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Ride on an Open-top Bus to Padstowe, Cornwall
Blog by Lynne Pearl
May 7 22
We were just out for a drive but drove farther and farther into Cornwall. We sped past Bodmin Moor, eclipsed Dartmoor, lying huge and mighty on the skyline. We weren’t trying to cross Dartmoor today, we had other ways to go. We were travelling on the A30 via Bodmin and Launceston. At the top of Bodmin moor we stopped to look at the piebald ponies grazing free on the moor. In the distance there were red flags flying, probably there was army training..
Bodmin is a landscape like none other, it is high and wild and bleak, the trees are conifers. As we travelled on there were windmills, huge, white, flying like cranes or storks except once you got close to them they dwarfed the car. We travelled on the road to Newquay past Indian Queens choosing the A3059. We dropped down to the sea from the central spine of Cornwall peninsula.
The trees that lined the road were a vibrant green, there was purple rhododendron, occasionally bluebells in the hedge. From Trevarrian we made it to Mawgan Porth, down a very steep hill that does a hairpin bend onto the golden sand.
We parked in St Mawgan in an unattended car park and got out to take a look at the sea and the cliffs, magnificent on this North Coast of Cornwall. Quite by chance we found an open top bus waiting in St Mawgan labelled ‘Padstowe’ so without a moment’s thought we jumped on and off we went thinking that it was just around the corner. But it was about an hour of cliff top mists and fields to Padstowe. The last bus back was at 6pm, but the ride was worth it. The bus took the B3276 in the direction of Newquay.
There were lambs in the fields, bleating in the sea mist. Beside the road there was tall Queen Anne’s lace, smelling sweet. We dropped down to Harlyn Bay where there was a long beach and irises in gardens on cliff tops. We passed Trevose Head and Mother Iveys. For miles the hedge was the deepest pink, with a sea flower that liked the salt breezes and the prevailing winds.
We crossed a narrow bridge to St Merryn, passed the grey stone school and slate walls. The trees that line the road are craggy, covered in ivy. Then there are pale blue flowers, sea pinks and white along the side of cliffs. At Carneva Bay we climb a road out of the bay and see white lilies huge like trumpets. We don’t take the road to St Issey, but pass a whole field of wild flowers, sea facing hedges are pink with flowers.
We reach Padstowe and drink coffee and tea looking over the Camel estuary, sleeping today in a half mist.
On the way back there is a National Trust property at Carnevas, where there’s a path to Bedruthan steps. We decide to do that another day. From Trenane we have a view over the sea, the trees slant sideways with the prevailing winds from the sea.
We return to Mawgan Porth windblown and happy from the open top windy ride into mist. Now the tide has turned and there is a silver sea for the end of the day.
There is nothing like the view from the top of an open top bus in Spring.
Lynne Pearl at
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/22455871-thiel-by-lynne-pearl
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21091814-road-trip-river-voices
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Keith F. Girard Intriguing Salem Witch Trials Based Novel
Keith F. Girard has created his intriguing “The Curse of Northam Bay” connecting the Salem Witch Trials to today’s society. Taking place in Northam Bay, a fictional New England fishing community, the first part of the book is based on history. The second part of this fascinating novel brings its audience into the modern day in the same hamlet.
Hard work has paid off for the writer of “The Curse…
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#Billboard Magazine#book#Fiction#history#InvestmentNews#Keith F Girard#New England#novel#Salem Witch Trials#science fiction#The Curse of Northam Bay#Wasgingtonian#watergate
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tfw born too late to pursue my true calling as a Sethian cybernetics cultist
#comedy free to a good home: a group of bureaucrats arrive in washington late in the eisenhower admin#theyre very much goo-goo high chuch prot type of yankee bureaucrat but as things go -- bay of pigs and cuban missile crisis#and the jfk assassination and vietnam and watergate etc etc etc through til the reagan admin#and they slowly start coming out as heretical older sects -- antinomian and cathar and sethian and revolutionary Anabaptist etc.
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Friends To Lovers + Smut/PWP Masterlist
7 Minutes In Heaven - interrupted-by-fireworks
Summary: Dan and Phil have to play 7 Minutes in Heaven at a party.
