Kirk Gallaway

I really found this Estonian who now lives in the U.K.'s responses to this question interesting. I was hoping for a more pro russian response b to balance it a bit, but i ended up enclosing one response.r https://www.quora.com/The-Baltics-is-made-up-of-Latvia-Lithuania-and-Estonia-and-citizens-of-those-countries-believe-that-if-Ukraine-falls-to-Russia-Vladimir-Purtin-will-lay-his-sights-on-them-next-Is-this-a-likely-scenario-Why-or-why Ervin Puro While I currently live in UK, I believe that I am in a much better position to answer this question than most of my compatriots. In Estonia I originally come from one of the least integrated Russian speaking families and so I regularly come into contact with the most pro Russian people in the country. And while usually I am the only one arguing against them at the table, right now literally no one supports Russia or even tries to defend them. The most pro Russian position you will hear, is that the conflict needs to stop as soon as possible. For many of my own relatives this conflict served as an eye opening moment, that made them stop looking at Russian realities through their rose tinted glasses. There used to be a real generational divide in opinions between those who were born in the USSR and those who were born after but now it is all gone. Another group that is slowly but surely changing their opinion are those who no longer have access to the Russian television as their primary news source. Even the last bastion of Russian propaganda, the orthodox church of Estonia condemned the conflict which helped sway the opinion of the most conservative/reactionary people. Now to why I believe that I am in a much better position to answer. Currently the plurality of my social circle is represented by ethnically Russian Latvians and Lithuanians. Among them I find a much larger degree of difference in their opinions when compared to Estonians. In the first few days of the invasion you could see a real split in opinion that allowed to divide people in 3 groups based on their thinking. Pro Ukrainian side, Pro Russian side and anti politics side (or not my problem side). Surprisingly you could guess a lot about the person based on their position. The biggest difference was what came first: your ethnicity or your nationality? Almost all people who support Ukrainian side think of themselves as russian speaking but first and foremost citizens of their respective country (Latvians, lithuanians and Estonians). Those who supported Russia tended to hold a mirroring position. Those who said: ‘don’t raise your head or you get in trouble’, are usually the most Russian of them all. Also according to most of my mates, people from their parents generation still hold a much more pro Russian position than those in Estonia, and it causes a lot of conflict inside their families. Surprisingly it looks like comparatively, in Estonia older ethnic Russians are much more integrated into social and political life than in our southern neighbours. But the previously mentioned split is changing and right now most people are against the war. Interestingly the biggest factor seems to be the refugees. Among the ethnically Russian people there are much more negative opinions about the refugees whom they see as freeloaders and bane of their future existence. This forces them to look at Russia as a reason for why they have to deal with them and stop their support of the conflict. All in all most of us are pro Ukraine and/or against the conflict, so please don’t name us the 5th column or lump us together with the invading muppets of Putin. ********* I Latvia most russian people do not support Russia in this war. They even organize protest events to show their support to UA, take part in voluntary work etc. But there is a small part of people who do support Russia and still are victims of russian propaganda. Mostly in Eastern parts of Latvia where they are under the russian media space and this influence has lasted for years even with European media alternatives, even if these alternatives are in russian. They live in LV but their country and president is Putin. But as we see this is far not only the Baltic states’ problem. Such people are everywhere. **** .

Cliff, Ben's most effective communicative tactic is using huge print. Other than that he's the most factually corrected person on this forum. But it's overwhelmingly on this thread as he does play more by meritocracy rules on the JFKA side and is a good contributor. i assume that's due to the stern guidance of Jim Di!!

