As usual, just my opinion.

This is for my younger readers, supposing I have any.

My older readers may not know who Chris Pratt is.

Christopher Michael Pratt (born June 21, 1979) is an American actor. Pratt rose to prominence in the late 2000s for playing Andy Dwyer in the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation (2009–2015). He also appeared in The WB drama series Everwood (2002–2006) and had supporting roles in the films Wanted (2008), Jennifer's Body (2009), Moneyball (2011), Zero Dark Thirty (2012), and Her (2013).

So, he is becoming a big star, following in the footsteps of Ben Affleck (with whom he has a lot in common).

Benjamin Géza Affleck (born August 15, 1972) is an American actor and filmmaker. His accolades include two Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards, and three Golden Globes. Affleck began his career as a child when he starred in the PBS educational series The Voyage of the Mimi (1984–1988). He later appeared in the independent comedy Dazed and Confused (1993) and several Kevin Smith comedies, including Chasing Amy (1997).

I have not seen him in anything, so you may wonder why I am writing about him.

Well, mostly because it is so easy.

I saw his name and knew instantly where he came from.

Now you will, too.

But first to my title.

It is a double entendre, as some will have already figured out.

In British parlance, a prat is a douchebag.

Prat Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

he is a Pratt, as in from THE Pratt family.

Not just any Pratt, but A PRATT.

Some have accused me of being a mole, and the best evidence of that for them is that I know what British words like “prat” mean.

They say that a guy from Texas couldn't know and use British-isms.

Miles Mathis Interview – Library of Rickandria

Yeah, I know, really scraping, but this is all they have.

Being a reader of mine, you can probably figure out that I know these words because I have read a lot.

It is obvious I have read a lot, to anyone who reads more than about ten pages of my stuff.

I have read Dickens and Austen and Eliot and Thackeray and Scott and Tolkien and so on, so why wouldn't I know these words and usages?

But even if I hadn't, I could have gleaned them from Monty Python and Ricky Gervais and the BBC.

I also lived in Europe for three years and spent some of that time in the UK.

I had a Cirque de Soleil girlfriend for a while, and she lived outside Oxford.

I also lived in Galway for a short time.

I was painting there and thought about moving there—since I had heard artists don't pay income tax in Ireland—but it didn't work out.

And when I was living in Bruges [Belgium] many of the TV channels were British.

But back to the matter at hand.

Chris Pratt is sold in the mainstream as a nice guy and a regular Joe, with a father who remodeled houses.

I will show you piles of evidence that is not true.

Wiki actually provides the first evidence against the “nice guy” tag, since he reportedly told his high school wrestling coach that he didn't know what he was going to do when he graduated, but that

Star Salaries are Fake – Library of Rickandria

Hmmm.

Wonder how he just knew that?

Working with his dad remodeling houses?

And does that sound like a nice guy to you?

Or does it sound a bit like the biggest asshole in your high school—the guy whose father bought him a Jaguar at age 15 (on a hardship) and who did nothing but stink of privilege all day?

The reason I knew Chris Pratt's common bio was a fake is that I have recently written about the Pratts.

Ben Franklin was a Pratt, remember?

Benjamin Franklin: Premier American (British) Spook – Library of Rickandria

I showed he was related to industrialist Daniel Pratt, and he was also related to Francis Pratt, of Pratt and Whitney.

For one prominent clue, we saw the name Dorcas Pratt in both the genealogy of Ben Franklin and of Daniel Pratt.

Well, we see the name in Chris Pratt's genealogy as well.

Dorthea "Dorcus" Spellman (Pratt) (1819 - 1904) - Genealogy (geni.com)

This indicates Chris Pratt is from the same lines as the rich and famous Pratts, telling us his common bio is a wash.

It also links Chris Pratt to Ben Franklin and before that to the fake Salem Witch trials.

The Salem Witch Trials WERE FAKED – Library of Rickandria

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Not convinced? I have more for you.

Oh, by golly wow do I.

You can follow along at Geni.com.

His maternal lines are completely scrubbed, and his paternal grandmother's line is also mostly scrubbed, indicating a wash.

All we get from his mother is the name Indahl, which should probably be Lindahl.

see the chemist Tomas Lindahl.

Tomas Robert Lindahl FRS FMedSci (born 28 January 1938) is a Swedish-British scientist specializing in cancer research. In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with American chemist Paul L. Modrich and Turkish chemist Aziz Sancar for mechanistic studies of DNA repair.

Exposing the Jews – Library of Rickandria

Same with his grandmother's line, where about all we get are the names Limmer and Roses.

Both probably Jewish (Roses should be Rose, which comes from the Yiddish Royz; also see Lou Limmer).

But Pratt's paternal line is still a goldmine, and it isn't clear why they didn't scrub it as well.

I guess they think we are too stupid to take links or know what things mean when we see them.

Pratt's main paternal line comes from Norwalk, CT, same as the famous Pratts.

Several lines even come from Essex County, MA, which is Salem.

and a Salmon.

Sarah Whitney (Salmon) (1608 - 1672) - Genealogy (geni.com)

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Through the Bassetts, he is related to John Proctor's wife.

Through the Newton, he is related to the Salem prosecutor.

and so on.

Piers Legh, III (1415 - 1478) - Genealogy (geni.com)

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Pratt has a step-relationship to the Whitneys, going back to this same Salmon.

