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In this episode of Gangland Wire, retired Kansas City Police Intelligence Unit detective Gary Jenkins sits down with Charles Bufalino, a relative of notorious Mafia boss Russell Bufalino. What begins as a family history discussion quickly expands into one of the most enduring mysteries in organized crime—the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa. Charles recounts how, in 2011, he uncovered information that unexpectedly tied his own family to the Hoffa case. That discovery set him on a path of research that ultimately led to his upcoming book, Revelations of a Mafia Family, the Teamsters, and the Final Resting Place of Jimmy Hoffa, scheduled for release April 28. While he stops short of revealing his conclusions, he makes clear that his findings point toward new insights into Hoffa's fate. The conversation provides a detailed look at the Bufalino family's Sicilian roots and their migration to Pennsylvania's coal regions. Charles explains how these immigrant communities, bound by kinship and necessity, became intertwined with labor struggles, violence, and early organized crime. The discussion highlights the 1902 anthracite coal strike and the broader environment that allowed criminal networks to gain influence within unions and local industries. Gary and Charles examine Russell Bufalino's rise from these beginnings into a respected and highly effective Mafia figure. Known more for his discretion and organizational skill than overt violence, Bufalino developed a reputation as a trusted “utility man” across multiple crime families, including connections in Detroit and Buffalo. His ability to navigate alliances and maintain loyalty made him a quiet but powerful force within the national Mafia structure. The episode also explores the transition from coal and labor rackets into the trucking industry and the Teamsters Union, a shift that significantly expanded organized crime's reach and profitability. Charles offers personal reflections on his family, including his relationship with Bill Bufalino, and describes the dual nature of their lives—family men on one side, deeply connected to organized crime on the other. As the discussion turns back to Jimmy Hoffa, Gary and Charles analyze longstanding theories and newer leads regarding his disappearance. Charles suggests that his forthcoming book will provide a more definitive perspective on Hoffa's final resting place, adding another layer to a mystery that has persisted for decades. This episode delivers both historical depth and personal insight, offering listeners a closer look at how family loyalty, organized crime, and American labor history intersect—along with a compelling preview of potential new answers in the Hoffa case. Hit me up on Venmo for a cup of coffee or a shot and a beer @ganglandwire Click here to “buy me a cup of coffee” Subscribe to the website for weekly notifications about updates and other Mob information. To go to the store or make a donation or rent Ballot Theft: Burglary, Murder, Coverup, click here To rent ‘Brothers against Brothers’ or ‘Gangland Wire,’ the documentaries click here.  To purchase one of my books, click here. Transcript Charles Bufalino [00:00:00] hey, are you wire tappers out there? Good to be back here in studio of Gangland Wire. This is Gary Jenkins. You know I’m a retired Kansas City, Missouri Police Intelligence unit. Officer and I I worked a mob for a long time and now I’m still studying the mob. And today we have a a descendant of one of the more famous mob names in the United States Russell Buffalino This is Charles Buffalino Welcome Charles. Thank you. And I’m actually not a descendant of Russell, but I’m a an extended family member of his right. Basically I never wanted to write a book about our family until and I still didn’t after, after it occurred in 2011 that I stumbled across three pieces of information that all aligned on the theme of the Hoffa disappearance and its relationship to. Several extended members of my family and there are three things about, there were three little revelations that I experienced, and I don’t really want to go into detail about them now because they’re [00:01:00] all in the book, and frankly, that’s proprietary information for right now until April 28th when the book comes out. But when I got to the third one it really hit me like a shot that. I knew something about the Hoffa disappearance and my family’s relationship to it that nobody was ever really meant to know. And it bothered me just a little bit and I tried to dismiss it and I went away from it for a couple of days and I thought, this is still bothering me. So I’m gonna find out a little bit more about the Hoffa disappearance so I can dismiss this suspicion, right? So I’m searching on the web and I’m pretty sure the source that I found, it doesn’t matter. This is pretty common knowledge. The source that I found though was from the UCLA magazine, 1984 or sometime in that timeframe. And it detailed what the FBI was doing in the [00:02:00] aftermath of Hoffa’s disappearance in 1975. And what they did, the presumption that they made was that Hoffa had been cremated, and that’s a story that you may hear. That’s a story you have heard from. I have Ken Lama. Yeah, he got that from Russ himself. So they took that theory to Bagnas Go’s funeral home in Detroit, which whose clientele had been some of the members on the FBI’s watch list over the years. And Bagnas said, look, we don’t have a crematory. They then went to a place called Central Sanitation. Is that, does that ring any bells for you? Central sanitation was Zy Vitale’s place Peter Vitali. Yeah. Who was a member of the Detroit Partnership, right? He had two such enterprises. This was the second one of them. And when the FBI went there, they interviewed the lawyer for the facility and asked him to show them around. He showed them [00:03:00] around to the trash compactors, the, the cardboard compactors and said, yeah, occasionally, a homeless person or a bum crimes in there to, catch a nap and ends up being more or less as asphyxiated than crushed per se. But, that’s a rare occurrence. And and then they wanted to see the incinerator. And they showed him the incinerator and the FBI said, okay, we want another look at that. We wanna make a date and come back. They set a date to come back and central sanitation burned down. Now the, there’s nothing. Unusual about that, except when I was reading the account I’m running across the name Nick Elli, who was the lawyer for the facility who’s giving the FBI the tour and his name was Ringing Bells. Ringing Bells. And I’m thinking Nick, miss Nikki, is that my cousin? That’s my first cousin Nick from Burbank, [00:04:00] California. Oh really? And how did he get involved in this and. That led me to want to know, okay, who all in the family was in Detroit in 1975, apart from Bill Bino and his three of his close relatives, his siblings who went out there with him that nobody knows their names and Russell and what all was going on out there. And moreover, I needed to understand better again for myself. How these people really related to one another. What was the nature of Bill Binos relationship with Russell? The real nature. It’s commonly understood that they’re cousins. What does that mean? I have cousins that I’ve never met and I think it’s easy for people to presume that was the case. That was not the case, bill. And Russell were. In Bill’s mind and owing to a special relationship they had, they were closer than [00:05:00] brothers due to the fact that Bill’s daughter Bill’s rather Russell’s wife was Bill’s daughter’s godmother. That essentially that made Russell Bills. They had a godfather relationship between him and I. Describe what that means in the book. So Yeah. Which is pretty strong in, in this kind of a family that Godfather relationship’s pretty strong. I may talk about the movie, we’re talking about in Italian family, the Godfather’s pretty strong relationship. Correct. It’s a kind of a, yeah, it’s I get to talk about it in the book because in Montero Sicily, where Bill’s father is from. If I suggest to you that, I want you to be my child’s godfather, it really doesn’t imply anything, any responsibility you have with respect to the child. That means I want us to be as, I want us to be in cahoots business together, brothers. But I’m sure it meant more to Bill than it did to Russell. But, it was a token relationship [00:06:00] probably from Russell’s direction, but they certainly were close and they certainly were involved in teamster business together from very early on. So should I spend a minute and tell you what the family structure was like? Yeah. Explain that Family structure from Sicily on, forward in, in kind of a shortened version, but yeah. Explain that. I’ll do it now. I went ahead and I. Put together some visual aids if you would like to. Yeah. Is this that kind of a show? Can we do multi? Yeah, we can do, yeah, we can do that. Oh, not too many because about half the people that listen to it are audio. I’ll be frustrated. Let’s not do that. Alright. What we’ll do instead is we’ll talk about so I’m sitting in Pitton, Pennsylvania right now in a house that my grandfather and his brother built. My grandfather was Nikola, my. Grand uncle was Salvato and Salvatore’s role in the greater family was he assembled everybody. He came here in 1901 in just [00:07:00] before the great big 1902 anthracite coal strike that sent about 30,000 people out of the coal fields. They just, they gave up after a five month strike and went back to the old country or then went west to the Batum fields. So there was a labor shortage. And at the same time, in Sicily, in Montero, especially where sulfur mining was the key industry they were running into a problem where the United States was breaking into the sulfur market in a big way. It was the fracking process. And eventually the United States and Sicily settled the whole sulfur market thing by treaty. All of that is to say sulfur mines were becoming in trouble, and the last of them would close in the 1970s, the Sicilian mines. So they had this problem where they’re gonna have surface of population, they started to [00:08:00] immigrate and they started to immigrate to the Coalfields, Pennsylvania, where, you know there was this lack of late people to work in the anthracite mines. And Salvatore’s role was to bring them over for probably banks of labor brokers. And once they were here to outfit them with. Food and lodging and all of their material requirements. So he was working for, if he was not himself the Petron system. So that’s my grandfather and his brother. And eventually they took three other Buffalo men into the country. One of them was Russell’s father and the other that was Angelo and the other. Brother of Angelo was kalo. They say Charles, but I call him Kalo in the book to distinguish him from other Charles’s. Kajaro was a black hander. [00:09:00] He was a mafioso. Angelo’s father didn’t live for two years. He was killed in a mine explosion that injured my grand uncle. And Russell grew up under Klo, which is right. Russell was an infant when he arrived. And for several years he bounced in and out of the country back to Sicily and eventually Reland in the country in 1914, living for a time in Buffalo and then back in the Pitton area. So in the Pitton area on my block. So I’m in the kitchen now at the house. On my block was this property, which was a soda factory in a general store. Next door also in the family was a grocer. Up the street was a hotel, and next to that was a bar. And they all belonged to Kalo and they were all run by my members of my family. My grandfather in [00:10:00] particular ran the bar and the hotel while Salvato and his family, they all had very large families. Were servicing the general store and the. So that was their role. And all of the children, there were 20 some