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LSD, Ecstasy, and a Blast of Utopianism: How 1967's “Summer of Love” All Began

The Human Be-In was an event held in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park Polo Fields on January 14, 1967. This so-called “Gathering of the Tribes” drew more than 20,000 people and came to symbolize the counterculture movement of the 1960s. It featured The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver,  and Big Brother And The Holding Company. It was a prelude to San Francisco's Summer of Love, which made the Haight-Ashbury LSD district a symbol of American counterculture and introduced the word "psychedelic" to suburbia. A new California law banning the use of the psychedelic drug LSD that had come into effect on October 6, 1966.

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In a 25-square-block area of San Francisco, in the summer of 1967, an ecstatic, Dionysian mini-world sprang up like a mushroom, dividing American culture into a Before and After unparalleled since World War II. If you were between 15 and 30 that year, it was almost impossible to resist the lure of that transcendent, peer-driven season of glamour, ecstasy, and Utopianism. It was billed as the Summer of Love, and its creators did not employ a single publicist or craft a media plan. Yet the phenomenon washed over America like a tidal wave, erasing the last dregs of the martini-sipping Mad Men era and ushering in a series of liberations and awakenings that irreversibly changed our way of life.

“It was this magical moment … this liberation movement, a time of sharing that was very special,” with “a lot of trust going around,” says Carolyn “Mountain Girl” Garcia, who had a baby with Ken Kesey, the man who helped kick off that season, and who then married Jerry Garcia, the man who epitomized its fruition. “The Summer of Love became the template: the Arab Spring is related to the Summer of Love; Occupy Wall Street is related to the Summer of Love,” says Joe McDonald, the creator and lead singer of Country Joe and the Fish and a boyfriend of one of that summer’s two queens, Janis Joplin. “And it became the new status quo,” he continues. “The Aquarian Age! They all want sex. They all want to have fun. Everyone wants hope. We opened the door, and everybody went through it, and everything changed after that. Sir Edward Cook, the biographer of Florence Nightingale, said that when the success of an idea of past generations is ingrained in the public and taken for granted the source is forgotten.”

Well, here is that source, according to the people who lived it.

Suddenly That Summer (Vanity Fair)

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Brilliant speech at the Oxford Union. The debate was "This House Believes Woke Culture Has Gone Too Far" addressed to our "woke" youth fighting climate change by Konstantine Kisin.



@KonstantinKisin, Satirist, Co-Host of @triggerpod, 'Centrist Chad' in London. The speech is one of a series of 8 debating the topic.


Good mornin. 42 and cloudy. Flood and landslide warnings.

That time of year again in the Swiss Alps. Over 2,500 delegates, 5,000 armed security and over 2,000 individual private flights will fly into a Swiss ski resort for the World Economic Forum Davos 2023... to tell the rest of us to stop taking flights, stop driving petrol cars, ban gas stoves, and stop eating real meat, blah, blah.





Going through this latest WEF document...they have so many plans for us. None of them we asked for. Skimming through it puts me in a mood to watch another dystopian sci-fi flick...is that bad?

Demolition of the West: The WEF's own Global Risk Report 2023 admits that the transition to Net Zero "adaptation will be painful for everyone" and that "the end of the era of cheap carbon energy is inevitable."


Disasters from natural hazards are among the top 3 risks, in the short term AND long term. In the next 10 years, climate-related risks occupy the first three positions.













Oh boy, they are not happy and who better to craft such a report by none other than a Swiss insurance company.

A stormy decade to come, warns the World Economic Forum Geoeconomic confrontation (wars over scarce resources), and the erosion of social cohesion are among the largest risks facing us over the next decade. Standby for heavy rolls, they'll really be kicking & screaming this year.

Above link is a summary of the Full...

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Global Risk Report 2023

The Global Risks Report 2023 presents the results of the latest Global Risks Perception Survey (GRPS). We use three time frames for understanding global risks. Chapter 1 considers the mounting impact of current crises (i.e. global risks which are already unfolding) on the most severe global risks that many expect to play out over the short term (two years). Chapter 2 considers a selection of risks that are likely to be most severe in the long term (10 years), exploring newly emerging or rapidly accelerating economic, environmental, societal, geopolitical and technological risks that could become tomorrow’s crises. Chapter 3 imagines mid-term futures, exploring how connections between the emerging risks outlined in previous sections may collectively evolve into a “polycrisis” centred around natural resource shortages by 2030. The report concludes by considering perceptions of the comparative state of preparedness for these risks and highlighting enablers to charting a course to a more resilient world. Below are key findings of the report.

Look closely, there is a ghost.












Climate change is real, ya'll! Awake yet?






Have a nice day.

