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The President’s Taxes
How Reality-TV Fame Handed Trump a $427 Million Lifeline
By Mike McIntire, Russ Buettner and Susanne Craig
Sept. 28, 2020
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/28/us/donald-trump-taxes-apprentice.html
“Mr. Burnett wasted no time spinning the illusion of a successful and high-minded Mr. Trump, telling The Times in October 2003 that the new show was all about “Donald Trump giving back” by educating the public on how his can-do spirit had provided jobs and economic security.
“What makes the world a safe place right now?” Mr. Burnett said. “I think it’s American dollars, which come from taxes, which come because of Donald Trump.””
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LATINOS FOR BIDEN HORSE PARADE!!!
https://twitter.com/AdrianEngGast/status/1309947983518035968
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6 hours ago, Steve Thomas said:
I personally find it very suspicious that Parscale goes nutso on the day that the Trump tax story breaks.
Sticking him in a psychiatric hospital effectively puts him out of reach.
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Trump suggested naming his daughter Ivanka as his running mate in 2016, according to new book by Rick Gates
“As Donald Trump’s top campaign aides began a discussion in June 2016 about who the presumptive Republican presidential nominee should select as his running mate, the candidate piped up with an idea.
“I think it should be Ivanka. What about Ivanka as my VP?” Trump asked the assembled group, according to a new book by his former deputy campaign manager Rick Gates set to be published Oct. 13.
Trump added: “She’s bright, she’s smart, she’s beautiful, and the people would love her!”
In Gates’s telling, Trump’s suggestion of naming to the ticket his then-34-year-old daughter — a fashion and real estate executive who had never held elected office — was no passing fancy.
Instead, he brought up the idea repeatedly over the following weeks, trying to sell his campaign staff on the idea, insisting she would be embraced by the Republican base, Gates writes.
Trump was so taken with the concept of his eldest daughter as his vice president — and so cool to other options, including his eventual selection, then-Indiana Gov. Mike Pence — that his team polled the idea twice, according to Gates.
It was Ivanka Trump who finally ended the conversation, Gates writes, going to her father to tell him it wasn’t a good idea. Trump eventually came around and selected Pence, after the governor won him over by delivering a “vicious and extended monologue” about Bill and Hillary Clinton at a get-to-know-you breakfast later that summer, according to Gates’s account.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.”
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13 hours ago, Paul Brancato said:
Steve - how do you figure that Col. Crichton coopted the name 488th MID? Like he would do interviews and claim something that wasn’t real? Aren’t there articles naming him related to the underground communications bunker? He was well known in Republican circles, certainly well known to George H W Bush. PD Scott didn’t make up the connection to Ilya Mamantov. And we know his work as an oil geologist, his trip to Spain as part of a team negotiating for drilling rights in the early fifties. I don’t have the facility that you do to draw up documents supporting these claims, but you’ve read them and are familiar with them I’m sure. Spartacus covers most of it in his bio.
Paul,
I say that he co-opted the name because there was a real 488th Military Intelligence Detachment. It had an organizational structure with a recognized chain of command. It's been claimed that Crichton's 488th had only one commander during the life of its existence. It's been said that Crichton reported to the Assistant Chief of Staff Intelligence at the Pentagon. The real 488th reported to the Defense Intelligence Agency.
Crichton ran for Governor of Texas in 1964 and lost to John Connally.
As far as him being “related to the underground communications bunker”, I have seen those claims repeated over and over again, but I don’t know what they are based on. I’ve seen claims that he was somehow “in charge of” the communications at the Continuity of Government communications network at the Fairgrounds, but I’ve never seen any real evidence or proof for that.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – "Former campaign manager for Donald Trump, Brad Parscale, who was replaced by the President less than four months before the 2020 election, was reportedly armed with a gun and threatening to harm himself at his Fort Lauderdale home on Sunday afternoon.
Police responded to a home in the upscale Seven Isles neighborhood around 4 p.m. in reference to a man barricaded inside a house. When officers arrived on the scene, they made contact with the woman, the man’s wife, who had called 911. She told police that her husband was armed, had access to multiple firearms inside the house and was threatening to kill himself.
Police have not confirmed that the barricaded man was Parscale, who worked for Trump, but records confirm that the property in the 2300 block of Desota Drive in Fort Lauderdale is owned by Parscale, 44, and his wife, Candice. Local 10 spoke to neighbors who also said it was the home of the former advisor to the President.
