillian Anderson. Alec Baldwin. ... Sheryl Crow ... Ricky Gervais ... Yoko Ono ... Zac Goldsmith ... Moby ... Kelly Osbourne..."
  • supportmfm.org/supporters/ (accessed: March 20, 2011): "[New names only:] Gwyneth Paltrow ... Avery Agnelli [widow of Giovanni Agnelli, of the Bilderberg and 1001 Club family] ... Sam Branson [son of Sir Richard Branson] ..."
  • meatfreemondays.com/supporter_categories/people/ (accessed: March 14, 2020): "Sir Richard Branson ... Leona Lewis ... Emma Thompson ..."
• Patron of the Vegetarian Society, together with two of his daughters:
  • vegsoc.org/patrons (accessed: August 11, 2018): "Sir Paul McCartney: ... "As Patron, I am more than pleased and proud to be associated with the Vegetarian Society and to show my support for its work. If you think about it, what could be better than enjoying great tasting food that is not only good for your health, but also far better for the planet and the creatures that live with us upon it?" ...
    Stella McCartney...
    Mary McCartney: ... Mary joins family members Sir Paul and Stella McCartney who are also patrons of the 160 year old membership organization. Paul and Linda McCartney became patrons of the Vegetarian Society in 1995."
• May 2, 2011, The Guardian, 'Paul Allen: 'I think Bill Gates was surprised by my book. He'll want an intense discussion about it'': "You [Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen] revel in your passion for music, jamming with Mick Jagger and Bono and hanging out with Paul McCartney and Peter Gabriel."
• Plenty of additional globalist ties, but for the time being this is considered more than enough for a listing.

• U.S. rock band founded in 2001 by lead vocalist and bassist Brandon Flowers and lead guitarist and Dave Keuning. The band has has had a rather stable line-up since 2002. Multiple songs of the band have close to over 100 million views on YouTube, with 'Mr. Brightside' almost 500 million. For the most part these are older songs.
• The band stayed neutral in the 2012 elections, accepting invitations from both Obama and Mitt Romney. During the Trump years they emerged as pro-Black Lives Matter, pro-Third World immigration:
  • Jan. 14, 2019, NME, 'Watch The Killers return with huge anti-Trump anthem ‘Land Of The Free' in Spike Lee directed video': "The band gave Lee full creative rein, and he filmed the video over a few weeks at the tail end of 2018, travelling to the U.S./Mexico border to capture scenes of migrants' families as they made their way towards the US. ...
    Speaking about the track frontman Brandon Flowers said on Beats 1's Instagram page: "I think it's a very important time right now and enough was enough is basically where it comes from. It started in my mind, around when [the] Sandy Hook [shooting] happened and as a father how that affected me and then it just started stacking up. It was things like Eric Garner, Trayvon Martin, things like what's happening at [the Mexico border] wall. This stuff didn't seem to be in harmony with the values that I believe my country was founded on.""
  • Jan. 14, 2019, Genius.com, 'The Killers Take On Immigration, Gun Control, & amp; acism With "Land Of The Free"'.
  • June 8, 2020, NME, 'Watch The Killers perform ‘Land Of The Free' with new lyrics about George Floyd; "Eight measured minutes and 46 seconds, another boy in the bag / Another stain on the flag"'.
  • Aug. 26, 2020, NME, 'The Killers' Brandon Flowers: "Slavery has been over for a long time, but systematic racism has been in place ever since"'.

• American musician, DJ, record producer, singer, songwriter, photographer and animal rights activist. Vegetarian.
• Signer of the anti-Trump Artists United Against Hate statement, financed by Moveon.org, in turn financed by George Soros and the similarly elite Ploughshares Fund.
• Supporter of Clinton:
  • January 27, 2013 email to john.podesta@gmail.com (top globalist and Hillary Clinton's campaign chair in 2016), 'Subject: Jimmy Kimmel, Will Ferrell & Moby are ready to meet you!' (wikileaks release): "Moby, Will, and Jimmy are all ready to hang out with you and Eric at the Fonda Theater."
  • July 30, 2008 YouTube upload by "Big Think", 'Moby on Why We Should Vote For Barack Obama.': "I think we should vote for Obama for a lot of reasons. 1) He is smart. 2) He has a great voice. I mean, nothing against John McCain, but he has got a whiny little voice. You know, I admire his history of service [but] whenever he opens his mouth, I cringe. Obama has this deep, stentorian voice, so no matter he says, it sounds great. I'd rather spend four years listening to Barack Obama than John McCain. ...
    Also ... having a sort of president of mixed parentage. You know, Scandinavian and Kenyan sends such a remarkable message to the rest of the world. ... Isolationism hasn't served us very well. We live in this global economy. ... And especially if we expect China and all these other nations to kind of fund our debt... they have to like us. ... Especially on a manufacturing level as well."
  • May 20, 2016 YouTube upload "Larry King", 'Moby Is #TeamHillary; Thinks #BernieOrBust is Myopic | Larry King Now | Ora.TV': "So, I think that Bernie Sanders' platform, like, his policy positions, I think are wonderful, a lot of them. I think, unfortunately, and I don't want to incur the wrath of Sanders supporter, but I think there is a lot demagoguery going on, because a lot of what he said, like, "Break up the banks", what does that mean? ...
    It's such a populist statement. ... It's also not something the president can do. It's kinda like Trump saying, "Build the wall!" You can't do that. ... Also, I was raised by feminists and I love the idea of a strong, smart woman as a president of the United States. ...
    I think they have to [give Bernie a voice]. ... There is a hashtag "#BernieOrBust"... When someone says they won't vote for Hillary Clinton because she is not Bernie Sanders [is crazy]. I think it's dangerous for anyone on the progressive side to think of not voting for anyone who the Democratic nominee is.
    The way [Bill Clinton] can work a room, I mean, to me it is pretty [amazing]. I saw him give an off-the-cuff speech for about 20 minutes at an event in New York and it was like Jimi Hendrix [black] at Woodstock. Or Miles Davis [black]. I mean, it was the most remarkable speech I'd ever heard. ...
    The power of celebrity and the understanding that rule number 1 [is]: control the headlines. ... People respond to the bright, splashy headline and no one cares about the fine print. So Trump comes out, controls the headline, presents himself as this catoonish alpha male...
    I'm quite good friends with Corey Booker [black], the senator from Jersey. And Corey is a committed vegan and animal rights person and he is quite close to senator, secretary-senator-first lady Clinton. ... I feel like there are so many compelling reasons to consider an inclusion of animal welfare on a Democratic platform. And also to look at the role of subsidies in animal agriculture. Because without subsidies a pound of beef would cost about $40. Without subsidies a family of four going to McDonalds would cost about $80. [This is] ideally something a lot of people could get behind. Or opposing them rather."
• Anti-Trump propagandist. Even admitted to being a front for CIA personnel:
  • February 13, 2017 post of @moby on Instagram: "After spending the weekend talking to friends who work in dc i can safely(well, 'accurately'...) post the following things:
    
    1-the russian dossier on trump is real. 100% real. he's being blackmailed by the russian government, not just for being peed on by russian hookers, but for much more nefarious things.
    2-the trump administration is in collusion with the russian government, and has been since day one.
    3-the trump administration needs a war, most likely with iran. at present they are putting u.s warships off the coast of iran in the hope that iran will attack one of the ships and give the u.s a pretense for invasion.
    4-there are right wing plans to get rid of trump. he's a drain on their fundraising and their approval ratings, and the gop and koch brothers and other u.s right wing groups are planning to get rid of trump.
    5-intelligence agencies around the world, and here in the u.s, are horrified by the incompetence of the trump administration, and are working to present information that will lead to high level firings and, ultimately, impeachment.
    i'm writing these things so that when/if these things happen there will be a public record beforehand. these are truly baffling and horrifying times, as we have an incompetent president who is essentially owned by a foreign power. -moby"
  • January 12, 2018, Moby to Kyle Meredith on WFPK: "Yeah, so years of touring and spending time in DC and New York, I've managed to make a few friends in the intelligence community. And I guess this is about a year ago, we were having dinner and they were REALLY concerned, partially based on this - not to go too much into the weeds — Fusion GPS report on Trump essentially being run as a Russian agent. And these are some active and former CIA agents who [are] truly concerned. They were like, 'This is the Manchurian Candidate. We have a Russian agent as the President of the United States.' And so they passed on some information to me and they said like, 'Look, you have more of a social media following than any of us do, can you please post some of these things just in a way that sort of puts it out there.' ...
    And you look at Dianne Feinstein who released the testimony from when Fusion GPS went before the Senate Judiciary Committee, and she just released those notes yesterday, and yeah, it does seem [something is going on]. To what extent there's collusion, I don't know, but where there's smoke, there's fire, and when you have so much evidence pointing to the fact that the Trump administration is REALLY in bed with the Russians in a very pernicious way ...
    And unfortunately, I just don't see people in Congress holding the administration accountable. It's really disturbing, and it's going to get quite a lot darker. Like the depths of the Trump family in business and their involvement with organized crime, sponsored terrorism, Russian oligarchs, like, it's really dark. So I guess we should all just fasten our seat belts and hold on.
    I worked under this naive assumption that our elected officials in the Senate and the House would be interested in investigating possible collusion between the executive branch and a hostile foreign power. And the degree to which even people like John McCain and Chuck Grassley have sort of abdicated their responsibility, that's what makes me really pessimistic. They seem to be putting party loyalty ahead of country and decency, and I find that to be really threatening. ...
    Just imagine how much more dangerous he would be if he was intelligent and had emotional impulse control. I'm really grateful that, if we're going to have a tyrant, at least let him be stupid and incompetent."
  • January 18, 2018, radiomilwaukee.org, 'Moby talks Kurt Vonnegut, David Bowie and Donald Trump': "[Answer to a suggestive (political) question about spiritually being so "low" today:] [I agree] looking at some of the sadness and fear [i.e. anti-Third World immigration sentiment] attached to the human condition. ... I'm assuming the President of the United States [Trump] might not being going through this, but that's because he's a broken human being."
• In January 2018 Moby forget to explain that Clinton financed the Trump dossier:
  • October 25, 2017, Washington Post, 'Clinton campaign, DNC paid for research that led to Russia dossier': "Marc E. Elias, a lawyer representing the Clinton campaign and the DNC, retained Fusion GPS, a Washington firm, to conduct the research. After that, Fusion GPS hired dossier author Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence officer [MI6 Russia Desk chief] with ties to the FBI and the U.S. intelligence community, according to those people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. ...
    Elias and his law firm, Perkins Coie, retained the company in April 2016 on behalf of the Clinton campaign and the DNC. Fusion GPS gave Steele's reports and other research documents to Elias, the people familiar with the matter said. ...
    Some of Steele's allegations began circulating in Washington in the summer of 2016 as the FBI launched its counterintelligence investigation into possible connections between Trump associates and the Kremlin. Around that time, Steele shared some of his findings with the FBI."
• During the Bush administration in November 2003, he worked with George Soros' MoveOn.org, creating the Moveon Voter Fund's Bush-In-30-Seconds contest.
  • moby.com/journal/moveon-org-contest/ (written: October 28, 2003; accessed: March 1, 2020): "OK, so here's the information on the contest that I'm organizing with Moveon.org, David Fenton, Lee Solomon, Jonathan Soros and Laura Dawn. The contest is called 'BushIn30Seconds', and for the contest anyone can make & submit a 30 second TV ad that is somehow based around 'the truth about George Bush'. ... 10 finalist ads ... at present are [created by]: [Actor] Jack Black ... Moby. Michael Moore. ... Michael Stipe [of REM] ... Eddie Vedder [of Pearl Jam]..."
• Big fan of transcendental meditation and supports the David Lynch Foundation.
• Elite-tied environmentalist:
  • Apr 9, 2018, LiveKindly.co, Environmentalists Leonardo Di Caprio, Moby, and Jane Goodall Plot to Save the Planet (Probably?) Over a Vegan Lunch': "The lunch was likely much more than a breezy Sunday spring brunch between friends..." Jane Goodall is a first rate superclass member. Leonardo DiCaprio has been developing major ties as well.
• No further research.

• First got to ISGP's attention in 2018 upon learning that its lead vocals and songwriter, Matt Bellamy, is a 9/11 truther. After a little additional checking, it quickly turned out that Bellamy is a very extreme conspiracy disinformation pusher, but also a Hillary Clinton ally and a supporter of a "soft-Brexit" that allows for continued unrestricted access for Third World immigrants (which wouldn't be a Brexit at all).
• Engaged to acress and anti-Trump propagandist and 2013 Clinton Global Initiative visitor Kate Hudson from April 2011 to December 2014. Has a son with her.
• Big fan of Hillary Clinton:
  • November 4, 2015, Deadline, 'Hillary Clinton Praises Obama At $1M Fundraiser Hosted By Christina Aguilera': "In clear front-runner mode, Hillary Clinton was addressing a packed crowd Monday night at former The Voice judge Christina Aguilera's home. The former First Lady's audience included Katie Holmes, Muse frontman Matt Bellamy and music mogul Irving Azoff, among others."
  • November 4, 2016, NME.com, 'Muse's Matt Bellamy shares photo of meeting Hillary Clinton' (days before the election): "Now, Bellamy has taken to Instagram to share the time he met Clinton with his model and actress girlfriend Elle Evans – jokingly calling upon her to make Muse drummer Dom Howard the secretary of defence, saying it will 'reassure the American people'. "Trump can't Trump that," he added."
  • At CNN headquarters during 2016 election night.
• Supported a non-Brexit version of Brexit, as in, he a supporter of a "soft-Brexit" that allows for continued unrestricted access for Third World immigrants, the main reason why people want to get out of the European Union:
  • November 10, 2016, Radiox.co.uk, 'Matt Bellamy Tweets Following Pro-Brexit Rumours': "The Hysteria star hit the headlines this week, after The Sun journalist Harry Cole - who was at the CNN Presidential election party - claimed he voted to leave the EU. [November 9, 2016 tweet:] "At the CNN party it turns out that @MattBellamy, the lead singer of Muse voted for Brexit." The rumour appeared to be backed up by Independent writer, Jacob Stolworthy, who joked he was "staying at the bar [because of Bellamy's Brexit stance] ...
    [November 9, 2016 Bellamy tweet:] "No. Im only Ok with #softbrexit single market & free movement of people YES,free to do trade deals outside of EU YES." ...
    Responses were mixed [with some saying] 'I do not want matt to make political remarks' and 'for a band that's political views are against government corruption I find this photo absolutely hypocritical. All respect lost'."
• Has supported endless amounts of disinformation:
  • Wikipedia: "In an interview with Q Magazine, Bellamy stated that he is a "left-leaning libertarian".[52][53]...
    On 17 September 2009 Bellamy discussed being politically influenced by reading Confessions of an Economic Hitman by [9/11-no-planer] John Perkins. He explains the book helped inspire the song "Uprising"...
    Books that have influenced Muse's lyrical themes include Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell,[57] ... Hyperspace by [Coast to Coast AM guest] Michio Kaku,[59] The 12th Planet by [Coast to Coast AM guest] Zecharia Sitchin[60] and Trance Formation of America by Cathy O'Brien.[61]."
  • August 23, 2010, Infowars, 'Muse Urges Its Fans To Take The Red Pill' (Alex Jones' of Infowars is a CIA asset and extreme disinformer): "Muse have urged their millions of listeners to take the "red pill" ... by inviting people to visit Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com and Infowars.com via links on the band's official website."

• Anti-Trump, pro-Third immigration propagandist:
  • June 14, 2018, Rolling Stone, 'Willie Nelson Speaks Out on Immigrant Family Separations at Border; "Christians everywhere should be up in arms," says the country music legend of stripping children from their parents': "What happened to 'Bring us your tired and weak and we will make them strong?' This is still the promise land," Nelson says..."
• Plenty of "liberal CIA" ties (with most ties never organized by ISGP over the years):
  • Old marijuana legalization pusher who partied with NORML founder Keith Stroup and later became co-chair of the "liberal CIA"-backed NORML.
  • Performed at the "liberal CIA"-backed group Global Green, which is closely tied to Hollywood.
• A 9/11 truther who appeared on the conspiracy disinformation radio show of the CIA-tied Alex Jones (but for the time being hasn't promoted 9/11-no-plane theories):
  • February 5, 2008, Houston Chronicle, 'Willie Nelson doubts official explanation for 9/11': "Nelson said Monday when asked by talk-show host Alex Jones: "I saw those towers fall and I've seen an implosion in Las Vegas, there's too much similarities between the two. And I saw the building fall that didn't get hit by nothing ... So, how naive are we, you know, what do they think we'll go for?"
  • February 22, 2008, 911truth.org, 'Willie Nelson on 9/11 Truth': "WILLIE NELSON: Well, I have a lot of questions. I think a lot of people have a lot of questions. I think 85 or 90 percent of the people in this country say, "What?" I mean, a plane hit this building, and it fell kind of like that. And another plane hit that building, and it fell kind of like that. About the same time it fell, this one fell the same way. It looked like an implosion somewhere, you know? And then, all of a sudden, the third building fell, and no plane hit it. So, naturally, I've got questions."

• American singer-songwriter, guitarist and political activist. First rose to fame as part of The Amboy Dukes, a band formed in 1963 that played psychedelic rock and hard rock. After that he embarked ona solo-career. Today he is a notoriously archconservative National Rifle Association member and has had a hunting program on the Outdoor Channel called Spirit of the Wild since 2001.
• Apart from his conservative propaganda, Nugent is a huge supporter of "conservative CIA" asset Alex Jones, including all his conspiracy disinformation:
  • February 27, 2003, mediamatters.org, 'Six Key Moments From Ted Nugent's Interview With 9/11 Truther Alex Jones; Nugent: Jones Is Doing "God's Work"': "National Rifle Association board member Ted Nugent appeared on Alex Jones' radio show where the two swapped conspiracy theories about Benghazi and other topics, called for President Obama's impeachment, and praised the National Rifle Association's new "hardcore" direction. Nugent claimed that Jones, a prominent pusher of 9/11 and New World Order conspiracies, is doing "God's work" and that the information on his radio show is "indisputable" and "irrefutable."
    Nugent legitimizing Jones is the second recent instance where a high-profile member of NRA leadership has conducted an interview on conspiracy-geared programming. On February 16, NRA president David Keene appeared on the television show of Gary Franchi, a well-known 9/11 truther."
  • Nov. 7, 2012 tweet of @TedNugent against the election of Obama: "Pimps whores & welfare brats & their soulless supporters have a president to destroy America."
  • April 3, 2018 YouTube upload by "Mackenomics", 'Firestorm! Full Ted Nugent Interview Alex Jones Show'.
  • April 6, 2018, Ted Nugent on the Alex Jones Show: "Don't ask why. Just know that evil, dishonesty, and scam artists have always been around and that right now they're liberal, they're Democrat, they're RINOs, they're Hollywood, they're fake news, they're media, they're academia, and they're half of our government, at least. So come to that realization. There are rabid coyotes running around. You don't wait till you see one to go get your gun. Keep your gun handy, and every time you see one, you shoot one."
  • March 14, 2020, Ted Nugent on Alex Jones' Infowars show: keeps talking about amendment rights and "celebrating truth, logic and common sense", amidst Corona outbreak.
• More politics of Nugent:
  • February 21, 2018, TheHill.com, 'Ted Nugent criticized for circulating conspiracy theory about Florida students': "Nugent has previously been criticized for anti-Semitic and racist comments. In 2016 he also faced heat for sharing a mock video of Hillary Clinton being shot.
    Nugent visited the White House last year with fellow rocker Kid Rock and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, and was photographed in the Oval Office. ...
    On Tuesday, Nugent shared an article from Natural News, a publication known for publishing fake science news and conspiracy theories. ... The article singled out 17-year-old David Hogg, who has frequently appeared on television to call for gun control since the shootings, accusing him of being coached and reciting his lines."

• Famous Irish singer.
• Not much research yet.
• In 1992 controversially tore up a photo of the pope in protest of widespread child abuse within the Irish Catholic church. Later she became a priest in the Latin Tridentine church, a dissident sect of Catholocism.
• Boycotted the Grammys in 1991 over America's involvement in the Gulf War.
• Feminist activist.
• Supporter in 2015 of the Fuuse Oslo World Woman Festival, alongside Richard Branson, Sir Patrick Stewart, Sting, etc.:
  • Feb. 1, 2015 YouTube upload by "Fuuse", 'Richard Branson solidarity message for Fuuse World Woman 2015'.
  • Feb. 3, 2015 YouTube upload by "Fuuse", 'Sinéad O'Connor stands in solidarity with Oslo World Woman Festival 2015'. Filmed in a pastor's suit and a giant wooden cross around her neck.
  • Kofi Anna support video uploaded on Feb. 3.
  • Sting and Stewart support videos were uploaded on Feb. 4.
• Converted to Islam in October 2018, right before America's mid-term elections with Trump in power:
  • October 25, 2018, Breitbart, 'Irish Post: Musician Sinead O'Connor Converts to Islam, Becomes Shuhada' Davitt': "a public conversion from Catholicism to Islam..."
  • November 6, 2018 tweet of "Sinead O'Connor (AKA Shuhada Sadaqat) (@MagdaDavitt77)": "I'm terribly sorry. What I'm about to say is something so racist I never thought my soul could ever feel it. But truly I never wanna spend time with white people again (if that's what non-muslims are called). Not for one moment, for any reason. They are disgusting."
  • September 8, 2019, Breitbart, 'Sinead O'Connor Apologizes for Calling White People 'Disgusting'': "She was "angry and unwell" and "triggered as a result of Islamophobia" at the time..."

• English progressive rock band founded in 1965 as a psychedelic rock group. Key members were Nick Mason (drums, percussion, vocals (1965–1995, 2005, 2012–2014)), Roger Waters (bass, vocals, rhythm guitar (1965–1985, 2005)), Richard Wright (keyboards, piano, organ, vocals (1965–1979, 1990–1995, 2005) (touring/session member from 1979–1981 and 1986–1990)) and David Gilmour (lead and rhythm guitars, vocals, bass, keyboards (1967–1995, 2005, 2012–2014)).
• Waters became the primary lyricist and thematic leader after Syd Barrett left in 1968 (lead and rhythm guitars, vocals (1965–1968)), devising the concepts behind the albums The Dark Side of the Moon (1973), Wish You Were Here (1975), Animals (1977), The Wall (1979), and The Final Cut (1983).
• Both Roger Waters (spoke out against Brazilian neoliberal Christian conservative president Jair Bolsonaro in 2018; protested against US interference in Venezuela through the UN in Feb. 2019; called for the release of "liberal CIA" Wikileaks' founder Julian Assange in Sep. 2019) and Nick Mason (board member and co-chairman of the Featured Artists' Coalition, founded in 2009) became spokespersons of the pro-Palestine/anti-Israel BDS movement, much to the dismay of Disturbed singer David Draiman:
  • November 29, 2012, Daily Beast, 'Where Ban Ki-Moon Meets Pink Floyd': "United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, speaking at a meeting in observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, praised and defended the nature of Palestine's bid for non-member state status at the U.N. later today. But Ban's self-reflection on the U.N.'s inability to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was no match for real star-power...
    More notably, Roger Waters—of Pink Floyd fame—surprised the audience by delivering not only a passionate defense of the Palestinian people and indictment of the Israeli government, but an equally passionate criticism of the U.N. itself. Waters has become a regular of the various campaigns to boycott, divest from, and sanction Israel. He was the star juror at the Russel Tribunal this year, where his predisposed peers examined charges (absent a defense) that the U.N. was complicit in Israeli war crimes and found the world body—you guessed it—guilty.
    Today, Waters praised activists like Rachel Corrie, who was crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer in 2003 as she tried to protect the house of a pharmacist and his family in Gaza. "The United Nations had failed to protect the vulnerable Palestinian population living under this prolonged occupation," he said, "to provide the protection that would make Rachel Corrie's sacrifice unnecessary."
    In the final moments of his address—which a young delegate later told me had given her goose bumps—Waters recognized that everyone in the room was committed to "the centrality of the U.N." But he also called for serious reform of that same body. "The U.N. needs to embrace a new democracy. The veto must be rethought, or the U.N. will die. The system is too open to abuses. The blanket protection afforded to Israel by the United States' use of the veto is but one example of such abuse.""
  • July 25, 2013, Harretz, 'Roger Waters Concert Features Nazi-like Uniform, Pig Balloon With Jewish Symbol': "Waters, who recently urged other performers to boycott Israel and compared Israel to apartheid South Africa, was singing on stage on July 20 under the balloon while toting a machine gun replica and wearing a long black leather jacket with a red-and-white arm band, reminiscent of a Nazi uniform."
  • May 1, 2014, Roger Waters and Nick Mason for "liberal CIA"-outlet Salon, 'Pink Floyd's Roger Waters and Nick Mason: Why Rolling Stones shouldn't play in Israel; Band's founding members come together to argue in favor of the BDS movement -- and urge the Stones to reconsider': "[In] what is a critical time in the global struggle for Palestinian freedom and equal rights, we, the two surviving founders of Pink Floyd, have united in support of Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS), a growing, nonviolent global human rights movement initiated by Palestinian civil society in 2005 to end Israel's occupation, racial discrimination and denial of basic Palestinian rights."
  • Oct. 5, 2024, Breitbart, 'Report: Pink Floyd’s Catalog Devalued by $100M After Roger Waters Justified October 7 Hamas Terrorist Attack': "When asked if he thought Hamas’ attacks were justified, Waters replied: “We don’t know what they did do. But was it justified for them to resist the occupation? Yeah.”"
• By 2007 Waters had become a spokesperson of the Soros-funded Millennium Promise Alliance, which has top Soros-Rockefeller-allied globalist Jeffrey Sachs as CEO and has the Soros-funded Earth Alliance Institute of Sachs as a partner:
  • June 11, 2007, Roger Waters for CNN, 'Waters: Something can be done about extreme poverty': "Editor's note: Roger Waters is a British rock musician and a founder of Pink Floyd. He's also a spokesman for Millennium Promiseexternal link, an organization working to end extreme poverty in Africa."
  • millenniumpromise.org/site/PageServer?pagename=about_supporters (accessed: November 5, 2006): "George Soros announced recently that he has pledged $50 million to Millennium Promise Alliance to help demonstrate that poverty can be ended in dozens of African villages through small, focused investments. ...
    Jeffrey Sachs said that Millennium Promise was created in part to work closely with private-sector leaders to help promote economic takeoff in Africa. ... Millennium Promise, building on the recommendations of the UN Millennium Project..."
  • millenniumpromise.org/meet-the-millennium-promise-alliance-team (accessed: March 14, 2020): "Jeffrey D. Sachs: Chief Executive Officer."
  • millenniumpromise.org/about-millennium-promise-alliance#BoardofDirectors (accessed: March 14, 2020): "Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs."
  • millenniumpromise.org/about-millennium-promise-alliance#Partners (accessed: March 14, 2020): "Earth Alliance Institute ... Center for Sustainable Development. The Brin Wojcicki Foundation [Google] ..."
• Anti-Trump and pro-Brexit views:
  • February 23, 2017, Dhaka Tribune (Bangladesh), 'Roger Waters speculates performing 'The Wall' at US-Mexico border': "Waters ... has recently revealed his plan to perform the band's 1979 classic album "The Wall" at US-Mexico border to protest Trump's proposed wall between the two countries, reports AFP. The musician [is] an outspoken opponent of the newly elected US President Donald Trump...
    Speaking to the AFP news agency in London last week, Waters said: "I believe 'The Wall' is very relevant now with Mr Trump and all of this talk of building walls and creating as much enmity as possible between races and religions."
    But the rockstar wanted to see a massive awakening among the people against the far right policies before staging such performance. He urged the fellow musicians to speak out against the "rise of ugly head" of the right wing politics around the world."
  • February 13, 2020, Loudwire, 'Roger Waters Calls Donald Trump 'Tyrant' and 'Mass Destroyer': "Former Pink Floyd leader Roger Waters received positive reaction after a passionate outburst regarding Donald Trump and the state of the U.S. in New York City this week.
    Rolling Stone reported that an invited audience, mostly media, voiced its approval as he slammed the president as a "tyrant" and "mass destroyer" following a screening of his movie Us + Them.
    the movie reminded him that "the great battle is the battle between propaganda and love. And propaganda is winning. And sadly, the buttons of the propaganda machine are being pushed by people who are fucking sick. These [are] sick, sociopathic fuckers, all of them, every single one of them."
    He specifically targeted Trump as "a man who has failed at fucking everything in his life except becoming the biggest … tyrant and mass murderer and mass destroyer of everything that any of us might love or cherish in the whole [world], only because he has the power. Unfortunately, he has his finger on the button on it, and he's right. In [the Pink Floyd song] 'Pigs,' when we put up that he has a bigger button and it works, it does. And it's working all over the world, murdering brown people for profit."
• David Gilmour is a financier of "liberal CIA" NGOs as Oxfam, Greenpeace, Amnesty International and the more antifa PETA.
  • paulmccartney.com/live/tour-archives/peta-party-of-the-century (accessed: March 14, 2020): "The PETA Party of the Century on 18th September 1999 – organised by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, a charity close to Paul [McCartney]'s heart – marked the first concert Paul had played in Los Angeles since 1993. Performing a six-song set taken from his album Run Devil Run, Paul was backed by a very special band, featuring David Gilmour..."
  • May 28, 2003, Daily Mail, 'Why David gave charity £3.6m': "[Worth an estimated €75 million Gilmour] and Polly put in up to a £1 million a year [in their charity]. It is distributed among the other charities they support, as well as Crisis: Greenpeace, Amnesty International, Environmental Investigation Agency, The Medical Foundation for the care of Victims of Torture, Oxfam, Shelter, Prisoners Abroad."
• In 2019 Gilmour auctioned off his guitar collection for $21.5 million at Christie's (headed and owned by alites as Lord Carrington and Salma Hayek-husband Francois-Henri Pinault) and gave the proceeds to climate change NGO ClientEarth, plugging elistist-backed environmentalist Greta Thunberg in the process. ClientEarth NGO used to have the MI6-, conspiracy disinfo-, and Rothschild-tied Zac Goldsmith as patron (alongside Coldplay). It still has Frances Beinecke on both its US and UK branch's board of trustees. She was chair of the Rockefeller, Soros, Ford, etc. foundations-financed Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). She is a major elitist in the conservation world.
  • June 21, 2019, christies.com, 'The David Gilmour Guitar Collection sells for $21.5 million': "[It] took place at Christie's Rockefeller Center HQ. ...
    On the eve of the sale David Gilmour announced on social media that proceeds would be donated to the charity ClientEarth. ... 'As Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish climate activist, said in a speech earlier this year, "Either we choose to go on as a civilisation, or we don't". The choice really is that simple...'"
  • November 16, 2010, coldplay.com, 'Coldplay become patrons of ClientEarth': "The band's creative director and fifth member Phil Harvey is one of ClientEarth's trustees. The band join the producer of their last album Brian Eno, as well as the MP and former editor of the Ecologist Zac Goldsmith, as patrons of the organisation."
  • Zac Goldsmith: Son of the MI6-tied, Henry Kissinger friend Sir James Goldsmith. One son of Sir James, Ben Goldsmith, was married to Kate Emma Rothschild (1982-) from 2003 to 2012. Sir James' other son, the above Zac Goldsmith (1975-), married to Alice Miranda Rothschild (1983-) in 2013. Both Rothschilds were daughters of Amschel Rothschild (1955-1996), a half-brother of Lord Jacob Rothschild. Amschel mysteriously committed suicide in 1996. Zac Goldsmith was the most prominent UK MP involved in pushing the Carl Beech disinformation on elite pedophile networks in the UK.
  • 2016 annual report, ClientEarth, p. 53: "[Income:] Adessium Foundation ... Walton Family Foundation ... European Climate Foundation ... JMG Foundation..."

• REM lead vocalist Michael Stipe and bass player/back-up vocalist Mike Mills are pro-Bernie Sanders and rabidly anti-Trump and "anti-racism":
  • November 9, 2016, nme.com, 'REM's Michael Stipe blames media and Alec Baldwin's 'SNL' impression for Trump rise'.
  • November 21, 2016, nme.com, 'REM's Michael Stipe says Trump voters were not 'voting for racism' but 'trying to smash the machine': ""I truly fear for our country for the next four years," said Mills onstage...
    Michael Stipe continued. "Hillary Clinton represented the establishment very well, so rather than people voting for a racist, xenophobic agenda, an intolerant agenda, I think they were just trying to smash the machine. ... I campaigned hard for Bernie Sanders... I was not a giant fan of Hillary Clinton but clearly, between the two, she's accountable."
  • November 10, 2017, nme.com, 'REM's Mike Mills: "I'll never forgive Trump and I won't stop talking about it."': ""It's what [Trump has] done to the American political process. He has allowed stupidity to be the coin of the realm, he has allowed thinking that has been and should always be marginalised...
    Stipe argues: "I think you're giving him too much credit [Mike]. It's really the Republicans who invited him to the table and then didn't say, 'Get the fuck out'. He's just a bozo." "But he's President Bozo," responds Mills."
• In 1992 REM was involved in having the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 through the "liberal CIA"-backed Rock the Vote NGO, along with Dave Mustaine of Megadeth:
  • July 25, 2014, Slate, 'Why R.E.M..'s Out of Time Is the Most Politically Significant Album in U.S. History': "In 1990, a federal district judge in South Florida ruled that the rap group 2 Live Crew's album As Nasty As They Wanna Be was so obscene that it couldn't be sold or performed within his jurisdiction. Three days after the ruling, 2 Live Crew played a show in a county within his jurisdiction, and afterward two members of the group were arrested.
    When Jeff Ayeroff, an executive at Virgin Records, watched this all play out on TV, he felt offended. Not by the raunchy lyrics or the twerking onstage, but by the arrests and the blatant censorship of the artists' work. Shortly thereafter, he got the idea for Rock the Vote.
    The idea behind Rock the Vote was simple: Get young people to vote for politicians who wouldn't censor music. Ayeroff got about 60 people together in a Los Angeles hotel to talk about launching Rock the Vote. Frank Zappa and past and current California Gov. Jerry Brown were there...
    Artists, however, objected to the wastefulness of the longbox. In 1991, R.E.M. had a record coming out, and the band did not want millions of trees cut down just to create this extra packaging. The Warner Bros. sales department knew that this album absolutely had to come out in a longbox if it was going to do well in retail, and that's when Gold realized that he could merge the two projects he was working on: He could persuade R.E.M. to use a longbox if they could use the CD longbox to advance the Rock the Vote campaign.
    Gold needed a concrete political cause to connect it to, and Ayeroff brought him just the thing: the Motor Voter bill, which been bouncing around Congress since the '70s. If passed, Motor Voter would ... make it easier for lots of people, including young people, to register to vote.
    About a month after R.E.M. released the album, Rock the Vote's political director, along with members of the hip-hop group KMD, wheeled a shopping cart full of the first 10,000 petitions into a Senate hearing.
    In May 1992, after thousands of petitions and the Senate testimony, the Motor Voter bill passed Congress. Then President George H.W. Bush, in the middle of his re-election campaign, vetoed it. Bush's opponent, Bill Clinton, took up Motor Voter as a talking point, and after he won, he signed it into law as the National Voter Registration Act of 1993. ...
    From that year to 2012, the percentage of the population that is registered to vote increased from 69.5 percent to 79.9 percent, and more than 150 million voter registrations have been filled out at DMVs."
• REM's Michael Stipe was involved in Moveon's 2003 "Bush in 30 Seconds" campaign, together with Jonathan Soros and fellow-"liberal CIA" musician Moby. Moveon.org has been financed over the years by George Soros and the similarly elite Ploughshares Fund, a laundromat for various elite foundations.
• December 29, 2003, The Independent, 'Republicans attack Soros plan for £7m campaign against Bush': "Dubbed "Bush in 30 Seconds", the competition is partly run by Mr Soros's son, Jonathan Soros. More than 1,500 entries have been submittedvia the internet and a panel of judges, who include the music stars Moby and REM frontman Michael Stipe, will select the winning piece."
• In the 1990s, REM asked Noam Chomsky to open concerts for them:
  • March 1996, K.L. Billingsley for Heterodoxy, 'Noam Chomsky, Punk Hero': "REM has asked Chomsky to go on tour with them and open their concerts with a speech. ... According to [Chomsky associate] Charles Young, he did turn down, at least for the time being, REM's invitation to open their concerts. This was probably a wise move. Those who pay $50 a ticket and arrive in various stages of intoxication might well take direct action against a boring professor who dares delay the appearance of their musical gods so that he can analyze how the U.S. is trying to control the world through the Bosnian occupation."
• Additional Rockefeller and Soros ties of REM's Michael Stipe:
  • Gettyimages.com: "Patti Smith and Michael Stipe attend TIBET HOUSE US XX Annual Benefit Concert After-Party at Gotham Hall on February 26, 2010 in New York City." Founded in 1987 by Rockefeller ally Robert Thurman (founder and president) and globalist actor Richard Gere. Board over the years: Pilgrims Society president Henry Luce III (wife and son), Peggy Mellon Hitchcock (involved with Tim Leary's LSD group in the 1960s-1970s) and globalist actress Uma Thurman.
  • zimbio.com: "(L-R) Michael Stipe, [the Satanic artist of Pizzagate fame] Marina Abramovic and Rockefeller family's Museum of Modern Art in New York] Klaus Biesenbach attend the "Marina Abramovic" New York Screening at MOMA on May 31, 2012 in New York City." Also photographed with Biesenbach on May 11, 2012.
  • zimbio.com: "(L-R) Singer Michael Stipe, Rockefeller family's Museum of Modern Art in New York] Klaus Biesenbach, singer Courtney Love and actor James Franco ... at Soho House House on February 6, 2015 in Berlin, Germany."
  • zimbio.com: "chief curator at large of the Rockefeller family's Museum of Modern Art in New York] Klaus Biesenbach (L) and Michael Stipe attend The LGBT Center of New York's annual fundraising dinner honoring Mary-Louise Parker and BNY Mellon at Cipriani Wall Street on April 14, 2016 in New York City."
  • Gettyimages.com: "Michael Stipe attends the 2017 MoMA PS1 benefit gala at The Museum of Modern Art on June 20, 2017 in New York City. ... David Rockefeller Jr. and Susan Rockefeller attends the 2017 MoMA PS1 Benefit Gala at The Museum of Modern Art on June 20, 2017 in New York City. ... Klaus Biesenbach [too]..."
  • zimbio.com: "Michael Stipe, [chief curator at large of the Rockefeller family's Museum of Modern Art in New York] Klaus Biesenbach, [globalist actor] Peter Sarsgaard and [gloablist actress] Maggie Gyllenhaal attend the After Party for Pathway To Paris Concert For Climate Action on November 5, 2017 in New York City."
  • standwithsnowden.com/supporters: "Daniel Ellsberg ... George Soros ... Alex Soros ... George Soros ... Oliver Stone ... Noam Chomsky ... Valerie Plame ... Michael Stipe ... [etc.]"

• Mexican-American musician who became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana. Relatively low profile from the mid 1980s until 1999 when he scored another major hit: Smooth.
• Hates Trump:
  • January 18, 2016, inquisitr.com, 'Carlos Santana Calls Donald Trump An 'Angry Ape'': ""The Republicans and Mr. Trump are selling hate and fear," the talented guitarist explained. "That is the opposite of what our Country stands for. Let's go forward with light and love into the future. ... Peace on Earth now, not later.""
• Supporter of the International Leonard Peltier Defense Committee, along with countless "liberal CIA" assets (see Axis of Justice group).
• Past involvement in the Tides, Ford and Nathan Cummings Foundation-financed Artists for a New South Africa, along with countless "liberal CIA" actors and musicians.

• Singer-guitarist famous since the 1970s. His best-received albums are Born to Run (1975) and Born in the U.S.A. (1984).
• Democrat supporter, doesn't like Trump and is "anti-racist":

  

  • September 23, 2016, Huffington Post, 'Bruce Springsteen Says Donald Trump Candidacy Is 'A Tragedy For Our Democracy'': "Springsteen, who said Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton would be a "very, very good president," warned voters about Trump's racist, xenophobic rhetoric that shows no signs of stopping."
  • January 3, 2017, Vice, 'Bruce Springsteen Thinks Trump Has Let a Racist 'Genie Out of the Bottle'': "He thinks Trump's election has ignited a storm of intolerance in America... "When you let that genie out of the bottle—bigotry, racism, intolerance—they don't go back in the bottle that easily, if they go back in at all," Springsteen said. Whether it's a rise in hate crimes, people feeling they have license to speak and behave in ways that previously were considered un-American and are un-American. That's what [Trump's] appealing to. My fears are that those things find a place in ordinary civil society."
    Springsteen's vocally supported the Democratic Party for decades and campaigned for Hillary Clinton in the most recent election."
  • June 4, 2020, The Scotsman, 'Black Lives Matter: Bruce Springsteen calls for new civil rights movement in America': "He began the radio show with his own 41 Shots (American Skin), which he wrote about the death of Guinean immigrant Amadou Diallo in a confrontation with the New York Police Department.
    He said: "Eight minutes. That song is almost eight minutes long. That's how long it took George Floyd to die with a Minneapolis officer's knee buried into his neck. That's a long time. That's how long he begged for help and said he couldn't breathe. The arresting officer's response was nothing but silence and weight. Then he had no pulse. And still it went on…May he rest in peace.""
  • Sep. 20, 2020, NME, 'Bruce Springsteen says Black Lives Matter movement is one of "tremendous hope" that "history is demanding"': "I think my feeling previously to the past three or four years was that racism and white supremacy and white privilege were veins in our extremities, rather than an aorta that cuts through the very heart of the nation, which I feel it is now. ... think if we get Joe Biden, it's gonna go a long way towards helping us regain our status around the world."
• Elite ties apart from the Clintons:
  • September 29, 2004, Financial Times, 'Devil is in the detail with "Satan" Soros': "Soros, who has emerged as a potent one-man mission against Mr Bush's re-election, is doing what he can. ...
    Having avoided party politics for many years, Bruce Springsteen is leading an entourage of musicians on a tour dedicated to throwing the other chief, George W. Bush, out of office. Backed by [the Soros-funded] MoveOn.org, the pro-Kerry group, a coalition of 21 artists including R.E.M., Pearl Jam, James Taylor, the Dave Matthews Band and the Dixie Chicks embarks this week on an 11-day tour through battleground states to rock the "Vote for Change". They will hit important Midwest states including Ohio and Michigan and of course, Florida (Mr Springsteen will start in Philadelphia) before bringing the show to Washington for the finale."
  • October 18, 2012, USA Today, 'Bill Clinton and Bruce Springsteen stump for Obama': "For Springsteen, it was his first event for Obama since 2008, when he was an enthusiastic supporter. The Obama campaign uses a lengthy list of other surrogates from the world of music..."
  • April 17, 2017, BusinessInsider, 'Obama, [elite Good Club member with Warren Buffett, David Rockefeller, etc.] Oprah, Tom Hanks, and Bruce Springsteen all just vacationed together': "The Rising Sun [of David Geffen] is the 11th-largest yacht in the world, with an estimated value of $300 million. ... The Obamas are expected to leave their Polynesian vacation at the end of the week."
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• Famous singer.
• Anti-Trump, pro-Third Wold immigration:
  • November 8, 2016, Tweet of Sting: "If you have not already, make sure to get out and vote [for Clinton] today! Here's an important message from Jay Z..." Comments: "ohhhh. Cuz jay z is so well respected for my children. Thug." and "I honestly can't believe Sting would use Jay Z as an example. Sting you have a voice."
  • June 23, 2018, Page Six, 'Sting rips 'coward' world leaders for refugee crisis': "Sorry, Sting. Bono already has this job. [Sting was] speaking at an Amnesty International Event in Athens. ...
    He called world leaders "a sad parade of half-men and cowards" for their failure to solve the refugee crisis. ... His comments come a day before European Union leaders were expected to meet on the European Union's own migration crisis. ... [He] also called President Donald Trump's "zero tolerance" immigration policy "brutal" and "barbaric." ...
    "Thank God for Greece because you have shown the way," he said. "You have shown how to treat refugees when other people are building walls. When children are being taken from their mothers and put in cages, you are acting with compassion.""
• Ambassador of Amnesty International, an NGO financed with millions coming from major foundations as Ford and Soros, since 1981:
  • February 25, 2012, Daily Mail, 'Sting and the tyrant: Human rights champion jokes with Syria's brutal leader': "From displaced tribes in the Brazilian rainforest to earthquake victims in Haiti, Sting has supported them all. So he will no doubt rather forget the time he spent laughing and joking with brutal Syrian dictator President Al-Assad. Pictures have emerged of the pop star, who has been an ambassador for Amnesty International since 1981, meeting Assad in Damascus. The 60-year-old musician and his wife, Trudie Styler, 58, joined the president and his British-born wife, Asma, in the Syrian capital in the winter of 2008."
  • 2006-2017 Ford Foundation grants list: "Amnesty International USA: ... 2006: $400,000. ... 2008: $1,000,000. ... 2009: $500,000. ... 2015: $200,000. ...
    Amnesty International Limited: ... 2012: $125,000. ... 2015: $1,150,000. ... 2016: $500,000. ... $200,000 [and] $1,000,000."
• Present at the 2013 annual Robin Hood Foundation gala with Bilderberg and Trilateral Commission elites as Google's Eric Schmidt, Henry and Marie-Josee Kravis and Michael Bloomberg. George Soros also was present in past years and a major donor to the foundation. The disgraced Harvey Weinstein was a long-time board member of the foundation.
• Visitor of the elite Clinton Global Initiative in 2014 and 2016:
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  • clintonfoundation.org/clinton-global-initiative/meetings/annual-meetings/2014/ (accessed: October 5, 2015): "Speakers: ... Barack Obama ... Clinton ... Matt Damon ... Queen Rania [and] King Abdullah [of Jordan] ... Madeleine K. Albright ... Tony Blair ... Barbara Bush ... Leonardo DiCaprio ... Melinda Gates ... Cindy McCain ... Shimon Peres ... Judith Rodin, President, The Rockefeller Foundation ..."
  • September 26, 2016, Huffington Post, 'Ben Affleck, Bono, and Sting Help Bill Clinton Convene Final Clinton Global Initiative'.

• Famous singer.
• Dislikes Trump:
  • September 26, 2016, People.com, 'Barbra Streisand Disses Donald Trump Repeatedly During Concert': "[Trump's] putting his foot in his mouth every day now, so I'm so happy... Our genetic makeup is 99.9 percent identical to every other person on the face of the earth. Isn't that incredible? The other .1 percent is Donald Trump... I hope that in a few months I'll be singing it for the next President Clinton."
• Activism goes way back to MLK's Southern Christian Leadership Conference that was financed by Nelson Rockefeller and coordinated with Rockefeller Brothers Fund:
  • 2012, Patricia Bosworth, 'Marlon Brando': "At the end of May, Brando abruptly withdrew his support from the [Black] Panthers after Eldridge Cleaver published a manifesto that said in part that true revolutionaries should be willing to kill their parents in order to achieve their goals. He never publicly denounced the Panthers, but he did go on The Tonight Show to tell Johnny Carson that since King's assassination, he, Barbra Streisand [close ally of the Rockefellers, Ted Turner and involved in the Earth Day Network], [Rockefeller-allied Earth Day pusher] Paul Newman, and [establishment leftist] Drew Pearson were pledging 1 percent of their earnings from then on to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Carson announced he would do the same. That summer, after Robert Kennedy's murder, Brando distanced himself from political activism almost entirely."
• Part of the Earth Day-linked Earth Communications Office in the early 1990s.
• Co-chair of the similarly Ted Turner/United Nations (and Rockefeller)-linked Earth Day Network global advisory panel.
• Visitor of the elite Clinton Global Initiative in 2010, along with elites as Madeleine Albright, Bill Gates, Michael Bloomberg, etc.

• Has produced classic rock albums since 1968. Activist-type singer, similar to Bob Dylan and Pearl Jam, both of whom he has worked with.
  • November 12, 2015, New York Daily News, 'On Neil Young's birthday, his most famous protest songs': "Neil Young has always been a musical activist, trashing Republicans, Democrats, unions, Southern racism and corporations destroying the planet and the music industry. ...
    "Let's Impeach the President" (2006)... "The Monsanto Years" (2015): Released in June, this collaboration with two of Willie Nelson's sons...
    "Southern Man" (1970) and "Alabama" (1972): ... "Southern Man" talks of burning crosses and features a narrator intent on "cutting down" a black man. "Alabama" asks an entire state to justify its slow entry into the modern Civil Rights era."
• Signed with Hollywood mogul David Geffen in the early 1980s:
  • June 15, 2011, Los Angeles Times, 'Listen to what got him sued': "Label founder David Geffen had signed Young in the early 1980s as he was building his nascent label, after he'd inked deals with the likes of John Lennon and Elton John to prove he was serious about giving more established labels a run for their money. ... [A] case from 1984, when Neil Young was sued by his label at the time, Geffen Records, for not sounding enough like himself. ... "They told me they wanted me to play rock 'n' roll, and told me I didn't sound like Neil Young," he said. ... After nearly a decade with Geffen, he returned to his previous home at Reprise Records..."
• Anti-Trump and pro-Black Lives Matter:
  • May 27, 2016, EW, 'Neil Young slams Donald Trump for 'misogyny and racism''.
  • February 22, 2020, loudersound.com, 'Neil Young pens scathing open letter to Donald Trump; Neil Young calls US President Donald Trump "a disgrace" and endorses Democratic hopeful Bernie Sanders'.
  • June 9, 2020, NME, 'Neil Young slams Donald Trump in Black Lives Matter letter: "He has tried to turn us against one another"; "That sorry man will not destroy the American Dream"': ""He is, in the end, just a poor leader who is building walls around our house.""
  • June 9, 2020, FarOutMagazine.com, 'Neil Young supports Black Lives Matter: "My black brothers and sisters have suffered long enough"'.
  • July 30, 2020, Guitar.com, 'Neil Young rewrites Lookin' For A Leader to support Black Lives Matter, condemn Trump'.
  • Jan. 12, 2021, The Guardian, 'Neil Young calls for empathy for Capitol attackers: 'We are not enemies'': "In a message posted to his website, Young writes: "I feel empathy for the people who have been so manipulated and had their beliefs used as political weapons. I may be among them. I wish internet news was two-sided [note: it is 99% liberal-globalist, Neil Young's "side"]. Both sides represented on the same programs. Social media, at the hands of powerful people – influencers, amplifying lies and untruths, is crippling our belief system, turning us against one another. We are not enemies. We must find a way home.""
• Elite ties:
  • August 26, 2011, Mother Nature Network, 'Richard Branson, Ted Turner launch OceanElders': "CNN founder Ted Turner, oceanographer Dr. Sylvia Earle and Virgin founder Sir Richard Branson are the main driving forces behind the new effort, with ... Neil Young [and others] also signing on as founders [film director James Cameron would join too]. ... The idea for OceanElders was seeded during the TED Mission Blue Voyage to the Galapagos Islands in April 2010. More than 100 scientists, business leaders, philanthropists and celebrities (including Leonardo DiCaprio and Edward Norton) came together to focus on ocean conservation."
  • May 15, 2012, Bloomberg, 'Robin Hood Scene: Blankfein, Soros, Neil Young, Rihanna': "The Robin Hood Foundation put George Soros ... and about 3,800 other guests on a virtual train ride last night at its annual gala."

• New Zealand metal band consisting of pasty white kids with apparent Maori ancestory that was founded in 2010. The band performs in the Maori language.
• Against racism:
  • Sep. 28, 2021, The Guardian, ''Racism is rampant': Alien Weaponry, the metal band standing up for Māori culture': "Lewis says his great-grandparents' generation was beaten at school just for being Māori and that racist practices persist today, all the way up to the New Zealand parliament. "There are quite a few people in parliament actively trying to push through bills that will take away Māori TV. They see it as special treatment or whatever," he growls.
    Henry adds: "Even in the judicial system here, racism's rampant. Māori get charged much higher penalties, on average, than other people in New Zealand. There is still racial bias here; people like to act like there isn't, but there certainly is.
    "There's also this hole that society has put a lot of Māori in," he continues, "where they're in a financial position where one of the few things they can turn to is drugs. They have to join gangs just to survive. There are some wealthy Māori but, when you say Māori, a lot of people think: poor.""

• U.S. heavy metal band founded in 1998 by frontman Phil Labonte, lead guitarist Oli Herbert (1998–2018; d. 2018) and other, less permanent members. Nine albums were released between 2002 and 2018, the first three produced by a member of Killswitch Engage. The band's most popular songs date to 2009-2013.
• Phil Labonte has the looks of a roided up, speed-addicted, flag-waving redneck right winger. In reality, he's a bizarre "libertarian antifa". He opposes "repressive gun laws", but at the same time is a long-time Black Lives Matter activist who always opposed Trump - instead embracing pro-Black Lives Matter "libertarian" presidential candidates (or just a Democrat Obama). He actually was talking about the history of slavery before Trump came onto the scene and thus well before it became a giant white guilt propaganda point pushed by the globalist movement. It's fascinating that back in 2015 there was this whole controlled opposition "outrage" when Labonte was attacked by super-antifa Rob Flynn of Machine Head (and others) over Labonte daring to say the word "faggot" and that the LGBTQ community had less right to protest than American blacks due to slavery... It's quite bizarre.
  • Nov. 15, 2012, loudwire.com, 'All That Remains Singer Phil Labonte Talks Military, Religion + 'A War You Cannot Win'': "When they brought it to me, the label said "Hey, how about we do this on Election Day?" And I like "That'd be way cool! Yes! Let's do this!" It wasn't my idea; I didn't come up with it. ... Exactly, exactly [I was compliant]. I was, I was, definitely. I was the label's bitch at that point [about releasing this album on election day]. ...
    And now we're going to get a little deep into my politics … You can be pro-military and not be pro-imperialism. ... I mean, we have military bases in literally over 100 countries. I believe over 150 countries. I think it's 190. ... I mean, does that make America safer? Or does that make America an imperial power? ...
    My personal opinion is that we should cut the Army by probably 75 percent. Take 25 percent of the money we used to put into the Army and put that into the Navy and the Air Force because that way we're not actually occupying other countries; we still have the ability to project influence. Because I tell you what, you park an aircraft carrier off the coast of a country and their opinion changes instantaneously. ...
    But, religion goes into politics so much and the reason that the Muslims that hate America -- and not all of them do -- the Muslims that really hate America, they hate us because we have bases in a whole bunch of Muslim countries. So we should pull all of our bases out of Muslim countries and then if they blow up American stuff then we should "give" them nuclear weapons, but not give them to them."
  • Feb. 28, 2015, 'All That Remains Singer Philip Labonte: Eric Garner Was Killed By The Government, Not The Police': "Labonte recently made headlines in the rock media when he suggested that the obstacles faced by the lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender (LGBT) community do not equal those experienced by the black community. Asked by Radio.com to clarify his comments, the singer said: "I think it was pretty clear. African-Americans have had a shit deal. You look at the prison system, I think black people [outnumber white people] six to one. You had slavery, you had Jim Crow, and now you've got— and this is something that [American politician] Rand Paul says — you have a racial outcome. ...
    I don't think that cops are walking around [saying], 'Let's go get us a black guy!' I don't think that that's happening. But, at the same time, I think that… It all boils down to legislation. Because the places where the police tend to have to patrol more [are the] poor neighborhoods. I mean, Eric Garner shouldn't be dead for selling loose cigarettes. And it wasn't the cops that killed him, even though the cops were physically on top of him [when he died]. It was the tax laws. It was the government that killed him. Leave the guy alone. Let him fuckin' sell cigarettes. The reason that he's selling [unpackaged] cigarettes is because it's ten dollars a frickin' pack in New York. And poor people can't afford ten dollars a pack! ... More freedom is gonna end up with less negative consequences. And you won't have people like Eric Garner dying for no fuckin' reason. He had six kids! I mean, he was resisting, in the thought process of he was not submitting to be taken away. But he wasn't trying to hurt anyone. ... Tell him to move along a hundred more times. Don't beat the crap out of the guy. Or kill the guy. ...
    As much as we've been bashing on the situation with Garner, the New York Police, and the people of New York did everything right [in the wake of the tragedy]," Labonte said. "The people in Ferguson did everything wrong. The police came out in full combat gear. ...
    You look at the '60s, there were bombings in the '60s, there were riots, there was violence, you didn't see cops in full kit, like they were going into Afghanistan or Iraq. They had their riot shields, they had their batons and they had helmets. Fine. And then as soon as the Highway Patrol took over in Ferguson, you didn't see the guys out with their ARs [rifles]. You don't need overwatch on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri. You don't need an elevated sniping position. That's so overblown. And, because the guy died, you're gonna go and burn down a building? That's retarded too.""
  • Jan. 22, 2015, loudersound.com, 'Robb Flynn slams All That Remains' Labonte over LGBT comment': "Labonte was criticised for using a homophobic slur on a DVD released in 2005. ... He tells Revolver: "I think the only people that have a legit grievance when it comes to any racial slurs is the black community. I know the homosexual community has problems with it and I understand their hurt feelings. But homosexuals were never property."They've had a rough time and I'm not trying to minimise that, but I think the black community has a whole lot more room to be upset about a word than the LGBT community. ...
    Labonte then responded on Facebook: "Seen a lot of brouhaha on the interwebs about the Revolver article. Of course lots of people are saying I should be beat up or killed or I should kill myself. Basically the commenters on said blogs are saying 'freedom of speech, so long as you don't offend me.' So these people are of the same mindset of the people who said the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris were justified because some things are just too offensive.
    "I fully understand that to some people it is offensive to hear the word 'faggot.' I get it, you're fragile and words give you ouchies. But remember what you're asking for when you decry protecting the freedom of speech."
    Later, Labonte added two further comments saying: "If that last post was [too long to read], I basically said "metal blogs are on the same side as ISIS" and "Lol, I butthurted Rob Flynn"."
  • June 22, 2015, theprp.com, 'All That Remains' Phil Labonte Sides With President Obama On Racism Discussion': "Speaking recently on the WTF Podcast with Marc Maron, Obama delved into racism in the U.S., offering: "It is incontrovertible that race relations have improved significantly during my lifetime and yours, and that opportunities have opened up, and that attitudes have changed. That is a fact. What is also true is that the legacy of slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination in almost every institution of our lives, you know, that casts a long shadow and that's still part of our DNA that's passed on. We're not cured of it. Racism, we are not cured of it, clearly. And it's not just a matter of it not being polite to say 'nigger' in public. That's not the measure of whether racism still exists or not. It's not just a matter of overt discrimination, societies don't overnight completely erase everything that happened 2 to 300 years prior.""
  • Nov. 9, 2016 tweet of Phil Labonte (@philthatremains): "It's literally idiocracy [Trump getting elected]."
  • Dec. 5, 2017 tweet of Phil Labonte (@philthatremains): "Paul Ryan has none of the moral or character flaws Trump has. He's a super vanilla republican. But look at how he is described in this exchange [accused of "coddling racists"]." Ryan was a reluctant supporter of Trump, but criticized his "racist" remarks.
    • July 12, 2016, The Hill, 'Ryan on Black Lives Matter: Have to respect different views': ""People feel like they're being discriminated against and they're not safe because of the color of their skin, so that's profound, and because people believe that, we have to listen to that," Ryan said Tuesday during a CNN town hall. And we have to hear about it, we have to understand it and then, instead of just talking, let's go try solving it." The Wisconsin Republican said people should "not harden ourselves in our corners so we stop listening to each other. Let's make sure that we can actually hear what [black] people are saying [note: white people shutting up and "listening" is one of the main propaganda points] and understand what their problems are. And I also think we need to be respectful of each other's different views.""
  • Sep. 4, 2020 tweet of Phil Labonte (@philthatremains): "I disavow the @LPNational [Libertarian Party] in its entirety. They've accepted a caucus that rejects private property rights, they've embraced an ideology that ignores the individual, and they've insulted individuals who've done more for liberty than the LP ever will. The LP is an embarrassment."
  • Aug. 7, 2020 tweet of Phil Labonte (@philthatremains): "In case you didn't know, #JoJorgensen2020 Cause she cares about things I care about like civil asset forfeiture, the #2A, and a severely limited federal government."
  • July 10, 2020 tweet by Jo Jorgensen (@JoForLiberty): "It is not enough to be passively not racist, we must be actively anti-racist. #BlackLivesMatter #VoteGold."
  • July 11, 2020 tweet by Jo Jorgensen (@JoForLiberty): "#BlackLivesMatter means standing in solidarity with a mourning black community as we fight together to end qualified immunity, police brutality, sentencing disparities, and the war on drugs, not support of any "organization" by that name."

• Emo hard rock / metal band formed in 1999 by vocalist M. Shadows, rhythm guitar Zacky Vengeance and drummer The Rev (d. 2009). Guitarist Synyster Gates joined in 2001. Bassist Johnny Christ joined in 2001. The band still consists of these long-term members anno 2022.
• M. Shadows's father, Gary Sanders, a California-based "aerospace manager", inspired him to start playing heavy metal:
  • July 27, 2006, Newsday, 'Avenged Sevenfold: an American band': "Growing up in Huntington Beach, Calif., Shadows learned his anti-welfare, pro-hard-work social views and his musical vision from his father [Gary Sanders, who married Kim Sanders], a manager for an aerospace company. Sanders' dad, a Metallica, Megadeth and Pantera fan, introduced his son to [the music]."
• M. Shadows went from being a pro-Bush, pro-War on Terror Republican criticizing (a white people-hating) Michael Moore and the (white people-hating) left-wing stances of punk bands in the 2000s, to an even more hardcore Black Lives Matter supporter by 2020:
  • July 27, 2006, Newsday, 'Avenged Sevenfold: an American band': "Avenged Sevenfold wants to warn liberals about something. ... "Blinded In Chains" is about the philosophical war between Republicans and Democrats. The former are excessively closed-minded, says Shadows, 24, and the latter are "a bunch of -- idiots where everyone looks at Michael Moore and does what he says." If from that statement you can't glean the band's politics, consider that Avenged Sevenfold sells American-flag T-shirts proclaiming, "Love It Or Die." ...
    "Most people know we're kind of one of the only bands around right now that will admit that we're Republican," says Shadows, who performs at Saturday's Ozzfest on Randalls Island. "When we went on the [punk-rock] Warped Tour last year - all of those bands, they're not only anti-war, they're anti-everything our country stands for. We were like, ' -- this.' We're going to wear our America shirts.
    "Kids would eat it up. They loved it," adds Shadows, born Matt Sanders. He acknowledges he's not especially pro-war. "Ninety percent of those bands are talking -- about [President] Bush to 16-year-old kids who can't vote and are just ranting because it's the cool thing to do. It's one of those things where we went out there and did the complete opposite."
    Growing up in Huntington Beach, Calif., Shadows learned his anti-welfare, pro-hard-work social views and his musical vision from his father, a manager for an aerospace company. Sanders' dad, a Metallica, Megadeth and Pantera fan, introduced his son to the joys of Guns N' Roses' "Appetite for Destruction." Shadows has tried to reproduce this sound in his own way - with the help of high school pals Zacky Vengeance (guitar) and Synyster Gates (guitar), The Reverend (drums) and Johnny Christ (bass) - ever since."
  • Sep. 5, 2007, Metalsucks.net, '"Critical Acclaim": How Avenged Sevenfold Became the Anti-Lamb of God': "So we've known for awhile that the dudes in Avenged Sevenfold are conservatives (or, at least as conservative as you can be while openly running around drinking, snorting coke, and banging groupies) – and what did you expect? They're five wealthy kids from the OC. Of course they're conservatives. ...
    The band's new single, "Critical Acclaim" ... is available... The song's lyrical content is, to be honest, detestable. Shadows chooses not to call out George W. Bush and his administration for their incredible fumbling of the war in Iraq, but, rather, to lob bombs at the left for their "self-righteousness," their "selfish agenda"... Mr. Shadows' two mid-song diatribes: "So how does it feel to know that someones kid in the heart of America, Has blood on their hands, fighting to defend your rights. So you can maintain the lifestyle that insults this family's existance. Well, where I'm from we have a special salute we wave high in the air, Towards all those pompous asses who spend their days pointing fingers.""
  • Jan. 3, 2017, Irish Times, 'Avenged Sevenfold on storming The Stage and surviving Trump': "It's a very scary phrase [President Donald Trump]. ... That guy (Trump) can do what he pleases, but as long as the majority of people stick together and try and be good people to each other, then I think all of that will be irrelevant. ... [Question:] How did the 15-minute spoken word insert from Neil De Grasse Tyson appear on the song Exist?..."
  • June 3, 2020, M. Shadows article for Revolver Magazine, 'Avenged Sevenfold's M. Shadows: Why I Stand With the "Black Lives Matter" Movement; Singer opens up about personal connection to the cause, urges rock and metal community to dig deep': "Today, we are presented with a chance to change something that has festered for 400 years in this country: racism, both individual and institutional, against our African-American brothers and sisters. ... Peaceful protests have resulted in nil. Screams have fallen on deaf ears. Kaepernick takes a knee and half the country goes into a frenzy about it being "the wrong type of protest." What exactly is the "right" type of protest? ...
    My best friend over the past decade is African American. My brother-in-law and nephew are African American. Our crew members, peers, associates ... The off-handed comments I've heard behind their backs. ... To my white friends, can you imagine living like that for a moment? It's horrifying and unfair. Hell, I took my brother-in-law to a Slipknot show a couple years back (his fav band) and the tension of a black man being in that crowd was palpable. ...
    If you are white and have been sitting on the sidelines of this situation, we need you to stand up. Taking a stand for our fellow Americans does not mean you condone the riots. It simply means you are listening and want to help. If you posted in opposition of the riots yet were previously silent on the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, among too many others, please ask yourself why. It's time to show our fellow Americans that we hear them and feel their pain. This can't be about your political alliances. This can't be about what your friends or family are going to think of you. This is not a fight our fellow Americans should be going through alone. If someone says, "Black Lives Matter," and your response is "All Lives Matter" then maybe take a look at the core of that reaction. Every life is valuable — that is a given — but right now the lives of the oppressed require our undivided attention. ...
    I, for one, enjoy black American culture. The music, art, films, clothing, sports, food. All of it has made my life better. ... I am aware that in the past Avenged has antagonized with some of our lyrics and imagery. We have also used confederate flags in our artwork while paying tribute to artists we grew up listening to or simply trying to start controversy. I'm sure we will be called out, and rightfully so, by people reading this. No excuses."
  • At the time of the George Floyd riots and the height of BLM neuroticism, Zacky Vengeance on Twitter (@Vengenz1) was giving out all kinds of political, superficial, cookie-cutter, cringeworthy (certainly for a man), feminine support quotes. June 2, 2020 @Vengenz1 tweet (130 likes on a 300.000 followers account): "People are afraid of what they don't understand. Even people with exceptionally kind hearts. It is up to us to help show them that we are all humans. Don't give up. ... " This was a reply to "Growing up and living in a small hick town in WV, racism is nothing new to me. Most folks here are prejudiced and that's always made me sad. Otherwise nice people, disliking others for no good reason. Thank God my parents raised me right. #BLM #Equality"

• Metcalcore / Hardcore punk / heavy metal band from the U.S., founded in 2012 by vocalist Caleb Shomo.
• Black Lives Matter support:
  • June 3, 2020 tweet of official Beartooth channel (@BEARTOOTHband): "We stand against racism. We stand for human rights. We stand with peaceful protestors. We stand with the entire black community in the fight against systematic oppression. This shirt includes the names of just some of those who lost their lives at the hands of police in the U.S. in recent years. May their names live on. All proceeds will go to the Black Lives Matter organization."

• English rock band founded in 1968 that was a major pioneer of heavy metal. The founders were singer Ozzy Osbourne (1968–1977, 1978–1979, 1985, 1992, 1997–2006, 2011–2017), guitarist Tony Iommi (1968-2010), drummer Bill Ward (mainly 1968–1980, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1992-1994, 1997–2006, 2011–2012), and bassist Geezer Butler (1968-1985, 1987, 1990-1994, 1997-2017). It was active over 1968–2006, 2011–2017, but had quite a few line up changes, most notably with its singer. Ronnie James Dio sung for the band over 1979–1982, 1991–1992, and from 2006 until his death in 2010.
• Ozzy and his wife were the central focus of the 'The Osbournes', which ran over 2002-2005 and acted as a precursor to 'Keeping Up with the Kardashians', which began in 2006.
• For the most part, support of Ozzy Osbourne and wife for Black Lives Matter or their stance against Trump seems to be self-preservation. Still, Ozzy Osbourne did tell his fans to wear their masks and completely follow Fauci (remember all the issues with China that the WHO covered up, as well as the media? Especially until Trump was out of office? Or the fact that research showed wearing masks is not all that effective?). In the same period his band released a Black Lives Matter t-shirt, as part of a fundraising. Months later Ozzy's wife caved in to accusations of racism for not blindly following the trend, and stated the usual propaganda that she would "learn [from black people], listen [to black people] and do better." In the end, it's support. Other members seem to be quiet on the issue.
  • Aug. 4, 2015, MSNBC, 'Kelly Osbourne: 'Who is going to be cleaning your toilet, Donald Trump?'': "Osbourne said that "If you kick every Latino out of this country, then who is going to be cleaning your toilet, Donald Trump?"
    Osbourne then quickly backtracked: "No, I didn't mean it like that! Come on! I would never mean it like that! I'm not part of this argument.""
  • June 27, 2019, ultimateclassicrock.com, 'Sharon Osbourne Slams Donald Trump's Use of Ozzy Osbourne's 'Crazy Train'': "... I have a suggestion for Mr. Trump--perhaps he should reach out to some of his musician friends. Maybe Kayne West ('Gold Digger'), Kid Rock ('I Am the Bullgod') or Ted Nugent ('Stranglehold') will allow use of their music.""
  • April 25, 2020, metalsucks.net, 'Ozzy Slams Trump (Again): "If the President Says Something, I Do the Opposite"': ""Whether you like the government or whether you don't, whatever, Dr. Fauci, all these virologist people, they [tell] us what we should do: wear a mask, wash hands, social distance… I don't go anywhere. If the president says something, I do the opposite. 'Cause he changes his mind every hour. I mean, literally. I'm going, 'What?'""
  • June 17, 2020, Kerrang, 'Black Sabbath Release Master Of Reality-Themed Shirt For Black Lives Matter; Black Sabbath are donating 100 per cent of the net profits from their new Master Of Reality-themed tee to Black Lives Matter.'
  • March 12, 2021, Metro.co.uk, 'Sharon Osbourne apologises for offending black community after emotional defence of Piers Morgan': "I panicked, felt blindsided, got defensive & allowed my fear & horror of being accused of being racist take over. There are very few things that hurt my heart more than racism so to feel associated with that spun me fast! I am not perfect, I am still learning like the rest of us & will continue to learn, listen and do better."

