America’s NATO Ally Urged to ‘Buy California’
The European Union Kingdom of Heligoland
“A Danish petition to “buy California” from the U.S. has gained just shy of 200,000 signatures.“
Dear Danish Dreamers;
My name is John Presco the owner of Royal Rosamond Press named after my grandfather, a regional writer. I am seventy eight years of age. My ancestors were 49ers, and founded the City of Belmont California where thy operated the first theme park in California. They built two Turnverein Halls in Sam Francisco, The California Historical Society found a new home for their collection, but Stanford has not designated a building. There is a pending offer to purchase Notre Dame de Namur, but I am working on a lawsuit claiming this land, and Twin Pines Park where my ancestors were buried.
My grandmothers were citizens of Helgoland , that Denmark used to own. They might have been Danish citizens. The first step in owning land is to employ a good attorney. I will put you in my Will, and thus you will own real California History. To file a claim in a California Superior Court, will establish you in California History.
I founded the European Union Kingdom of Helgoland. Perhaps Demark should reclaim this island, and have it play a role in Donald’s Drama. I want to apply for dual citizenship and be your Ambassador at large. I will live in Ralston Hall where my great grandparents got married. I see ‘Little Denmark’ having a Danish Village like the one in Solvang City California. There is a Glass Slipper story, here – and much more! Read my blog. There is a book writing itself!
Please accept my contribution to OUR cause. I am a poor writer, poet, and historian. I give you, a Beautful Foot In The Door.
Welcome!
John Presco
I sent this message to Ursula van der Leyen the head of the European Commission:
“My ancestors are a Gold Rush family who came to California in 1849 from Hamburg, and the island of Heligoland. They brought six portable homes around the Cape and erected them in Belmont California that is near Stanford University where Commissioner von der Leyen attended college. I have found evidence of prejudice against Germans in Belmont. The graves of Cark Janke and his wife were dug up in the middle the night, and moved to another city. Janke Street was changed. The study of my family in Belmont has been oppressed. I am kin to Ian Fleming and am authoring a Bond novel, starring Victoria Rosemond Bond. I find Erdogan’s treatment of women, appalling. Sincerely John Presco President: Royal Rosamond Press”
Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben wrote the “Song of the Germans” in 1841, the third verse of which is now Germany’s national anthem. His bust now stands on the square in front of the landing stage. The Helgoland photographer Franz Schensky also achieved worldwide fame with his pictures of the island. Biologically, the work on Helgoland begins very early. The great diversity under the water surface around Helgoland attracted important scientists to the island more than 150 years ago, so that in 1892 the “Königliche Biologische Anstalt Helgoland” (Royal Biological Institute Helgoland) was founded, which has been part of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research since 1998.
America’s NATO Ally Urged to ‘Buy California’
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ADanish petition to “buy California” from the U.S. has gained just shy of 200,000 signatures.
The petition was set up in response to President Donald Trump‘s quest to acquire Greenland.
Newsweek has contacted Denmark’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs for comment by email.
Why It Matters
Trump has renewed his interest in the U.S. acquiring Greenland, a semi-autonomous island that is part of Denmark and home to a U.S. Space Force base. The light-hearted petition appears to turn tables on Trump and his desire to gain control of the vast territory.
The U.S. leader has, since his first term in office, floated the idea of purchasing Greenland despite the prime ministers of Greenland and Denmark both saying the territory is not for sale. He hasn’t ruled out the use of military force to seize Greenland.
What To Know
Around 198,000 people have signed the “Demarkification” petition, titled “Let’s Buy California from Trump – Denmark’s Next Big Adventure.”
“Let’s buy California from Donald Trump! Yes, you heard that right. California could be ours, and we need your help to make it happen,” the petition reads,
The campaign says it seeks to crowdfund $1 trillion to purchase the U.S. state, which will bring “hygge to Hollywood”, “bike lanes to Beverly Hills,” and “organic smørrebrød to every street corner.”
It also proposes renaming Disneyland to “Hans Christian Andersenland.”
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“Mickey Mouse in a Viking helmet? Yes, please.”
Trump might sell the U.S. state to Denmark because “he isn’t exactly California’s biggest fan,” the petition states.
“He’s called it ‘the most ruined state in the Union’ and has feuded with its leaders for years. We’re pretty sure he’d be willing to part with it for the right price. And hey, we’ll even throw in a lifetime supply of Danish pastries to sweeten the deal,” it reads.
“As for the will of the citizens? Well, let’s face it – when has that ever stopped him? If Trump wants to sell California, he’ll sell California.”
Trump said at a press conference on January 7 that the U.S. needed Greenland for “national security purposes.” The island, which has a population of about 56,000, is strategically located in the Arctic Circle and is rich in natural resources.
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said last month that “Greenland belongs to the Greenlanders” while Greenland’s Prime Minister said use of the island’s land was “Greenland’s business.”
Who Said What
Greenland Prime Minister Mute Egede told Reuters in December: “Greenland is ours. We are not for sale and will never be for sale. We must not lose our long struggle for freedom.”
Donald Trump speaking on Greenland in January: “I think the people [of Greenland] want to be with us. I don’t really know what claim Denmark has to it, but it would be a very unfriendly act if they didn’t allow that to happen because it’s for the protection of the free world. I think we’ll get Greenland because it has to do with freedom of the world.”
