Obituaries

[arwen]

I did not know this just found out that Karen Hudes passed away October 27, 2022.

Obituary

In Loving Memory of Karen Alexandra Hudes
December 20, 1948 – October 27, 2022

My most sincere condolences to the family of Karen Hudes, 73, Former World Bank Senior Counsel for 21 years from 1986 to 2007. I joined her on an interview on Manhattan Cable television a few years ago on Bank related matters. She will be greatly missed. Her work, strong will, dogged determination, tenacity and convictions will remain in the hearts of many for a long time to come. She will be remembered, greater tomorrow than today.

Edward Anthony Shields, CPA, MBA
Former World Bank and IFC Staff
1987 to 2001


One of her earlier interviews with Abby Martin:


Source: https://www.bitchute.com/video/eWiygu2qw0bH

[Bill Ryan]

RIP Daniel Ellsberg, who passed yesterday.

• https://zerohedge.com/political/most...istory-dies-92

Most Famous Whistleblower & Leaker in US History Dies At 92

(the long tribute continues)

[Gwin Ru]

...

... R.I.P. Carolyn Hamlett...

Carolyn Hamlett has passed away

https://askcarolynandloren.wordpress.com/

For those who don't remember Carolyn she helped to expose the Illuminati and wrote a free book called the Doctrine of Demons to help educate people. She died in February 2023. She ran a blog and did many interviews. Her main objective was to expose the New Age movement and generally teach how to break free of false doctrines.

Here is her YouTube Channel that is still up.
https://www.youtube.com/@crhamlett

Here is a New Age Talk she gave in 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQ3fPNw7Sh4

Reader- "Carolyn helped me pull away from the New Age way of life and back to Jesus, through listening to her, along with others that stepped in to help guide me."

Articles on this site- Underground Bases Exist

https://henrymakow.com/2022/01/Satanic-Depravity-Pervades-US-Government.html

[onevoice]

RIP Alan Arkin, I always enjoyed his movies.

Alan Arkin, Comic Actor With a Serious Side, Dies at 89

He got laughs and won awards on Broadway in “Enter Laughing” and in movies like “Little Miss Sunshine.” But he also had a flair for drama.



By Robert Berkvist and Peter Keepnews
June 30, 2023
Updated 11:38 a.m. ET
Alan Arkin, who won a Tony Award for his first lead role on Broadway, received an Academy Award nomination for his first feature film, and went on to have a long and diverse career as a character actor who specialized in comedy but was equally adept at drama, died on Thursday in San Marcos, Calif. He was 89.

His son Matthew Arkin said that Mr. Arkin, who had heart ailments, died at home.

Mr. Arkin was not quite a show-business neophyte when he was cast in the 1963 Broadway comedy “Enter Laughing,” Joseph Stein’s adaptation of Carl Reiner’s semi-autobiographical novel about a stage-struck boy from the Bronx. He had toured and recorded with the Tarriers, a folk music group, and he had appeared on Broadway with the Second City, the celebrated improvisational comedy troupe. But he was still a relative unknown.

He did not stay unknown for long.

In a cast that included established professionals like Sylvia Sidney and Vivian Blaine, Mr. Arkin stole the show and won the hearts of the critics. “‘Enter Laughing’ is marvelously funny, and so is Alan Arkin in the principal role,” Howard Taubman wrote in The New York Times.

Mr. Arkin won a Tony. The show ran for a year and made him a star.
...

[thepainterdoug]

Always loved him as an actor with a distinct voice and style.

on another note, remember how covid was going to wipe out so many and especially the elderly ?

so may celebs and notables living well into their early 90ies

it was intubation, the vaccine, not covid.

[Kryztian]

Tony Bennett, Jazzy Crooner of the American Songbook, Is Dead at 96
From his initial success at the Paramount in Times Square through his generation-spanning duets, his career was remarkable for both its longevity and its consistency.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/21/a...nett-dead.html

By Bruce Weber
July 21, 2023

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=r6DUwMnDxEs

Tony Bennett, a singer whose melodic clarity, jazz-influenced phrasing, audience-embracing persona and warm, deceptively simple interpretations of musical standards helped spread the American songbook around the world and won him generations of fans, died on Friday at his home of many decades in Manhattan. He was 96.

