George Clooney once famously declared he could never run for public office because he’d ‘slept with too many women, done too many drugs and been to too many parties’.
But now the Hollywood heart-throb has entered the political arena at the highest level – by becoming an unofficial adviser to US Presidential front-runner Barack Obama.
Loony Clooney..."expert" on Middle East???
Oscar-winner Clooney, 47, is said to be helping the Democratic candidate to polish his image at home and abroad.
But he is also sharing with Obama his strong opinions on Iraq and the Middle East.
lol..lol..
Sources say the actor has tried to hide the pair’s friendship for fear his Left-wing views and playboy image would hurt the Presidential hopeful’s bid for the White House.
But Democratic Party insiders have revealed that Clooney and Obama regularly send texts and emails to each other and speak by phone at least twice a week.
One said last night: ‘They are extremely close. A number of members of the Hollywood community, including Brad Pitt, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, offered to help raise funds for Barack but it was with George that he struck up this amazing affinity.
‘George has been giving him advice on things such as presentation, public speaking and body language and he also emails him constantly about policy, especially the Middle East.
‘George is pushing him to be more “balanced” on issues such as US relations with Israel.
'George is pro-Palestinian. And he is also urging Barack to withdraw unconditionally from Iraq if he wins.
‘It’s a very risky relationship. His hope of becoming America’s first black President depends heavily on winning over conservative voters and it would be suicidal for him to be perceived as a tool of a Hollywood Leftie, which is how they regard George.
‘But they text and email each other almost every day and speak on the phone at least a couple of times a week, often more.’
The Ocean’s Eleven star is among many Hollywood figures to have endorsed Obama, including Barbra Streisand, Scarlett Johansson, Warren Beatty and Steven Spielberg.
The "usual suspects" as far back as I can remember..
One of Clooney’s trusted acquaintances said: ‘George is a master at crafting his own image and he is helping Obama to hone his image both domestically and abroad.
'He told me he feels Obama is a once-in-a-lifetime leader.
He is doing everything he can behind the scenes to bolster support in Hollywood, not just with other celebrities but with the money men at the studios.’
The acquaintance added: ‘He has tried to keep the true extent of their involvement out of the Press because he is frightened of alienating voters.’
Clooney himself has admitted in an interview: ‘I’ve had the conversation with him saying, “Look, I’ll give you whatever support you need, including staying completely away from you.”’
The star has never tried to hide his liberal views and last week announced he is making a £15million film about the lawyer who defended Osama Bin Laden’s former driver, Salim Hamdan, on terror charges.
Hollywood low life..!!!
Clooney’s spokesman Stan Rosen-feld said last night: ‘I know they have spoken. I view it as a private conversation.’ Obama’s Press office did not comment.
FIRST Matt Damon, now Pamela Anderson has spoken out against Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin saying:"I can't stand her. She can suck it!"
Anderson, 41, was recently in Toronto speaking out against the abuse of animals in Hollywood.
When asked by E! News Weekend Canada about Palin, she has some choice words for the Republican hopeful.
The reporter asked Pam if she saw a recent Newsweek article, which showed a gigantic bear hide in the office of Palin’s house.
“I can’t stand her,” Pam blurted out. “She can suck it!”
Damon earlier lashed out at Palin - insisting her presidency would be like 'a really bad Disney movie'.
The actor fears that Palin's running mate John MCCain won't survive a full four-year-term as president, and claims the Alaskan governor taking over would be 'a really scary thing.'
"I think there's a really good chance Sarah Palin could become president, and I think that's a really scary thing," Fox quoted Damon, as saying.
"It's like a really bad Disney movie. The hockey mom, you know, ''Oh, I'm just a hockey mom''... and she's facing down (Russian) President Putin... It's totally absurd... It's a really terrifying possibility," he added.
Meanwhile , Palin today insisted in her first major television interview she is ready to step in as US president if necessary.
"What it's about is the fact that Jigga is a Lucifer-worshiping Mason. And he's pulled in Kanye and Nas. All the symbols are masonic/pagain/satanic especially the pink goat's head shirt Kanye is wearing. And just listen to the song...it's about secret societies and the satanic Illuminati which employs JIgga. Do some research...free your mind." -RizNJ
Americans can't expect to avoid destruction as long as they continue to embrace Communism in all its myriad disguises.
Symptomatic of the problem is a new four hr. 17 min biopic of Soviet Comintern agent and terrorist Che Guevara.
Rather than make movies about genuine American heroes, Hollywood is celebrating people dedicated to the destruction of Western Civilization.
