John Dolva

The main problem is (again) a matter of social mores and their importance in different societies and how certain matters can be so important that they can become fodder for blackmail and murder, quite apart from the corruption aand compromises persons are forced into as a result. A symptom with a systemic cause. Therefore (if recognised as a problem) it begs a systemic solution.

James, I wonder if on the image (model) a trajectory can be drawn with dots (to get a 3d sense of what you are getting at) and not just the location of the back wound?

Secret service prostitute says secret information was easily accessible http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/04/secret-service-prostitute-secret- information ''A woman who says she was the prostitute who triggered the US secret service scandal in Colombia said that the agents involved were "idiots" for letting it happen, and declared that if she were a spy and sensitive information was available, she could have easily obtained it. The woman said she spent five hours in a Cartagena, Colombia, hotel room with an agent, and while she barely got cab fare out of him, she could have gotten information that would have compromised the security of US president Barack Obama if the agent had any. "Totally," she replied when asked. "The man slept all night," said the woman, who was identified by her lawyer as Dania Londono Suarez. "If I had wanted to, I could have gone through all his documents, his wallet, his suitcase." She said in the 90-minute interview with Colombia's W Radio that no US investigator had been in touch with her, although reporters descended on her home a week after the incident when a taxi driver led them to it. "They could track me anywhere in the world that I go but they haven't done so," she said, speaking in Spanish. "If the secret service agents were idiots, imagine the investigators." That alarmed a US congressman who is monitoring the case. Representative Peter King, chairman of the House homeland security committee, issued a statement on Friday expressing concern that investigators "have been unable to locate and interview two of the female foreign nationals involved," including Londono. "I have asked the secret service for an explanation of how they have failed to find this woman when the news media seems to have no trouble doing so." Eight secret service agents have lost their jobs in the scandal, although there is no evidence any of the 10 women interviewed by US investigators for their roles in it have any connection to terrorist groups, King said earlier this week. In the interview, Londono called the secret service agents caught up in the scandal "fools for being from Obama's security and letting all this happen". "When I said, 'I'm going to call the police so they pay me my money,' and it didn't bother them, didn't they see the magnitude of the problem?" she said. Londono said the man never identified himself as a member of Obama's advance security detail for an inter-governmental summit, and said she saw nothing in his room that would have indicated the man's job other than a brown uniform. Londono said the man had agreed to pay her $800, but that she never would have made a public fuss about his failure to pay had she known he was part of Obama's security detail and realised the repercussions it would have for her. "My life is practically destroyed," she said. "My name is in the gutter." Her photo has been splashed all over the internet since a newspaper took it off Facebook a week after the incident, when she said she fled Colombia fearing for her life. "I was afraid they might retaliate," she said, saying she feared for herself and her family after looking up secret service on the internet and seeing that some agents were sharpshooters. ... She said she had contracted one of Colombia's top lawyers, Abelardo De la Espriella. He confirmed her identity for the AP and said she called him for the first time earlier Friday, recommended by the radio host who interviewed Londono. He said he didn't see that there was any criminal infraction in the incident. Prostitution is legal in Colombia. "Let's see how we can help her," De la Espriella said of Londono. Londono appeared in the interview, part of which was also broadcast by Colombia's Caracol TV, ... While W Radio did not say where she was interviewed, she later gave an interview to the Spanish radio network Cadeba Ser, which said it was recorded in one of its studios. ... She said that the desk clerk at the Hotel Caribe called at 6.30am to tell her it was time to leave, and the agent addressed her with an insult in telling her to get out. Dania said it was nearly three hours after the man kicked her out of the room and she alerted a Colombian policeman stationed on the hallway before three colleagues of the agent, who had refused to open his door after giving her $30, scraped together $250 and paid her, she said. "'The only thing they said was 'Please, please. No police, no police,'" she said. Later that day, 12 April, the agent and 11 other secret service colleagues who may have also had prostitutes in their rooms at the five-star hotel were sent home, under investigation for alleged misconduct. Londono's story agrees with what investigators in Washington have disclosed. She said she met the man, one of ten or 11 agents in a Cartagena bar, and accompanied him back to the hotel, stopping on the way to buy condoms. She said the other agents at the bar were all drunk. "They bought alcohol like they were buying water," she said, though she never saw any evidence that any of them used illegal drugs. She said the man she was with was only moderately intoxicated. She said she did not know his name. Londono said that she went to Dubai after the scandal broke and spent time with someone she had previously met in Cartagena. She would not say whether that person had been a client. ... ''

