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For me; Tom's greatest contribution in this essay, is to show that Marina had access to, and used, P.O. Box 2915. I have long had the suspicion that it was Marina who ordered the rifle. See this post, "Did Marina order the rifle?" Steve Thomas

David, This line from page 8 of Morley's essay was very telling to me: "Not long after Oswald was killed, the DRE laid off its efforts to link him and Castro." It would seem to me, that with Oswald dead and unable to defend himself, their efforts to link him to Castro would intensify. Steve Thomas

How January 6 security lapses enabled 2021's Capitol attack The 2022 mid-term elections may show us if our law enforcement agencies have learned from Jan. 6. By Frank Figliuzzi, Jan. 6, 2022, https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/jan-6-security-lapses-enabled-2021-s-capitol-attack-they-n1287030?icid=msd_topgrid Risk: Violence at statehouses or election offices Fueled by coordinated accusations of impropriety involving extremely close midterm U.S. Senate races in battleground states — like Georgia, Arizona and Florida — large crowds may assemble, first at county election offices, as votes are tallied — then at statehouses as results are certified. These crowds may include individuals and groups intent on interfering violently with lawful election certifications. Risk: Social media disinformation Social media platforms may be used to spread disinformation and conspiracy theories about uncorroborated midterm election cheating, which could fuel violence. Risk: Governor interference GOP governors in the most contentious midterm election states might attempt to use either their state guard or the National Guard to seize and/or recount ballots, leading to violent protests. Risk: Organized violence If the Supreme Court upholds midterm election results in highly contentious U.S. Senate races and the DOJ announces arrests of those plotting to interfere with those races, the threat of organized violence against those two institutions rises. Risk: Attacks in Washington Sufficient deterrence against the physical attack of Washington, D.C., targets is still not in place. I've only included the risks he laid out. You can read his recommended responses in his article. Steve Thomas

Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy! I can't wait! They're going to emerge soon! Hundreds of years! Right Wing Watch @RightWingWatch https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1479150403015127052 "QAnon Shaman Jake Angeli tells fellow QAnon conspiracy theorist Ann Vandersteel that there is "a breakaway civilization" deep underground where military bases are using technology hundreds of years more advanced than anything available on the surface." Steve Thomas

Conspiracy against the United States, or conspiracy to defraud the United States,[1] is a federal offense in the United States of America under 18 U.S.C. § 371. The crime is that of two or more persons who conspire to commit an offense against the United States, or to defraud the United States. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_against_the_United_States Statute 18 U.S.C. § 371 provides that: "If two or more persons conspire either to commit any offense against the United States, or to defraud the United States, or any agency thereof in any manner or for any purpose, and one or more of such persons do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy, each shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. If, however, the offense, the commission of which is the object of the conspiracy, is a misdemeanor only, the punishment for such conspiracy shall not exceed the maximum punishment provided for such misdemeanor.[2] History and interpretation In the 1924 case Hammerschmidt v. United States, the Supreme Court of the United States, in an opinion authored by Chief Justice William Howard Taft, held that "To conspire to defraud the United States means primarily to cheat the government out of property or money, but it also means to interfere with or obstruct one of its lawful governmental functions by deceit, craft or trickery, or at least by means that are dishonest."[3] The U.S. Department of Justice's United States Attorneys' Manual, summarizing case law on the statute, states that "In summary, those activities which courts have held defraud the United States under 18 U.S.C. § 371 affect the government in at least one of three ways: (1) They cheat the government out of money or property; (2) They interfere or obstruct legitimate Government activity; or (3) They make wrongful use of a governmental instrumentality."[1] The "intent required for a conspiracy to defraud the government is that the defendant possessed the intent (a) to defraud, (b) to make false statements or representations to the government or its agencies in order to obtain property of the government, or that the defendant performed acts or made statements that he/she knew to be false, fraudulent or deceitful to a government agency, which disrupted the functions of the agency or of the government."[1] The federal courts have held that an "actual loss to the government of any property or funds" is not an element of the offense; to secure a conviction, the government must prove "only that the defendant's activities impeded or interfered with legitimate governmental functions."[1] For example, a businessman who used a front company to gain federal subcontracts for bridge construction meant for disadvantaged businesses was convicted under this section.[4][5] The statute has been used in a wide variety of contexts; it is "a common federal charge, mainly because it can target a wide range of conduct and can be tacked on to other charges."[6] Charges of conspiracy against the United States have been brought against al-Qaeda terrorist attack plotters as well as against various Volkswagen AG executives who were charged under the statute in connection with the Volkswagen emissions cheating scandal.[6] Notable persons who have been convicted of conspiracy against the United States include former Enron chief executive officer Jeff Skilling.[7] The statute received renewed attention after Donald Trump's campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, and Manafort's associate Rick Gates,[8] were indicted and pleaded guilty to this crime." Steve Thomas