Movie critic Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle cannot understand why Director Steven Soderbergh made the movie:
"If Soderbergh made as idol-worshiping an epic about George Washington or Abraham Lincoln - actual heroes with tangible, positive legacies - people would gag at the naive treatment.. Instead of making the case for Guevara as a hero, Soderbergh just assumes we all agree.
The movie is the communist guerrilla version of the Stations of the Cross, in which we see Guevara at various stages, enduring various hardships. The invitation is not to think but to admire, and maybe to worship."
This is not the first time Hollywood has presented this ruthless killer as a saint. In 1969, Omar Sharif played "the most controversial rebel of our time" with Jack Palance as Castro. Then, there was "The Motorcycle Diaries" in 2004 and at least a half-dozen made-for-TV films.
Communists always portray their demented drive for world domination in terms of serving the people. Surprisingly, many suckers swallow this bait.
But, why do these dupes include the US corporate media establishment?
WHY THE MEDIA (AND EDUCATION) SOFT PEDDLE COMMUNISM
The US mass media (and most corporations) are controlled by the central banking cartel, i.e. the Rothschilds, Warburgs, Rockefellers etc. These are the same people who sponsored Communism.
The guiding principle behind world events is their plan to translate their monopoly over government credit into a world monopoly of power, business, culture and religion.
These bankers use a Hegelian dialectic to achieve their end. They created both Capitalism and Communism as thesis and antithesis.
Their aim is a synthesis, combining the political and cultural tyranny of Communism with the appearance of Capitalist free markets.
China or even Cuba may be the end model for the New World Order.
In 1953, Ford Foundation President, H. Rowan Gaither told Congressional Investigator Norman Dodd that his instructions were to use "our grant-making power so to alter our life in the United States that we can be comfortably merged with the Soviet Union."
This is why the Communist Party term "political correctness" has become part of our lexicon.
Why the elite media and foundations promote feminism, homosexuality, pornography and promiscuity to destabilize society.
Why they sponsor "diversity" to undermine American identity.
Why the education system is devoted to Leftist indoctrination; and conservatives have been driven out.
Why the culture industries are dedicated to sex, violence, alienation, deviance and the occult.
We'll never know what we have missed in terms of cultural works that boost our sense of who we are and where we should be going.
Eustace Mullins relates this story: Early in his career, a NY publisher (who are all banker controlled) told his agent that it's too bad Mullins had decided to go against them. Look at the success they arranged for such "high school" talents as Hemingway, Steinbeck and Faulkner. Unfortunately, Mullins would be consigned to the wilderness.
Rupert Murdoch, whose media operations are subsidized by the Rothschilds, said last week, "We are in the midst of a phase of history in which nations will be redefined and their futures fundamentally altered."
Such anecdotes confirm that we are being dispossessed and prepared for servitude. Our culture, most of our assumptions about the world, are controlled by the central bankers.
GUEVARA, CASTRO AND THE CUBAN REVOLUTION
Fidel Castro came to power in Cuba only because of the covert help of New World orderlies in the US State Dept. and mass media.
They cut off arm sales to Batista while at the same time allowing Castro to be supplied, partly by Russian submarines. This told the Cuban military which way the wind was blowing and they quietly defected.
Weyl was a Communist in the 1930's and knew the top leaders of the Cuban Communist Party. He actually worked for the central bankers at one time, as Latin American research chief for the Federal Reserve System.
This is the conclusion of Nataniel Weyl in "Red Star Over Cuba" (1962, p.152)
He is one of many Jews who recognized Communism as a dangerous ruse and devoted his life to exposing Comintern subversion in Latin America.
Guevara, an Argentine, was liaison between the Soviet espionage network and the Castro forces who masqueraded as an indigenous force. In fact, they were largely bankrolled and supplied by the Soviet Union.
Weyl says that both Ernesto Guevera and Fidel Castro were cultivated and trained as Soviet agents as teenagers.
"Fidel's secret weapon was money---incredible millions of dollars, with which he bought "victories."
He bought entired regiments from Batista's officers and, on one occasion, purchased for $650,000 cash an entired armored train, with tanks, guns, ammunition, jeeps and 500 men." (p.141)
"The Cuban forces themselves never won a military victory," US Ambassador Earl Smith later testified. The basic reason for the defeat of Batista's army was that covert US intervention shattered their morale.(152)
Communism is a Masonic order, and both Castro and Guevara were masons. (Other Freemasons include Stalin, Trotsky, Lenin and most Presidents incl. Barrack Obama. )
Rothschild-dominated Freemasonry was probably also a factor.
Freemasonry is big in Cuba: there is a 15- story Grand Lodge of Cuba HQ in Havana.
