Tag: Lenny Kravitz

If nothing else, free the Left Hand!

Independence can be a way of life too.

(last updated: 4 July 2025)

[Summer – Rainbow beach]

After starting drums in 1991 with teacher Andrew Smith, right after quitting many years of piano lessons, I played in the awesome Wesley Big Band from mid-1994 until early 1996 when I left due to time pressures. Big Band people also had to play in the Concert Band as a rule.

Also, in 1994, my mum bought a:

  • Yamaha Vinnie Colaiuta 14×4.5″ signature snare
  • Paiste 15″ signature fast crash
  • Paiste 13″ signature sound edge hi-hats
  • Zildjian 17″ K dark medium-thin crash

from Manny’s Music in NYC that were all shipped back to Melbourne. Bar Mitzvah money put to good use.  Yet I ended up selling them all except the snare which I play to this day (2025.)

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The Paiste crash was incredible but the hats were awful. It was a punt – the gear was selected from reading magazines. Even my Pearl Masters kit in 1995 was selected by magazines.

I ended up with two tom-toms of the same depth and only a 2″ difference in diameter just like Vinnie’s:

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Yet, I think this was a great result as the 10″ power tom sounds reasonably different to the 12″ standard tom and the difference is easy on the ear. Both the guy at the shop and my drum teacher were unnerved with the sizings – was the 16″ x 20″ bass drum really too large for jazz and too small for a rock show?

[ 27 May 2022 ]

Surely, it can be tuned up or down? Yet, decades later, the 14″ floor tom and bass drum have ended up complimenting the 2015 stand-mounted Jinbao bass-drum.

[drums switcheroo + first play] Dirty Diana (1987 + 2020)

I also had a Sabian 20″ HH medium-thin ride (below left) carried over from a few years earlier which was eventually replaced by a 20″ K Heavy.

So I used this gear in the school band competition and we won equal-first (below-left.)

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In November 2018 I remember going into a drum store and trying out the cymbals and realizing within a couple of strokes whether I liked the sound or not, but back then I didn’t really know what I wanted or what I liked.

Get to Sticks (1992 + 2018)

It’s the same with fashion – one look and it’s either on or it’s not – although it was never like that growing up.

In Big Band, Simon played drums before me and set a really “nasty” precedent for me to follow after himself and a number of members left after the band’s Montreux performance in mid-1994. I also saw him play at a Battle of the Bands at the Lauriston Fair and he would’ve been best off playing under Maurice White than anyone else.

I played in the 1997 BotB and ended up dropping a stick after cramping up, and it was a shameful moment for me… wow, that had never happened before. We’d rehearsed at my house too and I was doing a lot of the schlepping and all the carrying of amps took its toll. It was for first-time rockstar vocalist Hezza and in front of a lot of girls.

I am pretty sure Simon was playing drums that day in his band Polyester.


[same school, Out Loud in 2014]

It was such a failure on my part, I think I ended up playing with one cramped forearm for two songs (the other arm was incapacitated.) I barely even knew what a cramp was. It’s like “What the fuck is wrong with my arms!?” For Hezza, this was at a time when being on stage with a rock band was the equivalent of having a new IG account with thousands of new followers.

I really should’ve yelled out to the other band members for timeout. “Sorry peeps, the drummer can’t play anymore. Well he never really could to begin with either. Did you hear about the drummer who finished high school? Me neither.”

Hezza had such high hopes and it all ended up a train wreck of emotion. I saw him years later in the city at night with his friend and things weren’t the same. We were once such jovial pals.

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Trumpeter Ollie T along with Ben, James and Zoe (all above) were playing with me in Ska band Skaface at the time (1996.) Bas and Eden also played in it and there should be a recording from Bakehouse studios floating around somewhere.

I left Big Band in Yr 12, because it was taking too much time – really it was the setting up and packing away of the drums at rehearsals twice weekly which was the deal-breaker. I may have also had fatigue issues regardless because I quit Karate in 1996 too. Jewish Big Band drummer Buddy Rich also did Karate from 48 onward, but looking at his hunch, I think he would’ve been better off with Yoga. And with Big Band a thing of the past, so was Concert Band and I must’ve freed up about 8 hours of my week.

If I am to look back with complete honesty, I suspect my health took a hit from vxccines taken for an 89/90 trip to India – Hep A, Hep B (x 3) and Meningitis.