GOP Donor Claims Pope Francis Is Jewish Agent Installed to Distribute Vaccine BY JUSTIN KLAWANS ON 1/4/22 AT 11:31 PM EST https://www.newsweek.com/gop-donor-claims-pope-francis-jewish-agent-installed-distribute-vaccine-1665640 "A former Utah tech executive and prominent GOP donor said Tuesday that he believed Pope Francis was secretly a Jewish agent installed to help distribute the COVID-19 vaccine around the world in an effort to create "totalitarian rule." Dave Bateman, co-founder of property management software brand Entrata, stated these beliefs in a mass email that was sent to numerous people within his company, as well as state officials and other tech moguls. This was first reported by the Deseret News, which was able to obtain a copy of Bateman's rant containing a number of antisemitic conspiracy theories. "For 300 years the Jews have been trying to infiltrate the Catholic Church and place a Jew covertly at the top," the email stated. "It happened in 2013 with Pope Francis. I believe the pandemic and systematic extermination of billions of people will lead to an effort to consolidate all the countries in the world under a single flag with totalitarian rule." "I write this email knowing that many of you will think I'm crazy after reading it," Bateman began. "I believe there is a sadistic effort underway to euthanize the American people. It's obvious now. It's undeniable, yet no one is doing anything. Everyone is discounting their own judgment and dismissing their intuition. I believe the Jews are behind this."" Yup. He's right. I read it and I think he's crazy. More space lasers anyone? Steve Thomas

Pete, This is new. If he returned by car, how could he have been arrested at the bus station, and there should be some record of his arrest. I don't think the authorities have the faintest idea how LHO was getting around; or if he was even there to begin with. He went to a bullfight, and the movies? Give me a break! Steve Thomas

https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-the-gop-civil-war-over-the-january-6-capitol-riot-martyrs?ref=home It Sends the Wrong Message’: Inside the GOP Civil War Over the Jan. 6 ‘Martyrs’ https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-the-gop-civil-war-over-the-january-6-capitol-riot-martyrs?ref=home "Many of those events take place outside courthouses or in parks. Another Jan. 6 event, organized by a far-right political candidate, calls for a “patriot martyr vigil” outside the Orange County, California FBI office. The event’s organizer, Nick Taurus, is an outspoken fan of the white supremacist Nick Fuentes, and is currently running a longshot campaign to unseat Democratic Rep. Katie Porter in California. Taurus is a longtime participant in physical clashes with the left. This summer, two weeks after announcing his candidacy, he uploaded a video montage of himself ripping up a Black Lives Matter sign and repeatedly punching a man who was on the ground. The montage is set against an audio clip of Barry Goldwater proclaiming that “extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice.”" I'm telling you, we're back to 1964. Steve Thomas

To Pete Mellor: Pete, Thanks, Steve Thomas

Pete, in general terms, on pages 29-30, what does it say about Diseñador Industrial and plastics? Steve Thomas

Chilling Trump Letter Calling For 'Seizure' Of Election Material Revealed In Log To Jan. 6 Probers "The letter was created a day before Trump discussed naming conspiracy theorist Sidney Powell "special counsel" to probe baseless election fraud claims." By Mary Papenfuss 01/01/2022 This article was based on an article which appeared in the 12/19-20/20 issuea of Politico Magazine https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/19/sidney-powell-trump-special-counsel-448694 “The letter was created Dec. 17, 2020, a day before Trump met in the Oval Office with advisers including retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn and discussed seizing election equipment in states Trump lost. Trump also discussed naming controversial far-right attorney and conspiracy theorist Sidney Powell as a “special counsel” to investigate alleged election fraud, The New York Times reported, but Trump didn’t follow through with it. Flynn had already suggested Trump could invoke martial law to seize control of the election.” Steve Thomas

The document covering pages 35, 36 and 37 of this pdf file refer to Oswald as Harvey Lee Oswald. Steve Thomas

Andrej, If the last letter is an X, the French word for "prix" is cost, or price. Steve Thomas

Among the items that Bernie Kerik refused to turn over to the January 6th Committee was this: https://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000017e-1335-dee4-a5ff-ff3d3f310000 DRAFT - POTUS LETTER 3 ATTORNEY WORK PRODUCT DRAFT LETTER FROM POTUS TO SEIZE EVIDENCE IN THE INTEREST OF NATIONAL SECURITY FOR THE 2020 ELECTIONS DATE: 17 DEC 2020, AUTHORS: NONE LISTED ADDRESSEES: NONE ATTORNEY/CLIENT DOCUMENTS DRAFTED AND/OR EDITED BY ATTORNEY I wonder if this goes along with Mike Flynn’s recommendation for Donald Trump to seize all the voting machines in the country in the “interest of National Security”. Steve Thomas