According to Humberto Fantova's"Che! Hollywood's Favorite Tyrant", Guevara was complicit in the execution of 10,000 Cubans after the revolution: He was "a bloodthirsty executioner, a military bumbler, a coward, and a hypocrite...it's no exaggeration to state that Che... was the godfather of modern terrorism. And yet Che's followers naively swallow Castro's historical revisionism.
They are classic "useful idiots." the name Stalin gave to foolish Westerners who parroted his lies..."
Nat Hentoff met Che at the United Nations and asked "this idealist" -- "Can you conceive -- however far into the future -- a time when there will be free elections in Cuba?"
"Not waiting for his interpreter, Guevara broke into laughter at my naively ignorant question. He made it clear that I had no understanding of a true people's revolution, firmly guided by Maximum Leader Castro."
If the Cuban Communists were sponsored by the central bankers, how do we account for the CIA's Bay of Pigs invasion?
This failure was probably designed to enhance Castro's image and reinforce the Hegelian dialectic. If the US could go to Vietnam "for the sake of democracy," it certainty could have invaded Cuba officially. The debacle opened the door for the missile crisis and the assassination of Kennedy, both part of the agenda.
How do we account for the CIA's killing of Guevara? He had served his purpose and was worth more dead than alive.
CONCLUSION
The Rothschilds and Rockefellers must be laughing up their sleeves at the young rebels who embrace Che Guevera as a symbol of social justice and equality. In fact, Communism is the mirror image of Western imperialism, benefiting the same people.
Communism is devoted to the concentration of all wealth in the hands of the central bankers.
In theory, the wealth is "public" but in fact, the bankers own and control the State.
Guevara helped establish a Communist regime that may be a harbinger for Obama's America.
Yes, the people are all equal -- dirt poor.
Yes, they get free education and health care but education is indoctrination and people cannot toil for nothing if they are sick. Their MD's get $20 a month.
All the wealth seems to flow to the Communists and their sponsors. Secret police are everywhere and no one can say a word against the regime.
Essentially, you have a prosperous island (oil, nickel, tobacco, coffee) with a large labor force that works for a pittance.
This is where we are heading when we tolerate a government full of New World Orderlies (Communists) and mass media that venerate their ruthless agents.
Throughout history the privileges the masses have enjoyed have been the exception, not the rule. We are gradually reverting to the norm.
To them we are "useless eaters."
This is what is meant by "Progressive." Leftists who want to "change the world" are not told it is going to be much worse.
Obama's "Change" is code for the Communist NWO.
They are destroying the society that gave them freedom and prosperity; they are "change agents" for poverty and dictatorship.
The fact that no one asks where the borrowed trillions are coming from proves that our society is complicit in its own destruction. You see. the government doesn't need to borrow from the Rothschilds. It can create money out of thin air itself. That's all the Rothschilds do.
Never has a society embraced its own demise with such blissful indifference.
"I’ll collect paper cups off the ground to make [Obama’s] pathway clear,” Halle Berry recently told the Philadelphia Daily News, “I’ll do whatever he says.” (Does Michelle know about this?)
More disturbing is how starstruck the mainstream media has become. Hardball host Chris Matthews isn’t the only one who gets a “thrill” up his leg at the very thought of our new president.
Hollywood stars aren’t known for their political wisdom.
Last summer, San Francisco Chronicle columnist Mark Morford wrote that "Many spiritually advanced people I know … identify Obama as a Lightworker, that rare kind of attuned being who … can actually help usher in a new way of being on the planet."
The Politico recently ran a 900-word article entitled "The Power of Obama's Hand," reverentially describing how the president "uses touch to control and console simultaneously," laying hands on supporters and opponents alike.
And in February, author Judith Warner used her New York Times blog to confess that “The other night I dreamt of Barack Obama. He was taking a shower right when I needed to get into the bathroom to shave my legs.”
Instead of keeping that information to herself, Warner “launched an email inquiry,” which revealed that “many women—not too surprisingly—were dreaming about sex with the president.”
Those of us who like to point out that the Emperor has no clothes now have to worry that when we do, we may give rise to a new round of lurid cougar fantasies.
Conservatives like to think they're above this sort of thing. Their attitude is summed up by the subtitle of Jerome Corsi's recent bestseller: Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality.
But any conservative who thinks cultishness is exclusively a leftist phenomenon ought to take a good long look in the mirror. Because many of those who decry the "cult of Obama" are the same people who made a flight-suited action figure hero out of such common clay as George W. Bush.
Peggy Noonan called Bush's post-9/11 address to Congress "a God-touched moment and a God-touched speech."
Fred Barnes wrote that "the stage was set for Bush to be God's agent of wrath."