His publicist, Sylvia Weiner, announced his death.

Mr. Bennett learned he had Alzheimer’s disease in 2016, his wife, Susan Benedetto, told AARP The Magazine in February 2021. But he continued to perform and record despite his illness; his last public performance was in August 2021, when he appeared with Lady Gaga at Radio City Music Hall in a show titled “One Last Time.”

Mr. Bennett’s career of more than 70 years was remarkable not only for its longevity, but also for its consistency. In hundreds of concerts and club dates and more than 150 recordings, he devoted himself to preserving the classic American popular song, as written by Cole Porter, the Gershwins, Duke Ellington, Rodgers and Hammerstein and others.

From his initial success as a jazzy crooner who wowed audiences at the Paramount in Times Square in the early 1950s, through his late-in-life duets with younger singers gleaned from a range of genres and generations — most notably Lady Gaga, with whom he recorded albums in 2014 and 2021 and toured in 2015 — he was an active promoter of both songwriting and entertaining as timeless, noble pursuits.

Mr. Bennett stubbornly resisted record producers who urged gimmick songs on him, or, in the 1960s and early ’70s, who were sure that rock ’n’ roll had relegated the music he preferred to a dusty bin perused only by a dwindling population of the elderly and nostalgic.

nstead, he followed in the musical path of the greatest American pop singers of the 20th century — Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby, Judy Garland, Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra — and carried the torch for them into the 21st. He reached the height of stardom in 1962 with a celebrated concert at Carnegie Hall and the release of his signature song, “I Left My Heart in San Francisco.” And though he saw his popularity wane with the onset of rock and his career went through a trough in the 1970s, when professional difficulties were exacerbated by a failing marriage and drug problems, he was, in the end, more than vindicated in his musical judgment.

“I wanted to sing the great songs, songs that I felt really mattered to people,” he said in “The Good Life” (1998), an autobiography written with Will Friedwald.

It’s hard to overstate Mr. Bennett’s lasting appeal. He was still singing “San Francisco” — which led many people to think he was a native of that city, though he was actually a through-and-through New Yorker — more than half a century later. He sang on Ed Sullivan’s show and David Letterman’s. He sang with Rosemary Clooney when she was in her 20s, and Celine Dion when she was in her 20s.He made his film debut in 1966, in a critically reviled Hollywood story, “The Oscar,” playing a man betrayed by an old friend. And though he did not pursue an acting career, decades later he was playing himself in movies like the Robert De Niro-Billy Crystal gangster comedy “Analyze This” and the Jim Carrey vehicle “Bruce Almighty.” He was 64 when he appeared as a cartoon version of himself on “The Simpsons.” He was 82 when he appeared on the HBO series “Entourage,” performing one of his trademark songs, “The Good Life.”

A lifelong liberal Democrat, Mr. Bennett participated in the Selma-to-Montgomery civil rights march in 1965, and, along with Harry Belafonte, Sammy Davis Jr. and others, performed at the Stars for Freedom rally on the City of St. Jude campus on the outskirts of Montgomery on March 24, the night before the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered the address that came to be known as the “How Long? Not Long” speech. At the conclusion of the march, Viola Liuzzo, a volunteer from Michigan, drove Mr. Bennett to the airport; she was murdered later that day by members of the Ku Klux Klan.

Mr. Bennett also performed for Nelson Mandela, then the president of South Africa, during his state visit to England in 1996. He sang at the White House for John F. Kennedy and Bill Clinton, and at Buckingham Palace at Queen Elizabeth II’s 50th anniversary jubilee.

An ‘Elusive’ Voice

He won his first two Grammy Awards, for “San Francisco,” in 1963, and his last, for the album “Love for Sale,” with Lady Gaga, last year. Altogether there were 20 of them, including, in 2001, a lifetime achievement award. By some estimates, he sold more than 60 million records.