children between Nicolo, Kalo, JRO, and a third brother. And they all considered Russell their first cousin, despite the fact that there might not have been a familial relationship between Kalo and the other brothers. They all represented themselves as brothers, four men for about 25 years until the family split apart as Sicilian families only can in very grudging way. But Russell never forgot his relationship to everybody in the family. And at one time or another, every one of those 20 children could reach out to him, rub a lamp, and Russell [00:11:00] would appear and. Do something for them and it was mutual. My father was a professional photographer, probably never charged Russell for a thing. And it was that way with other members of the family that had their crafts of their own. Yeah. So does that help to. Yeah that when the Binos came over, they were like in, in this patron system. And so Russell just kind. Fell right into that. And your one uncle was already in a black hander from the old school Mafioso. So they brought that with him. And then you had this one guy, Russell who probably had the oomph, the wherewithal to then rise on, go into that system, rise onto the top. He was really, was born and bred into that system. Yeah, you could say that. He by, people get confused. They assume based on some facts that he was [00:12:00] raised in Buffalo and came up under Macino. Yeah. And I don’t think that’s the case. There’s plenty of evidence within the family and traditions within the family that say, Russell was a very well known quantity in the city of Pitton at the store next door where everybody sat outside drinking soda on a hot summer day, and all the children would fight to entertain the old men. Russell was there along with Kalo Jro, who was a very day-to-day presence in the family, but. There was a strong relationship between Pitton, Pennsylvania and Buffalo, New York, based on, at the time the Lehigh Valley Railroad. That was the northern terminus of that railroad. So it was an easy trip and there were a lot of labor jobs up there as well with the hydroelectric plant. So people from Buffalo and people from Pitton, a lot of famili familial relationships between them. And at the same time, in 1920, they could see prohibition coming. And Russell was a [00:13:00] mechanic. Where NASCAR comes from? NASCAR is mechanics souping up cars, so they get away from Yeah. The police from the the revenues. Yeah. So I’m almost certain that’s Russell’s first reason for being in Buffalo, working for a guy named John Montana. And John Montana would later testify before the rackets committee. In 1997. So Russell worked for him. It was probably, and again, Mandino’s specialty was importing Canadian whiskey. Yeah, and then there was typical bootlegging they were doing, down here as well as up there. So Russell was probably taking the good stuff down from New York to Pitton area on a regular basis. Pitton is like between Scranton and Wilkes Bar. It’s like a six hour car drive. To Buffalo, and that was his first job. And then he’s back, and so for all of his [00:14:00] life, he was bi-coastal, right? We think of him as in his later years being in New York City, and then two or three days out of the week being in his Kingston home, which is again just down the street here. But he was that way all of his life. He did that between Buffalo and Pittston, and there was a lot of interchange between them by 1922 he’s on the record. He had a car accident on the, on a bridge locally that sent him up for a while. So by 1922, you could more or less consider him again a Pitton property. And he ends up marrying in 1928 into the family through the Chandras. But he was always, a skinny guy. He was, he didn’t really, fit the mold of a classic mobster. He didn’t. He grew up in it. He didn’t show signs of being a real gun toter himself. That makes sense. Yeah, it does. He [00:15:00] probably had a lot of organizational abilities in a certain amount of charisma that would get people to do what he wanted. His specialty was diamonds and jewelry, and so that, that was a specialty. And his other specialty was cars. And again, that continued to be important right through the end of prohibition 1933 December. And. At that key juncture. So kalo, his grant, his uncle was in a tree partite relationship with two other men that formed the real coal country power. They were all coal contractors and gangsters in their own right? Okay. And bootleggers. So they were all in this cahoots relationship, and Russell was in their sphere. Through klo a lot of real heavy mob style violence locally in the 1920s [00:16:00] that was related both to union problems in the coal mines, but also the bootlegging, right? So people were stealing each other’s shipments that needed to be dealt with. Coal miners were going out on Wildcat Strike. There were assassinations related to that big doings in the twenties that probably ended by the middle thirties. The heart of the depression things were so bad for the coal miners, they just assumed worked for substandard wages as go out on strike ’cause they really couldn’t afford to do it. Yeah. But things calmed down pretty much by then, and by that time things were heating up for the three men that they went on background and gave control over to John Chandra. Now, John Chandra is a co contractor in his own right and he’s running the show for Karo and Vbi and Latour, and it’s [00:17:00] under Chandra that Russell really is in a mentorship relationship with Chandra and Chandra, it seems to really have gentled him somewhat. Because the first three men were, they were just killers. They would just, they would take you out rather than deal with you. And Chandra inherited a new generation in the thirties. And his career lasted until 1949. And Russell by then was just the natural to take over. Now from Infancy Forward, he had been in the company of the most dangerous man in the coal fields. People who knew New York gangsters for certain, and was in their company as well. So he knew how to get along and he knew how to be quiet, and he became trusted. That’s probably the thing he was most relied on for. Yeah. Interesting. He was quiet and trusted. That’s, [00:18:00] that is really interesting. People say, and I don’t know how true this is, but they say that, when people have a vacancy and they’re organizational structure, they plug Russell in. And he was not the kind of guy who was gonna try and muscle in your territory. He was just going to keep the balls in the air for you. Yeah. Until the next guy came back and then just hand ’em right back over. He wasn’t a threat. He did seem to be like the utility man of the northeast mobs. He sure was. And when app leaking happened. So I was born in 1957. I was born on the anniversary of his father’s death in the coal mine. Huh? Right away. That’s an Oman. Bad things are coming. Russell and two months later, apple Aiken. Yeah. He was real busy in the late 1950s, early 1960s. He was facing deportation for a very long time, and that’s where. [00:19:00] Bill got a little bit more involved with him because Bill was, an attorney in the family and he was writing letters and doing motions and whatever to keep Russell, you knows, court proceedings to, going on for a long time. Bill eventually wrote a letter to the authorities in Italy that basically said, Hey, don’t take it personally that Russell volunteered to be in the army in 1940. He wasn’t really, trying to get back at you. He was just trying to support his new native country. And and of course there were other people who will tell you there was a suitcase with a million dollars in it that accompanied that letter. Yeah. But Hitler refused to receive Russell. But Russell was apparently ready to get on the plane. Before that refusal came down. Yeah. There’s a whole slew of those cases. I just did a research on that. All the different guys that they tried to deport during those years and the, and their lawyers and [00:20:00] the how they just kept staving it off and staving it off until many times the government just gave up. ’cause it was just like, okay, you have to wonder if they were really serious about it. I think they were just messing with them, but, yeah. But, bills, bill’s teamster career. Where to begin? So Bill and my father both were born in 1918 and a third relative, Jimmy, they were all born in 1918 and they all graduated high school together. Bill was at the University of Scranton for a while before it was called that he was majoring in Divinity and his brother Charles, who was already married into. The greater family suggested you need to be, you need to be a lawyer. We’re going to, we’re gonna get you into law school. And so Bill claimed he had, through his undergraduate, just monitored law classes and approached the dean to say, I’d like to be, I’d like to graduate with a pre-law degree. And [00:21:00] the dean said, sure, why? Sure, why not? And so then Bill went off to, farley Dickinson Law School. Left there just in time to join World War ii, and now he’s assigned in the Detroit area, so it was World War II that brought him to Ellis Air Force Base. Ah, I think it’s just south of Detroit. I’m not sure exactly where it is, but it’s not far. And in that time, I know you know the name Angela Melley. He is a member of the Detroit Partnership. He’s considered the conser of that organization. He has a brother, and the brother has a son who wants to get into business. The brother, I forget his name, comes to Pitton, meets with the Buffalo family. He is from, I think, San Cataldo. Which is a neighboring community in Sicily and they say, look we wanna be in business together. So Bill [00:22:00] now is given the name of Mel’s brother and suggested to contact him, which he does. He says just it was randomly, looking for a deserter in Detroit and it occurred to me to call the brother. So he calls the brother, ends up getting invited to the house. Invited to dinner the next day, proposes to the daughter within three days, and now they’re in the family way. And Bill and Vincent Melly become corners of Belvin Distributing Corporation, I think was the name of it. They were world of to jukebox people. This is where he meets hfa. They’re in the world to jukebox business. Jimmy James, the head of the local 8 95 of the Teamsters, which was called the Jukebox Local ’cause it was a coin and operated local. Starts picketing them. And now Bill and Hoffa are in a lawyerly [00:23:00] way because Jimmy James asked Toya Hoffa into the picture. And Bill presses Hoffa makes him the business agent for the local. Very shortly thereafter, deposes Jimmy James makes Bill the president, and later he is formally elected to the role and now he’s a union president a local president for the next 20 years. And a close associate of Hoffa during the 1960s. So seeing as how I came around so late, I was there to see this. Teamster action because Bill was frequently in Pittston, especially after Hoffa went to Lewisburg Prison, which is 90 minutes down the road. Bill’s sister Mary is my next door neighbor. She’s retired and he comes to visit whenever he goes to C Hoffa, which is every week according to him. To get instructions to bring back to [00:24:00] Fitz. He’s in Pittston. Moreover, he launches a law office in the city of Pittston downstairs on the other side of the house. His father’s old general store because he needs to, he’s not a trial lawyer in Detroit and he wants to join the Detroit bar. And he has to fulfill a. The requirements of a by motion thing to be admitted. Other than that, he’s gotta take the test. He doesn’t want to do that. So he just comes, does a couple probates, this and that for three years and now you’re in. So he does that. So he’s by the time I’m 10, I’m pretty well acquainted with Bill. And Bill is, my father. They’re the close friends. They’re always talking in Mary’s kitchen. I’m sitting there listening, Bill’s running