Kirk Gallaway

I use to wonder about the usefulness of NATO. I thought if we no longer formalized it and just shut up about it. (Bush Sr. "don't want to gloat") and let countries choose their destiny on their own. It would have just become obvious! I SAF don't now! No matter what the result, there's no way Putin or really anybody benefits from this unless Putin goes, which could be very good, but there's an outside chance could be a crap shoot! Nice going, retrograde turd! As far as single polarity vs, multi polarity. I don't buy any argument that we need Russia to balance the world out. Ideologically, they've never really stood as a Socialist alternative , but a blundered Socialist state now turned kleptocracy. They'll always have their weapons and we can't do anything about that. I don't see any benefit to having 3 major flashpoints with the West in the middle. China is a true economic superpower, but that largely couldn't be avoided. The whole South China Sea and Taiwan situation was inevitable, but a lot of the economic problem can be mitigated. They'll play both ends against the middle but economically they need us 100 times more than they need Russia. But Europe's more dependent on the Chinese than we are. Still China's having growing pains. Their zero covid policy has been a disaster! They didn't push vaccination to the population as a way out of the pandemic as the West did, and their vaccines were sh-tty!. We have been able to realign some supply chains. For 20 years their economy grew at a 6% clip, almost unprecedented in history. Now it looks like they'll go to a more normal 2-4% clip, which is great news for us. Also Xi's also taken a direction toward more Central Government control and state run businesses and put pressure on their private companies. . The idea of wanting some multi polar check on the U.S. is understandable but it's whole economic system and it's multi national and as long as people need capital, the only thing that would bring it down is at least a decade long collapse of the current economic system, probably with resulting wars, and great suffering that could eventually result with the world starting over again, like after WW2 but with a greater consensus. But of course, how can the planet sustain the aftermath of that?.

Yes, that's always been a good question I've never heard answered.

Denny, I think Marr's photo you cite was originally from one of Groden's books in the 90's. I first post a better photo of Milteer, then a comparison of photos between Milteer and the man in Dealey Plaza in Nov. 63. I personally don't think they're the same. Think what you will.

Trump declared over 915.7 million in losses from 1985 to 1994! So Trump was on good behavior from 2015-2020 only carrying over 300 million dollars in losses! Transcripts of his main federal tax form, the 1040, from 1985 to 1994, were obtained by The Times in 2019. They showed that, in many years, Mr. Trump lost more money than nearly any other individual American taxpayer. Three pages of his 1995 returns, mailed anonymously to The Times during the 2016 campaign, showed that Mr. Trump had declared losses of $915.7 million, giving him a tax deduction that could have allowed him to avoid federal income taxes for almost two decades. Five months later, the journalist David Cay Johnston obtained two pages of Mr. Trump’s returns from 2005; that year, his fortunes had rebounded to the point that he was paying taxes. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/27/us/donald-trump-taxes.html Barbara Walters asking Trump about his losses in 1990.

Trump's main holding company racked up over $300M in losses This is between 2015 and 2020. https://www.axios.com/2022/12/30/trump-tax-returns-djt-business-losses 2020 Presidential debates with Trump and Biden. Tax question to Trump from Chris Wallace.

Of course you ask anybody in that region, at least in the old Yugoslavia where I went last year, there's much more love for the West than Putin. Most of the people there are just glad Putin didn't invade them. Things could have been handled better after the break up the Soviet Union without a doubt. Re: Putin, since it was a very delayed response after the exile of Yanukovich, (sp?), and there's only been 3 new nations joining Nato since , I think 2004. I think Putin tried to make a last ditch effort to salvage his name in Russian history and start a return to the glory days in his mind. which has definitely backfired. I've seen Stone's "Ukraine on Fire" making his historic basis for Putin's "denazzification" claims. But if you guys have Netflix you should see "Winter on Fire", "Ukraine's flight to Freedom" which is a very good grass roots accounting by everyday people of the 2015 uprising made by a I believe a Ukrainian, film maker with the assistance of a Brit and an American. It's much more interesting, and I would assume by now you might be able to find it in a number of places, like Amazon Prime. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4908644/ wow, I'm getting it right now on youtube!

This is from a President Betrayed, right Gil? Really an excellent film that doesn't preach to the converted but would open some people's eyes.

