This is new to me so I thought I would share:
http://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-geffen-ucla-20151112-story.html
David Geffen gave $100 million dollars to start a middle and high school for children on the UCLA campus called the Geffen Academy. It opened for the 2017/2018 school year.
He previously donated $300 million to the UCLA medical school. Geffen has some sort of strong interest in UCLA. It's not because he is an alumni, he dropped out of college. Is he just a big hearted guy? Or does finding a school, and giving enormously to the med school provide him some special perks?
Here's the schools website:
https://geffenacademy.ucla.edu/
Note their motto, "Reach in, Reach Out, Reach On"! What????
Here is a good article that breaks down why such a large donation for a school that is really not even needed is a total waste:
https://www.laweekly.com/news/lets-all-watch-david-geffen-light-his-money-on-fire-6272010
The author provides a good rebuttal for Geffens claims for why this school is so important and basically questions why Geffen would throw so much money at something that isn't even needed.
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bopper ago
Geffen back in the day, smack in the middle of the Laurel Canyon crowd, all or most of whom came from blueblood or military background.
https://imgoat.com/uploads/a09c8844ba/143745.jpg
Shizy ago
He is credited with working with Crosby, Stills, and Nash as a new talent agent. Didn't those hippies hang out in that same crowd?
bopper ago
Yeah they did, the whole thing, the whole 'movement,' appears to be anything but organic.
I have a facebook friend who hung with all these people (the guy in the back with glasses) and still lives in the area and is still in touch with Crosby but he dodges my questions (somewhat) about the Canyon conspiracies.
Wish I had more time I would check into all this more. It is astonishing how many whose parents were military, Zappa and Jackson Brown and Morrison, on and on, even Alice Cooper who was younger but was helped by Zappa after Alice moved out there.
Papa John, Crosby, etc etc.
Shizy ago
I read a lot a few years ago about Sharon Tate and those murders. Her dad was high up in the Navy and there were a lot of really weird inconsistencies and other things with that whole story. It completely ties in with this whole fake movement.
bopper ago
You may know of The Wonderland Murders that took place in Laurel Canyon, you can google them. The actual police video of the crime scene is available if you have the stomach for it. You can start with Wiki and then there's this link below. John Holmes was likely one of the killers.
http://findadeath.com/directory/w/Wonderland_Murders/index.html
Shizy ago
Yes I have read some on those murders. I didn't know the police footage is online. That would be interesting to see! Thanks for the tip.
bopper ago
Oh I forgot, Sharon Tate as well, yeah I hope one day I know what happened with those murders.
In Mackenzie Phillips' book High On Arrival she talks about how Sir Paul and her dad hung together at the time of the Monterrey Pop Festival, and in the book Memoirs of Billy Shears Sir Paul says he helped Papa John pass out acid there via intelligence people, he also talks about Tavistock.
Almost the entire song "Won't Get Fooled Again" is about the McCartney replacement and Tavistock ("the men who stirred us on, sit in judgement of all wrong, they decide and the shotgun sings the song").
The men of Tavistock make the calls and the bands and rock idols who are simply "riding shotgun" actually sing the songs.
Yes of course I know I sound nuts. I'll stop, this fascinates me and I could go on all day.