In memoriam : RI Obituaries

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Postby elfismiles » Fri May 11, 2018 9:48 am

Adam Parfrey Dies: Feral House Publisher, Author And Editor Of Forbidden Knowledge Was 61
by Bruce Haring, May 10, 2018 10:23pm
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It is with tremendous sadness that we inform you that Feral House founder and publisher, Adam Parfrey passed away Thursday, May 10, 2018.
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Feral House Publisher and Author Adam Parfrey, 61, Dies
Friday, May 11, 2018
. . .
It is worthy of mentioning that CBS's original drama series Strange Angel, credited as being based on George Pendle's book Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons (Mariner Books, 2006), premiers on June 14, 2018. Jack Parsons was brought into modern popular culture first by Feral House. The first edition of Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons by John Carter was published by Feral House in 1999, with an introduction by Robert Anton Wilson. The second edition appeared in 2005. Adam Parfrey shared Jack Parsons with America first.
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Re: Drawing Lines Against Racism and Fascism
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American Dream » 24 Feb 2018 11:28 wrote:
Counter-Culture Fascism

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1. The discussion begins with the frightening and terrifying situation of the late Joe Ferguson, whose posthumous admiration of neo-Nazis, Charles Manson and Timothy McVeigh motivated his mass-murder/ suicide. It was while watching the recounting of the ghastly events of 9/11 that Mr. Emory absorbed the account of this smaller horror. Indeed, Ferguson’s psychological projection of his personality into a posthumous conception is, in certain respects, like the behavior of the 9/11 attackers. Like James Cagney, in the movie “White Heat”, the hijackers and Ferguson imagined that their fiery demise would imbue them with a combination of notoriety and physical transcendence. By disseminating a poisonous adulation of Manson and his ilk, the purveyors of counter-culture fascism, quite deliberately in most cases, set others on their course toward oblivion. The unmitigated evil propagated by Michael Moynihan, Boyd Rice, publishing guru Adam Parfrey and their fellow travelers is set forth in this program.
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8. Feral House, the publisher of Lords of Chaos, distributes one of Vikernes’ CD’s. In this context, it is significant that Feral House owner Adam Parfrey is part of a counterculture, Social Darwinist/fascist milieu that overlaps both the alternative music and publishing fields.
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Moreover, Feral House editor Adam Parfrey clearly wanted to publish a popular book on the strange universe of black metal rather than a political polemic. Nor does Moynihan himself fit easily into the more conventional definitions of fascism. LORDS OF CHAOS is best characterized as a palimpsest with the author’s own political ideology at work just below the surface of a text ostensibly devoted solely to analyzing an extremist musical sub-culture.”

(Idem.)

9. One of the points of action and association between Moynihan, and his publisher Adam Parfrey is the Abraxas Foundation, which united both of them with Satanist and fascist Boyd Rice. Abraxas is described by Moynihan as an ‘occultist-fascist think tank’—it is linked to the Church of Satan, about which more will be said later.
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17. Next, the program sets forth the professional development of Adam Parfrey—a fellow in the Abraxas Foundation and the publisher of Lords of Chaos.

” . . . The new hip regime of mean was exemplified by the infamous Los Angeles Amok catalog. Amok Press’ bestseller Apocalypse Culture, a collection of rants, raves, conspiracy theories and aesthetic terrorist tracts, was another key text. Adam Parfrey, owner of Amok and later Feral House, first entered the scene in 1980 with IDEA, a southern California-based Re/Search-type journal about punk culture. He then moved to New York, where he met the art designer George Petros. . . .In 1984, Parfrey and Petros created Exit, a New York-based journal heavy on graphic design.”

(Ibid.; pp. 5-6.)

18. Far from benign and aloof, Parfrey’s literary efforts have served to disseminate the views and efforts of some of the very worst Nazis and fascists.

