2 hours ago, Steve Thomas said:

Feds charge ex-Trump official Steve Bannon with criminal fraud in crowd-funded border wall campaign

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/feds-charge-ex-trump-official-steve-bannon-with-criminal-fraud-in-crowd-funded-border-wall-campaign/

 

“As alleged, the defendants defrauded hundreds of thousands of donors, capitalizing on their interest in funding a border wall to raise millions of dollars, under the false pretense that all of that money would be spent on construction,” said acting SDNY U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss. “As for Bannon’s role in the scheme, SDNY alleges that funneled “over $1 million from We Build the Wall” into a nonprofit organization that he personally controlled. According to SDNY, Bannon then used at least some of that money “to cover hundreds of thousands of dollars” in his own personal expenses.”

Steve Thomas

"Former top Trump White House aide Steve Bannon was arrested Thursday morning by U.S. Postal Service agents, and will be indicted on two charges of criminal fraud. The maximum penalties, MSNBC reports, is 20 years for each charge.

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/they-deliver-critics-celebrates-sweet-irony-of-steve-bannon-being-arrested-by-us-postal-service-agents/

Steve Thomas

Feds charge ex-Trump official Steve Bannon with criminal fraud in crowd-funded border wall campaign

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/feds-charge-ex-trump-official-steve-bannon-with-criminal-fraud-in-crowd-funded-border-wall-campaign/

“As alleged, the defendants defrauded hundreds of thousands of donors, capitalizing on their interest in funding a border wall to raise millions of dollars, under the false pretense that all of that money would be spent on construction,” said acting SDNY U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss. “As for Bannon’s role in the scheme, SDNY alleges that funneled “over $1 million from We Build the Wall” into a nonprofit organization that he personally controlled. According to SDNY, Bannon then used at least some of that money “to cover hundreds of thousands of dollars” in his own personal expenses.”

Steve Thomas

Donald Trump is not going to accept the results of the election, because all  those satanic cannibals rigged it.

Steve Thomas

1 hour ago, Pete Mellor said:

If the Tippit killer was seen by witnesses down Patton stuffing said gun in jacket pocket, was any forensics done?  Was this possible in '63?  & did DPD present this jacket during any interrogation?

 

Pete,

You asked an interesting question.

The last anybody saw of Oswald, he was running down the street with the gun in his hand. Nobody saw him put the gun in his jacket pocket.

Callaway’s affidavit:

https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth339021/m1/1/?q=Callaway

Said he saw the gun in the hand of a running man he later identified as Oswald. He did not say he saw Oswald put it in his pocket.

Sam Guinyard’s statement to the police:

https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth340305/m1/1/?q=Guinyard:

Said he saw a man running down the street with a gun in his hand. He did not say he saw the man put the gun in his pocket.

I got curious to know if the witnesses were shown the actual jacket the day of Tippit's killing.

In their WC testimony, neither Ted Callaway nor Sam Guinyard speak of being taken up to the fourth floor and being shown the actual jacket. Detective Jim Leavelle said they were.

Ted Callway’s WC testimony”

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ/testimony/callaway1.htm

Mr. BALL. Did he have the same clothes on in the lineup--did the man have the same clothes?
Mr. CALLAWAY. He had the same trousers and shirt, but he didn't have his jacket on. He had ditched his jacket.
Mr. BALL. What kind--when you talked to the police officers before you saw this man, did you give them a description of the clothing he had on?
Mr. CALLAWAY. Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL. What did you tell them you saw?
Mr. CALLAWAY. I told them he had some dark trousers and a light tannish gray windbreaker jacket, and I told him that he was fair complexion, dark hair.

Mr. BALL. I have a jacket here Commission's Exhibit No. 162. Does this look anything like the jacket that the man had on that you saw across the street with a gun?
Mr. CALLAWAY. Yes; it sure does. Yes, that is the same type jacket. Actually, I thought it had a little more tan to it.

How would Ted Callaway know Oswald had ditched his jacket unless someone had told him so?