a rator, and they’re laughing about how they sent Bobby Kennedy a parachute because he he said, if I can’t put Hoffa in prison, I’ll jump off the Capitol dome [00:25:00] that I’m a parachute. And he writes about that. RFK writes about that. So it, it was very interesting having him around. Yeah. And he had a brother that would often come with him. To bodyguard him to bodyguard Hoffa, he wore Hoffa’s money belt. His brother Angelo, they called him Yabo, very big guy. And and sometimes he would bring his son Billy boy. William Bino ii, who later had some fame of his own in the nineties. Defending white boy Rick in Detroit. Oh yeah, that’s right. I forgot about that. Yeah. So I knew them all and I knew them all in a family way and I was not quite aware that Bill and Hoffa had a falling out. ’cause then I guess that wasn’t fitting information for a 10-year-old. Yeah. But yeah that’s how I know all of them. And so my real connect to the family is through Bill, his sister Mary. His brother [00:26:00] Yabo. When when Bill retired in 1982 for health reasons, his brother Angelo Yabo returned to Pitton and was my neighbor for the next 10, 12 years. And he was my last connection to the 1920s. And he would tell me things that I had no real frame of reference to understand, about. Running whiskey and whatnot. He didn’t share a lot of stories about that, but every now and then something would escape. And he was just the kind of guy you could tell he’d done a lot of things and I didn’t find out until his funeral. At his funeral an individual came up to me who had traveled to the area from Detroit, probably with William ii. He just for some reason he squared up with me, put his hand out and said Yabo was like a father to me, and then just told me everything. I never wanted to know about what Yabo had done in Detroit. Working for Angelo Melly, [00:27:00] running a bar for him. Being a bartender, occasionally helping people find their checkbook, that kind of thing. So he was obviously a very colorful guy. He was obviously very well respected by the Detroit people. At the same time he wasn’t gonna kill anybody. That was not what he did. But the FBI followed him to Angelo Millie’s farm one day. They had an informant in his car, basically. And it became clear, I finally learned why he and his sister Mary, and other members of his family would go to Florida every year and spend about a month in Florida. They were at Angela Mel’s. Timeshare. Basically he availed Yabo, and this is, somebody at the very top level of the organization down there. So he was not respected. I have to ask about this as Hoffa and Russell Bino and Bill. As the Teamsters Hoffa starts having problems [00:28:00] with Kennedy and there’s this back and forth there. Then was, there, was there, there’s a lot of talk about that that Kennedy and, he, that he got so personal with Hoffa, which he did, there’s some talk about, maybe they had something to do with the murder of JFK Mo. Mainly it falls to, marcelo down in Detroit, I mean down in new Orleans, but yeah. But still, Bino was right in there among that crew. Was there ever much talk about that even after it happened? Yes. There’s a lot of talk about it. When Bill Buf, so I’m trying to Dan Mul Day. Dan Mul Day is a researcher who had worked for many years on the Hoffa disappearance. And he spent a lot of time talking to Bill Bino about that. And when he quizzed Bill about, who, who did this right? Bill answered have the CIA investigate the FBI and then have the [00:29:00] FBI investigate the CIA and then you’ll have the answer. That’s exactly what he said. Interesting. And what he was saying was, yeah, the Bay of Pigs thing, the whole. Pal Kill Castro was something that was known by a lot of people that went missing in 1975, or no. Ended up murdered Johnny Roseli. Yeah. Gian and Gian Kana, I think was 1975 too. Hoffa was really the third person to go missing in 1975 that had information to contribute about that Uhhuh. Interesting. Or at least was believed to. And when you read Bill Alia’s book, he says Russell also knew something about that. So Russell was becoming edgy. That Bill would say something, or rather, no, Hoffa would say something too much about that because Hoffa was, pretty much a loose cannon by that time In terms of speaking.[00:30:00] I interviewed that guy with that Billy Leya book. Did you know him? He was Billy, yeah. Do you know him very well? I did not know Billy, my brother knew Billy when they were both young. Okay. My brother Nick, see Nick’s 12 years older than me and I think so is Billy. Yeah. Alright. I did not, I’ve been in his company once or twice, but he wouldn’t know me. Okay. I was just in curious about that. He seemed like he was a guy that was like, he was always around the binos and during those ta those years, he was like always somewhere around in and around that. It’s a real interesting, contrast between Pittsburgh and Detroit, the Coalfields a more rural area, and then the big city and the auto factories and the teamsters and how these immigrant Sicilians moved into that and moved in on up that, the immigrant way, you get here man, and you start getting better jobs. You get better jobs, you take care of your relatives and you bring them in. And so it’s just, it’s really an interesting complex there. I [00:31:00] forget who I was talking to. I said some of the history’s not good, right? It’s not, it doesn’t, yeah. It’s not real neat. And I said, feel bad sometimes for some of the people. And and the party I was talking to said they would swam here if they could have. When I was right, I was expressing concern about the Padron system and how it was sometimes exploitive. I think Salvatore was pretty fair as Padron went. He wasn’t a gouger, but there was a lot of gouging in that system, and it was effectively dead by 1930. Curiously, by 1930, that’s when the family split apart. That’s when Kelo said, okay. This is not a revenue stream for me anymore. Time to break with the other binos and move on. But the thing about the the Sicilians and the coal mines, they started as really, they started as what’s the word, scabs, right? Yeah. So there was a lot of union trouble in 1902. You got Welsh minors from. [00:32:00] Ireland everywhere. It was all here. It was like Brooklyn and now we’re coming in to fill this void of 30,000 workers. There’s trouble, a lot of trouble. And the people who are the replacement miners, these Sicilians, they already owe a tithe to their pad. Drones. Yeah. They’ve gotta go down they’re in this heated place. Now once you get in and eventually it’s 10 or 12 or 15 more years before unions really started to sign contracts with these particular mines in the northern coal field that were run by 1913, by at least three and probably four black handers ran the contracts, right? So the mafia is to all intents and purpose the mine owner. And they’ve got all of these dependent [00:33:00] people who are, their their agents through the Padron system who are members of the union, and eventually they run for elective positions within the union. And now what you end up with is the company is the union. And it happened at least once, that an insurgent branch of the United Mine workers went in opposition against its own district leadership. The district leadership’s bodyguard was one of those individuals who was at the same time a union organizer. A partner with one of the black candidates. So it didn’t work out well. There was a murder involved. Things went badly. It happened ultimately. It’s interesting that, and now you it started out, as union busters, as scabs, right? And [00:34:00] they move in and take over the unions, and then the teamsters come along as the coal kinda goes down and the truck driving is going up, up and up. And then they just. Move smoothly right into the teamsters Union. Yeah. Where there’s political power and money. That was the seat of political power and a lot of money and the political power the power of the purse, the power of the pension fund and the los, and of course clear out to Las Vegas. And Russell Vino was right in the middle of all that with the guys from Detroit and Chicago. It was just, it just is a natural progress of of activity. Exactly. And where was it? Just a couple of years ago. Was it in Florida? The Longshoreman’s Union threatened to go out. Yeah, I remember something like that. What did DeSantis do? He DeSantis mo mobilized the National Guard. Yeah. So that never happened here, but if you think about it so Bill Buffalino at one time the FBI was advised that. Bill was being groomed [00:35:00] to take over the Teamsters. Not by force. Something, God forbid if Hoffa should end up in prison. Yeah. So that was happening. But I think it was thwarted because Hoffa had a little there was a a situation in his ranks where he, somebody was trying to. Openly deposed him. And it didn’t work out. And he probably did a reorg of his own and that’s when he decided to run fifth for 1965 for the, as his vice president. So that, so he was trying to head off all, he probably could see it coming. Yeah. And it was in those years that he began to lose a little bit of trust in Bill. And that was the source of their breakup eventually because he got hot with Bill in prison. But think about it. So Bill then, as the president of the Teamsters, imagine the power they had at that time to effectively shut down the country. Oh [00:36:00] man. Yeah, it was huge power. It was huge. And what’s interesting is Hoffa, then he starts bringing what we affectionately refer to here in Kansas City as Pecker Woods. He brings in Roy Williams down in Kansas City. He brings in Jackie Presser up in cleveland and Fitz Fitz Simmons. These are all peckerwoods, these are not Italians. Now Italian, some of ’em are behind the string, behind the scenes, pulling some strings. Of course. Yeah, but they’ve got all those guys out front. It’s just it is fascinating to me how these guys have worked. Yeah. Very insidious. And the thing about unionism somebody will tell you that, union membership is down, or union participation is way down from the 1960s. Yeah. There was a union for everything. Yeah. In the fifties and sixties, bill to, and probably it was to boost his resume. I don’t know. The car washers in the Detroit area. There were 200 car washes and they employed up to [00:37:00] 40 to 50 people each. Just doing this job. It was, to organize them. The the tactic was I’m not gonna go after the WR and file and get them to vote on anything. I’m going straight to the owner. He is gonna pay me to their membership fees and he’s gonna pay their dues. That’s how it’s gonna be. And that’s what they did. There were certain, car washers that were not assaulted in this way, and others who were, and they were pretty upset about it. And they took it to the law and there was a grand jury hearing that Bill was invited to attend. But according to Dan Mul day, the judge in the hearing was in their pocket. And yeah, nothing ever came of it. That was mentioned also before Keith f so a bill was on the hot seat for that and the Zer, the er the Zer company to sell their machines entered into an agreement whereby their service people [00:38:00] would be unionized. And therefore, if you went to a bar, now you’re a union agent for local 9 8 9 85. Of the teamsters. You go into a bar and you look at the jukebox and it’s not a er. Yeah. Now we’ve got a big problem. Now there’s a picket outside. I guarantee you the picket was Yaba, Bino Bell’s brother. Gotta be big guy with a mortar board walking back and forth. Unfair, this is a scab shop and now what’s gonna happen? No union truck driver is gonna deliver beer to that bar. Crazy. Yeah. And so that’s right. So that’s how they worked that one out. So that was the extent of Bill’s organizing skills. Interesting. So let’s skip forward here a little bit and we don’t want to give it all away, but we’re talking about the final resting