Dusty Rhodes And Castles Of Sand

Posted on May 16, 2013 by sandymonocle

©Renee 2013

That Rhodes name, keeps popping up in history. It follows the diamond trail to Africa, Cecil Rhodes, Rothchild and diamonds. It has also popped up with William Rhodes Davis, WW2 and Hitler. Then take the son of William Rhodes Davis who had to step down as Governor of California due to a scandal involving ENRON. His name is Gray Davis (Graham):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Rhodes

Cecil John Rhodes PC, DCL (5 July 1853 – 26 March 1902) was an English-born South African businessman, mining magnate, and politician. He was the founder of the diamond company De Beers, which today markets 40% of the world’s rough diamonds and at one time marketed 90%. An ardent believer in British colonialism, he was the founder of the southern African territory of Rhodesia, which was named after him in 1895. In 1964, Northern Rhodesia became the independent state of Zambia and Southern Rhodesia was thereafter known simply as Rhodesia. In 1980, Rhodesia, which had been de facto independent since 1965, became a recognised independent country, renamed Zimbabwe. South Africa’s Rhodes University is also named after Rhodes. He set up the provisions of the Rhodes Scholarship, which is funded by his estate.

Historian Richard A. McFarlane has called Rhodes “as integral a participant in southern African and British imperial history as George Washington or Abraham Lincoln are in their respective eras in United States history… Most histories of South Africa covering the last decades of the nineteenth century are contributions to the historiography of Cecil Rhodes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rhodes_Davis

His brother’s name is CURRY, like Leona McCurry in the Obama family tree. There are people in Africa named Davis, and they have a rose farm so I must wonder…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_Davis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron_scandal

Now comes a Ben Rhodes, and a scandal in the White House which not so many days ago had smoke billowing out a window with a fire. Is the White House too hot ? Drills, dead people, Benghazi, cover up and dead people, IRS targeting people ? Who did this ? Press played with, phone records ? Who did this ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Rhodes_(speechwriter)

Articles: Ben Rhodes: Obama’s Fixer behind the Benghazi Cover-Up

http://citizenwells.wordpress.com/2013/05/17/irs-official-who-targeted-tea-party-now-heads-obamacare-office-fox-news-may-17-2013-sarah-hall-ingram-obama-massive-irs-hiring-irs-role-in-obamacare-concerns/

http://www.humanevents.com/2013/05/15/irs-sued-for-stealing-the-medical-records-of-10-million-americans/

IRS targets conservatives:

http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2013/05/irs-scandal-reaches-to-white-house-2647730.html

IRS ? Did you forget Joe Stack ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Austin_suicide_attack

The 2010 Austin suicide attack occurred on February 18, 2010, when Andrew Joseph Stack III, flying his Piper Dakota, crashed into Building I of the Echelon office complex in Austin, Texas, United States, killing himself and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) manager Vernon Hunter. Thirteen others were injured, two seriously. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) field office was located in a four-story office building, along with other state and federal government agencies and some private businesses on the first floor. Prior to the crash, Stack had posted a suicide note referring to “greed” with the IRS, dated February 18, 2010, to his business website.

Joseph Stack was suspected of setting fire, that morning, to his two-storey North Austin house, which was mostly destroyed, but no others. In the aftermath, people debated the policies of the IRS and appropriate forms of protest. The building was repaired by December 2011. As an impact of the 2010 Austin attack, the IRS spent more than $38.6 million with $6.4 million spent to recover and resume work at the building, and over $32 million spent to increase security at other IRS sites in the U.S. However, the spending on security changes was questioned as being ineffective.

snip~ *Note* HUNTER*

Big Five (Hawaii) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Big Five was the name given to a group of what started as sugarcane processing corporations that wielded considerable political power in the Territory of Hawaiʻi during the early 20th century and leaned heavily towards the Hawaii Republican Party. The Big Five were Castle & Cooke, Alexander & Baldwin, C. Brewer & Co., American Factors (now Amfac) and Theo H. Davies & Co.. The extent of the power that the Big Five had was considered by some as equivalent to an oligarchy. Attorney General of Hawaii Edmund Pearson Dole, referring to the..

Big Five, said in 1903, “There is a government in this Territory which is centralized to an extent unknown in the United States, and probably almost as centralized as it was in France under Louis XIV.

Back to Cecil Rhodes, more on those connections to Rothchild, DeBeers etc..are found here:

http://thesandymonocle.wordpress.com/2013/02/04/africa-botswana-batwing-zulu-and-ndebele/

Russian connections to Boston Marathon ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_E._Davies

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3AFrank_Marshall_Davis

Also see John Young: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Davis_(Hawaii)

Isaac Davis had been one of Kamehameha’s closest friends advisor. His death was a great shock to Kamehameha and cast a dark shadow over the satisfaction which the King must have felt with the peaceful settlement with the king of Kauaʻi.

His nephew John Davis came to Hawaii in 1810 trying to find his uncle. John stayed and married a Hawaiian noble woman named Kauweʻa kanoaʻakaka wale no haleakala kaʻuwe kekiniʻokoolau. They had a daughter named Eliza Davis (1821–1912) who had daughters Hannah (1855–1938) and Mary with husband William Johnson (?–1863). Eliza later married William Roy (?–1905), Hannah Johnson would marry son of missionary John Davis Paris (1809–1892), and Mary would marry Hilo businessman William Herbert Shipman (1854–1943).

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Rhodes. Those roads lead to many people and places, in world history….

And those castles of sand….

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayef_bin_Abdul-Aziz_Al_Saud

Nayef bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (Arabic: نايف بن عبد العزيز آل سعود‎, Nāyif bin ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ʾĀl Saʿūd), also spelled Naif (1934 – 16 June 2012), was the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia as well as first deputy prime minister from 2011 to 2012. He was also minister of interior from 1975 to 2012.

Nayef bin Abdulaziz was born in Ta’if in 1934 to Ibn Saud (King Abdulaziz) and Hassa bint Ahmed Al Sudairi, making him one of the Sudairi Seven. He was the twenty-third son of King Abdulaziz.

Prince Nayef received education at “Princes’ School” and from senior ulema (Muslim legal scholars). Additionally, he was educated in diplomacy and security affairs.

Early experience

From 1952 to 1953, Prince Nayef served as vice governor of Riyadh Province. In 1953, he was appointed as the governor of Riyadh province. He stayed in this post for one year. Then he served as governor of Madinah province. In 1970, King Faisal appointed him to both deputy interior minister and minister of state for internal affairs.

Minister of Interior

In March 1975, after King Faisal‘s assassination, then-minister of interior Prince Fahd became the crown prince and Prince Nayef was appointed as the minister of interior by King Khalid.

Timeline

In December 1994, he ordered hundreds of terrorism-related arrests with the support of Prince Turki, head of Saudi intelligence services.

In April 2001, he, not foreign minister Saud al Faisal, went to Iran as Saudi envoy in an unprecedented move. He issued all women in Saudi Arabia identity cards. Women were previously registered under their husband’s or father’s name in November 2001. After the September 11 attacks, he received US criticism for not undertaking sufficient action against extremists.

In 2003, Prince Nayef, who was in charge of foreign labor, decreed that foreign workers and their family members should not exceed 20 percent of the Saudi population in 2013. Senator Charles Schumer lobbied through Prince Bandar to remove Prince Nayef as Minister of Interior in July 2003.

Between 2003 and 2006, he led Saudi Arabia’s confrontation against Al Qaeda, which sponsored a series of domestic attacks on expatriate housing compounds, oil infrastructure, and industrial facilities. His political stance was strengthened because of increased media exposure and the successful end to terrorist attacks.

Styles of Crown Prince Nayef

Reference style	His Royal Highness
Spoken style	Your Royal Highness

In March 2011, during the 2011 Saudi Arabian protests, 200 people who called for more information on their imprisoned relatives were denied a meeting with Nayef.

Second deputy prime minister

Since Crown Prince Sultan could not deal with demanding duties due to his extended absences for treatment and King Abdullah was about to travel to Doha to attend the League of Arab States Summit before going to London for the G20 summit, it was imperative to leave a senior official in charge, which added burdens to the leukemia-suffering 76-year-old Nayef. Therefore, on 27 March 2009, Prince Nayef became second deputy prime minister. His appointment caused a rare public split in the royal family. Prince Talal asked the King to clarify that the appointment did not necessarily mean that Nayef would become Crown Prince.

His appointment as second deputy prime minister expanded Prince Nayef’s influence into all corners of Saudi domestic policy and allowed him to participate in the development of foreign policy. He was not expected to interfere in economic matters, but to influence the judiciary.

Prince Nayef chaired many cabinet meetings when King Abdullah and Crown Prince Sultan were away for health reasons. Critics said he was behind the cancellation of the nation’s only film festival in the summer of 2009. In November 2010, he undertook all Hajj-related responsibilities. In some government offices, his picture was added next to King Abdulaziz, King Abdullah, and Crown Prince Sultan.

Crown Prince and first deputy prime minister

Prince Nayef was appointed Crown Prince and first deputy prime minister by King Abdullah on 27 October 2011, five days after the death of his full brother, Prince Sultan. During his time as Crown Prince, Nayef brought about modernizations such as “removing religious authorities who objected to the mingling of men and women in public spaces.”

Prince Nayef’s career was propelled by his full-brother King Fahd. Under Fahd, the ministry of interior became one of the most influential bureaucracies in Saudi Arabia. Prince Nayef served as a mediator in disputes between King Fahd and Prince Sultan. As King Fahd’s health deteriorated, his power gradually diminished as well. As Crown Prince, Prince Nayef was the most influential of the Sudairi Seven. He delegated the day-to-day responsibilities of his ministry to his son, Prince Muhammad and then-deputy minister Prince Ahmed. Prince Nayef had members of the ministry of interior placed in all overseas embassies.

In 2003, he “threatened to cancel certain business deals with the French government” if the narcotics investigation of Nayef bin Sultan bin Fawwaz al-Shaalan continued.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_bin_Nayef

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saud_bin_Nayef

Saud bin Nayef
Governor of Eastern Province
In office	14 January 2013 – present
Predecessor	Mohammed bin Fahd
Monarch	King Abdullah
Head of the Crown Prince Court
In office	November 2011 – 14 January 2013
Predecessor	Ali bin Ibrahim Al Hadeethi
Successor	Mohammad bin Salman
Monarch	King Abdullah
Ambassador to Spain
In office	2003 – 2011
Predecessor	Abdulaziz Al Thunayan
Successor	Mansour bin Khaled bin Abdullah Al Farhan

Full name
Saud bin Nayef bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
House	House of Saud
Father	Nayef bin Abdulaziz
Mother	Al Jawhara bint Abdulaziz bin Musaid Al Jiluwi
Born	1956 (age 56–57)
Religion	Islam

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Mann

Born	(1952-06-26) 26 June 1952 (age 60) Aldershot, England, UK
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	Scots Guards SAS
Battles/wars	1991 Gulf War Working for Private Military Companies: Bougainville Uprising Sierra Leone Civil War Failed coup d’état in Equatorial Guinea
Relations	George Mann (father) Frank Mann (grandfather)
Other work	worked for a number of private military corporations including Sandline International George Mann (cricketer) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia As a cricketer, George Mann was a right-handed middle-order batsman. His father, Frank Mann, also captained England, making them the first father and son to both captain England. Colin and Chris Cowdrey are the only other father and son to have done this for England. Mann captained England in each of his seven Test matches, winning two, and drawing the other five; his father had also been captain in every Test he played in. Wisden said of Mann: “as a captain he was ideal, zealous to a degree, and considerate in all things at all times”. After leading England in South Africa in 1948/49, Mann led his side for two Tests in the following summer, before he stood down, citing inability to participate regularly due to his family’s brewing business commitments (Mann, Crossman & Paulin). Mann was a main board director and retained his position on the new company board when the brewery merged with Watney Combe & Reid in 1958. F.G. Mann was chairman of the Test and County Cricket Board (TCCB) from 1978–83; most notably during the controversy over the rebel tour which Geoff Boycott and Graham Gooch led to South Africa in 1982. His son, Simon, was jailed for thirty-four years in Equatorial Guinea in 2008, on charges related to an attempted coup in 2004, but was pardoned on 2 November 2009. ILLEGITIMATE BIRTH OF H. H. PRINCE KARIM AGA KHAN. http://www.allaahuakbar.net/article_read.asp?id=120 At the time of marriage with Mr. Thomas Loel Evelyn Bulkeley Guinness, who was …. The mother of Karim Aga Khan Joan Barbara Yarde-Buller had given her five … Italy as a result of which Ali Solomone Khan the so called father of Karim Aga …

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Aly_Khan

Aly Khan was born in Turin, Italy, the younger son and only surviving child of the Aga Khan III and Cleope Teresa “Ginetta” Magliano, a dancer with the Ballet Opera of Monte Carlo. His father was of Iranian origin born in Karachi and his mother was Italian. He had two brothers: Prince Giuseppe Mahdi Aga Khan (who died in 1911) and, by his father’s third marriage, Sadruddin Aga Khan. He was educated by private tutors in India and France during his childhood and later trained in England as a lawyer.

