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  1. QAnon 'prophet' says Super Bowl is a sign Trump will soon return to the White House -- here's why

    by Brad Reed February 08, 2021

    https://www.rawstory.com/qanon-2650404677/

     

    "As Right Wing Watch documents, self-described QAnon "prophet" Johnny Enlow on Monday told his followers that the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' victory of the Kansas City Chiefs in Sunday's Super Bowl matchup was a divine sign of Trump's impending return to power.

    Enlow's evidence for this claim is that Buccaneers linebacker Devin White, who made a game-sealing fourth-quarter interception, wears the number 45 -- and Trump was America's 45th president."

    Yup. It's written in the stars.

    Steve Thomas (looking for the nearest revival tent)

  2. Trump's DC hotel jacking up room rates on date QAnon believers think he'll assume power again: report

    By Tom Boggioni 02/07/21

    https://www.rawstory.com/trump-qanon-2650380375/

    "According to a report from Forbes, the Trump International Hotel in Washington DC has massively increased rates on the dates QAnon believers are claiming Donald Trump will oust President Joe Biden and once again assume control on the U.S. Government.

    According to a theory pushed by so-called "sovereign citizens" that has been making the rounds since Biden was inaugurated, on March 4th Donald Trump will once again be president.

    "Sovereign citizens believe that a law enacted in 1871 secretly turned the U.S. into a corporation and did away with the American government of the founding fathers. The group also believes that President Franklin D. Roosevelt sold U.S. citizens out in 1933 when he ended the gold standard and replaced it by offering citizens as collateral to a group of shadowy foreign investors." Vice previously reported.

    With that in mind, QAnon adherents are planning on holding inauguration festivities that day to welcome the ex-president back.

    Never one to pass up an opportunity to cash in on making a buck off of fans of the now ex-president, his hotel bumped their rates. Substantially.

    "At the Trump International Hotel in Washington DC, the least expensive room option is the deluxe king, ranging in size from 350 to 475 square feet. At this time of year, it normally runs anywhere from $476 to $596 per night," the report states. "Interestingly, on March 3 and 4, the same room is selling for $1,331 per night. That's 180% above the base rate and more than double what you'd pay any other night in February or March, according to the hotel's website.""

    Steve Thomas

     

  3. Republicans in the House of Representatives voted not to strip Marjorie Taylor Greene of her House Committee assignments, because they didn't want to overturn the will of the people in her District in Georgia who elected her; which is ironic, because a month ago they were trying to overturn the will of the people in the entire State of Georgia, as well as the entire States of Michigan, and Pennsylvania, and Arizona.

    Can you spell hypocrisy?

    Steve Thomas

  4. 17 hours ago, John Butler said:

    It seems reasonable to speculate that the other 3-wheeler, the one in Paschall, Hughes, and Daniel, was stationed somewhere on Main Street, perhaps just off the Main/Houston intersection.  I don't recall any film or photo showing a 3-wheeler in that area.  So, where would that 3-wheeler, the one motoring down Main St., have been stationed?

    It maybe a candidate for Chris B.'s 3-wheeler.

    Dallas Dispatch Tapes

    http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/dpdtapes/

     

    12:34

    Dispatcher

    103 clear. 12:34

    Dispatcher

    Unknown motorcycle - up on Stemmons with his mike stuck open on Channel 1. Could you send someone up there to tell him to shut it off? (12:34 p.m.)

     

    WC testimony of Joe E. Murphy

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

    Mr. BALL. Were there any other officers on that overpass?
    Mr. MURPHY. Yes; there were two more about - oh, a 100 feet south of me - to slow traffic or to stop traffic whenever the motorcade entered the Stemmons Freeway north entrance.
    Mr. BALL. Now where were they located - and, did they as the motorcade came down Elm Street, did they go into the highway and stop traffic?
    Mr. MURPHY. Yes; they did.
    Mr. BALL. Will you put their positions on the Stemmons Freeway overpass at the time the motorcade came west on Elm, and mark it (2) and (3).
    Mr. MURPHY. (Marked diagram as requested by Counsel Ball.)
    Mr. BALL. Do you know the names of those officers that were (2) and (3)?
    Mr. MURPHY. I can't recall. I know them but I can't recall who they were.
    Mr. BALL. Were they three-wheeler officers too, do they drive three-wheelers?
    Mr. MURPHY. I believe both of them three-wheelers.

