Showing posts with label Assassination. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Assassination. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Inauspicious beginning?

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"As 2012 comes to a depressingly apocalypse-free conclusion..."?!
~ Brian Brooks (movie critic, source) 

"I'm going to be president for the next four years. I hope."
~ President Obama (source; cf. here)

"Could he actually have been joking about assassination? About impeachment? The apocalypse?." (Sources 1 & 2) Obama is such a joker (cf. e.g., here, here, and here).

"It's gonna be like fucking Doom, man..."


"Apocalypse" is, I think, also sometimes called "Doomsday."
 

(Source - DiCaprio again!)

What is the effect of publicizing these sorts of statements? Are the effects predictable? (Cf. Here) What "research program" (if any) has replaced "psychic driving"? Inception? (Cf. Here) Memetics? (Cf. Here)


"Anyone who has been watching the news over the past few days will have heard the gunman, Adam Lanza, described as 'sick,' 'disturbed' and 'defective'." (Sources: 1 & 2)

"It's never just a dream is it?" 
~ Dom Cobb (Inception)

"Michael Carneal, who killed three and wounded five at a Paducah, Ky., high school in 1997, also was a video game devotee. Michigan State University law Professor Ken Saunders said the 14-year-old had no weapons training yet with eight shots struck three victims in the head and five in the torso. FBI officials say experienced officers hit a target once in five. 'It appears to have been his video game training that made him an effective killer,' Saunders said. Most recently, testimony at the Beltway sniper trial of Lee Malvo showed he trained by playing sniper video games." (Source: Jane Musgrave, "Game Link in Slaying May Have Merit, Experts Say," Palm Beach Post (Florida), Final ed., Saturday, February 21, 2004, Local, p. 1C.)

 
"That's why the military developed dream sharing
- a training program where soldiers could strangle, stab and shoot each other, then wake up."
~ Arthur



"U.S. Army recruiting at the mall with video games[:] The U.S. Army, struggling to ensure it has enough manpower as it fights wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, is wooing young Americans with video games, Google maps and simulated attacks on enemy positions from an Apache helicopter." (Source)  "In recent years the Army has tried a number of ways to increase enlistment, including home video games, direct marketing promotions, a stronger online presence and recruitment-themed music videos. ... In recent years, the Army has had great success with using video games like America’s Army to attract recruits." (Source; cf. here) Joshua: "A strange game. The only winning move is not to play."


"A retired Army lieutenant colonel, [David] Grossman is the author of 'On Killing' and the founder of the Killology Research Group and its Web site, killology.com. He came to the World SWAT Challenge and Conference to address nearly 100 cops -- members of paramilitary police units known as SWAT teams, which is short for Special Weapons And Tactics. Grossman told them we're living in a 'new Dark Age,' an era of al Qaeda-style terrorism combined with Oklahoma City-style bombings and Columbine-style school shootings by kids whose brains are warped by violent video games. Most people are sheep, Grossman said, and you are the warriors who must protect them from the wolves. 'We need warriors who embrace that dirty, nasty four-letter word kill!' he proclaimed." (Source: Peter Carlson, "Sultans Of SWAT: Competition Has Law Enforcement Assault Teams Gunning to Be the Best," The Washington Post, Tuesday, May 25, 2004, Final ed., Style; C01, URL.)




"A team of scientists have said they believe an old gourd contains the blood of French King Louis XVI. The monarch was killed by guillotine by French revolutionaries more than 200 years ago, on 21 January 1793. ... Analysis of DNA taken from blood traces found inside the vegetable container had already revealed that it probably matched someone of Louis' description but scientists could not prove it belonged to the beheaded king as they had no genetic material from any of his relatives. However, the team managed to find a rare genetic signature shared with DNA from a mummified head believed to belong to Louis' 16th Century predecessor, Henri IV, who was killed in 1610." (Source; cf. here)



David Lightman: "I was trying to break into Protovision...[I]f it's military, why does it  games like checkers and backgammon?" Jim Sting: "Maybe that's because those are games that teach basic strategy." David Lightman: "Is this a game, or is it real?" Joshua: "What's the difference?" (WarGames)


"The Connecticut school massacre gunman Adam Lanza spent hours playing violent video games such as Call Of Duty in a windowless bunker, according to an interview with a plumber who worked at the family home." (Source; cf. here.) It's just a video game!

