Who Will Willy Vote For?

We had a little Willy,
Now Willy is no more,
For what he thought was H2O
Was H8SO4

Open Wide & $ay... Genocide?

Congratulations!
Four thousand in just over five years. That is a lot of blood my friends, (imitating John McCain).

Four thousand is a very large number, however, it may surprise you that within that same duration of time, (five years), doctors were directly responsible for the unnecessary deaths of at least* 1,250,000 Americans. A domestic genocide of a cool million and a quarter is pretty big number to go unnoticed.

Where's the outcry?

Fortunately for the medical industry, the majority of the population is dosed on one or more of a variety of complacency promoting medications, and don't even notice that anything is happening in the world outside their prescribed routine. These folks see their doctors as a kind of minister of a priesthood who's word supersedes even ecclesiastical authority.

Open wide, and say ahh...

* Based on Reuters who claims 250,000 to 3000,000 annually.

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Blogger wouldn't allow 1,250,000 characters, therefore you won't be able to see how much damage doctors do.

Among the one million plus, is there anyone you know? Me too.

Xtra Files 4: Counting Sheep or Two Shakes of a Dead Lamb's Tail - Remembering the Infamous Sheep Incident at Dugway

Tooelean Twilight Phantom

In the early morning hours of March 14, 1968, I was fast asleep in my cozy little bed, seemingly safe from monsters and bogy-men, while outside a winter storm raged. Not too far away, somewhere in the stormy twilight sky, a Phantom F-4 fighter-jet fitted with a special canister containing the highly toxic VX chemical-nerve agent headed out across the Great Salt Lake Desert on what should have been a "routine" open-air, chemical-weapons test. Blinded by the snow storm, the pilot skillfully navigated his way over the snow-covered alkaline mud flats of Skull Valley as though he had done it a hundred times. The dense quiet of snow falling at Lone Rock was briefly interrupted by the thunderous sound of the Phantom's two powerful J79 engines as it passed over the unpopulated landmark. Visually stealthed by the storm, the warcraft continued on course southward towards its target.Nearby, at Dugway Proving Grounds, located about forty miles southwest of where I slumbered, the US Army was conducting a routine, open-air, chemical-weapons test. Except for the storm, everything seemed routine, but on this particular blustery morning, something went terribly wrong. The F-4 was scheduled to employ a 300-gallon TMU-28 spray-tank canister over a specified target, but unfortunately, it failed and began to vent from beneath the jet as it maintained its scheduled flight-path. The powdery aerosol nerve agent continued to spew from the faulty canister as the Phantom thundered over rangelands populated mostly by thousands of sheep. Particulates of the highly toxic VX chemical mingled with snow flakes that tumbled and danced their way to the ground, contaminating the snowy desert below.

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The result was the death of more than 6,000 sheep,* and a host of other wild animals and birds. The toxic carcasses of the poisoned animals were sent to a central location in the desert where mass graves were dug, and the bodies which had become gelatinous (a gruesome side effect of VX) were buried and forgotten. The US Army denied any involvement, but agreed to pay the herdsmen for their financial losses... to $hut them up. They did a pretty good job of covering up the story, but people knew that something had happened, and assumed that some gas had drifted from the test site and poisoned the sheep. No one knew for sure... except the army, and they weren't talking.

Whiffs - Not a Gas

Unfortunately for the government, the sheep incident, as it has come to be known, didn't go entirely unnoticed, and stirred up a bit of media attention. In 1974 my small town of Tooele (pronounced too-ill-uhh), was all a-buzz when it was made known that a big-time Hollywood movie company was coming to town to make a film. Lots of Tooelians were cast as extras,** to appear on the big screen, in Whiffs starring Elliot Gould. This was Gould's first movie following the critically acclaimed box-office s*m*a*s*h, M*A*S*H. There were lots of other celebrities*** in the film too, but unfortunately, it wasn't very good. .

"We don't want to kill the enemy... we just want to make him a little sick."
Eddie Albert as Col. Lockyer in the 20th Century FOX film, WHIFFS 1975

Whiffs' title song was nominated for an Oscar in 1975, but other than that, the mis-managed movie didn't make much of an impact, and lingered about as long as a fart in a windstorm. Whiffs did have an interesting premise, with lots of promise. Based, very loosely on the incident at Dugway, Whiffs is a fictional dark comedy about a government human test guinea pig, (played by Gould), who's health and quality of life is permanently impacted by repeated exposure to chemical weapons. Since he's no longer of any use to the army, he's forced to take an early retirement. He gets back at the system by stealing from the chemical weapons stockpile at Duggum**** Proving Ground, then unleashes chemical warfare on my home town. This was accomplished in part by a yellow and blue, bi-plane that flew a grid over Tooele spraying us with gas... crop-duster style. When my small city of about ten-thousand people was completely incapacitated, the banks were robbed, and the hero made his climactic getaway.

