1. The Devil’s Advocate
Time Stamp: 5:52
- Incantations -Letters From The Devil; March 29, 1970
- https://amzn.to/2WcNl0k
- Incantations are the witches way of calling out to the elements to bestow their blessings upon her.
- Incantation is a series of words strung together soa s to form a rhythmic pattern
- The most effective incantations – those that insure success – are the ones composed either by the witch or warlock themself, to be used by the person it was written for.
- Must be written as specifically as possible toward the desire
- Emotion and sincerity count more than the specific words
- Most famous is from Shakespeare’s Macbeth: Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble.Cool it with a baboon’s blood, Then the charm is firm and good.
- Vivid mental and/or pictorial imagery is important as well
- Others dont need to understand it and it may help if they don’t, adding to the exoticism of the incantation, like a latin catholic ritual
2. Infernal Informant
Time Stamp: 18:58
- Mayhem in Washington, DC, as Trump supporters, opponents clash; at least 4 stabbed, 23 arrested
- https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-supporters-rally-dc-after-supreme-court-delivers-defeat-president
- Chaos erupted in Washington, D.C., on Saturday night, hours after two pro-Trump rallies ended. Groups of Proud Boys and Antifa activists clashed under cover of darkness, with police repeatedly forcing them apart amid reports of brawls and stabbings.
- At least four stabbings occurred near a bar that served as a gathering spot for the Proud Boys, according to the Washington Post. The victims were hospitalized, possibly with life-threatening injuries, a D.C. Fire Department spokesman told the newspaper.
- It wasn’t immediately clear which groups the attackers and victims were affiliated with, the report said.
- As of 9 p.m. ET, 23 people had been arrested, including 10 charged with misdemeanor assault, six with assaulting a police officer and four will rioting, FOX 5 of Washington reported. One suspect was carrying an illegal stun gun.
- At least two D.C. police officers were hospitalized with moderate injuries, the report added.
- Images and videos on social media showed demonstrators exchanging barrages of fireworks, and police intervening on several downtown streets.
- Several unverified videos on Twitter posted during the protests from the area appeared to show people bleeding being treated by police.
- An online post by Washington’s WJLA-TV included video of one police officer being helped away by colleagues after being injured.
- Police separated the groups, shut down traffic in parts of downtown D.C. and sealed off Black Lives Matter Plaza near the White House.
- At one point, a group of Proud Boys allegedly ducked through an alleyway to sidestep police and confront Antifa, according to the Post Millennial’s Matthew Miller.
- Subsequent videos captured, the sounds of stun guns going off, fireworks and demonstrators coughing after reportedly inhaling pepper spray. Despite aggressive and graphic language between both groups of protesters and counterprotesters, police appeared to quickly intervene and keep them apart in numerous videos.
- Earlier Saturday, President Trump’s backers descended on Washington to support the president, who has come up short in his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
- Wiith Trump flags and hats, and a few face masks, they gathered at Freedom Plaza near the White House chanting “Four More Years” and “Stop the Steal.”
- Around midday, Trump flew over the crowd as Marine One carried him from the White House for his trip to the Army-Navy football game at West Point, N.Y., according to The Associated Press.
- “Wow!” the president tweeted before leaving the White House. “Thousands of people forming in Washington (D.C.) for Stop the Steal. Didn’t know about this, but I’ll be seeing them! #MAGA.”
- Trump aide Dan Scavino tweeted an aerial picture with a message to the crowd. “Thank you, Patriots.”
- During the last major “Stop the Steal” rally in D.C. on Nov. 14, Trump and his motorcade drove through the downtown D.C. crowd to wave to supporters before heading to his golf resort in Virginia.
- Organizers of the Women for America First rally were expecting 15,000 participants for the rally and march to the Supreme Court.
- One speaker at the rally, retired Gen. Michael Flynn — who was Trump’s former national security adviser — told the crowd he was confident Trump would remain in office.
- “When people ask me…on a scale of 1 to 10, who’s going to be the next president of the United States? I say: 10, Donald J. Trump … without hesitation.”
- Trump last month granted a pardon to Flynn, who pleaded guilty in 2017 to lying to the FBI about his contact with a Russian ambassador, but later claimed innocence.
- “The fraud that is being perpetrated on the United States of America through this previous election is outrageous,” Flynn told the crowd. “It’s outrageous. We will not accept it.”
- Other speakers at the Women for America First demonstration included “My Pillow” guy Mike Lindell and former Trump aides Sebastian Gorka, Boris Epshteyn and Katrina Pearson, who encouraged supporters to keep up the fight to overturn the election results.
- “I’ve read the Constitution. I don’t think Joe Biden has,” Gorka told the crowd, “but I’ve read the Constitution. And I know one thing: It ain’t over until January 20th.”
- The presidential inauguration is Jan. 20.
- Trump supporters made clear they will continue to fight back regardless of the media and court rulings, and will not accept Biden as president.
- “In 2016, they had this thing called the resistance, do you remember that?” Pearson said of the left’s movement against Trump. “You haven’t seen a resistance until patriots show up to defend the republic.”
- The second pro-Trump rally was at the Sylvan Theater on the National Mall, where organizers planned for 500 people, according to their national park permit.
