Steve Thomas

"Emily Miller, the Trump-loving spokeswoman for the Food and Drug Administration who was hired just eleven days ago, has already been fired. https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/trump-loving-fda-spokeswoman-booted-from-her-job-after-just-11-days/ The New York Times reports that FDA commissioner Dr. Stephen M. Hahn gave Miller the ax after she “fumbled communications about a blood plasma treatment for Covid-19.” Miller, a longtime gun rights activist and former journalist for the far-right One America News Network, has now tied the record for shortest tenure at a Trump administration job after former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci was similarly ousted after just eleven days." “Ms. Miller could not be reached for comment.” Steve Thomas

I've been wondering... What will happen to the personal data being vacuumed up by Trump's money machine once this is all over? Steve Thomas

W., Local politics in Kentucky are as bad as they come. Steve Thomas

The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy: A Model of Explanation by Vince Salandria Original Copy published in Computers and Automation, Volume 20, No. 12, December 1971, pp. 32-40. https://ratical.org/ratville/JFK/FalseMystery/ModelOfExplanation.html OUTLINE Not “How?” but “Why?” Government Evidence Cries Conspiracy New Rulers Timed Diffusion of Evidence Lone Assassin Myth Suggests Governmental Guilt A Warning to Opponents Silence of Kennedys Points to Top-Level Coup A. Which Group Was Responsible? 1. J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI? 2. The Left? 3. The Right? 4. President Johnson and Friends? 5. President Kennedy’s Own Estimate of a Possible Military Takeover Evidence for Military Involvement in the Assassination Military-CIA Interests Coincided The Pentagon Papers— a CIA Jab at Military? 6. Did the CIA Kill President Kennedy? CIA Opposed Kennedy Anti-Cold War Policy Kennedy Fired Dulles as CIA Head Dulles Suppressed Evidence of Oswald’s Soviet Intelligence Connections Did Soviet and American Intelligence Agencies Cooperate? Kennedy Adviser McGeorge Bundy’s Ties to the CIA Bundy Also a Vietnam Hawk Bundy Issued the First “No Conspiracy; Lone-Assassin” Statement Was Bundy’s Statement a Warning from the ‘New Rulers’? The Presidential Party Got the Message Important Foreign Policy Changes Immediately Followed the Assassination U.S. Promised Help to New Saigon Government Militarization of the U.S. Bundys Continued to Shape Hawkish Policies Interconnections of the CIA and Foundation-Dominated Scholarship How We’ve Paid For Our New Rulers’ Ineptness The ClA’s Follow-up Tactics The Assassination Model As a Key to Domestic Events Notes “Since November 22, 1963, when President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, there has been a great deal of research into the micro-analytic aspects of the assassination. I have been among the earliest and guiltiest of the researchers in my protracted analyses of the shots, trajectories and wounds of the assassination. The ransacking of the facts of the assassination is not a source of pride for me but rather of guilt. While the researchers have involved themselves in consuming preoccupation with the micro-analytic searching for facts of how the assassination was accomplished, there has been almost no systematic thinking on why President Kennedy was killed. We have neglected this essential work of constructing a model of explanation which fits the data of the assassination and explains the why of it.” “Of course, secret elitist police organizations such as the CIA do not thrive on peace, democracy, and a contented and informed people. The power of intelligence agencies increases in direct proportion to the degree of sickness of a nation. A healthy and united people can localize the cancer of a power-usurping intelligence agency and eventually extirpate its malignant cells from the nation’s political life. Therefore, the intelligence apparatus which killed Kennedy has a need to keep our society in turmoil. It has — in order to maintain its power — to generate a high degree of chaos. Chaos is required to make a people willing to accept such strong medicine as is administered by the secret police in order to restore order and to stabilize a disintegrating society. It takes an acutely sick society to be able to accept as palatable the terrible cure — totalitarianism.” Steve Thomas