“Parfrey worked with Petros on the first three issues of Exit, before leaving to create Amok Press. Once a success de scandale, Exit’s increasing fascination with fascism doomed it to just six issues. Issue Five, for example, featured a particularly rancid piece of anti-Semitism entitled ‘The Execution of Carl Jung’, which was ‘conceived by George Petros’ with ‘text researched by Robert N. Taylor,’ a former paramilitary Minuteman leader turned racial Odinist. The final 1994 Exit included contributions from Michael Moynihan and James Mason, an American Nazi whose book Siege was published by Moynihan. While producing Exit, Petros also served as an editor at Seconds, an eclectic New York-based music magazine that Moynihan, Rice, and Parfrey regularly write for.”
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22. Promoting and extolling Charles Manson, the Abraxas milieu came into contact with James Mason, among other members of the American Nazi Party.) “In the mid-1980’s, Adam Parfrey formed Amok Press, the precursor to Feral House, with Ken Swezey of the Amok catalog. Amok’s first book, Michael, was an English translation of Nazi Prpaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels’ sole novel. Parfrey’s next book, Apocalypse Culture was followed in 1988 by The Manson File, which was edited by Nikolas Schreck (the boyfriend of LaVey’s daughter Zeena) in collaboration with Boyd Rice and others. Rice regularly visited Manson, and even campaigned to get him released from jail through an Abraxas spin-off called the Friends of Justice.” (Idem.)

23. A pivot point in the development of the Abraxas Foundation’s professional relationship with members and alumni of the American Nazi Party was convicted murderer Perry ‘Red’ Warthan. Warthan catalyzed the relationship between ANP member James Mason and the Abraxas configuration. Among the ranks of the Nazis associated with the Abraxas milieu is Robert Heick, seen here in Nazi uniform with Abraxas/Moynihan/Parfrey colleague Boyd Rice: http://www.canuck.com/Srl/rice.html .)
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Re: In memoriam : RI Obituaries

Postby elfismiles » Fri May 11, 2018 10:18 am

via Feral House Publisher and Author Adam Parfrey, 61, Dies
Friday, May 11, 2018
https://copycateffect.blogspot.com/2018 ... -obit.html

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Writer Daniel Cohen Dies: From Cryptozoology to Ufology, Parapsychology to Politics
http://www.cryptozoonews.com/cohen-obit/

In less than a month, three towering authors of books on unexplained topics have died.

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Daniel Edward Cohen (March 12, 1936 – May 6, 2018) was an American nonfiction author who has produced nearly two-hundred books, most for juvenile audiences, although his focus changed after his daughter Theodora was killed in Pan Am Flight 103. Cohen’s daughter, Theodora, died in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. He and his wife Susan cowrote a book about it, entitled Pam Am 103: The Bombing, The Betrayals, and a Bereaved Family’s Search for Justice. They would frequently advocate for the victims in the press as well, until Daniel Cohen lost the ability to speak in 2011, after a stroke.

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Daniel and Susan Cohen in 2003 with a photograph of their daughter, Theodora.

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As the New York Times noted:

Daniel Edward Reba was born in Chicago on March 12, 1936. His father, Edward Reba, and his mother, Suzanne Greenberg, divorced when he was very young. Soon after that, his mother married Milton Cohen, a left-wing social reformer, and Daniel took his stepfather’s surname.

After graduating from high school in 1954, he enrolled in the University of Illinois at Navy Pier in Chicago. He later graduated from the university’s campus in Champaign with a bachelor’s degree in journalism.

After working at Time magazine and Science Digest, Mr. Cohen began writing books — nearly all for children and teenagers — about ghosts, U.F.O.s, the occult, ESP, vampires, werewolves, conspiracies, cloning, weather and the human genome.

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He wrote biographies of the astronomer Carl Sagan and Jesse Ventura, the pro wrestler who was later elected governor of Minnesota. In all, he wrote nearly 200 books.

With his wife, Mr. Cohen wrote “When Someone You Know Is Gay” (1989), an introduction to homosexuality that Publishers Weekly said “performs a needed service: While gay teens will read it, learn and feel less alone, the target audience is the friends and classmates of gays.”


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With over 200 books published, Cohen’s legacy is rich, from monsters, to ufos, to other unexplained topics.

