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Tommaso Ciampa – Last Seen: June 7th, 2020; NXT Takeover: In Your House. That night, the Blackheart faced his toughest competition to date in the form of Karrion Kross. After suffering back-to-back major setbacks against Adam Cole and Johnny Gargano, victory was essential to get the ball rolling once again on the path to get his life back. However, what ensued sent shockwaves through the ranks of the Black and Gold brand, as in just 6 minutes, Kross absolutely dominated the former NXT Champion, getting the victory via technical submission and putting any hopes of a comeback to bed. Since then, Ciampa has been off TV, seemingly reeling in the aftermath of yet another devastating loss. NXT is still his home though, so it isn’t the last the world has seen of the Psycho Killer. In fact, his return is imminent…
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NXT Great American Bash 2020 – Night 2
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It’s the closing moments of the main event, featuring Adam Cole and Keith Lee in a Winner Takes All match for the NXT Championship and North American Championship. Cole has just blasted Lee with one more Last Shot and is headed to the top rope, ready to finish things off. He scans his eyes over the crowd, drinking in the energetic atmosphere, when suddenly, his eyes catch one odd-looking fan. Wearing what seems to be a Punisher Mask of sorts and a black jacket, their eyes are locked intently on the Undisputed Era Leader, giving him the chills. Nonetheless, Cole brushes it off, returning his attention to Lee back inside the ring. He jumps for the Panama Sunrise, only for Lee to counter into a Spirit Bomb! Lee hoists him up, following up with a Big Bang Catastrophe! 1…2…3! Lee has done it, he’s Double Champion! Confetti hails down from the rafters in celebration of Lee’s victory, Cole crestfallen at the end of his legendary 403-day reign. Whilst Kross and Scarlett watch on from the shadows, Cole can’t help but feel another gaze burning into him, turning around to see the person in the Punisher Mask still staring at him. As a sense of foreboding wells up in the pit of his stomach, Cole decides to swiftly head to the back into the inviting arms of his UE brethren, safe from what or whoever seems to have eyes for him…
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Build to NXT Takeover: Boston
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Whilst Lee spends the following episode of NXT celebrating in the ring, Cole opts to hang out backstage, still struggling to come to terms with the fact that he’s no longer Champion. He shows up to catering demanding a 5* meal for him and the boys, only to be reminded he doesn’t hold those privileges anymore. He heads to the locker room to cut a condescending speech on the up-and-comers of the brand, only to be kicked out by some of the more veteran performers, Cole no longer the locker room leader. Getting frustrated, he orders a limo to get out of the building and be left in peace, yet even those perks no longer sit in his lap. Realising there’s not much he can do himself, he hangs his head low and trudges along the corridor until he bumps into a backstage interviewer, who questions him on how he’s feeling after his loss to Lee. Cole throws a fit, feeling provoked by the mentioning of the vulnerable topic, the rest of UE trying to calm him down. He thrashes about, only to freeze as he notices something, or rather, someone watching him from the shadows. The masked individual. Era question their leader why he’s stopped all of a sudden, before following the direction his finger is pointing in, peering into the shadows… but no one’s there. Cole does a double-take, coming to realise too that the figure has eerily disappeared. He lets out a gasp of disbelief, the rest of UE clapping him on the back with smiles, telling him that he must’ve just been seeing things and needs to rest. He takes one look back just to make sure, before moving along with them.
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The following week, the show opens with footage of Cole and co. pulling up at the parking lot, Cole imploring his teammates to believe him in regards to what went down the previous week. They tell him to take it easy though, having an important meeting with William Regal coming up. Bobby Fish jokes that perhaps Cole should get checked out by Dr. Lyle Von Thirstenberg, which prompts screaming from Roderick Strong as flashbacks of Dexter Lumis intensify, Roddy bolting out of the car, the rest of the group forced to follow to catch up to him. As they’re heading into Full Sail, Cole notices the bushes rustling in the distance, finding himself looking at the very Punisher Mask that’s been haunting him for the past week, this time in broad daylight. He frantically grabs Fish to look, only for the figure to disappear once again, Fish flashing Cole a questioning look. Cole shakes his head and curses, before following UE into the building. Later in the show, Cole is shown to be in Regal’s office, negotiating over him receiving a rematch with Lee. Regal tells him that he’s already got other people lined up for Lee, but Lumis seems to want to go another round with Cole after he was screwed out of winning last time, this time with no UE at ringside. Cole begrudgingly accepts, not before promising though that he’s going to get his hands back on the NXT Title one way or another.
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The match occurs as scheduled, the two putting on another solid bout. In the end, Cole goes for the Last Shot to put his foe away, only for the amorphous figure sporting the Punisher Mask to appear on the stage, proceeding to stroll down to ringside, Cole watching on in shock, seeing his demons materialise in front of him. He calls for security to eject the presumably wandering fan from the area, yet nothing happens. Exasperated, he turns around and stomps back to Lumis to finish the match off, only to get caught in a Kata-Gatame! With nowhere to go and Lumis’ unsettling visage pushed so close to Cole’s, the Panama City Playboy elects to tap out, an indignant look in his eyes as he turns to see the person who screwed him out of victory. The look turns to shock as they head up the ring steps and into the ring, no one stopping them. Then it clicks in Cole’s mind as he notices an object trailing behind them… a crutch! That must mean… the figure removes their mask, revealing themself to be TOMMASO CIAMPA! In Cole’s mourning for the loss of his gold, he failed to put two and two together, Ciampa porting the mask he wore back at WarGames the whole time! Ciampa immediately pounces on Cole, wearing his crutch out all over one of his most heated rivals. He blasts Cole with a Knee Trembler, before teasing a Project Ciampa, only for the rest of UE to race out from the back, forcing Ciampa to retreat, but not before doing his signature wave as he backs into the shadows.
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In the fallout of Ciampa officially returning after over a month of not showing his face, he breaks his silence, explaining the motives behind his actions last week. He takes everyone on a trip back to October 2nd 2019, the night he returned, coming face-to-face with then NXT Champion Adam Cole. At that moment, he promised himself that he would beat Cole to get his life back in the form of Goldie. Fast forward to Portland, Cole did everything he could to keep Ciampa at bay, it taking an appearance from the man Ciampa once loved like a brother to steal the victory from him. Though he got side-tracked, he didn’t forget about Cole. A few weeks ago, Cole gave up the possession of Goldie to another man, further barricading Ciampa’s path to his goal, and that pissed Ciampa off. And when he’s pissed off, what happened last week is just a fraction of the torture he’s willing to inflict on his tormentor. Since he can’t have Goldie for the time being, he wants a pound of Cole’s flesh instead. He doesn’t care whether he gets it tonight or at Takeover, but Cole can be damn sure that he isn’t leaving him alone until he gets what he wants. Upon hearing that, Cole comes out with Roddy & Bobby, retorting with scorn that title or no title, this is still his NXT, so the sacrilege he committed last week by attacking Cole won’t pass forgiven. Ciampa wants a pound of Cole’s flesh? Well, Cole’s coming for Ciampa’s head, because no one lays their hands on him without getting what they deserve.
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As the three head down to the ring, Ciampa gets his crutch ready, before spinning around and lashing out with it, catching O’Reilly who attempted to sneak into the ring from behind with a chair! Ciampa sits him on the chair, holding the crutch to his throat and advising Cole to give him the answer he wants or KOR gets it. Cole paces around furiously, before ordering his partners to circle the ring and hop onto the apron, Ciampa tightening his clutch on Kyle so as to warn them. Cole demands Ciampa to let Kyle go or there’s no deal, Ciampa refusing to the terms, going to yank back with the crutch as he notices UE heading into the ring. Before he can do so though, Kyle thumbs Ciampa in the eye to break free, the group proceeding to beat down the Blackheart. The crowd anticipate the arrival of someone, anyone to help Ciampa out, only for the harsh reality to settle in that with Lee busy with champion duties, Dijakovic dealing with his own issues, Owens on RAW and Gargano turning his back on Ciampa for good, no one is coming to his aid, leaving UE to stand tall over his bruised body, claiming his crutch as a prize…
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The following week, UE head to the ring, laughing sleazily as they flaunt Ciampa’s crutch, before Cole announces that last week was an example to anyone in the locker room with an ego greater than their own good. UE may not be draped in gold anymore but they’re still the greatest in NXT, and anyone who rubs them the wrong way with be the victim of their wrath. He ridicules Ciampa for the fact that he ever thought he was better than any one of them because you’re only as good as your last match, and in their last match, Cole was the undisputed victor. He continues to mock Ciampa, bringing up how not only did he prevent him from taking back Goldie, but now he also has his crutch. Unless Ciampa learns to stay quiet, Cole is going to take everything he loves away from him, perhaps his career coming next… CIAMPA RUNS OUT FROM THE BACK WITH A NEW CRUTCH, SLAMMING IT INTO COLE’S BACK! Hell hath no fury like a Psycho Killer, Ciampa bending his crutch over everyone in sight, until it’s just him and Cole in the ring alone, just the way he wanted. With UE subdued, Ciampa nails Cole with consecutive Project Ciampas, before putting him in a crutch-assisted Crossface! Cole desperately taps out, though Ciampa only releasing upon being forced to by a swath of referees, separating the two men to opposite corners of the ring as they kick and hurl insults. Regal appears on the stage, exclaiming that enough is enough. Since Ciampa and Cole can’t settle their issues like gentlemen, why not settle it the only way they should – at Takeover in a Street Fight! Ciampa grins at the idea, whilst Cole only sees red. The match is set in stone, Regal announcing one last fight to settle the score between the two enemies.
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NXT Takeover: Boston
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Earlier in the night, both men are seen preparing for what is sure to be a brutal bout, Cole flanked by his UE brethren, whilst Ciampa is all alone. In a pre-match interview, Ciampa states that it’s time for him to write the final chapter between him and Cole. The loss to Cole began his descent months ago, but now, it’s going to be him conquering his demons and standing tall in the end. The two competitors proceed to make their entrances, sporting street clothing to match the stipulation. Ciampa has his signature crutch on hand whilst Cole holds a UE chair, the two clamouring to tear into each other and finally settle the score.
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Tommaso Ciampa vs Adam Cole – Street Fight
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The two kick things off with a bit of fencing, Ciampa swinging with his crutch and Cole trying to block the shots with his chair, before retaliating with some swings of his own. Cole connects a Jumping Big Boot to knock the crutch out of Ciampa’s hand, only for him to retort with a knee to disorient his foe and send his chair clattering to the canvas, both men disarmed. Ciampa unloads with knees to Cole’s gut, backing him into the corner and stomping a mudhole into him, before stealing his ‘Adam Cole Bay Bay’ taunt, resulting in an incensed response from the Panama City Playboy, who blindslides Ciampa with a forearm. Cole gets a Lou Thesz Press, unleashing some ground and pound as Ciampa does his earnest to cover up. Ciampa manages to create separation with a kick that launches Cole through the ropes to the outside, Ciampa quickly following suit with a Diving High Knee off the apron that drapes Cole over the barricade. The UE Leader attempts to make a quick getaway, only for Ciampa to crack his exposed back with Kendo Stick shots, before blasting him with a knee to the face as he’s still dangling off the barricade, rocking his head with the impact.
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He returns Cole back inside, cinching in a side headlock so he can hammer Cole’s skull with fists, before grabbing his crutch, going for a Crossface like he did on TV, only this time Cole has it scouted, nimbly slipping away to the apron. Ciampa drops the crutch and turns his attention to Cole, seeing an opportunity to connect Willow’s Bell, only to get a Gamengiri for his troubles, followed by a searing Kendo Stick shot to the spine, Cole receiving a modicum of revenge. Ciampa feels jolts in his neck, taking a moment to pause and ensure he’s good to continue, but the slight hesitation is all Cole needs to return to the ring and continue his onslaught, raining down with a deluge of whips to the back and shoulder region, the agony intensifying for Ciampa. He sets up the UE chair in the corner, attempting to throw Ciampa into it head-first, but the Blackheart is evasive, saving himself just in time and rolling out of harm’s way, Cole having to stop himself to prevent his momentum from carrying him into it. Ciampa uses the opening to grab Cole’s waist and yank him back for a German Suplex, rolling through to land a second, and then a third to complete the trifecta.
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Cole once again finds his legs carrying him away from Ciampa, heading to the outside for reprieve. As Ciampa looks to follow, he meets a trash can lid to the face, sending him spilling to the floor as he loses his bearings. Cole winds Ciampa with a slew of boots to the midsection, before tossing him the trash can lid, Cole driving it into him again with Superkick! Cole tears apart the announcer’s table and leans the wooden cover against it, before returning to Ciampa, who’s already rolling with a Short Arm Clothesline to stun Cole. Ciampa attempts to put Cole through the wood with a Belly to Back Suplex, but Cole fights out with back elbows, before performing a standing switch, now trying for a Suplex of his own, Ciampa fighting out too. Ciampa attempts a Jumping Neckbreaker, only for Cole to catch it, turning it into an Ushigoroshi, Ciampa’s neck coming down on Cole’s knee hard! Cole takes advantage of the opportunity, nailing a quick Superkick, before connecting a Wheelbarrow Suplex through the table cover, Ciampa crunching through the wood as splinters scatter around the place! Cole attempts a Panama Sunrise off the apron but it’s caught, Ciampa reversing into an Air Raid Crash on the floor!
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Ciampa strokes his beard tentatively as he looks at Cole, plotting out his next move, deciding to connect a Knee Strike to drop Cole as he tries to return to his feet. He slams a monitor into Cole’s back, racking it with pain, before setting him against the ring steps, going for another vicious Knee Strike. Only this time, Cole moves out of the way at the last second, sending Ciampa hurtling onto his back as his knee meets the steel with full force, Cole slapping on a grin as he realises what he’s just done. Like a shark to blood, he hones in on the knee, stomping on it repeatedly, before sending it right back into the steel steps. He sandwiches Ciampa’s leg between the steps, before stomping down yet again, this time prolonging the punishment as he stands on the steps and does his signature taunt to the booing crowd. Wrapping Ciampa’s leg around the steel post, he locks in a Figure-Four Leg Lock, straining the leg with as much pressure as he can in hopes of incapacitating his foe. Ciampa survives though, using the ropes to alleviate however much of the intensity he can, causing Cole to return back inside, bringing a trash can along with him for future usage and locking in a Figure-Four in the centre of the ring!
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Ciampa writhes and struggles in his efforts to break free, knowing he has limited options of finding escape in a Street Fight, but Cole’s vice-like grip prevents Ciampa from moving around enough to drag himself to safety, or even turn the move over. Thus, Ciampa opts for the only feasible way out he can think of, reaching out to grab the crutch from earlier and waylaying Cole with it! Cole immediately releases, scurrying backwards as he quickly as he can, though still absorbing a considerable number of blows, welts remaining to tell the story of what happens when one crosses someone with the killer instinct of the Psycho Killer. Ciampa doesn’t have a chance to follow up with any offense though as he’s forced to nurse the knee whilst Cole rests in the ropes. He gingerly gets his feet under him, limping over to Cole and dragging him out of his safe spot. With all the vitriol he can muster, he uncorks a hellacious slap across Cole’s cheek, the Panama City Playboy responding with a venomous look, scoring a slugging forearm across Ciampa’s face, the pure disdain between the two men evident.
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Before Ciampa can mount any serious momentum with his patented Sicilian Barrage, Cole buckles him with a Superkick to the knee, followed by a Last Shot attempt, only to soar over Ciampa’s head as he ducks under. Ciampa leaps for a Lariat, only this time Cole evades. Thinking on his feet, Ciampa uses his momentum to springboard off the ropes using his good leg, only to fly right into a picture-perfect Superkick! Cole follows up with a Florida Key, sending Ciampa crashing into the trash can brought in earlier by the longest-reigning NXT Champion, Cole having thought two steps ahead of his foe. He attempts to bridge into a cover, only for Ciampa to have the wherewithal to kick out, a look of disappointment finding its way onto Cole’s visage. He looks down at his UE dogtag, considering calling for back-up, only to surprisingly opt to go it alone, wanting to make a statement at Ciampa’s expense. After all, this fight is between the two of them and it should stay that way. He heads to the top rope, wanting a Panama Sunrise, but a knee is waiting for him, catching him on the bridge of his nose, Ciampa following up with a PROJECT CIAMPA! He can’t make the cover though, the impact on his bad knee preventing him from doing so.
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Not wanting to lose his momentum, Ciampa hauls himself up using the ropes, connecting a Running Knee Strike, followed by a Hanging Flatliner, spiking his foe on the canvas. He ponders about going for Willow’s Bell, only to be struck with even greater inspiration, tearing away the protective padding on the outside, wanting added oomph to the move. He drags Cole to the apron, looking to spike him, only for the UE Leader to frantically escape, driving Ciampa back-first into the announcer’s table, halting him in his tracks. Cole retrieves a lead pipe from under the ring, proceeding to slam it into Ciampa’s gut and back, before taking him onto the announcer’s table. Cole heads to the barricade, leaping for a Panama Sunrise on the doubled-over Ciampa, only to be countered mid-air into a DDT ON THE TABLE! Ciampa takes a few moments to catch his breath, before sitting on the table and clapping like a madman, the crowd roaring in approval. Ciampa gets Cole up, attempting a Fairy Tale Ending, only for Cole to pop out and connect a Superkick! He takes a few steps back, before landing the PANAMA SUNRISE ON THE TABLE! Both men collapse to the floor like a sack of potatoes, exhaustion starting to settle in.
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Cole finally manages to take Ciampa back inside the ring, going to wrap things up with a Last Shot, only for Ciampa to fall forwards out of instinct, Cole missing. He spins around and glares at his foe, knowing that could’ve been the winning shot, Ciampa not even able to pull himself up to look Cole in the eyes after the Panama Sunrise he took. Cole crouches and lifts Ciampa’s head up using his beard, before monologuing to him, taunting him about everything he’s taken from him and how tonight will just be another addition to that long list when he takes victory from him. He proceeds to spit in Ciampa’s face, before rebounding off the ropes, going for the Last Shot… only for Ciampa to pop up to his feet and nail him with a Jumping Knee Strike, eyes burning with passion and hatred! He lights Cole up with a Sicilian Barrage, before sending him into the steel chair that was wedged in the corner at the beginning of the match! He drags Cole back into the centre of the ring, connecting a FAIRY TALE ENDING! He doesn’t make the cover though, not done yet with Cole, wanting to deliver a second to make a point. Cole nails a LOW BLOW though, before landing a LAST SHOT! 1…2…KICK OUT!
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Cole is in disbelief, checking with the referee to make sure he counted correctly, before turning back to Ciampa, pushing a steel chair against his head and going for another Last Shot! Ciampa throws the chair at Cole though, stunning him, before spiking him on the chair with WILLOW’S BELL! He follows up by threading Cole’s arm through the chair, stomping down on it a few times, before locking in a BRIDGING FUJIWARA! Cole has nowhere to go, doing his best to hold on, but the pain gets to him, COLE TAPPING OUT!
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Tommaso Ciampa def. Adam Cole (24:20)
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What a war between two of NXT’s best, ending with the Blackheart getting his revenge over the Panama City Playboy, forcing him to tap out! After months of accumulating losses in big matches, Ciampa finally hits his stride again by landing a huge victory over one of his hottest rivals, writing the final chapter as promised. As Cole scampers to the back, Ciampa surveys his surroundings, looking at the carnage, the fans, and then back at himself. This is his home and as long as he’s here, he’s going to continue being the best he can possibly be…
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Build to NXT Takeover: WarGames IV + Survivor Series 2020
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Notable headlines coming out of Takeover are Ciampa’s rebound win, Lee remaining Double Champion and Kross picking up another dominant victory. A few weeks following Boston, Lee comes out with both his titles draped across his shoulders to cut a promo about his recent upwards trajectory, inviting anyone to take a crack at dethroning him. This prompts the arrival of Ciampa, who’s eyes are glued to Goldie, not bothering to acknowledge the Limitless One until he finally grabs a mic of his own. He brings up how he defeated the longest-reigning NXT Champion in Boston, so that places him next in-line for Lee, not having forgotten about his beloved Goldie for even a second. Lee smirks, before asking the fans whether they’d be interested to see Lee vs Ciampa, resulting in resounding approval all across the board. That is, except for one star who heads out from the back. Karrion Kross. Looking menacing as ever, the Devil of Monterrey heads to the ring with Scarlett trailing behind at ringside, Kross shoving Ciampa out of the way and sizing up Lee instead, clearly no interest in facing Ciampa again. As Lee and Kross butt heads, Ciampa interjects himself, spinning Kross around and telling him unless he’s going for the North American Title, the two of them are going to have problems.
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Kross brushes him off, saying he has no quarrel with the Blackheart anymore. Ciampa had his chance to stop Kross but he failed, so he can either get in line behind him and wait his turn or perish. Ciampa takes exception to this, inciting violence with Kross, the two of them getting physical quickly, causing Lee to exorcise his power, pouncing both men out the ring to break things up! He states that he has two championships and would love to face both men, but when it comes to preferences to who he wants to defend his NXT Championship against, he’d rather face the man who came out on top between the two challengers as he only wants the apex to come at one of the most important titles in the world. That isn’t to say that he feels no love for the NA Title though, having held onto it since January, still wanting the next best to come for it, so in that case, Ciampa’s welcome to face him for it. Ciampa opens his mouth to argue but the champion has spoken, so it seems that matters must go beyond words now if he wants any chance at claiming Goldie before Kross.
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Thus, Ciampa gets to plotting, rattling his driven mind for ideas as he paces about the locker room, only for his thought process to be interrupted by Dominik Dijakovic, who gives Ciampa a respectful nod for their time fighting alongside each other in WarGames. He questions Ciampa about what’s on his mind, Tommaso flashing him a look as if to say ‘are you serious?’, Dijakovic recoiling with surprise at the sudden attitude. Ciampa goes on anyway, bringing up how after everything he gave Lee, after all the love, friendship and even superstardom, he can’t even pay him back with what he deserves. He’s not looking to be handed anything, but if he must say so himself, he’s done more than enough to prove he should be next in-line for a shot at Lee knows it. Dijakovic counters that Lee still has offered him an opportunity and that he should be grateful for the act of kindness. Ciampa isn’t having any of it though, snapping that Dijakovic has it easy, immediately being handed a shot at both titles the week after Lee won them despite failing to do anything of note in the ring. Dijakovic’s fuse starts to shorten too, exclaiming that he’s just trying to help, at which Ciampa blasts him with a knee, getting into a scrap with his ally, no one around to break things up. Despite Dijakovic’s size and strength, Ciampa’s rage works in his favour, leaving Dominik slumped on the floor, yelling at him that if he really wanted to help, he should’ve been there when Ciampa was getting beat down 4-on-1 by UE, before leaving his once partner in the dust.
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As a result of the tensions, Regal sets up a match between the two so that they can settle their issues in the ring whilst also proving just how worthy Ciampa really is of challenging for gold when he can’t even keep himself in check. Lee attempts to stop Dijakovic from wrestling the match, reminding that Ciampa is on their side, but Dijakovic claims he isn’t any longer if he can’t deal with his ego, itching to defend his honour after what Ciampa pulled in the locker room, leaving Lee sighing and shaking his head. Ciampa and Dijakovic wrestle a hard-hitting match, neither man letting up with their attacks, until Ciampa manages to pull away with the victory, connecting a trifecta of Knee Strikes and a Fairy Tale Ending. After the match, Ciampa nails Dijakovic with a Knee Trembler for good measure, sending a message that he’s ready to do whatever it takes to get back to the top. Over the next few weeks, Ciampa finds himself in similar matches where he’s forced to bring the Psycho Killer out of him to secure the victory in gritty battles, tuning up the intensity of his strikes each time, the determination pushing him further and further to inflict more punishment.
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However, he eventually gets tired of waiting for Lee to take notice of his performances and award him what he feels he deserves, proceeding to head to the ring one episode with a chair and sit down, declaring that he won’t leave until he receives the answer he’s worked tirelessly for since being robbed in Portland. Lee appears on the stage, stating that he’s been keeping a close eye on Ciampa’s performances, but he hasn’t taken his eyes of Kross either, both men proving their keep. However, with only two championships and two potential challengers, he’s been forced to make the tough decision of who to choose to defend which title against, and his prior decision… stays. He acknowledges Ciampa to be a gifted competitor, but when you compare his performances to Kross’, one simply cannot deny him of the opportunity, especially when also taking into account how Kross vs Ciampa went. Ciampa laughs, but it’s clear he’s losing his temper, the live wire getting ready to spark. Before he can raise his mic to fire back though, Kross appears behind Lee, locking him in the Kross Jacket and choking him out, pouncing on the opportunity he’s been granted. Once Lee falls limp, Kross picks up the NXT Title and raises it high with a malicious smirk, potentially a sign of things to come. Ciampa is bristling with fury, but he has no time to address Kross either, as Lee isn’t the only one with someone hunting him down, Ciampa getting spun around from behind… AND DROPPED WITH AN RKO! RANDY ORTON IS HERE IN NXT! Orton cackles as he stares at the fallen Ciampa, before slithering back out of the ring and into the shadows, having sent his message.
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As a result of Orton’s untimely appearance, Ciampa is forced to take a detour from hunting down Lee, instead finding an Apex Predator on the loose, the hunter becoming the hunted. With Brand Warfare on the horizon, Orton has fired the first arrow, but it doesn’t come without a receipt, as on RAW, following Orton picking up a victory, he’s attacked by Ciampa! The Psycho Killer nails Orton with a Knee Trembler and a Project Ciampa, leaving the Viper lying, before retreating into the shadows the same way Orton did. Ciampa cuts a promo on Orton, stating that he knows exactly who Orton is and his agenda, but the problem is that sentiment doesn’t seem to mutual because Orton fails to understand what he’s gotten himself into. He’s Tommaso Ciampa, greatest NXT Champion of all time and flagbearer for the best wrestling brand in the world, and was on his way to winning back Goldie when Orton decided to stick his nose where it doesn’t belong. In fact, it isn’t even the first time, Ciampa laughing that he showed the Viper mercy earlier in the year, but he knows better than to trust a snake to not bite again, so how about Ciampa defangs Orton at Survivor Series?
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Orton comes out from the back, flanked by security to prevent the RAW superstar from causing any damage to NXT, proceeding to slap his leg so as to clap for Ciampa’s promo. He points to the titantron, which reveals a picture of Orton RKO’ing Ciampa in last year’s Survivor Series match, before asking him if he knows what he’s getting himself into. Ciampa smirks at the comment, clenching and relaxing his fist as if getting ready to strike, but he simply reaffirms his challenge for Survivor Series. Orton raises a brow, thinking he had Ciampa where he wanted him, but chuckles that Ciampa didn’t walk into his trap. He accepts Ciampa’s challenge, before dropping his mic and going for an RKO regardless through the security, but Ciampa manages to pull back in time, instead lashing out with a Jumping Knee Strike, knowing Orton’s opinion on them, Orton this time slithering out of harm’s way to ringside, slapping his leg as he backs away, wanting to get into Ciampa’s head as much as he can.
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In Ciampa’s preoccupancy with the incoming threat of Orton, the weeks fly by until Takeover is right around the corner, Lee not receiving a response from Ciampa in regards to challenging for the North American Title. Thus, Lee beckons Ciampa to join him and give his word, the Psycho Killer circling the ring as he measures the Double Champ, before entering the ring to stand face-to-face with him. Lee reminds him that it’s either the NA Title or nothing, Ciampa’s final flickers of hope dying away. However, for the sake of Goldie, he has to deal with the cards he’s dealt and find another way back to the apex, and that way goes down the road of becoming NA Champ. Perhaps that way he can do what Lee did, claiming both titles for himself. Lee extends his hand to Ciampa, who accepts with a tight grip, determined to overcome the Limitless One.
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NXT Takeover: WarGames IV
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The next step on the path to reclaiming Goldie for Ciampa goes through Lee and it’s kicking off the night in front of a hot Chicago crowd! If Ciampa wins, not only does he become the new NA Champ, but he also becomes NXT’s 3rd Triple Crown Winner, so the stakes are high heading into the contest. The two men make their respective entrances before sizing each other up, Lee surprisingly calm despite having to compete later in the night against Kross too, this night perhaps the biggest gamble in his career, eligible to lose both titles, but not after two impressive reigns. The bell rings and we are underway!
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Tommaso Ciampa vs Keith Lee – NXT North American Championship
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Lee wastes little time going on the offensive, wanting to finish Ciampa off as quickly so he’s as fresh as possible for his match with Kross. Ciampa invites the hot start, the two men trading blows from the get go. Lee swings for a Lariat, Ciampa ducking under and lighting Lee up with a series of slaps and knees. Lee powers through the storm, pushing Ciampa into the ropes, wanting an early Spirit Bomb, but Ciampa holds onto the ropes, low-bridging as Lee comes for him, sending him out to the floor. Lee returns to the apron, only for Ciampa to test the waters for a Willow’s Bell, Lee re-entering the ring and pouncing his challenger into the far corner! Lee lands a Corner Splash, followed by a Grizzly Mangum that knocks the soul out of the Blackheart, before attempting a Powerslam. Ciampa slips out, firing off a combination of knees to double Lee over, followed by a knee to the face and a Lariat, only for Lee to absorb the blow, still standing! Ciampa tries again with the Lariat but Lee tanks through it again, forcing Ciampa to add a Discus to the third attempt, though he’s stopped mid-spin with an elbow to the back of the head, followed by a Discus Punch! He Biel Tosses Ciampa across the ring, leaving the Psycho Killer to regroup on the other side of the ring.
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Ciampa blasts Lee with a kick to the face, followed by a Jumping Knee Strike, but he’s unable to bring the larger man down with a DDT attempt. Lee instead hooks Ciampa for a Delayed Vertical Suplex, lifting him perpendicular to the canvas, only for Ciampa to respond with a knee to the temple, before transferring all his falling momentum into a massive Suplex of his own! Finally flooring Lee, Ciampa keeps the advantage up, doing everything he can to prevent Lee from getting back to his feet, whether it be the patented knee strikes or stinging slaps, he throws it at Lee. The Limitless One doesn’t find himself on his back for too long though, catching an incoming Knee Strike and proceeding to land a Gorilla Press Drop! He follows up with a Belly-to-Back Suplex, sending Ciampa crashing back down to the mat once again, before going high-risk, attempting a Doomsault! Ciampa gets under him before he can soar though, pulling Lee free of the ropes with an Air Raid Crash off the middle! Lee still has fight in his gas tank though, wanting more from Ciampa, who obliges with a Psycho Kutter, but Lee kicks out! Both men slug it out with open palm strikes, until Lee receives a sudden rush of energy from all the blows, dealing Ciampa a deluge of strikes that leave his chest red!
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With Ciampa stunned, Lee connects a Spirit Bomb! 1…2…KICK OUT! Ciampa’s still in it! Ciampa channels all his accumulated frustration from the past year since returning and lets it all out on Lee, landing knee after knee, slap after slap, chop after chop! Lee tries to cancel his groove with a Big Bang Catastrophe attempt, only to eat a Bicycle Knee Strike, followed by a giant Release German Suplex, the whole ring shaking from the impact of Lee meeting it! Now in the dying embers of the match, Ciampa goes to the corner, connecting the #DIY Knee Strike, before hooking Lee in position for a Fairy Tale Ending! Lee breaks free though, landing a last gasp Headbutt that rocks Ciampa… Ciampa hangs on, retorting with one of his own! And another! A third! Unrelenting shots from the Blackheart! He heads back to the corner, before sprinting in for a Knee Strike, and then landing yet another one to the side of Lee’s head! He gets Lee back in position… FAIRY TALE ENDING! He picks Lee back up though, yelling that this one’s for Goldie, landing a SECOND FAIRY TALE ENDING! 1…2…3!
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Tommaso Ciampa def. Keith Lee (c) to win the NXT North American Championship (15:32)
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NEW CHAMPION! CIAMPA IS A TRIPLE CROWN WINNER! The referee hands Ciampa his newly earned gold, who stares at it with a mix of emotions. It isn’t the one he wanted but it’s perhaps the one he needed to restart his ascension. Lee’s crushed that his reign finally came to an end, but nonetheless, ever the sportsman, he extends his hand to Ciampa, who accepts. His eyes aren’t on Lee though, instead staring right at the gold dangling from his hand, before whispering to Goldie that Daddy’s coming. As Lee heads to the back, Ciampa holds his gold up high, only to be dropped from out of nowhere with an RKO, Orton sending a message to Ciampa as he poses over his body, ready for tomorrow.
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Survivor Series 2020
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Whilst still retaining the Brand Warfare aspects, this year’s Survivor Series moves away from the Triple Threat formula, instead allowing singles dream matches to take place across the brands. Heading into his bout, Ciampa is still sore after his match with Lee whilst Orton is completely fresh, the differences evident as both men make their way down to the ring. Ciampa still keeps his head held high though, knowing he has the task of being NXT’s flagbearer, not wanting to let the brand down, whilst Orton nonchalantly slithers about the ring, the only thing mattering to him being winning.
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Tommaso Ciampa vs Randy Orton
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Unlike the high-octane clash between Ciampa and Lee, this match is wrestled more to Orton’s standards, who takes a slow, methodical approach to dissecting Ciampa, the new NA Champ on the backfoot in the early goings due to being tired from the previous night. Orton goes for his vintage offense, the likes of the Garvin Stomp, Scoop Powerslam, and Inverted Headlock Backbreaker, but the match experiences a power shift when Orton goes for the Hangman DDT, Ciampa instead pulling himself back to the apron and connecting one on Orton right onto the hardest part of the ring! Ciampa brings a bit of an NXT flair to the match to counteract Orton’s methods, speeding up the pace and putting it all on the line for the victory. In the end, Orton’s calculated dismantling of Ciampa almost hands him the victory, but it’s Ciampa’s resilience that shines through in the end, preventing an RKO attempt and instead landing a Project Ciampa for 1…2…3!
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Tommaso Ciampa def. Randy Orton (14:55)
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Despite Orton’s best efforts, Ciampa was the better man, getting one back over the Viper after everything he did to try and break down the Blackheart. After the match, Orton teases slapping his leg again in congratulations of Ciampa’s victory, only to pat him on the back in a show of respect for Ciampa hanging in there with him. After a crushing loss to Kross back in June, Ciampa is finally riding the highs once again, a victor once more…

