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LBJ's criminal financial activities - 1937 to 1963
Joe Bauer replied to Douglas Caddy's topic in JFK Assassination Debate
That contemporaneous paradigm eventually extended to the early biographies of LBJ, mostly because those early biographies were done with Johnson’s blessing, by long-time friends like Harry Provence, whose Waco newspaper was one of his biggest supporters. Others would follow, including Merle Miller and of course Doris Kearns, whose book does not mention Mr. Estes. Nor is it mentioned in most other biographies written about Lyndon Johnson. But, were it not for his involvement, the Billie Sol Estes scandal would have never been reported outside of Texas. The reason the Estes scandal has been ignored by most of LBJ’s biographers, including the famed Robert Caro – who often claims to “turn every page” in his research – is because it is more than merely a “hot potato.” It’s more like a bombshell. Rather than being just another case of mishandling “campaign contributions,” it quickly and inexorably leads to multiple murders ordered by Lyndon Johnson according to Estes himself and others who knew them. Thus, with not a single mention of the name Billie Sol Estes in his four lengthy volumes, the most acclaimed biographer of Lyndon Johnson evidently missed hundreds, perhaps thousands, of newspaper or magazine articles in what was a ubiquitous national scandal in 1962, with LBJ right in the middle of it. -
Does anybody here doubt the part in the Coley interview where he claims that Newspaper photographer Jim Hood ( accompanying Coley to see the pool himself ) actually bent down, put his small pinky finger in the red liquid pool and then after tasting it stated to Coley ... it was blood alright? Do you think Coley is lying about this? Making it up to embellish? Why would Jim Hood also become afraid when he was told by Coley that the story of their investigating and photographing the pool got out in the press due to Hugh Ainsworth, if it was truly just spilled soda or snow cone syrup? Hood's tasting of the pooled liquid and stating it was blood is a hugely bolstering piece of information regarding this truly being spilled blood imo.
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The inevitable end result of our last 56 years
Joe Bauer replied to Joseph McBride's topic in Political Discussions
I think history has shown that wherever there has been societies run or overly controlled and influenced by a very small minority of super wealthy oligarchs, the poorer underneath them and their rule will accept this royally indulged minority class rule structure as long as "they" aren't allowed to slip into the lowest and most degrading levels of poverty or even just above it. In these modern times, this would include exhausting daily stress to get the basics. Basic health care, basic housing, basic educational opportunities, basic freedoms ( right to protest without armed assault against them?) clothing, food, etc. When that small minority wealthy ruling class versus majority poor subject class balance gets too out of whack regards the ever increasing indulgences of the higher one versus the unmet basic needs of the lower one, you always eventually have conflict. There is always eventually a civil unrest reckoning. It's actually human nature. Our own Great Depression experience is the perfect example. I propose that although we are not currently at our worst Great Depression mass population number stress and poverty levels... we are closer to it versus any time in our societal history since then. 50 Million or more Americans are truly sensing their lives and their families lives are on the verge of complete economic collapse on a month to month basis. If this massive amount of Americans are actually allowed to fall like that...what would you expect from them as a result? Silent acceptance and suffering? We need to take care that something that desperate doesn't happen. We need to bolster these 50 million American's economic situation "right now" on a level of a national emergency. Time to quit worrying that these people will become spoiled with barely rent paying financial help. Or that this help might benefit the Democrats politically more than the Republicans this November 3. And isn't it the American Democracy "equal rights and justice for all" respecting morally right thing to do anyway? -
The inevitable end result of our last 56 years
Joe Bauer replied to Joseph McBride's topic in Political Discussions
