In her messages to me, Drew Taylor Rosamond Benton wanted to learn from me what it is like to be psychic. Yesterday was her mother’s natal birthday. Three of Christine’s sister in AA approached me in the basement of the Rosamond Gallery and we huddled in a prayer after they told me that day was her first sober birthday. I asked them if my sister in AA found a higher power. They said “no”. Rosamond forsake her powers, and me, when she made a new bond with Victor ‘The Nazi’ Presco, and blamed me for all that went wrong in her life. Vicki did the same.I was the Family Scapegoat like…..
JESUS WAS
When I took my nap yesterday, I found myself at the Cathedral of the Souls where Seers say I go each night. They saw me at a great oak table with a monk standing in back of me in a brown robe. A hood concealed his face. I made plans to build a School of Spies in Belmont, but I will build a Earthly Cathedral of The Souls, and help people communicate with…..The Dead!
John ‘The Lost Nazarite’
EXTRA! I took a break at 5:25 and read Hail Britannia on the radio. How – psychic! My sisters saw Rena in Jim Dundon’s home. Shamus was not born. Her beauty was startling. Rena and I were mean to be married and have a child. They never talked about her, or anyone who say us together. People who read this blog are jealous of me, and refute all my claims because they never came close to having such a creature to love. If we had a son, he would ..
LOOK JUST LIKE JESUS!
Above is the photo Rosamond took in her studio. I was going to be her first male portrait. Then she saw the energy around me.
WHAT IS THAT ENERGY?
I have a Saul-Paul Stalker who has been secretly recording our telephone conversation. He has a photographic memory like Rena. He is taking credit for spoon-feeding me this blog. He has racist followers. He is an ugly deformed white freak who could not get girlfriends. He was homeless but lives with his sisters who want him to move out. He wants me to get millions for this blog, and give him some! He is moving in on Drew’s death. He has no children, or….
COSMIC AURA!
Concerning the 7 Variations on ‘God save the King’, WoO78, Beethoven made the comment that he wanted to ‘show the English what a blessing they have’ with that tune…. It makes a great theme for variations, and Beethoven has a lot of fun with it. If ever you needed proof of humour in his music, here it is.
Genesis of The Royal Janitor
Posted on May 8, 2021 by Royal Rosamond Press
Here is how it began.
“I know who you think I am, but I am not he. My name is Victoria, Theresa, Bond, the granddaughter of Teresa Bond, the wife of James………….Bond. And, now you know!”
Three aircraft carriers maneuvering off the coast of Great Britain: What’s happening?
By Alban AlbanesePublished on October 23, 2024 9:30 am
The HMS Queen Elizabeth has left Portsmouth after an extensive period of essential maintenance, which began following a major technical issue during the NATO exercise Steadfast Defender. After crucial repairs, notably on the starboard propeller shaft, this maritime giant has returned to sea for routine trials, benefiting from a modernized propulsion system and enhanced capabilities. The vessel, a symbol of British naval pride, is now ready to play a key role in future global missions.
HMS Prince of Wales leads a strike group
Meanwhile, the HMS Prince of Wales, the newest British aircraft carrier, is currently leading the UK’s Carrier Strike Group. This group is participating in the Strike Warrior exercise, a preparation ahead of its deployment planned for 2025 in the Indo-Pacific, a strategic region under increasing international scrutiny. The HMS Prince of Wales represents Britain’s determination to maintain an active presence in zones of rising tensions.
USS Harry S. Truman and its allies in the North Sea
The supercarrier USS Harry S. Truman, one of the largest vessels in the U.S. Navy, has joined its British allies after crossing the Strait of Dover. Its arrival in the North Sea marks the start of joint exercises with NATO partners, further strengthening naval force coordination. Carrying an elite squadron of F/A-18E/F Super Hornets, the USS Harry S. Truman showcases a formidable strike force.
According to Admiral Sean Bailey, head of the American strike group, this mission highlights the importance of strategic collaboration: “Our transit through the Strait of Dover with our allies strengthens our commitment to maritime security and the NATO alliance.” A strong statement at a time when geopolitical tensions continue to rise.