place of Jimmy Hoffa. So how do you go into that? Just, and we want guys to, you gotta get this book guys. It’s the revelations of a mafia family, the temperatures, [00:39:00] and the final resting place of Jimmy Hoffa. The key words here is the final resting place of Jimmy Hoffa. As you might know, Charles, that’s the hook here and Dan Maldia and you probably have a problem, I gotta say. ’cause he’s pretty sure he knows the final resting place. I know he, he, that’s what he, but there’s another guy who also thinks he knows the final resting place as well as me, but he doesn’t know as far as I go. So his theory expands on the central sanitation. Whereby HAA is brought to central sanitation and cremated incinerated, to me that means ashes. And what do you do with ashes post cremation? You can throw ’em to the wind or you can do something extremely appropriate and almost poetic with them. And then move them to a town that is your native [00:40:00] home. That’s what I’m saying. Now, that’s where you come in. Okay. But now, in order to, in order for that to be true I’m willing for that not to be true. In order for that to be true, central sanitation has to be in the mix. And a fellow by the name of, oh my gosh, I’ll never forget his name. Bernstein. Scott Bernstein is a Detroit reporter. I know Scott. Alright, so last year they had this symposium in which he and Novi Toko and a former prosecutor Yeah. All submitted. Did you see that? I didnt see it, but I remember when it happened. I didn’t even know that was happening and I was wrapping up the book at that time, submitting the second to last draft when I became aware of their theory. And their theory solves a problem that I had, which is, skeletal remains. Yeah. And I’m not gonna, I’m not going to break [00:41:00] their I’m not gonna give away their findings, but. The problem with an incinerator is it’s not a crematory and it falls 800 degrees short of being able to render, and even, bones have to be crushed afterwards. Anyway. Yeah, there’s still bones left some their theory pretty much takes care of that, that the bone thing. On top of that, someone else wrote a book Mr. Tubman wrote a book in 2024 that said his parents were, driving in a Detroit suburb on the day Jimmy Hoffa went missing and saw someone being wrestled into a central sanitation truck. And the father noted that truck was not supposed to be there on, on that day. And of course, the property was one of the properties that were suspected of being the place where Hoffman went missing. Again, and that’s not definitive. If there were ashes involved, I think that I have a [00:42:00] first person memoir of the person that did something with the ashes. All right guys. And that’s gonna be in Revelations of a Mafia Family, the Teamsters in the final resting place of Jimmy Hoffa, correct Charles? That’s what it is. And it’s gonna be released on what is it? April? 28th. 28th. 28th. All right. Charles Buffalino I really appreciate you coming on and talking about your book. And guys, you gotta get this book. I’m telling you, it’s I’ve got a advanced copy of it and it’s pretty interesting. It’s readable and it is. Got a lot of great history into it, as you can tell. If you ever wanted to know the immigrant story of Sicilians, this is it, that the, there were huge miners and because they were minors in Sicily, so we had mining activities. I didn’t know about the whole strike breaking thing. That’s interesting. I knew they came down, like here in Missouri, southwest part of Missouri, we have coal mines and a huge group of Sicilians came down here. [00:43:00] And because I was wondering why. Joy IPA outta Chicago was going dove hunting down in Pittsburgh, Kansas. I went down there just to, to look around in this little town, front, neck. All the stores are, have Italian names and so I, there’s a little museum down there. So I stopped in. I said, what’s the deal? And she said, oh. She said, tons of people came over from Southern Italy and Sicily. To work in the coal mines around here, and it’s a big coal mining area. I said, oh, that’s it. That’s it. That is it. That was a safe territory for these Chicago mobsters and Kansas City mobsters to go hunting down there. Okay, so the coal mining is the mining much to know is a big part of the history of the mafia in a way. For sure. And there’s a place in so I thought Pitton had a lot of at, and it does, has a lot of Sicilian, maybe 24% as of the last census. Yeah. Was recently invited. Last year I went to [00:44:00] Clarksburg, Virginia. 40% Italian to this day. Ah, yeah. And they were all minors. And you go there and there’s no there’s no southern speech pattern. It’s all. Ah they’re Pittsburgh. And I said, why? What’s that all about? Oh, he said, no. We are a, we’re a suburb of Pittsburgh. We’re two hours away. Yeah. But the stuff we were producing went right to the mills. Yeah. And so that was the language that we spoke. Oh, we darned. And there were so many of them that they spoke their own language. They didn’t try to blend in with the right Scott, people that had been there from the country and from the hills down in there for a while. I’ll be darned huh. That’s interesting. That is that. And Clarksburg, I’ll tell you that place in the 1950s and sixties, or I’m sorry, in the seventies when the dress factories fell apart, they were burning pittston down. So Piston’s, a lot of old missing buildings. Yeah. But Clarksburg is just like visiting old Pittston. Huh, interesting. [00:45:00] Pitton, Pennsylvania the the seat of power for Russell Bino back in the day, Northwest. I always, you always hear about Northwest Pennsylvania and up into New York was his territory. And again, he was such an interesting guy because like you said, he was like utility man. He was going around to different families or, they, you don’t, they don’t ever talk about this big seat of power that he had in his underboss and his. His capos and that right there in that one geographic area. So it’s really interesting. Different anthracite coal was such a product. So there’s batum is coals everywhere else, but there’s only five counties in the United States that has 80% of anthracite coal. And anthracite coal was the fuel of choice for the industrial revolution. So there was a lot of money here. And so people really can’t understand, just how much wealth there was here. And how a place this small could be somebody’s seat of power, as you say. Yeah. Huh. Interesting. All [00:46:00] right, charles Buffalino I really appreciate you coming on the show. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Okay. All right, we’re done here. I’ll redo that When I stumbled over your name again and got a couple other things to redo, but otherwise it’s it gotta be an easy edit. That’s the guy I like when the guy really knows his stuff and he goes right on through it makes my job easier and I will wait and put this out just about the time. I gotta make a note right now. Anytime from the 15th forward is fine. I’m sure, we didn’t, I didn’t reveal anything so sensitive that. Anybody can steal. I’ll be maybe mu Monday the 20th. I got a feeling here either. That’s perfect. 13th? 13th or the 20th? Probably the 20th. I got it written down on the 20th. Okay. That’s awesome. All right, Gary, thank you so much. I really appreciate it. Thank you. All right. All right. You made it very easy. Oh good. Oh, and have you have you been in touch with Scott? You gotta go on Scott Show. I did mention to him, Scott, I’m gonna send you a book when it’s time. I, I didn’t wanna reveal everything again. Yeah. I’m just being real careful [00:47:00] for all these months. But yeah, I have, oh yeah, I’m in. But yeah, get on his show. He has, I think he has bigger fo I know he has a bigger follow than me. He kinda really gets into the, what’s going on today, which I never do. And he does, I don’t know, I, here in Kansas City, they get bad. I, and I get word back from ’em that they’re bad at me if I mention their names or there’s any mafia today, so I just seem to not mess with that anymore. Yeah, i’m the same way, I’m not even a fan of this stuff. This is not my thing. Yeah. If it’s the whole, like if Hoffa is here in Pitton I really feel, and my family’s involved in it. It’s like a moral obligation. I’ve got a interesting, yeah, I can see why. That’s the only reason I, that’s the only reason I even bother to research. Yeah. I just started doing some research on a true crime that’s not mafia and it’s kinda it’s like a breath of fresh air. I think I’m getting a little bit burned out in the mafia thing. I like the [00:48:00] stories. I like the capers and stuff that people do. I really love that. And so that’s there are some. Interesting people in this. Yeah. And I’ve known a bunch of them myself. My story’s not interesting, but I, yeah. When I was in college, I worked at a pizza shop. The guy was a bookie. Yeah. And every Friday night we’d be with Butchy, scotchy, Ragy Fingers, and the Greenie, and we’d go to the Skyliner Diner after the track, and it would just be, I’ve been at more dice games. Yeah. They used to rope my head for luck. I was 17. They’re so colorful too. And another thing I’ve learned is, hey. These mob guys, they have so many connections throughout the community Yeah. That most people, they don’t have. When I was a policeman, I didn’t have any idea how many connections I, in hindsight, I realized that how naive we all were, how many connections they really had out in the community, and how those worked and how they I don’t know. So many people found it colorful or they liked buying something that fell off a truck and then. And they like to [00:49:00] gamble and they’re just throughout the entire community and we didn’t know it ’cause I lived in this narrow little police world. It’s the adulation that people just adore this lifestyle. And I don’t know, I think maybe if people had less of a sense they were getting bent over by the government all the time. Yeah. Yeah. There’d be less of that. But everybody’s a secret agent in a way, yes. And I’m, everybody wants to be James Bond. And I’m naive enough to write a book about the Mafia and, but everybody I know, they all know better than me. And I tell some of my classmates, yeah, I wrote a book and they’re like, because they know there’s a whole network up. Yep. All Charles, it was great to meet you. Thank you so much. Great meeting with you. Take care. Bye bye. Bye-bye.

