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    Brian Baccus on Ruth Paine

    in JFK Assassination Debate

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    5 hours ago, Jean Ceulemans said:

    Douglas has confirmed some time ago he had met Banister in those days.

    Quote from the Unacknowledged topic page 42 : "I first met Banister in 1955 when I was in high school in New Orleans. In 1959 he and I spoke at an American Legion rally. I wish that I was aware of his full background then. I would have asked him many questions."

     

     

    Being There: Eye Witness To History | San Francisco Book Review

    MAINSTREAM COOLER - For those who believe mainstream contemporary facts.

    in Water Coolers

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    I just listened on MSNBC to the Executive Director of Doctors Without Borders that has medical personnel in Gaza. She explained how the aid being delivered in Gaza during the war pause is essentially a drop in the bucket. Soon there will be mass deaths of Gazans from lack of food, water and medical care. Cholera is raising its head. It is planned genocide. Biden at one time even questioned the number of people dying Gaza. Just like his disastrous withdraw in Afghanistan caused misery and death on an epic scale there, so has his policy in Gaza resulted in the same. 

    I have always praised Biden for his domestic policies and administration within the United States. However, his foreign policies have been disastrous. A ballistic missile was fired at one of our ships yesterday. I predicted here in the past that this would happen. Fasten your seat belts, fellow Americans, for we face treacherous ride into a very dark future.

     

    MAINSTREAM COOLER - For those who believe mainstream contemporary facts.

    in Water Coolers

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    6 hours ago, Matt Allison said:

     

    Least shocking thing ever. I wonder when the American people will be told the truth and learn that the 2nd Cold War has been an ongoing conflict for a solid 15 years now.

    https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-vladimir-putin-hijacks-israel-gaza-war-to-fuel-tension-in-the-west/

     

    The Israeli-Hamas war has given Russia a golden opportunity to sow division among its Western enemies. It's a chance Vladimir Putin's disinformation machine was never going to miss.

    Since the outbreak of hostilities on October 7, Kremlin-linked Facebook accounts have ramped up their output by almost 400 percent, with the Middle East crisis now dominating posts from Russian diplomats, state-backed outlets and Putin supporters in the West. 

    The lies spread by Moscow's digital propagandists now include claims that Hamas terrorists are using NATO weapons to attack Israel and that British instructors trained Hamas attackers.

    The entrenched — and bloody — conflict represents a double opportunity for Putin.

    It allows Russia to foment division in the West via targeted social media activity aimed at splitting those in support of Israel from those who back Palestine. Real-world violence, particularly against Jews, has spiked over the last seven weeks and anti-war protests by hundreds of thousands of people have sprouted up from London to Washington.

    Russia's Middle East social media onslaught also pulls public attention away from its war in Ukraine, which has become bogged down after a succession of military missteps, a mutiny by Wagner mercenaries, and a long-running counteroffensive from Kyiv.

    "Taking attention off Ukraine is only a good thing for Russia," said Bret Schafer, head of the information manipulation team and the German Marshall Fund of the United States' Alliance for Securing Democracy, a Washington-based think tank. "The more the Western public is focused on Israel and Hamas, the less they're paying attention to the fact that Congress is about to not fund Ukraine's war effort," he added. "Shining a light on other places pulls attention away from Ukraine."

    The Kremlin's online assault mirrors Putin's geopolitical game-playing since the Hamas attacks of October 7.

    His government hosted Hamas leaders in Moscow at the end of October — apparently as he sought to play a mediation role on the release of Israeli hostages. Russia and Hamas have a common ally in Iran and Putin himself has warned that Israeli military action in Gaza could escalate beyond the region.

    The Kremlin was quick to weaponize the Israel-Hamas war for its own propaganda purposes.

    In the seven weeks since Hamas fighters attacked Israel, Russian Facebook accounts have posted 44,000 times compared to a mere 14,000 posts in the seven weeks before the conflict began, according to data compiled by the Alliance for Securing Democracy. In total, Russian-backed social media activity on Facebook was shared almost 400,000 times collectively, a four-fold increase compared to posts published before the conflict.

    The most-shared keywords now include many phrases associated with the conflict like "Hamas" and the "Middle East," while before the war, Russia's state media and diplomatic accounts had focused almost exclusively on either Ukraine or Putin's role in the world.