- Meanwhile, the “Refuse Fascism” anti-Trump group scheduled a counter-protest in Black Lives Matter Plaza at noon, with the message: “Trump: You Lost. Get the Hell Out!”
- The rallies come a day after a major legal defeat for Trump, when the Supreme Court Friday declined to hear a Texas case that challenged the election results in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia and Wisconsin.
- Trump has repeatedly alleged he beat President-elect Joe Biden, and claims there was widespread voter fraud. But states have stood by their results and courts have repeatedly rejected Trump’s legal claims that Biden’s victory — by a margin of more than 7 million votes nationwide — should be tossed out.
- On Jan. 6 there will be a joint session of the House and Senate to count the electoral votes and certify Biden as the winner.
- On Saturday, the Biden transition team praised courts for tossing out Trump’s “baseless” legal claims.
- “The Supreme Court has decisively and speedily rejected the latest of Donald Trump and his allies’ attacks on the democratic process,” Biden transition official Michael Gwin said in a statement. “This is no surprise — dozens of judges, election officials from both parties, and Trump’s own Attorney General have dismissed his baseless attempts to deny that he lost the election. President-elect Biden’s clear and commanding victory will be ratified by the Electoral College on Monday, and he will be sworn in on January 20th.”
- After 51 years, the Zodiac Killer’s cipher has been solved by amateur codebreakers
- https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/11/us/zodiac-killer-cypher-340-code-trnd/index.html
- More than 50 years after the so-called Zodiac Killer first began terrorizing the streets of Northern California, a code-breaking team is believed to have finally cracked one of the killer’s mysterious coded messages sent to the San Francisco Chronicle in 1969.
- Dubbed the “340 cipher,” the message was unraveled by a trio of code breakers — David Oranchak, a software developer in Virginia, Jarl Van Eycke, a Belgian computer programmer, and Sam Blake, an Australian mathematician.
- Decoding the cipher revealed the following message. It was sent in all capital letters without punctuation and included the misspelling of paradise:
- “I hope you are having lots of fun in trying to catch me That wasn’t me on the TV show which brings up a point about me I am not afraid of the gas chamber because it will send me to paradice all the sooner Because I now have enough slaves to work for me where everyone else has nothing when they reach paradice so they are afraid of death I am not afraid because I know that my new life will be an easy one in paradice death.”
- The TV show the message refers to is “The Jim Dunbar Show,” a Bay Area television talk show. The cipher was sent two weeks after a person claiming to be the Zodiac Killer called into the show.
- “It was incredible. It was a big shock, I never really thought we’d find anything because I had grown so used to failure,” Oranchak, who’s been working on solving the killer’s messages since 2006, told CNN.
- “When I first started, I used to get excited when I would see some words come through — they were like false positives, phantoms. I had grown used to that. It was a long shot — we didn’t even really know if there was a message,” he said.
- The trio took their findings to the FBI a week ago, but didn’t reveal their breakthrough until the FBI’s confirmed cleared by the authorities, they said.
- The Zodiac Killer is most known for leaving a trail of five unsolved murders between 1968 and 1969. He was never caught, but he gained notoriety by writing letters to police and local media up until 1974, sometimes in code, boasting of the killings.
- Bloody bits of clothing were included with his letters as proof of his actions. He claims he killed as many as 37 people.
- The FBI said in a statement that the case remains an ongoing investigation for the bureau’s San Francisco office and its local law enforcement partners.
- “Due to the ongoing nature of the investigation, and out of respect for the victims and their families, we will not be providing further comment at this time,” the statement read.
- The San Francisco Police Department has also been made aware of the solved cipher, and said the information has been sent to the department’s cold case homicide investigators.
- Oranchak detailed the process for cracking the cipher on his website and in a YouTube video, where he used a specifically developed decryption software and a bit of luck to finally make the connection. The team used a unique program to sift through 650,000 variations of the message. In one, a couple of words appeared.
- “We got really lucky and found one that had part of the answer, but it wasn’t obvious,” Oranchak said, explaining that they then had to handpick their way through to decipher the rest of the message.
- The only disappointing part, Oranchak said, is that the missive contained no personally identifying information.
- Oranchak holds out no hope for solving the two remaining ciphers. He described the mission as “almost hopeless,” as both are very short, with thousands of different names and phrases that could fit.
3. Creature Feature
Time Stamp: 48:51
- Shadow Moon (Chronicles of the Shadow War, Book 1)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_Moon_(novel)
https://amzn.to/3a4G6Qf - fantasy novel written by Chris Claremont and George Lucas
- 1995 (Bantam Spectra)
- it was the continuation of the 1988 motion picture Willow
- Thirteen years have passed since the epic battle of Nockmaar freed the land from a tyrant’s grasp. But in the time since, the countryside has been wracked by war and chaos. According to the prophecy, there is but one hope of deliverance: the Princess Elora Danan. Raised friendless and alone, she has grown into a royal spoiled brat. The fate of the Great Realms rests in her hands, and she couldn’t care less. It will take a stranger named Thorn Drumheller to fight the opposing forces of unimaginable malevolence—but first he must strike a devil’s bargain and resurrect a powerful warrior from her soulless sleep, bringing her into a world of blood and horror where shadows have declared war on the light.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_Moon_(novel)