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letsdothis3 ago

He's also on the Congressional Arts Caucus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Arts_Caucus

The Congressional Arts Caucus was created in the 1980s as a way for the various members of Congress interested in the arts to be able to influence art legislation and to promote the National Endowment for the Arts

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Endowment_for_the_Arts

n 1996, Congress cut the NEA funding to $99.5 million as a result of pressure from conservative groups, including the American Family Association, who criticized the agency for using tax dollars to fund highly controversial artists such as Barbara DeGenevieve, Andres Serrano, Robert Mapplethorpe, and the performance artists known as the "NEA Four".

Andres Serrano : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andres_Serrano

Andres Serrano (born August 15, 1950) is an American photographer and artist who has become famous through his photos of corpses and his use of feces and bodily fluids in his work, notably his controversial work Piss Christ, a red-tinged photograph of a crucifix submerged in a glass container of what was purported to be the artist's own urine. He is also notable for creating the artwork for the heavy metal band Metallica's Load and Reload albums.

septimasexta ago

Good art connection. Didn't Alefantis feature one of these artists in his short-lived first gallery? (forgot the name)

Lansing-Michigan ago

Comet Ping Pong had at one time two doors , one said Well , the other Come. Burroughs Wellcome, HQ in GB and Raleigh NC has links to Tavistock. A Citizen journalist that I trust stated there was a corridor from mid NC to east Tenn with rampant pedophila.... David Koresh recruited women for Waco from mid NC to the mountains of NC...mostly from Seventh Day Adventist Church...My neighbors in the NC mountains had a family member to die there and several others left, escaped. One who got away said Koresh lived on the second floor housing all the members. When the girls turned 13, they went to his room. She objected and left when her daughter came of age. Waco was a govt . hit..........Koresh could have been taken as he walked to town alone at times. CIA experiment? Duke University has been named , central NC in the corridor. as MKultra training facility...the school attracts students of the rich and famous.i.e Gayle King's son...Oprah gave the commencement address when he graduated. .. the reputation for the hospital is quite good. Ted Kennedy went there for his brain tumor treatment..kept quiet.Joe Ryan , who started the parapsychology dept at Duke was CIA and my father's good friend. Also CIA. His dept is well known and world renown. My father was in a pedophile ring of Duke doctors , local well known lawyer.......Ft Bragg is close to central NC and also known to be MK ultra training facility. Several big pharma HQs in the piedmont. Used to be 2 huge state mental hospitals also there .....even though the state was very wide and the two large mental hospitals in the piedmont did not make sense.NC has been noted for the largest number of KKK in the US.....this type of population seems to be chosen for their political inclinations.Although I am too old for the true MKultra movement....born in 1942....do think it was beginning even then..One of my father's best friends was a hypnotist and obstetrician who delivered babies under hypnosis. When I told that my father was sexually abusing me at the age of 12......was taken to Duke for an exam to see whether it was true. It was negative and no one ever mentioned it to me after that...have been told a wealthy aunt paid the doctor for his diagnosis. ..as her husband was also a pedophile...it is multi generational in both sides of the family.Was told that I "busted up" the ring...never understood how a poor child could do that. ...except for one thing ..have no memories of abuse with the exception of 3 times, at home, with my brother watching. Now I wonder if I was hypnotized.....as I am very easily hypnotized to this day. Do remember visiting the doctor's children who delivered babies under hypnosis...........the children all wore their underwear in front of their parents. I did not like them ......did not go back.

septimasexta ago

Thanks for telling your story. So sorry for the abuse. Because of history and certain people I know, your description rings true, even if anecdotal. Duke was/is indeed a center for psychology, even before WW2. Wright Patterson AF Base in Dayton, Ohio was also doing research in the early '60's. Might have even involved "remote viewing." ESP research was also big at that time.

You might find this documentary "Bright Leaves" interesting. It's about two early competing families in the N.C. tobacco industry, the Dukes and the McElwees. The Dukes won. The film is by a McElwee descendant. The novel referred to in the film, BRIGHT LEAF, coincidentally, was written by a distant relative of mine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__12lwTLir8

septimasexta ago

"Stargate Project was the 1991 code name for a secret U.S. Army unit established in 1978 at Fort Meade, Maryland, by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and SRI International (a California contractor) to investigate the potential for psychic phenomena in military and domestic intelligence applications. The Project, and its precursors and sister projects, originally went by various code names—GONDOLA WISH, GRILL FLAME, CENTER LANE, SUN STREAK, SCANATE—until 1991 when they were consolidated and rechristened as "Stargate Project".

Stargate Project work primarily involved remote viewing, the purported ability to psychically "see" events, sites, or information from a great distance.[1] The project was overseen until 1987 by Lt. Frederick Holmes "Skip" Atwater, an aide and "psychic headhunter" to Maj. Gen. Albert Stubblebine, and later president of the Monroe Institute.[2] The unit was small-scale, comprising about 15 to 20 individuals, and was run out of "an old, leaky wooden barracks".[3]

The Stargate Project was terminated and declassified in 1995 after a CIA report concluded that it was never useful in any intelligence operation. Information provided by the program was vague and included irrelevant and erroneous data, and there was reason to suspect that its project managers had changed the reports so they would fit background cues.[4] The program was featured in the 2004 book and 2009 film entitled The Men Who Stare at Goats,[5][6][7][8] although neither mentions it by name."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_Project

Found Dr. Joseph (Ryan) Rhine:

"In 1911, Stanford University became the first academic institution in the United States to study extrasensory perception (ESP) and psychokinesis (PK) in a laboratory setting. The effort was headed by psychologist John Edgar Coover, and was supported by funds donated by Thomas Welton Stanford, brother of the university's founder. After conducting approximately 10,000 experiments, Coover concluded "statistical treatments of the data fail to reveal any cause beyond chance."[34]

In 1930, Duke University became the second major U.S. academic institution to engage in the critical study of ESP and psychokinesis in the laboratory. Under the guidance of psychologist William McDougall, and with the help of others in the department—including psychologists Karl Zener, Joseph B. Rhine, and Louisa E. Rhine—laboratory ESP experiments using volunteer subjects from the undergraduate student body began. As opposed to the approaches of psychical research, which generally sought qualitative evidence for paranormal phenomena, the experiments at Duke University proffered a quantitative, statistical approach using cards and dice. As a consequence of the ESP experiments at Duke, standard laboratory procedures for the testing of ESP developed and came to be adopted by interested researchers throughout the world.[31]" READ ALL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parapsychology

septimasexta ago

CIA, Hypnosis, MKULTRA: "George Estabrooks was a Harvard University graduate, a Rhodes Scholar, chairman of the Department of Psychology at Colgate University and an authority on hypnosis during World War II. He used hypnosis to help spies have split personalities to not actually know they were spies in case of capture. He stated it was easy to create and easy to cure using hypnosis.

He joined the First Canadian Division in his teens and at the age of 19 became the youngest commissioned Officer. Later in life, he became a 32nd degree Knight Templar Mason..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Estabrooks