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Re: In memoriam : RI Obituaries

Postby elfismiles » Wed Aug 01, 2018 3:59 pm

elfismiles » 10 May 2018 16:27 wrote:<snip>
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Pahrump-based radio host Art Bell dies at 72
https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/loc ... ies-at-72/

Art Bell Dead: Radio Host Dies, Cause of Death Unclear
https://heavy.com/news/2018/04/art-bell ... -dies-how/

R.I.P. ART BELL from Joseph Farrell
https://gizadeathstar.com/2018/04/r-i-p-art-bell/

Art Bell Makes His Final Exit On Friday the 13th
http://copycateffect.blogspot.com/2018/ ... riday.html

Art Bell Interviews Robert Anton Wilson 7/17/1997 – Floyd Anderson

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George Knapp ... https://www.facebook.com/10000123857696 ... 933964906/

BREAKING: Art Bell Coroner Report Released

The Coroner's Report has just been released for the death of radio host and Coast to Coast AM founder, Art Bell.

Cause of death: Multiple Drug Intoxication (Oxycodone, Hydrocodone, Diazepam, Carisoprodol)

Significant Conditions: Cronic obstructive pulmonary disease, hypertension

Manner: Accident

This is a fluid, breaking story and I'll have more tonight on FADE to BLACK.

Art Bell passed away in his home on Friday, April 13, 2018 at the age of 72 in Pahrump, Nevada.

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Re: In memoriam : RI Obituaries

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Ellen Mariani, 9/11 Truth Activist, Has Died
Posted on May 10, 2017 by Admin
Sent to us by Bruce Leichty.

Family members of Ellen Mariani have disclosed that the outspoken “9/11 widow” and truth activist died in late 2015, says her former attorney Bruce Leichty. Mariani’s daughter Lauren stated that her mother died of natural causes.

Leichty reports that the news came as a shock to him. After his professional engagement for Mrs. Mariani ended in 2013, he and his former client had remained on friendly terms, and “after frequent communications over a long period of time I was essentially giving her the space I thought she deserved and wanted after some 12 years of litigation,” he said from his California office. The website established by the Ellen Mariani Legal Defense Fund, still in existence at http://www.marianilawsuit.com, did not report on the death because website founder and manager Vincent Gillespie did not receive a report of the death until Leichty learned of it, says Gillespie.  

Mariani, originally from New Hampshire, had moved to Colorado and then to Arizona to be close to a daughter and her family. Leichty says that he is informed that Mariani’s health took a sudden downturn while she was living with her daughter’s family at their shared Arizona home.

“I am told that after receipt of her settlement she had been having some mobility issues, but that mentally she had remained healthy, until one morning her daughter Lauren came downstairs and found her mother unable to communicate normally.” The daughter, who did not authorize this report, indicated that her mother never recovered and died 10/31/15 after a prolonged hospital stay.

“The reasons for Ellen’s illness and death remain somewhat mysterious, but neither of the family members I have spoken with suggested that Ellen was the victim of foul play,” noted Leichty. Mariani guarded her age closely, he said, and her age at the time of her death is not determined; no obituary was published.

Leichty says he subsequently spoke with another daughter who lived in another state but confirmed her mother’s death. Family members said they had been reluctant to release information publicly at the time of death, he says, partly because of their experience with contentious litigation that had developed over the estate of Mrs.

Mariani’s deceased husband, Louis Neil Mariani.
Louis Neil Mariani, whose name is listed as a victim of terrorism at the 9/11 Memorial in New York, boarded United Airlines Flight 175 on 9/11/2001 in order to be present for the wedding of one of Ellen’s daughters in California, and none of his remains were ever found after that flight is said to have crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center.

Ellen Mariani was the first family member to file a lawsuit against various air carriers, security companies and port authorities in what became known as the 9/11 litigation, after which Congress passed special legislation providing for a Victims’ Compensation Fund and channeling all lawsuits to the Southern District of New York. The VCF was available to those who were willing to forego a lawsuit, but Mariani spurned the Fund and launched her own investigation, at one point even being persuaded to sue George W. Bush, notes Leichty. In that Pennsylvania federal court case Mariani was represented by Philip Berg and it was later dismissed. Leichty said that filing was a move Mariani later regretted, although she never gave up her interest in digging for the truth.

Leichty’s representation came about in connection with the more conventional tort litigation, conducted in the courtroom of Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein in the federal court in the Southern District of New York, where plaintiffs and defendants were represented under special rules created for a “mass tort” case– although Hellerstein refused to allow Leichty to appear before him on the grounds that Mariani no longer held any personal rights.