True Steve, however most Americans never ask to live gold plated royalty indulged lives like Donald Trump and his 1% brethren. They have never demanded this and are not doing so now. Most just hope for the most commonly desired decent housing, safe streets, schooling for their children and like every other industrialized country on earth - at least "some" retirement benefits, basic health care that doesn't financially break them in a medical crisis, a decent car, job opportunities for their children going into adulthood and maybe even a little extra financial means to buy their loved one's a gift now and then or take them out to a dinner on a special occasion. Right now however, you have tens of millions who "were" living this decent basic need provided life, on the verge of losing even this! They've already lost their jobs. Their kids schooling has come to a stop! Many are on the verge of even losing their housing! What do you expect them to say or do? Just accept their families complete collapse and not demand any basic need help from their government? What's going on right now isn't anything close to the middle class and poorer demanding anything more than what they had. It's nothing close to their demanding to live the incredibly indulged lives of our top 1%. 10's of millions are sinking in quicksand and desperately yelling for basic need help before their heads go under! I think the most important thing our government representatives ( and us citizens ) can and should do right now is honestly, ethically acknowledge this extremely desperate, immediate, one month or two away from totally life collapsing situation "as the true reality it is" for up to 50 million or more of our fellow Americans. We shouldn't downplay this true national family breakdown crisis reality in anyway. It is THAT real, it is THAT big, it is THAT desperate, it is THAT important. -
The inevitable end result of our last 56 years
Joe Bauer replied to Joseph McBride's topic in Political Discussions
So ominously predictive. Scary times indeed. We and our constitutional democracy are in a very fragile time. Seriously, more literally than we are aware. We need another Franklin D.Roosevelt type leader who understands how close we are to fracturing and will have the courage to stand up to and push away the huge influence of the Trump 1% billionaire class who are and have been in control more than anyone else, and who do not want things to change regards their always increasing advantage wealth accumulation agendas and policies over the needs of the rest of us working class and lower citizens. As Mary Trump says in her Donald Trump expose book title - regards his obsessive urge for more and more wealth, control and power ... "It's Never Enough! " IT'S NEVER ENOUGH. Totally appropriate title of a book on how our most wealthy have gained control over the rest of us and what drives them in their super aggressive compulsion and actions to gain, keep and increase this control imo. -
The inevitable end result of our last 56 years
Joe Bauer replied to Joseph McBride's topic in Political Discussions
USPS under dismantling attack. 10's of millions unemployed, federal unemployment supplements cut off two weeks ago so millions will not be able to pay their rent. Millions fretting and freaking out and their kids mentally in trauma seeing this worry stress and confusion happening all around them. School re-openings totally erratic, kids forced to sit at home computers for hours and hating this. Their parents also. Feds are still bragging how those one time $1,200 supplement checks ( issued 4 months ago! ) were so helpful and we should all be so grateful. Millions under threat of eviction/homelessness. Country is having one big commonly shared PANIC ATTACK!!! And our Senate and Congress go home on a summer break!? While millions are hurting and stressed and scared unlike any time in their lives? Talk about insanity! Trump times are simply crazy! The Dems want to give stressed Americans DOUBLE what the Repubs and Trump want to give them. Yet people blame the Dems who want to give their stressed fellow Americans more ... for the stimulus help hold up! And that is why Trump and Repubs won't give in and get these supplements going again? With a side excuse that it's too much!? Don't want to spoil America's workers so they won't go back to their can't-even-pay-the-rent minimum wage jobs. Ever since Trump has taken office, we have been in a state of constant conflict, division, anger, tension, stress and worry. The guy is bad kharma to the max. -
The inevitable end result of our last 56 years
Joe Bauer replied to Joseph McBride's topic in Political Discussions
Celebrities backing Trump again this year. Impressive list. Roseanne Barr Chumly from Pawn Stars Kid Rock Mike Tyson Jesse James Rick Harrison from Pawn Stars Willie Robertson Stephen Baldwin Kanye West And on and on... -
The inevitable end result of our last 56 years
Joe Bauer replied to Joseph McBride's topic in Political Discussions