An international naval show of force
The simultaneous presence of these three naval giants demonstrates the power and cohesion of British and American fleets. In a world where global threats are continuously multiplying, this show of force sends a clear signal: the West is ready to meet security challenges, whether they arise from tensions in Asia or elsewhere.
With these large-scale exercises, allied naval forces are perfecting their coordination and testing their capabilities in an ever-evolving environment. The question remains whether this show of strength will be enough to deter potential adversaries.
Dancing In The Catherdral of Souls
Posted on February 19, 2017 by Royal Rosamond Press
When I heard from a schoolmate Rena was a dancer living in the Isle of Wight, there appeared a rainbow that I traversed to where she was. In the coming months I saw us being married in the Cathedral of the Souls, to Enya’s song. I would enter, turn, and hold out my hand, and she entered. This became a meditation. I was told by a seer that I go to this cathedral every night where I have a reserved seat at a great oval table. Behind me is a hooded figure. This is saying, I am the Grandmaster. I was also told people come into my being, and, take!
When people learn I am a hippie, a artist, a poet, a spiritualist, they say to themselves;
“That’s what I am. I took LSD, too. I should have these things. I deserve fame and fortune, and not Jon. Jon is a garbage can for my bad experiences. He is a taker and parasite. How did he end up with the beautiful woman – meant for me!”
To read this, filled me with joy! Here is the California Kid, meeting his Nebraska Cowgirl. She has looked at this blog. She danced for the Royal Ballet!
“I see you are quite left-leaning. Please do not, in your urban world, be too hard on cattle producers, or, red-neck women. We are human too.”
Only if you agree to not be so hard on yourself! I have always feared the beauty of the Black Swan, the protectors of Cattle Ranchers everywhere!
I was a Rosicrucian at sixteen, without being aware I was such. My grandmother, Mary Magdalene Rosamond, was befriended by them. Anyhow, I do not have anymore time to argue with people who get near me. At times, I will speak directly to you from the Cathedral. I will give you what you need. I will give you rest in the Sanctuary.
Atop our mountain we went to see the sunset on the side of grassy hill. I would make a seat for Rena, and she would get in. We traveled like this until the Milky Way appear. We never took drugs. What I am offering to those, who can take it, is not bought at Target, or on Amazon. It is not a AP or an attainment. The real wolves are at the door. We are going where they can not go. Hold on!
Jon Presco
“The Cathedral of the Soul shall be your Cathedral and mine, and the dwelling place of the great masters of the past and future.”
If I Could Be Where You Are
Where are you this moment?
Only in my dreams.
You’re missing, but you’re always
A heartbeat from me.
I’m lost now without you,
I don’t know where you are.
I keep watching, I keep hoping,
But time keeps us apart.
Is there a way I can find you,
Is there a sign I should know,
Is there a road I could follow
To bring you back home?
Winter lies before me
Now you’re so far away.
In the darkness of my dreaming
The light of you will stay.
If I could be close beside you
If I…
THE CATHEDRAL OF THE SOUL
By The Imperator
[H. Spencer Lewis]
[From The Rosicrucian Digest January 1930]
IT SEEMS fitting that in the issue of this magazine for the beginning of the year 1930 and at practically the twenty-first year of our Rosicrucian activities in America under the present cycle, I should have the opportunity to announce the existence of a new and beautiful star in the Cosmic, which will hereafter be known as the Cathedral of the Soul.
Fourteen years ago, the first foundation stones of this invisible immaterial yet not intangible cathedral were laid by me with due ceremony and reverential consideration for the part I might be taking in a work that seemed to be Cosmically directed and divinely decreed. Having prayerfully received and considered the instructions for this great work for seven years, it was my joy to bring the inspiration into some form of earthly manifestation and thus fourteen years ago, the plan that was decreed seven years previously became a living Cosmic reality.
Our members are to hear much about this Cathedral of the Soul in the near future, and at present I wish merely to announce its name and present to you a brief picture of what it is. This cathedral is that great holy of holies and Cosmic sanctum maintained by the beams of thought waves of thousands of our most advanced members, who have been prepared and trained to direct these beams of thought at certain periods of the day and the week toward one central point, and there becomes a manifest power, a creative force, a health giving and peace giving nucleus far removed from the material trials and problems, limitations and destructive elements of the earth plane.