Mariani had been convinced to relinquish her role in that case in favor of a probate executor after firing several attorneys, says Leichty; however, he says that Mariani soon came to believe that her interests were not being properly represented by the probate executor. She then sought relief to again pursue her own interests independent of the interests of the probate executor, as an injured spouse and not just as a representative of a decedent. She made her arguments both in New Hampshire probate court and in federal court, to no avail.

In addition to raising funds from supporters to file an unsuccessful petition to the U.S. Supreme Court, one of the last court actions in which she was involved was challenging a ruling of the 2nd Circuit, where a two-judge panel imposed sanctions on her and Leichty for disclosing the Israel-related connections of the New York trial judge, Alvin Hellerstein, and some of the defendants she was suing. One of the grounds Mariani asserted for trying to regain control over her spousal injury claim was that her successor probate executor had a hopeless and blatant conflict of interest, in that his law firm had represented one or more of the defendants in the 9/11 litigation.

Many of the federal court pleadings and rulings are found at the website http://www.marianilawsuit.com.

“Ellen was a hero to many in the 9/11 truth movement for holding out, not taking the easy money from the victims’ fund, not accepting the governments narrative, not wanting to settle, continuing to ask questions, and trying to find out what actually happened on 9/11 and why,” says Leichty. Mariani also came under attack on the Internet, he notes, including from persons questioning her narrative and suggesting that she was a “crisis actor.”

“The Ellen Mariani I knew was a bereaved and determined widow seeking the truth, a stubborn independent-minded woman who was less concerned about compensation than about justice,” says Leichty.

“The level of opposition, legal illogic, willful blindness and sophistry she and I encountered from 9/11 defendants and from the media and from the judges we dealt with was totally consistent with that.”

“We lived in different states so we didn’t see each other frequently, but she always impressed me with her authenticity and common sense. She was extremely vigilant and resilient. She insisted on being treated with dignity and honesty and not being patronized or pitied or medicated,” says Leichty. “She won my enduring respect.”

Leichty said the last time he spoke with Mrs. Mariani was when he hosted 9/11 researcher Christopher Bollyn at a speaking event in San Dimas, California in September 2014. Bollyn chaired the Ellen Mariani Legal Defense Fund which raised money for Mariani’s Supreme Court petition.

“Ellen graciously spoke to the audience by telephone before Christopher’s presentation. I had the sense that with her own struggle over, she was just trying to be a grandmother and resume a normal life, but she was still passionate about 9/11 and her role as a truth activist was never far from her heart.”

“I tried a number of times to get in touch with her during 2015, but never heard from her, and a number of others also said that Ellen was no longer communicating with them. So I eventually looked up the contact information I had for her daughter, and then learned the sad news.”

“It probably came as an extra shock to me because Ellen was somehow the kind of person you just thought would never die. She always assured me during the case, somewhat defiantly, that she was not old and had a lot more living to do and that I was on dangerous territory even suggesting otherwise. And so after my legal engagement ended I looked forward to visiting with her periodically again in the future, and perhaps even cooperating with her in putting together a book, which she often spoke about.”

Leichty says he does not believe the book was started. Family members advise that Ellen Mariani is buried in New Hampshire not far from where she grew up, with the notation “9/11 Widow” on her gravestone.

“May her spirit of resistance and integrity live on, and may her tribe of truth increase along with the answers that are yet to emerge about who was ultimately responsible for the death of her husband,” says Leichty.
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Re: In memoriam : RI Obituaries

Postby elfismiles » Mon Aug 20, 2018 4:59 pm

Wednesday, August 15, 2018
Michael A. Persinger, Developed God Helmet, Dies
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Michael Persinger as an RI subject
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For PW...

Project Willow » 16 Aug 2011 18:54 wrote:Fuck Michael Persinger:
The FMSF Scientific and Professional Advisory Board - Profiles

Michael A. Persinger, Ph.D.
Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON, Canada;


Fuck Michael Persinger:
Wired wrote:He believes cerebral fritzing is responsible for almost anything one might describe as paranormal - aliens, heavenly apparitions, past-life sensations, near-death experiences, awareness of the soul, you name it.

He named them ... memories of sexual and ritual abuse.