What Happens Next
Trump is likely to continue raising the prospect of Greenland’s annexation. Using military force to gain control of the semi-autonomous island could trigger Article 4 of NATO‘s founding treaty. The article can be invoked when any member of the military alliance deems the “territorial integrity, political independence or security” of any member state to be threatened.
Let’s Buy California from Trump – Denmark’s Next Big Adventure
Have you ever looked at a map and thought, “You know what Denmark needs? More sunshine, palm trees, and roller skates.” Well, we have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make that dream a reality.
Let’s buy California from Donald Trump!
Yes, you heard that right.
California could be ours, and we need your help to make it happen.
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Why California?
- Sunshine Galore: Let’s face it, Denmark’s weather is… well, let’s just say it’s cozy. California has 300 days of sunshine a year. Imagine swapping your rain boots for flip-flops!
- Tech Dominance: Gaining an extra bunch of Tech bros? Great! It is what every democracy needs.
- Avocado Toast Forever: California grows 90% of the U.S.’s avocados. That’s right – we’ll never run out of avocado toast.
- To protect the free world: Most people say we have the best freedom. Colossal freedom.
- Disneyland: We’ll rename it Hans Christian Andersenland. Mickey Mouse in a Viking helmet? Yes, please.
Why Trump Might Sell
Let’s be honest – Trump isn’t exactly California’s biggest fan. He’s called it “the most ruined state in the Union” and has feuded with its leaders for years. We’re pretty sure he’d be willing to part with it for the right price.
And hey, we’ll even throw in a lifetime supply of Danish pastries to sweeten the deal.
As for the will of the citizens? Well, let’s face it – when has that ever stopped him? If Trump wants to sell California, he’ll sell California.
The Tremendous Plan
- Crowdfunding Goal of $1 trillion (give or take a few billion). That’s just 200,000 kroner from every Dane. Skip a few lattes, and you’re golden.
- We’ll send our bestest negotiators – Lego executives and the cast of Borgen.
- It is in the national interest to promote the extraordinary heritage of our Nation, so California will become New Denmark. Los Angeles? More like Løs Ångeles.
- Danish Values: We’ll bring hygge to Hollywood, bike lanes to Beverly Hills, and organic smørrebrød to every street corner. Rule of law, universal health care and fact based politics might apply.
Perks for Donors
Something more to sweeten the deal?
10 DKK
A personalized thank-you note from the Danish royal family (okay, maybe just a postcard).
100 DKK
A virtual tour of the new Danishwood studios.
1,000 DKK
A lifetime supply of California-grown avocados (shipping not included).
10,000 DKK
Your name on a street sign in New Denmark.
1,000,000 DKK
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Your own private beach in Malibu (terms and conditions apply)
City of Belmont – Breach of Contract
Posted on July 27, 2024 by Royal Rosamond Press
I just sent shorter version of this letter to the City Manager of Belmont. I will try to send it at the next City Hall meeting.
Carl and Dorothea Janke are my great, grandparents and California Pioneers. They founded Belmont California. They brought six potable houses around the Cape and erected them in Belmont in 1848.
For several years I have been asking the Mayor and City Council of Belmont California about who authorized the digging up of my great grandparents, Carl and Dorothea Janke. I have received no reply. A week ago I found the minutes of the Belmont Historic society where my relative, Doris Vannier brought up the fact Carl Janke and his wife were dug up in the middle of the night – in 1975? Is this correct? There is talk about asking the City Government for money to place a plaque on the giant Bay tree, where under – the graves were dug. Was a plaque placed on this tree, or anywhere near? Was this matter ever brought before the Mayor and City Council?
Yesterday, I read an article by historian, Russel Estep, about two tombstones put in front of Ralston Hall in 1852. Some citizens did not want them there, and wanted carboard boxes placed over them, or, allow weeds to grow high, and hide them. These are Pioneer graves, and deserve more than the cheapest burial solution know to mankind. How often will the paper boxes have to be replaced? Are you going to have to pay a city worker? Estep suggested The City likes to do the bidding of the people – who are upset.
I’m upset, but am not a resident of Belmont. However, there is a document signed by the Mayor founding ‘Carl Janke Day’, Is Doris Vannier the sole author of this document that contains the Belmont City Seal? How many times was Carl Janke Day celebrated? I see no mention of the Janke name in Belmont Village. There used to be a Janke Lane? There is a missing Janke tombstone. There are allegedly three people in the same grave in the Union cemetery. There is the possibility they were placed outside the cemetery- and moved when highway 84 was built.
I have a strong suspicion the bodies of my great grandparents were never dug up in the middle of the night, and only their tombstones were moved. This is not only very deceptive, it constitutes a Breach of Contract, then – and now! This is not the way to treat – THE DEAD! Did the two graves dug in 1852 receive some respect for 123 years? Is there a chance they were Janke graves? Are there any bones to be found? Maybe you should ask Stanford to look, and conduct a through investigation.