Steve, I've mentioned before what I see is a failure on the part of our main stream media regards informing our entire nation about the abuses of executive power by Trump in anyway reflective of their true gravity importance. For the 100th time, Trump is seriously abusing the constitution, and our main stream media is letting him get away with doing so, by their lack ( I believe purposeful ) of appropriate coverage and editorial comment. Here Trump is ADMITTING he is holding up financial aid to Covid-19 job loss victims for political reasons. To stop anything he perceives to be of benefit to the Democrats in the next election more than he and his own party. If our largest viewership media venues don't make this blatantly admitted Trump political gain agenda Covid-19 victim hostage situation story OUTRAGED/FRONT PAGE internet and newspaper and even radio and TV news as the dangerous misuse of power that it is...then 80% of our society is kept in a mind numbing ignorance of this presidential power abuse story and it's true importance. And which has been the case with dozens of other Trump power abuse actions during his anger, tension and anxiety inciting and filled reign. If Americans are not boldly told by our media the full honest gravity of Trump's actions, like this Covid-19 victim hostage one for pure political gain reasons, in a continuous FRONT PAGE OUTRAGE way, they are simply being kept dumb. -
Minor Oswald speaking observation that may have no significance but ... "Axed" versus "Asked." When a handcuffed and disheveled Oswald was allowed to face the press crowd in the frantic Dallas Police Department building for a couple of minutes in between being hustled from room to room late Friday night on 11,22,1963, he was presented with questions from them. This is when Oswald was asked "did you kill the President?" Oswald responded " no. I have not been charged with that " ... "the first thing I heard about it was when the newspaper reporters in the hall ... AXED me that question." I noticed this slight specific word pronunciation variance by Oswald a long time ago while first watching this video and 100 X since. I whimsically thought to myself it sounded like a variance one hears some African Americans use in their pronunciation of the word..."ask." Similar to variant ( or invariant?) pronunciations of other words like "pOlice." Some cite these word variances as part of a specific African American linguistic speaking pattern called "Ebonics." I do not in anyway mean to mention or frame this comparative variant word pronunciation observation in a racially biased way. Some may laugh at my even mentioning this obscure one word variance observation in Oswald's 11,22,1963 police department press interview but here is my point. If Oswald's "axed" versus "asked" word pronunciation wasn't the result of hours of simple nervous, physical even frightened exhaustion resulting in a dry mouth garbling of that one word, I had a fleeting thought that it was due to Oswald being raised in the deep South ( especially Creole New Orleans) and hearing black ebonic American speech so often he unconsciously spoke the word in a way that he grew up hearing as often as the white English pronunciation. I wondered if this could have shown that the Oswald we saw in the Friday night Dallas Police Department press appearance, the Oswald we heard loudly claim "I am just a patsy", was truly someone raised in this country from birth. Surely a planted foreign born Oswald double would not be so fined tuned and prepped with such obscure regional and racial difference dialect subtleties in his English speaking. Probably nothing more than my suspicious imagination running wild but then again, nothing is too "out there" when it comes to the JFK assassination and the 10,000 conflicting even confounding stories and observations related to it, no? AUTOPLAY 1:09NOW PLAYING Lee Harvey Oswald speaks to the press
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Someone mentioned in an earlier post the likelihood that the "Tit Tit" Dallas cop car horn sound was probably made to move along a stopped or too slow car in front of them at the next intersection ( North Zang ) just past Oswald's North Beckley rooming house. Never mind that rooming house manager Earline Roberts said the police car was parked at a stop right in front of her residence as she looked out her front door after she heard the "tit tit" horn sound. The North Zane intersection was down another home distance away. 1026 North Beckley Ave. - Oswald's rooming house in Oak ... www.youtube.com › watch Apr 2, 2015 - The room is about 5 1/2 feet wide and 14 feet long. ... Pat knew Lee Oswald as a very nice man, and she tells Tom her story of those 6 weeks ...