First marriage

He married his first wife the Hon. Joan Guinness (née Yarde-Buller, 1908–1997). She was the former wife of Group Capt. Thomas “Loel” Guinness, a Member of Parliament, and a daughter of the 3rd Baron Churston. The wedding took place in Paris on May 18, 1936, a few days after Joan Guinness’s divorce became absolute. Before the wedding, the bride converted to Islam and took the name Tajuddawlah .

“I had been involved with several women”, he said of his playboy period of his life, which included high-profile lovers such as the British debutante Margaret Whigham and Thelma, Viscountess Furness, an American who was simultaneously involved with the Prince of Wales. “I was tired of trouble. Joan was a sane and solid girl, and I thought if I married her, I would stay out of trouble.

Amschel Rothschild – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amschel_Rothschild

Amschel Mayor James Rothschild (18 April 1955 – 8 July 1996) was a British … In 1981, he married Anita Patience Guinness, daughter of the merchant banker …

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fawzia_Fuad_Chirine

Princess Fawzia Fuad of Egypt and Iran (Persian: شاهدخت فوزیه‎ Arabic: الأميرة فوزية‎) (born 5 November 1921) is an Egyptian princess who became Queen of Iran as the first wife of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.

She is also known as Fawzia Shirin, having remarried in 1949. Although her royal titles are no longer recognized by the Egyptian government after the Egyptian Revolution of 1952 international protocol dictates that former monarchs and members of former ruling royal families still retain titles obtained whilst a member of a reigning monarchy. She is the oldest member of the deposed Muhammad Ali Dynasty residing in Egypt. Her nephew, Fuad, who was proclaimed King Fuad II of Egypt and Sudan after the Revolution, resides in Switzerland.

Diana, Princess of Wales – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Diana, Princess of Wales (Diana Frances; née Spencer; 1 July 1961 – 31 August 1997) was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales, the eldest son and heir apparent of Queen Elizabeth II

She was well known for her fund-raising work for international charities and as an eminent celebrity of the late 20th century. Her wedding to the Prince of Wales on 29 July 1981 was held at St Paul’s Cathedral and seen by a global television audience of over 750 million. While married she bore the titles Princess of Wales, Duchess of Cornwall, Duchess of Rothesay, Countess of Chester and Baroness of Renfrew. The marriage produced two sons, the princes William and Harry, who became second and third in line to the British throne.

Diana was born into an aristocratic English family with royal ancestry. She was the fourth child of John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer and his wife Frances, daughter of Maurice Roche, 4th Baron Fermoy.

Frances Shand Kydd – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Shand Kydd was born Frances Ruth Roche in Park House, on the royal estate at Sandringham, Norfolk.^[2] Her father was Edmund Roche, 4th Baron Fermoy, a friend of King George VI and the elder son of the American heiress Frances Work and her first husband, the 3rd Baron Fermoy. Her mother, Ruth, Lady Fermoy DCVO, was a confidante and lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth (later the Queen Mother).

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http://beforeitsnews.com/war-on-terror/2013/04/michelle-obama-saudi-national-boston-marathon-bombing-victims-first-lady-visits-two-injured-from-attacks-in-boston-2443678.html

It is very interesting as well that when you search Robert H. Phinny on the Africa post above you get many family connections such as : Cates, Hess, Phinny (Phinney) and Allied lines, James Phinney Baxter educator, the Hayford family: Blommey, Fuller and Phinney families, The Churchill family, Chute family notes, Eleanor Bernice Phinney Chute, J.C. Penney and Cash families, Baxter Labs, Ann Baxter and the Denning and Todd family.

Fuller ? Like the CIA man connected to the Boston Marathon Russian brothers ? Graham again ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Fuller

Parent company Sarah LEE:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuller_Brush_Company

Soundex Code for Phinny = P500

Rhodes ? Like Miller and Rhodes Department Store here:

http://thesandymonocle.wordpress.com/2012/12/25/christmas-holiday-shopping-adventure/

Steven T. Miller of the IRS resigns over scandal *NOTE* MILLER….

http://washingtonexaminer.com/democrat-baucus-warns-more-to-come-out-on-irs-scandal/article/2529913

And Ben Rhodes above has a brother Davis that is the Presdent of CBS:

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18564_162-7329695/david-rhodes/

Also see more on CBS in Africa and connections there:

http://thesandymonocle.wordpress.com/2012/12/26/spinning-the-music-part-2/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Presidents_of_CBS,_Inc.

More on CBS, Pauley and Babe found here:

http://thesandymonocle.wordpress.com/2013/04/17/babe/

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The Land Of Comics And Cults

Posted on May 13, 2013 by sandymonocle

©Renee 2013

First see:

Joan Clos i Matheu – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Liddell_MacGregor_Mathers

http://thesandymonocle.wordpress.com/2012/10/13/dalhousies-magic-spies-and-liddell-things/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Ron_Hubbard

John Whiteside Parsons – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

John Whiteside Parsons (born Marvel Whiteside Parsons) (October 2, 1914 in Los Angeles, California – June 17, 1952 in Pasadena, California), better known as Jack Parsons, was an American rocket propulsion researcher at the California Institute of Technology and a pioneer in solid rocket fuel research and development. He was one of the principal founders of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Aerojet Corp.

Parsons was also an occultist and one of the first Americans to take a keen interest in the writings of English author and Thelema‘s founder Aleister Crowley. In this capacity, he joined and eventually led an American lodge of Crowley’s magical order, Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.)

Next, from this post, we return to comics.

http://thesandymonocle.wordpress.com/2013/05/10/malcolm-shabazz-grandson-of-malcolm-little-malcolm-x-died-in-mexico/

Comics. The meeting of colored ink and paper. Comics, the land of heroes, action and the bad guys, meeting up for adventure in moving stories as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Lee

Stan Lee (born Stanley Martin Lieber; born December 28, 1922) is an American comic book writer, editor, publisher, media producer, television host, actor, voice actor and former president and chairman of Marvel Comics.

In collaboration with several artists, most notably Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, he co-created Spider-Man, the Hulk, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, Iron Man, Thor, and many other fictional characters, introducing complex, naturalistic characters and a thoroughly shared universe into superhero comic books. In addition, he headed the first major successful challenge to the industry’s censorship organization, the Comics Code Authority, and forced it to reform its policies. Lee subsequently led the expansion of Marvel Comics from a small division of a publishing house to a large multimedia corporation.

He was inducted into the comic book industry’s The Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 1994 and the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1995.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Miller_(comics)

Frank Miller (born January 27, 1957) is an American writer, artist, and film director best known for his dark, film noir-style comic book stories and graphic novels such as Ronin, Daredevil: Born Again, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Sin City, and 300. He also directed the film version of The Spirit, shared directing duties with Robert Rodriguez on Sin City and produced the film 300.

Daredevil #158 (May 1979), Miller’s debut on that title, was the finale of an ongoing story written by Roger McKenzie and inked by Klaus Janson. Although still conforming to traditional comic book styles, Miller infused this first issue with his own film noir style. After this issue, Miller became one of Marvel’s rising stars. Miller sketched the roofs of New York in an attempt to give his Daredevil art an authentic feel not commonly seen in superhero comics at the time. One journalist noted,

“Daredevil’s New York, under Frank’s run, became darker and more dangerous than the Spider-Man New York he’d seemingly lived in before. New York City itself, particularly Daredevil’s Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood, became as much a character as the shadowy crimefighter; the stories often took place on the rooftop level, with water towers, pipes and chimneys jutting out to create a skyline reminiscent of German Expressionism‘s dramatic edges and shadows.”

—Christopher Irving

Also see:

http://thesandymonocle.wordpress.com/2013/02/04/africa-botswana-batwing-zulu-and-ndebele/

http://thesandymonocle.wordpress.com/2012/12/16/mind-games-and-staged-terror-to-disarm-with-smiles/

http://thesandymonocle.wordpress.com/2013/02/18/the-shaman-and-the-dreaming-outback/

http://thesandymonocle.wordpress.com/2013/05/02/chasing-goodies-sandoz-canadians-hubbard-and-mind-expanding-stories/

Another Lee, not Marvel Comics:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Lee

Lee was born Barbara Jean Tutt in El Paso, Texas, the daughter of Mildred Adaire (née Parish) and Garvin Alexander Tutt, a Lieutenant Colonel.^] According to a DNA analysis, she descended, mainly, from people of Guinea-Bissau and Sierra Leone.

She moved from Texas to California in 1960 with her military family parents, and attended San Fernando High School in San Fernando, CaliforniaS he was a young single mother of two receiving public ssistance when she began attending college. Lee was educated at Mills College and received an M.S.W. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1975.

While a student at Mills College, she was a volunteer at the Oakland chapter of the Black Panther Party‘s Community Learning Center and worked on Panther co-founder Bobby Seale‘s 1973 Oakland mayoral campaign.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Seal

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unification_Church

Joan Clos i Matheu – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Lee

Preceded by Elihu Harris

Succeeded by Willie Brown

Personal details

Born Barbara Jean Tutt
(1946-07-16) July 16, 1946 (age 66)
El Paso, Texas, U.S.

Political party Democratic

Alma mater Mills College
University of California, Berkeley

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Chisholm

Shirley Anita St. Hill was born in Brooklyn, New York, of immigrant parents. Her father, Charles Christopher St. Hill, was born in British Guiana and arrived in the United States via Antilla, Cuba, on April 10, 1923, aboard the S.S. Munamar in New York City. Her mother, Ruby Seale, was born in Christ Church, Barbados, and arrived in New York City aboard the S.S. Pocone on March 8, 1921, At age three, Chisholm was sent to Barbados to live with her maternal grandmother, Emaline Seale, in Christ Church; where she attended the Vauxhall Primary School. She did not return until roughly seven years later when she arrived in New York City on May 19, 1934, aboard the S.S. Narissa. In her 1970 autobiography Unbought and Unbossed, she wrote: “Years later I would know what an important gift my parents had given me by seeing to it that I had my early education in the strict, traditional, British-style schools of Barbados. If I speak and write easily now, that early education is the main reason.” Chisholm is an alumna of Girls’ High School, she earned her BA from Brooklyn College in 1946 and later earned her MA from Columbia University in elementary education in 1952. She was a member of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Hill

Hill was born in Lone Tree, Oklahoma, the youngest of the thirteen children of Albert and Erma Hill, who were farmers. Her family hailed from Arkansas, where her great-grandparents and her maternal grandfather, Henry Eliot, were born into slavery. Hill was raised in the Baptist faith.

After graduating as valedictorian from Morris High School, Hill enrolled at Oklahoma State University, receiving a bachelor’s degree with honors, in psychology 1977. She went on to Yale Law School, obtaining her Juris Doctor degree with honors in 1980.

She was admitted to the District of Columbia Bar in 1980 and began her law career as an associate with the Washington, D.C. firm of Wald, Harkrader & Ross. In 1981, she became an attorney-adviser to Clarence Thomas who was then the Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights. When Thomas became Chairman of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in 1982, Hill went along to serve as his assistant, leaving the job in 1983.

Hill then became an assistant professor at the Evangelical Christian O. W. Coburn School of Law at Oral Roberts University where she taught from 1983 to 1986. In 1986, she joined the faculty at the University of Oklahoma College of Law where she taught commercial law and contracts.

Thomas was nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court by then-President George H. W. Bush, a position that required Senate hearings and confirmation. The hearings were initially completed, with Thomas’s good character being presented as a primary qualification for the high court because he had only been a judge for slightly more than one year. There had been little organized opposition to Thomas’s nomination and his confirmation seemed assured, until a report of a private interview of Hill by the FBI leaked out to the press. The hearings were then reopened, and Hill was called to publicly testify.