While men have been busy planning, building, and directing great spires and towers of earthly cathedrals that would reach high into the heavens and become the material abiding place for those in devotion and meditation, we have been creating this cathedral of prayer and illumination, Cosmic joy, and peace high above every material plane and ascent into the Cosmic itself.
In this cathedral there will be the music of the spheres and the chimes of Cosmic rhythm, there will come from its spire the call to worship at various hours of the day and week throughout the years to come, and our prepared and advanced members will reach this cathedral with their thoughts and their soul consciousness and dwell therein and carry on the great work of bidding others welcome, touching them with the hand of fellowship and the heart of sympathetic understanding. From its high altar will go forth the illuminating words of Cosmic inspiration and divine illumination. Into this great cathedral we will call those who are seeking for the first portal of the Cosmic Assembly. Hereafter, it will be our ambition and our pleasure to direct the sincere and the devout, the worthy and the needy to this great cathedral. The story of what it is and what it means will be issued in a beautiful booklet to aid those who are starting on the path with their gaze turning upward, away from the desire for knowledge of a material nature, and seeking the more glorious life giving, soul inspiring illumination of the Cosmic hosts.
The Cathedral of the Soul shall be your Cathedral and mine, and the dwelling place of the great masters of the past and future.
Creation Dawn
Posted on May 27, 2016 by Royal Rosamond Press
My semi-autobiographical novel ‘The Gideon Computer’ begins at the Golden West Saloon in downtown Oakland where Bill gets drunk and passes out. He comes to standing mid-span on the Golden Gate bridge looking at the setting sun. There is a ceremony about dropping the bomb on Hiroshima. This novel is about the Guilt Code we all carry. The premise of this story stems from the old hippie saying;
“Don’t lay your guilt-trip on me!”
Today, the President of the United States put a wreath on a small pyramid at the Hiroshima monument. A week ago I anointed a veiled women my Spirit Guide and Last Muse from the Other Side. I thought I had a month before she brought me to the core of my story. We have arrived. Her name is Gertrude Farquharson Boyle-Kanno, a renowned sculptress who married Takeshi Kanno, a famous poet who performed his ‘Creation Dawn’ in a redwood grove in Carmel that was founded by Bohemian Journalists and Writers. I compare Gertrude to the Carmel Artist, Christine Rosamond Benton. My sister and I were at the core of the ‘Peace Movement’.
Captain Gregory
‘King of the Bohemians’
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/28/world/asia/obama-hiroshima-japan.html?_r=0
HIROSHIMA, Japan — President Obama laid a wreath at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial on Friday, telling an audience that included survivors ofAmerica’s atomic bombing in 1945 that technology as devastating as nuclear arms demands a “moral revolution.”
“Technological progress without an equivalent progress in human institutions can doom us,” Mr. Obama said, adding that such technology “requires a moral revolution as well.”
Gertrude Farquharson Boyle Kanno (January 26, 1878 – August 14, 1937) was an American sculptor.[1]
Biography[edit]
She was born in San Francisco on January 26, 1878, and married Takeshi Kanno in Seattle, Washington, on May 22, 1907. She was the sixth child of John Boyle and Helen Milliken Clark. She attended Cogswell College, Lick School (California School of Mechanical Arts) and Mark Hopkins Institute of Art. She studied under Douglas Tilden and Arthur Mathews. In New York after 1915, she lived with Eitaro Ishigaki until about 1928. She was art editor of the Birth Control Review for about three years. She did portrait busts and medallions in plaster and bronze of many famous persons including: Isadora Duncan, Eitaro Ishigaki,Henry Cowell, Uldrick Thompson, Margaret Miller, Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John Muir, Ida Tarbell, Ezra Meeker, John Swett, Joseph LeConte, David Starr Jordan, Joaquin Miller, Edwin Markham, William Keith, Luther Burbank,Albert Einstein, Charles Erskine Scott Wood, John Fremont, Susan Mills, Horace Traubel, Christy Mathewson and Sidney Gulick.
http://www.redwoodhikes.com/Cowell/SanLorenzo.html
CREATION-DAWN BY TAKESHI KANNO MEMORIAL EDITION
President Biden and Helen of Troy
Posted on October 20, 2023 by Royal Rosamond Press
Days after the arrival of a United States armada off the coast of Israel, another three warships and a contingent of marines set off urgently in the same direction from Kuwait on Thursday and could be there by the middle of [this] week.