[ above right – all shot-up with Mr Patel in Ahmedabad at his quarry that he repopulated with wildlife after its end-of-life. In that social group, I talked science with someone. 7 years later, high school physics was my best result. Magic. ]

[ A year or two later: Mr Patel again with Satyajeet (with dogs) (Darbar Shri Satyajeet kumar Shivraj khachar of Jasdan) for his royal arranged marriage. ]

I think Patel was an engineer and I met Satyajeet very, very briefly. My grandfather Oskar knew Shivraj – Satyajeet’s father.

And today new borns are given Hepatitis B shots – all ready for a trip to India!?

So that toxicity was seemingly rectified about 12 years later due to an “energetic-cleansing” type experience.

Also, I had received 4 very large mercury/amalgam fillings from a young age and those off-gassing could’ve also caused problems. Another problem could have been the fluorescent desk lamp (near Hendrix poster, pic further down.) I’ve heard someone say that the lamps dislodge mercury in the body, and of course contain a small amount of it too.

So it’s worth noting that Pranic healing deals with healing on the subtle level before it manifests in the physical hence the expression “real-eyes realize real-lies.” Autobiography of a Yogi spoke about this.

I am not so won over by vxccines because:

  • Weren’t these nasty diseases on their way out anyway due to advances in hygiene? (the Big Kahuna question)
  • Do they actually work?
  • Are they really needed?
  • Why don’t all unvaccinated children drop dead before age 30?
  • Who’s funding the studies?
  • Are there liability exemptions?
  • Is there a profit-motive somewhere?
  • What’s the track record of governments working against the governed?
  • Are they part of binary weapons systems, eg cell-phone towers, body scanners, smart meters?
  • Are there other alterior motives?
  • Have they been mis-named (just like Israel)?
  • Is there full transparency in the production process?
  • On a purely physical level, aren’t nanometals and synthetic biology the enemies of health? Do vaccines add to that?
  • With heavy metals, one can expect parasites to co-exist with them, right? And with that comes biofilms, sludge and brain fog.

Vxccines are no substitute to raising the vibration and that can come through relaxation and flow-states. That’s fine, but what if it takes monthly colon hydrotherapy, lymphatic drainage and ozone sessions to get to that point? Medical students don’t even write a single essay in 5/6 years of study. Only short-answers. After that, they’re worked to the ground so they don’t or can’t think critically. The overwork/underpayment culture is done purposely to remove undesirable mindsets from the system. What am I missing? Probabaly a lot.

Was the late Susan Wojcicki targetted due to c19/vxccine censorship?

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If so, it’s strange to see a “bottom-up” hit – usually it’s done to the small guy for going against the prevailing winds of the industry associations and their consensus before they get traction. As Buddy Rich said:

“I used to think of myself as a tough guy. Looking back now, I wonder what’s so great about being a tough guy.” – src

So I may well have gotten fatigue, but at least I wasn’t paralyzed. I think the fatigue started to happen when more cell phone towers went up later into the 90’s and my learning ability was also hampered – but I had so much to spare, it wasn’t really noticeable from the exterior. But it may have had something to do with my amalgam fillings.

It may be worth noting that at about 6 years old in primary school, myself and all my classmates had to provide cheek swabs for some woman that came through the school. I didn’t mind – I was thrilled that she wasn’t giving us all injections.

We were also IQ-tested a year or two later, and then tested again for the propensity to disassociate as mentioned here.

Sports day was so much more straightforward, even in black shoes.

[ mid-80s, KDS, original Kooyong Rd campus | 2022 ]

Looking back, perhaps having my DNA stored somewhere unbeknownst to me was/is just as dangerous as being turned over to a possible mind-control/transgendering process to serve the beast system. Or is there a clone of me somewhere from whom I can extract something later in life?

So a human clone planet is mentioned in Ormus King 2:

and intergalactic assasinations and human replacements in Ormus King 7 whereby “humans are controlled and dominated from a far-off planet for their eventual replacement by a reptilian alien cult that hijack Earth’s technology systems.”

[March, 2021]

Anyway, there was another recording with myself, Zev, Eden and Matho done at Metropolis that I wish I still had from 1996. We got free recording time and Zev and Eden came up with a track on the spot that day. I think it was called Debowana …give me some water… It sounded a lot like Big Mistake from 1997.