Yes and she cites AOC being co opted into the Democratic Party. But it's because AOC realized she just doesn't have the numbers. Most people aren't with AOC. You're piggybacking on Gray's frustration as evidence the Dems are dead, but get real, you're not with AOC, you're a "let the free market decide" , "but I love the working guy" talking out of both sides of your mouth. Just like the blonde conservative guy, cites as "positive" that Republicans are getting more of a "working class message", but guess what? He doesn't really believe that at all. Never have I heard him come out with any policy solution or idea, really just like the present day Republicans always said they had a health care plan, but only to deceive voters to get votes. He just judges her ideas at a distance and tries to look compassionate because he ultimately realizes the numbers are with her. It was certainly better than Iverson and Grim. Those people were clueless about the JFKA, but I can tell you. I would never want to live under Iverson's rule!

I agree about the Donks, Ben. They're finished ! How can they possibly compete with this? I like the "God bless you" at the end. Now there's a class act! Ben, I know you'll like this one. https://twitter.com/Santos4Congress/status/1432477835248259080?s=20&t=NVT1lFVC8lIKTxiZMtnrPw

I'm not saying this isn't significant. Since he's made open government a focus in his career. I would have liked him getting on the JFKA 15 years ago. But you take it when you can get it. i think the most significant thing he said was his story about receiving the Snowden files and all the junk in it that was insignificant and should never have been classified but then we don't' know the level of classification of each of those files. But it's pretty apparent that no one will get around to declassifying files unless they're made to do so, and of course that sucks. I've heard Glenn is leaving his journalistic career to become head of the RNC. It's long overdue. So this is what journalists do?

Ben, Is there anywhere on this forum you won't go to push your partisan politics? Does Larry hype our getting Amy Klobuchar writing a letter to release all files as "spectacular" even though it's 100 times more significant? You can't see that the battle is more than just repetitively pushing your talking points, preaching to the converted in your own echo chamber?

Pretty spectacular! I've heard Glenn is leaving his journalistic career to be head of the RNC! But that's not the kind of thing Conservatives congratulate each other for! What do you think of Lauren Boebert saying that it is "completely unfair" that she has a reputation for being "unintelligent"?

Yes W.! just caught up to it! Nice arrangement! Stilling! Pretty! Saecula Saeculorum! La la how the life goes on!

Wow, Matt, this guy was not just a Russian politician or political writer. He was the President of Russia, and Putin's hand picked protege. I'm not sure how their government works, but at the time I thought he was hand picked by Putin as a puppet to maneuver around a 2 term limit, which after a term Putin reassumed power and eventually got rid of the term limits law. But I might be wrong. Now this guy is just another 2 bit xxxxx, and crazy one at that. The Presidency of Dmitry Medvedev began on 8 May 2008, when he became the 3rd President of the Russian Federation. Medvedev was the Head of the Presidential Administration during the 2nd term of Vladimir Putin as president, and the Chairman of Gazprom oil company.

Yes it is. Amy Klobuchar is a centrist who might be too pro defense status quo for me. But there's no doubt, she's very capable. This might not be popular here, but in the 2020 Democrat Presidential debates, she could wipe the floor with Tulsi Gabbard , Kamala Harris or Kirsten Gillebrand. Not that the person winning the debate is necessarily the best candidate. But she would probably be the best women in Congress to argue your case. So this is find!

I like your contributions Simon? or Andrew? Keep it up! I'm going to get a little dark on this. I've had some years to evaluate what I've seen. I think most people here are reasonably well adjusted. How I'm viewing your initial post from the conspiracy side, what I have seen to just some here, is that looking into these sinister forces you mentioned becomes a fixation and an obsession and that can translate to seeing people who don't believe in the JFKA as even scumballs, or one of the enemy, to a point they are part of a conspiracy against them. And gradually more and more people are seen through a binary lens that they are with them or supporting them, or against them, which comes to isolate them, and that gives rise to more and broader conspiracy beliefs to feed a fire to the point that nothing is taken at face value and every notion, every good intention and person is distrusted as part of a grand scheme working against them. Your question involves mental health. I'm only focusing on what I see as the worst mental health problem.