PHOTO: GETTY IMAGES
The Russian Orthodox Church is setting up its own private military companies in the Russian Federation. The Moscow Patriarchate has tasked these groups with recruiting Orthodox believers as mercenaries and providing them with combat training to fight against Ukraine.
Source: Security Service of Ukraine (SSU)
Details: The Security Service has documented that one such private military company, called St Andrew’s Cross, operates out of the Kronstadt Naval Cathedral in St Petersburg.
Its representatives are reported to be recruiting believers for service in the occupying forces within the walls of this religious institution.
In selecting potential candidates, preference is given to men who have already served in military units of the aggressor country and have combat experience.
After enlisting in the ranks of the private military company, they undergo tactical military training and firearms training led by instructors from the Russian secret services.
President Biden is our Commander in Chief and he brought out his War Map.
With tension level ever increasing in the Pacific, Canada must prepare for future naval threats from revisionist states, which threaten international order and the peace of fellow democracies. In August, Ottawa deployed three frigates of the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) to the Pacific to demonstrate freedom of navigation against encroachments by the Chinese Coast Guard. This posturing, coupled with a willingness to act along side allies, sends a strong signal of determination to maintain international norms, while also preparing for a fight against aggravating Chinese and Russian hostilities which will no doubt pull Canada into a wider conflict if deterrence fails. But Canada’s current naval capabilities fall short of meeting great power threats, which may diminish its usefulness in supporting allies in a Pacific conflict.
US Navy destroyer in Red Sea shoots down cruise missiles potentially headed toward Israel: Pentagon
The missiles were fired by Iranian-backed Houthi militia in Yemen, the DOD said.
October 19, 2023, 3:31 PM
Biden delivers remarks on the conflicts in Israel and Ukraine
President Joe Biden stated he would be introducing a defense bill to Congress worth roughly $100 billion.
The USS Carney, a U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer in the northern Red Sea, on Thursday shot down multiple missiles and drones launched by Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen that the Pentagon said were potentially headed toward targets in Israel.
It is the first time in recent memory that a U.S. Navy ship in the Middle East has engaged missiles and drones that were not directly aimed at the vessel.
It’s also the first U.S. military action taken to defend Israel in the current crisis and with the U.S. and other countries trying to contain the conflict between Israel and Hamas, the possibility that an Iranian-backed proxy group fired missiles and drones at Israel is sure to increase growing regional tensions.
The ship was in the northern Red Sea on Thursday evening local time when it intercepted three land attack cruise missiles and several drones, Pentagon spokesman Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder said at a press briefing. U.S. officials told ABC News that the Carney had brought down eight drones launched by the Houthis.
The Navy‘s fleet commander in Europe and the command-and-control ship USS Mount Whitney are deploying to the Eastern Mediterranean Sea amid a U.S. military buildup in the region to support Israel as it wages a bloody war against Hamas, the service announced Wednesday.
In a released statement, the Navy said the Mount Whitney — the 6th Fleet’s flagship — departed its port at Gaeta, Italy, “in support of U.S. operations.” A Navy spokesman confirmed to Military.com that the commander of 6th fleet, Vice Adm. Thomas Ishee, and his staff were aboard.
Les Wexner, the billionaire retailer known for brands including Victoria’s Secret, is the latest to pull funding from an elite school in the wake of the Hamas attacks last week.
The Wexner Foundation, the Jewish leadership philanthropy founded by the retailer, has severed ties with Harvard, citing the university’s response last week to the terrorist attacks by Hamas in Israel. Investors, CEOs, and donors have called on Ivy League schools to be more vocal in standing with Israel and condemning antisemitism.
“Harvard’s leaders were indeed tiptoeing, equivocating,” the statement said, posted on X. It was signed by Leslie and Abigail Wexner; Rabbi B. Elka Abrahamson, the Wexner Foundation president; and Ra’anan Avital, the foundation’s director general for Israel.