''Japan will be entirely without nuclear power for the first time in more than 40 years.'' http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-17934648 4 May 2012 Last updated at 00:48 GMT Share this page Japan facing uncertain nuclear future The last of Japan's 54 nuclear reactors will be switched off at the weekend With Japan's last operating nuclear reactor due to go offline for maintenance, the BBC's Roland Buerk looks at the ongoing debate in the country on its nuclear future. The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant was built when Japan believed in a nuclear-powered future. There are seven reactors stretched along a vast expanse of coastline feed electricity lines that run to Tokyo, far away on the other side of the country. They can provide up to a fifth of the needs of the vast metropolis and the surrounding region. Inside the visitor centre a certificate is on display from the Guinness Book of Records, confirming it as the biggest nuclear power station by generating capacity in the world. But for now it is little more than a very expensive blot on the landscape.Big employer In the main control room, under the clock, the electricity output display is showing zero. The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa power station is offline - and the last of Japan's 54 nuclear reactors will be switched off at the weekend. Before the 11 March 2011 earthquake and tsunami nuclear power provided 30% of Japan's electricity needs. Now imports of LNG and oil are being increased to compensate. Trust is shattered after the accident at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant The host city of Kashiwazaki now faces the same choice as other local communities in the shadows of nuclear plants - between the need for jobs and the fear of being blighted by a disaster, like those who lived around Fukushima. The power station is a big employer - up to 10,000 people including contractors could be working on any given day. There are limited employment opportunities in the surrounding area, which is the reason an earlier generation of city fathers wanted it here in the first place. There is no other major industry and the main street is faded, apart from the new Tepco Plaza, named for the Tokyo Electric Power Company, the town's main benefactor.'Trust shattered' "We have coexisted with the nuclear power plant and it was a given that it was safe," said Mayor Hiroshi Aida. "But with the accident we found out it might not be. So we cannot take it for granted that the nuclear power plant is absolutely safe. "We need to think of that as the citizens of this city. That's the biggest worry for us here. Our trust for the government and the people running the plant has been shattered." Shiro Arai, deputy site manager at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa, said safety issues were paramount. "The purpose of the power plant is to generate electricity. But our company is responsible for the Fukushima power plant, where the accident happened," he said. "Above all what is most important for nuclear power plants is safety. Safety comes first before anything, before operating a plant. We all feel the same way." The government - mindful of the energy challenges facing the country - has been working hard to try to get trust back. Nuclear reactors have been put through a series of stress tests, designed to check their resistance to natural disasters like earthquakes and tsunamis. Ministers have been despatched to talk to officials from local governments about restarting operations. But they have been unable to avoid what is happening this weekend, the last nuclear reactor, in Tomari in Hokkaido, going offline for routine maintenance before any have been restarted. Japan will be entirely without nuclear power for the first time in more than 40 years. Local governments do not have a veto under law but they have always been consulted in the past as a matter of courtesy. The government wants to proceed now on the basis of consensus rather than compulsion - but the cost to Japan's economy is high.'Cheaper energy' needed A dramatic increase in imports of gas and other fossil fuels helped push the country into its biggest ever trade deficit last year. Seafarers say they have never seen the gas terminal on Tokyo Bay so busy. ... It has enabled Japan to avoid black-outs but at a price - more expensive electricity for industry. "The Japanese economy depends on huge and advanced manufacturing. The manufacturing sector needs cheaper energy," said Yu Nagatomi from the Institute of Energy Economics Japan. "The industrial sector may be afraid that the situation makes it difficult to produce their materials in Japan, domestically. They may think it is a better way to keep their business to get out of Japan." At Kashiwazaki-Kariwa they are constructing huge new sea walls - big enough, they say, to withstand any possible tsunami. But the Japanese were told the Fukushima Daiichi power station was safe only to see to see it tipped into meltdowns. Akihiro Harako, one of the workers at the Fukushima plant who struggled to control the crisis in the aftermath of the tsunami, said lessons had to be learned before public trust was restored. "For 40 years, we've been running our nuclear power plant safely. We believe we've contributed to providing energy to the country. "But there's been a regrettable accident. Operators inside Japan and outside need to learn from it to run power plants safely. As for the existence of nuclear energy in Japan, I think we need to discuss it widely in the future." Convincing people now will not be easy.

