TL;DR: While we’ve discussed the big household names among American and German automakers, it turns out even the boring brands were also created by the Salem Witches. We’ll cover a few of them here.

Advisory/sermon: This post may seem like it will simply be overkill. I don’t think so but feel free to skip it, of course. In addition to all the details, I believe benefit comes from internalizing the larger context. The Salem Witches and their works are under every rock and around every corner. You like to think the Elite Satanists are confined to their various Mentmore Towers for the doing of their dirty deeds. When Kubrick puts them up on the silver screen, it feels good because you can fear and hate Them freely. More importantly, because They are far away and no more than images, you feel safe. Well, They are not far away, because I keep finding Them on every page of history. Maybe we should not feel safe.

The easiest story to tell would be that of what is now the premium brand for General Motors Company (GM), good old Buick:

With the demise of Oldsmobile [pending writeup] in 2004, Buick became the oldest surviving American automobile brand.

Although the company was formally founded in 1899, it never really got off the ground. The crucial sentence from Wikipedia is:

Whiting built only a few [37, to be precise] automobiles in 1904, the Model B, before running out of operating capital, causing him to bring in William C. Durant that year as a controlling investor.

That is the same William C. Durant (1861-1947) behind General Motors, who we found in the American carmakers post to be very much a Salem Witch and all we need say about good old Buick.

There is somewhat more to say regarding Studebaker, founded all the way back in 1852. The key event doesn’t come for half a century:

While manufacturing its own Studebaker Electric vehicles from 1902 to 1911, the company entered into body-manufacturing and distribution agreements with two makers of gasoline-powered vehicles, Garford of Elyria, Ohio, and the Everitt-Metzger-Flanders (E-M-F) Company of Detroit and Walkerville, Ontario. Studebaker began making gasoline-engined cars in partnership with Garford in 1904.

First let me note that this dovetails into general idea behind the “General Motors streetcar conspiracy”. The noob conspiracy holds that GM was getting rid of mass transit to promote auto sales. The deep conspiracy is that the Rockefellers were transitioning society to a petroleum-based economy. The deeper conspiracy is that the Salem Witches were also getting rid of practical electric vehicle transportation left over from the Tartarians. That’s what we’re seeing here, isn’t it?

The key guy is Arthur Lovett Garford (1858-1933). I’d like to do the genealogy for you but it is very nearly non-existent. For a man with his own Wikipedia page born not that long ago, we are told, "Sorry, no WikiTree profile matches."

Geni does a little better and at least admits he had a mother, Hannah Garford (Lovett) (1830 - d.). Born in England and, uh, died somewhere along the line. Frankly, I don’t even necessarily believe she was born in England.

That’s because—you guessed it—there were two Lovetts involved in the Salem Witch Trials, Bethya and John. There was also a “Mary Lovett Tyler” listed on Wiki’s participants page as "accused but survived". Again, we are only handed that strange broken link to a "(page does not exist)". I feel at this point no one is ever going to come along and create that Wiki page.

If her name brought to mind the country singer Lyle Lovett (b1957), then I don’t think you’re barking up the wrong tree. Both he and his father’s middle names are”Pearce”. That’s a deeper bloodline I’ve spent little time on. There were two Pierces at Salem, but to give you a more flavorful taste, ask yourself which of the Bush sons have you heard almost nothing about, except perhaps vaguely that he was in the shadows at the World Trade Center before the unfortunate events? Marvin Pierce Bush.

The Packard brand, founded in 1899, came to be considered synonymous with “stodgy”. You’d think that when you paired that up with genealogy—tthe dullest hobby since stamp collecting—you’d have a real loser on your hands. On the contrary, I have two stories to tell about Packard. Actually three, but the first is just a single sentence telling us that Packard was:

One of the "Three Ps" – alongside Peerless Motor Company and Pierce-Arrow….