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Interesting statement of suspicion Coley makes regards Jack Ruby and his oft repeated love of Jackie Kennedy and a liking of Jack Kennedy. Coley says it always struck him that man about town, JFK and Jackie loving Ruby would remain in his office building from 8:00 AM until after JFK was shot at 12:30 PM ( almost 5 hours!) that almost once in a lifetime major event morning and not want to see his beloved President and classy Jackie in person on the street below as Coley, his co-worker and hundreds of thousands of other Dallas area residents did themselves. It was just a short 3 block walk to a great up close motorcade view on the corner of Houston and Main from the newspaper building and offices. Coley and his friend made that walk around 11:AM and you can actually see them both in famous video footage perched above the sidewalk crowd there as the Presidential limo passes right in front of them just before 12:15 PM. Coley also recalls that on normal Fridays, Ruby would come into their offices to place his Carousel Club weekend ads, however, he never stayed more than 1 hour when doing so. Coley also mentions seeing first hand a man directly across the street from him and his friend in front of the Houston Street reflective pool having an apparent epileptic fit just a few minutes before JFK's motorcade arrived. An ambulance came to take the man away. This dramatic event struck Coley as unusually odd, especially considering it's coincidental timing.
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This guy Coley sounds so honest to me. He didn't say one word about the incident publicly for 13 YEARS after the initial three or four days of that weekend. Sure not seeking attention in that regards. Also, when Coley returned to the suspected pool of blood later that day, or even early the next day, it was completely gone. Now, if it was soda pop, why would anyone take the time to bring and pour water on such an innocuous, meaningless spill to wash it away during that incredibly chaotic time? And it didn't rain that evening did it? Or, did an automatic sprinkler system come on all over the grassy knoll in the evening and do this? I don't think electronic automatic sprinkler systems existed back then. If a sprinkler system came on it was a manually operated one.
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Notice David, the pool of whatever, is just on the edge of a 6 ft wide cement walkway. A walkway that is surrounded all around by great swaths of grass. Anybody hit and running would not be running back down to Elm on the cement steps and path. They would have run out on the grass and probably back behind the fence and Pergola, where the ground is just plain dirt. It would be tough to find a blood trail in 3 inch high grass imo.
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It is a fascinating interview. I've listened to it many times. Coley mentions his newspaper photographer co-worker Jim Hood accompanying him back to the liquid pool less than 30 minutes after first seeing this himself, Hood then dropping down, rubbing his little finger into the liquid, tasting this and stating..."That's Blood" alright. And then taking a photograph of the liquid pool. I would think someone as rational and observant as this professional newspaper photographer would know the difference in color, viscosity and taste...between real blood and any kind of soda. I love root beer, Dr. Pepper, Coke, Pepsi. Still drink too much root beer for sure. I would notice the difference between these sweet sodas and salty human blood. Wouldn't you?
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I know it's an extremely poor quality, grainy and unfocused video shot above of that pool of liquid (where at least one "looking down" man seemingly notices and purposely steps around it ) but from what I can see the pool is very dark in color which in my common sense view differentiates it from any soda spill. I've spilled every kind of soda including darker colored Coke, Dr. Pepper, Pepsi or grape soda and because these and all other sodas are over 95% plain water, they thin out immediately and do not appear as dark as the pool of liquid in the photo imo. If this was a soda pop spill, passersby would see no more than slightly colored water and probably not even step around such a spill. The pool above seems dark enough to be thicker in viscosity than watery sodas for sure. Yet, the video is really rough in focused detail.
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Astronauts Scott Cooper and Buzz Aldrin would disagree with you Karl.