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03 Muerte y educación en Valencia Podemos hacernos la pregunta del huevo y la gallina con Blasco Ibáñez. ¿Qué fue primero su éxito arrollador o la pertenencia a algún grupo secreto o discreto que lo encumbrase al éxito? Como hemos comentado desde el principio, desde muy pequeño era aficionado a inventarse las mas pintorescas historias y aunque mucha de su obra infantil y juvenil no ha llegado a nuestros días podemos decir que al igual que hoy los grupos de poder captan a los jóvenes influencers para impregnar a la sociedad de sus ideas a través de estos, en esa época ocurría otro tanto similar. Con tan solo 16 años funda y dirige el semanario El Miguelete, y cesado éste funda El Turia. Con 18 colabora en El Correo de Valencia y a los 20 publica el primer número del periódico federal del que es también director, La Revolución. También crea el semanario La Bandera Federal y la editorial La Propaganda Democrática. En 1892 nace su hija Libertad que sólo vive trece días. Seguimos viendo la importancia del 13 y recordamos como en la serie de Berlanga sobre la vida de Vicente Blasco hace una alusión velada al “comercio de mercancía sagrada o intercambio de niños de unos linajes a otros” con la adopción del primo de Blasco. (poner video el Femater.mp4) Hacen alusión al cuento el Femater, el basurero, de la colección cuentos valencianos. ¿Podría ser que el director se refiriese al propio Blasco ya que poco o nada se sabe de ese supuesto primo adoptado? A los 26 años entra en política presentándose como candidato por la Unión Republicana por el distrito de Sueca. (video Berlanga Parte 1 56:00 a 57:17 Obra el juez y muerte de su madre.mp4) El 12 de Mayo de 1894 se estrena en valencia su única obra de teatro llamada “El Juez”, que no tiene mucho éxito además ese mismo día fallece su madre a los 51 años de edad (5+1=6) y el 12 de noviembre de 1894, 184 días más tarde (6 meses justos) publica el primer número de El Pueblo, fundado y dirigido por él. Un diario dirigido a las clases populares a mitad de precio que los otros diarios. El 11 de enero de 1903 publica en dicho diario un artículo titulado «La Universidad Popular», la cual se inaugurará el 8 de febrero. Vemos muy acertada la expresión que le dedica el profesor de la Universidad de Valencia Ramiro Reig a Blasco, "un experto en marketing editorial”, el cual como hemos visto creo 4 o 5 periódicos y semanarios, 7 casinos republicanos y uno central en la Universidad Popular, universidad que aún sobrevive. Según Reig, el liderazgo del escritor se afianzó mediante la creación de una eficaz maquinaria organizativa asentada en los casinos republicanos. Recordó este historiador que "él no los inventó pero, si se nos permite el anacronismo, los macdonalizó, distribuyéndolos estratégicamente en la ciudad y sometiéndolos a un menú ideológico estándar, fácil de digerir y con abundancia de sal y pimienta". En opinión de Reig "la utilización del lenguaje espontáneo de la calle y de formas plebeyas, de la sensibilidad mediterránea y su afición por el tumulto y el ruido, de las relaciones de barrio y de las fiestas, hicieron que el republicanismo fuera, no solo la expresión política de las clases populares, sino de su manera de ser, de hablar y de imaginar la vida". 30 años antes de la proclamación de la II República Blasco Ibáñez impulsó decenas de escuelas laicas en Valencia (Carles, Cheste, Buñol, Sagunto, Catarroja o Cullera) y la Universidad Popular gracias al movimiento republicano blasquista en Valencia, al inicio del siglo XX, una época de hegemonía de la Iglesia Católica en la educación. La universidad Popular es un proyecto que impulsó Blasco Ibáñez desde su periódico "El Pueblo" hasta el punto que es reconocido como el creador de esta. Por contra de lo que parece sugerir el nombre de la institución en la universidad no sé impartían cursos reglados en los que se obtiene una titulación, si no que se realizaban conferencias, muchas de ellas nocturnas para hacerlo accesible a los obreros. Ya nos podemos imaginar que sería una fuente para impartir ideología más que otra cosa. Escribía Blasco Ibáñez en El Pueblo el 11 de enero de 1903 un famoso artículo sobre la Universidad popular: "Un terreno nuevo, donde todos puedan entrar, donde se presente la enseñanza con ropajes de fiesta y se sirva la ciencia como una diversión. La Universidad Popular será todas las noches algo así como un teatro libre y gratuito de la enseñanza” "Que los Profesores den su sabiduría, y nosotros les daremos un público. El hombre de estudio no puede permanecer insensible a la noble y justa vanidad de que su palabra sea escuchada, no por unos cuantos escolares aburridos por la monotonía del programa, sino por mil personas que se estremezcan y vibren ante la hermosura de esa Ciencia que hoy solo ven de lejos, envuelta en velos, como una Isis misteriosa y ceñuda.” En estos momentos, la UP de Valencia sigue vigente y cuenta con un total de 31 centros donde se imparten clases de danza, plantas aromáticas, manualidades, jardinería en terrazas y balcones, cultivo de boletos comestibles, cursos de español para extranjeros, ingles e informática básica para adultos…etc. La conferencia inaugural fue a cargo del político y jurista Gumersindo de Azcárate, catedrático de la Universidad Central, diputado republicano por León y, entre otros, presidente de la Institución Libre de Enseñanza, de la Institución para la Enseñanza de la Mujer, del Instituto de Reformas Sociales y del Ateneo Madrileño. Valencia sufría a principios del siglo XX unos inquietantes índices de analfabetismo: el 48% de los hombres y el 64% de las mujeres apenas sabían leer y a ese público iba en parte dirigido su periódico El Pueblo. Pío Baroja, dijo de él: “sabe componer, escribe claro; pero, para mí, es aburrido, es un conjunto de perfecciones vulgares y mostrencas, que a mí me ahoga. Tiene las opiniones de todo el mundo, los gustos de todo el mundo. Yo, a la larga, no le puedo soportar”. El populismo actual de las cadenas de televisión ya estaba inventado por el famoso escritor que gracias a estar en todos los saraos, duelos, entradas y salidas de la cárcel y aventuras varias se hacia cada vez mas famoso. Blasco Ibáñez como editor al frente de las editoriales Prometeo o Sempere, que a un módico precio, inyectaban en el mercado miles de ejemplares de sus propias obras y de autores "que leen las élites progresistas de la burguesía europea". La razón social de Prometeo se estableció en un edificio situado en la Gran Vía Germanías, núm. 33. Nótese que germanías fue una revuelta social del S. XVI de la sociedad burguesa valenciana en contra de la nobleza, la concordancia en ese sentido con la revolución francesa tan admirada por Blasco es manifiesta y el numero 33 es el máximo escalafón masónico. ¿Casualidad o causalidad? Editorial Prometeo, el que da el "Fuego/Conocimiento a los hombres” es más bien el Ángel de Luz que cayó del Cielo o sea Lucifer. Ese que tienen exhibido en el Rockefeller Center y del que también recibe nombre el Colectivo Prometeo creado por Julio Anguita. Dicha editorial fue muy propagandista e impulsora de ideas de masones como Voltaire, Rousseau, Michelet…Vamos, fue la versión antigua de herramientas actuales cómo Wikipedia, internet o ChatGPT. En “Viajes hacia la literatura satánica en un cambio de siglo” José Mariano Leyva dice: “Los nuevos leprosos, patrocinados por el demo­nio, que utilizaban la literatura como utensilio de su depravada alquimia, se estaban formando. La novedosa nigromancia, y sus postulantes eran tan peligrosos como aquellos seres de mús­culos podridos. Los motivos también eran afi­nes: su enfermedad era contagiosa y ponían en tela de juicio la bondad y progreso de las civili­zaciones. Vicente Blasco Ibáñez lo sabía. Y por ello, como mecenas de un hervidero de especímenes nocivos, advertía: “Algunas novelas célebres de intensa belleza pueden parecer de una lectura extremadamente libre para determinadas per­sonas. Por esto en nuestros catálogos hay libros que llevan la indicación de una *. Esta marca * significa que son obras que no pueden dejarse en todas las manos”. Uno de aquellos autores con asterisco era Huysmans­-Durtal: “Era verdad que no poseían nada sobresaliente las le­tras del momento; nada, a no ser una necesidad de lo sobrenatural, que, a falta de ideas más ele­vadas, caminaba a tropezones y como mejor podía por el espiritismo y el ocultismo” El catedrático de Teoría e Historia de la Educación de la Universidad de Valencia Luis Miguel Lázaro en su libro “La Nueva Atenas del Mediterráneo. El sueño de un novelista Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, cultura y educación populares en Valencia” titula su primer capitulo como “Los emisarios de Belcebú. La escuela laica como alternativa social y pedagógica”. ¿Blasco Ibáñez, emisario de Belcebú? En la RAE podemos leer lo que significa emisario: “Mensajero que se envía para indagar lo que se desea saber, para comunicar a alguien algo o para concertarse en secreto con tercera o terceras personas.” O sea, alguien que en secreto va a realizar la obra de Belcebú, del diablo. En Historia de los Heterodoxos españoles, Menéndez Pelayo dice esto sobre La Institución Libre de Enseñanza: «Necesario era... mostrar claro y al descubierto el misterio eleusino que bajo tales monsergas se encerraba, el fétido esqueleto con cuyas estériles caricias se ha estado convidando y entonteciendo por tantos años a la juventud española». «Han sido más que una escuela; han sido una logia, una sociedad de socorros mutuos, una tribu, un círculo de «alumbrados», una «fratría», lo que la pragmática de don Juan II llama «cofradía y monipodio», algo en suma, tenebroso y repugnante a toda alma independiente y aborrecedora de trampantojos. Se ayudaban y se protegían unos a otros; cuando mandaban, se repartían las cátedras como botín conquistado. Todos hablaban igual, todos vestían igual, todos se parecían en su aspecto exterior, aunque no se pareciesen antes... Todos eran tétricos, cejijuntos, sombríos; todos respondían por fórmulas hasta en las insulseces de la vida práctica; siempre en su papel, siempre sabios…». Entre la nómina de colaboradores del Boletín de la Institución Libre de Enseñanza podemos encontrar a sospechosos habituales como Bertrand Russell o H. G. Wells. Sobre Wells les hice una disección en mi serie de artículos “Anticipandonos a HG Wells” donde en su libro El Nuevo Orden Mundial nos mostraba los planes de la élite para deshacerse del dinero en metálico: “La Bolsa de Valores y el crédito bancario y todas las artes de los préstamos, la usura y la prevención sin duda disminuirán juntas a medida que se establezca el Orden Mundial. Si y cuando el orden mundial se establece. Serán reemplazados, como cáscaras de huevo y membranas fetales. No hay razón para denunciar a quienes idearon y trabajaron esos métodos e instituciones como sinvergüenzas y villanos. Honestamente lo hicieron de acuerdo a sus luces. Eran una parte necesaria del proceso de sacar al Homo sapiens de su cueva y bajarlo de su árbol.” Veamos lo que pensaba LORD Bertrand Arthur William Russell, tercer conde de Russell sobre la educación infantil a través de un texto extraído de su obra "La Perspectiva Científica” de 1931: “En las raras ocasiones en que un niño o una niña que haya pasado la edad en la que se determina la clase social, (sobre los 6 años), muestre una capacidad muy señalada para sentirse intelectualmente igual a los niños destinados a las clases gobernantes, se suscitará una cuestión difícil que requerirá un estudio muy serio. Si el joven se contenta con abandonar a sus antiguos compañeros y echarse lealmente en brazos de los gobernantes, podría ser promovido, después de pruebas convenientes, al rango de éstos. Pero si demuestra alguna solidaridad, que sería lamentable, con sus antiguos compañeros, los gobernantes deducirán con repugnancia que no puede hacerse nada por él, excepto enviarle a la cámara de la muerte, antes de que su inteligencia, mal disciplinada, tenga tiempo de propagar la revuelta. Éste será un penoso deber de los gobernantes; pero creo que no retrocederán ante él." A la vista de todo lo dicho hasta aqui Blasco nos parece un antiguo sofista griego que mediante la sinarquia busca solo la persuasión de una audiencia, ya sea en asambleas políticas o mediante la propaganda periodística. Los sofistas desarrollan el razonamiento cuyo objetivo es solo la eficacia persuasiva, y no la verdad, y que como tales suelen contener sofismos (falacias). Como sofistas reconocidos como Gorgias o Protágoras, el señor Blasco vivía para el dinero y quería conseguir el éxito a toda costa. El concepto de sinarquia lo explica muy bien el historiador José Antonio Bielsa: “La “Sinarquía” es el sustrato sobre el que se retroalimenta el gobierno oculto mundial. Me explicaré: si en el mundo antiguo, la Sinarquía (syn [integración/concentración] + arkhia [poder/gobierno]) era la unión de varios príncipes coaligados para la dominación de los pueblos, hoy es algo mucho más sutil y diabólico, cohesionado en la unión de las fuerzas financieras y económicas multinacionales, asociadas en un tremendo poder a otros organismos pantalla, para así gobernar al Sistema-mundo a su libre voluntad y por medio de las tácticas recurrentes de diseño (conflictos bélicos, explotación humana, difusión de enfermedades y pandemias, masificación en núcleos urbanos, ignorancia y/o atraso de las masas, etcétera). Todas