Hill said in the October 1991 televised hearings that Thomas had sexually harassed her while he was her supervisor at the Department of Education and the EEOC. When questioned on why she followed Thomas to the second job after he had already allegedly harassed her, she said she had wanted to work in the civil rights field, she had no alternative job, “and at that time, it appeared that the sexual overtures … had ended.”

According to Hill, during her two years of employment as Thomas’s assistant, Thomas had asked her out socially many times, and after she refused, he used work situations to discuss sexual subjects. “He spoke about…such matters as women having sex with animals and films showing group sex or rape scenes” she said, adding that on several occasions Thomas graphically described “his own sexual prowess” and the details of his anatomy. Hill also recounted an instance in which Thomas examined a can of Coke on his desk and asked, “Who has put pubic hair on my Coke?”

Four female witnesses waited in the wings to reportedly support Hill’s credibility, but they were not called, due to what the Los Angeles Times described as a private, compromise deal between “aggressive, gloves-off” Republicans and the Senate Judiciary Committee Chair, Democrat Joe Biden, According to Time magazine, one of the witnesses, Angela Wright, may not have been considered credible on the issue of sexual harassment because she had been fired from the EEOC by Thomas.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Thomas

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Lamp_Thomas

In the 1980s, while a congressional aide, Thomas took training with the self-awareness program Lifespring. In 1987, she related to The Washington Post that, during her training several years earlier, she had been “confused and troubled” by lessons such as one where trainees were told to disrobe to bikinis and bathing suits then “made fun of fat people’s bodies and riddled one another with sexual questions”. After realizing that membership in her Lifespring group was separating her from her family, friends, and co-workers, Thomas began what proved to be a difficult and months-long process of breaking away. At one point, she hid in another part of the U.S. to avoid a constant barrage of high-pressure phone calls from Lifespring members, who felt they had a duty to keep her in the organization.

Thomas ultimately came to believe that Lifespring was a cult. After leaving the group in 1985, she sought counseling and joined the Cult Awareness Network. She became a critic of controversial religious groups, speaking on panels and organizing workshops critical of cults for Congressional staffers in 1986 and 1988. In a 1991 interview, Thomas remarked, “I was once in a group that used mind control techniques”; and she called its members “pretty scary people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Jones

Preceded by	Elihu Harris
Succeeded by	Willie Brown
Personal details
Born	Barbara Jean Tutt (1946-07-16) July 16, 1946 (age 66) El Paso, Texas, U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Alma mater	Mills College University of California, Berkeley

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There’s Something About…Elizabeth Rees Williams And Rice

Posted on May 11, 2013 by sandymonocle

©Renee 2013

Soundex Code for Rice = R200

http://thesandymonocle.wordpress.com/2013/05/10/malcolm-shabazz-grandson-of-malcolm-little-malcolm-x-died-in-mexico/

From this post we now continue here:

Ritz* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Al-Fayed

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Rees-Williams

Joan Elizabeth Rees-Williams, The Hon. Mrs. Aitken (born 1 May 1936) is a Welsh socialite. She had two film roles around her early 40s.

She was born in Cardiff, the daughter of Alice Alexandra Constance (née Wills) and the politician David Rees-Williams, 1st Baron Ogmore. She has three biological children from her first marriage and gained at least eight stepchildren from all her later marriages.

She has been married four times.

She married Richard Harris in 1957, with whom she had three biological sons with (Jared Harris, Jamie Harris, and Damian Harris). They divorced in 1969. Sir Rex Harrison was her second husband from 1971 to 1975, who had two adult sons (Noel Harrison and Carey Harrison). Peter Michael Aitken and Rees-Williams wed in 1980 and divorced in 1985. He has two sons, (James and Jason Aitken.) He is the cousin of her next husband, Jonathan. Jonathan Aitken is her current husband, whom she married on 25 June 2003 and who has three daughters and one son, (Alexendra Aitken, Victoria Aitken, Petrina Khashoggi, and William Aitken.)

Elizabeth Rees-Williams
Born	Joan Elizabeth Rees-Williams (1936-05-01) May 1, 1936 (age 77) Cardiff, Wales, UK
Spouse(s)	Richard Harris (1957–1969) Sir Rex Harrison (1971–1975) Peter Aitken (1980–1985) Jonathan Aitken (2003–present)
Children	Jared Harris Jamie Harris Damian Harris

Rex Harrison – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Colette Thomas (m.1934-1942)
Lilli Palmer (m.1943-1957)
Kay Kendall (m.1957-1959)
Rachel Roberts (m.1962-1971)

Elizabeth Rees-Williams (m.1971-1975)
Mercia Tinker (m.1979-1990)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Palmer_(politician)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Palmer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_Candy_Company

Cherry Mash – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Cherry Mash is an American candy bar consisting of a soft, cherry-flavored center containing maraschino cherries, covered in a mixture of chopped roasted peanuts and chocolate.

The Cherry Mash was formulated in 1918 by Dr. George Washington Chase’s son, Ernest. The candy consisted of a quarter-pound mound of chopped roasted peanuts, blended with chocolate coating over a smooth cherry fondant center. The candy bar was originally called Cherry Chase, and then Cherry Chaser, before becoming known as Cherry Mash.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamala_Harris

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adnan_Khashoggi

Adnan Khashoggi (Arabic: عدنان خاشقجي‎, IPA: [ʕædˈnæːn xæːˈʃuqdʒiː]; born 25 July 1935) is a Saudi Arabian businessman. He is also noted for his engagements with high society in both the Western and Arabic-speaking worlds, and for his involvement in the Iran–Contra and Lockheed bribery scandals. At a peak net worth of up to $40 billion USD in the early 1980s, he was considered one of the richest men in the world.

http://frombrusselstobeirut.wordpress.com/2012/06/05/whatever-happened-to-adnan-khashoggi/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Rees-Jones

For the bodyguard, see Trevor Rees-Jones (bodyguard).

Trevor Rees-Jones is the founder and chairman of Chief Oil and Gas. He has a net worth of approximately $4.5 billion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_Armstrong-Jones,_1st_Earl_of_Snowdon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie,_Countess_of_Wessex

Sophie Helen Rhys-Jones was born at Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, on 20 January 1965, the second child and first daughter of Christopher Bournes Rhys-Jones (born 1931), a retired tyre salesman, and his wife, Mary (née O’Sullivan; 1934–2005), a secretary, who already had a son, David. Sophie was named after her father’s sister, Helen, who died in a riding accident more than a decade before Sophie was born. Her godfather, actor Thane Bettany, is her father’s stepbrother; both men spent their early life in Sarawak, North Borneo, then a British Protectorate ruled by the White Rajahs.

Issue
Spouse	Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex (m. 1999)
Lady Louise Windsor James, Viscount Severn
Full name
Sophie Helen
House	House of Windsor
Father	Christopher Rhys-Jones
Mother	Mary O’Sullivan
Born	(1965-01-20) 20 January 1965 (age 48) Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, England
Religion	Anglican (Church of England)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rhys-Davies

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Davis *CBS*

Big Five (Hawaii) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hawaii’s Big Five

OIL: OIL New Giant – TIME

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,887635,00.html

He had joined the Standard Oil Co. of California as a… … last month, perhaps the most distinguished was grey-haired Ralph K. Davies of Woodside, Calif.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Davies

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Rice

Nina Ricci (brand) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Nina Ricci is a fashion house founded by Maria “Nina” Ricci and her son Robert in Paris in 1932, and owned by the Spanish beauty and fashion group Puig since 1998. Nina Ricci designed gowns while Robert managed the business and finances. She worked with the fabrics directly on the mannequin to ensure they had shape once they were finished. Nina Ricci designs soon became known for the refined, romantic, always feminine feeling Maria adds to all of her collections.

In 1945, with the war over, designers were casting about for a way to revive the infatuation women had formerly had with haute couture, while raising money for war relief. Robert Ricci had an idea which Lucien Lelong, President of the Chambre, put into action. Over 150 mannequins from 40 Paris couturiers, including Balenciaga and Madame Gres, were dressed in the labels’ best fashions and were placed in an exhibition held at the Louvre, in Paris. After a huge success in Paris it toured Europe and then the USA.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condoleezza_Rice

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Rice

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Rice

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_University

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Marsh_Rice

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Francis_Richter

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Rich

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Rich

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Rice

Johnson Publishing Company – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Industry	Mass Media
Founded	November 1942
Founder(s)	John H. Johnson Eunice W. Johnson
Headquarters	200 S. Michigan Ave Chicago, Illinois U.S.^[1]
Key people	Linda Johnson Rice Chairman Desiree Rogers CEO

http://thesandymonocle.wordpress.com/2012/11/27/a-monkey-named-sunshine-jones-and-his-rice-and-gravy/

Must have peanuts to make music, as well as some candy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillian_Gordy_Carter

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._B._Reese

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efra%C3%ADn_R%C3%ADos_Montt

José Efraín Ríos Montt (born June 16, 1926) is a former de facto President of Guatemala, dictator, army general and former president of Congress.

A General in the Guatemalan Army, Ríos Montt came to public office through a coup d’etat on March 23, 1982. In turn, he was overthrown by his Defense Minister, Óscar Humberto Mejía Victores, in another coup d’etat on August 8, 1983. In the 2003 presidential elections, he unsuccessfully ran as the candidate of the Guatemalan Republican Front (FRG). In 2007 Ríos Montt returned to public office as a member of Congress, gaining prosecutorial immunity, including from a pair of long-running lawsuits alleging war crimes against Ríos Montt and a number of his former ministers and councilors during their term in the presidential palace in 1982-83. His immunity ended on January 14, 2012, when his term in office ran out. On January 26, 2012 Ríos Montt appeared in court in Guatemala and was formally indicted for genocide and crimes against humanity. Huehuetenango-born Ríos Montt remains one of the most controversial figures in Guatemala. Two Truth Commissions, the REMHI report, sponsored by the Roman Catholic Church, and the CEH report, conducted by the United Nations as part of the 1996 Accords of Firm and Durable Peace, documented widespread human rights abuses committed by Ríos Montt’s military regime, including widespread massacres, rape, torture, and acts of genocide against the indigenous population. Supporters maintain that there was no genocide, just a bloody civil war. Ríos Montt has, at times, had close ties to the United States, receiving direct and indirect support from certain of its agencies, including the CIA.

Ríos Montt is best known outside Guatemala for heading a military regime (1982–1983) that was partly responsible for having defeated the guerrillas through the “guns and beans” campaign, maintaining “If you are with us, we’ll feed you, if not, we’ll kill you” Guatemala’s 36-year civil war ended with the signing of a peace treaty in 1996. The civil war pitted Marxist rebels against the Guatemalan state, including the army, with huge numbers of civilians, both indigenous Mayas and mestizo Ladinos, caught in the crossfire. At least 200,000 Guatemalans were killed during the conflict, making it one of Latin America’s most violent wars in modern history.

Indigenous Mayas suffered disproportionately during Ríos Montt’s rule, and it is documented that his government deliberately targeted thousands of indigenous people since many were suspected of harboring sympathies for, supporting, or participating in the guerrilla movement. Under the Cold War-era logic of containment the Guatemalan state sought to eliminate the spread of communism inside its borders. The UN-backed Historical Clarification Commission found that the resulting counterinsurgency campaign, significantly designed and advanced during Ríos Montt’s presidency, included deliberate “acts of genocide” against the indigenous population. He is currently under house arrest while being tried for crimes against humanity and genocide.

Soundex Code for Rios = R200

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Malcolm Shabazz, Grandson Of Malcolm Little (Malcolm X) Died In Mexico

Posted on May 10, 2013 by sandymonocle

©Renee 2013

His mother worked for Percy Sutton in San Antonio, Texas. Percy Sutton was a connection to Harvard, Obama and Saudi Royals. Nation Of Islam, Black Panthers, and a strange death of being thrown off of a building or shot, Malcolm Shabazz had written on his Facebook page that his page had been hacked and that posts were made that he did not write. Sounds like another thriller on the New York Times Best Seller List but the story is now unfolding.

http://www.amsterdamnews.com/news/national/malcolm-shabazz-grandson-of-malcolm-x-killed-in-tia-juana/article_5f2334f2-b8eb-11e2-93b2-0019bb2963f4.html

Tijuana – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Tijuana (/t iː ə ˈ w ɑː n ə / tee-ə-WAH-nə or /t iː ˈ w ɑː n ə /; Spanish: [tiˈxwana]) is the largest city on the Baja California Peninsula and center of the Tijuana metropolitan area, part of the international San Diego–Tijuana metropolitan area. An industrial and financial center of Mexico. Tijuana exerts a strong influence on economics, education, culture, art, and politics. As the city has become a leading center in the country, so has the surrounding metropolitan area, a major industrial and paramount metropolis in northwestern Mexico. Currently one of the fastest growing metropolitan areas in Mexico. Tijuana maintains global city status.