National Review Online ran ads for the Bush "Top Gun" action figure, and an article about how wonderful it was to have a presidential superhero to complement your GI Joe collection.
On Hardball, after the "Mission Accomplished" speech, G. Gordon Liddy got graphic enough to embarrass Judith Warner: "Here comes George Bush. You know, he's in his flight suit, he's striding across the deck, and he's wearing his parachute harness.... and it makes the best of his manly characteristic…. He has just won every woman's vote in the United States of America!"
Presidential cultishness can be found all across the political spectrum. It’s a pathology that needs to be rooted out, because when we swoon over the man who holds the office, we risk making the presidency far more powerful than it was ever intended to be.
William Hazlitt, the 19th-century English essayist, argued that man was by nature "a worshipper of idols and a lover of kings."
As savages, Hazlitt wrote, we fashioned “gods of wood and stone and brass,” but now, thinking ourselves above superstition, “we make kings of common men, and are proud of our own handiwork.”
But America’s very existence repudiates the idea that we’re hard-wired for leader-worship. We became a nation by throwing off a king, and our Founders gave us a Constitution that’s based on the notion that all men are flawed and none should be trusted with too much power.
Americans, of all people, should recognize how bizarre and dangerous it is to fawn over professional politicians.
Examiner columnist Gene Healy is a vice president at the Cato Institute and the author of The Cult of the Presidency.
I’ve never had much attraction for Whoopi Goldberg. I never found her funny or talented except in the way certain overblown characters mock their humanity.
Whatever it would take for a person to be willing to appear on Hollywood Squares would be enough to guarantee that we would never meet except by unfortunate accident.
Whoopee says that it wasn’t “rape, rape” and "All I'm trying to get you to understand is when we're talking about what someone did and what they were charged with.”
She also said something about how they look at things differently in Hollywood.
I can’t recall the exact quote and I don’t want to go looking for it because her picture might come up again and I don’t want to go through that twice in one morning.
I read the grand jury testimony so I know what Polanski did.
In the process of a photo shoot he managed to finally get her naked in a hot tub. Then he relocated her to a room and performed oral sex on her. Then he penetrated her against her will which had been compromised by a Quaalude he gave her. I’m familiar with what Quaaludes do. They were very available at one time. Then, he penetrated her anally. Here’s the point where serious outrage can make an appearance but anywhere along the route will do.
During the course of the legal process, he paid the girl off and his pricey lawyers did what they were hired to do and cut a deal with the judge.
Apparently the judge backed off on the deal and it looked like Mr. Repulsion was going to prison so he did a Houdini to the old country where he’s been plying his trade and living among his peers in various locations.
He went to Switzerland to accept an award and he got arrested which is where he is now. I’m less than a hundred kilometers from where he is at this very moment.
I lived in Hollywood for awhile. I knew some people and that was an in for all kinds of things; meaning I got to got to certain parties and the upstairs rooms at certain clubs.
That’s not a big deal. All sorts of people know people and some of them aren’t even people.
Hollywood is one of the centers of psychopathy on the planet; like D.C. and NYC and anywhere that large populations congregate to grant a larger selection of victims.
In Hollywood, the money men run the place.
Anything goes depending on who you are and I mean ‘anything’.
Thirteen year old girls and boys are as available as after dinner mints; younger ones too.
Satanism and its sister cult, Scientology are very big and very powerful.
There are some heavy players in the satanic subculture.
You won’t have heard about them because they really do keep a low profile. They celebrate the four low Holy Days in grand style.
Ritual murder happens and that’s just the way it is.
Normal people can’t grasp what some of these people get up to. It’s another order of thinking.
As a writer and a cultural anthropologist, I have more than a natural curiosity about things. I’ve also got a great deal of caution when it comes to things like this. I wanted to know about certain things but I didn’t want that to be known so it’s a slippery shelf.
When you’ve got a certain kind of ‘in’ in Hollywood you can run into just about anyone.
Ancient celebrities, the up and comers and all of those who make their money being around them are ubiquitous.
Where I lived, I could look down on Milton Berle’s pool. I was on a street called Wolf Drive, if I remember correctly. Other times I lived in the heart of Hollywood.
The strangest people in the world are there and you see them every day. You see young children selling themselves on the street. Not much gets done about any of it.
There’s a huge brooding demon that squats over the whole town. I’ve seen him.
So when Whoopee says things are different there you may rely on that being true.
There’s no moral compass whatsoever. It’s the most natural thing in the world for people to screw each other over on a routine basis. It’s the way things get done.
The surprise in the Polanski matter is that it ever came to light in the first place.