• Jon Bon Jovi has been the decades-long frontman for the band Bon Jovi. Also an actor.
• Campaigned/toured for Al Gore in the 2000 presidential election, John Kerry in the 2004 presidential election, Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election, and Joe Biden in the 2020 campaign.
  • October 23, 2020, The Hill,'Bon Jovi to campaign with Biden in Pennsylvania'.
• On Sunday, January 18, 2009, Bon Jovi performed a duet at the Obama Inauguration Concert. In 2010, President Barack Obama named Bon Jovi to the White House Council for Community Solutions. At Live Earth in 2007 he was introduced by former vice president Al Gore.
• He played at a 2009 Manhattan fundraiser for former secretary of state and 2016 Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton to lessen some of her $6.3 million 2008 campaign debt.
• Speaker at the Clinton Global Initiative:
  • clintonfoundation.org/clinton-global-initiative/meetings/annual-meetings/2016/speakers (accessed: February 25, 2018): "Ben Affleck ... Madeleine K. Albright ... Jon Bon Jovi ... Bono ... Bill Clinton ... Chelsea Clinton..."
• On June 24, 2009, Bon Jovi, Sambora and Andy Madadian recorded a musical message of worldwide solidarity with the people of Iran. The handwritten Persian sign in the video translates to "we are one".
• Worked on behalf of the Special Olympics, the American Red Cross, the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, etc.
• Certainly in 2007-2008 and 2008-2009 present at New Year's Eve parties with George Soros (apparently with hookers/escorts) on Microsoft's Paul Allen's yacht, along with Steven Spielberg, Martha Stewart, Harvey Weinstein, Liam Neeson, and (black) stars as Beyonce, Jay-Z, Denzel Washington, Eddie Murphy and others. See the biography of Harvey Weinstein for sources and excerpts.
• Present at the 2015 annual Robin Hood Foundation gala, also regularly or occasionally attended by Bilderberg and Trilateral Commission elites as Google's Eric Schmidt, Larry Summers, Henry and Marie-Josee Kravis, Michael Bloomberg and George Soros. The disgraced Harvey Weinstein was a long-time board member of the foundation.
  • May 13, 2015, New York Post, 'Star-studded Robin Hood Foundation galas raise $101M': "The Robin Hood Foundation raised a jaw-dropping and record-setting $101 million at its gala Tuesday night. ... a crowd of more than 4,000 donors — including Wall Street tycoons David Tepper, Henry Kravis and David Einhorn — were entertained by the likes of Paul McCartney, Jimmy Fallon and Jon Bon Jovi, sources at the event told The Post."
• On Trump (with whom he has a personal feud):
  • October 28, 2016, Daily Mail, 'Surprise! Bill Clinton drops by Bon Jovi's 'Love Trumps Hate' concert in Pittsburgh - calls it a 'cheap thrill' to be on magazine cover with rocker': "Bill Clinton got a rock star's welcome tonight on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh when he made a surprise appearance at one of the Clinton campaign's 'Love Trump Hate' concerts, featuring Jon Bon Jovi. ...
    Bon Jovi played a short set before encouraging attendees to vote for Hillary Clinton for president."
  • November 1, 2016, New Statesman, 'Jon Bon Jovi on Trump, Bono, Bieber — and the agony of his split with Richie Sambora': ""Here's my take on Trump," he says, getting back to work. "The one demographic he's currently leading in is the white, older, somewhat educated male. That demographic are coming from a place of disappointment and fear. Fear because they don't know where their pot of gold went. Disappointment because they have now realised the American dream isn't going to happen." These comments were completely wrong, as the election a few days later demonstrated. 58% of all white people voted for Trump.
  • November 6, 2017, Washington Post, 'Trump reportedly behind 2014 campaign to keep Jon Bon Jovi from buying Bills': "As the lengthy bidding process unfolded, though, a group called "12th Man Thunder" emerged and began organizing anti-Bon Jovi rallies. The group also collected thousands of signatures for a petition to keep the Bills out of the "Living on a Prayer" singer's hands, and encouraged boycotts of his music.
    As far as the public could tell, 12th Man Thunder was led by a double-amputee cancer survivor named Chuck Sonntag. However, as GQ originally reported, the inspiration for the group came from Trump himself, and the real estate developer hired a Republican operative to help turn Buffalo residents against Bon Jovi."
• Capitalized on the Black Lives Matter Movement in the wake of George Floyd's death at the hand of the police:
  • July 11, 2020, etcanada.com, 'Bon Jovi Backs Black Lives Matter Protests In Powerful New Single 'American Reckoning'': "Proceeds from "American Reckoning" will be donated to the Equal Justice Initiative through Dec. 31, 2020."
  • October 20, 2020, americansongwriter.com, 'Jon Bon Jovi: "I'm The Posterboy For White Privilege"': ""Chances are with the police, they're giving me an escort somewhere," he continues. "I'll never know what it's like to have 'the talk' with my children (about what to do it if stopped by police). But this is a call to action. Watching (George Floyd's death), I was so taken by this, it hit me so hard..."
    "The immigration problem with kids in cages, Russian hacks, which we're going to be seeing again. At one point, it's Guiliani or Barr, Michael Cohen, all the people who've stood up for [Trump]..." Not that he's taking sides. ...
    Either side of the aisle, the news, social media, it's hard to find the truth. We're politically divided, and unable to have testing because no one wants to find the common ground."
  • 2020, Bon Jovi, 'American Reckoning' lyrics: "America's on fire. There's protests in the street. Her conscience has been looted. ... God damn those eight long minutes. Lying face-down in cuffs on the ground. Bystanders pleaded for mercy. ... When did a judge and a jury, Become a badge and a knee, On these streets? ... Three little words written 'cross the chest, Of a twelve-year-old who hasn't lived life yet, "Am I next?" "Am I next?""
  • October 2, 2020, Jon Bon Jovi to Rolling Stone magazine, 'Jon Bon Jovi on White Privilege, Colin Kaepernick, and His Band's Challenging New Album': "Boy, I could really go out and tell my truth here. [Pause] My truth is that Colin Kaepernick did not take a knee against the Stars and Stripes — he took it against racial inequality and police reform. The league lost the narrative and never went back to recapture the narrative, so it became about disrespecting the flag. And if it were meant to disrespect the flag, I would completely understand the uproar, and, no, there is no place for that in the stadium. Colin Kaepernick was the spokesperson for that movement and he lost his livelihood as a result."

• Mexican heavy metal supergroup founded in 1989. In the beginning, members pretended to be tied to Mexican drug cartels and didn't reveal their identities. Key people:

  

  • Juan Brujo: Founding lead vocals 1989-present.
  • Pat Hoed ("Fantasma"): Founding bassist and vocals 1989-present. WWE commentator and radio personality. Featured in the song Edgecrusher on Fear Factory's 1998 album Obsolete.
  • Dino Cazares ("Asesino"): Founding guitarist 1989-2005. Also: Guitarist Fear Factory (1989-2002, 2009-), Nailbomb (1994, studio only), and Max Cavalera's Soulfly (guest, 1998). Founder of Asesino in 2002, together with drummer Emilio Marquez and bassist and vocalist Tony Campos (founding bassist Static-X 1994–2010, 2018–; bassist Prong 2009-2012; bassist Soulfly 2011-2014; bassist Fear Factory 2015-2016; bassist of antifa band Ministry: 2008, 2011–2015, 2017–2019, thus co-created AmeriKKKant (2018)).
  • Billy Gould ("Guero Sin Fe"): Founding bassist 1989-2002. Founder and life-long bassist Faith No More. In 1994 Gould was part of the one-off band Shandi's Addiction, with Tool's Maynard Keenan and RATM's Brad Wilk and Tom Morello. In 2007 Gould joined Jello Biafra's new (antifa) band Jello Biafra and the The Axis of Evildoers (later known as: Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine), which he was part of until 2011. Over 2008-2012 a (founding) member of Fear and the Nervous System, formed as a side project by Korn guitarist James "Munky" Shaffer, with Bad Religion drummer Brooks Wackerman also part of it over 2008-2012.
  • Ray Herrera ("Grenudo"): Drummer 1993-2002. Drummer Fear Factory 1989–2006.
  • Jello Biafra ("Hozicón Jr."): Did (barely audible) backing vocals 1989-1992. Also featured on Brujeria's second album, Raza Odiada (Hated Race; 1995), as the volice of California governor Pete Wilson. Biafra is a hardcore antifa punker who fronted The Dead Kennedys and later Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine. Biafra still performs on occasion with Brujeria:
    • Brujeria - Raza Odiada (1995; "Hated Race") album opening, with Jello Biafra impersonating Governor Pete Wilson making a political speech to a clapping crowd (you can hear angry Mexican voices in the foreground, who soon start shooting into the crowd): "They keep coming: savage brown-skinned hordes. Across the customs checkpoints in San Diego. Between backed-up cars on our freeway. They hang their laundry out the window. They do jobs white people are too cool to do themselves. I don't care if it starts a race war. I don't care if it brings every bigot out of the closet and gets every brown-skinned savage beaten up on the streets. Who cares, as long as I, Pete Wilson, am governor and president. I, Pete Wilson, gave you Proposition 187 [came in with 59% of the votes; blocked undocumented immigrants from using health care and public education]. In this country you speak English or you get out. [shooting and screaming starts, with one victim saying, "don't [inaudible] my kind."]"
    • November 7, 2016, Facebook video, 'Jello Biafra de Dead Keneddys y Brujeria invitado en Cop Killer #ANIMALenVivo #HonorTour Altavoz sitio oficial.'
  • Shane Embury ("Hongo"): Bass and guitars 1989-. Bass and backing vocals at Napalm Death 1987–present.
  • Jesse Pintado ("Cristo de Pisto"): Played guitars in 2000. Mexico-born. Guitarist Napalm Death 1989-2004.
• Albums released: Matando Güeros (1993; "Kill White Men" or "Kill Whites"), Raza Odiada (1995; "Hated Race"), Brujerizmo (2000), Pocho Aztlan (2016). The first three albums were released via Roadrunner. The last one via Nuclear Blast.



• Jello Biafra's Alternative Tentacles EP releases of Brujeria: Machetazos (1992), El Patrón (1994).
• Nuclear Blast EP: Viva Presidente Trump! (2016)
• Anti-Trump and pro-Aztec-conquering of white America:
  • The title song of the Pocho Aztlan album (2016) - featuring an Aztec pyramid in the midst of LA and Hollywood - is a Spanish-language American-Indian protest song against white American racism against Mexicans and how Mexicans should see themselves as members of the genocidal Aztec civilization: "There is a race, well inserted, in United States. It is already mixed. ... Fucking wetbacks... when they ask where you are from I tell you that I am from the kingdom of Pocho Aztlan..."
  • August 18th, 2016, music.mxdwn.com, 'New Brujeria Tour Poster Features Donald Trump With a Knife Slicing Into His Head': "Brujeria has announced their "Make America Hate Again" tour..."
  • September 14, 2016, buzz.ie, 'NSFW: Mexican death metal band Brujeria selling severed head Trump T-shirts — in Walmart': "We don't need to go into all the reasons US Presidential candidate Donald Trump has pissed off Mexicans all through his maniacal campaign...
    The intro to [Brujeria's] 1995 album Raza Odiada even had the band mock up an assassination of then-Governor of California Pete Wilson [note really true: Mexicans were killing Wilson's crowd]."
  • September 11, 2016, bravewords.com, 'BRUJERIA Frontman JUAN BRUJO On Donald Trump Supporters - "They're Insane"': "The title is 'Viva Presidente Trump', long live the President, because we want him to win. And we want him to win, to be President, so we can see how bad he's going to be, and then go to war with him then. Then we fight. If he becomes President, we fight. [He is] getting everybody here to hate. This pretty much ruined the country already, so it's not a good thing. ...
    The Donald Trump the people want? They're insane. They believe his lies like it's truth. ...
    Well, the answer comes in November in the USA election. Because, if Donald Trump wins, then you'll probably see a record very soon. Because the Raza Odiada record, the second full album we did, I happened to write it to P. Wilson, the Governor of California then. I happened to meet him somewhere and saw how much he hated Mexicans. And so that second record came out, like, within a year after Matando Güeros and it was important to get the message out about that guy. And that guy… the song starts when we kill him. You know, the intro of this song starts like, 'Kill this guy!', and that's how bad that guy was, and Trump is worse. So, if Trump wins, we're gonna see a record really soon. It's gonna be a lot about politics, and about him, and everything like that."

• Alternative/heavy metal band founded in 1988 by singer and later also rhythm guitarist Chino Moreno, guitarist Stephen Carpenter and drummer Abe Cunningham. Their first album was titled Adrenaline and released in 1995, which sold over half a million copies and made them famous. All three founders still are members of the band. Additional band members:
  • Chi Cheng – bass, backing vocals (1990–2008; comatose after car crash in Nov. 2008 and died 2013).
  • Frank Delgado – keyboards, samplers, turntables - joined the band in 1998.
• Chino Moreno: Zero comments or political tweets and very little Twitter activity. Dec. 22, 2015 tweet: "My favorite band is still ISIS" (likely a joke).
• Political views of Stephen Carpenter, which involve Bush-love mixed with conspiracy disinfo as HAARP and aliens-built-the-pyramids (also the views of the late Chi Cheng):
  • April 2001 issue, Zero Magazine (Zeromag.net), interview with Stephen Carpenter: "The pyramids -- the story is told -- they hold the secret to our true origin, but that's a story as far as I'm concerned," says Stephen. ... A lot of motherfuckers say that I'm crazy, but you know what, I'm the furthest thing from a crazy person. I definitely trip out and over think some things too much, but you know what, science can't exactly prove where we're from. And why is it that on our dollar bill we have a pyramid with an eye? What's that? And it says 'In God We Trust'. Who's God? ...
    Some years ago a friend was telling me about the pyramids and there is no human on this planet that built the pyramids," explains Stephen. "Who ever thought that the Egyptians built the pyramids, they've been smoking crack and their family before them have been smoking crack too." ...
    "That's for real," continues Stephen. "They found a metal door in the middle of the pyramid that was unknown origin. It was years ago I heard that. I had already lost my faith, but when I heard that shit I was gone for good. I was like, man whatever. ...
    The whole alien / pyramid thing may sound a bit over the edge for some folks. That's just fine, because the Deftones music has always gone over the edge."
  • March 27, 2006, Lambgoat.com, 'Deftones interview': "I definitely still believe that [aliens built the pyramids]. ...
    No, I wouldn't say I'm into conspiracy theory. I'm just like anyone else. I'm just trying to sift through all the bullshit that's fed to us daily. I'm trying to make my own logical conclusions as to what lies at hand. What you can actually see and what is tangible, you know what I mean? Otherwise it's just all hype. Have you ever looked at the sun satellite website? It's a satellite that monitors the sun and it's going 24/7.
    Well, it's been talked about for a long time. I haven't looked at it for a long time because I've already seen enough to know what I need to know. Like, yeah, basically, there's eight different filters on this satellite, and one filter really shows physical objects. There's an object in space and it wasn't a photo, but you could totally see the shit. That filter, man, every day, for as far back as you can see, there's activity going on at the sun at an impeccable rate. Something is happening at the sun with something. They're impervious to the effects of the sun. Completely impervious. Stuff that is just...massively huge. You've never seen anything that huge before. And it was in the pictures, man. ...
    Hold on, I've got my computer right here, I'll tell you if it's on. Every day. Every day. I heard it on Coast To Coast, this program at night... Yeah [Art Bell]. They had this guy, he's a meteorologist, but he did this other stuff on the side. This whole thing was all about every day our weather is being manipulated [chemtrails; HAARP]. It's the...uh...I have a picture on my computer of it. The HAARP system.
    I'm not into the conspiracy of it, like I said, I'm just basing my opinions on what I can see for myself. So here we go, for instance. Right now, I'm looking at the sun. I'm telling you, if I had this thing counted out, I could count you out a good dozen things that you couldn't tell me what they were. And they're massive.
    Just go to nasa.gov and then just do a search for Soho on their search. There's eight different lenses and filters. There's one where the entire picture will be blue. In the middle of that picture, you're going to see a dark blue circle, and in the middle of that circle, you're going to see a white circle. The white circle in the center of that blue circle is the actual sun, how big it is. That circle is roughly about a million miles wide. The sun is about a million miles wide. If you look just right above the blue circle, there's a huge white streak there. These pictures, if you'll actually look on there, there's different sizes of the pictures you can look at. What you're looking at normally, it's zoomed out a million miles, you know what I mean? But they have the raw images on there where you can zoom in on the image. You can actually look at that shit.
    And since you're on there, do that mpeg of that very same filter. Let it play. It'll basically show you a sequence of all those frames over the last hour or the last day or something like that. Watch it and watch how much shit flies in and out of that picture. [laughing]"
  • February 8, 2008 YouTube upload by "adlercast", 'Deftones Pt3 - Political opinions, "Wild times" as a band': "[Chi Cheng:] I wouldn't say we agree politically. We agree on some things. Like, we all like to watch Lost, but as far as--- You know, for a weed smoker, Stephen really likes George Bush a lot. I abhor the man and hate him, so we don't really bring up politics. And we all know each other. I mean, we have been living with each other for almost 20 years. We all know each other's spiel, so it's not even like we wanna hear it. We are like, "Oh God, take that crap somewhere else."
    [Frank Delgado:] But he is right though. We never really start busting out political combo's amongst each other. We're not those people. We are not that band. We've never been the band to push something, or feel like we need to push something. Not that it is a bad thing, but I don't think we are that band or those people."
  • January 25, 2016 YouTube upload by "MusicRadar", 'NAMM 2016: Stephen Carpenter on Orange, gear and new Deftones album, Gore': No politics, but wears a hoodie with the logo of Trump's Los Angeles Golf Club. Carpenter like golf though and reportedly was wearing that hoodie for a long time.
• Sergio Vega (bass, backing vocals 2009-2021), seemingly let go by Deftones in 2021 over COVID-induced monetary issues, is an extreme pro-vegan, anti-global warming, anti-Trump, pro-immigration, pro-Democrat activist (just a small selection):
  • January 29, 2020 tweet of @SmurffedOut (Sergio Vega): "Oceans are warming at the same rate as if five Hiroshima bombs were dropped in every second - CNN"
  • December 6, 2019 retweet by @SmurffedOut (Sergio Vega) of Wired: "This animal liberation group actually wants to be put on trial."
  • December 4, 2019 retweet by @SmurffedOut (Sergio Vega) of Al Jazeera English: "Within 80 years, entire cities could be underwater."
  • December 1, 2019 retweet by @SmurffedOut (Sergio Vega) of Greenpeace: "It's time to wake up. #ClimateEmergency"
  • November 25, 2019 tweet by @SmurffedOut (Sergio Vega): "Follow @pinche_vegano and check our merch! #vegan #pinchevegano #pinchevegana #veganclothes"
  • October 22, 2019 tweet by @SmurffedOut (Sergio Vega): "Donald Trump's history on race makes his 'lynching' comment crystal clear - CNN Politics"
  • October 22, 2019 retweet by @SmurffedOut (Sergio Vega): "Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg is sailing from the UK to the U.S. To avoid flying, she's taking a zero-carbon yacht fitted with solar panels and underwater turbines to generate electricity."
  • August 5-9, 2019: retweets of "liberal CIA" outlets Democracy Now!, Vox and Mother Jones.
  • July 31, 2019 retweet by @SmurffedOut (Sergio Vega) of rabid open borders Democrat congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: "Immigration policy isn't about "containing a problem." It's about realizing the opportunity & value inherent in all people. Also, for the last time: people who are undocumented pay taxes!"
  • July 28, 2019 tweet by @SmurffedOut (Sergio Vega): "Opinion | Hear the Words of Detained Migrant Children - The New York Times."
  • September 13, 2018 retweet by @SmurffedOut (Sergio Vega) of rabid open borders Democrat congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: "Climate change is real."
  • September 21, 2016 tweet by @SmurffedOut (Sergio Vega) about "liberal CIA" propagandist Michael Moore: "This Canadian journalist, every single day in the Toronto Star, lists all the lies that Donald Trump spoke that day. Shames the US media."

• While free downloads put everything in perspective, one of the most successful nu-metal bands of the 21st century. Their first album, The Sickness, was released in 2000. Since then, Disturbed has continued to crank out very high quality and very successful music.
• Similar to Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello - a huge CIA-tied globalist who went to Harvard - Draiman has enjoyed above-average education for the heavy metal world. In 1996 he graduated from the rather elite Loyala University with a BA in Political Science and Government, Philosophy, and Business Administration. Earlier in his life he rebelled against his strict Jewish education.
• Draiman's Jewishness is a giant conflict-of-interest with antifa networks - which most heavy metal bands here belong to. Like all pre-created political boxes of the establishment, the antifa network always is pro-Muslim (pro-Palestine) - no matter how radical or terrorist - and anti-Israel. This dilemma has been discussed in the Anne Fleur Dekker chapter of ISGP's "Liberal CIA" Third World immigration article. Dekker, who is Jewish, comes from an indirectly Bilderberg-tied family, only to become the most famous Marxist antifa activist of the Netherlands over 2016-2017. Subsequently, in early 2018, she was thrown out and extremely vilified by 75-80% of this network when she - as a Jew - made a careful public comment that maybe something should be done about the extreme Jew hate among all the Muslims that are allied with the antifa network.
  We see the same dilemma with David Draiman: he does not fit in anywhere. Yes, he has been a protestor of the illegal wars of the Bush administration (while at the same time being extremely popular among the troops due to his music). Yes, he hates Trump with such a vicious passion that he has trouble speaking his name. And yes, he supports favorite antifa/"liberal CIA" candidate Bernie Sanders. But he doesn't fit in because of his Jewishness. He's critical of the fact that Sanders is too weak on Israel, that Clinton has worked with the terror-sponsoring Qatari government, and even has viciously criticized the antifa and "liberal CIA"-ran Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel over Israel's treatment of the Palestinians.
  For the time being, Disturbed is kept in this oversight: A) because of Draiman's activism (which is often restricted to globalist assets; both on war and also (minorly) global warming/CO2: "Glaciers melt as we pollute the sky. A sign of devastation coming."), B) because Draiman's opinion about Trump is way too extreme to be considered normal, and C) because I personally will never understand anti-war activists regarding Bush who don't take a conspiracy as 9/11 seriously. Trump - due to his neocon affiliations - is extremely pro-Israel. And why, as a Jew, would Draiman be opposed to banning Muslim immigration into the country? Most whites support this while Jews benefit to an even greater extent due to the rampent Jew-hatred among Muslim immigrants. Draiman's position simply doesn't make much sense. Then again, the 72-75% of Jews continuing to vote Democrat does betray a bizarre hive-mind mentality among America's Jews.
  In any case, Disturbed is on the watchlist. We'll just have to wait and see if any additional peculiarities surface.
• About Draiman's pro-Israel stance:
  • January 14, 2011, ynetnews.com, 'Lead singer of Disturbed on why he loves Israel': "Following in the footsteps of his brother Benjamin, who lives in Jerusalem, his grandmother and "200 relatives in the holy land", Draiman visited Israel around 20 times and over the last few years has decided to make the visits more frequent. ... [He] is even considering buying property here. 'Thing I love most about Israel is that it's the only place where it's OK to be Jewish,' he says. ... If God wants it to happen [a performance here], we'll make it happen some day."
• Disturbed, with David Draiman in particular, is viciously anti-Trump:
  • December 17, 2015, Loudwire, 'Disturbed's David Draiman Supports Bernie Sanders for President' (private Facebook post of Draiman): "Trump's fear mongering, bigoted, racist, lunacy... [YouTube video in same article] that idiot with the fake hair piece [Trump] ... Hillary is hellspawn incarnate (best friend of the ‪terrorist-supporting Qataris, and just basically Obama part II)...
    They're all full of shit. Every politician, in order to be a politician, has to be adept at one thing and one thing only: lying. They're all in bed with all the same power brokers. It doesn't change from presidency to presidency. ... They all get married to all the same corporations. ... So if anyone has any delusions of grandeur that anything is really going to change from one president to the next, you're fooling yourself. ... Change has to come from a much larger portion of society. Whether it's a Barack Obama or a Hillary Clinton or that idiot with the fake hair piece [Trump]. It really doesn't make much difference to me. I hate all politicians equally. I think they are all full of shit." Supports Bernie Sanders, but worried about his soft Israel stance and overly socialist agenda that could bankrupt the US.
  • October 10, 2016 YouTube upload by "Disturbedpedia", 'Disturbed - David Draiman addresses the presidential debate': (essentially tells his crowd - as is all too common among globalist assets - to not pay attention to anti-establishment candidate Trump and vote for "unity"): "There are too many people on either side pulling us apart form each other instead of bringing us together [with the presidential debate]. That is exactly what Rock and Roll does to all of us people. It brings us together."
  • October 26, 2016 tweet of Disturbed's Dan Donegan‏ (@DanDoneganGtr): "Just voted early!We will b in Australia during the election & depending on the outcome I may just want 2 stay! #potus #GodHelpUs #disturbed."
  • Not a traditional "lefty" because he is a Jew. Feels very strongly about everything else:
    • January 17, 2013, Twitchy.com, ''Go to hell': Vocalist David Draiman of Disturbed destroys 'ultra-liberal' Rolling Stone in epic rant': "I used to dream of making the cover of Rolling Stone magazine... You…Dare…To…Put… The…Image…Of…The… Boston…Bomber…On…The …Fucking…Cover…Of …Your…Magazine!!!!???? Are you out of your ultra-liberal, sympathetic to a fault, fucking minds??? You have not only succeeded in blatantly insulting and dishonoring the victims and families whose lives were forever effected by this rabid animal, but you have now glorified his cowardly and unforgivable act. ... You, and your kind are the reason why people think that they can go out "in a blaze of glory" while murdering innocents."
    • April 1, 2015, breakingisraelnews.com, 'Rocker David Draiman Gets 'Disturbed' by Anti-Semitic Tweets of 'The Daily Show' Host Trevor Noah': "David Draiman phoned in to VOI's Yishai Fleisher to call out Trevor Noah, the new host of "The Daily Show," over the comedian's Tweets degrading Jews, ranting that they aren't funny, and are a symptom of an anti-Semitism that must be fought. "You have to stand-up… I don't know how many broken bones over the course of my life… are directly from engaging anti-Semitism and fighting it. I remember every single one of them.""
    • February 10, 2014, algemeiner.com, Disturbed Frontman David Draiman Blasts BDS 'Harassment,' Rips Emma Thompson for Siding With 'BDS Nazis': ""Yes, there are evil regimes that deserve to be boycotted. The apartheid regime of South Africa deserved it. So do the terrorists who rule Gaza. But democratic, peaceful, egalitarian Israel does not," Flatow wrote."
  • June 4, 2019, Blabbermouth, 'Disturbed's David Draiman: The U.S. Was Divided Before Trump, Whether People Want To Admit It Or Not': ""It's terrifying, worse than I've ever seen in my lifetime. I never thought I would see the day when people were literally being attacked once again, when antisemitism is becoming mainstream," he said, citing the infamous New York Times cartoon earlier this year, [the "conservative CIA"] alt-Right marches and continued antisemitic statements by [conspiracy disinformer] Louis Farrakhan. ... People are even questioning the validity of the numbers behind the Holocaust. It's mind-boggling to me." ...
    Draiman has had frequent heated exchanges with followers on Twitter, some of whom believe that Israel is not blameless in the ongoing conflict with Palestinians."
  • June 5, 2019, Jewish Telegraph Agency, 'Disturbed's singer David Draiman slams Roger Waters and 'his Nazi comrades' for boycotting Israel': "Draiman added that Waters, the former Pink Floyd frontman and poster child for artists who boycott Israel, and his "Nazi comrades" are pushing an ideology based on "hatred." [Draiman] sits on the advisory board of the Creative Community for Peace..."
• Draiman is an advisory board member of the Zionist NGO Creative Community for Peace, sponsored by the music industry titans, as well as the anti-Palestine/Iran Democrat-Jewish billionaire Haim Saban [Jewish; worth $3.2 bln; originally a left-winger who realized that talking to the Arafat and the Iranians didn't work and turned to the right; Democrat megadonor, friend of Bill Clinton and "eight-figure" ($10 mln+) donor to Hillary's 2016 campaign; also a financial supporter of Bush; called Trump a "conman, liar, cheat and thief", but ended up supporting Trump's Middle East policy; financier of the Brooking Institution's Saban Center for Middle East Policy (Saban Forum), where top Rockefeller elites as Zbig Brzezinski and many others could be found; sponsor of AIPAC's Saban National Political Leadership Training Seminar], whom Draiman also knows from the Friends Of The Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) gala.
  • November 1, 2018, gettyimages.nl, 'Friends Of The Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) Western Region Gala': "[Canadian music executive] David Foster, Haim Saban and David Draiman attend Friends of The Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) Western Region Gala at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on November 1, 2018 in Beverly Hills..."
  • June 5, 2019, Jewish Telegraph Agency, 'Disturbed's singer David Draiman slams Roger Waters and 'his Nazi comrades' for boycotting Israel': "Draiman added that Waters, the former Pink Floyd frontman and poster child for artists who boycott Israel, and his "Nazi comrades" are pushing an ideology based on "hatred." [Draiman] sits on the advisory board of the Creative Community for Peace..."
  • September 25, 2019, bdsmovement.net, 'Documents Prove "Creative Community for Peace" is Front for Right-Wing Israel Lobby Group "StandWithUs"': "CCFP carefully hides from artists that it is actually a front group for StandWithUs (SWU), a long-established right-wing, anti-Palestinian, pro-Israeli settler lobby group with long-time ties to Israel's far-right government.
    Registration and tax documents show that StandWithUs and Creative Community for Peace are simply alternate names for a single IRS-registered non-profit, "Israel Emergency Alliance." CCFP staff works from StandWithUs' longstanding LA office, and SWU manages many CCFP functions. CCFP and SWU founders and board leaders, David and Esther Renzer, are married.
    Examples of SWU and CCFP's history of partnership with the Israeli government include convening an organizing meeting with Israeli government officials and music industry executives, and producing a pro-settler video series with Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. SWU even announced they were awarded a grant from Israel's Prime Minister's Office.
    SWU and CCFP also regularly echo the Israeli government's racist positions, dehumanizing all Palestinians. CCFP never speaks out against Israel's growing repression of both Palestinian and Jewish Israeli cultural workers who are critical of the State."
  • September 11, 2019, creativecommunityforpeace.com, 'PRESS RELEASE: 'CELEBRATING AMBASSADORS OF PEACE' (AOP) EVENT SET FOR SEPTEMBER 26 IN LOS ANGELES ': "CCFP Co-Founder David Renzer, and Director Ari Ingel, "Creative Community for Peace was founded by entertainment industry executives on the principal that music and the arts can be a unifying force to bring people of different backgrounds together. We also believe that a cultural boycott of Israel does not further the prospects for peace." ...
    noted entertainment attorney and CCFP Advisory Board member, Gary Stiffelman, Esq. (whose clients have included Justin Timberlake, Eminem, Yo-Yo Ma, Trent Reznor, Maroon 5).
    In 2018, CCFP honored Scooter Braun [manager Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande], Geffen Records President Neil Jacobson and Warner Music Group executive Aton Ben-Horin. This year's honorees are: Aaron Bay-Schuck (CEO/Co-Chairman Warner Records); Jacqueline Saturn (President, Caroline Music/CMG); [the black] Troy Carter (Founder of Q&A and Atom Factory); Walter Kolm (former President of Universal Music Latino and now manages Maluma, Carlos Vives, and Wisin amongst others); and special [black] artist honoree, Ziggy Marley (GRAMMY Award-winning artist).
    More than two-hundred top entertainment industry leaders are expected to attend the event... Variety, which recently included CCFP honoree Jacqueline Saturn on their "Women's Impact Report," is the event's official media sponsor."
  • creativecommunityforpeace.com/gala/sponsors/ (accessed: March 14, 2020): "Award Sponsor: Cheryl & Haim Saban. Saban Music Group.
    Executive Sponsor: ANI: www.aninetworks.com. Blavatnik Family Foundation. Sony Music | Latin. Warner Records. Warner Music Group.
    Director Sponsor: Atlantic. Neil Kadisha [Persian-Jewish family; net worth: $1.9 bln; co-founder and managing partner Omninet Capital; director Jewish Federation 1993-; director Joint Distribution Comm. 2006-2010]. ... Jamine and Michael Danielpour [partner Omninet] ... Epic.
    Giving Sponsor: United Talent Agency. EA Music. Sony/ATV Music Publishing. Rockmafia. AEG Presents. Rothenberg Mohr & Binder, LLP. David Draiman. David and Esther Renzer. ... WME. ...
    Friend Sponsor: The Haroni Family. BMI. Craig Emanuel. ... Katten. Sonya Dakar. The Dakar Family Foundation. Marty Adelstein. ... Official Media Partner: Variety. ... Special Thank You To: The Jewish Community Foundation Los Angeles."
  • creativecommunityforpeace.com/gala/host-committee/ (accessed: March 14, 2020): "Neil Jacobson: President, Geffen Records. ... Aton Ben-Horin: Global VP of A&R at Warner Music. ... Mike Caren: CEO, Artist Partners Group & Creative Officer, Warner Music Group. ... Rick Krim: Former Co-President, Sony/ATV Music Publishing. ... Imran Majid: EVP/Co-Head of A&R, Columbia Records. ... David Renzer: Former Chairman/CEO of Universal Music Publishing. Rick Rosen: Head of the Television, WME."
  • creativecommunityforpeace.com/our-leadership/ (accessed: March 14, 2020): "Creative Community for Peace was founded in 2012 by David Renzer (Former Chairman/CEO of Universal Music Publishing) and Steve Schnur (Worldwide Executive & Music President, Electronic Arts) and is comprised of prominent members of the entertainment industry...
    Members of our Advisory Board and Professional Networking Committee work for some of the entertainment industries premier entertainment companies, including: Warner Bros Records, Sony/ATV Publishing, Geffen Records, Atlantic Records, Columbia Records, William Morris Endeavor, Interscope Records, Ultra Records, AEG Presents, Capitol Records, and Amazon among many others."

• American Gothic metal band founded in 1995. The only constant in the band has been singer Amy Lee, who also plays keyboard and harp.
• Amy Lee opposes Trump and supports Black Lives Matter:
  • Feb. 6, 2020, music.mxdwn.com, 'Amy Lee of Evanescence Posts On Twitter "I Will Never Bow Down To a Dictator" Following Senate Acquittal of Trump in Impeachment Trial' (the tweet in question reads Feb 7, 12:05, about 15 hours earlier; maybe a time zone difference).
  • Feb. 7, 2020 @AmyLeeEV tweet with picture that reads (note: it's kinda hard to believe she wrote this herself): "I have never spoken publicly about my political views. ... I have always wanted my music to be a free place where people of all beliefs, all colors, all genders could come together.... But I can't stand by and keep my mouth shut while my country's freedom is taken away. ... I do not accept lying, cheating, or bullying from my government. Our inheritance is a free country, but the voices of many are being twisted and drowned out by the few in power. I will never bow down to a dictator. ... Republicans, Democrats, we are not enemies. We have been intentially divided so we can be conquered. We are ALL being manipulated and used... We have to seek the truth ourselves. ... Liars always try to make something simple seem confusing. But here's an easy one: Anyone who refuses to hear witnesses speak is clearly not seeking truth. Accepting this abuse says it's ok for our leaders to lie to us, cheat on us, make decisions without our input, and silence us when we try to speak up. Think for yourself. Seek the truth. Use your voice."
  • May 30, 2020, Amy Lee of Evanescence on her Facebook: "I am angry, horrified, ashamed and have been trying to put my thoughts into words all day. Evil abuses of power and murder in the streets... A president who calls a press conference in the middle of a nationwide outcry, only to try and change the subject and not even MENTION the murder of George Floyd and the immeasurable injustices that came before it, on top of his threatening, racist tweet. My blood boils... This is what I want to say: Your voices are not unheard. We are grieving with you and this is not ok."
    All the most liked comments oppose this statement of Lee. The highest liked comment in support (22 likes) is from an Asian-American woman whose son can be seen aving an American flag and who's last post who's last post as of June 7, 2022 dates to Nov. 7, 2020 and reads: "Congrats to Biden & Harris! We look forward to a rebirth of our country starting soon!"
  • August 18, 2020, Amy Lee video post on evanescencesofficial (also TikTok), pointing to various texts on while keeping her mouth closed: "I will use my voice because we need an adult in the White House. We must focus on the environment. Black Lives Matter. Equal rights for every gender. How about you? [Puts on a Covid mask that reads:] Vote."
  • Aug. 28, 2020, release of Evanescence's 'Use My Voice' clip. At the end it feautures blacks and whites protesting together under the American flag, clearly symbolic of Black Lives Matter.
  • August 14, 2020, 'Evanescence Recruit Lzzy Hale, Taylor Momsen, and More for Empowering New Song "Use My Voice": Stream' (this is a Black Lives Matter propaganda song): "Along with the song, Evanescence have teamed up with HeadCount for the "Use My Voice" PSA to encourage voter registration."

• Rock group founded in 1998 by Jesse Hughes and lifetime friend Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age. Homme mainly focuses on his own band, and thus wasn't present when the audience of the Eagles of Death Metal was targeted at the Bataclan in Paris by ISIS terrorists on November 13, 2015.
• Pro-Trump, anti-Muslim, does not believe in evolution, and in general seems pretty good and spreading Christian conservative disinformation:
  • July 22, 2015 YouTube upload "SpazioRock", 'Jesse Hughes (Eagles of Death Metal) Interview 2015' (seems rather high during interview and behaves like a young teenager): "We're all Christian-minded here. And in my opinion there has never been a greater person that walked the Earth than Jesus Christ. Ever. There never will be. It is not possible. ... It just means that I tend to let the facts dictate my decisions. If you can find me a magic talking monkey, or at least a skeleton of magic-talking monkey, then I might be more prone in believing in evolution. But since the whole link that makes evolution possible, - oh, what do you call that? - Oh yeah, "missing". "The missing link". You couldn't even take evolution to trial based on the evidence. No DA would touch it. Those are the facts. ... There is no other religious doctrine in the world that tells you that the greatest love that anybody can have is that you give up your life for your own friends. You can blow yourself up to spite Christians, or you can blow yourself up to piss off America. There is nothing noble about that. But the whole world changed through Jesus Christ."
  • November 25, 2015, Vice, 'Eagles of Death Metal Discuss Paris Terror Attacks': "[Shane Smith:] The Eagles of Death Metal, a band that Vice has worked with many times." (Jesse is shock, crying, etc.)
  • February 17, 2016, Billboard.com, 'Eagles of Death Metal's Jesse Hughes: 'I've Been Around Guns My Whole Life,' But Paris Crowd Was 'Frozen in Fear'': ""I know people will disagree with me," Hughes told i-Tele. "Maybe until nobody has guns, everybody has to have them, because I don't want to see anything like this ever happen again, and I want everyone to have the best chance to live." ...
    It took us a minute to get off the stage. I saw about seven people get shot before I got off. I knew two of the girls. I felt angry. I was yelling at one of them because they weren't moving. They were frozen in fear.""
  • March 9, 2016, former MTV VJ Lisa Kennedy interview of Eagles of Death Metal singer Jessie Hughes for Fox Business, 'Eagles of Death Metal Frontman: Security Might Have Been in on Paris Attacks' (full clip hard to find due the avalache of criticism that followed): "[Kennedy: "Was there anything about that night that was strange or off?"] When I first got to the venue and walked in, I walked past the dude who was supposed to be the security guard for the backstage. He didn't even look at me. I immediately went to the promoter and said, 'Who's that guy? I want to put another dude on,' and he goes, 'Well some of the other guards aren't here yet,' and eventually I found out that six or so wouldn't show up at all. ... You know, out of respect for the police still investigating, I won't make a definite statement, but I'll say it seems rather obvious that they had a reason not to show up."
  • May 21, 2016, Timesofisrael.com, 'Bataclan band's concerts nixed after singer says he saw Muslims celebrating': "But Hughes has since proved controversial in his remarks. Unlike many rockers, he is known for his right-wing politics and champions gun ownership as well as Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
    In an interview published last week, Hughes called for greater scrutiny of Muslims in the West and alleged that conservative Christians were unfairly being blamed for global problems.
    "I saw Muslims celebrating in the street during the attack. I saw it with my own eyes. In real time! How did they know what was going on? There must have been coordination," he told Taki's Magazine, a publication of Greek-born conservative commentator Taki Theodoracopulos that has faced criticism for its writings on race.
    Hughes alleged that he personally saw suspected Paris attacks planner Salah Abdeslam at the Bataclan club and that he had eyed up his friend to see if he was a threat. "I just chalked it up to Arab envy. You know what I mean? When a Muslim sees a cocky American dude with tattoos, he stares at him," he said.
    Hughes also alleged that a security guard inquired on the background of the singer's girlfriend, who is of Mexican origin, with an eye to warning her of the impending attack if she was Muslim."
  • May 26, 2016, Washington Times, 'Bataclan survivors condemn Eagles of Death Metal frontman Jesse Hughes for anti-Muslim comments': "He also doubled down on claims for which he's previously apologized, accusing Muslim security guards at the Bataclan of helping coordinate the attacks. His comments sparked intense backlash in France, and two French rock festivals disinvited the California-based band as a result. ... Ismael El Iraki, an avowed Eagles of Death Metal fan, penned an open letter Tuesday to say his "heart is bleeding.""
  • March 16, 2018, consequenceofsound.net, 'Jesse Hughes goes off on "pathetic and disgusting" student-led protests against gun violence; Eagles of Death Metal singer criticized student protestors as "disgusting vile abusers of the dead," shares doctored photo of Emma González': "In another posting, he shared a photoshopped image of student protester Emma González ripping a copy of the US Constitution. (The actual photo depicts González ripping a gun range target, but the image has since been manipulated and spread among right wing groups.)"
  • March 29, 2018, consequenceofsound.net, 'Mark Lanegan to Jesse Hughes: "It fucks my heart to see how far off the rails you've gone"; The Eagles of Death Metal frontman recently criticized the student activists calling for gun regulation': "Jesse Hughes drew harsh blow back from fans earlier this week when he criticized the teens behind the March for Our Lives movement. "May everyone of these disgusting vile abusers of the dead live as long as possible so they can have the maximum amount of time to endure their shame," he said in part, "and be Cursed.""

• Trash metal band founded in 1979. Primarily known as the band of origin of Kirk Hammett, who joined Metallica in 1983. Despite not having the best singing, arguably an underrated trash metal band.
• Gary Holt: guitars, backing vocals (1981–1993, 1997–1998, 2001–present). Used to be a roady. Kirk Hammett taught him his first chords. Joined Exodus 6 months later. Only band member to have performed on all albums. With Slayer as well in the 2011-2019 period. A Republican who was pro-Obama and preferred Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton over Trump, mainly with regard to racism and Christian extremism:
  • September 2004, metal-rules.com, 'Heart of Steel: Interviews: Guitarist of EXODUS - GARY HOLT': "[War is my Shepard] kinda [is] the way I see our United States government which is very pro-god and pro-war which ya know, the two don't usually go hand in hand. Whereas George Bush sits there and like fuckin preaches on and on about god and this, and god bless america and god this, god that, fuck god fuck fuck fuck....god fuck (laughter). At the same time he's orderin up more missiles and shit all in the name of god and the good ol' USA. They're super pro-religion, pro-evangelist, pro-fuckin invasion. ...
    Oh Kerry, I mean they're all dirty crooks, all politicians. But at least he wasn't a coward. He fought in Vietnam whereas George W. Bush Jr. was a draft dodger."
  • August 2010, heavymetal.about.com, 'Gary Holt Interview: A Chat With The Exodus Guitarist': "Vote Obama [to fix the mess we are in]. I used to have a lot of respect for McCain, but he realized after the dirty defeat that he suffered at the hands of George W. Bush in the South Carolina primary in the last election that he can only get elected if he plays the Karl Rove tactic b.s. He's doing it. It's just one debunked lie after the other. He's the kind of guy who will tell you the sky is red, you look up and it's blue, and he won't admit he's wrong. He's playing dirty politics. Palin is just terrifying, the thought of this lady being a heart attack away from having the nuclear codes. She's crazy and she's dumb. "
  • May 5, 2016 YouTube upload by "ArtisanNewsService", 'Talkin' Politics with Slayer, Exodus Guitarist Gary Holt': "I think it's kind of scary… frightening. Donald Trump's the likely Republican nominee. You can't believe anything he says, 'cause he's a serial liar. But, you know, what are we gonna do? I mean, the Republican party doesn't want him to win the nomination, 'cause it's gonna be the death knell for the Republicans in the House and the Congress and everywhere for years to come. People might think some of the things he says, but you can't have a president calling Rosie O'Donnell a 'fat bitch.' [Laughs] It's, like, dude, do you even hear yourself? He won't even condemn David Duke's support. He pretended he doesn't know who he is. I'm a fucking headbanger who's done more drugs before getting sober than most people have ever seen on TV, and I've been drinking since I was 17, although in recent years much less, and I know who the fuck he is. Donald Trump is running for president and he [doesn't] know who the former grandmaster of the KKK is. That was your moment, Donald Trump, to say… you know, to condemn the man, basically, but you pretended you were just ignorant of who he was, 'cause you don't wanna fuck with that vote. There are some fucking hillbillies out there who you want voting for you. I'm sure that band Screwdriver will led them use their songs. White supremist rock, you know.
    But, the bottom line is, I'm in many ways a Republican. I just wish they could put a candidate up there who wasn't walked around on a leash by the Christian evangelicals, because they're the death of the conservative movement anyway. And if they just stay out of women's wombs, you know, and just actually concentrate on running a country and not being beholden to those people, I would vote Republican in a second.
    I know people, including my own bandmembers in EXODUS, who, you might not agree with them, but I'd love to see some uptight, metal-hating, I-know-everything-about-politics dude go up against [EXODUS bassist] Jack Gibson in an argument. It might come to a draw. It's a debate — like, if you disagree with him, you're not gonna win — but he knows his fucking facts. And we're not all idiots. We actually do know what's going on in the world around us.
    Out of everybody we've got now, I guess I'd put on a blindfold and throw a dart and see if I hit Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton. I'd say Bernie, but my tour manager said he looks like that wacky professor in college or something. I don't know how well that'd look in a presidential portrait in the White House. And Hillary's just… she just seems a lot of baggage attached to her lately, with the e-mail scandal and everything. But definitely not Cruz, Rubio or Trump. I mean, there's gotta be a Republican out there watching who says 'fuck you' to the evangelicals, 'I don't give a shit about fucking [the landmark Supreme Court case] Roe vs Wade. Let's just work on the economy, our security and just try to turn this thing around.' And then I'd vote Republican in a second. But it's an impossibility right now, because they won't even sniff a nomination without having all those people pulling the strings."
  • March 1, 2019 Instagram post of a "funny" video of Trump playing guitar in congress with everybody standing up in worship (which actually was after Bush's War on Terror): "Can we all have a good time? LETS DANCE!!! GO! With the world coming to an end, let's stare at the coming apocalypse and put our hands up in the air!!! Just like Donald is doing!!"
  • March 8, 2020 Instagram post of @garyholt_official: "Happy international women's day, especially to the only one who matters to me, my partner in criminal enterprises @lisaholt777"
  • Continually pushes t-shirts that say "No Lives Matter", a pun on Black Lives Matter.
  • March 8, 2020 Instagram post of @garyholt_official: "Courtesy of my friend at @morgan__picks ! Happy Monday!: [Image:] "If Kanye and Kim were both drowning and you only had time to save one, what kind of sandwich would you make?""
• Holt is a bit of a tool:
  • January 22, 2020 Instagram post of @garyholt_official: "THEY'RE BACK!!!! The "Holt Awaits" version of the KTK [Kill The Kardashians] shirts!"
• 1986-1994, 2002-2004 and 2014- singer of Exodus, Steve Souza, supports Trump:
  • August 21, 2018, Loudwire.com, 'Exodus Vocalist Steve 'Zetro' Souza Shares His Support for President Trump': "A July interivew with Exodus frontman Steve "Zetro" Souza is starting to generate some controversy weeks after it was published; in the July 4 chat, Souza said that he counts himself as a supporter of the President. ... "The economy in the United States ... the unemployment is the lowest it's ever been in the history of the United States. I think [Trump] making the attempt to go to meet [North Korean leader] Kim Jong-un, I think that's great — that's what you need to do. People need to touch together, not do it through channels. I love the country I live in, I support it and I support the president.""

• Rock band founded in 1979 by drummer Mike Bordin and bassist Billy Gould that was big in the early 1990s with hits as The Real Thing (1990), Epic (1991) and Angel Dust (1993). Disbanded in 1998, but came back together in 2009. Bordin and Gould have been part of Faith No More for all these years.
• Jim Martin was Faith No More's guitarist from 1983 to late 1993. Martin was a good friend of Metallica's Cliff Burton in the late 1970s and early 1980s. So was Mike Bordin.
• Billy Gould ("Guero Sin Fe" in Brujeria): Founding bassist of pro-white genocide band Brujeria 1989-2002. Founder and life-long bassist Faith No More. In 1994 Gould was part of the one-off band Shandi's Addiction, with Tool's Maynard Keenan and RATM's Brad Wilk and Tom Morello - all involved in antifa-activism and conspiracy disinfo. In 2007 Gould joined Jello Biafra's new (antifa) band Jello Biafra and the The Axis of Evildoers (later known as: Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine), which he was part of until 2011. Over 2008-2012 a (founding) member of Fear and the Nervous System, formed as a side project by Korn guitarist James "Munky" Shaffer, with Bad Religion drummer Brooks Wackerman also part of it over 2008-2012. Hates Trump:
  • June 9, 2017, darkglass.com, 'Interview: Billy Gould; While producing and creating new music for his label Koolarrow, this bass legend seizes the Trump administration.': "It's definitely surreal. I am still in shock that this guy [Trump] was able to pull the election. ... He tapped into something that was already there, not rational but emotional and angry... It views the world through a very narrow lens, carried out by people who do not feel connected to others... and that's a pretty dangerous combination... The sad truth is that he has a very large base of supporters who fell empowered by his behavior..."
• Mike Patton has been the singer of Faith No More 1988–1998; 2009–present. Anti-Trump and favor that American becomes Mexico again. See Dead Cross for sources.
• Roddy Bottum - keyboards, rhythm guitar, backing vocals 1983–1998, 2009–present (one-time partner and long-time close friend of Courtney Love, before coming out as gay):
  • August 14, 2017 @roddybottum tweet: "we observed a moment of silence last night onstage in honor of Viriginians & victims of racism & bigotry. felt perfect."
  • August 17, 2017 @roddybottum tweet: "EMBARASSED to be an American abroad. he is not my president and true Americans stand up every day to defy his racist regime."
  • July 25, 2018, Kerrang.com, 'What Was It Like To Come Out As The First Openly Gay Rockstar?' (in 1993; on Roddy Bottum).

• Fear Factory was founded in 1989 and became a major player in heavy metal - specializing in industrial metal - with the release of their 1995 album Demanufacture. Songs from the album were used in the Mortal Kombat film soundtrack (1995) and the popular game Carmageddon (1997). The band also instantly went on tour with "greats" as Black Sabbath, Megadeth, Iron Maiden, Slayer and Rammstein. Fear Factory slowly started fading from public sight again in the 2000s, because follow-up albums, despite the band's fame, were less well received. The band has continued to exist though for decades on end.
• Less well-known is that band members are deeply tied into with antifa and outright white-genocide bands Ministry and Brujeria. Unsurprisingly, Fear factory band members hate Trump with a passion.
• Burton C. Bell: Founder and lead singer of Fear Factory 1989-. Provided vocals for antifa band Ministry in 2008 and 2018. Burton hates Trump:
  • September 15, 2016, MetalInjection.net, 'FEAR FACTORY Frontman Calls American Politics "A Pathetic Disaster"': "American politics is a pathetic disaster. It is worrying as there's a lot of stupid Americans. Trump is like PT Barnum, he's selling outrageousness: racism, bigotry, xenophobia, and people are buying it. It's the same reason people in the UK voted for Brexit and we need to prevent that from happening in the US. People are going to have to wise up. ... So if you want to vote for your conscience and vote for an independent, who is not going to win, I get it, but try doing the right thing by not letting Trump win. Hillary's no angel, but what politician is?"
  • April 9, 2018, MetalInjection.net, 'Ministry Guitarist & Fear Factory Vocalist Discuss 'AmeriKKKant' Album, Side Projects, Etc.': "I sat backstage with Ministry guitarist Sin Quirin as well as Fear Factory vocalist Burton C. Bell, who was featured on the recent album and provided additional vocals during the tour. ... "[Burton:] The lyrical inspiration began when Trump did get elected. ... I agree with Al. He's trying to wake people up to understand what we're seeing is not normal. If Obama did a tenth of what Trump is doing, you'd be screaming impeachment. ...
    I see a civil war happening right now and it's going to get worse. I see that America is going to crumble. But we have to get all those fucking bastards out of government that are bought and paid for. I think the younger generation is seeing it now. The Parkland massacre is waking kids up. They're seeing how corrupt the government and NRA is and nothing is getting done. These people in office need to wake the fuck up because these kids are going to kick their asses out. Something needs to happen. Apathy has been a disease in this country for far too long.""
• Dino Cazares, guitarist of Fear Factory 1989-2002 and again since 2009, is a long-time member of pro-white genocide metal group Brujeria - and obviously hates Trump as well:
  • March 13, 2016, sofa-king-cool-magazine.com, 'FEAR FACTORY Frontman: 'FEAR FACTORY's DINO CAZARES: 'If DONALD TRUMP Actually Gets Elected, I'm Moving To Australia'': "Asked by Australia's Sticks For Stones if he likes any of the candidates currently in the presidential race, Dino — who takes a great amount of pride in his Mexican culture and heritage — responded (hear audio below): "The closest thing I like is Bernie Sanders. But we have a kook running for president; we have Donald Trump. ... [Trump] doesn't like Muslims, he doesn't like Mexicans, and he doesn't like the foreigners. Blah blah blah blah… It's just gonna cause a war. It's gonna cause a lot of tension between Americans and other parts of the [world]. It's gonna make it worse. He's definitely gonna get death threats in America. I mean, someone's gonna try to assassinate him here. I'm surprised that that was the first [attempt] that come out. There might be a bunch of other ones already that we don't know about yet.""
  • March 14, 2016, MetalSucks.net, 'Dino Cazares Receives Racist Backlash for Insulting Donald Drumpf': "I was extremely surprised at how many racist comments I was reading because I'm of Mexican descent. You know, I'm an American, I was born in the United States, I pay taxes just like everybody else and a lot of people were saying, 'Leave, Donald Drumpf is gonna build a wall so your people won't come into America.' A lot of people were saying, 'Get the f— out of here, beaner.'"Racism really seems to be coming out of the woodwork now, and you have people like Donald Drumpf who are provoking that. ...
    It almost seems like, me being Hispanic means I need to, almost, keep my mouth shut. Because who knows what might happen to me if these sorts of people find out that I'm Hispanic. I'm not saying that I'm gonna die a martyr or something as stupid like that. I'm just saying that people are actually taking this pretty seriously and who knows. Some crazy person out there could attempt to do something crazy to me. ...
    It's dangerous out here, how people in America will take anything that anyone says and who knows what could happen. Somebody could get beat up, somebody could get shot, somebody could get killed. I mean it scares me to be even talking about this to you right now."
  • July 1, 2020, 'FEAR FACTORY's Dino Cazares Approves of This Black Lives Matter-Themed "Big God" Cover; In honor of the deaths of Elijah McClain, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and too many others': "[Some artists] recently came together for a Black Lives Matter themed cover of Fear Factory's "Big God / Raped Souls." The cover is renamed "Blue Gods / Black Souls" and Fear Factory guitarist Dino Cazares approves. "Fuck I almost cried, that's so amazing, probably the most amazing thing anyone has ever done to one our songs, #BLM please share everywhere and tag me.""
• Raymond "Ray" Herrera, Fear Factory drummer from 1989 to 2006, has been another member of pro-white genocide metal group Brujeria. In 2006, Herrera created California recording studio Temple Studios LLC.

• American rock band founded in Boston in 1995 by frontman Sully Erna and bassist Robbie Merrill. Lead guitarist Tony Rombola joined in 1996. Drummer Shannon Larkin joined in 2002. These four men are still together into the 2020s.
• Financed their initial Feb. 1997 album 'All Wound Up'. After touring the Boston scene for about two years, the were picked up by Republic Records/Universal Records, which re-released the album as 'Godsmack' in 1998 and released singles from August 1998 to Feb. 2000 from it. In the summer of 1999 they were invited to Ozzfest, and continued to open up for Black Sabbath. As a result, when the band released its second album, 'Awake', in October 2000, they already were a recognizable name among many metal fans:
  • Feb. 17, 2000, Rolling Stone, 'Sully Erna of Godsmack: "I never really wanted to be the poster child for witchcraft, but that's fine."': "Last summer, Godsmack were officially inducted into the hard-rock elite when they joined Ozzfest. They must have done something right, because they were then invited to warm up Black Sabbath on their subsequent tours of the U.S. and Europe."
• Anti-Biden, semi-pro-Trump, pro-Covid disinformation, and rational thought on the racism:
  • July 3, 2020 YouTube upload by 'Sully Erna', 'Hometown Sessions Ep. 18 "Taco Thursday Free For All"': "The only ones that could have fucked up my taco are the Mexicans that made it. And that's not racist, so enough of that shit. I don't wanna hear anything else about racism. This country got outta fucking control. If someone said, "Oh, that Italian guy made that pasta, that wouldn't be racist. But if you say, "A Mexican made the taco, all of a sudden it's fucking racist." ...
    If Trump stays in [office], COVID’s gonna be a big, messy pain in the ass, and there’s gonna be more people burning down Wendy’s fucking restaurants. If Trump fucking is gone, all of a sudden they’re gonna have this miracle vaccine that those fucking liars have been holding on to. ...
    I don’t care if Trump stays or goes, but do not let Biden control this country. Because if Biden controls this country, he’s not really controlling it — it’s all the people pulling his puppet strings that are gonna control it. I guarantee you we’re gonna be really close to losing this country if that dude gets in office. And that is not gonna be a fun place to live. What used to be one of the greatest countries in the world, right now it’s an embarrassment. People are laughing at us all over the globe. Even the crazy countries that we sit there and we watch the news sometimes, because they’re beheading people and doing this radical shit, and we’re, like, ‘Wow, man. [I] don’t wanna live over there,’ now, all of a sudden, those countries look at us and they’re, like, ‘What the fuck is going on in America right now? Those people are out of their mind.'"
  • July 4, 2020, MetalInjection.net, 'Godsmack's Sully Erna Shares Wild Joe Biden Conspiracy Theory Regarding Coronavirus Vaccine': "We always thought Erna sounded like Beavis, but thanks for proving that Beavis is of slightly more intelligence."
• As can be seen above, Erna is somewhere in between alt right and a conspiracy disinformer. It gets a bit peculiar upon learning that Erna's has a background with fake commercial witch Laurie Cabot, putting a huge asterisk with his long-time Wiccan beliefs and story of reincarnation with regard to New Orleans:
  • April 1, 1999, Tim McMahan for The Reader, 'Godsmack: Rock 'n' Roll Karma' (timmcmahan.com/godsmack.htm (accessed: July 16, 2023)): "Sully is now a practicing Witch of the Celtic Religion (WICCA), who studied under Salem Witch Laurie Cabot. Look on their CD sleeve, or on their website (www.godsmack.com), and you'll find a rendering of a Pentagram, a 5-pointed star and symbol used in witchcraft. The first thing you might think of is Satanism, but you'd be far off the mark, Sully said.
    "I don't preach Wicca," he said. "In my mind, it's about the power of the Earth, karma and natural remedies. A spell is no different than a prayer. For me, there was too much guilt involved with Christianity, with hell presented as a punishment. Witchcraft is an ancient religion where there's no devil involved, no hell, no Satan. It's about karma – if you remain a good person, you'll have good things happen to you. If you're a dickhead your whole life, you'll always attract trouble."
    Regardless, he says the religion is often misunderstood. "What bums me out is when people ask if I believe in Satan or kill animals or babies and weird stuff like that," Sully said. "If you read two paragraphs in any witchcraft literature, you'd realize that we believe everything that you put out, you get back three times. It doesn't make any sense to think anything evil about witchcraft.""
  • Oct. 29, 1999, MTV, 'Godsmack's Erna Talks Wicca Faith As "Voodoo" Video Arrives': "He recently incorporated his beliefs, along with an actual Wicca ceremony, into the ... new video for the song "Voodoo". "The most common misconceptions about witchcraft," Erna began, "is that too many people think that it's satanic, and there's no demons or devils that exist in Wicca, so therefore, you can't worship something that doesn't exist. It's simply about the belief of the Earth, natural herbs, and healing remedies that come from the Earth. A lot of spiritual beliefs, karma, stuff like that. So it's pretty pure, in a religion. It's pretty harmless.""
  • Feb. 17, 2000, Rolling Stone, 'Sully Erna of Godsmack: "I never really wanted to be the poster child for witchcraft, but that's fine."': ""It’s a religion. A lot of people just affiliate the word witch with evil because Christianity condemned it so many hundreds of years ago. Back in those days, witches were just women who believed in herbs and plants as natural healing remedies – the belief in the earth and karma and stuff like that. Because it’s so blown up to be this super-hocus-pocus kind of magical thing" ...
    My problem with Christianity was they never allowed you to look into any other religions. It’s like, "This is the book. This is the way. Believe it or go to hell." Fuck that. And who knows? I could be wrong. Maybe when I die I could go to purgatory and there could be Jesus going, “See? We tried to tell you the whole time. You fucked up, now go to hell. ...
    I meet a lot of witches that won’t come out of their shell. They put their pentacles underneath their shirts, or they take their rings off, or whatever it is that may symbolize that they’re a witch. Maybe that’s why it’s made so much noise with me being in a rock band and me being a witch."
  • Sep. 3, 2003, MTV, 'Psychic Helps Godsmack Singer Overcome Fear Of New Orleans: Frontman Sully Erna tells the tale in band's next single, 'Re-Align.'': "Godsmack's next single, "Re-Align," is about a past-life regression frontman Sully Erna had last year in New Orleans. ... "I could be in the best mood, and then I'd go through [New Orleans], and within an hour it was like something sucked all the life out of me," he said. "I'd get really sad, and sometimes I couldn't get out of bed. The first time, it totally knocked me off balance and I wasn't able to perform. They shuttled me out of there in a van because I couldn't breathe that well. I wrote it off as an anxiety attack, but then it happened again and again. ... I was able to see that I had lived there at one point and gone through a lot of crazy stuff and died there. ... I was full-on crying. I was a mess. It was pretty wild [the regression]."
  • March 11, 2008, Boston Globe, 'He’s bewitched' (includes a photo of Erna hugging Laurie Cabot): "Godsmack frontman Sully Erna was among the 100 Wiccans who flew in from around the country over the weekend for a surprise 75th birthday party for Laurie Cabot, the Official Witch of Salem.
    "Before I met Laurie, I was in a really low point in my life,"" Sully told the crowd. "I owe Laurie everything. (She) changed my life around."
    Apparently, the headbanger and the high priestess of witchcraft have been tight for years. In fact, Cabot and her coven appeared in Godsmack's "Voodoo" video in 2006. (And no, we didn’t get that out of the Wiccapedia!)"."
  • Various Godsmack videos show how Sully Erna has continued to wear upright pentagram necklaces for decades. You see it in his 2010 solo project, with songs as 'Sinner's Prayer' and 'Until Then' (reincarnation); or in Godsmack's 2022 video for 'Surrender'.
• The name of the Democrat Party-supported commercial witch Laurie Cabot, Erna's mentor in Wicca, is a pseudonym. She isn't related or intermarried with the Cabot family at all. From age 17 until her early 20s or so, Laurie Cabot worked for the father of globalist journalist and news anchor Barbara Walters (eventually close to Henry Kissinger, David Rockefeller and Jacob Rothschild through NGOs as the European Economic Round Table, the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation, the Paley Center for Media, etc.). Early on it was Mass. governor Michael Dukakis (senior adv. comm. National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI) 1989- until at least 2022) personally, over the objections of city council and the chamber of commerce, who recognized her as the "official witch" of Salem. Laurie Cabot, a board member of the Salem Chamber of Commerce, became a political operative in 1986 with her Witches' League for Public Awareness (like an ADL for witches instead of Jews) and ran for mayor of Salem in 1987. At that point she reached the national media and even was interviewed on Oprah. ...
  • lukemastin.com/witchcraft /witches_cabot.html (accessed: July 16, 2023): "The following year [in 1987], she established the Temple of Isis, a chapter of the National Alliance of Pantheists, through which she was ordained as the “Reverend Laurie Cabot”, giving her the legal right to perform marriage ceremonies..."
  • Aug. 16, 1977, New York Times, 'Lou Walters, Nightclub Impresario And Founder of Latin Quarter, Dies': "In 1937 he opened his first Latin Quarter club in Boston. ... By 1940, the Latin Quarter was grossing a half million dollars a year and Mr. Walters branched out. That year he took over Earl Carroll's Palm Island club in Miami Beach. And two years later he established another Latin Quarter in New York. ... Mr. Walters sold the establishment in 1958... In addition to his daughter Barbara [Walters]..."
  • libguides.salemstate.edu/home/archives/blog/Laurie-Cabot (accessed: July 16, 2023): "Laurie Cabot (Mercedes “Merci” Keirsey) was born in Oklahoma on March 6, 1933, while her parents, Edith (Cliff) and Lee Keirsey worked their way to California from Boston. ...
    As a child, Laurie’s mother, observed her innate ability to read people’s thoughts and talk about events before they happened. According to Cabot, at age 7, she had a vision of a young boy falling off his bike and getting stuck on a train trestle. She was so distraught by this vision, that her mother called the police and shortly thereafter a boy was rescued. Although this experience frightened Edith, it sparked a lifelong curiosity in her young daughter. ...
    After moving back to Massachusetts, Laurie says she met a librarian at the Boston Public Library, who identified as a witch and recognized her psychic abilities. Cabot studied under her guidance until age 16 but did not openly practice witchcraft or identify as a witch. ...
    After graduating from Weymouth High School in 1951, Cabot left Boston for New York City, working as a dancer in the famed Latin Quarter nightclub in Times Square. In the 1950s, Laurie married and welcomed her first child, Jody (Josaphina Capone). The couple soon divorced, and Laurie returned to Massachusetts, where she continued to work as a dancer. "
  • 2019, Stephanie Schorow, 'Drinking Boston: A History of the City and Its Spirits', p. 142: "Eighty-year-old Laurie Cabot of Salem, Massachuetts, was a dancer at age seventeen at the Latin Quarter where, she claims, she was dubbed by Variety as “Boston's most undraped show girl.” In the early 1950s, the Latin Club's floor shows were known for their theatrical costumes and three-times-a-night stage shows. Cabot remembers performing an elaborate homage to “The Red Shoes”; another night she wore a snakeskin-tight black body suit and danced solo to Ravel's “Bolero." Cabot saw Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Jr., Buddy Hackett, and Tyrone Powers among the many stars who performed at the Latin Quarter."
  • Oct. 31, 2017, Boston Globe, 'How Salem’s first witch shop started a movement': "She pooled money with a friend to leave Boston after a divorce, and circumstances led them to Salem in 1971. Once there, the 38-year-old Cabot opened a shop. It was called simply “The Witch Shoppe.” At the time, there was no need to be more specific. There were no witch shops, and there weren’t vendors selling pentacle jewelry, herbs intended for magical use, or other items for her shop to carry. ...
    “I had made a vow to my goddess that I would wear the black robes and never take them off,” she said. “Of course I was very naive. ... Two weeks after The Witch Shoppe opened a woman came into the store screaming that Cabot was going to hell and bringing the devil to Salem. Another time, a man stopped his car to tell her that “they’re going to burn you and hang you again,” she recalled. At the time, Cabot was walking with her two young daughters. ...
    Cabot became a well-known figure, and then Salem’s Official Witch via a declaration by Governor Michael Dukakis [senior adv. comm. National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI) 1989- until at leats 2022] in 1977, according to The Boston Globe. The store was taken over by her daughter, Penny, while Cabot wrote books and taught courses at Salem State, Wellesley College, and Harvard, the Globe reported. Her courses focused on witchcraft as a “science, art, and religion.”“My intention was to help educate about what magic is, and then I started teaching classes,” she said."
  • Oct. 1, 1988, The Forerunner, 'Dukakis’ Official Witch?': "Rumors about a “state-appointed witch” linked to Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis have spread rapidly around the U.S. since the Democratic nominee began his campaign this year. ... The news about about Laurie Cabot ... was published by National Geographic in April, 1979. ... The magazine described her as a descendant of a well-known Massachusetts family. ... Cabot has launched a new organization, the Witches’ League for Public Awareness, which is attempting to link witches together from all over the nation. ... One spokesperson for the Salem Chamber of Commerce confirmed the statements made by National Geographic, agreeing that she was the official, state-designated witch of Salem. However, press aides at the Dukakis campaign headquarters in Boston denied the allegations. The first aide reported that Cabot had actually only received what is known as a Paul Revere Citation – which he described as a “humorous,” unofficial commendation awarded to outstanding Massachusetts citizens. Cabot had been recommended for this certificate by a state legislator from her district. “The Governor did not even sign it,” he added, saying that the citation only bears a facsimile signature by Dukakis. ...
    Another spokesperson at the Salem Chamber of Commerce defended Cabot, but denied that she was state-appointed. Her position as “official Witch of Salem,” according to the employee, is a role that has simply been accepted by the community. “She’s very popular and a very nice person,” she stated. Cabot is reported to be a noteworthy citizen because of all the beneficial things she has done for the community.
    A city official, who wished to remain anonymous, set the record straight by researching the records of City Council meetings. According to those notes, Laurie Cabot came to the mayor of Salem and requested that she be made the official city witch and “greeter.” The Council discussed the issue, and in April of 1977 released a statement that they did not want “any person or spirit” to be the official witch of Salem. A letter was even sent to the office of Governor Dukakis in Boston to express the decision of the City Council.
    However, Cabot bypassed the council decision and, with the help of a state representative, Elaine Noble, went directly to the governor. Although it is still unclear as to what exactly went on in that meeting, Massachusetts newspapers the next morning announced that Cabot had been named the “official” witch. Salem Evening News, on April 28, 1977, ran a news article with the headline, “Governor Dukakis Unwittingly Gives ‘Witch’ Her Wish.” The story stated: “This week Ms. Cabot apparently worked her magic on Governor Dukakis, and he unwittingly did for Ms. Cabot what Salem mayors and councils have refused repeatedly.”
    There is still some confusion about whether the Paul Revere Citation was the document that gave Cabot this official status, or whether Dukakis simply told Cabot she had the office. Rev. Russel Ely, pastor of the Salem Christian Assembly, confirmed that this has been a mystery. He did cite, however, an article from the popular Yankee magazine (October 1986) which ran a story called “Why Salem Is in Love with Witches.” That article, in describing the meeting between Dukakis and Cabot, seemed to suggest that an appointment had been made in addition to the citation. Said the report: “The petition (to make Cabot official) found its way to Governor Michael Dukakis, who, against the wishes of Salem’s mayor at the time, appointed Cabot Salem’s official witch and gave her a citation to boot.”
    Pastor Ely, who has had numerous confrontations with Cabot and other witches in Salem, said the matter needs to be clarified. “In my estimation,” he said, “Dukakis needs to make this clear. But he has just ignored it.” Ely confirmed that Salem, a city of 38,000 people, does have approximately 2,000 practicing witches.
    “Laurie Cabot is serious about her witchcraft,” added Ely. “She’s also a serious businesswoman. In fact, she tells people that she is ‘the American dream’ because of her financial success.” Cabot is very well-known across the nation, and has been featured on television talk shows including “The Oprah Winfrey Show” and “Good Morning America.”
  • February 9, 2012, Boston Globe, 'Salem’s official witch closes up shop after 40 years': "Cabot said tourism in the Witch City has dipped to the point where a brick-and-mortar store is no longer sustainable. "[But] the online store is doing great, and it’s worldwide,’’ said Cabot... Her store’s back room, where she does healings and psychic readings...
    Cabot didn’t practice witchcraft openly until shortly after she found herself a 30-year-old divorcee with two young children, in the late 1960s. But she concealed her religion again after a friend urged her to move into a Federal-style house across the street from the mayor of Salem in 1969. ... Cabot says she appeared on several national talk shows, including the “Tonight Show’’ with Johnny Carson."
  • coasttocoastam.com/guest/wood-maureen-96167/ (accessed: July 16, 2023): "Maureen Wood is a fifth generation Psychic/Trance-medium. For as far back as she can remember, she has communicated with the deceased. At the age of fifteen, she was introduced to a woman who studied with Laurie Cabot (official Witch of Salem, Massachusetts) who took Maureen under her wing and guided her in ways to not only understand, but also control her gifts. At the age of 15, she served as a medium for adult séances. She has practiced, studied, and instructed metaphysical studies for more than twenty-five years. Maureen has been with the New England Ghost Project since 2001 and has accompanied the group on over 100 investigations."
  • 1987-1988, U.S. Congress: House, Committee on Small Business , 'Tourism and Small Business' (serial no. 100-37), pp. 396-398, Salem Chamber of Commerce document (by John P. Gormally, its executive director): "On behalf of the Salem Chamber of Commerce I would like to ... welcome you to Salem. ... The Salem Chamber of COmmerce, of which I ahve been executive director for the past 6 yars, represents 300 Salem businesses... We have established a close working relationship with Laurie Cabot, the woman known throughout the United States and Europe as the "official witch" of Salem, who now serves on the board of directors of the Salem Chamber. ... In the past 6 years tourism has soared..."
  • celticcrow.com/org/about.html (accessed: Oct. 14, 2000; official site of the WLPA, as per the front page at the time: "Welcome to the new and improved CelticCrow.com, home of the Witches' League for Public Awareness."): "The Witches' League for Public Awareness is a proactive educational network dedicated to correcting misinformation about Witches and Witchcraft. The work of the League springs from a shared vision of a world free from all religious persecution. The League was founded in Salem, Massachusetts, in May, 1986, by Rev. Laurie Cabot H.Ps."
  • celticcrow.com/org/nbod.html (accessed: Oct. 14, 2000): "Founder- Rev. Laurie Cabot, HPS- Works with the Board of Directors in establishing policy and aids the direction of the WLPA with respect to its Mission Statement."
  • May 20, 1987, UPI, 'Witch to run for mayor of Salem': "Laurie Cabot, the official witch of Salem, has declared her candidacy for mayor in an attempt to dispel what she called a growing anti-witch sentiment in the town..."
  • May 29, 1987, Los Angeles Times, 'New Queen Bee Casts Her Spell With ‘Staphylococci’': "A potential mayoral candidate in Salem, Mass., could be associated with spells of a different kind. Laurie Cabot, 54, the official witch of Salem, took out nomination papers saying her candidacy is a celebration of the American Constitution. It’s also an effort to counteract anti-witchcraft sentiment that became an issue in the mayoral race when an apparently orchestrated campaign of anonymous calls to the Salem Evening News inquired about a “warlock” on the City Council. The calls referred to Councilor Robert Gauthier, whose wife was dying of cancer and became close to Cabot during her last two years. The calls ceased once they became public. Whether she ends up with her name on the ballot or not, the important thing, Cabot said, is to make a statement that anyone, regardless of religion, can become involved in politics. “It’s just the fact that I can go to the City Hall and take out papers. . . . It’s just a tribute to the country,” she said. Cabot was designated Salem’s official witch by state proclamation."
  • Oct. 25, 1987, Washington Post, 'Witches or wimps? You make the call': "As the Salem, Mass.-based [Laurie Cabot-founded] Witches' League for Public Awareness will no doubt remind me if I don't correct the mistake right now, "witches" should be capitalized, because it's the proper name of members of a formal religion. ...
    In 1985 Sen. Jesse Helms sponsored a bill that would have denied Witches the tax-exempt status granted religious groups by the IRS. In 1986 the New England Spy -- a right-wing newspaper handed out free in airports -- charged that Salem Witches were in league with California Satanists in a "pagan-religious-insurgency movement" that, among other things, controlled the recording industry. During last spring's Salem mayoral primaries, an anonymous source told local news media that city councilman and mayoral candidate Robert Gauthier was a warlock. It was suggested that Mayor Anthony Salvo was the mudslinger. In denying this, he slandered Witches everywhere: "Anybody with half a brain wouldn't believe in Witchcraft! I know I don't.""
  • 1987, Laurie Cabot on Ophrah (youtube.com/watch?v=3qZQabvjlBY (accessed: July 17, 2023)): "It's not okay, because we don't do evil with our psychic abilities. ... Our psychic abilities are part of our way of life. ... A movie that just came out for children called My Little Pony and in it there were three bad witches. Not three bad Buddhists. And not three bad Baptists." [Loud laughter] Black robes, I chose to do that as it is a political statement. And that's why I do it all the time. ... We wear black, because it's a tool. It's like waeing a rainbow. It draws in light. So it helps us to be more balanced and psychic. We ... emulate our gods and goddesses by wearing make up." Also used to talk in other settings about the overlap between science and religion, the pineal gland, etc.
  • Oct. 25, 1998, Washington Post, 'Campaign Ad Disenchants Mass. Witches': "Pagans and witches from Cape Cod to Salem are outraged at a 30-second television spot that mocked a defense of witches' rights ... "It's very upsetting," said Cheryl Sulyma-Masson, a high priestess in the pagan religion known as Wicca and head of the 200-member Witches League for Public Awareness. "He has made a powerful statement in saying witches do not deserve religious freedom.""
  • July 7, 1997, South Coast Today, 'Salem witch Laurie Cabot a center of controversy': "Wren Walker of Medford, a former co-chair of the Witches League for Public Awareness... Maria Guerriero, a Salem Wiccan high priestess, said she and Cabot had a falling-out over Cabot's treatment of other witches who were trying to start businesses."