las sociedades humanas están siendo sometidas, bien por agrado, bien por la fuerza, a los designios de esa imparable inercia que llamamos Sinarquía.” “En 1908, cuando Mr. Archer Milton Huntington, millonario y filántropo visitó una exposición de Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (1863–1923) en Londres quedó fascinado por el talento del pintor valenciano, el millonario mostró su deseo de presentar su obra en Nueva York, que realizaría al año siguiente en febrero de 1909 con una muestra para impulsar la Hispanic Society of America ya inaugurada en 1904. Con trescientas cincuenta y seis obras sorollescas fue un completo éxito, mayor del esperado, vendió una cincuentena de cuadros, uno de ellos era el óleo Caballero español: el retrato de Vicente Blasco Ibáñez pintado en 1906, de pie con abrigo negro y en la mano izquierda fumando un habano, ya que estos eran paisanos y amigos valencianos. Tras este éxito, Sorolla firmó un contrato el 26 de noviembre de 1911 con Mr. Huntington para pintar un mural de 60 metros, pero como Sorolla vivía en España, convinieron en pintar 14 cuadros de la serie Visión de España, obra también conocida como Las Regiones de España, por 150.000 dólares. Fueron pintados entre 1912 y 1919; se expusieron en 1926. Sufrió Sorolla un ataque de hemiplejia en su casa de Madrid el 17 de abril de 1920, falleciendo tres años después. La vida no quiso que el maestro disfrutara de la gran inauguración de su obra maestra en Nueva York en 1926, tres años después de su muerte (1923). El autor de este reportaje tuvo el privilegio de ver y admirar esta magna exposición en su tournée por España en los salones del Centro Cultural Bancaja expuestos entre octubre de 2009 al 10 de enero de 2010. Lo cierto es que no se pueden olvidar tantas maravillas. Bien, como Vicente Blasco Ibáñez se hizo amigo de Mr. Archer Huntington y, además sabía que era el propietario de su retrato El Caballero español, se puso en contacto con él, por lo que sería nombrado socio de honor en 1910, en la Hispanic Society. Al regresar VBI tras su gira de conferencias en Argentina, más concretamente, el día 6 de marzo de 1910, Blasco le formuló por carta la siguiente consulta a Archer Huntington: «Siento con toda mi alma no saber inglés… ¿No sería posible dar ahí algunas conferencias sobre la España moderna y antigua? ¿Habría en Nueva York público para unas conferencias en español?» Debido a sus dotes oratorias estaba seguro que repetiría la misma suerte argentina en los Estados Unidos, pero no fue así, había que esperar el momento propicio. Buscaba VBI la complicidad de personajes vinculados al mundo de la prensa, la literatura o la política para conseguir sus objetivos de proyección. Y esta vez perseguía la connivencia de una figura de singular relieve como Mr. Huntington. Pero como en primera instancia no consiguió viajar a Norteamérica, quedó en Argentina dando conferencias, fundó dos colonias en Argentina entre 1909 y 1913 donde comprará cinco mil hectáreas que llamará Colonia Cervantes situada en Río Negro en los desiertos de la Patagonia, y una segunda llamada Nueva Valencia en el estado de Corrientes en Río de la Plata, donde llevó a unos 200 colonos valencianos del pueblo de Sueca, conocedores del cultivo del arroz. También hizo incursiones en Chile, Paraguay y Uruguay. La quiebra de los bancos que le concedieron préstamos le llevó a la ruina. Regresó a Europa, concretamente a París, en un vapor alemán donde le cogió la Gran Guerra de 1914.” Se sucedían los homenajes incluso en su tierra. El 21 de diciembre de 1919 pusieron una calle a su nombre en Burjasot sonando la Marsellesa. Decía Blasco Ibáñez, en El Sol, en 1922: “Hace dos años y medio me avergonzaba de mis fabulosas ganancias. Hoy ya no; las encuentro naturales y quiero aumentarlas. Los dos escritores que ganamos más dinero en el mundo somos Rudyard Kipling y yo; es decir, no. Hay un tercero: Wells. Sí, somos tres los escritores que ganamos más en el mundo. Tengo más de un millón de dólares. Cobro setecientos por un cuento corto. Las empresas editoriales de los Estados Unidos me cablegrafían pidiéndome artículos constantemente, sobre tal o cual tema. Y así hago esta vida mezclada de príncipe y esclavo: príncipe, por mis automóviles, por mis jardines en la Costa Azul, por mis relaciones internacionales constantes con los huéspedes de París, Montecarlo y Nueva York; de esclavo, porque sigo trabajando de doce a catorce horas diarias, escribiendo novelas o dictando pequeñeces a mis secretarios”. Y es que con su novela “Los cuatro jinetes del Apocalipsis” (12 millones de ejemplares vendidos) que se había convertido en un “símbolo de paz”, y en 1921, en un éxito de pantalla, la sexta película muda más taquillera de la historia Blasco se había hecho millonario. Ramón Fernández Palmeral nos lo cuenta en un artículo: “Gracias a ella, Rodolfo Valentino pudo consagrarse como actor guaperas y Blasco Ibáñez vender a paletadas frenéticas el resto de sus obras en el vasto mercado estadounidense. Una cadena de prensa le ofreció hasta 1000 dólares por cada artículo periodístico (colaboraba con más de 100); La gira norteamericana se la organizó un tal Mr. Pond, que le hizo inmensamente rico por la traducción al inglés de Los cuatro jinetes del Apocalipsis, el primer best-seller de la historia. En octubre de 1919, Blasco Ibáñez viajó a los Estados Unidos, invitado por las grandes editoriales, cadenas periodísticas y productoras cinematográficas, que deseaban conocer al autor y traducir sus obras. Blasco permaneció en los Estados Unidos hasta junio de 1920, recibiendo los más altos honores, como el título de Doctor Honoris Causa por la Universidad George Washington, y visitando, entre otros, el Congreso o la Academia de West Point. Viajó por todo el país. Ganó mucho dinero con las conferencias. Al regresar a Europa se comprará un coche Rolls Royce. (poner video Hollywood.mp4) En Hollywood firma el contrato para las versiones cinematográficas de Los cuatro jinetes del Apocalipsis y de Sangre y Arena, que protagonizará, nada más y nada menos que el divo del cine negro y mudo, Rodolfo Valentino. Greta Garbo debuta en Sangre y Arena. Por si fuera poco, la neoyorquina International Book Review, de 2 millones de suscriptores, organizó en 1924 un concurso para conocer quiénes eran, según el público, los 10 escritores más famosos del mundo. El escrutinio reveló que don Vicente era el segundo autor más popular ( H. G. Wells le superó en 90 votos).” Sin embargo, en España, Pio Baroja y Azorin, sus colegas escritores de la generación del 98 le criticaban por escribir lo que el inculto publico de masas demandaba. Esas masas grises eran ya carne de Hollywood, templo hollicapitalista por excelencia como decía Pedro Bustamante y Vicente Blasco Ibañez fue de los primeros españoles en triunfar allí. No solo se compró un Rolls-Royce, también una mansión lujosísima en la Costa Azul, La villa Fontana Rosa en Menton (Francia) Tras la muerte de María Blasco, el 21 de enero de 1925 en Valencia, a los cincuenta y cinco años, de la que estaba prácticamente separado, contrajo segundas nupcias con su amante chilena de ascendencia vasca, Elena Ortúzar, el 4 de julio en Mentón; se dice que lo único que le interesaba a ella era su dinero. En 1926, dos años antes de morir, Blasco escribe “A los pies de Venus”. En “Los libros de mama” Francisco Umbral nos cuenta de que va: “Una novela de millonarios europeos y decadentes, un gran mundo que al propio Blasco le fascina más que al lector, con fascinación de nuevo rico, estatuas de mármol en el jardín, con los labios pintados de pecadores y violentos carmines profanadores. Blasco parece recrear aquí su mansión de Menton, que luego he visto descrita por Cela y otros muchos escritores como un panteón de estatuas ya muerto y olvidado.” Inventado o no su nacimiento en dia 29, lo que si esta claro es el otro 28 que se convierte en 29, esto es, en 11, en la madrugada del 28 al 29 de enero de 1928 con su muerte justo en el perigeo de Luna creciente. Fue otro Vicente, el alcalde de Valencia, Vicente Alfaro Moreno el que decidió repatriar los restos de Blasco desde Francia donde falleció siendo enterrado en Mentón el cuerpo del escritor. El día 29 de octubre de 1933, con la II República española ya instaurada desde hacía dos años, una multitud de trescientas mil personas lo recibió en el puerto de Valencia, incluyendo al presidente de la República, Niceto Alcalá-Zamora; al del Consejo de Ministros, Alejandro Lerroux; y al de la Generalitat catalana, Francesc Macià. Fue trasladado en un barco militar y recibido con honores militares como si se tratase de un ministro civil que hubiera fallecido en el ejercicio de su cargo. El destacado artista valenciano y amigo suyo Mariano Benlliure fue el encargado de diseñar un sarcófago muy masónico para él, una Pirámide truncada. Benlliure modeló en la parte superior del sarcófago la figura yacente de Blasco Ibáñez envuelta en un sudario, con la cabeza apoyada en un cojín y rodeada de ramas de laurel. A modo de mascara mortuoria se podia ver la cara de Blasco Ibáñez. El arquitecto Javier Goerlich Lleó fue elegido para diseñar el mausoleo definitivo para los restos de Vicente Blasco Ibáñez en el Cementerio General de Valencia. El proyecto incluía el sarcófago realizado por el escultor Mariano Benlliure en 1935. Sin embargo, este mausoleo nunca llegó a construirse debido a la inestabilidad política de la época. Su madre, Asunción Lleó, era hija de uno de los herederos del principal propietario de inmuebles de la Valencia de mediados del siglo XIX, el comerciante e industrial sedero hecho a sí mismo Juan Bautista Romero, marqués de San Juan. Néstor Morente Martín, doctor en historia del arte, nos cuenta en su tesis doctoral “El art déco en la imagen alegórica de la ii república española en valencia: Vicente Alfaro promotor de las artes”: "El centro del mausoleo, estaba destinado para ser presidido por el sarcófago de latón de Benlliure, en forma de pirámide truncada, en el que incluyó en los laterales, en bajo relieve,18 figuras de protagonistas de sus novelas más conocidas, de las que se anuncian sus títulos sobre el listel de la base del sarcófago; en la parte frontal, el escudo de la ciudad de Valencia. La parte superior, la ocupa todo el cuerpo yacente de Blasco Ibáñez rodeado de hojas de laurel, envuelto en un sudario, respetando con todo detalle el rigor mortis con el que fue fotografiado en su lecho de muerte en 1928, en Mentón y de donde tomó referencia para esta obra funeraria. Los laterales del pedestal, están decorados con guirnaldas de bronce simbolizando los frutos de la huerta valenciana. En 1933, el alcalde de Valencia, Vicente Lambies y la Diputación, enviaron a Menton (Francia), dos pebeteros de carácter monumental, realizados en bronce dorado para acompañar las exequias del traslado a Valencia de Vicente Blasco Ibáñez. Fueron expuestos junto al féretro en el Ayuntamiento de la localidad francesa y transportados en el cortejo fúnebre desde el acorazado Jaime I. Los dos pebeteros, son idénticos en su factura a excepción de sus escudos, en uno lleva el de la ciudad de Valencia y en el otro, el de la Diputación Provincial. Ambos llevan grabado el tan celebrado año de 1933 para la memoria de Blasco Ibáñez. Los pebeteros, fueron trasladados al Cementerio Municipal de Valencia junto al cuerpo de Blasco Ibáñez, a la espera de la construcción del mausoleo, en el que hasta 1935 no se colocó la primera piedra. Por la magnitud y suntuosidad de los pebeteros, es lógico pensar que fueron encargados, no tan solo con la idea de acompañar un cortejo fúnebre, sino para formar parte del mismo conjunto arquitectónico del panteón diseñado desde 1932. La Guerra Civil, paralizó la construcción de la esperada obra, quedando estas dos piezas de orfebrería en el olvido, en un cuarto trastero del mismo cementerio. En el año 2012, el capellán mayor del Cementerio Municipal de Valencia, al realizar unas reformas en la capilla, descubrió los pebeteros junto a un montón de “chatarra” en unas condiciones de importante deterioro por él óxido. Sin saber de lo que se trataba, los restauró y por su forma, les dio la función de pilas para albergar el agua bendita, colocándolos en la entrada de la capilla, permaneciendo de esta forma hasta la actualidad.” Les traduzco: El nieto de un marques, el arquitecto municipal de Valencia Javier Goerlich, realizó el diseño de un mausoleo para un masón donde se iban a utilizar unos pebeteros que terminaron en una capilla y uno de los cuales fue sufragado por una institución, la Diputación provincial, que fue creada por la dictadura de Primo de Rivera, el supuesto enemigo de Blasco y la República. En el artículo de el puntal de Dios LOS MANUSCRITOS MUERTOS Y LAS VIDAS CREADAS (pars secunda) podíamos ver como todos los “importantes” dejan su máscara mortuoria para la posteridad. En la cara posterior representó la esfera terrestre flanqueada por dos cornucopias, dos cabezas de águila y sobre ella, iluminándola, el disco solar con una cabeza alada, que podría identificarse con el mítico Prometeo, que había dado nombre a la editorial fundada por el escritor. Se le rindieron honores propios de un jefe de Estado. Debido al considerable peso del féretro, cerca de 700 kg, se formaron alrededor de medio centenar de grupos de porteadores para trasladarlo hasta la Lonja, donde quedó expuesto durante varios días antes de ser llevado a la sala de Concejales del Cementerio. Todo esto cambió drásticamente en 1936 con el inicio de la Guerra Civil. Los restos de Blasco fueron trasladados a un nicho provisional en el cementerio municipal de Valencia por temor a que su cuerpo fuera profanado. Allí permanecen hasta el día de hoy, en el nicho 93 de la sección 3.