Flashback: "Anders Breivik 'trained' for shooting attacks by playing Call of Duty" (Source) "On Aug. 28, [2003] two teenagers from Newport, Tenn., pleaded guilty to two sniper-style shootings that left one man dead and a woman injured. The boys claimed to have gotten the idea from Grand Theft Auto, a violent video game that has caused controversy over its potential effects on kids." (Source cf. Here)


Apropos of nothing: Happy 19th Anniversary of CIA's involvement in the manufacture of video games!

See also:

"Tidbits"

"Hercules (and his twin)"

"Tony Scott" (&al.)

"Threats"
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Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Belling the (Hurricane) Gilbert

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"Arizona woman accused of running over husband because he didn’t vote against President Obama" (Source): "GILBERT, Ariz -- A pregnant Gilbert woman is facing domestic assault charges, accused of running over her husband because he didn't vote in last week's election. ... Police said Holly Solomon's husband, Daniel, tried hiding from his wife behind a light pole to save his life. ... Holly Solomon, 28, was arrested after running over husband Daniel Solomon following a wild chase that left him pinned underneath the vehicle. Daniel Solomon, 36, was in critical condition at a local hospital, but is expected to survive..." (Source)



Emotions are running wild. I have previously gestured towards a  pattern of "laughter"-symbolism (see here). This laughter symbolism arguably has ties to the names Hugo and Isaac (via Loren Coleman's analysis), both of which names also designate notable hurricanes. Hurricane Sandy is still prominent in the national consciousness.


It is of interest, then, that the dateline for the homicidal, "anti-Obama" wife is listed as "Gilbert, Arizona." "Hurricane Gilbert" is the name given to "an extremely powerful Cape Verde-type hurricane that formed during the 1988 Atlantic hurricane season and brought widespread destruction to the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. It was the most intense hurricane ever observed in the Atlantic basin, until Hurricane Wilma surpassed it during 2005" (Source). A tropical storm warning for Gilbert was upgraded to a hurricane warning on September 11, 1998 (Source).

Ecstatic laughter plausibly lies to one extreme on a sort of rough-and-ready emotional continuum. An expedient name for this pole might be the "comic" pole. The other pole might then be fairly characterized as the "tragic." (This symbol dichotomy has arguably cropped up before, in the strange tale of "James Holmes," the "Aurora-shooter," see here.) Again, I point towards this misguided "Phoenix"-woman, about whom it was written that her actions were motivated by: "despair at the re-election of Democratic President Barack Obama" (Source).
(The outer, "black" layer - the "nut case"; source)

If I didn't know better, I would say that it appears as if the election hoopla is serving (whom, I wonder?) to stir up "nutcases". This word should recall Michael Hoffman's foray into the "lone nut" assassination phenomena. But it also brings to (my) mind, the word "exserohilum" (literally denoting emergence "out of," ex, "the black layer," sero-hilum), which word I would likely not even be aware of were it not for it's recent connection to the (much discussed) fungal meningitis cases, as I posted about here. The "black layer," it seems, is an actual "outer casing surrounding a nut." This would make it, so to speak, a nutcase. Additionally, the word has intriguing associations with alchemy.

In any event, the name "Gilbert" is interesting in and of itself. Let me sketch, albeit briefly, some of its curious facets (besides designating the above-mentioned Category 5 hurricane). "Gilbert" is, for example, related etymologically to the French "Guillebert" and the German "Williberht," ("lit. 'a bright will')" (Source). Now the idea of "brightness" might tie in with the light-bringing/Aurora symbolism that has also flowed, like the partially underground "Alfeios"/"Alphaeus" river ("whitish," but a.k.a. the "Nictymus"), constantly half-hidden beneath conscious experience. Moreover, the notion of the "will" fits in with a Crowleyan "Thelemite" stream that (on one reading) seeks to elevate a "Magickian's" volition and ensure self-satisfaction (see here). It is the Rebelaisian dictum: "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law." (For a start, see here.) Thus, "Gilbert" might be thought to be a sort of "(Hermetic Order of the) Golden dawn" symbol, connecting (as it does) the bright Aurora and the Magickal will.

