What is a shadow ticket? - Travel Stack Exchange

J Tracy brook7 at sover.net
Wed Apr 9 18:47:46 UTC 2025


Through the head.  As testified by American Doctors in Gaza who’ve seen the corpses, Israeli snipers target children of any age aiming at head or chest.  

As far as anti-semitism, According to genetic tests the average Palestinian is significantly more ethnically semitic than the average Israeli.  

> On Apr 9, 2025, at 11:55 AM, J Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
> 
> 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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