Well, here's the pdf file of Gus Russ's files anyway: https://www.jfkfiles.com/jfk/download/Mexico-City-Archives-Oswald-File.pdf It's 119 pages and 33MB. I tried downloading it and inserting it into Google translate, but Google Translate will only handle up to 10MB at a time, so you'd have to break it up and save it as several pdf's. There's also the option of converting it to a Word document, but I don't have an Adobe account. The file seems to be accounts of the interrogation of Sylvia Duran and the hunt for the "red-headed Negro" who was supposed to have paid Oswald $6,500 to kill Kennedy. This is from pages 19 and 20 of the file: The talk of "Canadians" and "mobsters" makes me think of Montreal. The date of September 25, 1963 jumped out at me. If Oswald didn't enter Mexico until September 26th, how could he have been meeting this "re-headed Negro" on September 25th? Steve Thomas

Ron, No. As of January 6th, Donald Trump was still the President. He would have invoked the Insurrection Act, suspended habeus corpus and arrested the entire Congress. He would have declared the entire election null and void due to massive "corruption", and declared himself the "ruler" until everything could be straightened out. Steve Thomas

DC insider explains a 'fundamental truth' about Trump's Jan. 6 coup attempt by Robert Reich December 31, 2021 https://www.rawstory.com/trump-coup-2656201435/ “But even with this help, Trump’s attempted coup could not have gotten this far without something more basic: A substantial portion of the American population feels an anger and despair that has made them susceptible to Trump’s swagger and lies. It is too simplistic to attribute this solely to racism or xenophobia. America has harbored white supremacist and anti-immigrant sentiments since its founding. The despair Trump has channeled is more closely connected to a profound loss of identity, dignity and purpose, especially among Americans who have been left behind – without college degrees, without good jobs, in places that have been economically abandoned and disdained by much of the rest of the country. The wages of these Americans have not risen in forty years, adjusted for inflation, even though the economy is now three times larger than it was four decades ago. The norm of upward mobility has been shattered for these Americans. Through their eyes, the entire American system is now rigged against them. This part of America yearns for a strongman to deliver it from despair. Trump has filled that void. To be sure, he’s filled it with bombast, lies, paranoia, and neofascism. But he has filled it nonetheless. The challenge ahead is to fill it with a democracy and economy that work for everyone. Unless we understand and respond to this fundamental truth, we will miss the true meaning of January 6.” Steve Thomas

Amanda Gorman’s new poem: May this be the day We come together. Mourning, we come to mend, Withered, we come to weather, Torn, we come to tend, Battered, we come to better. Tethered by this year of yearning, We are learning That though we weren't ready for this, We have been readied by it. We steadily vow that no matter How we are weighed down, We must always pave a way forward. * This hope is our door, our portal. Even if we never get back to normal, Someday we can venture beyond it, To leave the known and take the first steps. So let us not return to what was normal, But reach toward what is next. * What was cursed, we will cure. What was plagued, we will prove pure. Where we tend to argue, we will try to agree, Those fortunes we forswore, now the future we foresee, Where we weren't aware, we're now awake; Those moments we missed Are now these moments we make, The moments we meet, And our hearts, once all together beaten, Now all together beat. * Come, look up with kindness yet, For even solace can be sourced from sorrow. We remember, not just for the sake of yesterday, But to take on tomorrow. * We heed this old spirit, In a new day's lyric, In our hearts, we hear it: For auld lang syne, my dear, For auld lang syne. Be bold, sang Time this year, Be bold, sang Time, For when you honor yesterday, Tomorrow ye will find. Know what we've fought Need not be forgot nor for none. It defines us, binds us as one, Come over, join this day just begun. For wherever we come together, We will forever overcome. Steve Thomas

https://scv-kirby-smith.org/#front-page-3 Wait. What? Steve Thomas

Sandy, ‘I Alone Can Fix It’ book excerpt: The inside story of Trump’s defiance and inaction on Jan. 6 By Philip Rucker and Carol D. Leonnig July 15, 2021 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/07/15/jan-6-i-alone-can-fix-it-book-excerpt/ “After first evacuating congressional leaders to the secure area of the Hart Building, Capitol Police decided to err on the side of caution and transported leaders, including Pelosi, McConnell, Senate Democratic leader Charles E. Schumer and House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy, to Fort McNair, an Army post in Southwest Washington. At 3:15 p.m., Dan Sullivan called Milley. “This is really f----- up down here,” said the Republican senator from Alaska. Sullivan told Milley that the senators were safe in a secure location and that Capitol Police had a tentative plan to evacuate them by bus. Sullivan, who had military training, thought the movement would put them in more danger.” The Secret Service tried to get Mike Pence to evacuate the Capitol, and he refused. There has been some suggestion in the last couple of days that the military was hesitant about sending in the National Guard, fearful that Trump would try and repurpose it. If they had succeeded in evacuating the Capitol, and the National Guard was sent in to "protect the Trump supporters", who knows when the Legislature would have been able to reconvene to certify the results of the Electoral College. With the Speaker of the House and the Vice President gone, the whole line of succession would have been broken. Steve Thomas