• When signed to Geffen Records in 1986, the band comprised of vocalist Axl Rose, lead guitarist Slash, rhythm guitarist Izzy Stradlin, bassist Duff McKagan, and drummer Steven Adler. Slash, McKagan and Adler had previously been in a band without being able to find a proper vocalist. They disbanded and in 1985 joined Axl Rose, who had just founded Guns N' Roses.
• First CD was Appetite for Destruction (1987), which contains many of their most popular songs: Welcome to the Jungle, Paradise City, Sweet Child O'Mine, etc. The album would go on to sell 30 million copies. G N' R Lies (1988) wasn't so well received (and Axl Rose criticized for using the word "nigger" and also going against women and gays), but still sold 10 million copies. Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II were released together in September 1991 and included popular songs and hits as Live and Let Die, Don't Cry, November Rain, Estranged, Civil War, Knockin' on Heaven's Door and You Could Be Mine. Together the albums sold more than 36 million copies. The quality was not as consistent as GNR's first album, however, and initial sales were slightly disappointing. By the time The Spaghetti Incident? was released in 1993 the band was disintegrating. It only sold 6.1 million copies without any famous songs being part of it.
• Drummer Steven Adler was kicked out of the band in July 1990 for his heroin and cocaine addiction affecting his performance. He had his royalties taken and filed a lawsuit (In 1993 he received a back-payment check of $2,250,000 and 15% royalties for songs he recorded). Izzy Stradlin quit in November 1991 after going sober and all of a sudden not getting along anymore with Slash and other band members who still struggled with addictions. He also called out Axl Rose for his mismanagement of the band. Dave Navarro of Jane's Addiction was considered, but, according to Slash, "Couldn't get it together." Guitarist Gilby Clarke replaced him. Stradlin replaced Clarke for a while in 1993 again, after the latter broke his arm in a motorcycle accident. Slash, Sorum and Clarke all quit the band in 1993, much of it related to Axl Rose' antics.
• A very bloated and aged Axl Rose increasingly started getting in the limelight again in 2016 with a Guns N' Roses regrouping that included Slash and becoming the singer of AC/DC. Became a huge anti-Trump propagandist following the 2016 elections.
• Establishment propaganda of former Guns N' Roses band members:
• Bass player Duff McKagan (also bass player in 10 Minute Warning 1982-1984 (Seattle punk/grunge, like Nirvana and Pearl Jam) and since 2016 in Levee Walkers, a Seattle-based supergroup founded by Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready) has been promoting large amounts of anti-Trump, open border propaganda (to the point of comparing it to the Holocaust), even backing up notorious war hawk and top superclass member Senator John McCain on the immigration issue:
  • April 18, 2016, alternativenation.net, 'Guns N' Roses' Duff McKagan Says Trump Could Lead To Grunge Rebellion': "You just said, "if Trump wins." That's the scariest thought ever in American history, it really is. But yeah, it might create good art. ... When Reagan came into office, [it inspired] all those punk rock bands. ...
    We struck a chord with this disenfranchised section of kids our age and younger, and that kind of opened the door for that kind of music—left of center music. Then Alice in Chains came out, then Pearl Jam, then Nirvana, and all that stuff started to really hit, and then it went away again." McKagan is missing more than a few 1980s - early 1990s heavy metal bands that are not under suspicion here.
  • September 30, 2016 @DuffMcKagan tweet: "Gentlemen of our age. We must stand against this ugly racial scism currently at the fore in our great nation. Be badass my brothers."
  • January 21, 2017 @DuffMcKagan tweet: "#WomensMarch"
  • June 19, 2018 @DuffMcKagan tweet: "I read history books. This is a correct statement. [June 18, 2018 statement of Senator John McCain:] "The administration's current family separation policy is an affront to the decency of the American people, and contrary to principles and values upon which our nation was founded. The administration has the power to rescind this policy. It should do so now.""
  • June 20, 2018 @DuffMcKagan tweet: "Brother, they've been saying this since the 1850's. 'No Irish need apply'...'No Wops'..and etc. There's just TV and social media now stoking the fire [of racism]. Respect and peace to you."
  • July 10, 2018 @DuffMcKagan tweet: "I went last year [to Auschwitz]. The brutality of what mankind is capable of is beyond jaw-dropping. Yes..never again INDEED..As a proud American, I have my eyes keenly on US Border situation at the moment. Never again means...now as well.
    [Reply to a July 9 tweet that read:] "This is a bit random but if you have the time go visit the Auschwitz concentration camp. I promise it's something you'll never be able to forget. I know I haven't. With the state of the world at the moment places like Auschwitz is a reminder why we cannot let hate win (again).""
  • July 20, 2018 @DuffMcKagan tweet: "New Duff McKagan T-Shirt Designs! AVAILABLE NOW - ONLINE ONLY at http://bit.ly/DuffMerchStore [Shirt with "We Are Not Our Politicians"] [Reply:] DUFF MCKAGAN ACTING SUPER PUNK ROCK!"
  • November 4, 2018 retweets of Axl Rose: "Personally I kinda liked the irony of Trump supporters listening to a bunch of anti Trump music at his rallies but I don't imagine a lot of 'em really get that or care. ...
    Just so ya know... GNR like a lot of artists opposed to the unauthorized use of their music at political events has formally requested r music not b used at Trump rallies or Trump associated events."
  • May 31, 2020 Instagram post of @duffmckagan: "Well..this cop on Black racism has to stop...but we've known this forever. I'm more and more stunned and sickened when I hear of this stuff continuously happening. I am not a black man..so I can't even pretend to understand what it's like....but even MORE, I can't understand what it's like to be a racist white dipshit. I don't get it. I will never 'get' it. Thankfully, I grew up different. Police training and vetting of new and old officers has to change radically. For starters...Peace to all of us. #justiceforgeorgefloyd [Picture involves a Black Lives Matter fist]"
• Axl Rose started to get political right after Trump's November 2016 election. By the time of the November 2018 midterms he was ranting against Trump on a daily basis:
  • See above anti-Trump tweets of Axl Rose retweeted by Duff McKagan.

  

  • November 6, 2018 @axlrose tweet: "VOTE MOTHERFUCKERS!!" (more criticism of Trump in days after).
  • November 4, 2018 @axlrose tweets, right before midterms: "As far as I'm concerned anyone can enjoy GNR 4 whatever reason n' there's truth 2 the saying "u can't choose your fans" n' we're good w/that. ...
    Having said that my personal position is that the Trump administration along w/the majority of Republicans in Congress n' their donors that support him 4 their own agendas r doing r nation a disservice. ...
    We have an individual in the WH that will say n' do anything w/no regard for truth, ethics, morals or empathy of any kind, who says what's real is fake n' what's fake is real [note: mainstream media still is "fake news", no matter how much the same goes for the right]. ...
    Most of us in America have never experienced anything this obscene at this level in r lifetimes n' if we as a country don't wake up n' put an end 2 this nonsense now it's something we definitely will all pay hard 4 as time goes on."
  • October 29, 2018 @axlrose tweet: Vote Blue... Bitches!! (endless political commenting)
  • October 11, 2018 @axlrose tweet: "Oh n' don't let any of this distract from the Khashoggi killing [which Trump helps Saudi Arabia cover up]."
  • September 19, 2018 @axlrose tweet: "Trump rips into Jeff Sessions: 'I don't have an Attorney General' And we don't have a President."
  • June 9, 2018 @axlrose tweet: "Happy birthday to the Queen, all my love, Ax - #hollabackgirl"
  • March 8, 2017 @axlrose tweet: "Happy International Women's Day!!"
  • January 19, 2017 @axlrose tweet: "The Hollywood Reporter: Q: "any actress you love?" A: "...Meryl Streep is excellent; she's a fine person, too," Trump 2015" (at the time of the bizarre Meryl Streep speech in which she attacked football, MMA, immigration opposition and plugged a Soros-Ford Foundation media "watchdog").
  • December 1, 2016, Washington Times, 'Axl Rose prods Mexicans to beat Trump pinata on stage: 'Hit him in the head!'; 'Give them a f-king stick' he says, as crowd chants anti-gay slur as effigy is destroyed'.
  • November 18, 2016 @axlrose tweet: "Good people don't listen to, acknowledge, nominate or elect people like Senator Jeff Sessions."
• Slash:
  • April 2, 2008, Blabbermouth, 'Tom Morello's 'Justice Tour' To Feature Slash, Maynard James Keenan': "Sharing the stage with THE NIGHTWATCHMAN will be different special guests on each stop of the Justice Tour. Among those who have signed on are Ben Harper, Slash, Perry Farrell... Maynard James Keenan of TOOL and PUSCIFER, Shooter Jennings..."
  • Dec 2, 2016 YouTube upload, 'Guns N' Roses - Donald Trump Pinata @ Mexico City, 30 Noviembre 2016 - SGS6E+': Slash can be seen smiling and aiding a beatdown of a Trump effigy.
  • June 8, 2020, metalcastle.net, 'Guns N' Roses Star Supports Tom Morello's Black Lives Matter Movement': "Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash has just reposted a post on his social media account and showed his support to the Rage Against The Machine star Tom Morello’s Black Lives Matter movement."

• American heavy metal band founded in 1984. Never known for its songwriting abilities (only sold about 820,000 albums all these decades in the US), but for its heavy theatrical aspect of being dressed up as aliens who torture, kill and rape, inclusing all the controversy that comes with that. Regularly featured on 'Headbanger's Ball' and 'Beavis and Butthead' in the 1990s. They still exist into the 2020s.
• The longest-term members are rhythm guitarist Mike Derks / Balsac the Jaws of Death (1988–present) and drummer Brad Roberts / Jizmak da Gusha (1989–present). Michael Bishop / Blothar the Berserker did bass and backing vocals over 1987–1993, 1998–1999, and then came back as lead singer in 2014, after the primary singer, Dave Brockie, died that year.
• Tortured and killed all presidents and then some, but in the end that is just to hide the band has a typical "liberal CIA", antifa, anti-elite, anti-mainstream stance:
  • Youtube, 'GWAR with Bush' (2006; no political statements from Bush in limited clip).
  • Nov. 7, 2007 YouTube upload by "Stephanie Roose", 'GWAR Kills Bush! - Watch GWB DIE': "How's my War on Terror going? It's going good! ... [GWAR: "WTF are you doing in Hell? You're not even dead yet!"] ... I just got assassinated." After this conversation, Bush gets decapitated by GWAR.
  • Youtube, 'Gwar kill Obama and Hillary Clinton in Wacken Open Air 2009'
  • Youtube, 'Gwar KILLS HITLER Pittsburgh' (2012).
  • Youtube, 'Justin Bieber Murdered in HD by GWAR' (2013).
  • Youtube, 'Gwar disembowels George Bush and Beheads Dick head Cheney.' (video uploaded in 2011)
  • Youtube, 'GWAR - Hilary Clinton vs. Donald Trump - Riot Fest Chicago 2016': "Here she is, Hillary-Dealery-Killary Rodham Clinton!"
  • Youtube, 'GWAR "Trump vs Clinton" Death Match' (2016). Hillary kills Trump. Then gets killed herself.
  • Sep. 21, 2021 YouTube upload by "Nitroviking87", 'Gwar kills joe Biden on stage live 2021': "I've had it from a good source that GWAR are Trump-hating libtards! And therefore I have had a really productive year in the White House. ... Restored gas prices... I would like to celebrate the unparalleled succes of our military victory in Afghanistan. ... Women will have equal rights and all protection under the law. [A Taliban with a sword appears] We can assume that the Afghani people will be rollerblading and playing rock and roll in the streets." The Taliban decapitates him.
• It's hidden a little bit, but strongly "anti-homphobic", "anti-racist", pro-immigration, anti-Trump, anti-Republican, anti-Bush - and close friends of super-antifa punker Jello Biafra:
  • January 1, 2000 (actually dates to about Aug. 2012), Vice, 'Gwar': "Vice: I was told that GWAR stands for Grand Wizards Against Racism, and it originally stood for Giving Women Adequate Respect. Is this true? And why did you change the meaning? ODERUS: This is true, and we have also been known as Gay Women Against Rape, Great White Aryan Race, Gee War as Religion...
    Vice: At one of your recent shows, we witnessed GWAR ripping off the faces of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Does this mean that you are a Nader supporter? [Silly, comedic answer]"
  • Oct. 3, 2008, Tampa Bay Times, '8 Things You Should Know About GWAR; Oderus Urungus, the ringleader of GWAR's satirical circus, offers some tips ...': "When we do racist humor or sexual humor or violent humor, we're making jokes of people that are racist, sexist or violent. We're in no way advocating rape, murder or racism in any way. GWAR is all about satire...
    The mere fact that anybody would even consider the Republicans for the presidency is just beyond me, after the incredibly f---ed-up mess they've made of not only our country, but our country's reputation overseas. I mean, George Bush is going to go down in history as the most incompetent boob that ever sat in the White House, and for the American public to even consider electing another wrinkly old white man to the Oval Office is absolutely beyond my comprehension. John McCain is a warmongering fascist pig, and if this country elects him to be their president, then it deserves whatever happens to it."
  • Aug. 19, 2014, YouTube upload, 'Jello Biafra's eulogy for Dave Brockie / Oderus Urungus': "[Intro:] May I introduce a gentleman who was sighted as a great influence on Dave, a co-conspirator of GWAR. You will all know him. His name is Jello Biafra. [Biafra:] When Dave died ... it was the third close friend I lost in the period of a few weeks. ... The constant in GWAR all this time was Dave, and like Robin Williams, Dave Brockie can never be replaced [almost cries]. I will always miss him. I will always love him. ... I was first subjected to GWAR when I went to record something up in New York with Kramer [and showed him a GWAR video]. My life was never the same again. That early video became my favorite show and tell toy for unsuspecting guests like Al Jourgensen for the next two or three years. [Saw GWAR first opening up for the Butthole Surfers, which would be around 1989]... I introduced Dave to my close friend and master collage artist who's done so many of my album covers, Winston Smith, and they grew [to be friends]..."
  • Nov. 13, 2019, No Jumper podcast, Sawborg Destructo (Matt Maguire) and The Beserker Blothar (Mike Bishop): "We copped a plea, and Jello Biafra has never let us forget that, let me tell you that. "Why didn't you fight it?" "Yeah! You should have fought it!" [Question: "He's a long-time friend of the band?"] Yes, absolutely!" ...
    It was kind of ridiculous that they centered in on NWA and all that, because, I mean, they were definitely a voice of the time. And that was amazing. I loved everything they did. In fact, we loved it so much, we ripped off part of their songs. We were playing it every day.""
  • Nov. 1, 2016, Daily Mail, 'Virginia music promoter - and founding member of metal band Gwar - loses his job after dressing in blackface for a Halloween party' (note: looking at how this person hit all the BLM propaganda points in his apology, his former band mates' connections and propaganda, and related things, this event has to have been a psyop against the masses, or some kind of Manchurian candidate who had a glitch in his programming): "
    - Chris Bopst painted his face black to dress as a clown for a Halloween party in Richmond, Virginia on Saturday.
    - He posted a picture of himself to Facebook, with the caption 'I am pretty'.
    - The next morning, the photo was going viral with many outraged that the local music promoter would dress in blackface.
    - Bopst has since apologized and has resigned from his jobs at an alt-weekly newspaper and as a music booker for Balliceaux restaurant.
    [Screenshot of Chris Bopst Facebook apology]: "I would like to apologize to humanity... People have every right to be angry; I am disgusted with myself and I will be for the rest of my life. I will never stop being ashamed. ... No apology will be enough. Racial prejudice is very real. Conscious or unconscious, the sting of racism is something no white person in this culture can ever feel. It is reserved exclusively to be felt by people of color. As a white male, I know that I will never know just how truly awful it really is and it is my responsibility - especially as an American Caucasion - to acknowledge and fight against the ongoing courge of racism. ... I had a frank discussion with my daughter about racism and why what I did is wrong. We talked about slavery, the origin of blackface, how black people weren't treated like human beings and how black people have only been able to vote as long as Daddy has been alive. I could tell she couldn't grasp the enormity of it. ... "Yes, baby, they shipped black people in chains from Africa to work for rich white landowners.""
  • Oct. 17, 2018, dgomag.com, 'GWAR interview: Blothar talks Trump, Nazis, and world domination': "We have had Trump come [on stage]. He's one tough son of a bitch, I'll tell you that. We've probably killed him 125 times now. ... I'm afraid he won't die. I'm afraid he's not gonna go away even when he's gone. That's what I'm worried about. ... I don't think Donald Trump gives a shit about illegal immigrants coming into the country. I don't believe that for a second. I think it's all about having something to say that backs people into fear. I think it's the idea of trying to hold on to power. ... As far as us being illegal aliens and Trump's immigration policies, every night we bring Trump on stage, we confront him, I tell him I think he's a racist. I tell him I think that he's an idiot. He tries to convince us otherwise. We have a fight. He gets killed."
  • Dec. 27, 2019, Facebook post of " GWAR", 'Donald Trump on stage with GWAR: Hail to the chief! #GWAR #UseYourCollusionTour': "[Donald Trump mannequin:] I knew you boys would beat that impeachment. They had nothing, no evidence, no collusion [with Russia], no obstruction." Next Trump is made to suck dick and he tortured and killed.
  • Oct. 7, 2018 Youtube upload by "super vince", 'GWAR Kill President Donald Trump "El Presidente" 10/6/2018 New Jersey Rock Allegiance': "[Intro:] Wait a minute, Trump, you just come out here and start demanding that we get rid of aliens. You know what? We are aliens! We are aliens, Trump, and we think you are a fucking racist! [a lot of cheering] ... Alright! Just kill this motherfucker! [Start singing, "I want to kill the president and I don't need a gun. ... El Presidente and his whore. They will die by my sword"]"
  • June 11, 2020, Junkee.com, 'There's A Huge Petition To Replace A Statue Of A Confederate General With The Singer Of GWAR' [petition by a fan]: "And the petition says as much. "Robert E. Lee is a failed war general that supported a racist cause," the petition reads. "For too long, the city of Richmond has been displaying statues of him and other loser civil war veterans. ... The petition has already amassed 13,000 signatures, with more pouring in by the hour."

• Group that has existed since 1997, but only released its debut album in 2009. The founders are lead vocalist and guitarist is Lzzy Hale and her brother drummer Arejay Hale.
• Anti-Trump, pro-Black Lives Matter in the usually very propagandist manner ("I hate you, because you don't love!"):
  • June 9, 2020, kerrang.com. 'Halestorm's Lzzy Hale On Standing For Equality: "I Will Not Shut Up"': "Read Lzzy's full statement [at lzzyhaleofficial.tumblr.com] – which is titled The Spirit Of Rock'n'Roll – below: ... The notion that all Humans deserve to be treated as equals shouldn't be an optional belief, or a political opinion. It should be something that we all practice as a fundamental trait of our species. It should be a No Brainer. Justice for ALL, not Justice "for some". We are all born with that trait. But some of us are taught to fear, hate or discriminate against another human based on the color of their skin. Look inside your soul.
    If you are uncomfortable with or truly do not believe that all humans should be treated equally… than You are part of the problem. But it's ok to be wrong. And just because you are wrong doesn't mean that "that's that" and we should just resolve to be divided on this. Fuck No, it's never too late to educate yourself and abolish that dinosaur mentality. Together we can be the asteroid that puts racism to rest once and for all. I truly believe hope and optimism are on the way.
    Unfortunately right now our country is plagued with Untamed Narcissism, Police Brutality and a Broken System. ...
    Since the dawn of Rock, the genre has always been a safe haven for outcasts. In fact the WHOLE idea behind the Rock N Roll spirit is to rebel and stand up against injustice! And who birthed Rock N Roll? Black Musicians! ...
    To my Black brothers and sisters, I will never truly understand your pain because I was born white. But I am outraged and heartbroken that you still have to endure this crushing weight that should've been lifted long long ago. I stand in solidarity with you. I will continue to use my voice to spread the Spirit of Rock n Roll.
    Love, equality, peace, empowerment, support and understanding.
    Black Lives Matter."
  • August 14, 2020, 'Evanescence Recruit Lzzy Hale, Taylor Momsen, and More for Empowering New Song "Use My Voice": Stream' (this is a Black Lives Matter propaganda song): "Along with the song, Evanescence have teamed up with HeadCount for the "Use My Voice" PSA to encourage voter registration."
  • Sep. 25, 2020 "Lzzy Hale" Facebook post: "I'm not voting for blue over red. I'm not voting for MY team over YOUR team. This is not a Republican vs Democrat election. THIS is a GOOD VS EVIL election. I'm not voting FOR .... I'm voting AGAINST. I'm voting against hatred. I'm voting against name calling. I'm voting against fear mongering. I'm voting against racism. I'm voting against inequality. I'm voting against sexism. I'm voting against injustice. I'm voting against idiocracy. I'm voting against dissonance. I'm voting against childish leadership."

• White rapper, country singer and moderate rock artist named Robert James Ritchie, who has been producing albums since 1990. Assumed the "country-loving, trailer-park, pimp-daddy" persona early in his career. Was quite censored with Early Mornin' Stoned Pimp (1996), but Devil Without a Cause (1998) shot him into stardom, selling 14 million copies. Cocky (2001) continued the success to a large extent. Since then, Kid Rock has been a mainstay of the music industry.
• Quite unique in both Hollywood and music, Kid Rock has been hanging out with both Democrat and Republican presidents. Right-wing patriotism is more important to him though than left-wing globalist socialism and liberalism.
• Pro-Iraq War in 2003:
  • February 24, 2003, blabbermouth.net, 'Kid Rock Talks War With Iraq, Peace With Tommy Lee': ""Why is everybody trying to stop the war? George Bush ain't been saying, 'You all, make s-y records.' Politicians and music don't mix. It's like whisky and wine. [Musicians] ought to stay out of it."
    But it doesn't take much nudging to hear the Kid's policy analysis. "We got to kill that mother-[bleeper] Saddam," he says. "Slit his throat. Kill him and the guy in North Korea."
    Are some women and children going to die? "Yeah. But is doing the right thing. You got money, you sit around talking about peace. People who don't have money need some help."
    Meanwhile, the Kid is trying to make peace with Tommy Lee, ex-husband of his fiancée, ["liberal CIA"-tied Pam Anderson."
• Pro-Obama in 2008 and awarded by "liberal CIA" outfit the NAACP - funded by George Soros and the Ford Foundation - in 2011:
  • November 25, 2008, nme.com, 'Kid Rock: 'Barack Obama is great for black people'; Rap-rocker bigs up the President-elect': "Kid Rock has declared his support for US President-elect Barack Obama, saying that his recent election win is "a great thing for black people".
    The rap-rocker, a well-known Republican and vocal supporter of current President George W Bush, told Metro that he would support Democrat Obama when he became President in January, and that he hoped his election would change some stereotypical views of the US as a "racist" country." ...
    "It's a great thing for black people," he added. "Black people were kind to me growing up and taught me hip-hop and the blues, so it's good the US has proved it's not as racist as it's sometimes portrayed."
  • Sep. 7, 2017, ''Call Me A Racist': Kid Rock Rant Targets Black Lives Matter, Kaepernick; "I say screw all you a--holes. Stay the f--k away!"': "In a head-scratching move, Kid Rock was honored by the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 2011 despite his open embracing of the Confederate Flag."
• Friend of ultra-right-winger and fellow rock artist Ted Nugent, also an NRA board member since 1995:
  • January 20, 2015, dailydot.com, 'Kid Rock under fire for posing in hunting photo with Ted Nugent'.
• December 17, 2019, eu.freep.com, 'Kid Rock is still Kid Rock — it's the culture that has changed since he hit the scene': "American society has shifted dramatically since Kid Rock's arrival in the '90s — the era of shock-jock radio, Marilyn Manson and masculine rap braggadocio. ...
  For a long while, the kid from Romeo who called himself "Son of Detroit" was welcomed — rubbing shoulders with mayors and Motown stars, being introduced at concerts by Lions players, accepting honors from the local NAACP. Incidents such as the Winfrey rant, along with Rock's vocal embrace of Republican politicians, have stoked cynicism in the heavily African-American city."
• A very open Trump supporter, but in a surreptitious and scared manner, Kid Rock still supports "anti-racism" by saying "you don't have to tell me that black lives matter" (his mantra from 2017 to 2022 at the very least) and avoiding dealing with the problem with immigration and ethnic crime and IQ numbers:
  • April 20, 2017, New York Times, '4 Hours at the White House With Ted Nugent, Sarah Palin and Kid Rock': "Kid Rock, whose legal name is Robert Ritchie, wore his signature backward fedora and easygoing expression. "I played Barack Obama's inauguration even though I didn't vote for him," he told The Guardian in 2015. "I didn't agree with his policies, but there was an exciting sense of change in the air." However, he said, "that promise hasn't been fulfilled. The country is more divided than ever.""
  • Sep. 7, 2017, ''Call Me A Racist': Kid Rock Rant Targets Black Lives Matter, Kaepernick; "I say screw all you a--holes. Stay the f--k away!"': "And if you wanna take a knee or sit during our 'Star-Spangled Banner,' call me a racist 'cause I'm not [politically correct], and think you have to remind me that black lives matter. Nazis, f–kin' bigots, and now again the KKK — I say screw all you a–holes. Stay the f–k away!"
  • December 12, 2019, eu.news-leader.com, 'Kid Rock wore American flag overalls at Top of the Rock, says he had some made for President Trump': "Just weeks after playing golf with President Donald Trump, the "American Badass" was still in the American spirit.
    Kid Rock golfed with Trump the day after special counsel Robert Mueller concluded his investigation into possible collusion between Russia and Trump's campaign.
    "I don't care what your politics are," Kid Rock said Sunday. "I've been privileged to be around pretty much all living presidents from Carter up, and I always thought Obama was about the coolest because he's cool. I don't agree with his politics but he's very cool. Like Trump smoked him, he's way cooler."
    Kid Rock is one of several music stars who has taken a high-profile stand in supporting Trump. He was invited to the White House in October to watch Trump sign the landmark Music Modernization Act, which guarantees increased and faster royalty payments for performers, songwriters and producers.
    After the signing ceremony, Kid Rock said, "Everybody knows that this music business is a pretty dirty business. … But this is a great start to protect songwriters, producers, engineers — the unsung heroes behind many of these songs that go out there."
    Turning to Trump, he added: "There's a whole lot of people in this country that do give you a lot of credit for everything you've been doing for this country. We know that some people don't give you as much as maybe they should sometimes.""
  • February 5, 2020 post of @kidrock on instagram.com (golfing with Trump in another shirt than below).
  • March 23, 2019 post of @kidrock on instagram.com (again golfing with Trump): "Thank you to POTUS for having me and to EVERYONE at Trump International for being so wonderful. What a great man, so down to earth and so fun to be with!! KEEP AMERICA GREAT!!"
  • March 24, 2019, golfchannel.com, 'Kid Rock tees it up with Trump in ridiculously patriotic gear'.
  • April 9, 2022, Metalsucks.net, 'Watch: Kid Rock Opens Show With Video Announcement from Trump: "All of You Are Truly the Backbone Our Great Country"'.
  • April 11, 2022, Yahoo News, 'Kid Rock plays Trump recording on tour before bashing BLM and Fauci': "After's Trump's message, Rock started his song "We the People," which slams COVID-19 mask recommendations, President Biden, Dr. Anthony Fauci and Black Lives Matter. ... "I don't see color, Black lives matter, no shit, motherfucker.""
• 2017 Colin Kaepernick "affair" and (in contrast to Trump) the denouncing of both Black Lives Matter ("liberal CIA") and KKK/Nazi movements ( "Conservative CIA"):
  • August 4, 2017 YouTube upload by "KidCudiFresh", 'Kid Rock says "F**k Colin Kaepernick" Mid Song at Fenway Concert Live': "You know what? Since nobody else is gonna say it, fuck Colin Kaepernick!! [Crowd is cheering; Kid Rock stands up, giant American flag drops down and Kid Rock starts singing:] I was born free!"
  • September 7, 2017, salon.com, 'Kid Rock rants about Nazis, KKK, Black Lives Matter and [and again on] Colin Kaepernick at a concertAs he gears up for a potential Senate run, Kid Rock imagines himself as the President of the United States': "After only three songs, Ritchie spoke on a variety of topics that covered "dead-beat dads, wannabee gangsters," as well as welfare, Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan and Colin Kaepernick.
    During a roughly three-minute rant, Ritchie spoke at a rather official looking podium, telling racists and bigots to "stay away," condemning Kaepernick and others who have knelt during the national anthem and generally cutting loose in a somewhat Trumpian manner.
    "If you want to take a knee or sit during our 'Star-Spangled Banner:' Call me a racist cuz I'm not PC and think you have to remind me that Black Lives Matter. Nazis, fuckin' bigots and now again the KKK, screw all you assholes, stay the fuck away," Ritchie said to a roaring crowd.
    TMZ noted that the podium from which Ritchie was speaking read, "United States of 'Merica." ...
    Ritchie has been in the news quite a bit as of late and has indicated he has serious plans to run for a seat in the U.S. Senate. Right-wing rocker Ted Nugent has downplayed Ritchie's plan to run for office, while others have backed him with the hopes of breaking the hearts of liberals everywhere.
    As it turns out, Ritchie's potential run for the Senate may test the legal boundaries of campaign finance law. A watchdog group has already filed a complaint to the Justice Department."
  • September 7, 2017, Business Insider, 'Kid Rock blasts Colin Kaepernick and insults white supremacists in a profanity-laden concert rant': ["The "liberal CIA", Democrat and Women's March-tied] National Action Network Detroit chapter has demanded Detroit's new arena cancel Kid Rock's shows next week. It plans to protest."
• Comments against Taylor Swift and Oprah:
  • August 9, 2019 tweet of @KidRock: "Taylor Swift wants to be a democrat because she wants to be in movies….period. And it looks like she will suck the door knob off Hollyweird to get there. Oldest move in the book. Good luck girl."
  • December 6, 2019, The Guardian, 'Kid Rock's restaurant to close after his profane comments on Oprah Winfrey': "A Detroit restaurant belonging to Kid Rock is closing amid backlash over a video of him making profanity-laced comments about Oprah Winfrey while apparently drunk at a Nashville event.
    The billionaire Ilitch family that owns the arena in which the restaurant is housed announced on Wednesday that Kid Rock had "voluntarily decided not to renew" his licensing agreement for Kid Rock's Made in Detroit. The eatery, which served new American bar food with a southern flare, opened in 2017. ...
    "Thank you, and see you later, Kid Rock. We don't need hatemongering racists in our city," said the Rev Charles Williams II, director of the ["The "liberal CIA", Democrat and Women's March-tied] Detroit National Action Network chapter. ...
    Local civil rights leaders in response planned a Wednesday protest for outside Made in Detroit, but the Ilitches made the announcement before it happened. ...
    The controversy also appears to mark a break for the musician with Detroit, the city where Kid Rock made his name with his brash style of music that meshes rap, southern rock and country. Despite his ties to the region and incorporation of the city's image into his act, Kid Rock has remained a polarising figure locally, and largely now resides in Nashville. ...
    "Oprah Winfrey is like, 'Hey, I want to get some white women to believe in this shit.' Fuck her," a visibly unsteady Kid Rock declared during the rant. "She can suck dick sideways … And if you say that, you're like, 'Hey, well I'm pretty sure Kid Rock is a racist,' I'm like, OK, fine."
    The following day, he offered an apparent explanation on Twitter: "My people tried to get me to do The Oprah Winfrey Show years ago and her people wanted me to write down five reasons why I loved her and her show. I said fuck that and her. End of story." The tweet included a LGBTQ+ pride flag emoji. ...
    In his Facebook post Kid Rock also included one last jab at civil rights leaders: "Hey Al Sharpton, you or your cronies will never beat me you tax evading, race baiting clown! Trump 2020!!" ...
    Civil rights leaders are calling for the Ilitch family to replace Made in Detroit with a black-owned restaurant. They note that the city is about 80% black and its residents gave the Ilitches more than $320m in direct tax money to build the arena."

• Hard rock band active over 1985-1991, 1997, 2001-2004, 2008-2022. The line up has been quite consistent, with singer Perry Farrell, guitarist Dave Navarro, drummer Stephen Perkins having performed from 1985/1986 until the 2020s. Jane's Addiction is a bit of strange band, in the sense that Navarro's fame and popularity far outpaced the music the band is known for.
• Frontman Perry Farrell has spread some incoherent anti-Trump, pro-Black Lives Matter, pro-LGBTQ propaganda:
  • June 27, 2020, NME, 'Jane's Addiction's Perry Farrell on Trump: "He's done more damage to Evangelical religion than any other President"'.
  • July 13, 2020 tweets of Perry Farrell (both with the same text, but with different pictures: one of a gay male black-white couple under the Christmas tree with (somehow) two black boys and a white girl; and another picture of a black guy with white woman, with four mixed kids): "Black Lives Matter. The Black life is at the very center of time and space; at this moment. In my mind.. I am searching: The history of slavery? The history of America?How it began? Who began to enslave who? And perhaps the biggest question of all. Can we live and love together?"
• Tie to rock's antifa network of Perry Farrell:
  • myspace.com/thenightwatchman (accessed: August 20, 2008): "In the spring [April 15] of 2008, [antifa propagandist Tom] Morello [of RATM] launched The Justice Tour [two weeks], a nationwide concert tour formed in celebration of the 60th Anniversary of The Human Rights Declaration. The tour, which featured performances from Perry Farrell [Jane's Addiction], Slash [of Guns n' Roses and Slash's Snakepit], Dave Navarro [Jane's Addiction], Jerry Cantrell of Alice in Chains, Wayne Kramer of the MC5, Sen-Dog of Cypress Hill and more, visited cities with a day dedicated to a local charity...
    "If you are in touch with Tom Morello tell him how moved I was by "The Nightwatchman". I listened to every song, the wonderful lyrics, loving his musical style -- powerful in a laid-back but insistent beat." - [key antifa/"liberal CIA" asset] Howard Zinn."



• Dave Navarro - by far the most prominent member of Jane's Addiction due to his sex symbol status, for having dated Carmen Electra, and for his media appearances (such as host and judge of Ink Master 2012-2020) - seems to have no clue what to do with himself politically. A Bill Clinton voter, he shows up at Republican conventions in 2012, only to cheer for Obama's reelection months later. In 2016 he doesn't want to choose between Hillary Clinton or Trump, so he considers himself a "libertarian" - which in practice is super-right-wing. A few years though, he speaks of "unity" and of campaigning for the typically "liberal CIA" new age Democrat cult of Marianne Williamson - which in the end comes down to one thing: pro-Third World immigration, making absolutely everything else that she says completely moot. Not only that, Williamson supports reparations being paid to black people over slavery.
  • Aug. 27, 2012, Rolling Stone, 'Journey, Kid Rock and More Set to Play Republican National Convention': "Lynyrd Skynyrd's scheduled concert at this week's Republican National Convention... But to the surprise of anyone who assumes rockers wouldn't be caught anywhere near a GOP event, plenty of other musicians will be entertaining the Mitt Romney-Paul Ryan crowd in Florida this week. At press time, the lineup includes Kid Rock, Journey, the Zac Brown Band, 3 Doors Down, Dave Navarro, Guns N' Roses/Velvet Revolver drummer Matt Sorum and past American Idol winner Taylor Hicks."
  • Nov. 7, 2012, ultimateclassicrock.com, 'President Obama Re-Elected – Rockers React on Twitter': "- Dave Navarro (@DaveNavarro) November 7, 2012: ... "YES!!!!!!! ... Voted for @barackobama and no on B - Let the blocking begin.""
  • March 3, 2016, reason.com, ''Dave Navarro: "I Consider Myself Libertarian".
  • July 31, 2019, Blabbermouth: 'Dave Navarro Says Marianne Williamson Is First Presidential Candidate He Has Spoken To Who 'Understands Human Beings And Human Psyche'' (based on Elle interview).
  • July 31, 2019, Elle.com, 'Meet the Marianniacs': ""This was the first candidate that I've ever spoken to that understands human beings," Dave Navarro told me, chain-smoking and surrounded by stencils of pro-Marianne imagery he's been spray-painting around New York. ...
    "I was familiar with the fact that she was among the great leaders of today in terms of sharing the spiritual voice of love. But I didn't know that she was presidential until I went and saw her speak," he said. Previously, he supported presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, before eventually registering as a libertarian. Navarro didn't vote in the 2016 election. "I felt very disillusioned with either candidate. And I will admit to you that I didn't see a path that resonated with me," he explained. But after seeing Williamson speak at an Agape International Spiritual Center gathering in Los Angeles, he felt electrified about politics in a new way. "I was just riveted. I had never heard anybody say how I felt," he told me. "I never heard anybody ask the questions about why people are getting sick. Not, 'how do we fix sick people?' but how we have to address food and the environment and all these things that are making people sick."
    Navarro preferred to speak about Williamson in apolitical terms, explaining, "I'm more spiritual." But his support for her is also a reaction to his frustration with the viciousness and name-calling dominating the political discourse on both the left and the right. He loves Williamson's message of unity. "We're all genetically connected and we're made of the same atomic compounds as everything in the world, as everything in the universe," he proclaimed. "When you go to a Marianne Williamson event, it's almost not a political event. It doesn't feel political. It feels like we're being given pearls of wisdom to apply to our lives, whether she wins or not.""
    • January 10, 1994, Oprah Winfrey Show: "I'm here with Marianne Williamson who is a friend of mine, and author of a very important book. It's called A Return to Love." Oprah is the one who brought Williamson up again and again on her show over the decades and gave her enough prominence to start running for president. The full name of Williamson's book, her first, is 'A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles' (1992) and is based on the 1976 book 'A Course in Miracles'. This 1976 book was financed by America's first leading transgender, Reed Erickson, who moved in high New York City spiritualist circles - likely very close to Laurance Rockefeller - and also was a financier of CIA remote viewer scam artist Ingo Swann. That makes it extra fascinating that Navarro is a part-time transsexual. An example would be him wearing a dress and fishnet stocking in the Jane's Addiction's 1988 video 'Jane Says', or his 1997 catwalk part of the Anna Sui show.
    • March 4, 2016 tweet of @marwilliamson: "Oprah in many ways gave me my career."
    • July 30, 2019, New York Times, 'Watch: Marianne Williamson on Race, [Slavery] Reparations and Trump's 'Dark Psychic Force''.
    • July 31, 2019, Yahoo News, 'Marianne Williamson explains the need for slavery reparations: 'A debt that is owed''.

• Heavy metal / Metcalcore band founded in 1999. Jesse Leach was lead singer 1999-2002, and again since 2012. The much-praised Howard Jones (black, although hard to see) was lead singer 2002–2012, in a period that the band had quite a few hits. Jones and Leach are friends. Band members Adam Dutkiewicz (drums 1999-2002, lead guitar 2002-), Joel Stroetzel (lead guitar 1999-2002, rhythm guitar 2002-), Mike D'Antonio (bass 1999-) have all been in the band from the start, with drummer Justin Foley being in the band since 2003.
• Frontman Jesse Leach is an outspoken pro-Black Lives Matter, anti-Trump antifa, and has used the band for this purpose:
  • March 17, 2016, loudersound.com, 'Jesse Leach calls for end to 'racial' Howard Jones comparisons': "Jesse Leach says he hates seeing older fans refer to Killswitch Engage's former frontman Howard Jones as "the black guy" when comparing the two singers."
  • June 20, 2020, altpress.com, 'Machine Head and Jesse Leach honor police brutality victims in new collab; "Stop The Bleeding" is inspired by the ongoing Black Lives Matter protests': "On June 17, Machine Head and Leach released "Stop The Bleeding," a powerful track about the deaths of Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and other police brutality victims. ... A significant portion of the proceeds from the streams of "Stop The Bleeding" are going to Grass Law Project [sic: GrassrootsLaw.org]. The organization represents Floyd, Arbery and Breonna Taylor and their families."
  • July 14, 2016, Loudwire.com, 'Machine Head's Robb Flynn + Killswitch Engage's Jesse Leach Offer Thoughts on Recent Racial Unrest + More'': "Leach took a similar stance [as Flynn, saying:] "we have been conditionally dumbed down, divided and controlled," in a Facebook post (seen below). ... The Killswitch Engage singer said, "Racism (among many other warped and conditioned hateful thinking) is alive and well people! It is being arrogantly displayed by many on both 'sides' of the current issues. ... Those very few at the top who oversee the passing and amending of laws, the controlling of wealth and the distribution of power ARE the divisors and dictators of the system."
  • July 9, 2020, 'Killswitch Engage's Jesse Leach Says It Was 'All Quiet' In Metal Community Following George Floyd's Death': "Jesse: "[It was important] having us represent the metal community. And not everyone may agree with it for whatever reason, 'cause there's always discussion about it. But to me, it was, like, 'Where's the voice coming from the metal community? There's no one speaking out about it. This is a really fucked up thing that happened.' And it was just all quiet. So when I saw Robb [Flynn of Machine Head], I was, like, 'Yo, this is what we need to do' — hopefully spark people to start discussing it, 'cause it was just crickets.""
• Dutkiewicz kept it a bit more general:
  • Sep. 28, 2016, theprp.com, 'Killswitch Engage's Adam Dutkiewicz Talks Serpentine Dominion, Embarrassed By Trump & Clinton': ""We chose the ideal year to release this record. We've got a crook and a shithead to choose from right now. Which one do you want? I've said this before, I'm embarrassed by a lot of the people that are actually voting for Donald Trump as the Republican nominee. How could you ever think that a reality TV star could be a great leader for the nation? It doesn't make any sense to me.""

• Hard rock band founded in 1973 by lifetime members Gene Simmons (vocals, bass) and Paul Stanley (guitar).
  • April 7, 2014, Huffington Post, 'Paul Stanley: KISS Band Mates Were Anti-Semitic' (video): "Gene literally lives 2 minutes down the road. I always tell people I can see his ego from here. I often say that we see each other as brothers. We just seem to have a difference of opinion on how you treat your brother."
• Gene Simmons was a supporter of Bush's invasion of Iraq over "patriotic" reasons, came to regret voting for Obama, criticized immigrants in 2014 for not trying to speak the language, and has always been a bit of an apologist for Donald Trump, an old friend of his. Sometimes he supports the border wall.
  • August 12, 2014, The Independent, 'Gene Simmons on immigration: 'Learn to speak the goddamn language''.
  • July 17, 2015, Loudwire, 'Gene Simmons on Donald Trump's Immigration Comments: 'He's Smarter Than That'': ""Donald Trump is a loving family man. His children have turned out terrific. He's anti-drug, anti-booze," Simmons told CNN. "The guy's a straight shooter. Does that mean that you agree with his politics or I do? That's beside the point. If you're talking about the man, he's an upstanding guy. His views on Mexico or the wall or stuff like that. Look, do yourself a favor, go to the ballot box and vote your conscience. I'm glad the far-left and the far-right get to have a voice in there."
    Simmons, when pressed by Lemon, commented on Trump's contentious immigration stance. "You know he's smarter than that, he's better than that and we all have our private feelings about stuff but I believe, look, I'm an immigrant," Simmons explained. "I came to this country because my mother and I wanted a better life. We did come in legally and I do understand that there's an issue with a lot of Americans, they're afraid 'what's happening to America,' borders are on-guard. I get it. Fear creates all kinds of havoc. Sometimes it creates hate. And when you're talking about 10-20 million illegal immigrants, I don't care where they come from, Sweden or anywhere else, we start to talk about the border.""
  • May 17 2018, cnbc.com, 'Israeli-born Gene Simmons of Kiss backs Trump on US embassy move [to Jerusalem], and calls out the pope on border wall': "He also sides with Trump over Pope Francis on building a southern border wall between the U.S. and Mexico."
  • June 2, 2020 @genesimmons tweet: "#BlackOutTuesday". This was a tweet in honor of Black Lives Matter and the death of George Floyd.
  • Feb. 10, 2021, Daily Mail, 'EXCLUSIVE: 'Shine the light on those cockroaches!' Kiss frontman Gene Simmons says racists should be publicly shamed and fired from their jobs and reveals how he bashed a bully's nose in as a teen for spewing anti-Semitic hate at him': "- He goes on to say that racists should be publicly shamed and fired from their jobs as he joins celebrities in a new Black-Jewish Entertainment Alliance. - 'Identify them, make their lives miserable – legally. Shine the light on that cockroach,' he says. ... He tells DailyMail.com about the judgement he and ex Diana Ross received as an interracial couple. Pictured together in 1979. ...
    Simmons also slammed bands in his own genre of rock and metal for ignorantly using hate symbols - like Motorhead bassist Lemmy Killmister. ... 'I knew [Motorhead bassist] Lemmy Killmister for many years, I went to his funeral. He was a sweetheart. He loved everybody, we were friends. But Lenny was attracted to Nazi paraphernalia. He used to collect that stuff. ...
    Simmons praised Trump's administration for opening dialogue between Arab nations and Israel but added that 'doesn't give him a pass in the hatred he spewed as a world leader.' 'He was the fuel for the fire that enabled these extremists to storm the White House. Without a president like that in charge they wouldn't dare,' he said."
• Paul Stanley started out as veiled anti-Trump, veiled pro-Black Lives Matter, and very protective of the media, despite, as one of the very few acknowledging that it is very biased (for some reason he claimed the BBC is unbiased...). Eventually his positions became more and more clear:
  • November 10, 2016 tweet of @PaulStanleyLive: "What has happened in the election [of Trump] will NOT define us. What we allow to happen AFTER will."
  • December 22, 2016 tweet of @PaulStanleyLive: "YES. We politely DECLINED to play the inauguration for many reasons. The election is over. Move on. Time to change the rules? You can."
  • March 24, 2018 tweet of @PaulStanleyLive: "So PROUD to live in this great country where we can raise our voices and gather in protest for change but IT WILL ALL MEAN NOTHING IF YOU DON'T VOTE. Honor your freedom by using it. #MarchForOurLives"
  • August 26, 2018 tweet of @PaulStanleyLive: "RIP [major superclass member] Sen. John McCain. This man was an example of civility while championing his points of view and never stooping to insults, divisive rhetoric or personal attacks. I mourn the loss of a politician who regardless of my own views did it all with ethics that are in short supply."
  • August 1, 2018 tweet of @PaulStanleyLive: "JOURNALISTS And The Media Are NOT The Enemy Of The People. Without the opportunity to hear all points of view we can't find the truth.Those who want to silence opposition and questions or turn the public against them [note: means Trump] ARE The Enemy Of The People And Of Freedom.@CNN @FoxNews"
  • June 14, 2019 tweet of @PaulStanleyLive: "If You're Ready For News With Far Less Of The Game Show Slickness And Bias Of Our 24 News Networks You Might Try One Of The BBC Outlets. Less Exciting? YES! But Filling 24 Hours Is An Unnecessary Challenge That Has Turned Outlets Into Biased Fast Food Providers."
  • January 7, 2020 Facebook post of @PaulStanleyOfficial: "The divisive and dangerous climate in America is in large part the result of 24 HOUR 'NEWS' CHANNELS WHICH ARE IN FACT SKEWED AND BIASED POLITICAL OUTLETS. Any point of view can be backed up with some sort of documentation and 'expert' analysis and that is the key problem. News?!? No. We are watching slick entertainment channels pushing their own agenda and a reality which then becomes yours."
  • May 28, 2020 @PaulStanleyLive: "I'm disgusted and demoralized by the recent videos and incidents of blatant bigotry, racial profiling and what clearly appears to be the cold blooded murder of a black man. The sense of fear, targeting and lack of justice for perpetrators that is a ever ending part of daily life for black people is beyond my ability to imagine. When an armed mob of white people can storm a government building without repercussions or consequences it takes little imagination to foresee the outcome of that same scenario if the crowd had been black. Too many have lost focus on what is illegal and become completely blind to what is immoral. We have to be better than that."
  • June 9, 2020, Blabbermouth, 'Paul Stanley Blasts Donald Trump For Suggesting 75-Year-Old Pushed Over By Police Was 'Antifa Set-Up''.
  • June 10, 2020, tonedeaf.thebrag.com, 'Paul Stanley condemns Donald Trumps claims that 75-year-old pushed over by police was 'an ANTIFA provocateur'': "KISS frontman Paul Stanley has condemned U.S. President Donald Trump's tin-foil hat theory that a 75-year-old man that was filmed being pushed by a Buffalo police officer during a Black Lives Matter protest was an ANTIFA stunt. ... "Buffalo protester shoved by Police could be an ANTIFA provocateur," Trump wrote. ...
    Martin Gugino, the man who was pushed, has been described by those who know him as a peace activist fueled by social justice. He has ties with the Western New York Peace Centre and Latin American Solidarity Committee [according to the centre's executive director; hence, the man actually is a globalist political operative and an antifa]...
    "To have the President of the United States spewing this lunacy is more frightening than despicable," Stanley wrote in a since-deleted tweet. "WE are better than this. In case some of you didn't hear previous ones, consider this your wake up call.""
  • Aug. 6, 2020 @PaulStanleyLive tweet: "There are TWO "viable" candidates [Biden and Trump], one of which will be our president for the coming 4 years. Why would ANYONE waste a vote that so many have fought for only to throw it away making a "statement" that no one will hear? Make a vote that counts and work towards future alternatives.""
  • Sep. 8, 2020, Blabbermouth, 'Paul Stanley Wonders How 'Presidential' It Is Of Donald Trump To Blast His Detractors On Twitter': ""I'm not saying that CNN is guiltless. It's really become the network of the Democrats versus the network of the Republicans...""

• Band founded in 1993, credited with being responsible for the rise of the nu metal genre. Original success based on the albums 'Korn' (1994), 'Life Is Peachy' (1996), 'Follow the Leader' (1998).
• Relatively steady lineup: vocalist Jonathan Davis (1993–), guitarist Brian "Head" Welch (1993–2005, 2013–), guitarist James "Munky" Shaffer (1993–), bassist Reginald "Fieldy" Arvizu – bass (1993–2021).
• Korn gave out a (clearly given-to-them prepared) in support of Black Lives Matter in the wake of the death of George Floyd, with Jonathan Davis supporting Ron Paul but opposing Trump:
  • Sep. 30, 2015, Spin, 'Korn's Jonathan Davis on 2016: 'The fucking candidates all suck'': ""They all suck," lamented Davis. "The fucking candidates, they all suck. Why can't there be anybody good? I just want the America I had as a kid growing up, and it's not that no more. I like Rand Paul, but that's never gonna happen. Ron Paul should have been president, but that would have never happened. I believe presidents are chosen, not elected. Why is every president fucking related? You tell me that. No little guy is gonna make it. It's all so corrupt." ...
    No, I don't want that job [of president]," said Davis. "Look at Obama. He's like aged 50 years. Every president when they get that job, look at them from when they started to when they ended. It's gotta be hell.""
  • September 13, 2019, NME, 'Korn's Jonathan Davis': "[Davis:] You know, this is a strange world right now. The world is just absolutely out of control. Donald fucking Trump is president! Think about that! I think that when I get up every morning and every morning I think, 'I might just go back to bed…' Back in the day things were amazing. There was so much artistic freedom, record labels had money and you could do cool shit, bands were all over the radio and TV, everything felt so big and exciting and fresh, ideas were everywhere. It's just not like that anymore. And it's hard with metal because the world is just so fucking pussified right now."
  • May 31, 2020 post on facebook.com/korn/: ""If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor." - Desmond Tutu. ⁣We stand for justice and equality for all. Enough is enough." Desmond Tutu was a top superclass member from Africa, popular at elite conferences as the World Economic Forum in Davos.
• Interestingly, before Trump came to power and Black Lives Matter emerged very prominently, Jonathan Davis was turning into a mixed "liberal CIA" and "conservative CIA" "freedom enthusiast" conspiracy disinformer (Obama is an Illuminati puppet", "every present is related", creating songs as 'Illuminati' and albums as 'Paradigm Shift') who allied himself with Alex Jones:
  • December 8, 2011, Politico, 'Korn: Obama's an Illuminati puppet': "Korn ... spoke with Billboard.com to promote their new album, "The Path of Totality," and explained the meaning behind some of their songs, including "Illuminati."
    Frontman Jonathan Davis says: "I feel like Obama's an Illuminati puppet. He's basically dragged this country down into the worst it's ever been. Like I say about the White House, 'You've built this house of shame.' Everybody looked up at the White House and America and now I think it's like a house of shame. I miss the old days when people were proud to be American."
    It's a rare expression of politics by Davis, who told MTV in 2006 that he wrote the song "Politics" because "It's just about how I don't like to talk about politics…Korn has never been a real political band.""
  • Feb. 20, 2014, metalinjection.net, 'KORN's Jonathan Davis Continues Political Activism Against Dictator Obama': "In the aftermath of the band's most recent music video release for "Spike My Veins," [features Kanye, Miley Cyrus, Justin Bieber, Obama, a new NSA spy center as sources criticism, and supports Edward Snowden] Davis appeared on the Alex Jones show talking about how we have a dictator running the country now."

  

  • Feb. 17, 2014, Jonathan Davis on the Alex Jones Show: "It really freaked me out when the whole Miley Cyrus thing was going down. And when that went down Barack passed that new law that he could imprison anyone. They just have to charge them and they can keep them as long as they want. Basically all our liberties are being taken away, one by one. And finally, it's time, I've got to do something. Try to get as many people as we can to wake up and see what's really going on.
    [ALEX JONES:] Why did you call your new album Paradigm Shift? ... I watched your music video. It exposes the entire system. It covers it all and this threatens the power structure. ... Tell us about the paradigm shift.
    [DAVIS:] It's time for us as normal people to come up and biting in powers that be... All the things that are going on with the drones. It's a scary time.... Somebody has got to speak out to the younger audience and let them know what's going on. Try to get them to wake up and get back their privacy. ...
    Oh, it is [beyond 1984]. It's everywhere. Look at it, Big Brother is alive and well. I mean, you're looking at me on my camera phone. It wasn't about putting up cameras. I think we've already got cameras everywhere. You can't tell me that there's no backdoors for everybody to see, so that the powers that be can see what we're doing and watch what we're doing at all times. And I'm not comfortable with that. And I think it needs to go. And they're building that huge-ass building, the NSA is, for all the spying, and it's just gonna get worse and worse. I mean, it's scary times, brother. ...
    Nobody cares what's going on behind the closed doors when Obama makes all these crazy laws that take away more and more of our privacy. It'll make you more of a dictator. ...
    I mean, I've said it before. I think he's an illuminati puppet. *laughing* You know, it just doesn't make sense, the whole thing. The guy comes from out of nowhere, he gets made president, all this stuff starts happening. I don't know... It just didn't make sense to me. And to top top it off, I'm not really a political person, I don't know much about it, I'm just worried about my privacy and my children's privacy. And this being America, we're supposed to be the 'land of the free,' and it's becoming a police state. This is crazy.
    Thank you, Alex, you are an amazing man."
  • Nov. 14, 2015, Rolling Stone, 'Korn's Jonathan Davis Responds to Barack Obama's Shout-Out; Singer feels "shocked and taken aback" by president's reference during a recent Medal of Honor ceremony': "During the ceremony, Obama had cited the assumed hallucination Groberg had had during his hazy recovery. "Today, Flo, I want to assure you, you are not hallucinating," Obama said before awarding him the Medal of Honor. "You are actually in the White House. Those cameras are on. I am not the lead singer of Korn. We are here to award you our nation's highest military distinction.""
• Other Korn members on Trump and or Black Lives Matter:
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  • Nov. 14, 2016, Brian Head Welch Facebook post, after the Trump election: "I'm not saying if I support Trump. And I'm not saying if I support Hillary. ... I don't enjoy politics, I never have. There's too many lies. [Posts a photo with this text of Trump with a gun in his hand and a "Thug Life" tattoo, and Hillary in a goofy pose.]"

• Heavy / semi-black metal band founded in 1994. Randy Blythe – vocals (1995–present), Mark Morton – lead guitar (1994, 1997–present), John Campbell – bass (1994–present), Chris Adler – drums (1994–2019; hiatus 2018–2019), etc.
• Part of Metallica's World Magnetic Tour 2008-2010. Slayer support 2018-2019.
• Members have been viciously anti-George W. Bush, anti-Trump, anti-oil, pro-LGBTQ, pro-Black Lives Matter, all in a very activist, propagandist - even organizing - manner:
  • August 30, 2004, 'Lamb of God Singer Says George W. Bush Will 'Kill Us All' If He Stays In Office': "Randy Blythe spoke with Now Toronto about the band's latest effort "Ashes of the Wake", which he admits is thematically "pretty much about the demise of our civilization as we are all watching it unfold before us." Blythe explained, "The record at times is pretty heavily political, leaning against George W. Bush." What does he think about the upcoming election? "I really hope Bush doesn't win," he said. "The best I can do is talk to people and write about it, and hope that people will open their eyes, stop being such apathetic cows and get out and vote. We have got to get that monkey out of the office before he kills us all.""
  • November 23, 2016, LouderThanSound.com, 'Lamb Of God's Randy Blythe to join Dakota pipeline protest': "The frontman will be among thousands of protestors standing in solidarity with the Native American Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, whose reservation is close to the project's path. They believe the proposed 1172 mile pipeline would affect their supply of drinking water and could lead to potential oil spills."
  • March 11, 2019, Yahoo, 'Lamb of God's Randy Blythe leads "counter-party" against Westboro Baptist Church: Watch': "On Friday, Lamb of God frontman Randy Blythe announced that he was organizing a "counter-party" to combat the Westboro Baptist Church, who were hitting the the Virginia State Capitol building to protest the recent election of openly transgender delegate Danica Roem.
    Well, it all went down this morning (March 11th), with Blythe bringing 200 kazoos to drown out the hate group, who, judging by video footage, were greatly outnumbered by Blythe and company.
    Blythe danced around in a cowboy hat and boa as his merry band of counter-partiers pounded away on buckets, blew whistles, and rocked out on the aforementioned kazoos, all as the small contingent of Westboro Baptist Church dingbats looked on from across the street. The Westboro Baptist Church has protested LGBTQ causes, military funerals, Jews, Muslims, and more over the years. Four years ago, Foo Fighters trolled the organization by blasting Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" during one of the hate group's protests."
  • September 25, 2020, YouTube Lamb of God live stream for their new album, 'Ashes of the Wake', words of Randy Blythe (It's okay to follow COVID protocol and to be against conspiracy on this subject, but Blythe here is crazy aggressively pro-liberal globalist government): "All the conspiracy theory kooks and all that other shit... just shut the fuck up and stay inside…. I'm going to listen to the CDC and the World Health Organization before I'm going to listen to some dip shit on Facebook. You know, all it's doing is spreading panic. If people observe protocols and start keeping some distance from other people, we'll be able to slow the spread of this thing, because it's gonna spike soon. The numbers are already increasing. ...
    People are like, 'Oh, the federal government is using this as a way to control our movements,' and all this other shit. Or, they think the economic elite are doing this. And it's like, that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard of, because what do the people in power want? They want a healthy, viable working consumer class so that business can go on as usual. So if everybody is too sick to go to fucking Walmart and buy shit, everything is going to fall to pieces. It's just utterly ridiculous…. People [are] offering different opinions, you know? Stuff like, 'I hear this cures [that]!' You don't know shit. We don't have a cure for this right now. What we need to do is arrest the spread of it."
  • May 29, 2020 @MarkDuaneMorton tweet in response to the death of George Floyd: "Trying to stay in a space of Gratitude and Mindfulness....but it's really fucking difficult today. I don't even recognize my own country anymore. #FuckRacism."
  • June 23, 2020, MetalInjection.net, 'Lamb of God's Randy Blythe on Black Lives Matter Protests: "This is 400 Years of Oppression"': "Obviously, right now, with the police brutality, and the killing of George Floyd, anybody who's seen the video cannot argue with just how abominably fucked up that situation is. I think the length of the video is what makes it so impactful. It's perhaps one of the most graphic representations of what has been happening for a long time here. This is not an isolated incident, and it's not just to do with the police. People will roll their eyes at this, because people don't like history, but this is not an isolated incident, and this is not a new thing. This is 400 years of oppression. And it's completely understandable to me why things have reached the point that they have. One hundred percent. ...
    I would like to clarify: I am not an activist... I'm almost 50, my knees hurt, I hate tear gas, I hate jail, I hate making cops nervous. I've done all that shit before; this is not my first rodeo. And I also don't enjoy some of the connotations associated with the term "activist." Because having been to a lot of protests, it seems as if... when I say "professional activists," I don't mean these people are getting paid by nefarious deep state operatives or something. There are just people who seem to do this all the time, in order to beat some drum. They self-validate that way, I guess.""
  • October 27, 2020, Loudwire.com, 'Lamb of God's John Campbell: Trump Is a Murderous Sociopath Who Kills His Own Supporters' (about Covid): "Campbell also believes in the growing opinion that, if Trump loses to Joe Biden, he will not concede the election. "I think it's just gonna get more and more chaotic; there's gonna be more violence stoked by the president. If he loses, he will [contest] the election and try and tie it up in court. He may try to incite his followers to violence to keep him in office somehow. I really have no idea what's gonna happen. It's crazy times we're living in, and people are very aggravated and divided." [via Blabbermouth]
    "You couldn't dream up what we're reading right now. It's like, porn and Russia and backstabbing lawyers and trust-fund kids gone wrong," Blythe told Metal Hammer. "Trump's style is calculated. Some people are like, 'He's just a madman,' but when something weird happens that comes close to nailing his ass, he suddenly throws something else. It's strange, calculated and highly sociopathic behavior.""

• Famous nu metal band of the 2000s and to a degree the 2010s. Died of suicide in July 2017.
• Its iconic singer Chester Bennington was an anti-Trump, pro-Hillary Clinton propagandist. No propaganda whatsoever until Trump became big in December 2015, and then again nothing until election day 2016. Over the next few months Bennington's propaganda intensified (he loved CNN), but only for a while. It almost seems if someone had to request him to post some anti-Trump stuff:
  • December 11, 2015 tweet of @chesterbe: "Donald Trump is a greater threat to the United States than terrorism."
  • November 8, 2016, blabbermouth.net, 'Linkin Park Singer: Donald Trump 'Is A Greater Threat To The USA Than Terrorists'': "The LINKIN PARK singer [again] tweeted earlier today: "TRUMP is a greater threat to the USA than terrorists. Vote today and keep America Great!! HILLARY FOR PRESIDENT.""
  • March 31, 2017 retweet of Bruce Springsteen by @chesterbe: "America is a nation of immigrants and we find this anti-democratic and fundamentally un-American."
  • January 28, 2017 tweet of @chesterbe: "I say we ban racism, religious /sexual intolerance, & war :heart:"
  • March 31, 2017 retweet of @chesterbe: "CNN International @cnni ... Nearly a decade after "An Inconvenient Truth," Al Gore is back. This time he has his sights set on President Trump"
  • January 29, 2017 retweet of @chesterbe: "CNN International... How many terror attacks have refugees carried out in the United States? Not a single one since Refugee Act of 1980"
  • May 23, 2017 tweet of @chesterbe in response to the Islamic Manchester bombing: "Hate, pride, vengeance, and fear are the plague of the earth. Love, kindness, compassion, empathy and service to others are the cure. ... As of today, my life's purpose is one of love and understanding. The world needs to change and that change comes from within."
  • January 27, 2017 tweet of @chesterbe: "I prefer love over hate and bridges over walls... Oh yeah..... and fashion over fascism"
  • March 26, 2017 tweet of @chesterbe: "Went to Crazyhorse with Kevin Spacey! :clownface: My life just got cooler and stranger at the same time"
  • March 23, 2017 retweet of @chesterbe: "@MusicForRelief ... MFR is all in for #EarthHour! This year, Earth Hour lands on March 25 at 8:30PM local time. Will you join us? http://wwf.to/2mWy3w4"
  • June 12, 2017 retweet of @chesterbe: "CNN International @cnni ... Former President Jimmy Carter took a flight to DC, but before he took his seat, he shook the hand of every passenger."
  • June 29, 2017 retweet of @chesterbe: "His [Trump's] fleshlight wouldn't let him smash"
  • April 24, 2010 tweet of @chesterbe: "People should not live in fear of the government in this country. The white, right wing, conservatives in AZ are nothing but terrorists!!!!"
• Mike Shinoda also doesn't support Trump, at all:
  • May 31, 2017 YouTube upload by "Phenix Stories", 'Linkin Park - Like & Dislike avec Kendrick Lamar & Trump' (interview with Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda): "[Picture of Trump:] Is that a carrot? Uuh, is that a sweet potato? I don't know, is that a citrus? Some kind of citrus fruit? It doesn't look very tasty."
  • May 31, 2020 tweet of @MikeShinoda: "Friends who are protesting: if you are arrested, know your rights: 1.) Don't say anything. 2.) Don't sign anything. 3.) Demand your right to have an attorney there. 4.) If you call a lawyer police are not allowed to listen. 5.) They are not allowed to delete data from your devices. [Links to a video of the "liberal CIA"-funded ACLU, of a masked brown man protesting, saying, "Know your rights while demanding justice for George Floyd."]"
• In 2012 the band as a whole was involved in the Rockefeller-Maurice Strong-founded new age Rio Earth Summit, alongside various thoroughly compromised/globalist actors and various elites, part of the same Rockefeller group that founded the Rio Earth Summit:
  • April 19, 2012, Mother Nature Network, 'What do Leonardo DiCaprio, Linkin Park, Hayden Panettiere and Sergio Marone have in common? They are all judges in the Date with History contest that will send one young visionary to address the Rio Earth Summit in June.': "All-star jury of youth and elder leaders from around the world, including NRDC President Frances Beinecke, U.N. Foundation President Timothy E. Wirth... Alongside this figures will be some more familar names — actor and activist Leonardo DiCaprio, members of the band Linkin Park, Hayden Panettiere, Don Cheadle, Daryl Hannah..."
  • A huge amount of conspiracy theories and conspiracy disinformation surrounding death, along with his close friend and fellow propagandist Chris Cornell (which by far the most often happens with intelligence assets):
• December 6, 2017, Daily Mail, 'Chester Bennington 'hog tied himself and jumped into swimming pool in drunken suicide attempt nine months before his death'': "Bennington, 41, tried to kill himself in a swimming pool in November 2016. He was 'extremely' drunk when he made the attempt and changed his mind once in the water. ... The coroner left in a reference to a separate incident in 2006 when he said he felt suicidal and left the house with a gun."
• July 21, 2017, U.S. News, 'Bennington's Death Mirrors That of Close Friend Cornell; The death of Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington came as a surprise to the world, but it also struck similarities to the death of fellow rocker and close friend Chris Cornell, who killed himself in May.': "Bennington was also the godfather to Cornell's 11-year-old son, Chris. And Bennington sang Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" at Cornell's memorial. ... The band also sold millions with its remix album, "Reanimation," and its mash-up record with Jay-Z, "Collision Course." ... Bennington ... said he had been sexually abused as a child and was homeless for months before the band found fame. ... Bennington was married to his second wife, Talinda, and is survived by six children."
• July 27, 2017, snopes.com, 'Were Chester Bennington and Chris Cornell Murdered to Cover Up a Pedophile Ring?': "On 21 July 2017, the fake news web site YourNewsWire posted a story..." Snopes is part of the Soros "fact checking" network, which is nothing more than controlled opposition, creating tons of debate by countering similarly controlled opposition news sites as YourNewsWire.
• August 2, 2017, alternativenation.net, 'Joe Rogan Debates Chris Cornell & Chester Bennington Conspiracy Theories': "Bravo mentioned that Cornell and Bennington were very into helping abused children through charity, along with Ashton Kutcher. The discussion then moved to how many children are kidnapped each year, and then they got into political 'suicides' that are really murders." I personally remember this podcast, being once again disgusted by Eddie Bravo for his endless and extremely blatant conspiracy disinformation pushing, anything from chemtrails, to hollow Earth, to nukes not existing, no-plane theories, etc. A very close friend of Rogan and Bravo, actor Brian Callen, has a father who has been a long-time Rockefeller CIA banker with top-level Saudi ties.
• steemit.com, 'Chester Bennington is John Podesta's Son?'.