Irene Victoria Easton Christensen – Helen of Troy
Posted on July 20, 2019 by Royal Rosamond Press
The European Union is acting as a World Police Force in warning Iran about the seizure of a ship. My old muse, married well. Irene is more that a female James Bond. She is the embodiment of Britania.
The portrait I did of Rena is a ‘Historic Portrait’. Not even Rena can take this truth from me. She was my, and my late sister’s muse. She is redeeming. She is redeemed by her choice of a husband, who made history.
John Presco
Rena as Britania and American Eagle
Posted on January 27, 2017by Royal Rosamond Press
Rena’s late husband was Former Head of the British Defence Staff which was founded by Winston Churchill to insure these two allies would forever be on the same side. It appears Theresa May is responding to the pledge of unity in meeting with Don Juan Trumpster.
In 1970 I asked Rena to marry me, but, she was too young. Consider our beautiful children and their contributions to the Creative Irish Rosamond Line. I was poor and homeless when we met. We camped for fifty days in the beautiful wilderness of America. I knew nothing about my Patriotic roots, and Captain Samuel Rosamond.
I was once the low-life scum, the perfect example of an abusive male. I was not worthy to be in her company, least the same city. She went to live on the Isle of Wight with her rich, and elderly hero of the Empire, leaving me standing alone on Freedom Shores.
What great tales of old, what lines of beautiful poetry, can bring you home, and restore, the liberty we once owned atop Rose Mountain, above the fog, the clouds – the wings of muses soar! My beautiful American Dream.
Jon Presco
Admiral, K.C.B., D.S.C. Former Head of the British Defence Staff. He was Commandant of the Royal College of Defence Studies in 1976, a UK senior serving military officer between 1972 and 2001. For the 2nd Louis Vuitton Cup, which was held in Fremantle, Australia in 1987, he paid an entry fee deposit of $16.000 for Royal Thames Yacht Club’s White Crusader I and White Crusader II, representing United Kingdom.
In 1922 a cabinet committee under Winston Churchill, then Secretary of State for the Colonies, recommended the formation of the College.[1] The college was founded in 1927 as the Imperial Defence College and was located at 9 Buckingham Gate until 1939.[1] Its objective at that time was the defence of the Empire.[1] In 1946, following the end of World War II, the college reopened at Seaford House, Belgrave Square and members of the United States forces started attending courses.[1] It was renamed the Royal College of Defence Studies in 1970 and in 2007 the Queen and Prince Philip visited the college.[1]
The British Defence Staff – US, which was previously known as British Defence Staff (Washington),[1] is the home of the Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom) in the United States of America and its purpose is to serve the interests of Her Majesty’s Government in the USA. The British Defence Staff – US is led by the Defence Attaché and has responsibility for military and civilian MOD personnel located both within the Embassy and in 34 states across the USA.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn asked if May would discuss the issue of misogyny with Trump and raise the concerns of 100,000 people who marched over the weekend in an anti-Trump pro-women’s rights demonstration in London. May responded that she was not afraid to “speak frankly” with the President, though she did not confirm she would bring up the issue of women’s rights with him.
In 1922 a cabinet committee under Winston Churchill, then Secretary of State for the Colonies, recommended the formation of the College.[1] The college was founded in 1927 as the Imperial Defence College and was located at 9 Buckingham Gate until 1939.[1] Its objective at that time was the defence of the Empire.[1] In 1946, following the end of World War II, the college reopened at Seaford House, Belgrave Square and members of the United States forces started attending courses.[1] It was renamed the Royal College of Defence Studies in 1970 and in 2007 the Queen and Prince Philip visited the college.[1]
Rena Easton as Irene Westhaven
Posted on December 23, 2015by Royal Rosamond Press
Yesterday I realized Rena lied to me when she said she was not interested in becoming a model like her three older sisters after she saw what this profession had done to them. One of them was the mistress of Robert Vesco who prepared Donald Trump’s way.
In 1970, Rena left Grand Island Nebraska with her twenty-six year old lover. She was seventeen. They got out of the car at Venice Beach where Rena paraded around in a bikini that I and my good friend beheld her in on Pismo Beach. This friend kidnapped her, drove three hundred yards down the beach until he turned around. Rena had demanded he go back and get me. Consider Paris and Helen of Troy. He had to have her after beholding her beauty at the Beauty Contest he judged. All hell breaks lose. Casandra freaks out.
