Masks, Holmes Lexilink + List of Victims

The complete list of the victims has been released.

The Mask

Humans wear all kinds of masks: psychological ones, somatic examples, acting facades, and of course, real physical structures called "masks."

On Friday, December 14, 2012, as I noted, there occurred the "Newtown School Shooting: Killing Dawn" event.

During an interview with a Sandy Hook school parent this Saturday morning, on the television news, this woman heard that a guy dressed in all black, wearing a mask, was shooting at the school on Friday.

Then a correspondent (TP), this AM, sent an article from the UK's Globe Mail, headlined, "High school loner to cold-blooded executioner: How 'genius' honor student Adam Lanza became masked killer."

The news item noted:

Lanza is believed to have shot himself at the scene, according to the New York Times. 

He was carrying three weapons including two handguns and a rifle and was wearing a bullet-proof vest, a mask and black military gear.

Three guns were found at the scene - a Glock and a Sig Sauer, both pistols - and a .223-caliber rifle. 

The rifle was recovered from the back of a car at the school. The two pistols were recovered from inside the school. They were legally registered to Nancy Lanza.

That article never truly followed up on their headline suggestion, for it fails to detail any description of a mask.

Update: Intriguingly, these "mask references" have been removed from the original Daily Mail article. But the "masked man" quotes remain in many sources. What's going on?

But, if Adam Lanza (Adam = English for "man," Lanza = Spanish for "spear") wore a mask, what did the mask look like?

The Holmes Lexilink

The July 20th/Aurora's alleged shooter is named James Eagan Holmes.

Today's New York Daily News had this quote:

Mother Nancy Lanza often took her kids target shooting, landscaper Dan Holmes said. 'That was a passion,' he said. 'The whole family would go together.' Her 20-year-old son Adam killed her with one of her own guns before using them to murder 20 children at the elementary school where she once worked....Holmes, who often mowed the grass at the Lanza’s sprawling Newtown home, said the doomed mom was proud of her arsenal and once showed him a “big, beautiful rifle” she had just purchased.

“She was very proud of it,” he said. “She loved her guns.” 

The Newtown Victims

Here is the complete list of victims released by the medical examiner's office (which does not include Nancy Lanza, 52, and Adam Lanza, 20). Most of those who died in the school, apparently and sadly, were killed with the .223 Remington Bushmaster (semi-automatic) rifle. New information notes that this Bushmaster was not found in Lanza's vehicle, but next to his body.

USA Today posted a gallery of photos of the victims. See here.

Children:

Charlotte Bacon, 6

Daniel Barden, 7

Olivia Engel, 6

Josephine Gay, 7

Ana Marquez-Greene, 6

Dylan Hockley, 6

Madeline Hsu, 6

Catherine Hubbard, 6

Chase Kowalski, 7

Jesse Lewis, 6

James Mattioli, 6

Grace McDonnell, 7

Emilie Parker, 6

Jack Pinto, 6

Noah Pozner, 6

Caroline Previdi, 6

Jessica Rekos, 6

Avielle Richman, 6

Benjamin Wheeler, 6

Allison Wyatt, 6

Adults:

Dawn Hochsprung, 47
Rachel Davino, 29
Anne Marie Murphy, 52
Lauren Rousseau, 30
Mary Sherlach, 56
Victoria Soto, 27

Clackamas Mask 

It will be recalled that the Clackamas mall-December 11th's alleged shooter, Jacob Tyler Roberts wore a hockey mask, also described by some as a "Jason mask."

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Newtown School Shooting: Killing Dawn

"Evil visited this community today." ~ Dan Malloy, Connecticut Governor

The sign out front says "Visitors Welcome," 

a Boston area sports news producer alerted me to, in an email.

Christopher Loring Knowles asked: "Cui bono?"  

 "To whose benefit?"

Newtown's town symbol is a rooster weather vane.

The rooster is a dawn-symbol, Matt Bell has reminded me, as this unfolded.

Anniversary: December 14, 1993, five shot, four died at Chuck E. Cheese pizza parlor. Where? Unbelievably, Colorado's (red) Aurora (dawn). Now, Newtown, same date.

A killing field took place in what appears to be another red dawn scenario on Friday, December 14, 2012. The "why" may never be answered, but it certainly will be asked often. What other questions need to be investigated?

One of the first names of the victims released is that of the Sandy Hook elementary school principal, Dawn Lafferty Hochsprung.

Killed were 6 adults (including shooter's mother, principal, psychologist), 20 school children (mostly in one kindergarten class), 1 shooter, 1 other in a separate home, plus a rumor that the shooter's brother was arrested. The original Ryan Lanza information for the name of the shooter was wrong. The alleged shooter was Adam Lanza, Ryan's brother, who apparently was carrying Ryan's ids.

The 5 pm news is that Lanza's mother has been found dead at Adam's residence. Also,

A source identified the suspect in the Connecticut school shootings as Adam Lanza, and said he drove his mother's car to the school.
According to the Associated Press, a law enforcement official said 20-year-old Lanza is the son of a teacher at Sandy Hook Elementary School, where the shootings occurred. A second law enforcement official says the boy's mother, Nancy Lanza, is presumed dead.
The first official says Adam Lanza's older brother, 24-year-old Ryan, of Hoboken, N.J., is being questioned by police. An earlier report from a law enforcement official mistakenly transposed the brothers' first names leading to the mistaken identities, the AP said.

ABC News caption:

Adam Lanza, seen here in 2005, killed his mother at her Connecticut home before killing 20 elementary school students and 6 adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, authorities said.

Gunman’s mother was teacher’s aide at school and not a teacher. 

First some information, as it is coming in...