I read where Matt Taibbi when asked what happened to the twitter files. He now acknowledges that the complications are more formidable than he had realized at the start. Yeah, no kidding Dummy! Since you care so much free speech, maybe you should stop telling us what you think we're ready to hear and get together with your benefactor and release the files! In 2021, Matt Taibbi in a Rogan interview praises Seymour Hersch who was most popular investigative journalist of his day for an incident where the CIA approached Hersch to leak files of information to the public of their catching an Israeli spy. Taibbi praises Hersch because Hersh said because he didn't find it, he couldn't accept it, and Taibbi says "Once you start getting handed things, once you cross that line , you've lost, they have you!".. Then a year later Taibbi accepts files from a billionaire and becomes a conduit to us, declining to disclose what the conditions of the employment were and for how much. . He's later questioned about this Twitter Files situation by Krystal Ball, and starts squirming and says in essence, "well you do trust me?". When somebody says that, it's time to run! We don't have to accept any interpretation he says. Twitter founder Jack Dorsey said it would be best to just release all the files to the public. But keep in mind, they are "selected" files! and the irony here is Taibbi is concerned about certain government influence on the moderation of content but declines to tell us about the Trump Government's influence or communication with Twitter!, but does disclose Candidate Biden. So now we have Matt Taibbi determining what's good for us to see in the Twitter files! Taibbi's first proclamations start segment start at 3:10. Hypocrisy at 9:41.

Thanks, W.! A word to some of our younger conspiracy theorists. Don't emulate figures who sabotage their prospects of getting anywhere, and attaining true greatness! Keep your head to the stars, and act accordingly! I realize with Ben, it's way too late! heh heh

W. I wanted to take some time and give you neither a perfunctory or forum validation speak response, (which I don't disparage) But try to delve into this article. You have to be able to cut through innuendo here, ask what is Baker really saying, and then observe the interview. Let's start with this template. Baker:This of course is an astonishing claim being made by a major figure, yet it passed without further comment. It also goes to the growing desperation of the establishment to head off at the pass any further movement in the direction of a broader conspiracy. Baker seems to be inferring in this interview,Alba and Bechloss are delivering a concerted message serving the establishment's baiting us into a accepting a limited hang out short of admitting CIA complicity in the JFKA. Though I do agree with a chuckle Baker's assertion that Bechloss seems almost anointed by NBC to be their Presidential history "go to guy". Bechloss isn't some errand boy for the establishment. I think Baker's totally "grand conspiracy" theory is off there! * Quite the contrary, Bechloss has been a clown, who for years has been in over his head. His appearance on "Morning Joe after the files were to be released, was the first time I ever saw him express any doubt about the LN theory, though he seemed compelled to let you know, that no matter what, Oswald did fire the shot that killed Kennedy!! Pffffff! The truth, up to now is he could never come up with anything more articulate to say about Presidential politics in the 60's than Bobby hated LBJ, LBJ hated Bobby, Hoover hated the Kennedy's, and he's never synthesized any of this previously! Baker: Beschloss then went on to provide what seems meant to explain one reason certain documents have been withheld: He actually claims that the former director of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover, and perhaps others, knew in advance that a so-called Soviet defector would be in the book depository window the day Kennedy would be driven by — and that they did nothing to have him removed. Beschloss speculates this is possibly because Hoover and his colleagues “hated and disapproved of” Kennedy; and that, if Americans had known all this, they would have had Hoover prosecuted. Bechloss may be a great academician, but that's far from being a sleuth and for years, as I say, has been in way over his head.. But IMO, yes as a guy whose never been sleuth enough to ask the essential questions, he probably incrementally first asked himself that question. But in fairness, if left at simply this, that would have been a good place for a limited hang out. But what Baker omits is that Bechloss does say that Oswald was in touch with CIA operatives. He then goes on to say "the chances that Oswald did this alone becomes" less and less likely with every document release." Then Bechloss asks: Bechloss: What are the chances of a person having connections with the Cuban embassy in Mexico, the Soviet embassy in Mexico City,the anti Castro Cubans, the FBI, the CIA, maybe this is all a coincidence but let's keep asking these questions. Once Bechloss makes that leap, 1) that Oswald isn't alone, and 2)what are the chances of a person having all these connections?, he invites all sorts of questions! That's cat's out of the bag! What the hell is Baker thinking? This isn't some sponsored limited hang out! In the 2 Bechloss responses, he emphasizes the first JEH quote because it reinforces his "limited hang out theory" but totally ignores Bechloss second response about the increased likelihood Oswald wasn't alone and how unlikely it would be that Oswald has all these connections! It appears Baker doesn't know gold when he finds it, and had his mind made up what his narrative was to be before even writing the piece! Maybe not what you may have been expecting to hear, but at least with Bechloss this isn't some planned limited hang out. These statements lead to "the plot starts to unravel". *There are a lot of people here into film and screenwriting. To those here who buy Baker's assertion that Bechloss and Alba were coached by the deep state establishment to promulgate a JFKA limited hang out. I would suggest, as a writing exercise. Write the key dialog of the MSM establishment sitting down with Alba and Bechloss in preparation for the show! I'd love to read it! It would be the type of dialog that if perfectly done in a film, could IMO be the most definitive MSM/on air talent dialog in film history!, greater than "Network" 50 years ago, which after all, was largely a parody. I'm surprised nobody's given thought to writing such a script, since they believe it.