Until that day, on this day July 26, 2024…I John Presco claim all the land my relative, Mrs. Vannier, listed in The Contract To Honor Carl’. This land may be as large as one square mile. It is obvious the City of Belmont could find no land to honor their Pioneers, and were catering to Greedy Wanters of Land. If there are any new buildings on my land, or a freeway, I want them removed. I will move to Belmont to enjoy my land, and build a fabulous monument to Carl Janke and his wife – right in front of Ralston Hall! Millions of people will come to Belmont – just to touch this moment. Your tourist industry will bring in a million a year – at least! Help make Carl and Dorothea – very happy! They were for progress – but not this much progress – for Christ’s sake! Every day…..will be Carl Janke Day!
John Presco
President: Royal Rosamond Press
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A breach of contract is a civil wrong that occurs when a party to a binding contract fails to fulfill their obligations, without a legal excuse. This can include failing to deliver goods or services, not completing work on time, or not paying for services. The other party can sue for breach of contract, and the goal of contract law is to put the harmed party back in the same economic position they would have been in if there had been no breach. The default remedy is monetary damages, which are usually limited to what’s listed in the contract.
My Dead Have Been Taken Hostage
Posted on October 11, 2023 by Royal Rosamond Press
On this day, December 29, 2024, I John Presco found the College of Bohemianism on the land designated the final resting place of my third grandfather, Carl Janke, the founder of Belmont, that may have one time been call Carlmont. In the spirit of Charles (Carl) Ignatious Pfaff, I made the Belmont Historical Society aware of my Janke and Stuttmeister ancestors, and my desire to move to Belmont. I found a home for sale there, and was asking for backers of my newspaper, Royal Rosamond Press. This desire was utterly ignored, as was I – for five days! I was greeted with hostility.
Today I read about the drinking establishment that Plaff placed in New York a block from were I went to work via Manpower Inc. I was seventeen. I lived nine blocks away at the Saint George Hotel in 1964 that was in the Village.
John Presco
President: Royal Rosamond Press
153-Year-Old California Historical Society Closes, Transfers Collection to Stanford
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The California Historical Society at 678 Mission St. in San Francisco, photographed in June 2023. (Courtesy CHS)
The California Historical Society (CHS) announced today it has permanently closed and transferred its collection to Stanford University.New Apple TV+ Documentary ‘Vietnam’ Gets to the Beating Heart of a Cruel Conflict
The nonprofit, which was established in 1871 and became California’s official historical society in 1979, struggled for at least a decade to attain financial stability, even before the pandemic whittled away visitorship and donations. Unlike other state historical societies, the CHS never received general operating funds from the state of California.
Plans to dissolve the organization were set in motion by board vote last summer.
The CHS collection contains wide-ranging material that dates back to the 18th century: Gold Rush-era diaries, documentation of Jim Jones’ Peoples Temple and archives from the California Flower Market (founded by Japanese American flower merchants in 1912). The collection is estimated to contain over 600,000 items and is known as one of the most significant holdings of state history.
Now, in a collaborative effort between the Bill Lane Center for the American West and Stanford University Libraries, Stanford will assume permanent stewardship of these items.
Sponsored
Quoted in Stanford’s press release, Michael A. Keller, university librarian, said, “[The CHS’s] collections of books, journals, letters and postcards, maps, photographs, newspapers, and more form an enormous, relatively untapped resource for historical research, for teaching, and for understanding the history of California and the western region.”
Dissolution is a very different fate than the one the CHS envisioned back in 2016, when San Francisco tapped the nonprofit to become the lead partner in the potential restoration of the Old Mint, a 100,000-square-foot building that survived the 1906 earthquake and fire.
But restoration of the Old Mint proved too costly. The new plan, in early 2020, was to sell CHS’s 678 Mission Street building, which the nonprofit moved into in 1993, and begin collaborating with local history organizations across the state. This, too, did not go according to plan. San Francisco’s downtown real estate market took a downturn and in 2022, CHS Executive Director and CEO Alicia L. Goehring died suddenly.
The building eventually sold last summer for nearly $6.7 million to a limited liability company affiliated with the San Francisco Baking Institute, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.Contemporary Jewish Museum to Close for at Least a Year
Even if the building — painted “international orange” in 2012 to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge — becomes an active storefront again, the Yerba Buena neighborhood has lost yet another longtime cultural anchor. Just up Mission Street, the Contemporary Jewish Museum has closed for at least a year. The Mexican Museum remains empty. And the Museum of the African Diaspora, directly across the street from the CHS, will close March through September to upgrade its interior spaces and galleries.
A silver lining in today’s news comes from the possibility of increased access to the CHS collection, which because of understaffing has been largely inaccessible to researchers in recent years.
The NATO Sanctuary and European Lighthouse
Posted on July 27, 2024 by Royal Rosamond Press
Three years ago I founded a Union that will be the Gibraltar of NATO, that is under attack by Putin, and the Republican Vice President candidate. When did Putin invade Ukraine?
Putin attacked a year later.
John Presco ‘Seer Jon’
The European Union Kingdom of Heligoland
Posted on May 7, 2021 by Royal Rosamond Press
On this day, I found the European Union Kingdom of Helgoland. Elizabeth was once the Queen of the European Union. There were other nations that belonged to the EU that had royals who employed democratic nations in their title. China is celebrating the Death of the European Union, and is mocking Australia as being the symbol of the end of the British Commonwealth. At the same time, China eyes nations in Africa. Brexit, was the Beginning of the End. The Trumpites modeled their INSURECTION on Brexit.
