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2 hours ago, Mart Hall said:
Interestingly I shared the Max Good documentary with a friend who, let's say, is familiar with interpreting body language. They knew little about the subject of the documentary beforehand and they picked out many scenes where they believed that the body language was contradicting what Ruth Paine was saying. At the end they were even more convinced than myself that Ruth Paine knows more than she is letting on.
Well first off, Mart I love your tennis shoe epaulets! Very clever!What I meant by the "average viewer" are people who are agnostic to the JFKA. I think anybody with enough exposure to be on this forum would be likely to not believe RP.Body language experts aside. I don't think she was always truthful. As I recall,with the WC for an example she seemed to fumble when asked about her neglect at not telling LHO about the higher paying job at the airport, though there's no proof or reason to assume Ruth was privy to salary information. I would explain that she may have just been tired of dutifully taking down Lee's job offers for the last month and been relieved that LHO finally got a job and the whole process was over, and then got uncomfortable when her neglect was made into a cause for suspicion.I think she doesn't really owe Lee anything. -
20 hours ago, James DiEugenio said:
This would not have happened without Max Good.
https://whowhatwhy.org/hidden-power/key-to-jfk-murder-in-the-hands-of-an-elderly-quaker-woman/
What would not have happened? This article? Which is only a rehash of previous things we've already uncovered and said about Ruth Pain?.
There's nothing new here. Do like some others are doing here. Reveal new facts, don't just post something to reinforce and validate current forum dogma, or ask a series of questions that lead nowhere. .
But since you brought up Max's film.
Of course in the film, Max was a spy of sorts. After embedding himself under RP's auspices, and seeing her and Michael Paine's life in their retirement home. (which I know from experience is rather sobering, and would be all the more so for a younger person.) Max didn't air any of his suspicions of RP until the final interview, when it's obvious Max doesn't have neither the goods to deliver any kind of knock out punch, or the heart which is actually to his credit.Though both sides will assail him. The RP-is-guilty faction will say he didn't go for the jugular, when in reality, he didn't have the evidence. And the RP-is-innocent crowd will assail Max for making the film at all. But it was entertaining for me. I think everybody here is interested in seeing more current film and getting whatever new info they can about Ruth Paine.So the purpose of the movie at least became to inform about the suspicions surrounding RP and to leave viewers with their own conclusion..But there is quite an irony in that Max became no less than an undercover spy apprentice to, let's face it, according to Ruth''s detractors, the greatest spy of the 20th and 21st century! She extended this deception for over 60 years! The literal Evil Knievel of spies!There are certain practices that come with a thing called "spy craft". Under the normal practice,, Ruth having been an accomplice (witting or unwitting) to the the killing of the POTUS, would have spent the rest of her life in seclusion, away from the public eye! She was told to do so by her CIA handlers, who most likely threatened her life! After all, these are the same people who killed a President, killed LHO and numerous others shortly after the assassination and then years later, when they became more sophisticated, took down a sitting President from office ( Nixon) for knowing too much. Right, Jim?So according to Ruth's detractors, when asked to retire, Ruth would have none of it, and told her handlers to got to hell! Because she was going to take on all comers who question the findings in the WR, and then a decade later, anxious to return to the limelight insisted on continuing her spy activities in Nicaragua!, because she saw herself as indispensable to the agency, and no one was going to tell her differently!And she's been taking on all comers ever since, open to every interview or tv shows for the next 60 years after the assassination and shuts down every tough interviewer including more recently young whippersnapper Max Good, over 50 years younger than her!Such an infamously stellar career has to be begrudgingly acknowledged by RP's detractors, if they actually believe it!heh heh -
What's with the western press here? We have CNN still raising issues about Israel's claim that Hamas is using "human shields"with tunnels beneath the Al Shifa hospital, but here's what they've neglected to mention. We now have this Christiane Amanpour interview where former PM Barak tells Amanpour that Israel constructed the underground tunnel under the hospital back in 1983!
