TL;DR: What has come to be known as the “Streetcar Conspiracy” was the tip of the iceberg. The Salem Witches had a much larger plan.
One of the big overt social engineering initiatives of today is branded as the “15-minute city”. Am I going to tell you that, too, is yet another Salem Witch project? Not right now—that will be a future post. But if you simply cannot wait for the bad news to be delivered, I can tell you that the 15mC traces back almost a century to Jane Jacobs (1916-2006) and her predecessor Clarence Perry (1872-1944).
Personal vehicles also enabled the now-ubiquitous “suburb”. Was it really “Them” at work with the rise of suburbs? Let me refer you to the “garden city movement” from Sir Ebenezer Howard (1850-1928). You’ll read he first proposed it in 1898, coincidentally right on time for us to drive to our new garden cities in our new cars. I’m not quite sure many of us feel we live in “garden cities”, but the point stands.
And “They” were flogging cars to us right at that time, to drive around our Brave New World. Let me refer you to Sewall K. Crocker (1883-1913), the mechanic and co-driver in the first successful cross-country automobile trip in 1903. Classic promotional stunt. His driving partner was Horatio Nelson Jackson (1872-1955).
They won’t admit it, but I’m certain Sewall was part of the Crocker family. They were based in California, magnates in railroads, real estate, hotels and banks. Sewall was from nearby: Tacoma, Washington, part of the SeaTac Stronghold of the Salem Witches.
Given all that, am I now saying that the same people who gave us suburbs want to take them away and make us all move to urban habitrails? Yes, that’s exactly what I’m saying because that is what the evidence before us indicates. They arranged for one thing at one time, and later They arranged for the opposite.
Working backwards in time through the Big Plan, the Salem Witches suffered a Big Loss in the recent past. Can’t think what that may be? Of course not: Their losses are—as a rule—expunged from discussion. Younger readers may hardly be familiar with the following subject.
I’m talking about the use of tetraethyllead as an additive in gasoline. The effects were far, far worse than I ever imagined before I looked into it for myself. In use since the 1920’s, it was finally banned in the US in 1996 but was not completely eliminated worldwide until 2021. The subject deserves and will have its own writeup.
TEL was bad but were the Salem Witches were behind it? Remember how I claim this whole “car” thing kicked off in the mid 1800’s? TEL was first synthesized by chemist Carl Jacob Löwig (1803-1890) in 1853. He was born in Bad Kreuznach, which is about 40mi SE of the Frankfurt Stronghold.
As it appears to me, the episode of the "Streetcar Conspiracy" was when the Salem Witches’ pot boiled over during the execution of this plan so They slammed the lid on it and now want you looking at the little mess on the stove rather than what was in the pot. See the trick?
The common notion passed around conspiracy theory circles of the “Streetcar Conspiracy” goes something like this: “Car companies secretly bought up functional municipal streetcar systems and ripped them out in order to sell more personal vehicles.”
As I believe anyone reading this would agree, desired narratives are reinforced by inclusion in popular media for our “entertainment”. And this one was also, in the 1988 fantasy comedy, Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
Should we be suspicious the film was other than an innocent Academy Award-winning romp around Toontown? Well, it was released by Touchstone Pictures, which is a banner of Disney, if that means anything to you. Also, Steven Spielberg was brought in as executive producer, it that means anything additional. Already creepy, IMHO.
Most intriguing is the director, Robert Zemeckis (b1951). You may remember him as the guy behind the Back to the Future (franchise). I think it’s generally agreed that BTTF is in direct competition with The Simpson for “Most 911 Foreshadowing”.
Zemeckis has come up by-the-by in Salem Witch research two other times. Once was in connection with Forrest Gump (1994) in a very early post on the group which would later crystallize to me as the Salem Witches. The other was after a long trail of connection analyzing the 1998 film, Snake Eyes in a post on its connection to the assassination of Charlie Kirk. As this present film weaves the tale:
Meanwhile, Dolores uncovers that Cloverleaf Industries recently bought the city's Pacific Electric railway system and will purchase Toontown at midnight unless Acme's will is found…. Doom reveals he is the sole shareholder of Cloverleaf. He plans to erase Toontown with a dip-spraying machine so he can build a freeway in its place, and decommission the railway system to force people to use it.
Does that match up to what we are told is reality? Let’s take a closer look at the closest the mainstream comes to admitting any of this, as described in the page for what Wikipedia terms the “General Motors streetcar conspiracy” (1938-1951):
Most of the companies involved were convicted in 1949 of conspiracy to monopolize interstate commerce in the sale of buses, fuel, and supplies to NCL subsidiaries, but were acquitted of conspiring to monopolize the transit industry.
I mean, that’s already a lot different than greedy oligarchs depriving the public of existing mass transit systems, isn’t it? IMHO, the whole affair as discussed in Wikipedia amounts to a type of limited hangout. There is a truckload of details on the legalistic epic, none of which is important. At the end, GM was fined $5,000, which I suppose they dug out of their pocket and handed the wadded up bills to the court clerk. Indeed, the more you think the whole thing through, the less sense it makes:
Between 1938 and 1950, National City Lines and its subsidiaries, American City Lines and Pacific City Lines—with investment from GM, Firestone Tire, Standard Oil of California (through a subsidiary), Federal Engineering, Phillips Petroleum, and Mack Trucks—gained control of additional transit systems in about 25 cities.