The name Salmon is just a variation of Salomon/Solomon.

Think Saloman Smith Barney.

Through the name Rogers, Pratt is related to Henry Huttleston Rogers of Standard Oil and the actor Sam Shepard—whose real name was Samuel Shepard Rogers III.

and Ayre.

William Allen (c.1615 - 1686) - Genealogy (geni.com)

Through several of these names he is linked again to the Salem Witch trials.

Pratt also descends from Kings and Jones of Wales.

Anna King (Jones) (c.1550 - c.1600) - Genealogy (geni.com)

One of these Jones was a Pembroke, although she is of course scrubbed.

Joyce Jones (Pembroke) (c.1500 - d.) - Genealogy (geni.com)

She would need to be, since Pembroke, Wales, was the birthplace of Henry VII Tudor.

Henry VII: Another Jewish Invasion of England – Library of Rickandria

The Earls of Pembroke were Tudors and then Herberts, linking us to all the top lines in the peerage, including, again, the Stanleys.

We also find Bennetts in Pratt's genealogy.

And not just any Bennett.

This was Alice Bennett, whose granddaughter married Josiah Chase III, of the famous Chase family—which also goes back to Essex County, MA.

Before the Chases hit Massachusetts, they were in Chesham, England, where Aquila Chase was married to Sarah Robinson.

Aquila's grandfather was John Bourchier, 2nd Earl of Bath, and they were related to the Barons Arundell, the Earls Buckingham *, the Earls de Vere, and the Earls Daubeney.

and Rogers, all linked closely to each other in a single genealogy.

So, do you still think Chris Pratt came from nowhere?

Pratt's wife Anna Faris is also worth peeking at.

Anna Kay Faris (/ˈɑːnə/ AH-nə;[1] born November 29, 1976)[2] is an American actress and podcaster. She rose to prominence for her work in comedic roles, particularly the lead part of Cindy Campbell in the Scary Movie film series (2000–2006).

Her mother's maiden name is not given at Wiki, indicating something being hidden.

At Geni it is given as Bathurst.

That is another name from the British peerage.

and Villiers.

They were Baronets before that, related to Morrises, Riches, Nashes, etc.

and Mainwarings.

We have confirmation that Faris is related to these peers at Ethnicelebs.com, which tells us Anna's maternal great-grandfather Bathurst was English, related to Simmons and Winchels.

The Bathursts are also related to the Simmons in the peerage, through the Beresfords and the Grahams.

This also links them to the Bloomfields, as you see at that link.

In the US the Bathursts became Hursts and then Hearsts.

So, my guess is she is closely related to the Hearsts, hence the scrubbing.

Through the peerage, she is also related to Pratt, although you have to go back to the Eyres.

Remember, Pratt descended from Ayres in Essex County.

Same thing.

I suspect there is a more recent link that has been scrubbed, showing they are cousins.

That is the normal protocol in Hollywood marriages.

STRANGE RELATIONS – Library of Rickandria

That more recent link is probably through the name Hearst, since the Hearsts are related to all the main lines in Pratt's genealogy.

I found another clue at Ethnicelebs later, when I noticed Anna Faris' paternal great-grandfather had an ancestry up at rootsweb.

He was Robert E. Lee Faris, linking him to the Lees.

Pratt is also a Leigh/Lee.

R. E. L. Faris was the great-grandson of Almeda Rice, who was the granddaughter of Spencer Rice.

Those are more clues, linking us to the same families.

Pratt is related to the Rices of Wales through the Kings and Jones.

He is related to the Spencers through all his peerage connections, including Bennett and de Vere.

We get another big clue from Pratt's bio, which tells us he was a Lutheran, but worked for Jews for Jesus.

Jews for Jesus - Wikipedia

What?

If he worked for Jews for Jesus, wouldn't that be to admit he was Jewish?

Isn't that what the words mean?

Jews for Jesus wasn't started by Lutherans, it was started by Jews.

Look it up.

It was founded by Moishe Rosen in 1973.

Do you think he is Lutheran?

This would also confirm Pratt's status as a spook, since Jews for Jesus is another spook front.

It probably comes out of CIA's Operation Chaos, which was accelerating in the early 70s.

Operation CHAOS - Wikipedia

Pratt of course continued his work for the CIA in Zero Dark Thirty.

CIA: Central Intelligence Agency – Library of Rickandria

he was born to it.

I say that Pratt has a lot in common with Ben Affleck, since Affleck is also a Whitney and a Caze/Chase.

As you can see from the pic under title, Pratt and Affleck have also taken the various superman drugs to bulk them up.

Elite’s Drug Management – Library of Rickandria

It is so common now it might be called the standard male look.

If you think they look good, that is your business, but I think they look ridiculous.

I for one have no desire to look like that.

There are some things I would change about my body if I could—like anyone else—but the last thing I want to do is look like one of these bozos.

It used to be that only porn stars looked like that, but now everyone wants to look like that.

I guess IQ 80 is in this year—next year it will be IQ 70.

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And, by the way, Affleck isn't 6'4”.

I have never seen a Hollywood actor exaggerate his height so much.

To hide this, there are no pictures of him on the internet with tall men.

Just pics with Damon, Clooney, and various ladies.

Affleck is tall for Hollywood, but that would make him about 6 feet, maybe 6'1” with shoes.

