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13 hours ago, Ron Bulman said:
Where would we be now if they'd hung him? It might have been delayed further but wouldn't the speaker of the house have taken his place and the election certified anyway?
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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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40 minutes ago, Sandy Larsen said:
On January 6 Trump was still Commander in Chief. Who knows what kind of chaos he could have caused had he chosen to invoke his power.
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
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Michigan's GOP Senate majority leader has some bad news for Trump
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
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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
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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
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Convicted Arsonist Named Acting Chief of Illinois Fire Department
MAKES SENSE
by Justin Rohrlich
Published Dec. 21, 2021
“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
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2 hours ago, Larry Hancock said:
I don't think we will ever fully resolve the question of Oswald personally being in Mexico - or Mexico City. Certainly there is good reason to question that he was ever at the Cuban consulate.
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
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1 hour ago, Larry Hancock said:
The picture of Mexico City and of Oswald in Mexico is truly a swamp, revealing much about the cover up and probably little about the conspiracy, much less the attack in Dallas.
Larry,
I've been trying to figure out why the CIA would use an impostor to pose as a man whom the Russians considered (as far back as his foray into Russia circa 1959-60), to be mentally unstable. Surely the Cubans would have asked the Russians if they knew anything about this guy.
Perhaps that was the plan. If they could then, later on, reveal that the Russians and the Cubans were meeting with a nut job, they could then cast aspersions. Maybe Oswald was being set up as a patsy even then.
Steve Thomas
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11 hours ago, Larry Hancock said:
Steve, if you have the document or source on the Miami thing I'd like to look at it - certainly at that point in time there was a general directive out to FBI, CIA etc to disrupt and obstruct any missions against Cuba from US soil - seems like a less than subtle approach though.
Larry,
Yes, that March -April time frame is exactly right.
What I have is about 10 pages of raw notes. I'll be happy to share those with you as a wp document attachment in an email. They involve a guy named Jerry Buchanan and a ship called the Violin III. (owned by Alexander Rorke, if I remember right). It also drags in Fairhope, AL, where Alpha 66 had an office, and where Carlos Bringuer lived. It also involves a guy named Sanchez, who was one of Veciana's closest allies. It's all kind of fascinating to me.
Steve Thomas
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21 minutes ago, Larry Hancock said:
What they could be trying to cover up might be simple, the CIA's use of an Oswald impersonator in counter intelligence activities with the Cubans in MC.
Larry,
This is completely off topic, but I think they tried to do the same thing down in Miami in late March, 1963.
Some guy calling himself Oswald showed up on a dock in Miami and tried to infiltrate a raiding party headed for Cuba.
He was so obnoxious about trying to muscle his way aboard, the Captain had to punch him in the mouth and knock him down. When the raiding party showed up in the Bahamas to re-outfit, the authorities were waiting for them. The Captain said it felt like the authorities knew they were coming.
Steve Thomas
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49 minutes ago, Michaleen Kilroy said:
His presidency was erased like they used to do in USSR and China when someone once in power is no longer in favor by the state.
I think Orwell called it becoming an “Unperson,” or someone who has been “vaporized.”
Michaleen,
This goes all the way back to ancient Egypt when succeeding pharaohs would chip off the faces of their predecessors, and chip off their cartouches from historical records.
It never works in the long run.
Steve Thomas
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1 hour ago, James DiEugenio said:
Why would the CIA send a tape to Dallas that was not Oswald's if they had one that was Oswald's?
When was the summary prepared?
Jim,
The summary is dated 11/26/63.
As Hoover said, "It's all very confusing".
Why would they send pictures of a guy who is obviously not Oswald"
Why would they send tape recordings of guy who is obviously not him?
Some kind of delaying tactic maybe? Or a distraction?
As a ruse, or an obfuscation, it certainly didn't fool anyone.
It leads one to ask, what were they trying to cover up?
"Here... here. Look at this shiny object, and focus your attention on this, while we hide what we're really doing".
Steve Thomas
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1 hour ago, Bill Fite said:
meanwhile -- from https://www.blueridgemuse.com/node/62540
Say what? Say three retired generals of our armed forces. They warn that the military must prepare for a massive, violent insurrection in 2024.
In a newspaper OpEd, retired Army major generals Paul D. Eaton, Antonio M. Taguva, and brigadier general Steven Anderson write:
As we approach the first anniversary of the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, we — all of us former senior military officials — are increasingly concerned about the aftermath of the 2024 presidential election and the potential for lethal chaos inside our military, which would put all Americans at severe risk.
Bill,
What they are warning about is chaos within the ranks of the military, and the need to teach soldiers how to recognize unlawful orders.
That's always been my greatest fear, ever since Donald Trump rose to power. We saw the beginnings of that back in Lafayette Square, I think.
Steve Thomas
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1 hour ago, Larry Hancock said:
Steve, its just possible they could have done it with a frequency spectrum analysis if they had a voice recording of Oswald from any source to compare patterns....that might explain the reference to a technical operations source.
Larry,
It wouldn't surprise me if they did do some kind of spectrum analysis, in using the word "identical". They didn't write, "sounds like", or "similar". They used the word "identical".