    Purdue Lawrence, page 494

    https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=1137#relPageId=514&tab=page

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    To the best of my knowledge, none of these guys were called to testify before the Warren Commission.

    Steve Thomas

     

  5. Donald Trump’s Business Sought A Stake In Parler Before He Would Join

    By Ryan Mac and Rosie Gray February 5, 202

    https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/trump-parler-ownership

    Documents seen by BuzzFeed News show that Parler offered the Trump Organization a 40% stake in the company. It is unclear as to what extent the former president was involved with the discussions.

    The deal was never finalized, but legal experts said the discussions alone, which occurred while Trump was still in office, raise legal concerns with regards to anti-bribery laws.

    But the White House counsel’s office soon put a stop to the talks, one person with knowledge of the discussions said, ruling that such a deal while Trump was president would violate ethics rules.

    The never-before-reported talks between Trump’s business organization and Parler, a social media network that promises less moderation than mainstream sites and is embraced by the far right, provide more insight into the frantic last weeks of Trump’s presidency.

    Steve Thomas

     

  6. 1 hour ago, Benjamin Cole said:

    Yes, various people assert the fancy bronze casket was never out of view, even for a moment, after JFK's body was put in.

    And yet there seems to be multiple credible witnesses that JFK's body arrived at Bethesda in a steel-colored, government-issue ordinary casket. 

    Lifton posits the body was switched while in flight. I have always wondered if AF1 carried a government-issued casket as part of regular supplies. After all, AF1 could be expected to cross the Pacific from time to time with a bunch of older men on board, and a death might occur. Having a casket on board might not be so strange. 

    Still, JFK aides say they sat with the bronze casket through th flight. Something fishy happened.

    I got to wondering where a "pink/grey" shipping casket may have come from. I mean, what does a hospital do when a person arrives DOA at a hospital, or dies during surgery, etc? Do hospitals keep a supply of caskets in storage or something?

    Dr. Price, Parkland Hospital Administrator was asked this. In his Warren Commission Price Exhibit 33, page 111 he wrote this:

    http://www.aarclibra...ice_Ex_2-35.pdf

    About this time a secret service man came to me and asked how we could move the president's body. He asked if we had a casket, a basket or anything that we could get to move the body immediately. I told him that we had nothing like that, but that we had several military installation nearby where we could get a casket, or we could get one from a local funeral director. He asked me to wait where I was, stating he would be back in just a minute,. I noticed that Steve had started out of the area with a secret service man and asked where he was going. He said to get a casket, and I told him to wait a minute as someone had just asked me about one and had asked that no further action be taken at that tine. Another man in the group who had been talking with Mrs. Kennedy and the other secret service agents near her came to me and asked that we get a casket of any kind from any place the quickest possible way. I then turned to Steve and relayed the request to him, and asked that he see what could be done about it.”

    I don't know who this "other man in the group talking with Mrs. Kennedy" was. If you needed a "pinkish/grey" shipping casket similar to ones used to ship servicemen home from Vietnam, what better place to get one than from a military installation?

    Is this how the casket was removed?

    On page 110 of this Exhibit, Price wrote:

    While talking with Mrs. Nelson, one of the secret service men who had been bruised or had a minor injury came to me and asked if there were another way that the President and Mrs. Kennedy could be taken out of the building. I told him there was a tunnel exit and that if he would come with me, I would walk it off for him. I walked down to inspect the tunnel, then returned to the surgery area of the Emergency Room.”

    (Does anyone know about a Secret Service man who had been bruised or had a minor injury?)

    While I was talking with him, (a Mr. Maher) another secret service man grabbed me by the arm and asked if I knew an alternate route the Johnson*s could use for an exit. I told him I had walked out an alternate route with another agent a few minutes ago and that if he would come with me, I would show him. We went to the Emergency Room elevator, one of the maintenance men was manually operating it and told him to take us to the basement....

    I instructed the elevator operator to go to second (floor for an emergency delivery of blood),and then to take us on down to the basement. The secret service agent and I "ran" the alternate route, then when we got back to the Emergency Room area, he asked me to show him where the Johnsons were.”

    While all the attention was on Air Force One, could the shipping casket have been placed on Air Force Two, or the C-130 military plane that took the limousine back to Washington? I would have to find the radio logs for Air Force Two or the cargo manifest for the C-130 to find out more.

    Steve Thomas

  7. 1 hour ago, Vince Palamara said:

    D.H. Byrd investigates fire at TSBD and pretends he is Oswald!