Geofrey Cambridge as Dusty spraying Tooele with a chemical weapon
in the 20th Century FOX Film, WHIFFS 1975

During the filming of Whiffs, the bi-plane spewed Hollywood smoke***** as it flew all around town for what seemed like days. It was closely followed by a helicopter that filmed it canvasing our town with a grid of "gas." It was exciting to watch. My friend Albert Buck and I rode our bikes to the Tooele City Airport, a desolate landing strip beyond the westerly edge of town, to sneak a peek at the unusual aeroplane. I had never seen a bi-plane before, except on TV, so I was anxious to look at it up close. Soon it approached the runway from the south, landed and taxied to the fueling area where we were waiting to inspect it. Located a few hundred feet on the opposite side of the runway, and over an old barbed-wire fence to keep out cattle, the Tooele Army Depot, keeper of the majority of America's chemical weapons stockpile, loomed quietly, as if watching. Sprawling across the valley to the foothills on the other side, thousands of bunkers, warehousing the implements of war, spotted the landscape like nervous goose bumps on Mother earth. A grim reminder of the reality of chemical warfare... in my own back yard.

Forty Years Later

Today, forty years later, America's chemical weapons' stockpile has been destroyed at the Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility located at the Deseret Chemical Depot about twenty miles south of Tooele.

Dugway Proving Grounds remains operational, and continues to produce America's latest and greatest biological weapons. DPG is sometimes called Area 52, or the new area 51, probably because of all the unmanned aircraft/drone research and development taking place there these days.

*Counting sheep+ means something quite unique to this Tooelean. Fortunately we can all rest well knowing that our government doesn't lie to us anymore. Sleep tight tonight my little sheep.


** Including Paula Argus, my high school English teacher who tot me too rite rill good.


*** Eddie Albert, Jennifer O'Neil, Harry Guardino, Alan Manson to name a few.

****Spoof on Dugway Proving Ground, and perhaps alluding to the mass-graves the government dug to hide their dastardly deed.

***** Or was it another governmental chemical or bio-test conducted under the guise of a Hollywood movie?

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Have a Cigar & Ballooner Eclipse in Wisconsin

Hey, diddle diddle
a cat named Fidel
the clown jumped over the loon

the big dog barked
to see such sport
and the dish was eclipsed by balloons

Atomic Golem or Atom-God

Today marks the anniversary of the first* atomic detonation... the creation of the Atomic Golem. The story of the golem is an ancient Judaic legend about the creation of a man-like being who ultimately becomes a monster. In the legend, a kabbalist** forms the image of a man out of clay, in emulation of God forming Adam from the DUST of the Earth. Then, mystical rites are performed, and the word emet*** is carved into the forehead of the clay man, who then becomes animated. He grows every day, and functions as a servant at first, but soon becomes an overgrown giant who destroys everything in his path. The golem can only be stopped by rubbing out the letter alef on his forehead, leaving two remaining letters, mem and tav which spells mot - Hebrew for death. In the legend, the golem becomes too tall for the kabbalist to reach its forehead. Eventually, with the aid of a ladder, he rubs out the alef, and the golem returns to a heap of clay, topples over, falling on his creator, crushing him to death.

The Atomic Golem which was created on July 16, 1945 by technological high priests has grown.**** The nuclear disaster in Chernobyl is evidence that he is an out-of-control monster. Can this golem be stopped? Will stopping it crush us?


* At 5:29, in the morning, a Plutonium implosion device called Trinity***** was detonated atop a 20 meter tall tower at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. It produced a 20 kiloton explosion which turned the twilight into brilliant blinding bright light. One unsuspecting observer from ten miles away was permanently blinded by the sight... the last thing he saw was the first atomic detonation.

**A Jewish mystic - a holy man - a keeper of secret knowledge.

***alefmemtav = emet - Hebrew for truth
alef is the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet
mem is the exact middle of the alphabet (including the final forms)
tav is the last letter of the alphabet, and symbolizes balanced judgment.

