Monthly Archives: August 2018

Aug 23 2018

“The Org Shows Its True Colors Once Again”: Staff Ticket Scandal

A post from Cranky_Monkey at Reddit:

The Org shows its true colors once again.

Fucking greed. Pure, unadulterated greed.

The Org has once again oversold the event, after coming within 60 attendees of the pop. cap last year. But as they say, actions have consequences:

This time the Org pulled earned tickets from departments. As in, people they bargained free labor last year in exchange for a ticket this year are being told AS THEY DRIVE IN to turn around and go home. These are people that were submitted on staff lists months ago. I’ve personally seen the confirmation emails from two list submittals to the Org.

Evidently, last Thursday the Org notified departments of their “oversight” and that they would not be honoring many staff tickets. DPW, Gate, ESD among others were all affected. Hundreds of workers for the event left holding the bag, many while enroute.

Keep it classy, Burning Man. First you hoodwinked so many to work for free, now you’re actually costing them money lost to preps, fuel, etc for an event they’re not even allowed into. To work. For you. For free.

What a fucking joke.

Feel free to give Event Director a piece of your mind: charlie.dolman@burningman.org

EDIT: No, I cannot share emails and texts. Most are coming from participants, and the emails they would share come from their department leads. Sharing them would immediately out them to their department.

You shouldn’t ONLY listen to me, but if you know anyone from any of the departments listed, feel free to reach out and ask “Hey, heard something is up with tix for staff & volunteers in Org departments” and see what they say.

This was then confirmed by tistrue1:

Completely true. The ORG oversold the event and now they are not honoring staff tickets and credentials earned last year. If your WAP/ticket was put into TicketFly in a timely manner and you have an e-mail from them; then you are good. If your department manager or the person they instructed to put the info into TicketFly didn’t for whatever reason (dropped the ball!) then you’re screwed. Even if you told them you would be attending and they confirmed.

I personally know at least 20 Gate personnel this affected. They are/were on their way to the event and were told to go home.

Here’s the e-mail from the personnel manager of Gate sent yesterday (8/21) at 3:30pm.
This is a tough message.
It is very hard to say this but very important to get the word out. Last Thursday every department at Burning Man was told that there were no more tickets of any kind available. This includes staff credentials, reduced price tickets, and gift tickets. Over the past few days we have been trying to see what kinds of resources we could muster to address the shortfalls we know we have. In most years we are able to continue issuing credentials and tickets up to the day before the event opens, and we can catch the persons that fell between the cracks.
Please check to see if you have an email confirmation from Ticketfly that has the words STAFF CREDENTIAL in it. If you can’t find one it is quite possible you do not have a ticket to Burning Man this year, and for that we are very sorry to disappoint you and break the promises we have made. This is the hardest message I have ever had to put on announce, and I fully expect to hear about it and will field all questions about this.

some other comments:

Aug 21 2018

Indians Promised “We Will Shut Down The Roads” – Now They Delivered [Updates]

Burning Man doesn’t even begin for another 5 days, but the chaos has already started.

By now you’ve probably heard that basically every single vehicle driving along the 447 near Nixon is being searched by the police, often with K-9 units.

The Reno Gazette-Journal had a story about it Burning Man Attendees Face Traffic Stops, Searches

Burning Man attendees face traffic stops, searches

Law enforcement officers from both the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs and Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe have been pulling over vehicles on their way to early Burning Man festivities in the Nevada desert. 

Bureau agents and tribal police were pulling over drivers passing through tribal land beginning last week and continuing this week. On Monday, about a half-dozen federal and tribal vehicles, some unmarked, were seen stopping vehicles primarily in Nixon, a tiny town halfway between Reno and the Burning Man site….There is one road, State Route 447, to and from the event; a large portion of that road goes through the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe’s land. 

The Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribal Council in the past month approved a memorandum of understanding that detailed the Bureau of Indian Affairs’ plans to have a law enforcement presence this year on the tribal land, according to tribal officials. The BIA  initially proposed the memorandum to the tribal police, which then presented the agreement to the council.

The tribe declined to provide the document, and the BIA has not responded to repeated calls for comment. It is unclear what the duration of the agreement is, and its purpose. 

Read the full story at the Reno Gazette Journal.

This is unprecedented in Burning Man history.