     

    D.H. Byrd investigates fire at TSBD and pretends he is Oswald! - YouTube

     

    Vince,

    This is just intended as a fill-in. In the film, Byrd talks about auctioning off the TSBD. He sold the building in 1970.

    Corsicana Daily Sun” from Corsicana, Texas March 31, 1970 Page 10

    https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/41268447/

     

    Famed Depository Building for Sale

    DALLAS (AP) — The Texas School Book Depository Building goes on the auction block April 16. The drab, seven-story building that entered American history the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, will go to the highest bidder at the Northpark Inn in Dallas.

    The building is owned by the Dallas Trust Corp. The majority stockholder of the firm, Col. D. Harold Byrd, 69, has decided to liquidate some of his holdings. The Texas School Book Depository has built a new warehouse outside Dallas and their lease on the building is about to expire. The auction is open to the public and auctioneer G. C. Walters, who will conduct the bidding, says no stipulations have been put on possible buyers as to what may be done with the building. Walters said some have suggested turning the building into a shrine in honor of the memory of the President. Another informal proposal has been made to convert it into a John F. Kennedy Memorial Day Care Center. It’s just possible the new owner will choose to raze the structure,

    1961 Dallas City Directory page 387

    https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth806907/m1/723/?q=Byrd

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    Steve Thomas

     

  8. Militia alliance in Georgia signals new phase for extremist paramilitaries

    By Chris Joyner, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

    https://www.ajc.com/news/militia-alliance-in-georgia-signals-new-phase-for-extremist-paramilitaries/UD2JMQV5A5EABHHAKBQZBK2IVY/

    "The leader of a private paramilitary group that provided security for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said he has formed alliances with other far-right groups to advocate for Georgia’s secession from the union, following the arrests of participants in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

    The way patriots are now being hunted down and arrested by fellow men and women who have taken the same oath has disheartened any faith I had in the redemption or reformation of the USA as one entity,” Justin Thayer, head of the Georgia III% Martyrs, said in a text exchange with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution this week.

    Thayer said the Martyrs have allied themselves with fellow “Three Percenter” militia the American Brotherhood of Patriots and American Patriots USA (APUSA), a north Georgia group headed by Chester Doles, a Dahlonega resident who belonged to various racist and neo-poopoo hate groups before forming the new group in 2019. The combined groups will advocate for Georgia’s secession from the union through an amendment to the U.S. Constitution or through “the collapse of the American experiment,” Thayer said.

    For the last 150 years, the Imperial Yankee culture of the northeast has been molding Georgia — and the South in general — into its ‘perfect’ image,” he said."

    Donal Trump has vowed to destroy the Governor of Georgia and its Secretary of State. I would not be surprised at all to see him use Georgia as the launching pad for any post-election machinations.

    Steve Thomas

     

  9. 9 hours ago, Ron Bulman said:

    I read some of this and more in another article Steve.   Same meeting where Martial law was proposed wasn't it?

    Ron,

    As I understand it, the term "martial law" wasn't brought up at that particular meeting. What Sidney Powell (and perhaps Flynn too) suggested to Trump was that he invoke something called, " emergency national security powers",

    There is no such thing. Kind of like Al Haig after Reagan got shot, “I, Al Haig, am in control here at the White House,”

    Steve Thomas

  10. 9 hours ago, Ron Bulman said:

    Is the key line the last one?  "I don't really like to give my opinion of what I really believe".  In other words, I don't want to disappear, get run over, shot or be found floating in the river?  

    Ron,

    I think that last line, "I don't really like to give my opinion of what I really believe" is more a reflection of how women were trained to talk in those days. They were told that women were to be seen and not heard.

    Steve Thomas

  11. 2 hours ago, Steve Thomas said:

    Read: Democrats' impeachment trial brief

    Updated 02/02/21 10:29 AM ET,

    https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/02/politics/democrats-impeachment-trial-brief/index.html

    Steve Thomas

    The defense lawyers for Donald Trump file their brief:

    https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/02/politics/trump-response-impeachment-article/index.html

    On page 1, the brief is addressed to the Unites States Senate.

    They repeat this on page 9.

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    I wonder who they are.