• Famous metal band with trash influences formed in 1991.
• Phil Demmel (guitar, backing vocals 2003–2018) and Dave McClain (drummer 1995-2018) both left the band in mid 2018, explaining that founding vocalist Robb Flynn had turned the band into a one-man show, particularly objecting to Flynn's lyrics. If they disagreed politically is hard to say.
• Evidence of early antifa:
  • Machine Head song Real Eyes, Realize, Real Lies (1994, Burn My Eyes): "The largest ever uprising in recent U.S. history. ... Police stand by as looters take what they want. Police brutality is on the rise. ... I support an initiative that will put 100,000 police officers on the streets of America. ...
    [Voice of a black woman:] [inaudible] the world and the devil: a Caucasian white man. [Another clip:] We just ask for our own nation where we can promote white culture, white ideals, white history. They haven't given it to us, so now we're gonna take it. [Another clip:] What I wanna see is the destruction of the whole white race.
    [Another clip:] You got scum, you got white scum, you also got Spanish scum too...but... most of all, you've got... nigga scum. ... [Black man:] Because we belong to a different gang. They don't like us. ... [Another clip:] Not every black man robs and steals."
• Founder and singer Robb Flynn became extremely anti-Trump politically at the time of the 2016 elections, working his antagonism into his songs. He also became a major supporter of Black Lives Matter, with quite a few of his fans vocally opposing it on Facebook.
  • Jan. 21, 2015, lambgoat.com, 'Machine Head frontman talks racism and calls out All That Remains singer': "Machine Head vocalist/guitarist Robb Flynn posted a lengthy and thought-provoking piece on Facebook today detailing his thoughts on racism in America, and how far we still have to go. Flynn also took a shot at All That Remains frontman Phil Labonte and his "ignorant ass world views." Here's the full post:
    "I just watched the movie "Selma." If you've never heard of it, it's the story of black civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. ... While so many emotions ran through my mind while watching this...
    I put up a post on my Instagram about a week ago of a photo of a sign inside The Metro in Oakland where we were rehearsing for our Evening With tour, that read "Black Lives Matter – Oakland to Ferguson". There was a surprising amount a vitriol pointed at me in the comments. Lots of posts about "good job alienating fans on the eve of a tour", and how "they wouldn't be spending their hard-earned money on my CD or my tour" and that, "the next time something goes down, they're going to make signs saying "White Lives Matter", (because apparently white people have been equally oppressed for a few hundred years).
    They wouldn't spend their money on my tour... That one hit me. ....
    Three nights ago we got into lengthy discussion about Ferguson and the Eric Garner murder. It's a divisive subject. ... We were all in agreement that the Eric Garner's murder was absolutely and unequivocally wrong. Though Garner was no angel, 5 police officers should not have choked an unarmed black man to death, (with a banned chokehold), who said "I can't breathe" 11 times, and whose only crime was selling un-taxed cigarettes. And the grand jury clearing of both officers involved in record speed. And then there's the 12 year shooting of Tamir Rice by an officer deemed unstable by his previous police force that was even more disturbing. ...
    We talked about it more the next day, and the conversation evolved into the bigger picture. About income inequality, about Wall Street's sniping of of American Corporations in the name of shareholder profits, and how unbelievably powerful the media is nowadays, and how (subliminally clever) they are at repeating the headline (no matter how off-base) over and over again, knowing that if they say it enough times, it'll eventually sink in. Like how "protests" and "die-in's" were suddenly deemed "riots". ...
    We talked about how the rich are getting richer, and the poor are getting poorer, and the middle class, is stuck eroding away in the middle, all while we are stuck in 14 year-long-war that's cost us trillions of dollars. That we're a country willing to spend millions of dollars a day to bring freedom to Iraq, and yet, we just played in New Mexico where many of the Navajo Nation Indian reservations (the original American's) don't even have basic needs like running water or electricity.
    What's even more surprising, is the a very small but very vocal minority of the police themselves. An Indiana police officer sold T-shirts saying "Breathe Easy. Don't Break the Law." A veteran San Jose Police Officer, Phillip White, tweeted: "Threaten me or my family and I will use my God given and law appointed right and duty to kill you. ?#?CopLivesMatter?". ...
    Did you hear about the police officers in Florida that were active Ku Klux Klan members? ["Liberal CIA"] hactivist group "Anonymous" broke the story, and when they did, the chief of police fired the officers immediately (an admission of guilt if there ever was one). That's right, active KKK in the police dept.! Though this is apparently not illegal?! Are you really going to say black men still getting targeted is a coincidence? That white people have it just as bad?
    And then as I was writing this, someone sent me Phil Labonte from All That Remains ignorant ass world views from his Revolver magazine cover story. WTF!? [Total antifa page] Metalsucks.net rightfully slammed him, and good for them! And shame on Revolver for not! ...
    But we have a black president! It's only been 50 years since black people could even vote, do you really think we've come that far? That the old ways have completely died. ...
    Writing this journal... and so I decided to write down the words "I'm scared", to own what I was feeling. Scared of what other bands were gonna think of me writing this. Scared of what fans were going to think of this.Scared because here I am in Texas, then New Orleans and then Florida and then Atlanta (where the last time we headlined there some asshole in the front row kept yelling out "Kill Niggers!") and I'm about to put out a Journal on racism in America, with people already threatening to not go to my concerts.""
  • July 13, 2016, Facebook post of "Machine Head": "#BLACKLIVESMATTER. Did you see the recent article about the white police officer that supports #blacklivesmatter? http://www.vice.com /read/white-cop-black-lives-matter...
    [QUITE A FEW ANTIFA IN MACHINE HEAD'S COMMENT SECTION, BECAUSE FLYNN IS KNOWN FOR IT. HOWEVER, VIRTUALLY ALL TOP-LIKED COMMENTS OPPOSE BLM.
    [31 LIKES:] "In Chicago it's evenly divided between white black and Hispanic. And black on black murder takes up over 70 percent of murders. #blm is a bad group. They're a racist hate group that has been corrupted. They only Support hate. Why aren't they in places like Chicago protesting that they stop killing eachother? Cause they don't care. They are a liberal leftist hate group."
    [28 LIKES:] "I have a crazy idea !!!! How about you stop resisting arrest,and wrestling with cops, especially when you have a fucking gun in your pocket!!!! I guarantee you won't get shot that's just fucking common sense!!!! I'm sick and tired of the Bullshit on TV and Internet. Now I have to read it on one of my favorite bands Facebook page!!! Awesome!!"
    [7 LIKES:] "Yet you still fed into the mantra that white cops are out to kill unarmed black men. That's false. And you're wrong."
    [6 LIKES:] "This BLM bullshit is seriously getting out of hand. And how dare you say "all lives matter" is a poisonous mantra?! Are you fucking high?!"
    [5 LIKES:] "Thug lives dont matter and a band filled with white guys shouldn't push BLM who are currently trying to start a race war. Every black killed by cops that BLM protested are all thugs who threatened Police or others, the two latest being a Crip and a Blood. Machine Head are just virtue signalling"
    [5 LIKES:] "aaaaaand unliked. Ill-informed racebaiting and support for a terrorist organisation. Stay in your lane chap." [5 LIKES:] "Disappointed to hear some of this junk! ... You act like these cops premeditate before their shift starts that they can't wait to shoot an unarmed black guy for no good reason whatsoever and deal with a relentless media and social shit storm for the hell of it. Ferguson was based on a damn lie. Incidents like South Carolina and Minnesota are unjustifiable and I won't defend the police fucking up that bad, they gotta be held accountable for shit like that. What happened in Baton Rouge sucks but the guy had a friggin gun and was wrestling with the cops I mean come on now. And I can't believe anybody would have a problem with that robot blowing up that murdering racist fuck! Fuck that guy, why risk anyone else's life when he made it clear he intended to keep killing officers if given the chance."
  • November 22, 2016, metalinsider.net, 'Machine Head's Robb Flynn writes protest song about Trump': "A YouTube clip of a folk song he wrote, "Bastards." With the first line, "'Yesterday I told my sons sometimes the bad guys win,'" you know he's not a Trump fan...
    "There may come a day you have to fight off their aggression. Cause fear and hatred won today, the darkness ate the light. ... Empowering the racists and 2nd Amendment thugs. Wall St and the billionaires, thinking they're so smart."
  • August 18, 2017, Kerrang, 'Machine Head's Robb Flynn Calls Trump "Pathetic", Denounces Racial Hatred, In Charlottesville Blog': "Flynn was photographed beside other musicians giving a sieg heil gesture when on tour with Slayer in 1995. When he spoke out against the Pantera frontman Phil Anselmo making the very same gesture in 2016, he was accused of being a hypocrite..."
  • January 9, 2018 YouTube upload by "Loudwire", 'Machine Head's Robb Flynn: How Trump + Charlottesville Influenced 'Catharsis''.
  • January 16, 2018, Gazet van Antwerpen, 'Robb Flynn (Machine Head): "I'm considering to never play 'Davidian' live again [because of the line: 'Let freedom ring with a shotgun blast']"'. He could just change one or two words, but this appears to be about gun control. It's funny that one fan to a July 13, 2016 pro-BLM Machine Head Facebook post commented: "I have Davidian as my ring tone just to piss libs off. (took hours but got it to start from silence JUST "let freedom ring with a shotgun blast"). Being a Machine Head fan since '94, I've known where Robb leans for a long time. It won't affect my love for his music."
  • January 25, 2018 YouTube upload by "Machine Head", 'MACHINE HEAD - Volatile (OFFICIAL LYRIC VIDEO)': "[Lyrics:] Sick of the white folks privileged and vain. Protesting a culture that isn't the same. ... Don't blame the false elites. When Nazi assholes march the streets. So call me a hypocrite call me a fake. It's nothing compared to your pride and your hate. ... Sick of the racists. ... Sick of them telling me it's immigrants. Sick of the phonies on my phone screen. Sick of the NRA trying to scare me. ... These times are volatile. There's no room left for you. Dead. Dead and bloated. ... Break it, smash it, burn it to the ground!"
    [Comments per September 9, 2019:] [184 likes:] "Woah, Trump winning really affected Robb." [87 likes:] "Rob and the ANTIFA orchestra..." [71 likes:] "Someone has been watching too much CNN I see." [289 likes:] "Judging by the lyrics, Flynn just hit puberty."
  • May 22, 2019, ultimate-guitar.com, 'Robb Flynn on Negative Reactions to Latest Machine Head Album: 'I Was America's Punching Bag for Nine Months'': "[Flynn to Metal Hammer magazine:] "Yeah, [Catharsis] was divisive to white supremacist and racist pieces of shit! It was divisive to the fucking alt-right. But our fans loved it - people love that fucking record. A bunch of asshole trolls got their fucking panties in a bunch about it. Fuck 'em!""

• Albums: Portrait of an American Family (1994), Antichrist Superstar (1996), Mechanical Animals (1998), Holy Wood (2000) and The Golden Age of Grotesque (2003), all released by Death Row Records-tied Interscope Records of Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine; and Trent Reznor's Nothing Records. More albums followed.
  • December 24, 2017 Reddit poll on the best Manson album (332 votes): 27:41%: Antichrist Superstar (1996); 25%: Mechanical Animals (1998). 22.6%: Holy Wood (2000). 6.63%: The Pale Emperor (2015). 4.52%: Portrait of an American Family (1994). 4.22%: The Golden Age of Grotesque (2003). 3.31%: Heaven Upside Down (2017).
• Band members all named themselves after a supermodel (first name) and a serial killer (last name): Marilyn Manson (1989-; singer), Daisy Berkowitz (1989-1996; lead guitarist and song writer), Madonna Wayne Gacy (1989-2007), Twiggy Ramirez (1993-2002, 2007-2017; bass; also bass player of A Perfect Circle 2003-2004).
• Manson has a long history with cocaine, even actively promoting its use to fans:
  • October 13, 2008, Prefixmag.com, 'Former Marilyn Manson bassist found dead after suspected drug overdose': "Marilyn Manson's original bassist Gidget Gein (real name Brad Stewart), who played with the goth rock icon from 1989 until 1993, has been found dead in his Burbank, Los Angeles home, NME reports. Gein, who was replaced by Twiggy Ramirez on Christmas Eve in 1993 after Gein suffered a heroin overdose, missed out on the fame of Marilyn Manson right as the act was peaking. Drugs are suspected to be behind his death as well. Gein's later solo projects included Gidget Gein and the Dali Gaggers and Gollywood. He was 39 years old."
  • September 17, 2017, AlternativeNation.com, 'Marilyn Manson Reveals How Drugs Led To Battle With Trent Reznor: 'He Smashed The Hard Drive'': "[From recent Howard Stern appearance:] So, we go to New Orleans and we had a falling out at the end of making "Antichrist Superstar" [1996]. And it was drug related on everyone's part. I won't incriminate him on anything. We were all on drugs so to speak. Trent came to me and said 'we need to stop doing drugs.' The very next day, I listened to him. He was like my mentor, so I stopped doing drugs. Then things changed and I was the nerd. ... Twiggy [Ramirez] and Trent [Reznor] called me Arch Deluxe [after that, after the] McDonalds sandwich. ... I was made fun of for doing it, but I had to finish the record."
  • October 4, 2017, consequenceofsound.net, 'Fire Away: A Conversation with Marilyn Manson': "Until I made this album, Holy Wood [2000] was my most precise and well-thought-out work, despite the fact that I survived on a diet of mostly jello and cocaine at the time. ... Maybe the third part [I ingested] was absinthe [55-75% alcohol], but that's a really bad combination for your health. I think I survived, though. A lot of temporal lobe damage could have occurred."
  • June 26, 2015, usmagazine.com, 'Rose McGowan Blames Marilyn Manson Split on Cocaine, Shares Best and Worst Parts of Relationship': ""Scarface," McGowan replied, referencing the 1932 and 1983 crime movies, which featured hard drug use. "Think about it Andy… What was Scarface about?" "Coke," Cohen muttered. "He did too much blow and you were not down for it." "It was me, it was me," McGowan replied. "Actually, I don't know. I plead the Fourth [instead of Fifth]… I'm honest, always, I can't help it." (McGowan and Manson were engaged for two years until they split in 2001. In a statement, the actress famously noted: "There is great love, but our lifestyle difference is, unfortunately, even greater."" McGowan was caught again with cocaine in 2017, while attending the Women's March, subsequently claiming agents of Harvey Weinstein "planted" it in her wallet.
  • 2001, Jenna Jameson (with Neil Strauss), 'How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale', chapter 5: "[Manson] grabbed my hand and started walking around the party with me: Billy Corgan, Flea, Angus Young, Sting, Jon Bon Jovi, LL. Cool J, Rob Zombie, Joey Ramone - everyone I idolized was there. I was a little porn girl thrust into this world of rock superstardom. I was in heaven. ...
    He asked, "Do you want to be my date?" I agreed. I followed him to his seat. Corey Feldman [prominent child actor of the 1970s-1980s; one of Michael Jackson's "kept boys" in the 1980s; married to actress Vanessa Marcil 1989-1993; raging drug user and Michael Jackon's worst imitator; frontman of bizarre MKULTRA-type band Corey's Angels; accused Charlie Sheen of rape, but himself has also been repeatedly accused] was a few rows in front of us, and for some reason Manson was obsessed with Corey Feldman. He kept throwing popcorn at the back of his head all night and reciting lines from Dream A Little Dream. Then he saw Amber [Nicole] Smith, who is a gorgeous girl, but that night she looked like a drag queen, so he started throwing things at her too. Everyone was a target to him. In that way, he reminded me of my brother. When he grew bored of pelting Sherman Hemsley with foodstuffs, he put my hand in his. For the rest of the movie, he just held my hand like we were teenagers on a first date. Every now and then I'd look over and see this tall character with long stringy hair, black lipstick, pancake makeup, and mismatched eyes, and think of how surreal the moment was. Throughout the movie, he kept making very smart, witty comments. I couldn't believe how intelligent and thoughtful he was. When I came onscreen, he cheered for me. As I became more comfortable, I put my hand on his leg. I didn't mean anything sexual by it, but he got shy. It was very cute, or at least as cute as a self-procalaimed Antichrist can get. ...
    He poured a handful of different-colored pills into his hand and then popped them into his mouth and laughed, like it was all one big joke. If I'd done that many painkillers and muscle relaxants, I'd be dead in half an hour. When everyone else became incapacitated - Twiggy's eyes were rolling into the back of his head and Billy was drooling on his shirt- Manson took the opportunity to kiss me. I had a good buzz and thought, "Bring it on". ...
    Manson didn't leave my side all night. Even when he went to the bathroom, which was often because of all the cocaine he was doing, he'd ask me to wait for him outside the door. He didn't want to let me out of his sight. ... All I could think was, "How can this guy remain so focused after taking so many drugs?" ...
    The first person we saw when we made it through the gauntlet was Prince. Somehow Manson knew him, and he introduced us. Prince said "hi" and reached to shake my hand. I'd never been so tongue-tied in the presence of anyone else before. He was hot, and beautiful like a girl. Five steps later we bumped into Lenny Kravitz. Then we met Sheryl Crow and the girls from TLC and Quincy Jones...
    We were going to have sex. And I was cool with it: I was on such a high, and I liked him a lot. "Let's take a bath," he said in a voice numb and slow from painkillers, when we got to his room. He drew the bath, took off his clothes and got in. It was strange to see him naked. He was tall, girlish, childlike, massively endowed and covered in scars in various stages of healing. I had a preconceived notion that sex would be crazy, but he was so tender and loving. ...
    It took me that much time alone to even assimilate the image of the naked God of Fuck eating me out, his white butt in the air. Without drying off we moved to the bed. He started sucking on the soft underside of my arm, which I'd never had anyone do before. It was a turn-on at first, but he didn't stop and it got to be vampirish. That was the only thing he did that seemed the slightest bit kinky. ...
    "No, I should be going. I have a lot of stuff to do tomorrow."
    "Why don't you stay and cuddle?" he asked.
    "Did you just say the c-word?!" I don't cuddle, but I lay with him a little while longer and listened to him talk about religion. Then I made my escape. (Rod was still waiting in my room for me.)
    Afterward, Manson started calling me - every day. When I wasn't there, he would leave me half-humorous, half-insane messages about wanting to set me on fire or feed me to Corey Feldman. Since my marriage to Rod was loveless and sexless, I started seeing Manson on and off. But the more I got to know him, the weirder he became. He would talk about wanting to see girls fuck prosthetic limbs or sucking Twiggy's dick, and I'd never be able to tell to what degree he was joking and to what degree he was serious. And he wanted to fuck me in the ass a little too often for my comfort. Every time we were naked, he'd be going for my butt like a rat to cheese. I still like him to this day, but I couldn't envision him as a boyfriend. It wasn't that I was falling in or out of love with him. It was just that I was still married, and the whole strange affair was beginning to seem like a bad idea."
  • April 3, 2002, MTV, 'Marilyn Manson Accused Of Contributing To Friend's Death: Suit claims Manson supplied cocaine to woman who died in crash.': "Maria St. John filed a wrongful death suit in Los Angeles Superior Court on Tuesday, accusing the rocker of supplying her daughter Jennifer Syme — girlfriend of actor Keanu Reeves — with cocaine and encouraging her to drive while inebriated. ...
    Syme, who was 28, consumed "various quantities of an illegal controlled substance" allegedly given to her by Manson. Shortly before dawn, another attendee at the party gave her a lift back to her house...
    Los Angeles police found two rolled-up dollar bills containing a white, powdery substance in the wreck of the car, as well as two bottles of prescription drugs: the muscle relaxant cyclobenzaprine and the anticonvulsant clonazepam. (Clonazepam carries a warning to use caution when driving.) St. John told the police that her daughter had been treated for back pain from a car crash a few days before her death, as well as for depression stemming from the death of her daughter with Reeves, Ava Archer Syme-Reeves. The child was stillborn in the eighth month of pregnancy in late December, 1999.
    While the couple had broken up shortly after the birth, Reeves told investigators that they were back together. He acted as a pallbearer at Symes' funeral, as did Dave Navarro and film director David Lynch, with whom she had once worked as an assistant. ... Though some obituaries list Syme as a former assistant to Manson, his reps insist that she was never at any time [officially?] employed by the rocker."
  • July 15, 2009, LA Weekly, 'Buddyhead Redux: L.A.'s most loved and feared music Web site is back, leading the never-ending quest for music that doesn't suck': "To the bar we go, and after another round of whiskey we are talking over each other, cursing way too much for the children lurking about, and gossiping about the night in 2007, when Keller first met "Antichrist Supertard" Marilyn Manson.
    It was Travis Keller's strangest Christmas Eve on record; the writer and music know-it-all, whose merciless skewering of rock's elite made Buddyhead the most loved and feared source of music criticism online, was enjoying the comfort of his couch, hanging out with a friend and watching some stupid holiday movies when the phone rang. "Can you get us some cocaine?" asked the voices on the other end. Keller was sober and declined. But it was Jeordie White [Twiggy Ramirez] and Marilyn Manson and they pressed on, urging Keller to come hang out anyway.
    When Keller arrived in West Hollywood at the Le Montrose suite, Manson answered the door, nearly unrecognizable. The shock-rocker stood in the doorway, wearing a Von Dutch trucker cap — sideways — and a white shirt covered in stains, pulled over his beer belly. It was a far cry from the pancake makeup, flamboyant gothic attire or bondage gear associated with the frontman.
    Keller busts into laughter as he retells the story, "I was like, 'You're Marilyn Manson?' I remember thinking he's going to come out with some kind of cape on. I'd never met him before and thought he'd be hanging out in a coffin. He's nothing like that."
    Inside the suite, Keller recalls cocaine spilling off the kitchen counter while a superparanoid Manson ran around in circles repeating, "Travis, don't try to fuck my girlfriend. Travis, don't try to fuck my girlfriend." The off-limits girlfriend was a certain young actress, then just 20 years old. "They called her 'Snowflake' because I guess when they played shows, she'd hold all the coke," Keller claims.
    While the rest of the party hoovered cocaine, Keller plugged his iPod into the stereo and cranked up Led Zeppelin. Manson told Keller he'd flown to the U.K. for the one Zeppelin reunion gig that November but got bored after the band played "Stairway to Heaven," because it was the only song he knew. ... Keller exploded, "Poser! You're in a rock band and you don't know Led Zeppelin?""
  • January 15, 2015, New York Times, 'A Dark Prince Steps Into the Light': "[Marilyn Manson] loped from the peach-colored kitchen of a borrowed house here — it belongs to his pal Johnny Depp... A few hours into our conversation, his glass empty, Marilyn Manson went upstairs, to a bedroom with rumpled black sheets, for a break. He emerged with some makeup removed, and bloodshot eyes, ready to offer some hard-earned wisdom, which he delivered in a deep, I'm-pontificating tone. "Try to drink and do drugs when you're in a good mood, not in a bad mood," he suggested."
  • May 2, 2018, TheHollywoodGossip.com, 'Johnny Depp Sued By Bodyguards: He Made Us Wipe the Coke Off His Face!': "Lawyers claim the guards "were asked repeatedly to drive vehicles that contained illegal substances" and "open containers" and "were asked to monitor unstable individuals in [Depp's] life and entourage." ... "A[n] incident at a local nightclub involved Plaintiffs alerting Depp of illegal substances visible on his face and person while preventing onlookers from noticing Depp's condition.""
  • September 22, 2017 YouTube upload by "NME", 'Marilyn Manson | Show & Tell': "This ring had cocaine in it. ... Now it doesn't. ... I don't know, it fell onto my face. ... See, I was trying to come up with a Tinder for kids, called, uh, Kinder. It's, like, for sexy kids. [smiles in camera]"
  • March 3, 2012 YouTube upload, 'Marilyn Manson - Throws Crack Cocaine into the crowd (Soundwave 2012 Melbourne)': "An intoxicated Manson throwing drugs into the crowd at Soundwave 2012 Melbourne. ... [Comment 1:] Seen him in San Antonio July 2015. As he started to sing dope show he threw a Ziploc bag that contained a powdery substance into the crowd. Unfortantently I did not get it. :( ... [Comment 2:] he did it at every show... [Comment 3:] He actually did something very similar to this last night. He poured an entire bag of cocaine in the front row right before performing "The Dope Show"... [Comment 4:] Damnation that was not really cocaine that was just flour or powder, he did that at the concert I went to as well."
  • February 1, 2021, Rolling Stone, 'Marilyn Manson Dropped by Record Label, Booking Agent After Abuse Allegations'. Four women make accusations, but, knowing Manson, it's impossible to say where roleplay ends and money-grabbing, attention-seeking, and secret grudges and lies begin. Dating Manson, you clearly sign up for a certain persona.
• Has been melting down on-stage more and more over the years, clearly fueled by alcohol and cocaine.
  • April 2, 2018 YouTube upload by "Loudwire", '10 Marilyn Manson Onstage Meltdowns': "[Last clip:] I don't want to fall onto my dick with that cords. Can you fix it please. And don't get me uppity, uppity, because you're not black. [Throws away mike, as in "Boom, roasted!"]"
  • November 22, 2011, The Atlantic, 'Yep, 'Uppity' Is Racist': "[Glenn] Beck seemed unaware "uppity" was a term racist southerners used for black people who didn't know their place. In fairness, a lot of people don't know for sure whether "uppity" is racist. Various forms of the question "Is uppity racist?" is a very popular on Yahoo Answers. But a little more digging could help these guys out. The most liked and most disliked definition at Urban Dictionary notes that "uppity" is often followed by the n-word. Maybe these media guys don't know how to Google."
• Never openly voiced on opinion on Trump (except of referring to him as "dog shit"), but on election evening released a video in which he clearly decapitates Trump with a small knife:
  • November 8, 2016, Daily Beast, 'Marilyn Manson's Shocking Trump Video': "Manson, speaking on the eve of the election, says that the work is open to varying interpretations. ... ""As an artist my duty is to ask the questions. The viewer must answer them. ... Either way tomorrow goes, the visuals are meant to create contemplation. Because it's obviously bigger than just tomorrow," he says. "It's about the desperate acts of people who believe something that is preached by an unbeliever." ...
    [Way back] conservative outlets like Fox News irresponsibly tied him to the 1999 Columbine massacre, (falsely) alleging his music inspired the shooters, and culminating in an on-air showdown wherein the heavily makeuped shock rocker thoroughly embarrassed Bill O'Reilly. As far as his political allegiances go, Manson told me earlier this year that he will not be casting a vote in the upcoming election, refusing to choose between "cat shit and dog shit."
  • June 1, 2020, Metalheadzone.com, 'Marilyn Manson Breaks Silence About The Public Indignation After The Death Of George Floyd': Here is what Marilyn Manson captioned: "Black Lives Matter.""
• Leans left, but seems to have slipped up on at least one occasion:
  • Sep. 20, 2016, Rolling Stone, 'Marilyn Manson: Why I'm Not Voting for President; "I don't find either candidate to my liking, so I choose to stand out of this one," singer says': "Marilyn Manson voted for Barack Obama in 2012..."
  • February 20, 2018, The Guardian, 'Marilyn Manson accused of sexual harassment and racist remarks': "Last November [in 2017], Manson caused controversy during his first concert after breaking his leg, in San Bernardino, when he pretended to fire a fake semiautomatic rifle into the audience. Manson issued a statement about the incident, describing it as "an act of theatre in an attempt to make a statement about how easily accessible semi-automatic weapons are and how seeing them has become normalised"."
  • Affiliated with all kinds of individuals ISGP voices suspicions about in this article or has so on previous occasions: Church of Satan founder Anton Lavey, NIN's Trent Reznor, Interscope Records, Billy Corgan ("creative consultant" and backing vocals on Manson's 1998 album Mechanical Animals), Johnny Depp (a good friend of Manson), drugs/psychedelic guru Hunter Thompson (a good friend of Depp), Sean Penn (present at a party with the previous two and Manson), etc. Then, at a later stage the CIA ties of Manson's father popped up.
  • September 22, 2017 YouTube upload by "NME", 'Marilyn Manson | Show & Tell': "Chateau Marmont: this room, at the top, right here, is where Hunter S. Thompson, Benicio Del Toro, Nick Nolte - I'm gonna keep name-dropping - Johnny Depp, myself ... Sean Penn, all hung out together. [Inaudible] hit my ex-wife, Dita Van Teese, in the face with a dinner roll. And Hunter S. Thompson had a bandage on his hand and there was a hole in the window, so I did the math and figured that out. ... Over here is where I met a girl that has three names, like Lee Harvey Oswald: Evan Rachel Wood."
• Manson's history with NIN's Trent Reznor and the Church of Satan:
  • Manson first met Trent Reznor in 1989 as an aspiring music journalist. He interviewed Reznor for a lifestyle magazine based in South Florida called 25th Parallel. In 1992 Reznor bought the home at 10050 Cielo Drive where the Manson Family murdered Sharon Tate back in 1969. He named his in-house studio "Le Pig", in reference to Sharon Tate murderer Susan Atkins' writing "Pig" in Tate's blood on the front door of the house - back in 1969. Interesting detail: Atkins used to be in involved in a witchy LSD ritual with Anton LaVey. Reznor only moved out after meeting Tate's sister at random who was wondering if he exploited the history of the house. Apparently this got him thinking. Although... he still took the front door of the Manson home to his NothINg Studios, at the time still the key partner of the Death Row Records-tied Interscope Records of Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre. Based on a demo tape Reznor received from Manson, his old associate from 1989, he brought him and his Marilyn Manson band to his "Le Pig" studio in the Sharon Tate murder home to record the band's first album. Reznor and Interscope would produce subsequent records for Manson as well.
  • Readers should be reminded that the notorious Colonel Michael Aquino was Anton Lavey's right-hand in the Church of Satan from 1969 to 1975, at which point Aquino set up his esoteric Satanism-oriented Temple of Set. A key point of contention, apart from Lavey's promotion of "atheist Satanism", also was that starting in 1975 Lavey was offering any degree in his church to whoever would pay. In the 1986-1988 period Aquino was fingered as one of the child abusers in a massive ritual abuse / Satanic child abuse ring at the Army's Child Development Center at the Presidio of San Francisco. The case disappeared, with many parents claiming a cover up was put in place.
    Despite that, already in late 1988 Aquino appeared on Geraldo and Oprah to dismiss rumors of Satanic child abuse networks. On Geraldo he was debating the issue with notorious former FBI special agent Ted Gunderson, a huge conspiracy disinformer with deep ties to the darkest aspects of the CIA, about this issue. Gunderson, of course, claimed that massive Satanic conspiracies existed. But then again, Gunderson has been pushing chemtrails and all kinds of other disinformation as well over the years. More recent Aquino has become a close friend and ally of Colonel John Alexander, another psychological warfare expert and quite possibly the most connected UFO and new age disinfomer involved in the whole Coast to Coast AM disinformation project.
    The fact that UFO expert and professor Jacques Vallee, an associate of Colonel John Alexander at the CIA-SRI-organized remote viewing programs in the 1970s, occasionally met with Lavey in the 1970s, simply is more evidence that Anton Lavey was nothing more than yet another strange puppet used by the globalists or the CIA to throw the massess off genuine spiritual practices (because they exist, very much so, and very effective to in, for example, healing diseases that doctors claim cannot be cured).
  • In any case, Manson soon ended becoming friends with Church of Satan founder Anton Lavey and, despite only meeting him a total of 3 or 4 nights at his house on two separate occasions, during which he was told an endless stream of lies, came to see Lavey as a "father figure". He first met Lavey at his house in 1994 while on tour opening for Reznor. He visited his house again in 1996 during his Antichrist Superstar tour. Lavey died in 1997.
  • Manson's autobiography, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell, was released on February 14, 1998 and written with the help of the Vassar amd Columbia University-educated New York Times, Village Voice and Rolling Stone magazine journalist Neil Strauss. In it, he details his meetings with Anton Lavey and his beliefs on Satanism.
  • Certainly since the 1990s there emerged the popular idea among heavy metal-listening high school students (even over here in the Netherlands) that Satanism really is a form of selfish atheism. It appears that Marilyn Manson, as the world's most prominent voice for Lavey's Church of Satan, has largely been responsible for this myth-making.
  • Manson's "Satanism" was inspired by Ayn Rand, Charles Darwin, Friedrich Nietsche, Aleister Crowley and finally, Anton Lavey - all rather famous, mainstream individuals. He liked quotes as "Being your own God" and "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law."
  • While the Church of Satan claims to be a-political, this appears to not be the case:
    • May 9, 2017 Amazon.com review of the book The Devil's Reign II: Psychedelic Blasphemy (October 2016), an art book curated by Peter H. Gilmore, High Priest of The Church of Satan, who also writes the intro: "The Devil's Reign: Psychedelic Blasphemy is a high quality art book ... that stays true to is theme. There is one exception though. "The People's Choice" by Jong which is a depiction of Trump in a baby chair eating a bloody American Flag. ... The Trump one is a timely statement..."
  • The newer Satanic Temple, founded in 2013 by the creepy-looking (veiny, one dead eye, crooked lower teeth) Harvard-educated neuroscientist Lucien Greaves, who specialized in child abuse-linked false-Memory Syndrome. Similar to the Church of Satan, the Satanic Temple is balls-to-wall atheist, but has replaced social darwinisn and Nietzscheanism (our existence is pointless/without meaning, and without consequences now that we have done away with religion; Nietzsche criticized the manner in which the Christain church deviated from the life of Christ), with liberal humanism, making use of social psychological concepts to give artificial "meaning" to our "Godless" existice through themes as reciprocal altruism and social justice. Among the Satanic Temple's days of observance is January 22, in honor of Roe v. Wade, a pro-abortion law. In 2019 it was recognized as a charity and official religion in the United States and has appeared in many media outlets.
    • July 10, 2015, New York Times, 'A Mischievous Thorn in the Side of Conservative Christianity': "The men who call themselves Lucien Greaves and Malcolm Jarry [both pseudonyms, as is Douglas Mesner] — pseudonyms for the two co-founders of the Satanic Temple — have done more for the Satanic brand than anyone since Anton LaVey, the San Francisco carnival worker who wrote "The Satanic Bible" (Avon, 1969). ...
      Last month, the Satanic Temple claimed victory after a court ordered that a monument to the Ten Commandments be removed from the Oklahoma Capitol grounds. Although the Satanic Temple was not a plaintiff in the lawsuit, they say their plan to place a statue of Baphomet, a goat-headed deity of occult legend, beside the monument, on freedom-of-religion grounds, may have forced the court's hand.
      In April, the Satanic Temple used a crowdsourcing campaign to raise $800 for a rural Missouri woman's trip to St. Louis, to have an abortion. As legal restrictions have forced other clinics to close, the St. Louis clinic is the last abortion provider in the state.
      And in 2013, the Satanic Temple achieved notoriety for its "pink mass," enacted at the grave site of the mother of Fred Phelps, founder of the notorious Westboro Baptist Church. The ritual, involving same-sex couples kissing, was described on the Satanic Temple website as having turned Mr. Phelps's mother "gay in the afterlife.
      Mr. Jarry, a 48-year-old filmmaker, musician and academic, agreed to speak on the condition that I not use his real name. He does not actually believe in Satan, he said. But long ago he imagined the potential effectiveness of a Satanic organization.
      "The first conception was in response to George W. Bush's creation of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives," said Mr. Jarry, who was raised by irreligious Jews. "I thought, 'There should be some kind of counter.' " He hit on the idea of starting a faith-based organization that met all the Bush administration's criteria for receiving funds, but was repugnant to them. "Imagine if a Satanic organization applied for funds," he remembered thinking. "It would sink the whole program."
      That idea percolated until 2012. At an event at Harvard, Mr. Jarry, who was taking graduate classes there, met the man who became "Mr. Greaves"... At the time, Florida's governor, Rick Scott, was pushing a bill to allow voluntary prayer at public school functions. After the bill passed, the two traveled to Florida to make their feelings known. "So we created this mock rally in support of Rick Scott," Mr. Jarry recalled, "where we were coming out to say how happy we were because now our Satanic children could pray to Satan in school." Mr. Mesner stood behind Mr. Scott on the steps of the state Capitol, holding a banner proclaiming, "Hail Satan! Hail Rick Scott!""
    • February 1, 2019 YouTube upload by "IndieWire" 'The Head of the Satanic Temple Talks "Hail Satan?" and Donald Trump': "[Lucien Greaves:] Within hours of Trump being declared president, our membership numbers really spiked. And if we looked at the metrics of our website and other types of web activity, it was like a straight line upward on election night, because, if people viewed it as a joke before, it wasn't a joke anymore, and the rise of theocracy was very real. ... We're not mindless agents of chaos. And when you look at Trump, he is absolutely mindless. That man is about as stupid as they could possibly get. ... We are trying to really endorse for enlightenment values, bringing reason and respect for science into bettering the human condition. And that has nothing to do with Trump's agenda. ... We are actually researching now the possibility of opening up a protected reproductive rights clinic. We want to move into lobbying and [inauble] legislation and openly do that in the name of the Satanic lobby.
      [Penny Lane:] A lot of people don't understand, like, just how big of a part the Evangelical Right's vote played in the election of Donald Trump. We decided to leave this out of the film, because, frankly, we didn't want to look at his face. I think that the work the Satanic Temple is doing is particularly resonant now. And I also think that we are now in such political dark times that maybe typically care what the Satanists have to say, would be a little more open in their desperation for answers."
    • May 31, 2019 YouTube upload by "Good Morning Britain" (3 hosts: one from Africa, one from India and one seemingly from the Middle East), 'The Rise of the Satanic Temple | Good Morning Britain': "Milton imagined Satan as this ultimate rebel against tyranny. And that is the kind of mythological construct that we use. ... These notions of the impending Apocalypse, the return of Jesus, the fact that there are Biblical fiats who ban people from gay marriage or abortion. ... We are a pluralistic nation, a secular nation, that respects religious liberty. ... What we are finding now is that there is a theocratic movement to redefine religious liberty to mean that a specific religious viewpoint is allowed to encroach its will upon the rest of the population. As you see in the climactic scene at the end of the film, I'm speaking at a rally and it is found necessary that I wear a bulletproof vest because we're getting death threats from the Ku Klux Klan and some Neo-Nazi organizations and other kinds of Christian supremacist groups. ...
      [See] our fight for putting our monument next to a 10th Commandments monument on public grounds. We were never asking for exclusive access. What we were saying is, "As long as you have one religious monument privately donated on public lands, you need to accept other monuments as well. And we didn't even want ours there if there wasn't another religious monument there.""

1995-1999 controversy over violence and school shootings involving Manson:

• In 1995 Marilyn Manson appeared on the Phil Donahue Show, when he did a segment on slam dancing / moshing, where his guests, of course, had ended up with broken backs, feet and hands during such activity. Donahue reads out the following quite of Manson: "I sick of people always trying to blame movies, bands, songs, or talk shows for whatever: teen suicides, drug overdoses and everything else." In 1999 he would be accused by the Right of having caused the Columbine high school shooting. As a result, Marilyn Manson was interviewed at some length in Michael Moore's anti-gun propaganda film Bowling for Columbine (2002).

Months after his father's death in July 2017, Manson started talking about how his father explained to him - some time before his death - that he himself used to have CIA ties and had tried to keep the CIA away from his son:

• September 11, 2017, dazeddigital.com, 'Marilyn Manson knows where you fucking live': "Manson grew up in Ohio as Brian Warner, later moving to Florida with his parents. His dad was supposed to become a Jesuit priest before he was allegedly recruited by the CIA, who Manson says were "interested in me at an early age because of my predisposition for psychopathic behaviour, my IQ and ability to decipher language.""
• December 15, 2017 YouTube upload of "Channel 4 News", 'Marilyn Manson interview 2017: broken legs, namesakes, CIA recruitment and two decades of obscenity', 19:20: "Being a former journalist also I also know how to construct sentences in a way that they can't be taken out of context. That's probably also why the CIA wanted to recruit me when I was a younger child. My after told me before we passed. He said something along those lines. He wanted to protect me from them, because I think he was somehow involved [with them] in Vietnam with covert operations that I'm probably not even supposed to know about. He never told me about it until he was very old at the end. For the most part he said [the CIA was in terested in me] for my ability to understand language and count things in a room before you even get a chance to - I guess it's some form of highly-functioning autism if I were to be diagnozed. I don't know if you can diagnize that, but sometimes I see things that I don't need to see. Or remember things that I don't need to remember."

• Band founded in 1983 by singer/guitarist Dave Mustaine, who had right before been fired by Metallica. He produced the riffs for Metallica songs The Four Horsemen (Mechanix) and Jump in the Fire. His main ally and fellow band member of the decades has been bassist David Ellefson. Early on, all Megadeth members were doing cocaine and heroin:
  • metallicaworld.co.uk/dave_mustaine.htm (accessed: Oct. 12, 2003)): "Problems had arisen with Dave Mustaine which went beyond simple onstage competition. "Dave was an incredibly talented guy but he also had an incredibly large problem with alcohol and drugs. He'd get wasted and become a real crazy person, a raging megalomaniac, and the other guys just couldn't deal with that after a while. I mean, they all drank of course, but Dave drank more… much more. I could see they were beginning to get fed up of seeing Dave drunk out of his mind all the time.
    One of the final straws for the band was on the road trip from San Francisco to New York to meet up with Johnny Z. The band nearly didn't make it: a crash with a jeep during a snow storm near Wyoming left the bands truck in a ditch. No-one was hurt, but as the incident occurred while Dave Mustaine was drink driving the others (James, Lars and Cliff) made a mental note that as soon as they started the new phase of their career on the east coast they had to get rid of him."
    Today Johnny Z refuses to elaborate on the events surrounding Mustaine's exit. "The true story about Dave Mustaine will never be told, because there's something of a pact between Dave, Metallica and myself," he says. "All the pain, all the guilt and all the blame came to rest last year, and so now it really is time to let sleeping dogs lie."
  • 2014, Scott Ian, 'I'm The Man: The Story Of That Guy From Anthrax': "Metallica['s] music was strong enough to hold up even when they were sloppy drunk, and even when Dave Mustaine was in the band they really were the Four Horsemen. They just all had very strong, different personalities. James Hetfield was actually the wallflower. He was quiet like [Anthrax drummer] Charlie [Benante] with a good sense of humor and hadn't developed his rock star persona yet. He looked awkward around people, but when he was holding his guitar and screaming into the mike he was right at home. That was where he belonged, even though he never said anything onstage. That was all Dave.
    Mustaine was the real front man of the band. He did all the talking onstage and he had that rock star personality. He was also an out-of-control, mean drunk, but he had a sharp sense of humor. Lars could be funny, too, and he could talk a ton of s–t. He actually couldn't really play when they started. He learned by jamming along with James's songs and just got better as they went. It would be hard to imagine Lars in any other band, but he's the right drummer for Metallica.
    [Cliff] flew his own flag and he was the most talented musician—possibly the best I had ever met—even better than [original Anthrax bassist Dan] Lilker. He was a virtuoso bassist, and he understood music and theory. Compared to him, we were cavemen. ... He had this aura. They all did. At first, there seemed to be no dissension between them. They were all drinking buddies and they did stupid s–t. But Dave was a little stupider. And when he was really drunk, he could be a total a–hole. Late at night he would dump piles of trash in front of other bands' rehearsal room doors, so when they'd show up the next day their whole front door would be covered with a mountain of garbage. And they'd know which band did it because Metallica were the only ones sleeping there. So all these musicians would knock on Metallica's door, wanting to beat them up.
    I was with them on April 9, 1983, when they were playing L'Amour with Vandenberg and the Rods. Vandenberg were onstage in the middle of the afternoon sound checking, and Mustaine was already hammered. He was in the middle of the floor of the venue, and as soon as they ended a song he started screaming at them that they sucked and they should get the f–k off the stage. [Anthrax/Metallica manager] Jonny Z pulled him away. But I didn't think any of that s–t was enough to get him kicked out of the band. The guy is arguably the godfather of thrash metal. He wrote a lot of the riffs on Kill 'Em All and even some of Ride the Lightning. Without Dave Mustaine, maybe thrash metal never would have happened. At least in the beginning, he was the driving force, artistically.
    A day or two later, I woke up, drove to the Music Building saw Cliff standing outside having a smoke. "What's up?" "Nothing. What's going on?" I answered, figuring it was just another day. "Not much. We fired Dave. He's on a Greyhound back to San Francisco." I laughed because Cliff was always being sarcastic and busting balls. "Yeah, that's funny," I said. "Look, I have to go work with my amp. I'm not real happy with the tone. I'll see you upstairs." "I'm totally serious," he said. "Go upstairs to the room right now and talk to James and Lars."
    I went upstairs, looked around, and didn't see Dave anywhere. "What's going on?" "Didn't Cliff tell you?" James said. "Yeah, but he's lying, right?" "No, we fired Dave this morning," I still figured that was impossible and they were playing a trick on me. "You're f–king serious?" "We're totally serious," said Lars. I said, "Holy s–t. You have gigs coming up and you're making an album next month. Does Johnny Z know?" "Yeah, we told him a couple days ago," Lars continued. "We made him promise not to say anything. We didn't want Dave to find out. We didn't know what he would do."
    They had the whole operation planned out with the precision of a military air strike. It turned out that L'Amour show with the Rods was Dave's final straw. They purchased a one-way bus ticket back to LA and waited for a night when Dave got really drunk, which they knew wouldn't be long. There was a Greyhound station almost next door to the Music Building, they woke him up while he was still mostly incoherent and fired him. He had passed out in his clothes, so they didn't have to help him get dressed. They just collected his stuff, which they had mostly packed in a bag already, and literally put him on the bus before he understood what was happening. Then they made plans to send him his gear.
    I was standing there with my jaw open, speechless, and Cliff walked back in. "See, I told you," he said. "Well, what are you going to do about your shows and the record?" "We have a guy coming in from this San Francisco band, Exodus," Lars said. "He's flying in and joining the band. He already knows most of the songs, and he's learning the leads."
    When he got there, Kirk Hammett was a f–king trouper. ... He's still the same sweet kid I met the day after he arrived from SF."
  • June 12, 2019, Loudersound.com, 'Hamburgers, heroin and chaos: How Megadeth made Killing Is My Business': ""I was out for blood," the guitarist later admitted. "Theirs."
    Today, ensconced in the Franklin, Tennessee, recording facility where Megadeth are at work on their 15th studio album, Dave Mustaine laughs dryly when reminded of that quote.
    "At the time, that was the idea," he admits, "but that's the kind of thing you say as a young man when you're mad. I never wanted to hurt those guys. In retrospect, I get it: if you've got a guy that gets violent when he gets drunk, and he's kinda drunk 24⁄7, then having him around you all day long probably isn't good for business. I would have done the same thing [as they did]. I had a problem with alcohol, and it cost me my job and cost me two very dear friends. But I didn't have a Plan B. Being a successful musician was all I ever wanted, and I wasn't going to let that dream die."
    David Ellefson: "Dave was living with his roommate, Tracy, in the apartment above me at 1736 North Sycamore Avenue in Hollywood. I hadn't heard of Metallica, so I had no knowledge of Dave's history, but my first impressions of him was that he was overwhelmingly magnetic. He had the same larger-than-life, not-of-this-world charisma that I'd seen before in guys like David Lee Roth, who for an American teenager growing up in the 70s was the epitome of a rock god. And the music that he was writing was completely new, refreshing, unique, totally compelling and very heavy." ...
    Megadeth were amassing a formidable arsenal of songs, so in February 1984 Mustaine booked his band some shows in San Francisco, keen to show his Bay Area 'Banger friends that he was back. Still lacking a second guitarist, the singer asked Slayer's Kerry King to sit in for the gigs. Billed on flyers as 'Skull Splitting Metal', the quartet (rounded out by drummer Lee Rausch) stormed into Metallica's backyard for shows at Ruthie's Inn and The Stone, and blew the locals away.
    That Metallica had by now released Ride The Lightning, featuring two Mustaine co-writes – the title track and instrumental The Call Of Ktulu – did little to lift Megadeth's spirits. Enter an unlikely hero. Jay Jones was a minor league Hollywood music industry 'face' with connections in both the LA hardcore punk scene and the hip-hop community. He was also a drug dealer. Jones liked Mustaine's attitude and swagger, and saw potential in his music. He offered to manage the band, found Mustaine and Ellefson a place to live, kept them fed and watered and filled their heads with grand schemes while serving up a steady diet of hard drugs. He also introduced the pair to their new drummer, Gar Samuelson, and guitarist Chris Poland, who had previously shared stages in jazz-fusion band the New Yorkers.
    Mustaine: "I got to the studio one day and Jay told me the others had spent $4,000 on coke, heroin and hamburgers. I was like, 'Are you out of your fucking mind?'"
    Ellefson: "There was a major heroin issue. Dave and I were more pot and beer, but we'd do coke and heroin if you gave it to us. Others had serious addictions. Hollywood in '83, '84 was the epitome of sex, drugs, rock'n'roll and decadence, and we were further on the edge than most."
    Poland: "Everyone knew I was doing that stuff before I joined. We were all doing $80-$100 of heroin a day. It was out of control, but I don't remember ever being too sick to play."
    Ellefson: "We did the takes quickly, with Dave, Gar and I in one room, playing together, with no click tracks. You can hear the tempos shifting around, depending on whether it was a 'heroin take' or a 'cocaine take'. It's funny now, but I wouldn't recommend that approach." ...
    Killing Is My Business… And Business Is Good was released with little fanfare on June 12, 1985. Two weeks later, Megadeth set off on their first US tour… minus Chris Poland, who was struggling with his addictions."
  • July 27, 1991, Baltimore Sun, 'Megadeth's Dave Mustaine says hard living is behind him': ""When I got arrested I had nine different chemicals in my body," said Mustaine, who leads "The Clash of the Titans," featuring Megadeth, Slayer, Anthrax and Alice In Chains, at the Baltimore Arena Sunday. "It started out with alcohol and pot, and then came the cocaine and the heroin and the freebase. Up until 14 months ago my entire recording career had been shrouded in a cloud of heavy drugs. I had a ludicrous relationship with a manager who was Fed Ex'ing us dope on the road to keep us inebriated so we wouldn't realize the wrongs being done to us."
    Once Mustaine controlled his drug problem early last year, he decided to put Megadeth back together with bassist David Ellefson, who helped recruit a pair of new sober members for the band. Guitarist Marty Friedman and drummer Nick Menza came in to record the band's latest album, "Rust in Peace," and are now part of the band."
  • August 28, 2008, musicradar.com, 'Lars Ulrich talks cocaine, Oasis and Megadeth': "We did the movie [Some Kind Of Monster, 2005], and as has been well documented, he was not pleased with what came in the movie and what came in the wake of it, and since then we haven't spoken. I'm sure we'll cross paths one day, and usually when we cross paths it's all OK.
    "There's the public relationship and there's the private relationship. People say, 'Kerry King and Metallica - whoo!', but whenever I see Kerry King we hug, we laugh, we talk, we embrace.
    "I haven't seen Dave since I filmed that scene in the movie, and I'm sure I'll see him again and maybe it won't be the same - but when did he leave the band, 24 years ago, 25 years ago? Every time I've seen him since then, it's always been 'Hey, how are you doing? What's going on?' and then there's the shit-talking thing in the press, and then I see him three years later and it's fine again."
    Ulrich continued: "I don't have a problem with him as much as I think he has a problem with me. I've always quite liked the guy. It has a tendency to depend on which mood he's in."
  • May 2012, So What magazine, James Hetfield: "I think especially with Dave, with all of his struggles, I see him healthier now. I see him as less of a bitter guy. But I do see a lot of stuff in the press with him talking about jamming with us and making an album. All this other crazy stuff. I read it and say to myself, 'Hold on. This is the Dave that we kind of wanted to forget about. You know, the big mouth that wants to just go-go-go.' But there is an authenticity about him when he speaks. He doesn't think too much before he does. He just goes off the cuff. Plus, when he says stuff like that it's well-intended."
  • November 26, 2019, Consequenceofsound.net, 'Megadeth's Dave Mustaine opens up on cancer battle, reconnects with James Hetfield': "A lot [of support] came from people that I knew but I didn't know cared. Most notably, I got a text message back from my old brother, James Hetfield, and I was so, so happy to hear from him. Contrary to what anybody says and contrary to any of the act that we put on, I love James and I know that James loves me and cares about me. You can see that when the moment of truth is here and I'm telling the world that I've got a life-threatening disease. Who comes to stand next to me? James."
• The politics, Christian fundamentalism and conspiracy disinformation of Mustaine:
  • 1980s: March 30, 2012, The Guardian, 'Dave Mustaine of Megadeth denies Barack Obama was born in US': "Twenty years ago Mustaine was a Democrat, writing songs that attacked conservative politicians [the PMRC in 1988's 'Hook in Mouth'] and accused Ronald Reagan's policies of "taking advantage of the nucleus of America"."
  • 1988: August 21, 2012, Vice.com, 'Heavy Mental: The Crazy World Of Dave Mustaine; He's worked it out! Obama did the Batman massacre!': "Once [in 1988] when asked about the Thatcher government's anti-gay stance he responded, "More power to them. It says in the Bible that men should not lay with men, like they lay with women. I mean, I don't wanna fuck up and not go to heaven"."
  • 1988: May 28, 1988, Sounds, 'MegaDumb: Interview with Dave Mustaine': "If I were president of the United States, I'd build a great wall along the Mexican border and not let anybody in."
  • 1992: A one-time correspondent for MTV's Choose or Lose (part of "liberal CIA"-funded Rock the Vote), covering the 1992 Democratic Convention, providing his audience with a report that was heavily geared towards "liberal CIA" politics - with Mustaine later proudly proclaiming that he "helped get Bill Clinton into office":
    • Apr 25, 2006 YouTube video uploaded by "thetrooper2", 'Dave Mustaine And The Democratic Convention': "I'll be your host tonight, outside of the Democrat National Convention. ... Also, we are gonna be asking people out in the street what they feel about what is taking place inside. ... See? This is where the real politics takes place in the United States of America. [Walks past black protestors] People can get their voice heard, but it is only out here on the streets. [Interviews a guy holding up a "Queer For Life" sign talking about abortion and animal rights] There are a lot of people here who don't really like what is taking place in America. [Interview: "We are calling for a new U.S. policy towards Korea."] [Another: "Affordable housing..."] ["There's a couple of radicals out there that seem to think that pro-life is actually pro-life, but we all know it is pro-death, because..."]
      How do you feel about that they don't let Jerry Brown speak? [Two guys answer that it's undemocratic, because he has so much support.]
      Don't you feel that the real politics is happening out here in the streets and not inside there? [Sen. Bob Kerrey, a later Sun Valley elitist considered "controlled" by Warren Buffett since the 1980s: "Yeah, but we have got to get inside there to vote."] How can we change that? [Kerrey: "Well, we get my people out here on the streets to run as delegates. I mean, the people on the street need to understand that we're listening, for starters, and that we don't give up."]
      [Black man: 'If you want to be completely unified in this country, the you have to share everything. And that includes power. It seems like the black men in this country can only reach a certain level."] You want to see something heavy? Watch how heavy it is to get inside this building right now. [As he is being stopped:] This is heavy security. ...
      This is what is taking place out there [inside] right now. You can see on the monitor, Anne Richards. [Turns to the camera for a hardcore propaganda line:] I'd like to know when the time is gonna be right for us to have a woman in the White House.
      [Next he is interviewing "liberal CIA" asset Oliver Stone: "Hopefully, some of the Brown ideas, some of the Brown ideas, will be taken into account, which are not being now. Jerry Brown is for me now making common sense. He is the most issue-oriented of all the candidates. He is practical and he has got a tremendous agenda. But nobody is paying attention. Nobody is listening to what he says."] Okay, we finally made it to the floor earlier this afternoon. We found some really cool [Jerry Brown] delegates that were young from Arizona. ... Is this patriotic or what? [Question to black woman:] How do you feel about Al Gore getting onto the ballot right now with Bill Clinton?
      [Another interview: "This convention is interesting in getting younger people - we have got a young ticket - and getting more women elected into the Senate and into Congress, and opening up this party to invite everybody to the table."]
      [Next interview: "We need a real war on AIDS."]
      This is Dave Mustaine for MTV News, reminding you: register to vote!"
    • July 24, 2014, Blabbermouth, ''Millionaire' Dave Mustaine Is 'Pissed Off' That He Has To Wait To Get Approval For CT Scan ': "People said that I was a Republican. I'm not a Republican. Go back and look at the history when I covered the Democratic National Convention and helped get Bill Clinton into office. I met him at the White House. We went up there to do the 'Rock The Vote' thing. I mean, I didn't get stoned on the roof like Willie Nelson or anything, but... [chuckles] ... Look at the way things are right now. ...
      The Supreme Court rules 9-0 against the President overusing his powers? Hello?! In 2008, I said that [President Obama] was gonna be the most divisive president ever, and I was right. He's got the lowest approval ratings in the history of America. ...
      The track I'm working on right now is called 'Why We Lie To You', and it's another friendly little political song about the stuff that they keep from you — kind of like if Jack Bauer [the fictional character and the lead protagonist of the Fox television series '24'] was in a band, what he would sing about."
    • March 17, 2012, infowars.com, 'Dave Mustaine Unchained: Infowars Exclusive': "I had gone to the White House, because I had done that work with that Rock the Vote thing. ... When we did the Rock the Vote thing, there was also the Motor Votor Bill that got passed in California. It may be in other states around Americas. But it made it simple for people with a driver's license to vote. ... Voting is a huge part of the democratic process. ... So I thought it was important to get involved with that. ... When it got passed, we all got invited to the White House... I kept thinking of Willie Nelson smoking dope on top of the White House. "I wonder if they still do that?" That kind of stuff. And I had my little coin at the time, 'cause I was in a 12-step program at the time. And I walked up to B--President Clinton and I said, "Hello Mr. Clinton, this is my coin here." And he took it from me and stuck it in his pocket. I say, "No, no, no! That is not for you. I just wanted you to hold it and give me some mojo." And he goes, "Ah, I'm sorry" and he handed it back to me. And yeah, that was my moment with he president. I thought it was pretty cool. It is somebody that everybody should aspire to do to make a contribution to this great nation for the good of everybody. ... I didn't know anything about the Rock the Vote movement or the Motor Voter Bill, but I got involved."
  • 2002: September 25, 2009, abovetopsecret.com/forum/, 'Dave Mustaine of Megadeth asks - Where is the Boeing? (Pentagon)', post by "impaired": "I've met Dave Mustaine many many times, and he's not the nicest dude. When I saw him in 2002 at the Electric Factory, he was telling us all about how we need to make Afganistan a parking lot... ??????? Whatever..."
  • 2004: October 25, 2004, Blabbermouth, 'Dave Mustaine Says John Kerry Will 'Ruin Our Country'': "Mustaine recently spoke to Pit Magazine... "A lot of people see Bush up front and think that I'm anti-Bush. But everybody is there. The Clintons, Arafat and Blair, the Arabs; nobody is guilt-free. Even though Bush is waving his finger at Vic, what Vic stands for is so much deeper than anybody is on the cover. And the point of the cover is that you can get away with murder in America. ...
    You see [super-antifa] Al Jourgensen of Ministry going around saying 'Fuck Bush.' And I've always liked Ministry but I know that guy has a legendary drug problem [note: Mustaine maybe even more...] so you can't really take what he is saying seriously. The United States is the strongest country in the world for a reason. Now I'm gonna vote for Bush. I voted for Clinton, but I don't give a fuck because I vote for the lesser of two evils. Kerry is a mistake. He will ruin our country." ...
    Yeah you've got Tom Morello from AUDIOSLAVE [earlier Rage Against the Machine] walking around talking about freeing the people in South America while he is walking around in his fucking Gucci silk suits. Spare me, what do you know about that? Talk about hypocrisy. Natalie Maines from the DIXIE CHICKS said that she is ashamed to be from the state of Texas; well I'm ashamed that you are fucking from America. I saw her at a Nashville Predators game, talk about somebody who needs to go on a diet. I don't know if she was pregnant at the time, but she sure looked it. But the fact is unless you are a politician, shut up. What do they know about politics? (With a southern accent) Oh well I'm gonna vote for a guy that gonna raise taxes on the fucking rich. You stupid twat. You are in the upper income bracket in America, you are gonna get taxed. And when small business owners get taxed, jobs are lost. How stupid is that? You don't know what the fuck you are talking about, shut up.
    [Pit magazine: you recently said, "musicians should shut the fuck up and play music because they don't know anything about running a country."]"
  • 2007: March 28, 2007, Blabbermouth, 'Megadeth's Dave Mustaine: 'The Bible Says That The U.N. Is Going To Fail' ': "Mustaine recently spoke to Revolver magazine ... "The whole premise of the U.N. was to prevent war," he railed, "but they're totally ineffective. What just happened with Israel and Lebanon, and why did it take that long to stop? Look what happend with Saddam Husein — 17 resolutions, and he just kept spitting in their face. And now the "blue helmets" are raping women and little girls in these African countries? Come on! How long is the public going to be blind to this?
    I know I'm not making any friends at the U.N. with this album... I got saved a few years ago, and I believe the Bible says that the U.N. is going to fail. In order for the predictions in the Book of Revelations to take place, it's gotta fail. I don't ever expect to go there, except to look where the building used to be, you know? I hope that someones going to pull the chain, and that's where the butthole of the United States is, and it just disappears!"
  • 2009: 9/11-no-plane disinfo pushing at the time of Endgame:
    • September 25, 2009, metalobsession.net (Australia), 'Interviews : Megadeth (Dave Mustaine) – 25/09/2009' (audio is not available anymore; no transcript, but see the next point).
    • September 25, 2009, abovetopsecret.com/forum/, 'Dave Mustaine of Megadeth asks - Where is the Boeing? (Pentagon)', post by "impaired": "Of late, I've noticed an increasing conspiracy theme in their last few albums... The System Has Failed [and] United Abominations. ... The lyrics to the song Endgame talk about waking up inside a FEMA box, etc...
      Take a listen to this interview with Dave Mustaine, hosted by an Aussie Heavy Metal website [metalobsession.net]. It runs for 13 minutes and around the 6:30 minute mark, Mustaine starts talking about the NWO and then branches to 9/11.
      He asks where the Boeing went at the Pentagon and why the dirt was trucked away. He also asks why there is video showing different trajectories at the WTC.
      Megadeth are touring Australia, with Slayer, this October so Mustaine is drumming up as much publicity as he can. I'll be seeing them - again."
    • October 20, 2009, Blabbermouth, 'Dave Mustaine Vs. Norwegian Journalist: Video Of Entire Interview Released': "Norwegian journalist Kristin Winsents, who was threatened with bodily harm by Dave Mustaine after she aired a video report... has released the uncut version of the entire 25-minute interview, which was conducted on August 7, 2009 at the Langham Hotel in London, England. ...
      "He didn't much appreciate the feature we aired on our show 'Lydverket' last week. In fact, he hated it. He also hinted at the possibility that I more or less forced him to talk about METALLICA. Both Mustaine and eager metal fans have asked to watch the entire interview. Here it is. [Mustaine went into it himself and even forgot the interviewer was a female...] [video not available anymore anno 2020]""
      • October 26, 2009, angrymetalguy.com, 'Mustaine the Conspiracy Theorist': "The Norwegian journalist who Mustaine is all pissed off at has posted all 25 minutes of their interview online and I'd like you to watch the first few minutes of it... Pay close attention to what he's saying about 9/11 being an inside job and all that. ...
        As much as I'd like to interview this guy and actually delve into his political beliefs, I won't be allowed to. It's a big game of access and apparently AngryMetalGuy.com isn't cool enough for the Roadrunner folks. ...
        He's talking about his former drummer thinking that Jesus was an alien should totally work. Now this idea is patently absurd to Dave, but he's using the exact same logic to reach his own conclusions. I can't disprove that God exists, but does that mean that God exists? Not really. ...
        Dave starts talking about "the endgame document" and 9/11 conspiracies on the Internet. Making use of a common logical fallacy, he says "Alex Jones ... puts forward really hard theories to rebutt." ...
        As for the Endgame document that "mysteriously disappeared," according to Mr. Mustaine, it took me about 3 minutes to "find" it again (I'm sure he'll be happy to know). It didn't actually disappear, it's available through Wikipedia and through the ALCU's website (http://www.aclum.org/ice/documents/endgame.pdf) and it is listed by the ALCU as a concern in regards to immigrants. In fact, the Orwellianally named Operation Endgame (which is a terribly scary name, one must admit), is not at all about rounding up American citizens and putting them in camps, it is in fact about rounding up immigrants and kicking their asses out of the United States. Now whether or not you think that this is a fascist policy it a) doesn't appear to actually be happening, b) doesn't actually relate to American citizens and c) doesn't support that we're all going to be fitted with RFID chips and told to suck the government line. ...
        Mustaine then goes on to cite the movie Zeitgeist... Not only that, but it's absolutely tied to a right wing tradition of conspiratorial views and attitudes, that spawned the militia movement in the 90s and included individuals like Timothy McVeigh, who bombed the Oklahoma City building."
    • December 24, 2016, Blabbermouth, 'Is Dave Mustaine a 'Truther'?' (a partial video clip is included in the (disinfo- and famous disinformers-dominated) 2011 film 9/11 Truth: Hollywood Speaks Out, about 20 minutes in): "In a November 2009 interview with a Norwegian outlet [quite certainly a different interview from the August 7, 2009 interview published in October], Mustaine offered his opinion on whether the government, not terrorists acting on orders from Osama Bin Laden, destroyed the World Trade Center as a pretext for war or to expand the government's powers. He said (see video in two parts below [unavailable]): "Everybody has their own perspective or their own understanding of what happened [on September 11, 2001]. Not very many people know WHY it happened, or WHO did it. A lot of people think it's an inside job."
      He continued: "If you look on the Internet and you look at all the information that they have around that, something's wrong — something's absolutely wrong. A plane doesn't crash into the Pentagon and vaporize — it just doesn't. Okay? And why did they lay down all brand new ground out front? They destroyed the crime scene, the accident site. There was a plane crash there, and they completely resurfaced everything in a matter of a couple of days. Why? Out of respect for the dead?""
    • December 16, 2016, Fox Business: Kennedy, hosted by former MTV VJ Lisa Kennedy, asking Mustaine on 9/11: "[A "truther"] You mean like birth certificates and 9/11? ... You know, I've seen all the stuff on. There's no real way to tell unless you were there. And I think that it's too risky to put your neck on the chopping block and say stuff like that, because the way that the social media is right now, people's careers end in a snap because they say something, they believe something."
  • 2009: December 11, 2009, Infowars, 'Alex Jones Exclusive: Megadeth's Dave Mustaine Talks About His Awakening to The NWO' (words of Mustaine transcribed from video): "I talked to [super-antifa and white genocide-promoter] Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedys last to do a side project with him and he goes, "No way, man. You're at EMI. Those guys make bombs." I was like, "What?" So I had no idea. ...
    I actually had a guy from the UN [say] something about United Abominations... Me as a Christian, I believe [the Endgame] it's a one world government, one world currency. I said so in Holy Wars, it is part of the master plan. It's what I believe. I ascribed to that when I became a Christian. I know that there's gonna be a cataclysmic ramping up of all of these things we're seeing right now, and it gets worse and it gets worse and it gets worse. We're watching our country disintegrate right now, and it's scary. You know, when I start thinking that I'm gonna be moving with [Megadeth's Canadian-born drummer] Shawn Drover back up to Canada, that's scary. And that's what 'Endgame' is all about. It's about educating our fans and showing them a little bit about what's going within the previous [Bush] administration, and that things haven't changed at all; it's just more of people being run by the people who have the money.
    Tell me that story. I had heard that Kennedy was supposed to - he was going to get rid of the federal reserve [and] that's part of why pgggh! [Alex goes in on this disinfo: "He was going to take the power away from the money changers."] That's what I heard. ...
    I went to school to be a stockbroker. There's things that I learned about money that they just don't teach people. And they want to keep people stupid. So I had that song 'The Right to go Insane' and that song, the lyrics were actually toned down, because I went naming people's names and all kinds of stuff in the first version of it. That demo tape, if it ever gets circulated, will make a lot of people pissed. ...
    So obviously these are the FEMA coffins that everyone keeps talking about, being in the Mid-West. I haven't seen them myself, but I have seen pictures. And we had this symbology, like, the Hebrews being marched through the Red Sea. And all the people that are in the Homeland Security jumpsuits with the barcodes on their heads - you know, it doesn't say in the Bible if the barcode is going to be this way or that way, so I [made it] look like a mohawk, but when you zoom in on it, it is actually their barcode.
    And we put it around the surrounding parts of it, because I was really - when I got saved, I really wanted to know what I was doing. I didn't just want to blindly say, "OK, I'm a Christian now. What do I do now? 10%. OK, see you later." So I really read a lot of the Bible and stuff and one of the things that I noticed was in the story with the Egyptians is that out of all the plagues that happened, one of them was with the flies. And the flies got on everybody except the Hebrews. And it was just really insane to see that the chosen people had been left out out this vile plague that had happened. And it was just one thing [element] that went around the outside of the [cover] picture. So in the top of it there is this kind of stargate sunburst there where people are going off into this light and are being led off, like, "Come to the light!", as in the Poltergeist movie. ...
    I consider myself to be alone in our genre as far as with people who are really willing to go out there and stand on a limb, and say, "You know what? You can hate me if you want, but at the end of the day I'm gonna do what is right." Because doing what is right isn't populair. It's not. And that's why people like to take potshots at me. ...
    I have always believed in God. That's why the first line in 'Peace Sells, But Who is Buying', said, "What do you mean, "I don't believe in God"? I talk to him everyday! " [note: back in the day this line was clearly meant heavily humorous and sarcastic] When I was a kid, I was baptized as a Lutheran when I was 4 and my mom had become a Jehovah's Witness when I was 7, and that just totally ruined my life. And then by the time I was 15 I was so full of bitterness and hatred for organized religion that I got into black magic and went down the route of the occult. And although I didn't persue to be a Satanist, I was very much agnostic and probably an atheist than I was anything. Because I just didn't want to believe anymore, because I was so spiritually abused. So when the time came that my had gotten destroyed in 2002, I had terrible nerve damage to this hand... my money maker here stopped working and I had to go, "Okay, what am I doing wrong here?" because there was a lot of stuff going on. And I was on a hill and I saw a cross and I looked at it and I just went, "What do I have got to lose? I tried everything else." And six simple words and I just became a Christian. And I see the people that people don't like that are the hypochristians. You know what I mean? Yeah, I made that up... I look at that and I am not attracted to that. ... Unless it's real, they are not getting in [with me]. You are welcome Alex. God bless you, buddy."
  • 2010: February 3, 2011, Blabbermouth, 'Dave Mustaine: 'It Looks Like We're Sprinting Down The Path To Socialism': ""Metal Zone" host Nikki Blakk of the 107.7 The Bone radio station conducted an interview with ... Mustaine on August 31, 2010. ...
    When asked if he was still "avid in following politics," Mustaine replied, "I have tried not to say anything right now because I'm so freaked out about what's happening to our country. I mean, it looks like we're sprinting down the path to socialism and I don't understand where the American people are right now. You wanna impeach a guy for getting a blowjob yet you have a guy that's destroying our country and you just let him run rampant. I don't understand that. I know a generation ago that this wouldn't have happened. It seems like we're just — like I said — sprinting towards socialism, and I don't wanna be a socialist. I like living in a free America. The idea that if you have a chicken in a democracy is that it's your chicken; if you're in socialism, it's everybody's chicken. It's like a communist country. And the idea of the U.S.S.R.A [laughs], it just doesn't have a good ring to it. . . My God, look at the marketplace right now. This president promised 500,000 new jobs, we have 500,000 less jobs, so he missed that by one million. And I just think, 'God, how can you be so out of touch?'"
  • 2011: Hated Occupy Wall Street:
    • October 25, 2011, Blabbermouth.net, 'Dave Mustaine Says Obama Is 'The Most Divisive President We've Ever Had'': "MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine was interviewed by Andrew Haug for this week's edition of Triple J's "The Racket" radio show, which airs in Australia. You can now listen to the chat using the audio player below.
      When asked about the ongoing ["liberal CIA"-funded "Occupy Wall Street" protests assailing income inequality, joblessness and big banks, Mustaine said, "I think it's really dreadful what's happening. The buck stops with the president of the United States. He's the most powerful person in the world. He's also the most divisive president we've ever had. I've never, in my 50 years of being alive, listened to an American president try and turn one class of people against another class of people. I've never — never — heard a president say, 'Go down and join the protesters down at Wall Street,' knowing that there are Nazis down there, knowing that there are people down there who are trust-fund babies, that are super, super wealthy and they're going down there and pretending that they really care; they just wanna be part of the 'movement.' And the fact that that whole protest that's going on down there, it's costing the police $125,000 a day. And they're not raising any money for that. Who's paying for that? The taxpayers. What I would like to do is really help these guys get organized, but I don't think there's anybody there that you would be able to talk to about getting organized. If anything, if those guys wanna protest, protest on the steps of the White House, not on Wall Street.""
  • July 20, 2011, Blabbermouth, 'Megadeth's Dave Mustaine: 'We Pray Every Night Before We Go On Stage': "Mustaine was interviewed for the "Primetime Nightline: Beyond Belief" "Battle With The Devil" special, which aired earlier tonight (Wednesday, July 20) on the ABC television network. ...
    Mustaine: "The greatest he's ever told was convincing people he doesn't exist. And you see people that think he's red and he's got a goatee and a pointy tail and stuff like that. He doesn't. He's very beautiful. He's an angel. Why would he look like some monster? He's capable of looking just like you. He could in this room right now. You wouldn't know it... It's a very scary thought.
    In some cases, yes [heavy metal is tied to Satan]. But not in all cases. Because you've got great heavy metal bands that believe in God and glorify Him. We pray every night before we go on stage.
    My mom was a Jehovah's Witness. I was brought up as a Witness and I revolted into the witchcraft because I hated going out and knocking on people's doors.
    On how he, as a teenager, cast two hexes, including one on a bully who suckerpunched him:
    Mustaine: "From what I heard, he got in a car accident and something happened to a part of his body that I had targeted in a hex, and that showed me that it was real."
    On his second hex, which was on a girl he was in a class with:
    Mustaine: "Everybody wanted her, including me, but she was so out of my batting average and just totally out of my league. And I did it, and the next day she was in my apartment."
    "I was [convinced that these hexes, or spells, that I was casting worked]. And I do believe in the dark side. Most people think that black magic and witchcraft and stuff like that isn't real or it doesn't work. And I know that it works."
    On how his fascination with the occult continued into his adulthood: Mustaine: "I was doing a lot of blood pacts with people. This was before we found out about AIDS. It was real simple stuff where you cut your thumb and you rub it with someone else and you become blood brothers. [He did so with Exodus] I don't wanna make a spiritual covenant and mix my life with somebody else who I don't know who they are and how they are. The Bible said that blood is life."
    On whether his abuse of alcohol was related to the Satanic influences that he had been dabbling in:
    Mustaine: "I'll say this: Every time I drank, I did not always do activities that were Satanic, but anytime I had been doing anything that was Satanic, I had been drinking. [So there] absolutely [was a relationship between the two]."
    Mustaine: "I think that I'm more dangerous now that I've become a Christian [instead of a punker singing 'Anarchy in the UK'] than I ever was before when I was trying to go the opposite route, because I'm armed with the truth now.""
  • 2012: February 14, 2012, MusicRadar, 'Interview: Megadeth's Dave Mustaine talks guitar, politics and today's music': ""I'm just hoping that whatever is in the White House next year is a Republican. I can't bear to watch what's happened to our great country. Everybody's got their head in the sand. Everybody in the industry is like, 'Oh, Obama's doing such a great job...' I don't think so. Not from what I see.
    "Looking at the Republican candidates, I've got to tell you, I was floored the other day to see that Mitt Romney's five boys have a $100 million trust fund. Where does a guy make that much money? So there's some questions there. And watching Newt Gingrich [note: top globalist top be found at: the American Enterprise Institute, Defense Policy Board under Bush, Bohemian Grove, Hoover Inst., CFR, Alfalfa, Hollinger board with Kissinger, Brzezinski, Rothschilds, etc.], I was pretty excited for a while, but now he's just gone back to being that person that everybody said he was - that angry little man. I still like him, but I don't think I'd vote for him.
    "[Old right, extremely anti-interventionist] Ron Paul... you know, I heard somebody say he was like insecticide - 98 percent of it's inert gases, but it's the two percent that's left that will kill you. What that means is that he'll make total sense for a while, and then he'll say something so way out that it negates everything else. I like the guy because he knows how to excite the youth of America and fill them in on some things. But when he says that we're like the Taliban... I'm sorry, Congressman Paul, but I'm nothing like the Taliban.
    "Earlier in the election, I was completely oblivious as to who Rick Santorum was, but when the dude went home to be with his daughter when she was sick, that was very commendable. Also, just watching how he hasn't gotten into doing these horrible, horrible attack ads like Mitt Romney's done against Newt Gingrich, and then the volume at which Newt has gone back at Romney... You know, I think Santorum has some presidential qualities, and I'm hoping that if it does come down to it, we'll see a Republican in the White House... and that it's Rick Santorum.""
  • 2012: February 15, 2012, politico.com, 'Megadeth frontman backs Rick Santorum': "Update: In a statement provided to Billboard.com on Wednesday, Mustaine clarified his remarks: "Contrary to how some people have interpreted my words, I have not endorsed any presidential candidate. What I did say was that I hope to see a Republican in the White House. I've seen good qualities in all the candidates but by no means have made my choice yet. I respect the fact that Santorum took time off from his campaign to be with his sick daughter, but I never used the word 'endorse.'"
  • 2012: Mustaine was birther and later denied it:
    • March 29, 2012, Politico.com, 'Megadeth frontman: Obama not born here': "Birther alert: Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine is not convinced that President Barack Obama was born in the United States. "I have a lot of questions about him but certainly not where he was born," Mustaine said on "George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight" earlier this week. "I know he was born somewhere else than America. ... How come he was invisible until he became whatever he was in Illinois?"
      Weighing in on the 2012 presidential race, Mustaine reiterated his support for Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum but also said, "I'm kind of a vote for the lesser of two evils kind of guy."
      On why Santorum "makes the most sense" out of all the candidates, Mustaine said, "He just looked like he could be a really cool president, kind of like a JFK kind of guy.""
    • December 24, 2016, Blabbermouth.net, 'Is Dave Mustaine a 'Truther'?': "Mustaine ... later doubled down on that [birther] sentiment, asking conspiracy theorist Alex Jones why Obama hadn't been impeached in light of "all of the proof about his birth certificate being fake." He added: "And you see the signs in Kenya that say 'the birthplace of Barack Obama.' Hello?! C'mon, guys. How stupid are we right now?""
    • December 16, 2016, Fox Business: Kennedy, hosted by former MTV VJ Lisa Kennedy, asking (a nervous) Mustaine on 'truther' stuff: "The way that the social media is right now, people's careers end in a snap because they say something, they believe something.
      I remember that I went up to Canada and did an interview up there. And I had said something that I thought was funny on Obama's birth certificate. I didn't say that he wasn't born in America, but on the bottom of the birth certificate it said 'Ukulele' [the name of the registrar who signed Barack Obama's long-form birth certificate], and I was, like, 'Get out!' And I don't know if that was a mock one or not, but that was the one that was on the WhiteHouse.gov site. So he goes, 'Are you a birther?' And I was, like, 'What the hell's a birther?"
  • 2012: August 17, 2012, Los Angeles Times, 'Megadeth's Dave Mustaine: Obama staged Wisconsin and Colorado shootings': "The singer told an audience at a Singapore show last week that he believed President Obama secretly planned three recent shootings as a precedent to steal Americans' guns. "Back in my country, my president is trying to pass a gun ban," he said. "So he's staging all of these murders, like the Fast and Furious thing down at the [Mexico] border and Aurora [mass shooting], Colorado, all the people that were killed there. And now the beautiful people at the [Wisconsin] Sikh temple [killed by a white supremacist in 2012].""
  • March 17, 2012, infowars.com, 'Dave Mustaine Unchained: Infowars Exclusive': "David Ellefson [is] a good dude. He is pretty funny. There is an irony about this guy. He is studying to be a pastor, but he swears more than I do. And he is in a 12-step program, but he drinks coffee from morning 'til night. ...
    I can't take any credit for James' song-writing ability and guitar-playing ability. He blew my mind when he picked up the guitar for the first time, 'cause he used to just sing. And I did all the guitar-playing. In fact, I talked between every song too. And I remember when he picked up the first time, and I remember watching him and went, "Oh my God, this guy is really, really good." And it affected, almost intimidated me. I was a gunslinger at the time, so I wasn't really that flappable. But I watched and I was just, like, "Wow, this guy is really good." You know, and that is part of the reason why I had such a difficult time letting go and just think, 'Oh it's just another band.'
    It was tribal. It was communal. Like really important to all of us. I remember when we first got up to San Francisco, we were doing "blood pacts" with the guys in Exodus. Cutting our hands and doing stuff like that. Yeah, it was crazy times. The Satanic Bible was everywhere. ...
    The song Rust in Peace I wrote when I was a teenager, before I was in my first band. I wrote Mechanix, Jump in the Fire and Rust in Peace. Those were my first three songs I wrote. Hanger 18 was the fourth one. And I never showed those guys Rust in Peace. ...
    I remember we had people die in Castle Donington. We had people die when we did Rock in Rio [1992, 140,000 people, 2 people die]. We ran over somebody in Atlanta doing 60 mph in a taxi. And the guy didn't even wanna stop. And it was because he was black. ... I went into shock that night. ... I [had] heard all the cabbies were talking about, "Yeah, you'd better send the meatwagon. I hit that sucker right square clean in the head." I'm in a time warp. ...
    I was brought up as a Jehovah's Witness and I rebelled. I got into witchcraft [at age 15]. And [in the early 2000s] that really destroyed my life..."
  • November 19, 2012 concert speech of Dave Mustaine of Megadeth at Stroudsburg, PA (transcribed from a YouTube video): "There's this guy, believe it or not, "I think it's good that U.S. troops are committing suicide." ... You know who this guy is? His name is [globalist elite] Ted Turner. CNN Ted Turner. If you don't believe me, look it up. ... What a fucking asshole. ... This next song is called Countdown to Extinction."
  • Mustaine and the Trump era:
    • February 20, 2016 tweet of @DaveMustaine: "Socialism will not help common mankind, it makes all mankind common."
    • February 26, 2016 tweet of @DaveMustaine: "I didn't endorse Sanders. I NEVER would endorse a socialist."
    • February 27, 2016 tweet of @DaveMustaine: "Unbelievable how the three GOP leading candidates are campaigning [Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz]...especially the two who know better [than Trump]."
    • March 18, 2016, Fox Business: Kennedy, hosted by former MTV VJ Lisa Kennedy, asking Mustaine about Trump and Hillary: "Oh yeah, I think so [that Trump vs Clinton is going to be the "hardest" election]. Well, for me. I mean, we've been friends for a long time and you know a lot about me. And when we first met, we were actually doing the Rock the Vote thing in 1992 for the Democratic National Convention [Kennedy was 20 at the time: BA UCLA; intern at Capitol Records, where she became a fan of Megadeth; host of MTV's late-night alternative rock show 120 Minutes from about 1990 to 1992; then host of MTV's Alternative Nation 1992–1997; big Nixon fan; supported Bob Dole; more recently a contributor to Reason.com and Reason.tv of the Reason Foundation]. So I've had a lot of experience covering politics, learning about it, in order to do that. And I think that the whole way the process is right now, who do you vote for [with Trump and Hillary]? This is the lesser of two evils. And you hear all these celebrities that are saying, "If Trump gets elected, I'm moving to..." "If Hillary gets elected, I'm moving to..." You know, if you don't like the how the political process is going, then do something about it. Get involved. Change it."
    • July 22, 2016 tweet of @DaveMustaine: "I never said I support Trump, so you may want to appear like such a know it all tool and get yer facts straight."
    • July 26, 2016, Blabbermouth, 'Dave Mustaine Is Not A Fan Of Hillary Clinton, But Won't Say If He Will Vote For Donald Trump': "Asked by a fan on Periscope if he is a fan of controversial Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, Mustaine replied: "Am I a Donald Trump fan? Well, he's a very successful businessman. Am I gonna vote for him? That's none of your business. And if I did, I wouldn't tell you. If I didn't, I wouldn't tell you. I can tell you one thing: I am not voting for [presumptive Democratic presidential nominee] Hillary [Clinton]. I am voting for [MEGADETH mascot] Vic Rattlehead." ...
      "The world is so full of hate right now. There's a lot of love. I mean, I have love in my heart for you guys, even when you pick on the band and me. I can take it. [Like me] Muhammad Ali, who was really controversial in his early life and he turned around to such an amazing, amazing ambassador for professional sports. And also, he was a very, very loving Muslim person. ... he was defined by his actions, not by any label of faith or race or gender or sexual orientation."
    • September 11, 2016 tweet of @DaveMustaine: "Never Forget... 9/11/2001"
    • February 1, 2016 tweet of @DaveMustaine: "FBI won't call OSU attack terrorism. unbelievable."
    • Mustaine's love of Bill O'Reilly and vice-versa:
      • January 28, 2016 tweet of @DaveMustaine: "@oreillyfactor bill, dave here. I bought all of your books. How about you get my new album #Dystopia by @Megadeth?"
      • February 4, 2016, ultimate-guitar.com, 'Bill O'Reilly Plugs Megadeth's 'Dystopia' on Fox News; "Before I go to sleep, I usually listen to Megadeth," host states'.
      • December 20, 2016, Blabbermouth.net, 'Dave Mustaine: I Love Fox News Commentator Bill O'Reilly's 'Outlook On Life'': "On December 14, MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine was interviewed by Laura Ingle, the New York-based correspondent for the Fox News channel. ...
        Mustaine said: "I love Bill O'Reilly's outlook on life. He kind of plays it right up the middle. I don't know that I'm that much like him, but he's helped me have a lot of open-mindedness towards things that I was previously not as open-minded to. ...
        When my life changed and I got saved, people were telling me, 'Oh, now you're a Republican.' It's, like, no, I'm not. I'm an independent, man; I go right up the middle."
    • August/September 2016 issue, reason.com, 'Heavy Metal Politics': "Dystopia, the band's recently released 15th studio album, preaches a similarly right-wing message. "No controlling who comes through the door," Mustaine snarls on "The Threat Is Real," a hawkish ode to the War on Terror [note: super-vague lyics actually]. "[What will we look like, In a post American world?] Why cower to all those who oppose the American world? [When you walk away from that which makes you strong, You only fool yourself...]" Mustaine demands on the track "Post American World."
    • Already in 2007, Mustaine wrote the song 'Amerikhastan', which included the following lyrics: "From New Yorqatar to Califarabia. ... To beat violence, you must ignore the focus groups. You must send in the Mossad, turn off the BBC, CNN. ... Rest assured there'll be no more Middle Eastern crisis, hell! There'll be no more Middle East! ... Pull up your dress today and tattooed is "Property of the USA, A subsidiary of Halliburton" ... Hey, Jihad Joe? Guess what? We're coming to get you!"
    • December 16, 2016, Fox Business: Kennedy, hosted by former MTV VJ Lisa Kennedy, when she asks Mustaine what he thinks about Trump: "Well, I'm hoping that the nation gets past all the bickering right now and gets back to being the nation that we're all capable of being. I've been through ten presidents in my lifetime, and traveling the world as much as I do — you know that I travel a lot — seeing all these other different places, like we've played in Venezuela, with communism, and going into the Eastern Bloc back when they just had the [Berlin] Wall go down and stuff like that. We've got it really great here. And I'm hoping that everybody comes together. I know that there's a lot of people that think I'm a Republican, people think I'm a Democrat. I'm right at the middle, man; I'm an independent."
    • March 7, 2017 tweet of @DaveMustaine: "That's funny. But why would [Trump] be indicted and sent to prison?"