A Koi pond, love, sex, and all the crap that comes with it (ao3) - winstonlives
Summary: Dan can't sleep, but Phil can. Dan thinks too much. What happens after the tour?
A Sleepless Night With Dan (ao3) - cockwhoredan
Summary: Dan and Phil live together, and they’re just friends. One night Dan can’t sleep. Naturally, he decides to give Phil a blowjob.
Break Me Down (ao3) - gayestever
Summary: The tour bus breaks down and Dan and Phil struggle to find a hotel room- or at least one that has two beds.
Can't Help The Itch To Touch- To Kiss (ao3) - thescienceofphan
Summary: Phil is deaf and Dan is a manwhore. When people see them together, they worry about Phil’s emotional well being and shame on Dan for targeting a deaf boy, but it’s not like that. Not at all.
Craving Control (ao3) - starwatersong
Summary: Phil is intrigued by the hypnotist at the YouTuber Summit in 2016 and finds himself oddly fascinated by hypnotism. Is Dan helping him find one for a video for Phil’s benefit… or Dan’s? Some timeline mixing where Phil’s fortune telling video takes place in an earlier time. They’re living in London apartment #1 in this story.
drop your heart I'll save it for you (ao3) - Anonymous
Summary: Tenderness isn't part of the deal, nor are soft words, or feelings, or kisses that don't lead to fucking. It's not what Dan asked for, and it's certainly not why someone would choose to fuck their friend slash flatmate slash colleague who they absolutely don’t have any feelings for.
How do you Sleep? (When you Lie to Me.) (ao3) - CactiPhan
Summary: Dan is about to be married to his longtime boyfriend Henry, but plans change when he walks in on him cheating on Dan. The only person he can run back to is his best friend, who he was blind not to see was perfect for him.
If You Don't Love Me, Pretend (ao3) - phantasticworks
Summary: All his life, Dan has wanted to have the chance to be a parent someday. He would be the best parent that ever existed, he was sure of it. Fostering might not be the most traditional way on the road to parenting, but Dan's dead set on doing it anyway. But, well, it would be easier with a co-parent, right?
the bed-sharing, fake relationship, friends-to-lovers, parent fic i was desperate to read; when i shouted into the void and was met with silence, i decided i'd do it myself
No They're Not (ao3) - bandhoez9194
Summary: Against Phil's better judgement, Dan goes to a small house party with friends. He had been assured by both Dan and the party host that there would be no alcohol after all.
Unfortunately, someone else has a change of plans and gets Dan drunk anyway. Which makes him start talking about buttholes and storage places.
When Phil picks him up though, things get soft, steamy, and bendy, just like the spaghetti he left on the stove.
Very sexy, very smutty, very random, very cute. Also, drunk Dan so who doesn't like that?
Read It and Weep (ao3) - phansomedevil
Summary: Dan's feelings toward Phil are nothing but platonic, or so he thinks before stumbling upon some actually decent phanfiction and falling face-first into the abyss.
Something New (ao3) - benotafraidofwriting
Summary: Dan wants Phil's help when trying something new, but can Phil keep his feelings for his best friend at bay?
stuck on you (ao3) - watergator
Summary: dan finds himself in a rather awkward predicament and phil ends up having to helping him
The Parent Project (ao3) - ATEEZpresent (orphan_account)
Summary: Dan and Phil get paired to take care of a realistic baby doll for a few days. Feelings arise.
The Sun, The Snow, And Everything In Between - chocolatesaucelester
Summary: A lot can happen in the span of one year, or a cycle of four seasons, 8,760 hours, 525,600 minutes and 31,536,000 seconds. In that common amount of time Phil met Dan at bonfire night in the fall and over the course of a year, realizes he found a person he would’ve never guessed he’d found that night.
Two Man Team (ao3) - Nefertiti1052 (Succubusphan)
Summary: This is the story of two struggling friends who after many trials and tribulations find their way back to each other and build the life they’ve always dreamed of.
Or how Phil changed his life by talking to random strangers on the internet.
Unspoken Rules (ao3) - jestbee
Summary: They have rules.
1. They don't kiss
2. They don't talk about it
3. They aren't exclusive
4. They don't get attached
5. It's over when the tour is
As long as they abide by the rules, no one gets hurt. Simple, right?