These things are usually handled discreetly. They happen every day there.
Parents know what’s happening and many of them willingly offer their kids because of the possibility of fame and fortune.
I'm recalling the Michael Jackson affair where he was accused and accosted a couple of times for alleged sexual deviancy with children.
I’m not going to name drop. It would serve no purpose. Their world is not my world.
My world these days is pretty much me and the dogs and my consort and her mother. I might not speak to another person- except whatever salutations are exchanged at the check out counter or the cash register- for long periods of time.
I don’t really have anything to say to anyone because whatever interests me does not interest others most of the time.
I had the good fortune to receive a visit from a reader recently and that was wonderful. It had been nearly a year since the last time this happened. I’m a recluse and I like it just fine.
I’ve seen the world that Polanski moves in over here.
I’ve been to St. Tropez and other places. I’ve seen the enormous yachts and the glitterati glittering about.
I’ve never seen people take themselves so seriously. They love their importance among their fellows and, like in Hollywood, they scheme together. They look for the angles.
They set out after each others husbands and wives. Scammers move among them like barracuda around a reef.
When you don’t want anything from anybody you see things that others can’t see because their vision is compromised by their desires.
I don’t know what to think about Polanski getting arrested. I don’t care much one way or the other.
He’s into dark things, this I know, so… who knows exactly what brought him to this pass?
I do believe in Karma and that’s what we have here. I also am aware that this is The Apocalypse, more rather an apocalypse and things happen at these times that don’t happen at other times.
All sorts of people are being exposed and destroyed in various ways. There’s a force of judgment loose and it’s going about …passing judgment. It’s going to increase as time passes and there are going to be some big surprises.
I hear from a lot of people who tell me that the reptiles and other soulless husks have got everything sewn up. I see people imagining all kinds of things.
The fact is that nobody knows what’s coming, including the people who think they’re running the show. They are not running the show. They are mere object lessons. They are being manipulated by a force that cares less about them than they do about their victims.
They are in hard hands with no mercy on the horizon. Polanski and his apologists are just more of the deluded who demand one standard for themselves and another for everyone else.
Young girls and boys are simply party favors at the grand buffet, where the high steppers strut their arrogant disregard for the restraints that their lessers are confined by.
They think the party is going to go on forever but that is not the case.
Someone wrote to me this morning to tell me that I can’t be very aware and awake if I don’t know that ‘all’ the natural disasters are being caused by the illuminati. That’s ridiculous.
I don’t doubt that they are up to things like this but there are a number of things happening simultaneously and the only connection between them is the times in which they occur.
We are at a certain point on the cosmic clock. You can think of the cosmic clock as a three dimensional item where planets are passing in relation to each other through a continuum.
Certain forces rule at certain times. Civilization, if you can call it that, has reached a nexus and things are going to be shaken up. There’s a purpose to it all and a dynamic. All kinds of things are going to happen; are happening.
I believe in a greater good. I do not believe in the world of appearances that give power to temporary things.
I am convinced that everything is under control and not by the fools who imagine it is them who hold the reins. Grant yourself the freedom to be confident no matter how things look and your fortune will follow suit.
To sign up as a musician for the big Record Companies, you have to be willing to work toward their Agenda, which is to eventually obtain total control over the World Population, or, like in many cases, you are already mind controlled before you start your career.
This doesn't mean that all artists that sign up are aware of the Agenda, but they are tied to strict rules and regulations by the Industry.
In a free world, the artist would be able to express him/herself the way he/she wants, but if your want to make it in the Industry, you have to adjust to rules, regulations and censorship.
Still, the Art Business and Hollywood are only two examples of industries the Illuminati control. For more information, see www.illuminati-news.com/index.htm.
The famous artists, who get the most promotion, are themselves often mind controlled victims, who have split, multiple personalities and are controlled by a Programmer or a Handler (who quite often is the Manager).
This is to keep the artist "on track", so that he/she keeps following the course that is set out for him/her.
If the artist tries to drift away from the "cause", he/she is getting threatened, "re-programmed", denied to make more records (fired), or even killed. The Art Business has maybe one of the highest death statistics of all professions. Why?
Many artists are themselves involved in the Occult and members of secret societies like the ones mentioned above, and the Church of Satan.
They are practicing Occultism and Black Magic (like Marilyn Manson, Ozzy Osbourne, Led Zeppelin to name a few), and this web site has the ambition to reveal what is behind the "glamour".
Their task is to demoralize our youth, to create a society where no one is able to think for themselves (contrary to what the pop culture is trying to teach us, that rock music is rebellious and good for us). The musicians are often acting degraded and high or low on drugs, so their fans start acting the same, because if the celebrities are doing it, it is cool; the purpose is to create apathy and decay.