Stephen Paddock's employment history was largely with government, and featured an unusual career progression. He started off with an entry level position in the Postal Service, then transferred to the IRS, then wound up working for Morton-Thiokol, a defense contractor that specialized in rockets and aircraft systems. He officially retired in 1988, but continued to earn millions of dollars in over the years (allegedly from gambling), owning numerous homes and at least two aircraft stored in two different locations.
One of the aircraft he owned, a Cirrus SR20 (a common medium range 4-seater), registration number N5343M, was Paddock's from 2006-2010, until the registration was changed to Volant LLC (headquarted in Roanoke VA or Chantilly, VA, a hop skip and a jump from Langley or the National Reconnaissance Office, respectively). From here, the waters get a little murky. Read the following passage and take its conclusions with a grain of salt:
"Many of the wounded and witnesses from the Route 91 Harvest Festival have expressed their dismay at online harassment from alter-universe trolls who claim that the shooting never happened in a stage play by so-called “crisis actors”. This absurd theory, stated in barbaric disregard for the families of the dead, is not the opinion of a mere few deranged individuals; it's a repressive tactic of state-sponsored psychological warfare. If anything the online psy-op proves once again the foresight of the founding fathers who drafted the amendments to the Constitution in warning against the lust for power of a centralized state attempting to impose absolutist tyranny on a sovereign society.
The federal muzzling of local law enforcement in Las Vegas is a strong signal of the untrammeled powers of the federal intelligence agencies, which are largely responsible for the influx of fanatic foreign elements loyal to ISIS, Al Qaeda and other anti-democratic forces, even to the point of recruiting them into the U.S. armed forces and police agencies. The slaughter in Las Vegas was the outcome of the thinly concealed immigration alliance with jihadist oil mongering Arab states against the core American citizenry, especially those so-called “fans of country music” who are the most versed of all in the Constitution and its underlying values (as opposed to the mindless and cynical book-waving by that Pakistani ally of terrorism Khizer “Kaiser” Khan of Charlottesville, Virginia).
To protect their power and privileges, the elitist politicians and high bureaucrats in Washington D.C. are acting in ways no different from King George III who unloosed Hessian mercenaries on the colonies, even forcing American families to quarter those armed foreign spies inside their own homes.
Today, the same is being done through the localization of cyber-espionage in every state by the political cabal that is eager to oust the populist-elected president and install instead the chosen successor of the Clinton regime, Virginia Governor Terence “Terry” McAuliffe, the would-be dictator in the eye of the destructive hurricane sweeping across the United States.
This essay in the continuing series on Las Vegas 10/01 explores the centrality of McAuliffe’s fiefdom in the Commonwealth of Virginia to the military contractor role of the fall guy Stephen Paddock, along with the governor’s support for NSA federalization of the state National Guards as the front-line surveillance force to quell citizen-based democracy in every town and village from coast-to-coast. The present military cyber offensive, as shown in the Vegas cover-up, is every bit as threatening as the Red Coat invasion force at Lexington and Concord, and therefore given the moral-ethical surrender of traditional journalism, it is up to the Minutemen of the online media, and perhaps soon by shortwave radio, to defend a democracy under attack and in danger of extinction.
Ownership Transfer of the Plane
Online attempts to probe the background to the ownership of the Cirrus SR20 aircraft, registered under the name of Stephen Paddock for covert ops, have met with obfuscation from Pentagon trolls, who point out that the plane was sold to Volant LLC, owned by one John W. Roberts of Roanoke, Virginia. The key point being raised is that the limited liability (private) company should not be confused with Volant Associates LLC, a defense contractor. To understand this odd matter of the two Volants, let’s jump into the devilish details of provenance or successive ownership as listed at the FAA registry, which has been altered from the original longer version, which I cite here.
That single-engine prop plane was acquired by a Stephen Paddock of Henderson, near Lake Mead in the state of Nevada, on 2 June 2006. The Henderson Executive Airport was opened in the mid-1990s for small private planes as a back-up for crowded McCarren International on the south end of the Vegas Strip, right by the Tropicana, Hooters, New York New York and the Mandalay Bay, directly adjoining the site of the Route 91 Harvest Festival (all of these venues were sites of shooting on October 1). Henderson, on the southern tip of Nevada, is the sort of nondescript quiet town that Paddock preferred whenever making real-estate purchases, indicating his operaton of a trading business that demanded no witnesses.
A year later, on 25 May 2007, Paddock switched the registration address to Mesquite, Texas, a suburb east of Dallas with its own small Mesquite Metro Airport. Fort Worth hosts the Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base (JRB) and the Lockheed-USAF Plant 4, a center for tech security. Although at greater distance from the Mexican border, compared with San Antonio or El Paso, the Cirrus has a 700-plus mile range and parking it in Henderson would have attracted no notice from DEA agents and the U.S. Border Patrol.
Nearly three years later, on 13 February 2010, the plane ownership was transferred—apparently merely on paper—to a company called UHS in Los Angeles. The acronym stands for Universal Student Housing, which is something of low-cost AirBnB for young people from foreign countries to stay in homes or apartments owned by Latinos, no questions asked. Human trafficking questions aside, the business operator is named Emerson Farias Torres who operates out of his apartment.
This modest businessman who kindly shelters DACA illegals becomes even more interesting because until 2009 Torres was the U.S. license holder for Jesa Air LLC, the U.S. branch of the Panama-registered Jesa Air West Africa. The tiny airline was owned by the Rhodesia-born mercenary and apartheid South African Air Force pilot Neal Ellis. His colorful career included helicopter piloting in the CIA’s Bosnia war against Serbian armed forces, a stint with the UK-based Executive Outcomes in Sierra Leone, and George W Bush’s invasion of Iraq. In the air-to-ground combat against West African rebels, the legendary merc Ellis befriended retired Lt. Col. Brian Boquist, the CEO of International Charter Incorporated (ICI) of Oregon, which fought in Liberia under contract with DynCorp. Two peas in the pod, they were jolly good buddies.
At the moment of Paddock’s paper “sale” of the Cirrus aircraft to Torres’ youth hostels, Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder and the DHS-run Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Bureau (ATF) were two years into the Fast and Furious gun-walking transfer to the Mexico drug mafia along the Arizona and Texas border. That little ole airport in Mesquite was getting as hot as a charcoal-fired barbecue pit. In Los Angeles (Paddock was a graduate of Cal State Northridge), a location for plausible deniability over a plane with paperwork in Panama. “You see, senor, I’m just flying in Panama hats to sell to touristas on Olivera Street, comprendez?”
In a similar vein, the London address of Jena Air international is 55 Prince’s Gate, Exhibition Road along with 208 other paper companies. To learn more on how to operate your own private air force, look up the documentary film “Shadow Company”.
Stop here a moment to ask: “How come nobody’s raised these issues before?” Answer: Mainly because your press corps are all crisis actors in role of the deaf and dumb.
Then on 10 December 2010, the same plane is registered in Chantilly, Virginia, under Stephen C. Paddock and a John W. Rogers. Then on 30 August 2013, following the gunshot death of ATF forensic expert Paul Parisi in Chantilly, the plane is relocated to Roanoke, Virginia, a distance of 220 miles (355 km), under sole ownership of Volant LLC owned by a John W. Rogers. Obviously, then, Paddock and Rogers must have had some acquaintance with each other.
Two John W. Rogers are listed in Roanoke:
the first is a cancer surgeon at several Virginia hospitals, notably the Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital, which has a working relationship with the nearby Salem Veterans Affairs Medical Center; and
the second John W. Rogers appears to be a fictitious identity created by a John J. Rogers, a newcomer to Virginia from East Palo Alto, a predominantly low-income African-American community “on the other side of Silicon Valley”, and he has since moved to a more affordable part of Virginia with several family members.
So what is a well-respected oncologist, who provides radiation treatment and chemotherapy for cancer patients, doing parking Paddock’s surreptitious aircraft on the tarmac at Roanoke for nearly three years until its sole flight just three weeks prior to the Las Vegas shootings?
To get at the answer, we must first probe into: What’s the difference between Volant Associates LLC and Dr. Rogers’ Volant LCC?
Do you have a credit card for a swipe? Because that’s how far apart these entities are, despite protestations to the contrary from the trolls in the employ of the Pentagon psychological warfare division. It’s called compartmentalization.
The word Volant has a nice ring to it, sounding like a contraction of “volunteers” but, alas, there’s neither connection nor connotation in this case of professional military operations. Translated from French, it means “flying”, although the term is closer to gliding. It is most frequently used for animals that glide despite their inability to sustain flight: for example a volant squirrel, those brave little creatures. “Volant” is also used to describe military airlift operations delivering troops and ground vehicles to the battlefield, such as Volant Solo and the many Volants combined with the names of trees, such as Volant Pine.
For our purpose of tracking down who and what killed Stephen Paddock and 60+ others in Las Vegas, there’s only one definition with any bearing to the case: Col. Adam Volant, a long-serving Army officer with the National Security Agency at its headquarters in Fort Meade, Maryland, and present commander of Task Force Echo, which is deploying a massive National Guard-implemented domestic cyber-warfare and surveillance operation on American soil.
Col. Volant, who wears many hats, is a active service officer in the reserves, the head of the alumni association of Virginia Military Institute (VMI), a sponsor of a “non-profit group”, and a security adviser to U.S. President-in-waiting Terry McAuliffe, the Clinton loyalist who serves as governor of Virginia.
Volant Associates LLC, the now-infamous Pentagon network-systems contractor, which requires all its employees to have top-secret clearances is his “non-profit organization,” which has been awarded tens of millions of dollars in military contracts for network security of critical infrastructure and military facilities, a mandate that includes massive cyber-surveillance, which is now being deployed to an initial eight states by the newly hatched National Guard domestic spy organization. (The Guardsmen have traditionally been “weekend warriors” but at least since the Iraq War the so-called state militia has evolved into a full-time professional fighting force controlled by the Pentagon with most of its funding from the federal government.
What possibly could cancer surgeon John Rogers’ Volant LLC have to do with this watchdog program for militarization of the domestic civilian Internet and social media?
Unbeknownst to most of his civilian patients, Dr. Rogers is a military surgeon and a Lieutenant Colonel in the USAF Reserves. His caretaker role for Paddock’s plane is either based on a military arrangement or off-duty criminal activity as a favor for some past cooperation in the distribution of prescription drugs. Buying a plane only to park it makes no sense otherwise.
If the Roanoke Airport arrangement is indeed military, then Dr. Rogers must have some military-intelligence role. Advanced military systems including electronic warfare, X-band radar and chemical warfare exercises all entail exposure to cancer risks, so one question is whether a National Guard oncologist is supposed to act like a company doctor to explain away the consequences of occupational risks, as happened with Gulf War Syndrome. The Veterans Administration hospital system has been heavily criticized for negligence and mismanagement, and it is striking that the surgeon is so stretched between civilian and military hospitals, some of those sites quite distant from Virginia. Signing papers to park a plane is not much different than writing a prescription for a headache.
Although he’s never flown Paddock’s Cirrus, Lt. Col. Rogers may well be a pilot of military-operated aircraft since his Volant LLC has offices in six other towns, nearly all with or near Veterans Administration hospitals: Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Delmar, New York; Naples, Florida; Randolph, Minnesota; Stoughton, Wisconsin; and Salt Lake City, Utah.
-Delmar, New York, near his alma mater of Hobart College in the Finger Lakes region, with its privately own Cross’ Farm Airport and the Cross Excavating Corporation, and nearby casinos, and Delmar is near Albany’s large VA facility.
-Randolph, Minnesota, a small town of 430 residents near Minneapolis, is located in Dakota County where the Rosemount National Guard Armory, home base of the 34th Infantry Division’s 634th Military Intelligence Battalion. VA hospital.
-Dane County, Wisconsin, which includes Stoughton, is home to the Truax Air National Guard base in and also “Ron Weyer” (real name: Ronald Van Den Huevel, Clinton-Bush-CIA money launderer) and Wally Hilliard, owner of the Huffman Aviation School, operated by Rudi Dekker in Venice and Naples, Florida, and Fort Worth Spinks Airport at Burlson, Texas. Ditto VA.
-Naples, Florida, is home of one of Rudi Dekker’s two flight schools, where Mohamed Atta learned to pilot aircraft. The VA is also there, perhaps to provide first aid to Saudi and Egyptian pilots who crash their planes.
-Baton Rouge, Louisiana, north of his medical school in his hometown of New Orleans, is surrounded by a massive number of heavily armed National Guard bases, that can overwhelm most of the world’s armies, including a chemical-weapons unit, where cancer is an occupational hazard.
-Salt Lake City, the Utah Air National Guard, as big as most air forces with VA center.
The questions arising from Lt. Col. Rogers’ far-flung business registrations are similar to the many properties owned by Stephen Paddock across the country. Could there be some covert military intelligence rationale behind the geographic spread? Volant LLC and Volant Associates LLC look to be paper planes in a much larger covert operation being sent aloft from the highest levels of the NSA. If the volant operation is regime change, Dr. Rogers and Col. Volant both risk elimination for knowing too much, as happened their associate Paddock in Vegas."

