Day: November 27, 2022

by Travis Mateer

My Sunday began with text messages about an alleged suicide that occurred inside the Mineral County jail over the weekend. According to NBC Montana, the Missoula County coroner has been sent to this land of Mandamus to “help”.

NBC Montana confirmed with Mineral County Jail staff that an inmate died by suicide.

Officials say the Missoula County coroner has been sent out, and the Department of Criminal Investigations has launched an investigation into what transpired.

Small town talk is of course way ahead of any official acknowledgment of WHO supposedly committed suicide, so I didn’t expect the person who answered the phone at the Mineral County Sheriff’s Office (Lisa) to confirm if the deceased inmate is Shane Pelletier, but for this post that doesn’t matter.

The conversation on social media includes comments making some disturbing allegations. Here are two screenshots to consider (typos on the second one make it difficult to understand):

Spelling issues aside, the Sheriff Deputy being referenced here is, David Kunzelman, the same David Kunzelman Sheriff Mike Toth claimed was sent to him by Missoula Sheriff-elect, Jeremiah Petersen. This quote is from my Mandamus post, linked above:

Sheriff Toth’s strategy on the stand was to overtly and, by insinuation, blame anyone else for what he’s ultimately responsible for. This strategy was on full display as Toth did damage control regarding the hiring of Deputy David Kunzelman.

For Missoula County voters, the first scapegoat should really be of interest, since Sheriff ELECT (Toth’s words), Jeremiah Petersen, was the one who allegedly referred Kunzelman to Toth as a “great guy” who should be hired as a Mineral County Sheriff Deputy, despite a little incident of stealing a law enforcement exam. As Captain of the Missoula County Detention Facility, Petersen’s referral carried a lot of weight with Toth.

And here’s an image so you can see who it is we are talking about:

The reason I don’t need confirmation of who died in the Mineral County jail for this post is because the article I found about Mineral County “lawmen” taking Shane Pelletier into custody last year is so objectively screwed-up, it should be considered regardless of whether or not Pelletier is the deceased inmate.

So here is the article, written by Monte Turner and published on January 20th, 2021.

A Hot Springs man with a $1 million warrant for his arrest was taken into custody by the Mineral County Sheriff’s Office last week.

Without knowing anything about the alleged offenses or the warrant, Mineral County Sheriff Toth and Undersheriff Wayne Cashman apprehended a man at gunpoint, but without incident, last Tuesday in St. Regis.

He was identified as Shane Thomas Pelletier, 32, of Hot Springs.

In addition to WHAT Pelletier did, take notice of WHO he did it to, especially when they have last names like “Jasper” and “Bullock” (emphasis mine):

The call of a man allegedly threatening customers with a knife inside the casino at the St. Regis Travel Center came in around 10 a.m. While en route, Toth, Cashman and Deputy Funk received an update that the man had left the casino and appeared to be walking behind the travel center. 

Arriving in the parking lot, a local citizen pointed to where he was in the backyard of a someone’s property. After arresting Pelletier, Rick Jasper, owner of the Talking Bird Saloon, approached and informed the arresting officers that the man had also attempted to steal liquor from his establishment, but Jasper had been able to fight him off.

Then, Gary Bullock, owner of the St. Regis Travel Center, provided surveillance footage from inside the casino, Pelletier was allegedly seen. The footage showed a dire situation the casino cashier had to endure.

The article continues, showing how quality Deputies who TOTALLY got all the training they needed, like Deputy Funke, did their LAWMAN thing and booked this dangerous offender into the MISSOULA County jail.

According to Toth, Pelletier had left the Hot Springs area earlier Tueday morning. Officers from the U.S. Marshals Service were in Hot Springs looking for Pelletier, who had a $1 million arrest warrant for sexual assault. 

Deputy Funk remained on the scene taking statements and learned that prior to either incident at the casino or saloon, Pelletier had allegedly attempted to enter into private vehicles in the fueling area. 

Toth and Cashman transferred the prisoner to the Mineral County Sheriff’s Office where he was processed and booked before being transported to the Missoula County Jail. 

Charges of felony assault with a deadly weapon, felony robbery and burglary are being filed with the Mineral County Attorney.

Maybe now, after this inmate death in Mineral County, our SOUTHERN BORDER obsessed Attorney General, Austin Knudsen, will give some lip service to the WESTERN BORDER of Montana, where a recreational river those tourists love runs through this “beautifully deceptive” landscape, to borrow a phrase from a recent commenter.

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by Travis Mateer

If you do an online search about space lasers in 2022, you might run across a variety of memes mocking a particular political party and the space force projection being worked on as terrestrial power centers move to weaponize space.

When I rewatched the 1985 movie REAL GENIUS, starring Val Kilmer as a goofy nerd unknowingly working on a weapon for the CIA, I didn’t recall the opening sequence involving a space laser, and I certainly didn’t remember hearing the phrase “the rabbit is in the hole” being uttered by a military figure off-screen.

What I did recall about this movie is the basic narrative of a high school prodigy, Mitch Taylor (played by Gabriel Jarret) recruited at the age of 15 to attend “Pacific Tech”, a university modeled heavily after Cal Tech’s campus culture, along with MIT. Here’s a link and a screenshot that backs this up:

The character shown above is “Lazlo Hollyfeld”, a former child prodigy who snapped and now lives in the steam tunnels. I wonder if there are any REAL world examples of gifted youth made to snap by a University program?