Quite a few artists also put subliminal backward messages in their music, like Led Zeppelin, Michael Jackson, The Eagles, and more ...
Does this all sound crazy? Unbelievable? Yes, it certainly does - for most people.
However, hopefully the readers will change their minds after have read the information on this website, and the powerful testimonies from people who themselves are/were working in the Music Industry.
My ambition is NOT to put a stop to music, but to try putting a stop to the evil agenda that rules the Industry, and prevent them from picking young, talented people and have them "Sell their Souls to Rock And Roll (And Mind Control)" in exchange for money and glory.
The truth is, that those rich and famous artists cannot enjoy their wealth and glory at all, as they are very trapped and controlled and feel miserable most of the time.
This, of course, is nothing new. You can read about miserable artists all the time in the newspaper. Only problem is that no one is asking the question why they are so miserable although they seem to "have it all"...The truth is, you can not be happy if you are constantly traumatized and controlled; it doesn't matter how many millions you have on your bank account.
And who am I? I am Wes Penre, a former rock musician and composer.
I am one of those who did not fit into the Agenda of the Elite. I am one of those who at that time didn't understand why my revealing lyrics and melodic songs were not appreciated by the big Record Companies.
Now I know better. And no matter what some people might think, I am NOT a bitter, failed musician, who wants to "get even" with the Industry. I live a life I am very happy with, and even if I had the chance again, I would not sign up to be a professional musician.
In a better world I would, but I will NOT sacrifice my body and soul to make big bucks for the Illuminati.
Now, enjoy your research into this field!
Unfortunately, not many researchers seem willing to confront this topic, so when I write this, I am one of the few who exposes this without having a religious or personal agenda.
Whatever you may think of the following, it will definitely open your eyes, and next time you see an interview with one of those artists, listen to a concert, or listen to a CD, you will recognize some of what is written here.
Again, my intention is not to have you stop listening to music. I still find much of the rock music being great, and I listen to it daily - but with a new insight ...
Born David Robert Jones, I first met David Bowie during his original tour of the United States having adapted the stage persona of Ziggy Stardust, a sort of lost in space androgynous alien, complete with cosmic makeup and a painted lightning bolt zig zaging across his face down to his naked chest.
Before venturing across the pond, Bowie had caused quite a sensation in the British press not only because of his outlandish - to some - image of a rock and roller from Mars,
but because of his independent and very liberal sexual lifestyle.
Bowie was introduced to me at the RCA studios in Manhattan by Walli Elmlark a bedazzling young lady who wrote a regular column for Circus magazine, a sort of heavy metal version of Rolling Stone
As usual, at the time I was wearing several hats. I was promoting a number of local rock bands who never quite "made it,"
editing the widely distributed UFO Review (the world's only official flying saucer newspaper),
and running the New York School Of Occult Arts and Science, among the first metaphysical centers in the country where you could take classes in anything from astral projection to hypnosis, to witchcraft...which is how I came to be acquainted with Walli Elmlark.
As I originally wrote in UFOs Among The Stars - Close Encounters of The Famous (Global Communications), Wallie was known widely as the White Witch Of New York.
Because of her contacts in the music industry, she had established quite an eclectic clientele for whom she would offer spiritual guidance, and occasional good luck or love spells, but always of a positive nature.
She didn't dabble in black magick or even gris gris (a New Orleans form of "gray magick" that incorporates poppets and the use of talismans kept in a personal mojo bag).
Walli was lively, imaginative, energetic, well spoken, and quite attractive in her flowing white garments complete with fashionable silver moon adornments.
Oh did I forget to mention long black hair, complete with dyed green streak highlights?
Indeed, Walli made a very bold fashion and occult statement wherever she went.
BOWIE - THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH
Early in life, Bowie had established his interest in all matters extraterrestrial.
As a Brit teenager, David had helped edit a flying saucer newsletter.
He admitted to me that he loved science fiction and was fascinated with life in space and the possibility that quite a few cosmic visitors had ended up on our earthly shores.
During a conversation, Bowie had gone out on a limb revealing that he had once had a close encounter.
In the book Laugh Gnostic, author Peter Koening paraphrases what Bowie said:
"A friend and I were traveling in the English countryside when we both noticed a strange object hovering above a field. From then on I have come to take this phenomena seriously.
I believe that what I saw was not the actual object, but a projection of my own mind trying to make sense of this quantum topological doorway into dimensions beyond our own. It's as if our dimension is but one among an infinite number of others."
In the February 1975 issue of the long defunct Cream magazine, Bowie seems to admit to a reporter that he might have an implant or metal inside his body.