The talent that spawned this success and popularity was not so easy to define. Neither a fluid singer nor an especially powerful one, he did not have the mellifluous timbre of Crosby or the rakish swing of Sinatra. If Armstrong’s tone was distinctively gravelly, Mr. Bennett’s wasn’t quite; “sandy” was more like it. Almost no one denied that his voice was appealing, but critics strove mightily to describe it, and then to justify its appeal.

“The voice that is the basic tool of Mr. Bennett’s trade is small, thin and somewhat hoarse,” John S. Wilson wrote in The New York Times in 1962. “But he uses it shrewdly and with a skillful lack of pretension.”

In a 1974 profile, Whitney Balliett, the longtime jazz critic for The New Yorker, called Mr. Bennett “an elusive singer.”

“He can be a belter who reaches rocking fortissimos,” Mr. Balliett wrote. “He drives a ballad as intensely and intimately as Sinatra. He can be a lilting, glancing jazz singer. He can be a low-key, searching supper-club performer.” But, he added, “Bennett’s voice binds all his vocal selves together.”

Most simply, perhaps, the composer and critic Alec Wilder said about Mr. Bennett’s voice, “There is a quality about it that lets you in.”

Indeed, what many listeners (including the critics) discovered about Mr. Bennett, and what they responded to, was something intangible: the care with which he treated both the song and the audience.

He had a storyteller’s grace with a lyric, a jazzman’s sureness with a melody, and in his finest performances he delivered them with a party giver’s welcome, a palpable and infectious affability. In his presentation, the songs he loved and sang — “Just in Time,” “The Best Is Yet to Come,” “Rags to Riches” and “I Wanna Be Around,” to name a handful of his emblematic hits — became engaging, life-embracing parables.

Frank Sinatra, whom Mr. Bennett counted as a mentor and friend, once put it another way.

“For my money, Tony Bennett is the best singer in the business,” he told Life magazine in 1965. “He excites me when I watch him. He moves me. He’s the singer who gets across what the composer has in mind, and probably a little more.”

Mr. Bennett passed through life with as unscathed a public image as it is possible for a celebrity to have. Finding even mild criticism of him in reviews and interviews is no mean feat, and even his outspoken liberalism generally failed to attract vitriol from the right. (An exception was his call, after the drug-related deaths of Michael Jackson, Amy Winehouse and Whitney Houston, for the legalization of drugs, a view loudly denounced by William J. Bennett, the former drug czar, among others.)

With the possible exception of his former wives, everyone, it seemed, loved Tony Bennett. Skeptical journalists would occasionally try to pierce what they perceived as his perfect veneer, but they generally discovered that there wasn’t much to pierce.

“Bennett is outrageous,” Simon Hattenstone, a reporter for The Guardian, wrote in 2002. “He mythologizes himself, name-drops every time he opens his mouth, directs you to his altruism, is self-congratulatory to the point of indecency. He should be intolerable, but he’s one of the sweetest, most humble men I’ve ever met.”

Son of Queens

Anthony Dominick Benedetto was born on Aug. 3, 1926, in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens, and grew up in that borough in working-class Astoria. His father, Giovanni, had emigrated from Calabria, in southern Italy, at age 11. His mother, Anna (Suraci) Benedetto, was born in New York in 1899, having made the sea journey from Italy in the womb. Their marriage was arranged. Giovanni and Anna were cousins; their mothers were sisters.

In New York, where Giovanni Benedetto became John, he was a grocer, but beleaguered by poor health and often unable to work. Anna was a factory seamstress and took in additional sewing to support the family. Anthony was their third child, their second son, and the first of any Benedetto to be born in a hospital. Giovanni, who sang Italian folk songs to his children — “My father inspired my love for music,” Mr. Bennett wrote in his autobiography — died when Anthony was 10.

Anthony sang from an early age, and drew and painted, too. He would become a creditable painter as an adult, mostly landscapes and still lifes in watercolors and oils and portraits of musicians he admired, signing his paintings “Benedetto.” His first music teacher arranged for him to sing alongside Mayor Fiorello La Guardia at the opening of the Triborough Bridge (now the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge) in 1936.

For a time he attended the High School for Industrial Arts (now called the High School of Art and Design) in Manhattan, but he never graduated. He dropped out and found work as a copy boy for The Associated Press, in a laundry and as an elevator operator.