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Israel is big box office human misery!Poor old Ukraine, too bad people can't see the atrocities, the utter destruction, the displacement and the general horror and human pain and suffering Ukraine has had to go through and still is..They're estimating 11,000 orphans in Gaza. Ukraine estimates there as many as 300,000 orphans in Ukraine, many shipped off to Russia. But that estimate has about as much credibility as RK's estimate of 300,000 Ukrainians dead. Still you know the total has to be many times more than in Gaza!. They've been fighting almost 2 years!This is the world we live in, and this is war. I think images of war shown throughout the world is probably a good thing and will invoke for most people a common sense of humanity.Life isn't fair and war is hell.Sounds like we're now winding this down in Ukraine.Ukraine has taken back more than half of its territory seized by Russia’s forces since February 2022. In this tough and dynamic battle, Ukraine’s soldiers are fighting bravely every single day, and they continue to inspire the world with their bravery and courage. We will continue to support them to be in the strongest possible position at the negotiating table when the time comes. We continue to stand #UnitedWithUkraine while they defend their freedom.
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48 minutes ago, Greg Doudna said:
Only baseless suspicions from some villages which, traumatized over the loss of JFK and what his loss represented without adequate resolution (the trauma is real) fix on scapegoating as some primal purgation,
Yes, Same old rehashed stuff. Di Eugenio has tried to enshrine Ruth Paine into the forum hall of Conspiracy Supervillains for 10 years. At one point over 5 years ago, you couldn't have a real discussion about RP's innocence without being shouted down.
Max's film leaves the average viewer sympathizing more with 91 year old Ruth Paine.
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Ok, just one more thing about collateral damage it is !.
As I've said, I'm more interested in what to do, that is "policy'. I want a cease fire, but the political reality for this moment is that even Bernie Sanders won't go on board for that!
I think with more time and anguish. That will change
I agree. These are trying times.W.!
But I beseech you, keep faith and don't do as this woman, and fall into the dark side!
https://twitter.com/i/status/1726326879630639510
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Yeah that makes a lot of sense!
Only the Office of the Presidency is exempt from guilt for leading an insurrection!
Other countries have to think we're crazy.
to design a legal loophole so only the most powerful people can also be the most destructive!
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I don't think it's panacea you might think it is Joe.
I was hoping facial recognition would spare me the endless chore of looking up my passwords for what is now 100 sites. But it''s just used as another layer of identification now, and I'm starting to flunk half the time though my appearance hasn't changed!
I've also bought speech recognition software twice over the years and I've discarded those as well.But maybe it's better now. If anybody using SRS with good results, please recommend.
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I have an interesting story about the Filoli Estate where Biden met Xi. It is probably one of the hugest estates in the one of the most expensive zip codes in the U.S. There is not another house within a mile of it!
When I was in my 20's I use to trespass on government property a lot, mostly to see beautiful areas. I once trespassed on the Filoli Estate that I accessed through a prohibited watershed area (Crystal Springs Reservoir) that nonetheless had equestrian trails for the wealthy Woodside people.
I was expecting to hide from a staff of people but I never saw anybody and walked through the gardens! Though it's not as incredible and opulent as the Hearst Mansion in San Simeon. It's pretty remarkable and I've been on a number of tourist tours of rich estates in several countries.
It was used in Warren Beatty's movie "Heaven Can Wait" in the 70's. As a number of such places, I think it was given by its heirs to the State of California because the estate taxes had become too high. If there is a rural estate rich town associated with Silicon Valley wealth, it is Woodside.
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Congratulations Michael! I didn't know you were writing a book!
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As Steve has touched upon.
Have you heard some of Trump's fascist retribution plans if becomes President again?
They are running it by Steve Bannon here and he's completely in favor!
He's even turning orange!
Let's expose this sh-t and cut it off at the pass!
Ex Republican strategist Tim Miller confronting Kari Lake.
Yes you're fos!
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15 minutes ago, Douglas Caddy said:
It sounds like something that may have been leaked, but you don't know.
Of course, keep in mind Doug. Ben says Business insider is CIA "Operation mockingbird".
So the CIA is with us on this one?
Maybe they're not so bad after all!
heh heh
But keep in mind, Obama knowing well that Congress would not be behind him if he as Prez was to go completely down on Netanyahu, would probably bite his tongue. That's been his history. To go with the white establishment.