Sunday the 14th is Mother’s Day. I’m not going to list all the brunches, but they’re everywhere. All the free roses a mother could ever want. Take your mom out.
This is a thing that is happening on May 27th: Steven Universe Trivia Spectacular and Microconvention. If you hear “We” and your brain goes, “are the Crystal Gems!” you should probably be there.
Tally’s Independent Cinema and Theater Offerings:

• Cap City Video Lounge: “Tallahassee Florida's premiere cult cinematic theater and movie rental store. Many free showings in their small theater of movies from Lord of the Rings and Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure to the best/worst in B-rated horror.”
  
• All Saints Cinema: “The Tallahassee Film Society was formed for the purpose of bringing foreign and American independent films to the Tallahassee area.”
  
• Monticello Opera House: “A historic theater in Monticello featuring musical performances and local theater.”
  
• Quincy Musical Theater: “Quincy Music Theatre is North Florida’s largest and only all-musical community theater.”
  
• Ruby Diamond Auditorium: “The primary performance venue for Florida State University.”
  
• Student Life Cinema: “Florida State University's Student Life Cinema (located in the Askew Student Life Center) is one of the nation's leading campus film programs, featuring five to six nights a week of everything from the most recent blockbuster movies to documentaries, alternative and foreign films, to restored cinema classics.” General Public permitted.
  
• Theatre Tallahassee: “Serving the community since 1949, Theatre Tallahassee has been a leader in professional-caliber community theater featuring your friends and neighbors.”
  
• Young Actors Theater: “YAT is a non-profit youth theatre and school for the performing arts founded in 1975. YAT provides quality theatre and theatre education to the community.”
  

ALSO:

• Breakout Games is new and does that escape-a-locked-room thing with multiple theme options. Good for fun times with friends, team building exercises with coworkers.
  
• Joyride Bicycle Collective offers various fun bike riding options, usually accessible for all levels of ability.
  
• Gulf Winds Track Club lists many if not most of the area races, so go pound some sand.
  

SUNDAY 5/14

• Bread & Roses: Food Not Bombs Cooking and Prep. “Cooking and preperation for our weekly Food Not Bombs meal share. Join us, and help feed your community.” 10am-Noon
  
• Carter Howell Strong Park: Food Not Bombs Meal Share. Noon-2pm
  
• Gaines Street/Railroad Ave: The Souk – “Come grab brunch from Tallahassee's finest, enjoy local musicians and check out local vendors. BRUNCH! Gaines Street hosts 12+ locally owned dining establishments in a 2 block area - we've got something for everyone! VENDORS! We've got vendors all up & down the block! Have some stuff to sell? Bring it down!. And tons of live MUSIC!” Noon-5pm
  
• GrassLands Brewery: Queer Trivia: Let's Get Beers Together. “GrassLands invites the Tally LGBT community and friends to come down and enjoy local craft beer and queer-themed trivia every Sunday. LGBT-themed trivia provided by Trivia With Hank. $30 bar tab for 1st place. Stick around afterward for queers and beers.” 5pm
  
• The Junction @ Monroe: Sunday Afternoon Bingo. “This isn't your grandma's bingo! We have a blast with some very cool folks. Cash prizes.” 5pm
  
• Salty Dawg Pub & Deli: The Famous Acoustic Jam w/ Wayne, Glenn, and Bo. Open mic, free beer for performers. 6pm
  

• Black Dog on the Square: Cyclofemme for Everyone. “Each year on Mother’s Day (US), self-led bike rides around the globe unite riders, regardless of gender, age, ethnicity or bicycle preference to ride together, support one another, encourage women on bikes and to build stronger, more connected communities. This year we are riding to Wakulla Springs together, to celebrate and honor all the women in our community who lead, who encourage, who participate, who support, and who lift up others, as we all work together to build a stronger, more sustainable community. We invite everyone who is a woman, identifies as a woman, loves a woman, and supports women on bikes to join us for a beautiful day on the bike! Everyone is welcome!” 10am
  
• Golden Acres Ranch (Monticello): 11th Annual Mayhaw Berry Festival. “North Florida residents and visitors, join us for this year's Mayhaw Berry Festival! There will be Mayhaw Jelly, jelly-making demonstrations, hayrides, petting areas and local vendors, food and education. We are a working goat and sheep ranch. Get your questions answered and picnic beside the pastures and Mayhaw trees. Ample parking.” 10am-4pm
  
• Fifth & Thomas: Mother's Day Brunch w/ Belle and the Band. 10am-2pm
  
• Abundance Wellness Center: BUTI Yoga Pop-Up Class. “Come Sweat with Intention in this Empowering Workout!! We will sweat, shake and celebrate being Beautiful and Fierce!!! Give your self some love and join me on the mat with other Butisattvas. Our Tribe is growing let's keep it going.” 12:45pm/$10
  
• Little Village (Panama City): Ukulele Orchestra of St Andrews. 1pm-4pm
  
• Hurricane Grill & Wings: Joe Godfrey. 2pm
  
• Cap City Video Lounge: Dylan Allen's Birthday Extravaganza Double Feature! With Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story and Tenacious D and The Pick of Destiny. 4pm
  
• Chabad of Tallahassee: Lag B'omer BBQ & Petting Zoo. “Join us for a fun day in honor of Lag B'omer. Delicious BBQ Dinner. Petting Zoo. Pony Rides. Bounce House. Music and Dancing. Fun for kids and adults.” 4pm/$10 per family, free for FSU students
  
• Junction @ Monroe: Second Sunday Blues Jam. “Bring your guitar, harp, voice, and any other instrument and join us every second Sunday for a blues jam. Open at 6pm for dinner, drinks, and player registration. House drum kit and bass rig provided.” 6pm/free
  

MONDAY 5/15

• Growler USA (U Square): Kill the KEG at Growler USA! “It is the start of the week and we need to open up a tap for new beer! $20 all you can drink until the keg is empty, from 8-10pm! Winner(s) will receive a free Growler T Shirt and a 64 oz Growler from select taps! Bring out your team and whichever team goes through the most pitchers wins!” 8pm/21+
  
• Under Wraps on the Parkway: Bar Trivia With Hank, all things Joss Wheden. “50 questions of friendly trivia. Plus great Mediterranean food, delicious wraps, and beer by the bottle or bucket that won’t kick you in the wallet. $20 tab for 1st place.” 7pm/free
  
• Junction @ Monroe: Monday Night Bingo. “Good food, good drinks, good friends, and a chance to win some big cashola! It doesn't get any better than J@M. Every Monday from 7pm-9pm we've got cash payouts up to $250 per game with multiple games each night PLUS a 50/50 drawing each week benefitting the Tallahassee Area Musicians Guild.” 7pm-9pm
  
• Blue Tavern (N Monroe St): Lost Mondays with Belmont & Jones. 8pm
  
• Waterworks: Patio Theater featuring The Big Sleep. “May Noir continues with Bogart and Bacall in this adaptation of Raymond Chandler's novel of the same name. Bogart portrays Philip Marlowe, a private dick hired by a wealthy gentleman with two beautiful daughters, one having gambling debts among other problems and Bacall, the other sister, trying to help her. William Faulkner is among three credited screenwriters and the plot, like most film noir, gets more and more complicated with each passing minute. Howard Hawkes direction, the chemistry between Bogart and Bacall, along with the excellent script all make for one of the great film noir examples from the forties. Sit under the moon and stars and try to follow along at Patio Theater! Next week, A Touch of Evil followed by Kiss Me Deadly.” 8:35pm/21+
  
• 926 Bar & Grill: Karaoke with Nathan. He’s got all the songs. All the songs you want to sing. 9pm
  
• The Warrior: Hip-Hop Open Mic Monday's // Dj T Wixx on site // Bring your Tracks. 10pm
  

• Franklin Manor: Bummertown (CANada), Lester Slade. Gorgeous. 8pm/$5
  
• Junction @ Monroe: The Sun. The Moon. w/ Kat Hall. 8pm
  

TUESDAY 5/16

• Corner of Georgia & Macomb: Frenchtown Farmers’ Market. “Find your favorite local goodies now on Tuesdays! Join us at Frenchtown Farmers Market for all-local produce, eggs, gourmet jelly, and more. The market opens at 3pm and we're here unitl 7pm, so come after you pick the kids up from school or on your way home from work. We can double SNAP benefits through the Fresh Access Bucks program. Our farmers accept WIC and Senior farmers market nutrition program coupons.” 3pm-7pm.
  
