I have to admit that I still have a copy of Frater X's book in my bookcaseI might have to give it another read since I haven't read it since I wrote this old post about reading it - The Secret War Inside FreemasonryI did an Apple Podcast search to see if Frater X (or Joe, as he seems to go by these days) was on any recent podcasts and I found one from March 17th, 2024, at THE FREE ZONE with FREEMAN FLY taking about "the Homeless Industrial Complex" or some such BS Joe seems to think is real.Mind you, Joe and Freeman seem to think that COVID was a planned thing?! Freeman was one of those so-called "syncheads" that were a little too out there for my liking when I used to hang around in the "sync community", whatever the hell that was meant to be?
He seems to have thrown in the towel in 2024 like many of the so-called "syncheads" who seemed to have been in it for the money, but couldn't get suckers to give them enough for their liking. One of the last podcasts Freeman has at his website is an archived podcast episode with Christopher Knowles yabbering on about "The Reset Culture", which I took a listen to, and had to laugh when Freeman bought up The Rainbow Tribe that he works with, and typical Knowles had to tell him how bad he thought they were, with a story about Winona Ryder (who Knowles seems obsessed about if you have ever read his The Secret Sun blog or listened to the many podcasts he has been on) being in it at one stage of her early life.
Having been to the USA earlier this year, it is amazing how bad it is with people sleeping on the streets, especially in Portland's Chinatown district where there are tents in every street you walk down. As soon as you walk out of Union Station on your way to Chinatown you literally have to walk around people camped on the footpath. I kept my photos of these tented streets to a minimum as I didn't want to advertise that I had an iPhone on me.
I saw people living on the streets in San Francisco, Denver, Seattle, and LA, but Portland, Oregan was by far the worst. Homelessness sure was the elephant in the park in Portland, but we didn't have any real hassles with the homeless in any of the cities we were in, although in Denver we had to cross the street when we saw a guy under an overpass bashing the railings with a piece of 4x2, and in Seattle a drug crazed homeless guy came running down the road screaming like he was having a drug induced nightmare of some sort.
Oh, and a homeless chick on Hollywood Blvd. in LA punching herself in the face screaming while she walked down the footpath on the other side from us.
But I didn't see any crime in Portland, our any other city I visited when I was over there this year.
I felt fairly safe in Portland and would go back there again, as it is a pretty fun place to explore. But it is sad to see the homeless on the streets, but every city in the world now seems to have these problems, including my own hometown.
I guess the thing on my mind while in America was the gun violence.
We were lucky enough not to witness any firsthand, though.