1)People don't know. He was given his choice to either forgive the loans of the people or the banks in the sub prime crisis and he chose the banks. But that's not a completely cut and dry issue.
2)People also don't know. He didn't have the courage and adopted Bush's "surge" in the Iraq War and inserted troops to their all time high number during his administration, but left fewer troops than when he started, but that was after 8 years!
The dude is black.
The Prez is white.
Together they learn- to read and write
And that's outta sight!
or if you prefer:
Ba-rack is black.
Old Joe is white
heh heh a joke!
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1 hour ago, Sandy Larsen said:
William,
Because of the way Biden has handled the situation, he has Netanyahu's ear and is able to influence his decisions to some extent. Had his administration voted for the UN resolution to stop the bombing, Biden likely would have lost that ability. And Biden would have nothing to show for it (other than approval from his anti-Netanyahu critics) because Netanyahu would have ignored the resolution. Just like he has no-doubt ignored some of Biden's private advice and requests.
Biden is doing what he thinks is best for the long-term stability of the region, not so he can get re-elected. Good for him.
Honestly If you're making a case that Biden really knows what's going on, Sandy has some good points.Let me list some of things Biden is up against.Even though Netanyahu isn't popular and won't be voted out until this situation at least stabilizes. You can argue Biden is dealing with what is. That is a right wing government in Israel.You'd hope that any wise administration knew we were eventually going to engineer a 180 degree turn from Biden's unconditional support of Israel, as Israel decimates Gaza inciting greater worldwide protest. Biden has to look like he's first honoring the U.S. alliance with Israel, but he's monitoring events on the ground and coming to a conclusion based on facts, and revising his judgment. The only problem is that takes time and in the meantime people are suffering and dying.Obama might be the best President to have. It would be interesting to see his rhetoric and how much further we'd be in our opposition to Israel's aggression right now.But it's complicated in the U.S. and Obama would be getting a lot of resistance from Congress! Because even right now, as far as pressuring for a cease fire, we look bad in the world because even Bernie Sanders is not asking for that! But I assume he eventually will. But there a lot of hawks in Congress who are super pro Israel!I don't know how we got started giving Israel 4 billion a year for Defense, particularly when their standard of living is higher than ours. But the truth is even if the U.S. threatened that yearly aid, Israel would still be able to prosecute their war.And the truth is, we are a hawkish country. Though I don't think that reflects the popular will. Is there an opportunity now to shift public opinion through organized protest as we eventually did with the Vietnam War, but we missed before GW Bush's War in Iraq? -
Now Trump's claiming he won all 50 states in 2020!
And polls show that not only will the Magas forgive the fact that he's a crook with 91 felony charges against him, but they can forgive that he's totally lost it and is now a total loon as well!
https://news.yahoo.com/trump-claims-won-50-states-152719454.html
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21 minutes ago, Larry Hancock said:
Kirk, over the years Plumlee did mention names of a couple of guys on the flight, including the pilot, but I did not take the trouble to record all this - at one point the story asserted that he and the pilot were both given a covert task of somehow aborting an attack on JFK but at that point with no details at all (no briefing on the motorcade or anything else). Yet rather than rushing downtown, to LOVE field or to meet some sort of covert local contact with more details, Tosh went to visit a relative (I think his mother) first and then later just appeared in the Plaza, having no operational contact or communications with anybody else.
You really can't appreciate this all without all the versions of his story over the years, not even sure you can find them via google now but they were readily available about three decades ago when I was pursuing it.
Right, Wasn't the story that Roselli was part of an abort mission but in the last minutes was over ruled by Sam Giancana? As I recall he does make a first name mention of being with someone else at Dealey Plaza and expresses disappointment when the assassination actually happens (and flying back, everyone was disappointed as if they had lost the Super Bowl?) I can't remember and I don't want to embellish my account like some who added Hunt to the passenger list!
Larry: You really can't appreciate this all without all the versions of his story over the years.
Yes of course, that's the bottom line.
Larry some of these guys, I just sort of sniff their stories and then look at them and make a judgment and I'm generally right.
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Yeah I saw that film of Tosh Plumlee's supposed account of flying to Dallas. I don't remember anyone else he talked about being on the flight other than Johnny Roselli, other than maybe a Cuban name? I can't remember. I didn't believe him. It was shown on Newsmax a number of times, maybe 10 years ago.