Want (ao3) - yoidnp
Summary: It was a rare night alone in a hotel room away from the confines of the tour bus. Dan and Phil discover a few things about each other.
Watching You, Watching Me (ao3) - Spring_Haze
Summary: Dan accidentally discovers his best friend and roommate pleasuring himself in the early hours of the morning and can't look away. In fact, he can't keep his hands off of himself. Phil is surprised by Dan's reaction, and two best friends make long-time confessions.
#phanfictioncatalogue#phanfiction#phanfic#phan#masterlists#sex tw#smut#smut masterlist#friendstolovers#friendstolovers masterlist
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I saw you tagged that photo of Mulder, Krycek and Scully as “I’m so fascinated by them”; can you talk about that? I don’t know if I’ve given too much thought to their dynamic before and I’m curious as to why you like them as a trio
anon, i want to walk you through a scenario. you’re a 29 year old medical doctor teaching classes at quantico after having been separated from your first assignment at the fbi. you miss your partner. you’re giving morbid lectures and nearly crying when a student says you sound “spooky” and arranging covert meetings at the watergate hotel.
one day, your ex-partner reaches out to ask for your help on a case! you’ve been waiting for this for months! you practically begged to autopsy a body covered in sewage waste and mutant worms for this!
he comes to see you about the case, and your face falls as you realize that he’s brought with him a new partner. “this is alex krycek, we’re working the case together,” he says. standing next to this barbie doll looking motherfucker (whose hand you pointedly refuse to shake).
your wary “trust no one” friend, who accused you of being a spy when it was your first day on his assignment, has seemingly taken to this new ally. they’re carpooling and saving each other’s lives in train stations and venturing into hostage situations without telling you. (“sounds like your new partner is working out…must be nice not having someone question your every move,” you tell him cheekily over the phone).
in a split second, a broken window, a mountaintop- your life changes forever. three months of missing time, and you come back to find a reopened office and an FBI agent without a partner; that hand you refused to shake participated in your violation, then disappeared without a trace.
it isn’t long before he’s back: one, two, three gunshots fired. a father. an apartment wall. a sister.
(though i don’t know if scully ever found out that krycek was there when her sister was killed)
in a moment of quick thinking and sweaty desperation, you break up a fight and trade a bullet in the deceiver for a bullet in your partner’s shoulder; less than a year after introduction in your autopsy bay, you save both lives.
over the years, he’s the shadow you can’t quite shake. when your partner makes his way to hong kong or russia, it’s not you that goes trailing after.
you do follow his tracks into a dark apartment, ask him, what are you thinking about? listen to him tell you about destiny. fate. the “inextricable relationships” of our lives.
when he changes his tune, suddenly willing to follow leads he had admonished you for suggesting, you could swear you heard russian translation.
(i know scully doesn’t know that krycek kissed him)
office fires, nanobots, and air force base abductions later, you strategize over chinese takeout and pizza. you stand at the head of the table, your partner two people removed, the russian to his immediate left.
perhaps it would be too much to ask, after the funeral, to grieve free of threat. nonetheless, there’s leather around hospital corners, broken vials in the garage, a seat taken at the bureau when you still don’t have one to share.
three more gunshots, the spy dies and you give birth on the same day. it’s colder without a shadow, though you can’t say you miss it.
you stand in a court of law and can’t help but notice, your partner looking over his shoulder.
#all to say: i think it’s funny#i just think it’s very funny#scully is SO jealous of him from that very first scene#and then he just ruins her life for the next 10 years#not even literally in responsibility but like…in annoyance#just psychosexually mutual-obsessing with her boyfriend#while they had real problems going on#i don’t think scully ever knew that mulder was seeing krycek’s ghost#but i 1000% believe that krycek’s ghost just hung out with them for decades#no doubt in my mind#asks#also i just realized that william was born the day krycek died that’s crazyyyyy#your firstborn son coming into the world the day your longtime nemesis leaves it is wild
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South Pacific💧, Walter Winchell👨🦲, Joe DiMaggio🐤
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Dylan🤔, Berlin🅱️, Bay of Pigs invasion😴
"Lawrence of Arabia"🙄, British Beatlemania😬
Ole Miss😟, John Glenn,☹️ Liston beats Patterson🥹
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It was always burning🔥, since the world's been turning🌎
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No, we didn't light it🕯, but we tried to fight it👊
Birth control👶, Ho Chi Minh,🤭 Richard Nixon back again🫢
Moonshot🌔, Woodstock🦢, Watergate💧, punk rock🎸
Begin🤯, Reagan🧐, Palestine😦, terror on the airline😰
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History
New Year's Day - The most celebrated holiday around the world.