And, come to think of it, compared to Affleck, Pratt probably is a nice guy.

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Anyway, I wouldn't mind looking like Tom Selleck from the 80s, but I have no desire to look like the pumped-up PED-poppers of today, with all the fat stripped off and the veins leaping out and the toupees screaming.

Thomas William Selleck (/ˈsɛlɪk/; born January 29, 1945) is an American actor. His breakout role was playing private investigator Thomas Magnum in the television series Magnum, P.I. (1980–1988), for which he received five Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, winning in 1985. Since 2010, Selleck has co-starred as New York City Police Commissioner Frank Reagan in the series Blue Bloods. From 2005–2015, he portrayed troubled small-town police chief Jesse Stone in nine television films based on the Robert B. Parker novels.

Speaking of Selleck, I just found out he is a Jagger.

His mom is a Jagger.

They will tell you that doesn't mean he is related to Mick, but I bet he is.

For starters, if Tom's Jaggers don't go back to the Jaggers of the British peerage, why is Tom's mother scrubbed at Geni?

Do you really think Tom doesn't know who his grandmother is?

At Wikitree, they take the Jaggers back a bit further.

We find them in England in the late 1800s.

Tom's great-grandfather was born in England.

Sort of contradicts Wikipedia, which tells us Tom is an 11th generation American.

Not in his mother's line, he isn't.

and the Kelloggs.

Selleck Genealogy | WikiTree FREE Family Tree

This links us to the Salem Witch hoax several more times.

James Sands : Family tree by frebault - Geneanet

So, although Tom is a great-looking guy, taller than Ben Affleck, he didn't get where he went just on his looks.

That was part of it, but a bigger part was family.

Do you know why I used a pic of Selleck without the mustache?

Look closely.

He wore the mustache so that you wouldn't notice he looked like some other famous person that he was probably related to.

Who?

Think about it and then see below.

It's in the mouth, which is why Selleck wore the mustache.

Selleck has a great mouth, so he wasn't hiding anything with the mustache.

I think he was hiding his close kinship with the Kennedys.

THE HIDDEN KING(S): Camelot Ruled from the Cave of Merlin – Library of Rickandria

That's probably why his mother's side is scrubbed.

If it weren't, we would find the Kennedys there.

Looks like JFK was Gay & other interesting news – Library of Rickandria

If you aren't convinced, remind yourself of a couple of other things.

JFK, Jr. straightened his hair after his teens.

Like Selleck, he had very full curly hair.

Also remind yourself that JFK, Jr. really looks nothing like his alleged father.

He looks far more like Selleck than he does JFK.

Still don't believe me?

the Jaggers in the peerage are related to the Kennedys in the peerage.

and Warrens.

And are you ready for it? . . . they are also related to the Pratts.

The Jaggers are also related to the Bouveries.

Does that look familiar?

It should, since it is just a variation of Bouvier.

They are both in the peerage, but Bouvier is the French spelling while Bouverie is the English spelling.

The Jaggers are also related to the Berties, and through them to the Fitzgeralds.

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Later I discovered strange confirmation of my Selleck/Kennedy link.

I was watching an episode of Friends (season 9, episode 4), and you will remember that in season 2 Selleck played Monica's older boyfriend Richard.

Well, by season 9, Monica is married to Chandler, but Richard comes up occasionally in conversation, especially when Chandler is jealous.

In this episode, we find that Chandler used to pretend to be a Kennedy in order to get dates.

Chandler jokes to Monica that at least Richard never did that, and Monica tells us that Richard was actually a Kennedy on his mother's side.

Wow.

Knowing what we now know, we see that the scriptwriters or producers have inserted this clue here, knowing you won't be able to read it.

It is an inside joke, since Selleck, the actor playing Richard, is a Kennedy on his mother's side.

Also tying is here is that Jennifer Aniston's character is Rachel Green.

We just saw above that Selleck is descended from Greens in real life.

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I was watching reruns of Magnum PI when I noticed the ring he wears.

They focus on it in the pilot.

Then I noticed it is also in the background in the opening credits.

If you look closely, his Navy pals Rick and TC are also wearing it.

We are told it is not a Navy ring, but a ring the three friends created themselves.

However, that is just a cover story, since the ring actually ties into what I have just discovered about Selleck's genealogy, and the genealogy of all those in Hollywood.

STRANGE RELATIONS – Library of Rickandria

That is a Cross of Lorraine, also known as a Patriarchal Cross, but if we search on that we find something very interesting.

You may know that that cross was used by the Free French at the end of WWII, including by Charles de Gaulle.

But you may not know that it was most famously used by the Jagiellon dynasty in Poland, which later took over the crowns of many other European countries, including Sweden and England.

Thrones infiltrated – Library of Rickandria

We have seen them come up over and over, since I showed they were crypto-Jewish, linked to the Vasas and Radziwills.

The cross is also one of the symbols of Hungary, and that is because it was used by Bela III (Arpad), King of Hungary from 1172 to 1196.

He married Maria Komnenos, daughter of the Byzantine Emperor, linking us to that name as well.

The Kings of Hungary were thereafter also Komnenes.

His daughter Margaret became the Byzantine Empress when she married Isaac II Angelos.

His son was Andrew of Jerusalem.

His granddaughter was St. Elizabeth.