Fuck Michael Persinger:
Contemptible Wiki wrote:Research in neurotheology
Main article: God helmet

During the 1980s he stimulated people's temporal lobes artificially with a weak magnetic field to see if he could induce a religious state (see God helmet). He claimed that the field could produce the sensation of "an ethereal presence in the room". This research has received wide coverage in the media, with high profile visitors to Persinger's lab Susan Blackmore and Richard Dawkins reporting positive[6] and negative[7] results respectively. Dawkins reported a range of minor effects (relaxation, sensations in his limbs, etc.), while Blackmore [6] reported "One of the most extraordinary experiences" she had ever had.

The only published attempt, by a research group in Sweden, to replicate these effects failed to do so and concluded that subjects' reports correlated with their personality characteristics and suggestibility. They also criticised Persinger for insufficient double-blinding.[8] Persinger responded that the Swedish group had an incorrect computer setup,[9] a claim that the Swedish group dispute,[10] and that many of his previous experiments were indeed carried out double-blind,[11] although the Swedish group have also disputed this.[10]


He's Joly West's Sideshow Bob.

That's a start. I have to work today, maybe I'll find more later.
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Re: In memoriam : RI Obituaries

Postby MacCruiskeen » Fri Dec 07, 2018 5:15 pm

Ah no, Pete Shelley has died.

Pete Shelley, lead singer of punk band Buzzcocks, dies at 63

Co-founder of seminal punk band suffered suspected heart attack

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/ ... dies-at-63




Pete Shelley on making Buzzcocks' masterpiece Ever Fallen in Love

[...]

At the bigger shows, like at Manchester’s Electric Circus, kids were ripping the seats out. We signed to United Artists on the day Elvis died [16 August 1977] and suddenly had an album to do and an audience who wanted to see us. After one of our shows in Edinburgh, we were in the Blenheim guest house with pints of beer, sitting in the TV room half-watching Guys and Dolls. This line just leapt out at me: “Have you ever fallen in love with someone you shouldn’t’ve? Wait till it happens to you.” I thought, “Ooh. That gives me an idea.” The next day, while our driver was posting something, I sat in the van outside the post office and came up with the first line, “You piss on my natural emotions.” Then I changed “piss” to “spurn”, which had a more barbed edge to it.

I wrote it about Francis, who was the social sec at Warrington Tech. I was going through self-discovery, shall we say, a fertile ground for writing songs. In the initial courtship he was resistant to my charms. I loved the word “shouldn’t’ve” and all its apostrophes. The song hurtles into the intro. We were trying to pare things back from the norm of what music should be. There’s a tension that resolves when the chorus starts and I put in a magic dip – a tiny pause – before the last chorus to give the listener a lift.

Me and producer Martin Rushent did the three or four part harmonies. You never think this is the song everyone will remember, but it struck a chord because everyone experiences unrequited love. Francis was on that trip to Scotland, so he probably knew it was about him but nobody else did. Our relationship ended up lasting seven years, but you take something specific and make it universal.

[...]

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Re: In memoriam : RI Obituaries

Postby JackRiddler » Fri Dec 07, 2018 6:43 pm

:twisted:

Have I mentioned I hate the title of this thread because it sounds like it's for us?

And we will all have a turn, each and every one.

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We meet at the borders of our being, we dream something of each others reality. - Harvey of R.I.

To Justice my maker from on high did incline:
I am by virtue of its might divine,
The highest Wisdom and the first Love.

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Re: In memoriam : RI Obituaries

Postby MacCruiskeen » Fri Dec 07, 2018 7:51 pm

Therefore send not to know for whom the bell tolls.

Pete Shelley wrote:...and I put in a magic dip – a tiny pause – before the last chorus to give the listener a lift.


So let's all do our best to give the listener a lift before the last chorus, because we won't be recording forever.
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Postby MacCruiskeen » Sat Jan 15, 2022 8:30 pm

Greatly saddened to hear of the passing of Herbert Achternbusch. There was no human being like him, or exactly like any other, which is why the dysgenicist dullards with the money have declared humans obsolete and are so desperately eager to cull them.

Bayerns Anarchist: Zum Tod von Herbert Achternbusch
In seinen Filmen und Büchern blickte Achternbusch tief in die bayerische Seele. Nun ist der Regisseur, Schriftsteller und Maler im Alter von 83 Jahren gestorben.
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