The RGJ for some reason did not make the connection between this new interference from the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and the cultural appropriation issues that were raised at the last Burning Man and through Burners’ involvement in the Standing Rock pipeline protests (see Dear Burners, Standing Rock is not Burning Man)

It was a really big story at the time, mostly in extremely heated social media discussions.

We Will Shut Down The Roads to Burning Man – Alarm at Cultural Appropriation

The Huffington Post had a suitably fawning puff piece on it – On Cultural Appropriation and Transformation at Burning Man – which sure looks like quickly produced damage control from the BMorg propaganda PR team. Then Caveat Magister hit the BJ with “Decommodification” and “Cultural Appropriation” – two great conversations that go great together. The usual self-congratulatory “we’re saving the world” stuff we’re used to from the official Voices of Burning Man.

What is it they say…“white man speak with forked tongue”? A couple of laissez-faire stories was not enough to put out this particular fire.

These people were seriously offended. Not just “hey fuck your fake headdress at Coachella” offended. More like “You have dishonored our ancestors and our entire tribe” offended.

Screenshot 2018-08-22 12.47.40

Read the rest of the comments here.

It sure looks like they made good on their threats. It is going to take a long, long time for the 80,000+ total participants to all make it into Black Rock City, if every single vehicle is getting searched. Be prepared.

Is this another case where the hundreds of year-round staff in San Francisco failed to pay sufficient respect to the objections of the local community? It might be far out in the desert, but Burning Man isn’t an island. It needs to be a net positive for everyone.

I wouldn’t be surprised to see the Org try to spin this to blame the Trump Administration rather than themselves. The proof will be in the pudding when Burning Man opens: is this treatment coming from all the Feds and cops, or just on the Indian territory?

[Update 8/22/18]

Statement from Burning Man. They are wondering why this is happening. They should read Burners.Me and they would know.

https://journal.burningman.org/2018/08/news/official-announcements/statement-on-police-activity-on-the-road-to-brc/

“You might be wondering why this is all happening. So are we. We think the BIA’s efforts to target our community as we prepare for our annual gathering on public lands are misguided.

While BLM law enforcement has conducted aggressive traffic enforcement in past years on Gate Road in Black Rock City, this is the first time the Burning Man event has been targeted for an operation of this magnitude on public highways. The BIA stops appear to be pretextual and not based on actual violations of law.”

Predictably, many in the comments blame Trump. Only one person was brave enough to mention cultural appropriation (or maybe I caught their post before the censors did…)

[Source: burningman.org]

The previous head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs abruptly resigned in April, for an unspecified reason – it looks like another #metoo situation. President Trump proposed a woman, Tara Sweeney, for the position, but her confirmation was held up. She took the helm last week, in near-secrecy.

The recommendation of the BIA to the Tribal Council about Burning Man happened before last Thursday, so President Trump’s appointment of a new BIA head does not explain the present situation.

Up until a week ago the acting head of BIA was Darryl LaCounte:  

The top official at the Bureau of Indian Affairs has resigned suddenly after serving just six months, and a Billings official will take over, the agency said Friday. 

The BIA confirmed to The Gazette on Friday that Bryan Rice, the agency’s director, resigned on April 24.

BIA Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs John Tahsuda informed agency employees by email Thursday, which BIA spokeswoman Nedra Darling released Friday.

Darling did not give a reason for Rice’s departure. 

Darryl LaCounte, the regional BIA director based in Billings, will take over as acting BIA director.

“He is an experienced leader with vast organizational knowledge to maintain a smooth transition for our BIA employees and the tribal nations we serve,” Darling said of LaCounte in an emailed statement.

LaCounte started with the BIA in 1988 as an oil and gas specialist. He moved up through several positions in the Billings office and in 2014 became the Rocky Mountain regional director.

The exiting Rice, who is a member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, took over as director six months ago. He was previously a director of forest management for the U.S. Forest Service and a deputy director for the BIA’s Office of Trust Services.

[Source: Billings Gazette]

LaCounte is from Billings, Montana – where Republicans have won every election since 1996, and Trump won in 2016 with a 20% margin. Was LaCounte trying to make a big splash while he temporarily had the reins of power? Or was this a Machiavellian “Black Prince” situation, where someone was sent in to do the dirty work and be the “hated Prince”, only to then be replaced by the “good Prince?

 

[Update 8/23/18]

There are a bunch of threads at r/BurningMan with the latest updates on the Nixon situation.