• Junction @ Monroe: Live Rehearsal Tuesdays. “Tuesdays are Live Rehearsals at J@M. Sponsored by the Tallahassee Area Musicians Guild. Utilize our complete backline and PA for rehearsals, jams, or hold auditions. Up to one hour slots (or more depending on number of signups) per artist/group.” 4pm
  
• Growler USA (University Square): Trivia Night. 6pm
  
• Madison Social: Trivia Social. They do half and half theme and miscellaneous, so check their FB every week for an event page. 7pm
  
• Brass Tap in Midtown: Trivia. Check their FB page for the theme. 7pm
  
• Northside Pies: Bar Trivia With Hank. 50 questions of sweet, sweet trivia. This is a great geeky date night option. If you’ve got teens or kids that want to go to trivia (hey, nerds come in all sizes), this is a PG/PG-13 night. 7:30pm/free
  
• Bird’s Oyster Shack: Trivia With John Carpenter. Lively and fun. 7:30pm
  
• GrassLands Brewing Company: Trivia Factory. 7:30pm
  
• Decent Pizza: Trivia Hosted By Premier Team Trivia. 8pm
  
• Midtown Pies: Trivia and Deliciousness! 8pm
  
• Blue Tavern: Roda Vibe. “FSU musicians and others join to create a fun musical event that everyone can enjoy. In Portuguese, Roda is pronounced "Hoda." If it doesn't make you want to dance, check your pulse.” 8pm/free
  
• Fire Bettys: Now That's What I Call Tuesday! Dance Party. 8pm
  
• Fourth Quarter: Trivia With Professor Jim. AUCE wings. Truly a trivia favorite. 8pm
  
• Krewe de Gras: Karaoke With Pete. 8:30pm
  
• Brass Tap on Gaines: Karaoke with DJRah. 9pm
  
• The Warrior: Open Mic "Full Band / Acoustic " Edition. “Free Cover / Free to Play. Each Artist Receives a Free 16 oz Draft.” 9pm
  
• 926 Bar & Grill: Trivia Tuesday! 9:30pm
  
• Applebee’s on the Parkway: Karaoke with Amanda Goram. 10pm
  
• Pockets Pool: Karaoke with Dwight. 10pm/21+
  

• MusicMasters: BYOS Percussion Performance and Clinic! “MusicMasters is pleased to present BYOS (check them out here: http://byos1191.com/index.html ) and Kyle Thomas, product specialst for Evans and Promark. BYOS and Mr. Thomas will give a FREE percussion clinic that promises to be a great experience for perussionists to learn more about drum sticks, heads, and other percussion techniques. BYOS (Bring Your Own Style), will also provide a stellar performance that you won't want to miss! These fellas have developed the BYOS Alphabet for percussionists and you can check out one of their letters here: https://youtu.be/ayBFCm-381M Prize drawings for various percussion accessories will be held!” 5pm
  
• Blue Tavern: Happy Hour with Michael Strive. 6pm
  
• Proof: Yamadeo with Jordan Sinclair. 7pm/free
  
• Cap City Video Lounge: Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me & The Missing Pieces. “Greetings, Gang, The Primal Root here and I am deeply pleased to be extending an invitation to you to head back in time, back to where it all began for Twin Peaks...and ended for Laura Palmer. Cap City Video Lounge is very proud to present David Lynch's 1992 prequel to his cult telelvision series, Twin Peaks, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, the last seven days of Laura Palmer. Not only will be watching the film in glorious high definition, we will also be presenting the restored deleted scenes, over two hours of them, following the feature film.” 7:30pm
  

WEDNESDAY 5/17

• Madison Social: The Booze-ness Lunch: Free Drink During Lunch “If Don Draper did it, why not you. We are introducing the weekly Booze-ness lunch, because one cocktail in the afternoon just makes you more creative and productive (its science). Come have lunch with us, Centrale or Township and enjoy a delicious adult beverage on the house with food purchase.” 11:30am-3pm
  
• Bird's Oyster Shack: Lab Sessions with Jim Crozier, featuring Rachel Hillman. 6pm
  
• Fermentation Lounge: Quizmaster General Knowledge Trivia. “Quizmaster is hosted by Bennett Miller from 7-9pm every Wednesday, and features three rounds of general knowledge trivia (and a weekly food special). It is free to play and teams of up to 6 are welcome. The winner of each round receives a sample flight, and the Quizmaster for the night receives a $25 gift card and serious credit on Geek Street.” 7pm
  
• Brass Tap on Gaines: Trivia. Check their FB page for the theme. 7pm
  
• Hurricane Grill & Wings: Trivia With Greg. 7pm
  
• GrassLands Brewing Company: BYOBG! Bring Your Own Board Game. “Our gracious host, Trevor Bond, will be featuring one game each week. Feel free to bring your own games to play & share.” 7pm/21+
  
• Junction @ Monroe: Bike Night, Bingo, and Karaoke. 7pm
  
• Proof: Bar Trivia With Hank. Drink delicious brews and show off all those random factoids you thought you’d never use. Local beer, local trivia in the heart of Tally’s Art District. A food truck is always out front for this, too, or you can order and pick up something great at the Crum Box Gastgarden (the caboose in RR Sq). Bar tab for 1st and 2nd place teams. 7:30pm/21+/no cover
  
• The Warehouse: Open Mic feat. Mike the Prophet. “There is a lottery for time slots. Now smoke free!” 8pm
  
• El Patron: Karaoke With Big Bob. 8:30pm-11:30pm
  
• The Skybox (Crawfordville): Karaoke with Mark. 9pm
  
• 926 Bar & Grill: Karaoke. 9pm
  
• Just One More: Karaoke with Roger. 9pm
  
• Corner Pocket: Karaoke. 9pm
  
• Bird’s: Comedy Night. I’m pretty sure this is both a performance and an open mic. 9:30pm/free
  

• The Grove Museum: Storytime at The Grove. “Come to The Grove Museum on the third Wednesday of every month for children's storytime! May's theme is "Historic Preservation," and we will be reading "The Little House" by Virginia Lee Burton. Attendees should meet in the museum's Florida room at 10:00 AM. Storytime will be followed by an activity, and we encourage families to bring a picnic lunch to enjoy on the museum's grounds following the program. All ages are welcome, and the event is free and open to the public!” 10am
  
• Blue Tavern: Happy Hour with Roy & Anthony. 6pm
  
• Fifth & Thomas: Darrin Bradbury, Del Suggs, Dusty Gravelers. 7pm/$12/21+
  

THURSDAY 5/18

• Lake Ella Area: Food Truck Thursday with the Mary and Aaron Band. 6pm
  
• Growler USA (University Square): Wing Eating Contest. “Like wings as much as you think you do? Think that you are a Pro or at least Semi Pro at it? Show off your skills at Growler USA from 6PM-11PM every Thursday. Rules: $20 entry fee per person for all you can eat wings, winner will be anounced on our Facebook page the following day. In addition to getting to show off and eating a mountain of wings, the winner will receive $25 Gift card and a Free Growler USA T shirt!” 6pm
  
• Beef O’Brady’s: AJ Johnson Trivia. 6:30pm
  
• Junction @ Monroe: Open Mic Night. “Bring your instruments and play an open slot or just come and be entertained in Tallahassee's best sounding room!” 7pm/free
  
• Cap City Video Lounge: MST3K Thursday! Monster A-Go-Go & The Incredible Melting Man. 7:30pm
  
• Skybox: $10 Cornhole Tourney. 7:30pm
  
• The Wilbury: Bar Trivia With Hank. “Fan-fucking-tastic trivia and bbq, and the host is a good looking guy, too. Full bar, fantastic pizza, and fun facts.” 8pm
  
• Dux (Crawfordville): Karaoke with Big Bob. $25 bar tab given away every week. 8:30pm-12:30pm
  
• Midtown Caboose: Trivia Factory. 8:30pm
  
• Unique Wonders: Live Comedy with Big Hou! 8:30pm/$5
  
• Pockets: Karaoke Dance Party with Keith Welch. 9pm/21+
  
• Brass Tap Midtown: Karaoke with DJ Rah. 9pm-Midnight
  
• Applebees on Cap Cir: Karaoke with Amanda Goram. 10pm
  
• Birds: Karaoke with Nathan. All the songs. $1 Pabst drafts. 10pm
  

• Museum of Florida History: 40th Anniversary Celebration. “Featuring: Live music by The New 76ers. Complimentary hors d’oeuvres by 4 rivers Smokehouse. Anniversary cake and a champagne toast.” 5:30pm/free
  
• Blue Tavern: Happy Hour with Rachel Hillman. 6pm
  
• 621 Gallery: 621 Salon. “Come support local writers by attending 621 Salon next Thursday, May 18th, from 7-8 p.m. We will be featuring the literary works of Luis Eduardo, Miranda Wonder, Elisa Reino, and Catherine Buckler. These young writers will be reading their original fiction, non-fiction, and poetry.” 7pm
  
• The Moon: Band Of Horses. 8pm
  
• The Warrior: Club Flirt Tour. 9pm
  

FRIDAY 5/19

• Fifth & Thomas: Backstage Garden Happy Hour with David Lareau. 5pm-8pm
  
• Growler USA (University Square): Live Music. 6pm
  
• Hobbit South: Karaoke. 8pm
  
• Leggetts: Karaoke with Paul. 8:30pm
  
• Just One More: Karaoke with Roger. 9pm
  
• Skyzone: GLOW- Featuring DJ LooseKid. “Grab all of your friends and get your jump on with live music featuring Dj Loosekid, glow lights & laser beams! Check in early to take advantage of the full 2 hours of jumping! Each jumper must wear a reflective shirt, or purchase a shirt in the park. Due to the popularity of this event and early sell outs- we highly suggest you reserve your tickets online beforehand. We cannot guarantee tickets for GLOW will be available in the park at the time of the event.” 9pm-11pm/$25/no one under 5yo
  
• 926 Lounge (Formerly Pugs): The Friday Night Party. “Get your pre-game on at Happy Hour with Tom from 4-9 and the dance party getting rolling at 10 pm with our favorite house DJs slinging sound all night long. At midnight, join our talented Queens for an amazing show!” 9pm/$5, $7 under 21/18+
  
• Stetsons @ The Moon: Karaoke with Devin Cywinski. 10pm/$5/18+
  

• Fifth & Thomas: Pre-show Party w David Lareau. 5pm-9pm
  
• Midtown Reader: Author Event - Tameka Hobbs, Democracy Abroad, Lynching at Home. 5:30pm
  
• Blue Tavern: Happy Hour with Velma Frye. 6pm
  
• Salty Dawg: Tobacco Rd Band. 6pm
  
• Firth & Thomas: Cracker ("Low") w/ The Brown Goose, Big Blue. 7pm/$18/21+
  
• Krewe de Gras: Midtown Idol Goes Karaoke. “Calling all singers, "wanna be" pop- or rock-stars, or people who enjoy watching your friends sing karaoke at a fun venue for a great cause! The Midtown Merchants Association / I Heart Midtown presents MIDTOWN IDOL Goes Karaoke A benefit for the Tallahassee Senior Foundation. $100 prize for first place!” 7pm
  
• Graphateria: Sell It Night. “Welcome to Sell It Tallahassee! A community microfunding project to encourage local artists in Tallahassee to hone in on their entrepreneurial skills. Here's how it goes down: pay $5 to get in. Listen to 3 artists "pitch" their work. Then vote on which artist had the best pitch. The winner receives all the money earned that night!” 7pm/$5
  
• Side Bar: Brightside, Emerson, Corey Crumpacker, McCall & Katareen. 7:30pm/$13
  
• Cap City Video Lounge: Fright Flick Friday Triple Feature: Men, Women and Chainsaws! 7:30pm: Motel Hell. 9:30pm: Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2. 11:30pm: Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers. 7:30pm/$5
  
• Fire Bettys: The Frank Jones Band. 9pm/free
  
• 621 Gallery: Hip Hop Showcase. “Featuring: Ty Law, Trem Sol, Pharoah D, San Alexander, Rothoro, Kiezin, Sneaky Lion.” 9pm/$5
  
• Bradfordville Blues Club: The Honey Island Swamp Band. 9pm
  
• Brass Tap Midtown: Top Shelf Band. 9pm
  

SATURDAY 5/20

• Park at Monroe: The Downtown Marketplace. 9am
  
• Corner of Georgia & Macomb: Frenchtown Farmers’ Market. “Find your favorite local goodies! Join us at Frenchtown Farmers Market for all-local produce, eggs, gourmet jelly, and more. We can double SNAP benefits through the Fresh Access Bucks program. Our farmers accept WIC and Senior farmers market nutrition program coupons.” 10am – 2pm.
  
• Growler USA (University Square): DJ Night. 6pm-9pm
  
• Salty Dawg: Karaoke with Paul. Family friendly! 8pm
  
• Leggetts: Karaoke with Cowboy Chris. 9pm
  
• The Skybox (Crawfordville): Karaoke with Mark. 9pm
  
• El Patron: Pasion Latina. Bachata, Merengue, Salsa, Reggaeton. 9pm
  
• 926 Lounge: Sanctuary: Tallahassee’s Longest Running Goth Night. 10pm/$5/18+
  

• Wewahitchka: 2017 Tupelo Honey Festival. “Home of the country's finest Tupelo Honey, farmers from the area will have booths of honey in many different sizes and packages, along with food vendors, art & crafts, and live music right on the banks of mossy Lake Alice.” 8am
  
• Tallahassee Junior Museum: Historic Mullet Fishing in the Big Bend (Workshop). “This workshop is tailored for people with little to no experience throwing a cast net. Nets will be provided for the duration of the workshop, but students can bring their own if they wish. During the workshop, each person will learn to throw a net that fits their size and ability, make an antique style fish scaler, prepare a fish, smoke it, and process it into a dip. Participants will take home their fish scaler, smoked fish dip, and reference sheet about the selection and care of a cast net. All materials provided, but participants should bring a small cooler to bring home their fish dip.” 9am
  
• Frenchtown Farmers Market: Food Not Bombs Garden Day! “HEYOO Food Not Bombs unites with Frenchtown Farmer's Market's Garden once again! This time, the Garden will be hosting a rain barrel making workshop, and you all are invited to learn how to collect and use all that water that falls from the sky! Plus, we'll help with general garden maintenance like weeding and watering. Build community & promote sustainability with us.” 10am-Noon
  
• Lake Tribe Brewing Company: Yoga and Beer for VOCAL. (Voices of Chance Animal League) “This will be a 75 minute Vinyasa gentle flow, great for all! You will need to bring your own mat, towel, and don't forget water! Space is limited. Please email [email protected] to reserve your spot.” 11am/$20
  
• Knott House Museum: Emancipation Day Celebration. "Ceremony starts with historical reenactors, a choir, drum core, and free lunch for guests. Presented by the Museum of Florida History and the John G. Riley Museum in Lewis Park in front of the Knott House Museum (301 E. Park Avenue). Free house tours after the ceremony and many other African American heritage sites will have free admission that day." 11:30am
  
• Capitol Building/Waller Park: Hands Across the Sand Tallahassee. “Join hands to say NO to dirty, dangerous offshore drilling, fracking, and pipelines and YES to clean, renewable energy! We'll meet at Waller Park at 11:45AM, at 12:00PM we'll join hands for 15 minutes. We are part of a global movement joining events all across the U.S. and the world!” 11:45am
  
• Longview Farms (Havana): Kimchee and Sauerkraut Class-Natural Ferments. “Learn the benefits of eating probiotic rich foods for digestion and overall good health. Having healthy gut flora is key to many processes of a healthy body. Kimchee, a pro-biotic pickled vegetable condiment from Korea, can be easily made at home. Kimchee promotes healthy digestion and weight loss. Kimchee and sauerkraut both are very low in calories, but high in fiber, live enzymes, and other nutrients. Learn how to make your own with Whole Foods Educator Jill Welch, The Kitchen Goddess. Each participant will take home a free jar of kimchee or sauerkraut. This is a hands-on workshop, so bring your apron! Samples will be provided.” 2pm-4pm
  
• Opperman Music Hall: Pas de Vie Ballet's Spotlight on Dance. 2:30pm
  
• Centrale Italian Parlour: Tallahassee Pizza Festival - A Slice of Tallahassee Kickoff Festival. “Tallahassee's pizza game is strong and we want to celebrate all the pizza lovers in our town. On May 20 we are hosting the first Tallahassee Pizza Festival where we are also be kicking off Slice of Tallahassee, a one month challenge to visit four of Tallahassee's best pizza joints for a chance to win free pizza for a year. Your festival ticket will get you a plastic pizza pouch (who doesn't want one of those), complete with your Slice of Tallahassee challenge card and 12 activity tickets. These activity tickets can be used to sample some awesome pizza from Centrale Italian Parlour, Dave's Pizza Garage, Gaines St Pies and Momo's Pizza Brewpub and participate in some fun pizza related games/activities like dough tossing, box folding races, pizza sauce dunk tank and a whole lot more. Your Slice of Tallahassee card is important. Take that card and visit the four participating locations and order any pizza ($10 minimum). Once you have visited all four and got your card fully stamped, complete the form at www.SliceOfTallahassee.com to redeem your free "I Grabbed a Slice of Tallahassee" shirt. Then on June 25, bring your completed card to Dave's Pizza Garage where we will randomly select one person to win free pizza for a year (must be present to win).” 4pm
  