It's hard to define his exact feeling on this, but this is the quote attributed to him by Bruno Stein the writer who conducted the interview:
If he went to a little town in Missouri at a certain time,
he would be able to see in a seemingly empty field a fully equipped flying saucer repair shop at work.
"It was one of those fascinating things you learn at a Bowie soiree.
This evening the gathering was rather intimate. There was Corinne, David's charming personal secretary
"I used to work for two guys who put out a UFO magazine in England," he told the flying saucer man. "About six years ago. And I made sightings six, seven times a night for about a year when I was in the observatory.
We had regular cruises that came over. We knew the 6.15 was coming in and would meet up with another one. And they would be stationary for about half an hour, and then after verifying what they'd been doing that day, they'd shoot off.
"But I mean, it's what you do with the information. We never used to tell anybody.
It was beautifully dissipated when it got to the media.
Media control is still based in the main on cultural manipulation. It's just so easy to do.
When you set up one set of objectives toward the public and you've given them a certain definition for each code word, you hit them with the various code words and they're not going to believe anything if you don't want them to..."
From his performances, you could tell that nothing was too "non establishment" for David.
He incorporated time machines and space capsules into his act
and talked about how a Starman would like to come and visit us, "but he knows he'd blow our minds."
His appearance in the motion picture The Man Who Fell To Earth has become a classic.
In concert, Bowie was radiant and his fans were floating on a cloud, but behind the scenes an ominous specter was forming from which the master of time and space would quickly need some rightist assistance in order to escape a wall of paranoia that was building around him.
AND ALONG COMES MR. SCRATCH
Like many rockers before and after, David had taken a liking to the good life. You know the old adage sex, drugs and rock and roll,
well on top of this add a heap of consciousness expansion, an interest in the occult, and you will have the prevalent influences on what might have seemed like Bowie's immortal being.
But paranoia soon struck in the form of the ole nemesis "nose candy" commonly known as cocaine.
With the help of Bowie himself and some close associates at the time, Marc Spitz details in the just published Bowie biography (Crown) how David was living in LA just a few houses away from the LaBianca estate where Charlie Manson's gang had terribly mutilated Sharon Tate and her friends in a ritualistic murder.
Bowie had taken to doing blow regularly and was getting more and more desperate and paranoid with each passing day.
In a number of shocking revelations, Marc Spitz in the Bowie biography explains precisely what was transpiring in the pop singer's troubled life:
"While planning the follow-up to Young Americans (album), Bowie would sit in the house with a pile of high-quality cocaine atop the glass coffee table, a sketch pad and a stack of books.
Psychic Self Defense (Dion Fortune) was his favorite. Its author describes the book as a 'safeguard for protecting yourself against paranormal malevolence.'
"Using this and more arcane books on witchcraft, white magic and its malevolent counterpart, black magic, as rough guides to his own rapidly fragmenting psyche, Bowie began drawing protective pentagrams on every surface."
Bowie told the author, "I'd stay up for weeks. Even people like
Keith Richards were floored by it.
I paid with the worst manic depression of my life. My psyche went through the roof, it just fractured into pieces. I was hallucinating 24 hours a day."
Spitz adds, "Increasingly Bowie was convinced there were witches after his semen. They were intent on using it to make a child to sacrifice to the devil,
essentially the plot to Roman Polanski's 1968 supernatural classic Rosemary's Baby."
Seeing that he was in desperate need, poet and song writer Cherry Vanilla hooked Bowie up with Walli Elmlark who Spitz describes as a "Manhattan-based intellectual...who taught classes at the New York School of Occut Arts and sciences then located on Fourteenth Street, just north of Greenwich Village,"
and which the author of this article was director of from the mid 1960s for more than a decade, promoting lectures and classes by the who's who of paranormal and UFO experts of that era, including Cleve Backster, Stanley Krippner, Jim Moseley, John Keel -
and, of course, Walli Elmlark the White Witch of New York.
As added confirmation of the madness David was trying to cope with, ex wife Angie Bowie reveals even more details of his fascination and dabbling into the occult in her own personal remembrance, Backstage Passes: Life on the Wild Side With David Bowie.
"There was a beautiful Art Deco house on six acres, an exquisite site property and a terrific value at just $300,000,
but he took one look at a detail I hadn't noticed, a hexagram painted on the floor of a circular room by the previous owner, Gypsy Rose Lee.
"A great deal of codling and reassurance got us through that crisis, and I went and found the Doheny Drive house.