Natalie Imbruglia - Big Mistake Live on Channel 5 UK

We also did a cover of Fire. I ended up giving the caseette tape to Matho at a house party one night. I should’ve given it to a venue – that really was a big mistake yet he would’ve been out of the country for the next year or two anyway so that would’ve been of no consequence. Matho wasn’t even a trained singer but sounded great. I don’t think his heart was in it.

The whole session was done to help audio engineering students and my brother put me onto “Goldsmith” who was looking for a band.

It took 3 phone calls to initially reach Matho, and that would be my 2nd last. Matho knew deep down that he wouldn’t see past his 27th birthday if anything came of the band and just wanted to dodge a bullet. Well I highly, highly doubt that… maybe me though?

So I did vaguely know one fellow Harry who died at 27 who has IG embeds on this blog.

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He may well have been following this blog leading up to his death, not sure, and none of those names above are on my FB or YT followers lists – are they super-fans or beast-system-leeches? It’s God or the devil, baby!

ANTIBOY - Devil (Official Video)

Harry had some really good insights to share, and it was/is so sad to see him leave so soon although I recently read an interesting quote: “Death is but a horizon, and a horizon is just a limitation of our view.”

He passed away at dwelling purposely setup by his family for detoxing, which is sad but I don’t know the finer details. In any case, still a great loss. His last tweet was so positive.

So back to Metropolis, not sure how happy Eden was playing bass, and Zev might’ve been wanting to sing too. Goldsmith loved the music. The biggest “close but no cigar ” moment ever.

I couldn’t think of a name for the band. Spartacus came up with “Interstellar Overdrive” for another band that had Eden in it. A year later and things may have worked out as long as we owned our masters and I would’ve been able to get a website (with MP3s) and email list going pretty quickly – even in 1997. I probably would’ve ended up hiring a drummer and played percussion or done drum programming. Maybe Zev and Eden wanted to be writing for their own groups.

So back at school, I got along well with the conductor, the late Mr Lee (not everyone did) and he was also the music school head.

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Lee sold musical instruments to students so that was pretty shrewd of him to leverage his position like that.

He played alto sax and I once lent him my Sinatra at the Sands CD that I purchased from Greville Records but I never saw it again – perhaps it flew away! In fact, the shop was up the road from my school and in uniform, I asked the shopkeeper (owner too?) what the best big band CD was and he gave me that one. I also asked for a funk tip and he gave me Curtis.

Curtis Mayfield - Curtis -1970 -FULL ALBUM

He was impressed – so was I!

Then ~10 years later I was back there with Mr Petrie asking him if he wanted to sign up to Moshtix. He was more nervous than anything, but I wasn’t! He was like “come back to me last.” He wasn’t in the ticketing business, it was a complimentary good (like the Moshcard) and it brought new people into the store.

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Petrie was really excited about this swipe card for venue entry – he envisaged it becoming a discount and customizable card for the younger generation – many of whom didn’t even have credit cards. People could’ve been sent MP3s after buying a ticket or had a collection of music attached to it.

Facebook turned down their initial acquisition offer from Yahoo in 2006, and I think Moshtix could’ve pushed off News Corp too. That’s easy to say looking back, and I wasn’t in contact with Petrie in 2008, but the word “Mosh” limited the ticketing scope to music, right? I know there was a cinema using the site at the time.

Wherever there is power, money easily follows, and the power is at the enabling interface between disparate groups or systems that need/use each other. So much money at the interface between yarn and skin. If I owned a newspaper, I’d look at buying a timber plantation, paper plant and a recycling business – keiretsu. If American companies merged with each other, they wouldn’t need such high tariffs, right? I have no idea.

I am not sure if Greville Records were one of Moshtix’s early retail sign-ons where people could buy a ticket and add it to their Moshcard. By mid-2005 Moshtix hadn’t listed their Melbourne outlets online:

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Greville Records were with OzTix by 2008, though:

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But I remember seeing GR on Moshtix at one point. Or did I? Weird. Maybe they switched over to OzTix after the 2007 Moshtix acquisition and didn’t want to associate with Big Business. Perhaps Greville Records gave the ticketer a “cool factor” that lead to greater success in Melbourne, after Sydney, and leading to the rest of Australia as a result. I have no idea.