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The Russian language is more difficult to learn than say our other Latin based romance languages of Spanish, French, Italian for sure. I know that in the military, they have well developed, complete immersion intense teaching methods that makes learning and speaking new languages proficiently for even later age novices much more possible. But even in this full-on teaching program environment there is a drop out rate versus a 100% success rate due to the difficulty in grasping new languages. Oswald didn't study the Russian language as a child did he? He never went to a language school did he? Did Oswald listen to Russian language training and study records? I've never read where he did. For someone to pick up more than a basic casual conversational grasp of such a difficult language as Russian sets Oswald apart imo. Just talking to other working class weekend buddy Russians, flirting with girlfriends, listening to Russian operatic LP's and arguing with Marina for a couple of years does not add up to Oswald's proficiency in my opinion. The Oswald whom Marina first met and had such a good grasp on her language already she felt he may be Russian himself... had some official training imo.
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Kamala Harris and the RFK assassination
Joe Bauer replied to Robert Burrows's topic in JFK Assassination Debate
It would be rational and enlightening to have this poll: Most Personally Corrupt President Since WW II? Nixon would probably be number 1, simply because there are still enough respondents who lived through and remember Watergate or have a general U.S. history knowledge of this hugely covered, reported and written about event. Include even a major A list film with two of our biggest box office stars of the day in the lead roles...Hoffman and Redford. Watergate was such an unprecedented, hugely involved executive branch criminal affair that was so far reaching and implicating of even more blatant criminal act abuses of power ( Pentagon Papers just one of these ) that 25 of Nixon's highest ranking staff and other connected and directed cronies ( the Plumbers ) went to prison! LBJ's corrupt background was in many ways deeper and more lifelong than Nixon's, yet this reality has been purposely and successfully hidden from the standard public historical record. An amazing long term feat of historical record controlling power. Trump's personal long term corruption is being more and more exposed with every new insider tell-all book ( a never ending stream and more than any other President while in office ) with most becoming best sellers so it's now widespread main stream knowledge. There is so much dirt on Trump being blown up into the public awareness wind it's becoming a virtual dust storm event. So in your face real it's now beyond denial or down playing. As bad as Trump is in this category as well as Nixon, my number one would still be LBJ. With a suspicion of his foreknowledge and cover-up efforts regards JFK setting him apart in this regards imo. Clinton rounds out the top 4 imo. Russ Baker's Bush family expose may influence others in this poll. A list with this specific theme is at least as important as those general theme others imo. Would love to see some forum member "Most Corrupt President" picks and the order in which they place them and why. -
The inevitable end result of our last 56 years
Joe Bauer replied to Joseph McBride's topic in Political Discussions
Steve, I've mentioned before what I see is a failure on the part of our main stream media regards informing our entire nation about the Trump abuses of power ( almost always for his own personal political gain ) in anyway honestly reflective of the true gravity of their illegality and effects. For the upteenth time, Trump is seriously abusing the constitution, and our main stream media is letting him get away with doing so, by their lack ( I believe purposeful ) of appropriate coverage and editorial comment. Here Trump is ADMITTING he is holding up financial aid to Covid-19 job loss victims for political reasons. To stop anything he perceives to be of benefit to the Democrats more than he and his own party. If our largest viewership media venues don't make this blatantly admitted Trump political gain agenda Covid-19 victim hostage situation story OUTRAGED/FRONT PAGE internet and newspaper and even even radio and TV news as the dangerous misuse of power that it is...then 80% of our society is kept in a mind numbing ignorance of this presidential power abuse story and it's true importance. And which has been the case with dozens of other Trump power abuse actions during his anger, tension and anxiety inciting and filled reign. If Americans are not boldly told by our media the full honest gravity of Trump's actions, like this Covid-19 victim hostage one for pure political gain reasons, in a continuous FRONT PAGE OUTRAGE and importance way, most of them are left with nothing to bolster this reality in their own minds and conscience. If it isn't on the FRONT PAGE...it ain't that important. Most of our main stream media has kept Trump's continual and unprecedented abuse of power reality downplayed IMO. This latest abusive Trump political gain agenda move to keep Covid-19 aid from getting to millions of Americans who need this like two weeks ago, and are going to go through the entire month of August before they see any help ( setting them even farther behind in every basic need area ) , should be front page outrage news. I believe the bulk of our corporate owned news media organizations have been protecting Trump, as he represents their owner's interests above any others. -