Hey I got this in my feed this morning from the New York magazine's "Intelligencer." Sounds like another CIA front!! heh heh
What really happened to JFK? How one dogged journalist proved that the CIA lied about Lee Harvey Oswald — and spent decades covering it up.
I rolled my eyes but when I opened it, then I saw 2 pictures , one of George Johannides and the other LHO, but I couldn't scroll and they are asking me to subscribe.
Is this Morley? Can anyone scroll down on this and resend it to here?
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/jfk-assassination-documents-national-archives.html
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On 11/7/2023 at 4:40 PM, Benjamin Cole said:
In truth, I am uncomfortable with the "JFKA: Dulles Did It" conclusion.
Ben, Dulles is probably the closest thing to a "focus of evil" so to speak figure that I've ever seen in a least 15 years following this forum. And I think Talbot's "Devil's Chessboard" is the reason for that. I hold the theory in some high esteem as the most likely of a plurality of theories.But I think you're coming in not wedded to any one theory is the best place to be Ben. Particularly where at least IMO elements of the forum are sort of mired in at least what IMO turns out to be obstructionist fiercely held hero and conspiracy super hero and super villain politics.As someone whose a bit more familiar with Talbot, that I know what his responses will be to almost everything. I'm looking for anything new and Greenwald brought up the Brazilian coup.But I don't find the response to this interview very penetrating, because it's mostly the same Talbot stuff most people here are familiar with, hashed over again but it's chief value at this point, for most adherents is for repeated reinforcement and validation for their theories..To get back to the interview. I know a bit about interviewing people. I think Greenwald is very intentional in his method here. Greenwald is sort of unaligned like you Ben, but a relative newcomer and complete novice about the details of the JFKA. That's a pretty good place for Greenwald to be in that he gets street cred with Talbot for being anti "deep state", so he can ask him questions reflecting some of his skepticism, and be accepted.The first question of some curiosity for Greenwald was mentioning the coup in Brazil and then button hooking it at the end into solidarity with Talbot about the msm collusion*. He wanted to see if Talbot, who holds JFK as probably the greatest American of our lifetime, (and it shows!) would acknowledge JFK was part of that coup, but leaves him an out to commiserate about the U.S. media coverage. Talbot doesn't address the JFK LBJ coup, so you wonder if he even knows about it! But takes up the media collusion.Then later, Greenwald mentions another revered member of the left, Noam Chomsky, and cites his denial that JFK wanted out of Vietnam and gets Talbot's viewpoint on that.* I'm giving Greenwald the benefit of the doubt about the evil MSM collusion prior to the JFKA, but it could be as willful back then as he assumes. I think more likely intelligence just cultivated "confidential sources" to the small number of media sources and outright BS'ed them, and they just accepted that they got the "inside scoop." because they didn't know any better and just blindly believed them! And that was the beginning of "Operation Mocking Bird." -
11 hours ago, James DiEugenio said:
I have Kirk on ignore but I have to read this stuff when someone else quotes him.
DId I say this? Jim: The Brazil coup took place in the spring of 1964. That should be enough to cause anyone to hesitate assigning blame to JFK.
Anyone who can leave out David Rockefeller in what happened in 1964 in Brazil is simply not being honest.
You might also want to look up Lincoln Gordon and the Ramey Clark panel.
You might also want to refer as revelatory as what happened when Bobby Kennedy visited Brazil the next year.
Hold your breath for Kirk to mention those two.
Jim:I have Kirk on ignore but I have to read this stuff when someone else quotes him
But nobody else quoted the post where I quoted you Jim. So your claim that you put me on ignore is false.
Jim:DId I say this? Jim: The Brazil coup took place in the spring of 1964. That should be enough to cause anyone to hesitate assigning blame to JFK.
Yes that's exactly what you said. it's a direct quote!
Jim:So the CIA prepared some contingency plans for JFK. We do not know if Kennedy would have enacted them.