A second noteworthy aspect of the name "Gilbert" is its connection with magnetism. The word designates "a unit of magneto-motive force [and] honors English physicist William Gilbert (1544-1603)" (Cf. Century 16 here, here, here, and here.) (Source). "Two models are used to calculate the magnetic fields of and the forces between magnets. The physically correct method is called the Ampère model while the easier model to use is often the Gilbert model" (Source).


The phenomenon known as the "Aurora Borealis" is a magnetic phenomenon. (Cf. "Doctor Polaris.") "[T]he polar aurora" is "also known as 'Northern Lights'...Originally the phenomenon was named 'Aurora Borealis,' Latin for 'northern dawn...'... Two things about those rays. One, the bright ones fade while dim ones brighten instead--a bit like flames in a fireplace, and just as mesmerizing. Some auroras are deep red, and these may be just a shapeless glow--or they may have rays, too. And second, the direction of those rays is related to the magnetism of the Earth." (Source).
Usually, the auroras are confined to their respective "auroral zones." However, these "auroral zones" can expand, for example, "...when the Sun creates 'stormy conditions.' On such occasions--especially near the peak of the 11-year sunspot cycle--the Sun sends out a dense cloud of hot gas, whose arrival disturbs the Earth's magnetic environment and produces a so-called 'magnetic storm' ...Magnetic storms expand the auroral zone to locations more distant from the magnetic pole..." (Source). Incidentally, there have been a lot of mentions, lately, of "coming storms" (namely, and besides the hurricane warnings, in the movies Dark Knight Rises and Skyfall: see, e.g., here and here).
(Gilbert du Motier, a.k.a., "Lafayette," Source)

Thirdly, "Gilbert" was one of the many names for the man otherwise better known to us as the Marquis de Lafayette. Gilbert du Motier (Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier) is called "The Hero of the Two Worlds (Le Héros des Deux Mondes in French)" (Source). On the myriad interconnections implicating the name "Lafayette," see here (which post includes numerous links to several now classic works on the "Fayette Factor") and here.
("Your mind is the scene of the crime," Source)


Fourthly, I would feel remiss if I didn't include at least a brief mention of the 1993 movie, What's Eating Gilbert Grape. The movie's tagline reads, "Life is a terrible thing to sleep through." This hearkens to the "rise up" and "awaken" cues corresponding to the Aurora ritual (see, e.g., here and here).

The movie included the performance of Leonardo Dicaprio, who was also involved with the intriguing movie Inception, which arguably has a great deal to say about the implantation of "mind viruses" or "memes" (one interpretation argues, quite convincingly, that the entire movie is an allegory about movie-making itself, which media form has the ability, one might suppose, to "implant ideas" in the minds of percipients; see here and here).

Remember what was eating our Gilbert woman? Put simply: She hates Obama and wanted revenge on her husband. As one (perhaps well-meaning but, in my opinion, delusional) post-election reaction expressed it: "This is the day the country died" (as related to me, anecdotally). Ostensibly, the Gilbert woman wanted to punish her husband for not displaying sufficient (by her lights) anti-Obama zeal.
(County Judge Tom Head [Lubbock, Texas] thinks that an Obama victory make things in this country come to a head.  A number of Democrats think he's either a head case or he has his head up his ass. Personally, I think that the media's playing a head game. Photo source)

The media certainly appear to be fomenting this sort of violent hatred. Prior to the election, there was talk of "civil war" in the wake of an Obama victory (see here). And although such petitions have apparently accompanied numerous recent "elections," the media is currently publicizing (at least to some extent) particular calls for "secession": "Secession petitions filed in 20 states" (Source). Something is at work that might be fairly described as the symbolic recreation of the American Civil War. One might also think of it as an "assassination meme." Disturbingly, this pattern seems (to this writer) widespread. See, e.g., here and here and here.
(Source; see the Freemasonic connections here. It is remarkable that there is a often a triad of Masonic assassins, see here.)