David, The bit about parting company was just a general question on my part. Whether Oswald went to Mexico, or stayed in Texas traveling around, I just don't remember him being described as being in the company of two guys who fit the description Sylvia Odio described. Although, in the Sports Drome incidents Floyd Davis and Price talked about another guy at the Sports Drome - a big guy with a beard. They didn't know if he and Oswald were together or not. http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ/testimony/davis_f.htm Mr. DAVIS. There was a fellow with a black beard in that booth No. 7, at the same time. I remember him because he was outstanding, you know, and I went to these fellows in booth No. 8, and was giving them heck about shooting at the wrong target. And this other fellow, I remember him because he wouldn't say anything to me. I tried to speak to him two or three different occasions, because he had a lot of guns, and I thought he would be a good customer. Mr. LIEBELER. The fellow with the beard? Mr. DAVIS. Yes. Mr. LIEBELER. He was how tall, approximately? Mr. DAVIS. He was over 6 feet and he weighed a good 250 pounds. A big bruiser. I give a lot of credence to the Alice, Texas sighting, and I don't remember any Cubans being mentioned there. As far as Harlendale, those Cubans were SNFE, and Odio's people were JURE. They didn't mix very much. Among the Miscellaneous CIA Series, there is an unauthored FBI Report of the various anti-Castro groups in Dallas: JURE, 30th of November, Alpha 66-SNFE, etc. REPORT: JUNTA REVOLUCIONARIA CUBANA; SEGUNDO FRENTE DE ESCAMBRAY (OPERATION ALPHA 66); DIRECTORIO REVOLUCIONARIO ESTUDIANTIL; MOVIMIENTO REVOLUCIONARIO 30 DE NOVIEMBRE; FAIR PLAY FOR CUBA COMMITTEE NARA Record Number: 104-10320-10070 Spr https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=28726&relPageId=2 On pages 4 through 6 of that Report, Manuel Rodriguez Orcarberro furnished a list of the present officers of SNFE. I believe that those were the people that Walthers' source saw. Steve Thomas

You too can become a lawmaker in the State of Washington. Questions are being asked, you know? https://www.inlander.com/spokane/blind-links/Content?oid=20165904 "In December, Washington state Rep. Jenny Graham, a Republican in the 6th District, posted a Facebook link to an article at a site called "Vaccine Impact" about the weaknesses of the Pertussis vaccine. But the article not only perpetuates a long-since-disproven link between vaccines and autism, the "Vaccine Impact" site has since become an unabashed QAnon conspiracy site, perpetuating bizarre claims about globalist pedophiles harvesting "children's blood just before they are murdered as a sacrifice to Satan." In another December Facebook post, Graham wrote that the "appetite to have sex with children as young as infants is a growing business" and linked to a blog post claiming that makes the dubious claim that "a significant portion" of 460,000 missing children a year "end up in sex dungeons to be exploited and repeatedly raped by ... demons." Literal demons, the blogger explains in another post — or more specifically Reptilian-human hybrids put into positions of power by evil extra-dimensional beings. Graham says she was unaware of the weirder views on those sites, but didn't express regret about sharing those links. "The trafficking is real, and sadly enough, so is the occult situation," she says, explaining that she knew someone in a cult. She says it's her job to ask tough questions and engage on important issues." I wonder when we are going to return to burning people at the stake. Steve Thomas

Donald Trump Jr. Denies Rumors That He Was On Cocaine During His RNC Speech “I guess there must have been something with the lighting,” Trump Jr. said. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-jr-denies-cocaine-rumors-rnc-speech_n_5f46c4cac5b64f17e137e0e2 Steve Thomas

- Tucker Carlson - “How shocked are we that 17-year-olds with rifles decided they had to maintain order when no one else would?" Maybe the Kenosha Guards and the Proud Boys could set up recruiting booths at junior proms around the country. Steve Thomas

Notice to the Public - Closure for 2020 Acceptance of Presidential Nomination Wednesday, August 26 to Friday, August 28 August 22, 2020 https://www.nps.gov/whho/learn/management/temporary-area-closures.htm The entire Ellipse and its side panels, roadways and sidewalks, E Street and its sidewalks between 15th-17th Streets, and the White House Sidewalk on Thursday, August 27, 2020 and Friday, August 28, 2020. Additionally, a temporary closure of First Division Monument and State Place, Sherman Park and Hamilton Place will be imposed from Wednesday, August 26, 2020 to August 28, 2020 as delineated in the attached map and as further delineated by fencing. Specifically, there will be a temporary closure to the public of the below-listed areas adjacent to the White House Complex from approximately 8:00 a.m. on August 26, 2020, through approximately 2:00 a.m. on August 28, 2020: Sherman Park, to include interior sidewalks (the west sidewalk on 15th Street, NW, will remain open to pedestrian traffic); and First Division Park, to include interior sidewalks (the east sidewalk on 17th Street, NW, will remain open to pedestrian traffic). Additionally, the following areas in the vicinity of the White House Complex also under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service will be subject to a temporary closure to the public from approximately 8:00 a.m. on August 27, 2020, through approximately 2:00 a.m. on August 28, 2020: The Ellipse, including its side panels, roadways, and interior sidewalks; E Street, NW, from 15th to 17th Streets, NW, to include the adjacent sidewalks along the above-mentioned parks, and south fence line of the White House grounds; and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, between 15th Street and 17th Street, NW, to include the White House North fence line. A map illustrating the closed park areas and the closed areas under other jurisdictions is attached. Violation is prohibited. The People's House is closed to the People. Steve Thomas