[ Note Hendrix poster bottom left – from Greville Records ]

By mid-2005, three Melbourne venues already signed-on to use Moshtix were Bennetts Lane, The Corner and The Metro. We met those on-site and a bunch more including HiFi Bar where I came face-to-face again with Kiran (not Haslam) who I hadn’t seen since the school Big Band where he had sung. Petrie was in the dark about Melbourne’s music scene. How much did he like music? Did it really matter anyway? Kiran ended up building out HiFi’s own ticketing system but I’d have to double-check on it.
Getting Metro on board was a big win after Mr Petrie and I initially met Alistair and Anna at the venue in early 2004.

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@dannysrants Do you remember Metro Nightclub? #nightclubs #nightclub #melbourne #nightlife #clubbing #promoter #security #clubs #metro #nostalgic #throwback #rememberwhen ♬ original sound – DannyRants

Alistair, at the opposite end of a large table was like: “who’s liable if the system breaks down on the night.”
Hamish was like: “it’s never failed yet.”
Alistair: “well what happens if it does?”
Hamish: “uhmm, yes…. well…”

[ 2003 ]

It was a raw meeting as we ran through the contract and no one had even yet been short-changed. Anna in the side-office was like: “if you really want to sell a lot of tickets you either need a great act or the cool-crowd present.” Nailed it. They might’ve thought we were uncool. But when I was 13 in the early 90’s, a bunch of us had free entry into TIME underage on Saturdays there at Metro. Someone thought we were cool.

The music could be really upfront, as social media was absent and people were wanting to get accelerated attraction with “randoms.” Little by way of cyber-checkin’.

Well, that’s one theory I read anyway. Also, is it just me or did people actually look physically different back then, like DNA was of a different quality? Less autism too. My brother had a Q-Bar medallion around a decade later… so roll up anytime and then straight in.

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But Bennetts Lane was the first sign-on, and they got on board pretty soon after the first meeting using their new “tickets direct” page and the chap told us the frequent ticket queues stretching down the lane were a real problem and that’s why he wanted to sign up so badly.

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Who said jazz heads were stuck in the past? More like stuck in a lane!

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In the end, friendships, commission, equity or a wage, nothing really eventuated from Moshtix. Yet due to my newly acquired hearing issues, I think it would’ve been a nightmare getting into the live music scene during 2004 and beyond. Imagine troubleshooting a swipe reader or being invited to late-night drinks and wanting to leave after 1 minute. Free the legs. At least all my Groovetip work paid off… for others! I’d have to settle with karma points and a good story! The whole “kiss up, kick down” mentality and vying to become an apex predator ultimately never works in a co-operative universe.

Mr Petrie went on to build Taxi-app ingogo, but from my understanding was ejected by the investors 7.5 years in, and the app has since shut down without an exit. We had some good conversations and he was talking about taxis and standing desks even back in Sydney.

Real Life - Send Me An Angel '89

Anyway, Sonny Payne – killer drummer. “He was Frank Sinatra’s personal drummer for all of the singer’s live appearances with Count Basie and his big band in 1964 and 1965 and 1966; in fact, whenever Sinatra sang with Basie in the 1960s, Payne was the drummer.” – src

A band is never better than its drummer and Frank knew it.

Frank Sinatra - Luck Be A Lady

The Chairman of the Board backed-up by the drummer. Interestingly, Andrew left me a heap of jazz records and I still have them to this day.

But reading the Mile Davis autobiography during that time – great read – really helped me put Jazz into perspective.

Following on from this, it wasn’t really that cool to be in a Big Band and the drumming is quite challenging – anticipating all the band lines. And in the Big Band, I never really dialled into the importance of “double-stroke roll triplets” until many years later – crucial for jazz playing. It’s a type of poly-rhythm that can really empower a drummer to put all their rudiments into a triplet feel. And that’s what life is all about – seeing the normal things through new lenses!

Also, the “Rock and Roll” style is about switching from straight-ahead grooves to these triplet fills. Going from rock to roll. Think Bonham.

I play a triplet at 45 secs:

[switcheroo drums] Bon Jovi - Blaze of Glory (1990 + 2020)

School uniforms aside, Angus Young has said he even likes the beats slightly swung, not just the fills.

So around 1996 I saw Julian Joseph at The Continental Cafe in Greville Street with Charlie (see below.) After the show, the drummer Mark told me that to be a good funk player it really helps to be a good jazz player in order to free up the left hand.