The dead alleged shooter was reportedly dressed all in black, and said to be 20 years old.

The numbers have all changed from the initial reports below:

CBS News, MSNBC and others confirmed that 26 (27?) people are dead in the Newtown shooting. CNN is saying "closer to 30" killed. The breakdown is said to be 18 children and 8 (or 9) adults dead. Principal was reported to have been a victim. Rumors are that the shooter was from NJ until recently, 20 years old, and dressed all in black. Another report says that it may have been a parent. Two active shooters seen running down halls.

CBS reports that their reporter Jon Miller says "there is preliminary information that the gunman was the father of one of the students. Miller additionally reports the gunman is 20 years old and is from New Jersey."

CNN is saying the alleged shooter's name is Ryan Lanza.

Lanza means "land." As PPJ points out in a comment below, in Spanish, Lanza means "spear" or "lance."

MSNBC: Shooter: Ryan Lanza, 23. Apparently a body was found in Lanza's Hoboken New Jersey home; his mother was a Sandy Hook ES teacher, she's dead.

The Lanzas lived on Yogananda Street, apparently.

Others are reporting that the girlfriend and a friend of suspect Ryan Lanza are missing in New Jersey. 

The body count increased as the day moved along.

Earlier, other news developed,

A law enforcement official in Washington said the attacker was a 20-year-old man with ties to the school and that one of the guns was a .223-caliber rifle. The official also said that New Jersey State Police were searching a location in that state in connection with the shootings. That official spoke on the condition of anonymity because the source was not authorized to speak on the record about the developing criminal investigation. It is not known whether the shooter took his own life or was killed.
“The shooter is deceased inside the building,” State Police Lt. Paul Vance said during a press conference, adding that the scene is secure.
CBS News reports that a potential second shooter is in custody and that SWAT is now investigating the home of the suspect.
A witness tells WFSB-TV that a second man was taken out of the woods in handcuffs wearing a black jacket and camouflage pants and telling parents on the scene, “I did not do it.”

The first law enforcement news conference held gave no information out on numbers or who, other other than a shooter was found dead inside the building. Indeed, the incorrect reportage and chase to dig out more and more informants and internet information could have been derailed with a little bit more "rumor control" in Newtown with more factual, detailed data.

Even earlier....

Several people, including children, may have been killed in a shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Many of the shootings took place in a kindergarten classroom, sources said.

One report said as many as 20 students may have been shot. One report says, "More that two dozen have been shot [killed?] and 14 children are dead."

However, the number of victims is unclear.

Recent accounts tell of only one shooter, who is deceased, at the Newtown school shooting. The suspect is said to have had two guns. Initially, there were unconfirmed reports of two shooters — one dead, one still at large. (For breaking news of an attack on school children in China, refer to details at the bottom.)

Several people are reported injured in a reported school shooting in Connecticut. Eyewitnesses say that a teacher and a student were seen being carried out of the school. One report says a teacher was hit in the foot. A local hospital is reporting three injured have been admitted to that facility.

Shortly after 9:40 a.m., on Friday, December 14, 2012, police reported that a shooter was in the main office of the school. A person in one room had “numerous gunshot wounds,” police said. Other reports tell of two shooters. One shooter, as noted, was reported dead.

Connecticut State Police say they are assisting local police in Newtown amid reports of a shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School, 12 Dickinson Drive, a kindergarten through fourth grade school, in Newtown, in western Connecticut.

The school superintendent's office says the district has locked down schools to ensure the safety of students and staff. (In an earlier dispatch, the superintendent's secretary, Kathy June, says reports of a shooting are not confirmed. I think we can overlook that report, now.)

State police spokesman Lt. Paul Vance says they have a number of personnel on the scene to assist.

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Newtown's rooster weathervane in 1915.

Some info on Newtown: The town's symbol, the town's seal, is a rooster weathervane. The rooster weathervane located atop the meeting house is said to have been used as a target by French soldiers encamped there in 1781 during the Revolutionary War. Symbolically, the rooster is significant. The oldest rooster vane in existence is the cock of Brescia, Italy from 820 A. D. It is believed that around this time, the pope decreed each catholic church would bear a cock as a reminder of Peter on the Cavalry: "In this night, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times" (The Bible, Matthew 26: 34).

In Connecticut (Federal Writers' Project, page 376, 1938), the rooster weathervane, which became part of the town's seal, is also called a weathercock.

The (Red) Dawn Symbol: Matt Bell pointed out this link to me, and this related info:

I noticed your mention of the rooster/cock.
The rooster/cock is straightforwardly a twilight-symbol. The cock presides over the the liminal period between night and day.
"Gallum nutrias quidem, non tamen sacrifices. Lune enim ac soli dedicatus est." (Nourish the cock, but do not sacrifice him, since he is sacred to [both] the sun and the moon.) ~ Pythagoras (Quoted in: Christopher S. Celenza, "Pythagoras in the Renaissance: The Case of Marsilio Ficino," Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 52, No. 3 (Autumn, 1999), p. 695.)
The cock is a herald of the dawn (Eos/Aurora): "As a symbol of the dawning light, the cock is nonetheless the especial attribute of Apollo, the hero of the dawning day" (Jean Chevalier & Alain Gheerbrant, Dictionary of Symbols [London: Penguin, 1996], p. 209). The cock has this function in many religious systems including, without limitation, ancient Greco-Roman mythologies, Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Islam, and numerous forms of animism (Ibid., pp. 209-212). It functions, like Hermes-Mercury as a psychopompos (a "guide, conductor" of souls).
"[T]he cock on top of the weathervane on a church...may be regarded as the guard and protector of life" (Chevalier & Gheerbrant, supra., p. 210). The cock, along with the Ibis of Thoth (another Herme-Mercury associated deity), has "...the gift of foreknowledge...the cock announces that darkness has vanished and light has come. Thus the bird is set on church spires and cathedral towers and this positioning on the highest points of holy buildings...may suggest the heavenly origins of the inner light which brings salvation [in the Gnostic-Hermetic sense - MJB] and the watchfulness of the soul to catch the first gleams of the spirit dawning in the closing shades of night" (Ibid., p. 211).
As if that were not enough, "[t]o alchemists the cock symbolizes the three stages through which the 'work' must pass, through his black claws, to his white feathers and his red comb", (Ibid.). Finally, the cock is a symbol, in Freemasonry, "of vigilance and of the enlightenment which comes through initiation" (Ibid., p. 212). "[O]n the wall [of many Masonic Lodges] hangs the image of a cock, hourglass and scythe. The cock was sacred to the god Mercury (Hermes)..." Masonic Papers by R.W.Bro. Leon Zeldis, "The Initiation in the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite."