New Trump Rule Could Create ‘Bomb Trains,’ Environmentalists Say The administration has a ‘wildly unsafe’ plan to transport liquified natural gas on railroads, with tanks carrying enough explosive power to level a city, according to a new lawsuit By Tessa Stuart https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/bomb-trains-1046481/ “A new Trump administration rule relaxing guidelines that govern the transport of liquefied natural gas could create “bomb trains” with enough explosive power to level whole cities, environmental groups say. A coalition of organizations led by the nonprofit Earthjustice has sued the administration, challenging the rule, which is scheduled to go into effect on Monday. Separately, 14 states and the District of Columbia are also suing the Trump administration to review the rule and declare it unlawful. The National Transportation Safety Board and the National Association of State Fire Marshals oppose it as well. Under the new rule, trains would be allowed to transport up to 30,000 gallons of liquified natural gas (LNG) per tank, significantly more than has ever been allowed in the U.S., and there will be no restrictions on the number of LNG tanker cars in a particular train, nor on the routes these trains may travel, so they will be free to pass through dense population centers. According to figures cited in Earthjustice’s challenge, just 22 tank cars could produce the equivalent energy of the Hiroshima bomb. The rule change, fast-tracked by the administration after being introduced by Trump in an executive order in April 2019, comes as part of the president’s reckless agenda to expand America’s fossil fuel exports. But shifting LNG transport to the railways could be a catastrophe, the lawsuits assert. “There’s a very good reason liquefied natural gas has never been shipped by rail in this country, and that’s because it’s wildly unsafe,” said Joseph Otis Minott, executive director of the Clean Air Council, which joined the lawsuit with Earthjustice. “I don’t want these dangerous trains going through my neighborhood, and trust me, you don’t either.” “ Steve Thomas

David, Why do you think the two Cubans and the person introduced to her as Leon, part company after leaving Sylvia Odio's? Up to that point, the trio had been traveling together, and Leopoldo told Sylvia that"we" are going on a trip, and that "we" will come back and visit you again when "we" return. Mrs. ODIO. Yes; oh, excuse me, I forgot something very important. They kept mentioning that they had come to visit me at such a time of night, it was almost 9 o'clock, because they were leaving for a trip. And two or three times they said the same thing. They said, "We may stay until tomorrow, or we might leave tomorrow night, but please excuse us for the hour." And he mentioned two or three times they were leaving for a trip. I didn't ask where, and I had the feeling they were leaving for Puerto Rico or Miami. Mr. LIEBELER. But they did not indicate where they were going? Mrs. ODIO. And he said, "It is so easy to do it." He has told us. And he (Leopoldo) used two or three bad words, and I wouldn't repeat it in Spanish. And he repeated again they were leaving for a trip and they would like very much to see me on their return to Dallas. Steve Thomas

Ron, I swear to God that if Trump starts wearing a ring and holding out his hand for people to kiss it, I'm outta here. Steve Thomas

Oh, I don't know Kathy. I've enjoyed their lineup: A second son currently investigation for bank fraud, A former campaign manager who just got arrested for mail fraud and wire fraud, A woman who wants the police to racially profile her five year old son and who doesn't think women should be allowed to vote, A former Florida DA to took a $25,000 bribe to drop the Trump University case, The upcoming First Daughter who financed her real estate ventures with Cartel Drug and Iranian National Guard money... The list goes on. Steve Thomas

David, To me, it seems apropos that he's standing next to a garbage dump. Steve Thomas

Nature abhors a vacuum. Now that the Republican Party, through its official Party Platform, has declared that , until 2024, they have no platform or policy ideas other than to worship Donald Trump, they have opened the doors to QAnon supporters and those who watch Dog the Bounty Hunter, Duck Dynasty, Swamp People, Bachelor and professional wrestling and think it's real, to fill that vacuum. Almighty Deity help us all. Steve Thomas