January 1, 1502 - Portuguese explorers landed at Guanabara Bay on the coast of South America and named it Rio de Janeiro (River of January). Rio de Janeiro is currently Brazil's second largest city.
January 1, 1660 - Samuel Pepys began his famous diary in which he chronicled life in London including the Great Plague of 1664-65 and the Great Fire of 1666.
January 1, 1776 - During the American Revolution, George Washington unveiled the Grand Union Flag, the first national flag in America.
January 1, 1801 - Ireland was added to Great Britain by an Act of Union thus creating the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
January 1, 1863 - The Emancipation Proclamation by President Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves in the states rebelling against the Union.
January 1, 1877 - Queen Victoria was proclaimed Empress of India.
January 1, 1892 - Ellis Island in New York Harbor opened. Over 20 million new arrivals to America were processed until its closing in 1954.
January 1, 1901 - The Commonwealth of Australia was founded as six former British colonies became six states with Edmund Barton as the first prime minister.
January 1, 1915 - During World War I, the British Battleship Formidable was hit by a torpedo in the English Channel, killing 547 crewmen.
January 1, 1942 - Twenty six countries signed the Declaration of the United Nations, in Washington, D.C., reaffirming their opposition to the Axis powers and confirming that no single nation would make a separate peace.
January 1, 1958 - The EEC (European Economic Community) known as the Common Market was formed by Belgium, France, West Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and The Netherlands in order to remove trade barriers and coordinate trade policies.
January 1, 1959 - Fidel Castro seized power in Cuba after leading a revolution that drove out Dictator Fulgencio Batista. Castro then established a Communist dictatorship.
January 1, 1973 - Britain, Ireland and Denmark became members of the Common Market (EEC).
January 1, 1975 - During the Watergate scandal, former top aides to President Nixon including former Attorney General John Mitchell, Domestic Affairs Advisor John Ehrlichman and Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman, were found guilty of obstruction of justice.
January 1, 1979 - China and the U.S. established diplomatic relations, 30 years after the foundation of the People's Republic.
January 1, 1993 - Czechoslovakia broke into separate Czech and Slovak republics.
January 1, 1999 - Eleven European nations began using a new single European currency, the Euro, for electronic financial and business transactions. Participating countries included; Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal and Spain.
Birthday - American Patriot Paul Revere (1735-1818) was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Best known for his ride on the night of April 18, 1775, warning Americans of British plans to raid Lexington and Concord.
Birthday - Betsy Ross (1752-1836) was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was a seamstress credited with helping to originate and sew the Stars and Stripes flag of America in 1776.
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Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, Television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe
Rosenbergs, H-Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, The King And I, and The Catcher In The Rye
Eisenhower, Vaccine, England's got a new queen
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc
Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron
Dien Bien Phu Falls, Rock Around the Clock
Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland
Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev
Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, Bridge On The River Kwai
Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball
Starkweather Homicide, Children of Thalidomide...
Buddy Holly, Ben-Hur, Space Monkey, Mafia
Hula Hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go
U-2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
Hemingway, Eichmann, Stranger in a Strange Land
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion
Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson
Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British Politician Sex
J.F.K. blown away, what else do I have to say?
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, Terror on the airline
Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan
Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide
Foreign debts, homeless Vets, AIDS, Crack, Bernie Goetz
Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law
Rock and Roller Cola wars, I can't take it anymore
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
But when we are gone
It will still burn on and on and on and on
And on and on and on and on...
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
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Day Ninety-four
It's another beautiful day for touring!
With some more tough hills ahead today, my alarms are going before dawn next to the River Camel as I start the day extricating myself from the woodlands to get back onto the Camel Trail.
It's a lovely lazy ride to start the day with, which I'm very glad for given that my head feels quite stuffed with phlegm. But I take that as a good sign that things are progressing in the right direction as the throat does seem to be better than it was at least.