The Arpads/Komnenos of Hungary are actually the same as the later Jagiellons, since—as now—the rulers of Europe were one big family.

You can see this most clearly with Louis the Great of Hungary, king from 1342-1382, since his maternal uncle was Casimir III of Poland.

Casimir's granddaughter Anna of Cilli married Wladyslaw II Jagiello, giving us an easy link between the Komnenos and the Jagiellons.

We have since discovered that all the ruling families of Europe were crypto-Phoenician back to the beginning, but the Jagiellons/Komnenos were an especially pure and powerful line hailing back to Roman times.

ROME – Library of Rickandria

Selleck is linked to them via several of the biggest British peerage lines we looked at above.

You may ask why crypto-Jews would be using a Christian symbol, and it is because in this context the symbol has nothing to do with Christ on the cross.

Christian Program & Purpose – Library of Rickandria

That should be pretty obvious, since there is no reason for a Christian cross to be double barred.

Christ didn't have four arms, did he?

It is a big question, but to get you started, you should know that in Phoenician, the cross was the letter T, and that it was used to denote the god Tammuz, consort of Ishtar.

Phoenicians: ANCIENT SPOOKS – Library of Rickandria

His Semitic and Greek name was Adonis.

Like Christ, he was associated with shepherds, and also like Christ he died and was resurrected.

The Truth About “Jesus Christ” – Library of Rickandria

The use of this cross in Magnum looks to me like a pointer to Adonis, since Selleck is obviously being sold as an Adonis figure.

But it also looks like the brandishing of a family heirloom, by which the producers are flashing a sign to those in the know that Selleck is indeed of the Families.

It is also worth knowing that, according to the TV records, Thomas Magnum was a Seal and was also ONI, Office of Naval Intelligence.

So, he was officially a spook.

As for Selleck himself, we are told he was drafted in 1967, but for some reason went into the National Guard.

We aren't told why he wasn't drafted earlier, since he turned 18 in 1963, four years earlier.

He dropped out of college in 1965 and wasn't married.

So, he either had the Hollywood or Kennedy exemption, I guess.

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But let's move on.

I have said before I can't watch new movies anymore, and this is just one more reason why.

I can't look past all these freakazoid bodies in Hollywood, male and female.

I find it truly frightening.

I mean, these aren't poor laboratory testcases, trying the new experimental drugs for food money.

These are the sons and daughters of American royalty, physically ruining themselves in slow motion onscreen for a bit of attention.

Some may find a modicum of entertainment in watching these jerks destruct, but I can't partake in the fun there, either.

I don't go to TV or cinema for that.

I like fiction as much as the next guy, and don't mind my share of mindless entertainment. . . which means I prefer the older Hollywood model of hiring people that were actually handsome or charming.

Can't they find those anymore?

Have all the old Jewish families completely worn themselves out in that regard?

If so, they need to regroup.

The eugenics is failing.

For example, Christopher Reeve in the first Superman of the franchise (1978) was Keanu-flat as an actor, but for me he was still watchable.

Christopher D'Olier Reeve[1] (September 25, 1952 – October 10, 2004) was an American actor, film director, author, and activist, best known for playing the title character in the film Superman (1978) and its three sequels. Born in New York City and raised in Princeton, New Jersey, Reeve discovered a passion for acting and theater at the age of nine. He studied at Cornell University and the Juilliard School, making his Broadway debut in 1976. After his acclaimed performances in Superman and Superman II, Reeve declined many roles in action movies, choosing instead to work in small films and plays with more complex characters. He later appeared in critically successful films such as Somewhere in Time (1980), The Bostonians (1984), Street Smart (1987), and The Remains of the Day (1993), and in the plays Fifth of July on Broadway and The Aspern Papers in London's West End.

At least he didn't come off as a rich-boy twat in a cape (although he was).

He could somehow play sweet and naïve.

Those two adjectives have since been wiped from the dictionary.

The only leading man I can think of with any charm now is Ryan Reynolds, but he was better before going beefcake.

Ryan Rodney Reynolds OBC (born October 23, 1976) is a Canadian and American actor, producer, and businessman. He began his career starring in the Canadian teen soap opera Hillside (1991–1993) and had minor roles before landing the lead role on the sitcom Two Guys and a Girl between 1998 and 2001. Reynolds then starred in a range of films, including the comedies National Lampoon's Van Wilder (2002), Waiting... (2005), and The Proposal (2009), and the superhero films Blade: Trinity (2004) and Green Lantern (2011). He provided voice acting in The Croods franchise (2013–2020) and Turbo (2013).

I found him more charming in his old Two Guys and Girl body, before he hit the steroids.

Beyond him, the current landscape is a wasteland.

I thought I had this all wrapped up and went to watch the Rockford Files to unwind.

On a lark, I looked up the always charming James Garner.

James Scott Garner (né Bumgarner; April 7, 1928 – July 19, 2014) was an American actor. He played leading roles in more than 50 theatrical films, which included The Great Escape (1963) with Steve McQueen; Paddy Chayefsky's The Americanization of Emily (1964) with Julie Andrews; Cash McCall (1960) with Natalie Wood; The Wheeler Dealers (1963) with Lee Remick; Darby's Rangers (1958) with Stuart Whitman; Roald Dahl's 36 Hours (1965) with Eva Marie Saint; as a Formula 1 racing star in Grand Prix (1966); Raymond Chandler's Marlowe (1969) with Bruce Lee; Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969) with Walter Brennan; Blake Edwards's Victor/Victoria (1982) with Julie Andrews; and Murphy's Romance (1985) with Sally Field, for which he received an Academy Award nomination. He also starred in several television series, including popular roles such as Bret Maverick in the ABC 1950s Western series Maverick and as Jim Rockford in the NBC 1970s private detective show, The Rockford Files.