Callaway described the jacket to police, but doesn’t say anything about being taken up to the fourth floor to identify the jacket itself.

Mr. BALL. Did he have the same clothes on in the lineup--did the man have the same clothes?
Mr. CALLAWAY. He had the same trousers and shirt, but he didn't have his jacket on. He had ditched his jacket.
Mr. BALL. What kind--when you talked to the police officers before you saw this man, did you give them a description of the clothing he had on?
Mr. CALLAWAY. Yes, sir.

Mr. BALL. What did you tell them you saw?
Mr. CALLAWAY. I told them he had some dark trousers and a light tannish gray windbreaker jacket, and I told him that he was fair complexion, dark hair.

Sam Guinyard’s WC testimony:

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ/testimony/guinyard1.htm

Guinyard said he saw a brown shirt in Oak Cliff and again down  at the courthouse, (presumably the shirt he was wearing during the lineup), but doesn’t say anything about being shown a jacket.

Jim Leavelle’s WC testimony:

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ/testimony/leave_j1.htm

Mr. LEAVELLE. Well, I--Mr. Graves and I took Helen back home and after we dropped her off we stopped by this carlot, 501 East Jefferson, and talked with the manager or owner of that and found out that he was the one that had seen the man running. He had heard the shots and seen the man running, from the scene of the shooting and the colored porter there also had heard it, and they had gone to the scene and they said, each of them said, that they thought they might be able to identify the man that they saw running; they heard the shots and they ran outside and saw him running down the sidewalk across the street from the lot with the gun in his hand.

Mr. BALL. Did you also show them a jacket?
Mr. LEAVELLE. Yes; I took them to the fourth floor and asked them to look at a jacket which----
Mr. BALL. I show you Commission Exhibit 162. Does that look anything like the jacket?
Mr. LEAVELLE. It looks like the jacket that I showed them; yes.
Mr. BALL. Do you know what Callaway said when he saw the jacket?
Mr. LEAVELLE. He said this was definitely the jacket or one exactly like it.
Mr. BALL. Do you know what Guinyard said?
Mr. LEAVELLE. He said it was also the same type jacket.

Just as aside, I liked this part of Sam Guinyard's WC testimony:

Mr. GUINYARD. Yes--four men--handcuffed together.
Mr. BALL. What did you say?
Mr. GUINYARD. They was handcuffed together.
Mr. BALL. They was handcuffed?
Mr. GUINYARD. Yes; all four of them.
Mr. BALL. Were they of different sizes?
Mr. GUINYARD. Well, they was pretty close together--there wasn't much difference in size.
Mr. BALL. In height--they were about the same?
Mr. GUINYARD. About the same.
Mr. BALL. Were they all about the same color?
Mr. GUINYARD. No, sir; they wasn't all about the same color.
Mr. BALL. All about the same color?
Mr. GUINYARD. No, sir; they wasn't all about the same color.

(You said you saw a white guy running down the street. Here's a brown guy and a white guy. Which is the one you saw?)

Steve Thomas

Suitcases.

I think every person in America should send Donald Trump one suitcase.

Steve Thomas

Trump is now saying that God is talking to him.

I have no doubt that Trump hears voices in his head, but I kinda sorta don't think it's God.

Steve Thomas.

Irregular Periods and Horrible Headaches: How Tear Gas Is Making Portland Sick

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4ay5mn/an-endless-barrage-of-tear-gas-is-making-portland-sick?utm_source=digg

"PORTLAND, Oregon — For many of the past 78 nights, clouds of tear gas have wafted through downtown Portland and its surrounding neighborhoods.

Local cops and federal officers have recently turned Portland into the biggest test case for sustained exposure to tear gas, possibly in American history. They’ve repeatedly doused parts of the city in gas and other riot-control munitions since protests over the police killing of George Floyd began in late May. The city was gassed so heavily in July that clouds showed up on the Federal Aviation Administration’s radar, according to The Nation.