I wondered in reading what Hoover said to Johnson, if he remembered back in 1960 when he wrote that there were suspicions that someone was using Oswald's birth certificate in his sojourn to the Soviet Union.
Did Hoover suspect "at the time" that the CIA was running a doppelgänger? He said something later on about the chicanery the CIA was running down in Mexico City.
Steve Thomas
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4 hours ago, Martin Blank said:
at least one of them
Martin,
https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/2021/docid-32341711.pdf
How did the CIA know that the voice, known to be Oswald's, was identical to the voice on the October 1 tape?
Who in the CIA was familiar with Oswald's voice?
FEEDING PERSISTENT SUSPICIONS
By Walter Pincus
November 16, 1993
“The morning after the Nov. 22, 1963, assassination of President John F. Kennedy, his successor in the White House, Lyndon B. Johnson, was told by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover that the bureau had "the tape and the photograph" of a man who "claimed" to be Lee Harvey Oswald visiting the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City less than two months before the murder.
"That's one angle that's very confusing," Hoover said. "That picture and the tape do not correspond to this man's {Oswald's} voice, nor to his appearance. In other words, it appears that there is a second person who was at the Soviet Embassy down there."”
Steve Thomas
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Letter from House Select Committee to James Waldron:
This is not just objecting to a State’s Electors.
To disrupt an official proceeding of Congress is a crime.
This is quickly becoming a criminal matter.
Steve Thomas
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51 minutes ago, W. Tracy Parnell said:
First, let me say Steve that I am not trying to pick on you specifically. My exchanges with you have been mostly positive as I recall and that is rare here so I appreciate that.
I would answer that if you could produce a document that was used as a source for this summary (regarding the "car" thing) that would be interesting. For me though, I doubt that a single document would supercede the extensive WC/FBI investigation regarding how LHO got to MC. Your opinion may differ and that is ok.
Tracy,
I feel the same.
We might not always agree on some things, but that's OK.
As far as this particular document goes, I have to admit that I haven't studied the whole Mexican trip in any depth, so I can't speak very authoritatively on it. I'm just a newbie.
I don't know if there are any other CIA documents that say he got there by car. That would be nice to find.
I have always wondered what happened to the two people who allegedly visited Sylviia Odio with Oswald. They just seem to have disappeared from the historical record. Did they drive him down to Mexico? I don't know. They don't seem to show up in Alice, TX either.
As far as the WC/FBI goes, as I understand it, the WC relied on the FBI almost exclusively for their investigative work. The information that shows up in the WC Report about the "bus trip" is almost entirely FBI information.
Just as a side note,, one thing I was interested in was that Oswlad supposedly took a Continental Trailways bus.
Frank Brandstetter was heavily involved in Continental. He owned all their kitchens.
Is there some coincidence there? I don't know.
There's a lot I don't know.
Steve Thomas
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1 hour ago, W. Tracy Parnell said:
One document from the CIA said that. Doesn't make it a fact. The totality of the evidence produces facts.
Tracy,
Yes, but that document is billed as a "summary" of relevant information that they had, so it must have been drawn from several sources.
Steve Thomas
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The CIA said he arrived by car.
The FBI said he arrived by bus.
The CIA said that one of the recorded voices matched Oswald's. The FBI and (as Hoover told Johnson), it didn't.
This is like the old Mad Magazine cartoon Spy vs. Spy.
The spooks must have been tearing their hair out trying to get their stories straight.
Can you imagine the bureaucratic battles that must have been going on behind the scenes?
David Joseph spent a lot of time and energy proving the whole bus thing was "ersatz" as Jim DiEugenio called it.
Steve Thomas
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This is just wild.
Let's just tase them and leave them out there in the desert. That's what I say.
Drone TASES a migrant at the border as part of plan to use a 'wall of drones' to protect the US in promotional video for tech start-up - but founder says plan has now been ditched and was wrong 'ethical direction'
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Brinc, founded by Blake Resnick, 21, apologized for the promotional video
By Jack Newman
“The 'wall of drones' would operate in place of a physical wall at a third of the price and would be able to detect and track the 'criminals' trying to enter the US, the glossy promotional video claims.
A tech start-up proposed using drones armed with tasers to attack migrants attempting to cross the border into the US, a previously unreleased promotional video has revealed.
Blake Resnick, 21, said he set up drone company Brinc in response to the 2017 Las Vegas shooting with the aim of creating non-violent robots to aid with law enforcement, committing to 'never build technologies designed to hurt or kill'.”
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Trump ENDORSES Lauren Boebert for her 2022 race
By Katelyn Caralle
“Donald Trump endorsed embattled Congresswoman Lauren Boebert on Wednesday as the Colorado Republican continues to face calls for punishment after anti-Muslim comments aimed at Ilhan Omar.
'Congresswoman Lauren Boebert has done a fantastic job in her first term representing Colorado's Third District,' the former president released in a statement from his Save America PAC.
'She is a fearless leader, a defender of the America First Agenda, and a fighter against the Loser RINOs and Radical Democrats,' Trump added. 'She will continue to be tough on Crime, strong on Borders, and always protect our under-siege Second Amendment.'”
That;s all we need... A Congress full of Lauren Boebarts.
Steve Thomas
Gus Russo Releases Mexican Files
in JFK Assassination Debate
Posted
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