ª del cementerio civil de Valencia, resguardados por una lápida de color gris oscuro en la que apenas destaca su nombre en letras plateadas. Desde luego cuesta encontrar fotos de “la cara buena” de la pirámide truncada Illuminati que es el sarcófago truncado de Blasco Ibáñez. Incluso en las noticias que ponen una foto de ese lado como la del diario Las Provincias luego no podemos verla dentro de la noticia. No podemos ver ninguna a alta resolución en ningún medio de comunicación. Solo por el lado donde se ven las musas, el símbolo de Valencia y los títulos de algunas de sus novelas. ¿Qué esconden y por qué lo hacen? Los cuernos de la fortuna que iban a acompañar a Blasco en el mas allá nunca lo recibieron en su seno. El cenotafio que no sarcófago, porque el cadáver de Blasco Ibáñez nunca fue colocado dentro, ha estado dando vueltas desde su construcción en 1935. En 1940 se guardó en los almacenes del Museo de Bellas Artes para ser restaurado en 1998 e instalado en el Centro del Carmen. En 2017 regresó al San Pío V, donde se instala de forma permanente en un patio interior donde le daba “la luz”. (poner video blasco Ibáñez el sarcófago.mp4) El 6 de abril de 2020, en plena pandemia de covid, se retira el cenotafio del museo. Y el 23 de abril de 2020, el día del libro y de Sant Jordi, el sarcófago ya era visitable. Supuestamente coincidiendo con la conmemoración del centenario del homenaje que en 1921 recibió el autor en su ciudad natal. Pero les adelantare que fue en mayo cuando visitó Valencia y no en abril. Tal y como nos cuenta Raquel Andrés Dura en un artículo de La Vanguardia: “El sarcófago que el escultor Mariano Benlliure hizo para el escritor Vicente Blasco Ibáñez por encargo del Ayuntamiento de València ha llegado hoy a su destino final, el Cementerio General de València, 88 años después de cuando fue creado.” La cara de Medusa, una égida de Atenea metálica para proteger al espíritu iluminándolo, con el disco solar acompañado de los cuernos de la fortuna. Fijaos que la bola del mundo que está entre las garras de las dos águilas o del águila de dos cabezas parece un huevo. El huevo alquímico de la masonería, ese germen que tratan de transformar con dos fuerzas, izquierda y derecha, blanco y negro, azul y rojo para lograr la síntesis. La culminación de su obra. ¿Qué fue antes, el huevo o la gallina? —-------------------------------------------------- Creadores: ToniM @ToniMbuscadores …. Dra Yane #JusticiaParaUTP @ayec98_2 Médico y Buscadora de la verdad. Con Dios siempre! No permito q me dividan c/izq -derecha, raza, religión ni nada de la Creación. https://youtu.be/TXEEZUYd4c0 …. UTP Ramón Valero @tecn_preocupado Un técnico Preocupado un FP2 IVOOX UTP http://cutt.ly/dzhhGrf BLOG http://cutt.ly/dzhh2LX Ayúdame desde mi Crowfunding aquí https://cutt.ly/W0DsPVq ……….. Voces Narrador: Ramón Valero (un técnico preocupado) Vicente Blasco Ibáñez y su antítesis “el caballero audaz”: Toni Marco Diferentes voces femeninas: Dra Yane Voces masculinas: el puntal de Dios Narración extra: abriendo los ojos ………………………………………………………………………………………. Enlaces citados en el podcast: Bibliografia completa https://www.cervantesvirtual.com/portales/vicente_blasco_ibanez/su_obra_bibliografia/ Cronología de Vicente Blasco Ibáñez https://www.cervantesvirtual.com/portales/vicente_blasco_ibanez/autor_cronologia/#anyo_1900 Cronologia literaria Blasco Ibáñez https://anyblascoibanez.gva.es/va/cronologia-literaria Time line de su vida https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/vicente-blasco-ibanez-5ac50faf-ff35-40dd-be42-708435362932 Galeria de imágenes https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cervantesvirtual.com%2Fimages%2Fportales%2Fvicente_blasco_ibanez%2Fgraf%2Fcronologia%2F03_cro_blasco_ibanez_retrato_1018_s.jpg&tbnid=s0ix0VfxLAJ4aM&vet=12ahUKEwi45LKn8vr-AhVYmycCHf1fDVMQMygkegUIARDGAQ..i&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cervantesvirtual.com%2Fportales%2Fvicente_blasco_ibanez%2Fautor_cronologia%2F&docid=rpcl3y5OiYotjM&w=301&h=450&q=Mar%C3%ADa%20Blasco%20blasco%20iba%C3%B1ez&hl=es&client=firefox-b-d&ved=2ahUKEwi45LKn8vr-AhVYmycCHf1fDVMQMygkegUIARDGAQ ……… Capítulo 3 La familia Blasco Ibáñez - 1867 https://elargonautavalenciano.blogspot.com/2016/01/la-familia-blasco-ibanez-1867.html El "comecuras" Vicente Blasco Ibáñez: escritor e impulsor de la educación laica y popular en Valencia https://www.eldiario.es/comunitat-valenciana/comecuras-vicente-blasco-ibanez-escritor-e-impulsor-educacion-laica-popular-valencia_1_8027488.html La Nueva Atenas del Mediterráneo. El sueño de un novelista Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, cultura y educación populares en Valencia del catedrático de Teoría e Historia de la Educación de la Universidad de Valencia Luis Miguel Lázaro https://www.alfonselmagnanim.net/media/dival/files/sample-119161.pdf La nueva Atenas del Mediterráneo. visor https://www.proquest.com/openview/69c1c3034ed7f81c36f405c1b377897e/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=54848 La nueva Atenas del Mediterráneo. Otro enlace en pdf https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwib_Nqn69L-AhWKsKQKHYRIBZwQFnoECAgQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Frevistas.uned.es%2Findex.php%2FHMe%2Farticle%2Fdownload%2F31813%2F24523%2F84305&usg=AOvVaw0raZf70GBF-4NeLAyPZBF5 La Universidad Popular https://www.casamuseoblascoibanez.es/la-universidad-popular/ Reig dice que Blasco Ibáñez fue un "fabricante" de 'best sellers' https://elpais.com/diario/2000/09/23/cvalenciana/969736712_850215.html# LO MAS INTERESANTE SIEMPRE POR LA PUERTA DE ATRÁS https://tecnicopreocupado.com/2017/04/10/lo-mas-interesante-siempre-por-la-puerta-de-atras/ La Institución Libre de Enseñanza (ILE) según MENENDEZ PELAYO https://filosofia.org/aut/ile/index.htm Institución Libre de Enseñanza https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instituci%C3%B3n_Libre_de_Ense%C3%B1anza MIRANDO HACIA ATRÁS III: ANTICIPÁNDONOS A HG WELLS PRIMERA PARTE https://tecnicopreocupado.com/2020/01/06/mirando-hacia-atras-iii-anticipandonos-a-hg-wells-primera-parte/ MIRANDO HACIA ATRÁS IV: ANTICIPÁNDONOS A HG WELLS SEGUNDA PARTE https://tecnicopreocupado.com/2020/01/16/mirando-hacia-atras-iv-anticipandonos-a-hg-wells-segunda-parte/ MIRANDO HACIA ATRÁS V: ANTICIPÁNDONOS A HG WELLS TERCERA PARTE https://tecnicopreocupado.com/2020/01/24/mirando-hacia-atras-v-anticipandonos-a-hg-wells-tercera-parte/ MIRANDO HACIA ATRÁS VI: ANTICIPÁNDONOS A HG WELLS CUARTA PARTE https://tecnicopreocupado.com/2020/01/31/mirando-hacia-atras-vi-anticipandonos-a-hg-wells-cuarta-parte/ LORD Bertrand Arthur William Russell, tercer conde de Russell https://twitter.com/BabylonDab/status/1096603122414309376 Perversa "La Perpectiva Científica" de Lord Bertrand Russell y sus cámaras de muerte para niñ@s disidentes. https://desmontandoababylon.com/2017/06/03/la-maldita-perspectiva-de-russell-ya-es-realidad/ Universidad Popular de Valencia https://universitatpopular.com/ Tres amigos valencianos https://www.amigosnaugran.org/bsb-tres-amigos-valencianos-benlliure/ Los libros de mama de Francisco Umbral https://www.cervantesvirtual.com/portales/vicente_blasco_ibanez/estudios_autor/autor/Umbral,%20Francisco,%201932-2007/ Vicente Blasco Ibáñez y la madrastra España https://www.todoliteratura.es/noticia/56006/firma-invitada/vicente-blasco-ibanez-y-la-madrastra-espana.html Vicente Blasco Ibáñez. Su azarosa vida y sus últimos años en la Costa Azul https://www.meer.com/es/64910-vicente-blasco-ibanez A los 50 años http://elargonautavalenciano.blogspot.com/search/label/A%C3%B1o%201917 El inesperado éxito de Blasco Ibáñez en los Estados Unidos https://www.meer.com/es/66142-el-inesperado-exito-de-blasco-ibanez-en-los-estados-unidos La excesiva personalidad de Blasco Ibáñez https://www.elespanol.com/el-cultural/blogs/tengo_una_cita/20190815/excesiva-personalidad-blasco-ibanez/421827814_12.html Editorial Prometeo https://www.academia.edu/27468622/El_legado_de_una_editorial_emblem%C3%A1tica_Prometeo_Valencia_1914_ Portal:Editorial Prometeo - Wikisource https://es.wikisource.org/wiki/Portal:Editorial_Prometeo Viajes hacia la literatura satánica en un cambio de siglo https://web.archive.org/web/20200717011843/https://www.estudioshistoricos.inah.gob.mx/revistaHistorias/?p=583 Traslado de los restos mortales de Blasco Ibáñez a Valencia http://archivo.dival.es/es/actividad/traslado-de-los-restos-mortales-de-blasco-ib%C3%A1%C3%B1ez-valencia TESIS DOCTORAL El ART DÉCO EN LA IMAGEN ALEGÓRICA DE LA II REPÚBLICA ESPAÑOLA EN VALENCIA: VICENTE ALFARO PROMOTOR DE LAS ARTES https://core.ac.uk/reader/75989300 Honores militares BOE 28 octubre 1933 https://www.boe.es/datos/pdfs/BOE/1933/301/A00682-00682.pdf El sarcófago de Vicente Blasco Ibáñez https://cultural.valencia.es/es/el-sarcofag-de-vicente-blasco-ibanez/ Javier Goerlich https://valenciaoculta.com/javier-goerlich/ Marie Tussaud: La artista de máscaras mortuorias de cera https://www.culturabizarra.com/marie-tussaud-mascaras-mortuorias-cera/ LAS VIDAS CREADAS https://tecnicopreocupado.com/2023/01/22/los-manuscritos-muertos-y-las-vidas-creadas-pars-secunda/ València inicia el traslado del sarcófago de Blasco Ibáñez al cementerio general https://www.lavanguardia.com/local/valencia/20210406/6631360/valencia-inicia-traslado-sarcofago-blasco-ibanez-cementerio-general.amp.html El sarcófago de Vicente Blasco Ibáñez ya está en el Cementerio General de València https://www.lavanguardia.com/local/valencia/20210423/7107566/sarcofago-vicente-blasco-ibanez-cementerio-general-valencia.amp.html Fin al capítulo del sarcófago de Blasco Ibáñez https://www.lasprovincias.es/culturas/sarcofago-blasco-ibanez-20210423133737-nt.html

Today on the Building Fence podcast “Where We Bridge the Gap”. Ben speaks with Rodney Curtin, Cambridge neuroscience expert and leading scholar on sustainable energy. Rodney is also a leading thinker and notable entity on all things AI, computer interfaces and Mediterranean cuisine. Today's discussion includes: AI, the significance of Beluga Whales, LLCs, MBAs, the NBA, VBI and P.I.G, Existential Risk, Dangerous info Vs. Fun information, apples, pork futures, the number zero, the letter “O”, and other topics.