Built in the late fifties or early sixties, it was a white cube surrounding an indoor swimming pool. David like the place, but I thought it was too small to meet our needs for very long, and I wasn't crazy about the pool. In my experience, indoor pools are always a problem.
"This one was no exception, albeit not in any of the usual ways.
Its drawback was one I hadn't encountered before and haven't seen or heard of since: Satan lived in it.
With his own eyes, David said, he'd seen HIM rising up out of the water one night."
Feeling demonic forces moving in, David felt strongly that he needed an exorcism and asked that his new found friend white witch Walli Elmlark be called upon to lend her assistance to remove the evil from his surroundings.
"A Greek Orthodox Church, in LA would have done it for us (there was a priest available for such a service, the people had told me) but David wouldn't have it. No strangers allowed, he said.
So there we stood, with just Walli's instructions and a few hundred dollars' worth of books, talismans, and assorted items from Hollywood's comprehensive selection of fine occult emporia.
"There he (David Bowie) was, then, primed and ready. The proper books and doodads were arranged on a big old-fashioned lectern.
The incantation began, and although I had no idea what was being said or what language it was being said in, I couldn't stop a weird cold feeling rising up in me as David droned on and on.
"There's no easy or elegant way to say this, so I'll just say it straight. At a certain point in the ritual, the pool began to bubble. It bubbled vigorously (perhaps "thrashed" is a better term) in a manner inconsistent with any explanation involving air filters or the like."
The rock and roll couple watched in amazement.
Angie says she tried to be flippant - "'Well, dear, aren't you clever? It seems to be working. Something's making a move, don't you think?' - but I couldn't keep it up.
It was very, very strange; even after my recent experiences I was having trouble accepting what my eyes were seeing."
Angie insists that she would peak through the glass doors which lead to the pool every so often and was dumb founded by what she saw.
"On the bottom of the pool was a large shadow, or stain, which had not been there before the ritual began.
It was in the shape of a beast of the underworld; it reminded me of those twisted, tormented gargoyles screaming silently from the spires of medieval cathedrals. It was ugly, shocking, malevolent; it frightened me.
"I backed away from it feeling very strange, went through the doorway, and told David what I'd seen, trying to be nonchalant but not doing very well.
He turned white but eventually became revived enough to spend the rest of the night doing coke.
"I still don't know what to think about that night. It runs directly counter to my pragmatism and my everyday faith in the integrity of the "normal" world, and it confuses me greatly.
What troubles me the most is that if you were to call that stain the mark of Satan, I don't see how I could argue with you."
"David, of course, insisted that we move from the house as quickly as possible, and we did that,
but I've heard from reliable sources (Michael Lipman for one, the property's real estate agent) that subsequent tenants haven't been able to remove the shadow. Even though the pool has been painted over a number of times, the shadow has always come back."
Several years went by and Walli met an untimely passing as she could not remove the demons in her own life, even though she had a dramatic impact on almost everyone she came in contact with.
Besides teaching at the School Of Occult Arts And Sciences, Walli teamed up with the likes of T Rex's Marc Bolan (whom she nicked named the Wizzard) and King Crimson's guitarist Robert Fripp.
The trio went off to merry old England to record a spoken word album
Though The Cosmic Children has never been released the soundtrack was years ahead of its time, centering around those special souls who Walli believed had reincarnated on earth from "elsewhere" at a very important time in the human evolutionary process to pass on the light to others who were destined to change the world through music, literature and an emerging New Age philosophy.
The recording is out there somewhere - perhaps safely in the vault of Robert Fripp - who hopefully if he reads this will contact me and allow us to do a limited pressing for those who would truly find this effort transformational.
Walli and I worked mutually for a number of years on several projects and even co-authored a book together.
Out of print for decades, once in a while I have seen a copy of Rock Raps Of The Seventies offered on ebay or elsewhere at an exorbitant price.
Somehow I can't exclude the fact that Walli looks down from time to time and perhaps sings along with David Bowie as he performs all over the world in concert.
Long recovered from drugs and the dark aspects of occultism, he is now raising a family and going on with his chosen task.
And perhaps before you know it his Starman song may take on a reality all it's own if the predicted disclosure about UFOs and extraterrestrials ever comes about in our lifetime.
Timothy Green Beckley is a long time investigator of UFOs and the paranormal.
He is the president of Inner Light/Global Communications, a publishing firm specializing in this field.
His own works currently available on Amazon.com include: The UFO Silencers: Mystery of the Men In Black Secret Prophecy Of Fatima Revealed MJ12 And The Riddle Of Hangar 18 The Big Book Of Werewolves UFOs Among The Stars Subterranean Worlds Inside Earth Strange Saga Our Alien Planet: This Eerie Earth