What is a shadow ticket? - Travel Stack Exchange

J Tracy brook7 at sover.net
Wed Apr 9 15:55:46 UTC 2025


Now we have Israeli gangsters beating up non-violent anti- Zionist Jews in Jerusalem and shooting Palestinian children through thread to steal their land. So much fucking moral progress. 
For something interesting to read about Jewish gangsters, Try https://unlimitedhangout.com/2025/04/investigative-series/one-label-under-blackmail-the-early-intersections-of-diddy-and-the-epstein-network/  co written with Whitney Webb,  or her larger volume the United States of Blackmail.

> On Apr 9, 2025, at 5:52 AM, matthew cissell <mccissell at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Eric,
> 
> Maybe instead of getting the term from somewhere (think "Inherent Vice")
> the words just clicked. For example, I was poking around after your link
> and I saw an add for First Shadow Tickets. It's actually tickets for
> something called The First Shadow (from Stranger Things, apparently) but if
> you just see Shadow Ticket it makes you wonder what that could be. It has
> overtones of Shadow Governments and secretive things. Or is it a ticket to
> see The Shadow?
> 
> Judging from the blurb, it seems like TP has been channeling my reading
> list. Months ago I read about Jewish gangsters beating up Nazis and I knew
> that I needed the full story. And it happened in Minneapolis.
> 
>  Brief summary for the curious - East Coast Judge Nathan Perlman was not
> happy about the increasingly vocal and aggressive US Nazis (German American
> Bund), but what could he do? He called Meyer Lansky and framed the problem.
> Meyer responded that he and his people would do what they could, and for
> free. Word got west to Dave Berman in Minneapolis; he was informed that the
> Silver Shirts (mustered by William Dudley Pelley) were having a rally at
> the Elk's Lodge. Dave and his boys got there early and waited. When they
> heard Pelley talk about removing the "Jew bastards", the clubs came out and
> the brass-knuckles were employed. (This scene in my head has elements of
> Tarantino. Is TP too much of a hippie to enjoy this historical tidbit? Am I
> bad if I do?) Silver Shirts went crimson quickly. Dave made a public
> announcement that next time would be worse. Sadly, they had to break up two
> more meetings. But only two. There were no more after that.
>      (The above anecdote and information comes from *Augie's Secrets: The
> Minneapolis Mob and the King of the Hennepin Strip*. From this wonderful
> book, I learned that back in the day the point spread for gambling was
> the *Green
> Sheet* "the Torah of bookmakers". This was operated and backed by Billy
> Hecht and Leo Hirshfield. In 1947 *Collier's Magazine* referred to it as
> "one of the most intricate businesses in the world." It's a book well worth
> reading.)
> 
> In Solidarity
> mc otis
> 
> On Wed, Apr 9, 2025 at 10:52 AM Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
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