Der Verband Beratender Ingenieure (VBI) wurde um Wiederaufbauhilfe für die Ukraine gebeten. Bislang konnte das aber noch nicht passieren, weil die rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen und eine Finanzierungsstruktur fehlten, sagt VBI-Chef Sascha Steuer. Von WDR 5.

On April 14, 2022, 12 year old Sean Daugherty passed away unexpectedly in his home under suspicious circumstances in Yorktown, VA. On this week's episode, Courtney and Jaclyn speak with Sean's mother Ramona as she is seeking answers to find out what happened to her son. His death was assumed to be a suicide despite many pieces of evidence that point to murder. If you have any information regarding Sean's death, please reach out to their tip line at 804-905-8613 or email whathappenedtosean@gmail.com. Please visit the What Happened to Sean Facebook page for more detailed information and sign their petition to have the case transferred to the FBI or VBI. Instagram: @caffeinatedcrimespodTwitter: @caffcrimespodEmail: caffeinatedcrimespod@gmail.comFacebook: Caffeinated CrimesThe Enthusiasm ProjectDeep dives exploring the world of what it means to be an independent creator.Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the show

Como a crise envolvendo o nome da operadora de saúde Prevent Senior pode atingir o fundo de investimento imobiliário dono da sua sede? No programa "Que fundo é esse?", a analista Isabella Suleiman recebe Rodrigo Abbud, sócio-fundador da VBI, para um bate-papo ao vivo.

Prof. Dr. Lamia Messari-Becker (Universität Siegen) und Thomas Ferrero (PTV Transport Consult) sprechen über die Stadt der Zukunft und welche Rolle Ingenieure in der Mobilitätswende spielen.

Are you looking for an awesome cheatsheet that reviews the facts to know about VBI testing for the NPTE? Look no further: www.kylericeprep.com/VBI Martin is treating a 45-year-old male with recurrent neck pain and joint hypomobility. Before initiating end-range cervical mobilizations, the therapist would like to assess for vertebrobasilar insufficiency. To check the left vertebral artery, the MOST effective position to place the patient’s head and neck is: A. Flexion B. Extension C. Right rotation D. Left rotation Did you get this question wrong?! If you were stuck between two answers and selected the wrong one, then you need to visit www.NPTEPASS.com, to learn about the #1 solution to STOP getting stuck. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thepthustle/support

FII Fácil Entrevista: Vitor Martins e Juliana Freitas da VBI Real EstateCVBI11Tópicos:Na noite de 27 de agosto de 2020, Diogo Arantes, fundado do canal FII Fácil, entrevistou Vitor Martins e Juliana Freitas da VBI Real Estate. Como sabemos, a VBI é uma gestora focada no mercado imobiliário, no entanto, o foco da conversa foi a respeito do fundo de crédito da gestora, negociado na bolsa de valores através do Ticker CVBI11. Atualmente, a gestora conta com quatro fundos imobiliários listados na bolsa, sendo eles: LVBI11, fundo logístico com R$816,9 Milhões de PL; RVBI11, um FoF com R$139,6 Milhões de PL; PVBI11, fundo de lajes com R$939,4 Milhões de PL; e o CVBI11, fundo de crédito com R$351,9 Milhões de PL. A VBI é formada por profissionais com histórico imobiliário e técnico-financeiro. Tendo um DNA focado no imobiliário, não apenas no Real Estate, mas no mercado imobiliário no todo. Recentemente, a gestora reduziu as taxas do fundo CVBI, mostrando alinhamento com os cotistas. Como fundamentação para a redução, Vitor informou que o fundo foi estruturado com CDI em 6,5% e, desde o início, esperavam receber cerca de 1,3% ao ano e taxas de gestão, administração e performance. Com o impacto da pandemia e a queda na taxa de juros, cerca de 4,5% em um ano, o custo do fundo acabou penalizando o investidor, portanto, a gestora reformulou toda a estrutura de custos, sendo que a taxa está em 1,1% ao ano, em linha com o mercado, até mesmo abaixo da média cobrada atualmente no mercado. O feedback dos cotistas foi extremamente positivo, demonstrando que o fundo está de fato alinhado com os cotistas.#CVBI11 #fiifacil #cashtfacil #fiitalk #DiogoArantesEntrevista conduzida por Diogo ArantesContato VBI Real Estate:https://www.vbirealestate.com/https://www.vbicri.com.br/ri@vbirealestate.com

Evan Pan and Bradley Tidwell, the 2019 NSDA National Runners-up in Public Forum debate, share their advice for succeeding in the debate! Bradley debated at All Saints Episcopal School for two years and was Public Forum Captain his senior year. During his time he qualified to the Texas State tournament, and to the NSDA national tournament both years. He also broke at nearly every TOC tournament he attended this year and broke deep at tournaments such as Bellaire, Plano West, University of Texas, Hockaday, the TFA state tournament, and many more. He also won speaker awards at Bellaire and Colleyville. Finally, outside of PF, he qualified to the tournament of champions in extemporaneous speaking. He attended VBI before his senior season. Public forum debate (PF) is a type of current events debate which is a widespread form of high school debate in the U.S. Individuals give short (2-4 minute) speeches that are interspersed with 3 minute "crossfire" sections, questions and answers between opposed debaters. The winner is determined by a judge who also serves as a referee (timing sections, penalizing incivility, etc). The debate centers around advocating or rejecting a position, or "resolution", which is a proposal of a potential solution to a current events issue. Public forum is designed to be accessible to the average citizen. Nathan Fair has interviewed many National Champions. He has qualified for NSDA Nationals, qualified to NCFL Nationals and served as the presiding officer, and he broke to semifinals at a TOC qualifying tournament. He has placed 2nd at three separate varsity Congressional Debate tournaments. Finally, he served as a Presiding Officer for the Urban Debate League's tournament. His success was garnered after using the skills that are shared in this video.

From humble family beginnings to a worldwide corporate behemoth, Vomit Box Inc. continues to expand its reach into the lives and livelihoods of everyday local mouth breathers from every walk of life. For instance, VBI isn’t just the leading manufacture of Vomit Boxes, Vomit Box Maintenance Kits, Vomit Adhesive and Vomit Plank Molding Plates, but also has major holding in the pharmaceutical industry, owns a leading Zookeeper training facility, radio station, as well as the 100s of sawdust mills peppered through out the globe. With so many fingers in so many pies, one wonders how can a company stay so focused on the bottom line. The answer: Consistency.

Why all of the sudden is everyone trying to become an armchair VBI agent? Because it is fun.  

Roger Kerry (University of Nottingham UK - https://rogerkerry.wordpress.com/) talks to Rachael Lowe from Physiopedia discussing the importance of clinical reasoning and the Cervical Arterial Dysfunction (CAD) framework. As part of Feb 2014’s monthly learn topic on the cervical spine we were extremely fortunate to be able to record a 30 minute interview with Roger Kerry, Associate Professor at University of Nottingham, about his work and thinking on clinical decision making and the Cervical Arterial Dysfunction (CAD) assessment model. Here we provide a 10 minute section of this interview where Roger describes this very important framework and contrasts it against vertebrobasilar ischaemia (VBI) testing used prior to cervical manipulation.

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Jon Freeman   Jon Freeman was co-founder of the computer game publisher Automated Simulations, which became EPYX. At Automated Simulations, he co-created Starfleet Orion and Gateway to Apshai. Then he and his wife Anne Westfall started the game development company FreeFall Associates, where they created Tax Dodge, Archon, Archon II, and Murder on the Zinderneuf.   This interview took place April 21, 2015.   Teaser quotes:   “That six months, I read two books in six months, and we went to one movie. The rest of the time we we just working on the game. That’s all we did. It was very, you know, intense.”   “You know, I could just basically flip that switch every VBI and have the computer play itself. That turned out to be one of the absolutely huge selling points of [Archon]. Stores could put it in the window, get it started, and let it run.”   Links:   Free Fall Games web site   Free Fall Associates chapter in Halcyon Days   Tax Dodge   1984 article about Free Fall

Treatment of the cervical spine often involves some degree of manual therapy or manipulation, and VBI testing is generally encouraged or required prior to this. In this episode of the Physio Edge podcast, Roger Kerry and David Pope discuss Cervical Arterial Dysfunction (CAD), the accuracy and limitations of VBI testing, and a lot of other good stuff, including: Cervical Arterial Dysfunction (CAD), and VBI Why is it important for clinicians to know about CAD The limitations of VBI testing Clues within the history to alert you to the possibility of CAD Symptoms of CAD 2 types/causes of dizziness and differentiation The 5 Ds and 3 N’s - what are the limitations of this approach Signs & Symptoms of Cerebral and retinal ischaemia Aetiology Upper cervical instability As clinicians, where should CAD and VBI testing lead our assessment, treatment and investigations? When can we conservatively treat someone with these symptoms Monitoring - during and post rx Contraindications to Rx Listen to it now, and subscribe to the podcast in iTunes Links of interest Get a flatter stomach by subscribing to the podcast in iTunes Give the Physio Edge podcast a review in iTunes Clinical Edge Free membership to Clinical Edge! Roger Kerry on Twitter @rogerkerry1 Roger Kerry’s profile at Nottingham University - Physiotherapy Roger Kerry’s profile at Nottingham University - Philosophy Courses with Roger Kerry IFOMPT Conference 2012 Hamstring Rehab for Elite Sprinters - Online education for Physiotherapists for Clinical Edge members 20% off your first months Clinical Edge membership with the code “physioedge” Contact David David on Twitter Tags: physio, physio edge, physiotherapist, podcast, courses, cervical spine, CAD, cervical arterial dysfunction, VBI, vertebrobasilar insufficiency, spine, artery, manipulation, IFOMPT, Nottingham University, evidence based practice, health education seminars, online education, verterbral artery, dizziness