On the Gold Coast of Baja California, Tijuana is the municipal seat, cultural, and commercial center of Tijuana Municipality, covering 23.5% of the municipality. A dominant manufacturing center of the North American continent, the city maintains facilities of numerous multinational conglomerate companies. The 2000s (decade) saw Tijuana become the medical device manufacturing capital of North America. Also a growing cultural center, Tijuana has been recognized as a most important new cultural mecca. The city is the most visited border city in the globe; sharing an approximate 24-kilometre-long border (15 mi) with its sister city San Diego, over fifty million people annually cross the border between these two cities. This metropolitan crossing makes the San Ysidro Port of Entry the busiest land-border crossing in the world. It is estimated that the two border crossing stations between the cities proper of San Diego and Tijuana account for 300,000 daily border crossings alone.

Mother of Malcolm Shabazz: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qubilah_Shabazz

Qubilah Shabazz (born December 25, 1960) is the second daughter of Malcolm X and Betty Shabazz. In 1965, she witnessed the assassination of her father by three gunmen from the Nation of Islam. She was arrested in 1995 in connection with an alleged plot to kill Louis Farrakhan, by then the leader of the organization, who she believed was responsible for the assassination of her father. Shabazz maintained her innocence. She accepted a plea agreement under which she was required to undergo psychological counseling and treatment for drug and alcohol abuse in order to avoid a prison sentence.

Shabazz was born in Queens, New York, on December 25, 1960. Her father named her after Kublai Khan. Photographer and film-maker Gordon Parks was her godfather.

In February 1965, when she was four years old, Shabazz roused her parents in the middle of the night with her screams: the family’s house had been set on fire. One week later, together with her mother and sisters, Shabazz witnessed the assassination of her father.

As a youth, Shabazz attended Quaker-run summer camps in Vermont, and at age 11 she converted to the religion from Islam. Together with her sisters, she joined Jack and Jill, a social club for the children of well-off African Americans. As a teenager, Shabazz attended the United Nations International School in Manhattan.

After high school, Shabazz enrolled at Princeton University. She felt uncomfortable there, because the Caucasian students shunned her, and the African-American students resented her. They viewed her as uninterested in their efforts to force the university to divest its investments in South Africa, when she was merely shy. She left Princeton after two semesters and moved to Paris, where she studied at the Sorbonne and worked as a translator. In Paris, she met an Algerian man with whom she had a child, Malcolm, in 1984. The relationship with the Algerian was short-lived.

For many years, Shabazz’s mother harbored resentment toward the Nation of Islam—and Louis Farrakhan in particular—for what she felt was their role in the assassination of her husband.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_X

Malcolm X (pron.: /ˈ m æ l k əm ˈ ɛ k s /; May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965), born Malcolm Little and also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Arabic: الحاجّ مالك الشباز‎), was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist. To his admirers, he was a courageous advocate for the rights of blacks, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans. Detractors accused him of preaching racism, black supremacy, and violence. He has been called one of the greatest and most influential African Americans in history.

Malcolm X’s father died—killed by white supremacists, it was rumored—when he was young, and at least one of his uncles was lynched. When he was 13, his mother was placed in a mental hospital, and he was placed in a series of foster homes. In 1946, at age 20, he went to prison for breaking and entering.

In prison, Malcolm X became a member of the Nation of Islam; after his parole in 1952, he quickly rose to become one of its leaders. For a dozen years, Malcolm X was the public face of the controversial group, but disillusionment with Nation of Islam head Elijah Muhammad led him to leave the Nation in March 1964. After a period of travel in Africa and the Middle East, he returned to the United States, where he founded Muslim Mosque, Inc. and the Organization of Afro-American Unity. In February 1965, less than a year after leaving the Nation of Islam, he was assassinated by three members of the group.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Little

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Sutton

Percy Ellis Sutton (November 24, 1920 – December 26, 2009) was a prominent black American political and business leader. A civil-rights activist and lawyer, he was also a Freedom Rider and the legal representative for Malcolm X. He was the highest-ranking African-American elected official in New York City when he was Manhattan borough president from 1966 to 1977, the longest tenure at that position. He later became an entrepreneur whose investments included the New York Amsterdam News and the Apollo Theater in Harlem.

Sutton was born in San Antonio, Texas, the last of fifteen children born to Samuel Johnson(“S.J.”) Sutton and Lillian Sutton.

His father, born during the time of slavery and an early civil-rights activist, was one of the first blacks in Bexar County, Texas, and used the initials “S.J.” for fear it would be shortened to Sambo.In addition to being a full-time educator, S.J. farmed, sold real estate and owned a mattress factory, funeral home and skating rink.

All of Sutton’s siblings graduated from college. His brothers included G.J. Sutton, who became the first black elected official in San Antonio, and Oliver Sutton, who became a judge on the New York Supreme Court (Manhattan).

Young Sutton milked cows and rode around San Antonio with his father in the same Studebaker vehicle that was used for funerals and distributing milk to the poor. He liked to attach strings to cans to pretend to be a radio broadcaster.

At age twelve, he stowed away on a passenger train to New York City, where he slept under a sign on 155th Street in the Harlem neighborhood of the Manhattan borough of the city. Ironically, his oldest sister, Lillian Sutton Taylor who was 20 years his senior, was attending Columbia Teacher’s College at the time. His oldest brother John Sutton, a food scientist who had studied under George Washington Carver, and also in Russia, was living in New York at the time Percy arrived there. His family clearly had resources, a sense of adventure and determination during a time when many African-Americans were extremely limited in options.

http://www.apfn.org/enron/sutton.htm

http://drkatesview.wordpress.com/2012/05/07/francis-xavier-sutton-and-the-ford-foundation/

http://www.mfs-theothernews.com/2012/09/video-did-arab-money-fund-obama-at.html

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Article/055958-2009-08-20-sean-hannity-obama-friends-history-of-radicalisam-1-6-college.htm

Sean Hannity explores the mysterious collage years of the well-spoken Barak Obama. He spent 2 years at Occidental Collage, which he said was a ‘dead end’. Then Barack moved on to Columbia University in New York City. This is where he met a Pakistani Sahol Sadiki, who was dabbling with cocaine. Obama admitted he drank beer regularly and did drugs enthusiastically while in high school. Research Journalist David Bossie states, “Barack Obama WILL NOT release any information from Columbia and Harvard AND WILL NOT allow Columbia or Harvard to release any information. SO we are really dealing with limited information about his collage years.”

The New York Times States “Obama has declined repeated requests to talk about New York years, release ANY Columbia transcripts or even identify even a single fellow student, roommate, co-worker or friend from those years” Oct 30,2007
One of the most sought after pieces of information from Obama’s Senior year is his thesis. All that is known is the title of his thesis “Soviet Nuclear Disarmament” in 1983 right at the height of the cold war.

We know that Obama was the president of the Harvard Law Review. However, there is not one single thing with his name on it. How was Obama able to get into the exclusive Harvard Law School? Percy Sutton the former Manhattan Manager gives us a clue. A known radical extremist with ties to the Saudi Arabian government personally asks Sutton to help Obama get into Harvard. This friend was Dr. Khalid Al Mansur. Al Mansur was a top advisor to a key Saudi Arabian official and the former mentor to the Black Panthers.

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Taylor/ Johnson:

Katherine Dunham – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Katherine Mary Dunham was born in June, 1909 in a Chicago hospital and taken as an infant to her parents’ home in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, a village about fifteen miles west of Chicago. Her father, Albert Millard Dunham, was a descendant of slaves from West Africa and Madagascar. Her mother, Fanny June Dunham (née Taylor), who was of mixed French-Canadian and Native American heritage, died when Katherine was three years old. After her father’s remarriage a few years later, the family moved to a predominately white neighborhood in Joliet, Illinois, where Mr. Dunham ran a dry cleaning business.

Friend of Catherine Dunham:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Duke

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Kahanamoku

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Ann_Duke

Barbara Taylor Bowman:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_T._Bowman

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Bird_Johnson

Claudia Alta “Lady Bird” Taylor Johnson (December 22, 1912 – July 11, 2007) was First Lady of the United States (1963–69) during the presidency of her husband Lyndon B. Johnson.

Rachel Lambert Mellon – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Known as Bunny, she is the eldest child of Gerard Barnes Lambert, Sr., a president of Gillette Safety Razor Co. and a founder of Warner-Lambert (Warner-Lambert is now part of Pfizer, following a 2000 merger). One of her grandfathers, chemist Jordan Lambert, invented Listerine, although it was her father who commercialized it Her mother was the former Rachel Lowe. She had two siblings: Gerard Barnes Lambert, Jr. (1912–1947; married Elsa Conver, former wife of Angus D. Mackintosh); and Lily Cary Lambert (1914–2006; married William Wilson Fleming and John Gilman McCarthy).

Mellon’s parents divorced in 1933, and in 1934, her mother re-married her former brother-in-law, Dr. Malvern Bryan Clopton, the widower of Gerard Lambert, Sr.’s sister, Lily Lambert Walker. In 1936, Gerard Lambert, Sr. also was re-married, to Grace Cleveland Lansing Mull, the former wife of John B. Mull and a daughter of Henry Livingston Lansing.

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Pricilla Livingston Johnson MacMillan and JFK:

http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=8045

MacMillan:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola_R._MacMillan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Macmillan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson_Publishing_Company

Johnson Publishing Company, Inc. is an American publishing company founded in November 1942 by John H. Johnson. Headquartered at 200 S. Michigan Avenue in Chicago, Illinois, The company is privately held, and its chief executive officer is Desiree Rogers.

Born Eunice Walker on April 4, 1916, in Selma, Alabama, she graduated with a degree in sociology from Talladega College in 1938. She met her future husband, John H. Johnson, in 1940 while she was attending Loyola University Chicago and was married after she earned her master’s degree the following year.

Industry	Mass Media
Founded	November 1942
Founder(s)	John H. Johnson Eunice W. Johnson
Headquarters	200 S. Michigan Ave Chicago, Illinois U.S.
Key people	Linda Johnson Rice Chairman Desiree Rogers CEO

Linda Johnson Rice ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Rice

*John W. Mecom secured the oil rights from King Hussein*

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_F._Taylor

Patrick F. Taylor (June 12, 1937 – November 6, 2004) was an American businessman, who was founder and CEO of the independent oil company Taylor Energy Company.

Taylor graduated from Louisiana State University with a degree in petroleum engineering. After working for independent oilman John W. Mecom, Sr., he established a consulting company. Along with Mecom, he founded the Circle Bar Drilling company in the 1970s. After Circle Bar was sold, he started Taylor Energy Company. Taylor Energy became the largest privately held oil and gas company in the Gulf of Mexico.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hussein_of_Jordan

Spouse	Sharifa Dina bint ‘Abdu’l-Hamid Antoinette Avril Gardiner Alia Baha ed din Touqan Lisa Halaby

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Muna_al-Hussein

Issue
Spouse	Hussein of Jordan
Abdullah II of Jordan Prince Faisal Princess Aisha Princess Zein
House	Hashemite
Father	Walter Percy Gardiner
Mother	Doris Elizabeth Sutton
Born	(1941-04-25) 25 April 1941 (age 72) Chelmondiston, Suffolk UK

Gardiner attended Bourne School in Kuala Lumpur, which was administered by the British Families Education Service for the children of British service personnel stationed overseas. The school closed when British forces withdrew from Malaya.

Gardiner met the King of Jordan while working as a secretarial assistant on the film set of Lawrence of Arabia. The King had allowed troops to work as extras on this film and would occasionally visit to monitor the production’s progress.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_Johnson

Robert Wood “Woody” Johnson IV (born April 12, 1947) is an American businessman and philanthropist. He is a great-grandson of Robert Wood Johnson I (co-founder of Johnson & Johnson), and the owner of the New York Jets of the National Football League.