I agree completely. This is the first time you admitted any possibility of JFK being party to any coup planning and a possibility he may have enacted this plan. I also think that's possible.Jim: Anyone who can leave out David Rockefeller in what happened in 1964 in Brazil is simply not being honest!Read what I wrote. I said I never knew anything about this. Are you sure you're not also researching this for the first time? Do you have anything from K&K to share with us? How come you've been silent about the coup in Brazil for 10 years here, Jim ?Oh, I some good news for you Jim. Jill Stein is running for President again!
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On 11/7/2023 at 5:31 PM, Paul Brancato said:
Kirk - your distillation of the interview is so colored by your own bias as to make it useless. So I will not repost it here. You mischaracterized the exchange on the 1964 Brazil Coup, made it look like Talbot was ducking evidence that JFK wasn’t really anti-colonialist. I suppose most readers won’t bother to listen to the interview in Ben’s shorter version, much less the full one, so they won’t see what I saw, which is that the question Greenwald was posing, which Talbot did not shy away from, was the biased media coverage, then and now. The Brazil coup took place in the spring of 1964. That should be enough to cause anyone to hesitate assigning blame to JFK. We know for certain that his policy on Vietnam was immediately reversed after his death. Rather than provide evidence that JFK started this 1964 coup, and LBJ finished it, you chose via your own bias to share your intuition that he must have because Talbot didn’t go back to that subject at the end of Greenwald’s long question about media bias. Thanks for that. Now’s your chance to prove your point.
Paul: I suppose most readers won’t bother to listen to the interview in Ben’s shorter version, much less the full one, so they won’t see what I saw, which is that the question Greenwald was posing, which Talbot did not shy away from, was the biased media coverage, then and now.
? So what is more important Paul? The fact that the U.S. engineered a coup to overthrow the standing Brazilian President or the eventual U.S. media suppression of that fact? I know that's Greenwald's point, but I want to dig deeper and would have liked to have heard Talbot's reaction, to see if he even knew about it! But all I said concerning Talbot was that Talbot was silent. Come on Paul, do you really think Talbot would shy away from the topic of biased media coverage? That's the low hanging fruit.
Jim: The Brazil coup took place in the spring of 1964. That should be enough to cause anyone to hesitate assigning blame to JFK.
Yes Jim, well, maybe to hesitate. But Goulart first came to the presidency in 1961! The coup started in March 1964! Plans for the overthrow of a government could have been years in the making! That's why Greenwald, assigned blame to both JFK and LBJ! The coup was in the early months of LBJ . See that to me Paul, is far more interesting than just to review the interview as "awesome" and why I don't think my review was at all 'useless" as you said. And as I said, being familiar with Talbot, 90% of his answers I anticipated, as I assume you maybe did too. But this was to me by far the most interesting event raised in the interview.
Jim I appreciate you giving us some background. You've covered a lot of JFK foreign policy, and I've never Ive never heard you talk about the coup in Brazil..
Re: the coup in March 1964, 3 years after Goulart became president. Here's what it says in just a preliminary look into Wikipedia.
"Throughout his tenure, (1961-1964)Goulart had come under numerous efforts to pressure and destabilize his government and plots to overthrow him. Brazil's relations with the United States deteriorated and the American government allied with opposition forces and their efforts, supporting the coup. "
On 11/7/2023 at 6:12 PM, James DiEugenio said:Jim: Kennedy was getting some horrible advice from his ambassador Lincoln Gordon, who he should have never appointed.
Gordon even went as far as saying that under Goulart, Brazil would go communist and it would be the biggest loss since China. So JFK sent Bobby down to talk to Goulart. But as Latin American specialist Wayne Smith told me, Goulart was very difficult to deal with. RFK thought he would keep their agreements but it was not a satisfactory result, as it would then repeat itself with McCloy. So the CIA prepared some contingency plans for JFK. We do not know if Kennedy would have enacted them.
Thanks Jim. So we know at the time of JFK's death, Goulart, (who according to Greenwald, wanted some rent control and to address more equitable land reform from the wealthy land barons) was perceived for some period of time by JFK and RFK as a "problem" that they tried to address without any results. And then 4 months later the U.S. started a coup!Wow!, that's about as damning a scenario cast on JFK foreign policy as you'll ever get from Jim!But I agree, we don't know if JFK would have started the coup.Yeah, it sounds like another bad appointment! heh heh
Paul: Now’s your chance to prove your point!