Also, Bell emailed later,

Additionally, since a poster mentioned the word "spear," and since the cock is linked with the dawn-god, Apollo, it is noteworthy that Apollo is also linked with spears (along with Athena). The (phallic) spear is another sun-symbol. Also, although it's both obvious and delicate, the word "cock" has taken on a dual sense as both rooster and phallus (or spear). Hence, the symbol complex includes both solar and sexual emblems.

Phallic Symbolism: The underlying coded phallic messages of the rooster weathervane or weathercock is reinforced greatly in this sphere.

CS writes that all of this certainly makes him "think of phallic symbolism. Guns are a

phallic analogue, the modern day wand. Back when I was exploring chaos magick, some chaotes were using a gun instead of a wand/sword. In tarot symbolism, a wand is always in the shape of a thrysus bringing us back to the original symbolism. Swords ought to be obvious without delving into crudity."

Let us remember that "Adam Lanza" literally translates as Man-Spear, as M. Bell reminded me.

One of the highest points of land (lanza/land/spear) in the area is called Snake Hill, another strongly phallic connotation underlying that name.

Other early history: One section of Newtown today is Dodgingtown. It was named thusly as it was "a crossroads hamlet named for the many drovers, horse-traders, and peddlers 'on the dodge,' who congregated at the crossroad taverns," Connecticut, Federal Writers' Project, page 375, 1938.

"Purchased from the Indians in 1705, named 'New Town,' incorporated in 1711, the area soon attracted settlers from near-by towns. Although notorious for its Tory leanings during the Revolution, Newtown entertained both Rochambeau and Lafayette," Connecticut, Federal Writers' Project, page 376, 1938.

Film location: Newtown is home to the "Fairfield Hills" Hospital, erected in the 1930s. It was closed in 1995. Fairfield Hills was used as the set of the juvenile facility in the film Sleepers in 1995.

Distant Clackamas-Newton (Lexi)Link: The game of Scrabble was developed in Newtown by local resident James Brunot. In 1938, American architect Alfred Mosher Butts created the game as a variation on an earlier word game he invented called Lexiko. In 1948, James Brunot, a resident of Newtown, Connecticut – and one of the few owners of the original Criss-Crosswords game – bought the rights to manufacture the game in exchange for granting Butts a royalty on every unit sold. Though he left most of the game (including the distribution of letters) unchanged, Brunot slightly rearranged the "premium" squares of the board and simplified the rules; he also changed the name of the game to "Scrabble," a real word which means "to scratch frantically." In 1949, Brunot and his family made sets in a converted former schoolhouse in Dodgingtown, a section of Newtown. They made 2,400 sets that year, but lost money.

According to legend, Scrabble's big break came in 1952 when Jack Straus, president of Macy's, played the game on vacation. Upon returning from vacation, he was surprised to find that his store did not carry the game. He placed a large order and within a year, "everyone had to have one."

The killer of two in this week's Clackamas shooting first ran through the Macy's store in the mall (on December 11, 2012).

Other lexilink factoids:

Sandy Hook [New Jersey] is a former Nike missile base that was turned into a Federal park on the Jersey Shore. It also has the state's only nudist beach (from Christopher Loring Knowles).

Superstorm Sandy hooked left and came ashore right near Sandy Hook, New Jersey (from Matty B Goode).

This school attack took place at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Not New Jersey, of course. The lexilink to that New Jersey site and hurricane is found in the name of the school and to Sandy Hook, Connecticut, which is the next town over from Newtown.

Flashback: Loren "Coleman says [shooters], 

intent on shocking the public, 'compete for 

the highest body count.'"

CTV News, Oct. 3, 2006.

Meanwhile,

On Thursday, December 13, 2012, in China, which is being reported on Friday, December 14, 2012, an attack on an elementary school occurred there.

Zee News is noting:

The dreaded attacks on school children returned to haunt China on Thursday after 22 of them were injured besides an 85-year-old woman after a "mentally deranged" man, armed with a knife, went on a slashing spree at a primary school.
Armed with a knife Min Yingjun, 36, attacked group of children at the gate of a primary school in central China's Henan Province setting off panic in the village. The woman and most of the injured students suffered head wounds.
Some of them were in shock, according to the People's Hospital of the county, which received most of the people injured in the attack.
All the injured people have been sent to three local hospitals and at least two of them, one student and an 85-year-old woman, are in serious condition, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
The attack took place this morning at the entrance of Chenpeng Village Primary School in Wenshu Township of Guangshan County in the city of Xinyang....

Thanks for heads up from many people, especially to Anonymous, Robert Schneck, SMiles, Brizdazz (Darren) for the China news, posted above.
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My deepest condolences to all the parents, relatives, and loved ones who has lost anyone to the senseless shootings in Oregon, Connecticut, Colorado, and anywhere else this week and in the days and years before today.