Johnson was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey. His father was Robert Wood Johnson III, president of Johnson & Johnson for four years, and his mother was Betty Wold Johnson. Johnson grew up with four siblings: Keith Johnson, Billy Johnson, Elizabeth “Libet” Johnson, and Christopher Wold Johnson. He grew up in affluent areas of North New Jersey, and attended the Millbrook School. He graduated from the University of Arizona. Johnson then worked menial summer jobs at Johnson & Johnson with the expectation of ascending to the top of the family business.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phylicia_Rash%C4%81d

Phylicia Rashād (born Phylicia Ayers-Allen; June 19, 1948) is an American Tony Award-winning actress and singer, best known for her role as Clair Huxtable on the long-running NBC sitcom The Cosby Show.

Spouse(s)	Nancy Sale Johnson Rashad (m. 1977–2001) Suzanne Ircha Johnson (m. 2009–present)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phylicia_Rash%C4%81d

Spouse(s)	William Lancelot Bowles, Jr. (1972–1975) Victor Willis (1978–1982) Ahmad Rashād (1985–2001)

Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall GCVO, CSM (Camilla Rosemary; née Shand, previously Parker Bowles; born 17 July 1947) is the second wife of Charles, Prince of Wales, the eldest child and heir apparent of Queen Elizabeth II.

Instead of taking the title “Princess of Wales“, she is styled through her husband’s secondary titles as “Duchess of Cornwall” and, in Scotland, “Duchess of Rothesay“. The secondary titles were used because of the strong association of the primary title with her husband’s first wife, the late Diana, Princess of Wales. Other titles she holds through her marriage are Countess of Chester and Baroness of Renfrew.

Camilla is the eldest child of Major Bruce Shand and his wife The Honourable Rosalind Cubitt, daughter of Roland Cubitt, 3rd Baron Ashcombe. She was raised in East Sussex, a county in South East England, and grew up in the British aristocracy. In 1973, she married British army officer Andrew Parker Bowles (now retired) and they had two children. They divorced amicably in 1995. Together they are grandparents to five grandchildren.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erskine_Bowles

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Panther_Party

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/05/22/ahmadinejad-farrakhan-new-black-panthers-shocking-new-details-on-their-meeting-the-beast-alliance-that-was-forged/

According to New Black Panther Chairman Malik Zulu Shabazz:

Envisions the “glory” of “paroling on the Israeli embassy with a hundred New Black Panthers” fighting for Palestine.
Fighting white people is an “international struggle against a common enemy.”
Whites are trying to “divide the non-white” population against each other
Because “half of Africa” was involved in slavery “we say Africa owes us reparations, too.”
Black radicals should seek “alliances that are possible right now with people who got solid track records of being against this beast [white people].”
Shabazz “stands on solid ideological ground” with “His Excellency, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.”
“Mahmoud Ahmadinejad” understands “the dynamics and the politics of world revolution.”
Shabazz discussed “bringing natural gas and oil and other reparations into the black nation, and other things - unmentionable” with Ahmadinejad.
There were “fifty Imams in the meeting” and “Minister Farrakhan is sitting in the first seat in the front.”
There are “just as many Arabs who hate this white man as we do” and the Black Panthers should ally themselves with radical Islam.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_Ahmadinejad

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Morsi

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fawzia_Fuad_Chirine

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Aly_Khan

http://www.infowars.com/benghazi-whistleblower-ive-been-demoted-for-challenging-susan-rices-claims/

Rice and gravy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Rice

Soundex Code for Rice = R200

Rizk (related to Gamal Naser):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamal_Abdel_Nasser

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fathia_Nkrumah Helena Fathia and Kwamie’s friends Shirley and WEB duBois:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Graham_Du_Bois

Graham, Kellogs Sanitarium, Kellogg, Brown and Root, Haliburton, Crackers and newspapers…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_%26_Taylor

Daughter of Ex-CIA Agent Graham Fuller Once Married to …

http://www.opposingviews.com/i/religion/islam/daughter-ex-cia-agent-graham-fuller-…;

Apr 28, 2013 … Ex-CIA agent Graham Fuller denied any connections between the … Daughter of Ex-CIA Agent Graham Fuller Once Married to Tsarnaev Brothers‘ Uncle … Of the Boston bombing, Fuller said: “I for one was astonished at the …

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How The Pictures And Songs Remain The Same

Posted on May 8, 2013 by sandymonocle

©Renee 2013

Today we look at songs and movies. Some of the people and their connections are interesting. Worldly connections. Very far reaching. It is amazing to look at special people and their art. Take for example this movie maker:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sohrab_Shahid-Saless

Sohrab Shaheed Salles (Persian: سهراب شهید ثالث‎) (Alternative Dictation: Sohrab Shahid-Saless) (28 June 1944, Tehran – 2 July 1998, Chicago, Illinois) was an Iranian film director and screenwriter and one of the most celebrated figures in Iranian cinema in the 20th century. After 1976 he worked in the Cinema of Germany and was an important component of the film diaspora working in the German industry.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_of_Iran

Cinema was only five years old when it came to Persia at the beginning of the 20th century. The first Persian filmmaker was Mirza Ebrahim Khan Akkas Bashi, the official photographer of Muzaffar al-Din Shah, the Shah of Persia from 1896–1907. After a visit to Paris in July 1900, Akkas Bashi obtained a camera and filmed the Shah‘s visit to Europe upon the Shah’s orders. He is said to have filmed the Shah’s private and religious ceremonies, but no copies of such films exist today. A few years after Akkas Bashi started photography, Khan Baba Motazedi, another pioneer in Iranian motion picture photography emerged. He shot a considerable amount of newsreel footage during the reign of Qajar to the Pahlavi dynasty.

In 1904, Mirza Ebrahim Khan Sahhafbashi opened the first movie theater in Tehran. After Mirza Ebrahim Khan, several others like Russi Khan, Ardeshir Khan, and Ali Vakili tried to establish new movie theaters in Tehran. Until the early 1930s, there were little more than 15 theatres in Tehran and 11 in other provinces.

In 1925, Ovanes Ohanian, decided to establish the first film school in Iran. Within five years he managed to run the first session of the school under the name “Parvareshgahe Artistiye cinema” (The Cinema Artist Educational Centre).

In 1930 the first Iranian silent Film was made by Professor Ovanes Ohanian called Haji Agha. In 1932 he made his second film titled Abi Rubi. Later that year, Abdolhossein Sepanta made the first Iranian sound film, entitled Lor Girl. Sepanta would go on to direct movies such as Ferdowsi (the life story of the most celebrated epic poet of Iran), Shirin and Farhaad (a classic Iranian love story), and Black Eyes (the story of Nader Shah‘s invasion of India). In 1937, he directed Laili and Majnoon, an Eastern love story similar to the English story of Romeo and Juliet.

The present day Iranian film industry owes much of its progress to two industrious personalities, Esmail Koushan and Farrokh Ghaffari. By establishing the first National Iranian Film Society in 1949 at the Iran Bastan Museum and organizing the first Film Week during which English films were exhibited, Ghaffari laid the foundation for alternative and non-commercial films in Iran.

Early Persian directors like Abdolhossein Sepanta and Esmail Koushan took advantage of the richness of Persian literature and ancient Persian mythology. In their work, they emphasized ethics and humanity.

The 1960s was a significant decade for Iranian cinema, with 25 commercial films produced annually on average throughout the early ‘60s, increasing to 65 by the end of the decade. The majority of production focused on melodrama and thrillers.

The movie that really boosted the economy of Iranian cinema and initiated a new genre was Ganj-e-Qarun (Croesus Treasure), made in 1965 by Siamak Yasami. Four years later Masoud Kimiay made Kaiser. With Kaiser (Qeysar), Kimiay depicted the ethics and morals of the romanticized poor working class of the Ganj-e-Qarun genre through his main protagonist, the titular Qeysar. But Kimiay’s film generated another genre in Iranian popular cinema: the tragic action drama.

With the screening of the films Kaiser and The Cow, directed by Masoud Kimiay and Darius Mehrjui respectively in 1969, alternative films established their status in the film industry. Attempts to organize a film festival that had begun in 1954 within the framework of the Golrizan Festival, bore fruits in the form of the Sepas Festival in 1969. The endeavors of Ali Mortazavi also resulted in the formation of the Tehran World Festival in 1973.

Soundex Code for Saless = S420

Spouse(s)	Nancy Sale Johnson Rashad (m. 1977–2001) Suzanne Ircha Johnson (m. 2009–present)
Children	Casey Johnson (1979–2010) Jamie Johnson (b. 1982) Daisy Johnson (b. 1987) Robert Wood Johnson V (b. 2006) Jack Wood Johnson (b. 2008)
Parents	Robert Wood Johnson III (1920–1970) Betty Wold Johnson

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_Johnson

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brothers_Johnson

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalie_Wood

Bowles/ Parker: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camilla,_Duchess_of_Cornwall

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashid_Khalidi

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phylicia_Rash%C4%81d

Born	Phylicia Ayers-Allen (1948-06-19) June 19, 1948 (age 64) Houston, Texas, U.S.
Years active	1972–present
Spouse(s)	William Lancelot Bowles, Jr. (1972–1975) Victor Willis (1978–1982) Ahmad Rashād (1985–2001)

http://thesandymonocle.wordpress.com/2013/05/02/theres-something-about-james-a-johnson/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Johnson

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Johnson

Saless, Sale etc..reminds me of Del Webb and R.H. Johnson built a casino for Bugsy, Alice deJanz (Armour family) and the Happy Valley set in Africa. See CBS Africa, Simeon Ndsandjo, Robert and Renee Bueller, Pauley and wife Babe, Barry Gordy etc…http://thesandymonocle.wordpress.com/2013/04/17/babe/

Also see:http://thesandymonocle.wordpress.com/2012/12/26/spinning-the-music-part-2/

Another CBS man:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Moonves

Next we have Robinson Island in Hawaii. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niihau

Niʻihau or Niihau (pron.: /ˈ n iː h aʊ /; Hawaiian: [ˈniʔiˈhɔu]) is the seventh largest of the inhabited Hawaiian Islands in the U.S. state of Hawaiʻi, having an area of 69.5 square miles (180 km²).^[4] Niʻihau lies 17.5 miles (15.2 nmi; 28.2 km) southwest of Kauaʻi across the Kaulakahi Channel. Several intermittent playa lakes provide wetland habitats for the Hawaiian Coot, the Black-winged Stilt, and the Hawaiian Duck. The island is designated as critical habitat for Brighamia insignis, an endemic and endangered species of Hawaiian lobelioid. The United States Census Bureau defines Niʻihau and the neighboring island and State Seabird Sanctuary of Lehua as Census Tract 410 of Kauai County, Hawaii. Its 2000 census population was 160. As of June 2009, the population was 130.

Elizabeth Sinclair purchased Niʻihau in 1864 from the Kingdom of Hawaii and private ownership passed on to her descendants, the Robinson family. During World War II, the island was the site of the Niʻihau Incident: A Japanese navy fighter pilot crashed on the island and terrorized its residents for a week after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The people of Niʻihau are known for their gemlike lei pūpū (shell lei) craftsmanship, and speak Hawaiian as a primary language. The island is generally off-limits to all but relatives of the island’s owners, U.S. Navy personnel, government officials and invited guests, giving it the nickname “The Forbidden Isle.” Beginning in 1987, a limited number of supervised activity tours and hunting safaris have opened to tourists. The island is currently managed by Bruce and Keith Robinson.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smokey_Robinson

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Robinson

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Mboya

http://genealogytrails.com/hawaii/honolulu/news_marriages.html

Mr Robinson married Miss Alice Gay, his cousin.

Ho’okuleana

totakeresponsibility.blogspot.com/

Then, Helen Sinclair married Charles Barrington Robinson, the former … (son of Helen Sinclair and Charles Robinson) married his cousin, Alice Gay … Mrs. Charles Robinson, Mrs. Aubrey Robinson with Aylmer, Mr. Aubrey Robinson and Sinclair. …. While the Hawaiian Islands are the world’s most-isolated, …

Gay & Robinson to quit sugar | starbulletin.com | News | …

starbulletin.com/2008/09/11/news/story03.html

Sep 11, 2008 … Sugar cane is shown being harvested at Gay & Robinson’s operation on Kauai. The plantation will end sugar production in 2010.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enola_Gay

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Gay,_Sr

Born	Marvin Pentz Gay (1914-10-01)October 1, 1914 Jessamine County, Kentucky
Died	October 10, 1998(1998-10-10) (aged 84) Culver City, California
Occupation	Minister
Spouse(s)	Alberta Gay (1913–1987); (1935–1984) (divorced)
Children	Jeanne Gay (b. 1937) Marvin Gaye (1939–1984) Frankie Gaye (1941–2001) Zeola “Sweetsie” Gaye (b. 1945) Antwaun Carey Gay (b. 1970)
Parents	George Gay (1891–1971) Mamie Gay (1891–1981)

Frankie Gaye – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Frankie Gaye (born Frances Gay, November 15, 1941 – December 30, 2001) was a singer and the younger brother of the more famous singer Marvin Gaye. Born the son of minister Marvin Pentz Gay, Sr. and domestic Alberta Cooper in Washington, D.C., Frances watched as Marvin became a superstar. Frankie’s horrific accounts of his service during the Vietnam War (which included being a radio DJ) inspired Marvin’s classic 1971 concept album What’s Going On.