Is that good enough for you Paul, that there might be some suspicion?? Oh no? Take it up with Greenwald!
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Ben, you do realize that a more complete version of this interview entitled "David Talbot interviewed by Glenn Greenwald" was posted here last week by JJ Lane and you actually contributed to the post thanking him for posting? If you remember this, why didn't you just contribute to his thread, instead of opening a new one?
Since most of the us know Talbot pretty well. I've read Devil's Chessboard, some of "Brothers" a lot of articles and interviews and I could anticipate many of Talbot's answers in this interview. I would say Talbot and Newman have become the JFKA community sort of middle of the road here and Talbot's general views and specific indictment of Dulles is probably embraced by the most people here. So, unless you're not familiar with Talbot, who is a good read. There was little new here except I might try to add something fresh here other than the usual din of praise, and mention the things I thought were most interesting.
Greenwald who lives in Brazil alleges a 1964 coup in Brazil that was first initiated by both JFK and LBJ over a Prime Minister who the U.S. thought to be Socialist for only wanting simple things such as rent control and some land reform. It certainly goes counter to Talbot's as well as a number of authors here preaching of JFK's non interventionism. I didn't know anything about this. But when Greenwald confronts Talbot about it, he is silent. Of course not addressing it is sort of more of the same politics. Let's all get along and not further investigate it, and agree to spare JFK's non interventionist image, nor investigate the accuracy of Greenwald's claims. If I didn't bring this matter up. I would expect it to be thrown in the trash bin as it has been for the last week and I suspect that will continue..Of course Ben, you've continually roasted Biden for not releasing the JFKA files while ignoring that Trump first resisted opening the JFKA files. But there was another such free speech issue that you've taken up the mantle of, and that is the the freeing of Julian Assange. But as Greenwald says here, Trump could have pardoned Assange. A number of people pleaded with him to, but Trump refused! Greenwald knee jerk automatically assumes that it was due to the some pressuring by the NSS "deep state" and maybe you do as well. But the reason could be as simple as Trump might just look at Assange as a" dirty hippy", and if he didn't have any people around him who were that concerned, what reason would Trump have to pardon Assange? Like the Magas, you're projecting on Trump that he holds your ideals.Talbot and Greenwald do delve into their politics, which is to be expected if you've read either of them. Regarding the War in Israel, Talbot is not pro Israel, and takes up his cause by saying the opposition to Israeli decimation of the Gaza strip was being suppressed in the U.S. media. He also cites that there is a concerted "clampdown on dissent among intellectuals' political leaders and artists'"."Clampdown?" I don't know what he' talking about! It looks to me like everybody is stirring up sh-t on both sides, and things are occasionally getting ugly. While I agree with him the MSM has staunchly backed Biden's reasons for backing Israel,which is the immediate reaction to the Hamas terrorist attack, there's becoming just as much coverage now for humanitarian concerns about the plight of the innocent victims in the Gaza strip, and I see it on both CNN and Fox. It represents a case to me where the left just knee jerk talks about the media oppression, whether it's happening in reality or not.You can decry veering into "politics" again, but that's exactly what Greenwald and Talbot do. And there's no reason that relevant topics such as U.S. intervention in Brazil shouldn't be explored any more than either Talbot or Greenwald shouldn't be scrutinized. -
9 hours ago, James DiEugenio said:
I wanted to make this board a calendar for RFK Jr Events?
Yes Jim, you started a thread announcing the next RFK Speech. You don't remember?
9 hours ago, James DiEugenio said:And how about this one: "And who would disagree with opening the files anyway? Even LNer's want the files open!"
In context Ben and I were loosely talking about forum decorum. I was in essence saying that I've heard no LNer's here on the forum say they oppose the release of the files back in 2017 or now.
Jim: Does anyone think that RFK would not at least try and do that?
Of course he would, but things are happening in the present.This is probably the heaviest decade since the 60's. We got 2 wars going on.
If RFK could, I'd say the results would be, Sorry no "smoking gun" of Tucker lore. The LNer's would crow. But some inquisitive researchers might find some more leads to look into.