The use of chemical weapons, like tear gas, was initially banned in international warfare by the Geneva Protocol in 1925 and then again by the United Nations’ 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention — which the United States signed. The compound is composed of chemicals like chloroacetophenone and chlorobenzylidene malononitrile that are designed to irritate the mouth, nose, and throat.

In the last two months alone, a number of U.S. cities have moved to limit or ban the use of tear gas. But many police departments are still allowed to use the substance. Since the protests began in late May, protesters in more than 100 cities have been tear gassed. And the effects can be severe. The Centers for Disease Control states on its website that exposure to large amounts of gas or “long-lasting exposure” can lead to blindness, respiratory failure, and even death.

Steve Thomas

5 hours ago, Tommy Tomlinson said:

Let me be sure I understand this...

It was DPD's assertion that Oswald put on a clean shirt, and in the pocket he placed a "note" that simply, (and conveniently,) contained only his address?

And no one has ever seen it since 11/22/63?

Tommy,

No policeman that I am aware of ever made this assertion about a "note".

I once wrote an essay asking the question, "How did the police first learn that Oswald lived at 1026 N. Beckley?"

You can read it here if you'd like:

http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/topic/2331-how-did-the-police-first-learn-of-1026-n-beckley/

Steve Thomas

14 hours ago, Cliff Varnell said:

I understand putting people on ignore.

Cliff,

I've always said, it's not too bad when you talk to yourself.

And, it's even not too bad when you start answering yourself.

It's when you start ignoring yourself that you have a problem.

"What did you say?"

"I'm not talking to you."

Steve Thomas

On 8/16/2020 at 2:54 PM, Joe Bauer said:

I think history has shown...

Joe,

I think the more cynical historians will tell you that's what wars are for - to take the domestic pressure off (and cull the population, if you want to get really cynical).

Look at Hitler or Japan in the 1930's.

Steve Thomas

23 minutes ago, David Josephs said:

Fritz wrote it ... last line of note   And Bookout as well as Kelley mention it it their reports...

They are listed as having been found in the bottom drawer as well...  and here is CE151.. pants may be ce157...

David,

Thank you, but I was referring to the note supposedly found in his shirt pocket.

The bus transfer was, but no note listing 1026 N. Beckley that I am aware of.

Steve Thomas

4 minutes ago, David Josephs said:

Tommy...

Actually said to be in his newly changed into shirt pocket,

 

David,

Do you remember who was supposed to have said this?

Steve Thomas

I wish I had this gift of doublespeak, but I just don't.

White House Chief of Staff is explaining why we can't have vote-by-mail, because there is widespread fraud going on.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-chief-of-staff-mark-meadows-says-lack-of-evidence-of-mail-in-voting-fraud-is-the-definition-of-fraud?ref=home

“But there’s no evidence of widespread voter fraud,” Tapper added after Meadows reiterated his concern with voter rolls.

“There’s no evidence that there’s not either. That’s the definition of fraud, Jake,” the chief of staff shot back, causing the CNN anchor to do a double-take."

Steve Thomas

Oh my.

https://twitter.com/jayfeely/status/1294744576629014531?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Jay Feely

“Trump faced criticism over the weekend after he played golf while his brother was dying on Saturday.”

"It was not immediately clear if the president planned to spend another day playing golf on Sunday.

Asked if Trump’s campaigning schedule has changed this week, Senior Advisor Jason Miller said, “I don’t have any changes at the moment.” https://t.co/zeWI15PMfu pic.twitter.com/aMCAfDWsxE "

Steve Thomas

1 hour ago, Steve Thomas said:

Douglas,

There has always been a struggle between labor and capital. This plague has just shined a spotlight on that struggle.

I have always said that it is not a case of the rich and the poor.

The rich are rich, because the poor are poor.

Our planet only has a finite amount of resources, and would not support all 4.5 billion of us living the lifestyles of the "rich and famous".