Seriously, do we even need to research Pierce-Arrow? That would really be driving the point into the ground. In any case, the Salem Witches were there before Packard built more than a few hundred cars:

Henry Bourne Joy, a member of one of Detroit's oldest and wealthiest families, bought a Packard. Impressed by its reliability, he visited the Packards and soon enlisted a group of investors….

One important note about Henry Bourne Joy (1864-1936) is that he was very active in the Anti-Saloon League, who were pro-prohibition.

A lesser-known aspect to the aforementioned “GM streetcar conspiracy” is that gasoline was to be preferred over alcohol as a liquid fuel. To that end, the Temperance Movement was dreamt up. Thus, all the virtue-signallers would demonize alcohol for all the good reasons that were not the real reason.

Thus, it may be of some interest that the Anti-Saloon League was founded by Howard Hyde Russell (1855-1946) and promoted by the Southern Publicity Association, which was run by Edward Young Clarke (1877-?) and Mary Elizabeth Tyler (1881-1924).

Their organization helped to turn the initially anemic second Ku Klux Klan into a mass-membership organization with a broader social agenda.

Clarke was even an Imperial Wizard! So I guess we settled the question as to whether the revived KKK was an organic and legitimate organization, huh? Also, another Tyler?! Even I get surprised how these things come together sometimes.

Henry’s father, James Frederick Joy (1810-1896), was an even more pivotal figure. He was born in New Hampshire and graduated from Harvard Law in 1836. Then he moved to Detroit, which at that time had a population of probably around 5,000. Try explaining that move to yourself.

James started a law firm with a man named George F. Porter, if that’s a clue. He went on to become a big-time railroad magnate (what a surprise) and was “a close friend, confidant and supporter of Abraham Lincoln” (another big surprise, although we’ll see Abe again before we’re done and the surprise will not be sardonic).

What about their genealogies? First, there is an anomaly concerning the WikiTree pages for both Henry Bourne Joy and James Frederick Joy. Even though Wikipedia lists their parents and children, and even though WikiTree contains links to their respective Wikipedia pages, the genealogy between the two men is completely severed. From Henry’s page you can’t tell who his father is, and from James’ you can’t tell who his children are. Strange, right?

The vital Witch link is though James’ mother, who was born a Pickering. We are thus on the trail of a woman recorded at the Salem Witch Trials as Alice Pickering. Heavy genealogical detective work ahead.

Moving back up the family tree from the Joys, we are stopped cold at both Geni (Sarah Gee Joy (Pickering) (1781 - 1858)) and WikiTree (Sarah Gee (Pickering) Joy (1781 - 1858)). No parents are listed for her.

Being the nosy type, I nosed around and found this lady: Sarah Pickering (abt. 1755 - abt. 1834) (1755-1834). Her great-grandmother was Mary (Gee) Pickering (abt. 1660 - aft. 1720), born a Gee and married a Pickering. Sarah has no spouse or children listed.

Both Sarahs were born in Newington, Rockingham, New Hampshire. The elder would have been about 26 at the time the younger was born. This is all too close to be coincidence, isn’t it? I propose we reinstate their connection as mother and daughter and assert that we have the correct bloodline.

There is yet more detective work. That elder Sarah had a 2g-grandfather named John Pickering Sr. (abt. 1600 - 1669). There was also a guy floating around named John Pickering (abt. 1615 - bef. 1657). They are of no admitted relation, but I contend they were secretly father and son. Shock! The WikiTree page for Sr. does say this:

Around 1633 two people named John Pickering came to New England, one settling in Ipswich and the other settled in Strawberry Banke from whom we are descended.

Sr. has no child listed until he was 40 years of age. That’s hella old for these horndogs in the time before birth control. The younger John was born when the elder was about 15 (although you can see all the years are “abt”). At the time of the crossing, the younger would have been around the age of majority and able to live on his own.

All in all, I would argue that the younger John was a bastard, and he was named after his father as was very common for firstborn sons. Then when they crossed over, the familial ties were fully severed and the younger John was sent on his way to—you got it—Salem.