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Clackamas-Aurora Syncs and Links

The alleged shooter. A Pittsburgh Pirates fan.

The victims. A San Diego link?

This posting is a compilation of various synochromystic threads, which have been discovered running through this incident. More information has been gathered on the victims and the alleged shooter too.

(N.D. The Twilight Language blog's initial posting on the first news of the Clackamas mall shooting of December 11, 2012, is located here. Consult it for the breaking news moments after it was flashed across the country. Also at that posting are the first images from that afternoon's law enforcement response to the Oregon event. Also, see posting for December 14, 2012, on the Newtown, Connecticut school shooting for a Macy's linkage.)

I am going to share comments gleamed from this blog, Facebook, the media, and emails sent to me. Where possible, the author of the thoughts are credited.

The Victims and the Gunman Are Identified

First off, Clackamas law enforcement officials, on 12/12/12, identified the Oregon mall shooting victims as Cindy Ann Rule (but this was later changed to Cindy Ann Yuille by most media outlets) and Steven N. Forsyth (this was later changed to Steve Matthew Forsyth). Wounded was Kristina Shevchenko, 15. Gunman was said to be Jacob Tyler Roberts.

The Imagery Overlap Is Reinforced

ABC News caption of a photo that they ran all day on 12/12/12: 

The alleged masked gunman, Jacob Tyler Roberts, who killed two people in the Clackamas Town Center mall in Portland, Ore., Dec. 11, 2012, left, and James Holmes, who was charged in the shooting at an Aurora, Colo., theater on July 20 that killed 12 people and wounded 52.

The morning of 12/12/12, Clyde Lewis of Ground Zero with Clyde Lewis called me. (I am in Portland, Maine; Lewis is in Portland, Oregon.) Lewis wanted to convey his thoughts from being in the midst of this event.

One is this image (first one, below), which he created to link the images many of us visually observed on December 11th, and remembered internally from July 20th. 

The visceral sync-sense of these two images rings truth, indeed.

Clackamas, Oregon, December 11, 2012.

After running through the Macy's at the Clackamas mall, the shooter began killing people at the food court.

Clyde gave me permission to share what he recorded on his Facebook page, which parallels some of what he told me over the phone:

ABC News reported that Holmes told police "I am the Joker." Witnesses say the Oregon mall shooter said "I am the shooter." Both declaring their roles in the shooting.
Steve Forsyth [one of the victims] a man that I knew when I worked at KWJJ and MAX 910 AM was shot and killed at the Clackamas Town Center. He was a radio salesman and manager for several successful radio stations at Entercom. He was born in Denver Colorado just a few miles from the Aurora shootings [of] 144 days ago.
Another coincidence of note with the Mall shooting. The shooting at Clackamas Town Center happened in the food court. On June 2, 2012: One person was killed and seven others injured in a shooting at the Eaton Centre in Toronto. That was at a food court. One of the witnesses Jessica Ghawi was a sports writer. At Clackamas Town center one of the chief witnesses is a colleague of mine and well known sportscaster John Canzano! Jessica Ghawi was later killed in the Aurora Colorado shooting.

SMiles Lewis of PsiOp Radio/Anomaly Archives (no relation, in Texas) also noticed the developing links to the other mall shooting and Aurora, as many people would talk to me throughout the day. SMiles wrote me:

Flashbacks to Wednesday, December 5, 2007 and the Westroads Mall shooting, and the food court where Jessica Redfield Ghawi experiences a “feeling” and leaves the food court at the Eaton Center right before the shootings.

I discussed the Westroads Mall shooting in the broader context of dates and cycles, here, and with other mall shootings, with a list, here. The cafeteria at Columbine, the food court in the Montreal Dawson College shooting, and in other food gathering areas (see my 2008 essay on "Cafeteria Carnage") are well-known sites of mass shootings. The shooters appear to focus on these "fishbowl" sites.
As Clyde Lewis remarked above, Redfield/Ghawi escaped the Ontario mall shooting, but died in the Aurora theater (at a mall) shooting.

Jessica Ghawi/Jessica Redfield (Photo: NY Daily News)

The shooting at the food court at the Eaton Centre mall, in Toronto, Canada, took place on Saturday evening, June 2, 2012. Several people were wounded. Media accounts told of one dead, and seven wounded. One high profile witness was MLB player, Blue Jays 3B Brett Lawrie. One of the deceased victims of the Aurora shooting was, as noted, Jessica Ghawi, an aspiring sportscaster, who happened to almost have been shot during the Eaton shooting. Her immediate pre-The Dark Knight Rises tweets were published.

More On The Victims

The Clackamas victims, coincidentally, were linked to San Diego, by ABC-10 News:

Records obtained by 10News showed shooting victim Cindy Yuille, 54, lived at a San Diego address from 1985 to 1994. She also had previous addresses in San Diego dating back to 1980....Yuille earned a nursing degree from San Diego State University and worked as a hospice nurse for Kaiser Permanente in the Portland area.
Yuille, whose maiden name was Waddell, graduated from Grossmont High School in El Cajon in 1976.
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The other person killed in Tuesday's shooting, 45-year-old Steve Forsyth, attended the University of San Diego from 1985-1989, majoring in business administration, according to his LinkedIn profile. He was a youth sports coach who owned a business in the shopping center, friends told area reporters. He had two children.

That's right, Yuille was a hospice nurse, and the death of another nurse has been in the news recently (see here). Recall that last Friday (December 7th) nurse Jacintha Saldanha (the victim of the prank call about the condition of Prince William’s pregnant wife, Kate Middleton) died by suicide. The inquest results were released today. She allegedly died by hanging.