A conservative dude. In chrcking I first choose to read CIVILIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS Sigmund Freud translated from the German by JOAN RIVIERE a brief excerpt: http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/freud-civ.html Which in contemplation of Ram Dass, Willhelm Reich too, then Che', all who had things to say on this. The direction and persistence of passions is guided by an attachment to desirable sensations and an aversion to unpleasant ones which goes towards limiting the passions of youth and a piling on of baggage to carry through life which when released is strong and narrow in its expression leading the sufferer to assert control and direct it according to the very same habits that culture enforces. Freud and this guy ( http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Bulwer-Lytton.html ) come across as a bit anal retentive. (imo)

Could be either imo but I tend to lean towards the former as an hypothesis. Of course this has a basis in my political outlook, but is it that unusual for gate keepers to take calculates risks, particularly if a bit of dosh comes with the deal? But perhaps more importantly, do you see the consequences if the status quo accepts a standard like they are asked to here? Where does the buck stop? Really, think about it. I think the tortuous prolonged events leading to what is, and has been for decades, obvious is part of a systemic damage control and what will follow will be precicely that. This is politics and it's right to invoke Bob Dylans words about the ladder of the law goes up too. What we'll continue to see unfold is already stagemanaged. (imo) . I think it will be important to maintain a focus as a defence of Tom Watson and people like him.

http://educationforu...57 _______________ R.I.P Thomas Borge edit add Commandante Tomás Borge Martínez (Matagalpa, 13 August 1930 – Managua, 30 April 2012)

Thanks, Norman. It a bit of a historic game to have been recorded in 1853, and this modern guy who is a GO player and a composer and able to describe the game so well in his commentary is a great lesson. There's a lot in it I just don't get and much that is so beautiful in its inevitability during the fast plays. Watching it again and again brings to mind a saying as I remember it describing GO as a wildfire. It's almost like it can bestow the meaning of GO without needing to know the rules and on whatever level one plays enhances the meaning of the rules one does know. It seems to me a high Dan match (I don't know the players) and they stop (each says GO) where it's to me early. This means they can see that much earlier the outcome and is probably also an expression of a particularly 'eastern' honor.

So far, if I was to pick a 'hero' it would be Tom Watson. It is of no surprise to me that left elements have shown most courage in pursuing this. Also it is of no surprise that right wing elements seem most keen to absolve the real criminal Don here, Rupert Murdoch. Well done, Tom.