Next we have Marvin Gaye, Barry Gordy again and the Gordy family:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillian_Gordy_Carter

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Gaye

In December 1978, Gaye issued Here, My Dear, inspired by the fallout of his first marriage to Anna Gordy. Recorded as an intent for Gaye to remit a portion of its royalties to her to receive alimony payments, it flopped on the charts.

During that period, Gaye developed a serious dependence and addiction to cocaine and was dealing with several financial issues with the IRS. These issues led for him to move to Maui, where he struggled to record a disco album. In 1980, Gaye went on a European tour. By the time the tour stopped, the singer relocated to London where he feared imprisonment for failure to pay back taxes, which had now reached upwards to $4.5 million.(US$12,538,570 in 2013 dollars.

Gaye then reworked Love Man from its original disco concept to another personal album invoking religion and the possible end time from a chapter in the Book of Revelation.Titling the album, In Our Lifetime?, Gaye provided work on the album for much of 1980 in London studios such as Air and Odyssey Studios. In the fall of that year, a master tape of a rough draft of the album was stolen from one of Gaye’s traveling musicians, Frank Blair, who took the master tape to Motown’s Hollywood headquarters.Motown remixed the album and issued it on January 15, 1981. When Gaye learned of its release, Gaye accused Motown of editing and remixing the album without his consent, allowing the issue of an unfinished production (“Far Cry”), altering the album art of his request and removing the album title’s question mark, muting its irony. He also accused the label of rush-releasing the album, comparing his unfinished album to an unfinished Picasso painting. Gaye then promised not to record any more music for Motown.

On February 14, 1981, under the advice of music promoter Freddy Couseart, Gaye relocated to Couseart’s apartment in Ostend, Belgium. While there, Gaye shied away from heavy drug use and began exercising and attending a local Ostend church, regaining personal confidence. Following several months of recovery, Gaye sought a comeback onstage, starting the short-lived Heavy Love Affair tour in England and Ostend between June and July 1981. Gaye’s personal attorney Curtis Shaw would later describe Gaye’s Ostend period as “the best thing that ever happened to Marvin”. When word got around that Gaye was planning a musical comeback and an exit from Motown, CBS Urban president Larkin Arnold eventually was able to convince Gaye to sign with CBS. On March 23, 1982, Motown and CBS Records negotiated for Gaye to be released from Motown. The details of the contract were kept from being revealed due to a possible negative effect on the singer’s settlement to creditors from the IRS.

Anna Gordy Gaye – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Birth name	Anna Ruby Gordy
Born	1921 Milledgeville, Georgia, USA
Origin	Detroit, Michigan, USA
Genres	R&B, soul
Occupations	Songwriter, composer, businesswoman
Labels	Anna, Motown
Associated acts	Berry Gordy, Marvin Gaye, The Originals

Anna Ruby Gordy was born in Milledgeville, Georgia, located in Baldwin County, Georgia, the third eldest child of Berry Gordy Sr. (or Berry Gordy II) and Bertha Ida (née Fuller) Gordy.

Shortly after her birth, Gordy’s father moved up to Detroit from Georgia to seek a better life for his family and to escape any hint of racial tension due to a business deal, later sending for his family after settling down. Gordy, like most of her family, became a successful businesswoman, starting out as a co-operator of the photo concession at Detroit’s Flame Show Bar in the early fifties with sister Gwen, later starting her own namesake label, Anna Records with Gwen and Billy Davis in 1958, a year before her brother Berry launched Tamla Records, later to be a subsidiary for Motown.

The label would later be noted as the distributor of Tamla’s first national hit record, “Money (That’s What I Want)“. Other artists such as David Ruffin, Marvin Gaye and Joe Tex also recorded for the label, which lasted until 1961, when Berry Gordy absorbed the label and its artists. Gordy then joined her brother’s label and started the Artist Development class, becoming its president. Gordy also joined Motown’s staff team as a songwriter. Gordy’s biggest success as a songwriter came in the late 1960s and early 1970s, co-writing two major hits for Motown group The Originals, alongside her then-husband Marvin Gaye, including “Baby, I’m For Real” and “The Bells“, which also featured Anna’s niece Iris, as a co-writer. In 1971, Gordy’s husband released the acclaimed What’s Going On, which featured two songs co-composed by Gordy, including “Flyin’ High (In the Friendly Sky)” and “God Is Love“.

The song’s musical instrumentation was co-composed by Gordy and was used in another Gaye-Gordy composition, “Just to Keep You Satisfied“, which Gaye produced versions by The Monitors and The Originals before overdubbing the Originals’ version for his own version on 1973′s Let’s Get It On. However on Gaye’s version, the singer completely rewrote the lyrics and based the song on the demise of a marriage. Gordy left Motown in 1979 and retired from the music business.

Gordy met Marvin Gaye around 1960. Seventeen years apart in age, Gaye pursued Gordy for months before the two eventually started dating around 1961. After a two-year courtship, they married around June of 1964. According to Marvin, it was Anna who convinced Motown to allow Marvin to work on a standards album (The Soulful Moods of Marvin Gaye). Gordy, herself a songwriter, helped to pen the song, “Never Let You Go (Sha-Lu-Bop)”, from the album. Inspired by their romance, Gaye penned hit singles based off Anna including “Stubborn Kind of Fellow“, “Pride & Joy” and “You Are a Wonderful One“.

The marriage between Marvin and Anna was reportedly turbulent, leading to public spats. At one time during their marriage ceremony, Anna threw one of her heels at Marvin to stop an argument. In order to bring some stability to their home life, Anna and Marvin adopted a little boy that was born on November 17, 1965. The boy was soon named after his adopted father (Marvin Pentz Gaye III). While the boy was said to have been naturally conceived by Anna and Marvin during Motown’s public relations stories of the couple, Marvin himself would confirm the adoption in David Ritz‘s Marvin biography, Divided Soul: The Life of Marvin Gaye. In later years, the identity of the mother was revealed as Denise Gordy, who was the only Gordy woman that was able to naturally conceive a child. It was alleged in the same books that Gaye himself took part in the siring (with Anna’s permission) but that story hasn’t been confirmed. Only Denise Gordy admitted that she helped to deliver a child to help her aunt and in-law have a family. Marvin III later learned of his mother’s real identity and Marvin’s and Anna’s adoption after Marvin’s death. Gaye told Ritz that he was afraid of revealing the truth about the adoption due to facing ridicule for not being able to father a child naturally.

During the mid-1960s, Marvin and Anna lived at a comfortable home outside Outer Drive in Detroit until 1972 when the couple relocated to Hollywood. Shortly after the move, however, the Gayes’ marriage fell apart. By 1973, Gaye had moved out of their Hollywood Hills home, filed for legal separation from Anna and settled with a young woman, Janis Hunter, who ironically was seventeen years younger than Marvin. Following the births of their children, Nona and Frankie, an upset Anna Gordy filed for divorce. The ensuing divorce case lasted for a year and a half, with the matters settled by March of 1977. The divorce court was extensive due to Gaye’s absence in court as Gordy’s attorneys discussed matters of payments for spousal support and alimony for their son, the few times Gaye did show up to court, he would leave angered enough to compose music. To settle Gaye’s financial difficulties in the divorce settlement, Gaye’s attorney Curtis Shaw worked out a deal in which Gordy would be paid off from the royalties of Gaye’s next album.

Classic in Black

http://www.black-international-cinema.com/bicdance_html/cib2001.html

Robeson was also a staunch supporter of the Soviet Union, and a man, later in his … Robeson had married fellow Columbia student Eslanda Cardozo Goode, ….. in Don Giovanni, Liu in Turandot, Leonora in Il Trovatore, Elsa in Lohengrin, and …

*NOTE*

Anna Ruby Gordy was born in Milledgeville, Georgia, located in Baldwin County, Georgia, the third eldest child of Berry Gordy Sr. (or Berry Gordy II) and Bertha Ida (née Fuller) Gordy.

Fuller/ Graham:

http://backchannel.al-monitor.com/index.php/2013/04/5090/former-cia-officer-absurd-to-link-uncle-of-boston-suspects-agency-over-daughters-brief-marriage/

http://www.corbettreport.com/who-is-graham-fuller/?

duBois (Wood): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Graham_Du_Bois

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronnie_Wood

Sam Taylor Johnson Wood: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0853374/

Sam Taylor-Johnson

Married her boyfriend of 3 years Aaron Taylor-Johnson and the father of her two younger daughters – Wylda and Romy. [June 21, 2012]

Born:

Samantha Louise Taylor-Wood
March 4, 1967 in London, England, UK

Sam Wood – IMDb

After a two-year apprenticeship under Cecil B. DeMille as assistant director, Samuel Grosvenor Wood had the good fortune to have assigned to him two of the biggest stars at Paramount during their heyday: Wallace Reid, between 1919 and 1920; and Gloria Swanson, from 1921 to 1923. By the time his seven-year contract with Paramount expired… See full bio »

Born:

Samuel Grosvenor Wood
July 10, 1883 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Died:

September 22, 1949 (age 66) in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_Swanson -

Gloria May Josephine Swanson (March 27, 1899 – April 4, 1983) was an …. This was the first time Swanson had heard the name of Joseph P. Kennedy, with …

Samuel G. Wood: http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/sam-wood/

Shiraz/ Taylor/ Bowman: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_T._Bowman

Taylor Energy/ King Hussein:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Bird_Johnson

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_F._Taylor

Taylor worked for John, who secured the oil rights from King Hussein:

wiki:

John W. Mecom Sr (January 13, 1911 – October 12, 1981) was an American businessman.

John Whitfield Mecom Sr found success as an independent oilman by acquiring abandoned oil wells and then making them profitable. He also developed new fields from Louisiana to Saudi Arabia.

He was once ranked as one of the top oil independents; however, he filed for bankruptcy in 1970. After reorganizing his John W. Mecom Company, he reopened his company, which he subsequently ran with his son, John W. Mecom Jr., former owner of the New Orleans Saints NFL football team.

On December 18, 1964, Mecom’s private plane was mistakenly shot down by the Egyptian air force, killing both pilot and co-pilot. While Mecom survived, the incident strained U.S.-Egypt relations, Mecom being a friend and donor of Lyndon Johnson.

See his wife Muna SUTTON also:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hussein_of_Jordan

Pierce/ Percival/ Piers/ Percy/ Paris etc..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Pierce Robinson*

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Sutton

Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004) was an American … Henry and Alice Johnson, who owned a store not unlike Mr. Pit’s store in …. Otis Redding and Motown singers such as Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye and its …

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Charles

Ray Charles Robinson was the son of Aretha (Williams) Robinson, a sharecropper, and Bailey Robinson, a railroad repair man, mechanic and handyman. Aretha was a devout Christian and the family attended the New Shiloh Baptist Church. When Ray was an infant, his family moved from Albany, Georgia, where he was born, to the poor black community on the western side of Greenville, Florida. In his early years, Charles showed a curiosity for mechanical things and he often watched the neighborhood men working on their cars and farm machinery. His musical curiosity was sparked at Mr. Wiley Pit’s Red Wing Cafe when Pit played boogie woogie on an old upright piano. Pit would care for George, Ray’s brother, so as to take the burden off Aretha. However, George drowned in Aretha’s laundry tub when he was four years old. After witnessing the death of his brother, Ray would feel an overwhelming sense of guilt later on in life.

Charles left school after his mother died in 1946, when he was 15 years old. He moved to Jacksonville with a couple who were friends of his mother. For over a year, he played the piano for bands at the Ritz Theatre in LaVilla, earning $4 a night. Then he moved to Orlando, and later Tampa, where he played with a southern band called The Florida Playboys. This is where he began his habit of always wearing sunglasses, made by designer Billy Stickles.