“I couldn’t figure out how to get the elevator to stop at the right place,” he recalled. “People ended up having to crawl out between floors.”

At night he performed at amateur shows and worked as a singing waiter. He had just begun to get paying work as a singer, using the stage name Joe Bari, when he was drafted.

He arrived in Europe toward the end of World War II, serving in Germany in the infantry. He spent time on the front lines, an experience he described as “a front-row seat in hell,” and was among the troops who arrived to liberate the prisoners at the Landsberg concentration camp, a subcamp of Dachau.

After Germany surrendered, Mr. Bennett was part of the occupying forces, assigned to special services, where he ended up as a singer with Army bands and for a time was featured in a ragtag version of the musical “On the Town” — directed by Arthur Penn, who would go on to direct “Bonnie and Clyde” and other notable movies — in the opera house in Wiesbaden.

He returned to New York in August 1946 and set about beginning a career as a musician. On the G.I. Bill, he took classes at the American Theater Wing, which he later said helped teach him how to tell a story in song. He sang in nightclubs in Manhattan and Queens.

A series of breaks followed. He appeared on the radio show “Arthur Godfrey’s Talent Scouts,” the “American Idol” of its day. (The competition was won by Rosemary Clooney.) There are different versions of the biggest break in Mr. Bennett’s early career, but as he told it in “The Good Life,” he had been singing occasionally at a club in Greenwich Village where the owner had offered Pearl Bailey a gig as the headliner; she agreed, but only on the condition that Joe Bari stayed on the bill.

When Bob Hope came down to take in Ms. Bailey’s act, he liked Joe Bari so much that he asked him to open for him at the Paramount Theater. Hope had a condition, however: He didn’t like the name Joe Bari, and insisted it be changed. Dismissing the name Anthony Benedetto as too long to fit on a marquee, Hope christened the young singer Tony Bennett.

The Hits Roll In

The producer Mitch Miller signed Mr. Bennett to Columbia Records in 1950; “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” was his first single. Miller was known for his hit-making prowess, a gift that often involved matching talented singers with novelty songs or having them cover hits by others, for which he was criticized by more serious music fans and sometimes by the singers themselves.

By mid-1951, Mr. Bennett had his first No. 1 hit, “Because of You.” That same year, his version of the Hank Williams ballad “Cold, Cold Heart” also hit No. 1; three years after Williams died in 1953, Mr. Bennett performed it in his honor at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville.

Other trademark songs followed: “Rags to Riches” in 1953; “Stranger in Paradise,” from the Broadway show “Kismet,” also in 1953; Jule Styne, Betty Comden and Adolph Green’s “Just in Time,” from the show “Bells Are Ringing,” in 1956. That same year, Mr. Bennett was host of his own television variety show, a summer replacement for a similar show that starred another popular Italian American crooner, Perry Como. In 1958, he recorded two albums with the Count Basie band, introducing him to the jazz audience.

In the 1950s, Mr. Bennett toured for the first time, played Las Vegas for the first time and got married for the first time, to Patricia Beech, a fan who had seen him perform in Cleveland. The marriage would flounder in the 1960s, overwhelmed by Mr. Bennett’s perpetual touring, but their two sons would end up playing roles in Mr. Bennett’s career: the older one, D’Andrea, known as Danny, became his father’s manager, and Daegal, known as Dae, became a music producer and recording engineer.

In July 1961, Mr. Bennett was performing in Hot Springs, Ark., and about to head to the West Coast when Ralph Sharon, his longtime pianist, played him a song written by George Cory and Douglass Cross that had been moldering in a drawer for two years. Mr. Sharon and Mr. Bennett decided that it would be perfect for their next date, at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco, and it was.

They recorded the song — of course it was “I Left My Heart in San Francisco” — six months later, in January 1962. It won Mr. Bennett his first two Grammys, for best male solo performance and record of the year, and worldwide fame. In “The Good Life,” he wrote that he was often asked if he ever tired of singing it.

“I answer, ‘Do you ever get tired of making love?’” he wrote.