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Fellow Rogues,
I thought that you might find this video interesting.

It regards the specific composition of the COVID19 coronavirus, including artificially "inserted" parts (i.e. Man-Made in a Lab and then spliced into the existing RNA parts...).

Enjoy.


LINK to YouTube Video





I think that the video above is a short clip taken from a much longer, deeper interview (which I haven't watched yet - but will include for reference in a link below).

LINK to Full Interview



Cheers,
BigG

Dear folks.

I found out a couple of days ago that a dear online and also RL friend passed away in October 2022.

I had tried to contact him in on many occasions for the past 6 months and now I know why.

Cody and I first met up over on ATS a few years ago and after bantering around with each other on many threads along with a couple of other members who can now be found here, we became very close...

This was our last thread together over there : https://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread977869/pg1

Cody599 : This is for you my soul brother.

Throughout your life your brought many a smile (thousands even) to many a persons face...

You were a good person...

You never judged...

I never saw you angry...

You went through some hard shit but still kept that smile on your face...

You and I went through some seriously shitty stuff in our past and we shared this together throughout our tears and laughter...

You know I am pretty crap at writing down how I feel and that it is easier to talk face to face (And one day that will happen again when we find each other at the top of the mountain of reunion and share a good bottle of whatever together.. whilst you wear your Cowboy hat and me my gasmask.)

"I am better for knowing you, better for loving you, better for having met you. May you be as blessed in the next life, my friend, as I was in this one by knowing you." (Author unknown but this is how I feel).

For you my friend and soul brother :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhdFe3evXpk

Angels on your pillows my brother (Or as you loved to say "Angle grinders on your pillows")

As recently stated BIAD created a wonderful cover for my new book - (Title is secret until publication)



In 2011 I created a thread on ATS which is sort of a cliffnotes abbreviated version of the book I planned from my database of sightings which ran about 800+ sightings at that time. Currently the number stands at about 1200+ sightings in the USA for the year 1947.

The trick for finding new sightings is to visit your local library and scan your local newspapers for June July and August 1947
to find local sighting for your state that are not listed anywhere else.
If you do make the trip and find any PLEASE let me know! Thanks in advance.

Here then is the ATS thread I created  on the subject -

https://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread651611/pg1

If you see the map I made of the sightings right click on it and choose open image in new tab to see it full size.

US Office of Strategic Services begins Operation Cornflakes: airdropping bags of fake letters near bombed Axis mail trains, getting the German postal service to collect & deliver Allied propaganda.



Operation Cornflakes (named because German civilians are meant to read covert Allied propaganda over their breakfast) attaches fake German stamps to letters, showing Hitler's face as a skull & the legend "Futsches Reich", "lost empire":



Nazi Germany also produces fake enemy stamps as propaganda, like this imitation Silver Jubilee stamp, replacing King George's head with Stalin's, using the slogan:

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In June 2021, this article was used as a reference source in the Dutch Ministry of Defense military website Defense Newspaper in an article by Evert Brouwer titled “Operation Cornflakes.” In June 2019, A Finnish author asked to use this article as a reference source for an article titled “American Hitler Forgeries: the Case of Operation Cornflakes,” in the Fakes, Forgeries and Experts Journal and Journal of the Philatelic Federation of Finland.

Operation Cornflakes is one of the best known Office of Strategic Services (OSS) secret “black” operations of WWII. The reason it is so well known is that the OSS Rome Detachment prepared publicity booklets to be given to visiting politicians and members of the Congressional Oversight Committee. They realized that these people held the OSS purse-strings, and they wanted to keep them happy and up-to-date on current projects. It is not known exactly how many such booklets, entitled The Story of Cornflakes, Pig Iron and Sheet Iron exist, but I have seen numbers as high as 20 to 30. We must point out here that there are two different kinds of Cornflakes publications.

One is a thin paper-back publicity booklet that explains the operations and contains photographs and souvenirs. The other is a large hard-cover scrapbook that contains about 400 OSS specimens. They are very different and obviously the scrapbook is worth far more than the publicity booklet. After the war, a few such booklets were found in the attic of the home where OSS members were housed. Shortly after the war some were sold for $250. Years later, in 1984 one of the scrapbooks was offered at auction estimated at $5000. The description was:

The original complete sample book displaying extensive anti-Hitler and anti-Fascist literature, newspapers, propaganda, leaflets, etc. as printed and compiled by one of the directors of the whole operation, Robert Allen. Well over 300 items, the documents are mostly in German but also some in Italian and Russian. Included is a large production report, photographs of the presses and a complete sheet of 50 of the Hitler Death Mask propaganda label as manufactured by the Rome printing presses.

Poison Cornflakes for Breakfast (link has a TON of interesting history)