That is where he married his wife, Alice (Flint) Pickering (1636 - bef. 1713). This is the “Alice Pickering” we were looking for. There are three other Flints in the records of the witch trials, in case you were wondering.

Now, believe it or not, there’s a lot more to say about Packards and you won’t believe the bonus. Packard was founded by two brothers, James Ward Packard (1863-1928) and William Doud Packard (1861-1923).

You can begin with the WikiTree page for either brother, so let’s say James Ward Packard (1863 - 1925). Trace through the Packard family line like ten generations and you’ll arrive at the guy that came over during the Puritan Great Migration, Samuel Packard Sr. (abt. 1612 - 1684).

I browsed through Samuel’s descendants and landed on this 2g-grandson: Caleb Packard Sr. (1758-1833). There’s nothing special about him—so far as I know—but I thought he made for a good illustration. You can see that his sister, Mehitable, married a Rice. Also, I mentioned before that the Salem Witches were all over the American Revolution. Caleb served as a soldier under officers named Packard, Howard, and Cary.

Caleb’s wife was Lydia (Ford) Packard (1770 - aft. 1839), which I thought was entertaining in itself. She was a descendant of a Ford, a Warren, a Walker, a Rogers, a Hewes, and a Tucker. What a catch.

Caleb’s mother was born an Alden, so in addition to Samuel Packard Sr., another of Caleb’s 2g-grandfathers was Joseph Alden (aft. 1627 - 1697). Name ring a bell? His parents were John and Priscilla Alden who arrived on the Mayflower in 1620. Yes, they are the ones we have to hear about every Thanksgiving.

Bonus: Did the name “Packard” remind you of one of the legendary names of the Silicon Valley tech revolution, Hewlett-Packard? Well, I looked ahead (as I always do) and David Packard (1912-1996) was a lineal descendant of the Samuel Packard Sr. we talked about earlier.

About a decade ago, Hewlett-Packard split up into two entities, HP Inc. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Their 2025 revenues were, respectively, $55.3 billion and $34.3 billion. Not too bad.

Even bigger bonus: This is one I did not see coming. Did you actually look at Samuel Packard’s WikiTree page? Exact spellings of names were often uncertain in those days, and there is quite a lot of discussion about that in Samuel’s record. Here’s the juiciest passage:

His name was generally spelled "Parker" during his first 25 years in New England, when he lived in Hingham and Weymouth, and only switched to "Packer" when he moved to Bridgewater. "Packard" and "Peckerd" were each only used once, more than 30 years after he immigrated. It is more likely that the spelling would start changing from the spelling in England than it would for some reason revert back to the spelling in England after three decades.

For shit’s sake, all these Packards are actually Parkers.

Slightly smaller bonus: The sentence right after that reads:

The spelling "Parker" was used when he lived in Hingham and Weymouth, where many of the people Samuel lived with, and who made the written records, originated from the same area of Norfolk….

Know who one of those people was, who came out of Norfolk and settled in Hingham? Samuel Lincoln (1622-1690), the 4g-grandfather of Honest Abe. Told you we’d see him again.

Thanks for reading!

Last time was a link out to a hard to read twitter link/image.

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Abrams, Stacey (USA), CEO, Sage Works Production

Alverà, Marco (ITA), Co-Founder, zhero.net; CEO, TES

Applebaum, Anne (USA), Staff Writer, The Atlantic

Auchincloss, Murray (GBR), Former CEO, BP plc

Barroso, José Manuel (PRT), Chair International Advisors, Goldman Sachs International

Bartosiewicz, Adam (POL), Vice President, WB Group

Baudson, Valérie (FRA), CEO, Amundi SA

Berg, Caroline (SWE), CEO, Axel Johnson

Birol, Fatih (INT), Executive Director, International Energy Agency

Boël, Harold (BEL), CEO, Sofina

Bosek, Peter (AUT), CEO and Chief Retail Officer, Erste Group Bank AG

Bourla, Albert (USA), Chair and CEO, Pfizer Inc.