The BJ comments had a conspiracy theory worth considering: that this is BIA revenge on the Paiute for bringing all those Burners to Standing Rock who disrespected the broader culture and caused concern amongst the LEO community:

[Source: burningman.org]

Aug 20 2018

Why Does the 2018 Burning Man Ticket Have MKULTRA Symbolism?

Search Google or DuckDuckGo images for “Burning Man 2018 ticket” and you won’t find this:

Red rectangles were placed on the hologram to preserve the anonymity of this ticket holder. Image source: Facebook

The Monarch butterfly is a well-known symbol of MKULTRA programming. See:

Rolling Stone: “Stranger Things”: the Secret CIA Programs That Inspired Hit Series

Vigilant Citizen: Origins and Techniques of Monarch Mind Control

Bibliotecapleyades: MKULTRA the Monarch Project

MKULTRA is the CIA project that introduced LSD, magic mushrooms, ayahuasca, and all sorts of other goodies to America’s youth. This is historical fact on the Congressional record, not any kind of conspiracy theory.

We recently had MKULTRA doctor Timothy Leary (pictured, above R)’s ashes sacrificed at Burning Man in a ritual ceremony led by Susan Sarandon.

“Oh they’re just butterflies”…well WTF do butterflies have to do with Burning Man and robots? “They’re not Monarch butterflies, they are stylized artistic transhumanist cyborg butterflies”…errr, ok…

The Dalai Lama explains that rather than carefree, the butterfly is uncaring:

“The butterfly never meets its mother. It must survive independently and remains a stranger to affection.  An animal nurtured by mother’s milk, however, is dependent on another for its basic survival. A child who grows up in a cold and detached home environment is similar to the butterfly, in that kindness is sparing. Once an adult, it will be very difficult for that person to show compassion.”

Radical Self Reliance. Welcome HOME. TRANSFORM.

Believe it or not, the Dalai Lama has been funded to the tune of millions by the CIA and also by the NXIVM sex cult, where billionaires and Hollywood actors have recently been indicted for child trafficking. I’ve covered NXIVM (pronounced Nexium) on my Steemit blog:

Is Nexium an MKULTRA Brownstone Operation – Part 1

Is Nexium an MKULTRA Brownstone Operation – Part 2

Nexium Patent for Determining Luciferians

NY Attorney General Steps Down – Beat 4 Women, Links to Nexium, Weinstein, Clinton

Burning Man is a mind control cult that uses LSD, trauma, separation from family, peer pressure, attack on religion, utopian promises of transformation – in other words, the same techniques as Nexium and MKULTRA. Don’t believe me? Here’s Burning Man founder Danger Ranger explaining it:

Some claim it’s merely a coincidence that there are so many connections between Burning Man’s history and the military/intelligence world, as I showed in exhaustively-cited depth in my YouTube series Silicon Valley’s Secret Weapon – The Shadow History of Burners.

Is putting the Monarch butterfly on the ticket just yet another in an incredibly long (and mathematically impossible) series of coincidences? Or are they just throwing it in our faces now?

Related?

Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock owned multiple properties named “Paradise Ranch”, including possibly this one in the Philiippines with extensive MKULTRA symbolism

 

Smallville actress Allison Mack shows up in court wearing a butterfly pendant. Image: NY Post

 

Branding at Burning Man. Literally being burned by The Man. Image: SF Chronicle, Deanne Fitzmaurice

 

NXIVM branding. The symbol is the initials of Keith Raniere and Allison Mack.

Porn star Stormy Daniels claims this is a surgery scar, not branding:

Stormy Daniels – whose 2009 anti-Republican Senate run ended when her manager’s car was bombed – was seen at a NXIVM recruitment party in Connecticut in 2007 with quite the basket of deplorables. As well as about 16 college girls from Yale, the party featured disgraced-and-convicted pedo Anthony Weiner, disgraced spy mishandler of classified information Huma Abedin,  disgraced (and living in exile?) pedo James Alefantis, disgraced NY Attorney General Schneiderman (whose mistress said he had “too many similarities” with Nexium cult leader Raniere), and 5 of the disgraced-and-indicted NXIVM top people Keith Raniere, Allison Mack, Nancy Salzman, and Clare and Sara Bronfman. The last 3 are all big donor members of the Clinton Global Initiative.

The witness passed a lie detector test and there is also another witness and circumstantial evidence that supports his claims.

See: Are Stormy Daniels and Dr Jennifer Peña Branded Nexium Slaves?

How wide do the tentacles of this Luciferian Mind Kontrol octopus reach?