****"As of 1980 the United States DOD possessed in nuclear arms, the equivalent of six tons of TNT for every living (human) inhabitant on the face of the Earth." Robert Heilbroner - The Making of an Economic Society

***** Trinity is an interesting choice for a name, considering that it is an archaic Christian term for God. Atom-god.

"What a legacy we're leaving behind" The Rhino King

Guineapig Man - Son of Guineapig Man

The sterile corridor of the hospital echoed with a cold feeling of emptiness as we walked and talked, en route to visit my friend Joey. He wasn't sick, or hurt... rather, he was selling his body to science by taking part in a double blind study for a "new" medicine for "sour stomach." I don't like hospitals, doctors* or medicine, and I thought it strange that Joey was so willing to take part in something like this, but at the same time I respected his quest for unusual experiences. He loved that kind of thing. At the end of the long hallway, we came to a set of double locked doors. There was an intercom on the wall which we used and gained entrance after we were cleared by security. It looked like any regular hospital, only not as hospitable. The only notable difference were the bunk beds. Four people shared one small room. Joey had one of the lower bunks. He sat there in his hospital gown grinning as we entered his room. I said, "How's my little Guineapig Man?" We weren't allowed to stay long because visiting hours were nearly over, and we soon exited the same way we had arrived.

Joey's father had had cancer for many years, and had endured all kinds of medical tests and experimentation. Joey wanted me to help him write a song about his father's** experiences, and call it, "Guineapig Man." He played the guitar, demonstrating the three chord progression, while humming the melody, and singing the chorus which he had already written. He asked me to write the remainder of the lyrics*** for the song. I accepted, and here is the end result.


They poke him
And prod him
And check him for worms

They slice him
And dice him
And smile as he squirms

They bleed him
And sample his urine
and stools

He's taunted by gadgets
and specialized tools

He's a Guineapig Man
He's a Guineapig Man

They're keeping him happy
Laughing and blind
In the name of Science
In the name of Mankind

They mold him
And fold him
Into their constitution

Corrupting his soul
with lies
And pollution

He's a Guineapig Man
He's the Guineapig Man

They're shaping his mind
To do what he's told
Rejection!
He doesn't fit the mold

They gave him his rights
They gave him what's left
They gave him his life
And they'll give him his death

He's the Guineapig Man
He's the Guineapig Man

They teach us
They train us
They brainwash us too

We're all here together
In this crazy zoo

They shake us
And break us
And there's nothing you can do

By now you know
The Guineapig Man is you

You're the Guineapig Man
You're the Guineapig Man


* According to Reuters, in the United States, doctors are directly responsible for nearly 300,000 unnecessary deaths annually. Just think how many they permanently maim. Where's the outcry?

** Joey's father eventually succumbed to the cancer and passed away.

*** There are actually two versions of Guineapig Man. Joey wrote a version which we recorded and released on the Something New? Ipso Facto release back in 1987. The beginning of the song features the sound of his father snoring. Joey had sneaked into his dad's room in the middle of the night and recorded him snoring on his little four track recorder.

DUST

When I heard DUST for the first time, I had chills from head to toe. I listened to it a couple more times, and was impressed by a feeling of age old tradition meets something new and potentially dangerous. The tune played through my head for weeks, and I felt the same way about it every time. The music inspired me. I hadn't written a song or poem for many years, but couldn't suppress how the piece made me feel. Today I sat down with pen in hand, and a blank piece of white paper in front of me, folded it into thirds, and began to write.

The twentieth century was a time of unprecedented change throughout our world. The atomic age is probably the most pivotal and volatile time in human history, therefore, on this 21st anniversary of the worst nuclear accident* in history, I have chosen the dawn of the atomic age as my lyrical topic... the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
DUST
Poetique by Rhetro Zenberg
Musique by The Industrious Quartet of Fripp Levin Bruford and Belew
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Sun is rising
Cool breeze blows from the bay
Children rising
Dawn of a new day
Boys are playing
Sisters praying
Water-falling
Mothers calling to those they love... encouraging fair play
(mem)
War birds flying
Speedily on their way
Clouds are clearing
Making clear the way
Course is staying
Boys are praying
Fat Man falling
Mothers calling to those they love... its another air raid!
Are you listening? Can you hear me? Are you listening? Are you hiding?
(tav)
New sun rising
Shock wave on its way
Houses burning
There's no place left to pray
No one playing
Bodies laying
Black rain falling
Mothers calling to those they love... Can you hear me?
Are you listening? Are you hiding in the hot DUST?
*Even though it happened on this day way back in 1986, Chernobyl is a problem that hasn't gone away... the subject of a future post.