Who and why was she identified as Cindy Ann Rule earlier? Yuille heard, Rule written done, initially?

Steve Forsyth was a mall business owner, according to media accounts, as well as a former radio station salesman, as noted by Clyde Lewis - and then confirmed by news outlets, late in the day. But why Steven N. Forsyth vs Steve Matthew Forsyth? A simple mistake?

The Shooter

Jacob Tyler Roberts was identified early in the day, on 12/12/12. As the day rolled on, more and more was revealed about him.

Roberts's address is listed at 7324 SE 84th Avenue, Portland, Oregon. This is the house that was raided by Portland police the morning of 12/12/12. In front of the house is a 1996 green Volkswagen Jetta, a car that matches the description of the one driven by Roberts to the shooting. (Google Street View)

Various media sources wrote that Roberts quit his job in recent days, sold all his possessions, got a ticket to Hawaii (reported to move there), then got drunk, overslept, and missed his flight. ABC News also found this,

Roberts, who attended Clackamas Community college, said on his Facebook page that he worked in a gyro shop in downtown Portland and posted a picture of himself firing a gun at a target.

His Facebook photo showed graffiti in which the words "Follow Your Dreams" were painted over with the word "Cancelled."

The painting that Roberts picked for his Facebook page is by "Banksy," an English-based graffiti artist. "Follow Your Dreams - Cancelled" was first spotted on Essex Street in Chinatown, Boston. It appears that the artist Banksy mysteriously leaves his painting around the world on Essex streets. One well-known one showed up on Essex Street in London in 2008.

Clackamas and Aurora Again

Enki wrote on December 11th:

I checked, and the Century Clackamas Town Center and XD theater is playing Red Dawn.

ABC News, in another piece on 12/12/12, appeared to have shown they may just came out of a deep sleep to view what's been happening for years. They reported:

The Oregon mall shooter was dressed all in black and his face was covered by a white hockey mask.
The mask, the black clothes, the age of the gunman and a weapon are becoming a familiar and deadly pattern.
The gunman, 22-year-old Jacob Tyler Roberts of Portland, is one of a string of killers before him, including Aurora shooter James Holmes, who chose to wear black and cover their faces with masks.

A news woman, CG, pointed out this ABC article to me and felt the ending of the article had an unusual sense to it ("a bit incongruous," she wrote):

While investigators try to piece together what made Roberts snap, [Dr. Mary Ellen] O'Toole, [a retired FBI profiler] warned the cycle of gun violence will continue."Somewhere, there is a male in this age range thinking of outdoing the shooter in Aurora and outdoing the shooter in Oregon and they are watching this and saying, 'I am going to do it.'"

Thinking, Syncing, and Linking: Colorado (red) Aurora (dawn) Again & More

Matt Bell emailed in his thoughts:

Here are a few randoms regarding "Clackamas." The first is a Jefferson tie-in. Lewis and Clark wrote that the Clackamas [they term it "Clark-a'-mas"] River "...has it's source in Mount Jefferson..." Wikipedia states that "The headwaters [of the Clackamas River] are in the Cascades' Mount Hood National Forest, on the slopes of Olallie Butte—which is about 10 miles (16 km) north of Mt. Jefferson... The Clackamas flows briefly north and then flows northwest through the mountains, passing through North Fork Reservoir and Estacada." The "Hood" name jumps out, for example, as a reminder of the November 5, 2009 shooting at Fort Hood. (The fort was named after a John Bell Hood while the Mountain was named after Samuel Hood). Clackamas County is partially bordered by the Hood River. But also note the name "Estacada." Some or other author on Wikipedia (as of this writing) notes the LexiLink (although, it's not named as such) between Oregon's "Estacada" and "Llano Estacado" area in Texas. The latter area is of some interest since it is the origination point for Texas' Colorado River. (Llano Estacado is also near the Red River.) I don't have to tell you that "Colorado" itself "...means 'colored red'..." (Ibid.). Texas' Colorado River leads into a whole Lyndon B. Johnson symbol set, including Lake LBJ and Lady Bird Lake. It may (or may not) be noteworthy that an academic expert on Clackamas-Chinook Indian stories was a man named Melville Jacobs. He published several texts on the Clackamas. This book, for example, might be something like Jacobs' Clackamas tales. In any case, the "Tyler" name reminds of the Masonic "Tiler." The Tiler, of course, is the Lodger Officer whose "duty is to guard the door of the Lodge, and to permit no one to pass in who is not duly qualified, and who has not the permission of the Master. ...the Tiler closes the door and covers the sacred precincts from all intrusion." Cory Panshin observed, The name Tyler strikes me not for its Masonic associations, but for the fact that Anonymous is using it as part of their Project Mayhem operation, which was set to begin on December 12. In this case, the derivation is from Fight Club. "The activists reveal that on the symbolic date of November 5, TYLER will be out of beta testing and in the timeframe between December 12 and December 21, 2012, it will be put to use." (There was apparently also an early report that the shooter was wearing a Guy Fawkes mask, which turned out not to be the case but was enough to get the Anonymi nervous for a while.) And there is definitely some sort of psychic overlap between hackers and shooters that goes at least back to Columbine. They come out of the same deep well of disaffection -- but the hackers don't need to use guns to express it. Roberts on Roberts. We've seen this post-shooting coincidence before = the name of the law enforcement spokesperson sharing the same or similar name of the shooter, but not related: Roberts, 22, was armed with a stolen AR-15 semi-automatic weapon, Sheriff Craig Roberts told a news conference today [12/12/12]. He was not wearing a bullet-proof vest as previously reported.