I have a gentle cruise alongside the river along the verdant trail as it winds its way downstream past Hellandbridge and on to Dunmere.
The trail splits here, with a turn heading into Bodmin, whilst I hang a right to keep on the riverside as the Camel Trail continues to follow the river's long and winding course through the beautiful valley.
The old rail trail leads past several abandoned and overgrown station platforms on its way. Times like these are where I really love cycling - these are some sights that you can never see when travelling by car, and I feel particularly lucky to be able to have such an amazing experience of them on this journey.
The river slowly widens from its earlier trickling stream to a wide flowing body as the miles progress, and by the time I roll into the nice little town of Wadebridge it's beginning to get quite broad.
The route continues on along the banks, rolling under the tall bridge carrying the A39 as the river continues to widen into a large flowing bay.
The weather has turned out beautifully today, and the view downstream of Padstow shining in the sun is glorious. I have a nice little break at a cycle cafe on the trail here to sit and appreciate the view, as well as chat to a few other riders who are also out making the best of such a lovely morning.
On the trail leads over a nice old rail bridge to finally end at Padstow. That's the Camel Trail now ridden in its entirety! One to scratch off the bucket list!
With the long flat route finally over, it does mean it's time to get back to tackling Cornwall's infamous hills and cliffs.
I keep on Route 3 initially as it heads up the road from Padstow and around to Constantine Bay. The trail swings inland from here, so I have to say goodbye to it for now as I join the busy tourist traffic heading over the cliffside roads.
The sun is beating down by now and the sky has a lot of blue to it, with some heavy traffic all around the coast as foll flock to the beaches to make the most of the good weather. Alas, it also makes for some incredibly sweaty and hard work as the sharp descents and steep climbs keep piling up.
I feel it'd get repetitive to keep repeating the similar slogs as I head past the beautiful beaches at Porthcothan, Mawgan Porth, and Watergate. The views along the coast here are wonderful, but the climbs are Sisyphean in their repetition and relentlessness. But one must imagine Sisyphus happy, after all.
Finally the gradients slaclen slightly and I eventually make my way around to roll into Newquay. The heavy work so far has made me get through a serious amount of water so I take a bit of a longer break here to let the legs rest up a bit and to load up on liquid once more.
Suitably resupplied, I have a check of the map and spy a village that my childishly purile humour means I absolutely have to detour into. I ride back through Newquay and under the impressive and tall rail bridge, before heading on to the busy A3075.
It's time for more challenging climbs as the road heads on, with some very heavy traffic and beating sun making for a very tough stint.
After getting thoroughly drenched in sweat from the effort, I reach Goonhavern where I get to switch onto a quite new off-traffic route known as Saint's Way, which turns out to be a wonderful trail through the countryside.
The trail follows around a nice little stream and rolls into the little village of Cocks. Wahey! Alas I was unable to spot a sign to pose for a photo with, which may have been removed to prevent theft. But hey, I did get to ride up Cocks Hill!
Anyway, with that out of my system, I get back to the trail as it winds its way back out to the seaside. Though I do take advantage if a nice bench beneath a tree by the little stream to have a nice break and enjoy the beautiful surroundings here.
The trail ends with an arrival into the seaside town of Perranporth, with the sound of a rugby match in the air.I roll on down to the beach to join the other tourists in enjoying the lovely sights across the qide beach as the sun continues to shine down.
Up the big hill from Perranporth, I head past the airfield as a light plane takes flight, and head around the pretty heritage coast into St Agnes.
With a check of the map here, I'm a little taken aback. There's not that much left of the west coast to go now! And I did have a potential further nostalgia stop I wanted to take in prior to hitting Land's End.
So, with the evening starting to set in, it's time to get some preparation in motion for tomorrow.
I start tracking southwards from St Agnes, tackling some more hills as I chart a course down through the countryside. The sun is casting some long shadows on the road as I ride up through Mount Hawke, before meeting with the busy dual carriageway of the A30.
I've said befire that one handy thing about dual carriageway junctions is that they do often come with some good patches of trees nearby which aren't owned by anyone who would care, and I find a suitable spot here to finally have a well earned lie down after a very long day's effort.
