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Yesterday, on Nicole Wallace's show that runs from daily 4pm to 6 pm on MSNBC, she interviewed Michael Cohen. It was one of the most riveting interviews that I have ever seen and was allowed to run uninterrupted for half an hour. There is too much if it to unpack here but I will highlight one thing that Cohen said that is relevant to today's news. He said that Trump would use the key classified documents as a get out of jail scheme by threatening to give these to Putin if he were indicted. He did not say which documents he was talking about, but I assume it was the documents in the nine boxes that were clandestinely loaded on a plane in the middle of the night in Florida by Trump and taken to his Bedminster country club several months ago. The U.K. Daily Mail carries an article today (see my posting above) that quotes Trump saying the U.S. would lose in a war with Russia. He is implying a threat of action by him or confirming that he has already given Putin the nation's most important national security documents. Putin may use soon nuclear weapons in the Ukraine knowing that if the U.S. retaliated in kind, America would discover our weapons have been compromised.

Invasion of the barley snatchers: crop circles cost farmers thousands in lost revenue | Farming | The Guardian

Invasion of the barley snatchers: crop circles cost farmers thousands in lost revenue | Farming | The Guardian

Trump may be right that the U.S. would lose in a war with Russia. That is because he has given key U.S. Classified Documents to Putin as well as briefed him on America's military using information he got as president. Donald Trump says 'stupid' Biden administration could trigger World War Three | Daily Mail Online

Karma is working: both Putin and Trump are self-destructing at the same time. In the past they were partners in things evil.

Great article with documents showing Column: The saga of DeSantis' migrant flights gets uglier (msn.com)

The state attorneys general of Texas, Florida, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Louisiana, S. Carolina, Utah, W. Virginia filed an amicus brief favoring Trump with the eleventh circuit court of appeals. They like pro-trump Judge Cannon now look asinine as the circuit court in its decision shot down all their contentions as well as repudiating Judge Cannon who is now in Judicial purgatory.

She said that she was just thinking of Trump in prison 'I’m thinking him into jail': The View's audience goes wild as co-hosts mock Trump's legal crisis - Raw Story - Celebrating 18 Years of Independent Journalism

Eleventh Circuit Court's decision destroyed Judge Cannon, a Trump appointed farce who is now in judicial purgatory. https://www.rawstory.com/judge-aileen-cannon-2658320698/

Ex-Trump Official Accuses Former President Of Sinister Immigration Plot (msn.com)

This was posted on Facebook by Lee Shepherd: Thirty years after the death of John F. Kennedy, Cuba opened its secret files on the assassination. These Cuban files revealed new evidence that led to those behind the plot to kill Kennedy. Supported by extensive use of Cuban State Security Department materials, Brazilian journalist and film-maker Claudia Furiati shows how and why the CIA, through those responsible for its anti-Cuba operations, along with anti-Castro exiles and the Mafia, planned and orchestrated the Kennedy assassination. According to author Claudia Furiati, a meeting was then held on board yachts in “Bimini (the Bahamas) during the spring [where], a select group of CIA, Mafia (John Rosselli) and anti-Castro figures (Carlos Prio), in addition to planning yet another attempt to murder Fidel Castro, expressed the desire to kill Kennedy.” 19Richard Birrell, Jessica Shores and 17 others

David is exploring the option to get the event live streamed.

David Talbot wrote on Facebook today: "Because Our Fathers Lied"... On Saturday October 15 at 7 pm in the evening, I will have the great pleasure of conversing onstage at the Throckmorton Theatre in Mill Valley, CA with Craig McNamara, author of the new searing memoir about his father, the late Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. I have not seen Craig, an organic farmer, since I interviewed him in 1984 for a cover story about his father's reincarnation as a peace advocate during the nuclear freeze movement. That article drove a wedge between father and son, but later Craig acknowledged it was true. (He writes about the family fallout from my article in his book.) Like Craig himself, I had a complicated relationship with Robert McNamara. I interviewed him again for my 2007 book "Brothers," zeroing in on the Kennedy presidency and JFK's plans to completely withdraw troops from Vietnam after the 1964 election. McNamara, who became a Vietnam hawk under President Johnson, could have easily elided the truth. But instead he strongly confirmed JFK's peace intentions. In my book, I portrayed McNamara as a tragic, complex, haunted public official. If President Kennedy had lived, McNamara would've gone down in history as a hero -- one of the men who helped Kennedy keep the peace. As it was, he became a war criminal with a conscience, a man so racked with guilt that LBJ shunted him to the World Bank. After "Brothers" was published, McNamara had the courage to call me and tell me "you got it right." Late in his life, McNamara's efforts to explain himself -- as in Errol Morris's Oscar-winning documentary "Fog of War" -- were both convoluted and moving. As far as I know, Robert McNamara is the ONLY high U. S. national security official to feel any guilt for what he did. I'm looking forward to speaking with Craig again -- not just about his father, but our own deeply and bitterly divided national family. See above to get tickets to the Litquake event. (The photo shows McNamara -- in his trademark wire-rim glasses, with Joint Chiefs chairman General Maxwell Taylor and President Kennedy.)

Because Our Fathers Lied: Craig McNamara with David Talbot (tockify.com)

The Special Master Judge stated in the court hearing today that he can complete his task of examining the 11000 documents in four weeks. It would be completed by October 20 or so, not by end of November as the Trump biased federal judge ordered. He sees the biased judge for what she is.

Texas where I live ranks #46 on the list of states that make it hardest to vote. Gov. Abbott is responsible for this travesty. Cost of Voting in the American States: 2022* | Election Law Journal: Rules, Politics, and Policy (liebertpub.com)

Feds are starting to close in on Matt Gaetz after letting him twist slowly in the wind for almost two years. Associate of Matt Gaetz's 'wingman' indicted in fraud scheme - Raw Story - Celebrating 18 Years of Independent Journalism

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