Mark Mondesir Drum Lessons: You only need 7 Rudiments!! - Heavy Groovin! #drummerworld

My goal is to have it to the point where it almost needs to be attached with a leash!

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The Uncannies

How did Benny Gantz and others uncannily enter my pictures? That is the question.

(updated: 5 December 2024)

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* this ongoing series is to bring attention to various security-related concerns that may well have occurred in Israel as related to myself in particular as mentioned in Beyond Blacklists. It is also a continuation of the Benny Gantz intersects that ended abruptly but started off as a set of uncanny similarities.

** for each image above, the original picture of BG was uploaded after mine, typically within a few hours or days! I have never been in contact with him or his team yet it seems that a pictorial conversation has (and is?) taking place and that has put those original photos in the realm of fair use to be merged into this site – at least for viewing only and for public benefit and discourse.

*** I have had almost zero pleasure with the intention and action of creating this page – and without pleasure, guilt is not possible.

*** The second last photo of Benny Gantz (next to Aviv Kochavi) was actually reposted to BG’s IG timeline after having already been previously posted to it days or weeks earlier – that is when I stopped following him and his team. The shift was done on purpose… why? Did it have anything to do with my photo of wallabies?

My current view (16 July 2023) is that Israelis may well have become deeply affected by gaslighters  which has come to bear by being overly scrutinized by the world’s media for actions in the “occupied territories.” That combined with guilt-ridden (there’s even a study) Jewish culture.

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To me gaslighting is viewing someone as wrong or illegal and knowing that that is not really the case, usually by distorting the truth, and then responding accordingly: shunning them in various ways if not outright persecuting them, when in reality that is not really justified – it is often the opposite and that’s why it’s called “crazy-making.” Gaslighting is the art of false accusation with lying or sophistry at its core. It can be also to deflect blame onto the victim… “look what you made me do to you.”

On a few occasions in Jerusalem, I would see teenage lads get into fights with each other in lanes, lay a full or almost full contact sucker punch with their rival (or enemy) and then proceed to hug the same person immediately (different to Max below.)

How do you like working here?

But why would you hug someone you just punched? And why would you accept it? … gaslighting or something very close to it.

A random BMX rider once came up to me (not below) and wanted to lean his bike against my bass drum when I was playing, but the act was really about dropping the bike onto it in order to damage it, which almost occurred and then acting nonchalant about it.

That wasn’t gaslighting though. It was about camouflaging one’s nefariousness.

But the music played on.

Don't Stop to Breathe [21 Oct 2010]

Speaking of which, outside Besarabia one night, a Russian-looking chap approached me (total stranger) and held out his open hand as if to shake mine. He was by himself and so was I.

[11 Oct 2017]

I put mine out to shake his and he crushed it for that pain response, and it was sore for a few hours. I don’t think he was drunk either and he was smiling the whole time. Good venue but I’m not sure I did much jamming that night.

Wrong t-shirt perhaps. Psychopaths are adept at spotting weakness and the hallway was empty.


Being legal or right doesn’t matter if someone is “gaslightable” as they will eventually (and hopefully) fold – that is talk and act within that dynamic in a hostile (or even subservient) manner, especially if there is a group effort to make that happen. At that point, there is the chance to be a superhero against that person (ie villain) and any of their “co-conspirators” to boost one’s own ego, and whatever else comes with prevailing in a fight.

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Also, from my understanding, gang-stalkers are told “this person did (or didn’t) do ABC so you can now do XYZ to them.” Truth and proportionality be damned. Gang-gaslighting would come earlier in that process.

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Everyone gradually loses their innocence, but they can gain their purity.

The US Criminal Justice System, from my understanding is a modern-day slave trade and I hope I’m wrong. All the jails are controlled by a few private organisations and they have quotas to fill and inmates work in these prisons. I wonder how many convictions result from prosecutors and police who are keenly aware that a defendant is innocent in order to:

  • fill these quotas
  • gain career points
  • feel and look useful to gain more funding
  • perform for the public in a theatre that seems real

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  • protecting and deflecting blame of true crimes by insiders (“we solved that crime already”)
  • negating blackmail or intimidation (both illegal)
  • obtaining kickbacks, bribes, confiscated drugs and other job perks

I don’t know. This would take gaslighting into the realm of organised crime by those who are meant to uphold justice, not knowingly break it.