Michigan's GOP Senate majority leader has some bad news for Trump Sky Palma December 24, 2021 https://www.rawstory.com/michigan-candidates-endorsed-by-trump/ “Michigan Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey (R) says the influence of an endorsement from former President Donald Trump for candidates who are loyal to him is waning, The Detroit News reports. "We shall let the results speak for themselves, but I will go on record right now predicting that most of the endorsements will fail," he told Jackson TV this Wednesday. "We can play this back a year from now and find out what happened," Shirkey added. As The Detroit News points out, Trump has endorsed several state House and Senate candidates as well as candidates for Michigan attorney general and secretary of state who have echoed his voter fraud conspiracy theories. "Local clerks, both Republican and Democratic, conducted more than 250 audits of the 2020 election and affirmed President Joe Biden's 154,00 vote victory over Trump in Michigan. Countless court rulings also have upheld Biden's victory in Michigan," The Detroit News reports. "The GOP-led Senate Oversight Committee took more than 28 hours of committee testimony from about 90 people and reviewed thousands of subpoenaed documents before concluding there was no evidence of significant acts of fraud in the 2020 election." In a statement, Shirkey and then-House Speaker Lee Chatfield said that they had "not yet been made aware of any information that would change the outcome of the election in Michigan and, as legislative leaders, we will follow the law and follow the normal process regarding Michigan’s electors, just as we have said throughout this election." Speaking to Jackson TV on Wednesday, Shirkey said there's "a lot of things that happened in that election that need to be tightened up but, in Michigan in particular, President Trump lost. He just simply lost." Read more at The Detroit News. Steve Thomas

Trump name officially removed from Vancouver hotel building By Amy Judd Global News Posted December 23, 2021 https://globalnews.ca/news/8471179/trump-hotel-vancouver/?utm_medium=Twitter&utm_source=%40globalbc “The Trump name has officially been removed from one of Vancouver’s tallest buildings. Crews have now removed all the Trump branding on the outside of the 63-storey tower that was known as the Trump International Hotel & Tower Vancouver when it opened in 2017. It was not a success and the hotel closed in 2020.” This project was suspected to have been financed with money laundered out of Malaysia. Steve Thomas

Donald Trump's Petition to the Supreme Court to block release of his Presidential Records filed 12/23/21 https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/21/21-932/206268/20211223101028235_21- Petition.pdf Steve Thomas

Convicted Arsonist Named Acting Chief of Illinois Fire Department MAKES SENSE by Justin Rohrlich Published Dec. 21, 2021 https://www.thedailybeast.com/convicted-arsonist-jeramie-simmons-named-acting-chief-of-saint-clair-county-illinois-fire-department?ref=home “An Illinois man who pleaded guilty to torching a vacant home and a high school in 1998 is now running the Prairie Du Pont Volunteer Fire Department in St. Clair County, Illinois. Jeramie Simmons, who was 18 at the time of the arson attacks and received probation for his crimes, was named acting chief of the department at a fire district board meeting on Monday, Fox2Now.com reported. When Simmons’ appointment was announced, 10 of the department’s 13 firefighters resigned on the spot, according to the outlet. Simmons will replace Chief John Rosencranz, who was removed from the position for what board members say are “good reasons,” which they have not made public. Simmons, who has had other run-ins with the law since, was reportedly later pardoned by Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker.” Police say mayor's son had a vape during strip club clash. Others say he had a gun. By George Pawlaczyk and Beth Hundsdorfer Updated July 03, 2018 9:25 AM https://www.bnd.com/news/local/article213982269.html "An altercation at a strip club involving the son of a local mayor who also heads the 911 program for St. Clair County raised the question: Did the suspect pull a handgun or a vapor cigarette from his front pants pocket? The question was important to Jerame Simmons, a 38-year-old felon convicted of arson, because if there was probable cause that he had held a gun he could have been charged with another felony. Instead, he was charged with a Class C disorderly conduct misdemeanor that is still winding its way through St. Clair County Court." My wife and I have made a vow to each other, that whatever happens to us in our lives, we will never move there. Steve Thomas

Larry, Larry, Larry, *Sigh* Don't you know he went there to get airport runway clearance for the plane he was going to hijack and fly to Cuba? Marina said so. Steve Thomas