So Michael, are you saying Noam Chomsky claims 911 was an inside job? I hadn't heard that. As i think maybe, you've just seen. Do you associate the "911 inside job" theory with just the left wing? There's really no comparison Michael, you have half the Republican believing some of this nonsense. And the crazy theories that the right attributes to the left, represents is maybe 6-10% of the of the left. Hence the phrase "false equivalency".

Pelosi: You know he's crazy , don't you? Regarding the period after 1/6, and Pelosi phoning General Milley and convincing him to tell his staff to not take calls from Trump. Now we have Paul Gosar vowing to prosecute both Pelosi and Milley in these committee hearings, claiming Trump should have had control of the Military when he was threatening to the end to not leave office! hat's how crazy these people are. Rep. Paul Gosar, DDS @RepGosar· Jan 7 Remember - we will conduct a real investigation into J6. The effort to attempt a coup between traitor Gen. Mark Milley and Pelosi will be reviewed and exposed. Quote Tweet @JohnFugelsang · Jan 6 Remember - Kevin McCarthy, Matt Gaetz, Lauren Boebert & Paul Gosar all share the same pre-existing sedition. #January6th

Is there any question about the power of the corporate state and Repubican government for the rich now?.

Raskin was head of the 1/6 committee That is a victory toward bi partisanship and should be celebrated! We'll see what turns out. Larry, as I've mentioned to you. Thankfully, You're going to continue doing what you're doing , no matter what partisan squabbles we have here . So why involve yourself?. Particularly with Ben's "Spe ctacular Greenwald" thread which is just Ben's impatience to spread his partisan politics everywhere. You should probably just establish a thread, and update us on the latest news. I'd appreciate that. Hate to clu' ya, but Massie is not going to chair the committee.

Some people are just not worth associating with for the newest conspiracy fix. We really have to draw the line somewhere, or you'll bring us down with you.. Take your absolutist free speech and go to a website that loves Alex Jones, and after a few months, let us know where it is. So we can drop in and see the marvelous level of conspiracy exchange you can create. My guess is you know that level already.

Adam Schiff recalls a slimy story about a conversation with Kevin Mc Carthy on a plane back to Washington.

No Larry, check the title, Ben's opening post most makes no reference to the oversight hearings. Ben's subject is "Spectacular Glenn Greenwald", who knows less about the JFKA than even Tucker.. We can talk about other things. Like "Who is Glenn Grenwald" is relevant. If you want to refer to Tucker, there's already about 8 posts from a month ago you can use. Though true , nothing recently. If we may digress, Somebody here asked what Greenwald's real politics are. What he doesn't want you to know is that he started out as a corporate lawyer on Wall Street. He is a corporate Libertarian, and will literally badmouth anyone as a Socialist. Starting at 6:40 Glenn tells you Donald Trump, Tucker Carlson and Steve Banon are all Socialists!!. Sam Seder attributes that to Greenwald coming "off the rails" but doesn't Greenwald comes off very rational? This is the way he feels! To anyone who may not know what Corporate Libertarianism is. One day, they'll come up to you and say : This "public roads thing" just isn't working out! But you'll love this!