Tomorrow is going to be another rare day where I have a set destination in mind to reach, namely St Just. With today's efforts having nicely ground the miles out, it's about 30 miles to go, though with plenty of climbs still involved. But that should still be nicely achievable.
TTFN!
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The Moonie Washington P.R. Center, Richard Nixon and Capitol Hill
▲ Richard Nixon with Sun Myung Moon
From April of 1973 until October of 1975 I was a member of the Unification Church, an organization established by Sun Myung Moon of Korea in 1954. For over two years I helped in fund-raising, recruiting, and teaching activities for this organization, as well as in public relations projects setting up large, expensive banquets honoring Moon and gaining support for him from prominent citizens throughout the United States.
In August of 1975 I was sent to Washington, D.C., at Moon’s personal request to do public relations work on Capitol Hill for him and for South Korea. The Washington P.R. Center has approximately 20-25 young men and women working full-time in this capacity. I, like all the others, was assigned a list of Senators and Congressmen which were to be my own contacts exclusively (a copy of this list is in the possession of Daphne Greene). P.R. members were to make gradual acquaintances and friendships with staff members and aides and eventually the Congressmen and Senators themselves, inviting them to a suite in the Washington Hilton rented at $54/day (although the normal rate should have been around $120/day), where dinner and films or short lectures on Moon’s ideas and “accomplishments” would be presented. All this effort is sort of an on-going program by Moon to get political support for himself and the Park Chung Hee dictatorship in South Korea. Moon uses the guise of “Christian anti-communism”, but his tactics are not at all ethical and his teachings are merely Marxist-Maoist platitudes veiled in different terminology.
Moon is using 1st Amendment protection for freedom of religion to cover his political activities. We (the P.R. members) were told to be “somewhat” vague when dealing with Capitol Hill contacts in order to protect our presence there, but we were to try to influence our contacts to support Moon and South Korea. Since I have been out of the Unification Church, I have read a State Department communique about the U.S.’s need to continue protection for South Korea and thereby for Japan – in nearly the same exact wording we were told to use to influence our contacts on this issue.
The July 1974 Prayer and Fast for the Watergate Crisis was engineered solely for political publicity for Moon. Members’ contacts with Senators and Congressmen at that time were carefully recorded and followed up by the P.R. team.
This is only one example of Moon’s ploys to gain political advantage in this country.
I do hereby attest that the foregoing is my own statement and opinion.
signed: Ann Gordon
from the Bay Area of California, March 9, 1976
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Addendum
P. R. Members now working in Washington, D.C.
Mitziko Matsuda )
Yoshiko ) Japanese women-leaders of the P.R. Center
Nina Zedehov Bergman – married Dr. William Bergman 2/1975
Susan Bergman – sister of Dr. Wm. Bergman
Pam Lee
Bernice Rechlis Cowan – married James Cowan 2/1975
Lorna Skaaren
Olga Silva
Betsy O’Brien (her sister is Mary O’Brien Cordill
– married to Perry Cordill 2/1975; he is in the US, Mary is in Ghana)
Tolise Mize
Lori Anteloch
Chio (Japanese girl)
Christina Ziegler
Marilyn Cohen (her husband, Barry Cohen, is in Africa somewhere)
Jim Gavin
Bob Sullivan
Rosemary Deddens (married Steve Deddens 2/1975)
Susan Bergman is assigned to Carl Albert. When he toured Europe in summer 1975, she sent postcards ahead to each hotel on his itinerary, which she had gotten from his secretary. When Albert returned, he called her long distance to Barrytown, New York, to ask “Where is my friend, Susan?”
Bob Sullivan is assigned to Hubert Humphrey, I believe.
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In December of 1973, during a national Unification Church conference in Chicago, Col. Pak (Moon’s interpreter) received a call from Pres. Nixon’s secretary at the White House. The gist of the conversation was that if “Rev.” Moon’s people would appear en masse at the White House the night of the Christmas tree lighting, the (former) Pres. Nixon would appear himself at the public ceremony, despite low public opinion of him at that time. So the national Unification Church leaders were instructed to return to their states, pack up their members, and all go to Washington within three-four days’ time, which they did. In all, about 1500 members were present at the ceremony to cheer the beleaguered President.