“There is the face that launched a thousand ships!
Rena and her lover did not get out of the car on Nob Hill,so folks can see her beautiful face. She told me one of her sisters was going to be on the cover of a magazine – wearing a bikini. What fourteen year old would not want to be a top model like her older sisters? I think it was the sisters, and Rena’s grandmother – whom she lived with – who discouraged her.
No sooner on Venice Beach, knocking them dead, then Lover-Boy calls the muscle guys working out “FAGS!” Six of them chased this Nebraskan down the boardwalk, catch him, and put him in the hospital. That evening Rena and I meet. Her ride on the Faggot Wagon had come to an end. All this way, and no further. She did not have clue where he went. She had waited by the Venice Pier for fourteen hours, until I cam along at 3:00 A.M. I was the Last Man Standing, who looked down on the crashing waves, and asked;
“Where are you?”
How could she betray a beautiful poet?
Rena married Admiral Sir Ian Easton who entered ‘White Crusader’ in America’s Cup. That is the White Crusader racing America’s entry in the photo above. Did Rena marry the real James Bond?
My Muse and I went swimming at Monte Rio Beach about ten times. She would not allow me in the water with her because she put on a show, a beauty contest, that blew the competition out of the water. I title her a Kraken.
Before she sent me her long letter she wrote on Christmas, I found her house she lives in pictured above. She informed me she was with her second husband living on a hill overlooking his cattle ranch. They were divorced. She lied.
I have depicted Rena as the American Eagle. Look at her eyes! To see Miss U.S.A swoop on stage as this eagle, blew my mind. She was going for the Redneck Tea Party vote. I think Rena wanted to slip me in her back pocket with the other Trophy-Lovers she collected. Then she read her seventeen year old self – was still the star of my show! At sixty-one, she got very possessive. What a trip! With Thomas Hart Benton’s collaboration with John Steinbeck, we are looking at Great California Love Story.
When we went to get her things at this pad on the beach, one of the dudes who lived there, was on acid. He made whistling sounds, held out his finger and said;
“Come pretty bird! Come sit on my finger!”
I saved my muse whom I had asked to come into my life.
Jon Presco
Copyright 2015
“Don Roscoe and Humphrey Bogart had many things in common, the foremost being, they owned yachts that were far superior to Jack London’s wreck ‘The Snark’. On the San Francisco Bay, one could see Don’s yacht ‘Bohemian Roe’ racing Bogies Boat ‘Santana’ past Alcatraz Island. Every other boat owner looked on in awe. From the Berkeley Hills you could make out this incredible sight that American Intellectuals titled ‘The Zenith of Western Culture’. This infuriated the Swells in Los Angeles, and other Hollywood Stars who were befuddled. The Kennedy family took note, and shrugged their shoulders.”
Rena had graduated from high school, and was looking to go on adventure. Her grandmother did not have the money to send her to Europe, so she set out on a Road Trip with her boyfriend.
After I rescued Andromeda from the Sea Monster, I took her North, into the California Redwoods. I showed Rena the Giant Sequoia on our way to the Russian River. Having an alcoholic father, I don’t think Rena was ever sent away to Camp. In desperate need of a place to swim I took my beautiful muse to the beach at Monte Rio. Eureka, she had found it, her perfect Summer Vacation spot. Here this straight A student could take a well deserved time-out before attending the University of Nebraska.
Easton joined the Royal Navy in 1931 and qualified as a pilot at the start of World War II in which he saw active service on aircraft carriers.[1] On 4 January 1941, flying a Fairey Fulmar of 803 Squadron from HMS Formidable during a raid on Dakar he force landed, with his aircrewman Naval Airman James Burkey and was taken prisoner and held by the Vichy French at a camp near Timbuktu until released in November 1942.[2] He was appointed Assistant Director of the Tactical and Weapons Policy Division at the Admiralty in 1960 and was seconded to the Royal Australian Navy as Captain of HMAS Watson in 1962.[1] He went on to be Naval Assistant to the Naval Member of the Templer Committee on Rationalisation of Air Power in 1965, Director of Naval Tactical and Weapons Policy Division at the Admiralty in 1966 and Captain of the aircraft carrier HMS Triumph in 1968.[1] After that he was made Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Policy) in 1969, Flag Officer for the Admiralty Interview Board in 1971 and Head of British Defence Staff and Senior Defence Attaché in Washington, D.C. in 1973.[1] He last posting was as Commandant of the Royal College of Defence Studies in 1976: he commissioned armourial bearings for the College which were presented during a visit by the Queen in November 1977.[3] He retired in 1978.[1]
Among the charges that emerged during the 1970s, the SEC accused Vesco of embezzling $220 million from four different IOS funds. During 1973, Vesco fled to Costa Rica. Shortly before his departure, hoping to end the SEC investigation into his activities, Vesco routed substantial contributions to Richard Nixon through Nixon’s nephew Donald A. Nixon.