• Famous trash/heavy metal band founded in 1981 by vocalist/guitar player James Hetfield and drummer Lars Ulrich. Over 1982 Dave Mustaine, soon the founder of Megadeth, was part of the band. His replacement was lead guitarist Kirk Hammett, who came from Exodus. Hetfield, Ulrich and Hammett always stuck together, until the present day.
• Frontman James Hetfield has done his utmost best to keep the band as a-political as possible, to no small part because he is not exactly opposed to the Trump presidency:
  • November 29, 2016, Knack.be (originally an interview of Tobias Rapp for Der Spiegel, who kept pushing, pushing, pushing for political comments in the most extreme, propagandist way), 'President Trump zal mijn leven niet veranderen. Zelfs geen beetje' (translated from Dutch to English): "[On Trump maybe becoming president:] A lot of people think that the world is doomed now, that we are lost.
    ["You don't?"]
    No. ... [And no] that's nothing new [these topics of us of chaos and paranoia]. That's always what it has been about with Metallica.
    ["But now it sounds as if you had a news channel on in the recording studio..."]
    That's not how music is written. ... My lyrics have something to do with me, my experiences and my life.
    ["Your country is divided, people are angry. And every evening those people are located in your crowd."]
    I feel that, yeah, absolutely. There is a lot of unrest. ... We are living in the time of narcissism. Everybody wants to make selfies, be loved and be noticed. ...
    ["Those fears do cut deeper than that, don't they? Many are genuinely scared of Donald Trump. His supporters have voted based on heavy emotion. They were angry, because they didn't feel represented. Can you understand that?"]
    But of course. I can identify me very strongly with the feeling of not being heard. That's how I felt my whole life. ... At the elections a large part of the US demanded that they have to be listened to. And many people don't want to accept that.
    I can't speak for Lars [and his anti-Trump comments]. I can only say that Donald Trump as American president isn't going to change my life. Not even a little. [People] have to realize that also a mass of others felt the same [defeat] when Barack Obama was chosen. All fine with me - even though I get annoyed with the ego-tripping in both reactions.
    ["You say that the country is out of balance. How is that in your band? ... Ulrich is Danish, a liberal European. ... Hammett is a child of the hippie generation, and has a Filipino mother. ... Trujillo has Mexican and Native American ancestors. You have been raised a strict Christian, a member of the National Rifle Association. How does that puzzle fit?"]
    That's not how I look at the world. ... [We] have a common expression ... while we all have very different views on the world. ... That's why in our artwork of our new album we placed our faces on top of each other.
    ["A rainbow, the American dream..."]
    Mostly. Sometimes it also is a nightmare. ["A couple of months ago you did a photoshoot for the Italian fashion brand Brioni. Tattood rockers in suits of power. ... Donald Trump is a similar phenomenon. He came rich into this world and still was chosen as the anti-establishment candidate."]
    I don't really like to talk about politics. I'm in a band who addresses people with many different [political and ethnic] backgrounds. And politics divides, doesn't connect. Just as religion. Everyone has a strong opinion. I don't want to undermine the convictions of my fans. I don't have that right. 'You are wrong! Everything you believe in, it's worth nothing!' Who am I to say something like that?
    ["Some say that just that is one of the missions of an artist..."]
    No. ... So many people think they need to explain to others what is just or wrong. ...
    ["Are you still shooting guns?"]
    I love being outside. Wandering around, driving my all-terrain vehicles, fishing. Shooting guns is only one element of that.
    ["Is that a guy thing?"]
    No, my wife shoots guns as well.
    ["What do you like about it so much?"]
    Just before I flew here, I was a day outside, with a couple of guns. I had a couple of books with me. It was quiet and relaxing. But a couple of times I pulled the trigger and hit an animal. That is something extremely satisfying. The closer I get to death, the more alive I feel."
  • December 7, 2016 YouTube upload by "Jeff Woods Radio", 'James Hetfield Interview with Jeff Woods. Shot by Matt Barnes.': "I find it pretty interesting that the whole world is really, really concerned about America and the political scene there [now with Trump]. For me as a father, I just worry about taking care about me and my family. That's kind of the main thing. Am I affected by it so much? Maybe. Maybe not. But I think there's a lot of fear, a lot of fear in people. A lot of things going around in people's heads. They're scared that something radical and crazy is gonna happen. I don't let politics rule my life, that's just insane. So when fear runs rampant like that, I try to ground myself in something I know is good and okay, and that's usually my family. So that's where I'm at with that."
  • April 2, 2017, Latercera.com, 'James Hetfield, leader of Metallica': "Politics, we try to stay away from that, because it polarizes people. If I sit here and say that I hate Trump or I love Trump, someone will think, 'Oh, I don't like his music anymore.' It's silly. So I like to keep it about music. ... Everyone has an opinion about Donald Trump, I think. My opinion stays with me. ... I hate politics. I don't wanna talk about politics. It's not important to me. What's important to me is connecting people with music. Politics, religion... they separate people. ...
    It always is [a new America] when someone new comes in, but it's about balance: you have the left, you have the right, and sometimes it goes this way and then the other."
  • February 13, 2017, news.com.au, 'Was Lady Gaga singing with Trump supporter? IT'S probably good Lady Gaga didn't talk politics when she shared the Grammys stage with Metallica lead singer James Hetfield.': "Speaking to the Flemish news magazine Knack [note: no, it was to Der Spiegel; Knack copied it] for an article published November 30, Hetfield emphatically rejected the proposition that Trump was bad for the world. ... Hetfield also said he understood the anger of Trump supporters who felt unrepresented and said their opponents were refusing to accept the election result.
    In a radio interview the following month [note: the Joe Rogan podcast], the keen hunter said he moved out of the San Francisco Bay Area because "there was an elitist attitude there — that if you weren't their way politically, their way environmentally, all of that, that you were looked down upon". "They talk about how diverse they are, and things like that, and it's fine if you're diverse like them," he told host Joe Rogan. "But showing up with a deer on the bumper doesn't fly in Marin County."
    Hetfield also outraged many on the left when he refused to condemn Metallica music being used for what they called the "torture" of captured Iraqis. "We've been punishing our parents, our wives, our loved ones with this music for ever," he laughed, according to a 2008 Guardian report. "Why should the Iraqis be any different?""
  • March 7, 2017, thrashermagazine.com, 'Metallica Interview': "["Are you offended at all by the CIA's use of your music to torture prisoners?"] Ha! We've tortured people with it for a long time. A lot longer than the CIA. I've got nothing to say about that really. I'm honored my country is using something to help us stay safe, if they are. But then again, once the music is out, I don't have control over that. Just like how someone's giving it away online. They're using it to do what they do. ... The music is out there and it gets used so there you go."
• Lars Ulrich is not the biggest fan of Trump, but also not the harshest critic. For now, it just seems he knows what to say.
  • October 5, 2016, Loudwire, 'Metallica's Lars Ulrich May Move Back to Denmark if Donald Trump Is Elected President': ""I am a hundred percent Danish citizen. I pay taxes in the United States, but I can not vote," Ulrich said. When asked if he would return to Denmark, Lars replied that he does sometimes think of moving back. "I'll stick to my Danish passport," Ulrich replied. "If Trump becomes president and everything goes to s—t, I might make my way to the airport and ask if I can get back in again.""
  • March 7, 2017, Rolling Stone, 'Lars Ulrich on Proposed Trump Border Wall: 'World Doesn't Need Walls'': ""Metallica travels all over the world, and through music we try to bring people together," Ulrich said. "So whether we're in Mexico or whether we're in Asia or whether we're in Europe or whatever, we encourage as many different people from as many different backgrounds to come together and share music and life and culture and all these experiences.""
• Kirk Hammett is a long-time member of the "liberal CIA"-financed Sierra Club - and hates Trump for all the most bizarre reasons:
  • December 9, 2016, billboard.com, 'Kirk Hammett of Metallica: Hardwired for a Twitter War With Donald Trump': "I've been a member of the Sierra Club forever and ever now, and Rob and I are members of Surfrider [Foundation, also supported by Jeff Bridges, Woody Harrelson and Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam] because we're surfers and we care about the oceans. The oceans are our playground, so we have a very high regard for it. ...
    I'm just waiting to get into a personal Twitter war with [Trump]. I'm just waiting. ...
    The thing is, Metallica appeals to such a wide range of people. We have people on the left, people on the right, in droves. ... When you start talking about politics you draw a line in the sand, and all of a sudden [there's] division, and that's not what we want. We want everyone to be in this together, experiencing the music together."
  • December 14, 2016 YouTube upload by "CBC Music", 'Kirk Hammett talks Trump win | SoundBites': "I'm gonna leave the United States if Trump becomes president!" What good does that do? For me, one of the most important things in politics is honesty and integrity, and we have very little of that in the United States nowadays. ... I think we are probably gonna have to go through a little bit of Hell to get to heaven."
  • January 21, 2017 series of tweets of @KirkHammett: "Trump's Inaugural Address and his asking us to put America first sounds, to me, familiar to... ...what was said in speeches going around Germany in the 1930's ...and later Russia in the 1940's ...
    Pay attention people! Stand up for truth, compassion and togetherness. Don't settle for anything less. Reject lies, Fear mongering, Misguided Anger. The system wants us divided, so it's easier to control us emotionally. ...
    REJECT the term Alt-Right, just another sneaky euphemism for white supremacy, call it what it is! Don't let them hide behind dishonesty! ...
    WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER! LIKE IT OR NOT, WE NEED EACH OTHER TO OVERCOME THE BIGGER THREAT... And we all know what the threat is - people in power who are trying to deny us and our children and grandchildren a healthy green future. ... The only people who deny CLIMATE CHANGE are the same people who stand to lose from renewable energy. This administration is thinking that it can just ignore CLIMATE CHANGE. People, it now comes down to us to make up the difference... Let's not stand for their preaching lies about our Mother Earth - DENY THE DENIERS!!! THEY ARE THE EARTH KILLERS.
    REJECT AMERICAN CARNAGE. We are a better nation right now than ever, better than just 5 years ago! REJECT THE LIES FROM THE PEOPLE IN THE NEW ADMINISTRATON, THEY ARE THERE ONLY TO FEED THEIR OWN THIRST FOR GREED AND POWER.
    One final thing - If we don't put up a fight we risk losing our rights.. Defend Democracy from those who want to crush it!"
  • January 21, 2017 retweet by @KirkHammett of @ABC: "In Chicago, large crowds come out for Women's March the day after Pres. Donald Trump's inauguration."
  • January 21, 2017 retweet by Kirk Hammett of a November 12, 2016 tweet of Slipknot's Corey Taylor: ""All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men (and women) do NOTHING." -Edmund Burke (paraphrased)".
  • January 21, 2017 retweet by @KirkHammett of @_Brendonsmall: "Let's not underestimate the collective's ability to give a very solid "Fuck you" when we need. It's how this place was built."
  • January 21, 2017 retweet of @KirkHammett: "Hell yes, @washingtonpost, that's how you write a headline. ['Trump reportedly wants to cut cultural programs that make up 0.02 percent of federal spending']"
  • June 15, 2020 kirkhammet Instagram post of an article that reads, 'Black Lives Matter protester hailed as hero for saving far-right demonstrator in London melee': "This man is a hero. Yes, we need more heroes like him. We all need to work together to be better." This is probably the least "divisive", least propagandist support to make with regard to Black Lives Matter.
• Historic drug use:
  • December 6, 2016, Rolling Stone, 'Don't Do Quaaludes: Sebastian Bach Describes Lars Ulrich Prank in New Memoir': "We decided to go hang out with our good buddy Lars Ulrich... We started our day going down to the CN Tower [in Toronto] and getting drunk. [Later] we all started drinking. Lars, at about three in the afternoon, whips out a bag of cocaine. Dumped it down right on the table, while businessmen and families were walking past. We started snorting lines in the middle of the beautiful sunny day...
    The next time I saw Lars was at the Rainbow in Hollywood. Duff McKagan was there, back when he still had an intact liver. This was one of the nights we were out to do some damage."
  • July 21, 2014, Blabbermouth, 'Metallica's Lars Ulrich: How I Quit Using Cocaine': "In the early days, I'd always get drunk way faster than the other guys [because I'm so small]," Lars said. "I realized that if there was a little bit of cocaine involved I could stay up longer, instead of ending up face down in the corner passed out three hours before the party ended. I loved the social elements of cocaine. I loved the danger of it. Then about 10 years ago, I read an interview with Noel Gallagher, in which he said, 'I just stopped doing cocaine.' I thought that was really cool: it felt so fresh, so honest, so pure — I love that side of him. I've never had an addictive personality, so I woke up one day and said: 'enough.'
    In a 2008 interview with Blender magazine, Ulrich said that he missed one thing about doing cocaine. "The bonding," he said. "Two guys in a bathroom stall — it feels like the most important place in the whole world in that moment. I've actually gone into bathroom stalls with friends since I quit, just so I still have a little bit of that bonding." ...
    As to whether he was out of control with the drinking, he said that he never felt the need to go to rehab. "It was always social drinking," he said. "Honestly, I never drank nearly as much as Hetfield. Look at me, I'm 138 pounds. ... I was never one of these wake-up-and-reach-for-the-whiskey-bottle types. I would at least have the decency to eat breakfast first.""
  • peoplepill.com/people/kirk-hammett/ (accessed: April 9, 2020): "At one point in his life, Hammett spent a "lot of money" on drugs. Hammett has said that he used drugs because he thought they would be fun. During the Damaged Justice tour, he had a cocaine addiction. Hammett eventually pulled out of the addiction because cocaine made him feel depressed, but relapsed during the Load era. ... Hammett has also smoked heroin a few times, but "didn't like it"."
  • February 19, 2015 YouTube upload by "RoadRecovery", 'Road Recovery Up-Close #3: Metallica's James Hetfield on How Music Saved his Life': "You wouldn't really like me if you knew my story, if you knew what horrible things I've done. I'm coming to grips with that, 'cause I have groups of people that I'm able to share all my horrible stuff with — shameful, extremely shameful, dark stuff. Some of it is things I've taken from my parents and carried it a little further. Other ones, I've been able to drop some of that. Other ones I've picked up on my own and then created... Shame's a big thing for me. Playing music has saved my life."
  • July 12, 2007, Blabbermouth.com, 'Metallica Guitarist Says His Pet Dog Was Penetrated By Next-Door Neighbor': "Other key revelations include frontman James Hetfield's jealousy over Hammett and drummer Lars Ulrich's massive consumption of cocaine. "I did not like being around them when they were on that stuff," says the singer. "I resented the closeness they had through their drug use." What Hetfield and Ulrich did share, though, was their love of groupies."
• Extra historical information on Metallica:
  • Kirk Hammett contributions:
    • Almost all solo's on Ride the Lightning (1984), improved on with harmonics from Cliff; the "Die by my hand" riff of Creeping Death (1984) plus very similar lyrics can be heard on the 1983-released Exodus song Die by His Hand (Kirk wrote it when he was 16-17); the main riff of Trapped Under Ice came from Kirk and was part in another form of the unreleased Exodus song Impaler. A key part of the main riff of Master of Puppets (1986) can be heard in a 1982 demo tape song of Exodus Death & Domination. Kirk also wrote the main riff of Enter Sandman.
    • November 13, 2017 YouTube upload by "Metallica", 'It's Electric: Lars x Metallica Revisit Master of Puppets': "[James:] The one thing I do remember is being out there and doing the riff to Master of Puppets. And us trying to get Master of Puppets together. ...
      [Kirk:] I remember you leading me over to the little [recording] machine and said, "Listen to this! It's a riff, triple tracked on [inaudible]. It's super-heavy!" And it was the Master of Puppets riff, the main riff. And I was like, "Wow! That's killer!"
      One of the Disposable Heroes riff, that first riff, you, that fast first riff [Lars goes, "play it."] That riff just came out sitting in front of the TV... And I think you [Lars] said, "What's that?" And I said, "Oh, this, uh, is something." For me back then, I just had to keep on playing it, to remember the feel. ...
      [Cliff] played me a really rough, super-rough version one time [of Orion] in a hotel room. But it was just the progression. ... And then I remember hearing it x-months later and it had all these harmonies, all these melodies, on it. I was just blown away. ... It had grown to this huge opus. ...
      [Flemming Rasmussen:] That was still back then when you weren't too sure about being a vocalist. You were still fighting with it. [James:] I'm still there. We are still auditioning people. [laughing]"
  • Cliff Burton contributions:
    • The opening solo of Fight Fire With Fire, the opening harmonics on Ride the Lightning, the opening Halloween-type riff on For Whom the Bells Toll. Largely compiled Orion. Almost certainly the bass-line intro's over the intro riff of Disposable Heroes.
    • July 28, 2014, Rolling Stone, 'Fighting Fire With Fire: Metallica Look Back on 'Ride the Lightning'': "When [Cliff] would play that [opening For Whom The BElls Toll] riff, I would think, "That's such a weird, atonal riff that isn't really heavy at all." I remember him playing it for James, and James adding that accent to it and all of a sudden, it changed. It's such a crazy riff. To this day, I think, "How did he write that?" Whenever I hear nowadays, it's like, "OK, Cliff's in the house.""
    • May 19, 2016, loudersound.com, 'Metallica: how we made Ride The Lightning': "For Whom The Bell Tolls: Kirk: That was a key song for us. Again, that intro was a Cliff thing – he'd play it all the time, and the rest of would stiffen up and go, 'What the heck was that?' That was completely his own creation."
    • 2004, Blabbermouth, 'Cliff Burton's Former Bandmate Sets Record Straight About 'Lost' Video': "Trauma's former guitarist and founding member Mike Overton (video image of Mike and Cliff) offered BLABBERMOUTH.NET the following exclusive account... I can see a lot of Cliff's influence on [Metallica's] 'Master of Puppets' album. In fact, a couple of bass lines are from songs that Cliff wrote for Trauma."
    • 2009, Joël McIver, 'To Live Is To Die', pp. 79-81: "Harald Oimoen has an explanation. "It was an unspoken thing," he tells me. "From the outside, Lars seems to be the businessman and the mouth of the band, so to speak, and James is the songwriter. But if there was a difference of opinion on something between Lars or James or whoever -- or if different people were saying 'Let's do it this way' -- Cliff would be the mediator. People would say Cliff thinks this, so let's go with it. They really respected his opinion as a musician, because he was so much more trained than they were. ...
      The most important of the new sounds was Cliff's love of hardcore punk... "Cliff had a way of commandeering the tape player in any vehicle," remembered Kirk. Lars added: "We were writing [music] and driving around in his green Volkswagen to photo sessions. Cliff would just pound this Misfits stuff, drum on the dashboard, and make everybody fucking nuts. And Cliff wasn't the best driver to begin with.""
    • "I think we just showed up at a TRAUMA show at the Whisky for some reason. We were sitting there watching the band and all the sudden the bass player goes into a solo as the guitar players were playing rhythm and he's just thrashing his head all over the place. And James and Lars were just bowing to him. We didn't talk to Cliff that night but they might have approached him the next night at the Troubadour. I don't know how they actually hooked up. [But] after I heard them talk about Cliff, I had some idea [that my time had come]."
      Do you think their intention was to harass you until you would quit the band?
      "I don't know. ... Things started happening back at the house... my things would be missing. ... Apparently one of Dave's (Mustaine) buddies stole my back-up Ibanez bass guitar... My leather jacket was missing...I was really getting sick of the situation. And I didn't know why this was happening because I did what I could and what they asked me to do. Lars and I butted heads a lot, I hate when people show up late and use you all the time and that's just what Lars did. ...
      Everytime we did a gig up in San Francisco I had to borrow my Dad's truck, pay for the gas, I had to rent the trailer out of my pocket, I paid for the hotel rooms on my Visa card... and San Francisco is expensive even for a cheap room. I paid for all of this and they couldn't understand why I was mad, they said 'Well, you're getting the check after the gig', and we were only getting paid a $100 per gig at the most, which didn't even cover the hotel room. Plus we drank a couple hundred dollars worth of alcohol. I always said to them, 'If I'm a part of this band, why is it up to me to pay for everything while you guys get the free ride?'. I had suggested we get a manager or somebody that could back us because I was really getting tired of this. And they just laughed about it and said 'have a sense of humor'. ...
      So, this is what happened. On the way home we stopped at the liquor store, I was driving, and they got a whole gallon of whisky. James, Lars, and Dave were completely smashed out of their minds. They would constantly bang on the window for me to pull over so they could take a piss, and all the sudden I look over and see Lars lying in the middle of Interstate 5 on the double yellow line. It was just unbelievable! And I just said 'fuck this shit!'. Then one of my friends told me that they witnessed Dave pour a beer right into the pickups of my Washburn bass as he said 'I fuckin' hate Ron'. The next day my bass didn't work. My girlfriend at the time also told me that she overheard that they wanted to bring Cliff in the band. ...
      If you listen to their version, they claim they kicked me out. But I never, ever heard them tell me 'You're out of the band'. What happened was, after Dave f**ked my bass up, I confronted the band when they came over for practice and said 'Get the f**k out of my house!' I turned to James and said, 'I'm sorry, James, but you have to go too'. And they were gone within the next couple of days. They packed all their gear and moved to San Francisco [to join Cliff]. ...
      Dave, at the time, was an asshole, and Lars only cared about himself. But what really hurt me was James, because he was my friend and he was siding with them and I suddenly became the outcast in the band.
  • James Hetfield contributions:
    • Lyrics, vocals. Most of the riffing. Creeping Death riff. The harmonized riff that starts at 3 minutes on Fight Fire With Fire (harmonics fully inspired by Cliff). Nothing Else Matters.
  • Lars Ulrich contributions:
    • Drumming. Solely responsible for turning down Jason Newsted's bass on the And Justice For All album, in opposition to James, Kirk and studio personnel. Stopped Kirk while he doodling the intro to Disposable Heroes.
    • January 12, 2017, newrocktimes.com, 'Mustaine: 'It's obvious I wrote parts of Ride The Lightning'' "I didn't write all of the music in [the] 'Ride The Lightning' [song]. Lars wrote the melodic intro [Cliff added the harmonies and others added the guitar]..."
  • Dave Mustaine contributions:
    • Did most of the solo's on Kill 'Em All (1983).
    • January 12, 2017, newrocktimes.com, 'Mustaine: 'It's obvious I wrote parts of Ride The Lightning'' "I didn't write all of the music in [the] 'Ride The Lightning' [song]. Lars wrote the melodic intro, and then the next part I wrote and then the next part I wrote and then the next part and then it went back to his part and then it went back to my next three parts and then at that point... who's keeping score? ...
      I got over Metallica using my songs a long time ago. ... We're friends. Stuff happened. Fuck, I forgave Megadeth bassist David Ellefson after suing me for 18 and a half million dollars, [so] I can forgive those guys for using my songs. ...
      So there are certain parts of 'Ride The Lightning' and 'Leper Messiah' and the first album, all that stuff, you can tell little things that are similar with Megadeth's guitar playing 'cause you know there's so much you can do with an instrument. I think they did great with it."
    • January 1984 interview by Bob Nalbandian of Dave Mustaine, Megadeth's first interview: "When I joined that band they only had one song - "Hit the Lights" - James did not write that song, a guy by the name of Hugh Tanner wrote it. Then we did "Jump Into The Fire", "The Mechanix", and the song "Motorbreath" - which is another Hugh Tanner wrote, and I wrote the intro to that, which Lars didn't know how to drum. I wrote the most songs on that whole f**kin' album! I wrote four of them, James wrote three, and Hugh Tanner wrote two! ...
      Kirk is a 'Yes' man... "Yes, Lars, I'll do Dave's leads"; "Yes, James, I'll play this". James played all the rhythm on that album and Cliff wrote all Kirk's leads - so it shows you they're having a lot of trouble with this "New Guitar God!" ... I'm just wondering what Metallica are gonna do when they run out of my riffs. ... I already smashed James in the mouth one time, and Lars is scared of his own shadow."
    • September 21, 2004, chartattack.com, 'Megadeth's Dave Mustaine Thinks Metallica's Lars Ulrich Is "A Punk Eminem Wannabe"': "Mustaine also says that classic Metallica songs such as "Jump In The Fire" and "The Four Horsemen" are his. Along with a number of others. "Not only [the songs on] Kill 'Em All, but 'Ride The Lightning' title track, 'Call Of Kthulu,' parts of 'Leper Messiah...' Listen to parts of 'Leper Messiah' and then 'Ride The Lighting.' It's that same spider chord. I invented that! How the hell can you not credit me for writing that?"
      Mustaine has his own answer. "James [Hetfield] didn't want to give me credit because he's jealous of me. His whole frontman persona he copped from me. In the beginning of the band, he just sang and I did all the guitar work. When he was done singing, he'd walk away from the microphone and I had to walk up to the mic and talk. I'm like, 'What's wrong with this picture? I'm getting your beer tonight!' I think the most disappointing thing out of all of it is that when you look at all of the accomplishments they've made over the years, people are trying to make me invisible. My career's been successful; I've had a blast while I'm here but it would have been nice if Metallica fans really knew what my contribution was instead of them saying there wasn't any." ...
      it's like the Flight Of Icarus: if you fly too high, you'll melt your wings," Mustaine says. "I think there are so many people that are happy it's over; that they're failing. I don't wish that on James at all. I really don't care about Kirk — he stole my job, but at least I got to bang his girlfriend before he took my job — how do I taste, Kirk? I do miss James though, even though we'll never work together again. With the silence, it's like, what are you afraid of? If I have to be in the movie, then obviously I mattered. Why didn't you say in the movie, 'Hey listen, I've been a twat because for 20 years. I pretended you were invisible.' Then I would have been like, 'OK! You can put my part in!'""
  • August 1986 issue, Thrasher Magazine, interview with Metallica's Kirk Hammett and James Hetfield: "K: Well, what happened was we were playing this music no other metal bands were playing and then all of the sudden one day we heard a punk band that was playing as fast as we were. We said, 'Hey, this is cool.'
    YOU HAD NO IDEA THIS PUNK SCENE EXISTED?
    J: Not too much. Punks would come to our show and say, 'Hey, have you ever heard of this band or this band.' 'No. Give me a tape, let's hear them.' We started getting into it that way.
    WHAT IS THE FIRST BAND YOU HEARD FROM THAT SIDE?
    K: Discharge, for me.
    J: It was either Discharge or GBH.
    DID THAT CHANGE THE WAY YOU DID MUSIC ONCE YOU HEARD THAT?
    K: It changed the way we played.
    IT OPENED YOUR MIND?
    J: Yeah, it did, we started getting into listening to stuff from different moves. Instead of just going, 'Ho, we're going to play some metal now.'
    K: When we started listening to punk stuff then we started listening to other things too--I hate to say this but, The Police, or...
    J: Kirk listens to the Police. (laughs)
    WHY DO YOU HATE TO SAY IT, ARE YOU EMBARRASSED?
    K: No, I'm not really embarrassed, it's just that a lot of people won't understand that. What I'm trying to say is that we started listening to music other than heavy metal, we broadened our musical horizons. ...
    DID YOU LISTEN TO WHAT THE PUNK BANDS WERE SAYING OR JUST THEIR RIFFS?
    K: Everything. It all helped.
    J: It opened up a lot of shit. It gave us, I think, some more heavy topics to write about.
    K: It was a truer gut feeling I think, on James' behalf. ...
    YOU GUYS HAVE BEEN KNOWN TO ADMIRE THE MISFITS.
    K: Hi Glenn [Danzig]. Fuck yeah.
    AND YOU'RE GOING TO DO A COVER OF ONE OF THEIR SONGS, THAT'S WHAT THE WORD IS...
    K: Yep. This is true They're great.
    WHAT GOT YOU INTO THE MISFITS? DOES IT GO WITH THE PUNK THING?|
    J: Cliff turned us on to them.
    J: All of his friends were into them and he taped some stuff from his friends.
    K: It just grew on us and we started listening to it a lot. I like the Misfits. I liked the songs and then I saw pictures of them and went, 'Wow, this is cool.' The imagery that they used was like some of the stuff I've seen in old horror comics.
    JAMES, WHAT ARE YOU INTO, BESIDES TV?
    J: Live comedy. I'm into the Bobcat (Bob Goldthwait) and Sam Kinnison. ...
    J: ... The lyrics I write I write pretty much for myself. I'm not telling people how to think. ... We're doing it our way. We're saying what we want to say in interviews and they're not twisting the shit around. ...
    YOU'RE JUST PUTTING OUT AN OPINION...
    J: My opinion.
    THEN DOES THE WHOLE BAND AGREE WITH YOUR OPINION?
    K: I do. I feel that we pretty much stand behind anything he has to say. If we didn't stand behind it we would let him know that in advance. So far we haven't so we pretty much stand behind everything James says. ...
    WHAT IS THE CONCEPT OF THE ALBUM?
    K: Manipulation. Various forms of manipulation, which can go into entirely a different subjects which we could talk about for hours.
    WHY ARE YOU SAYING "MASTER OF PUPPETS"? IS IT SOMETHING THAT YOU'VE FELT HAS BEEN DONE TO YOU OR THAT YOU SEE BEING DONE TO YOUR FRIENDS?
    J: Nah, I see it done to different people. Some of the stuff...well "Master of Puppets" deals pretty much with drugs. How things get switched around, instead of you controlling what you're taking and doing it's drugs controlling you. Like, I went to a party here in S.F., there were all these freaks shooting up and geezin' and this other girl was real sick. ...
    DOES THAT SCARE YOU?
    J: Yeah, hella.
    ARE YOU GUYS GETTING TO THE POINT WHERE YOU'RE BECOMING AN ANTI-DRUG BAND?
    J: No, because we don't want to tell anyone what to do. If people are into it that's cool, they wouldn't mind about the subject we're talking about. I was at that party and it freaked me out and I'm hella paranoid.
    K: We run into a lot of freaks on the road messed-up on drugs, all the time.
    J: That's what happened at the last show...
    K: Yeah, someone O.D.ed at the L.A. show.
    J: Three people died.
    BUT THAT'S NOT YOUR RESPONSIBILITY THOUGH...
    J: 'Oh, of course it is,' all the mom's say.
    K: The P.M.R.C., they don't know about it yet, but if they did know about it they'd raise a fucking all-holy ruckus.
    J: "Leper Messiah" deals with how people bow to TV preachers and send all their money away... it's just that we're aware of the fact that shit like this happens. ...
    YOU GET NERVOUS UP THERE IN FRONT OF A CROWD?
    J: I get nervous every night. Before I go on I feel like barfing my guts out. Not nervous really, just a kind of excitement. Like, 'Oh my God, I'm going to forget this, I'm going to forget the lyrics, I'm going to forget how to play guitar...'
    WHAT IS YOUR REASON FOR GETTING INTO THE COMICS, JAPANESE TOYS AND THE HORROR STUFF?
    K: The reason I buy toys and stuff is it's good plain fun. I'll admit it, I used to spend a lot of money on drugs at one point.
    WHY?
    J: Yeah, why?
    K: Because I thought maybe drugs were fun...
    J: Why? ...
    SO THE TWO OF YOU GOT STARTED SKATEBOARDING THROUGH BOREDOM ON TOUR?
    K: It just seemed like a real good idea.
    J: It's just kind of so we can flip away from all the hectic shit for awhile...
    SO ARE YOU HAVING A GOOD TIME SKATING WHEN YOU'RE AT THESE ARENAS?
    J: Hell yeah.
    K: The polished floors are really cool.
    J: Well, it's best when there's no seats. A lot of the places have got seats.
    HOW DID YOU GET INTO THIS SKATING THING?
    J: Wanted something to do on tour, because there was a lot of idle time when we're not doing anything. And I don't drink as much as I used to so it mellows me...
    SINCE YOU GUYS HAVE STARTED THIS TOUR WITH OZZY, YOU'VE GOT A LITTLE FAMILY OF SKATEBOARDING HAPPENING ON THIS BIG TOUR, CORRECT?
    K: Yeah, some people on Ozzy's crew and Ozzy's band.
    J: Yeah, guitarist Jake and his roadie are skating together now too. They saw us with our boards and go, 'hey, fuck yeah, that's a good idea.'"
  • October 27-30 posts by "junjun" on harmonycentral.com, 'Metallica's Ride the Lightning Arpeggios - Theory?': "I've been going through the solos on the Ride the Lighting CD and the arpeggios from the title track "Ride the Lightning" are throwing me for a loop. The arps seem so far from the basic theory in Fade to Black. Here are the chords, the harmonized arps played over them (highest voice first), and my interpretation. If you have any ideas about where these harmonies come from, I'd love to hear your opinions. ...
    It was 1984, and I'm going to go out on a limb and deduce that these harmonies were wayyyyy too complex to have been planned on the part of one Mr. Kirk Hammett. ... I'm going to chalk this up to Kirk's lessons with Joe Satriani - apparently Satriani was very harsh on Kirk's solos unless he was willing to think outside the box. Maybe I should too..."
  • May 23, 2016, Guitar World, 'Metallica's Kirk Hammett Talks 'Ride the Lightning,' Cliff Burton and Taking Guitar Lessons from Joe Satriani': "Around the time we were writing Ride the Lightning, I was taking guitar lessons from Joe Satriani," Hammett says after he joins us at HQ. "I didn't have a car, so I had to ride my bike to the lessons. And it took me over an hour and a half, because I lived, like, 25 miles away. The lessons were in a guitar store. So I would ride the whole way there—all huffing and puffing and sweaty—and I'd grab a guitar off the wall. After we finished, I'd grab my lesson papers and bike 25 miles again home! ... It was hilarious. I felt like Lincoln walking 18 miles to go to school or something. ...
    All the stuff I learned from Joe impacted my playing a lot on Ride the Lightning. He taught me stuff like figuring out what scale was most appropriate for what chord progressions. We were doing all sorts of crazy things, like modes, three-octave major and minor scales, three-octave modes, major, minor and diminished arpeggios, and tons of exercises. He taught me how to pick the notes I wanted for guitar solos as opposed to just going for a scale that covered it all. He taught me how to hone in on certain sounds and when to go major or minor. He also helped me map out that whole chromatic-arpeggio thing and taught me the importance of positioning and minimizing finger movement. That was a really important lesson. ...
    Cliff studied music in college. ... I had a grasp of music theory, thanks to Joe, but Cliff went the whole length and learned musical theory and everything. And he was way into harmonies. James really absorbed the dual-harmony thing and took it to heart. He made it his thing, but it was originally Cliff's. Cliff also inspired James greatly on counterpoint and rhythmic concepts. ...
    Cliff was a total anomaly. To this day, I'm still trying to figure out everything I experienced with him. He was a bass player and played like a bassist. But, fucking hell, a lot of guitar sounds came out of it. He wrote a lot of guitar-centric runs. He always carried around a small acoustic guitar that was down tuned. I remember one time I picked it up and was like, "What is this thing even tuned to, like C?" He explained that he liked it like that because he could really bend the strings. He would always come up with harmonies on that acoustic guitar. I would be sitting there playing my guitar and he'd pick up his bass and immediately start playing a harmony part. And he would also sing harmonies. I remember the Eagles would come on the radio and he would sing all the harmony parts, never the root. ...
    Totally. He wrote that "Creeping Death" harmony part and the harmony in the intro to "Ride the Lightning." He even helped me with a lot of the harmony stuff I played in the solo to "Ride the Lightning." I remember, I thought he'd just grab a bass and show me. But no, he had me write out all the notes in my solo on a piece of paper. Then he grabbed a pencil and went through and notated it, "If you're playing E, then G, then A, then C…" I'm looking at him like, What? But I took the paper and worked it all out. And you know what? It was perfect. ...
    That acoustic piece was Cliff's! Cliff wrote that on the down-tuned acoustic guitar I was talking about. He had a really good grasp of playing the guitar, and a good grasp of classical modulations. That intro was his piece. We heard it and stuck it onto "Fight [Fire With Fire]," and it worked fantastic. We knew that was going to be the opening track. There was no question about it. ...
    Again, that bass intro [to For Whom the Bells Toll] was something Cliff had. He would play it all the time at soundcheck. I remember the first time he played it thinking, Wow, that's a weird fucking riff. It was unlike anything I'd ever heard. ...
    I realized that some of the more difficult things to record are not necessarily the most technically demanding or challenging. I remember taking a ridiculous amount of time to record the three-note arpeggios that I play throughout the [Fade to Black] piece, because we wanted the intonation to be just right. During the recording, I remember I couldn't hit those notes as hard as I usually did, because they would go sharp. So I took a lot of time hitting them softly, so they would chime perfectly. For something that sounds like it would take 15 minutes, it took about three or four hours. You never know how long something will take to record. The simplest things might take forever and the hardest you might nail in two takes. ...
    Yeah, we played [Escape] for the first time at Orion Fest [in 2012]. At the time we thought we'd write a song that was a little more accessible and melodic and less metal and grinding. It was also in the key of A, which is pretty rare for us. "Escape" was also the last thing written in the studio. I didn't have anything for it, so that guitar solo was one of the most difficult to record. The song was pretty much an attempt to write something that would get radio's attention. But it never really happened for us. They ignored that song...along with everything else! ...
    None of the majors were interested at first. The amazing thing is that it all happened in one night. We were playing Roseland Ballroom in New York City after we had recorded Ride the Lightning. That night, we got signed to Elektra, Q-Prime [management] and ATI, which was a booking agency back in the day. All three of those things happened that one night, and we didn't even play that well! We went onstage and played, but we weren't vibing like we usually did, and we were a little sloppy. So we came offstage and we were a little bummed out, saying, "Fucking hell, they're not going to sign us. Are they even still here?" [laughs] Then Elektra came backstage and said, "Great fucking show, you guys were amazing!" [laughs] And Q-Prime said, "We are definitely working with you guys. Congratulations!" And we're all looking at each other, like, Really?
    After it all sunk in, we were really excited. Being signed to Elektra meant that our record would make it to a lot of places that wouldn't be possible with an independent label. We knew we'd be able to tour a little better, like in a real tour bus and with better promotion. And, most importantly, we knew we'd be better off financially, so we could make a better-sounding record, which of course ended up being Master of Puppets. ...
    It was super creative, but it was also very lonely and depressing for us because we were one step away from being homeless. We had all embarked on this to become signed by a record company, make records and go on tour. But at the time we were living a hand-to-mouth existence, and all of us were worrying about what was going to happen. Would a gig show up? Or would we get a phone call saying, "You guys are too extreme." There were a lot of different factors.
    We were also lonely because we were so far away from home. At least Cliff, James and I. We all had girlfriends at the time, and we were away for three or four months at a time. It was that sort of lonely feeling you get from being on the road and away from loved ones for a long time. I think that basic feeling was channeled into the album. ...
    We lived at the studio. Well, first we were staying at our friend's house, but we totally thrashed it. Then we were living upstairs in an empty floor of the studio. That was crazy, because it was the middle of winter and we're living among piles of asbestos and particleboard. But we rallied around each other, because that's all we really had at that point. All of us were taken out of our lives, like maybe a year and a half prior with Kill 'Em All, and we fended for ourselves. We were so young and just trying to figure it out. A lot of the time we didn't know what we were going to do, and we were fearful. I think that's why we really embraced the consumption of alcohol so much. [laughs] We drank a lot. Actually we drank tons up to 1998. [laughs] ...
    You know that we actually recorded Ride the Lightning in two different time periods? We started recording, then we took a break and went over to England to do a tour with the Rods and Twisted Sister. But when we got to England, the tour got canceled. We had no money, so we got stuck and couldn't get back to Denmark. So we stayed in England for a couple weeks, and I just hung out and drank a lot of English beer. [laughs]
    But yeah, I remember a time when I only had one fucking guitar. I had to borrow a second guitar in the studio for Kill 'Em All, because my guitar didn't have a whammy bar. Even when Ride the Lightning came along, I just had three guitars.
    Actually, the title "Ride the Lightning" was my idea. I had taken it from a passage in a Stephen King novel, The Stand. There's this prisoner, and the line's something like, "He was stuck on death row and ready to ride the lighting." ...
    Anyway, when I joined the band, those guys went out of their way to make me feel comfortable. It wasn't like when Jason joined the band, and we weren't as far established as we were when Rob joined. We hung out all the time back then. I remember right after recording Kill 'Em All, James was like, "Check this out," and played me the riff to "Creeping Death." But it was played really slow, like half time. It just naturally sped up over the course of time. ... I gave them a bunch of riffs. Not only did they listen to my riff tape but they also listened to the Exodus demo tape. That's how certain riffs got taken out of the demo, like the fast riff in "Trapped Under Ice" and the "Die by my hand" riff from "Creeping Death," which I wrote when I was 16 or 17 years old. ...
    [Mustaine] had nothing to do with any of the guitar solos on Ride the Lightning. That was more of the situation with Kill 'Em All. For that record, I was the new guy on the block. I thought, Okay I'll start the solos the way Dave did, and then I'll go somewhere else. His approach and my approach are completely different when it comes to solos. For me, Ride the Lightning was the first time I had a blank slate to come up with guitar solos. And I had a fucking field day. ...
    So I'm sitting with [my kid earlier], listening to that "Ride the Lightning" guitar solo, and I was like, I have absolutely no recollection of putting all those harmonies on there! [laughs] When we were putting that song together, we had the intro riff, the verse, the chorus, and a part of the instrumental bridge. When the whole thing slows down and there's that solo section, I remember I pretty much played that solo as it is off the bat.
    When I recorded that in 1984, I was 21 years old. That's crazy. In 1984, a guitar solo like that was something. If you put it into context of what was going on back then, it was very modern sounding. Of course, if you put it into today's context, it sounds like classic rock. [laughs] It's not like today's norm, with sweeping arpeggios and 32nd notes everywhere. I also have to say that when I listened to it this morning, I realized that the actual sound of the album is still good. After all these fucking years, it still holds up sonically."
  • October 22, 2016, LouderSound.com, 'King Diamond: "My Apartment Was Haunted - Ask The Guys From Metallica"': "Yes, that brings memories back for me of Ride the Lightning, but also Master of Puppets because they were both done at Sweet Silence [Studios in Copenhagen, Denmark]. [The Metallica band members] were checking out ideas at our rehearsal because it was in the same building they were working in. We would be rehearsing and they would come in and take over the rehearsal place after we went. I think that they had a few amps and other stuff that they brought up to use. We would be up there hearing riffs before it was released to anybody. I remember one night James and Lars came back to my apartment and we were all getting drunk with Timi and this American girl that was visiting from California. That was at my haunted apartment.
    I had a small apartment, it was up on the top floor and it was super haunted. I lived there for quite a few years and lots of people have experienced stuff up there. It's not just like when you got drunk, it would happen at any time. ...
    I had a foosball table in my bedroom and Lars, James and I were playing it. While we were playing, I heard this kabong sound, like things were being thrown around. It sounded like Timi had tried to get up and was so drunk he fell over the table and all the bottles flew everywhere. ... I opened the door and said, "what the hell are you doing?" as I was looking straight over at him on the couch. He was sitting there with this girl, who's whiter than a sheet. I asked them, "what's going on, man? What's going on in here?" Then I looked to the left of me, right in the corner there I had an altar with all kinds of stuff on. Everything from that altar was just spread all over the floor. I say, "it's okay, it's them. Just don't worry. Everything's fine. I'll pick it up. Just continue whatever you're doing.
    I started picking all the stuff up and putting it back where it belongs. An hour or two later, that girl – her name was Anita – went out to the bathroom and she was there for 20 minutes. I finally went out there to see if she was OK. I heard her crying in there, and I asked her, "what's going on? Are you all right? What's going on?" She says, "I can't get out. Something's growling at me and I can't get out. The door's stuck." I tried the handle and it just opened. I walked in there and she told me again that there was something growling at her. We got her out of there. I bet James and Lars will never forget things flying off the shelves that night."
  • June 3, 2016, loudersound.com, 'King Diamond: the confessions of Satan's little helper': "As King remembers it, Lars and James were too drunk to really absorb what had happened. But he was certain. "It was a visitation," he says. "You could hear how they left – out through the bathroom window." And he claims it was one of many such occurrences. "There were other experiences I had in that place. I remember once I felt a touch on my cheek… That place was haunted. So many people experienced stuff in there, not just me. "In my life I've seen a lot of things," he says. "Supernatural things. I've seen the place between heaven and hell.""

• Famous band founded in 1981 by Tommy Lee and Nikki Sixx. Looks inspired Escape From New York and Mad Max.
• Motley Crue's first album, Too Fast For Love, was released in late 1981, but didn't break into the BillBoard 200 until 1983, after a US Festival appearance and MTV promotion. In 1987 the album went Platium (1 million+ copies sold). In 2017, it was ranked 22nd on Rolling Stone's list of "100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time".
• After the first album, Motley Crue slowed down a bit over the line and became part of the glam metal/hair metal movement. Its subsequent albums all did gold or platinum: Shout at the Devil (1983), Theatre of Pain (1985; not liked much by the band), Girls, Girls, Girls (1987), Dr. Feelgood (1989).
• After a year of rehab and the subsequent success of Dr. Feelgood, Motley Crue was the ultimate (underage) groupie band:
  • Motley Crue, 'Slice of Your Pie' lyrics (1989): "Tattoo crawlin' down her leg, so sexy. So young ever get caught, they'll arrest me. School girl, studied up well on hoochie coochie. Lick lips, kitten with a whip so undress me, undress me. Hey, pretty pretty. With the sweet sweet eyes order me up another, Slice of your pie.
    Hot child, always walk behind you for the rear view, rear view. Good God, baby, baby blow my fuse when you walk this way. Nineteen, seductive ballerina, so trashy, trashy."
  • January 19, 1990, Sun-Sentinel, 'Crue: No Apologies for Sexist Attitudes': "The young women, many of them just 14 and 15 years old, line up in city after city, town after town. They're usually wearing little more than a bikini, a leather jacket and a pair of high heels. They're here to see Motley Crue and this is the fashion of the day. ...
    "We're not perpetuating anything; we're just writing about things that mirror society," says lyricist and bass player Nikki Sixx. "These girls are doing what they want to do." ... "There will always be criticism. There always has," Sixx says. "But these (fans) are just young girls. Don't take away their fantasies. It's just playtime for them. ...
    Among the songs on Dr. Feelgood are a handful of titles that Sixx said he relishes for their double-entendre: Sticky Sweet, She Goes Down, Slice of Your Pie and Rattlesnake Shake."
• Singer Vince Neil was away from the band from 1992 to 1997, ending Motley Crue's "golden era". Neil was tired of Motley Crue's post-rehab sobriety years, depressed over his divorce, and did not agree with the direction of the new album ("I'm more in the direction of Motley meets Metallica kind of thing. More heavier. Motley Crue was really drifting away from that. A lot more keyboard stuff."). As a result he hardly showed up for rehearsals, quitting during an argument.
• Subsequent albums Motley Crue (1994) and Generation Swine (1997) weren't well received and the band's fame sharply declined. Vince Neil's Exposed album (1993) very much sounded like traditional Motley Crue and was well-received, despite not gaining much traction. One of the widely alleged reasons for this is that grunge had become the dominant rock movement.
• Vince Neil relationship with Guns N' Roses:
  • At some point Guns N' Roses guitar player (1985-1991) Izzy Stradlin reportedly put his hands on Vince Neil's wife, with Neil suckerpunching him backstage in return at the 1989 MTV VMAs ("I just punched that dick and broke his fucking nose! Anybody who beats up on a woman deserves to get the shit kicked out of them. Izzy hit my wife, a year before I hit him."). This resulted in a feud with Axl Rose who claimed to the media that Neil's wife was playing Neil ("Izzy never touched that chick! If anybody tried to hit on anything, it was her trying to hit on Izzy when Vince wasn't around. Only Izzy didn't buy it. So that's what that's all about. ... Vince's wife has got a bug up her ass about Izzy. Izzy doesn't know what's going on. Izzy doesn't fucking care.") and that Neil "hit like a powder puff". Axl vaguely challenged Neil to a boxing match, but when Neil accepted, Axl declined.
  • Late 1992 or early 1993, MTV Rockline interview with Vince Neil: "[Laughing uncomfortably:] I haven't talked to Axl [Rose] lately, so I don't know. No, not really [I want to bring that incident up]. ... Me and the other guys in the band are really good friends. Me and Duff [McKagan] go out all the time."
• New Tattoo (2000), after Neil had returned, also wasn't successful.
• The arguably pretty decent Saints of Los Angeles (2008) and the well-received 2019 movie The Dirt, in addition to some new songs that year, revived the band quite a bit.
• Tommy Lee and Nikki Sixx have become major anti-Trump activists. In contrast, Vince Neil was initially going to play at Trump's inauguration and doesn't seem to have anything against him.



• Tommy Lee is a PETA activist who has attempted to go vegetarian:
  • Long-time on and off girlfriend of Pamela Anderson (who dated Vince Neil in 1992-1993), who has major "liberal CIA" activist ties through environmentalism and Wikileaks and the like.
  • November 7, 2012 tweet of Tommy Lee (@MrTommyLand): "Wise Choice America [electing Obama]! Proud!"
  • June 16, 2016 tweet of Tommy Lee (@MrTommyLand): "@realdonaldtrump You are a fucking idiot! [for saying the Bataclan carnage would have been less if people were allowed to wear guns] #prayforamerica we're fucked."
  • November 8, 2016 tweet of Tommy Lee: "What the actual f*ck is happening? [Trump winning]"
  • November 9, 2016 tweet of Tommy Lee: "Way to go America [electing Trump]!! Good job guys!!! idiots!!!!"
  • March 29, 2017 tweet of Tommy Lee: "Wtf is wrong with you people!!!! For fur? I'd love to club these fucks for their skin for my lamp shade!!!"
  • May 5, 2017 tweet of Tommy Lee: "Jesus Christ our president is and idiot!!! And Paul Ryan is a moron! Send help!!!!!"
  • November 6, 2017 tweet of Tommy Lee: "Hey you want to get depressed? Watch CNN"
  • December 7, 2017 tweet of Tommy Lee: "The news is poison on loop." This seems to be a reference to the mainstream news being guilty of having elected Trump for giving him so much attention.
  • December 17, 2017 tweet of Tommy Lee: "Our president is a fucking idiot and fuck all you dickheads who voted for him!"
  • August 9, 2019, Daily Mail, 'Tommy Lee sparks massive online brouhaha after re-posting Reddit rant condemning President Trump and Republican values': "[August 7:] The post read, 'You Trumpsters better pray that liberals never gain control of the WH again because we are going to pay you back so f***ing hard for all of this s***. Planned Parenthoods on every damn corner. ...
    We're going to repaint Air Force One p**** hat pink and fly if over your beloved Bible Belt 6 days a week, tossing birth control pills, condoms & atheist literature from the cockpit. ...
    We're going to gather up ALL of your guns, melt them down and turn them into a gargantuan metal mountain emblazoned with the face of Hillary Clinton. ... Fox News will be taken over and turned into a family refugee shelter. We're turning [Sean] Hannity's office into a giant unisex bathroom with changing tables and free tampons.' ...
    [August 8:] Subsequently [he] wrote, 'Ummm excuse me I have to go take a trump!!!' with an accompanying poo emoji."
  • June 22, 2020 tweet of Tommy Lee (reply to Ice T who posted a link of lefty activists harassing a woman part of a southern protest march who provocatively replies "Too bad. I will teach my grand kids to hate you all... KKK, motherfuckers!"); the cop is just protecting the white rally): "Hate is a strong word and I chose to never use it.... but today I'm using it fuck it!!... I hate this fucking racist bitch and anyone like her... in the same breath I'm gonna hope the universe somehow shows her the way... watch this moron! And the cops just stand there..."
• Nikki Sixx:
  • May 17, 2011 tweet by @nikkisixxofficial: "I say give Obama another 4 [years] to clean up the mess Bush left."

  

  • April 26, 2016, BBC, 'Sixx AM: How Donald Trump inspired our new album': "Rise of the Melancholy Empire [is] written in response to the terror attacks in Paris and the San Bernardino last autumn, the chorus insists: "We will grow strong from this. We will not be defeated, however hard they try." ... On the first single, Rise, the band turn their attention to the US Presidential election, imploring listeners to defy the "status quo" and "stand up to the devil [Trump]"."
  • December 14, 2016 YouTube upload by "Anneke ter Veen", 'Nikki Sixx on Trump, his band mates and personal demons... Anneke ter Veen (english)': "We're not a political band... Back in America it is a very volatile time, and it is a bit embarrasing to be honest with you, mostly coming from one side. ... Our belief is you have the responsibility and the right to rise up, which is what the song "Rise" is about, and force the change. When it becomes so stressful to young people that they are not gonna vote, they don't care anymore, they become apathic, it's a scary time. ...
    Listen, I think it's a really uncomfortable time [to make your political choices known]. My concern is that somebody like Donald Trump could put our country, America, at war and that is not the answer for anything. We have allies ... financially, politically, military-wise... .I don't want wanna become the only country that is on an island, by itself, and everybody goes, "We don't wanna have anything to do with you, because your leader is crazy."
  • February 14, 2017, ultimateclassicrock.com, 'Nikki Sixx 'can't wait' until Donald Trump is no longer president': "And what I do love is that in 2017, people are demonstrating and speaking out and having big conversations. And that is what's happened in the '60s and the '70s, and it creates great music and great art, and great conversations lead to something."
  • Nov. 2, 2021, Loudwire, 'Nikki Sixx + His Wife Courtney Are Writing a Children's Book About Culture + Diversity'.
• Past racial stuff:
• August 3, 2006 YouTube upload, 'Nikki Sixx Motley Crue Greensboro 1997': (video) "We're not going to play any more songs. You know why? Because this security asshole in the front is punching you motherfuckers, and you deserve better than that. You are a big fucking black man. You feel pretty good beating up little girls? Fuck you! You know what, motherfuckers? Kick this guy's ass! Kick this motherfucker's ass! ... Fucking kick his ass! How does that feel, you fucking asshole! You fucking, nigger! ... Don't call me a fucking racist, man, because then you are a fucking nigger - 'cause no one threats another human being like that!"
• November 6, 1997, MTV, 'Mötley Crüe's Sixx Clashes With Carolina Security Guard': "During the show, Sixx reportedly saw a security guard shining a light in the eyes of a female fan, who was sitting on the shoulders of another fan. Then midway through the show, Sixx thought he saw the same guard roughing up a fan near the stage, and the bassist began hurling obscenities and racial slurs at the guard, who happened to be black. ...
  Meanwhile, the Greensboro ABC affiliate WXLV caught up with fans after the show and heard tales of overly-physical security guards at the concert. "He just grabbed me and slammed me on the ground and about four or five other guys jumped on top of me also," said Chris Harker, who says he was thrown out of the show before Sixx went on his tirade. ... Brian Hudson, said of what he saw at the show. "The security guard walked over to him, didn't push him aside, didn't do anything like that, he just punched him.""
• September 7, 1999, MTV, 'Tommy Lee Gets Naked, Nikki Sixx Gets Arrested... Again': "Sixx was picked up by local authorities on an old warrant following Mötley Crüe's concert in Raleigh, North Carolina on Friday. Sixx is accused of directing racial slurs at a security guard, pouring liquor on his head, and encouraging the crowd to attack the man in Greensboro in October of 1997 (see "Mötley Crüe's Sixx Clashes With Carolina Security Guard"). According to the Associated Press, Sixx was charged with felony rioting and three misdemeanor charges of inciting a riot, assault, and disorderly conduct. ... Lee is wanted on similar charges relating to the same incident."
• June 6, 2011, San Antonio Current, 'Tommy Lee Q&A: "I'm definitely not a Nazi. No fucking way."': "[Question:] You got a lot of flak for wearing a tattoo of a swastika once, but I just want to set the record straight: the swastika symbol has nothing to do with the Nazis. It is actually a Hindu symbol that Hitler altered and adopted as his own.
  [Lee:] Thank you! Hell, no! As a matter of fact, it's a Buddhist peace symbol [it is also used by Buddhists, but its origins are Hindu]. I got so much flak I just covered it up. Lots of ignorant people out there. It's a fucking swastika, but if you flip the symbol around it looks like [a Nazi symbol]. I just said fuck it, and I covered it. But I'm definitely not a Nazi. No fucking way."
• History with heroin and cocaine:
  • February 28, 2019, The Sun, Mötley TRUE: "Tommy ... got hooked on alcohol and cocaine while Mick became addicted to painkillers he was taking for a joint disease. Nikki ... sank so low he overdosed on heroin and was declared dead...
    Recalling a night in London, he says: "We went to this Russian place, until 4am. All of a sudden eight waiters come out with silver platters, take the lids off and there's lines of cocaine with silver straws for us for dessert."
  • March 22, 2019, Newsweek.com, 'Mötley Crüe and the Real Story of Nikki Sixx's Overdose: Going Beyond 'The Dirt'': "Sixx traces his addictive personality back to 1965, when his stepdad urged him to take a hit from a joint and a pull from a bottle of Jack Daniels while on vacation in Guadalajara, Mexico. Sixx was 6 years old at the time.
    "Once that pot and whisky hit my system, my mind went KABOOM and my whole world changed. The static in my head and my body that I felt all day every day just went away," Sixx wrote in The Heroin Diaries. "Everything in my life became about chasing that feeling. To this day it has never stopped, no matter how much work I do on myself." ...
    Sixx first began using heroin while Mötley Crüe worked on their second studio album—1983's Shout at the Devil. After he crashed his Porsche into a telephone pole, doctors fixed his dislocated shoulder and gave him a bottle of painkillers. "I spent the next three days unconscious, whacked out on painkillers," Sixx wrote in The Dirt. "Heroin began to consume me, first to kill the pain of the shoulder then later to kill the pain of life, which is the pain of not being on heroin." ...
    At first, he only smoked heroin, cooking brown lumps of tar on tinfoil and sucking up the vapor. But two friends, one from glam metal band Ratt, taught him to use needles instead. "It was all over. The first time I shot up, I just passed out," Sixx relates in The Dirt. "Vince's vice was women and, with those first shots, I learned that mine was to be drugs, for the rest of my life."
    Soon after, Sixx was mixing cocaine into his heroin to keep him from passing out. With the success of Shout at the Devil, Sixx and Mötley Crüe found themselves surrounded by enablers. "The more f***ed up we got, the greater people thought we were, and the more they supplied us with what we needed to get even more f***ed up. Radio stations brought us groupies; management gave us drugs. Everyone we met made sure we were constantly f***ed and f***ed up."
    Sixx's fellow band members started calling him out for his heroin use: While preparing to open for Ozzy Osbourne on his 1983 Bark at the Moon tour, the band demoed their set for record company executives. A frustrated Crüe guitarist Mick Mars shouted into his microphone, "Perhaps we could play these songs for you if Nikki hadn't been up all night doing heroin."
    While Sixx's heroin use became more public, he only realized he had a problem while on tour with Cheap Trick. He had his first near-brush with death towards the end of the tour, after a London heroin dealer helped him inject. ... Waking up from a blackout, he remembered the dealer carrying him outside "like an old trash bag," intending to throw his body in the dumpster after giving up on resuscitating him. "I had large welts all over my arms and chest from being struck with a baseball bat. That was the dealer's idea: He thought he could put me in so much pain that my system would shock itself back into action."
    Sixx's addiction continued, and his relationship with his fellow band members decayed. It came to a head at Lee's April 1986 wedding to Heather Locklear, where Sixx was best man.
    "He was emaciated; he sweated constantly; and his skin was pure yellow, dude," Lee wrote in The Dirt. "He kept excusing himself to go to the bathroom, and then he'd return and start nodding off in the middle of the ceremony. As a best man, he was so f***ed up on heroin, he was useless. I couldn't believe he was shooting up at my f***ing wedding."
    At the wedding, Sixx told Mötley Crüe tour manager Rich Fisher that he was using heroin, though he suspected everyone already knew. Sixx's management company held an intervention and got him to agree to rehab, but he soon escaped the treatment center by jumping from a second-story window in his hospital gown and walking home.
    By 1987, Sixx's condition had worsened. His hair was coming out in clumps. He described himself as "disintegrating." On December 23, he went out with Robbin Crosby of Ratt, Slash of Guns N' Roses and members of Megadeth for a cocaine-fueled evening. After returning to the Franklin Plaza Hotel, Sixx had their dealer inject him with a dose of heroin that nearly ended his life. ...
    In The Dirt, Sixx described the out-of-body experience he had as paramedics rushed him to the hospital. "It felt as if something very gentle was grabbing my head and pulling me upward. Above me, everything was bright white. I looked down and realized that I had left my body. Nikki Sixx—or the filthy, tattooed contained that had once held him—was lying covered face-to-toe with a sheet on a gurney being pushed by medics into an ambulance.""
• Motley Crue feud with Metallica:
  • September 29, 2015, Blabbermouth,com, 'Motley Crue's Vince Neil Hangs Up On Radio DJ After Being Asked About Metallica 'Beef' (Audio)': "The feud between MÖTLEY CRÜE and METALLICA stems back to an incident nearly two decades ago when Ulrich accused CRÜE of performing to a tape at the American Music Awards in January 1997 (which, by all accounts, they did [because Neil and Sixx sounded perfect, according to all hardcore fans, and, doing a Shazam here of the "live" performance, in 1.5 second it is recognized as the 1983 studio version]).
    After learning of Ulrich's allegations, MÖTLEY CRÜE bassist Nikki Sixx posted an "open letter" to the METALLICA drummer on an American Online message board, writing: "Dear, Sweet, Fat, Balding, Larz (love the make-up, babe!) Taking your ever-moronic soapbox position on a subject that's NONE of your fucking business has made you out to be an asshole as usual. Considering that me and Tommy know that your live tapes have been re-recorded. And ALL your instruments were repaired in Pro Tools (and had that balls to lie to your fans an call it a 'live' album)... People in glass houses should NOT throw rocks!! Considering your bullshit to the press, we feel it's only fair to return the punch!!...Your [sic] such a poseur...Thanks for releasing that 'load' of shit CD of yours...you made more room for us!!"
    Earlier today, Neil spoke to Tanner of the 105.9 The Brew radio station in Portland, Oregon and was asked to give his side of the alleged "beef" between the two bands. Neil responded (hear audio below): "Hey, look, you have to ask Nikki about that, 'cause I had no idea there was anything between us and METALLICA until I read it. I had no idea."
    After Tanner pointed out to Neil that Tommy sent out a tweet poking fun of Ulrich, Neil added, his frustration audible in his voice: "I know. I saw it, but, like I said, I had nothing to do with it. Because, like I said, I had no idea that there was any bad blood between us and METALLICA.""