Fort Lauderdale Police said that man was transported to Broward Health Medical Center where he was placed under a Baker Act."
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The Kleptocrats’ Money-Laundering Middleman Who Did Deals With Trump
EXCERPT
by Tom Burgis Sep. 27, 2020
From Kleptopia: How Dirty Money Is Conquering the World; Copyright © 2020 By Tom Burgis.
“In office, Trump helped to construct a new global alliance suited to the times. It was an alliance of kleptocrats. They might at times seem like rivals, even enemies. In truth they were united in their common resolve to advance the privatization of power. And what progress they had made. With Trump’s election, they controlled the three great poles of power. In the White House, a launderer, installed with the help of Putin’s Kremlin. And in Beijing, Xi Jinping. They had prime access respectively to the great repositories of plunder: the world’s biggest economy, the riches of the former Soviet Union, the one-party state containing a fifth of humanity.”
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15 minutes ago, Mark Stevens said:
Mark,
Thank you.
Oooooooh - Security Analyst for General Dynamics huh? That raises some questions.
4159th US Army Reserve Forces School
A group portrait of the soldiers of the 4159th U.S. Army Forces School prior to the unit's demobilization. The company was a reserve unit called to active duty during Operation Desert Storm
They were based at Fort Hood.
Training and Organization of the US Army Reserve Components, June, 1989.
https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a236572.pdf
page 81 They were attached to the 5th U.S. Army
4159TH USARF SCHOOL 2800 Crestline Road (817) 571-6822
Sergeants Major Academy Fort Worth, TX 76107-308
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2 hours ago, Mark Stevens said:
I ran across this some time ago, thought it might be of interest to those interested in 488th.
Mark,
In his 1991 study, entitled, Reforming Military Intelligence Reserve Components: 1995-2005, Colonel, Thomas Cagley showed that there was a real 488th Military Intelligence Detachment.
https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a233391.pdf
On page 14 of his Study (p. 21 of the pdf file), he shows that the 488th MID was one of the Military Intelligence Detachments that reported directly to the Defense Intelligence Agency.
There is also a 2012 obituary of a Captain Jack E. Earnest who served with the 488th between 1956 and 1962.
https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/houstonchronicle/obituary.aspx?pid=160976735#sthash.mX3LJS6E.dpuf
“In June 1956, he was assigned to the 488th Strategic Intelligence Detachment until 1962, achieving the rank of Captain.”
I still haven’t found out what ARCOM (Army Reserve Command) the 488th was attached to.
It is my personal belief that Jack Crichton co-opted the 488th’s name.
I think that Paul’s suggestion that the 488th was attached to the 90th Infantry Division is a good one.
I’ve also toyed with the possibility that it might have been attached to the 49th Armored Division.
PS: Where did you learn that Wright was promoted to Lt. Col. in 1981 and at that time he was still a member of the 4159th?
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47 minutes ago, Ray Mitcham said:
Thanks, Steve. I've never seen that before, and will be passing it on to my Grandchildren.
Ray,
Watch her sing it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw9b3mhsOHg
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Humble and Kind
by Lori McKenna
You know there's a light that glows by the front door
Don't forget the key's under the mat
When childhood stars shine
Always stay humble and kind
Go to church 'cause your mamma says to
Visit grandpa every chance that you can
It won't be wasted time
Always stay humble and kind
Hold the door, say "please", say "thank you"
Don't steal, don't cheat, and don't lie
I know you got mountains to climb
But always stay humble and kind
When the dreams you're dreamin' come to you
When the work you put in is realized
Let yourself feel the pride
But always stay humble and kind
Don't expect a free ride from no one
Don't hold a grudge or a chip and here's why
Bitterness keeps you from flyin'
Always stay humble and kind
Know the difference between sleeping with someone
And sleeping with someone you love
"I love you" ain't no pick-up line
So always stay humble and kind
Hold the door, say "please", say "thank you"
Don't steal, don't cheat, and don't lie
I know you got mountains to climb
But always stay humble and kind
When those dreams you're dreamin' come to you
When the work you put in is realized
Let yourself feel the pride
But always stay humble and kind
When it's hot, eat a root beer popsicle
Shut off the AC and roll the windows down
Let that summer sun shine
Always stay humble and kind
Don't take for granted the love this life gives you
When you get where you're going don't forget turn back around
And help the next one in line
Always stay humble and kindSteve Thomas
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2 hours ago, Bill Simpich said:
Here is an interesting FBI memo written by Robert Barrett from 3/15/63, entitled Crime Conditions in the Dallas Division. It names Jack Revill as FBI T-1, who wants his identity confidential.