The following month “Rev.” Moon was invited to the annual Prayer Breakfast with other religious leaders like Billy Graham, and to a 30-minute private session with Nixon himself. Both invitations were engineered in the main by Dr. Joseph Kennedy, a psychologist from North Carolina who met and became involved with Moon’s group at Moon’s Atlanta Day of Hope program in November 1973.
This is my sworn statement.
Ann Gordon,
March 11, 1976
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Marriage under Mao Zedong and marriage under Sun Myung Moon
“Moon Sun-myung saw how Marxism gave his friends a utopian goal, a purpose, a historical role to play…”
“The organization of the Unification Church is so systematic that one thinks of communists.” – Professor Choi
Dear Leader's Paper Moon – Sun Myung Moon and North Korea
Unification Church Fund North Korean Missile Development for 450 billion yen
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“So Master knows about Communists very well. And even under Japanese days, in Japan together with the Communists he fought against the Japanese government.”
Sun Myung Moon
History Of The Unification Church, part 2
Master Speaks
December 28, 1971, Washington, D.C.
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Disciplining the Mind – North Korean style
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Ranking of “WHITE HOUSE PLUMBERS” (2023) Episodes
Below is my ranking of the episodes from “WHITE HOUSE PLUMBERS”, the HBO adaptation of “Integrity”, Egil Krogh and Matthew Krogh’s 2007 book about Watergate. Directed by David Mandel, the limited series starred Woody Harrelson and Justin Theroux:
RANKING OF “WHITE HOUSE PLUMBERS” (2023) EPISODES
1. (1.03) “Don’t Drink the Whiskey at the Watergate” - Nixon Administration “plumbers” led by E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy attempt to break into the Democratic National Committee offices at the Watergate Hotel to plant listening devices for the White House.
2. (1.04) “The Writer’s Wife” - Reeling from the arrests at the Watergate, Hunt enlists his son Saint John's help to dispose of evidence, while Liddy warns the acting Attorney General that the burglaries can be tied back to President Nixon. Later, after returning from Paris, a livid Dorothy Hunt must take control to protect her family and the Liddys.
3. (1.02) “Please Destroy This, Huh?” - While Hunt and Dorothy entertain Liddy and his wife Fran at their exclusive country club, their kids Lisa and Saint John paint a less-than-perfect portrait of the family. On the outs with Nixon's Attorney General John Mitchell, Hunt and Liddy get a chance to redeem themselves when a leaked memo from Dita Beard puts Mitchell and the administration in legal jeopardy.
4. (1.05) “True Believers” - Amid rumors of the White House's involvement, Liddy shares his concerns about Hunt's stability with White House Counsel John Dean and tries to make a deal. Hunt's daughter Kevan leverages a secret notebook to convince her father to come clean in his testimony to the U.S. Senate.
5. (1.01) “The Beverly Hills Burglary” - A year before the infamous Watergate break-in, Hunt and Liddy are tasked with investigating the Pentagon Papers leak, gathering a team of Cubans - all Bay of Pigs veterans - to infiltrate whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office. Meanwhile, the Hunts get to know the Liddys.
#white house plumbers#white house plumbers hbo#watergate#woody harrelson#e. howard hunt#justin theroux#g. gordon liddy#Lena Headey#judy greer#domhall gleeson#john dean#liam james#yul vazquez#tony plana#kiernan shipka#toby huss#james mccord#ike barinholtz#zoe levin#kim coates#nelson ascencio#kathleen turner#f. murray abraham#john sirica#john carroll lynch#david krumholtz#gary cole#mark felt#prema cruz#michele clark
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DUMB AND PLUMBER
Last night I finished watching the HBO limited series White House Plumbers...
...about the Watergate break-in, with Woody Harrelson as E. Howard Hunt and Justin Theroux as G. Gordon Liddy, presenting them both as buffoonish boneheads. Lena Headey is quite sexy as Hunt's ill-fated wife Dorothy, clearly much the smarter half of the marriage.
The Wife mostly lost interest in the show after the first of the five episodes, finding the tone too farcical for the subject matter. But I have a feeling that most of the absurd incidents it shows us are based on fact, or at least on stuff those assholes claimed actually happened.