• Gulf Specimen Marine Lab: Sharks & Chablis 2017. “Our guest speaker this year is Joel Sartore, Photographer, the mastermind behind National Geographic's Photo Ark! The Photo Ark is an ongoing quest to photographically archive the biodiversity of species before they go extinct. Sartore has traveled the world photographing all manner of creatures; we are lucky enough to have a few of our own specimens included in the Photo Ark! We will have a seafood dinner catered by Seineyard Restaurant and Mad Anthony's Waterfront Grille will bring craft beer and wine! Bring your dancing shoes because live music will be performed by Sammy Tedder and guitarist Mike Andrews, and much more – our silent auction continues this year thanks to generous donations from local businesses, artists, and craftsmen. We will also host exhibits from Tall Timbers Research Station and Land Conservancy, Alligator Point Sea Turtle Patrol, Florida Wild Mammal Association, Native Plant Society, Chehaw, and much more!” 4pm/$45
  
• Flippin Great Pinball: Capital Area Pinball Tournament. “Join us for the May CAPT. Qualifiers are from 5-8pm. Finals start promptly at 8pm. This is an IFPA tournament. More information on format here.” 5pm
  
• Township Tallahassee: Spring/Summer 2017 Look Book Release party! “Be ready to see the looks on screen for the first time in the Township lounge area. There will be goodie bags full off everything from hair care samples to scratch cards for a chance to win discounts at both businesses! Come eat some mini pretzels as you browse the fun styles that Olde Fields Clothing Co. and Hair on Earth have put together.” 5pm
  
• Fifth & Thomas: Pre-Show Party with Jennings & Keller. 5:30pm-8pm
  
• Cascades Park: FUTUREBIRDS w/ The New 76ers. 7pm/free
  
• Side Bar: 4:35 on a Thursday People of the Plains Faking Jazz King Complex. 8pm/$10
  
• Junction @ Monroe: Passerine with The Adventures of Annabelle Lynn. 8pm
  
• Blue Tavern: Bob Dogan Jazz Trio. 8pm/$5
  
• The Warrior: Katzonphyre with Phantom Phunk, In Vertigo, and TBA. 9pm/$7
  
• Bradfordville Blues Club: Lucky Peterson. 9pm
  

SUNDAY 5/21

• Bread & Roses: Food Not Bombs Cooking and Prep. “Cooking and preperation for our weekly Food Not Bombs meal share. Join us, and help feed your community.” 10am-Noon
  
• Carter Howell Strong Park: Food Not Bombs Meal Share. Noon-2pm
  
• Gaines Street/Railroad Ave: The Souk – “Come grab brunch from Tallahassee's finest, enjoy local musicians and check out local vendors. BRUNCH! Gaines Street hosts 12+ locally owned dining establishments in a 2 block area - we've got something for everyone! VENDORS! We've got vendors all up & down the block! Have some stuff to sell? Bring it down!. And tons of live MUSIC!” Noon-5pm
  
• GrassLands Brewery: Queer Trivia: Let's Get Beers Together. “GrassLands invites the Tally LGBT community and friends to come down and enjoy local craft beer and queer-themed trivia every Sunday. LGBT-themed trivia provided by Trivia With Hank. $30 bar tab for 1st place. Stick around afterward for queers and beers.” 5pm
  
• The Junction @ Monroe: Sunday Afternoon Bingo. “This isn't your grandma's bingo! We have a blast with some very cool folks. Cash prizes.” 5pm
  
• Salty Dawg Pub & Deli: The Famous Acoustic Jam w/ Wayne, Glenn, and Bo. Open mic, free beer for performers. 6pm
  

• Fifth & Thomas: Shanice Richards & The Tenbusch Trio at Jazz Brunch. 10am
  
• Tallahassee Junior Museum: Festival of Freedom 2017. “Join us Sunday, May 21, 11 am to 5 pm as we celebrate over 150 Years of Freedom in Florida! Enjoy a guided tour, 1 pm – 2 pm, to learn about African American history at the Concord Schoolhouse, Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church, and The Bellevue Plantation Communities exhibit. This event is FREE as part of the Emancipation Week festivities. You must request free admission at the ticket counter before entry!” 11am
  
• The Wilbury: Indian Shores (Richmond/Tally), A Werewolf Aware Wolf (Tally), Jeff Two-Names and the Born Agains (Savannah). 2pm
  
• Ruby Diamond: Pirates of the Orchestra. ““Pirates” is a hilarious and educational show, created by Music Director Darko Butorac. Maestro Darko will play the role of Captain Darkbeard, and together with his First Mate Billy Fivetoes, will embark on a hair-raising musical adventure on the high seas in search of the fabled treasure of Rossini’s “Madre.” Aboard their pirate ship “Tritone’s Revenge,” kids will meet the instruments of the orchestra and discover how legends are made through music.” 2:30pm
  
• Cap City Video Lounge: Welcome home to Twin Peaks: Premiere Event. “Gang, we are heading back to our favorite fictional small town in the woods, the mysterious, quaint, colorful town of TV's Twin Peaks. 27 years after the series was abruptly canceled, David Lunch, MArk Frost and Showtime are taking us back. Back to where it all began. I have no idea where this lead us, but I have a definite feeling it will be a place both wonderful and strange... 6:00pm: Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. 9:00pm: Twin Peaks Two Part Season Premiere. $5 gets you in. Cherry pie, donuts and DAMN fine coffee will be available. Please, feel free to come in costume. I cannot properly express in words just how deeply excited I am for this. I hope you will take a journey into the dark woods of Twin Peaks once again. Let's see what new mysteries await... I'll see you in the trees...” 6pm/$5
  
• Bradfordville Blues Club: Glen David Andrews Band. 6pm
  
• The Wilbury: Pears, Fake News, SFS, Cat Among The Crows. 7:30pm/$12/all ages
  
• The Warrior: The Arbitrary and more TBA. 9pm/$7
  

MONDAY 5/22

• Growler USA (U Square): Kill the KEG at Growler USA! “It is the start of the week and we need to open up a tap for new beer! $20 all you can drink until the keg is empty, from 8-10pm! Winner(s) will receive a free Growler T Shirt and a 64 oz Growler from select taps! Bring out your team and whichever team goes through the most pitchers wins!” 8pm/21+
  
• Under Wraps on the Parkway: Bar Trivia With Hank featuring DC & Marvel. “50 questions of friendly trivia. Plus great Mediterranean food, delicious wraps, and beer by the bottle or bucket that won’t kick you in the wallet. $20 tab for 1st place. Near all the state offices – start your week off right.” 7pm/free
  
• Junction @ Monroe: Monday Night Bingo. “Good food, good drinks, good friends, and a chance to win some big cashola! It doesn't get any better than J@M. Every Monday from 7pm-9pm we've got cash payouts up to $250 per game with multiple games each night PLUS a 50/50 drawing each week benefitting the Tallahassee Area Musicians Guild.” 7pm-9pm
  
• Blue Tavern (N Monroe St): Lost Mondays with Belmont & Jones. 8pm
  
• Waterworks: Patio Theater. 8:35pm/21+
  
• 926 Bar & Grill: Karaoke with Nathan. He’s got all the songs. All the songs you want to sing. 9pm
  
• The Warrior: Hip-Hop Open Mic Monday's // Dj T Wixx on site // Bring your Tracks. 10pm
  

• Purple House Concerts: Jess Klein: Sizzling Summer Kickoff! “RSVP please [email protected] 850-570-5160.” 6:30pm/$20
  
• Side Bar: Suffocation w/ Revocation, Accursed Creator, Brigand. 7pm/$20
  

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Stephen Paddock's employment history was largely with government, and featured an unusual career progression. He started off with an entry level position in the Postal Service, then transferred to the IRS, then wound up working for Morton-Thiokol, a defense contractor that specialized in rockets and aircraft systems. He officially retired in 1988, but continued to earn millions of dollars in over the years (allegedly from gambling), owning numerous homes and at least two aircraft stored in two different locations.
One of the aircraft he owned, a Cirrus SR20 (a common medium range 4-seater), registration number N5343M, was Paddock's from 2006-2010, until the registration was changed to Volant LLC (headquarted in Roanoke VA or Chantilly, VA, a hop skip and a jump from Langley or the National Reconnaissance Office, respectively). From here, the waters get a little murky. Read the following passage and take its conclusions with a grain of salt:
"Many of the wounded and witnesses from the Route 91 Harvest Festival have expressed their dismay at online harassment from alter-universe trolls who claim that the shooting never happened in a stage play by so-called “crisis actors”. This absurd theory, stated in barbaric disregard for the families of the dead, is not the opinion of a mere few deranged individuals; it's a repressive tactic of state-sponsored psychological warfare. If anything the online psy-op proves once again the foresight of the founding fathers who drafted the amendments to the Constitution in warning against the lust for power of a centralized state attempting to impose absolutist tyranny on a sovereign society.
The federal muzzling of local law enforcement in Las Vegas is a strong signal of the untrammeled powers of the federal intelligence agencies, which are largely responsible for the influx of fanatic foreign elements loyal to ISIS, Al Qaeda and other anti-democratic forces, even to the point of recruiting them into the U.S. armed forces and police agencies. The slaughter in Las Vegas was the outcome of the thinly concealed immigration alliance with jihadist oil mongering Arab states against the core American citizenry, especially those so-called “fans of country music” who are the most versed of all in the Constitution and its underlying values (as opposed to the mindless and cynical book-waving by that Pakistani ally of terrorism Khizer “Kaiser” Khan of Charlottesville, Virginia).
To protect their power and privileges, the elitist politicians and high bureaucrats in Washington D.C. are acting in ways no different from King George III who unloosed Hessian mercenaries on the colonies, even forcing American families to quarter those armed foreign spies inside their own homes.
Today, the same is being done through the localization of cyber-espionage in every state by the political cabal that is eager to oust the populist-elected president and install instead the chosen successor of the Clinton regime, Virginia Governor Terence “Terry” McAuliffe, the would-be dictator in the eye of the destructive hurricane sweeping across the United States.
This essay in the continuing series on Las Vegas 10/01 explores the centrality of McAuliffe’s fiefdom in the Commonwealth of Virginia to the military contractor role of the fall guy Stephen Paddock, along with the governor’s support for NSA federalization of the state National Guards as the front-line surveillance force to quell citizen-based democracy in every town and village from coast-to-coast. The present military cyber offensive, as shown in the Vegas cover-up, is every bit as threatening as the Red Coat invasion force at Lexington and Concord, and therefore given the moral-ethical surrender of traditional journalism, it is up to the Minutemen of the online media, and perhaps soon by shortwave radio, to defend a democracy under attack and in danger of extinction.
Ownership Transfer of the Plane
Online attempts to probe the background to the ownership of the Cirrus SR20 aircraft, registered under the name of Stephen Paddock for covert ops, have met with obfuscation from Pentagon trolls, who point out that the plane was sold to Volant LLC, owned by one John W. Roberts of Roanoke, Virginia. The key point being raised is that the limited liability (private) company should not be confused with Volant Associates LLC, a defense contractor. To understand this odd matter of the two Volants, let’s jump into the devilish details of provenance or successive ownership as listed at the FAA registry, which has been altered from the original longer version, which I cite here.
That single-engine prop plane was acquired by a Stephen Paddock of Henderson, near Lake Mead in the state of Nevada, on 2 June 2006. The Henderson Executive Airport was opened in the mid-1990s for small private planes as a back-up for crowded McCarren International on the south end of the Vegas Strip, right by the Tropicana, Hooters, New York New York and the Mandalay Bay, directly adjoining the site of the Route 91 Harvest Festival (all of these venues were sites of shooting on October 1). Henderson, on the southern tip of Nevada, is the sort of nondescript quiet town that Paddock preferred whenever making real-estate purchases, indicating his operaton of a trading business that demanded no witnesses.
A year later, on 25 May 2007, Paddock switched the registration address to Mesquite, Texas, a suburb east of Dallas with its own small Mesquite Metro Airport. Fort Worth hosts the Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base (JRB) and the Lockheed-USAF Plant 4, a center for tech security. Although at greater distance from the Mexican border, compared with San Antonio or El Paso, the Cirrus has a 700-plus mile range and parking it in Henderson would have attracted no notice from DEA agents and the U.S. Border Patrol.
Nearly three years later, on 13 February 2010, the plane ownership was transferred—apparently merely on paper—to a company called UHS in Los Angeles. The acronym stands for Universal Student Housing, which is something of low-cost AirBnB for young people from foreign countries to stay in homes or apartments owned by Latinos, no questions asked. Human trafficking questions aside, the business operator is named Emerson Farias Torres who operates out of his apartment.
This modest businessman who kindly shelters DACA illegals becomes even more interesting because until 2009 Torres was the U.S. license holder for Jesa Air LLC, the U.S. branch of the Panama-registered Jesa Air West Africa. The tiny airline was owned by the Rhodesia-born mercenary and apartheid South African Air Force pilot Neal Ellis. His colorful career included helicopter piloting in the CIA’s Bosnia war against Serbian armed forces, a stint with the UK-based Executive Outcomes in Sierra Leone, and George W Bush’s invasion of Iraq. In the air-to-ground combat against West African rebels, the legendary merc Ellis befriended retired Lt. Col. Brian Boquist, the CEO of International Charter Incorporated (ICI) of Oregon, which fought in Liberia under contract with DynCorp. Two peas in the pod, they were jolly good buddies.
At the moment of Paddock’s paper “sale” of the Cirrus aircraft to Torres’ youth hostels, Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder and the DHS-run Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Bureau (ATF) were two years into the Fast and Furious gun-walking transfer to the Mexico drug mafia along the Arizona and Texas border. That little ole airport in Mesquite was getting as hot as a charcoal-fired barbecue pit. In Los Angeles (Paddock was a graduate of Cal State Northridge), a location for plausible deniability over a plane with paperwork in Panama. “You see, senor, I’m just flying in Panama hats to sell to touristas on Olivera Street, comprendez?”
In a similar vein, the London address of Jena Air international is 55 Prince’s Gate, Exhibition Road along with 208 other paper companies. To learn more on how to operate your own private air force, look up the documentary film “Shadow Company”.
Stop here a moment to ask: “How come nobody’s raised these issues before?” Answer: Mainly because your press corps are all crisis actors in role of the deaf and dumb.
Then on 10 December 2010, the same plane is registered in Chantilly, Virginia, under Stephen C. Paddock and a John W. Rogers. Then on 30 August 2013, following the gunshot death of ATF forensic expert Paul Parisi in Chantilly, the plane is relocated to Roanoke, Virginia, a distance of 220 miles (355 km), under sole ownership of Volant LLC owned by a John W. Rogers. Obviously, then, Paddock and Rogers must have had some acquaintance with each other.
Two John W. Rogers are listed in Roanoke:
the first is a cancer surgeon at several Virginia hospitals, notably the Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital, which has a working relationship with the nearby Salem Veterans Affairs Medical Center; and
the second John W. Rogers appears to be a fictitious identity created by a John J. Rogers, a newcomer to Virginia from East Palo Alto, a predominantly low-income African-American community “on the other side of Silicon Valley”, and he has since moved to a more affordable part of Virginia with several family members.
So what is a well-respected oncologist, who provides radiation treatment and chemotherapy for cancer patients, doing parking Paddock’s surreptitious aircraft on the tarmac at Roanoke for nearly three years until its sole flight just three weeks prior to the Las Vegas shootings?
To get at the answer, we must first probe into: What’s the difference between Volant Associates LLC and Dr. Rogers’ Volant LCC?
Do you have a credit card for a swipe? Because that’s how far apart these entities are, despite protestations to the contrary from the trolls in the employ of the Pentagon psychological warfare division. It’s called compartmentalization.
The word Volant has a nice ring to it, sounding like a contraction of “volunteers” but, alas, there’s neither connection nor connotation in this case of professional military operations. Translated from French, it means “flying”, although the term is closer to gliding. It is most frequently used for animals that glide despite their inability to sustain flight: for example a volant squirrel, those brave little creatures. “Volant” is also used to describe military airlift operations delivering troops and ground vehicles to the battlefield, such as Volant Solo and the many Volants combined with the names of trees, such as Volant Pine.
For our purpose of tracking down who and what killed Stephen Paddock and 60+ others in Las Vegas, there’s only one definition with any bearing to the case: Col. Adam Volant, a long-serving Army officer with the National Security Agency at its headquarters in Fort Meade, Maryland, and present commander of Task Force Echo, which is deploying a massive National Guard-implemented domestic cyber-warfare and surveillance operation on American soil.
Col. Volant, who wears many hats, is a active service officer in the reserves, the head of the alumni association of Virginia Military Institute (VMI), a sponsor of a “non-profit group”, and a security adviser to U.S. President-in-waiting Terry McAuliffe, the Clinton loyalist who serves as governor of Virginia.
Volant Associates LLC, the now-infamous Pentagon network-systems contractor, which requires all its employees to have top-secret clearances is his “non-profit organization,” which has been awarded tens of millions of dollars in military contracts for network security of critical infrastructure and military facilities, a mandate that includes massive cyber-surveillance, which is now being deployed to an initial eight states by the newly hatched National Guard domestic spy organization. (The Guardsmen have traditionally been “weekend warriors” but at least since the Iraq War the so-called state militia has evolved into a full-time professional fighting force controlled by the Pentagon with most of its funding from the federal government.
What possibly could cancer surgeon John Rogers’ Volant LLC have to do with this watchdog program for militarization of the domestic civilian Internet and social media?
Unbeknownst to most of his civilian patients, Dr. Rogers is a military surgeon and a Lieutenant Colonel in the USAF Reserves. His caretaker role for Paddock’s plane is either based on a military arrangement or off-duty criminal activity as a favor for some past cooperation in the distribution of prescription drugs. Buying a plane only to park it makes no sense otherwise.
If the Roanoke Airport arrangement is indeed military, then Dr. Rogers must have some military-intelligence role. Advanced military systems including electronic warfare, X-band radar and chemical warfare exercises all entail exposure to cancer risks, so one question is whether a National Guard oncologist is supposed to act like a company doctor to explain away the consequences of occupational risks, as happened with Gulf War Syndrome. The Veterans Administration hospital system has been heavily criticized for negligence and mismanagement, and it is striking that the surgeon is so stretched between civilian and military hospitals, some of those sites quite distant from Virginia. Signing papers to park a plane is not much different than writing a prescription for a headache.
Although he’s never flown Paddock’s Cirrus, Lt. Col. Rogers may well be a pilot of military-operated aircraft since his Volant LLC has offices in six other towns, nearly all with or near Veterans Administration hospitals: Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Delmar, New York; Naples, Florida; Randolph, Minnesota; Stoughton, Wisconsin; and Salt Lake City, Utah.
-Delmar, New York, near his alma mater of Hobart College in the Finger Lakes region, with its privately own Cross’ Farm Airport and the Cross Excavating Corporation, and nearby casinos, and Delmar is near Albany’s large VA facility.
-Randolph, Minnesota, a small town of 430 residents near Minneapolis, is located in Dakota County where the Rosemount National Guard Armory, home base of the 34th Infantry Division’s 634th Military Intelligence Battalion. VA hospital.
-Dane County, Wisconsin, which includes Stoughton, is home to the Truax Air National Guard base in and also “Ron Weyer” (real name: Ronald Van Den Huevel, Clinton-Bush-CIA money launderer) and Wally Hilliard, owner of the Huffman Aviation School, operated by Rudi Dekker in Venice and Naples, Florida, and Fort Worth Spinks Airport at Burlson, Texas. Ditto VA.
-Naples, Florida, is home of one of Rudi Dekker’s two flight schools, where Mohamed Atta learned to pilot aircraft. The VA is also there, perhaps to provide first aid to Saudi and Egyptian pilots who crash their planes.
-Baton Rouge, Louisiana, north of his medical school in his hometown of New Orleans, is surrounded by a massive number of heavily armed National Guard bases, that can overwhelm most of the world’s armies, including a chemical-weapons unit, where cancer is an occupational hazard.
-Salt Lake City, the Utah Air National Guard, as big as most air forces with VA center.
The questions arising from Lt. Col. Rogers’ far-flung business registrations are similar to the many properties owned by Stephen Paddock across the country. Could there be some covert military intelligence rationale behind the geographic spread? Volant LLC and Volant Associates LLC look to be paper planes in a much larger covert operation being sent aloft from the highest levels of the NSA. If the volant operation is regime change, Dr. Rogers and Col. Volant both risk elimination for knowing too much, as happened their associate Paddock in Vegas."