Vesco was also investigated for a secret $200,000 contribution made to the 1972 campaign to re-elect Nixon. As counsel to International Controls Corporation, New Jersey lawyer Harry L. Sears delivered the contribution to Maurice Stans, finance chairman for the Committee to Re-elect the President. Vesco had wanted Attorney General John N. Mitchell to intercede on his behalf with SEC chairman William J. Casey. While Vesco fled the country, Stans, Mitchell, and Sears were indicted for obstruction of justice, though charges against all three were dismissed.[9]
FREMANTLE, Australia — New Zealand syndicate officials, no strangers to boat construction controversy, threatened Friday to protest Britain’s use of a new keel cast in Australia.
The officials charge the keel for Britain’s White Crusader was cast in Perth despite a stipulation that boats challenging for the America’s Cup must be designed and built in the country of the challenging club.
White Crusader Syndicate Director Ian Easton admitted the keel was cast in Australia but said a replacement of the original keel was considered a modification and allowed. Easton refused to say if the new keel has been used yet on White Crusader.
Easton said the cost of molding a complete new keel in the country of origin plus flying it to Australia would be prohibitive and ‘greatly favor the defenders over the challengers.’
‘The rules are very clear, like black and white,’ said KZ7 Syndicate Chairman Michael Fay. ‘I don’t believe the British would be sailing with a keel that isn’t legal. I don’t think they would jeopardize the points earned so far.’
http://articles.latimes.com/1986-11-29/sports/sp-16152_1_cup-crews
FREMANTLE, Australia — Body searches of America’s Cup crews may be necessary if race officials suspect the use of pocket-size devices providing up-to-the-minute weather information, an official with Great Britain’s White Crusader Challenge said Friday.
Ian Easton, a director of the syndicate, said he believed at least one challenging team was using the illegal visual pager system. If true, that would violate the rule disallowing transmission of any weather reports to a competing yacht after the 10-minute warning gun is fired.
“If the race committee instituted a search of a boat before the start of a race, it should look at asking crewmen to empty their pockets,” Easton said.
“These devices are quite small and can be easily hidden–or thrown overboard for that matter.”
Easton said he is not prepared to name the syndicate he suspects.
“There is some evidence, but not enough” to go to race officials, he said. “It would be awful if the Cup was won by a crew using these devices.”
From the Royal Thames Yacht Club, White Crusader was designed by Ian Howlett and was a traditional 12 metre design evolved from the DeSavery Lionhart ’83 boat of the previous Americas Cup event. However, White Crusader II was a radical design and designed by David Hollam. This second boat was used as a trial horse against White Crusader, but the team eventually decided to use the more conventional designed boat. Tank testing was carried out at Southampton University and HMS Haslar. The deadline for acceptance of challenges was 1 April 1986 and Admiral Sir Ian Easton wrote his own personal cheque for $16,000 as an entry fee deposit. Harold Cudmore acted as skipper-tactician and starting helmsman who then handed over the helm to Chris Law for the remainder of each races. Both boats were originally named simply Crusader One and Two but the “White” part of their names were added when millionaire Graham Walker (Of White Horse whiskey fame) gave heavy sponsorship to the British challengers at the last minute before the event started so the “White” was added to their names.
To my chagrin, after beholding her in her bikini, she would not let me in the water with her, for in the water this Danish…
devoured two men who were putting the make on her while she was swimming. When we left the Monte Rio beach I noticed a empty towel and a portable radio playing “She was a gypsy woman.”
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