It is broadly played, but I feel like the best, albeit posthumous, revenge against those traitorous twits is to depict them as stooges, self-impressed, amateurish wannabes. Playing them as steely-eyed villains is probably exactly what they'd get off on.
Anyway, it's mentioned several times in the course of the series that Hunt was a hack novelist on the side; it reminded me that I'd had one of his books on my shelf for years and had never gotten around to it. It was a 1972 hard-boiled noir/horror hybrid called The Coven...
...written under the pseudonym "David St. John" (the names of both his sons) and set in D.C. neighborhoods where I used to live and work. It's full of borderline-parody prose like this:
"From there I drove through a city well-lighted for the most part, but largely deserted, for honest people tended to stay indoors after dark in recent years. Out Rhode Island Avenue to a part of the District tourists seldom saw. Hell's Bottom it had been called in the early days. Murder Bay. Old, rundown, and shabby. Condemned windowless buildings, vandalized by gangs of homeless boys. By day a rude, brawling area where liquor stores cashed more relief checks than the few remaining banks. By night a furtive, shadowy zone whose sounds were the crash of liquor bottles, the bang of overturing trash cans, and strangled cries in dark allies. Where love and heroin were traded over barroom tables and stolen cars screamed around the nearby corner...A sprawling raucous quarter slated for demolition when the City Fathers could get around to it. A dying, decaying area where hope was as rare as a starched white shirt."
So you're saying...not a great neighborhood?
There are also loathing caricatures of hippies, Beltway insiders, political staffers, etc. And the hard-drinking lawyer hero is the perfect projection of the cynical badass that Hunt so clearly wanted to be. As an expression of the mindset out of which the abuses of that administration grew, it's a simultaneously fun and depressing read.
#white house plumbers#e. howard hunt#g. gordon liddy#woody harrelson#justin theroux#lena headey#hbo#washington dc#watergate
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Watergate Bay, Cornwall ♥️
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On this date in history:
In 1790, President George Washington signed a bill creating the first U.S. copyright law.
In 1859, construction concluded and bells rang out for the first time from London's Big Ben clock tower.
In 1889, a flood in Johnstown, Pa., left more than 2,200 people dead.
In 1902, Britain and South Africa signed a peace treaty ending the Boer War.
In 1916, the Battle of Verdun passed the 100-day mark. It would continue for another 200 days, amassing a casualty list of an estimated 800,000 soldiers dead, injured or missing.
In 1921, the Tulsa race massacre was set off when a mob of White residents attacked the Black residents and businesses in the Greenwood District. The total number of those killed in the violence is unknown, with an Oklahoma commission established in 2001 estimating between 75 to 100 people dead. The number of displaced Black residents was far greater.
In 1940, a thick fog hanging over the English Channel prevented the German Luftwaffe from flying missions against evacuating Allied troops from Dunkirk.
In 1985, seven federally insured banks in Arkansas, Minnesota, Nebraska and Oregon were closed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. It was a single-day record for closings since the FDIC was founded in 1934.
In 1996, Israeli voters elected opposition Likud Party leader Benjamin Netanyahu as prime minister.
In 2003, Eric Robert Rudolph, the long-sought fugitive in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics bombing and attacks on abortion clinics and a gay nightclub, was arrested while rummaging through a dumpster in North Carolina. Rudolph, whose bombings killed two people and injured many others, was sentenced to four life terms in prison.
In 2005, Mark Felt admitted that, while No. 2 man in the FBI, he was "Deep Throat," the shadowy contact whose help to Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein on the 1972 Watergate break-in led to U.S. President Richard Nixon's resignation.
In 2012, John Edwards of North Carolina, former U.S. senator and presidential candidate, was acquitted on a charge of taking illegal campaign contributions, and a judge declared a mistrial on five other charges against him.
In 2014, U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, 28, captured in Afghanistan nearly five years earlier, was released by the Taliban in exchange for five detainees held at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba. In March 2015, the Army announced that Bergdahl had been charged with desertion.
In 2019, a shooting a a Virginia Beach, Va., municipal center left 12 victims and the shooter -- a disgruntled former employee -- dead.
In 2021, China announced plans to allow couples to have a third child, scrapping its controversial two-child policy amid a slumping birth rate and aging population.
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