“It is hard to believe in the criminal justice system when even the FBI, the president, and his son are so implicit in criminal behavior. In our system, it pays to commit big crimes. To evil people the bigger the better.” – (Sircus, Jul ’23)

And people can believe anything, even an oxymoron and history is written by the victors and the living. Welcome to Earth. Perhaps it could be called the US Condemnation and Kickback System. And speaking of ‘innocent,’ that word is used 6.5% of the time in the final words …of the executed in Texas.

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So at some point, one should ask themselves: “Am I part of the problem, or part of the solution?” But as Barbara Graham said before her execution: “Good people are always so sure they’re right.”

Paul Graham has echoed similar sentiments:

“This circus of incompetence and dishonesty is the real issue with the death penalty. We don’t even reach the point where theoretical questions about the moral justification or effectiveness of capital punishment start to matter, because so many of the people sentenced to death are actually innocent. Whatever it means in theory, in practice capital punishment means killing innocent people.”

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Presidents and leaders of all countries should take that viewpoint into account as they sign-off on executions, with USA only being the case-in-point here due to the prevalence of information and familiarity with readers. Also one of the 10 commandments is “Thou shall not bear false witness.” So does the sign-off end up being self-incriminating down the track after a posthumous exoneration? Also transgressed would be the 7 Noahide laws that extended beyond the Israelites to everyone that included no murdering and establishing courts of justice.

The 12th-century Jewish legal scholar Maimonides (Rambam) stated that:

"It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death."

Maimonides argued that executing a defendant on anything less than absolute certainty would lead to a slippery slope of decreasing burdens of proof, until convictions would be merely "according to the judge's caprice".

Maimonides was concerned about the need for the law to guard itself in public perceptions, to preserve its majesty and retain the people's respect. - src

Yet “in most states, there is no regular procedure for reconsidering the guilt of a convicted defendant after death; that’s one reason why posthumous exonerations are so rare.” [src] And if they did exist, it could easily lead to the deaths of many judges and jurors in revenge attacks. But really, isn’t it the lawyers and prosecutors that would be most to blame, and anyone involved in evidence and witness tampering or obfuscation?

“Withholding evidence that is favorable to a defendant, whether it is evidence of innocence or evidence that undercuts a prosecution witness such as Webb, is one of the most egregious acts of misconduct a prosecutor can commit.” [src]

Isn’t actual murder an adequate charge to run alongside such conduct in this high-stakes blame game?

Be that as it may, killing just for kicks is something that people with an “orange-ray emotional blockage” would do and to me would indicate someone stripped of their humanity. I read about Roy DeMeo‘s crew murdering random people just for practice during “dry-spells” of work just to keep their skills sharp. There were the Banderites in Ukraine? Or with Wagner:

"While this crime is being committed, it's as if it were a game, you know, with the lightness around it, the men laughing around it, there's a total disregard for the humanity of the victim," she says.

"The problem is, it was difficult to point out this because they had a strict media policy where fighters were not allowed to take pictures of their operations," he says.

Mr Şaban says the group actively tried to recruit war criminals who "just wanted to kill".

I covered something like this in Ormus King 4 where an alien race attains near immortality by killing off entire planets and then siphoning their life force in a ritual. Also, it will be interesting to see what happens in the Ukraine in say 10 years time. Igan claims the war is about population reduction of working-age men in that region so that Ukrainian-born Israelis can eventually leave and return to their birthplace and have dominion (1:02:18 –> 1:07:00 **). This sounds too bizarre to be true… or not! I welcome Mr Gantz’ comment. It is correct that many Russian-Israelis aren’t even Jewish.

** That podcaster died a few months later.

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“It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.” ~ src

The other Uncannies:

Michele:

Williams:

Krav:

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Styles:

Dona:

Bea:

Abloh:

Sky:

White:

* original pictures sourced from Instagram – URLs presently unlisted (6 Dec 2024) – and for each image above, these original pictures were uploaded after mine, typically within a few hours or days! I have never been in contact with any of the Uncannies personally, yet it seems that a pictorial conversation has (and is?) taking place and that has put those original photos in the realm of fair use to be merged into this site – at least for viewing only and for public benefit and discourse.

✓ 8 months ago

ForestxFire – .gotme (2022)

Someone got to her first!
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She/he got me first!

* both photoshopped images and I was not actually sitting with anyone or saw anyone cross a road.

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✓ 3 years ago