Two weeks from today, I’ll be taking a road trip from Talladega (where my grandpa lives) to Gulfport. My itinerary includes Selma (already been to Edmund Pettus Bridge but why not twice), Monroeville (Harper Lee’s birthplace), and Destin, Florida. Are there any other good stops I’m missing? (I won’t be driving west to Meridian then south through Hattiesburg, even though the drive is supposedly quite beautiful.)
I’m willing to drive up to 2 hours from Gulfport (including New Orleans!) if there is a rainy day unsuitable for the beach (which means if you know of an outdoors activity in Louisiana or elsewhere, I won’t be doing it). I know of the French Quarter, WWII Museum and the Whitney Plantation, but I’m still considering them (if they are a must-do, let me know, please). Grand Isle Beach is too far anyways, and isn’t a viable option for my time there.
I won’t be going to Dothan, AL, Columbus, GA, or Panama City, FL, although I’ve heard they’re nice cities, and I won’t go any further north than Gadsden (no Huntsville, either). If we need to see any beach (e.g. Ft. Walton, Pensacola, Orange, Gulf Shores, Dauphin Island, etc.), then tell me so, too. I think I have it mostly figured out but I’ve missed a LOT on road trips in the past, so I’d rather not repeat that mistake.
Regarding Mississippi, should I do Biloxi or Gulfport? Which city is nicer (I’m no gambler or one to stay out too late, and I’ve heard Biloxi suits people that do gamble and like nightlife) and which city has better beaches? I expect to be there for 3 nights. And which are less crowded (I have the same questions for Ft. Walton vs. Destin)? Any hotel suggestions for MS (I’ve already booked the ones in Destin)? And are any nice hotels under $175/night in MS near the beach, if so, what?
Thanks so much! I know I have a lot of questions, so sorry for that.
EDIT: I have taken a few road trips through the south (VA-TN-GA-AL and TX-OK-AR-LA) but never been to Mississippi nor to the gulf coast / Florida panhandle not southern Alabama, so wherever in that area is a must-see for someone who lives near NYC, let me know that too. Thanks!

Stephen Paddock's employment history was largely with government, and featured an unusual career progression. He started off with an entry level position in the Postal Service, then transferred to the IRS, then wound up working for Morton-Thiokol, a defense contractor that specialized in rockets and aircraft systems. He officially retired in 1988, but continued to earn millions of dollars in over the years (allegedly from gambling), owning numerous homes and at least two aircraft stored in two different locations.
One of the aircraft he owned, a Cirrus SR20 (a common medium range 4-seater), registration number N5343M, was Paddock's from 2006-2010, until the registration was changed to Volant LLC (headquarted in Roanoke VA or Chantilly, VA, a hop skip and a jump from Langley or the National Reconnaissance Office, respectively). From here, the waters get a little murky. Read the following passage and take its conclusions with a grain of salt:
"Many of the wounded and witnesses from the Route 91 Harvest Festival have expressed their dismay at online harassment from alter-universe trolls who claim that the shooting never happened in a stage play by so-called “crisis actors”. This absurd theory, stated in barbaric disregard for the families of the dead, is not the opinion of a mere few deranged individuals; it's a repressive tactic of state-sponsored psychological warfare. If anything the online psy-op proves once again the foresight of the founding fathers who drafted the amendments to the Constitution in warning against the lust for power of a centralized state attempting to impose absolutist tyranny on a sovereign society.
The federal muzzling of local law enforcement in Las Vegas is a strong signal of the untrammeled powers of the federal intelligence agencies, which are largely responsible for the influx of fanatic foreign elements loyal to ISIS, Al Qaeda and other anti-democratic forces, even to the point of recruiting them into the U.S. armed forces and police agencies. The slaughter in Las Vegas was the outcome of the thinly concealed immigration alliance with jihadist oil mongering Arab states against the core American citizenry, especially those so-called “fans of country music” who are the most versed of all in the Constitution and its underlying values (as opposed to the mindless and cynical book-waving by that Pakistani ally of terrorism Khizer “Kaiser” Khan of Charlottesville, Virginia).
To protect their power and privileges, the elitist politicians and high bureaucrats in Washington D.C. are acting in ways no different from King George III who unloosed Hessian mercenaries on the colonies, even forcing American families to quarter those armed foreign spies inside their own homes.
Today, the same is being done through the localization of cyber-espionage in every state by the political cabal that is eager to oust the populist-elected president and install instead the chosen successor of the Clinton regime, Virginia Governor Terence “Terry” McAuliffe, the would-be dictator in the eye of the destructive hurricane sweeping across the United States.
This essay in the continuing series on Las Vegas 10/01 explores the centrality of McAuliffe’s fiefdom in the Commonwealth of Virginia to the military contractor role of the fall guy Stephen Paddock, along with the governor’s support for NSA federalization of the state National Guards as the front-line surveillance force to quell citizen-based democracy in every town and village from coast-to-coast. The present military cyber offensive, as shown in the Vegas cover-up, is every bit as threatening as the Red Coat invasion force at Lexington and Concord, and therefore given the moral-ethical surrender of traditional journalism, it is up to the Minutemen of the online media, and perhaps soon by shortwave radio, to defend a democracy under attack and in danger of extinction.
Ownership Transfer of the Plane
Online attempts to probe the background to the ownership of the Cirrus SR20 aircraft, registered under the name of Stephen Paddock for covert ops, have met with obfuscation from Pentagon trolls, who point out that the plane was sold to Volant LLC, owned by one John W. Roberts of Roanoke, Virginia. The key point being raised is that the limited liability (private) company should not be confused with Volant Associates LLC, a defense contractor. To understand this odd matter of the two Volants, let’s jump into the devilish details of provenance or successive ownership as listed at the FAA registry, which has been altered from the original longer version, which I cite here.
That single-engine prop plane was acquired by a Stephen Paddock of Henderson, near Lake Mead in the state of Nevada, on 2 June 2006. The Henderson Executive Airport was opened in the mid-1990s for small private planes as a back-up for crowded McCarren International on the south end of the Vegas Strip, right by the Tropicana, Hooters, New York New York and the Mandalay Bay, directly adjoining the site of the Route 91 Harvest Festival (all of these venues were sites of shooting on October 1). Henderson, on the southern tip of Nevada, is the sort of nondescript quiet town that Paddock preferred whenever making real-estate purchases, indicating his operaton of a trading business that demanded no witnesses.
A year later, on 25 May 2007, Paddock switched the registration address to Mesquite, Texas, a suburb east of Dallas with its own small Mesquite Metro Airport. Fort Worth hosts the Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base (JRB) and the Lockheed-USAF Plant 4, a center for tech security. Although at greater distance from the Mexican border, compared with San Antonio or El Paso, the Cirrus has a 700-plus mile range and parking it in Henderson would have attracted no notice from DEA agents and the U.S. Border Patrol.
Nearly three years later, on 13 February 2010, the plane ownership was transferred—apparently merely on paper—to a company called UHS in Los Angeles. The acronym stands for Universal Student Housing, which is something of low-cost AirBnB for young people from foreign countries to stay in homes or apartments owned by Latinos, no questions asked. Human trafficking questions aside, the business operator is named Emerson Farias Torres who operates out of his apartment.
This modest businessman who kindly shelters DACA illegals becomes even more interesting because until 2009 Torres was the U.S. license holder for Jesa Air LLC, the U.S. branch of the Panama-registered Jesa Air West Africa. The tiny airline was owned by the Rhodesia-born mercenary and apartheid South African Air Force pilot Neal Ellis. His colorful career included helicopter piloting in the CIA’s Bosnia war against Serbian armed forces, a stint with the UK-based Executive Outcomes in Sierra Leone, and George W Bush’s invasion of Iraq. In the air-to-ground combat against West African rebels, the legendary merc Ellis befriended retired Lt. Col. Brian Boquist, the CEO of International Charter Incorporated (ICI) of Oregon, which fought in Liberia under contract with DynCorp. Two peas in the pod, they were jolly good buddies.
At the moment of Paddock’s paper “sale” of the Cirrus aircraft to Torres’ youth hostels, Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder and the DHS-run Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Bureau (ATF) were two years into the Fast and Furious gun-walking transfer to the Mexico drug mafia along the Arizona and Texas border. That little ole airport in Mesquite was getting as hot as a charcoal-fired barbecue pit. In Los Angeles (Paddock was a graduate of Cal State Northridge), a location for plausible deniability over a plane with paperwork in Panama. “You see, senor, I’m just flying in Panama hats to sell to touristas on Olivera Street, comprendez?”
In a similar vein, the London address of Jena Air international is 55 Prince’s Gate, Exhibition Road along with 208 other paper companies. To learn more on how to operate your own private air force, look up the documentary film “Shadow Company”.
Stop here a moment to ask: “How come nobody’s raised these issues before?” Answer: Mainly because your press corps are all crisis actors in role of the deaf and dumb.
Then on 10 December 2010, the same plane is registered in Chantilly, Virginia, under Stephen C. Paddock and a John W. Rogers. Then on 30 August 2013, following the gunshot death of ATF forensic expert Paul Parisi in Chantilly, the plane is relocated to Roanoke, Virginia, a distance of 220 miles (355 km), under sole ownership of Volant LLC owned by a John W. Rogers. Obviously, then, Paddock and Rogers must have had some acquaintance with each other.
Two John W. Rogers are listed in Roanoke:
the first is a cancer surgeon at several Virginia hospitals, notably the Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital, which has a working relationship with the nearby Salem Veterans Affairs Medical Center; and
the second John W. Rogers appears to be a fictitious identity created by a John J. Rogers, a newcomer to Virginia from East Palo Alto, a predominantly low-income African-American community “on the other side of Silicon Valley”, and he has since moved to a more affordable part of Virginia with several family members.
So what is a well-respected oncologist, who provides radiation treatment and chemotherapy for cancer patients, doing parking Paddock’s surreptitious aircraft on the tarmac at Roanoke for nearly three years until its sole flight just three weeks prior to the Las Vegas shootings?
To get at the answer, we must first probe into: What’s the difference between Volant Associates LLC and Dr. Rogers’ Volant LCC?
Do you have a credit card for a swipe? Because that’s how far apart these entities are, despite protestations to the contrary from the trolls in the employ of the Pentagon psychological warfare division. It’s called compartmentalization.
The word Volant has a nice ring to it, sounding like a contraction of “volunteers” but, alas, there’s neither connection nor connotation in this case of professional military operations. Translated from French, it means “flying”, although the term is closer to gliding. It is most frequently used for animals that glide despite their inability to sustain flight: for example a volant squirrel, those brave little creatures. “Volant” is also used to describe military airlift operations delivering troops and ground vehicles to the battlefield, such as Volant Solo and the many Volants combined with the names of trees, such as Volant Pine.
For our purpose of tracking down who and what killed Stephen Paddock and 60+ others in Las Vegas, there’s only one definition with any bearing to the case: Col. Adam Volant, a long-serving Army officer with the National Security Agency at its headquarters in Fort Meade, Maryland, and present commander of Task Force Echo, which is deploying a massive National Guard-implemented domestic cyber-warfare and surveillance operation on American soil.
Col. Volant, who wears many hats, is a active service officer in the reserves, the head of the alumni association of Virginia Military Institute (VMI), a sponsor of a “non-profit group”, and a security adviser to U.S. President-in-waiting Terry McAuliffe, the Clinton loyalist who serves as governor of Virginia.
Volant Associates LLC, the now-infamous Pentagon network-systems contractor, which requires all its employees to have top-secret clearances is his “non-profit organization,” which has been awarded tens of millions of dollars in military contracts for network security of critical infrastructure and military facilities, a mandate that includes massive cyber-surveillance, which is now being deployed to an initial eight states by the newly hatched National Guard domestic spy organization. (The Guardsmen have traditionally been “weekend warriors” but at least since the Iraq War the so-called state militia has evolved into a full-time professional fighting force controlled by the Pentagon with most of its funding from the federal government.
What possibly could cancer surgeon John Rogers’ Volant LLC have to do with this watchdog program for militarization of the domestic civilian Internet and social media?
Unbeknownst to most of his civilian patients, Dr. Rogers is a military surgeon and a Lieutenant Colonel in the USAF Reserves. His caretaker role for Paddock’s plane is either based on a military arrangement or off-duty criminal activity as a favor for some past cooperation in the distribution of prescription drugs. Buying a plane only to park it makes no sense otherwise.
If the Roanoke Airport arrangement is indeed military, then Dr. Rogers must have some military-intelligence role. Advanced military systems including electronic warfare, X-band radar and chemical warfare exercises all entail exposure to cancer risks, so one question is whether a National Guard oncologist is supposed to act like a company doctor to explain away the consequences of occupational risks, as happened with Gulf War Syndrome. The Veterans Administration hospital system has been heavily criticized for negligence and mismanagement, and it is striking that the surgeon is so stretched between civilian and military hospitals, some of those sites quite distant from Virginia. Signing papers to park a plane is not much different than writing a prescription for a headache.
Although he’s never flown Paddock’s Cirrus, Lt. Col. Rogers may well be a pilot of military-operated aircraft since his Volant LLC has offices in six other towns, nearly all with or near Veterans Administration hospitals: Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Delmar, New York; Naples, Florida; Randolph, Minnesota; Stoughton, Wisconsin; and Salt Lake City, Utah.
-Delmar, New York, near his alma mater of Hobart College in the Finger Lakes region, with its privately own Cross’ Farm Airport and the Cross Excavating Corporation, and nearby casinos, and Delmar is near Albany’s large VA facility.
-Randolph, Minnesota, a small town of 430 residents near Minneapolis, is located in Dakota County where the Rosemount National Guard Armory, home base of the 34th Infantry Division’s 634th Military Intelligence Battalion. VA hospital.
-Dane County, Wisconsin, which includes Stoughton, is home to the Truax Air National Guard base in and also “Ron Weyer” (real name: Ronald Van Den Huevel, Clinton-Bush-CIA money launderer) and Wally Hilliard, owner of the Huffman Aviation School, operated by Rudi Dekker in Venice and Naples, Florida, and Fort Worth Spinks Airport at Burlson, Texas. Ditto VA.
-Naples, Florida, is home of one of Rudi Dekker’s two flight schools, where Mohamed Atta learned to pilot aircraft. The VA is also there, perhaps to provide first aid to Saudi and Egyptian pilots who crash their planes.
-Baton Rouge, Louisiana, north of his medical school in his hometown of New Orleans, is surrounded by a massive number of heavily armed National Guard bases, that can overwhelm most of the world’s armies, including a chemical-weapons unit, where cancer is an occupational hazard.
-Salt Lake City, the Utah Air National Guard, as big as most air forces with VA center.
The questions arising from Lt. Col. Rogers’ far-flung business registrations are similar to the many properties owned by Stephen Paddock across the country. Could there be some covert military intelligence rationale behind the geographic spread? Volant LLC and Volant Associates LLC look to be paper planes in a much larger covert operation being sent aloft from the highest levels of the NSA. If the volant operation is regime change, Dr. Rogers and Col. Volant both risk elimination for knowing too much, as happened their associate Paddock in Vegas."