Hmmm! Notice how the right has co opted JFK? Most post war Presidents were NRA members until ironically George HW Bush cancelled his membership. For you conservatives, ideologically JFK has nothing for you! Perhaps the most absurd assertion was someone here posting a comment by JFK about the undesirability of abortion in 1960. So what politician in 1960 is going to come out pro abortion, whether he's a Catholic or not? I'm sorry to bust your bubble but JFK was not a devout Catholic! Such musings about JFK would only come from an early 20 something with no historical context. You could fairly gauge JFK's historical evolution on that matter by the political positions taken by Kennedys in succeeding generations. JFK also wouldn't have seen world climate change as a Gates -Soros scam to make money! JFK would be in touch with science of his day.and if he was a President in the late 70's 80's and 90's , we and the world be a lot further along than we are today, which is really a global crisis!. The matter of climate change and how it's effecting border situations throughout the world, was brought up in passing by James Wilkerson only to your scoffing just last week. I'll give you a further example, there's a massive drought in West Central America, effecting El Salvador Honduras and Nicaragua that's causing people to flee to other parts in Central and Latin America as well as the U.S. I saw the Nicaraguan migration influence in Costa Rica, and the native concern last year. Of course these countries didn't have any hand in this climate change. We can be blamed more than any country in our hemisphere and in the past, the world . I can also tell you with certainty that JFK wouldn't have thought the Covid pandemic was a Faucci- Gates conspiracy with the Chinese either, whether it accidentally got out of the lab or not. JFK would have stood behind the science of his day, and there wouldn't have been near the resistance that there is today. As people at that time, would have been much more concerned at taking precautions to not spread the disease to others than the current edition of lunkhead "experts" that exist today. Most of the guys who believe like you back then were probably from the Deep South. RFK Jr. is cited as a hero to the anti vaxxers and anti Covid vaccine. You can't ignore what he's done for the environment, but this Kennedy family fanboy stuff here on the forum sometimes gets grotesque!. He's just as capable of making a mistake as anyone else, dare say JFK and Bobby as well. And you notice the other Kennedy's haven't fallen in line with his message. I think that the successive generation of Kennedy's don't have as much on the ball which is common in the next generation, and I say that, being from the same generation as we're all baby boomers. JFK would have expanded the safety net which I think would have eventually lead to universal Health Care, which you guys, as conservatives would have opposed, and did in fact oppose. He also was pro labor, though frankly I don't Im not sure as pro labor as some here might portray, nonetheless you as conservatives would have been staunchly opposed, as the conservatives of the day were. One thing we might be able to agree upon since you guys are relatively new world peace advocates, is that the pre Bay of Pigs invasion JFK would have called Putin on his invasion and been a hawk on the current War in Ukraine probably without U.S. boots on the ground, and the post Bay of Pigs JFK would have done everything possible to have avoided Putin's invasion of Ukraine and peace would currently reign. heh heh Outside of that, JFK provides you no quarter! Go find your own real historic conservative heroes from your glory period, like Ronald Reagan, or if from across the pond, PM's Margaret Thatcher, or if you prefer male heroes, John Major! heh heh again!.

Ok, So I was fair, you stand by your allegations, with some new ones. You can always repost it. But Larry is our guy right now. I'm not sure what it serves.

I assume by virtue of the fact we're discussing this, that we've eliminated the idea that Pompeo was Carlson';s source, because in that case he certainly wouldn't have a done a very good job of protecting him, would he have? Dropping his name, saying Pompeo knows and inviting him on the show, as if threatening to out him! Mark Zaid goes back a ways here. Jim Di and Oliver Stone were super pro Putin at the time and defended Putin's taking over Crimea and Jim wrote an article that was sort of a dual villification of Zaid, tying by innuendo Zaid's involvement with Trump's first impeachment trial with his opposition to a new JFKA trial in the early 90's. First he first smeared Zaid for for being part of the whistle blowing of Trump in his first impeachment trial, where Trump was withholding previously authorized military aid to Ukraine,and decided if he has to run contrary to the wishes of Putin, he might as well at least get dirt from Zelensky on his political rival's son, Hunter Biden. Of course Trump was impeached but not convicted because although many Republicans disapproved, they didn't think the crime rose to the level of removal from office. Jim's second smear was because of a conversation Jim had with Zaid's lawyer where he told Jim, that although they did feel there was a JFK conspiracy, there wasn't sufficient evidence back in 1992 to open a new trial on the JFKA, but Jim found out later, he had consulted with Posner. I understand Jim would feel betrayed, but he sort of implied Zaid could have government "deep state" connections. During that thread, a similar piece to what Matthew has brought out about Zaid was used as a scurrilous allegation of Zaid being a pedophile by a poster here who later charged that Hunter Biden and no less than Joe Biden were pedophiles and when asked by the mods here to retract the statement, refused and was kicked out of the forum. When the thread ran out of dirt, it was eventually hijacked and lasted quite awhile when in the end we were making jokes about what happened to Mark Zaid? heh heh

We are one! 200-300 million years ago. But how far China from Australia? Good will to all beings! Pangea We are one! 200-300 million years ago. But how far China from Australia? Good will to all beings.