Budliger, Helene (CHE), State Secretary for Economic Affairs

Burgum, Douglas (USA), Secretary of the Interior

Busch, Roland (DEU), President and CEO, Siemens AG

Calviño, Nadia (INT), President, European Investment Bank

Cantell, Aaro (FIN), Chair, Normet Group

Castries, Henri de (FRA), President, Institut Montaigne

Cavendish, Camilla (GBR), Member House of Lords

Chambers, Jack (IRL), Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Reform and Digitalisation

Christiansen, Jeppe (DNK), CEO, Maj Invest group

Clark, Jack (USA), Co-Founder and Head of Public Benefit, Anthropic PBC

Colao, Vittorio (ITA), Vice Chair EMEA, General Atlantic Service Company LP

Collison, Patrick (IRL), CEO, Stripe

Döpfner, Mathias (DEU), Chair and CEO, Axel Springer SE

Driscoll, Daniel P. (USA), Secretary of the Army

Economy, Elizabeth (USA), Hargrove Senior Fellow, Stanford University

Ek, Daniel (SWE), Chair, Spotify SA

Eriksen, Øyvind (NOR), President and CEO, Aker ASA

Escrivá, José Luis (ESP), Governor, Bank of Spain

Ferguson, Niall (USA), Milbank Family Senior Fellow, Stanford University

Foroohar, Rana (USA), Associate Editor, Financial Times

Freeland, Chrystia (CAN), Special Representative for the Reconstruction of Ukraine

Fürstenberg, Jeanette zu (DEU), Managing Director, General Catalyst

Gil, Pilar (ESP), CEO, PRISA Media

Greer, Jamieson (USA), United States Trade Representative

Guttenberg, Karl-Theodor zu (DEU), Chair, Spitzberg Partners LLC

Harrington, Kevin (USA), Former Senior Director for Strategic Planning, National Security Council

Hassabis, Demis (GBR), Co-Founder and CEO, Google DeepMind

Heraty, Anne (IRL), Chair, Sherry Fitzgerald and IBEC

Hoffmann, André (CHE), Vice Chair, Roche Holding Ltd.

Horstmann, Uwe (DEU), CEO, Stark

Hunt, Colin (IRL), CEO, AIB Group plc

Jakobs, Roy (NLD), President and CEO, Royal Philips

Jetten, Rob (NLD), Prime Minister

Jonson, Pål (SWE), Minister for Defence

Kaag, Sigrid (NLD), Co-Chair Board of Directors, United Nations Foundation

Kagan, Kimberly (USA), President, Institute for the Study of War

Kamyshin, Oleksandr (UKR), Advisor to the President of Ukraine for Strategic Affairs

Karp, Alex (USA), CEO, Palantir Technologies Inc.

Kirtley, David (USA), CEO, Helion Energy

Koç, Ali (TUR), Vice Chair, Koç Holding

Kostrzewa, Wojciech (POL), President, Polish Business Roundtable

Kotkin, Stephen (USA), Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Kratsios, Michael (USA), Director, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

Kravis, Henry R. (USA), Co-Founder and Co-Executive Chair, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.

Kravis, Marie-Josée (USA), Chair, The Museum of Modern Art

Kubilius, Andrius (INT), Commissioner Defence and Space, European Commission

Kudelski, André (CHE), Chair and CEO, Kudelski Group SA

Lammy, David (GBR), Deputy Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Justice

Laubenthal, Markus (INT), General and Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe

Leeuwen, Geoffrey van (INT), Chief of Staff, Office of the Secretary General

Lescure, Roland (FRA), Minister for Economy, Finance and Industrial, Energy and Digital Sovereignty