Steve Thomas

Some of America’s billionaires have been illegally profiting off the pandemic while Rome burns: Clinton economist

Published on August 16, 2020

By Robert Reich

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/some-of-americas-billionaires-have-been-illegally-profiting-off-the-while-rome-burns-clinton-economist/

“Since the start of the pandemic, American billionaires have been cleaning up. As more than 50 million Americans filed for unemployment insurance, billionaires became $637 billion richer. Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg’s wealth has ballooned 59 percent. Amazon’s Jeff Bezos’s, 39 percent. Walmart’s Walton family has added $25 billion.

Big drug company CEOs and their major investors are doing nicely, too. Since the start of the pandemic, Big Pharma has raised prices on over 250 prescription drugs, 61 of which are being used to treat Covid-19.

This much is clear: Trump and his Republican enablers won’t provide $600 per week to tens of millions of Americans who need the money to survive the pandemic, because Trump and the GOP believe the money undermines incentives to work.

Yet Trump has no problem letting billionaires illegally profit off the pandemic. He thinks that as long as they buoy the stock market, they’re helping the American economy.

That’s pure rubbish. The stock market is not America. The richest 1 percent of Americans own half the value of all shares of stock held by American households. The richest 10 percent owns 92 percent. For years now, stock prices have risen largely because profits have been siphoned from the wages of ordinary workers.

In the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, stock prices are almost back to where they were before the pandemic began. Big corporations and major investors are doing fine. Billionaires are doing better than ever. But most Americans are sinking fast.”

Steve Thomas

1 hour ago, Douglas Caddy said:

Joe: Ask who benefits from all this planned chaos. Putin and Russia. It is proceeding as planned in Moscow and the worst is just months away. If America and democracy survive, it will be a close call. Wheeler's American Revolution  2.0 is a country and world ruled by organized crime.

Douglas,

There has always been a struggle between labor and capital. This plague has just shined a spotlight on that struggle.

I have always said that it is not a case of the rich and the poor.

The rich are rich, because the poor are poor.

Our planet only has a finite amount of resources, and would not support all 4.5 billion of us living the lifestyles of the "rich and famous".

Steve Thomas

I have spent hours and hours and hours poring over Invoices of Property seized from Lee Harvey Oswald, reading the after-action reports from the police officers who arrested him, and examining the contents of his wallet.

No such piece of paper exists.

That being the case; either the Johnsons lied to us, or the police lied to them. If the Johnsons were lying, it's a lie they maintained for more than 15 years, with no motive for doing so.

If the police lied to them, you have to ask why. How did the police learn of 1026 N. Beckley, and who directed them there?

Steve Thomas

On 8/14/2020 at 3:58 PM, Steve Thomas said:

I ran across this today, and I went, "Whoa".

Warren Commission Memo of Staff Meeting of 2 Mar 1964

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=10393&search=%22Earlene_Roberts%22#relPageId=8&tab=page

The following task was assigned to Mr. Ball and Mr. Belin:

Does anybody know if the FBI followed up on this alleged phone call by Mr. Johnson?

This refutes the whole story of Earlene Roberts seeing Oswald on the TV after the police had already arrived.

Steve  Thomas

Arthur C. Johnson, the owner of the rooming house on Beckley told the Warren Commission (10H303)
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ/testimony/johnso_a.htm

Mr. JOHNSON. Well, they just came down there looking for--uh--Oswald.
Mr. BELIN. Did they say what his full name was?
Mr. JOHNSON. Yes, I believe they did.
Mr. BELIN. Lee Harvey Oswald?
Mr. JOHNSON. I believe they did.
Mr. BELIN. Did they say how they happened to come there?
Mr. JOHNSON. "Well, uh--after he was--uh--apprehended out there, they searched him and found my address in his pocket.
Mr. BELIN. Your address of 1026 North Beckley?
Mr. JOHNSON. That's right.

Gladys Johnson’s WC testimony:

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ/testimony/johnso_g.htm

Mr. BALL. Did you ever know his true name was Lee Harvey Oswald?
Mrs. JOHNSON. No; not until we saw his picture flash on the television as the officers were out. Those particulars was found in his pocket after he killed Tippit, after his arrest.