Shouldn’t we be seeing an illicit collusion between automobile manufacturers? They would be the ones who stand to gain both directly and substantially, aren’t they? We already know the Salem Witches were behind GM, Dodge, and Chrysler. Where are the last two?
And why are the other companies involved in “getting rid of streetcars”, as we are supposed to think? The markets for tires, oil, and motor freight would have been exploding during these decades, no need to cross over into antitrust territory. And why is it even considered antitrust? The list looks more like “vertical integration”. In short, the whole thing—as presented—makes as much sense as a Scooby-Doo plot.
The more we investigate the affair and the circumstances in which it took place, the more we find out about what really happened, and that the “Streetcar Conspiracy” was not the crime, but the alibi. The crime was that the Salem Witches seized control of and transformed surface transportation and associated industries.
A main point of that transformation was centralization—and thus control—around petroleum-based fuel. We already saw that They simply could not wait to dump a bunch of lead in the gasoline to poison our bodies and minds, and that could not effectively be done other than centrally.
If you’ve ever had a chance to drive by one, petroleum refineries are hellaciously large and elaborate installations. There’s no way you’re doing that in your garage or setting up a small facility along the lines of a local dairy co-op. No way. But were there other possibilities for decentralized fuels and systems back in the day? You bet.
Biodiesel, “a renewable biofuel, a form of diesel fuel, derived from biological sources like vegetable oils, animal fats, or recycled greases” came along in 1853, right on time with all the rest of this automobile stuff. The French government thought they could manufacture it from earth-nut, which could be grown in great quantity in their African colonies.
In a 1912 speech Diesel said, "the use of vegetable oils for engine fuels may seem insignificant today but such oils may become, in the course of time, as important as petroleum and the coal-tar products of the present time."
Rudolf Diesel (1858-1913) sounds like a German but he was born in Paris. His parents were German, though, from Augsburg, Bavaria. So the problem with biodiesel was that Augsburg is not close enough to Frankfurt, if you get my meaning.
Another possibility was the use of alcohol as fuel, which has a long history you can read about in the “Timeline of alcohol fuel”. Farmers could easily turn crop waste into lamp oil and stove fuel back to Colonial times. A prototype internal-combustion engine running on alcohol came in 1826.
Seriously, skim through that whole Wikipedia page. As context I will write up some time, the Salem Witches were most certainly behind both whale oil and the Temperance Movement. You’ll either cry or want to punch someone by the end of that history. One could only imagine what could have come after two centuries of development. As neglected as the technology has been, E85 vehicles are not bad at all.
In the early history of automobile manufacturers, we also came across a number of instances where manufacturers of electric vehicles were absorbed and extinguished. You may have seen the 2006 documentary, Who Killed the Electric Car? about the life and death of the General Motors EV1. I now see it as a limited hangout. The real documentary should have been titled, Who Killed the History of the Electric Car?
You know who refused to drive a car made by Henry Ford? His wife, preferring her 1914 Detroit Electric Model 47 Brougham, Personal Car Of Clara Ford. Knowing, uh, what we’re supposed to know now about electric cars, it doesn’t even seem possible, does it? Yet there it is.
That really segues into a bigger question: just what the hell was going on in the last half of the 1800’s? That’s a general question, but we can narrow it down to transportation. You see, we’re supposed to think it was all horses and wagons and steam locomotives and sturdy walking shoes. I am not at all sure there wasn’t quite a bit more to it, and that ripping up streetcar tracks was only a tiny bit of what “They” wanted to get rid of.
My illustration comes not from land transportation at the time all this kicked off, but from ships. You may recall from your terrible public education the Civil War duel between the most advanced warships of the time, the Monitor and the Merrimack. You can read up on the hot ironclad-on-ironclad action in the Battle of Hampton Roads (1862).
Did those vessels really represent the acme of naval architecture? Not even close. Take a look at the mind-boggling SS Great Eastern, laid down in 1854, eight years before that battle. Frankly, I think it might have been built even earlier, but that’s what the mainstream will admit to.
… she was by far the largest ship ever built at the time of her 1858 launch, and had the capacity to carry 4,000 passengers from England to Australia without refueling. Her length of 692 feet (211 m) was surpassed only in 1899, by the 705-foot (215 m) 17,274-gross-ton RMS Oceanic, her gross tonnage of 18,915 was surpassed only in 1901, by the 701-foot (214 m) 20,904-gross-ton RMS Celtic and her 4,000-passenger capacity was surpassed only in 1913, by the 4,234-passenger SS Imperator.
Unimaginable. The Titanic carried merely 2,500. What I really cannot figure out is what powered her. She had one propeller, sails, and steam-driven paddle wheels. The last two were obviously retrofitted, and badly:
Setting sails turned out to be unusable at the same time as the paddles and screw were under steam, because the hot exhaust from the five (later four) funnels would set them on fire.
C’mon. They either ran out of whatever may have fuelled her originally or the mighty engine of this gargantuan vessel finally broke and could not be repaired. Who could even guess?
All this trails off into the destruction of the Tartarian Empire and a bunch of other stuff far afield from the genealogies of Salem Witches. However, it seems clear that driving around in cars was beyond unusual to people at the turn of the 20th Century, which you can hear about in the podcast:
99% Invisible | Episode 76: The Modern Moloch (4/4/2013 MP3 downloadable at that page)
And then the automobile happened. And then automobiles began killing thousands of children, every year. Much of the public viewed the car as a death machine. One newspaper cartoon even compared the car to Moloch, the god to whom the Ammonites supposedly sacrificed their children.
Thanks for reading!