The steam tunnels at Cal Tech are actually a thing. I even found a story about a professor connected to the Manhattan project who spent the night in the tunnels after losing a bet.

I’m sure you’ve all heard stories about Richard Feynman, who used to be a physics prof here. It’s well known that he picked locks and opened safes while he was working on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos. He also taught a class on lock-picking to undergrads for a while. But, what’s less well known is that he once spent a night in the steam tunnels, sleeping on this mattress. The story goes that he once made a bet with an undergrad about some physics fact that the undergrad thought he’d gotten wrong. Anyway, the forfeit he agreed to if he was wrong was that he’d have to sleep in the steam tunnels for a night.

While this stuff is interesting, how does it apply to what’s happening today? Maybe it will help to explain why I decided to watch this movie again in the first place, and it begins with the collapse of FTX.

Normally I’d say drug use and group sex is a private matter, but when that behavior potentially fuels a multi-billion dollar crypto-scam that reaches deeply into geopolitics, well, it might be something to take into consideration beyond the salacious and (in this case) disgusting mental images that may accompany serious inquiries.

I’ll let the New York Post frame this part of the growing scandal:

The in-house performance coach at FTX claimed Tuesday the doomed crypto firm’s headquarters in the Bahamas was a “pretty tame place” — despite rampant speculation about its executives’ sex lives and alleged substance use.

Online gossip alleging the group lived in a “polycule” — or network of polyamorous relationships — surged after CoinDesk reported the executives “are, or used to be, paired up in romantic relationships with each other.”

Dr. George K. Lerner, a psychiatrist, reportedly served as a therapist to disgraced FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried and an adviser to many of the firm’s employees. Bankman-Fried and his ex-lover Caroline Ellison were reportedly part of a 10-person group that ran FTX and its sister cryptocurrency trading firm Alameda Research from a “luxury penthouse” in the Bahamas.

When I think of island getaways and nerdy academics, this is what immediately comes to mind.

Another thing that pops into my head is a different crypto-trader and what he claimed about Puerto Rico.

Getting back to the movie, 15 year old Mitch Taylor finds himself in a room with an adult woman who gets away with being a sexual predator because she’s a woman. We find out later in the movie she first wanted the 12 year old Lazlo, but he snapped after discovering his brain was being exploited by the CIA to create weaponry. Don’t worry (SPOILER!), she ends up with the adult version of Lazlo at the end, showing up in an RV with a plan to go to a “survival place in Wyoming”. Are you fucking kidding me?

The permissive sexual environment depicted in Real Genius isn’t just intended to entice teenagers to make a buck for Hollywood, it’s an actual reflection of the culture that has permeated this area for a long time. I’m thinking of Jack Parsons, the infamous scientist who helped establish the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where our very own Bryan Von Lossberg once worked.

Before getting to Bryan’s JPL provenance, here’s some perspective on Parsons and the occultist he became “enamored” with, Aleister Crowley, from a New York Post article about Parsons:

Parsons attended one of Crowley’s OTO masses, led by “magicians,” in LA in 1939, and became enamored with the odd leader’s beliefs in hidden dimensions and the religion’s unique sexual freedom. Participants were encouraged to swap partners — three decades before the sexual revolution.

Two years later, Parsons and his wife, Helen, were members of the OTO. The group was a strange blend of actors, opera singers, scientists, German expats and others who subscribed to Crowley’s teachings — particularly the no-strings-attached canoodling.

I wonder if this kind of behavior still permeates the culture at JPL? Maybe someone should ask Bryan Von Rocket Scientist.

Isn’t that fascinating? I think it’s fascinating. And here are a few more fascinating things to consider about this movie before I wrap this up.

Considering all the Epstein/MIT/vaccine connections in real life, I was rather shocked to hear the following line casually tossed out by Val Kilmer’s character, Christopher Knight. Here’s a screenshot of the dialogue:

Another interesting decision made by the filmmakers who created this piece of 80’s cinema can be seen near the end, when the youngsters must apply their prankster skills to thwart their military/intelligence handlers. The original target for the military testing of the laser is a motorcade that has a very obvious JFK assassination look. To drive this home, an extra at the end of the movie is briefly shown wearing a sports jersey with the number 22 prominently displayed.

Instead of hitting the motorcade, the pranksters program the laser to blast their mean professor’s home where a tinfoil covered ball of un-popped popcorn awaits. For those familiar with Philip K. Dick’s experience with a pink beam of light, the conclusion of this movie is synchronistically revelatory.

The relevance of how youth are “educated” by the institutions that seek to use them for agendas that don’t necessarily correlate with their own physical, mental and/or spiritual needs has never been more critical to understand than it is today, as shows like Stranger Things continues the psychological grooming of those intelligent youngsters who stand out early in their development, repackaging actual human experimentation as “entertainment” to keep their intuitive defenses down.

To wrap this up, I was going to include a song I made up yesterday while working on this post, but instead I’m going to post a documentary about Aaron Swartz, titled The Internets Own Boy. Why? Because it might be instructive to see what happens when someone as brilliant as Aaron tells an institution like MIT information should be free and accessible.

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