I declare the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, the titular King and Queen of the Island of Heligoland, and seek the backing of the German Government to make this Kingdom their new Hands Across the Water, in order to Unify Germany and Britain, so they can take on their mutual enemies that are making plans to do them harm. Let us found a bond with the State of California so it will represent the European Union of the West, looking East to where our common adversary threatens our common supremacy of….The Seas of Liberty! Let San Francisco Bay and Hawaii be the Common Port of a New United Nations Fleet. Let us erect a International Sister of Liberty on Treasure Island that will look forever out the Golden Gate. Let the Kingdom of Heligoland be a Kingdom of Refuge for all the royals of the world, and all journalists.
The people of Heligoland are hoping the European Union bases Frontex on their Small Rock, that can be the Gibraltar of the New Union and Kingdom. Illegal Immigration has toppled Britain and the United States, and made these once powerful nations vulnerable to TREACEROUS crack-pots and religious cult leaders, who pretend to protect us from the foreign enemy within – when they are THE ENEMY WITHIN! These are NOT PATRIOTS.
I suggest the building of Two Towers of Liberty, one on Heligoland, and the other on Treasure Island. After 911, the United States did not respond correctly. We tried to gain back our power and lost prestige by launching a a war in Afghanistan – that alas we pull out of. President Biden has bid his Vice President, Kamala Harris, to solve the illegal immigration across our border. The Trumpites spent billions on Their Wall of Fear, that was the biggest Billboard Campaign of Fear erected – since the Great Wall of China. Trump”s Wall is the greatest failure in American History. He failed to get reelected, and his cult followers FAIL see how they lost. They are sore losers, just like the Confederacy, who seceded from the Union – AND FAILED!
I challenge China to come up with THEIR SOLUTION to illegal immigration, or shut up! Their threats ARE VILE, and intellectually dishonest. We can do better. Let our Vice President meet with members of the European Union in order to form a better way, a sane approach to what the People of the World have long engaged in. Consider Exodus!
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In the storm of the times – A thousand years of Helgoland
The history of the island is exciting far into the last century. Helgoland was a sea fortress, a pirate’s nest, an important base for sea pilots and, at the beginning of the 18th century, even the largest goods handling center in Europe.
Helgoland was besieged and was Danish from 1714. But already in 1807 the island became British. In 1826 Jacob Andresen Siemens founded the seaside resort. It was not until the “Treaty on Colonies and Heligoland” of 1890 that Heligoland was handed over to Germany. The island was also involved in the world wars as a naval base. In 1947, the British even attempted to destroy Helgoland’s military installations with the largest non-nuclear detonation. It was not until 1952 that the island was returned to Germany and repopulation could begin. Soon after, in 1961, the town hall was completed. It still bears witness to Helgoland’s distinctive history and informs visitors about the exciting historical events by means of an information board. But important in the history were also the people, the visitors and inhabitants of Helgoland. Early on, the notables of Central Europe took a cure on the island, while foreign fleets fought sea battles within sight.
Poets, thinkers and scientists
Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben wrote the “Song of the Germans” in 1841, the third verse of which is now Germany’s national anthem. His bust now stands on the square in front of the landing stage. The Helgoland photographer Franz Schensky also achieved worldwide fame with his pictures of the island. Biologically, the work on Helgoland begins very early. The great diversity under the water surface around Helgoland attracted important scientists to the island more than 150 years ago, so that in 1892 the “Königliche Biologische Anstalt Helgoland” (Royal Biological Institute Helgoland) was founded, which has been part of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research since 1998.
History theme path
In order to bring the historical events closer to the visitors of the island, there is a history trail over 16 different stations on the lower and upper land, which informs on large boards and pyramids about the 1000-year, changeful and at the same time exciting history. The Tourist Information has a free brochure available for you for this purpose.
Museum Helgoland
The Museum Helgoland can be found in the North-East area in the Nordseehalle. Here one deals with a variety of historically for Helgoland valuable events and topics. In order to show the history of Helgoland as well as the life of the islanders at that time and also the beauty of the island itself, exhibitions and information events take place at regular intervals. In front of the museum is the museum courtyard with original replica lobster stalls. Among other things, Helgoland’s postal history and the works of the famous children’s author James Krüss are exhibited here.
April 18, 1945 and April 18, 1947
A date that will forever be remembered by the people of Helgoland.
Shortly before the end of the war in 1945, fifteen Helgolanders tried to contact the British in order to avert the expected attack and thus the destruction of their homeland. However, they were betrayed and arrested by the Gestapo on April 18. Seven of them were shot in Cuxhaven on April 21, 1945.
On April 18, 1945, the British Air Force carried out a devastating bombing campaign in which 1,000 British planes dropped about 7,000 bombs in 104 minutes, rendering the island uninhabitable. The residents had survived in air raid shelters and were evacuated the next day
The “Big Bang”
Two years later, on April 18, 1947, the British destroyed military bunkers on the island with the largest non-nuclear blast in history to date. Some 4,000 torpedo heads, nearly 9,000 depth charges and over 91,000 shells of various calibers, totaling 6,700 tons of explosives, were stacked in the submarine bunker as well as in the maze of tunnels at the southern tip of the Rock and at the coastal batteries; punctually at 1 p.m., the huge explosion was set off from aboard the cable carrier Lasso. A huge jet of fire and tons of rock shot into the sky. The mushroom cloud had risen nine kilometers into the air. From the material of the blasted southern tip, the midland was formed, and the submarine bunker in the southern harbor was destroyed. The complete destruction of the island, which had been accepted, did not occur. The harbor facilities and coastal defense walls remained intact, even the civil defense bunker was spared and can be visited in parts today.