Charles had always played for other people, but he wanted his own band. He decided to leave Florida for a large city, but Chicago and New York City were too big. After asking a friend to look at a map and note the city in the United States that was farthest from Florida, he moved to Seattle in 1947 (where he first met and befriended, under the tutelage of Robert Blackwell, a 14-year-old Quincy Jones) and soon started recording, first for the Down Beat label as the Maxin Trio with guitarist G.D. McKee and bassist Milton Garrett, achieving his first hit with “Confession Blues” in 1949. The song soared to No.2 on the R&B charts.

In 1950, he played in a Miami hotel, impressing Henry Stone, who recorded a Ray Charles Rockin’ record which never became very popular. During his stay in Miami, Charles was required to stay in the segregated but thriving black community of Overtown. Stone later helped Jerry Wexler find Charles in St. Petersburg.

He joined Swing Time Records and under his own name (“Ray Charles” to avoid being confused with the boxer Sugar Ray Robinson) recorded two more R&B hits, “Baby, Let Me Hold Your Hand” (No. 5) in 1951 and “Kissa Me Baby” (No. 8) in 1952. The following year, Swing Time folded and Ahmet Ertegün signed him to Atlantic Records.

Charles’ first recording session with Atlantic (“The Midnight Hour”/”Roll With my Baby”) came in September 1952, although his last Swingtime release (“Misery in my Heart”/”The Snow is Falling”) would not come until February 1953. He began recording jump blues and boogie-woogie style recordings as well as slower blues ballads where he continued to show the vocal influences of Nat “King” Cole and Charles Brown.

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May’s Trailing Vines And The Global Cafe Stories

Posted on May 4, 2013 by sandymonocle

©Renee 2013

Stories for the month of May. Springtime, May’s flowers, and sitting by the dock of the bay in the cool breeze and warm sunshine. Stories swirling with eyes closed. Just relaxing, hand dangling in the cold water near my sweet, iced tea.

Thinking of May….and world travelers. My own Global Cafe. Let’s look.

First:

http://www.utas.edu.au/library/exhibitions/quaker/quiet_accomplishments/quiet_accomplishments.html

http://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/O/O’May.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Mayo

Born in St. Louis, Missouri to Luke and Martha Henrietta (née Rautenstrauch) Jones, tutored by a series of dancing instructors engaged by her aunt, she appeared in the St. Louis Municipal Opera chorus and then appeared with six other girls at an act at the Jefferson Hotel, where she was recruited by vaudeville performer Andy Mayo to appear in his act (as ringmaster for two men in a horse suit), taking his surname as her stage name. She appeared in vaudeville for three years in the act, appearing with Eddie Cantor on Broadway in 1941′s Banjo Eyes.

Mayo continued her career as a dancer, then signed a contract with Samuel Goldwyn and appeared in several of Goldwyn’s movies. With Danny Kaye she played the dream-girl heroine in comedies including Wonder Man (1945), The Kid from Brooklyn (1946) and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947).

At the zenith of her career, Mayo was seen as the quintessential voluptuous Hollywood beauty. It was said that she “looked like a pinup painting come to life,” and she played just such a role in the 1949 film comedy, The Girl from Jones Beach. According to widely published reports from the late 1940s, the Sultan of Morocco declared her beauty to be proof of the existence of God. In 1949′s White Heat she took on the unsympathetic role of the cold and treacherous “Verna Jarrett”, opposite James Cagney. She was also cast against type as a shallow golddigger in The Best Years of Our Lives. Her career continued strong through the 50s, frequently in B-movie westerns and adventure films.

Born	Virginia Clara Jones (1920-11-30)November 30, 1920 St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
Died	January 17, 2005(2005-01-17) (aged 84) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Years active	1939–1997
Spouse(s)	Michael O’Shea (m. 1947–1973; his death); 1 child

Michael O’Shea (March 17, 1906 – December 4, 1973) was an American character actor whose career spanned the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. O’Shea was born in Hartford, Connecticut. Unlike his five brothers who became policemen, he dropped out of school at 12 and began his acting career in vaudeville by touring with boxing idol Jack Johnson‘s show.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Johnson_(boxer)

Johnson was born in Galveston, Texas, the second child and first son of Henry and Tina “Tiny” Johnson, former slaves who worked at blue-collar jobs to raise six children and taught them how to read and write. Henry Johnson traced his ncestry back to the Coromantees of modern-day Ghana. Johnson dropped out of school after five or six years of education to get a job as a dock worker in Galveston.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coromantee_people

Coromantee (derived from the name of the Ghanaian coastal town “Kormantse”), also called Coromantins, Coromanti or Kormantine was the English name given to Akan slaves from the Gold Coast or modern-day Ghana. The term Coromantee is now considered archaic as it simply refers to Akan people, and was primarily used in the Caribbean. Coromantins actually came from several Akan ethnic groups – Ashanti, Fanti, Akyem, etc. – presumably taken as war captives. Owing to their militaristic background and common Akan language, Coromantins organized dozens of slave rebellions in Jamaica and elsewhere in the Caribbean. Their fierce, rebellious nature became so notorious among white plantation owners in the 18th century that an Act was proposed to ban the importation of people from the Gold Coast despite their reputation as strong workers. The Akans had the single largest African cultural influence on Jamaica, including Jamaican Maroons whose culture and language was seen as a derivation of Akan. Names of some notable Coromantee leaders such as Cudjoe, Quamin, Cuffy, and Quamina correspond to Akan day names Kojo, Kwame, Kofi, and Kwabena, respectively.

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Next we have Kwame and Helena Fathia Rizk of Ghana. Helena relates to Gamal Naser of Egypt and other global cafe travelers. They were close friends of Shirley Graham DuBois and WEB Dubois. Helena’s brother married into a family in England. Also see Shirley Temple Black and Charles Alden Black and Ghana.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamal_Abdel_Nasser

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Temple *BLACK*

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_S._Black#Harry_S._Black

Spouse(s)	Fathia Rizk

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwame_Nkrumah

Kwame Nkrumah was born in 1908 in Nkroful, Gold Coast. Nkrumah trained to be a teacher at Achimota School in Accra from 1925 to 1935. For the following five years he worked as a teacher in several schools in the Gold Coast including a Catholic school in Axim, while saving money to continue his education in the USA. In 1935 he sailed from Takoradi, the Gold Coast’s main port, to Liverpool in England, and made his way to London where he obtained his student visa from the US Embassy. It was while he was in London in late 1935 that he heard the news of Fascist Italy’s invasion of Abyssinia, an event that outraged the young Nkrumah and influenced his political development. In October 1935 Nkrumah sailed from Liverpool to the United States and enrolled in Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. He graduated with a BA in 1939, and received a Bachelor of Sacred Theology in 1942. Nkrumah earned a Master of Science in education from the University of Pennsylvania in 1942, and a Master of Arts in philosophy the following year. While lecturing in political science at Lincoln he was elected president of the African Students Organization of America and Canada. As an undergraduate at Lincoln he participated in at least one student theater production and published an essay on European government in Africa in the student newspaper, The Lincolnian.

During his time in the United States, Nkrumah preached at black Presbyterian Churches in Philadelphia and New York City. He read books about politics and divinity, and tutored students in philosophy. Nkrumah encountered the ideas of Marcus Garvey and in 1943 met and began a lengthy correspondence with Trinidadian Marxist C. L. R. James, Russian expatriate Raya Dunayevskaya, and Chinese-American Grace Lee Boggs, all of whom were members of a US-based Trotskyist intellectual cohort. Nkrumah later credited James with teaching him “how an underground movement worked”. Nkrumah’s association with these radicals drew him to the attention of the FBI and he was under surveillance by early 1945.

He arrived in London in May 1945, intending to study at the LSE. After meeting with George Padmore, he helped organize the Fifth Pan-African Congress in Manchester, England. Then he founded the West African National Secretariat to work towards the decolonization of Africa. Nkrumah served as Vice-President of the West African Students’ Union (WASU). Nkrumah’s association with left wing radicals meant that he was watched by Special Branch while he was in England between 1945 and 1947.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Graham_Du_Bois

Like Helena Fathia Rizk and Gamal Abdel Naser, from Egypt as well:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farouk_of_Egypt

Farouk I of Egypt (Arabic: فاروق الأول Fārūq al-Awwal) (11 February 1920 – 18 March 1965), was the tenth ruler from the Muhammad Ali Dynasty and the penultimate King of Egypt and the Sudan, succeeding his father, Fuad I of Egypt, in 1936.

His full title was “His Majesty Farouk I, by the grace of God, King of Egypt and Sudan, Sovereign of Nubia, of Kordofan, and of Darfur.” He was overthrown in the Egyptian Revolution of 1952 and forced to abdicate in favor of his infant son Ahmed Fuad, who succeeded him as Fuad II of Egypt. He died in exile in Italy.

His sister Princess Fawzia Fuad was the first wife and Queen Consort of the Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.

Issue
Spouse	Farida (née Safinaz Zulficar)(m. 1938; div. 1948) Narriman Sadek (m. 1951; div. 1954)
Princess Ferial Princess Fawzia Princess Fadia Prince Ahmed Fuad
Full name
Farouk bin Ahmed Fuad bin Ismail bin Ibrahim bin Muhammad Ali bin Ibrahim Agha
Father	Fuad I
Mother	Nazli Sabri
Born	(1920-02-11)11 February 1920 Abdeen Palace, Cairo, Egypt
Died	18 March 1965(1965-03-18) (aged 45) Rome, Italy
Burial	Al-Rifa’i Mosque, Cairo, Egypt

http://www.royalty.nu/Africa/Egypt/

http://www.queennarriman.com/English/intro.html

Queen Narriman

Nariman the beautiful child was the sole child of her parents. Her name in the Turkish language means (the beautiful fascinating of vivacious spirit). She did not imagine that one day she would become the queen of Egypt.She was born in Cairo on 31 October 1933. Her father is Husain Fahmy Sadek, Deputy Minister of Transportation. He is the son of Ali Bek Sadek, one of the famous honorable personalities of Egypt at that time. The last position he occupied before his death was the Secretary General of the Ministry of Transportation. Her mother was Asila Hanem, daughter of Kamel Mahmoud, one of the famous honorable personalities of Menia Governorate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markaz_(subdivision)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharqia_Governorate

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abaza_family

The Abaza clan, “deeply rooted in Egyptian society and… in the history of the country” is an Egyptian family that has played a powerful and long-standing role in Egyptian cultural, economic, intellectual and political life. Their main stronghold is the Sharqia Governorate. The family today maintains strong connections by marriage with other Egyptian elites.

The Egyptian Abaza Family very well known in Egypt because “they seem to have produced an extraordinary number of exemplary individuals. Their family tree – every single generation – is littered with high profile politicians, intellectuals, business moguls and literary sensations”

The Abkhazian Abaza Family descends from its modern founding father Hassan Pasha Abaza.

The Abaza family until now 2013 is the biggest family The family is noted for producing the. largest number of noble style holders in Egypt, such as Pashas, Beks/Beys, Hanims, Saheb or Sahebet Ezza, Mqama, Saada, Maaly and Oussma, intellectuals, politicians, business people and men/women of letters.

It is considered the largest extended family in Egypt.

In addition several living Abazas hold the title ‘His or Her Excellency‘, for example serving ministers in government or diplomats.

Usually, but not in the latest post-revolutionary parliament, there are several Abaza members of either of Egypt’s two Houses of Parliament. In recent governments there were two Ministers and the Chief District Attorney of Cairo is also an Abaza. The current Chief Prosecutor of Egypt is married to an Abaza. In addition, a large amount of economic activity is undertaken by the wealthiest Abaza Family members. The Abaza opposition Wafd party leader lost his position in 2010.

The Abaza Family name is widely recognized by people in most of Egypt.

The Abaza family originated in Abkhazia, a region at the Caucasian Black Sea coast, near Russia and Georgia. Abkhazia is home of the Abkhazians, a people related to the Circassian people and speaking the Abkhaz language. However, intermarriage into native Egyptian families, specifically native upper-class families, was and remains common for Abazas thus ensuring native Egyptian ancestry for the entire clan.