Letta, Enrico (ITA), Dean, IE School of Politics, Economics & Global Affairs

Leysen, Thomas (BEL), Chair, dsm-firmenich AG

Lighthizer, Robert (USA), Chair, Center for American Trade

Liikanen, Erkki (FIN), Chair, IFRS Foundation Trustees

MacGregor, Catherine (FRA), CEO Group, ENGIE

McCoy, Danny (IRL), CEO, Ibec

McGurk, Brett (USA), Global Affairs Analyst, CNN

McInnes, Ross (FRA), President, Safran Group

Meelby Jensen, Britt (DNK), CEO, Ambu A/S

Mensch, Arthur (FRA), Co-Founder and CEO, Mistral AI

Metreweli, Blaise (GBR), Chief, Secret Intelligence Service

Micklethwait, John (USA), Editor-in-Chief, Bloomberg LP

Minton Beddoes, Zanny (GBR), Editor-in-Chief, The Economist

Moreira, Duarte (PRT), Co-Founder and CEO, Zeno Partners

Motzfeldt, Vivian (GRL), Former Minister of Foreign Affairs

Moura Guedes, Guta (PRT), Chair and Co-Founder, ExperimentaDesign

Murati, Mira (USA), CEO, Thinking Machines Lab

Nadal, Alberto (ESP), Shadow Economic Minister, Popular Party

Netherlands, H.M. the King of the (NLD),

Netherlands, H.M. the Queen of the (NLD),

Olechowski, Jacek (POL), Founder, Mediacap

Orszag, Peter R. (USA), CEO and Chair, Lazard

Özyeğin, Murat (TUR), Chair, Fiba Group

Papalexopoulos, Dimitri (GRC), Chair, TITAN SA

Paparo, Samuel (USA), Commander, US Indo-Pacific Command

Perryman, Skye (USA), President and CEO, Democracy Forward

Pierrakakis, Kyriakos (GRC), Minister of Economy and Finance

Pouyanné, Patrick (FRA), Chair and CEO, TotalEnergies SE

Rachman, Gideon (GBR), Chief Foreign Affairs Commentator, Financial Times

Rappard, Rolly van (NLD), Co-Founder and Chair, CVC Capital Partners

Roche, Nicolas (FRA), Secretary General, General Secretariat for Defence and National Security

Rovere, Silvia Maria (ITA), Chair, Poste Italiane S.p.A.

Rutte, Mark (INT), Secretary General, NATO

Sawers, John (GBR), Executive Chair, Newbridge Advisory Ltd.

Sbokou-Constantakopoulou, Costantza (GRC), UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador

Schadlow, Nadia (USA), Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute

Scherf, Gundbert (DEU), Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Helsing GmbH

Schimpf, Brian (USA), Co-Founder and CEO, Anduril Industries

Schmidt, Eric E. (USA), Executive Chair and CEO, Relativity Space Inc

Sedwill, Mark (GBR), Chair of Trustees, International Institute for Strategic Studies

Sewell, Terri (USA), Member of Congress

Sewing, Christian (DEU), CEO, Deutsche Bank AG

Shirzad, Faryar (USA), Chief Policy Officer, Coinbase

Sikorski, Radoslaw (POL), Minister of Foreign Affairs

Sinirlioğlu, Feridun H. (TUR), Secretary General, OSCE

Smith, Brad (USA), Vice Chair and President, Microsoft Corporation

Smith, Jason (USA), Member of Congress

Stoltenberg, Jens (NOR), Minister of Finance

Stubb, Alexander (FIN), President of the Republic

Sutter, Petra De (BEL), Rector, Ghent University

Tangen, Nicolai (NOR), CEO, Norges Bank Investment Management

Tara, Mehmet (TUR), President and Chair, Enka Holding

Terekh, Iryna (UKR), CEO and CTO, Fire Point LLC

Thalhammer, Anna (AUT), Editor-in-Chief, Profil

Tucker, Mark (GBR), Chair, AIA Group Ltd

Valentini, Valentino (ITA), Deputy Minister of Enterprise and Made in Italy

Valtonen, Elina (FIN), Minister of Foreign Affairs

Vassy, Luis (FRA), President, Sciences Po

Vestager, Margrethe (DNK), Chair, Danish Technical University

Wallenberg, Marcus (SWE), Chair, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB

Wang, Alexandr (USA), Chief AI Officer, Meta

Zakaria, Fareed (USA), Host, Fareed Zakaria GPS

Zarakol, Ayse (TUR), Professor of International Relations, University of Cambridge

Zeiler, Gerhard (AUT), President, Warner Bros. Discovery International

Zipse, Oliver (DEU), Chair, BMW AG

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Here is a post about the “enshitification” of modern life I found on Gab that is worth sharing.