Just five months later, Mr. Bennett performed at Carnegie Hall with Mr. Sharon and a small orchestra. He got sensational reviews — though The Times’s was measured — and the recording of the concert is now considered a classic.

But as the 1960s proceeded and rock ’n’ roll became dominant, Mr. Bennett’s popularity began to slip. In 1969, he succumbed to the pressure of the new president of Columbia Records, Clive Davis, to record his versions of contemporary songs, and the result, “Tony Sings the Great Hits of Today!” — including the Beatles’ “Eleanor Rigby” and “Something” — was a musical calamity, a record that Mr. Bennett would later tell an interviewer made him vomit.

His relationship with Columbia soured further and finally ended, and by the middle of the 1970s Mr. Bennett had formed his own company, Improv Records, on which he recorded the first of two of his most critically admired albums, duets with the jazz pianist Bill Evans. (The second one was released on Evans’s label, Fantasy.) Together the two opened the Newport Jazz Festival, which had moved to New York, at Carnegie Hall in 1976.

Improv went out of business in 1977, and without a recording contract Mr. Bennett relied more and more on Las Vegas, then in decline, for regular work. His mother died that year, and the profligate life he had been living in Beverly Hills caught up with him; the Internal Revenue Service was threatening to take his house. His second marriage, a tumultuous one to the actress Sandra Grant, collapsed — she would later say that she would have been better off if she had married her previous boyfriend, Joe DiMaggio — and he had begun using marijuana and cocaine heavily.

One day in 1979, high and in a panic, he took a bath to calm down and nearly died in the tub. In later years he would play down the seriousness of the event, but he wrote about it in “The Good Life,” describing what he called a near-death experience: “A golden light enveloped me in a warm glow. It was quite peaceful; in fact, I had the sense that I was about to embark on a very compelling journey. But suddenly I was jolted out of the vision. The tub was overflowing and Sandra was standing above me. She’d heard the water running for too long, and when she came in I wasn’t breathing. She pounded on my chest and literally brought me back to life.”

Mr. Bennett turned to his older son for help. Danny Bennett took over the management of his career, aiming to have the American musical standards that were his strength, and his handling of them, perceived as hip by a new generation.

Somewhat surprisingly, the strategy took hold. An article in Spin magazine, which was founded in 1985, declared Mr. Bennett and James Brown as the two foremost influences on rock ’n’ roll, and the magazine followed up with a long, admiring profile.

A Career Revival

Encouraged by executive changes at Columbia Records, Mr. Bennett returned to the Columbia fold in 1985. The next year he released the album “The Art of Excellence.” WBCN in Boston became the first rock station to give it regular airplay. Released in the emerging CD format, it spurred the sales of Mr. Bennett’s back catalog as music fans began replacing their vinyl records with CDs.

In 1993, Mr. Bennett was a presenter, along with two members of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, at MTV’s Video Music Awards. The next year he gave an hourlong performance for MTV’s “Unplugged” series, which included duets with K.D. Lang (with whom he would later tour) and Elvis Costello. The recording of the show won the Grammy for album of the year.

The revival of Mr. Bennett’s career was complete. Not only had he returned to the kind of popularity he had enjoyed 40 years earlier, but he had also been accepted by an entirely new audience.

He and Mr. Bennett had a contentious relationship. Mr. Bennett resisted his attempts at gimmickry; Miller, who believed that the producer and not the singer was in charge of a recording, applied his authority. Still, together they achieved grand success.

He recorded albums that honored musicians he admired — Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra and Billie Holiday — and he collaborated on standards with singers half, or less than half, his age. On the 2006 album “Duets: An American Classic,” he sang “If I Ruled the World” with Ms. Dion, “Smile” with Barbra Streisand and “For Once in My Life” with Stevie Wonder, and revisited his first Columbia single, “Boulevard of Broken Dreams,” with Sting. Five years later, on “Duets II,” his collaborators included Aretha Franklin, Queen Latifah, Willie Nelson and Ms. Winehouse.

As the century changed, he was once again touring, giving up to 200 performances a year, and recording prolifically.

In 2007 Mr. Bennett married a third time, to his longtime companion, Susan Crow, a teacher four decades his junior whom he had met in the late 1980s. Together they started a foundation, Exploring the Arts, that supports arts education in schools, and financed the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts, a public high school in Queens.

Mr. Bennett had lived in the same Manhattan apartment, where he died, for most of his adult life, except for a few years in Los Angeles and London, Ms. Weiner, his publicist, said. He is survived by his wife; his sons, Danny and Dae; his daughters, Johanna and Antonia Bennett; and 9 grandchildren.

If there was a magical quality to Mr. Bennett’s life, as suggested by David Evanier in a glowing 2011 biography, “All the Things You Are: The Life of Tony Bennett,” it is encapsulated by a story Mr. Bennett told to Whitney Balliett in 1974.

“I like the funny things in life that could only happen to me now,” he said. “Once, when I was singing Kurt Weill’s ‘Lost in the Stars’ in the Hollywood Bowl with Basie’s band and Buddy Rich on drums, a shooting star went falling through the sky right over my head and everyone was talking about it, and the next morning the phone rang and it was Ray Charles, who I’d never met, calling from New York. He said, ‘Hey, Tony, how’d you do that, man?’ and hung up.”

[Paul D.]

I've just read the sad news that Sinead O'Connor has passed .

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/m...-dies-aged-56/


https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbi...-dies-aged-56/

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=0-EF60neguk

[Tintin]

Posted by Seeclearly (here)
I've just read the sad news that Sinead O'Connor has passed .

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/m...-dies-aged-56/


https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbi...-dies-aged-56/

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=0-EF60neguk

Oh, wow Thanks for sharing. I really liked her.

[thepainterdoug]

I saw Sinead live in NYC. She was in a stress and in need and I think after the concert someone had to take her in.
She did an amazing show and certainly touched my life. Sinead had balls and made no apology


Inversion/ this is a very valuable and appreciated thread here

[Debra]

Sinéad breathed bravery. Extraordinary woman who’s been through more fires in one short lifetime than someone over 10 lifetimes. Incredible voice, too. She was the epitome of truth.

Interesting paragraph in the Guardian:

Religion and spirituality marked her life. On the back of her hand was tattooed “the lion of Judah shall break every chain” and on her chest was a large Jesus tattoo. On her neck was “all things must pass”, another biblical quote.

source

[Matthew]

Rest in peace Sinead O'Connor. Today the cause of her death was updated: there is no cause of death. An autopsy will be carried out but the London Inner South Coroner’s Court said the result of the autopsy may not be available for several weeks.

*1 www.mirror.co.uk

[Bluegreen]

My favorite Eagle. The best songwriter of them all/ RIP Randy Meisner.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=qjxAhJj0_zg

[Bill Ryan]

Dr Paul LaViolette died last December.... I never knew. I emailed with him quite regularly, met him once in Greece, and all I can say is that he was a very good man.

Copying two new posts here from his own thread, Dr Paul LaViolette and the Superwave:

Posted by edina (here)
This morning I was intuitively guided to look closer at a book in my library, Beyond the Big Bang, by Paul A Laviolette.

After perusing the book, I wondered what he was up to now-a-days, and discovered that he passed away this past December. I feel a bit saddened at this discovery, and that somehow I had missed this.

Linking his Memorian Obituary at Starburst Foundation. It's quite long, here's a snippet below.
I've highlighted a couple of keys phrases that have a more personal meaning for me and are probably why he came to mind this morning...

Astrophysicist Paul Alex LaViolette, PhD has passed away
8 November 1947 – 19 December 2022