    The near-400 percent increase in posts from Russian government-linked accounts represents a drop in the ocean compared to the millions of Facebook posts about the Middle East conflict from regular social media users over the same time period. But many of the Kremlin-backed accounts — especially those from sanctioned media outlets like RT and Sputnik — have an oversized digital reach. Collectively, these companies boast millions of followers in Europe, Latin America and Africa, even though the EU has imposed sanctions on their broadcast and social media operations.

    "They use whatever they can to spread anti-West messaging," said Jakub Kalenský, a deputy director at the European Center of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats, a joint NATO-EU organization tracking state-backed influence campaigns. "They surf on the wave of the news cycle because they are competing for the same audience that is consuming solid media sources."

    Such digital propaganda can have real-world effects. Some in the West now openly question how long governments can support Ukraine in its costly war against Russia in a time of economic uncertainty.

    In France, for instance, the foreign affairs ministry accused a Russian-affiliated network of social media bots of amplifying anti-semitic images of Stars of David graffiti on buildings across Paris. French officials blamed Russia for "creating tensions" between supporters of Israel and those who favored Palestine. 

    President Biden never once considered the geopolitical threats to America and the free world posed by the war initiated by Hamas against Israel on October 7th after Gazans had suffered 75 years of living in an open-air prison.  Recklessly soon thereafter, he flew to Israel and attended its war council meeting at which the plan to destroy Gaza through genocide was agreed upon. U.S. made 2000-pound bombs subsequently have been used by Israel on Gaza and along with vast quantities of other U.S. armaments. Much of Gaza has now been reduced to rubble.  Untold thousands of Gazan civilians have been slaughtered in an Israeli war campaign that included dropping bombs on hospitals, schools and refugee camps. People around the globe have daily watched on TV this planned genocide take place and are horrified. They blame Israel and America. Not deterred by the humanitarian disaster in which he has participated, Biden how wants to give $14 billion of U.S. taxpayer money to Israel. 

    Of course, Russia, China, North Korea and Iran are gleefully taking advantage of what Biden has wrought by his openly siding with Israel without his consideration of the consequences. We are seeing the early stages of the Forever War that may well end in the destruction of both the United States and Israel.

    Six million Jews were innocent victims of a mass genocide carried out by Hitler in World War II. Why are the Israels themselves today engaging in the mass genocide of innocent civilians in Gaza? 

         

    Wall Street Journal article of Nov. 22, 2023, " How to Botch an Assassination Investigation"

    in JFK Assassination Debate

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    Wall Street Journal article of Nov. 22, 2023, " How to Botch an Assassination Investigation"
    by Thomas J. Baker, a retired FBI agent and legal attaché and author of "The Fall of the 
    FBI: How a once Great Agency Became a Threat to Democracy."
     
     (Excerpts from the article) 
    One lesson law enforcement learned from Dallas and its aftermath is how not to investigate
    an assassination. The Kennedy Investigaton devolved into a fiasco. No one was in charge. 
    The Federal Bureau of investigation, the Secret Service, the Dallas police and sheriff offices 
     all argued with each other. These agencies and others battled over Oswald, the riffle and
    other evidence, witnesses, and, most important, jurisdiction. It was worse than unprofessional --
    it was deadly. 
     
    The mishandling of Oswald allowed Jack Ruby to shoot the suspected assassin in the
    basement of the police headquarters. This added to the already burning conspiracy
    theories. Practically every American would eventually see the death of a president
    on the Zapruder film. The killing of the assassin while in police custody was also
    there to see. 
     
    In November 1963, it wasn't a federal crime to kill the president. In response to the Kennedy 
    assassination, Congress passed a 1965 law -- Title 18, Code section 1751 -- that made 
    assaulting the president a federal crime. The new statute was clear. The FBI would
    conduct investigations into attacks on the president.
     
    ........
     
    We can be sorrowful that Jack Kennedy, our youngest president, was lost to us after only a few
    years in office. But we also can be grateful that Ronald Reagan, our oldest president at
    the time, survived to serve two terms in office. On the day Reagan was shot, law
    enforcement didn't want to repeat the errors made in Dallas. And to this day there has never
    been any suggestion of a conspiracy surrounding the Reagan assassination attempt.
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