For the record, I think that Michael Hoffman was correct when he observed somewhere (something to the effect of) Anyone who uses violence is an agent of the system. To be more specific, our police state thrives on violence. It will serve no good purpose (from a popular perspective) to give the system further excuses to employ draconian measures of oppression in the name of "safety" and "security."
(Fermentatio; Source)

Conceivably, the system want to ferment (alchemically) a bunch of grapes (or, perhaps...Gilbert-women), all overwhelmed with a spirit of tragedy, spinning out of control, like a hurricane. "The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. God remembered to give Babylon the Great the cup of wine filled with the fury of his wrath" (Revelation 16:19, ISV).
(Holly Solomon; Source)

It is well to remember, as noted above, that the "feminine" Hurricane Wilma exceeded the "masculine" Gilbert in severity. The Gilbert woman is allegedly named "Holly Solomon."

In the Masonic legend of "Hiram Abiff ...[,] Hiram is presented as being the chief architect of King Solomon's Temple, who is murdered by three ruffians during an unsuccessful attempt to force him to divulge the Master Masons' secret password" (Source; cf. here). VISUP has looked extensively into the word/name "Holly" (see here and here for examples).

With respect to Lincoln, again, the movie The Conspirator, "...profil[es] Mary Surratt, the sole woman implicated in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, and the questions raised about the use of military commission trials..." (Source). The movie "The Conspirator" involved a screen writer named "James Solomon" who, according to his own account, "began" the project "in 1993" the "Gilbert Grape" year (Source).

This is another facet of the "Civil War" backdrop presently in place: the "reinstallation," directly under George W. Bush and Obama, of the use of secret military "trials" like, as Hoffman has pointed out, the old Stuart "Star Chambers." On an occult meaning of "Star" see here (WARNING: reader discretion is advised; thanks to VISUP for the link). "On July 7, 1865, a parasol shielding her from the sun, Surratt and three others were led to the gallows. She was the first woman to be executed by the United States government" (Source).
(The Eye of Bel: Source; Compare the "Eye of Horus"/"Ra", the "Eye of Shiva", etc.)

Of course "Bell" (which can manifest in the feminine Belle) comes from a "root *bhel-..." meaning "to sound, roar" (Source). And, in a process arguably similar to "inception," "ringing a bell" designates the "awaken[ing of] a memory" (Ibid.). With all of this background, note that a "Lee Bellinger" has been sending out provocative emails. I received one (from Date: Thursday, November 8, 2012, 11:39 AM) titled "There's One Solution Left -- Do you have the stomach for it?" I take it that the bellicose language is unmistakable. The email links to a purported (according to Bellinger) "disturbing" video (detailing the demise of the nation, no doubt) and states, in the body that: "From here on out, all solutions are personal." (On the "Bell" name, see here.)
(Source); "Garfield" picks out both a cartoon cat and an assassinated President.)
As a further point, the etymology dictionary remarks that "Gilbert" "was the common name for a male cat (especially in short form Gib) from c.1400 (see Tom)" (Source; cf. here). "Belling the cat" designates an Aesop fable that, one might say, has to do with a task (in the case of the fabled mice, putting a alert-signal around the neck of their enemy, the cat) that many people (perhaps "Bellinger's" cohorts) want to be done, but nobody wants to do themselves.
("I concur" ~ Solomon Lafayette Hoge (July 11, 1836 – February 23, 1909), Carpetbagger who "appointed Johnson Chesnut Whittaker, an African-American, to the United States Military Academy" Source; Gratuitous photo source)