• British grindcore band (fusion of heavy metal and hardcore punk), founded in 1981, which actually is antifa.
• Mark "Barney" Greenway has been the frontman since 1989. He is an antifa activist who opposed Brexit and hates Trump:
  • January 23, 2015, Vice, 'Napalm Death's Barney Greenway Still Hates Fascists and Will Wear a Justin Bieber T-Shirt to Prove It': "[They] still bash out a Dead Kennedys [of top antifa Jello Biafra] cover on every stop on their exhaustive global tour schedules. ...
    Yes, I do have one, I wore it in Russia because I thought it looked quite effeminate, and I wanted to look quite effeminate because they just passed that stupid law to ban promotion of non-traditional sexual practices. It's quite silly, and I wanted to let them know how stupid their law was. ...
    Yeah, I mean, to be honest, most of them were just laughing. What can you do, you know?
    ["I've seen you guys play loads of times, and you always come out with the anti-fascist speech before "Nazi Punks Fuck Off,' which is still such an important message to send."]
    ...
    Apart from some particularly ugly incidents in the early 90s—when white supremacists participated in the latest trend, which was very disturbing—apart from them, there's really been a comparatively small amount of negativity since I've been out of the States. And you know, not to be funny but, even playing more of the typically conservative settings, even then, never too many problems. ...
    There was a little bit of it in Croatia, actually; there was a little bit of right absolute, just a couple of kids in the crowd. Most people just kind of looked up [during "Nazi Punks Fuck Off"] and went, "Shut up!" We haven't had any violence either, which is fine. They just kind of stared. Didn't even have to intervene."
  • September 1, 2018, Blabbermouth.net, 'Napalm Death's Barney Greenway Says Donald Trump Is 'A Terrible Human Being'': "We have Trump, for example, who — in my opinion, personally — is a terrible human being. I think that the way he disregards people in general who are lower than him on the social scale, it's really weird sometimes. It's almost like a comedy show. It's absurd. But he's only one piece of several things going on that are not good. The whole environmental situation, for one thing, that kind of steps backwards...
    In Europe, we have some very worrying developments in south and east of Europe. We have almost like Hitler Youth sort of organizations in some of those eastern European countries who are legitimized by the government, who are accepted. It's very, very weird times. You would think that Europe as a continent, collectively, we would have learned from this stuff, given 1930s and 1940s. But it seems to be happening again, so yeah, it is getting worse."
  • January 16, 2019, Blabbermouth.net, 'NAPALM DEATH Frontman Calls Brexit 'A Completely Pointless Exercise'': "Where I do love the European thing is that it brings people together. [But] making countries pay a debt back when clearly the people are suffering, that's not right — you shouldn't do that. So, I am for it in many ways, but then not in others. ...
    We already have in Europe traces of the sort of things that happened when [Adolf] Hitler came to power. In Southern and Eastern Europe, we have kind of neo-fascist movements operating in plain view. So people need to be careful what they wish for..."
  • September 14, 2019, metaladdicts.com, 'NAPALM DEATH Frontman On Brexit: 'A Lot Of It Is To Do With The U.K. Isolating Itself, Which Is F*cking Stupid'': "Not only is it the other immigrants or whatever you want to call people that migrate. There's other things as well — other people who are treated as 'the other.' I would suggest simply, generally, that it's not necessary to treat people differently."
• Napalm Death is strongly tied in with pro-white genocide band Brujeria through:
  • Shane Embury ("Hongo"): Bass and guitars for Brujeria 1989-. Bass and backing vocals at Napalm Death 1987–present.
  • Jesse Pintado ("Cristo de Pisto"): Played guitars for Brujeria in 2000. Mexico-born. Guitarist Napalm Death 1989-2004.

• Band formed by Trent Reznor. First album was Pretty Hate Machine (1989), a commercial success but resulted in limited exposure due to Reznor being signed with an independent label. His second album was The Downward Spiral (1994), released by the Death Row Records-tied Interscope Records. It debuted at number two in the Billboard 200 and sold 119,000 copies in the first week - and about 4 million over the next two decades. Reznor's third album was The Fragile (1999). It debuted at number 1 at the Billboard 200 and sold 229,000 copies in its first week (about 1 million over the next two decades).
• To record The Downward Spiral, Reznor lived in the home where the Manson murders took place.
• NIN frontman Trent Reznor starting using alcohol and drugs in the mid 1990s to help deal with his fame. The curious David Bowie helped him with these issues:
  • January 26, 2016, The Wrap, 'David Bowie Helped Trent Reznor Get Sober, Nine Inch Nails Singer Says; "It feels like the loss of a mentor, fatherly figure, someone looking out for you," musician says of deceased "Ziggy Stardust" legend '.
• Frontman Trent Reznor hates Trump:
  • July 26, 2017, Rolling Stone, 'Trent Reznor: Donald Trump Is 'Vulgar, Grotesque Dope'': ""[Initially] it's kind of fun to see a grenade go off and see these guys – I hate every one of them – be eliminated and humiliated [by Trump]." However, it "stopped being fun" and started getting "surreal" once Trump won the nomination. ...
    "The president of the United States is a complete fucking moron... That's what gets me the most — that he's this vulgar, grotesque dope, everything I hate in people. ... When you're not in an urban environment, you often feel left out of the conversation, and I get that... I grew up in that.""
  • June 21, 2018, The Guardian, 'Trent Reznor: 'You're seeing the fall of America in real time'': ""It feels like things are coming unhinged, socially and culturally," says Reznor. "The rise of Trumpism, of tribalism; the celebration of stupidity. I'm ashamed... We've got dumber, more tribalised; we've found niches of other people that focus on extremity. ... I see a hell of a lot more racism. It doesn't feel like we've advanced. I think you're seeing the fall of the empire of America in real time, before your eyes; the internet has eroded the fabric of decency in our civilisation...""
  • June 3, 2018, consequenceofsound.net, 'Trent Reznor speaks out on "imbecile" Donald Trump: "We may be the most demoralized country in the world"': "We have chosen a complete imbecile [with Trump]. ... I know that many Americans dislike this situation. I cannot wait for the moment when he is no longer president. ...I feel a country with an existential crisis that is asking, now what? Is it just a shame or we start a war?"
• Part of the antifa group Axis of Justice, founded in 2002 by Serj Tankian of System of a Down and the globalist and CIA-tied Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine. Axis of Justice was allied with the older antifa group Anti-Racist Action and, more importantly, with countless NGOs and individuals taking money from "liberal CIA" foundations as Soros and Ford.
  • May 29, 2009, billboard.com, 'Trent Reznor Spurs Tom Morello To Kick Out Jams With New Band': "A surprise invitation from Trent Reznor resulted in Street Sweeper Social Club -- the new group formed by Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave, the Nightwatchman) and the Coup's Boots Riley -- getting an earlier than expected public airing.
    "We were finishing mixing our record when Trent called up and said, 'Hey, want to do the (Nine Inch Nails/Jane's Addiction) tour?'," Morello tells Billboard.com. ... "Both bands are friends from back in the day," Morello says, "so there's a very good, family kind of vibe. (Reznor) has been a great host on the tour" -- and also joined Morello, Riley and company on stage for a recent rendition of the MC5's "Kick Out the Jams.""
• Part of the mid 2010 of the antifa / "liberal CIA" The Sound Strike group, a failed protest against Arizona's SB 1070 bill, meant to curb illegal immigration into the state, mainly from Mexico and other Central American countries.

• Band formed in 1989 by vocalist and guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic. That same year Nirvana released the album 'Bleach' on the Sub Pop label, the epicenter of the emerging Seattle Sound (grunge):
  • February 18, 2018 YouTube upload by "Mike's Archive", 'Nirvana (interview) - January 6th, 1990, Seattle, WA (Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoselic, & Chad Channing)': "[Novoselic:] By some luck our guardian angel pointed us in the direction of Reciprocal Studios, and Jack Endino who knows Jonathan Poneman, and Jack Endino turned Jonathan Poneman on to our tape, and he thought it was really groovy. And he gave us a call, and then we made a single, and then me we made a record.
    We were received really well [in Europe]. I was surprised. People give the underground more credibility there. ...
    [INTERVIEWER:] Right now Seattle is a real well-known music scene. What makes it so hot. [COBAIN:] I think because there happens to be a lot of good bands coming out of Seattle right now. A LOT of good bands. And it's just by chance I guess. It's luck. I don't know. [NOVOSELIC:] There's Mudhoney, there's TAD, there's Soundgarden. ... It's odd. It's all these bands in the right place at the right time."
  • 1989 (approximately), personal letter of Kurt Cobain to his friend Dave (released in 2002 as part of 'Journals'): "So within the last couple of months our demo has been pirated, recorded, and discussed between all the Seattle SCENE luminaries. And the dude Jonathan Poneman (Remember the guy who called me when you were over the last day?) Mr. Big - money inheritance, right-hand man of Bruce Pavitt, and also Sub Pop Records financial investor, got us a show at the Vogue... Big Deal. But I guess hype and regularly being played on KCMU probably helped the amount of people who came to JUDGE us. ... There was a representative from every Seattle band there just watching."
• Drummer Dave Grohl joined in 1990, the same year Nirvana was signed to Geffen Records. Released their second album Nevermind in September 1991, which became a huge hit due to songs as Smells Like Teen Spirit and Come As You Are. Geffen Records hoped the album, made for $65,000, might sell 250,000 copies, but it ended up selling 30 million. Nirvana's first album, Bleach (1989) did decen. Nirvana released the album In Utero in 1993, selling about 4.3 millions copies. It contained songs as Heart-Shaped Box and Rape Me.
• Ironically, the band's two greatest hits, Smells Like Teen Spirit and Come As You Are, have guitar riffs respectively ripped from Blue Oyster Cult's Godzilla and Killing Joke's Eighties.
• Cobain had a bit of a reputation of being a "slacker", although this was contested by others:
  • February 20, 2017 YouTube upload by WatchMojo.com, 'One of Kurt Cobain's Final Interviews - Incl. Extremely Rare Footage' (unaired late 1993 footage): "I've just noticed that people expect more of a thematic angle with our music. They always want to read into it. And before I was using just pieces of poetry [of wife Courtney Love?] and just garble, just garbage. Stuff that would just spew out of me. ... A lot of times when I write lyrics, it isn't until the last second, because I'm really lazy. So then I find myself having to come up with explanations. So I thought I prevent that this time, and just have an explanation, for some of the songs at least. ...
    I still like playing too. Chris and Dave and I haven't changed at all. Believe it or not, we get along just as well as we ever did. We are just the same passive-aggressive people we used to be. We never fight. When we are pissed off at each other, we just hold it under our breath and just have respect for one another in that way. It's easier to work that way, because we have got a mission -- I guess. ...
    I really was a lot more negative and angry and everything else a few years ago. But that had a lot to do with not having a mate; not having a steady girlfriend and stuff like that. That was one of the main things that was bothering me that I wouldn't admit at the time. Now that I found that, the world seems a lot better for some reason. It really does change your attitude about things. For years ago I would have said the classic thing: how dare someone bring a child into this life? ... Once you fall in love it's a bit different."
  • 1993 (2001 paperback edition), Michael Azerrad, 'Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana', pp. 169-170: "After the set, as was his custom, Kurt wandered away from the stage area in order to get out of packing up gear."
  • May 8, 2018, NME, 'Billy Corgan busts myth that Kurt Cobain was a slacker'.
• Dylan Carlson was Kurt Cobain's best friend in his late teens and also his roommate in Aberdeen. Both ended up using heroin. Carlson is considered the pioneer of "drone metal". In later decades, he became involved in magic and chasing fairies in England.
  • redbullmusicacademy.com/lectures/dylan-carlson-lecture (accessed: August 11, 2020; 2017 Red Bull Studios Berlin interview): "In the late '80s, Carlson founded the band Earth, which first achieved a surge of recognition with its 1992 debut album for Sub Pop, Earth 2. Carlson's work with Earth in the '90s helped define and establish the drone style of rock, which slowed down the fury of metal and married it with the tonal interests of minimalism. As the mastermind and backbone of Earth, Carlson has come to be seen as the father of drone. ...
    "[Dylan:] I was born in Seattle, but my dad worked for the Department of Defense so we moved around, pretty much continuously. So I lived in Philadelphia, Los Cruses, New Mexico, Ramstein, Germany; Augsburg, Germany; Wiesbaden, Germany; San Antonio, Texas; Manalapan, New Jersey; and then back to Seattle and then I went back and forth between Seattle and Olympia a couple times and then my missing years were in Los Angeles and then back to Seattle. ...
    I read about minimalism and stuff like that. I was like, "Oh, what if we take a Slayer-style riff and play it for 20 minutes at half speed?" I guess you could say that was my one good idea. I recognized it and ran with it. Then later discovered Indian music and stuff like that. ...
    There had been actually a couple remixes done when I was on Sub Pop by DJ Spooky. ...
    Yeah, it's not really something I talk about. I had personal experiences of a supernatural nature, I guess. That's what spurred on the project, I guess that's what I'll say."
  • June 21, 2014, The Guardian (Ford and Rockefeller Fdn.-funded), 'Earth: godfathers of drone metal': "Carlson is interested in the occult, and has markings on the backs of his hands which turn out to be spells." Symbols from the Grimoire of Arthur Gauntlet (1636), as written down in Discovery of Witchcraft (1665), for "summoning the seven fairy sisters, and protection from spirituall creatures, and to make sure spirituall creatures appear." (pictures on drcarlsonalbion.wordpress. com/2012/02/17/spells-tattooed-on-hands/)
  • February 10, 2012, Vice, 'Help Dylan Carlson Make His Album About Fairies': "Ten years later, and a total 180-degree reappraisal would see these records hailed as genre classics and a key influence on contemporary drone-doom groups such as Sunn0))) and Boris. At the time, though, Carlson was generally viewed as a bit of a skeezy guy, in large part due to his fondness for guns and heroin (a taste he shared with his friend, Kurt Cobain).
    After Cobain's death, Earth released one more album, 1996's Pentastar: In The Style Of Demons, before the band petered out in a haze of drug addiction and petty theft. ...
    Now, Carlson has announced his first ever solo record funded via Kickstarter, inspired by his supernatural experiences with faire folk on the streets of London town. ...
    " I'd always read folklore and mythology as a child... But it was after my sightings that my reading really went into overdrive, specifically in regard to the English cunning folk and fairies. On a press trip in London late last year, I had an encounter and when I was over again a little earlier this year, I had another encounter. The plan for the album is that I travel around the UK to make field recordings, atmospheric stuff, in areas where there have historically been encounters between humans and faire folk. Then I'll layer these sounds with my interpretations of classic English folk songs of meetings between humans and fairies. It'll be packaged with a film of me travelling around Britain, a book with some artwork, explanations of the lyrics of the songs, and a bit of folkloric information.
    Yeah, right by the tube station. Camden Tube station actually has some folkloric significance. It's on the site of a house that was owned by a witch called Jinney Bingham, or 'Mother Damnable'. It's a tale that the Camden Underworld has since exploited. But there was also a gibbet there, at the crossroads, where they used to hang people and the Fleet River used to run by there – fairy sightings often take place by liminal water boundaries, rivers and the like.
    [Secondly:] I was at Waterloo Station, and I was trying to decide if I could make it out to Mortlake to visit [16th Century scientist and occultist] Dr John Dee's house. I'd come to the realisation that I'd left it too late in the day and I was going to head back. I was right where you come up from the tube station to ground level, maybe 30 feet from the big clock that hangs in the middle. This sighting was a lot quicker, but it was equally intense.
    The size, that's part of it. They're not tiny, they're not midgets – they're about my grandmother's size, about five feet tall. They have a piercing gaze. When I see them, there's a real sense of a change in perception. Reality becomes sort of brighter, I guess. Things fade into the background. It's a weird feeling. And it's different from other weird feelings I've experienced, be it seizure-related or drug-related or whatever. ...
    The cunning folk were like magical practitioners, but they specialised in cures, determining if someone has been bewitched, finding lost or stolen items, identifying thieves, love spells. Fortune telling, I guess, was their bread and butter. They would tell people where to dig for treasure – that was kind of like your lottery in the old days, people running around looking for buried treasure. In February I've got a cassette out on Tapeworm about Edward Kelley. He was an associate of John Dee and he was a scryer. He would communicate with spirits. Dee would ask the questions and Kelly would write down the answers. The difference between the cunning folk and witches is that witches would use demonic familiars, but cunning folk would get their powers or information through encounters with fairies or dead people. ...
    My grandfather had an experience during the war. He was a medic, he worked in a hospital. He used to see these Grey Ladies, or White Ladies. If he saw her image and heard her shriek someone would die. One night some of his colleagues tried to get him to leave the base and go to a cock fight, but he didn't go. That night, he heard the Grey Lady, and later, when he was doing his rounds, he heard that his friends had been killed on the way back. ...
    There's a place in County Durham, a place in Ayrshire. I won't be playing music, it's to get atmospheric stuff. Some sites are famous for having people hear fairy music, stuff like that."
• Collaborated with William Burroughs, who was part of the Harvard psychedelics group of Timothy Leary, Alan Watts and others:
  • October 26, 2012, dangerousminds.net, 'When Kurt Cobain met William Burroughs': "Although "The "Priest" They Called Him" might be the most obscure thing in Kurt Cobain's discography, it's probably the best selling musical collaboration of William S. Burroughs' recording career. Basically, in 1992, Cobain contacted his hero, Burroughs about doing something together."
  • 2001, Charles R. Cross, 'Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain', chapter 21: "In October 1993 Cobain met in Burroughs in Lawrence, KS. ... The previous year Kurt had produced a single with Burroughs titled The "Priest" They Called Him, on T/K Records, but they'd accomplished the recording by sending tapes back and forth. "Meeting William was a real big deal for him," MacLeod remembered. "It was something he never thought would happen." They chatted for several hours, but Burroughs later claimed the subject of drugs didn't come up. As Kurt drove away, Burroughs remarked to his assistant. "There's something wrong with that boy; he frowns for no good reason.""
  • 1995, Christopher Sandford, 'Kurt Cobain': "William Burroughs sat poring over the lyric sheet of In Utero. ... In the event he found only the "general despair" he had already noted during their one meeting. "The thing I remember about him is the deathly grey complexion of his cheeks. It wasn't an act of will for Kurt to kill himself. As far as I was concerned, he was dead already." Burroughs is one of those who feel Cobain "let down his family" and "demoralized the fans" by committing suicide."
  • 25 October 1993, Rolling Stone interview with William Burroughs: "Burroughs describes the meeting... "I waited and Kurt got out with another man. Cobain was very shy, very polite, and obviously enjoyed the fact that I wasn't awestruck at meeting him. There was something about him, fragile and engagingly lost. He smoked cigarettes but didn't drink. There were no drugs. I never showed him my gun collection." ... Kurt and music video director Kevin Kerslake originally wanted Burroughs to appear in the video for "In Bloom.""
• Cobain ended up becoming a loner and a major heroin junkie (in denial). In the end he did not get along well with his band mates, other bands, and hardly had any friends. His initial heroin addiction dates to at least 1991 and over the next few years had to be saved by wife Courtney Love on a number of occasions after a heroin overdose. In March 1994 Cobain clearly committed a suicide attempt in Rome, which was followed by a more successful attempt on April 5, 1994 (he took an overdose of heroin and shot himself with a shotgun):
  • January 1994, Rolling Stone, Kurt Cobain interview: "I have to admit that I've found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. . . not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, pretty much locked away alot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me." Cobain also asserted that "Nirvana is almost exhausted. Things are becoming repetitious. There's not something you can move up toward, there's not something you can look forward to. . . I can barely get through 'Teen Spirit.' I literally want to throw down my guitar and walk away. I can't pretend to have a good time playing it."
  • April 10, 1994, Newsday, 'Doctor Saw Cobain's Suicide Coming': "Dr. Osvaldo Galletta ... remembered the musician from America, Kurt Cobain. It was barely a month ago that Cobain ... was wheeled into Galletta's hospital, which is the American Hospital in Rome.
    Cobain was not expected to live through the night. But the doctor, with patience and a powerful stomach pump, managed to stabilize the musician's vital signs. And after a couple of days, the coma completely evaporated. ...
    The whole concept of "grunge" was completely foreign to him. But he knew a junkie when he met one. "After he woke up, he told me it was an accident," the doctor said. "He said he had been confused. He had taken pharmaceuticals and alcohol together. He said it was just a mistake."
    The doctor had his doubts. Cobain, he could tell, was a veteran needle-drug user. He could see that from the veins. And longtime drug users, the doctor knew, are rarely ignorant about the facts of pharmacology. "I made sure he had a room with no windows," the doctor said.
    Cobain had the usual enablers around him. The wife, a former stripper named Courtney Love, was backing up the big-mistake theory of the overdose. So were the various Nirvana hangers-on who had rushed to the hospital in Rome. And when Cobain woke, he had the usual junkie's charm, enough of it at least to quiet the doctor's questions.
    "He was very tender with his little girl, who is about 2 years old, I suppose," the doctor said. "He told me he was feeling much better. He said he was happy to be going home. I suggested he take a period of extended rest. ...
    When Cobain died last week at home in Seattle, it wasn't from too much rest. It was a single blast from a shotgun, which he had pointed directly at his own head. "It does confirm my suspicions," the doctor said from Rome. "I don't know what you can do in cases like this." ...
    The band spoke to an alienated generation, especially to young people in their 20s, adrift with no jobs, no ambition, no future and little hope. The album "Nevermind" sold 10 million copies and made Cobain a star. It also turned Seattle into the hottest music town in America and convinced young people everywhere to wear flannel shirts again. "Grunge," the music and the style was called.
    Cobain, with his stringy blond hair and waifish physique, was the top grunge poster boy. He played guitar, sang and wrote most of Nirvana's songs. And he was, by all accounts, utterly unequipped to handle the band's phenomenal success. Since the big album hit, he'd been spending most of his time shooting huge amounts of heroin, lying about his drug use and bemoaning the burdens of superstardom. ...
    Cobain said he had a terrible stomach disorder. But it never seemed to show up on any medical test. He said he used heroin to "self-medicate" the stomach pain. He said, but nobody believed that explained his ferocious drug use.
    In February of 1992, he married Courtney Love. She was loud and blond and pushy, everything Cobain was not. She had her own band, called Hole. After she married Cobain, Hole was signed to a million-dollar contract. The two of them were the John and Yoko of the 1990s. ...
    Later that year, they had a baby, Frances Bean Cobain. Courtney said she was using herion during the pregnancy. Then, she denied she had said any such thing. After the baby was born, Cobain said he had given up his drug use once and for all. That, of course, was a lie.
    When Cobain got out of Dr. Galletta's hospital in Rome, he again announced that drugs were a thing of the past. Again, not quite true. He was binging so hard, his friends finally dragged him to a Los Angeles drug-rehab clinic. But he quickly checked himself out. He said he didn't need the help. Yeah, right.
    [Cobain] came out of Aberdeen, Wash., a ragged logging town where the timber mill jobs were disappearing. His parents divorced when he was 8. He was bounced among relatives who would grow quickly tired of him. Even in his middle-20s, Cobain still had the look of a kid who got beat up a lot in high school, a kid who had found his success in rock-and-roll and his solace in too many drugs.
    "What a terrible message to leave for the people who loved him, the young people who loved his music," Dr. Galletta said, after hearing the news of Cobain's final hopeless step. "I hate to think he was moving in that direction all along.""
  • 2001, Mark Andersen and Mark Jenkins, 'Dance of Days', p. 386: "After the European tour was aborted, Cobain returned to the US, apparently relapsing fully into heroin addiction. The month of March turned into a parade of worrisome incidents, including a visit by police to get Cobain out of a room where he had locked himself with several guns. After the effort was successful, the guns were confiscated.
    Amidst intense industry pressure to do otherwise, Nirvana dropped out of Lollapalooza. ... While Cobain briefly agreed to go into treatment, once there he apparently changed his mind and slipped away. For a week, he evaded efforts to locate him."
  • 2011, Mark Yarm, 'Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge': "[COURTNEY LOVE:] Kurt had gone all out for me when I got [to Rome]. He'd gotten me roses. He'd gotten a piece of the Colosseum. ... I had some champagne, took a Valium, we made out, I fell asleep. The rejection he must have felt after all that anticipation...
    I turned over about 3 or 4 in the morning to make love, and he was gone. He was at the end of the bed with a thousand dollars in his pocket and a note saying, "You don't love me anymore. I'd rather die than go through a divorce." It was all in his head. I'd been away from him during our relationship maybe 60 days. Ever. I needed to be on tour. I had to do my thing. I can see how it happened. He took 50 fucking pills. He probably forgot how many he took. But there was a definite suicidal urge, to be gobbling and gobbling and gobbling. Goddamn, man. Even if I wasn't in the mood, I should have just laid there for him. ALl he needed was to get laid. He would have been fine. ... Dylan and Lanegan were pretty much the only friends Kurt had. He really didn't have any friends. He liked the dealers, which was gross. He liked being isolated. ...
    ... you don't do that. And I was like, "That's fuckin' it! You can't drop the kid, you don't drop my baby!" I was just fucking outraged. The great thing about our relationship is that we wouldn't fight at all. We would have eruptions. We had three physical altercations. Around that time, he dragged me by my hair, dragged my cheek on the gravel. He's stronger than me, and I'm strong. He was a tough fucker."
    "[BUZZ OSBORNE:] The last conversation I had with Kurt was in Munich, after he had the screaming match with this wife. I had told him this before and I basically reiterated, "... Give her everything, and run as if your life depends on it. Sign everything over to her from this moment on and just be gone. And if you need money, just go out and do a fucking solo tour, play acoustic guitar, you'll be fine."
    He felt like he was trapped. He was embarrassed by her. He wanted to divorce her. He wanted to get out of it. But he was too much of a mess to get out of it. Right when they were walking onstage, he said. "I should just be doing this solo." And that was it. I never talked to him again. They canceled the rest of the tour [because of voice issues]."
    "[MARK DEUTROM:] "There was a cocooned environment going on with Nirvana. ... surprisingly little love was expressed. Really, Rush were more friendly... Trent Reznor was more friendly. Gene Simmons was the weird uncle, there every day in our dressing room going, "What can I do for you guys?" I'm sure stories abound about our last show. At the sound check, Kurt was throwing his guitar and saying, "This is our last fuckin' show." ... Everybody got to sit in the catering area and listen to Kurt on the phone, screaming every expletive in the book at Courtney."
    "[CHARLES PETERSON:] Courtney and I had exchanged phone numbers at one point. She actually wanted me to go hang out with Kurt, because he didn't have any friends. It's like, Well, of course, because he's a junkie. It's really hard to hang out with a junkie. No, unfortunately, it never happened. I went to [daughter] Frances's one-year birthday party, things like that. But you go over to a junkie's house, and the TV is always on, and every hour or two they're taking extra-long bathroom breaks, there's always people coming and going. Junkies build little junkie worlds.
  • March 3, 2015, ultimateclassicrock.com, 'The Day Kurt Cobain Overdosed and Went Into a Coma': "Cobain had been severely depressed before her arrival in Italy, telling her over the phone that "he hated everything, everybody. Hated, hated, hated. He called me from Spain, crying. I was gone 40 days. I was doing my thing with my band [Hole] for the first time since forever." ...
    The pair spent the night dining in on room service and sharing a rare bottle of champagne. The next morning when she awoke around 5:30AM, Love found Cobain lying on the floor near the bed completely unresponsive. ... Love frantically called down to the front desk and an ambulance...
    Proponents of the opposing view cite the fact that the incident was never characterized as a suicide attempt until after Cobain took his own life a month later on April 5, 1994. They also cite the opinion of the doctor [Dr. Osvaldo Galletta] who attended to the singer when he was brought into the hospital. He has rebutted Love's account of how many pills Cobain had ingested, stating in the book, Love and Death: The Murder of Kurt Cobain, "We can usually tell a suicide attempt. This didn't look like one to me." [note: seems like a totally isolated quote; and completely different from his original view]
    For their part, Cobain's own management company, Gold Mountain, continues to hold that the incident in Rome was not a suicide attempt while simultaneously acknowledging that a note written by him was indeed left behind."
  • April 5, 1994, Kurt Cobain's suicide note: "To Boddah, Speaking from the tongue of an experienced simpleton who obviously would rather be an emasculated, infantile complain-ee. This note should be pretty easy to understand.
    All the warnings from the punk rock 101 courses over the years, since my first introduction to the, shall we say, ethics involved with independence and the embracement of your community has proven to be very true. I haven't felt the excitement of listening to as well as creating music along with reading and writing for too many years now. I feel guity beyond words about these things.
    For example when we're back stage and the lights go out and the manic roar of the crowds begins, it doesn't affect me the way in which it did for Freddie Mercury, who seemed to love, relish in the the love and adoration from the crowd which is something I totally admire and envy. The fact is, I can't fool you, any one of you. It simply isn't fair to you or me. The worst crime I can think of would be to rip people off by faking it and pretending as if I'm having 100% fun. Sometimes I feel as if I should have a punch-in time clock before I walk out on stage. I've tried everything within my power to appreciate it (and I do, God, believe me I do, but it's not enough). I appreciate the fact that I and we have affected and entertained a lot of people. It must be one of those narcissists who only appreciate things when they're gone. I'm too sensitive. I need to be slightly numb in order to regain the enthusiasms I once had as a child.
    On our last 3 tours, I've had a much better appreciation for all the people I've known personally, and as fans of our music, but I still can't get over the frustration, the guilt and empathy I have for everyone. There's good in all of us and I think I simply love people too much, so much that it makes me feel too fucking sad. The sad little, sensitive, unappreciative, Pisces, Jesus man. Why don't you just enjoy it? I don't know!
    I have a goddess of a wife who sweats ambition and empathy and a daughter who reminds me too much of what I used to be, full of love and joy, kissing every person she meets because everyone is good and will do her no harm. And that terrifies me to the point to where I can barely function. I can't stand the thought of Frances becoming the miserable, self-destructive, death rocker that I've become.
    I have it good, very good, and I'm grateful, but since the age of seven, I've become hateful towards all humans in general. Only because it seems so easy for people to get along that have empathy. Only because I love and feel sorry for people too much I guess.
    Thank you all from the pit of my burning, nauseous stomach for your letters and concern during the past years. I'm too much of an erratic, moody baby! I don't have the passion anymore, and so remember, it's better to burn out than to fade away.
    Peace, love, empathy. Kurt Cobain.
    Frances and Courtney, I'll be at your alter. Please keep going Courtney, for Frances. For her life, which will be so much happier without me. I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU!"
• More on Cobain's health issues and heroin addiction:
  • 2001, Charles Cross, 'Heavier Than Heaven: The Biography of Kurt Cobain': "Though he addictively smoked pot, frequently drank too much, and was known to huff inhalant from the bottoms of shaving cream cans, he pledged that he would never suffer a similar fate. In 1987, during one of Kurt's sober purging periods, he chastised Jesse Reed when his friend suggested they try heroin. "Kurt wouldn't hang out with me after that," Jesse remembered. ...
    In a personal history constructed later in life, Kurt wrote that he first had used heroin in Aberdeen in the late eighties; his friends contest this, since he had a fear of needles at the time and there was no heroin to be found in his circle. He did occasionally take Percodan in Aberdeen, a precription narcotic; he may have romanticized and exaggerated this opiate when recalling it later.
    By the fall of 1990, brokenhearted over Tobi, the same questions Kurt asked of Jesse earlier could have been put to him. In early November [1990] he overcame his fear of needles and first injected heroin with a friend in Olympia. He found the drug's euphoric effects helped him temporarily escape his heartache and his stomach pain. ...
    The next day, Kurt phoned [Nirvana band member] Krist. ... Krist told him, "You shouldn't do it. Look at Andy Wood." Wood was the lead singer of Mother Love Bone, an up-and-coming Seattle band, who died of a heroin overdose in March 1990. Novoselic cited other Olympia friends who had died of heroin addiction. Kurt's reply: "Yeah, I know." ... "I remember him literally telling him that he was playing with dynamite."
    But the warning fell on dead ears. Though Kurt promised he wouldn't try the drug again, he broke his promise. To avoid Krist's or Grohl's finding out, Kurt used the drug at friends' houses. He found a dealer named Jose, who was selling to many of the Greeners in Olympia.
    Coincidentally, Dylan Carlson had experimented with heroin for the first time that fall, though not with Kurt. But soon their bonding also extended to heroin--usually done only once a week, owing to several factors including their poverty and their desire to not become addicts. But they would go on occasional binges... When Shelli told [Tracy] Kurt was doing heroin, she couldn't believe her ears. ... A week later, they spent an evening together attending several parties. In between events, Kurt insisted they stop by his place so he could use the toilet. When he didn't return, Tracy went looking and found him on the floor, with a bottle of bleach sitting next to him and a needle in his arm. She was furious: Kurt had turned into something Tracy couldn't have imagined in her worst nightmare. The joke of Nirvana's first album title no longer seemed funny to anyone.
    But heroin was only a small part of 1990 for Kurt, and for the most part he kept his promise to use it only occasionally. He was distracted from all by the fact that his career was taking off like never before."
  • 2001, Charles Cross, 'Heavier Than Heaven', Chapter 6: "On September 1, 1986, Wendy loaned Kurt $200— enough for a deposit and first month's rent—and Kurt moved into his first "house." [in Aberdeen] ... For a roommate, Kurt chose Matt Lukin from the Melvins. Kurt had always wanted to be in the Melvins; living with Lukin was as close as he got. ...
    The shack year was one of Kurt's longest and most extreme periods of drug abuse. ... Tracy Marander, who met him during this period, said the amount of LSD he ingested was notable. "Kurt was doing a lot of acid, sometimes five times a week," she recalled. ... Living in the shack, he embraced getting messed up like he embraced little else. "He always was pushing it," remembered Steve Shillinger, "using just a little bit more than anyone else, and taking more as soon as he was no longer high." When he was out of money for pot, acid, or beer, he'd go back to huffing aerosol cans. "He was really into getting fucked up; drugs, acid, any kind of drug," Novoselic observed. "He'd get hammered in the middle of the day. He was a mess." ...
    Lukin moved out [in spring 1987]. Kurt lived for a while without a roommate, until a friend from Olympia, Dylan Carlson, moved in. [Hence] Dylan moved to Aberdeen... Soon ... Tracy Marander became his girlfriend. He had first met her two years earlier outside a punk club in Seattle--it was the location of one of his alcohol arrests.
    On a dozen occasions during 1987, he had traveled as a roadie with the Melvins to gigs in Olympia, a college town an hour east, where he'd observed an enthusiastic audience for punk rock, albeit a small one. Once he'd made it all the way to Seattle with the band..."
  • October 24, 2002, Sidney Morning Herald, 'Cobain's diary reveals heroin hell': "The writings, printed in US magazine Newsweek this week, are from the upcoming book Journals, which contains letters and diary entries from the 1980s until 1994...
    "[1992 letter:] I am not a junkie ... I've had a rather unconclusive and uncomfortable stomach condition for the past three years [since 1989]. ... So after protein drinks, becoming a vegetarian, exercise, stopping smoking, and doctor after doctor I decided to relieve my pain with small doses of heroin for a walloping 3 whole weeks [apparently talking here about September 1991]. It served as a band-aid for a while but then the pain came back so I quit. It was a stupid thing to do and Ill never do it again and I feel real sorry for anyone who thinks they can use heroine as a medicine because um, duh, it don't work. ...
    I tried heroin the first time in 1987 in Aberdeen and proceeded to use it about 10 more times from '87 to '90. And when I got back from our second European Tour with Sonic Youth [over late August - early September 1991] I decided to use heroine on a daily basis because of an ongoing stomach ailment that I had been suffering from for the past five years and had literally taken me to the point of wanting to kill myself [touring made it worse]. ...
    I remember someone saying if you try heroine once you'll become hooked. Of course I laughed and scoffed at the idea, but I now believe this to be very true.""
  • Grohl has since admitted that he suspected Cobain would die young, explaining: "Sometimes you just can't save someone from themselves and in some ways, you kind of prepare yourself emotionally for that to be a reality."
  • June 2, 1994, Rolling Stone, 'Kurt Cobain's Downward Spiral: The Last Days of Nirvana's Leader': "On May 2 [1993], Cobain came home (then in Seattle's Sand Point area) shaking, flushed and dazed. Love called the police. According to a police report, Cobain had taken heroin. As Cobain's mother and sister stood by, Love injected her husband with buprenorphine, an illegal drug that can be used to awaken someone after a heroin overdose. She also gave Cobain a Valium, three Benadryls and four Tylenol tablets with codeine, which caused him to vomit. Love told the police this kind of thing had happened before. ...
    A month later, on June 4, the police arrived at the Cobains' home again after being summoned by Love. ... A source says that Cobain told him that the fight was actually over Cobain's drug use.
    Seven weeks later, on the morning of July 23, Love heard a thud in the bathroom of the New York hotel where the couple was staying. She opened the door and found Cobain unconscious. He had overdosed again. Nevertheless, Nirvana performed that night at the Roseland Ballroom. Fans never knew the difference.
    A few days later, Cobain returned to Seattle. One friend says: "He just kept to himself. Every time he came back after a tour, he would get more and more reclusive. The only people that saw him a lot were Courtney, Cali and Jackie [Farry, a former baby sitter and assistant manager]." Cobain never seemed to fully believe he had a problem — even as recently as the intervention, friends confirm. Cobain's clinical depression had been diagnosed as early as high school, according to Gold Mountain. "Over the last few years of his life," says Goldberg, "Kurt saw innumerable doctors and therapists." Many who were close to Cobain confirm that the musician frequently suffered dramatic mood swings.
    "Kurt could just be very outgoing and funny and charming," says Butch Vig, who produced Nevermind, "and a half-hour later he would just go sit in the corner and be totally moody and uncommunicative." "He was a walking time bomb, and nobody could do anything about it," says Goldberg.
    On Sept. 14 [1993], In Utero was released. ... According to sources, Cobain detoxed from heroin before the tour."
  • September 12, 2013, radiox.co.uk, 'Kurt Cobain Nearly Died Before In Utero Release': "Speaking to The Fly Anton Brookes described how on July 23 Cobain was found "slumped behind the toilet of his hotel room in New York" while journalists flown over from the UK were waiting downstairs... "We went rushing into the bathroom and slumped behind the toilet was Kurt with a syringe in his arm, blue." ... Brookes believes the heroin Kurt took in New York was several times stronger than he was used to, "hence the reaction - virtually ODing.""
  • April 5, 2019, WSHU Public Radio, 'Reflecting On Kurt Cobain's 'Crystalline Understanding' 25 Years Later': "Danny Goldberg, Nirvana's manager during the band's era-defining run. ... Goldberg says the first time he realized Cobain was addicted to heroin was in January 1992... Shortly after, Goldberg, along with a group of six or seven others, staged an intervention for Cobain and his wife, Courtney Love, to get treatment. ... Although Goldberg says the first intervention did work, Cobain slipped back into using drugs. Goldberg, Love and others attempted another intervention in [March-April] 1994, but Cobain refused to stay in rehab [escaped and killed himself]."
  • April 5, 2019, The Independent, 'Nirvana's former manager: 'Claims that Kurt Cobain was murdered are ridiculous. He killed himself'': "On 25 March 1994, Nirvana's former manager Danny Goldberg joined nine other people at 171 Lake Washington Boulevard in Seattle to beg for Kurt Cobain's life. They had all been invited by Cobain's wife Courtney Love as part of an intervention over Cobain's spiralling depression and drug abuse...
    Glassy-eyed, increasingly angry and feeling – in Love's words – "ganged up on", Cobain wouldn't crack. He insisted he needed a therapist rather than rehab, and began flicking through the Yellow Pages to find one. At one point he fled to an upstairs bathroom when management associate Janet Billig began flushing his prescription drugs, fearing a second overdose. ...
    Cobain complained about feeling trapped by the constant attention of being one of the most famous rockstars in the world, and argued that, if William Burroughs could live a long and creative life as a junkie, why couldn't he? ...
    In fact, the intervention did have the desired effect, albeit briefly. On 30 March, Cobain checked into the Exodus Recovery Centre in LA, where he discussed his personal and drug problems with counsellors, seemed positive to visiting friends and spent time with his daughter Frances Bean for the last time in his life. Then, the day after checking in, he jumped over the perimeter fence, flew back to Seattle and went missing – despite several sightings, a concerned Love hired a private detective to track him down, focusing on staking out his drug dealer's apartment. Neither he nor Hole guitarist Eric Erlandson – whom Love had asked to check the house for Cobain – thought to look for him in the greenhouse above the garage. His body was discovered there on 8 April by an electrician arriving at the Lake Washington Boulevard house to install a security system, lying beside a shotgun he'd bought from his friend Dylan Carlson before leaving for LA."
  • December 13, 1993, MTV interview with Kurt Cobain: "Ah, it's gone! I have finally been prescribed the right stomach medicine after six years of being in constant pain, finally. I haven't had a stomach problem in over a year now. ... No, they never figured out what it was. I mean, most gastrointestinal doctors don't know anything about stomach diseases. They just have a Ph.D., you know? They get paid a lot of money for pretending and prescribing you different drugs and it's a total scam as far as I'm concerned. Because I've been going to doctors for six years and I've tried every drug available, except for this one last one, it's brand new, and it finally worked. ...
    It isn't a specific stomach ailment. It doesn't have a name or anything. It wasn't a matter of finding out what disease I had. It's psychosomatic, it's part of my nervous system, it's part of... There are millions of people all over the world who have Irritable Bowel Syndrome and that's the common term that all doctors call a stomach problem. They just say, "Oh yeah, you have Irritable Bowel Syndrome, but I can't fix it, you know?"
    I don't have anything to fix it. There's just a variety of ulcer medicines that can slow down ulcers, and eventually heal them. But I didn't have an ulcer. I just had a red irritation in my stomach. But I was in pain. I mean, I was in pain for so long that I didn't care if I was in a band, I didn't care if I was alive. And it just so happened that I came to that conclusion at a time when my band became really popular. It had been going on and building up for so many years that I was suicidal. I mean I just didn't want to live. So I just thought if I'm gonna die, if I'm gonna kill myself, I should take some drugs - may as well become a junky because I felt like a junky every day [possible reference to the heroin]. Waking up starving, forcing myself to eat - barfing it back up. Just imagine trying to eat your three meals a day and just concentrating and just crying at times. I'm in pain all the time. And being on tour was a lot worse too. It made it even worse. ... [But] about a year ago [that ended]."
• Incredibly, Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl went on to create a one-man band called Foo Fighters on which he drummed, played guitar and sang. What's incredible is that he actually turned out to be an amazing guitarist, songwriter and singer - arguably writing better music than Nirvana. His debut album, Foo Fighters, was released in July 1995 and sold 2 million copies by December. The next CD, The Colour and the Shape (1997), also sold well over two million copies. Apparently, by 2011, all Foo Fighters albums combined sold 90 million copies, providing Dave Grohl with a net worth of $280 million.
• Especially Nirvana co-founder and part-time Foo Fighter bass player Krist Novoselic has obvious "liberal CIA" ties, but Kurt Cobain and Dave Grohl were similarly involved in "liberal CIA" activism. In fact, Cobain caused a lot of problems when a young teenager by taking LSD and spraypainting "queer" all over his "narrow-minded" town - another indication he was a "liberal CIA"-type LGBTQ activist.
  • April 5, 2019, Kerrang, 'Kurt On Kurt – The Nirvana Icon, In His Own Words' (compilation of old interviews): "I always wanted to think I was an alien. I used to think, when I was young, that I was adopted by my mother, because they found me and a spaceship left me. I wanted to be from a different planet really bad. Every night, I used to talk to my real parents and my real family in the skies. It was really fun to pretend that there was some special reason for me to be here. ...
    Up until I was eight years old, I had an extremely happy childhood [when the divorce happened]. ... As I got older, I felt more and more alienated – I couldn't find friends with whom I felt compatible at all. Everyone was eventually going to become a logger, and I knew I wanted to do something different. I never had a friend the whole time living in Aberdeen. I couldn't identify with any of the guys. None of them liked art or music, they just wanted to fight and get laid. It gave me this real hatred for the average American macho male.
    I was thought of as this kid who would most likely succeed to bring an AK-47 to the school and blow everybody away. I wouldn't have been at all unusual if I would've found at least one kid with a wacky haircut. If I could've found just one punk rocker... I wanted to fit in somewhere, but not with the average kid at school. ...
    If I spilt a glass of water [in a restaurant], my dad would get me in a headlock and dig his knuckles into my head or smack me in the face. That's a weird psychological trick to play on a child. Fuck him for that. ...
    My mother was a fantastic, attentive and compassionate mother throughout my childhood, until I started becoming incorrigible and rebellious. She was 18 or 20 when she had me, and she did a really great job. I appreciate it every day I think about it."
  • October 30, 1992, Monk magazine, 'Go for the Grunge': "Aberdeen [is where I grew up], it's a coastal town about 100 miles away from Seattle. It's a really small place. A very small community with a lot of people who have very small minds. Basically if you're not prepared to join the logging industry, you're going to be beaten up or run out of town. ... I was the guy who screamed "save the spotted owl!" Kurt smiles. Yea I did [say that], at school. ... No, chisels [the sons and daughters of the loggers came after me]. They weren't advanced. ...
    Well, what started the witch hunt was I decided to take some acid one evening and spraypaint "queer" on the side of four by four trucks, the local rednecks' trucks. And so one of them saw me from his window and started chasing me and started screaming "there's the queer vandal!" I'd been doing it for awhile. But that night I decided to really go for it and do a lot, a lot of vandalism. So they caught me and chased me around. ...
    No [they didn't know who I was]. Just that crazy skinny kid who never went to school. Who was probably gay. [Well, are you?] If I wasn't attracted to Courtney I'd be a bisexual. [Courtney sitting next to him: "faggot!!"] ...
    I went to Olympia and became a hippie. No, I didn't [go to Evergreen State College], but I hung out with a lot of friends from there... [Courtney: "He couldn't afford it."] I couldn't afford it. I was a janitor. ... I was a janitor at Lemons Janitorial Service. ...
    The bridge of Aberdeen going over to the south side of Aberdeen [is the quintessential Aberdeen place for me]. I used to hang out with the bums and share Thunderbird wine with them underneath the bridge. ... Yea [there is a "Seattle Scene"], but it's in Portland. Yea. (Laughter) It started with Greg Sage and the Wipers in 1977. It's a real dirty, grungy place. ... Right [Seattle is very clean], there's nothing grungy about it at all. But Portland is extremely grungy. It's a real industrial, gray, dark town. ... I used to work with these guys Rocky and Bullwinkle. They'd clean the toilet bowls with their bare hands and then eat their lunch without washing their hands. They were very grungy. ...
    Well, um, every time I've gone to Aberdeen lately I've felt a real big threat. Actually, Chris was beaten up at a Denny's one night. Some locals were giving him the eye and I don't think it was sexual. They started beating him up in the men's room saying "some local hero you are." Next thing he remembers he was dancing on a table. ...
    Chris is the horror of the stars. He has no shame whatsoever in carousing with the likes of Wynona Ryder and Johnny Depp."
  • July 22, 1993, Jon Savage interview with Kurt Cobain: "I had a really good childhood until the divorce [at age 8] and all of a sudden my whole world changed. I couldn't face some of my friends at school. I desperately wanted to have the classical family: mother, father. ... Yeah, I felt so different and so crazy [in high school] that people just left me alone. I always felt that they would vote me most likely to kill everybody at a high school dance. ...
    Because I couldn't find any friends, male friends, that I felt compatible with, I ended up hanging out with girls a lot. And I just always felt they weren't treated with respect, especially because women are totally oppressed. I mean, the word "bitch" and "cunt"...
    Although I listened to Aerosmith and Led Zeppelin, and I really did enjoy some of the melodies that they'd written, it took me so many years to realize that a lot of it had to do with sexism and the way that they just wrote about their dicks and having sex. I was just starting to understand what really was pissing me off so much, those last couple years of high school. And then punk rock was exposed [to me], and then it all came together. It just fit together like a puzzle. It expressed the way I felt socially and politically. Just everything. It was the anger that I felt. The alienation.
    Yeah, I even thought I was gay. I thought that might be the solution to my solution. Although I never experimented with it, I had a gay friend and my mother wouldn't allow me to be friends with him anymore -- because, well, she was homophobic. It was real devastating, because finally I had found a male friend that I actually hugged and was affectionate to. And we talked about a lot of things. [interrupted] Yeah, I couldn't hang out with him anymore.
    Most of the time I sing right from my stomach, where my stomach pain is. ... They found a red irritation in my stomach. It's all from anger and screaming. I mean, not only has my stomach inflamed by irritation, but I have scoliosis from the way that the guitar has made my back grow in this curvature. So it gives me a back pain all the time. I'm always in pain too and that really adds to the anger in my music. It really does. I'm kinda grateful for it, in a way.
    Yeah, especially since I've been married and I've had a child [I feel better]. Within the last year, my whole mental state, my whole physical state, has almost improved 100%. ...
    My mother has always tried to keep a little bit of English culture in our family. We drink tea all the time. Tea, yeah. Although I've never really known my ancestry. I didn't even know until this year that the name Cobain is Irish. I found out, through different phone books, throughout America, couldn't find any Cobains at all, so I started calling Coburns. And I found this one lady in San Francisco and she had been researching our family history and we came from County Cork, which is a weird coincidence because, when we toured, we played in Cork. And the entire day I walked around in a daze. I've never felt more spiritual in my life. I was almost in tears the whole day. It's the weirdest thing."
  • 2001, Charles Cross, 'Heavier Than Heaven: The Biography of Kurt Cobain': He signed a contract in the fall with Virgin Publishing, which brought him his first big check. Kaz Utsunomiya, president of Virgin, flew to the Nortwest to ink the deal. Though Kaz was a longtime industry veteran and had worked with everyone from the Clash to Queen, he was shocked to see the squalor of Kurt's apartment. They talked about Kurt's influences, particularly the Clash. Kurt said [The Clash's 1980 album] Sandinista! [which included the lyrics "Washington bullets want Castro dead"] was one of the first records he owned that was remotely punk.
    Kurt's initial share of the publishing deal came in the form of a check for $3,000. ... [At age 23] Kurt spent almost $1,000 [of that] in Toys "R" Us on a Nintendo system, two Pixelvision video cameras, two automatic BB guns that looked like M16 rifles, and several Evel Knievel plastic models. He also bought fake dog feces, fake vomit, and rubber severed hands. ... It was as if an eight-year-old boy had been set loose in the store... Kurt used the BB gun to immediately shoot out the windows on the Washington State Lottery building across the street. He also bought, for $20, a used child's Swinger bicycle... Peddling ... required him to hunch over with his knees to his shoulders. Kurt gleefully rode the bike until it was dark."
  • January 19, 2009, Music Publishers Association of Japan conference, 'Kaz Utsunomiya Talks: Music to and from Japan', pp. 10-11: "At that time, I came across a tape from Olympia near Seattle in Washington, by Kurt Cobain from Nirvana. I arrived in Seattle and these guys came in real dodgy vans. So I went to their house and they played me a couple of songs which were great. That evening, I went to see the band and they were dreadful. ... (There were) facts that I was a Japanese, he liked a Japanese band called Shonen Knife, and also he loved The Clash. I told them all about the story about the strike in Bangkok with The Clash. And we became great friends, and eventually Nirvana came to sign with us at Virgin Music. Obviously, having a successful band like Nirvana, it really helped to get other bands afterwards like Stone Temple Pilots."
  • Olympia scene:
    • 2019, Danny Goldberg, 'Serving The Servant: Remembering Kurt Cobain': "Olympia's central role in the punk scene of the eighties was fueled by Evergreen's radio station, KAOS, which had a policy requiring that 80 percent of the music it broadcast emanate from indie labels. The station became a magnet for many people who would later play an important role in eighties and nineties punk culture, including Johnson and Pavitt, who both hosted shows on KAOS before they started their labels. Nirvana's second public appearance was a radio broadcast on the station in 1987. ...
      Eric Erlandson, who would become the guitar player in [Courtney Love's] Hole and a close friend of Kurt's, says of Olympia, "It was a true underground scene that also had a connection to DC." (Washington, DC, was home to Fugazi as well as Dave Grohl's previous band, Scream.) "It was like a cool little incestuous club... Kurt made an immediate impact in the Olympia music community." As Krist reminded me, "Kurt had been writing songs for years. He had like three or four years of development of that skill that people in other bands didn't have. Nirvana started playing music in Olympia and Seattle...
      [Evergreen student] Slim Moon ... and his high school friend Dylan Carlson [with whom he would found drone metal band Earth] were at a party in East Olympia at a place called the Dude Ranch, which was the first time either of them actually spoke to Kurt, bonding over their mutual admiration of the punk band Big Black. [Carlson became Cobain's roommate]"
    • 2009, Christa D'Angelica, 'Beyond Bikini Kill: A History of Riot Grrrl, from Grrrls to Ladies', p. 22 (volunteer at Evergreen's KAOS FM age 15 to 21; 1984-1990).
    • Random source: "Tobi Vail is most well-known for her work as the drummer of Bikini Kill and a crucial force in the riot grrrl movement–and for being the the girl many Nirvana songs are about–but she has been in many other bands before and since. ... At age fifteen, she immediately began volunteering at KAOS Radio at Evergreen State College and getting exposed to the independent music that was a focus there, largely due to the pioneering work of John Foster's Lost Music Network and OP magazine. Tobi served on and off as a DJ there from age fifteen to twenty-one."
    • kaosradio.org/program-schedule-1/ (accessed: August 23, 2020; Democracy Now! has been on every week for years and is the most prominently listed on the schedule): "Pacifica's Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman."
    • 2007, Julia Downes paper on academia.edu, 'Riot Grrrl: The Legacy and Comtemporary Landscape of DIY Feminist Cultural Activism': "In Olympia, Tobi Vail's punk feminist zine Jigsaw and Donna Dresch's queer-girl zine Chainsaw began in 1988 alongside Laura McDougell's Sister Nobody. ... it was through writing the fanzine Jigsaw that Tobi Vail attracted the attention of Kathi Wilcox and Kathleen Hanna who would be her band mates in Bikini Kill. ... Originally based in Portland, Kathleen Hanna moved to Olympia to attend Evergreen College... Heavily inspired by spoken word artist Kathy Acker and performance artist Karen Finlay, Kathleen sought out Tobi Vail to start the band Bikini Kill alongside Billy Karren and Kathi Wilcox, creating songs about 'how to undo centuries of white-skin privilege, songs about the connections between class and gender...'"
    • September 16, 2013, Boston Globe, 'Countercultural zines come to Harvard': "Highlights from the Harvard collection include prominent Riot Grrrl zines (the umbrella name for the first feminist zines from the early-1990s) like Jigsaw by Tobi Vail."
    • 2009, Everett True, 'Nirvana: The Biography': "A friend told me about how he'd been playing frisbee on the courtyard of Evergreen State College and he had his shirt off. Another Evergreener, a man, had come up and casually said, 'It's a sunny day. I notice you've got your shirt off.' He goes, 'There are a lot of women out here. They'd probably like to take their shirts off too. Maybe you ought to put your shirt on. What do you think?' Olympia was a place where one man would tell another man to put on his shirt to support women's inability to take off their shirts. ... 'The only way the world's going to get any better is if men get together and give the women a chance.' And it's so condescending and so stupid and so un-feminist, but that's kind of the mentality of an Evergreener. And so Kurt, trying to be cool and fit in, trying to be an upright, moral human being, got some third-hand version of how to be an Evergreener. ... My friends there [in the late 1970s and 1980s], the people who ran KAOS and Op magazine... KAOS was really important, Op as well. ...
      Soundgarden, meanwhile, started in the mid-Eighties after guitarist Kim Thayil moved down to Olympia [to Evergreen] specifically to be part of the KAOS/ Op scene. ...
      [Nirvana:] They weren't from Seattle," mulls Steve Fisk. "Some bands came to Seattle and changed their sound. Whatever they were, Nirvana were like that already when they got here. ... I told them, 'What, you're coming to Seattle to talk about Nevermind? Why, because they won't talk to you in Olympia, where Kurt had real friends?' ... There was Tacoma with the garage rock thing and Boise's got the clangy guitar sound. There really weren't any bands that sounded like Seattle in Olympia. You had to go to Portland to find a band that sounded like it was from Seattle."
    • '': "Dave Grohl and Kurt Cobain dated Kathleen Hanna and Tobi Vail (also respectively), and often played with Bikini Kill even after splitting with them."
    • So would Tobi Vail and Kathleen Hanna of the band Bikini Kill, Carrie Brownstein of Sleater-Kinney, Sub Pop founder Bruce Pavitt... Olympia's central role in the punk scene of the eighties was fueled by Evergreen's radio station, KAOS, which had a
    • 2009, Ryan Moore, 'Sells Like Teen Spirit: Music, Youth Culture, and Social Crisis', p. 115: "Cobain and Bikini Kill singer Kathleen Hanna had gone on a graffiti spree, spray painting revolutionary, feminist, and pro-gay slogans in the streets of Olympia, and when they returned to Cobain's apartment Hanna spray painted the words, "Kurt smells like teen spirit." Cobain had been dating Bikini Kill's drummer, Tobi Vail, and Hanna was apparently suggesting that he smelled like the deodorant she wore. But Cobain wasn't aware that Teen Spirit was a brand name, and [thought about] the ideas about teen revolution that he and Hanna had been discussing. And so, "Smells like Teen Spirit" was written as a response to the ideas circulating in the Olympia scene and beyond regarding anticorporate DIY punk, feminist and queer politics, and straightedge and vegan lifestyles. ... Cobain once explained: "It's just making fun of the thought of having a revolution. But it's a nice thought.""
    • 2013, Steve Sullivan, 'Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings, Volume 1', p. 149: "The genesis of Teen Spirit (whose original version was recorded in Seattle on January 1) was in a period when Grohl and Cobain were going out with two women in the "riot grrrl" group Bikini Kill, Kathleen Hanna, and Tobi Vail [with Cobain July-October 1990]. ... Soon after [the "Kurt Smells Like Teen Spirit" episode], Vail broke up with Cobain, who responded by writing tortured poems and potential lyrics, one of which evolved into the song. ... When the sessions began, Cobain had the song's four-chord riff and the vocal melody."
  • 2001, Charles Cross, 'Heavier Than Heaven: The Biography of Kurt Cobain': "He hung out a lot with Dylan, and soon broke another barrier he'd sworn never to cross. Dylan was a gun nut, and Kurt consistently preached that guns were barbaric. A few times Kurt agreed to go into the woods with Dylan, but he wouldn't touch the gunds, and on one occasion even refused to leave the car. But eventually Kurt began to let Dylan show him how to aim and fire [at] art projects Kurt had decided to sacrifice."
  • Kurt Cobain, two undated page from his handwritten journals (revealed in 2002): "[PAGE 1:] I like to swim. I like to be with my friends. I like to be by myself. I like to feel guilty for being a white, American male. ... I like to make incisions into the belly of infants. Then fuck the incisions until the child dies. I like to dream that someday we will have a sense of generational solidarity amongst the youth of the world. ... I like to have strong opinions with nothing to back them up with besides my primal sincerity. ...
    [PAGE 2:] I like to blame my parents generation for coming so close to social change, then giving up after a few successful efforts by the media and government to deface the movement by using the Mansons and other hippie representatives as propaganda examples on how they were nothing but unpatriotic, communist, Satanic, inhuman diseases. And in turn the baby boomers became the ultimate, conforming, yuppie hypocrites a generation has ever produced.
    I like to calmly and rationally discuss my views in a conformist manner even though I consider myself to the extreme left. I like to infiltrate the mechanics of a system by posing as one of them, then slowly start the rot from the inside of the empire. I like to assassinate the lesser and greater of two evils. I like to impeach God. I like to abort Christ. I like to fuck sheep. I like the comfort in knowing that women are generally superior, and naturally less violent than men. I like the comfort in knowing that women are the only future in rock and roll. ...
    [PAGE 3:] Please don't fuck with my freedom or I'm going to have to rape, torture and mutilate your family. ... Smack the PMRC. ... Abortion will soon be illegal. ... Your vote counts. ... Standing up for your rights can often times be fun. Vandalism, militant, [unreadable] and meetings. ... Inside sleeve cardboard stencil of visible man to encourage promotion and vandalism.
    [PAGE 4:] I like the comfort in knowing that the Afro-American invented Rock and Roll yet has only been rewarded or awarded for their accomplishments when conforming to the white man's standards. I like the comfort in knowing that the Afro-American has once again been the only race that has brought a new form of original music to this decade: hip hop/rap. Censorship is VERY American!"
  • December 14, 1992, Nirvana, 'Incesticide' compilation album, first pressings liner notes (also featured a poppy on the cover, painted by Cobain, hinting at his heroin addiction): "At this point I have a request for our fans. If any of you in any way hate homosexuals, people of different color, or women, please do this one favor for us -- leave us the fuck alone! Don't come to our shows and don't buy our records."
  • Contrast: late November 1991, Cobain on Channel 4's late-night show The Word, before performing 'Smells Like Teen Spirit': "I'd like all of you people in this room to know that Courtney Love, the lead singer of the sensational pop group Hole, is the best fuck in the world."
  • Cobain met Courtney Love (Hole singer 1989-2002, 2010-2012; actress) before his major breakthrough with Nevermind. After a lot of "hard-to-get"-foreplay, they started dating in late 1991 and were married by February, right after when Nirvana received super-stardom. Both were involved in heroin use. Courtney Love's father was the founding manager of The Grateful Death in the 1960s and deeply tied to the psychedelics network. He also was an agent of the FDR-, Marshall Field III- and Rockefeller Foundation-backed "community organizer" Saul Alinsky.
  • February 20, 2017 YouTube upload by WatchMojo.com, 'One of Kurt Cobain's Final Interviews - Incl. Extremely Rare Footage' (unaired late 1993 footage): "By writing songs as blunt as 'Rape Me' [is how I express my concern about sexism]. Having to resort to something like that is almost embarrasing, because people didn't understand when we wrote a song like 'About A Girl' or 'Polly' and having to explain that and having misunderstandings about it, I just decided to write 'Rape Me'. Although some people have actually, because some people have thought that maybe it has something to do with my disgust of the media or something and the way they have treated us and stuff like that. But that is not true. That is not what the song is about at all. It's just my way, in a sarcastic way almost, of "How obvious do we have to be?""
  • September 3, 1993, Los Angeles Times, 'Pop Music Review: Solid Performances at Rock Against Rape Benefit': "Punk-rock spouses Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love played a wonderfully chaotic surprise acoustic set Wednesday night during the Rock Against Rape benefit at Club Lingere. ...
    They were joined on the benefit for First Strike Rape Prevention, a Los Angeles group that offers hard-core self-defense classes for women, by X's Exene Cervenka, Concrete Blonde's Johnette Napolitano and the band 7 Year Bitch."
  • September 21, 2011, MTV, 'Nirvana Trash A Hotel One 'Fabulous Yet Wrong' Night': "In December 1993, Nirvana sat down with MTV News' Kurt Loder in the frozen expanses of St. Paul, Minnesota — but only on the condition that he also sit down with one of the opening acts on their tour: all-girl Japanese punk act Shonen Knife."
  • 2001, Mark Andersen and Mark Jenkins, 'Dance of Days: Two Decades of Punk in the Nation's Capital', pp. 384-385: "This costly destruction of gear—apparently repeated frequently--seemed a way to symbolically trash their new-found affluence, to work out unresolved guilt about success. ... Cobain seemed oddly dispassionate as pursued [t]his mayhem. ...
    By now, Nirvana was the embodiment of the "sell-out" to many underground punks. Nonetheless, the band showed a continuing commitment to punk radicalism. Beyond its rough, angry sound, the new CD also contained a series of post-riot pictures - apparently provided to the band by Jello Biafra - of the burnt-out LA County Republican Party Headquarters. This nasty little valentine was reminiscent of the never realized idea to include what Cobain called "revolutionary debris ... all kinds of anarchistic, revolutionary essays and diagrams on how to make your own bomb" in Nevermind.
    Cobain had also gotten DGC [David Geffen Company] to release the long-out-of print LPs by the female UK punk band, the Raincoats. Beyond this, and the choice of the Breeders for the tour bill, a distinct theme of support for female rock ran through the new record and its art. In one interview, Cobain argued that "Girls are the future of rock—if it has one."
    I knew that the band's commitment was real, for I had been working with Dave [Grohl] and Nirvana's manager John Silva -- himself a former shit worker at MRR -- to arrange a protest gig in DC, initially plotted as a pro-choice demo shortly before the 1992 election. While scheduling and/or personal difficulties had sabotaged that idea, plans for a future protest to be held on the National Mall were still being worked out."
  • 1. No on 9 Benefit: Nirvana, Poison Idea, Helmet, Calamity Jane, hosted by Jello Biafra (Sept. 10, 1992).
  • livenirvana.com/tourhistory/ banter/1992/t_09-10-92.php (accessed: November 3, 2020; video from No on Measure 9 documentary): September 10, 1992, The Portland Meadows, No On 9 Benefit concert (Measure 9 forbade the government from funding the promotion, encouragement or facilitation of "homosexuality, pedophilia, sadism or masochism."; lost 56.4% to 43.5%), Portland, OR, US: "Transcript: [Grohl drums whilst Cobain and Novoselic tune up on stage. Cobain to the audience:] "So I saw this picture on the news about three weeks ago. It was in Republican Party headquarters in Pasadena. And it was firebombed, and it was a beautiful picture. It was a picture of Republican Party headquarters in Pasadena, and there was a window. And there was smoke and fire coming out if it. It was really pretty. It should be on a Christmas card.
    Did you know that I'm gay? Then I got married to a hermaphrodite [both genders], but they're trying to take away my gay rights. I would have been really mad, because I really like to buttfuck! It's fun. It feels good. ...
    [Novoselic talking to the crowd after the song 'All Apologies':] So hey, thanks a lot for coming out supporting the No On 9 campaign, we can't have all this fascism going on. ... Thanks a lot to Jello Biafra... check out his recordings, I blow minds for a living. I know it blew my mind...
    [Cobain and Novoselic after the song 'Blew':] Novoselic - "That's a corporate establishment." Cobain - "But you can't let a rock star who obviously likes to beat women and likes to control women and likes to tell women to shut up ..." Novoselic - " ... and hates niggers and faggots!" Cobain - "... who obviously is a racist and a homophobe, he doesn't have the right to speak his mind, but he does have the right to speak his mind but, so do we and he should be shut up!" Cobain - "It's true, we should all just love one another! Chris? I love you!" [Cobain and Novoselic kiss - crowd roars loudly.] "
• Friends of Love and Cobain at the time also ended up becoming "liberal CIA" propagandists:
  • November 2, 2019, Radiox.co.uk, 'Michael Stipe: Let Me In track was plea to Kurt Cobain': "Stipe explained: "There were a lot of phone calls before that imagined one... [I was] really trying to pull him out of a very, very dark place. We all knew it, and we were doing everything we could to help - but it wasn't enough." ... [It was] a plea that came too late."
  • June 2, 1994, Rolling Stone, 'Kurt Cobain's Downward Spiral: The Last Days of Nirvana's Leader': "Roddy Bottum, an old friend of Love and Cobain's and the keyboardist for Faith No More, flew from San Francisco to Seattle to care for Cobain. "I really loved Kurt," Bottum says, "and we got along really well. I was there to be with him as a friend." ...
    It wasn't, however, until eight days after Cobain returned to Seattle from Rome to recuperate from a failed suicide attempt in March that those close to him realized that it was time to resort to drastic measures. Cobain had gone "cuckoo," [after the Rome suicide attempt] says Gold Mountain Entertainment's Janet Billig, who manages Courtney Love's band Hole. Along with several domestic disputes, Cobain's relationship with Nirvana was rocky. In fact, Love told MTV that Cobain said to her in the weeks after Rome: "I hate it - I can't play with them anymore." She added that he only wanted to work with Michael Stipe of R.E.M."
• Nirvana co-founder Krist Novoselic:

  

  • As the 2001 spoken word album 'No WTO Combo: Live From the Battle in Seattle' makes clear, Nirvana's Krist Novoselic, punk's antifa king Jello Biafra and key "grunge" founder Kim Thayil of Soundgarden all were involved in the 1999 anti-WTO protests in Seattle, which were dominated by antifa.
  • Involved in various "liberal CIA" NGOs at a high level in the 2000s. Supported Obama in 2008, but turned away from the Democrat Party to get more deeply involved in "grassroots" activism. Even swung over to "the right". Started backing libertarians Ron Paul and Gary Johnson, who are controlled opposition from the right (libertarians love open borders, arguing you can't put limits on people's freedoms).
  • May 31, 2016, Vice, 'Former Nirvana Bassist Krist Novoselic Is Backing Libertarian Gary Johnson for President; The musician turned activist announced to Twitter he had given the "maximum contribution" to Johnson's campaign.': "Novoselic ... has given the "maximum contribution" to former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson -- $2,700... [Johnson] called out Trump's racist, anti-immigration politics during a Tuesday CNN interview..."
  • July 26, 2004, Alternet, 'See How They Fund: The top 12 VIPs in the fight to oust George W. Bush': "[Important member of George Soros' Democracy Alliance] Andrew S. Rappaport [gave] $1,300,000 [to] Music for America ... He and his wife, Deborah, along with former Nirvana bassist Kris Novoselic, make up the Music for America [founded in 2003] board of directors." Only the staff was visible at the time on the site, which was extremely anti-Bush and pro-John Kerry for the 2004 election. The in 2002 founded Rappaport Family Foundation has donated to the Institute for Policy Studies and other "liberal CIA" groups.
  • fairvote.org/krist_novoselic (accessed: October 9, 2018): "Krist joined FairVote's Board in 2005 and was elected chair in 2008." FairVote already was listed in ISGP's main "liberal CIA" article as one of the voting bodies financed by the Tides Foundation.
    • 2006-2017 Ford Foundation grants list: "FAIRVOTE. 2007: $80,000."
    • March 9, 2017, Washington Times, 'Billionaire George Soros fuels Democrats' push to lower voting age to 17': "Soros' ... Open Society Foundations is among the left-wing philanthropies backing FairVote, which has pushed to allow 17-year-olds who will turn 18 before the general election to vote [because young people more often vote Democrat]..."
    • Rockefeller Brothers Fund: rbf.org/grantees/fairvote (accessed: October 9, 2018): "Grants: $80,000 [in] 2016 ... $40,000 [in] 2015 ... $80,000 [in] 2014..."
  • June 1, 2020, Krist Novoselic on his Facebook: "Wow!!! I know many of you can't stand him, however, Trump knocked it out of the park with this speech. I drove from Wahkiakum to Seattle and back today and have seen countless fellow Washingtonians on the road. I did not see any violence—but a Tesla supercharging station at an Auburn mall was closed off by police. Driving, I passed by regular folks who are already stressed by the Covid. Now, social media and television are looping images of societal breakdown.
    I agree, the president should not be sending troops into states--and he legally might not be able to anyway--nevertheless, his tone in this speech is strong and direct. I have been watching the images in the media and thinking about how polarized our country is. I mean, even wearing medical masks in public can be seen as a political statement! The violence, (and not the protests) appear as a leftist insurrection. Imagine if so-called "patriot militias" were raising this kind of hell? If this were the case, left wing people would welcome federal intervention. Most Americans want peace in their communities and President Trump spoke to this desire. Never mind the legal details that few understand--Trump said he would stop the violence and this speaks to many."
  • June 3, 2020, rock101.com, 'Nirvana's Krist Novoselic praises Trump's 'strong and direct' response to George Floyd protests': "A since-deleted Facebook post made by former Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic praising U.S. President Donald Trump for a "strong" and "direct" speech amid George Floyd protests. ... In addition to the controversial Facebook post, Novoselic has since deleted his Twitter account. Before he removed his profile, however, the California-born bassist expressed his support for Black communities [Black Lives Matter] amidst the George Floyd protests in a tweet. ...
    Though some supported the In Bloom rocker's opinion, Novoselic was met with hundreds of comments from both fans and friends — across various social media platforms — criticizing him for being a "fascist" or for even showing any form of support for the Republican Leader.
    Before deleting his post, Novoselic addressed a fan questioning whether his account was authentic or a "parody." He denied this and wrote that it was "not a partisan echo chamber," according to the Guardian. "I prefer to think for myself, thank you," added the bassist."
• Dave Grohl, worth $280 million, criticizes Trump, but doesn't really explicitly speaks out on racism and in favor of Third World immigration (he does imply it though):
  • Aug. 23, 2015, consequence.net, 'Foo Fighters expertly troll Westboro Baptist Church' (links to video footage): "Westboro "protested" Foo Fighters' concert in Kansas City, Missouri on Friday night. The band responded by jumping on the back of a pickup truck and blasting Rick Astley's Rickroll anthem "Never Gonna Give You Up". They danced along to the song and held up signs "You got Rickroll'd (again)" and "Keep It Clean." Watch footage below.
    This was Foo's second encounter with Westboro. In 2011, the band dressed up as truckers and performed a song called "Keep It Clean (Hot Buns)" on a flat bed truck. Relive that priceless moment below."
  • September 11, 2017, nme.com, 'Dave Grohl on Trump supporters at Foo Fighters shows: 'We play to everyone'': "Grohl continued: "Foo Fighters ... release their ninth album 'Concrete And Gold' this Friday (September 15) and frontman Grohl recently spoke about how the record was partly influenced by Trump's election win and the "wave of conservatism" hitting American politics. ... I'm looking at a candidate [Trump] that has blatant disregard for the future environmentally, when it comes to women's rights, diplomatically..."
  • May 24, 2018, Washington Times, 'Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl 'ashamed' of Trump: 'I feel apologetic for it when I travel'': "Today, the American Dream is broken. ... One thing I understand that [Trump] doesn't is that the world isn't as big as you think it is. It is all in your neighbourhood. India, Asia, Iceland aren't other solar systems."
• Chris Shiflett, lead guitarist of Foo Fighters since 1999:
  • March 30, 2017, Blabbermouth.net, 'Foo Fighters Guitarist Says TRUMP Supporters Are Not 'The Enemy'': "Shiflett explained: "There's a worldwide populist backlash against the power elite, heading all of us in a certain direction... That rears its head in the ugliness of Donald Trump, and I know you guys have your own version of that, and all over Europe there's a populist, right-wing parties popping up, and it's fucking scary."
    Shiflett continued, "I'm an old-fashioned Democrat... I don't view Trump supporters as the enemy. I don't agree with them politically, but ... Working people are not our enemy.""