5 Days for the Cuban 5 in Washington D.C. Nuria BaRbosa León Brick by brick the mainstream media wall of silence surrounding the case of the Cuban Five is coming down. Alicia Jrapko, coordinator of the International Committee for the Release of the Cuban Five told Cubadebate: "We have managed to break through the mainstream media a bit. Univisión had impartial coverage for the first time." Demonstrators in front of the White House. The Friday evening and Saturday demonstrations during the five days of action for the Five in Washington D.C. were covered by television channels that included C-SPAN, Hispan, Univisión, Russia Today and Telesur. The event organized in the U.S. capitol by the International Committee for the Release of the Cuban Five ended Saturday, 21st April, with a day full of action, events and planning workshops. At 10 am a group of religious from different denominations held a brain storming session to work out strategies for future action. The Reverend Dr. Joan Brown Campbell, former Secretary General of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA and the Reverend Dora Arca from the Cuban Pastoral Platform were among those advocating further action for justice for the Cuban Five. A peaceful demonstration supporting the release of the Cuban Five was held outside the White House beginning at 1:00 pm on Saturday. The large numbers already in D.C. were boosted by the arrival of four buses of supporters from New York and other U.S. cities. The hundreds of activists carried banners, placards and posters all demanding that Obama release the imprisoned Cubans immediately. A letter of appreciation and support in the name of the Five from Gerardo Hernandez, one of the Five who is serving two life sentences and fifteen years on trumped-up charges, was read out and received enthusiastically by those present. Representatives from different solidarity organizations across the U.S. and other parts of the world followed Gerardo’s message with others from individuals and committees promising to continue the struggle until the Cuban Five are free and with their families in Cuba. Cindy Sheehan brought the five days of action to a close at a meeting held in the Bolivarian Room of the Venezuelan embassy. In a moving and sincere manner Cindy explained her reasons for becoming involved with the case of the Five and expressed her admiration and fondness for the mothers of the incarcerated men. According to Alicia Jrapko "The 5 days have been for me the best action or project we have ever done. From many angles it is the best. We have reached out to many people. We had an event with panelists of the most diverse ideas and ways of thinking. We were able to bring together a number of organizations that usually don’t work together." "It was super important and, yes, we are very tired but happy." (From www.thecuban5.org) Activities in numerous countries In London’s Trafalgar Square hundreds gathered to demand the immediate release of the Five and unfurl a giant 15-meter banner on the initiative of the Cuba solidarity organization, Rock around the Blockade. Actions were planned in Glasgow, Scotland and in London an exhibition of graphic works by Antonio Guerrero and Gerardo Hernández, is continuing. In Mexico City, supporters of the Five assembled in front of the U.S. embassy to chant slogans calling for their freedom, while in Russia, the Venceremos movement issued a statement calling on Obama to free the prisoners and right the injustice. In Managua, the Nicaraguan Parliament approved a resolution demanding that the U.S. government free the anti-terrorist Cubans. In the Dominican Republic, the television program Rebeldes, on the Tierra América 12 channel, was devoted to the issue. In Germany, Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Spain, Italy, Peru, Turkey, Sweden and Ukraine events were held in solidarity with the Five. While in Cuba, representatives from the brigades of more than 2,000 youth from 83 countries who are studying in the province of Villa Clara, organized a public event describing the tortuous legal process and demanding justice. - MIAMI 5

I miss the season but it's great to be able to follow particularly these three countries teams through online films. Here's the last few seconds with almost ten minutes of overtime remaining. As good as it gets. Final : Sweden1 - Russia 0 (Canada - Bronze) edit amusing typo

an goes with a wowel. U? Is there a hint of dislike of N? edit add don't worry I dont get it either.

Gough Whitlam (Labor Prime Minister of Australia in early seventies) indicates in his reply (The truth of the Matter) to GG J. Kerrs book about The Dismissal that Murdoch was a player. That was 40 years ago. It seems this inquiry is very reluctantly broadening its scope. Why? There are documented indications that this whole thing is nothing but more of the same. Ditto it seems the resistance, but there is a posiibility that this time what goes around will come around. I wouldn't hold my breath though ''(Rupert) Murdoch senior, and the bland evasions of his son, lies a story in which democracy – not just in the UK, but in the US, Australia and elsewhere – has been consistently and wilfully undermined in pursuit not simply of profit but, far more corrosively, of power. For the past 30 (40, and if so why not more? -ed) years,the Murdoch empire has sought to undermine and destabilise (the) elected governments, and independent regulators, in pursuit of a political agenda that, while hiding behind a smokescreen of free market orthodoxy, is in the end nothing less than a sophisticated attempt to optimise the power and influence of News Corporation and its populist, rightwing agenda''. edit typos

Ok. Interesting. However I simply wanted to address one particular matter. Do you think if one did consider references to dark versus red redundant, does that in any way weaken the proposition that Ray's alibi was a lie?

I can see how the red could be called dark even with clean windows and direct sun though of course photos are often not a true depiction of what various human eyes percieve when the photos are taken. Anyway I don't know if it really matters or not.

The Full Album: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fvFeW8fgaw&feature=related

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''Tom Watson, the deputy chairman of the Labour party, countered: "The only person that does not want an independent assessor to do an independent inquiry is the prime minister.'' I disgree. An independent inquiry could do far far more damage to persons at the core of this. It could lead to avenues of inquiry that spans decades of events across the globe that have the potential to rewrite official histories in ways that probably few can imagine. Certainly the prime minister is reluctant to open such a can of worms. Must be tough trying to squirm out from between a rock and a hard place. But, hey, what are friends for? edit add here's an odd site http://www.mail-archive.com/cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com/msg13259.html