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Sunday, October 14, 2012

Shuttling Symbols

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The name of "Kennedy" is in the news. Arlen Specter, the former U.S. Senator, has died. Loren Coleman has a post here. Specter's name is associated with the Warren Commission which obfuscated John F. Kennedy's assassination. "Specter served as assistant counsel for the Warren Commission investigating the assassination of John F. Kennedy and helped devise the "single bullet theory." (Source) References to NASA show up in discussions of the "single bullet theory": "NASA Engineer Thomas Canning provided an analysis of [a] photograph taken by Hugh Betzner..." (Source) For more on NASA, see here.
(Obama visits Kennedy, Source)
Flashback (2010): "[President Barack] Obama and the first family are expected to watch Endeavour launch on its 25th and final mission before the shuttle - the youngest in NASA's fleet - is retired and sent to a California museum for public display. Endeavour is slated to blast off at 3:47 p.m. EDT (1947 GMT) on Friday, April 29 from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla." (Source) Over its career, "Endeavour ... circled the globe nearly 4,700 times..." (Source). "The Endeavour will ride piggyback on NASA's Boeing 747 shuttle carrier aircraft, landing on LAX's southernmost runway midday on Sept. 20 - barring any rain on the transcontinental journey from Florida." (Source)
(Diagram is from one of these - I forget which video and am too lazy to look it up)

"Known as the baby shuttle, Endeavour replaced Challenger, which exploded during liftoff in 1986. Endeavour rolled off the assembly line in the Mojave Desert in 1991 and a year later, rocketed to space. It left Earth 25 times, logging 123 million miles." (Source) With respect to the Pythagorean Theorem ("Euclid's 47th Proposition"), the hypotenuse has been said (see, e.g., the link in the caption...or Jim Brandon's "Sirius Rising") to represent the philosopher's child (the "baby"). On 47, see here. and on 23 see here.

The U.S. "Space Program" is associated with JFK: "In 1961, President John F. Kennedy began a dramatic expansion of the U.S. space program and committed the nation to the ambitious goal of landing a man on the moon by the end of the decade." (Source) One could say that the Space Program was "Kennedy's baby" (Definition #5)
(September 23 through October 22, 1 & 2; Photo Source)

Persons of an astrological (I might say "horoscopic" - more later) bent consider Libra to be important right now. "...Libra, is represented by a set of scales and is the only sign of the zodiac that is not representative of a living species. ... [But t]he Egyptians referred to Libra as Chonsu, the divine child, which symbolized birth and renewal." (Source)
(Source; cf. here)

"Khonsu (alternately Chonsu, Khensu, Khons, Chons or Khonshu) is an Ancient Egyptian god whose main role was associated with the moon. His name means 'traveller'...'Embracer,' 'Pathfinder,' and 'Defender,' as he was thought to watch over night travelers. ...Khonsu is described as the great snake who fertilizes the Cosmic Egg in the creation of the world." (Source) Endeavour certainly is a sort of traveler. And it is mid-October.
(Marvel's "Moon Knight": Source)

Wikipedia further relates that: "The Marvel Comics character Moon Knight is known as the "Fist of Khonshu". Khonsu is depicted in the comic as his patron and the source of his power, and considers the titular character to be his avatar on Earth." (Source)


Wouldn't you know it? Moon Knight's "Alter ego" is "an American rabbi's wayward son" named "Marc Spector." (Source)

Maybe the code name for the Endeavour move was "Specter Protocol."
 (Source)

"It's Going to Be Nearly Impossible to See the Space Shuttle Endeavour On Its Move Through Town...The decommissioned space shuttle Endeavour is here (at LAX), but now it's got to get there (the California Science Center in Exposition Park). So starting October 12 it'll set out on a two-day trip on a special transport through Westchester, Inglewood, and South LA--and if the total citywide freakout over its flyover a few weeks ago is a good indication, people are going to be pretty damn excited. Well, too bad: 'If it was up to the people moving the Endeavour, they would have the streets absolutely empty,' an LAPD lieutenant tells the LA Times. It's not going to be quite that dire, but the LAPD will be closing off the sidewalks along the route, 'making it difficult, if not impossible, for the public to see the shuttle go by,' so this will not be a fun all-access block party like the night the giant LACMA rock rolled through town. ...Meanwhile, the communities on the shuttle route have lost hundreds of trees..." (Source)
("Last mission": Source)