Ben: Do you realize the Capitol Police arrested no one that day?. The truth is for over a year, you maintained that only a couple of rioters were carrying firearms ( we won't mention all the other types of weapons they were carrying), and we kept telling you the majority of rioters were not arrested at the Capitol, but later, so how could you know? But you just couldn't bring yourself to believe it and now you're concocting another conspiracy theory that it was all an FBI sting. What don't you understand? The most logical conclusion is when they end up arriving in force late is that it ended up being a decision to avoid a potential massacre, to not polarize the national situation any further. Of course, you can't win. Now you're throwing around conspiracy theories about why the government didn't just massacre them??? If Trump was stupid enough to actually show up at the Capitol with the rioters, (which I suspect was all a ruse),that would have been political suicide for Trump, and you would have attributed it all to Trump falling into an FBI sting!

Bolsonaro right wing thugs have invaded Brazilian government buildings in a replay of the Capitol Riots, except Bolsonaro has been in Florida since he lost the election. I know there's a few right wing Bolsonaro apologists here. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjDtqXd27j8AhVKFzQIHfNpCQ8QvOMEKAB6BAgZEAE&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.com%2Fnews%2Fworld-latin-america-64204860&usg=AOvVaw0pOtznBnFAcl-5FbFKQpd9 Joe,even though you can't take the royal family seriously. Then why are you writing in ALL CAPS??! Heh heh I see that in the other thread as well. I got more source back up for you when the time is right on that one as well.

Egads?, Ben? a national catastrophe? Maybe if you examined this more critically. Maybe you wouldn't be so easily astonished. I personally don't think your view is well worded here Larry. First, to be clear,and straighten out the origins, if there was some immutable bond between the Dems and the FBI and Intelligence in 2016, how do you explain Republican Comey calling attention to Hillary e mails 9 days before the 2016 election? But to update: Larry:Dems now protect FBI and intelligence agencies because they think they saved the nation from Trump Untrue, the Democrats, like the vast majority of the nation "think" the ballot box saved the nation from Trump, because he and his party lost 3 straight elections, and we could arguably say a 4th in 2022. The vast majority of people, including the Democrats, don't buy the Republican stolen election narrative and when push came to shove, in the post 2020 election period, the law enforcement sided with the Democrats to preserve free elections and a peaceful transfer of power. And of course with not embarrassing Biden, why would that be any surprise? Re: the specifically the JFKA, I fail to see how Biden could be much more embarrassed than Trump caving about the first release of the files back in 2017. Larry, I realize you're making a snapshot commentary of the present obstacles, but I did caution you about the danger of getting bogged down in the political weeds, for the sake of our cause.

The moderates should be fearful. The public will see this for what it is. The Republicans getting back at the Democrats. The biggest criticism the Republicans can make of the 1/6 hearings is that they didn't have Jim Jordan on the committee, who after all was texting with Trump that day. But I think that only would have backfired as all the prosecution witnesses were members of Trump's cabinet or his closest aides, who were true believers, and were firmly behind Trump's policies and either felt they could steer Trump to further their political goals or were trying to moderate Trump's rough edges and actions to make him more palatable to the public. But the point being, even with damaging testimony, by itself it barely moved the needle, as the 2 opposing sides are so dug in,but it did move some independents to the point it probably helped the Democrats retain the Senate, but only because the margins between the 2 parties were very close. But after all this litigation with Trump. I think the vast majority of people, particularly the independents, attitude will be that they've just had enough! I wrote a letter to my Congresswoman Anna Eshoo urging her to get with Amy Klobuchar's position and honor the public promise to open the files.

You know this idea that Russia has been so upset at the rise of Nato isn't as universally thought in Russia as many westerners have said. 11 countries joined Nato between 1990-2004, and no Russian leader took notice of it until Putin first mentioned it in 2007. Since 2004, in 18 years there have only been 3 countries admitted to Nato. On February 7, 2022, retired Russian general warned Vladimir Putin not to go to war with Ukraine, accusing the leader of whipping up an 'artificial' conflict to distract from his domestic problems. In other words, Putin was thinking the war would deflect scrutiny of Russia’s economy. Colonel-General Leonid Ivashov, 78, penned an open letter titled 'On the The Eve of War' in which he blasted Putin's 'criminal policy of provoking a war' despite Russia not facing any 'critical threats'. “Therefore, the explosive situation surrounding Ukraine is primarily artificial and self-serving for some internal forces, including in Russia.” In other words, it is Russia itself creating the need for an invasion. Not external sources. In other words, NATO is not a critical threat. The EU is not a critical threat. Ukraine is not a critical threat. The US is not a critical threat. Full text below https://www.eastviewpress.com/on-the-eve-of-war-appeal-of-the-all-russian-officers-assembly-to-the-president-and-citizens-of-the-russian-federation/ When Diana told him she was pregnant. heh heh