Soaked in Bleach

• Tom Grant was the investigator hired by Courtney Love to find Kurt Cobain, after he ran away from rehab and went missing. They were unable to find Cobain in time to prevent his suicide. Grant recorded the conversations he had with Courtney, however, and later started claiming she killed Cobain, similar to Courtney (questionable) father. A quick review of Grant's widely-spread documentary Soaked in Bleach (2015) is very manipulative.
• Tom Grant comes across as pompous, arrogant and a person who has no problem with lying.
• 13:00 (totally fits the official story, but tries to paint COurtney in a bad light): "I'm sure your husband has another way of getting money [after you canceled his credit card]. Are you kidding me? He is helpless. He doesn't have any friends. ... This guy can't even catch a fucking cat by himself if he wanted to. ... That's my drug dealer. ... Listen, Kurt escaped from rehab. He bought a shotgun. I just feel like something bad is gonna happen, okay? ... Everybody knows - every body thinks he is gonna die."
• 15:30: Revealing interviews with persons in Aberdeen about historic life there.
• 21:00: "They also told me he bought two tickets on United Airlines. They don't know [where]. They won't tell me. All they told me is how much he paid for 'em. So, I don't know. Maybe he is going to hang out with Michael again. Stipe! Lead singer of REM! ... Did he buy a ticket for someone else? [Starts crying] I think Kurt wants a divorce. ... I left me me a note in Rome. He says he is leaving me. ... If me and Kurt got to a divorce and it end up in a custody battle I'd win in a second. He wouldn't even put up a fight. ...
  The only way that a divorce is gonna happen is if I bust him for infidelity. Yes! [he had been unfaithful!] I think so! [With Kristen Pfaff is suspect; Kristen Pfaff died of a heroin overdose in June 1994] [Or Kathleen] his drug dealer. If Kurt is in Seattle, he is with her. ...
  I planted a story in the news yesterday, saying that I had OD-ed and that I was in the hospital, and thinking that Kurt would get scared and call me. [which did not happen] It's like, I don't know, I got this record coming out in like a week. And, I know the value of this. I didn't think about it when it first happened, but all publicity is good publicity, to a certain extent, right? Anyway, what should I tell this guy from the Associated Press? Should I confirm it? ... People will actually believe me when I deny it. And when I say, [Kurt] left -- and when he left I got very depressed and had to be hospitalized for a nervous breakdown. Then it would appear if I attempted suicide. That way there are no drugs involved and the sympathy goes to me."
• 24:00 (Max Wallace, a weasily-looking, Tom Grant boot-licking journalist): "[Grant] opened the safe, and there was this trove of cassette tapes, just hours and hours of tapes. And then he starts playing us the tapes. And the facts were there." [What facts?]): "Kurt is like, "Well, fuck you, I don't even wanna be in Nirvana. If Kurt wasn't [screwing us up] $9.5 million dollars at Lollapalooza, when WE could have fucking played Lollapalooza and gotten the cash. [Tom Grant: She is just coming across as very controlling and very angry."] And then I was able to actually talk to him and say, "Kurt, I love you. I will support whatever you do. If you don't wanna do Lollapalooza, fine." I could have done Lollapalooza this year and I was offered it first. But I gave that up, so that Kurt could go out and make, like, 5 million or 10 million dollars. And now he is fucking THAT up." [Tom Grant: "Something was going on that was out of the ordinary and there was more to this than I was being told."] Well, for now it all supports the official story.
• 29:15: taped interview with Dylan Carlson: "No, not at all [Cobain is suicidal]. He has been under a lot of pressure, but he has been handling things pretty good. I know he and Courtney have been having a lot of troubles lately. But, I don't know why Kurt married her. ... No, that was an accident [the Rome thing]. Everybody knows that. ... He is not suicidal. He bought that shotgun the day he went to rehab. There's been a burglary at his house recently. The police had confiscated his other guns, so I registered it in my name. Trust, if he was suicidal, I would never let him have a shotgun."
• 33:00: Make the case that the Rome incident was a suicide attempt. They contacted the doctor in charge, claiming Cobain did not ingest 50-60 pills (which likely was a figure of speech of Courtney) and even that he "categorically denied" it had been a suicide attempt. However, to the media the doctor most certainly did say that that was his very strong suspicion, to the point of not giving Kurt a room with a window. Max Wallace: "At te time both Kurt and Courtney said it was an accident [Duh, damage control.], and the doctor confirmed that. So there is just no evidence that he ever tried to kill himself before."
  • April 10, 1994, Newsday, 'Doctor Saw Cobain's Suicide Coming': "Dr. Osvaldo Galletta ... remembered the musician from America, Kurt Cobain. It was barely a month ago that Cobain ... was wheeled into Galletta's hospital, which is the American Hospital in Rome.
    Cobain was not expected to live through the night. But the doctor, with patience and a powerful stomach pump, managed to stabilize the musician's vital signs. And after a couple of days, the coma completely evaporated. ...
    The whole concept of "grunge" was completely foreign to him. But he knew a junkie when he met one. "After he woke up, he told me it was an accident," the doctor said. "He said he had been confused. He had taken pharmaceuticals and alcohol together. He said it was just a mistake."
    The doctor had his doubts. Cobain, he could tell, was a veteran needle-drug user. He could see that from the veins. And longtime drug users, the doctor knew, are rarely ignorant about the facts of pharmacology. "I made sure he had a room with no windows," the doctor said.
    Cobain had the usual enablers around him. The wife, a former stripper named Courtney Love, was backing up the big-mistake theory of the overdose. So were the various Nirvana hangers-on who had rushed to the hospital in Rome."
• 36:40: Dylan Carlson to Tom Grant: "She wants us to go back to the house and look for the shotgun again. She thinks it might be in a hidden compartment of the bedroom closet." Tom Grant with his usual suspicious-making commentary: "She hadn't mentioned that to us before."
• 37:10 (Grant & co. bizarrely start ranting about this note: "Phony ... set up letter... didn't make sense..."): Calli note: "Kurt: I can't believe you managed to be in this house without me noticing. You're a fuckin' asshole for not calling Courtney and at least letting her know that you're okay. She's in a lot of pain, Kurt, and this morning she had another 'accident' and now she's in the hospital again. She's your wife and she loves you and you have a child together. Get it together to at least tell her you're okay or she is going to die. It's not fair man." Heavier Than Heaven addition: "Courtney was incensed [at Cali] and demanded he return to look for Kurt. Cali and Jennifer drove together [to Kurt's Seattle home], bringing a friend... Cali complained how spooky the dark house was. He told Jennifer he didn't want to go back in, but he knew that if he didn't, Courtney would be enraged. ... They entered and began searching once again, turning on lights as they went. cali and Jennifer held hands as they entered each room. "Franky," Jennifer reclalled, "we were expecting to find him dead at any minute." ... Cali hesitated to jot a note: [see above]."
• Experts used:
  • Norm Stamper: 1994-2000 Seattle police chief Norm Stamper is continually interviewed. Stamper was forced to resign in 2000 over his response with tear gas the 1999 WTO protests that influded antifa as Jello Biafra and Nirvana's Krist Novoselic. Stamper is a Huffington Post bogger and has appeared on Amy Goodman's Soros/Ford Foundation-funded Democracy Now!
  • Dr. Cyril Wecht: Forestic pathologist who was the only major dissenter of the Warren Commission - whic pretty much guarantees that he is CIA. His position on the RFK assassination fully establishes Wecht to be CIA - aas he is spreading pure, obvious disinformation:
    • July 17, 2017, Dr. Cyril Wecht, supporting statement on Sirhan Sirhan and his attorney Dr. William Pepper (capa-us.org/petition-oas-sirhan-wrongfully-convicted-1968-rfk-murder/ (accessed: Nov. 5, 2020): "Dr. Wecht's statement supports that argument as follows: I strongly endorse and support the petition that Attorney William Pepper is submitting to the Organization of American States seeking a new trial for Sirhan Sirhan, who was convicted for the 1968 killing of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
      As an official consultant in forensic pathology to Dr. Thomas Noguchi [shown at left], the Los Angeles Chief Medical Examiner who performed the autopsy on Senator Kennedy, I had the opportunity to visit the shooting scene at the Ambassador Hotel and subsequently review and analyze all the relevant forensic scientific evidence and investigative findings in this matter.
      Based upon all the objective, indisputable physical and forensic evidence, there can be no doubt that Sirhan did not fire the bullet that caused Senator Kennedy's death. That shot was proven to have been fired from a distance of approximately one to one and a half inches from Kennedy's head with a forward trajectory. None of the eye-witnesses ever placed Sirhan in such a position as to have been able to fire that shot. (The official published post-mortem protocol unequivocally sets forth these facts.)"
  • Rosemary Carroll: Taped 1994 conversations between her and Tom Grant: "Didn't it sound terribly phony [that note from Cali]? Absolutely [a set up] I agree. ... It wasn't a sincere letter. I thought Cali wrote it, because he knew Kurt was dead. ...
    That suicide note is a pastige [?] of things that [Kurt] had written before and of someone copying his handwriting. This is my theory and a lot of it is intuition. I think all of that weirdness with Cali living in the house for several days with Kurt's corpse in the [Greenhouse, on top of the garage], I think it had to do with the suicide note. ...
    What do you think that is [Tom, these papers]? I think someone went through his notebooks, found passages that could plausibly be puddled together to [form] a suicide [note] and trace them [on paper]. Yeah [they were traced]. Or forged, something like that. ... Are you taping this call? Oh shit! Tom!" Lawyer of Kurt and Courtney. (April 24, 2019, alternativenation.net, 'Kurt Cobain Lawyer Accused Of Murder Conspiracy Bombshell': Nirvana manager and Carroll husband Danny Goldberg says that Tom Grant took everything out of context with isolated quotes and that he, nor his wife, ever agreed with Grant).
• 55:30: April 8, 1994, Seattle Police Department, Case Investigation Report: 94-156500. Type of Crime: Suicide. ... Entities: Cobain, Kurt Donald, p. 2: "The Blood test results indicate Morphine level, 1.52mg/L (milligrams per Liter). Dr. Harruff advised that this was a large amount of Morphine (heroin), and that tolerance is extremely important when evaluating opiate levels."
  • That's very high, but on par with a very tolerant person looking to give himself a fatal dose.
  • July 25, 1997, Volume 47, Issue 1, Drug and Alcohol Dependence journal, 'A comparison of blood toxicology of heroin-related deaths and current heroin users in Sydney, Australia': "Blood toxicology results for deaths attributed to heroin overdose during 1995 in the South Western Sydney (SWS) ... there was substantial overlap between the blood morphine concentrations of the two groups, ranging from 0.08-1.45 mg/l. This range incorporated 90% of heroin-related deaths."

Kurt's friends worried about suicide:

• September 10, 2015, Krist Novoselic video interview with SPIN magazine founder Bob Guccione Jr.: "He should have never done that, what he did [suicide]. I think he was out of his mind on heroin. I remember seeing him those last days. And he was loaded. And so he wasn't thinking clearly when he did that. ... And he tried to kill himself in Rome. And he was really weird after that. He was just quiet, and, he should have never done that."
• Mid March 1994, Dave Grohl phone call to Kurt Cobain: "When he came home, I remember talking to him on the phone. And saying, "Hey man, I don't want you to die, okay?" He was very apologetic. He's like, "No, no, no, I'm sorry. It was a big mistake. Took these pills. I was drinking this champagne. It was in Rome. I just made a mistake."
• March 24, 1994: Intervention of Kurt Cobain by Courtney Love and friends.

• Hole existed from 1989 to 2002 and from 2010 to 2012, always with Courtney Love as founder and singer.
• 27-year-old Hole bassist, Kristen Pfaff, died of a heroin overdose in June 1994, weeks after Cobain's heroin-and-shotgun suicide. Courtney used heroin herself as well.
• Kurt Cobain of Nirvana and Courtney Love (Hole singer 1989-2002, 2010-2012; actress): supposedly conflicting sources exist when Courtney Love first met Kurt Cobain, but Cobain and Love already explained their story in 1993 to author Michael Azerrad. Courtney had seen Cobain in 1989 for the first time and thought he was cute. Azerrad's narrative, certainly in addition to later retellings, is somewhat confusing, but it seems clear that Courtney and Cobain started have "hard to get" interactions by May 1991. In late August and early September 1991 there were interactions in Europe, with Courtney visiting Nirvana (on a two-week tour) with then-boyfriend Billy Corgan (making jealous at least in part it appears). It appears the relationship with Corgan fell apart after he refused to pay for her ticket home. Soon after, Courtney and Cobain - who became an item, the two marrying very quickly, on February 24, 1992.
  • 1993 (2001 paperback edition), Michael Azerrad, 'Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana', pp. 169-172: "[While beginning to record Nevermind in May 1991 at the David Geffen recording studio, Nirvana] stayed in furnished apartments in a nearby building called the Oakwood... Naturally, they trashed the place [and had parties]...
    Soon, a woman with the improbable name of Courtney Love began stopping by the Oakwood to see Kurt. Courtney had seen Nirvana open for the Dharma Bums at the Satyricon club in Portland, Oregon, in 1989. Watching Kurt on stage, she thought to herself, "He's got Dave Pirner damage, but he's way cuter." She thought he was "hot in a Sub Pop rock god sort of way." After the set, as was his custom, Kurt wandered away from the stage area in order to get out of packing up gear. He walked by Courtney's table, sat down, poured himself a beer from her pitcher, and glared at her. She glared back.
    "I though she looked like Nancy Spungen," Kurt says [to me], chuckling. "She looked like a classic punk rock chick. I did feel kind of attracted to her. Probably wanted to fuck her that night, but she left." They talked for a little bit [she insulting him and his girlfriend ["she's fat"] repeatedly - and him wrestling her to the ground a kissing her briefly] and he gave her a few stickers he had made hat had Chim-Chim and the Nirvana logo. "I put them all on my suitcase," says Courtney [to me], "and I didn't even like his band."
    Courtney had had a crush on Kurt ever since. Asked to describe her attraction to Kurt, something rare happens--Courtney Love is at a loss for words. "I don't know," she says, suddenly girlish, almost blushing. "I feel embarrased. ... He was really beautiful. I cant explain it." ...
    Around December of 1990, Courtney and Dave [Grohl] became friendly through Dave's former girlfriend, Jennifer Finch. [Coincidence?] ... After Courtney revealed to Dave that she had a crush on Kurt, Dave told Courtney that Kurt liked her, too, but she didn't quite believe it. Still, she gave Dave a package to give to Kurt -- little sea shells and pine cones and miniature teacups and a tiny doll, all packed into a small heart-shaped box. Courtney swears that if she hadn't forgotten that he never replied, she wouldn't have bothered chasing him anymore.
    Kurt and Courtney met again at a Butthole Surfers/Redd Kross/L7 show at the [Hollywood] Palladium in Los Angeles in May of 1991, shortly before the band began recording Nevermind. They were instantly attracted to each other. Courtney chose to express her attraction by punching Kurt in the stomach. He punched her back, then he leaped on her and they began wrestling. After a little while, Courtney got up, kicked Kurt, and walked away. "It was a mating ritual for dysfunctional people," Courtney cracks. ...
    Courtney happened to live only a block away from the Oakwood and she stopped by a few times. Chris didn't pay her much mind. "She was some loud girl," he says. "I'd never heard of her before." ....
    But Kurt was interested. "We bonded over pharmaceuticals," Courtney says. "I had Vicodin extra-strength, which was pills, and he had Hycomine cough syrup. I said, "You're a pussy, you shouldn't drink that syrup because it's bad for your stomach." Kurt called her up at five in the morning on the pretense of asking if she had any drug. Courtney said no and made a date with Kurt for the next day. He stood her up and then kept his phone off the hook so she couldn't call. "I couldn't decide if I actually wanted to consumate our relationship," he explains, smiling. "She seemed like poison because I'd just gotten out of the last relationship that I didn't even want to be in," says Kurt. "I was determined to be a bachelor for a few months. I just had to be. But I knew that I liked Courtney so much right away that it was a really hard struggle to stay away from her for so many months. It was harder than shit. During that time that I attempted to be a bachelor and sow my oats and live the bachelor rock and roll lifestyle, I didn't end up fucking anybody or having a good time at all." He decided to concentrate on making the album."
    In three months, Hole would release its debut album... The album was a longtime U.K. indie chart entry after its debut in August of 1991."
  • January 1996, Playboy Magazine, 'Love Hurts': "In late 1989 she formed Hole. She lost weight, had her nose cropped and worked on her guitar playing. By [May] 1991, when she ran into Kurt Cobain at Los Angeles' Palladium, she was ready. The two had met in Portland in 1989 [refers to Azerrad, but Azerrad didn't write that; only wrote Courtney had seen Cobain perform]. Now, they began their courtship when Courtney punched Kurt in the stomach (and Kurt punched her back). Ironically, for people who later claimed Courtney clung to Kurt as her meal ticket, her band's first album, 'Pretty on the Inside', was outselling his ('Bleach') two to one at the time they started dating. The two were married in February 1992 in Hawaii, with Courtney wearing a dress that Frances Farmer once wore. By the time Love and Cobain married, Nirvana had become a huge, if unanticipated, success."
  • August 25, 2011, Spin, 'Inside Sonic Youth and Nirvana's Epic 1991 Tour': "Months before Nirvana overtook the world with "Teen Spirit" mania in late 1991, the band was tapped by Sonic Youth for a European festival tour. ... Literally two weeks before their summer festival tour started in August of 1991, I got a call: "Do you want to come and shoot stuff?" ... When I was filming Sonic Youth or Nirvana or Dinosaur or whoever, they weren't censoring themselves. People were just enjoying this brief two-week tour. ... Maybe some fans had bought Bleach, but they weren't really the draw. I mean, some of these festivals, like Pukkelpop [August 25, 1991], Nirvana played at 11:30 in the morning! No one anticipated Nevermind's explosion. ...
    Kurt wasn't with Courtney [Love] at the time but she showed up at Rotterdam. I think she hitched a ride with the Smashing Pumpkins. She was sort of seeing Billy Corgan. You can see it in the bluescale version of the movie I've been working on. Krist [Novoselic], Dave, and Kim are all gossiping: "Courtney's here!" And – boom! – she comes in backstage arm-in-arm with Corgan, who was introduced to Sonic Youth. Kurt and Billy had never really met and, you know, maybe were even competitors. ...
    When Courtney and Billy left the room, you see Kurt graffitis on the wall "Courtney Plus Gish," the name of the Pumpkins record. And everyone proceeded to lightly make fun of Billy. Krist said, "I can't go on living! I thought Courtney was in love with me!" Maybe Kurt had a crush on her at the time and didn't know how to approach her, I don't know.
    I didn't have a personal rapport with Kurt. He was just another guy in the band, quiet. We chatted a bit and I could detect this really dark sense of humor, but he was very nice. ... Those are some of the last smiles you'd see from him before Nirvana became this huge success."
  • April 29, 2016, Diffuser.fm, 'Courtney Love Dumped Billy Corgan Partly Because He Wouldn't Pay for Her Plane Ticket' (note: strange story: Nirvana played Roskilde in 1992, after the marriage; Smashing Pumpkins only played in 1997 and Hole never played at Roskilde; the there is the 9 months delay after that...; Pumpkins and Nirvana both played Ein Abend In Wien in Rotterdam on September 1, 1991): "[Courtney Love:] "When [Kurt and I] were still platonic, I was on the ferry, Billy Corgan would not pay for my flight back from Roskilde, and Nirvana had played with the Pumpkins at that show, so I was on the ferry with the Nirvana guys," Love said. "I had a crush on Kurt, he was gorgeous, I mean he was beautiful, and enigmatic, and evasive. This was after Reading (Festival). But I still was dating and sleeping with Billy Corgan, but he kind of lost me at this moment. This wasn't the moment that he specifically lost me, that would be about six to eight months later [seemingly about 2 months if she was talking about the Sep. 1, 1991 event], but he kind of lost me at this moment.'"
    Love and Cobain began dating in the fall of 1991 and married in February 1992. It wasn't until 2014 that she and Corgan reconciled."
• Hollywood.com, '17 of the Most Surprising Celebrity Godparents': "Drew Barrymore [brought to fame in E.T. by multi-billionaire director Steven Spielberg] might have a famous godparent of her own, but she's also the famous godparent in this situation as well. She's the godmother of the Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love's daughter Frances." Like all of Hollywood, Barrymore and Courtney Love are anti-Trump crusaders.
• Courtney Love's father was Hank Harrison. Bizarrely, he has written a book claiming his daughter plotted and then murdered her husband, Kurt Cobain. This is pure disinfomation. Courtney saved Cobain on a number of occasions, tried to get him into therapy for his heroin addiction, and hired a private detective after his escape from a clinic. Claims that Courtney later claimed that the CIA plotted to kill Cobain have been posted only by fake news websites.
• Courtney's father, Hank Harrison, was the initial manager of The Grateful Dead, deeply involved in the LSD network, and an agent of the FDR-, Marshall Field III- and Rockefeller Foundation-backed "community organizer" Saul Alinsky:
  • May 20, 2010, Alan Waite (PraxisForLife.org president) interview with Jack Sarfatti (video transcript): "Apparently there was a similar [MKULTRA-type] program at Berkeley – there's a friend of mine named Hank Harrison who was a part of it, who's the father of Courtney Love, actually Courtney Love's dad. And he apparently ... You might want to actually talk to him about the program. ... It was tied up with the intelligence community, definitely with the government. ... Telepathy, psychokinesis, and things like that. There were experiments, and they would just sit with the kids, you know, trying to get them to move objects. We never moved anything, but there was a whole program going on about this. Also, they talked about aliens and flying saucers..."
  • 1972, Hank Harrison, 'The Dead: Volume I', 1985 preface: "During the 1964 season, the year before the Warlocks were formed [first gig of The Warlocks: May 5, 1965; first gig under The Grateful Dead, at a Ken Kesey Acid Test: December 4, 1965], I was recruited by the great Saul Alinsky to help organize shop-ins. ... I managed the Warlocks for about four months in 1965 and then went back to Chicago to visit Alinsky at [his] Industrial Areas Foundation [founded in 1940 by Alinsky, and funded by Marshall Field III]. Alinsky introduced me to [Chicago radio host] Studs Terkel and Nelson Algren.
    Alinsky, who was to die in Carmel a few years later, convinced me that bringing people down from bad acid trips was a good way of organizing a social movement. This was two years before the Haight–Ashbury clinic started. ... The car club was growing into an army. ...
    In 1968, I burnt out on the acid gig, went to Tassajara for a few months of Za Zen under Roshi Susuki and Dick Baker and decided to call Alinsky again. It turned out Algren was the heavy-weight guest at the Rocky Mountain Writers Conference that year. I went there, had a ball, and decided to write a book aboutmy friends.
    In 1969, Alinsky got me a job at Honeywell Corporation in Minneapolis right alongside Dennis Banks, one of the founders of the American Indian Movement**. ... I was getting top dollar, plus they let me work on my writing.
    In the fall of 1969, I ... called Phil Lesh [of The Grateful Dead] in Fairfax. That's where the idea for this book took concrete form. I would live with The Dead in Marinand write the book. ...
    By 1973, I was gone to Vancouver and then to London where I studied with the late Dame Frances Yates for many seasons at the Warburg Institute."
    • **Dennis Banks: participant in the 1969-1971 occupation of Alcatraz island by the "Red Power" and American Indian movements; in 1972 co-organized the Trail of Broken Treaties caravan, which ended up ransacking the Interior Department's Bureau of Indian Affairs; leader of the AIM invasion force of the town of Wounded Knee in 1973, leading to looting, several murders and the paralyzing of a federal agent; given amnesty by Gov. Jerry Brown; financial support from Marlon Brando; ran a small, underground, armed AIM band 1973-1976, which included his girlfriend Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, who was executed in early 1976 over suspicions she was an FBI informant; got himself educated and ended up teaching at Stanford in 1979; fled Californina for upstate New York after Jerry Brown left office in 1985; has organized Indian "spiritual runs" since then, one of them ending in Washington, D.C. on Earth Day, in 2006; joined forces with Golden Globe and Grammy Award-winning artist Kitaro in celebration of the Earth on the CD Let Mother Earth Speak; vice presidential candidate for the Peace and Freedom Party in 2016
    • Leonard Peltier: active member of the American Indian Movement (AIM), founded by Dennis Banks and others. Given a life sentence for aiding and abetting in a June 26, 1975 shooting that got two FBI agents killed. Peltier admitted to participating in the shootout in his 1999 memoir, but denied being the person who shot the agents. For some reason, antifa/"liberal CIA" elites want him freed.
    • whoisleonardpeltier.info/ home/support/ (accessed:"August 13, 2020): "Noam Chomsky ... The Dalai Lama ... Nelson Mandela ... Mother Teresa ... Desmond Tutu ... Danielle Mitterand, former First Lady of France ... Martin Luther King, III ... Rev. Al Sharpton ... "
  • 1980, Hank Harrison, 'The Dead: Volume II', 1985 preface, pp. 6-7: "I remember meeting each of the musicians in the Dead at critical points in their careers. Phil Lesh, the bass player, and I were roommates in 1960, and again from 1970-1973. He was always called "Professor." We absorbed Nietzsche and idolized the nihilist samurai...
    I met Jerry Garcia in San Carlos at the Book Stall and at Kepler's Bookstore down in Menlo Park [city part of the San Francisco Bay Area] back in 1961. ... With Bob Hunter who wrote most of the Grateful Dead lyrics. ... Most of us went to school at the College of San Mateo at onetime or another, except Pig [Pen]. ...
    I met [actor] Marshall Brickman and Paul Mittig and Willy Legate, all spiritual and antisocial movers, catalysts, anarchists, misfits, and nonconformists, and ran into lots of street people. We used to go over and see [actor] Ronnie Schell and Lord Buckley [who took LSD under Dr. Oscar Janiger], two hip comics, at the Upstairs at the Downstairs above Zack's Electronics in Palo Alto. It was a college crowd. ...
    By the time 1965 rolled around, Jerry Garcia had managed to talent scout the whole Bayside population looking for weird crazies [for a new band.] Dana Morgan was a fairly good bass player, so Garcia got him and got Bill Kreutzmann, a drum instructor down there, and took Pig Pen out of his little Zodiacs band, and got Bob Weir, his best student, who was also teaching guitar himself, to form a proto-band [which became the Warlocks and then the Grateful Dead]."
  • Oct 31, 2011, GoldMineMag.com, 'Weir recalls the Grateful Dead's Summer of Love and Haight': "The Grateful Dead was started (as The Warlocks) in Southern California in 1965, but the band relocated to the Haight community in late 1966 [at 710 Ashbury Street], just as it started to become the center of the then-new hippie counterculture. ... The Dead built up a following of obsessive devotees, partially due to its original approach to music and ... by being associated with author and LSD guru Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters. By 1966, The Dead had become the house band for Kesey's psychedelic parties, known as the Acid Tests. The group signed with Warner Brothers Records, and their self-titled debut album was unleashed to a somewhat indifferent world in March 1967. ...
    "Before the Summer of Love, the Haight-Ashbury was a youth ghetto where the students who went to San Francisco State all stayed," recalls Weir, who was himself 19 years old at the time. "It was a low-rent area where kids would flock to, and there were lots of artists and musicians and writers. It was a really fun place. The horizons were totally limitless.
    "The media just couldn't understand (the environment). It was beyond them," Weir continues. "So they sensationalized what they could understand: the drugs, the free love — all those aspects of what may or may not have been happening there. So the area became immediately a magnet for all the riffraff and misfits who were rattling around the country. They rattled on out to the coast and set up camp in the Haight-Ashbury. And it changed overnight, the complexion of the place. Suddenly the streets were full of speed freaks and drug addicts, and it was just a very different place. We moved out.""
  • July 31, 2019, Curbed San Francisco, 'Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic to close': "In 1967, in the midst of what became known as the Summer of Love, tens of thousands of mostly young people packed the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood to practice counterculture lifestyles, perhaps even as many as 100,000 in all. ... Haight was simply not designed for that many people all at once, and many ended up living in crowded flophouses with unsanitary conditions. Problems related to drug use and unsafe sex proliferated, too.
    Dr. David Smith, at the time an intern at SF General Hospital, opened the free clinic in the Haight in June of 1967 with some donated supplies and colleagues' promises of providing a few pro-bono treatment hours to the community each week.
    According to Jeff Guinn's 2013 book Manson (which chronicles infamous cult leader Charles Manson's time in the Haight scene), the clinic:
    "Operated under a simple philosophy: Anybody would be treated without charge, and staff would make no moral judgments about the patients. More than 250 hippies lined up for treatment on the first day... There were 350 the next day, and by the third the clinic had run out of antibiotics."
    Concert promoter Bill Graham raised money to keep the clinic open in its early days."
  • Feb. 26, 1976, Rolling Stone, 'From Eternity To Here': "Particularly when a new batch of Owsley's acid would hit the market and his lieutenants would walk up and down Haight Street passing out free samples. ... The Dead's new friend, Owsley. ... [Meanwhile Ken Kesey] had opened his acid parties to the most notorious outlaw motorcycle gang, the Hell's Angels, to whom he had been introduced by a journalist named Hunter S. Thompson. ... the Acid Test with the Grateful Dead was the greatest success of the three nights ....
    Life [at the Haight-Ashbury hippie neighborhood] was an adventure. There were intellectual adventures in books — yoga, occultism, Wilhelm Reich's sexual liberation theories and Zen were established features of bohemian communities, and the Haight brought in the uniquely psychedelic elements of American Indian lore, the oracular I Ching and texts of Tibetan Buddhism, valued for their descriptions of acidlike visions. ... Ken Kesey ... Rock Scully...
    May 30th [1967]: ... The Grateful Dead play a benefit for the Haight-Ashbury Legal Organization, whose offices are across the street from the Dead house. ...
    June 9th [1967]: Dr. David Smith, who has been treating drug reactions at San Francisco General Hospital (then accounting for 100 beds a day), opens the Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic at Happening House. The immediate crisis is the introduction of a new kind of psychedelic, related both to mescaline and amphetamines, known as STP. ...
    Early July: An agency is formed on the model of suicide-prevention groups, LSD Rescue Mission."
  • From April tot November 1967 violent convict Charles Manson lived at 636 Cole Street, 300 meters from the crossing of Haight St. and Ashbury St. and thus solidly in the Haight-Ashbury Hippie Community right during the 1967 "Summer of Love" when 100,000 hippies descended on the neighborhood. Similar to the Grateful Dead living at Ashbury St. across from the Hell's Angels, Manson was deeply involved in LSD and recruited 20 of his initial "Family members" with the use of this substance. Stranger still, his (very lenient) parole officer Roger Smith was given a job at the Haigh-Ashbury Free Medical Clinic, located 3 minutes from Manson's home, Haight St. (technically at Clayton St.). At this clinic controversial CIA MKULTRA psychologist Dr. Jolly West was conducting clandestine LSD research and "recruiting" patients from here that he found interesting. Manson's "Family" would go on to become famous cult murderers and give a very negative spin on LSD. See The Grateful Dead for more details and sources.
  • 1985, Hank Harrison, 'The Dead book: A social history of the Haight-Ashbury experience': "As one of the founders of the Haight-Ashbury [hippie] community he was the first manager of the rock group known as the Warlocks, which later became The Grateful Dead."
  • In 1965, he established LSD-Rescue... Harrison comes down hard on those who made the fight harder... deserters like Timothy Leary, and power-seekers like Owsley... yet his disapproval is expressed in a soft voice, for these were fellow dancers on the same Circuit."
  • 1999, Ian Halperin, ‎Max Wallace, 'Who Killed Kurt Cobain?': "[Harrison] We were doing tons of acid, changing sex partners, and tripping out..."
• Courtney Love's mother is peculiar psychologist Linda Carroll (rumors her real father was ("liberal CIA") activist actor Marlon Brando):
  • holotropic.com/facilitator/linda-carroll-barraud/ (accessed: August 10, 2020; program of Esalen Institute-connected LSD guru Stanislav Grof).
  • February 1995, Spin magazine: "[Harrison and Caroll] were married for less than a year; a custody battle ensued, with Carroll gaining full rights to her daughter. The three-year-old... moved to Eugene, Oregon, with her mother, her new stepfather Frank Rodriguez, and half sisters Nicole and Jamie. Carroll lived well off an inheritance left to her by her adoptive parents, attending college in Eugene, and "gathering disciples wherever she went. My mother had ties to a lot of the women around the San Francisco hippie scene, like Ken Kesey's wife, and the Magic Bus people."
    Carroll and Rodriguez shortly divorced, and, while on a rafting trip in Colorado, Carroll met husband number three, David Manely. By the time Courtney was seven, her home life resembled a scene from The Trip. "There were all these hairy, wangly-ass hippies in our house. We had this huge mansion in Marcola, Oregon - and all these hippies are there doing Gestalt therapy, running around the swimming pool naked, screaming. My mom was also adamant about a gender-free household: no dresses, no patent leather shoes, no canopy beds, nothing."
    Love had already begun a pattern of attending and getting kicked out of an assortment of schools. Meanwhile, Carroll and Manely decided that a change of venue was in order, and so they emigrated to New Zealand to start a sheep farm, leaving Love to reside with a friend of Carroll's back in Eugene. When I ask Love why she was left behind, she shrugs. "I guess I was too much trouble." As soon as Carroll and Manely left the country, Love, now in the third grade, was booted from yet another school. Bounced from school to school, and from therapist to therapist, Love began to shoplift. ... She also found it difficult making any friends. "The only people that liked me at this time were men: male teachers, male principals, male therapists. Kids hated me."
    Due to constant fights between Love and her caretaker's son, she was shipped off to her parents in New Zealand in 1973. Carroll, in turn, sent Love to live with a nearby matron named Shirley. "Shirley was great," says Love. "She had this incredible library and garden. I changed my name to Michelle--my middle name, which is a really decent, normal name--and I was really popular in school for a year. I thought Shirley and I were doing really well. Then my mother tells me that Shirley doesn't like me anymore and I can't continue to live with her. Which was really fucked." Love is again packed off, this time to live with Rodriguez in Portland--"I was Courtney again"--and her troubles started anew. ...
    When seventh grade rolled around, she finally settled down with another friend of her mom's in Eugene, where she "started getting fascinated with the local coterie of juvenile delinquent girls. ... I had a semi-David Bowie hairdo, and I'm a freak at my school. I get the shit beat out of me enough times so I start to become really scrappy. I was a runt--no tits, no period, no puberty--so I get picked on... I started hanging around the mall and running with this crowd of teen whores."
    For the next four years, Love would "do anything to get arrested. But just arrested. Like shoplift." After temporarily running away from Eugene, Love, at age 13, ventured into a two-year period where she was shuttled between reform schools, such as Skipworth in Eugene, and the Hillcrest School For Girls in Salem. Courtney says that during one of her Skipworth stays, "An intern who was working for school credit came back from England and said, 'You should really be into this stuff, it's really you.' And he gave me three records: Pretenders, Squeeze, and Never Mind the Bollocks. I decided then that I was going to be a rock star. ...
    Love looks back upon this period of instability with surprising fondness. For example: "I was really quite pretty until I was 11 or 12, which I think the back of Live Through This shows. I sort of looked like Eddie Vedder. I was the last girl on the planet with tits. I was the girl that would never hit puberty. I forever looked like I was seven. And then I got ugly; I was ugly until I was 25. ... I really resented puberty for that. It took away my beauty."
    While Love served as a witness in a statewide sexual-political scandal, she became acquainted with a counselor to whom she confessed the existence of her trust fund. "I finally got free, and went to live in Portland in my own apartment. I bought a trench coat and tried to stay away from all of the people I knew from around the mall because I wanted new friends. I wanted punk friends. And then I met Ursula [Wehr, now in the Portland band Candy 500] and Robin [Barbur]." ... I started hanging around with bitchy drag queens and with Ursula and Robin, and they basically raised me. I found my inner bitch and ran with her.
    Love and her inner bitch lit out at a fevered clip over the next ten or so years: Japan (earning her living as a stripper), Ireland (attending Trinity College), England (tailing Julian Cope), Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland (forming the band Sugar Baby Doll with Wehr and Barbur), Taiwan (stripping), San Francisco (singing in Faith No More), Portland (again Sugar Baby Doll, this time with Kat Bjelland), Seattle, San Francisco (Sugar Baby Doll 3, with Bjelland and Jennifer Finch), New York (auditioning for the Nancy Spungen part in Alex Cox's film Sid and Nancy), Minneapolis (playing in an early incarnation of Babes in Toyland with Bjelland and Lori Barbero), Spain (appearing in Cox's abysmal Straight to Hell), Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New York, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Alaska (stripping), Portland, and, finally, in 1989, Los Angeles, where, after placing an ad in L.A.'s Recycler, she formed Hole with Eric Erlandson. ...
    "It was just the times," adds Love. "Everybody was doing it. Everyone, everyone. All our friends were junkies. It was ridiculous. Everybody in this town did dope. Every-fucking-body. It was unbelievable." "
  • Linda Carroll later ended up being the psychiatrist of an anti-Vietnam War, pro-Black Panther bank robber:
    • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Ann_Power (accessed: August 10, 2020): "full scholarship to Brandeis [in 1967] as a sociology major and honor student at a time of anti-Vietnam War protests at the school. She became known for wandering the campus braless and barefoot in an orange-colored smock,[6] for her attendance at Students for a Democratic Society protest rallies and for her involvement in the Brandeis Strike Information Center.[6] She and her room-mate Susan Saxe worked to organize student protests for a committee known as the National Student Strike Force.[1][4] The two also became acquainted with fellow organizer Stanley Ray Bond, an ex-convict and soldier attending classes at the university on a special program.[1] ...
      Bond, Power and Saxe became involved in a plot to arm the Black Panthers as a response to United States involvement in the Vietnam War.[1] Bond introduced them to former convicts William Gilday and Robert Valeri and together the group plotted to rob the State Street Bank & Trust. ... They did and] also stole weapons and set fire to the facility, causing about $125,000 in damage. ...
      Three days later, on September 23, 1970, the group robbed a bank in Brighton, Massachusetts, carrying handguns, a shotgun and a submachine gun.[6][9] The first police officer on the scene, Boston police officer Walter Schroeder, was shot in the back by Gilday when he attempted to stop the robbery.[2] He subsequently died from his wounds. ...
      Gilday, Valeri and Bond were captured shortly after... In November 1970, Power and Saxe became the sixteenth and seventeenth persons on the FBI's Most Wanted Fugitives list. ... Removed from the Most Wanted Fugitives list in 1984 [after not getting many tips on Power]. ...
      While living in Oregon... confided her fugitive status to her therapist Linda Carroll[14] She developed the desire to stop living her life under her assumed name[15] and, through therapy that included participation in the mock trial of a soldier charged with killing civilians during the Vietnam War, she began to prepare for her surrender to the authorities."
  • September 21, 2014, KPIX CBS SF Bay Area interview with psychologist Linda Carroll (mother of Courtney Love),'Love Cycles: The Five Essential Stages': "First is "the merge": we meet, we fall in love, everything is perfect - all wonderful. We miss every road sign, every red flag, there is. ... And we know it is mediated by chemicals. Brains change when we are in that first stage of love. You remember Aphrodite? The goddess of love and her son, Cupid? Well, his job was to look for an unsuspecting person, take an arrow, and shoot it at that person, and they would fall madly in love? And the great love stories come from that. And the tragic love stories. Well, we know that that arrow is filled with chemicals. You can take a person in love and look at their brain and it is different than a person who is not in that first stage. So everything is different and has this wonderful glow. And we fall in love with the very things that are gonna drive us crazy.
    Second stage: the chemicals wear off; Cupid's arrow has fallen out. We start to notice that the things we fell in love with start to bother us. ... The rough edges. ...
    The first stage is that we found our other half. And then the second stage we find out that is not our other half. In fact, there are a lot of way we don't fit. We start to notice that, but we don't like that. Because it feels so good to be in that first stage, that we deny that. It IS a narcotic! You know the part of the brain that lights up when we're in love is the same part of the brain that lights up with cocaine and gambling? ...
    Then we move into the third stage: things get really bad there. Because [the second stage is] a trance. Just like the first stage was a trance. Everything is perfect. Stage 3 is what? Everything is wrong. Everything becomes evidence. We don't fit together. What do we ever have in common? We don't talk. [There's this] hurting. .. It's gonna get better. ... You can leave, but leave until stage 5. ...
    We go to the ... the fourth stage, which is "the decision"... People are stuck. They go, "I'm not in love anymore." And I say, "Love is a feeling. A long-term relationship is full of cycles. Full of seasons." And I think we in our culture are so hung up on the first stage. Certainly our love songs. Our movies. ... I love this [4th] stage, because now we are getting to be in charge. You are at a real fork. Do I stay? DO I go? Do I push it under the rug and just say, "Okay, we are gonna give up the idea of intimacy? We'll figure out how to live with each other. Stand it?" Or, maybe, just move into parallel lives. ... Do we learn about what it is to be wholehearted? ...
    Okay, stage 5 means, I learn how to be - I love Sam Keen's quote - I learn how to love an imperfect person perfectly. Stage 5 is really self-work. I fact, this whole thing is self-work. ... Sex is important for all kinds of reasons, but more important than sex is the conversation: how to keep talking about it. ... When we can't talk about when it is not perfect, then we are in more trouble than anything."
  • Jan. 1, 2015, deadessays.blogspot.com, 'It Wasn't Courtney': "Her father, Hank Harrison, had been a college friend and roommate of Phil Lesh in the early '60s, had briefly managed the Warlocks "for one week" in 1965, and stayed in contact with the Dead up to the '70s, gathering material for his books on them. Courtney Michelle Harrison was born on July 9, 1964; Phil Lesh was her godfather. She lived with her parents in San Francisco until their divorce in 1969; then her mother took her to an Oregon commune in 1970. She had a loose hippie upbringing: one biographer describes her childhood house as full of musicians, groupies and freaks; and Courtney later shuddered, "There were all these hairy, wangly-ass hippies in our house... running around naked."[1] "We were doing tons of acid, changing sex partners, and tripping out," Hank said;[2] and in a child custody dispute, her mother would testify that Hank gave Courtney LSD as an infant."
  • May 2, 1994, People, 'A False Spring': "Like Cobain, Love brought considerable emotional baggage into the couple's sometimes violent relationship. According to her father, Hank Harrison, 54, who runs a small Palo Alto, Calif., publishing house, Courtney was a precocious toddler. Her first words, he remembers, formed a sentence: "Please get me a bottle." And like Cobain, her home life was destroyed by warring parents and divorce. Harrison and Courtney's mother, Linda Carroll, now an Oregon psychologist, split when Courtney was 5, and Harrison didn't see his daughter from the time she was 7 until she was 13. "Her mother told her I was dead," he says. Courtney lived with Carroll, but their relationship was troubled: Courtney ran away from home several times during her early teens, spent a year in reform school, then sought and achieved emancipation as a minor at 15.
    Living off part of a multimillion-dollar inheritance from her maternal grandfather, a wealthy eyeglass manufacturer, Courtney became a fixture on the punk rock scene, here and overseas, and worked as a stripper in L.A. In 1989 she married L.A. punk rocker James Moreland and divorced him a year later. She had gone through her inheritance, her father says, by the time she and Hole signed a reported $1 million recording deal with Geffen Records in 1992. A year before, she and Cobain began their passionate, drug-fueled love affair. Pregnant by the end of 1991, Love kicked heroin after learning the baby would be born healthy, and the couple married in February 1992 in Hawaii. The marriage at times seemed more like a collision as the two battled shared drug problems and each other. "They were always fighting," says one of the couple's friends.
    And yet, others insist the two loved one another deeply. Love and the baby helped control Cobain's engulfing despair, and he defended her against accusations that she was a no-talent gold-digger. Sadly, Cobain killed himself when the proof of her talent was, literally, in the mail."
  • March 5, 2020 Youtube upload, 'Hank Harrison interview 2/1/20': "She put Courtney in the street [when she was 7]. She just kicked Courtney out. ... I don't know if they were Stanford per se, but there was some kind of Oregon state budget too, don't forget that. ... Reparenting crap. ... And Reichian pychology. Wilhelm [Reich] yeah, that kind of stuff. Courtney was a bad kid, but the truth is, they were doing Tarot readings, firewalking, Hatha Yoga [and other forms of] yoga, running on no-food, that kind of stuff. ... They were coocoo. ... And Linda was as much into it as the rest of them. And I don't know what they were exposing her to, but oh yeah, they gave her pills. Tuinal, which is the blue and the red pill. A sleeping pill. It's a hypnotic truth serum-type of thing. Seconal, Tuinal and, eh... before she went into juve... between 12 and 14. And they were trying to get her to erase me from her mind. And I found out much later that the reason they were doing that wasn't because they [Linda and friends] thought I was evil, they thought I was after their money. And at the time I didn't even know they had any money... [Courtney] even said in public herself that she was told that I was dead. For one. But even before that, they said, "Hank is a bad guy. You don't wanna know about your dad." ...
    To take it that far, to ruin a child just because she is genetically linked to some idiot like me. [Whiney voice:] "You know, I married the wrong guy, and he was abusive, so I don't want anything to do with him, and I don't want my daughter to have anything to do with him." ... Very sassy, but in a bad way. ... "Hank gave Courtney LSD": none of that happened. ... I never gave Courtney LSD. And I paid money to take a lie detector test [with] a legitimate CIA guy. ...
    The thing that got Courtney and I back together again was my ability to respond to Courtney's requests for records she wanted [to have] ... At the time I was living on a very nice houseboat in Sausolitos [where Courtney would visit me]... Alan Watts lived about two boats down to me. ...
    I was standing in line at an icecream place, and this woman comes up to me: "Are you Hank Harrison? ... Are you Courtney Love's father? ... I'm her financial counselor." She happened to be a Deadhead. She happened to know me because of my Dead books. ... "Courtney is up right now in juvenile hall. When you get a chance, you bring her down and introduce her - because I wanna talk to her." And she gave me her card: Wells Fargo bank... I didn't know wat the implications were gonna be, but got her on a plane, got her on a plane, got I got her settled in Sausalito with me. [That's when she learned she was a millionaire]. No only did she say that I was dead, she told her all the money was gone. [Claims that still a couple million should be left, while in another interview he claimed Courtney had blown through this trust fund by the early 1990s.]"
  • 'Tin Foil Hat w/ Sam Tripoli #197: Love Kills w/ John Potash'
  • July 2006, Psychology Today, 'Tortured Love' (about Linda Carroll's book on her mother and daghter, Courtney Love; never in the article does the Linda consider her own shortcomings; she's just blaming her daughter for everything, even when she was a baby): "My daughter Courtney has struggled with alcohol and drugs and mental illness and celebrity. It is a lethal combination, and she continues to do damage. The question is, how do you go on with your life? How do you mourn the living?
    I took Courtney to a therapist when she was 2. I felt something was wrong. There were times she would cry for hours and couldn't be soothed. Other times she cried in a way that seemed fake, as if she would study people and then do it. The first therapist I consulted said, "I don't know what's wrong. But I have a feeling it's going to get worse, and there's not anything we can do." I have been grateful all my life for him. He was an intern... When she was 14, we went to a therapist who also said she may get worse. All the rest said, "It's you." And I believed that. ...
    When she was about 8 and I became the brunt of her rage. Something in me shifted then. One time, years later, I was visiting Courtney's daughter, Frances, at their home in Beverly Hills, and Courtney was horribly cruel to the people who worked for her. I felt deep shame and asked myself what I must have done to her for her to do that to them. I went to my own therapist and cried. I was trying to show myself that I'm not responsible for her treating people like that. I know that I'm not making her make those choices and that I didn't make her bipolar. What I did do was give in to her. I was so scared of her anger that I indulged her, and I taught her really young that if she screams, she could get her own way. But I did not make her a seriously character-disordered person. ...
    She was in juvenile detention and I was training to become a counselor. On Sundays I would drive with my daughters Nicole and Jaimee to see her in detention, where she'd busted a door and knocked someone's teeth out. She was 15 or 16. That was so mortifying, I didn't talk about it. I was becoming a counselor, my children and I were building a life, and then I have this kid who is in prison. ...
    About six years ago [I last talked to her]. She was cleaning up her act, practicing Buddhism. She was dating the actor Edward Norton—she was sort of his project. We had some conversations. She made some generous gifts of money to me and to her half-brothers: paid for a year of their college. But she became enraged when she found out one of her siblings hadn't listened to her new album as soon as it came out. That was the end.
    Courtney doesn't cook, drive or have relationships. One hundred years ago, she would have been institutionalized. So much of Hollywood is based on people like that. One day two years ago, Frances was staying with me, and we were at a nail salon, which had a television on. The announcer said, "After the break, we'll tell you what ex-rock star was running naked through the hallway." I grabbed Frances and said, "We've got to go, sweetie, I just remembered I have an appointment." In the car, she said, "Grandma, I know that's Mommy. And if you don't tell me, I'll have to look on the Internet."
    That night her manager called my daughter Nicole and said they'd just taken her to Bellevue Hospital, nobody there cares what happens to her, and if someone from her family doesn't come, they're going to really throw away the key. ... Will she let me be a resource for her? Probably not. She'll probably say I'm there to lock her up. I [just] go because it is the right thing to do. ...
    My other four kids are fabulous humans and I would think to myself, "How did they get that way?" Then I would think about Courtney, "How did I screw up so badly? What did I do?" One day, I was astounded to realize that while I could not take credit for the way my children have done well, I took all the blame for the child who has troubles. ...
    I don't even have sentimental feelings for her anymore, but I would give her my kidney. ... They say things like, "Well, then there can be closure." Closure is a human fantasy. We live with open wounds."
  • November 7, 2016, Yahoo, 'This Is Just How Much Courtney Love Loathes Donald Trump'.
  • April 11, 2016, Rolling Stones, 'Guns N' Roses vs. Nirvana: A Beef History; Team Axl and Team Kurt go head to head — and finally make peace': "In a high-profile interview with LGBT publication The Advocate, Kurt ... called Axl "a fucking sexist and a racist and a homophobe, and you can't be on his side and be on our side. ... And besides they can't write good music.""
• The 2016 case of Isaiah Silva, in which he claimed Courtney Love tried to have him "suicided" and also that Cobain's mother supports the Courtney-killed-Cobain disinformation video Soaked in Bleach:
  • May 25, 2018, Superior Court of the State of California, County of Los Angeles, Central District, Case No. BC707927, Plaintiff Isaiah James Silva, full complaint against Courtney Love, Sam Lutfi and associates over the June 3, 2016 home invasion: "23. ... COBAIN's estranged mother, LOVE, rented a home directly across from Wattles Park, a small park within walking distance of SILVA and COBAIN's Curson Avenue residence. LUTFI would later claim that he and BUTLER facilitated LOVE's move to this location. ... Soon after her move, LOVE began texting and solicitating SILVA for his help in mending the damaged relationship with her daughter [and] to allow her to introduce her to LUTFI, LOVE's confidant and business manager. Despite SILVA's apprehension [he] felt obliged to appease the request of his future mother-in-law... Subsequently, LUTFI initiated numerous attempts to ingratiate himself with both COBAIN and SILVA.
    20. ... LUTFI surreptitiously [started providing] narcotics and illicit benzodiazepines to COBAIN and LOVE. Defendant LUTFI and COBAIN referred to the drugs as "cookies." ...
    21. ... LUTFI routinely used Defendant BUTLER to deliver the narcotics and illicit benzodiazepines to COBAIN. One routine was for BUTLER to leave the drugs in a hiding place in the bushes outside of SILVA and COBAIN's Curson Avenue residence. [They] were hidden to ensure SILVA was unaware of the secret drug-related business relationship... COBAIN [also] developed a code of emojies to disguise each of illicit drugs that she would solicit from LUTVI. ...
    26. COBAIN and SILVA engaged now for some time, and with SILVA still none the wiser that LUTFI had been surreptitiously providing narcotics and illicit benzodiazepines to COBAIN, set October 30, 2013 as their wedding date. However, before the date arrived, SILVA became increasingly concerned after witnessing COBAIN, on a number of occasions, meet a car outside of their Curson Avenue residence, return inside in a suspicious manner, and immediately retreat into the bathroom [followed by] bizarre, agitated, and abusive behavior. ... On one such occasion, SILVA ... found COBAIN passed out on the bathroom floor from apparent drug use. This was not an isolated incident [especially] as time went by... COBAIN continued to emphatically deny that her behavior and physical condition were drug-related. ...
    55. ... LUTVI [to Silva friend Diaz on May 31, 2016:] "Make the right choice or live in hell, you decide. ... Both CL (LOVE) and Billy (CORGAN) are contacting everyone in this town [to ban you]... Give the cell number Isaiah is currently using. I'm not asking again." ...
    72. ... [During the June 3, 2016 home invasion] LUTFI threatened the lives of SILVA's family and seven-year-old daughter ARLO ... if [SILVA] failed to convincingly relay the fake story to the police officers at the scene, and if he ever revealed the truth about the home invasion, assault, and kidnapping in the future. ... LUTFI went on to tell SILVA that he had surreptitiously gathered information about ARLO and knew where ARLO lived, where she went to school, her teacher's name, her school schedule... LUTFI also warned SILVA that he, LOVE, and COBAIN owned the judicial system, the LAPD, and the media, so no one would believe SILVA. SILVA told the officers that LUTFI, YUKHTMAN, and BUTLER were old college friends of his from out of town and the kidnapping had been a prank...
    73. Were it not for the intervention of MUNSEY and the LAPD, it is believed, based upon facts and evidence, that SILVA would have been taken to a secondary crime scene and murdered on June 3, 2016. As previously described in this complaint, LUTFI, LOVE, and their co-conspirators went to great lengths to create the impression that COBAIN's soon to be ex-husband (SILVA) was depressed, drug addicted, on the brink of committing suicide, and had recently inquired about where to obtain a firearm. An eerily familiar scenario [with regard to] ex-husband Kurt Cobain...
    74. Having spoken candidly with Kurt Cobain's mother, O'CONNOR, on several prior occasions... O'CONNOR confided that she believed LOVE to be involved in the alleged suicide of her son, Kurt Cobain. ... During one of their 2015 conversations, O'CONNOR told SILVA and MARY that shortly after Kurt Cobain's death, she and LOVE were talking in the kitchen of the Washinton home where Kurt Cobain had died. When O'CONNOR began to question the facts surrounding her son's alleged suicide, O'CONNOR said that LOVE became angry and threatened O'CONNOR's daughter, Brianne O'Connor, saying, "Shut up, or she's next." O'CONNOR told SILVA and SILVA's mother, MARY, that Kurt Cobain had filed for divorce from LOVE shortly before his death and had initiated the process of cutting LOVE out of his last will and testament. On the same say that she threatened O'CONNOR, LOVE threw Kurt Cobain's divorce papers into the fire and declared to O'CONNOR, "Everything's mine."
    O'CONNOR also told SILVA and SILVA's family members that she was dissatisfied with the recent dcoumentary "Montage of Heck," about her late son, and said she felt manipulated by the film's director, LOVE, and COBAIN for forcing her to participate in the film, which O'CONNOR claimed was a vindication project for LOVE. ... Her request [to remove her scenes] was denied by the film's director, LOVE and [Frances] COBAIN. O'CONNOR told the Silvas that she favored a contemporaneously released documentary, 'Soaked in Bleach," which [super-manipulatively] advanced the theory that Kurt Cobain's death was a murder, not suicide, and that LOVE was a coconspirator in his murder. O'CONNOR implored SILVA and his family to watch "Soaked in Bleach." ...
    77. Once the LAPD left the scene ... the three men held SILVA hostage for several hours.
    78. Concentrating on forcing SILVA to disclose the location of the 1959 Martin guitar, LUTFI incessantly threatened and demeaned SILVA declaring SILVA deserved a bullet to head and to be put in the ground. ... LUTFI informed SILVA that they had already started the process by contacting various DJs at KROQ and ALT 98.7 in Los Angeles that SILVA had a working relationship with. LUTFI said that the DJs were told by LOVE and COBAIN to boycott SILVA's band.
    Taking aim again at SILVA's daughter, LUTFI [was] implying he was going to kidnap and/or kill her. LUTFI told SILVA that they, the conspirators, had "bugged" SILVA's home and had been recording him at home for the past nine months. LUTFI told SILVA that he should just give in to them now because they, LUTFI and his coconspirators, had the means and the influence to carry out his threats without being held legally accountable. ...
    84. LUTFI demanded that SILVA give him his computer. LUTFI told SILVA that he needed to smash the computer hard drive so that he could present it to LOVE and COBAIN to show them that he had at least destroyed all of SILVA's photographs and recordings of COBAIN."
  • July 30, 2019, Daily Mail, 'Courtney Love's former son-in-law 'to undergo psychiatric examination' after claiming singer plotted to murder him over Kurt Cobain guitar in lawsuit'.
  • October 24, 2003, Billboard, 'Courtney Love In Bitter Custody Fight': ""Wendy went nuts," Love told the paper. "She shoved me, and I slapped her like a 4-year-old, though I've never slapped a 4-year-old.""
  • October 24, 2003, EW, 'Courtney Love tried to make OD ''fun'' for daughter': "Since Oct. 10 — a week after the day that saw her allegedly try to break into a house, get arrested on drug charges, and overdose on prescription drugs — Love's daughter Frances Bean Cobain has been living with her paternal grandmother, Wendy O'Connor. ...
    She allegedly smashed the windows of sometime boyfriend/manager Jim Barber's home (a home she's said on her website that Barber leases from her). Later that morning, after she was booked and released on $2,500 bail, Love took as many as 20 milligrams of OxyContin "to be knocked out," People quotes her as saying.
    She called 911, and while she waited for the ambulance, Love said, Frances and a nanny kept her company, with the 11-year-old brewing her mother some green tea. "That's the only time my daughter has ever, ever, ever pitched in on one of my little crises," Love told People. "I made it fun. I said it was going to be gross and I was going to have to make myself throw up, but it was going to be okay.""
  • December 16, 2009, eonline.com, 'Love's Labor Lost: Judge Bars Courtney From Seeing Francis Bean': "A lawyer for Frances told the court last week that the child of Love and the late Kurt Cobain would prefer the company of her paternal grandmother, Wendy O'Connor, and aunt, Kimberly Dawn Cobain, than her erratic mom. ...
    The 45-year-old rocker took to her Facebook page Tuesday and posted a number of rants directed at her offspring that have since been deleted. "[Frances] thinks she has all this money, [but] the point is I have all the money she has," fumed Love. "I hate to sound cold but any kid of mine who pulls this s--t has lost her position. The good news is now that Frances is clearly deluded that she [imagines] she can buy her grandmother a 'small house in L.A.'""
• Close Kurt Cobain friend (and early mentor) Buzz Osborne criticized 'Montage Of Heck':
• June 6, 2015, NME, 'The Melvins' Buzz Osborne on Kurt Cobain film: '90 per cent of Montage Of Heck is bullshit'; The grunge musician tackles factual inconsistencies in the film and criticises Courtney Love': ""I went to high school with Kurt... I thought very highly of Kurt, Krist and Dave. We were good friends... My band played with Nirvana at their last show. I was there for the beginning and I was there for the end, for the very good and the very bad." ...
  He continues: "First off, people need to understand that 90% of Montage Of Heck is bullshit. Total bullshit. That's the one thing no one gets about Cobain – he was a master of jerking your chain." ...
  The guitarist, who was also a member of Cobain's first band Fecal Matter, also downplayed Cobain's alleged medical problems. "Kurt also told me there was absolutely nothing wrong with his stomach," he states. "He made it up for sympathy and so he could use it as an excuse to stay loaded. Of course he was vomiting -- that's what people on heroin do, they vomit. It's called 'vomiting with a smile on your face'." ...
  "And then there's Courtney," he writes. "A lot of what she says in this documentary doesn't exactly jibe with things Kurt told me himself, but I suppose that's not surprising when you consider history becomes elastic every time Courtney Love opens her mouth. For instance, she'd have us believe that Kurt tried to off himself when she'd only thought about cheating on him? Wow. That's a whole lot different from the stories he told me in regards to Courtney's behavior -- and this was well before he ended up dead. And that's just one example. ...
  When Courtney speaks, the truth is certainly there, but God only knows where it begins and ends.
  He does, however, add: "They did a fantastic job of showing what a depressing shit-hole Aberdeen really was and still is. For that, I salute them!""

• American nu metal band formed in 1993. The frontman for all these years has been Jacoby Shaddix.
• Papa Roach wasn't signed by Warner Bros., despite Shaddix having far above average vocals, and giving them songs that would end up becoming huge hits. Even a secondary producer wasn't intially convinced:
  • April 25, 2005, hitquarters.com, 'Interview with JAY BAUMGARDNER, producer/mixer for Evanescence, Papa Roach, Limp Bizkit, Alien Ant Farm': ""At first I wasn't really convinced that it would work out. But then I saw a video of them performing at a club. I saw all these kids going wild, knowing the songs by heart. That's when I realized that they definitely had potential. I decided to go and see them on stage and meet them."
    Jay decided that he wanted to work with the band, and made a demo with them with the aid of a small amount of money that the band had received through a development deal with Warner Brothers. But Warner Brothers wasn't interested. After showing the material to other labels the band finally got a deal with Dreamworks. He went on to produce the band's album, and both have had a great career because of it."
• A handful of interviews with (a very politically correct) Jacoby Shaddix and a handful of tweets of @paparoach make it clear that certainly Shaddix believes that Trump should have been impeached (on bogus charges) and that Iran is a shining beacon of truth compared to Trump:
  • May 25, 2017, NME.com, 'Papa Roach speak out against 'shit show' of Trump Presidency; Frontman Jacoby Shaddix tells NME that the current state of US politics is 'really fucking depressing'': "The starting point is how do I act and how do I treat the people that I come directly in contact with. That's how I change the world, all this other shit is noise; it's person to person, it's man to man, it's woman to man... human beings deserve to be treated with dignity and respect and that's what I strive for, that's the standard that I hold to myself and to the people around me, and the current administration is just seems like a fucking shit show and I am not impressed, I am not a fan and I think we have a long way to go..."
  • July 23, 2018 @paparoach tweet: "To Iranian President Rouhani: LOSING MY SIGHT, LOSING MY MIND, WISH SOMEBODY WOULD TELL ME I'M FINE, NOTHING'S ALRIGHT, NOTHING IS FINE, I'M RUNNING AND IM CRYING. CUT MY LIFE INTO PIECES, THIS IS MY LAST RESORT."
    This was a response to Trump's tweet on the same day towards Iran (which is clearly interested in building WMDs and always provoking the world): "To Iranian President Rouhani: NEVER, EVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE. WE ARE NO LONGER A COUNTRY THAT WILL STAND FOR YOUR DEMENTED WORDS OF VIOLENCE & DEATH. BE CAUTIOUS!"
  • July 30, 2019, NME.com, 'Papa Roach deliver brilliant trolling of Donald Trump; Well played.': ""NO COLLUSION, NO OBSTRUCTION, TOTAL EXONERATION. DEMOCRAT WITCH HUNT!," wrote Trump." However, it wasn't long before the US rockers realised that Trump's angry ramblings didn't sound too dissimilar to their most famous track. "CUT MY LIFE INTO PIECES, THIS IS MY LAST RESORT", the band replied – quoting the lyrics of 'Last Resort'.
  • May 23, 2017 tweet of Papa Roach: "Wow, our hearts go out to everyone affected by the explosion in Manchester." Reply by @HoustonForTrump: "it's called a terrorist attack [by Islamists]"
• No additional info on elite/antifa ties.