Stephen Paddock's employment history was largely with government, and featured an unusual career progression. He started off with an entry level position in the Postal Service, then transferred to the IRS, then wound up working for Morton-Thiokol, a defense contractor that specialized in rockets and aircraft systems. He officially retired in 1988, but continued to earn millions of dollars in over the years (allegedly from gambling), owning numerous homes and at least two aircraft stored in two different locations.
One of the aircraft he owned, a Cirrus SR20 (a common medium range 4-seater), registration number N5343M, was Paddock's from 2006-2010, until the registration was changed to Volant LLC (headquarted in Roanoke VA or Chantilly, VA, a hop skip and a jump from Langley or the National Reconnaissance Office, respectively). From here, the waters get a little murky. Read the following passage and take its conclusions with a grain of salt:
"Many of the wounded and witnesses from the Route 91 Harvest Festival have expressed their dismay at online harassment from alter-universe trolls who claim that the shooting never happened in a stage play by so-called “crisis actors”. This absurd theory, stated in barbaric disregard for the families of the dead, is not the opinion of a mere few deranged individuals; it's a repressive tactic of state-sponsored psychological warfare. If anything the online psy-op proves once again the foresight of the founding fathers who drafted the amendments to the Constitution in warning against the lust for power of a centralized state attempting to impose absolutist tyranny on a sovereign society.
The federal muzzling of local law enforcement in Las Vegas is a strong signal of the untrammeled powers of the federal intelligence agencies, which are largely responsible for the influx of fanatic foreign elements loyal to ISIS, Al Qaeda and other anti-democratic forces, even to the point of recruiting them into the U.S. armed forces and police agencies. The slaughter in Las Vegas was the outcome of the thinly concealed immigration alliance with jihadist oil mongering Arab states against the core American citizenry, especially those so-called “fans of country music” who are the most versed of all in the Constitution and its underlying values (as opposed to the mindless and cynical book-waving by that Pakistani ally of terrorism Khizer “Kaiser” Khan of Charlottesville, Virginia).
To protect their power and privileges, the elitist politicians and high bureaucrats in Washington D.C. are acting in ways no different from King George III who unloosed Hessian mercenaries on the colonies, even forcing American families to quarter those armed foreign spies inside their own homes.
Today, the same is being done through the localization of cyber-espionage in every state by the political cabal that is eager to oust the populist-elected president and install instead the chosen successor of the Clinton regime, Virginia Governor Terence “Terry” McAuliffe, the would-be dictator in the eye of the destructive hurricane sweeping across the United States.
This essay in the continuing series on Las Vegas 10/01 explores the centrality of McAuliffe’s fiefdom in the Commonwealth of Virginia to the military contractor role of the fall guy Stephen Paddock, along with the governor’s support for NSA federalization of the state National Guards as the front-line surveillance force to quell citizen-based democracy in every town and village from coast-to-coast. The present military cyber offensive, as shown in the Vegas cover-up, is every bit as threatening as the Red Coat invasion force at Lexington and Concord, and therefore given the moral-ethical surrender of traditional journalism, it is up to the Minutemen of the online media, and perhaps soon by shortwave radio, to defend a democracy under attack and in danger of extinction.
Ownership Transfer of the Plane
Online attempts to probe the background to the ownership of the Cirrus SR20 aircraft, registered under the name of Stephen Paddock for covert ops, have met with obfuscation from Pentagon trolls, who point out that the plane was sold to Volant LLC, owned by one John W. Roberts of Roanoke, Virginia. The key point being raised is that the limited liability (private) company should not be confused with Volant Associates LLC, a defense contractor. To understand this odd matter of the two Volants, let’s jump into the devilish details of provenance or successive ownership as listed at the FAA registry, which has been altered from the original longer version, which I cite here.
That single-engine prop plane was acquired by a Stephen Paddock of Henderson, near Lake Mead in the state of Nevada, on 2 June 2006. The Henderson Executive Airport was opened in the mid-1990s for small private planes as a back-up for crowded McCarren International on the south end of the Vegas Strip, right by the Tropicana, Hooters, New York New York and the Mandalay Bay, directly adjoining the site of the Route 91 Harvest Festival (all of these venues were sites of shooting on October 1). Henderson, on the southern tip of Nevada, is the sort of nondescript quiet town that Paddock preferred whenever making real-estate purchases, indicating his operaton of a trading business that demanded no witnesses.
A year later, on 25 May 2007, Paddock switched the registration address to Mesquite, Texas, a suburb east of Dallas with its own small Mesquite Metro Airport. Fort Worth hosts the Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base (JRB) and the Lockheed-USAF Plant 4, a center for tech security. Although at greater distance from the Mexican border, compared with San Antonio or El Paso, the Cirrus has a 700-plus mile range and parking it in Henderson would have attracted no notice from DEA agents and the U.S. Border Patrol.
Nearly three years later, on 13 February 2010, the plane ownership was transferred—apparently merely on paper—to a company called UHS in Los Angeles. The acronym stands for Universal Student Housing, which is something of low-cost AirBnB for young people from foreign countries to stay in homes or apartments owned by Latinos, no questions asked. Human trafficking questions aside, the business operator is named Emerson Farias Torres who operates out of his apartment.
This modest businessman who kindly shelters DACA illegals becomes even more interesting because until 2009 Torres was the U.S. license holder for Jesa Air LLC, the U.S. branch of the Panama-registered Jesa Air West Africa. The tiny airline was owned by the Rhodesia-born mercenary and apartheid South African Air Force pilot Neal Ellis. His colorful career included helicopter piloting in the CIA’s Bosnia war against Serbian armed forces, a stint with the UK-based Executive Outcomes in Sierra Leone, and George W Bush’s invasion of Iraq. In the air-to-ground combat against West African rebels, the legendary merc Ellis befriended retired Lt. Col. Brian Boquist, the CEO of International Charter Incorporated (ICI) of Oregon, which fought in Liberia under contract with DynCorp. Two peas in the pod, they were jolly good buddies.
At the moment of Paddock’s paper “sale” of the Cirrus aircraft to Torres’ youth hostels, Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder and the DHS-run Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Bureau (ATF) were two years into the Fast and Furious gun-walking transfer to the Mexico drug mafia along the Arizona and Texas border. That little ole airport in Mesquite was getting as hot as a charcoal-fired barbecue pit. In Los Angeles (Paddock was a graduate of Cal State Northridge), a location for plausible deniability over a plane with paperwork in Panama. “You see, senor, I’m just flying in Panama hats to sell to touristas on Olivera Street, comprendez?”
In a similar vein, the London address of Jena Air international is 55 Prince’s Gate, Exhibition Road along with 208 other paper companies. To learn more on how to operate your own private air force, look up the documentary film “Shadow Company”.
Stop here a moment to ask: “How come nobody’s raised these issues before?” Answer: Mainly because your press corps are all crisis actors in role of the deaf and dumb.
Then on 10 December 2010, the same plane is registered in Chantilly, Virginia, under Stephen C. Paddock and a John W. Rogers. Then on 30 August 2013, following the gunshot death of ATF forensic expert Paul Parisi in Chantilly, the plane is relocated to Roanoke, Virginia, a distance of 220 miles (355 km), under sole ownership of Volant LLC owned by a John W. Rogers. Obviously, then, Paddock and Rogers must have had some acquaintance with each other.
Two John W. Rogers are listed in Roanoke:
the first is a cancer surgeon at several Virginia hospitals, notably the Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital, which has a working relationship with the nearby Salem Veterans Affairs Medical Center; and
the second John W. Rogers appears to be a fictitious identity created by a John J. Rogers, a newcomer to Virginia from East Palo Alto, a predominantly low-income African-American community “on the other side of Silicon Valley”, and he has since moved to a more affordable part of Virginia with several family members.
So what is a well-respected oncologist, who provides radiation treatment and chemotherapy for cancer patients, doing parking Paddock’s surreptitious aircraft on the tarmac at Roanoke for nearly three years until its sole flight just three weeks prior to the Las Vegas shootings?
To get at the answer, we must first probe into: What’s the difference between Volant Associates LLC and Dr. Rogers’ Volant LCC?
Do you have a credit card for a swipe? Because that’s how far apart these entities are, despite protestations to the contrary from the trolls in the employ of the Pentagon psychological warfare division. It’s called compartmentalization.
The word Volant has a nice ring to it, sounding like a contraction of “volunteers” but, alas, there’s neither connection nor connotation in this case of professional military operations. Translated from French, it means “flying”, although the term is closer to gliding. It is most frequently used for animals that glide despite their inability to sustain flight: for example a volant squirrel, those brave little creatures. “Volant” is also used to describe military airlift operations delivering troops and ground vehicles to the battlefield, such as Volant Solo and the many Volants combined with the names of trees, such as Volant Pine.
For our purpose of tracking down who and what killed Stephen Paddock and 60+ others in Las Vegas, there’s only one definition with any bearing to the case: Col. Adam Volant, a long-serving Army officer with the National Security Agency at its headquarters in Fort Meade, Maryland, and present commander of Task Force Echo, which is deploying a massive National Guard-implemented domestic cyber-warfare and surveillance operation on American soil.
Col. Volant, who wears many hats, is a active service officer in the reserves, the head of the alumni association of Virginia Military Institute (VMI), a sponsor of a “non-profit group”, and a security adviser to U.S. President-in-waiting Terry McAuliffe, the Clinton loyalist who serves as governor of Virginia.
Volant Associates LLC, the now-infamous Pentagon network-systems contractor, which requires all its employees to have top-secret clearances is his “non-profit organization,” which has been awarded tens of millions of dollars in military contracts for network security of critical infrastructure and military facilities, a mandate that includes massive cyber-surveillance, which is now being deployed to an initial eight states by the newly hatched National Guard domestic spy organization. (The Guardsmen have traditionally been “weekend warriors” but at least since the Iraq War the so-called state militia has evolved into a full-time professional fighting force controlled by the Pentagon with most of its funding from the federal government.
What possibly could cancer surgeon John Rogers’ Volant LLC have to do with this watchdog program for militarization of the domestic civilian Internet and social media?
Unbeknownst to most of his civilian patients, Dr. Rogers is a military surgeon and a Lieutenant Colonel in the USAF Reserves. His caretaker role for Paddock’s plane is either based on a military arrangement or off-duty criminal activity as a favor for some past cooperation in the distribution of prescription drugs. Buying a plane only to park it makes no sense otherwise.
If the Roanoke Airport arrangement is indeed military, then Dr. Rogers must have some military-intelligence role. Advanced military systems including electronic warfare, X-band radar and chemical warfare exercises all entail exposure to cancer risks, so one question is whether a National Guard oncologist is supposed to act like a company doctor to explain away the consequences of occupational risks, as happened with Gulf War Syndrome. The Veterans Administration hospital system has been heavily criticized for negligence and mismanagement, and it is striking that the surgeon is so stretched between civilian and military hospitals, some of those sites quite distant from Virginia. Signing papers to park a plane is not much different than writing a prescription for a headache.
Although he’s never flown Paddock’s Cirrus, Lt. Col. Rogers may well be a pilot of military-operated aircraft since his Volant LLC has offices in six other towns, nearly all with or near Veterans Administration hospitals: Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Delmar, New York; Naples, Florida; Randolph, Minnesota; Stoughton, Wisconsin; and Salt Lake City, Utah.
-Delmar, New York, near his alma mater of Hobart College in the Finger Lakes region, with its privately own Cross’ Farm Airport and the Cross Excavating Corporation, and nearby casinos, and Delmar is near Albany’s large VA facility.
-Randolph, Minnesota, a small town of 430 residents near Minneapolis, is located in Dakota County where the Rosemount National Guard Armory, home base of the 34th Infantry Division’s 634th Military Intelligence Battalion. VA hospital.
-Dane County, Wisconsin, which includes Stoughton, is home to the Truax Air National Guard base in and also “Ron Weyer” (real name: Ronald Van Den Huevel, Clinton-Bush-CIA money launderer) and Wally Hilliard, owner of the Huffman Aviation School, operated by Rudi Dekker in Venice and Naples, Florida, and Fort Worth Spinks Airport at Burlson, Texas. Ditto VA.
-Naples, Florida, is home of one of Rudi Dekker’s two flight schools, where Mohamed Atta learned to pilot aircraft. The VA is also there, perhaps to provide first aid to Saudi and Egyptian pilots who crash their planes.
-Baton Rouge, Louisiana, north of his medical school in his hometown of New Orleans, is surrounded by a massive number of heavily armed National Guard bases, that can overwhelm most of the world’s armies, including a chemical-weapons unit, where cancer is an occupational hazard.
-Salt Lake City, the Utah Air National Guard, as big as most air forces with VA center.
The questions arising from Lt. Col. Rogers’ far-flung business registrations are similar to the many properties owned by Stephen Paddock across the country. Could there be some covert military intelligence rationale behind the geographic spread? Volant LLC and Volant Associates LLC look to be paper planes in a much larger covert operation being sent aloft from the highest levels of the NSA. If the volant operation is regime change, Dr. Rogers and Col. Volant both risk elimination for knowing too much, as happened their associate Paddock in Vegas."

(part 1 of 3 - see links at bottom)
(Note from the author) Its not my intention to convince or coerce anyone into believing or accepting my particular perspectives on any given subject. I'm simply inviting you to ride along, if you wish to, upon my pursuit of the process of truth discovery. Please make the effort to delve deeply into the sourced material and interpret it for yourself. In compiling this article, composed of sourced quotes and excerpts, I am endeavoring to offer a compilation of illuminating observations, opinions, and reports – in a comprehensive and informative arrangement of many revealing puzzle pieces. Often times, things are easier to make sense of and understand when we assemble the related pieces and begin to grasp the bigger picture.
I've posted this article in anticipation that you, dear reader, might engage in an opportunity to evoke an eye-opening glimpse into the enigmatic and secretive underworld of Sokagakkai's cult leader Daisaku Ikeda, and his protracted surreptitious involvement with yakuza crime organizations, political corruption, illegal drug profiteering, int'l money-laundering, bribery of government officials, North Korea, Bush's CIA, and more.
SGI members, along with the media and public, are kept as clueless as possible regarding Ikeda's underworld criminal activities. Both Ikeda's followers and detractors would probably be surprised to learn that Ikeda Daisaku's Korean birth name is Naru Tasaku.
It is my hope that you will examine everything you encounter with a questioning mind, conduct your own extensive investigations into all topics and subject contents, and practice utilizing your critical thinking skills to draw your own conclusions.
YAKUZA BACKGROUND

Italy has the La Cosa Nostra. America has the Mafia. The Irish and Jews have their own crime organizations in America. Southeast Asia has the Triads. China, Hong Kong and Taiwan have the Tong. Truly well-known organized crime organizations indeed.
However, there is one organization that was not mentioned in the above list, a group that has been around for over 300 years. A group that has as much honor and principle as the Mafia, and is just as strong, if not stronger. The group is yakuza. The yakuza can trace its origins back to as early as 1612.
The yakuza has always been involved in politics and business right from the start. The groups are always hungry for more power and money, wherever they can find it.
The [post-war] occupation forces soon saw that the yakuza was well organized and continuing to operate under two oyabun supported by unidentified high-level goverment officials. They admitted defeat in 1950, as they realized that they could not protect the Japanese people from the yakuza.
The Yamaguchi-gumi controlled over 2500 businesses, sophisticated gambling and loan-sharking, and invested heavily in sports and other entertainment...
The Yamaguchi-gumi began to deal in narcotics now, primarily amphetamines [speed]. Other fields of choice brought in *high capital: moneylending, smuggling...
money laundering is not a crime in Japan, so the investigations into the money angles of the yakuza will be extremely difficult.

(Yakuza: Past and Present](http://orgcrime.tripod.com/yakuzahistory.htm)

yakuza: traditional term for Japanese mobsters. Literally ‘8-9-3’, the hand that will lead to a score of 0 in a traditional Japanese card game. Originates from their original role as gamblers, bakuto, in feudal japan.
bakuto: gambler. Often considered the origin of the yakuza, as groups of gamblers who traversed the highways of feudal japan. Finger-cutting, tattoing, and the yakuza’s policy of cooperation with the police are practices that were started by the bakuto.

Yakuza Buisnesses

kakuseizai: speed, amphetamines, meth. The drug of choice in Japan and the trade that has proved more lucrative for the yakuza than even the sex industry. Possibly accounts for up to one-third of total revenue. Virtually the entire business in Japan is run by the yakuza.
kigyo shatei: the yakuza associate running a front company. A front company is a fake company set up by the yakuza to appear legitimate and have access to the privileges of running a legitimate operation, while actually engaging in illegal activities/businesses.
sara-kin: Short for ‘salary man financiers’. Loan sharks, often with yakuza ties, who lend out at extraordinarily high interest rates. In 1982, about 10,000 borrowers who were not able to their loan back either committed suicide or simply fled their families.
yamikin: illegal loan sharks. Typically dole out ultra-high interest loans to those who can’t get a loan legally. Short for yamikinyu.

Yakuza Terminology

Financial crime in Japan takes a major toll on both individual victims and the nation’s economy. This paper focuses on large investment frauds that have occurred from post-war Japan to the present, as well as financial crimes that involve racketeers of boryokudans, or organized crime groups, more commonly known as yakuza.
Major financial offending by organized crime groups include: yamikin (loan sharks), sokaiya (shareholders who extort corporate funds),...

Big Investment Fraud and “Yakuza Money” Crime
IKEDA, POWER POLITICS, CIA, & DRUGS

The Jews’ control of the international illicit drug trade can be traced largely to Rothschild marriages to the Jewish merchant banking House of Sassoon, which had dominated trade in opium while it still had a measure of respect as a commodity in the nineteenth century. For that left certain members of the Rothschild family free to build on the initiatives of David Sassoon & Co., and ultimately dominate the lucrative opiate narcotic trade through to the present day.
Rothschild dominance in opium was largely guaranteed by the financial power and military might of the British East India Company, while trade in the commodity was both legal and illegal. In fact the CIA was created by ‘British’ intelligence in 1947, and global illicit drug trafficking is largely controlled by the Jews’ assets and dupes in MI6, because its roots are in the opium exploits of the Rothschild/Sassoon controlled British East India Company. The Sassoons established branches of their opium business at Calcutta, Shanghai, Canton, Hong Kong, and THROUGHOUT JAPAN.