Growth machine is a capital problem Wednesday, April 11, 2012 By Ian Angus In article after article, book after book, scientists and environmentalists have exposed the devastating effects of constant economic expansion on the global environment. The drive to produce ever more “stuff” is filling our rivers with poison and our air with climate-changing gases. The oceans are dying, species are dying out at unprecedented rates, water is running short, and soil is eroding much faster than it can be replaced. But the growth machine pushes on. It’s not just inertia. Unending material expansion is a deliberate policy promoted by politicians of every political stripe, from social democrats to ultraconservatives. When the leaders of the world’s richest countries, the G20, met in Toronto two years ago, they unanimously agreed that their “highest priority” was to “lay the foundation for strong, sustainable and balanced growth.” They used the word “growth” 29 times in their nine-page final declaration. Corporate executives, economists, pundits, bureaucrats, and of course politicians … all agree that growth is good and non-growth is bad. Why, in the face of massive evidence that constant expansion of production and extraction of resources is killing us, do governments and corporations keep shoveling coal for the runaway growth train? In most environmental writing, one of two explanations is offered — it’s human nature, or it’s a mistake. The human nature argument is central to mainstream economics. Our species is homo economicus, economic man, defined by John Stuart Mill as “a being who inevitably does that by which he may obtain the greatest amount of necessaries, conveniences, and luxuries, with the smallest quantity of labour and physical self-denial with which they can be obtained.” So we always want more, and economic growth is just capitalism’s way of meeting that fundamental human desire. Enough is never enough for our species. That view often leads its proponents to conclude that the only way to slow or reverse the pillaging of Mother Earth is to slow or reverse population growth. More people equals more stuff; fewer people equals less stuff. As Simon Butler and I show in our book Too Many People?, many populationist arguments are no more sophisticated than that. The other common greenish explanation for the constant promotion of growth is that we have somehow been seduced by a false ideology, a harmful mythology. “The more we examine the role of growth in our society,” writes the Australian environmentalist Clive Hamilton in Growth Fetish, "the more our obsession with growth appears to be a fetish — that is, an inanimate object worshipped for its apparent magical properties.” Similarly, in The Environmental Endgame, environmental science professor Robert Nadeau says political leaders and economic planners are under the sway of “a quasi-religious belief system” – so what is needed is a religious conversion. “If political leaders and economic planners realize that the gods they now serve are false and proceed to do what is required to resolve the environmental crisis, we can soon be living in a very different world.” The task is to free humanity from “the fiction that perpetual economic growth is possible and morally desirable.” These and other writers offer valuable insights into the catastrophic effects of constant growth, but they consistently fail to answer the most important question — why are these mistaken ideas so powerful? Why do politicians and economists cling to growth as a goal and GDP as its measure? Critiquing the growth paradigm The British Marxist Gareth Dale offers answers to those questions, and a refutation of the human nature argument, in an important paper published this month in the British journal International Socialism – “The Growth Paradigm: A Critique.” Dale defines the growth paradigm as “the proposition that economic growth is good, imperative, essentially limitless, and the principal remedy for a litany of social problems”. Although that proposition seems ubiquitous and even natural, he says, the idea that pursuing profit for its own sake would benefit society at large is in fact “uniquely modern”. “For millennia no sense of ‘an economy’ as something separate from the totality of social relations existed, nor was there a compulsion to growth. ‘Do we never find in antiquity an inquiry into which form of landed property, etc. is the most productive, creates the greatest wealth?’ asked Marx rhetorically. … The ancients, he wrote elsewhere, ‘never thought of transforming the surplus-product into capital. Or at least only to a very limited extent.’” Not until the 1500s did the idea that accumulation is natural or desirable take root among the wealthy, and there was no major public defence of that idea until Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations in 1776. Even then, it wasn’t until the first decades of the 20th century that the general belief that material progress is desirable transmuted into “an urgent conviction that promoting growth is a matter of national priority”. This history undermines the idea that a desire for constant expansion of material wealth is inherent in human nature. Economic man and the growth paradigm are recent inventions that our species managed without for most of our time on Earth. So why is the growth paradigm so tenacious and influential now? The argument that economic growth is driven by incorrect ideas gets the relationship exactly backwards: the view that constant economic growth is desirable is a product of a growth-driven economic and social system, not its cause. Dale writes: “The growth paradigm is anchored in social relations. It is intrinsic in a society based on commodity production, for in such a society the drive to accumulate capital is imperative and ubiquitous. It cannot be explained in terms of misdirected views and false priorities alone, and therefore the transformation of humanity’s relationship with its environment requires more than a change of mentality.” The emergence of the growth paradigm as a coherent ideology in England in the 1700s reflected the colossal shift that was then taking place in peoples’ relationships with each other and with nature. For millennia almost all production had been for use, so there was little need or room for growth as we understand it today. But under capitalism, most production is for exchange: capital exploits labour and nature to produce goods that can be sold for more than the cost of production, in order to accumulate more capital … and the process repeats. The growth paradigm doesn’t cause perpetual growth — it justifies it. The fact that pro-growth ideology reflects the fundamental nature of capitalism does not, of course, mean that there is no need to expose and combat it. On the contrary, Gareth Dale insists: “There is a need for ideology critique: to uncover contradictions in the dominant ideology, to lay bare their connections within society’s mode of production and to comprehend their obfuscatory workings … “The growth paradigm — the idea that continuous economic growth is society’s central and overriding goal — provides ideological cover for what is the true goal of capitalist production: the self-expansion of capital. Capitalists and their cadre would prefer their interests not to be seen in these terms. ‘As a system of competition,’ Mike Kidron and Elana Gluckstein observe, ‘capitalism depends on the growth of capital; as a class system it depends on obscuring the sources of that growth.’” This brief introduction cannot do justice to Dale’s account, which not only deals with the history and roots of the growth paradigm, but offers valuable insights into its implications for left-green strategy in this century. It’s an important contribution to our understanding of capitalism’s growth paradigm, and to our fight against it. [Republished from Climate and Capitalism].