    Steve Thomas

     

  12. Bonus episode: Inside the craziest meeting of the Trump presidency

    By Jonathan Swan, Zachary Basu

    https://www.axios.com/trump-oval-office-meeting-sidney-powell-a8e1e466-2e42-42d0-9cf1-26eb267f8723.html

    Four conspiracy theorists marched into the Oval Office. It was early evening on Friday, Dec. 18 — more than a month after the election had been declared for Joe Biden, and four days after the Electoral College met in every state to make it official.”

    “Flynn went berserk”

    “Finally Herschmann had enough. "Why the xxxx do you keep standing up and screaming at me?" he shot back at Flynn. "If you want to come over here, come over here. If not, sit your ass down." Flynn sat back down.”

    “Powell waved an affidavit from the pile of papers in her lap, claiming it contained testimony from someone involved in the development of rigged voting machines in Venezuela.

    She proposed declaring a national security emergency, granting her and her cabal top-secret security clearances and using the U.S. government to seize Dominion’s voting machines.”

    "How exactly are you going to do this?" an exasperated Herschmann asked again, later in the conversation. Newman again cited the 2018 executive order, which prompted Herschmann to question out loud whether she was even a lawyer.

    Then Byrne chimed in: "There are guys with big guns and badges who can get these things." Herschmann couldn't believe it. "What are you, three years old?" he asked.

    I am speechless.

    Steve Thomas

  13. Eugenio Rolando Martínez, Watergate burglar and former CIA asset in Miami, dies at 98

    Miami Herald 02/02/21

    https://this.kiji.is/729174268642623488

    “In a column he penned in 1974, Martínez described the scheme [Watergate]as a bungled affair that reminded him of the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba — an ill-fated, poorly planned attempt by the CIA to spur revolution by attacking communist dictator Castro’s troops with Cuban exile troops.

    “I can’t help seeing the whole Watergate affair as a repetition of the Bay of Pigs,” he wrote. “The invasion was a fiasco for the United States and a tragedy for the Cubans. All of the agencies of the U.S. government were involved, and they carried out their plans in so ill a manner that everyone landed in the hands of Castro — like a present.””

    “Martínez, born in July of 1922 in Artemisa, Cuba, was a prolific asset for the U.S. CIA in the 1960s, running hundreds of missions to Cuba from Miami. Martínez’s granddaughter, Michelle Diaz, said Monday that he conducted 365 missions in all.”

    Steve Thomas

     

  14. On 1/31/2021 at 2:24 AM, Steve Thomas said:

    It is said that the disagreement was mutual.

    Trump said, "I'm not paying you."

    The lawyers said, "Well, we're not working for free."

    The breakup was mutual.

    Steve Thomas
     

    I was only joking, but as it turns out...

    Scoop: Fees — not just strategy — blew up Trump's legal team

    By Alayna Treene 02/02/21

    https://www.axios.com/trump-legal-fees-impeachment-trial-8f6578e6-0662-4aea-8edc-aee2530c5165.html

    “Disagreements over legal strategy weren't the only reason Donald Trump's defense team collapsed just days before his second impeachment trial, Axios has learned.

    What we're hearing: The notoriously stingy former president and his lead lawyer, Butch Bowers, wrangled over compensation during a series of tense phone calls, sources familiar with their conversations said. The argument came even though Trump has raised over $170 million from the public that could be used on his legal defenses.

    • The two initially agreed Bowers would be paid $250,000 for his individual services, a figure that "delighted" Trump, one of the sources said.

    • However, Trump didn't realize Bowers hadn't included additional expenses — including more lawyers, researchers and other legal fees that would be accrued on the job.

    • He was said to be livid when Bowers came back to him with a total budget of $3 million. Trump called the South Carolina attorney and eventually negotiated him down to $1 million.

    • All of this infuriated Trump and his political team, who think the case will be straightforward, given 45 Republican senators already voted to dismiss the trial on the basis it's unconstitutional to convict a former president on impeachment charges.

    • Trump's political arm also was planning to pay separately for audiovisuals, a rapid-response team and legislative liaison.

    In the end, the money dispute added to frustrations Bowers and the other lawyers felt about whether the former president's claims of election fraud should be central to their arguments.

    "I think there was some problems getting money for it, but it wasn't [just] that," said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who helped Trump secure Bowers and other impeachment lawyers. "Just too many cooks in the kitchen."

     

    Steve Thomas

  15. What Ulysses Grant Can Teach Joe Biden About Putting Down Violent Insurrections

    By CASEY MICHEL 01/30/2021

    https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/01/30/what-ulysses-grant-can-teach-joe-biden-about-putting-down-violent-insurrections-463976

    “The deadly siege of the Capitol in Washington, which sought to overturn a legitimate election by targeting lawmakers with assassination, was not the first attempted insurrection in American history.”