Some Anonymous items, from various people, detailed on December 11th-13th:

Obvious, I guess, but...
Clackamas = Christmas

I see that there has been a Friday the 13th (Jason) movie playing on IFC the past week.

Clackamas definitely seems related to "Christmas" in some sort of way to me too.
Interesting one victim's name was "Yuille." I'm assuming because of the "Rule" mistake, it's pronounced "Yule".
So, did this guy manage to "randomly" kill Christmas/Yule? Because whatever else, it seems clear he didn't know his victims...

Enki wrote on December 11th:

The scene outside the mall's Century Theater looks eerily like what we saw outside Aurora's Century Theater on July 20.
I have noticed some oddities:
The Aurora tragedy happened 144 (12 X 12) days ago.
The Clackamas Town Center mall's website advertises a giveaway for tomorrow. 12 prizes will be given away on 12/12/12.
The mall is located minutes away from downtown Portland, where [some of] the primary shooting for Twilight took place.
The Clackamas Indians are the technical owners of the Willamette Meteorite, the largest meteorite ever found in North America. We are currently experiencing the Geminid meteor shower, due to peak in a couple of days.
The Century Theatres chain is owned by Cinemark, which is headquartered in Plano, Texas (which seems to come up quite a bit). The first Century theater was the Century 21 in San Jose, California. This theater was built next to the Winchester Mystery House, a location where the themes of madness and guns certainly intersected.

Following up on the meteorite comment above by Enki, I shared this:

The Willamette Meteorite was discovered in the Willamette Valley of Oregon near the modern city of West Linn….The meteorite was apparently venerated by the Clackamas tribe inhabiting the area where it was found. The Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon, a confederation of Native American tribes, used the meteorite, which they call Tomanowos, in ceremonies and demanded that it be returned and filed a NAGPRA action (Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act) against the American Museum of Natural History in 1999. In response, the Museum filed a federal lawsuit seeking a declaratory judgment against the Grand Ronde in 2000. An agreement with the Museum was reached later that year in which the meteorite would remain at the museum with tribal members being able to conduct a private ceremony around the meteorite once a year, and that ownership will be transferred to Grand Ronde should the museum cease to have the meteorite on display.

Cory Panshin then remarked:

Enki's reference to the Winchester Mystery House jumped out at me, since I happened to have watched a YouTube video on it just a few days ago -- probably the first time I've even thought of the place since I read about it in one of the old paperback collections of Ripley's Believe It or Not when I was a kid. A strange house with a very strange vibe -- and quite literally built with blood money.

Twilight

Enki's comment about the filming locations for the Twilight (2008) film caused me to do a little more research. I quickly discovered the film "was made for practical reasons, largely around Portland in Oregon, with just a little Washington and even California," according to The Worldwide Guide to Movie Locations.

Later, Enki emailed:

The shooter has been identified as Jacob Tyler Roberts. In the Twilight movies, Jacob is played by Tyler Lautner, and Edward is played by Robert Pattinson.

Further, according to The Worldwide Guide to Movie Locations,

The school cafeteria, though, where Bella first claps eyes on the strange Cullen clan, is back in Oregon. It’s Madison High School, 2735 NE 82nd Avenue in Portland, which also provided the biology classroom where Edward sends out strangely mixed signals to new girl Bella. Madison High was previously featured in local boy Gus Van Sant’s 2007 Paranoid Park.
The eco-conscious school trip is to Clackamas Community College, 19600 Molalla Avenue, Oregon City, just south of Portland....
The fantastic Cullen house – no coffins, dungeons or moat – is a private home, the M1 Residence, a cantilevered glass and wood construction by Skylab Architects in Forest Park, Portland.

Truly the twilight language is all around us. 

I finished writing this as Paul McCarthy put his
end to the 12/12/12 concert with Live and Let Die.

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I wish to thank all my friends for sharing their insights.

There is a community of sync thinkers out there. 

Join them in pondering all of this 

in the following book, which I highly recommend.

The Sync Book 2 

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Upcoming radio interview: 
I've agreed to go on Portland, Oregon's Ground Zero with Clyde Lewis 
on Friday, December 15, 2012, from 
7:00-8:00 pm Pacific time/10:00-11:00 pm Eastern

time, to discuss the breaking Clackamas-Aurora events and syncs.

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The world is not through with this book yet...

The Copycat Effect: How the Media and Popular 
Culture Trigger the Mayhem in 
Tomorrow's Headlines (NY: Simon and Schuster, 2003)

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Clackamas Mall Shooting: Three Dead

Breaking News Updates: See "Clackamas-Aurora Sync and Links" for more. Below is the original and initial December 11th details.

Some eyewitnesses reported the Clackamas shooter wore a "Jason" hockey mask.

On Tuesday, December 11, 2012, a shooting occurred at the Clackamas Town Center mall, near Portland, Oregon, leaving three dead. The mall attack began at around 3:20 p.m.

Specifically, the violence occurred in Clackamas, near the 20 screen multiplex Century movie theater, which is an anchor at the mall. It will be recalled that it was at a Century movie theater location where the Aurora, Colorado, shootings took place on July 20, 2012.

(Enki writes: "I checked, and the Century Clackamas Town Center and XD theater is playing Red Dawn.")

By 4:50 p.m., the shooter, wearing a white (camouflage) mask and a bulletproof vest, was "neutralized," according to the Clackamas County Sheriff's Department. The suspect is dead, along with two unidentified victims.

The shooter's cause of death appears to have been suicide, as at the law enforcement news conference at 6:30 p.m. Pacific, it was stated that police did not fire any weapons in the mall. By 6:45 p.m., CNN had confirmed the suspect died by suicide.