Paul Alex LaViolette, a Doctorate of Philosophy in Systems Science, was an astrophysicist, an inventor and a philosopher whose thinking was outside the box: a Renaissance Man. Dr. LaViolette was president of the Starburst Foundation under whose aegis he had been conducting interdisciplinary research in physics, astronomy, ecology, climatology, systems theory, psychology and ancient mythology. He is the originator of theories in areas of astronomy, physics, geology, and cognitive psychology which have been published in various professional journals and provide explanations to various thus far inadequately answered questions. His published books and articles explain the theories he has put forth and in them he substantiates each tenant in detail based on extensive, in-depth painstaking research. His book titles include: Genesis of the Cosmos: the Ancient Science of Continuous Creation (first print published as Beyond the Big Bang), Subquantum Kinetics, Earth Under Fire, Decoding the Message of the Pulsar, and Secrets of Antigravity Propulsion which was an Amazon top seller the first year and presents a comprehensive study of advanced propulsion systems propelling unconventional flying objects and classified craft such as the B-2 bomber and other advanced craft such as those seen around Area 51. He had also edited “A Systems View of Man,” essays by systems theorist Ludwig von Bertalanffy. Some of Paul’s books have been published in several languages including but not limited to Greek and Russian. His publications are detailed on his website etheric.com.

Paul served as a solar energy consultant for the UN, the Club of Rome, and the Greek government and had also consulted with Hughes Aircraft Corp. on ways to improve innovation in the company’s work force. He has advised NASA on the advantages of field propulsion technology and participated in the critical review of the Columbia Space shuttle accident.

Posted by Kuperkai (here)
Paul was a bright light and a pioneer in alternative physics. His talks on the secrets of antigravity, electrogravitics as well as his own theory subquantum kinetics are amazing and very informative. The fact that Peter Laviolette (a hockey player) has a wikipedia entry, but Dr Paul LaViolette does not have one, is a telling indicator that the Cabal does not want the masses to know about him. About a week ago, I checked out his book "The Secrets of Antigravity Propulsion" for a third time.

BTW, for those of you not familiar with Dr Paul LaViolette, in 2009 he had a legendary interview with Mel Fabregas of Veritas Radio where they were disconnected 19 times. Here is Mel's description of the events:
Important News- Mel gets disconnected 19 times during Dr. Paul LaViolette's interview

And here is a post from Project Avalon on the disrupted interview:
Sabotage to Dr. Paul LaViolette's interview with VERITAS

While I've heard snippets of the 2009 interview with Mel Fabregas, I've never found the whole (interrupted) interview. If anyone has it, please post it and maybe upload it to the Project Avalon Library. Project Avalon has a few things on Dr Paul LaViolette here, but may of his talks are missing.

You will be missed Paul, and I won't forget you.

[JackMcThorn]

https://www.rte.ie/news/2023/0808/13...inead-oconnor/

[aoibhghaire]

I hadn't realised that Paul LaViolette had passed away.

I last spoke to him after my presentation to APEC late last year.

He was explaining his challenges with the scientific community regarding his work.

Similarly, I also explained my challenges within the scientific community.

Sad news!

Aoi

[arwen]

Legendary Sugar Man singer Rodriguez, 81, has died



by
Corné van Zyl
09-08-2023 15:07

Legendary Sugar Man singer Sixto Rodriguez has died at the age of 81.

BREAKING – LEGENDARY SUGAR MAN SINGER HAS DIED
Rodriguez was the inspiration behind the Academy Award-winning documentary “Searching for Sugar Man” in 2012.

Two South Africans set out to discover what happened to their unlikely musical hero, the mysterious 1970s rock n roller Rodriguez.

RODRIGUEZ DIED ON TUESDAY

This legendary singer was born in Detroit and released several albums over the years, most of which were flops in the states but were blockbusters overseas. Only in the 2010s he knew how successful they were.

HE WAS 81 YEARS OLD – MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PEACE
“It is with great sadness that we at Sugarman.org announce that Sixto Diaz Rodriguez has passed away earlier today (Tuesday).

“We extend our most heartfelt condolences to his daughters – Sandra, Eva and Regan – and to all his family.

“Rodriguez was 81 years old. May His Dear Soul Rest In Peace.”

Sugarman.org


HE WAS BIGGER THAN ELVIS IN SA
In South Africa, he’d been bigger than Elvis.

Rodriguez had been in declining health and it was unclear where he died. His death was confirmed by his daughter, Regan.

All South Africans of my generation literally grew up with Rodriguez's album "Cold Fact" - he was the very voice of our tormented souls.