Jim: IMO, this is one of the reasons the MSM does not like him and is giving him a bad press. Plus the fact he appeared in Stone's film. And he did well.
Now you're veering into politics. But a number of us told you at the beginning this would happen. I don't think Stone"s film had much to do with it. He's really treated no differently than any other popular name recognition candidate who would have that vaccine baggage after a pandemic. Many people see RK as too loose on that front, and are concerned. W's article supports that. "We’re going to give infectious disease a break for about eight years.” Most people see that as radical!
Most of this is result of his own doing. As a candidate, there was a way he could have mitigated it, but he chose to get stubborn and waste precious minutes acting as if he was a teenager fiercely defending his Senior Class Science Project. Then later, so ineptly, he allows himself to get chided and played by the right.
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On 10/12/2023 at 7:52 AM, Kirk Gallaway said:
You do have to wonder what Hamas was thinking. Sure they have lot of hostages, but they murdered so many innocent people! They had to know that Israel will be so mad they'll be quite willing to lose some hostages, and wreak 20 times the destruction and kill considerably more people first.
Like I predicted, quintuple revenge payback was accomplished by Israel in a week.
I agree with Doug, I think Biden's domestic priorities are maybe the best of any President of our time, with possible exception of Jimmy Carter, and my hopes for RFK. But everyday for the last 3 weeks he hasn't called for a ceasefire just damages him in the eyes of the world, not to mention his election chances.
I enjoyed that interview with Ilan Pappe, Doug!
The only thing that could save him would be if he got support from our allies, and in the next 9 months the world gets some confidence that we are on the road to a 2 state solution. If Biden accomplished that, he will have achieved something no President in the post war era world could and be remembered as a great President.
These are his stated intentions, and no doubt the intentions of a lot of our allies. We don't know what he's telling Netanyahu in private. But first there has to be an acknowledged turnaround, from this no ceasefire policy. And then an acknowledgment that getting rid of the spirit of Hamas is impossible no matter how much of Hamas you've killed, and we have to take a new direction.
Biden has been shrewder than a lot of people have given him credit for. The question is: is he shrewd enough to realize that if he doesn't shoot for the fences now, his chances for reelection will be zero?
I'm seeing a lot of coverage from CNN and Fox about the plight of the people in Gaza as well as Israel. It's really a "whole world is watching" moment. Biden has to be aware that sticking with Israel, right or wrong is political suicide!
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I love all 3 American sports.! Baseball is what I was best in. I was 5-1 as a pitcher in Little League, and 13-0 as a fast pitch softball pitcher in junior high inter school competition. But when i got to high school, I decided you could get more girls in a R&R band and the British invasion was going on!
I don't think there's any question that Football is America's sport. Both Football and Basketball have monetized their sports very well in our lifetimes with Basketball being a truly International sport now. Baseball is too slow moving for the restless new young generations with their devices.
I'm glad they've speeded up the game. But now they face this question, why play 162 games a year if who ends up winning is the hottest team at the end of the season with a mediocre season record?
What exacerbates this now is insisting on having so may teams entered into the playoffs, that the best performing teams during the season get cold because they are forced to wait for these wild cards teams to eliminate one another.
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4 minutes ago, Benjamin Cole said:
Oh, come. I think reading about RFK2's likelihood to opening up the JFK Records Act, twice, is bearable.
But cumulatively, it's been 1000 times, and everybody already knows that!. And who would disagree with opening the files anyway? Even LNer's want the files open!
6 minutes ago, Benjamin Cole said:The EF-JFKA has deemed political discussion belong in the water cooler.
And you could more appropriately push your alternative political beliefs there, but it's too low profile for you.
MAINSTREAM COOLER - For those who believe mainstream contemporary facts.
in Water Coolers
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The only problem Sandy is now you're creating 2 future members of Hamas or the equivalent for every on Hamas you destroy.
I streamed this documentary from a PBS Frontline last night about the beginnings of the demise in Mariupol when the Russians started bombing and then the occupation, and the newfound horror of the citizens.
I grant not pleasant. Maybe you have to be in a 'tell like it is" mood. But it made an impression on me.