In the mall, over 20 shots were fired. Oregonian sports columnist John Canzano, who was pulling up to the mall when the shooting happened, said people reported hearing around 60 shots from the food court.

"It was kind of surreal because we hear pops and loud noises all the time because we're right here by the food court, but it's never been anything like that,” Evan Walters, a mall store employee, told KATU. “It was very definite gun shots. I think most all of us knew it was gunshots. There really was no rhyme or reason to them. There were many in a row."

Walters said he saw two people who had been shot and killed. Walters and other store employees brought out sheets from the store to place over the victims.

"Everyone's just trying to stick together and be as calm as possible for people ... I don't know what else to say,” Walters said. “It's just kind of scary. We're just trying to be as strong as we can and hopefully we'll be out of this as soon as possible."

Clackamas was named after the Upper Chinook group of Native peoples who use to live in the Clackamas river valley of northwestern Oregon. Their language is now extinct.

The Clackamas Town Center mall has some distinctive external art, as seen here. I am still attempting to discover the name of the artist.

Photos credit: KATU.

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Nightingale Suicides and Defenestrations

"How very little can be done under the spirit of fear." 

~ Florence Nightingale

It is well-known that the British woman Florence Nightingale (May 12, 1820 – August 13, 1910) was the founder of modern nursing.

Few today realize that Nightingale was also a celebrated English statistician, and a pioneer in the visual presentation of information and statistical graphics. She refined the newly invented visual form of showing statistics, the pie chart (invented by William Playfair in 1801), into her polar area diagram, or what is today occasionally called the Nightingale rose diagram. Nightingale called a compilation of such diagrams a "coxcomb." She was constantly looking for linkages, and her work in mortality rates and sanitation, whether among Crimean War soldiers in field hospitals or of rural peasants in India, won her praise.

Nightingale's work, carrying a lantern around at night to check on the battlefield wounded in Crimea is legendary. (The Crimean peninsula is located just south of the rest of the Ukrainian seacoast and west of the Russian region of Kuban. The name Crimea takes its origin in the name of a city of Qırım (today's Stary Krym) which served as a capital of the Crimean province of the Golden Horde. Qırım is Crimean Tatar for "my hill." The ancient Greeks called Crimea Tauris (later Taurica, Ταυρική in Ancient greek), after its inhabitants, the Tauri. The Greek historian Herodotus mentions that Heracles plowed that land using a huge ox  -"Taurus" - hence the name of the land. Herodotus also refers to a nearby region called "cremni or 'the Cliffs'" which may also refer to the Crimean peninsula, notable for its cliffs along what is otherwise a flat northern coastline of the Black Sea.)

Today, Nightingale might be regarded as a sychromystic. Certainly, her name is powerful, as I shall try to demonstrate in this essay.

Florence (="flowering, in bloom") is a name due to the city in Italy where she was born. But, as is relatively well-known, Nightingale's surname has its origins in that of a bird.

The Common Nightingale or simply the Nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos), also referred as the Rufous Nightingale, is a small passerine bird that was formerly classified as a member of the thrush family Turdidae, but is now more generally considered to be an Old World flycatcher, Muscicapidae. It belongs to a group of more terrestrial species, often called chats. None are found in the New World, and North Americans generally think of the name "Nightingale" in association with nursing.

But the bird is a key to understanding the underlying meaning carried in the general references associated with "Nightingale."

Wikipedia has important pieces of information that impact on this discussion:

Common Nightingales are named so because they frequently sing at night as well as during the day. The name has been used for well over 1,000 years, being highly recognizable even in its Anglo-Saxon form – "nightingale." It means "night songstress." Early writers assumed the female sang when it is in fact the male. The song is loud, with an impressive range of whistles, trills and gurgles. Its song is particularly noticeable at night because few other birds are singing. This is why its name includes "night" in several languages. Only unpaired males sing regularly at night, and nocturnal song is likely to serve to attract a mate. Singing at dawn, during the hour before sunrise, is assumed to be important in defending the bird's territory. Nightingales sing even more loudly in urban or near-urban environments, in order to overcome the background noise. The most characteristic feature of the song is a loud whistling crescendo, absent from the song of Thrush Nightingale. It has a frog-like alarm call.

The Common Nightingale is an important symbol for poets from a variety of ages, and has taken on a number of symbolic connotations. Homer evokes the Nightingale in the Odyssey, suggesting the myth of Philomela and Procne (one of whom, depending on the myth's version, is turned into a nightingale). This myth is the focus of Sophocles' tragedy, Tereus, of which only fragments remain. Ovid, too, in his Metamorphoses, includes the most popular version of this myth, imitated and altered by later poets, including Chrétien de Troyes, Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, and George Gascoigne. T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" also evokes the Common Nightingale's song (and the myth of Philomela and Procne). Because of the violence associated with the myth, the nightingale's song was long interpreted as a lament.
The Common Nightingale has also been used as a symbol of poets or their poetry....Virgil compares the mourning of Orpheus to the "lament of the nightingale." Source.

"Any mortal who is infuriated by his wrongs 

and applies a medicine that is worse than the 

disease is a doctor who does not understand the trouble." 

~ Tereus by Sophocles, before 414 BCE.

So let's look at some recent intriguing deaths and their links.

I was doing research on "Nightingale," over this last week and the weekend, when the news hit last Friday (December 7th) that nurse Jacintha Saldanha had died by suicide. She was the nurse at the London's King Edward VII Hospital who initially patched a prank call to another nurse. It turned out it was from morning radio hosts in Sydney, Australia, Mel Greig and Michael Christian. They impersonated Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles to try to pry out information on the health of Prince William’s pregnant wife, Kate Middleton. Saldanha, 46, who was born in India, was found dead three days after the pranking. No method of suicide has been revealed.