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Blair Cottrell

@RealBlairCottrell

4h · AU · Last week I spoke with a mate of mine who does computer software engineering.

He’s been doing that for a while so out of curiosity I asked him, “What’s the best computer I could buy these days?”

“Windows?” He asked.

“Yeah.”

He told me they’re basically all the same thing.

“You could spend $500 or $5000, you’re only paying more for better components. The system is essentially the same.”

“What do you mean?” I asked. “Obviously a $5k PC would run better than a $500 laptop.”

“It would run better.” He agreed. “But the base operating system is the same. It’s the same machine, just with different components.”

He went on:

“They’ve been the same machines for around 25 years. There’s been no major breakthrough since then, everything just got shrunk down and components became more efficient, but in essence all computers functionally operate the same way they did when we were 10 or 15 years old.”

“We don’t create anything anymore. We just remake trendy, cost-effective emulations of what was new 25 years ago.”

While driving home I kept replaying in my mind what he’d said to me, because I sensed there was something profound in it.

After a couple days I realised what he’d said pertained to literally everything.

I thought about what life was like 20-25 years ago. I recalled films like the Lord of The Rings trilogy and the Star Wars prequels, then compared the brilliant originality of ‘back then’ to the crude emulations of the same recycled stories sold by Hollywood today.

“Cost-effective” but insipid and lifeless copies.

I looked at my phone and realised it’s essentially the same phone I’ve had for about 20 years now. The cameras are better but every ‘new phone model’ is the same one as before with minor component updates.

The food was another example. 25 years ago what we ate wasn’t predominantly vegetable oil and carcinogenic additives. Now everything will make you sick, because it’s all a “cost-effective” mass produced copy of the real food we used to eat.

But the big realisation came when I paid attention to the people themselves.

If you stop and look around at ordinary consumers in any major shopping centre or supermarket, you can’t deny they’re typically very fat, disabled or retarded, if not then they’re Indian, Black or Chinese.

25 years ago this wasn’t the norm. People were relatively healthy and White. Immigrants and visibly handicapped people were something well & truly out of the ordinary.

The quality of the Western peasantry had suffered the same fate as our film, literature and technology. They were seized upon by merchants who halted their development in order to refine them into a crude but more profitable emulation of their original form.

They had been made “cost-effective”.

If you’ve read this far that old Christian proverb ought to come into focus: the love of money being the root of all evil.

Some Iranian accounts on x and others closely linked to Iran claim that it's now raining again in Iran after they hit radar stations in the vassal state of UAE (Abu Dhabi/Dubai).

Iran suffered from severe unprecedented droughts in the last years while UAE enjoyed unprecedented rainfall. This could be due to cloud seeding in UAE or coincidence but the fact that some Iranian accounts link it to radars is interesting. Some of these radars could function like HAARP but without needing vast arrays like HAARP. Iran hit the radars for military purposes not related to weather but were surprised it started raining after they were hit.

Just thought I'd pass it on here. You can make of it whatever you want.

Some of the "sources" below. These of course are just claims without proof but I can hardly imagine anyone being able to "prove" this for a multitude of reasons.

https://x.com/IRANinBULGARIA/status/2045423717178626428

https://x.com/AcEpic69/status/2044441884299309382

https://x.com/gokceekatuun/status/2045776941387505834

https://x.com/alsafi_husien/status/2046145590069747723

https://x.com/ChahinePhd/status/2045887819541807422 You can only translate the description but I can verify the translation.

Full interview here on Youtube which you could use auto CC and translate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpzYDOhVCS0