Kirk Gallaway

Yeah, but obviously their intelligence gathering has taken a serious blow. American intelligence has reigned supreme in policy concerning subservience to Israel but I think the American public is starting to realize America' is really playing the role of a battered housewife! Do you realize we've been spreading the fear of Iraq's nuclear capability for now 35 years? Yes it has been! Yes it has, the Iraq Joint Plan of Action under Obama and Kerry. I was in favor of that and I think we'd be in a much better position right now if Biden hadn't jettisoned it. I know CNN and even more MSNBC was once in favor of that, but they don't talk about that now! Kirk:what did Israel do? Bomb an Embassy in Syria to try to lure Iran into a regional war! And of course our entire media just reports it as if it was justified! That's just the first sentence in response you'd hear from CNN, Fox and MSNBC! I said "Bomb an Embassy in Syria" but apparently you don't know. They bombed the Iranian Embassy in Syria! A completely unprovoked attack directly on Iran! So playing up "Iran's direct attack on Syria "completely leaves out they were being bullied and felt they had to come up with some tactile ineffective response to save face. As I said in an earlier post. Though you won't hear it on MSNBC. And that's what I meant when I said " the entire media just reports it as if it's justified!" But in reality, it's just Israel bullying!

About the plausibility of pulling the coverup off, that's a good point!, I suppose that's a talking point the top down LBJ- did -it can embrace. But let's face it, either way, if the coverup was planned before the assassination or just winging it after the assassination, it was a Herculean task. How were they going to have any certainty of success of convincing the public there wasn't a conspiracy? But there is a plausible deniability by virtue of the fact that the Katzenbach memo is probably the tack a lot of governments would have taken if there was at first a genuine suspicion of foreign involvement and it became uncertain that they may never get to the bottom of it in a desired timely fashion, and so that a partial government coverup in itself doesn't point directly at LBJ.

Sounds timely. I'm sure it will be used for propaganda purposes to just further divide our peoples. But I'm sure they'll appreciate our candor. Since Jim has always been such an U.S. MSM expert. Maybe Jim if asked to go to Moscow, can embark on his own project and report in kind on the variety of investigative journalist films about the Russian government corruption there. Maybe ask to see the great plethora of Russian films made about the purges of Stalin. or films from present day anti Putin activists. As a travel tip, I might suggest declining the isolated Maga Dacha offered him and get out and see for himself what's going on. And that doesn't mean going to Tucker's high end expensive Moscow grocery store, but maybe he can surreptitiously get out of Moscow into the countryside and see how the people live out there. heh heh

Boy, nobody can get nastier to Trump than other Republicans, like the Lincoln Project. This is their newest. Trump is now selling diapers!

? How do we need them? This is your best point Sandy. Just like the Republicans were staunchly in favor of the Vietnam War in 1968. We could be going back to the Chicago Democratic Convention in 1968! One thing to realize is just as Trump (with unwitting help from Merrick Garland)has probably been successful obstructing the legal process of his major charges until after the election. Bibi wants to prolong the war knowing as long as the war goes on, he stays in office. Biden has to come up with a consensus plan of Arab states to give financial support to a 2 state solution and start to leverage that against Bibi and hope with world public opinion to drive a wedge in Israel public opinion among those who want peace who realize nothing would change in their lives as they never go to the Palestinian enclaves anyway. I often wonder about the wisdom of Biden giving them the Iron Dome. I suppose there was pressure behind the scenes. Unfortunately now we'd look like traitors to take it away. And with that new immunity, what did Israel do? Bomb an Embassy in Syria to try to lure Iran into a regional war! And of course our entire media just reports it as if it was justified!

That's interesting, Kevin. I know she was debriefed by Helms upon coming back from Cuba. So you think she got wind of RFK assassinations plots of Castro and turned against him? Kevin: Keating (who initially made claims that the Soviets were placing missiles in Cuba) in the 1964 NY senate election? By "initially" you mean Keating made public statements as to the danger present prior to Oct. 1962?