The Helgoland Bunker
Get a first impression of the Helgoland Bunker in our video.
The civil bunker
You can find more information about guided tours here.
Gustav Nagel – The First Hippie?
Posted on July 3, 2013 by Royal Rosamond Press
I just sent this message to Ursula van der Leyen the head of the European Commission:
“My ancestors are a Gold Rush family who came to California in 1849 from Hamburg, and the island of Heligoland. They brought six portable homes around the Cape and erected them in Belmont California that is near Stanford University where Commissioner von der Leyen attended college. I have found evidence of prejudice against Germans in Belmont. The graves of Cark Janke and his wife were dug up in the middle the night, and moved to another city. Janke Street was changed. The study of my family in Belmont has been oppressed. I am kin to Ian Fleming and am authoring a Bond novel, starring Victoria Rosemond Bond. I find Erdogan’s treatment of women, appalling. Sincerely John Presco President: Royal Rosamond Press”
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Heligoland is a tiny island some 30 miles away from Schleswig Holstein and Lower Saxony in the North Sea. Historically it had been claimed by the Danes – although the 2,000 people who lived on the red sandstone cliffs were generally answerable to no-one but themselves. The tiny island could not provide much of a living, but the seas and their fishing grounds around it meant that the islanders could eke out in such an inhospitable place.
It was really the Napoleonic Wars that saw this island annexed by the British. The Danes had been forced to join Napoleon’s Continental System which was designed to enforce a trading embargo and blockade against Britain. The Admiralty, in the days after Trafalgar, were keen to acquire the rock to help facilitate smuggling to the ports on the Continent. The tiny Danish garrison could do little to resist when a flotilla of Royal Navy ships arrived and so surrendered without firing a shot. The only setback for the British was when one of the ships (a bomb-ketch named HMS Explosion) broke free from its moorings and ran aground on a nearby Sandy Island. The islanders helped the sailors salvage what they could and it was to be Explosion’s foremast that provided the flagpole with which to claim the island for the British.
Heligoland became one of the central linchpins for Britain making its assault on Napoleon’s Continental system. After Trafalgar, there was very little chance that Napoleon could invade Britain and so economic warfare was his next best card. A network of Anglo-German merchants from major economic centres like Liverpool, Frankfurt, Edinburgh, Hamburg, London and Bremen coordinated the effectively illegal trade between Britain and the Continent largely transitting through Heligoland. The island exploded in economic activity. Between 1809 and 1811 alone £86 million pounds worth of goods passed through the island (This sum of money was actually larger than the entire British annual budget in 1811 for comparison). Of course, blockade running suited many traders as they circumvented and avoided taxes and duties with capture and arrest by Napoleon’s agents being the only real deterrent. Having a bolt hole so close to the lucrative destinations of the Low Countries, Germany and Scandanavia was perfect for the operation. The principal goods smuggled were tea, coffee, sugar, rum and tobacco. These were all high value and high demand products often coming directly from Britain’s colonies. The blockade running undermined Napoleon’s entire Continental System and when Russia pulled out of it also in 1812 (provoking Napoleon’s disastrous invasion) the system lay in tatters. Britain had not only withstood the economic assault but had actually managed to profit from it – thanks in part to its possession of Heligoland.
The island was certainly useful to the Royal Navy for the remainder of the Napoleonic Wars, but its continued ownership after the war was by no means guaranteed. Heligoland would find itself trussed up as a bargaining chip with other Danish and Scandinavian territories. Britain was keen to keep the tiny island but returned other Danish islands and saw that Norway was entrusted to Sweden in what was known as the Treaty of Kiel. This would be the constitutional basis for British ownership of the island for the next 76 years.
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Here are the vessels that Sir Caspar John served upon. He was born into a artistic family. I would like see the College of Defence Studies founded by the Artist, Sir Winston Churchill, expanded to include Creative People in Britain and the U.S. As a rule artists, writers, and musicians do not take slaves, gas people, and loot other people’s art. Hitler did all three. He was a bad artist who cost the world many lives, and a trillion dollars to put him down. We took back the art he stole and put it in sacred public places. I support Theresa May’s strike against Assad, who gassed his own people.
The island had no distinct name before the 19th century. It was often referred to by variants of the High German Heiligland (‘holy land’) and once even as the island of the Holy Virgin Ursula. Theodor Siebs summarized the critical discussion of the name in the 19th century in 1909 with the thesis that, based on the Frisian self-designation of the Heligolanders as Halunder, the island name meant ‘high land’ (similar to Hallig).[3] In the following discussion by Jürgen Spanuth, Wolfgang Laur again proposed the original name of Heiligland.[4] The variant Helgoland, which has appeared since the 16th century, is said to have been created by scholars who Latinized a North Frisian form Helgeland, using it to refer to a legendary hero, Helgi.[5][6] The discussion is complicated by a disagreement as to which of the listed names really refers to the island of Helgoland, and by a desire for the island still to be seen as holy today.[7]
The Battle of the Heligoland Bight[6][7] was the first “named” air battle of the Second World War, which began the longest air campaign of the war on 3 September 1939, the Defence of the Reich.[8] After the declaration of war, RAF Bomber Command began operations against Nazi Germany but limited their attacks to those targets that were purely military and had little risk of civilian casualties. This largely limited their efforts to attacks on the Kriegsmarine (German Navy) warships in German ports to prevent their use in the Battle of the Atlantic.