We are told that Garner was born Bumgarner, although that is probably Baumgartner.

But what got me in was his mother, Mildred Scott Meek.

That links us to. . . yep, Chris Pratt.

You probably figured out Pratt was related to Chevy Chase (Cornelius Crane Chase) and some others, but I doubt you linked him immediately to James Garner.

In fact, you couldn't have, because it takes some keen work at thepeerage, work you are unlikely to have done.

As it turns out, the Meeks are in the peerage, related to the Scotts.

and so on.

It all started when Isobel Meek married the 1st, Baronet Clifton.

She was one of seven wives of this Baronet, others being an Eyre, a Stanley, a Devereux, and a Clifford.

and so on.

This links us to Pratt in several lines.

Amusingly, it also links us to Jennifer Aniston.

Aniston is descended from the Hoares.

Remember Dorcas Hoare, of Salem.

And note the name Dorcas, as in Dorcas Pratt.

So, you see that once again all the big-name actors are related.

What I Finally Understood – Library of Rickandria

They all come from these very wealthy families, most of them hailing back to Salem and before that to the upper reaches of the British peerage.

I now think of them as a hidden American peerage.

Some have called Hollywood celebrities a sort of American royalty, but as it turns out that is literally what they are.

These crypto-Jewish families are a covert American nobility, closely tied to their relatives in the overt British peerage.

So next time you read that a British or American actor is from working-class roots or modest means, don't believe it.

I have never once found it to be true.

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two things to add.

One, curious that there was a flurry of news items on the Pratt and Faris separation the day after this paper was published.

Anna Faris breaks silence on Chris Pratt split: 'I made (mistakes)' (usatoday.com)

Just a coincidence, right?

Two, my reader and guest writer Kevin did some more research on Pratt.

Ephraim Kempton (1708-1749) Ephraim Kempton (1674-1758) married to Patience Faunce (1673-1779).

Faunce's mother was a Nelson whose father married a Ford.

Her paternal grandfather married a Morton, daughter of Juliana Carpenter.

Ephraim Kempton (1649-1712) married a Reeves.

Ephraim Kempton (1623-1655) married a Rawlins.

Ephraim Kempton (1582-1645) married a Wilson.

The original Ephraim immigrated from Essex, England, and settled in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

By the time of the third Ephraim the family had relocated to Salem, Massachusetts.

James Murray Kempton,12/16/17 – 5/5/97 (above), was an American journalist and social and political commentator.

Kempton was born in Baltimore, the son of Sally Ambler and James Branson Kempton, a stockbroker.

Kempton's father died of influenza shortly after his birth, leaving the family in financial straits.

(Oh no, boo-hoo, here we go again.)

Murray Kempton’s paternal line is mostly unavailable, so there is no way to definitively link him to Chris Pratt’s Kemptons.

However, according to Wikipedia, Murray Kempton, whose family was in financial straits, entered Johns Hopkins in 1935, where he was editor-in-chief of the John Hopkins Newsletter.

After graduation in 1939 he joined the staff of the New York Post.

Two years later in 1941 in penned a pamphlet titled “Socialism Now!”

Eugene Debs: Secret Agent Man – Library of Rickandria

The current drive to militarize America cannot be confused with real anti-fascism.

America: Death by Design – Library of Rickandria

Those who now press it look forward to an empire built on the hunger and repression inherent in an economy of armaments and extending its deep control in Latin America.

They work with desperate speed to save the privileges of a society in decline with a new model fascist army.

An American military state dedicated to the preservation of the obsolete social order is actually the deadly enemy of European anti-fascism.

Should the United States go to war against Hitler, our own labor and Socialist movement would fall as first victims.

Hitler’s Genealogy – Library of Rickandria

Despite the flowery rhetoric, Murray Kempton served in U.S. Army Air Forces during WWII.

He rejoined the New York Post in 1949 as labor editor.

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the war ended in 1945, so where was he from 1945-49?

the CIA was founded in 1946.

Kempton was a “great friend” of Bill Buckley.

Buckley is now admitted having been CIA.

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Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties was a farewell to his youthful Communism.

Reading the Signs – Today’s Lesson: Karl Marx – Library of Rickandria

He left the New York Post only to return again in 1977 after it was bought by Rupert Murdoch. 

Murray Kempton’s mother was Sally Ambler.

John Ambler, son of Edward Ambler, of Jamestown, Virginia, went to Philadelphia to school, and in 1782 fell heir to Jamestown Island and all the other great estates of his parents.

He served in the legislature at twenty-one and was the captain of a cavalry troop of James City County.

He removed to Richmond in 1807 and was made major of the Nineteenth Regiment of Virginia Militia, commanding the troops which were sent to Norfolk at the time of the attack on the Chesapeake; afterwards was made colonel of the Nineteenth Regiment of state troops and served in the war of 1812.