FWIW I've skimmed through this and note in particucular the constant references to colors. I think it is important to consider how the eye functions at twilight. Basically it's about the shift in rod-cone mix that occures. One good way to test this is to go out and look at a red rose as light fades. here are some links to help explain the background and some links that may help in considering luminance. What I haven't looked at but think is relevant is the weather conditions. Was it cloudy or clear? Similarly the shadows cast over scenes by buildings. For this one would need to study a map of the scene and figure out from a sun path map where the sun was. Or deduce from the photo. http://www.aoa.org/x5352.xml http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/astronomy.html?n=409&month=4&year=2012&obj=sun&afl=-13&day=1 Then it might be something useful to consider in relation to various statements about light dark blue red.

Ditto. edit of course I have questions re the accuracy of the plat. I found that by placing Dormer over Dons that the left third was pretty right, the middle too and the right third togrther showed me a discrepancy that led me to speculate little knowing that Jack had stated that the basis for the plat was a taped together three photocopies However as this is vertical on the right third that has no relevance here. I think. edit add I find this testimony credible and so for an interesting reason. I matches HDH's description of the headshot and he was in the same line as Toni re the sixth floor but elevated more near the top right corner of the Terminal Annex.

There are two knolls. _________________ That's a fascinating post, Malcolm. First it's nice to know a bit more (a lot actually) of Walkers movements after landing at Shreveport (from Dallas, in the air during assassination) to be met by Ned Touchstone and co. I like the whole article but particularly the shift of focus to superiors re SS and the Mention of O'Donnell. He fall apart, didn't he? Something really got to him that turned him into a wreck while others soldiered on. Also this is an opportunity to again mention Ewald Peters who was the head of German security under Adenour and Erhardt. (sic) He was also an SD (village cop or something like that) member in early NAZI regime who went on to be an Officer in the Death Squads that followed the Wermacht into the Soviet Union, went 'underground, was trained in US (now ID Ewald), then on to Kriminal-Raten and in the US early Nov for a burial, then likely edvance party for Erhardt's visit in mid Dec when the Chancellor visited LBJ at his ranch later Dec. I used J-store to search and found a total of a few inches in about 13 articles mentioned* by one unnamed SS member as friend, good guy. (mentioned in a couple of articles (Time Feb I think) after Ewald was unmasked by east German NAZI hunters in early jan 64' then shortly found dead in Jail. An interesting footnote in history) There's more but... : an interesting article that I think helps to refocus. edit add* typos add2 One thing (possibly little known) that happened during the German visit to LBJ was LBJ teeling Erhardt to focus on Latin America so the US could shift more to Indochina. ewiw edit add3 the owner(future) of the TSBD building flew the Dallas Boneheads to mexico for fun and games in 1948. fwiw Ther's a lot in the article so it needs reading and rereading. I'll copy it here: posted by Malcolm FAST FORWARD: At 12:23 on November 22, from his office on the 7th floor of the Mercantile Building, Haroldson Lafayette Hunt watched John Kennedy ride towards Dealey Plaza, where fate awaited him at 12:30. A few minutes later, escorted by six men in two cars, Hunt left the center of Dallas without even stopping by his house. At that very moment; General Walker was in a plane between New Orleans and Shreveport. He joined Mr. Hunt in one of his secret hideaways across the Mexican border. There they remained for a month, protected by personal guards, under the impassive eyes of the FBI. It was not until Christmas that Hunt, Walker and their party returned to Dallas. It isn't enough to want to kill the President. There is also the Secret Service to think about. The Presidential assistants were prepared to affront political obstacles, but their "grace and their airy flanerie" had shielded them from the brutal side of American life. Innocent of violence and ignorant of hate, they failed to see the danger. Only Daniel P. Moynihan, a former longshoreman, had some idea of such things. Of