"Smoking marihuana is more fun than drinking beer, But a friend of ours was captured and they gave him thirty years Maybe we should raise our voices, ask somebody why But demonstrations are a drag, besides we're much too high" Phil Ochs Outside of a small circle of friends. Hmmm, Looks like old Joe has still got a few teeth left in his head. He figures maybe he can pacify those students who are trying to appeal to his humanitarian instincts. ...... ok, forget I said that.

Unfortunately this is the downside for having "Old man Joe" veteran of the Cold War. He sees everything in terms of 20th century alliances. As I said, I think for the first 3 months, there was not going to be much Biden could do, because he had to let the whole experience sink in to the Israeli public's mind. And obviously we weren't going to bring troops in. No one would want that. To continue arming the Israelis really ends up saying we have allegiance to only democracies (who right now are struggling and Israel is a severe case in point.) and screw the evil dictators which I'm in favor of. But it also says 'screw you too" to the unaligned world who are on neither side and primarily need to establish a more stable economic footing. The United States can't be seen as a major superpower that condones and finances a genocide of any people. The truth is, there is increasingly less high ground for extolling democracies as they can elect fascists as well, witness Netanyahu who has ruled Israel for 17 of the last 27 years! These perceptions have been breaking down. As for Biden suffering from loss of the youth vote. The type of voters who are protesting are aware enough to know that Trump's attitude toward the Israel Hamas war will be much worse. If Biden can't make any faster progress and continues being Bibi's re Bozo ( heh heh, a little Nixon reference!) the youth probably won't defect to Trump but Biden will suffer from low turnout. As much as I resent the importance of those purple states in our electoral process, he's not looking great in any of them and he needs them to win. Relief for the suffering is good, but he really has to stand up to Bibi in an unequivocal way. I'd say we're down 5-2 in the 6th inning. Also the economy is not going to help out. There's a 50-50 chance we're not even going to get a rate cut before the election. Even though 6 months ago the bond market was pricing in 5 rate cuts in 2024! The public does defer to the judgment of the business class about such matters, and no improvement, and less accessibility to lower mortgage rates is bad for Biden.

I saw Duane Allman at Winterland a few of weeks before he died. Wish this was Kari Lake.

So Robert, Not to be disparaging but I notice your LBJ/ Clark "Texcentric" narrative complete with Barr Mc Clellan and Madeleine Brown is straight down the line with Nigel Turner's retracted "Men who killed Kennedy" was it episode 9? Was that your first inspiration? I noticed it was around the same time as the retraction wasn't Barr Mac Clellan's son Scott GW's Press Secretary? No conspiracy, just an interesting fact.

Opportunistically?, or desperately! Given that you think it was Pompeo. Then who holds all the cards here? Setting up a segment to out himself with Tucker that he revealed secret files to Tucker? Are you kidding? It would be political suicide for Pompeo to be caught revealing the JFK files to anyone! Do you think he wants that? What would end up happening to Tucker?, absolutely nothing! He did, and nothing has happened! Earlier, Pompeo could have conceivably been a hero to both the right and left, and to the reputation of the Trump Administration for "draining the swamp "if he came out before the deadline and said despite pressure from the Intelligence agencies, he's going on record as wanting the files released no matter what they say because now 60 years later, the public has a right to know. And that would be overwhelmingly popular with the public at large! But after refusing to open the files and winning the fight to not reveal the files. Answer me this. What would then be Pompeo's motive in speaking to Tucker about his summation of the files? If you believe this nonsense, then he missed his chance and then would be needlessly throwing his political career away!

I don't think the title here. "Pompeo was Tucker's source" is a foregone conclusion at all. We haven't heard who told Tucker. If, on the other hand, it was Trump, it's a discredited source with an axe to grind against the CIA, whose also embarrassed that he never released the files. But it's exactly the type of cowardly thing Trump would do to shift blame. Neither was Tucker, it doesn't matter, you can't leave an intelligence agency in any capacity much less Head of the CIA, and then blab their secrets.There was a legal way to do this, and that was to open the files and they finagled their way not to. As Carlson says, he's phoned in his car by Pompeo's lawyer and told "You should know that anyone who tells you the contents of classified documents has committed a crime". So why would Pompeo's lawyer phone Tucker to inform Tucker about the criminality of what his own client did? Why would Pompeo's lawyer incriminate Pompeo to Tucker? If Pompeo was the source, you don't think Pompeo could be prosecuted? Wouldn't you think he'd be aware of that, after he allegedly discussed options of assassinating Assange for the same crime? This sounds very obstructionist, Jim. I know where he's going. Even apart from legal liability, As Roger said, why would Pompeo as the source, trust Tucker knowing he would blab, and then have his lawyers threaten Tucker with releasing the information he gave him? Then after all this, we're to believe Tucker that Trump will pick Pompeo to be his Secretary of Defense in a second term? Should that make sense? Greg:but I wish there was a way to turn up the heat on this in the interests of the utter importance to history and America's interest in knowing the truth, to attempt to run this thing down, rather than this circus of Tucker Carlson throwing that out into the air and people going bananas over something which is at present in the genre of unverified anonymous gossip. I agree completely Greg, Tucker will stand on not revealing his sources. He knows he can get away with this, so he does. Tucker says he was contacted by Pompeo's lawyers the next day! Why did he sit on it for a year and a half? So are we going to wait another year and a half for a followup on this?

Great interview! Kaitlan Collins is absolutely relentless in her interview with Biil Barr. I would say only Meidi Assan has as much balls but Collins is so seamless! She never even says an "uh," and keeps coming after Barr! I thought the entire interview was great, but I would direct to start at 12:55 when Collins asks Barr why after all the things Barr has said about Trump being guilty of substantial charges in the1/6 Insurrection and the Documents Case he has since turned around and says he's voting for Trump and Collins goes after him for the last 10 minutes and doesn't let up! Barr's only excuse for Trump about 1/6 is "ok but he didn't get away with it!" What?!

Yesterday I was hoping I'd hear Gorsuch or one of the conservative justices utter that "no man is above the law" but no such luck! This is what presidential immunity looks like

Whew! Damn that David Pecker! No wonder Jim Di switched from endorsing Hillary Clinton for President in early 2016 (despite the Bernie surge at the time!) to end up voting for Jill Stein in the 2016 election. It was facing him every time he went to the supermarket! ^^^^^^^ It was the HC World War 3 Article directly ^ above that sent Jim Di and Jeff Carter over the top! heh heh

I'm amazed this thread has gone on for 3 pages on what is obviously a semantics "divide and conquer" statement, that has no real relevance. It's interesting it went to the third page, before Brown said anything of relevance. As Tom pointed out, he could have worded it differently, from the beginning. But the above statement is true, at least 95%. Most people on both sides don't really know any details. So I've never placed faith in the polling around the JFKA to mean anything significant. Even though often this general ignorance of the issues is what people come equipped with when they vote in our elections. A high percentage of people also thought Saddam was behind 911. I agree with Pat on this. Unfortunately there tends to be more of a wacko element in avid Cter's. In general, the many conspiracies fulfill a need to rationalize that there was never a real chance because life and conspiracies were stacked against them from the onset. I know that's not a popular thing to say. I've become more concerned , as an old parent given the realization that we may have given our kids a better childhood than we had, (with a lot of toys) but they now face the economic reality that most are not going to be better off than their parents. And a misdirected belief in conspiracies about some totalitarian government that doesn't exist might end up holding them back. It is important to get a better idea of what and who is the cause of this marginalization. This is probably the most demanding time since the 60's and it's no time to retreat into an era 60 years ago. It's time for them to get involved and make their issues known. JMO