"After a dramatic three-day parade through city streets, Endeavour arrived at its new home at the California Science Center shortly after 1 p.m. Sunday amid cheers from thousands gathered to witness a piece of history." (Source)
 
"Shuffling Endeavour through city streets was a laborious undertaking — nearly a year in the making." (Source)
(Starstruck, by Marvel: Source)

"Unlike other high-profile events like the Academy Awards or the Rose Parade, the procession was centered in some of the area's most economically downtrodden and troubled places. The shuttle passed several gritty areas and shuttered businesses, and rolled down many streets that were aflame two decades earlier during the 1992 riots brought on by the Rodney King beating." (Source) Regarding "[t]he motto of the Pentagon's Information Awareness Office Surveillance System is 'Scientia est Potentia' (knowledge is power)", Michael Hoffman has written that: "The motto appears in Latin in order to instill awe and by such priestcraft 'ad captandum vulgus' (dazzle the mob)." Mutatis mutandis, similar sentiments seem to apply here.
("Marvel" Parsons, Source)
(Loren Coleman blew my mind with this side-by-side comparison picture. This is truly, "occult evidence" - hidden "in plain sight", like Edgar Allan Poe's "The Purloined Letter". Cf. Michael Hoffman's Masonic Assassination.)


"Along the 12-mile course, thousands marveled at the engineering. Some rooted for Endeavour when it appeared it might clip a light post." (Source) The onlookers were described as "a constellation of spectators" (Ibid.). The word "spectator" comes "from L. spectator 'viewer, watcher,' from pp. stem of spectare 'to view, watch'..." (Source) That sounds awfully close to Arlen's surname, "Specter". The fledgling program that made NASA's rocket magic work was pioneered by Marvel Whiteside "Jack" Parsons (Source).
(Dr. Frankenstein's Monster also known as "The Baby"/"Divine Child"/Khonsu/Libra/Homunculus/Moon Knight/Etc.: source)

Jack Parsons is also associated with the creation of a "Golem"/Mannikin/Homunculus (Cf., Aleister Crowley's "Moonchild," James Shelby Downard on Jim Brandon's "Sirius Rising," Michael Hoffman's Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare & Judaism Discovered, and John Carter's Sex and Rockets.)
(Is this Endeavour's sealed hatch? Source)

On the book This Dark Endeavor: "The word 'Frankenstein' often conjures up images of a block-headed monster brought to life by a mad scientist. But those familiar with Mary Shelley’s classic tale know that Frankenstein is not the monster; he is its creator, a young man driven to tragedy by ambition. In This Dark Endeavor, Kenneth Oppel adds a prologue to Shelley’s classic with a young adult novel about Victor Frankenstein, the teenager who will grow up to play God." (Source)

As John Cole points out in his comment (below), Frankenstein symbolism is resurfacing - "[j]ust in time for Halloween" (Source). Also in time for Halloween: "Public tours [of Space Shuttle Endeavour at Exposition Park museum] are expected to begin at the shuttle's temporary hangar on Oct. 30." (Source) Additionally, Victor Frankenstein seems to loop back to Victor Hugo and all of the "laughter" and "Lincoln" symbol patterns. Cf. Loren Coleman's "Isaac Laughs."