A Hamas official has vowed to repeat the horrific terror attacks on Israel earlier this month “again and again” until the country is completely destroyed, insisting it has “no place on our land.”
Ghazi Hamad, a member of the militant group’s decision-making political bureau, warned that Gaza leadership would replicate the coordinated Oct. 7 attack, referred to by the terrorists as Operation al-Aqsa Flood, which killed more than 1,400 Israelis and took some 240 hostages.
“The al-Aqsa Flood is just the first time and there will be a second, a third, a fourth because we have the determination, the resolve and the capabilities to fight,” Hamad said in an Oct. 24 Lebanese television interview republished by British outlets Wednesday.
Hamad said the terrorist organization is willing to “pay a price.”
“We are called a nation of martyrs and are proud to sacrifice martyrs,” Hamad said. “Israel is a country that has no place on our land. We must remove that country because it constitutes a security, military and political catastrophe to the Arab and Islamic nations, and must be finished.”
Spy Weddings at Belmont
Posted on February 28, 2023 by Royal Rosamond Press
I want to move to Belmont. I will need a means to make living there, in the home of my ancestors. How about I minister to Espionage Weddings? I am kin to Ian Fleming and am authoring a spy novel. Belmont needs a Character and Author in Residence. I will conduct Nazarite Weddings. I will spend my days in a Gypsie Wagon modeled after the work of my kin Augustus John. I will read my Tom Poems while my sheep keep the grass low at Twin Piness Park.
John Tom Braskehill
Stuttmeister-Janke Wedding at Belmont
Posted on May 5, 2021 by Royal Rosamond Press
Below is the artist Christine Rosamond Benton, the great granddaughter of Alice Stuttmeister, the sister of William Stuttmeister. My sister got married to Rick Partlow who won an Emmy.
John Presco
President: Belmont Soda Works; Royal Rosamond Press; California Barrel Company
The Belmont Soda Works of California | Rosamond Press
William Janke on Haight St. | Rosamond Press
The California Barrel Company – Site Title
The Keepers and Destroyers of History | Rosamond Press
Daily Alta California, Volume 42, Number 14175, 24 June 1888
STUTTMEISTER-JANKE. One of the most enjoyable weddings of the past week took place at Belmont, Wednesday morning last, the contracting parties being Miss Augusta Janke, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. August Janke of Belmont, and Dr. Wm. Stuttmeister of San Francisco. The house was handsomely decorated with a rich profusion of ferns and flowers, and at the appointed hour was filled with the relatives and intimate friends of the contracting parties. At 11 o’clock the wedding march was played and the bridal party entered the parlor. The bride was attended by Miss Alice Stuttmeister, a sister of the groom, and Miss Minnie Janke, a sister of the bride, as bridesmaids, and Dr. Muldownado and Wm. Janke, a cousin of the bride, were groomsmen.
The Rev. A. L. Brewer of San Mateo performed the beautiful and impressive ceremony under an arch composed of flowers and greens very prettily arranged, after which the guests pressed forward and offered their congratulations. The bride was attired in a very pretty and becoming costume of the crushed strawberry shade, and wore a corsage bouquet of orange
blossoms. She carried a handsome bouquet of white flowers. After the guests had paid their compliments the bride and groom led the way to the dining-room, where the wedding dinner was served and the health of the newly married pair was pledged. The feast over, the guests joined in the dance, and the hours sped right merrily, interspersed with music singing and recitations, until the bride and groom took their departure amid a shower of rice and good wishes. Many beautiful presents were received. Dr. and Mrs. Stuttmeister left Thursday morning for Santa Cruz and Monterey, where they will spend the honeymoon. On their return they will make their home in Belmont. 1911: Dr. Willian O. Stuttmeister was practicing dentistry in Redwood City, CA. (Reference: University of California, Directory of Graduates,
1864-1910, page 133).
Records from Tombstones in Laurel Hill Cemetery, 1853-1927 – Janke
– Stuttmeister
Mina Maria Janke, daughter of William A, & Cornelia Janke, born
February 2, 1869, died March 1902.
William August Janke, native of Hamburg, Germany, born Dec. 25,
1642, died Nov. 22, 1902, son of Carl August & Dorette Catherine Janke. Frederick William R. Stuttmeister, native of Berlin, Germany, born
1612, died January 29, 1877.
Mrs. Matilda Stuttmeister, wife of Frederick W.R. Stuttmeister, born
1829, died March 17, 1875, native of New York.
Victor Rudolph Stuttmeister, son of Frederick W.R. & Matilda
Stuttmeister, born May 29, 1846, died Jan. 19, 1893, native of New
York.