Bill,
On pp. 24-26 of that document (pp13-15 of the file), it mentions Lieutenant D.A.Byrd of the Vice Section of the Special Service Bureau of the DPD. I wonder if he was related to the D. Harold Byrd of TSBD fame.
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The president wants you dead — and so do his friends and advisers. It’s that simple
By David Masciotra, Salon – Commentary September 27, 2020
“Recent revelations should force Americans to consider an even darker reality, and gather insight into the malevolence of humanity that is typically accessible only in barbaric episodes of history and frightening stories of literature. The most powerful man in the federal government delights in the infliction of pain, misery and grief.”
“Sharpening Occam’s razor, it is important to note that Trump’s cruelty surpasses indifference. He is not only refusing to help — he is actively promoting the spread of the virus with his mockery of masks and packed indoor rallies.”
“It is by now common to compare Trump to a cult leader. As Jonestown, Heaven’s Gate, the Order of the Solar Temple and many other cults have demonstrated, the leaders of especially destructive cult movements eventually turn on their own people, ordering mass suicide as the ultimate exercise of power.”
I read something a long time ago that I have always kept to heart.
"Never underestimate the capacity for man's inhumanity to man."
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'Army For Trump' ads incite armed militias to intimidate voters in 'election security operation', also Don Jr. doesn't look so good
By Xeni Jardin Fri Sep 25, 2020
President Donald Trump's son stars in this new "defend your ballot" ad, and says: "We need every able-bodied man and woman to join Army for Trump's election security operation…we need you to help us watch them."
"Holy ***
"I mean, what else does one even say about these insane nwq Trump-Pence ads, and the curiously addled Don Jr., who resembles a crackhead in the throes of addiction? What else does one say, but holy ****. Long past time for Twitter and Facebook, where these ads are trending, to take action — the ads are lying, and they're inciting armed violence against Americans."
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One of the best resources I've ever encountered is a webiste called Erasing the past to protect a fairytale, by Arjan Hut.
https://jfk.boards.net/thread/121/erasing-past-protect-fairytale
Arjan has collected over 400 instances where the evidence just doesn't line up, or is missing.
He tries not to draw conclusions, just present the evidence.
I once tried to convince him to collect these and put them in printed form in case his website crashed. I don't know if he ever did; but for now, you can find them in the site shown above.
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22 minutes ago, Steve Thomas said:
On her show last night, Rachel Maddow interviewed Robert Cardillo, former Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
When Rachel asked him the NGA is, Carfillo responded, "We map the planet."
https://www.nga.mil/assets/files/A_Guide_to_Resrources_for_Geospatial_Academic_Research.pdf
NGA is the lead federal agency for GEOINT and manages a global consortium of more than 400 commercial and government relationships. NGA:
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Delivers the strategic intelligence that allows the president and national policymakers to make crucial decisions on counterterrorism, weapons of mass destruction, global political crises and more;Enables the warfighter to plan missions, gain battlefield superiority, precisely target the adversary,and protect our military forces;
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Provides timely warnings to the warfighter and national decision-makers by monitoring, analyzing,and reporting imminent threats—often, NGA has the only “eyes” focused on global hot spots and can give unique insight into these critical areas;
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Protects the homeland by supporting counterterrorism, counternarcotics, and border and transportation security
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Supports security planning for special events, such as presidential inaugurations, state visits by foreign leaders, international conferences, and major public events (Olympics, Super Bowl, satellite launches, etc.);
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Ensures safety of navigation in the air and on the seas by maintaining the most current information and highest quality services for U.S. military forces and global transport networks’
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Defends the nation against cyber threats by supporting other intelligence agencies with in-depth analysis of cyber networks;
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Creates and maintains the geospatial foundation data, knowledge, and analysis that enable all other missions; and
- Assists humanitarian and disaster relief efforts by working directly with the lead federal agencies responding to fires, floods, earthquakes, landslides, hurricanes, or other natural or manmade disasters
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On her show last night, Rachel Maddow interviewed Robert Cardillo, former Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
When Rachel asked him the NGA is, Carfillo responded, "We map the planet."