all the Cabinet officials, only Bob Kennedy knew the risks of the Presidency. But he couldn't be behind his brother every minute of the day. Ken O'Donnell, who was in charge of the White House staff, had authority not only over the personnel, but also over the Secret Service. He could transfer or fire anyone he wanted, and he had the power, to introduce reforms. He was also in charge of the President's trips. The 56 Secret Service agents assigned to the White House detail were under the authority of the Treasury Department, but the responsible official, Assistant Treasury Secretary Robert Wallace, left the everyday direction of the Service to James Rowley, a mediocre civil servant. Gerald Behn, head of the White House Secret Service detail, lacked the necessary intelligence and qualifications for the job. It is difficult, of course, to protect an active President, and it is impossible to protect him completely during his public appearances. But there are ways to reduce the risk, and there are certain rules which are applied by Presidential security forces throughout the world, be it in France, the USSR, or Bolivia. The protection of the President witnin the United States(3) presents a special problem. The Secret Service is obliged to cooperate with the local police, which are sometimes incompetent or unreliable, and can even, as in Dallas, be dangerous.(4) But a Presidential security force should be able to rise to the challenge. The guerrilla warfare specialists who organized the Dallas ambush were amazed to discover that Kennedy's Secret Service worked like a troop of boy scouts. Several members of the White House detail were not qualified for their jobs. Their average age was 40, and as in the Senate the highest positions were awarded on the basis of seniority. Bill Greer, the driver of the Presidential Lincoln, was 54 and had 35 years' experience, enough to lull anybody's reflexes. After O'Donnell and perhaps Kellerman (the agent who rode in the front of the President's car in Dallas), Greer bears a heavy responsibility for the success of the assassination. We shall explain why a little later. The White House agents had two sessions a year on a Washington firing range, but they practiced only target shooting like any amateur. Their reflexes were never tested. At any rate, a security agent's gun is of secondary importance. Generally, he has no time to shoot. His job is to anticipate an attempt on the President's life. Soviet security agents, for instance, have narrowly defined responsibilities. In official motorcades, one agent watches the windows on the first floor, another those on the second, another the spectators in the front row, still another the people standing alone, another the local policemen and a sixth the soldiers lining the road. Lawson, the Secret Service advance man in Dallas, let the local authorities show him around the city, and his report reached the White House only the day before the President's departure. Dealey Plaza on November 22, 1963 was about as heavily guarded as the Grand Canyon on a winter day. There is a standard procedure for assuring the security of a motorcade traversing a city. As Superintendent Ducret, the man responsible for President De Gaulle's security, describes it: "Of course, it is impossible to watch everything and occupy everything along the President's route. But it can be assumed that occupied office or apartment buildings are relatively safe. A potential assassin might, of course, try to enter one of these buildings, but he would be at the mercy of a witness. Serious conspirators will rarely take such a risk. "On the other hand, all unoccupied buildings, administrative buildings outside of working hours, warehouses, building sites, and naturally all bridges, walls, and vacant lots that would be ideal for an ambush must not only be watched, but actually occupied by forces placed directly under the supervision of the Presidential security division." On November 21, the two men in charge of the ambush observed the Kennedy motorcade in Houston. In Texas, as in Utah, the Secret Service was entirely dependent upon the local police. Not only did the agents behave on these trips as if they were members of the party; they were always one step ahead. At 12:30 pm, seconds before the assassination, agent Emory Roberts jotted in his shift report, "12:35 pm, the President arrived at the Trade Mart." The Secret Service was already thinking ahead to tomorrow, when Kennedy was to visit Lyndon Johnson on his ranch. Roy Kellerman, who