\Mick Purdy in the ROKC Forum 12/08/2019

https://reopenkennedycase.forumotion.net/t1180p125-did-oswald-deny-living-at-1026-n-beckley

Washington Post reporter and Editor and General Manager of the Texas Observer, Ronnie Duggar

Duggar interviews Johnson

(perhaps in the 1966-67 time frame? (me)

HSCA Interview with Amy Gladys Johnson 10/14/77

Bart Kamp in the ROKC Forum 02/08/2020

https://reopenkennedycase.forumotion.net/t1180p125-did-oswald-deny-living-at-1026-n-beckley

I personally think that that itty-bitty little piece of paper is a key to unraveling the mystery of Lee Harvey Oswald and the murder of John F. Kennedy.

1) Either that little piece of paper existed;, or,

2) It didn’t

Steve Thomas

I'm waiting for stories to emerge of ballot drop boxes being stolen.

Steve Thomas

QAnon says, "Save the Children!"

QAnon Promotes Pedo-Ring Conspiracy Theories. Now They’re Stealing Kids.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/qanon-promotes-pedo-ring-conspiracy-theories-now-theyre-stealing-kids?ref=home

Steve Thomas

On 8/15/2020 at 8:12 AM, Joe Bauer said:

 

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Steve Thomas

1 hour ago, Douglas Caddy said:

Trump officials could face criminal charges for USPS sabotage — and the president may not be able to pardon them

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/trump-officials-could-face-criminal-charges-for-usps-sabotage-and-the-president-may-not-be-able-to-pardon-them/

 

Douglas,

States Attorneys General in both New Jersey and Arizona are looking into filing criminal charges. With the possibility of Trump being charged in state court and DeJoy being charged in state court, I think that is the only way we are going to be able to stop these people. The evening after he testified before Congress, DeJoy went back to his office and fired 23 people. They have nothing but contempt for Federal officials.

I think Biden is right. Federal prosecution of former political opponents sets a bad precedent. It looks too much like banana republic countries. But state courts on the local level though are a different matter. In Arizona, they are saying that it's a violation of the state's constitution to infringe on a citizen's voting franchise.

Steve Thomas

8 hours ago, Ron Bulman said:

d. in the link is interesting too.  What cops were near 1026 N. Beckley, including car 207?

Ron,

During her WC testimony on April 8, 1064, Earlene Roberts was challenged by Assistant Counsel, Joseph Ball about her FBI interview wherein she supposedly said she saw car number 207.

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ/testimony/robertse.htm

Roberts replied that she never said 207.

This staff meeting took place on March 2, 1964 and her FBI interview took place on November 29, 1963.

Mr. BALL. On the 29th of November, Special Agents Will Griffin and James Kennedy of the Federal Bureau of Investigation interviewed you and you told them that "after Oswald had entered his room about 1 p.m. on November 22, 1963, you looked out the front window and saw police car No. 207?
Mrs. ROBERTS. No. 107.

Either she misled the FBI, or Griffin and Kennedy got it wrong, or the transcriber mis-typed it.

What I was more interested in was that she said this car had two uniformed policemen in it. Who was using a two-man police car that day? She said it was a black car, and not a regular accident prevention patrol car.

I have not gone back and tried to find this alleged claim that Mr. Johnson called the police after he saw Oswald's picture on the TV. This goes against everyone's account of what happened that afternoon. Who made this claim? I have never heard of such a phone call.

Steve Thomas

I ran across this today, and I went, "Whoa".

Warren Commission Memo of Staff Meeting of 2 Mar 1964

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=10393&search=%22Earlene_Roberts%22#relPageId=8&tab=page

The following task was assigned to Mr. Ball and Mr. Belin:

Does anybody know if the FBI followed up on this alleged phone call by Mr. Johnson?

This refutes the whole story of Earlene Roberts seeing Oswald on the TV after the police had already arrived.

The following task was assigned to Mr. Stern:

Steve  Thomas

21 minutes ago, Ron Ecker said:

SO WHAT?

 

 

Ron,

That would mean that any orders they give are invalid.

Wolf has been spearheading the paramilitary forces deployed in Portland.

Steve Thomas