Journey of Death?: "Shuttle Endeavour reaches final resting place...The space shuttle Endeavour has finally reached its permanent resting place at a Los Angeles museum after a day of delays. ... [T]he spacecraft that once orbited at more than 17,000mph would move at just 2mph on its final voyage. But that estimate turned out to be generous, with Endeavour often creeping along at a barely detectable pace when it was not at a dead stop..." (Source)


Speaking of death references: "Coincidentally," via email the organization MoveOn (and others, see image from The Wall Street Journal) is describing "the presidential race" as "looking like a dead heat". Is this surprising after our searing (Sirios) Summer of record high temperatures, drought, and raging fire? (See here and here and here.) The Wall Street Journal reports that "[t]he two candidates are locked at..." - any guesses? That's right: "47% each" (see image...and here...again).
("...fascinated by this mysterious world of occult science and alchemy..."; Photo Source)
(Source)
(I found this image amusing, given the connection with "Libra" and the fact that in the book This Dark Endeavor, Victor Frankenstein "...discovers a library filled with arcane books, including Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa’s Occulta Philosophia, which becomes pivotal to the story": Source)
("Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana, center, uses a 'T'-shaped tool to lock the space shuttle Endeavour's hatch..." Sources 1 & 2)

A Dark Endeavor: "In Exposition Park, a long waiting game in the dark for Endeavour...the sun disappeared, but Endeavour did not appear...Some ... left after the first announced delay ... An hour later, about 9:30 p.m., police put up a flashing sign that read, 'SHUTTLE ETA 2:30.' That led to another exodus. ..." (Source) Note that, originally, Endeavour was supposed to arrival at its "final resting place" on October 13: "Plans call for Endeavour to travel through Los Angeles streets on a 12-mile trip from the airport to the California Science Center, arriving in the evening of Oct. 13." (Source)
("...space shuttle Endeavour, zigzagging around California..." Source)

AJ Bell ("Lexi-Links") associated the "rodball" and zigzag symbols (also connected, of course, with thunder and lightning: Source).

Jim Brandon remarked that "Specter" also channels a James Bond villain: "SPECTRE (SPecial Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion) is a fictional global terrorist organisation featured in the James Bond novels by Ian Fleming, the films based on those novels, and James Bond video games. Led by evil genius and supervillain Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the organisation first formally appeared in the novel Thunderball (1961) and in the movie Dr. No (1962)." (Source) (Cf.: "Dr. Evil.") Note that the movie "Thunderball" recalled Bell's "Rodball" glyph that was associated with lightning and thunder.

"Big crowds expected for Endeavour’s final mission through South LA...LA police officers and firefighters are preparing for traffic gridlock because officials plan to shut off streets and even some sidewalks along the route. Here's their list of affected streets: On Friday October 12, 2012[:] Lincoln Boulevard between Sepulveda Boulevard and Manchester Avenue..." (Source)
(Source)
("The rising sun bathes space shuttle Endeavour in a golden glow as it rolls down Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard on Oct. 14, 2012": Source)
(Endeavour rolls down Martin Luther King: Source)

"For most of the way, Endeavour straddled wide boulevards — Manchester, Crenshaw, Martin Luther King Jr." (Source)


Along Endeavour's processional route, the press stopped to interview a man named "John Wilkes": "John Wilkes, 69, a longtime Inglewood resident, woke up five hours earlier than usual to stake out a spot. 'This is definitely a treat," said Wilkes, who is retired from the airline industry. "But what would be a better treat is to be able to take a ride on the shuttle.' " (Source)

"John Wilkes (17 October 1725 – 26 December 1797) was an English radical, journalist, and politician. ... He was a member of the Knights of St. Francis of Wycombe, also known as the Hellfire Club or the Medmenham Monks, and was the instigator of a prank that may have hastened its dissolution. The Club had many distinguished members, including the Earl of Sandwich and Sir Francis Dashwood. Wilkes reportedly brought a baboon dressed in a cape and horns into the rituals performed at the club, producing considerable mayhem among the inebriated initiates." (Source)
(John Wilkes, in the President's Booth: Source)

Of course, in the U.S., there is a more famous "John Wilkes": "John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838 – April 26, 1865) was a famous American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865." (Source)

Cf.:

"NASA's 33-Degree Kline-Konnektion"

"'Armstrong' (Symbolically-Ostensively Defined)"

More on Lincoln, Kennedy, King, Obama (et. al.): Here and Here.
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