Nightingale = nursing. Alright, that was a weird sync. There is more to this than meets the eye, I predict, and it has been a news story that seems certain to increase suicides, a la' the copycat effect. This real possibility is already being discussed in Australia, where a suicide alert has been issued.

What started me down this road was that on December 5th, I heard from a correspondent (Dave M) about a suicide, which seemed a little unusual.

A Serbian government statement said on Wednesday December 5, 2012, that Serbia's Ambassador to NATO, Branislav Milinkovic, 52, died by suicide by leaping from a busy parking garage platform at Brussels Airport on Tuesday night, December 4th. A diplomat who could not be identified because he was not authorized to speak to the media said Milinkovic suddenly jumped from the 26- to 33-foot-high (8- to 10-meter-high) platform while waiting with the Serbian delegation for foreign ministry officials due to hold talks with NATO officials. 

"His motives are a mystery. Three diplomats who knew Milinkovic said he did not appear distraught in the hours leading up to his death Tuesday night," reported the AP.

What happened to Milinkovic was not technically a defenestration, but the combination of a politician and the fall from a high location quickly brought to my mind some infamous defenestrations from history.

Defenestration, specifically, is the act of throwing an individual (or even something) out of a window, usually from a location above ground level. Historically, the word defenestration was used to refer to an act of political dissent or political murder or suicide.

The term originates from two incidents in history, both occurring in Prague. In 1419, seven town officials were thrown from the Town Hall, precipitating the Hussite War. In 1618, two Imperial governors and their secretary were tossed from Prague Castle, sparking the Thirty Years War. These incidents, particularly in 1618, were referred to as the Defenestrations of Prague and gave rise to the term and the concept. Source.

Self-defenestration (autodefenestration) is the act of jumping, propelling oneself, or causing oneself to fall, out of a window.
What I found interesting, as to the timing of Milinkovic's "suicide," was it came the day after Showtime's broadcast of Oliver Stone's newest episode of The Untold History of the United States on the Cold War.

Stone's program had several internal links, some of which were probably on purpose, and others may have been more synchromystic, about defenestration. (And then Branislav Milinkovic's fall occurred.)

Early in the program, Stone was discussing WWII covert operations in Ukraine. At that point in the program, in large letters, Nightingale was flashed on the screen. It was not too clear what the exact significance of the prominent lettering was, but I figured it was some kind of foreshadowing. [I looked it up later and found it was the code name of the Ukrainian Nazi elite unit Nachtigall (Nightingale) Brigade, which James Forrestal would help to smuggle to the United States after World War II.]

Later, the Oliver Stone episode told of how on March 10, 1948, the Czechoslovakian minister of foreign affairs Jan Masaryk (pictured above) was found dead (below), dressed in his pajamas, in the courtyard of the Foreign Ministry below his bathroom window. The initial investigation stated that he died suicide by jumping out of the window, although from the beginning some believed that he was murdered by the ascendant Communists, during the Czech coup. A new criminal investigation discovered and confirmed, recently, from the trajectory of Masaryk's fall and other evidence, that he was thrown out of the window. He had, indeed, suffered from a defenestration, so well-known in that part of the world.

James Vincent Forrestal (February 15, 1892 – May 22, 1949) too died by death from a window. 

Forrestal was the last Cabinet-level United States Secretary of the Navy and the first United States Secretary of Defense. Forrestal was the man inside the government who would oversee the establishment of the CIA. And as I mentioned above, the sneaking of the Ukrainian Nazi Nachtigall (Nightingale) into America.

Stone's documentary television program spent some time telling parts of the story of Forrestal, including the bizarre tale of Forrestal's "suicide," which involved his falling from the window of the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland.

In the early morning hours of May 22, 1949, Forrestal's body, like Jan Masaryk's, clad only in pajamas, was found on a third-floor roof below the 16th-floor kitchen across the hall from his room.

Again, with Nightingale projected on the screen, Stone, as the narrator, noted that Forrestal, right before he died, was writing down a poem from Sophocles' tragedy Ajax - and then stopped when Forrestal came to the word nightingale:

Fair Salamis, the billows’ roar,

Wander around thee yet,

And sailors gaze upon thy shore

Firm in the Ocean set.

Thy son is in a foreign clime

Where Ida feeds her countless flocks,

Far from thy dear, remembered rocks,

Worn by the waste of time–

Comfortless, nameless, hopeless save

In the dark prospect of the yawning grave....

Woe to the mother in her close of day,

Woe to her desolate heart and temples gray,

When she shall hear

Her loved one’s story whispered in her ear!

“Woe, woe!’ will be the cry–

No quiet murmur like the tremulous wail

Of the lone bird, the querulous nightingale–

Some have read what Forrestal left behind as an implied suicide note. Others have considered it some kind of warning, linked to the Nazi unit he had help get into America. We may never know.

In a new form of art ("Conspiracy Theory Opera") presented to the public between 2000 and 2007, The Defenestration Trilogy, three chamber operas, were created by Evan Hause.
The three defenestrations that Hause details are those of James Forrestal (d. 1949), Frank Olson (d. 1953), an army chemist who worked for the CIA in America's early biological warfare program, and Edwin H. Armstrong (d. 1954), the inventor of F.M. All three died by relatively mysterious falls from windows.

Hause's opera about Forrestal is entitled Nightingale, a two-act performance, scored for strings at its core (with some winds, piano and percussion).

Consider this, even the life of Florence Nightingale remains a mystery. Why should we be surprised that anything linked to "nightingale" should be totally known?

"I have lived and slept in the same bed 

with English countesses and Prussian 

farm women...no woman has excited 

passions among women more than I have." 

~ Florence Nightingale

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