took his place at Dallas, proved so incompetent that at Parkland Hospital his men started taking orders from agent Emory Roberts. Later, during the flight back to Washington, Rufus Youngblood took over. These men had traveled 200,000 miles with the President. Somewhere along the line, they had neglected the first rule of security: they had lost their reflexes. When the first shot rang out at Dealey Plaza, agent Clint Hill, who was later decorated, was the first to move, and it took him 7 or 8 seconds to react. In eight seconds, the average sprinter can cover 80 yards. Yet "Halfback," the back-up car in which Hill was riding, was almost touching the Presidential limousine, and neither vehicle was traveling more than 12 miles an hour. Kennedy's Secret Service agents apparently had no idea of the importance of a second in an assassination attempt. Agent Hickey, riding in Halfback, had an AR-15 automatic rifle on his lap, but it took him two seconds to load it and get ready to fire. In two seconds a modern bullet travels more than a mile. The organizers of the ambush knew, of course, that the Secret Service was inefficient, but they had never imagined that their reflexes were that slow, and they had laid their plans in the assumption that Kennedy's agents would react immediately. The tactical and ballistic aspects of the operation, which we shall examine later, were based on a hypothetical operating time of three seconds. This was the estimated reaction time of Kennedy's bodyguards. But the President's driver could have reduced it even more. The President's car was a Lincoln with a souped-up engine specially designed for rapid accelerations, and we shall see later how speed affects the accuracy of a gunman. The blame must be laid not so much on the Secret Service agents as on their chiefs, and on the White House assistant responsible for the President's security. We have cited only their most glaring errors, but there were others -- less important perhaps, but characteristic of their lack of discipline, such as their drinking on duty. Abraham Bolden, the only Negro in the Presidential bodyguard, asked to testify before the Warren Commission on the subject of some of these accusations, but the Committee refused to hear him. Later, he was fired from the Secret Service on grounds of professional incompetence. The Secret Service was guilty of negligence, as the highly respected Wall Street Journal commented. But its agents were professionals, and they recognized the work of other professionals. They were the first in the President's entourage to realize that the assassination was a well organized plot. They discussed it among themselves at Parkland Hospital and later during the plane ride back to Washington. They mentioned it in their personal reports to Secret Service Chief James Rowley that night. Ten hours after the assassination, Rowley knew that there had been three gunmen, and perhaps four, at Dallas that day, and later on the telephone Jerry Behn remarked to Forrest Sorrels (head of the Dallas Secret Service), "It's a plot." "Of course," was Sorrel's reply. Robert Kennedy, who had already interrogated Kellerman, learned that evening from Rowley that the Secret Service believed the President had been the victim of a powerful organization. President Kennedy was dead, but the Secret Service was never officially inculpated. There were several staff changes in the White House detail, but two agents, Youngblood and Hill, were decorated. Because it reinforced its thesis, the Warren Commission blamed the Presidential guards, but a soldier is worth no more than his commanding officer, and the heads of the Secret Service were not worth much. As for Ken O'Donnell, ex-captain of the Harvard rugby team, at Dallas he was up against a team that played rough. Exerts taken from here. http://www.sott.net/...-Fascist-Texans

Just having a look at ''USS The Secret History of Americas First Central Intelligence Agency by Richard Harris Smith. It looks (on 2 pages (219-20)) at Ghelen from a more US perspective than ''the general was a spy'' (first published in german) and it bears out the much longer narrative in t.g.w.a.s. while highlighting Dulles and R. Helms and gives an interesting insight into the period between WWII and the Cold War. I suspect that a further exploration can reveal this as a genesis of forces. Persons went underground with some significant ones emerging again in the early 60's.

Ry Cooder & Manuel Galban MAMBO SINUENDO 2

Ry Cooder & Manuel Galban MAMBO SINUENDO 1