• Heavy metal band from Texas, founded in 1981 by the brothers Dimebag Darrell Abbott (shot in 2004) and Vinnie Paul (d. 2018). Bassist Rex Brown joined in 1982. Singer Phil Anselmo joined in 1987. This line up was together until the band stopped in late 2003. They got together again in 2022.
• Singer Phil Anselmo is a interesting. He has a dark-jovial humor, and said a few very unique (for artists) things earlier is his career in terms of "anti-wokeness". THe only problem was that he apparently never denounced Naziism and has made Nazi salutes, which greatly diminishes his "white pride" and anti-"racist black rap" speeches:
  • March 4, 1995, Phil Anselmo on stage at a show, 'Phil Anselmo white pride speeches(compilation)' (youtube.com/watch?v=kHdYLg4itCQ (accessed: July 9, 2023)):"The big motherfucking trend now - on the MTV and all the radio and shit [and] it's getting more boisterous and more loud - it's the black rap band. It's the rap thing. [Loud booing] YOu feel the same way, don't you? You are getting tired of this shit? ... As far as Pantera is concerned, we have friends of every color and every kind. [loud cheering] Remember what I said! You ain't gotta cheer. This is not a Skid Row show. Just listen to me. Listen to me. We have friends of every color and every kind. You hear me? [loud cheering] If you conduct yourself as a gentlemen, as a human being, you are treated that way. But when it comes down to ... that these black ass rap motherfucking fans are on stage sayig, "Down, whitey!", "The white man is the big oppressor!" "The white man is evil!" "White this, bad white that" Shit like this. Look, let me say something, motherfucker! I am born a hulking, 100 percent motherfucking white! You understand me? *Loud cheering!* I was born in 1968! I am not responsible for motherfucking shit that happened [ages ago] and nobody else is! Nobody else is!
    And every motherfucking other color and race has every reason in the world to have pride. Black power! Black pride! Hispanic pride! All these things. But if you say, "White pride"? What are you? A racist!
    Let me say what. I'm gonna put one foot forward, right now. And I'm gonna say, "Hey, if you got white pride, baby. Fucking A! Have white pride! *Superloud cheering* And take that to the grave with you!
    There ain't no damn racist coming. Because I'll embrace my black brother. I'll fucking hug him. I'll shake his hand. I'll kiss him on the goaddman face if I have to. I'll do what it takes. But I'm gonna tell you what. There ain't no motherfucker in this world is gonna tell me how I can't wake up and look in the mirror and be proud. They can suck my Italian dick! *Loud cheering* Thank you very muuuch! It needed to be said.
  • March 4, 1995, Phil Anselmo on stage at a show in Montreal: "We have friends of all colors and all kinda, we are a racist band. The rap bands – the majority of them, the hardcore motherfuckers, are pissing all over your white culture. They don't want your fucking culture at all.
    [These T-shirts with] 'Stop black-on-black crime': You know what that means? That means stop black people from killing each other. What does that say to you? That means it's OK to kill white people, don't it? That's what it means to me. It doesn't say 'stop fucking crime'. It says stop *black-on-black* crime. It's OK to kill a white motherfucker - no problem. Well, look. Let me tell you what. Let me tell you what! If you walked around with a fucking T-shirt on that said “White" t-shirt on that said 'White pride' you'd be a fucking racist...' When you wake up in the motherfucking morning and you look at yourself in the goddman mirror... Look, here, have all the fucking pride in your heart, man - have all the fucking pride in the world, man. That's all I've got to say. Because we are the great people. And you know what? Maybe, just maybe, tonight is a white thing and the black [people] would not understand what the fuck I'm talking about - does that make sense to you?'"
  • March 4, 1995, Phil Anselmo on stage at a show, 'Phil Anselmo white pride speeches(compilation)' (youtube.com/watch?v=kHdYLg4itCQ (accessed: July 9, 2023)): "We got friends of all colors, of all race - black, white, hispanic, Mexican, etc., etc. - we got 'em all. *Loud cheering* But don't you get me wrong with what I'm about to say, my friends of color." On behalf of the rest of these honky motherfuckers, I am a white boy. Do you understand what I'm saying? *Loud cheering* I'm sorry! I'm born fucking white! *Extra loud cheering* You know what I'm saying? Like I had anything to do with it? You've watched the news? All they do is steer up friction between every motherfucking - Well look! I'm ain't trying for peace. Because I ain't no goddman sympathizer. You know why? Every motherfucking black ass group downs whitey every show. And you know what? I've had it. *Superloud cheering* I'm sick of it. ... Believe me, I'm not going to stoop to any level. All I wanna say to each and every person in this whole motherfucking place, no matter what your goddamn color is, use your own motherfucking mind for a change. When you wake up in the motherfucking morning, you look at your face. And you look at where you came from. And you show pride. Be white and proud! That is all I gotta say."
  • March 4, 1995, Phil Anselmo on stage at a show, 'Phil Anselmo white pride speeches(compilation)' (youtube.com/watch?v=kHdYLg4itCQ (accessed: July 9, 2023)): "The racism here ain't all that big a problem. Black and whites are [inaudible]. Well, where we live, you see blacks, and you see whites. I ain't working out too well. And the big trend in America and across the world is for black rap bands to come out and to write these songs [where] they down white people. They dog out white people. Can you understand what I'm saying? You know what the fuck I'm talking about? Well, over here they teach you to be civil about such matters. But let me tell you what? THis is one white kid, on behalf of the rest of my friends up here, we ain't putting up with that bullshit no more. No! There ain't one motherfucking white man in America, or anywhere else, that has the fucking guts, on all levels, to come out and say, "Fuck all that black power bullshit!" *Cheering, but not as overwhelmingly loud than in North America apparently*
• The commenst to a video compilation of Phil Anselmo's speeches, even in 2023 with nothing but censorship and propaganda, have been almost nothing but positive. Below most of the most prominent messages of a total of 3,537 have been backed up, with no even remotely critical comment visible:
  • March 4, 1995, Phil Anselmo on stage at a show, 'Phil Anselmo white pride speeches(compilation)' (youtube.com/watch?v=kHdYLg4itCQ (accessed: July 9, 2023)): "
    - 675 likes: Im full blown black and i dont think phil said anything racist. Pantera is the shit
    - 541 likes: Im black, and I LOVE This band. phil is speaking facts
    - 412 likes: I love how people will take the parts of his speeches to support an anti-Phil narrative, but the parts where he urges inclusivity get magically left out. It’s willful ignorance.
    - 381 likes: He's not saying to hate other races.He's speaking of double standards.
    - 365 likes: Every race in this world shows pride in whom they are and what they stand for. As long as there is no violence or hate towards others there’s nothing wrong with showing pride in who you are.
    - 331 likes: He's actually a pretty good speaker to be honest. It's not easy to make controversial statements like this in front of a crowd. I think he's entitled to his point of view.
    - 300 likes: He clearly states no matter the color of your skin, wake up every morning and feel proud of who you you are, no matter the race. Title here is misleading
    - 273 likes: This isn’t racist at all. He’s correct. He just has a real way of saying shit. People today can’t handle that kind of honesty
    - 257 likes: Not racist at all. Rock on phil!
    - 235 likes: I'm a black man and have been a fan of Pantera since 1998, and I approve of this message \m/
    - 233 likes: People are mad about this? I came in expecting to find some hidden dirt with him saying the most vile things imaginable. This is fine. Nothing wrong with having pride in your heritage and racism towards ANY race is disgusting. I'm Hispanic and grew up in South Texas with LOADS of other Hispanic people. Lots of them are often covertly racist towards whites and it's definitely something that has to stop
    - 220 likes: I've always heard that Phil was a white nationalist and racist. So I found this video. He's not racist at all! He's pointing out the double standards of "reverse racism" while saying that everyone has the right to be proud of where they come from.
    - 203 likes: Phil didn't ever lie... About this issue he was waaay ahead of the curve.
    - 191 likes: I’m Filipino and I don’t find him racist. I’m still a fan of pantera.
    - 182 likes: Holy shit everything Phil said relates to the divide that's going on right now.
    - 165 likes: I don't really view these as "white pride" speeches, but rather a commentary about black rap bands and how they were allowed to act like fools. Given all of the bait that the black bands dished out in complaining about white people, they got a lot less backlash than they earned. They were kind of coddled tbh. I'm saying this as someone who loves Snoop Dogg.
    - 160 likes: He has a point in the first speech.
    - 154 likes: These words are only becoming more relevant as time goes on. A signal of cultural regression.
    - 143 likes: Phil was sick of the racist woke scolds before they even became trendy.
    - 140 likes: I wonder when people will realize that he isn’t racist. He just didn’t care what people thought of him or what they thought of his image.
    - 133 likes: My school is mostly Hispanic ethnicity and black race filled, I’m Hispanic and I feel shamed seeing the white people in my school getting called the weird kid or get made fun of even though they are quiet and haven’t done anything.
    127 likes: Phill isn't wrong. I was at the shows from this time and remember these rants. It's exactly around the time I noticed the division in music started. It was really dumb and I can't believe people I knew bought into it. A lot of my friends that listened to rap started shunning us metal guys for nothing and wouldn't talk to us or hang anymore and it's exactly what Phill is talking about. I listened to everything when I was young until rap got really weird about white people and I didn't feel comfortable hating on myself and people like me. So I didn't really listen to rap anymore. I remember my black friends and white friends who listened to rap would say some messed up stuff towards us that wasn't true one bit and it really hurt. I lost some good friends over bullshit.
    - 117 likes: Truth spoken and not a word twisted.
    - 108 likes: Im hispanic and i for me he has all the reasons,everybody should be proud to be White, black,asian.or whatever you are
    - 96 likes: Considering he was saying this in the 90s, It's even more relevant now than it was then.
    - 92 likes: It's 2020 and what he said back then is more true today.
    - 92 likes: How can somebody tell the thruth in these days, im speechless. I tought truth was illegal. Hell Pantera
    - 86 likes: that... not a racist speech, he just putting things into prespective! - to this unbalance in society and the sad fact there is a stigma to being white.... Phil respect.
    - 85 likes: Lol you cannot make him look bad. "If you conduct yourself like a gentleman and a human being, you'll be treated like one".
    - 83 likes: Phil isn't racist he came to the Navajo reservation with superjoint ritual when I was a kid and put on a damn good show. Thanks man
    - 84 likes: So proud of Phil for telling the truth.
    - 68 likes: This needs to be repeated now more than ever.
    - 53 likes: He's speaking truth.
    - 40 likes: I'm brown but we all love Pantera the same way take pride in that
    - 37 likes: We need a band like this in 2022 so bad cancel culture could never cancel Pantera
    - 31 likes: wow this has completely changed the perspective I had on this guy.... I agree with everything he said... if you are a respectful person everybody will treat you back with respect, no matter what color or race!
    - 30 likes: He is saying what every other non racist whole dude wants too. Nothing wrong with being proud of who you are.
    - 26 likes: I am an afro-brazilian man and I love Pantera. Phil is right!
    - 26 likes: Not sure what this video's trying to prove? ... The title is absolutely misleading.
    - 22 likes: He's 100% right. There's a serious double standard in this country that needs fixin'.
    - 19 likes: Needs to be said more today than ever before.
    - 15 likes: If they would start really teaching the real shit in schools we wouldn't have this problem.
    - 12 likes: Seeing Phil's comments on race in context, he was way ahead of his time (if these were from '95). Being 26 now, I remember when the whole "everything's racist" notion initially started blowing up in the late 2000s when Obama was running for President. What Bush Jr did for this country financially (The Great Recession) is what Obama did for this country socially. Obama had the opportunity, as the first Black President and a 2-term President, to unify people more. Instead, he divided us further with every new social construct that came out during and after his presidency (i.e. "everything is racist, sexist, etc.", preferred pronouns, etc.).
    - Arab replyer: Nothing wrong with what's he saying. I'm not wthie and I'm not offended. We all know there are double standards out there... A black person can waive their black pride 24/7 and its "cool" but when a white person does it, its "racist".""
• Mainstream articlesabout Phil Anselmo, also from metal magazines, universally leave out any references of Phil to embracing races of other color and that his main criticism has been the pushing by the media of black rap that is racist against white people. As said, Phil has made himself extra vulnerable for that due to pointless Nazi salutes.
  • Feb. 1, 2016, The Guardian, 'Metal community condemns Phil Anselmo over Nazi salute and shout of 'white power': "Philip Anselmo ... was filmed last week giving a Nazi salute and shouting “white power”. [Video can be viewed: he's aggressively shouting into the public white power]...
    In 1994, questioned on MTV about allegations of racist elements in his lyrics, he refused to condemn fans shouting “white power” at Pantera gigs. The following year, after telling fans “Pantera are not a racist band”, he condemned rap artists for “pissing all over white culture” and concluded: “Tonight is a white thing.” In 2015 he expressed his regret for incorporating the Confederate flag into cover artwork for his band Superjoint Ritual."
  • May 7, 2019, Kerrang, 'Phil Anselmo: "I Am Reckless and I Am Absurd on Purpose"': "I feel like it's ridiculous. I made an off-color joke and 'Boom!' — it's like I'm literally Hitler!” Said Anselmo. “I'm not. I take each individual one at a time, in the way that any logical individual will. I have love in my heart. Over the years, I've learned to take the first step with love and to put good faith first. I get along with everybody. If there's any doubt about my political leanings, people should get it out of their heads. I was raised amongst a dazzling [cast of characters] from the theatre, from the mental hospital, from all walks of life — all colors, creeds and kinds. It's absurd to me that anyone in this day and age would judge anyone by the color of their skin, their heritage or their religion. I'm a harmless guy. I'm a reactionary, not a troublemaker.""
  • Jan. 29, 2016, BillBoard.com, 'Machine Head Frontman Robb Flynn Calls Out Phil Anselmo for Nazi Salute at Dimebash': "I was there, and I could tell you for a fact that there wasn’t a chardonnay or a pinot grigio in sight backstage. In fact, the only thing you were drinking, Phil Anselmo, was Becks German beer. Maybe that’s where the joke came from. ...
    I had to stand on f—ing stage with you — and granted, I wasn’t onstage anymore when you said all that stupid shit. No, I was only onstage when we were playing [Pantera’s] ‘A New Level’ and you were sieg heil-ing after the ‘and power’ like you’ve done forever now. And nobody calls you on it. No bands call you on it. I’ve talked to people on so many tours. ‘Yeah, Anselmo’s up there sieg heil-ing and mouthing the words ‘white power.’ ‘Why don’t you call him on it?’ ‘Oh, because I love Pantera, man, and who wants to start shit with him?’ Exactly. Who wants to start shit with you? You’re a big bully. A big, scary dude. But enough’s enough.”"
• Certainly after Pantera was removed from Rock AM Ring & Rock AM Park in 2023, it appears Anselmo, who may need the money, really started to kiss the wing with regard to the globalist/woke perspective:
  • Jan. 24, 2023, Forbes, 'Pantera Pulled From German Rock Festivals Following Criticism': "Germany’s premiere rock and metal festivals Rock AM Ring & Rock AM Park... "Pantera will not be performing at Rock in the Park and Rock in the Ring 2023, as announced,” the festival organizers state. “In the last few weeks, we have had many intensive conversations with artists, our partners and you, the festival fans, we have continued to deal with the criticism together and decided to remove the band from the program." Additionally, the German Green Party had criticized Pantera’s appearance at the festivals...
    Throughout the original lineups active years (1980’s-2001) Pantera had notoriously showcased the confederate flag at their live shows and in their merchandise"
  • May 29, 2023, metalinjection.net, 'Phil Anselmo On Confederate Flag Imagery: "I Disavow The F*ckin' Flag"; All thanks to one person holding a sign.: "Pantera hasn't been shy about using the Confederate flag in their merch, on stage, in the layout to 1996's The Great Southern Trendkill, and even on their instruments throughout the years. Though during a show in Sofia, Bulgaria on May 26, frontman Phil Anselmo publicly disavowed the use of the flag.
    Before playing "Cowboys From Hell" as the closer to the show, Anselmo addressed someone holding up an unknown sign in the crowd by saying "Sofia, I gotta say this: incredible audience. One more thing: there's a person over here holding up this sign trying to ruin the fuckin' show. I disavow, I disavow the fuckin' flag. I'm sorry. It's ridiculous, man. Keep politics out of shit. It's boring.""

• Lead singer of Pearl Jam since the group's founding in 1990. The group's first album Ten (1991) still is its most famous.
• Prehistory of Pearl Jam:
  • August 13, 2009, The Guardian, 'Pearl Jam: 'People get that this means something'': "Although Nirvana took grunge mainstream, Pearl Jam's Gossard and Ament had been among its pioneers. They were founder members of arguably the first grunge band, Green River, which came together in 1984. When Green River broke up, the pair furthered an unfashionable interest in classic rock with their new band, Mother Love Bone, honing the rock-meets-punk formula that propelled Pearl Jam. When MLB singer Andrew Woods died after a heroin overdose in March 1990, a few weeks before their debut album was scheduled for release, that band's career was ended. ...
    One was sending a tape to ex-Chili Peppers drummer Jack Irons in the hope he might join them. Instead Irons passed the tape to Vedder, a basketball buddy who sometimes sung in a San Diego band. Vedder mailed the tape back to Seattle, lyrics added [and soon joined them]...
    When Pearl Jam became successful, Vedder's first response was to open himself up. He'd write back when fans sent letters about his lyrics, questioning him about depression and alienation. But the letters turned into an avalanche. Then fans started coming to his house. A girl who believed Vedder was Jesus and had fathered her two sons by raping her almost killed herself by ramming her car into the wall of his house. ... Vedder retreated into himself. [But] he turned his anger into, he says, into "positive energy" – the opposite of Nirvana's nihilism."



• Pre-Pearl Jam, in the mid 1980s, Eddie Vedder sang for Indian Style, which included future Rage Against The Machine drummer and conspiracy disinformer Brad Wilk (recruited into RATM by Harvard's Tom Morello, a member of a generational CIA-globalist family), who continued to be a very close friend of Vedder. From 1988-1990 Vedder sang for the band Bad Radio. Around 1989 he got involved with Musicians We Care, helped them raise money for (globalist groups as) Amnesty International and the like, and in 1990 appeared on MWC-linked (globalist) world-love-and-peace "We Care" vinyl. Coincidentally, his housmate Brad Wilk got involved with CIA, UN and globalist superclass linked Tom Morello in 1989, with whom he would found Rage Against The Machine.
  • 1998, Kim Neely, 'Five against One': "Eddie Vedder ... worked his way through a number of short-lived bands--Surf and Destroy, the Butts, and Indian Style (a punk outfit that also featured future Rage Against the Machine drummer Brad Wilk)--before settling in as frontman for Bad Radio, a position he won in 1986 [1988 really; in 1986 Bad Radio was founded] after answering a want ad in the San Diego Reader...
    Valery Saifudinov, the owner of Bad Radio's Carlsbad rehearsal studio [said] "I told the band that Eddie was the guy they should get. He was a young songwriter who already had a good sense of what he wanted to do. He had the right taste--Springsteen, U2, people who mean something."
    Between 1987 and 1989, Bad Radio practiced a few times a week at Saifudinov's studio, growing into one of the top bands on the San Diego scene...
    Eddie's input wasn't just musical. He's quickly taken charge of the band's business affairs... He also steered Bad Radio in a more socially conscious direction after joining Musicians Who Care, an Encinitas-based network of charity-minded artists that sponsored a number of benefits Bad Radio played, including a November 1989 Human Rights Now! concert [to] raise money for Amnesty International. At times, Eddie was so broke that Patricia Grimes, the cofounder of Musicians Who care, had to hound him for his dues..."
  • digital-noise.net/interviews/audioslave.php (accessed: August 6, 2003; first capture): "Brad: I met up with Tom [Morello] in '90 ['89 it seems] and started jamming together. We needed a bass player and Zach [de la Rocha, recruited by Morello] brought Tim [Commerford] in.
    Patrick: I read that you played in a band with Eddie Vedder. Is that true?
    Brad: Yes that's true.
    Patrick: What was that all about?
    Brad: I had a friendship with him [in San Diego in the mid to late 1980s]. It wasn't really a [serious] band we were just good friends. He's a great musician."
  • May 4, 2018, alternativenation.net, 'Eddie Vedder's Disgusting Living Situation Revealed: 'It Was Like Nine Inch Nails'': "Brad Wilk discussed living with Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder in a new Let There Be Talk interview "I was living at my Mom's house, and then wound up living in the Valley with friends. Eddie and I had an apartment called the Nirvana, which was on Orange and Hollywood. There were so many cockroaches in this apartment... We had an apartment, he was still living in San Diego so he'd come up. This was a very brief period." He also remembered meeting and playing with Vedder in the late 1980's in San Diego. ... He said Vedder had the best voice he had ever heard at the time."
  • May 2, 2018, rock947.com, 'Rage Against the Machine's Brad Wilk reveals he auditioned to drum in Pearl Jam': "Speaking on the Let There Be Talk podcast, Wilk, who met Eddie Vedder when they both lived in San Diego, revealed that he auditioned to join Pearl Jam in 1991 while they were mixing what would become they're legendary debut album, Ten. However, Wilk says that the chemistry [musically] wasn't right."
  • March 18, 2010 YouTube upload by "In It To Spin It", 'Eddie Vedder's First Vinyl Appearance - The Care 1990', 2010 reply by "GreenCitiesCoalition" (Colorado-based action group on global warming and sustainable development; Saint spoke .): "Hey, this is Steve Saint, one of the producers of "The Care." First, thanks to whomever made this little video. Nice to see somebody cares!"
    • June 5, 2010, Steve Saint, sustainability coordinator for the Green Cities Coalition, introduces speakers for World Environment Day events, Cornerstone Arts Center, Colorado College: "As you may know, the UN declared June 5th World Environment Day around 1972. ... Non-violence, social justice and sustainability are all wound together."
• Long-time political activist along "liberal CIA" lines. Anti-Trump and "anti-racist" (and, more understandably, anti-Bush):
  • 2007, Robert F. Barsky, 'The Chomsky Effect', pp. 16-17: ""Around the time of the [first] Gulf War, MaximumRocknRoll [magazine] released a record called "New World Order." One one side is "music of resistance" by the group Bad Religion. ... On the flip side Chomsky takes a solo: ... "American troops walking into what could be a meat grinder."
    Interestingly, according to Billingsley, "This seven-inch vinyl release may have been the inspiration that made Chomskyites of Pearl Jam. The group's leader, Eddie Vedder, 'is a big Bad Religions fan,' according to Andy Kaulkin of Epitaph records, a ["kind of anarchist"] label owned by former Bad Religion member and Chomsky devotee Brett Gurewitz. [Epitaph negotiated] for the rights to release Noam Chomsky CDs... Other bands on the Epitaph label, it is worth noting, include Offspring ... NOFX...
    Don Wass ... worked "on an album that combines Chomsky readings with original music by REM, Pearl Jam, and other groups. ... Proceeds of the album will go to FAIR [financed by millions of the Ford, MacArthur, Mott and Schumann foundations]." ... 'Seemed fine to me,' Chomsky said, 'but I know very little about this scene.'"
  • May 3, 2008, Los Angeles Times, 'Eddie Vedder rips into state of the U.S. at Malibu event': "[An old song which] the Pearl Jam singer changed lyrically into an attack on the current [Bush] administration...
    Vedder's mix of reflection, anger and dejection encapsulated much of the mood of the evening's program, a taping of "The People Speak," an ongoing series of spoken-word and music performances that will be shaped into a documentary film of the same name. The stage events, which began in Boston in January, are inspired by ["liberal CIA"] Howard Zinn's 1980 book, "A People's History of the United States..." ...
    The readings Thursday were done by Hollywood ["liberal CIA"] notables Sean Penn, Sandra Oh, Benjamin Bratt, Don Cheadle, Casey Affleck [brother of Ben Affleck] and Rosario Dawson, and Josh Brolin was the host. ... Barbra Streisand, Diane Lane and Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers [were in the crowd]."
  • July 17, 2014, Rolling Stone, 'Eddie Vedder Reiterates Anti-War Stance After Anti-Israel Accusations - Rolling Stone'.
  • November 10, 2016, alternativenation.net, 'Red Hot Chili Peppers & Guns N' Roses Members React To Donald Trump Winning Presidential Election': "Even I'd be better than some of these men. Fuck Donald Trump. It's like his penis gets smaller every time he says huge. I like Hillary but I can feel the Bern. All you young voters it's time you were heard. Please don't stop don't ever give up."
  • September 25, 2017, CNN, 'Concert for Charlottesville and Pilgrimage Festival politically charged': "Other high profile performers included Pharrell (who took a knee in a show of solidarity with former San Francisco 49er Colin Kaepernick and other NFL players [in protest of racist police shootings]), Ariana Grande and Justin Timberlake, who opened his set with the classic civil rights anthem, "A Change Is Gonna Come" by the legendary soul-singer Sam Cooke. "Give yourselves a round of applause for making history," Timberlake said. "This is what unity does." He ended his performance yelling "Love trumps hate! ...
    Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder performed at the Nashville area event on Sunday, taking a knee after he finished his opening song." ... "In the face of a great divider, we must be united," Vedder said at the close of his set."
  • October 5, 2017, Stubhub.co.uk, '7 music stars taking a knee against racism': "John Legend ... Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder took time out from his solo show at the Pilgrim Music and Culture Festival to let the world know racism has no place in the United States. Another tweet from Pearl Jam's Twitter account read, "We support Seahawks' Michael Bennett, Colin Kaepernick and everyone's constitutional right to stand up, sit down or #takeaknee for equality.""
  • October 12, 2017, YouTube upload of "PearlJamOnLine", 'Eddie Vedder mocked Donald Trump's visit to Puerto Rico at the Murphy's Bleachers (10/10/2017)'.
  • January 12, 2018, AlternativeNation.net, 'Eddie Vedder's Wife Goes Off On 'Racist' President Trump: 'F*ck You!'': "Jill Vedder wrote, "Need to repost this pic again .. this racist, so called potus does not represent this country and certainly does not represent me… #fuckutrump #impeach45 #resist #theonlyshitholeisyoutrump." Garbage frontwoman Shirley Manson and former Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello also ripped the President."
  • January 21, 2018, alternativenation.net, 'Eddie Vedder & Chris Cornell's Daughter Protest President Trump': "Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder, his wife Jill, and Chris Cornell's daughter Lily attended the [elite-backed] Women's March on Saturday protesting President Donald Trump."
  • March 12, 2018, AlternativeNation.net, 'Eddie Vedder's 10 Biggest Trump Insults In New Pearl Jam Song'.

  

  • June 29, 2018, Infowars, 'Italians Blast Pearl Jam Over Pro-migrant, Open Border Lecture Band called on Italy to open ports of entry to migrant ships' (includes a video of Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder reading a message in Italian to allow migrant ships; in another YouTube video of the concert he also complains: "Things have even gotten worse. Every day it gets harder to see. ... Our country is changing. It's not even gonna be the same country we left [because of Trump and racism].").
  • August 14, 2018, Breitbart, 'Pearl Jam Poster Promoting Jon Tester Features Dead Donald Trump' (and a White House on fire).
• In the mid 1990s, Eddie Vedder ran "pirate radio" Self-Pollution from his Seattle Home and also on tour, in which Noam Chomsky's politics played a key role:
  • January 20, 2015 YouTube upload by 'xmascleanlove', 'Pearl Jam - Self-Pollution Radio 01 08 1995' ("Pearl Jam: Self-Pollution Radio. Live from Eddie Vedder's Seattle Home, with Stone Gossard a co-host. ... Mix tape with Iggy, Tom, Veruca, Henry, and Noam Chomsky ... Dave Grohl/Foo Fighters ... Mudhoney ... Soundgarden ... Eddie & Krist Novoselic [of Nirvana] ... Krist Novoselic reads from his book -- Chapter 1 - Surprise, Surprise" ): "[Interviews Home Alive founders, a charity set up after the 1993 rape and murder of punk rocker Mia Zapata (by a Cuban immigrant), followed by "Bobby Miller - Keep Your Mouth off My Sisters (spoken word)" about vulgar cat calling and slut-shaming by (white) men.]
    [Mudhoney is playing songs live in Eddie's house]
    [1:48:22: "Iggy, Tom, Veruca, Henry, Noam Chomsky - Jeff Ament Mix"]
    [2:44:40 and 3:16:50: "Krist Novoselic is here. He is sitting next to me. ... And this is Krist Novoselic with "Surprise, Surprise".
    At 3:26:00: Novoselic singing with Pearl Jam, except Vedder, playing."]
  • March 1996, K.L. Billingsley for Heterodoxy, 'Noam Chomsky, Punk Hero': "Pearl Jam set up a 75-watt 'pirate' radio station on every stop on its [winter 1995] tour. Th station broadcast selections from their albums. ... In between cuts, a male monotone voice oozing vulgar Marxism droned on about manipulation of the media, the evils of corporations, and the sins of America generally. The recorded voice belonged to ... Noam Chomsky..."
  • June 5, 2020, NME, 'Pearl Jam reflect on "unconscious racism": "It is the responsibility of each of us to listen and educate ourselves"; The band opened up on Twitter in the wake of George Floyd's death': "Our [band] has been reflecting on where unconscious racism is still showing up in our own lives and how we can do better. While we continue to dig in, we do not want to contribute to white voices overtaking the narrative that the Black community is sharing. It is the responsibility of each of us to listen and educate ourselves..."
• Eddie Vedder is a long-time Howard Zinn supporter:
  • May 6, 2011, feelnumb.com, 'Eddie Vedder Tribute To Howard Zinn On His Fender Telecaster Guitar': "Zinn said: "I was sitting at home one day and the phone rang and a polite young man said 'Mr. Zinn, my name is Eddie Vedder and I like to do an article with you for Interview Magazine, and I said OK, who are you?" This led to a friendship with Vedder and Pearl Jam. [Shows picture of Vedder and Zinn together and Vedder playing with a a guitar that reads "ZINN".]"
  • March 1999 issue, Interview magazine, 'The Rocker and the Teacher: Howard Zinn & Eddie Vedder': "HZ: Well, going to a Pearl Jam concert was an experience I would not have had in my life if it hadn't been for you. Just to take in that whole scene, and to be affected by it, was something I never would have imagined."
  • January 27, 2010 Eddie Vedder pearljam.com statement on the death of Howard Zinn: "I'm so grateful for his friendship... Fortunately he has left us with a body of work so extraordinary that it will be drawn upon for centuries to come... He was a true and constant source of inspiration for myself and countless others... For me, he was the true embodiment of hope..."
• Elite ties:
  • In December 2001 Pearl Jam was credited alongside Ted Turner's ex-wife Jane Fonda (once known as "Hanoi Jane"), the Ford Foundation and George Soros' Open Society Institute as a co-financier Afghan Women's Summit, organized by the super-elite feminist organization V-Day: One Billion Rising.
  • September 29, 2004, Financial Times, 'Devil is in the detail with "Satan" Soros': "Soros, who has emerged as a potent one-man mission against Mr Bush's re-election, is doing what he can. ... Backed by [the Soros-funded] MoveOn.org, the pro-Kerry group, a coalition of 21 artists including R.E.M., Pearl Jam, ... and the Dixie Chicks embarks this week on an 11-day tour through battleground states to rock the "Vote for Change" [to get rid of Bush]."
  • January 4, 2015, Daily Mail, 'They're with the band: President Obama and daughters Malia and Sasha hang with Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder on last day of Hawaiian vacation': "- President Obama and his daughters Malia and Sasha spent time with Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder on Saturday during their Hawaiian vacation.
    - Vedder has been a longtime supporter of Obama's, and played at a 2012 fundraiser for his reelection campaign.
    - Previously, Vedder supported Green Party candidate [and similarly Soros-backed] Ralph Nader, and said he would move to Canada if George Bush was elected president."
  • ebresearch.org/board-of-directors.html (accessed: May 17, 2018): "The Executive Board: ...
    - Alexander Silver is a founder and Chairman of EBRP. ... Prior to starting P2, Alex held positions at Soros Fund Management, Karsch Capital Management and Lazard Freres. ...
    - Jill Vedder [wife of Eddie Vedder since 2010] is a founder and Vice Chairman of EBRP. ...
    - Activist and front man of Pearl Jam, Eddie Vedder is a founder of EBRP...
    - Jamie Silver is a founder of EBRP. Jamie chairs ACTion for Jackson, a fundraising event in NYC that raises upwards of $1,100,000 for EB research annually. She has appeared on the Today Show and in the Huffington Post...
    - Stephen Evans: ... Previously, Stephen spent five years at Bain & Company."
  • To a degree part of the antifa group Axis of Justice, founded in 2002 by Serj Tankian of System of a Down and the globalist and CIA-tied Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine. Axis of Justice was allied with the older antifa group Anti-Racist Action and, more importantly, with countless NGOs and individuals taking money from "liberal CIA" foundations as Soros and Ford.

• Josh Homme is the founder, primary songwriter, and only continuous member of the rock band Queens of the Stone Age, which he formed in 1996. Previously, he was the founding guitar player for Kyuss. Homme also founded Eagles of Death Metal in 1998, together with Jesse Hughes (vocals, guitar). Homme rarely performs with Eagles of Death Metal, and also didn't on November 13, 2015 at the Bataclan in Paris, France, when the band's audience was attacked by ISIS terrorists.
• Homme does not like Trump, but prefers not to talk about it in public:
  • January 29, 2017 Instagram post of @queensofthestoneage: "[Trump] is a shallow, inept, multi-bankrupt declaring, narcissistic, narrow minded, out of touch, objectifying, barf inducing, fascist, clown penis... who also happens to be re-stup-redicu-lame. "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."― Edmund Burke"
  • June 26, 2017, Josh Homme interview at the Munich-based Hotel Bayerischer Hof for the Czech Rock & All magazine (rockandall.cz): "I know [Trump is] a retarded human being, but do you think it's ever been any different - honestly?"
  • August 15, 2017, The Times, 'Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age: 'When life is good, it's funny. When it's awful, it's really funny'': "More recently there was the employee who posted something about Donald Trump on Queens of the Stone Age's Instagram feed, "using words that they'd heard me use in the office," Homme says. "Um. They don't work for us any more."
    Villains, Queens' dark, heavy, raucously enjoyable new album, is definitely not about Trump, he says. "That's not my style." ...
    Definitely no politics, though, he insists. He once described himself as a political conservative but a social liberal, although he prefers not to comment publicly on the subject. He will say that too much is being made of the polarisation of America society. It's always been like that, he thinks, "and it's been grossly undercovered. We're supposed to laugh at our differences."

• Famous rap-hard rock group in existence from 1991-2000 and 2007-2011 that was extremely involved in politics.
• Founders Zack de la Rocha (Mexican), guitarist Tom Morello (half-black, although tough to see) and bass player Tim Commerford have all been deeply involved in "anti-racist" political activism of the "liberal CIA" kind, as well as the spreading conspiracy disinformation.
• Tom Morello clearly has been a key person here. First things first: his family.
  • November 1, 2006, loudersound.com, 'My Life Story: Tom Morello': "I am an only child. My mother, Mary Morello, met my dad, Ngethe Njoroge, in Nairobi, Kenya. They then moved to Harlem where I was born. When I was about 18 months old, my parents split up. My mother got a job as a teacher in Libertyville, Illinois, which is where I was brought up. ...
    My mother founded the Parents For Rock And Rap organisation, which was an anti-censorship lobby. My dad was a freedom fighter for Kenyan independence (part of the Mau Mau guerilla movement [that violently fought the British]), and then became his country's first ambassador to the UN. And my great uncle was Jomo Kenyatta – the first president of Kenya. So I very quickly picked up on political activism and fighting for the rights of others. We have photos of people like that all over the walls of our house. I was the only black kid in the town... This was a very conservative small town, and I was always arguing with teachers about their entrenched views on life because they were wrong! There were also a few of us at the school who ran an underground paper, dealing with subjects like South American death squads and the evils of apartheid."
  • Well before becoming Kenya's first prime minister and president, Jomo Kenyatta was an African nationalist product of the Rockefeller Foundation at the London School of Economics. More details on this in ISGP's "Liberal CIA" immigration article.
  • Mary Morello divorced Ngethe Njoroge in 1965, with Mary moving to Libertyville, Illinois.
  • Dec. 15, 2021, Tom Morello opinion piece in the New York Times, 'Radical Passion is a Family Matter for Me and My 98-year-old Mom': "My dad, Ng'ethe Njoroge, was a Kenyan anti-colonialist and Jomo Kenyatta’s nephew. He met my mom [Mary Morello] when she was a volunteer teacher in the Aberdare mountains in Kenya. They split up about a year later as his diplomatic ambitions left little room for a family. From humble peasant origins, he was extremely intelligent and motivated, and was among the first three Kenyans to ever attend college in the United States. After Kenya’s independence from England in 1963, he oversaw land redistribution as the large plantations came under African ownership, which must have been very satisfying. He would say: “When the British first came they had the Bibles and we had the land. Ten years later we had the Bibles and they had the land. Now we have the land again.” My tune “Facing Mount Kenya” was inspired by this journey. ...
    He was Kenya’s ambassador to England for eight years and is a stoic, formal and effortlessly intimidating lion of a man. So formal in fact that “sir” is considered too familiar in addressing him. At 93 years old, he still prefers “ambassador.”
    I didn’t meet him until I was 30 years old. My letters went unanswered through the years. He hadn’t seen me play guitar. His absence put the rage in my machine, but his example of confronting British colonial rule in Kenya inspired me to put no reins on ambitions of freedom.
    Years later the ambassador did finally come around. He thanked my mom for raising me right, asked my forgiveness for not being there and with beaming pride showed off his beautiful grandchildren to everyone in Nairobi. And my kids, they don’t even have to call him “ambassador.” As they’re crawling all over him, showing him our family photo books, catching him up on a lifetime of memories, he insists they call him Guka. That’s the playful Kikuyu word for “grandpa.”
    Oh, and he finally saw me perform. His stoic review? “The audience seemed to come in with high expectations, and I believe they were met.” Hey, I’ll take it! ... [Mary Morello] co-hosts my “One Man Revolution” show on Sirius XM Lithium and is renowned for her legendary onstage introductions of my various bands through the years. ... To this day I hear from her former students. Many say she was the most important educator in their lives and pushed them to see beyond the borders of our conservative, homogeneous suburb. She helped them learn to care and advocate for people less fortunate, people oppressed by race and class from Cabrini Green in Chicago to the migrant fields of California. ...
    In 1986 she undertook perhaps the most radical position a parent can take: allowing her child equipped with an Ivy League degree to leave for Hollywood to live in a squat with the aim of playing heavy metal music and fomenting dissent. “I want you to be happy and have a good life” was her only advice. My mom’s the greatest, and to this day I still practice in her basement. ..."
  • Sep. 5, 2020, elainesir.com (blog of an Asian attorney who interviewed various "rock and roll moms"), 'Black Lives Matter: An Interview With Mary Morello - Part III': "[Tom’s father and] I moved to Harlem where Tom was born. And I was looking for a teaching job in New York City – but it was at a time they didn’t accept Tom [because he was black]. My mom and dad came out for a month and they told us to come home – so we went home to a town of 5,000 where my dad was the bank director and we were perfectly at home there. There were little boys in the neighborhood that Tom grew up with and we were fine. No one cared what color we were – so I guess it depends on where you are. ... My dad was really respected since he was the bank director – and he did lots of things and played golf with lots of people so they just accepted us without question. Tom was my dad’s grandchild and the neighbor[hood] kids didn’t mind that he was black. ... I’m lucky I grew up with a grandfather who was way left. And my dad was always way left. ... I was a communist for a long time, I still am. ...
    But then I had to start looking for work since I couldn’t depend on my folks to support me. ... So [eventually] I went to Libertyville. My first interview was with the head of the history department, who was a bigot, and he said they’d never hire me. But there was a kid I grew up with who was teaching in the history department. He gave me a great job teaching African history. Then Tom and I had to find a place to live...
    [Question part, no opposition: "I know you’ve been an activist since the civil rights movement and you worked with the NAACP."]
    Forever [I have worked with black groups]! I was the greatest protestor in the world since the time I was little. Anywhere I was, I joined groups – Black groups – and no one minded me coming because I was sincere. Wherever I was, New York City, Chicago, I always joined Black Groups. We had marched, petitioned, wrote letters to the editor. We did lots of things. ...
    [At Libertyville High School] only a couple of people were friendly, [so] I didn’t eat lunch at school. I just went home and ate lunch there. It didn’t matter. I had a job and Tom was at an excellent school. I sent Tom to a Catholic school where he also received his First Communion — but then found out the nun teacher had separated Tom from the other kids. And we found out a Mexican kid was also separated. ... After this, my faith went out the window. ...
    [Question part: "Thank goodness we have people like Tom who have a platform. We need Black people and people of color in executive positions and positions of power."]"
  • May 13, 2018 post of @tommorello on Instagram: "[My mother Mary Morello:] In the 1930’s she helped feed hobos during the Great Depression and supported the coal miners struggle to organize. In the 1940’s she helped raise war bonds to defeat the fascists in WWII. In the 1950’s she taught international students and opposed racist Jim Crow laws and as a single woman traveled the world. In the 1960’s she aided anti-colonial movements while living in Africa. In the 1970’s she was a radical teacher in a conservative high school inspiring students to challenge the system and aided the United Farm Workers and the Urban League. In the 1980’s she went on nine peace missions to the Soviet Union and Cuba and spoke out against Apartheid South Africa and Central American deathsquads. In the 1990’s she opposed the first Iraq War and founded an international organization to fight music censorship (Parents For Rock & Rap). In the 2000’s she helped homeless people and recovering addicts get their highschool diplomas at the Salvation Army and opposed wars for oil. In the 2010’s she volunteered at local soup kitchen and currently works with Doctors Without Borders and Mideast peace and justice organizations. All the while being a loving, supportive single mom Mother Bear & grandmother who at 94 is still the most radical member of the Morello family and still let’s me rock in her basement. Happy Mother’s Day to my extraordinary Mom!"
  • July 2, 2000, Chicago Tribune, 'Left-Wing Radical, Anti-Authorian Troublemaker, Free-Speech Guerilla': "While her son was still a struggling musician in Los Angeles, Morello had organized Parents for Rock and Rap, in response to a Tipper Gore-led campaign of the 1980s aimed at policing the sale and packaging of albums with explicit content. Morello may not have been the only retired schoolteacher in the country to defend the merits of 2 Live Crew's taboo-trampling "As Nasty as They Wanna Be" album, but she certainly was the most prominent --appearing on radio talk shows and CNN, addressing suburban town councils and jousting with Oprah Winfrey in the name of the hip-hop group's free-speech rights.
    "When censorship starts in a democracy," Morello wrote in a letter published in the Tribune in 1990, "where does it stop? Most of present-day music speaks to problems it seems that the government and certain classes in the United States fail to or don't want to face. Rock and rap reflect the thinking of our youth. Perhaps we should allow the young to enjoy their music and stay out of it."
    With an initial budget of $100, Morello expanded membership of Parents for Rock and Rap to 11 countries, and, according to many free-speech advocates, helped foster a national dialogue on the role that religious, parental and government groups should play--if any--in the shaping of popular entertainment.
    She eventually landed in Kenya, in the midst of the country's transition from British colonial rule in the early '60s. There she met Ngethe Njoroge, a former leader of the Mau Mau guerrilla movement, who would go on to become Kenya's first representative to the United Nations.
    "I remember watching the Mau Maus coming down from the mountains and the British handing the government over," Morello says. "It was really beautiful."
    Wasn't she scared? "I don't understand why Mau Maus would scare anyone. They were revolutionaries, anti-colonialists. So was George Washington. Would George Washington scare you?"
    Morello married Njoroge in 1962 and they moved to Harlem in New York City. Tom was born May 30, 1964, but a few months later the marriage ended in divorce and Njoroge returned to Kenya, not to be heard from or seen again until recently.
    With her infant, Morello returned to the Midwest to be closer to home, but had difficulty finding a job despite her considerable teaching experience around the world. "I was offered teaching jobs in several suburbs, but was basically told that as an interracial family we would have to live elsewhere," she says.
    Libertyville promised to be more open-minded, raising no such barrier. But while his mother taught social studies at Libertyville High School, Tom was learning his own life lessons outside the classroom.
    "Tom basically integrated Libertyville," says one of his oldest friends, Jim Naureckas, now the editor of FAIR: Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, a media watchdog journal published in New York. "It was a nice, upper-middle-class community with a lot of anxiety about race, and Tom, being one of maybe two or three black kids, was at the center of that.""
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Herman (accessed: June 19, 2022): "Herman was born July 25, 1966[1] in Philadelphia but raised in Libertyville, Illinois,[2] and attended Libertyville High School. She worked on the high school paper Drops of Ink with Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine and The Nightwatchman; Adam Jones of Tool; and Jim Naureckas, editor at Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR).
    Herman was introduced to punk, new wave, and alternative culture at an early age through schoolmate and high school friend Stephanie Brown, whose brother was an album cover artist for clients like Warner Bros., Beserkley Records, The Tubes, and The Stranglers. ...
    Herman was again reunited with her Libertyville High School classmates Morello and Jones on 1993's Lollapalooza, when Babes in Toyland, Rage Against the Machine, and Tool were all playing the alternative rock tour that year.[7]"
  • July 2, 1993, Chicago Tribune, 'Libertyville's Favorite Son Rages on about Rock and Racism': ""So far," says Morello, speaking by phone after a recent Lollapalooza sound check, "it's been probably the most enjoyable touring I've ever done. Just the proximity of so many good friends is amazing. I don't know if you're familiar with the 'human interest-Libertyville connection story,' but Adam Jones, the guitar player from Tool, and Maureen Herman, the bass player from Babes in Toyland, two of the other Lollapalooza bands, were all close friends in high school. So it's like a high school reunion as well as a rock tour." ...
    I don't have any regrets about growing up there because it was a beautiful, peaceful place to live where I made friends who will be friends for the rest of my life, including Adam and Maureen from Tool and Babes in Toyland. But there was always an element of racism. One morning I woke up and there was a noose hanging in the garage. There were some incidents.""
  • Libertyville High School's Drop of Ink magazine:
    • lhsdoi.com/24236/ uncategorized/mary-morello/ (accessed: June 19, 2022): "Mary Morello, is an American activist who was involved in the Civil Rights Movement and the NAACP. She moved to Libertyville in 1965 where she taught social studies and US History at Libertyville High School."
    • lhsdoi.com/24245/ uncategorized/maureen-herman/ (accessed: June 19, 2022): "Maureen Herman is a writer and a musician. She was the bassist for the Minneapolis-based band Babes in Toyland. She was raised in Libertyville and attended Libertyville High School. She worked on the high school paper Drops of Ink."
    • lhsdoi.com/11926/ news/famous-musicians-tom-morello-and-ike-reilly-visit-lhs-for-centennial-celebration/ (accessed: June 19, 2022): "Morello graduated two years later with the class of 1982. While in high school, Morello was in every play in his four years, part of the Drops of Ink staff and played in a band called Electric Sheep."
    • facebook.com/groups/ 'Libertyville High School Class of 1982' (comment gone, only to be found in Google cache on June 19, 2022): "I had homeroom with Tom and Jim Naureckas and all they talked about was politics... I would eavesdrop on their conversations all the time (sorry Jim!) but ... are yearbook or Drops of Ink. I did get some from the feature story subjects."
    • wikitree.com/wiki/Naureckas-1 (accessed: June 19, 2022): "From 1979 through 1982, Jim was a student at Libertyville High School [graduating the same year as Tom Morello]. There he was active in Drama Club, sang in the chorus and wrote for the school paper, Drops of Ink. In 1982, following a censorship dispute, he and three other DOI editors quit and started an independent paper, The Student Pulse. He played Dungeons & Dragons with his friends... Jim went to Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, where he majored in political science. From 1983 through 1985, he wrote a column for the Stanford Daily. He graduated after three years, in 1985. ...
      He interned at the socialist newspaper In These Times, eventually being hired as a staff writer to cover the Iran/Contra scandal. He lived for a time in the Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago. ... Jim left ITT in 1988 and lived briefly in Los Angeles, living with high school friends. He then moved in 1989 to Washington, DC, where he worked as a freelance writer and as the managing editor of the Washington Report on the Hemisphere, the newsletter of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs [created at the Ford Foundation in 1975 to oppose the coup against Allende, and other right wing CIA coups; IPS founder Richard Barnet was an early trustee].
      At the beginning of 1990, Jim moved to New York City to take a job as editor of Extra!, the magazine of the media watch group Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting. ... Janine Jackson joined the staff of FAIR in 1992, as research director; she and Jim began dating in 1993, and she moved into his apartment in 1994. The two married on May 24, 1997, in Cold Spring, New York. The couple co-edited The FAIR Reader, a compilation of Extra! articles published in 1996."
  • Aug. 23, 1995, Chicago Tribune, 'Freedom Fighter': "Morello is the founder of Parents for Rock and Rap, an anti-censorship organization that she runs from her home. She started the group to oppose the Parents Music Resource Center, an organization co-founded in 1985 by Tipper Gore, wife of Vice President Al Gore. That group was largely responsible for the parental advisory labels used on tapes and CDs with explicitly sexual or violent lyrics. The organization also pressures record companies, radio stations and music stores to stop producing, playing or selling recordings it considers detrimental to children. And nothing could make Morello's blood boil more. ...
    For Morello the battle began in 1990, when her son, Tom--then the guitarist of a band called Lock Up--gave her a folder full of newspaper and magazine articles about music and censorship. Her indignation stirred...
    Her organization grew to include more than 700 members, some of which are other anti-censorship organizations... Look at the Congress that we have--trying to take funds away from the National Endowment for the Arts, trying to kill public television. They must be living in the Dark Ages." ...
    Heading her list of congressional foes is Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole. In a recent speech that the Kansas Republican gave in Los Angeles, he scolded the entertainment industry for creating music that "pushes the limits of decency, bombarding our children with destructive messages of casual violence and even more casual sex."
    But Dole, who is a presidential candidate, covered himself by also declaring that "in America, we have the freedom to speak without Big Brother's permission." And while he decries the "marketing of evil through commerce" as he urges the entertainment industry to produce more family-friendly movies and music, he also attempts to repeal the ban on assault weapons." ...
    In his recent speech, Dole criticized four bands or artists, three of which--the Geto Boys, 2 Live Crew, and Ice-T--are black. But as Kvidera points out, rap bands may have been targeted most often because there weren't a lot of sexually explicit songs until rap came along.
    Morello, however, sees another explanation. "Rap comes from a different culture entirely, one that is unfamiliar to many people," she says. "And unfamiliarity breeds negative feelings." A global traveler: Morello knows something about other cultures. She was born and raised in Marseilles, a mining and farming town in north-central Illinois. After earning her master of arts degree in African and Latin American history from Chicago's Loyola University in 1954, she spent chunks of the remaining decade living and teaching English in Germany, Spain and Japan. Still single, she circled the globe on a freighter. From 1960 until 1963 she lived in Kenya, where she married a native who worked for that country's government.
    Her husband was part of the first Kenyan delegation to the United Nations in New York. In 1964 they moved to Harlem, the black enclave in Upper Manhattan. That's where their son, Tom, was born. They were happy and accepted in Harlem.
    Whites, however, haven't always looked kindly upon her interracial family. After moving to Libertyville, she found a noose in her garage, and surmised that the Ku Klux Klan had put it there. At first no one wanted to hire her, but she finally found a job teaching history at Libertyville High School. Even then, KKK posters would appear on her bulletin board, she says.
    She retired from her teaching job in 1987, after 22 years. Since then she has continued to travel, including three trips to the Soviet Union that took her across Siberia and into Mongolia. A trip to Morocco is planned for later this year.
    She says she always tries to connect with the people in the countries where she travels. "I accept everybody in the world on their own basis," she says.
    Morello recently spoke against censorship on stage at the Lollapalooza concert at the World Music Theatre in Tinley Park. She was a hit. "It's so surprising and refreshing for kids to see someone the age of their parents standing up for the music they love," Tom says. "It validates and reaffirms their belief that they have the right to listen to the music they love." Though she is overtly liberal (posters of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara decorate her home), Morello claims to have no political affiliation.
    "I believe in true democracy, where everybody has an equal chance," she says. "Malcolm X provided the basis for the way that I think about the world. He taught me to always challenge. I never don't challenge.""
  • myspace.com/thenightwatchman (accessed: August 20, 2008): "Morello's ... mother, Mary Morello, [in 1987] founded Parents for Rock and Rap [and headed it until 1999], an anti-censorship counterweight to Tipper Gore's PMRC (Parents Music Resource Center)."
  • Nov. 21, 1999, Washington Post, 'Rage Before Beauty': "A few weeks before, things were more tense in another nation's capital--Mexico City--where the band performed in a government-owned building. Rage and especially de la Rocha have long been vocal supporters of the Zapatista rebels active in the southern state of Chiapas. The band's performance in the jam-packed facility--dutifully recorded for subsequent broadcast on MTV--was preceded by a warm video welcome from Subcomandante Marcos, the Zapatista rebel leader in hiding. And Rage performed a number of songs supporting that movement, including "People of the Sun" and "War Within a Breath... Rage was forced to cancel a news conference and otherwise button its lips as long as the band was in Mexico, which has laws about foreigners getting involved in internal affairs. ...
    [RATM has been] using its popularity to call attention to issues ranging from worker exploitation to the cases of Native American activist Leonard Peltier and former Black Panther and radio reporter Mumia Abu-Jamal, both convicted of murdering law enforcement officers. ...
    In May, for instance, a conservatively dressed de la Rocha addressed the International Commission on Human Rights of the United Nations on the Abu-Jamal case as well as the racially disproportionate application of the death penalty in the United States." ...
    "I was fairly bright . . . alone in Libertyville, Illinois, and I liked heavy metal music," he explains. "I liked metal's musical content but I just couldn't relate to the demons-and-wizards lyrics. Then I got the Clash's 'London Calling' and here was a band that was telling the truth and it rocked me. It made connections. It made me feel a part of something bigger. And it helped steel me in both my politics and my rock."
    For Rage, music and politics were intertwined from the start. Two members of the band grew up in activist families. De la Rocha's mother was an anthropologist, his father part of the politically charged Chicano painting collective Los Four [Robert "Beto" de La Rocha: one of the "Los Four" Chicano artist group founded in 1973 and which became big through an exhibition in 1974 at the Bohemian Grove-, national security- and Rockefeller-tied Los Angeles County Museum of Art]; Zack was the only Mexican American in his Irvine, Calif., high school.
    Morello is the son of an activist Italian American mother and a Kenyan diplomat who fought in the Mau Mau independence movement. They divorced a year after he was born. When mother and son moved to the Chicago suburbs, Morello became one of the first African American residents in a stifling hamlet called Libertyville. ...
    "Tom grew up as a black kid in a white suburb and as a left-wing kid in a Republican suburb," says Jim Naureckas, a classmate at Libertyville High School who is now editor of Extra, a bimonthly published by Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, one of several media watchdog groups supported by Rage. "His mother always made sure that Tom would not be a stranger to the black half of his culture, that he would be aware of the struggles for civil rights and so on," Naureckas says. "The lessons that she gave Tom from an early age made it clear there was a world beyond Libertyville."
    Morello says his mother, now a retired teacher, was always involved with civil rights and anti-censorship issues. She founded Parents for Rock and Rap before Rage formed. In fact, she helped shape her son's first political action before he started grade school after an older white girl spewed racial taunts at him on the playground.
    "I'd come home crying about the latest incident and my mom would talk to me about Malcolm X, and how I could respond to it," Morello recalls. "My mom said, 'Whenever somebody says that N-word'--and she gave me a list of some others--'never let them get away with it. When she does that tomorrow, I want you to make a little fist and slug her.' "And I went: 'Slug her?' " "She said: 'Slug her.'
    "The next day I went to the playground, and I was very nervous because I figured it was coming. This kid was mean. I got name-called, and I slugged her, and a little riot ensued in the day-care center. But her mother came, and I stood there, with arms crossed beaming from ear to ear as I watched her mom wash her mouth out with soap. And that was the last time that I had an incident."
    By the time Morello was in high school, his political passions were being forged by learning about the Black Panthers, IRA hunger strikers and civil wars in Central America. It was also a period of musical empowerment: the Clash, the Sex Pistols and the Gang of Four--which Naureckas suggests was a model for Rage. It was not just for their thick, furious sound, "but also in the sense of a group with a mission, a band as political project."
    Morello was in bands throughout high school but later, though he continued to practice, he put public performance aside to attend Harvard, where he graduated in 1986 with an honors degree in social studies. "The justification for not pursuing rock was to intellectually arm myself for what I saw, and see, as the coming struggle," says the 35-year-old guitarist.
    After graduating, Morello moved to Los Angeles and spent two years as a scheduling secretary for Sen. Alan Cranston, but the cycles of fund-raising and favoritism soon soured him on mainstream politics. Rage Against the Machine would offer a much more effective platform for change. ...
    "I agree with my favorite band, the Clash, when they say the future is unwritten.""
• Ended up working for the globalist Senator Alan Cranston [followed up the CIA's Cord Meyer in 1949 as president of United World Federalists; on the board of Commission on Population Growth under John D. Rockefeller, III; trustee chair of the Gorbachev Foundation USA; participant in the Rockefeller-Buffett-Turner-ran State of the World Forum conferences in the 1990s; founder in 1999 of the UN-allied Global Security Institute, together with Gorbachev and Jane Goodall] in 1987-1988, some time after graduating Harvard and while his mother had founded Parents for Rock and Rap [and headed it until 1999]:
  • October 23, 2009, nme.com, 'Tom Morello – What Rock'n'Roll Has Taught Me': "[After graduating Harvard in 1986] I kind of stumbled into working with Senator Alan Cranston and was his scheduling secretary for about two years [over 1987-1988]. I never had any real desire to work in politics but if there was any ember burning in me, it was extinguished working in that job because of two things: one of them was the fact that 80 per cent of the time I spent with the Senator, he was on the phone asking rich people for money.
    It just made me understand that the whole business was dirty. He had to compromise his entire being every day. The other was the time a woman phoned up the office and wanted to complain that there were Mexicans moving into her neighbourhood. I said to her, 'Ma'am, you're a damn racist' and she was indignant. I thought I was representing our cause well, but I got yelled at for a week by everyone for saying that! I thought to myself that if I'm in a job where I can't call a damn racist a damn racist, then it's not for me."
• In high school back in 1980-1982 Morello played in a band with future Tool guitarist Adam Jones (Tool was founded in 1990, right before Rage Against the Machine), before going to top Eastern Establishment university Harvard, graduating in social sciences and going to work for the super-globalist Senator Alan Cranston. Morello actually left Cranston's office for being too radically "anti-racist" and not liking the fact that Cranston was so extremely dependent on the rich and powerful for his position. By the late 1980s, which may or may not have been a coincidence, more than two dozen of his old Libertyville high school friends had set up shop in Los Angeles as well, trying to pursue various careers in Hollywood and the music industry. An old friend of theirs, Gloria, referred soon-to-be Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan to them around 1989. They all became close friends. Maynard founded Tool in 1990 with Morrello's friend Adam Jones. In 1991 Morello founded Rage Against the Machine with other friends. Both groups were allied to Anti-Racist Action in the 1990s and 2000s.
  • November 1, 2006, loudersound.com, 'My Life Story: Tom Morello': "Within 48 hours [of hearing the Sex Pistols] I had formed a band at high school called Electric Sheep. That was in 1981. Adam Jones of Tool was also in the band, playing guitar. ... But it didn't last long. I do recall that we had song titles like Salvador Death Squad and Five Buck Whore. ...
    I was the only black kid in Libertyville. The only pinko in the school. The only rock musician at Harvard. ... [i build] a shantytown in the courtyard of the college to emphasise the evils of apartheid, and embarrass the powers-that-be. ...
    [After graduating Harvard and moving to LA] I was living in a squat with Adam Jones – yes, him again – and one night he dragged me down to see this band called Lock Up, who immediately became my favourite local band [and which I joined]. ... We did one Lock Up album for Atlantic [through David geffen] – Something Bitchin' This Way Comes in 1989 – but were so screwed over by the music business that we quickly split up.
    Brad Wilk had auditioned to become the drummer in the band just before the end so he and I stayed together... The goal for Brad and I was to make music that was so extreme, lyrically and musically, that not only would we not get signed, but we'd never even get a gig! The politics were so radical, and we found in Zack de la Rocha [vocals] and Timmy Commerford [bass] like-minded spirits. So we were stunned when our debut album came out in 1992 [Rage Against The Machine] and sold so well. ... Unfortunately, there was a dysfunctional element in the band, and that held us back. We only did three studio albums, when we should have done seven or eight. ...
    Brad, Timmy and I agreed to stay together when Zack quit in 2000. No arguments, or bust up, he wanted to do his own thing. We never auditioned anyone – we just got together with Chris [Cornell] and it worked. But it was also clear that Audioslave was not gonna be a political extension of Rage."
  • 2016, Maynard James Keenan and Sarah Jensen, 'A Perfect Union of Contrary Things': "By virtue of his relationship with Gloria [a Libertyville classmate of Tom Morello], the Libertyville transplants--his hosts Tom Morello and Jack Olsen and their classmates who'd followed their passions to L.A. [like Adam Jones]--accepted Maynard as one of their own. ... "When Maynard showed up at our door [after being told by Gloria he could stay there while in town]," Jack would recall, "Tom and I looked at each other like 'Who is this guy?' ...
    On Saturday afternoons, Maynard joined them in touch football games in the park, and, despite his lackluster skill, he became a member of their midnight bowling team. ... Before long, Maynard was a fixture at the weekend barbecues, cookouts attended by as many as 25 Libertyville alumni [in Los Angeles]. They brought potato salad and six-packs to Tom and Jack's pool or Adam's loft, where they reported on the week's auditions and job offers and reminisced about high school escapades and Electric Sheep, the garage band Tom and Adam had formed."
  • October 24, 2016, Rolling Stone, 'How Tool Formed: Read Inside Story From New Maynard James Keenan Biography': "[Around 1990] over midnight breakfasts at Canter's Deli [in Los Angeles], at the picnic table at the Libertyville barbecues [where Adam Jones and Tom Morello formed a high school band in 1981-1982], in the back corner of Raji's, Adam [Jones] had hinted for months that he and Maynard should collaborate. ... Maynard invited Adam to jam on a basic song structure and recognized immediately his rhythm skills, his methodical pace that reflected commitment to his craft, and he had no doubt he'd lay down a firm base for his words and fury. ...
    [In 1990-1991] after the clubs closed at night, Tom Morello often accompanied [Maynard] back to the loft...
    Now that Lock Up [with its David Geffen contract] had officially dissolved, Tom focused his energies on laying the groundwork for a new band he planned to call Rage Against the Machine, a group he envisioned would push the boundaries of metal and challenge political complacency. Determined that Rage would be a cut above the fledgling bands he and Maynard saw at Coconut Teaszer and Raji's, he set about learning all he could to avoid the missteps that had doomed Lock Up. "Maynard taught me drop D tuning," Morello would recall. ...
    Tom had recruited the best of the best to populate his new band [including] longtime musician Tim Commerford... "There was sort of in the air an idea of us working together," Tom would recall. "Brad and I had been jamming with both Maynard and Zack De La Rocha. We really liked playing with both of them, and Brad and I had this long phone call to discuss who we should ask to the dance." In the end, rapper De La Rocha proved to be the most logical partner. His hardcore band, Inside Out, had gained a substantial underground following..."
  • October 5, 2016, Rolling Stone, 'Tool's Maynard James Keenan on What Army Taught Him, Band's Earliest Days': "There wasn't a Rage when I was working with Tom [Morello in 1990]. I think he was working with Timmy [Commerford], perhaps. ... I was looking for almost a Puscifer approach to music at that point. They were looking for a more serious approach, so I think that was pretty much immediate. If there was a consideration for [me joining Rage] at all, it was very brief...
    No, just the polarizing of people in general. And the bipartisan politics [with Trump]. It's divisive."
• "Anti-racism" and related activism:
  • November 1, 2006, loudersound.com, 'My Life Story: Tom Morello': "There's a kinda McCarthyism in the US right now [after 9/11]. Bands are afraid to stand up and say what they feel, because they're in real danger of being isolated and ignored. There are exceptions, of course, in people like [globalist Democrat] Bruce Springsteen, but they're untouchable anyway. You go to so many towns, and the media is tightly controlled – one paper, one radio station – so it's tough to get across any viewpoints that aren't staunchly conservative."
  • September 23, 2012, Rolling Stone, 'Song Premiere: Tom Morello, Tim McIlrath, Serj Tankian and Occupy Wall Street, 'We Are the 99 Percent'': "Since last fall's protestor-led occupation of Zuccotti Park, Tom Morello has been an active and vocal supporter of the [Soros and related "liberal CIA"-backed] Occupy Wall Street movement. The guitarist has regularly gigged at rallies... [Picture:] Tom Morello performs on the first anniversary of Occupy Wall Street."
  • August 7, 2016 tweet of Tom Morello (@tmorello): "As a black person I like to think that my life matters so I'm all in. #BlackLivesMatter" As expected, Morello's twitter is completely dedicated to "liberal CIA" causes, such as anti-Israel, pro-Palestine activism.
  • May 28, 2020 tweet of @tmorello "Attention: bands, solo artists, poets! Best jam called #AvengeFloyd I will play on my @SIRIUSXM Lithium #OneManRevolution show. Write. Send. [Picture of Malcolm X, with the caption:] "That's not a chip on my shoulder. That is my foot in your neck."" AvengeFloyd, plus the Malcolm X photo and caption, quite literally is a call to start rioting.
  • Nov. 7, 2020, Rolling Stone, 'Tom Morello Mocks Trumpers Dancing to Rage Against the Machine's 'Killing in the Name'; Band tweets of Stop the Counters, "They just don't GET IT do they?"'
• Zack de la Rocha, recruited by Tom Morello, is no different in his politics:
  • In mid 2010 the key founder of the antifa / "liberal CIA" The Sound Strike group, a failed protest against Arizona's SB 1070 bill, meant to curb illegal immigration into the state, mainly from Mexico and other Central American countries. The Sound Strike was allied with typical "liberal CIA" NGOs as the ACLU and the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON) - both funded by the Ford Foundation and other "liberal CIA" foundations as Soros and Rockefeller.
  • April 19, 2011 YouTube upload by "robotomy2003", 'Rage Against the Machine Zack de la Rocha Interview 1997 Japan': "Living in the States, you are living in one of the most brutal societies in the history of the world: the country that inherited the genocide of the Native Americans, a country which participated in [inaudible] slavery, the only country in the world to use and drop an atomic bomb on another country - another society. The country which murdered and enslaved millions in South-East Asia as a result of the Vietnam War. ... We are inspired because we feel that any society ... that is solely set up to profit a wealthy class, while the majority of the people toil and suffer and sell their labor power...
    A deep sense of frustration and alienation I experienced growing up in a very racist, very conservative community."
  • Zack de la Rocha is a big fan of "liberal CIA" asset Noam Chomsky:
    • business.facebook.com/TheAtheistDose/videos/1722195088002246/ (accessed: May 18, 2018): "Noam Chomsky is interviewed by Zack de la Rocha on NAFTA, globalization and other related topics. [this was back in the early 2000s; the two talk about Mexico's economy having been butchered by major U.S. corporations through the 1994 NAFTA treaty (signed by Bill Clinton and Carlos Salinas), after which U.S.-subsidized corn companies flooded the Mexican market and drove Mexican peasants out of business (wiped out 8 million small-scale farmers), forcing them into the cities (actually... they all went to the U.S.), where wages were lowered in the booming manufacturing industry (actually... U.S. corporations started exporting parts to Mexico for cheap assembly only to reimport the assembled products back - which wasn't true export and led to an enormous trade deficit; in the 2000s U.S. corporations went to China)]"
    • May 3, 2007, Phoenix New Times, 'Defending Zack de la Rocha: Rage Against the Machine vs. KTAR's Darrell Ankarlo': "During an extended sequence from the song "Wake Up," [at Coachella] De la Rocha went off on American hegemony in the world, exclaiming, "A friend of ours said if the same laws were applied to U.S. Presidents as were applied to the Nazis after WWII, that every single one of them, every last rich white one of them, from Truman on would be hung to death and shot. And this current administration is no exception. They should be hung and tried and shot as war criminals."
      Apparently the "friend" De la Rocha was referring to was none other than radical icon and MIT prof Noam Chomsky, who wrote [something very similar] in the 1993 book What Uncle Sam Really Wants...
      Now, the 9/11 conspiracy theories are all bullshit. But the reason why so many on the Left buy into this grassy knoll crackpottery is that the Bushies used the political capital they amassed from 9/11 to mislead us into a very unwise conflict in Iraq."
  • Apr 23, 2010 YouTube upload by "NDLONvideos", 'Zack de la Rocha against SB1070, with Immigrant Communities of Arizona!': "By passing SB1070, a handful of extremists within the Arizona state government have set the country on a dangerous and hateful course. ... It seeks to turn the entire state of Arizona into an island of hate, where to be brown is to be suspected of a crime. It targets the undocumented and the documented alike. ... Hundreds of thousands of people are gathering to raise their voices and to stand of the side of justice and dignity.
    Here's what we are asking people to do, to stand with our brothers and sisters in [Latin pronounciation:] Arizona. If you are in Phoenix, or can make it there, please join us at the capital on Sunday, April 25th, at noon for a large rally that will draw congressional and civil rights leaders from across the country. Or go to AltoArizona.com [this website belongs to the Ford Foundation-financed pro-immigration group National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON)]."
• Rage Against the Machine bass player Tim Commerford also is a similar political operative as the Tom Morello who recruited him, and in addition is a huge conspiracy disinformer. Morello also claims to be a conspiracy theorist, but fascinatingly denounces all question surrounding 9/11:
  • May 30, 2013 YouTube upload by "TrueBliu Nineleven", 'Tom Morello Epic 9/11 Truth Fail' (Morello is uncomfortably laughing all the time): "["I was wondering if you supported a new question into 9/11 and get some [answers] to the questions, the open-ended questions"] Yeah, I gotta be honest. Quite frankly, nobody is a bigger fan of conspiracy theories than me, but that's one that I don't subscribe to. ["But as far as all the unanswered question. I'm not talking about conspiracy theory.] Yeah, yeah. Let me tell you, it's a low priority for me right now, if I'm gonna be frank."
  • November 4, 2016, nme.com, 'Rage Against The Machine's Tim Commerford On Brexit, ISIS And The Republic Of Wakrat': "Wakrat is the latest project from Tim Commerford, bassist with Rage Against The Machine, Audioslave and, currently, 'supergroup' Prophets of Rage – the collective featuring RATM bandmates Tom Morello and Brad Wilk, and fronted by Cypress Hill's B-Real and Public Enemy's Chuck D. Based in California...
    Visit sister site republicofwakrat.com and you'll find a constitution, an ideological declaration and open letters to political leaders. There are doctored images of Theresa May and Donald Trump emblazoned with "wanted for terrorism" slogans, and photos of Tony Blair and George W. Bush mocked up with blood on their hands. ...
    Back in the summer, shortly after Brexit, Commerford filmed the video for the band's lead single 'Generation Fucked' in Central London. In it, he leads a protest through Westminster. ... Wakrat's self-titled debut album is released, deliberately, on US election day (November 8). ...
    [Commerford:] Brexit, to me, at least it appears to me, to be very racist and we live in a racist world and I have a racist candidate running for president in my country. We're building walls and we're trying to separate ourselves from each other, when in reality, as Chuck D puts it, we're all Earthizens – we're all citizens of the planet Earth. ... I happened to be introduced to Mathias Wakrat through Zack de la Rocha. We met each other through mountain biking...
    The president is nothing but a figurehead in our establishment. Voting for a president, in my opinion, is a waste of time. ...
    I saw the Jihadi John beheading videos. I looked at them with a discerning eye and I said, "You know what, those don't look real to me. They look fake, they don't look real. I think that they're fake." ... Ultimately, this battle against terrorism is causing this refugee problem and the refugees are innocent folks but they're being bastardised by the world. ...
    People were like, "Tim Commerford doesn't believe in ISIS" and I don't. I don't believe that terrorist organisations have all come together and decided to be a unified army called ISIS. ... Ultimately, ISIS was pretty convenient. It came at a very convenient time and it's very questionable at best to me."
  • January 21, 2017, Rolling Stone, 'Reunited Audioslave, Prophets of Rage Explode at Anti-Inaugural Ball; Righteously indignant Los Angeles throwdown featured first Audioslave performance since 2005': "This stage is a no-Trump zone!" declared guitarist Tom Morello midway through Friday's Anti-Inaugural Ball in Los Angeles, headlined by two of his bands, the politically charged Prophets of Rage and a reunited Audioslave. "Immigrants and Muslims are welcome here. Racism, homophobia and bullying will not be tolerated." ...
    "If somebody tries to grab your pussy in the pit," warned Morello, riffing on the a notorious Trump comment, "it's your patriotic duty to break their fucking arm!" ...
    Hosted by Jack Black... Prophets of Rage ... emerged during the 2016 election season. Gathering iconic rappers B-Real and Chuck D with Public Enemy's DJ Lord and former Rage Against the Machine players Morello, bassist Tim Commerford and drummer Brad Wilk, their battle cry was "Make America Rage Again," directly in defiance of this election's winning slogan. ...
    "Twelve years is a long time coming," Cornell said of the unexpected reunion since their last live performance. ...
    The night also included the Los Angeles Freedom Choir, assembled for the show from teachers, union members, undocumented workers, Black Lives Matters activists, Muslim high school students and others, as "a way to demonstrate a united front," Morello told Rolling Stone before the show."
• RATM's Tom Morello founded the antifa group Axis of Justice, which was allied with the older antifa group Anti-Racist Action and, more importantly, with countless NGOs and individuals taking money from "liberal CIA" foundations as Soros and Ford.

• Industrial-type hard rock band founded in 1994 by former East German punkers Till Lindemann, Richard Kruspe, Paul Landers, Christian "Flake" Lorenz, and others. Punk was inspired from the West and was infiltrated and suppressed by the East German Stasi. Only "the other bands" were allowed from about 1983, in which future Rammstein members played. It wasn't until the virtual end of the USSR that punk was released even more. Band members also had an early goth influence. The band has had the same line up heading into the 2020s.
  • July 26, 2019, Die Welt, 'Rammstein: Sons of East German punk': "Among those "other bands" [officially sanctioned ones by the Stasi] was the group Feeling B, founded in 1983. Their keyboardist was the 16-year-old Christian "Flake" Lorenz, while Paul Landers, then 18, played guitar. Feeling B was one of the first underground bands to be officially sanctioned by the state as an "amateur dance music formation," allowing them to make their music and give concerts. Their lyrics weren't particularly political; they rather embodied the Fun-Punk genre that celebrated drinking and partying — which was in itself another form of opposition to the GDR establishment.
    Till Lindemann's band First Arsch was also among the accepted groups. The musicians from both bands met within the scene...
    When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, the underground scene appeared to have lost its purpose. Feeling B disbanded. ... At that time, Till Lindemann happened to win a band competition with his new project, called Tempelprayers. The band included drummer Christoph Schneider and guitarist Richard Kruspe. They got the Feeling B members to join them [in] Rammstein."
  • Dec. 12, 2011, RollingStone.de, 'Rammstein: Exklusives Interview mit Till Lindemann und Flake': "Lindemann: ... We used to have in mind a totally different direction for the video [of our 1998 cover of Depeche Mode - 'Stripped', which, strangely, included quite a bit of Nazi olympic footage]. It would contain a female Russian field worker, a plow, everything up the alley of [Bolshevik Revolution propagandist] Sergej Eisenstein romance; footage from the twenties. ... We were in any case helpless [over media Nazi accusations], for example, when our children came home and asked: "Dad, do you play in a Nazi band?" ... We come from the East and we have grown up as socialists. We used to be either punks or Goths – we hate Nazis! ... Our reply to this animosity was, "Links 2 3 4", and with that, we had made it clear where we stand politically. ... We used to beat up those right wing morons, and we still would today. ...
    Flake is still a citizen of the GDR [East-Germany], and he will die a citizen of the GDR. Flake doesn't even travel on holiday. To the Elbe Sandstone Mountains or to the Ostsee, tops, that's enough for him. Together with our children, we head for the Lake District in Mecklenburg in the summer. That's really great.
    Lorenz: It was hard for me. When I was a citizen of the DDR/GDR, there was a BRD [West-Germany] and I found the BRD stupid. Then suddenly I was supposed to be a part of something that I thought of as shitty. Still to this day, I think the BRD flag is horrid. ...
    ["Are you both regarding yourselves as citizens of the DDR/GDR?"] Lindemann: No, but I have strong connections to the traditions of the DDR/GDR. For example, I find it crap that there isn't a, 'Fasching' anymore, but instead Halloween is celebrated. ... It's about the conceptual values of the community, the solidarity. That you wouldn't have to pay for education or medical care. In this affluent country, many more things could be communally structured, but no one gets down to business. On the other hand, I don't need 25 varieties of pasta. They are flown in from far away and thus pollute the environment. The tomatoes come from Spain. There are really enough fields here and a lot of unemployed people. No one needs two cars. There's so much idiocy happening here, it's unbelievable.
    Lorenz: Our Pionierausweis [membership card of the GDR Youth Organization, socialist boy's scouts, if you will – ed] stated the rule that we help elderly people. ... That's totally lost now."
• Albums: 'Herzeleid' (1995), 'Sehnsucht' (1997), 'Mutter' (2001), 'Reise, Reise' (2004), 'Rosenrot' (2005), 'Liebe ist fur alle da' (2009), Untitled album (2019), 'Zeit' (2022).
• Traditionally, Rammstein leans politically towards socialism and communism. More recently the band is clearly pushing pro-Third World immigration-type themes. However, it is often so opaque and even hilarious and funny and positive (2011, 'Mein Land' clip; 2019, 'Auslander' clip), that it boggles the mind what is going on with the band:
  • 1998, Rammstein, 'Stripped' (Depeche Mode cover):
    • Dec. 12, 2011, RollingStone.de, 'Rammstein: Exklusives Interview mit Till Lindemann und Flake': "We used to have in mind a totally different direction for the video [of our 1998 cover of Depeche Mode - 'Stripped', which, strangely, included quite a bit of Nazi olympic footage]. It would contain a female Russian field worker, a plow, everything up the alley of [Bolshevik Revolution propagandist] Sergej Eisenstein romance; footage from the twenties. ... Our reply to this animosity was, "Links 2 3 4", and with that, we had made it clear where we stand politically.""
  • 2001, Rammstein, 'Links 2 3 4' (see above how the song was written to declare that Rammstein is "leftist"):
    • Lyrics: "Can we break a heart? Can hearts speak? Can we torment hearts? Can we steal hearts? They want my heart on the right [read: the Nazis, or the media accuses our band of that]. But when I look down,