It was the most extraordinary phenomenon, as we all assumed he was famous worldwide and had no idea till much later that he was shafted and unrecognised in his own country. We were under sanctions, under boycott, shunned by the world, and no internet in those days (1970) so we did not know - we just knew he somehow oddly expressed the very essence of the despair in our souls.

RIP, Maestro.

[pyrangello]

I just bought that movie 3 weeks ago , great movie about Rodriquez.

[Artemesia]

Just felt to memorialize two people who were important in my own journey and were interconnected with one another as well. Here is a small link from my friend Mike Clelland (author of The Messengers, Owls,
Synchronicity and the UFO contactee, whose book a few of my own owl/contact stories appear in)

The first is ET sculptor and starseed advocate/ground crew earth artist in residence, the phenomenal Cynthia Crawford. She and I spoke on the phone in 2013 after Khris Neal’s death, I had reached out to her because she and Khris had been in contact many times and after his murder his beloved Arcturian sculpture by Cynthia, which he had consulted me about paint adjustment techniques just weeks before we had to ‘go radio silent’ because of the threats gangstalking our team of mk/black projects surivors had endured. The connectivity between Cynthia, Khris - both now passed on from 3D embodiment - and myself and Mike Clelland, whom I have met up with for coffee and super woo conversation a few times now as we both quite randomly landed in towns just an eagle soar from one another, is very curious indeed.

Journey well Cynthia. Your art was an inspiration and was a driving force in creating my own version of an Arcturian and an Andromedan as seen on my Project Avalon Avatar. In great hopes that the 3D earth surface human internet is accesible on the plasma lightships, may you see my nod in your direction and know that the artist in residence that Cynthia was was greatly admired!

http://hiddenexperience.blogspot.com...passed-on.html

And my dear friend Khris Neal.



https://www.suttonmemorialhome.com/o.../khristan-neal

https://clandestineragerevealed.word...bout-mk-ultra/

[Kryztian]

Lee Speigel Obituary, Veteran Journalist

Lee Speigel Obituary, Death Cause – It is with a heavy heart that we acknowledge the passing of veteran journalist Lee Speigel. As news of his departure reaches us, we are reminded of his significant contributions to the field of journalism and his pioneering efforts in promoting serious discourse around the UFO subject. Lee Speigel’s legacy as a journalist extends far beyond the realm of conventional news reporting. He stood out for his dedication to investigating and discussing a topic that was often marginalized or dismissed – UFOs. In a time when few dared to explore this subject with depth and rigor, Lee fearlessly ventured into uncharted territory, carving a path for serious discussion and exploration of the unknown.



His commitment to UFO research and journalism undoubtedly left an indelible mark on the landscape of Ufology. His work paved the way for increased awareness, understanding, and open conversations about an enigmatic and often misunderstood subject. Lee’s contributions have been instrumental in shifting the narrative and elevating the discourse surrounding UFOs. Beyond his journalistic prowess, Lee Speigel’s influence extended to his role as a media pioneer.

His dedication to shedding light on the UFO phenomenon and his willingness to engage with the subject matter on a profound level have inspired countless individuals, researchers, and journalists alike. His fearless pursuit of truth and his determination to bring clarity to complex topics set a standard for responsible journalism and open-minded exploration. As we remember Lee Speigel, let us honor his legacy by continuing to foster meaningful conversations, engage in rigorous research, and approach the unknown with curiosity and respect.

His impact on the field of Ufology and journalism serves as a testament to his dedication, passion, and unwavering commitment to uncovering the truth. Our deepest condolences go out to his family, friends, and colleagues during this difficult time. May Lee Speigel’s memory be a source of inspiration for all those who continue to explore and question the mysteries of our world. Rest in peace, Lee, your contributions will be remembered and celebrated in the history of Ufology.

https://funeralobitsmemorial.com/lee...igel-has-died/

[Inversion]

Mohamed Al-Fayed died at age 94. His wiki page says he died on the 08/30/23. His son Dodi died on 08/31/97.

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Mohamed Al-Fayed, the self-made billionaire who owned Harrods and Fulham FC, has died - almost 26 years to the day after his son was killed alongside Princess Diana in a car crash in Paris.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=twMTI3Y11Z8