The Holy Land of The Gold Rush
Posted on May 5, 2021 by Royal Rosamond Press
The Heligoland Gold Rush
by
John Presco
President: Belmont Soda Works
Copyright 2021
I just sent this message to Ursula van der Leyen the head of the European Commission:
“My ancestors are a Gold Rush family who came to California in 1849 from Hamburg, and the island of Heligoland. They brought six portable homes around the Cape and erected them in Belmont California that is near Stanford University where Commissioner von der Leyen attended college. I have found evidence of prejudice against Germans in Belmont. The graves of Cark Janke and his wife were dug up in the middle the night, and moved to another city. Janke Street was changed. The study of my family in Belmont has been oppressed. I am kin to Ian Fleming and am authoring a Bond novel, starring Victoria Rosemond Bond. I find Erdogan’s treatment of women, appalling. Sincerely John Presco President: Royal Rosamond Press”
Europe Direct Contact Centre <europedirectcontactcentre@edcc.ec.europa.eu>To:braskewitz@yahoo.comWed, May 5 at 2:58 PM
You receive this message because your e-mail address and the below mentioned text were inserted into our web form. This web form is for the use of any member of the public having a question about the European institutions and their policies. Thank you for your e-mail. We expect to be able to reply within two working days. For more complex or specific queries, responses may take longer. Your case number is 246921 Your registered enquiry to the Europe Direct Contact Centre is as follows: My ancestors are a Gold Rush family who came to California in 1849 from Hamburg, and the island of Heligoland. They brought six portable homes around the Cape and erected them in Belmont California that is near Stanford University where Commissioner von der Leyen attended college. I have found evidence of prejudice against Germans in Belmont. The graves of Cark Janke and his wife were dug up in the middle the night, and moved to another city. Janke Street was changed. The study of my family in Belmont has been oppressed. I am kin to Ian Fleming and am authoring a Bond novel, starring Victoria Rosemond Bond. I find Erdogan’s treatment of women, appalling. Sincerely John Presco President: Royal Rosamond Press
Page 56 – Her Side of the Story (californiapioneers.org)
Elizabeth D. Johnson
Birth Place: Germany
Pioneer Father:Carl August Janki
Birth Place: Germany
Date of Arrival in California: Sept. 12, 1850
Pioneer Mother: Anna Dorthea Peterson
Birth Place: Germany
Date of Arrival in California: Sept. 12, 1850
Death: Father: Belmont 1881; Mother: Belmont 1881
Remarks: My father was the first to bring portable houses to the city. I believe two were erected where Sherman & Clays Music store now stands (Sutter & Kearney). One on Montgomery Street on part of the lot now occupied by the D.O Mills building and two on Folsom Street near First All were covered with slate roofs. My two brothers wore the flag of the Old Fusilier Guard. A building company called California Fusiliers (German) of which Colonel Little was the captain. My father also built and managed the first Turn Verein Hall situated on Bush Street near Powell. The hall was dedicated Christmas Eve and all the people of note in the city attended the exercises.
Mrs. Johnson passed away Jan. 20, 1829.
With the discovery of the Independent California Fusiliers, who may have been Turnverein and Oddfellows, one might suspect that some self-righteous Christians targeted my ancestors with their fake patriotic claptrap, and would want to obliterate all evidence they were PIONEERS! One member of the BHS asked me to limit my posts on their facebook to just Belmont History -knowing Carl built a Turnverein Hall in San Francisco. I assume he did not like my history of Vice President Kamala Harris, who was born in Oakland. Her parents may have known members of the Black Panthers, who were like California Fusiliers. These morons did not realize that all contact with me – is historic -and does go in the Public Record.
History of the San Francisco Bay Region: History and Biography – Bailey Millard – Google Books
California Fusileers (militarymuseum.org)
I found Carl and Dorothea (also and Doretta) are buried at the Union Cemetery in Redwood City.
Magical Trees, a Theme Park, and Stage Coaches | Rosamond Press
Carl_August_Janke
Names Listed on the Marker:
Janke, Carl August
Janke, Dorette Catherine
Janke, Mutter Heinrich
Inscription:
— From the 1937 headstone survey –
Carl August Janke, born in Dresden, Germany Oct. 1806, died Belmont, Calif. Sept. 2, 1881
Dorette Catherine, wife of Carl August Janke, born in Hamburg, Germany, July 21,
1813, died in Belmont, California, Feb 16, 1877
Mutter Heinrich, mother of Dorette Catherine Janke,
born in Island of Heligoland, Germany, 1781 died in Belmont, California 1876
NOTE: In 1937 the Daughters of the American Revolution recorded all the headstones.
The Belmont Soda Works of California
Posted on May 5, 2021 by Royal Rosamond Press
Yesterday, The Belmont Soda Works – rose from the ashes like a Phoenix Bird. That a Senator refers to Jason Bourne and “spy movies and books” is a REAL COUP for me, and a testimonial to my amazing research, and this blog. My Man In The Field, Spooky Noodles, suggested more than once, important people -must be reading Royal Rosamond Press! Four of my characters suffer from a Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Victoria Rosemond Bond, does sculptures to deal with her GAD at BAD. I wanted my spies to be VERY HUMAN, for in looking within for what makes us tick, they have boosted their powers of observation.
WE ARE FLAWED
We own….”sticky thoughts”?
John Presco
President: Royal Rosamond Press; Belmont Soda Works; California Barrel Company
The California Barrel Company – Site Title
Belmont Soda Works California – A School for Spies and Propaganda Making
Belmont School of Espionage – Belmont Soda Works California
Admiral, Sir Arthur Lancelot Nelson Swinburne
Art Lesson At Osborne House | Rosamond Press
The clip went viral on social media earlier this week, prompting conservatives to mock the ad.