He was one of the jury members that tried Aaron Burr for treason.

Aaron Burr Jr. (February 6, 1756 – September 14, 1836) was an American politician, businessman, lawyer, and Founding Father who served as the third vice president of the United States from 1801 to 1805 during Thomas Jefferson's first presidential term. He founded the Manhattan Company on September 1, 1799. Burr is remembered for his famous personal and political conflict with Alexander Hamilton, which culminated in the Burr–Hamilton duel in Weehawken, New Jersey, on July 11, 1804. Burr mortally wounded Hamilton, who died from his wounds the following day.

Thomas Jefferson: Part One – Library of Rickandria

He died April 8, 1836, and was buried in Shockoe Cemetery, Richmond.

John Ambler was also first cousin of Mary Willis Ambler, wife of Chief Justice John Marshall. 

As a son of George Mason, a Founding Father of the United States, Mason was the scion of the prominent Mason political family.

George Mason (December 11, 1725 [O.S. November 30, 1725] – October 7, 1792) was an American planter, politician, Founding Father, and delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787, where he was one of three delegates who refused to sign the Constitution. His writings, including substantial portions of the Fairfax Resolves of 1774, the Virginia Declaration of Rights of 1776, and his Objections to this Constitution of Government (1787) opposing ratification, have exercised a significant influence on American political thought and events. The Virginia Declaration of Rights, which Mason principally authored, served as a basis for the United States Bill of Rights, of which he has been deemed a father.

Through the Randolphs, Murray Kempton is related to the Carters and Morgans.

He is also related to the Hearsts through the same Randolphs, Miles, possibly confirming your guess above.

Chris Pratt is a Kempton, and the Kemptons definitely are related to the Hearsts, so Pratt is related to the Hearsts.

Whether Anna Faris is also one through the Bathursts, I did not try to confirm.

Princess Margaretha, Mrs. Ambler, (Margaretha Désirée Victoria; born Halloween 31 October 1934) is a Swedish princess, the eldest sister of King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden and also first cousin of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark.

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They are Saxe-Coburg Gothas, like the current Kings and Queens of England.

They are also—in a direct maternal line—Jagiellons.

See Anne of Bohemia and Hungary.

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She met her future husband, the businessman John Ambler, ten years her elder, at a dinner party in the United Kingdom in 1963 and their engagement was announced on 28 February 1964.

They were married on 30 June 1964, in Gärdslösa Church, on the island of Öland.

The Princess wore a wedding gown from the Stockholm couture school, Märtaskolan, where she had previously been a student, and a traditional wedding crown from Öland.

John Kenneth Ambler (6/6/24 – 5/31/08)

For many years John Ambler was a director of Atlas Express Ltd (which provided nationwide parcel delivery services) and managing director of Atlas Air Express.

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also see Eric Clifford Ambler, Lt. Colonel and spy novelist.

Parents scrubbed.

Probably related to these people as well as the Cliffords of the peerage.

See for example the 3rd Baronet, Sir Robert Cavendish Spencer Clifford, whose mother was a Townshend.

Also see the Clifford-Turners and Clifford-Butlers.

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another reader wrote in to tell me that Kevin and I missed Murray Kempton's daughter, who also has red flags all over her.

I note the addition of the name Kempton in Kevin's addendum in the Pratt article and can't help but think of well-known yoga teacher Sally Kempton (daughter of Murray) of whom it was said had a bright journalistic career going until her brain turned to mush when she ran after the yogi Muktananda.

Muktananda—another project right in line with other snake oil salesmen (Sri Chinmoy, Swami Rama, Yogi Bhajan) brought to America to bastardize and pollute the sacred wisdom of the east and lure young people away from revolutionary ideals and notions.

I have a friend who told me back in the 90s that the CIA brought these gurus to college campuses to dilute any anti-establishment exuberance and turn them to meditation instead.

I know this is not news to you or your readers, but you may like the confirmation.

It seems so obvious now with 20/20 hindsight that Sally was assigned.

She held nothing back in claiming that Muktananda and his successor Guru Mayi were both enlightened, which is a complete joke.

My friend mentioned above said that Muktananda had all the signs of schizophrenia.

According to the records, Kempton,

Muktananda's ashram.

Home - Leaving Siddha Yoga

One such person is Sally Kempton, a long-term American devotee of Gurumayi.

In 1974, she left a promising career as a journalist to join the ashram.

Kempton, the daughter of the Newsday columnist Murray Kempton, had a reputation as an acerbic essayist for such publications as Esquire and the Village Voice.

In April 1976, New York magazine published a piece of hers, entitled,

in which she described Muktananda holding court in a mansion in Pasadena, California, in 1974, with a big crowd of people paying tribute to him with flowers and fruit as he touched their heads with a wand of peacock feathers.

the sixty-six-year-old guru seemed to her to radiate a boyish insouciance, and to be,

His answer-

Soon, Kempton wrote, she stopped enjoying cigarettes, even though she had been a smoker since the age of thirteen and had had no particular wish to quit.

She also began needing far less sleep, and she rarely got annoyed at things that would have bothered her a lot in the past.

A couple of weeks after that first encounter, she was formally introduced to Muktananda, and three months after that, in Denver, she joined his tour.

The New York article on Muktananda was one of Kempton's last pieces as a popular magazine writer.