I'm sure you've seen this Robert. Just to flesh out this.character. Not that I necessarily believe anything he says. H.L. Hunt was at one time the richest man in the world. Didn't he once own the KC Chiefs? I remember an interview where he once said, he was for LBJ in 1960. But he was extremely disappointed with his Presidency. I assume most of that was because of the Civil Rights Act. His wife held big Sunday Bible meetings but he was very cheap, and no philanthropist. Here , starting at 46:40 he is asked about his right wing political affiliations, about ties to the John Birch Society , his ties to Weismann who distributed some of the anti JFK literature around Dallas just prior to JFK's arrival, (which he denies funding, but apparently, knows him.) General Edwin Walker, the Kennedy Assassination. and the work of the Warren Commission.

W. I gleaned your very good article in the Political Discussions forum . It does seem like the one issue where I would have preferred Obama as President over Biden is the Israel Hamas War. As Obama was rightfully opposing Netanyahu and it almost appears that Biden started out using "atonement" with Bibi for Obama's sins for offending him! Obviously Bibi was very upset at Obama's peace accords with Iran and was very happy when Trump came in and pulled every lever with Trump to make sure he destroyed it. Of course, when Bibi came to Washington, he completely bypassed and snubbed meeting Obama and talked directly and wooed favor from the Republican Congress, who love him! Hey, I'm for decreased U.S. Defense expenditures. But there seems to be a sort of myopic projection back to the 60's here about the current U.S. military establishment. Correct me where I'm wrong, but from what I gleaned, it's worth mentioning that all of Trump's first cabinet military leaders were very much in favor of keeping the Iran peace initiatives as well as the MIC (Rex Tillerson), until Trump replaced them and Mike Pompeo, a known Iran hawk, became Trump's Secretary of State. I think the world, at this time would be at least a little closer to Peace if we had better relations with Iran,. though I don't claim to know the ins and outs of the Iran Peace initiative. I know the Iranians were hoping to start it up again when Trump left office. But Biden's put a lot more conditions on it and it failed, to Bibi's delight! Why do you think Biden jettisoned it?

Former Australian P.M Malcolm Turnbull says "When Trump's with Putin, it's like a 12 year old who goes to High School and meets the captain of the High School football team. Trump, the other day: "How many judges do I have to endure until somebody steps in? Somebody steps in? to do what Donald? To attack the judges or kill them?"

Sandy, As far as redefining the cooler descriptions. I'm used to it. I think by reading the descriptions of the 3 coolers, it's easy to understand your intentions. Maybe Cliff can give you a better description. To address your earlier post, Sandy. I also became disgusted with the direction of the 56 year thread and quit. You notice I didn't post at all in at least the final 10 pages. It's a tough job. But IMO a certain individual in particular was allowed to get out of control when they could have been nipped in the bud much earlier. I saw it all coming. To me, it became like the LAPD during the Rodney King riots. I think the mods just let it go completely to sh-t so we could get rid of it. I wasn't around for the end. I read it yesterday, and in the last couple of pages , there were people trying to re civilize the conversation.

Ok, That's Sandy's definition. I would have worded it differently. But you see it in distinction to the other 2 topics, so you see what he's going for and you can open it up and see. I thought Sandy did it pretty well, and you challenge the other side on the third option if you are so inclined.

Cory, in your honor, maybe we should change the name of this thread to "Sleuth of Ruth" heh heh You know I like you. Ok, Let's focus, and wrap this up. I don't need diversions about Cliff, and .Imdb, and this has nothing to do with whether Ruth knew the parade route. You asked this. And I answered one of several reasons that haven't already been given, that is they are 2 women with 4 children under 4 and may not like the prospect of minding them in big crowds. If you don't understand that answer, my guess is that married with children in Cory's life could be a very rude awakening! You might skip it! heh heh

Don't be coy. So you got 4 kids under 4, and one of them is a month old, and your wife loves to take them to parades? Well you're not typical.

? Why can't I just go to Cory?