From their website, https://www.nga.mil/ their mission is:
"The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has a responsibility to provide the products and services that decision makers, military service members, and first responders need, when they need it most. As a member of the Intelligence Community and the Department of Defense, NGA supports a unique mission set. We are committed to acquiring, developing and maintaining the proper technology, people and processes that will enable overall mission success.
Geospatial intelligence, or GEOINT is the exploitation and analysis of imagery and geospatial information to describe, assess and visually depict physical features and geographically referenced activities on the Earth. GEOINT consists of imagery, imagery intelligence and geospatial information."
"We maintain detailed, foundational physical characterizations of the Earth from seabed to space and provide products our forces require to navigate and operate safely every day, everywhere around the globe. We build a wide array of GEOINT products providing unique context and insights to answer questions from a broad range of customers — from White House policymakers, to Pentagon decision-makers, to deployed warfighters, to first responders, to non-government organizations. Our customers rely on us to “show the way”… to literally get them from point A to point B, help illuminate options and inform decisions, and carry out actions with precision. We must, and will, meet our nation’s needs."
'I can be silent no longer': former intel official denounces Trump
“Perhaps the most under-appreciated element of the 2020 race: the staggering number of people who've worked directly with Trump and now want to see him lose.”
By Steve Benen September 26, 2020
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1 hour ago, David Boylan said:
The navigator/captain of the Violin III was Remigio Arce. Arce would later join AMWORLD and in 1964 would work with Rip Robertson in the Congo. Arce was a friend of Herminio Diaz-Garcia and Frank Sturgis. I'm sure Greg Wagner has some good pics of all these guys.
David,
Thank you.
The Reigio Arce link you provided is a November 25, 1962 Memo for the Record. I don't know this, but I don't think that Arce was a member of the sixteen member, LPN (Los Pinos Nuevos) group who were on board the Violin III on the night of March 31, 1963.
I did learn through you this bit of information:
Another FBI report describes the Violin III as "an Owens cruiser".
FBI - HSCA Subject Files, C - D/ FBI - HSCA Subject File: Church Committee/
NARA Record Number: 124-10286-10438
https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=84468&search=105-1742#relPageId=30&tab=page
Page 30
Memorandum from Robert Dwyer, Miami to Director, FBI dated June 14, 1963. The identity of MM-T3 is redacted.
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1 hour ago, Greg Wagner said:
Hey Steve. Nice work, as usual. Jerry was also hooked up with Ed Arthur, which led to Ed getting involved with Commandos L (Tony Cuesta, Ramon Font, Herminio Diaz, etc). Ed touches on his relationship with Jerry in his 1975 book, Glory No More. Although covering the early 60's, the book barely mentions the assassination. One sentence, in passing, if I recall correctly. Which is curious, given his activities and associates at the time. To my knowledge, Ed didn't know Oswald. But he did know OF him, prior to the assassination. It would be interesting to know if that knowledge of Oswald came via the Buchanan brothers, his Commandos L connections, or someone else.
Greg,
Thank you, and thanks for the pictures of Jerry Buchanan. It's always nice to put a face with a name.
I was also interested in Buchanan's connection to Craig Sheldon and Fairhope. Alabama.
Fairhope's significance seems to revolve around the claims by a Jerry Buchanan that he was in a fight with members of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee in the Bay Front Park section of Miami, FL. in October, 1962. Police broke up the fight. Buchanan said Oswald was there. and that Oswald was distributing FPCC literature in Miami in March, 1963. At the time, Buchanan was living with a Craig Sheldon, who Frank Sturgis said was the Southeastern Director of the International Anti-Communist Brigade. Craig Sheldon lived in Fairhope, AL. Fairhope was one of the headquarters of Alpha-66.