The Abkhazians were one of several Muslim ethnic groups living in the Russian Empire who left during the ethnic cleansing of Circassians in the mid-19th century. However, some sources indicate that the Egyptian Abazas emigrated from the Caucasus 600–800 years ago. Many moved to Turkey, but later emigrated again and settled in various Arab countries. In their new Arab home, the Abkhazians took – or were given – the last name “Abaza” (See below). Political activity for the family began at least from the time of Ali Bey Al-Kabir (a Georgian) who appointed an Abaza as the first Egyptian governor of Lower Egypt.

In the study Egypt in the reign of Muhammad Ali Pasha, Afaf Lutfi Sayyid-Marsot mentions a traditional belief amongst the Egyptian Abaza Family that they were named after a “beloved grandmother… or her place of birth”. Family elders sat on the Majlis (council) created by Ibrahim Pasha, “uhda” (or royal endowments) of villages and land were obtained by the family and “the Abaza flourished”.

During the accession of the young King Farouk, “the Abaza family had solicited palace authorities to permit the royal train to stop briefly in their village so that the king could partake in refreshments offered in a large, magnificently ornamented tent they had erected in the train station.”

Members of the Egyptian Abaza clan consider themselves a family, and are categorized as a ‘family’ or ‘clan’ in the country in which they are well-known. The Egyptian Abaza Family is thought to number around 50,000 members but this is difficult to verify. There is a common stereotypical assumption widely held in Egypt that all Egyptian Abaza are exceedingly wealthy. This is a false generalization, although most of the Abazas are of an at least Upper-Middle-Class status and have incomes higher than the vast majority of the Egyptian population. In addition, most feudal land held by the Abazas was lost in the land reforms conducted in the 1950s and 60s under the government of Gamal Abdel Nasser, before that, the Abazas had also lost land during the Great Depression of the 1930s.

Family members are active both in Government and opposition circles, and are generally known to value their aristocratic and noble class position. For example, unlike most Egyptians, the Abaza Family is known to strictly use the name ‘Abaza’ following the individual’s first name instead of the father’s name.

Today many Abazas are involved in public life and include those who hold positions in government, generals, opposition activists, human and animal rights activists, a major Egyptian sociologist, a composer and philosopher of science, journalists, businessmen and women and in many other fields. The family is Muslim but Abazas are known to be of the more liberal aristocracy of Egypt.

The Abaza Family is connected by marriage to many other aristocratic families and to major politicians. The son of Mahmoud Ezzat, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood‘s ruling body, is married to an Abaza, the late Omar Suleiman‘s daughter is also married into the family and there are marriages with the Royal House of Muhammad Ali of Egypt and the descendants of Prince Mahmoud El-Yasgy who was in charge of all of Egypt’s factories during the country’s industrial revolution under Mohamed Ali Pasha.

There is also a town in Russia named Abaza.

Notable Egyptian Abaza

Amina Tharwat Abaza – Animal rights activist. Founder of Society for Protection of Animal Rights in Egypt.

The number of Abazas involved in Egyptian public life is very large. This is a short list of some modern examples as well as important historical figures.

Shiekh of the Arabs Hassan Pasha Abaza – Founder of the modern Abaza family
Ismail Pasha Abaza – Participant in the writing of Egypt’s first constitution in 1923
Aziz Pasha Abaza – Major writer and poet in Arabic
Tharwat Abaza – Major novelist in Arabic
Rushdy Abaza – A popular actor in Egypt and the Arab World. He has also appeared in a number of famous Hollywood films
Fekry Pasha Abaza – A famous writer and journalist and a former Pasha
Kelsely Abaza – Philosopher and composer.
Wagih Abaza – Member of the Free Officers and former governor of Cairo and several other governorates
Maher Abaza – Minister of electricity and energy for 17 years and member of Al Shura Council.
Mahmoud Abaza – Opposition politician, former leader of Al Wafd party.
Hussien Wagih Abaza – Politician and business man, member of Al Shura Council.
Amina Tharwat Abaza – Animal rights activist. Founder of Society for Protection of Animal Rights in Egypt.
Ahmed Fouad Abaza – Long-time politician and former member of the NDP.
Mona Abaza – Major Egyptian sociologist.

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There’s Something About…James A. Johnson

Posted on May 2, 2013 by sandymonocle

©Renee 2013

James A. Johnson

Cooking books ? Bank of America ? Countryside ? Housing bubble ? Everything he touches becomes rotten it seems. Just ask James A. Johnson about questionable business practices. Just another swine suckling ? Even his wife ran. What a guy. The lowest of low. That’s him. There just seems to be a very foul odor around that name Johnson. Every place I find it. Just like them: Fannie Mae. And Target ? Who would shop there ? They sell the most cheap, junk. Sort of like Johnson. Like JCPenney and their dumped Johnson. New guy on board ? Clothing looks like cheap circus attire from a dollar store. What happened ? Poor J.C. Penney. Just another Johnson… There is a pattern here folks. What a deal for America. Like Bank of America and Neal Livingston (RBS) we just cannot win folks with people like this with their claws in our cookie jar. How do they gaze in a mirror or sleep at night ? When is enough money enough for pigs ? It seems never. Livingston, Johnson, MacMillan…never ends.

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/04/08/apple-johnson-penney-fired/

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKjohnsonPR.htm

Neal Livingston | International Cash and Treasury Management

conferences.eurofinance.com/barcelona2013/?q=speakers/neal-livingston

Neal Livingston is the Global Head of Transaction Services Origination at RBS. Prior to joining RBS, Neal was a Managing Director with Standard Chartered.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_A._Johnson_(politics)

James A. Johnson (born December 24, 1943) is a United States Democratic Party political figure, and the former CEO of Fannie Mae. He was the campaign manager for Walter Mondale‘s failed 1984 presidential bid and chaired the vice presidential selection committee for the presidential campaign of John Kerry. He briefly led the vice-presidential selection process for the 2008 Democratic presidential nominee, Senator Barack Obama.

Johnson was born in Benson, Minnesota. He is the son of A. I. Johnson, who was a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives from 1941 to 1958, and who served as speaker of the house in 1955 and 1957.

Johnson received a B.A. in political science from the University of Minnesota in 1966, and a Master of Public Affairs degree from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University in 1968.

Johnson began his career as a faculty member at Princeton University. Later he was a staff member in the United States Senate. He was also director of public affairs at the Dayton-Hudson Corporation (now Target Corporation).

Johnson worked in the unsuccessful presidential campaigns of Eugene McCarthy in 1968, and George McGovern and 1972.

From 1977 to 1981 he was executive assistant to Vice President Walter Mondale during the entire Carter Administration.

In 1981, Johnson co-founded Public Strategies, a private consulting firm, with diplomat Richard Holbrooke. He headed the firm until 1985. During that time, he was the campaign manager for Walter Mondale‘s failed 1984 presidential bid. From 1985 to 1990, he was a managing director with Lehman Brothers.

In 1990, Johnson became vice chairman of Fannie Mae, or the Federal National Mortgage Association, a quasi-public organization that guarantees mortgages for millions of American homeowners. In 1991, he was appointed chairman and chief executive officer of Fannie Mae, a position he held until 1998.

An Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) report from September 2004 found that, during Johnson’s tenure as CEO, Fannie Mae had improperly deferred $200 million in expenses. This enabled top executives, including Johnson and his successor, Franklin Raines, to receive substantial bonuses in 1998. A 2006 OFHEO report found that Fannie Mae had substantially under-reported Johnson’s compensation. Originally reported as $6–7 million, Johnson actually received approximately $21 million.

In the 2011 book Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon, authors Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner wrote that Johnson was one of the key figures responsible for the late-2000s financial crisis. Morgenson described him in an NPR interview as “corporate America’s founding father of regulation manipulation”. Also according to Morgenson, he changed Fannie’s executive compensation plan to be based on volume not quality and earned over $200 Million dollars while working at Fannie Mae.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countrywide_Financial

On September 19, 2008, the John McCain campaign released an ad critical of Obama which linked him to Johnson, stating that “Fannie cooked the books and Johnson made millions. Then Obama asked him to pick his VP.

Johnson has been a board member of Goldman Sachs, Gannett Company, Inc., KB Home, Target Corporation, Temple-Inland, and a former director of UnitedHealth Group.

Johnson has also served as chairman of both the Kennedy Center for the Arts (1996–2004) and the Brookings Institution (1994–2003). He is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Friends of Bilderberg, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Trilateral Commission.

http://www.nndb.com/people/077/000057903/

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-01/fannie-mae-s-johnson-was-pied-piper-drove-u-s-off-housing-cliff-books.html

http://www.goldmansachs.com/who-we-are/leadership/board-of-directors/07-james-a-johnson.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fannie_Mae

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business/july-dec11/makingsense_07-01.html

Shaped the housing market for sure. Into a huge garbage dump of fraud and theft. Thanks. Are you footing the bill or in prison Johnson ? If not, why NOT ? Fannie is such a nasty girl too.

http://www.freedomworks.org/crisis

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2011/07/fannie-mae-and-housing-bubble

The Green Corruption Files : Beacon Bust Tied to Obama Bundler …

greencorruption.blogspot.com/2012/08/beacon-bust-tied-to-obama-bundler-and….

Aug 15, 2012 … Beacon Bust Tied to Obama Bundler and VP Hunter, the Infamous Washington Fixture, James A. Johnson. As I mentioned at the end of my …

Republican National Committee – No Accountability: Will Obama …

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/republican-national-committee—no-account…;

Republican National Committee – No Accountability: Will Obama Cut Ties With Jim Johnson, Who Received Millions From Accounting Manipulations and …

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson_Publishing_Company

Woody Johnson – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Born	Robert Wood Johnson IV (1947-04-12) April 12, 1947 (age 66) New Brunswick, New Jersey, U.S.
Residence	New York City
Education	University of Arizona
Occupation	New York Jets owner, philanthropist
Religion	Christian
Spouse(s)	Nancy Sale Johnson Rashad (m. 1977–2001) Suzanne Ircha Johnson (m. 2009–present)
Children	Casey Johnson (1979–2010) Jamie Johnson (b. 1982) Daisy Johnson (b. 1987) Robert Wood Johnson V (b. 2006) Jack Wood Johnson (b. 2008)
Parents	Robert Wood Johnson III (1920–1970) Betty Wold Johnson

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_espionage

Industrial espionage, economic espionage or corporate espionage is a form of espionage conducted for commercial purposes instead of purely national security purposes. Economic espionage is conducted or orchestrated by governments and is international in scope, while industrial or corporate espionage is more often national and occurs between companies or corporations.

Penny joins in:http://greencorruption.blogspot.com/2013/02/obamas-jobs-council-closed-mega-rich.html

http://blogcritics.org/politics/article/beacon-bust-tied-to-obama-bundler/

Vetted ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Johnson_presidential_campaign,_2012

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=33651477

Not vetted, just a kinky little Janz:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_de_Janz%C3%A9

That smell..like a pig pen…

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While a student at Mills College, she was a volunteer at the Oakland chapter of the Black Panther Party‘s Community Learning Center and worked on Panther co-founder Bobby Seale‘s 1973 Oakland mayoral campaign.

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She has been married four times.

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Gardiner met the King of Jordan while working as a secretarial assistant on the film set of Lawrence of Arabia. The King had allowed troops to work as extras on this film and would occasionally visit to monitor the production’s progress.

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The 1960s was a significant decade for Iranian cinema, with 25 commercial films produced annually on average throughout the early ‘60s, increasing to 65 by the end of the decade. The majority of production focused on melodrama and thrillers.

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Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004) was an American … Henry and Alice Johnson, who owned a store not unlike Mr. Pit’s store in …. Otis Redding and Motown singers such as Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye and its …

Mayo continued her career as a dancer, then signed a contract with Samuel Goldwyn and appeared in several of Goldwyn’s movies. With Danny Kaye she played the dream-girl heroine in comedies including Wonder Man (1945), The Kid from Brooklyn (1946) and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947).

Johnson began his career as a faculty member at Princeton University. Later he was a staff member in the United States Senate. He was also director of public affairs at the Dayton-Hudson Corporation (now Target Corporation).

In 1990, Johnson became vice chairman of Fannie Mae, or the Federal National Mortgage Association, a quasi-public organization that guarantees mortgages for millions of American homeowners. In 1991, he was appointed chairman and chief executive officer of Fannie Mae, a position he held until 1998.

Johnson has been a board member of Goldman Sachs, Gannett Company, Inc., KB Home, Target Corporation, Temple-Inland, and a former director of UnitedHealth Group.

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