    “Grant’s approach relied on a combination of brute military force and a drastic curtailment of civil liberties, yet it nevertheless has relevance for the current moment and contains lessons for lawmakers who fear that January 6 might have been only the first of widespread attacks on the government and elected officials at all levels, across large swaths of the nation.”

    Steve Thomas

  16. The Texas High School Recruiting Its Mexican American Teens to Be Border Patrol Agents

    ‘At the Ready’

    A good salary and playing with guns? Sundance doc “At the Ready” shows how Mexican American students in a border town are being recruited into immigration law enforcement.

    By Kevin Fallon Feb. 01, 2021

    https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-texas-high-school-recruiting-its-mexican-american-teens-to-be-border-patrol-agents?ref=home

     

    “Watching them train in their tactical gear is surreal. It’s jarring to see these children—and they are just children—sprinting through the hallways with fake guns and riot helmets. Some of their frames are so youthful and slight that the bulletproof vests barely have shoulders to cling onto.”

     

    “Like in so many different areas of the immigration debate, you’re left with an upsetting aftertaste: They’re just kids. Kids who are pretending to disarm and incapacitate an active shooter in a hostage situation. But kids nonetheless.”

    Steve Thomas

  17. 5 hours ago, James DiEugenio said:

    I would have to agree with you Steve.

    I have never seen any such exhibit.

     

     

    Jim,

    In addition, that's not how the police who arrested him tell it.

    Detective Bob Carroll was the officer who grabbed Oswald's pistol out of his hand and stuck in his belt at the Texas Theater. He drove the car that carried Oswald back to City Hall. (7H25)

    Mr. BELIN. Did you ever hear anyone say anything about his having an address on North Beckley or on Beckley Street?

    Mr. CARROLL. I heard later, but I couldn't say who it was that said it.
    Mr. BELIN. When you say later, you mean later than what?
    Mr. CARROLL. Later that day.

    Mr. BELIN. Did he give two names? Or did someone in the car read from the identification?
    Mr. CARROLL. Someone in the car may have read from the identification. I know two names, the best I recall, were mentioned.

    Mr. BELIN. Were any addresses mentioned?
    Mr. CARROLL. Not that I recall; no, sir.

    Detective Guy Rose told the Warren Commission that:

    Mr. BALL. Did you ask him what his address was?
    Mr. ROSE. Yes; but from there, he wouldn't tell me--he just said, "You just find out."
    Mr. BALL. Now, did anybody ever tell you that his address was 1026 North Beckley?
    Mr. ROSE. Later they did--right then they didn't; no, sir.

    K.E. Lyon, who was also in the car transporting Oswald to City Hall in his report: Box 5, Folder# 2, Item# 78 makes no mention of obtaining Oswald's address

    In his after-action Report dated December 3, 1963, DPD Archives, Box 2, Folder# 7, Item# 4, page 2

    http://jfk.ci.dallas.tx.us/box2.htm

    Detective Paul Bentley wrote: “On the way to the City Hall, I removed the suspect's wallet and obtained his name.... I turned his identification over to Lt. Baker. I then went to Captain Westbrook's office to make a report of this arrest.”

    There is nothing in his Report about obtaining an address.

    Steve Thomas

     

  18. 5 hours ago, Ron Bulman said:

    A republican Florida congressman campaigning in Wyoming against the former veep's daughter at this point?  Could it backfire?

    George W. Bush Wades into GOP Civil War as Matt Gaetz Stirs Wyoming Revolt (msn.com)

    Ron,

    What astounded me, was that in his appearance in Wyoming, Gaetz wasn't just there to campaign against Liz Cheney, he announced his intention to take on Mitch McConnell for leadership of the the Republican Party.

    At his appearance, he said,

    "We are in a battle for the soul of the Republican party, and I intend to win it," said Gaetz

    "The truth is that the establishment in both political parties have teamed up to screw our fellow Americans for generations," Gaetz said. "The private insider club of Joe Biden, Mitch McConnell, Mitt Romney, Nancy Pelosi and Liz Cheney, they want to return our government to its default setting: enriching them."

    With Kevin McCarthy traveling to Mar Lago, and Gaetz making this appearance in Wyoming, we can see where this is heading.

    Steve Thomas

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