See FBI Report of SA Allison A. Catlin dated June 25, 1964.
https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=75614&search=Fairhope#relPageId=3&tab=page
Interview of Craig Sheldon. In December, 1962, Sheldon traveled to Puerto Rico, where he met with Bay of Pigs veterans and was raising money for Alpha 66. Sheldon says he is in “regular correspondence” with Antonio Veciana.
http://cuban-exile.com/doc_326-350/doc0326.html#CHRONOLOGY
Alpha-66:
FAIRHOPE, ALA: By Apr 63 Alpha-66 office in. [R-759-2- 161]
“SHELDON, Craig of Fairhope, Alabama was recruiting for A-66 on Jan 2, 1963. He says he is a member, an ex-marine. [R-759-1-841851”
Buchanan said he got his information from a Cuban exile named Sanchez. I think this may be Fernando Sacnhez.
https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/180-10144-10153.pdf
RIF# 180-10144-10153
“11/16/62 Indicates rift in Alpha-66. Only Jeronimo Estevez, Salomon Bender, Fernando Sanchez, and Israel Gonzalez still allied with Veciana.”
In CD 1020, Acosta said that no one named Sanchez was aboard that boat. Fernando Sanchez might not have been aboard the boat, but still could be the person who told James Buchanan that Jerry had been in a fight with someone who called himself Oswald on the docks of the Miami River.
Remember too that the group associated with the house on Harlandale in Dallas was Alpha-66.
(Just my own thoughts, It's possible that Oswald was trying to infiltrate this group the same way he tried in New Orleans with the DRE and Carlos Bringuer.)
Another tidbit to add to the boat flotilla: (the boats are not named unfortunately)
http://cuban-exile.com/doc_326-350/doc0326.html
ALPHA-66 (Alfa 66) Chronology & Background May 1962 to Nov 1964
http://cuban-exile.com/doc_326-350/doc0326.html#CHRONOLOGY
1963 MAR -- A SNFE food supply boat from Miami is stopped in the Miami River by U.S. Customs, and ammunition seized. [R-759-2-21]
1963 MAR 10 A Sigma boat of SNFE was stopped by Customs and 1445 rounds of ammunition was confiscated. This was a civil seizure [see federal dockets for case number] [R-759-2-39]
1963 MAR 17/18 A raid at Isabel de Sagua firing at a Russian Technical Camp located on shore and a Russian ship which was at sea. Two 20-foot boats with two movable 20 mm cannons were used along with BAR's and M-1's. Each boat held 12-15 men. [R-759-1-115/125] One boat was a wooden 25-foot speedboat, fiberglass covered, with a 95 horsepower Mercury inboard engine, and the other was a 21 foot boat with two inboard engines capable of doing bet. 30 and 40 mph. [R-759-2-24C Six Russians were wounded. Damage on the island was slight. [R-759-1-125] An informant confirms the Miami Herald account printed on Mar 19. [R-759-2-20] The Herald reports some Russians killed. [R-759-2-24C] The New York Standard reports that the raiding party entered the harbor, stopped a Russian freighter and exchanged gunfire. Two raiders were wounded. [R-759-2-65]
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7 hours ago, David Josephs said:
Hey Steve...
Had you considered that Buchanan was lying about Oswald being there or being the American.... Didn't the FPCC have its own members in Miami?
David,
Yes, I had. In an FBI interview, (CD 1020) James Buchanan said he got this information from a Cuban exile named Sanchez five days after the assassination.
This is from page 12 of CD 1020
https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=11416#relPageId=14&tab=page
This is right around the same time that the DRE was spreading around information that Oswald was FPCC and had been to Cuba. (Wasn't his around the same time that the Alverado story started circulating that Oswald had been paid $6,500 by somebody in the Cuban Embassy)?
I considered the possibility that this Miami story was part of the whole subterfuge.
At the same time however, there is documented evidence that Oswald was trying to infiltrate the anti-Castro Cuban exile community.
The Miami story is based a lot on hearsay, and I'm treading lightly.
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8 hours ago, Ron Ecker said:
You want someone to explain Donald Trump? Good luck.
Ron,
After I had posted this, my wife explained to me that wearing a mask was conditional for Trump entering the Supreme Court building. He had been told that he wouldn't be allowed to come in without one.
I've watched this clip several times. The TV and print commentators said that Trump was booed when he came out at the head of those stairs.
I didn't hear boos. I heard a collective howl of pain and anguish. I've never heard anything like it. It made the hair on the back of my neck stand up.
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Could somebody explain this to me?
Trump won't wear a mask when he's surrounded by hundreds of living people, but puts one on when he's close to a dead person.
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Lumpkin, Gannaway, and the DPD-Army Intelligence network
in JFK Assassination Debate
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Paul,
I don't know. I suspect Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, but that's just a guess.
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