Well put , Matt! the more people complicit, the less I'm inclined to believe the claim. I've done my best in the past, to penetrate this question. And I haven't come to a clear conclusion. And I'm not talking specifically about this thread. This is where in my opinion, the Lner's criticism of the JFKAC is correct. Where there's a flaw or inconsistency, it's always passed off as someone, presumably of the conspiracy, though maybe an unwitting part of the conspiracy, is lying. When the narrative is first laid out, in fact, this deception is never divulged, it's just come to be understood. Then when this assertion is questioned, there can be sort of a haughty reply. Particularly in a case when the questioner poses an alternative that's less deceptive, less calculated, less sinister. It's as if reinforcing a greater, more comprehensive conspiracy, or in a broader context, in some cases, more conspiracies is some sort of a badge of awareness that these CTer's hold over each other. It can be obstructionist, and should be questioned and discussed, whenever it's asserted.

Yes holdouts after the 14th failed ballot Biggs and Gaetz were phoned by Trump to switch their ballot and then complied to bring Mac Carthy's total to 218 so now they are voting a 15th ballot to give Mac Carthy the minimum after giving away the store, including a potential poison pill by which one member could bring his speaker ship up to vote. What a pack of career driven whores!

It was "Annie Hall" dude! 1977 https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-humor-in-the-j-f-k-conspiracy

Well, 1.)- It's not important and 2.) We'll never know. But you don't remember the movie, huh? heh heh

Yeah, it took Trump a while to do that, and people were speculating that Trump was about to throw Mac Carthy under the bus. But Trump has made the decision he's still the front runner and needs the GOP funding to legitimize him enough to maybe help him stay out of jail. He can count on these defiant 20 anyway. They're not going anywhere!

I also see myself as such a self appointed expert, Joe. He does have the same Brooklyn accent as Allen. The tenor of his voice, and his vocal range is very similar. It would have turned my attention as well. But in my judgment, it's not Woody Allen. Though you can take comfort that in one of Allen's earlier movies, he did mockingly play a character in a passing dialog that was obsessed with the JFKA. Somebody here can tell us which movie that was , as I forgot.

Heh heh heh, No I perfectly understand and I'm enjoying it. I'm sorry I can't get worked up over the choices like you guys can.They pose no threat to me! I like this guy making "Super Maga" fat joax about the climate hoax! heh heh. Though I did like his canned laugh, the rest was about as entertaining as looking at his face! "Super Maga", "drain the swamp", like that right wing comedian guy actually wearing "Let's go Brandon" T-shirt! These guys are real free thinkers! You've already been merchandized! This is the weakest attempt at the defiance of the 60's yet! I say let's break the deadlock! "Mike Dice for Speaker.!" P.S. As you can see, the one visceral issue to these people was that Kevin Mac Carthy threw Trump under the bus on 1/6! They're trying to get one person veto power over Mac Carthy, to at any time bring up a vote to vacate his chair.

It's strange that it's come to this. That Kevin Mac Carthy is the good guy, but what sort of moral authority figures do the Republicans have? Lindsey Graham?, Ted Cruz?, Jim Jordan?, Josh Hawley? ,Rand Paul?, Ron Johnson?, Little Marco? I know I'm forgetting someone. But it became so crystal clear after they came in contact with Trump. Then Trump just sucked them in, then just kept turning on the screws and abusing them, and making them look like fools, and would eventually end up throwing them out for trash! Still they brush themselves off, and are relentlessly back in your face!