By the time it came out, she had joined Muktananda's entourage; she has been a full-time member of his organization ever since, and in 1982 she became a swami and was given the spiritual name Durgananda.

Her defection was a minor cause celebre in the small world of New York journalism.

Cause célèbre - Wikipedia

Ross Wetzsteon, a former editor of hers at the Voice, told me that he believes that her immersion in Siddha Yoga diminished her.

this was a common arc for the children of top spooks in the second half of the 20th century.

See for example the children of James Jesus Angleton, number two spook at the CIA in the 1960s.

James Jesus Angleton (December 9, 1917 – May 11, 1987) was an American intelligence operative who served as chief of the counterintelligence department of the Central Intelligence Agency from 1954 to 1975. According to Director of Central Intelligence Richard Helms, Angleton was "recognized as the dominant counterintelligence figure in the non-communist world".

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Think Lindsey Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac.

Lindsey Adams Buckingham (born October 3, 1949) is an American musician, record producer, and the lead guitarist and co-lead vocalist of the rock band Fleetwood Mac from 1975 to 1987 and 1997 to 2018. In addition to his tenure with Fleetwood Mac, Buckingham has released seven solo studio albums and three live albums. As a member of Fleetwood Mac, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998. Buckingham was ranked 100th in Rolling Stone's 2011 list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". Buckingham is known for his fingerpicking guitar style.

and a Montgomery.

So, he is definitely from the peerage and definitely related to these folks.

Lindsey's mother is an Elliot, and his 2g-grandfather was Thomas Hugh Buckingham (d. 1898) of Devonshire, England.

Well, if we check the peerage, we find that Reginald Buckingham married Florence Elliot in 1923. 

Reginald's parents are not given.

A contemporary of Reginald, Raymond Buckingham, married a Cooper, daughter of a Warren. 

and a Perry.

These Buckinghams were from Devon, which, last time I looked, was in Devonshire.

Also see Teresa Hyne Buckingham who married Ian Wallace of that Ilk in 1963.

So, the Buckinghams were marrying the Elliots and Wallaces on both sides of the pond.

Another link to the people above is the name Villiers.

Remember, Anna Faris was a Bathurst, related to the Villiers.

Well, the Villiers were the Dukes of Buckingham.

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More support of this comes from the history of Fleetwood Mac, which was started by neither Mick Fleetwood nor the McVies, but by Peter Green (originally Greenbaum).

Peter Allen Greenbaum (29 October 1946 – 25 July 2020), known professionally as Peter Green, was an English blues rock singer-songwriter and guitarist. As the founder of Fleetwood Mac, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998. Green founded Fleetwood Mac in 1967 after a stint in John Mayall's Bluesbreakers and quickly established the new band as a popular live act in addition to a successful recording act, before departing in 1970. Green's songs, such as "Albatross", "Black Magic Woman", "Oh Well", "The Green Manalishi (With the Two Prong Crown)" and "Man of the World", appeared on singles charts, and several have been adapted by a variety of musicians.

Another founding member was Jeremy Spencer.

Note the last name.

They were all English.

Only Buckingham and Nicks were American.

American “Empire” – Library of Rickandria

So how did they later latch on to Buckingham?

That has always been a bit of a mystery.

Well, they were all related through the peerage.

Still don't believe me?

Look up Danny Kirwan, who was the guitarist for Fleetwood Mac from 1968-72.

Daniel David Kirwan (né Langran, 13 May 1950 – 8 June 2018) was a British musician and guitarist, singer and songwriter with the blues-rock band Fleetwood Mac between 1968 and 1972. He released three albums as a solo artist from 1975 to 1979, recorded albums with Otis Spann, Chris Youlden, and Tramp, and worked with former Fleetwood Mac colleagues Jeremy Spencer and Christine McVie on some of their solo projects. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Fleetwood Mac in 1998.

Also, Mick Taylor, who was on the periphery of all this.

Michael Kevin Taylor (born 17 January 1949) is an English guitarist, best known as a former member of John Mayall's Bluesbreakers (1967–1969) and the Rolling Stones (1969–1974). As a member of the Stones, he appeared on Let It Bleed (1969), Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! The Rolling Stones in Concert (1970), Sticky Fingers (1971), Exile on Main St. (1972), Goats Head Soup (1973) and It's Only Rock 'n Roll (1974).

He had been in John Mayall's Bluesbreakers and the Rolling Stones.

Well, if you search on the Kirwans at thepeerage.com, you find they were closely related to the Taylors.

See the Kirwan-Taylors, which tells you just how closely they were related.

They were also closely related to the Richards (think Keith Richards) and the Clarkes (Dave Clark Five?).

and Fitzgeralds (Dukes of Leinster).

Remember, actress Naomi Watts' father was a manager for Pink Floyd—and those boys were all from the peerage as well.

As for the Taylors, the 80s band Duran Duran was also composed of Taylors—and a Rhodes.

But back to the Taylors.

We also find a Waters-Taylor in the peerage.

Curiously, he is completely scrubbed, with no indication why he is a peer.

He is just a stub.

But of course, that links us back to Pink Floyd, and Roger Waters.

George Roger Waters (born 6 September 1943) is an English musician and singer-songwriter. In 1965, he co-founded the rock band Pink Floyd as the bassist. Following the departure of the songwriter, Syd Barrett, in 1968, Waters became Pink Floyd's lyricist, co-lead vocalist and conceptual leader until his departure in 1985.