Yakuza Buisnesses

The global illicit drug trade is now thought to be worth at least £500 billion annually, which means it’s worth more than trade in oil and petroleum products.
George H. W. Bush was a director of the Jew controlled CIA, and nicknamed “Poppy” by his family because of his patriarchal status and association with the opium smuggling that can be traced to founders of Yale’s Skull and Bones society.
The George H. W. Bush family has been called the “American cocaine cartel extraordinaire”, because of his links with drug smuggling in Indo-China after the Vietnam War, and with drug-runners like Dr Sun Myung Moon and other ethnic Korean cult leaders like Daisaku Ikeda of Soka Gakkai notoriety, who invest followers’ funds in narcotics and methamphetamine distributed by Jew controlled drug lords from North Korea to Japan, the United States, and South America.
Associates of George H. W. Bush in the narcotics trade have included Ariel Sharon and David Rockefeller, who worked with the CIA and Mossad to smuggle narcotics via oil pipelines, and used banks in Israel and New York to launder the proceeds...
Opium production in Afghanistan was revived* after the Bush administration had demolished the World Trade Center to provide a pretext for the invasion of Afghanistan by the U.S. military on behalf of Bush’s opium cartel associates. **Hamid Karzai was put in power in Afghanistan by President Bush; and in 2006 Karzai’s Afghan friends produced the biggest narco-crop in the country’s history... Afghanistan now produces 90 percent of the world’s heroin and the opium that’s the raw material of roughly half of the £500 billion global drug trade.

The "Pusher Man" Is A Jew Conspiracy Stupid!

Admiral William Crowe was a career Naval officer who when he was ordered to facilitate the relationship between the CIA's Panamanian Drug Cartel Dealer Manuel Noriega and the CIA's favorite Japanese political would be god and yakuza hoodlum, Daisaku Ikeda, Crowe did so in Hawaii in 1985 at a supposed culture festival held then and there by the Soka Gakkai.
We know this meeting with Noriega took place - Ikeda had it commemorated in photos.
There have been other sites documenting the Soka Gakkai's involvement with Manuel Noriega - how the Soka Gakkai funneled money to Manuel Noriega and attempted to legitimize his dictatorship in exchange for a share of Noriega's cocaine business.
[reader's comment] You know, I've tried to find a copy of Noriega's deposition online, and I just tried again. Lots of references to the FBI, NSA and CIA, so I suspect that FOIA wouldn't apply here for security reasons. Of course, no one would want the world to know how complicity the federal government was in his successful career.

More rumors about Soka Gakkai's yakuza ties - and CIA patronage - re: strongman military dictator of Panama Manuel Noriega

There is an epidemic of cocaine, heroin, and other drug use in America, and many other drugs are being shipped into the US in greater numbers than ever before. Are the United States government and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to blame for flooding American communities with cocaine in the 1970’s by covertly supporting the Latin American drug trade?
Many retired employees of the CIA, the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), and police, in addition to numerous investigative journalists, believe this to be the truth, and that various U.S. government and CIA officials should be held accountable and even tried.
A 25-year veteran of the DEA and author of the book, Triangle of Death, Michael Levine claims the CIA played a key role in allowing the trafficking of drugs, particularly cocaine, into the U.S. from Latin America. Acting as a deep undercover agent for many years of his life, Levine found through first-hand experience that the CIA knew that drugs were being smuggled onto the streets of U.S. cities but did nothing about it.
Former DEA head John Lawn, testified that Oliver North, Marine Corps lieutenant colonel who in the 1980’s served on the National Security Council staff at the White House, and other officials, “created a privatized contra network that attracted drug traffickers&& looking for cover for their operations, then turned a blind eye to repeated reports of drug smuggling related to the contras, and **actively worked with known drug smugglers such as Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega.”

Former DEA Agent Exposes US Government’s Role in Cocaine Epidemic

Soka Gakkai was investing the honest money from their followers in cocaine smuggling business. The profit was given to the leaders of Japanese LDP or Liberal Democratic Party. The fact was perceived by CIA. The US government intimidates Japanese government with the information as Japan’s weak point. That gave US a big advantage in diplomatic negotiations with Japan. As a result, Japan was compelled to take policies that benefit the US even if they are against Japan’s national interest.
Triangle of three men, Ichiro Ozawa, Daisaku Ikeda and Noriega: The report discloses a fact that Daisaku Ikeda, and Ichiro Ozawa [a Japanese politician dubbed the "Shadow Shogun" due to his back-room influence], who [attempts to] help Ikeda to become a Nobel Prize winner in peace for gaining in reputation as a pacifist, are scheming to take over Japan with the combination of religion and politics. It asserts Ichiro Ozawa is an unwelcome person because his alliance with Daisaku Ikeda.
Then I asked an American who was close to CIA. The person told me a story about a line [connection between] Ozawa, Ikeda and Panama’s dictator General Noriega.
When former President Bush senior was a director of CIA, Noriega supported him as his agent and got involved in an operation throwing Prime Minister of Cuba Castro and anti-government groups in the Middle America such as of Nicaragua, into confusion. In return, Noriega was allowed to do a crime smuggling cocaine from Columbia to the US even using airplanes of CIA. Therefore, Noriega became overconfident that he would be able to control the Bush senior’s US because he knew the weak point of the director of CIA, Bush senior.
However, Bush senior was clever enough to make a surprise attack against Noriega in 1989 just after he became a President of the US. Noriega was captured and brought to Florida to have a secret trial. In the trial he was found guilty and was put into a special jail.
In his confession, there was a story regarding Japan. It was that Daisaku Ikeda was investing followers’ honest fund in cocaine business cooperating with Noriega. From the benefit, Ikeda gave enormous amount of money to Ozawa of Japanese LDP continuously.
Bush senior obtained the evidence and used it as a stick to control Kanamaru and Ozawa. Of course the US ambassador to Japan, Michael H. Armacost was a key-person who also used the stick.
Members of Soka Gakkai have blind faith in Daisaku Ikeda’s words... And they are swindled lots of their money saved for their old age or even all of their property. However, the very honest money was given from Ikeda to the King of Drug Noriega to misuse for cocaine business and became a fund for world’s drug crimes. Members of Soka Gakkai must not know about it.
At that time, Ikeda was very proud of the relationship with Noriega and constructed a nice garden called Noriega Garden in the sacred land of Fuji.
...the commission from the cocaine business was given to Ichiro Ozawa and Shin Kanamaru, and former President of the US George Bush senior controlled Japan through ambassador to Japan Armacost.
Followers were swindled [out of] their honest money, [which] caused world-wide drug crimes, and eventually Ikeda sold Japan to the US with the dirty cocaine money.
Anyway, Noriega is under sentence of 100 years in prison. On the other hand, Ikeda is aiming to take the rein of the government [by] weighing Shinshinto Party against LDP or Liberal Democratic Party. (in 1995)

Soka Gakkai’s Cocaine Business

From the mid-70's, President Ikeda fostered a close relationship with Manuel Noriega, before and during his period as military dictator of Panama. Noriega repeatedly visited the Taiseki-ji and Noriega hosted Ikeda on several visits to Panama. Both leaders praised each other's virtues in public statements. After a 1981 visit, Noriega named a scenic observation point on one of the Causeway Islands at the Pacific approach to the Panama Canal "Mirador Ikeda". The Soka Gakkai reciprocated by creating a "Noriega Garden" at one of its locales in Fujinomiya, Shizuoka. Friends of Noriega have alleged that Ikeda provided him with several million dollars' worth of assistance during the worst part of Noriega's crisis in 1987 and 1988, though Soka Gakkai spokesmen deny this. Ikeda reportedly visited Noriega a couple of weeks before Noriega's capture, a visit that has remained unexplained.

source

...it appears that SGI has a warehouse store in Inglewood CA (8811 Aviation Blvd.) Oddly, that address also looks like it houses an SGI abortion alternatives center as well. I went to google earth, and the facility does look like a warehouse...
The idea of the Inglewood facility being a warehouse store (or an abortion alternative provider - wtf?) allows for people going in and out of the facility without suspicion. It does sound like a perfect set up. Daisaku Ikeda, the Soka Gakkai, and the North Korean drug trade

IKEDA, SGI, KOREA, YAKUZA, & DRUGS

Yakuzas are Mafia groups running shady jobs covering everything. 40% of them being "zainichi", Korean originated people, they are so talented in collusion with media, politicians, or police, that we hardly observe their activities unless you get to know the underground world in Japan. You're gonna be astonished to know how Gotogumi has been one of the biggest parasites of Japan.
I'd have to mention the worst feature of Gotogumi, the connection with North Korea. They have smuggled drugs or fake notes from North Korea, contributing to prolonging Kim Jong Ill's life.

At last we'll see Yakuza's agony

sangokujin: Literally ‘people from 3 countries’. Refers to the groups of Chinese, KOREANS, and Taiwanese who were brought in to remedy the dearth of Japanese workers during the war years.They often clashed with the yakuza for control of the black markets after the war. Approximately a third of yakuza today are of Korean ancestry.

Yakuza Buisnesses

...it's easy to grasp how SGI has been undermining Japan. Drug bootlegging from North Korea into Japan is one of a good examples to depict its deed. Keeping 8% of Japanese parliament seats, it exerts huge power to control Japan's politics. Of the massive power scattered in every authority, Ikeda Daisaku... was said to be the "king of Japan"... Just after Mori's [prime minister] period started, he angered Ikeda because he made a careless comment on Japan as "a gods' country". According to Ikeda, Japan should be a Budda's country. Mori reluctantly made a correction after receiving lots of accusing by mass media which was controlled by SGI.
The address for "World Tribune Press" is listed as "Santa Monica, CA" (SGI-USA HQ, in other words). So WHY is it having materials printed up in KOREA, of all places?? Unless, of course, the plan is to have a little something something packed inside the boxes along with the booklets...
...the worst feature of Gotogumi, the connection with North Korea. They have smuggled drugs or fake notes from North Korea.
Gotogumi, consisting of 1500 members, is a branch of Yamaguchigumi

Daisaku Ikeda, the Soka Gakkai, and the North Korean drug trade

Recently, I've seen a lot of indicators that point to Ikeda's criminal connections to both Yakuza and Korea. There are various claims that viewed alone may sound far-fetched, but when taken together, they all tie back very neatly into each other:
Ikeda's (Korean birth name - Naru Tasaku) family were poor Korean immigrants (possibly naturalized parents).
Ikeda is intimately involved with the Yakuza, as revealed by yakuza boss Goto's book.
Yakuza are deeply tied to Korea with approzimately 2/3 of yakuza members being from Korean decent.
Approximately 60% of yakuza crime income comes directly from hard drugs mostly produced in N. Korea.
Ikeda and his minions are allegedly using the SGI's tax exempt status to launder drug money for themselves and the yakuza. (Anonymous also released a cautionary video warning SGI to stop laundering money).
SGI reportedly donated 50 Billion yen to Kim Jong II's N. Korean regime.
2/3 of Ikeda's hand-picked SGI Vice Presidents are said to be of Korean lineage.
Gen. Dir. Williams was also Korean (I can personally confirm this) and was also hand picked by Ikeda to develop and lead soka gakkai's organization in the USA before being effectively "disappeared" by a tyrannical Ikeda.
Is Ikeda's alleged Korean/Yakuza Drug Connection really so crazy or far-fetched? After all, secretive collusion and conspiracies are just the kind of criminal behavior that questioning minds have come to know and expect from Ikeda and his SGI/Komeito minions.
[comment] Some Japanese bloggers raise concerns about several connections between SGI/Komeito/South Korean Branches (of both SGI&Komeito) and Piongyang... Several forms of connectedness -- Komeito blessing and/or encouraging the opening of North Korean Schools and Universities (NK curriculum) in Japan is one of them...
[comment] Ikeda would naturally want to hide his Korean heritage from other Japanese, while using that same Korean heritage to gain inroads for acquiring power and wealth in Korean dominated groups like the yakazu or even Korea itself. Remember, the megalomaniac Ikeda's stated intentions were to penetrate and control the governments of every country, not just Japan. Nothing is beyond Ikeda's greedy grasp - look at one of the main reasons SGI was declared a cult in France. There was evidence indicating the SGI had made efforts to infiltrate the government in order to steal nuclear secrets, purportedly to sell them to China (Ikeda has BIG political ties with the Chinese regime as well).
[comment] Ikeda reportedly has 1 trillion (1,000,000,000,000) yen on personal deposit in a Swiss bank account, along with 6,100,000,000 yen in New York and 4,100,000,000 in Brazil. There's a high probability that such fantastically huge amounts of money (over 2 trillion) were deposited from profits that have been generated through Ikeda's numerous organized criminal activities. No wonder Naru Tasaku (Ikeda) is considered to be one of the most powerful men in Japan - besides being the master of millions of mind controlled cult followers, he is Japan's monetary and political equivalent of the Koch Brothers in the USA.
[comment] Actually, it was the top senior leader over the territory that revealed to me that Williams was Korean. It was one of those little secrets that made me feel special and above the others, because I had been trusted with it, and, being in on the secret made me feel like I was really on the inside.

Is There An Ikeda/Korean/Yakuza Drug Connection?

Two of Mr. [Williams]'s top assistants sat on chairs, impeccably dressed, looking like high ranking Yakuza. They had never cracked a smile or uttered a word in all the times I'd seen them. We stood at attention. Mr. [Williams] had not yet acknowledged our presence.
He turned to one of the Japanese men and said, "I need a kanki pill." The man nodded and took a small silver tin out of his jacket pocket, opened it, and handed Mr. [Williams] a white pill. Mr. [Williams] popped it in his mouth and washed it down with a glass of water.
Kanki pills. Benzedrine tablets.

On Mr. Williams' alleged drug use and possible yakuza entanglements

Although the guru of the religious cult [Aum Shinriko] was arrested just after the terrorism, there are still unsolved mysteries around that incident partly because mass media can hardly report the truth. At that time, I was so curious about the consequences of the cult, so I kept watching TV. I happened to witness on TV that a top spokesman of the cult was stabbed and killed by a Korean Uyoku (rightist) in the middle of the interview. Everyone in front of the TV must have seen it, and commentators began to discuss who is behind it since then. It was not so hard to imagine that the spokesman was killed because he almost disclosed a secret about the cult beyond what he is supposed to announce.
The relation between the [Aum Shinriko] guru and SGI... (SGI is North Korea friendly) was originally close. The guru's two brothers were believers of SGI. Note that many zainichi are the believers of SGI.**
Around 1991, he [the Aum guru] happened to meet with a couple of believers talented in collecting money, who now turned out to be... from SGI and Unification Church, another Korean religious groups.
Note that SGI and Unification Church are Korea friendly religions, and those gurus are both Korean. (SGI's leader, Ikeda Daisaku is zainichi, a korean staying in Japan.)
Aum Shinrikyo started the refinement of drugs... and produced a lot of profit.
The raw product of the drug was bought from North Korea, and the underground business contributed to the maintenance of the regime of North Korea. Gotogumi, one of yakuza, was involved in this smuggling. At that time the police couldn't inspect Gotogumi or Aum Shinrikyo because Gotogumi had been exploiting weakness of the head of the police.
The... SGI in Aum Shinrikyo instigated the guru of Aum Shirikyo, and they began to plot a terrorism in Tokyo.
The president of Tokyo metropolitan police was sniped [shot] at by someone on his way from his house. This is obviously interpreted as [a] plot by North Korea (SGI) and South Korea (Unification Church). Remember that the victim was the president of the entire Japanese police! Everyone including me thought that it must be something to do with Korea
Meanwhile, the guru thought he was safe because SGI was trying to cover up everything. The guru of Aum Shinrikyo was arrested by riot squads in one of the cult's facilities.
TBS and Mainichi, two Japanese major mass media, which by the way are subject to SGI, [spoke] up only [about] Aum Shinrikyo, [t]aking watchers attention away from North Korea. All mass-media couldn't reveal the sequence around SGI because ALL of them are afraid of the revenge by SGI.
The health condition of the guru was all fine and his brain was sharp when arrested, but now he presents a symptom of addiction to drug to the extent of enteruria control disorder [loss of motor control??].
The rumor says that the correctional officers were sent from SGI, and drug was mixed with food and provided to the guru in order to shut his mouth. The guru was supposed to be the only person who can possibly testify the truth behind Aum Shinrikyo. And the truth has gone.
Aum Shinrikyo had also been collecting nuclear secrets around Japan's nuclear plants, sending many spies to electric power companies. The spies sent those information to North Korea for the development of North Korea's knowledge on nuclear power.
In 1993, North Korea encountered a crisis due to the conflict with Clinton on nuclear inspection and seceded from IAEA in 1994. At this point, Kim Jong Il needed to cover up all the relationship with the spies in Japan's nuclear plants, and decided to make Aum Shinrikyo a scapegoat.

Behind the terrorism by Aum Shinrikyo - North Korea

Why did Joyu, the media spokeman of Aura Shinrinkyo, meet the foreign press April 4? Because he knew that the Japanese media would never report the evidence that he was prepared to present. What Joyu claimed -- and what was recorded on videotape by major networks -- is that Aum's "self-defense" squads, which have been accused of various kidnappings and murders, were trained and organized by former members of the Soka Gakkai using methods developed by SG's own security forces. Joyu identified 27 Aum self-defense personnel as former Soka Gakkai members, and charged that many of these individuals mysteriously disappeared after the Sakamoto and Kariya kidnappings and before the subway gassing. One member of Aum's self-defense team described his training in strong-arm tactics in Soka Gakkai, and claimed that identical techniques were used in Aum. These revelations could still have a direct bearing on the puzzling series of violent crimes attributed to Aum. So why haven't they broadcast or reported by the print media? Because, at the close of the press conference, a foreign male, posing as a Frenchman, claimed to have taken photographs that proved No. 7 Satyam was an operating chemical-weapons plant. The next part of his act was to accuse Joyu of lying. An investigation by the Weekly has shown that the cameraman was not French as he claimed to the Japanese media. The Embassy of Italy confirmed that he is an Italian citizen.
The spying charges against Soka Gakkai International France, which claims 152000 members, were further detailed in a recent issue of the Shukan Bunshun. Quoting the newspaper Le Parisien, it reported that a secret network of Soka Gakkai operatives allegedly infiltrated the Mitsubishi group offices in Paris, which were used as cover for intelligence operations. It did not specify whether the secret agents were corporate employees sent from Japan or local hires, or a combination of both. According to Le Parisien, the sect also tried to purchase a site next to one of France's most sensitive nuclear-research facilities. According to the Bunshun, the sect's spying had the support of Japan's diplomatic corps, specifically two former ambassadors of Japan to France, Akitane Kiuchi and Yoshihiro Nakayama.

Soka Gakkai's French Connection
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part 2 here
part 3 here