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Trump Has Now Moved $2.3 Million Of Campaign-Donor Money Into His Private Business https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2020/08/25/trump-has-now-moved-23-million-of-campaign-donor-money-into-his-private-business/#df37a01773c7 By Dan AlexanderForbes Staff "Donald Trump continued to shift money from his donors to his business last month, as his reelection campaign paid his private companies for rent, food, lodging and other expenses, according to a review of the latest Federal Election Commission filings. The richest president in American history, who has yet to donate to his 2020 campaign, has now moved $2.3 million of contributions from other people into his private companies. The most recent expenses look familiar. The president accepted $38,000 in rent last month through Trump Tower Commercial LLC, the entity that owns his Fifth Avenue skyscraper. Since Trump took office, his campaign has paid that company $1.5 million, more than any other property in the Trump empire, according to an analysis of federal filings. The Republican National Committee also coordinated with the campaign to pay Trump Tower Commercial LLC an additional $225,000. Trump’s machinations have been going on for years now. Forbes first reported on money moving from his reelection campaign to his business in 2018. The amount has more than doubled since then." “Go buy Ivanka’s stuff is what I would tell you,” Kellyanne Conway said “I’m going to give a free commercial here. Go buy it today, everybody.” (March, 2017). Steve Thomas

- Donald Trump, Jr. - ““Joe Biden is basically the Loch Ness monster of the swamp.” I stand with Loch Ness and all the lochs of Scotland. Steve Thomas

Mayberry had it right. Give the cops one bullet and make them put it in their shirt pocket. Steve Thomas

I, myself, can't wait to hear The Honorable Ivanka Trump. Her two brothers didn't get to be Honorables. "Here’s a complete list of Republican National Convention speakers https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/rnc-2020/article245175815.html Thursday: President Donald J. Trump; The Honorable Ben Carson; Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY); Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR); House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (CA-23); Representative Jeff Van Drew (NJ-02); The Honorable Ivanka Trump; ..." Sounds like a petty good gig. How do you get in on that action? Steve Thomas

The more I think about this, the more insane it becomes. We've just had a major political party stand up and say to the entire world, "We stand for absolutely nothing, and won't until 2024." What are they going to do if Trump loses? What's Republican candidate do in 2022? "Vote for me. I'm a Republican and we don't stand for anything!" Steve Thomas

The Republican Party declares itself to be a Personality Cult. Oh, and by the way, the Media is a bunch of big old bad meanies. Steve Thomas

Melania Trump renovated the Rose Garden. She took out all the roses. https://twitter.com/search?q=%22Rose+Garden%22 -QUOTE- "Everything the Trumps touch dies." Steve Thomas

White House threatens to veto Democrats' bill to provide more money to USPS By Jason Hoffman, Maegan Vazquez and Caroline Kelly, CNN Updated 8:35 PM ET, Fri August 21, 2020 https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/21/politics/white-house-veto-usps-funding/index.html “The White House issued a veto threat on Friday for House Democrats' proposed bill that would provide $25 billion to the US Postal Service. The bill is expected to pass on Saturday largely along party lines, with Democrats supporting it. House GOP leaders are pushing their members to oppose the legislation, and it is not likely to be considered in the Republican-controlled Senate.“ Steve Thomas

Steve Bannon and Louis DeJoy: Different wings of Trump's empire of corruption “With Bannon indicted and DeJoy hauled before Congress, Trump's corrupt regime may be coming unglued at last.” By Heather Digby Parton August 21, 2020 1:56PM (UTC) https://www.salon.com/2020/08/21/steve-bannon-and-louis-dejoy-different-wings-of-trumps-empire-of-corruption/ “Trump claimed on Thursday that he was always against the private wall project that got Bannon into trouble, but his image was all over the group's website and Donald Trump Jr. is on video endorsing it. One of the board members, Kris Kobach —who headed Trump's short-lived "voter fraud" commission and keeps losing elections back home in Kansas — is also on video claiming that Trump told him the project had his blessing." "One of the more suspicious connections with this scam was Trump's relentless insistence that a North Dakota construction firm called Fisher Industries should get the contract for the official border wall. According to this Washington Post story from May of 2019, Trump demanded that the military award the job to this obscure company even after its bid had been rejected by the Army Corps of Engineers, which alarmed Homeland Security officials about the appearance of corruption. And guess what? Even as Trump pushes for his firm, Fisher already has started building a section of fencing in Sunland Park, N.M. We Build the Wall, a nonprofit that includes prominent conservatives who support the president — its associates and advisory board include former White House adviser Stephen K. Bannon, Blackwater USA founder Erik Prince, ex-congressman Tom Tancredo and former Kansas secretary of state Kris Kobach — has guided an effort to build portions of the border barrier on private land with private funds. Jared Kushner pushed Fisher Industries as well, but in the end the firm didn't get the government contract. It ended up building a small piece of the private wall that has been described faulty and flawed. Trump distanced himself from the We Build the Wall project last month, apparently out of the blue, saying he never believed in it in the first place. None of this smells right: He spent months pushing the government to award that company a multi-billion-dollar contract, and suddenly their shoddy work makes him "look bad."” Steve Thomas