He is closely related to all these same people.

Roger's dad is given as Eric Fletcher Waters at Wikipedia, supposedly a coal miner and Communist Party member.

Reading the Signs – Today’s Lesson: Karl Marx – Library of Rickandria

Yeah, right.

Unfortunately for that story, there is an Eric Fletcher Waters listed in the peerage, b. 1914.

Roger Waters was born in 1943.

The Eric Fletcher Waters in the peerage is supposed to have died in 1944, killed in action in Anzio, Italy.

You make the call.

Actually, thepeerage.com makes the call for us.

Roger Waters is listed as a peer, and his father is listed as the Eric Fletcher Waters we just looked at.

I will be told Waters is listed due to his wife, who was a Dundas through her mother, but I find that dundas, I mean dubious.

Why?

Because of all the other Waters in the peerage.

Did Abigail Waters, b. 1683, get into the peerage through the Dundases?

No, she married a Cleveland from Woburn, MA, which is about five miles from Salem.

They are descended from the Daniels of Salem and the Sargents, Hopes, and Walters of Bath. 

Also, to the Nashes of Ipswich.

and the Turners.

Through the Scotts, they are related to the Murrays, Lords of Elibank.

Through the Pagets they are related to the Fanes (Earls of Westmorland) and the Huck-Saunders.

Through the Earls of Westmorland, they are related to the Gordons, the Berties (see above, related to the Jaggers), and basically everyone else in the peerage.

Still not getting it?

Let's look at David Gilmour through the name Gilmour in the peerage.

David Jon Gilmour CBE (/ˈɡɪlmɔːr/ GHIL-mor; born 6 March 1946) is an English guitarist, singer and songwriter who is a member of the rock band Pink Floyd. He joined in 1967, shortly before the departure of the founder member Syd Barrett. By the early 1980s, Pink Floyd had become one of the highest-selling and most acclaimed acts in music history. Following the departure of Roger Waters in 1985, Pink Floyd continued under Gilmour's leadership and released three more studio albums.

David was born in Cambridge, his mother was a Wilson, and his wife was a Hasenbein.

His mother worked as a film editor for the BBC and his father was a professor at Cambridge.

Anyway, the Gilmours in the peerage are related to the Lamberts.

We just saw them, related to the Kirwan-Taylors.

The Gilmours are the Barons of Craigmillar, and they are closely related to the Scotts, Dukes of Buccleuch.

Specifically, to Montagu Douglas Scott, 8th Duke.

We just saw both those names with Roger Waters, didn't we?

So those two guys are probably related, which may explain their testy relationship.

The Gilmours are also related to the Murrays, and we just saw them as well.

and Hamiltons.

Also, to the Gordons and Montagus (Dukes of Manchester).

and Fitzgeralds.

Just saw them as well, related to the Jaggers and Taylors.

Through the Gordons, they are related to the Carnegies and Walters.

Since the Walters are related to the Waters—and it may just be a variant spelling—we have another link between Waters and Gilmour.

The Gilmours are also related to the Kings and Shepherds, which will interest my regular readers.

The Gilmours are also related to the Pagets, which links us to the Waters yet again.

Also, to the Beresfords and Grants, ditto.

So, we can gain more insight into the feud between Waters and Gilmour.

Although Waters is older and was in the band first, it appears Gilmour may have always outranked him outside the band.

In support of this, we see that Gilmour is now CBE—Commander of the British Empire—a sort of lesser knight—while Waters is not.

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But back to Lindsey Buckingham.

and Hamiltons.

Through the Hamiltons he is related to Waters and Gilmour.

Through the Shepherds, he is related to the Gilmours again.

Through the Montgomeries he is related to the Waters again.

and everyone else.

Buckingham's relationship with Stevie Nicks is also peculiar.

Stephanie Lynn Nicks (born May 26, 1948) is an American singer-songwriter known for her work with the band Fleetwood Mac and as a solo artist.

At Wiki we are told they started a romantic relationship after both left the band Fritz after five years.

They had known one another before that, so they had “just been friends” for at least six years.

So, we are supposed to believe they knew each other from age 16 to age 22, say, and had never once thought of hooking up?

In the late 1960s?

As a het male, I have to say I have never had a relationship like that.

Not even close.

I know if I am attracted to someone within the first hours, and I either pursue it or don't.

I don't wait around six years.

Very shy or awkward people may take a while to jell, but Buckingham and Nicks don't strike me that way.

from the cradle, and people like that are normally capable of making things happen.

Also not really believable is that Buckingham allegedly invited Nicks to join Fritz as a second vocalist.

Although he wasn't sleeping with her at the time.

The only reason I can think of that anyone would invite Nicks to be a vocalist is to sleep with her.

At that age she was pretty hot, but she never had a voice.

Her songwriting abilities turned out to be pretty good— assuming she actually wrote any of that material—and her voice became “distinctive” later on, but in her teens no one would have pegged her as a vocalist.

So, as usual, the story we are told doesn't scan very well.

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It also links him to the Redgraves.

pratt.pdf (mileswmathis.com)

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Chris Pratt is… well, a Pratt (basecamp.com)

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Chris Pratt is… well, a Pratt – Library of Rickandria