Grim: the notion that the CIA has done this has only increased their power in the government , because literally we know every President since Kennedy, and we know LBJ knows there was a deep state conspiracy to kill Kennedy.. So what is it Grim? LBJ knew and probably Carter, Reagan, Bush SR. Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump and Biden all know that the CIA killed Kennedy and better mind their P's and Q's?? BS! There's no foundation for that at all! This is so novice bogus!, and in some cases irresponsible..This is where you sometimes have to parse out words and use critical thinking. Are we simply supposed to be unquestioning and enjoy this because as Trump says "People are talking!!!!" Grim: A huge amount of people now believe the CIA killed Kennedy! Wow, that sounds huge! Grim: Donald Trump's best friend Roger Stone is conspiracy buff #1! I'm surprised Jim Di went for that. Roger Stone is a charlatan. His entire book was based on an alleged conversation that Stone had with Nixon when he was 20 years old, where he said Nixon in so many words said LBJ killed JFK. A conversation that has never been verified by anyone else.. His only other supporting information came through quoting Judith Varyn Baker's book! Stone is currently working off his Presidential pardon by selling Trump figurines!*. Iverson: We have RFK Jr. saying the CIA killed his uncle and maybe the entire Kennedy family! Wrong! There's been much publicized division and opposition within the family to RFK Jr's claims. Which RFK Jr. himself never asserted for 50 years! The Kennedy family publicly was/is in a worthless reinforced LN bubble for 60 years! At one juncture Iverson comes to joke with Grim that there would actually be a document where the CIA says they're going to kill JFK. But somehow never makes the connection that that would make Carlson's claims bogus!,when after all isn't that the reason for their broadcast in the first place? heh heh heh Grim alleges an audiotape where Nixon threatens Helms with the "Bay of Pigs thing". That was not an audio tape! That was an excerpt from H.R.Haldemann's book "Tales of Power." Grim's speculation about who carried out the murder are directly from E.Howard Hunt's near death bed claims. If you believe Hunt. * Stone : https://twitter.com/i/status/1606083258671693824

I know Steve, Look how totally lame and bogus her defense was!

"Trump poured $144 million into his own pockets by doing all his golfing at his own properties, and forcing the Secret Service to keep a $17,000/month villa at Bedminster year-round, just so they could be sure of getting a room when POTUS decided he felt like hitting a little ball around. He just sold his DC Pay To Play Palace for $100 million more than he paid for it. That’s despite the fact he lied about it being profitable, and actually lost $70 million during the four years that Apparently Inebriated Rudy set up shop in the bar every night. (He even had a nameplate made, which he put out on the table for anyone looking to buy access to the president of the United States.) And, of course, there’s the quarter-of-a-billion dollars he raked in for an “Official Election Defense Fund” that doesn’t exist. It was recently revealed that fund paid Melania’s clothing coordinator $60,000 for “strategy.” How could this be allowed in our system of government? Just because there's politically a minority cult of Trump worshipers who would loudly object? And their representatives in Congress were bullied into keeping shut? This went on for years. Apart from any fantasies the Trump cult had. There has to be an overriding authority, and some sense of accountability. That in itself , is worthy of investigation to ensure it never happens again.

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.

Thank you for your detailed answer Larry! You are giving me renewed confidence. Maybe in the way of advice, you're getting a bit in the political weeds with Matt Whitaker, which I sense you want to avoid. He wasn't the final Trump AG, (Thank God! if you knew that story!) but was the interim revenge A.G. picked by Trump among Jeff Session's staff when Sessions recused himself from the Mueller investigation. He served for over 3 months as the interim A.G. transition figure between Jeff sessions and William Barr. Trump picked Whitaker because he wouldn't recuse himself in the Mueller investigation. So I do understand that he was going to have a problem getting anything serious done because he was only an interim A.G. Of course when you open up that "Russia Gate" can of worms you're in a real political maelstrom here which in light of the fact that Trump's First Impeachment Trial, (withholding trading arms to Zelensky for dirt on Hunter Biden, which both parties agreed was wrong, but the Republicans disagreed it rose to the level of impeachment) was an almost identical influence peddling crime to Russia Gate, you might wonder why it would still be so controversial? And then you add yet another similar bartering for favorable trade status with no less than the dreaded Chinese and Xi for their dirt on Hunter Biden, according to Josh Bolton in his book. Well you understand what shark infested waters you can get into just mentioning Matt Whitaker. Please take this in the spirit of friendly advice and encouragement to the success of you task. https://www.vox.com/2018/11/13/18087560/matt-whitaker-mueller-trump-sessions