“If you’re a Chinese communist, or an Iranian Mullah, or Kim Jong Un…would this scare you? We’ve come a long way from Jason Bourne,” Cruz tweeted late Monday, mentioning the protagonist of the “Bourne Identity” spy movies and books.
A CIA spokeswoman told Insider: “In 2019, we started our ongoing social media series, “Humans of CIA,” for real officers to share their firsthand experiences.”
Trump also tweeted, “China and Russia love this,” adding in a second tweet that the two countries were “laughing their asses off watching CIA go full woke. ‘Cisgender.’ ‘Intersectional.’”
BELMONT SCHOOL OF ESPIONAGE
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“I did not sneak into CIA,” she adds. “I earned my way in, and I earned my way up the ranks.”
Senator Ted Cruz made disparaging remarks about a CIA advertisement that featured a woman who labeled herself in a manner that offended Senator Cruz. Because the Central Intelligence Agency is a United States Government institution, paid for by Tax Payers, I believe it is wise to found a Private Company that has the best interests of the U.S. at heart, and owns Bad Intentions for our Enemies who threaten us. My company will be an overt enterprise, verses a covert company that disguises its true intentions. Because I rendered the protagonists of my Spy Novel ‘The Royal Janitor’ a bi-sexual, and other characters, homosexual, I have shown that I am All Inclusive. Cissgender works for me.
True Patriotism does not come with any other labels attached. If you love your country, you are qualified. There is no training for work at the CIA in the private sector. I will teach writers how to author a Spy and Detective novels, and do works of art with a powerful message. I am kin to Ian Fleming via Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor. My grandparents were friends of Black Mask authors. Royal Rosamond went camping with Dashiell Hammett. We are a Think Tank. Analyzing information is key to anticipating the next move of foes.
I am employing the name of a company owned and operated by one of my kin, William Janke, who lived in Belmont, and made a soda. I will use the Belmont Soda Works Ca. bottle as my logo. This will include a horseshoe in the cote of arms I will design.
John Presco
President: Belmont Soda Works
Copyright 2021
Why are Australian officials hinting at war with China? (msn.com)
- The CIA released a recruitment ad starring a Latina officer identifying as a “cisgender millennial.”
- It’s part of the “Humans of CIA” series meant to attract a more diverse pool of candidates.
- Sen. Ted Cruz and Donald Trump Jr. mocked the CIA on Monday; Trump said it’d gone “full woke.”
Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and Donald Trump Jr. have derided the CIA for releasing a recruitment ad starring a female staffer who celebrated being a “cisgender millennial” with anxiety.
The video, released on YouTube by the CIA as part of its “Humans of CIA” series on March 25, sees a Latina woman talk candidly about identity and success.
“I am a woman of color. I am a mom. I am a cisgender millennial who has been diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder. I am intersectional, but my existence is not a box-checking exercise,” the woman says.
“I did not sneak into CIA,” she adds. “I earned my way in, and I earned my way up the ranks.”
Cisgender vs. Straight: What’s the Difference? And 9 Other FAQs (healthline.com)
Photographed By Mathew H. Kohnen, July 3, 1997
At high noon on June 8, 2023, I discovered the ‘Order of the White Rose. This is what I have been searching for since 1997. Eureka!
On may 4, 2021 I founded the Belmont School of Espionage that would be based on the campus of the Colleges of Notre Dame de Namur. I did not see it being based in Ralston Hall that was dedicatee as a Historical Monument in 1972, the year the Founding Father of Belmont was dug up out of his grave and thrown in a hole in Redwood City. Count Cipriani was the other founder who sold his property in Belmont to The Rothschilds, who may have been funding several groups who were trying to establish colonies in California and Mexico. The Carl Janke Expedition may have been funded by the Rothschilds. The History Department of Stanford needs to do a complete research of the Deeds filed in the Belmont City Archives.
I will write another letter to Governor Gavin Newsom who was in partnership with all members of the Getty and Pelosi. Family. I need to be installed in Ralston Hall – immediately! Experts say Putin’s invasion of the Ukraine is motivated by his desire to restore the Russian Monarchy. Harry Windsor and family carry the DNA of the Romanovs/ I hereby Knight Harry Windsor the Grandmaster of the White Oreer of the Rose. His mother was of the Stuart linage.
I am going to write another letter to my kin, Karl Schwarzenberg and see if he will request the Schnitzer Museum lend The Last Audience of the Habsburg, to the Order of the Whit Rose that will hang in the great hall, where pretenders to the throne of Europe will gather. It is my desire to play the Phantom of the Opera at the first Masque Ball.
There are three Victors in my immediate family. My father, Victor William Presco named his youngest daughter, Victoria Mary Presco, who is great, great, great granddaughter of Carl Janke. And granddaughter of Mary Magdalene Rosamond. The Davinci Code – is a work of fiction! Real students will love attending balls in Ralston Hall where there will be a graduation ceremony. Here is the real Disneyland. From here we will moon Governor DeSantis and make the Count of Margo-Lago green with envy! How the mighty have fallen!
John Presco
President f the Belmont College of Espionage
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