Kamala Harris and the RFK assassination
Joe Bauer replied to Robert Burrows's topic in JFK Assassination Debate
JFK isn't on those top 10 presidents lists? And yet LBJ is? If one did a list of the most corrupt presidents LBJ would be number 1. LBJ is on those top 10 lists for one reason, his "Great Society" commitment which truly did benefit most of the working class, poorer and racially oppressed parts of our society on a new deal scale. So much so it blinded out the dark side of LBJ imo. A false reality image cover-up that continues to this day. Imagine a highest power Godfather using his massive wealth to improve the lives of working and poor folk in his controlled domain to levels they had never seen before. Even if these great life improved folk found out that their benefactor was also corrupt, it would be hard for them to turn their loyalty against him. They probably wouldn't even want to deal with finding out this darker truth. And until today, that's still the case with LBJ imo. Johnson went "all out" with his "Great Society" giveaway. He knew that he needed something this populist ( actually totally socialist ) and massive to overcome what he knew was a serious suspicious, mistrusting and Southern good ole boy perception of him by most Americans and create a more JFK popular, benevolent good king type image. This giveaway was so huge ( and aggressively and successfully implemented as well ) it worked ... in spades! LBJ is on these top presidents lists because of that one policy, but he was still a murderous criminal imo. JFK had the same "Great Society" goals in mind with his "New Frontier" intentions. And if he was elected to a second term and had the ridiculously high House and Senate majority numbers LBJ had, JFK surely would have gotten through many of them himself. JFK's courage to stand up to the corrupt forces that were really controlling too much of everything in this country up to and during much of his term ( and that were of massive numbers and power and influence beyond anything average Americans could imagine ) as well as millions of rabid JFK hating segregationists, super wealthy extreme right wing/oil baron groups, Mafia, vengeful expatriated Cubans and our own covert community ( fired Dulles, Bissell and Cabell ) and a threatened Hoover as well, defined him as perhaps our greatest president after Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt in his life giving sacrifice in standing up to these corrupt forces imo. On the other hand, LBJ was right in there with all those corrupt groups! Some here will surely dismiss me as a follower of former forum member Robert Morrow in his crusade to lift the false reality veil from our official historic record of LBJ as something other than a totally corrupt historic figure. They would be correct in that assessment. LBJ's "Great Society" giveaway was real and beneficial, but it doesn't change the reality of his greater over-all and more important legacy of corruption imo. Until we face this truth and quit living in a false historic record reality, we just perpetuate the damage living a lie does to us all as a nation and society. Same with JFK's murder and our official record of this. -
Kamala Harris and the RFK assassination
Joe Bauer replied to Robert Burrows's topic in JFK Assassination Debate
It's naive to think Bloomberg didn't have an impact on the Dem primaries. No one throws 500 million to 1 billion dollars ( in less than a three month time period ) into an election campaign without getting something in return for this. We've all seen and read Bloomberg's speech to Goldman Sachs big shots a few months before the democratic primaries where he declared Sanders and Warren bigger threats to his world of wealth and power than Donald Trump. And as soon as the numbers guaranteed Sanders and/or Warren could not win the Democratic nomination, Bloomberg drops his billion dollar campaign run? Clear as day what Bloomberg's real agenda was in joining the primary race. Bloomberg's been "out of sight" for several months? Somehow that means he doesn't have influence? When you are a politically aggressive multi-billionaire and you represent that small minority super wealthy and powerful part of our society, you don't need to be on the news every night to still be a major influence force behind the scene. -
Kamala Harris and the RFK assassination
Joe Bauer replied to Robert Burrows's topic in JFK Assassination Debate
Bloomberg made sure Sanders and Warren were not the Dem choice. It cost him between 500 million and 1 billion to do so, but his primary entering and divide campaign worked. Harris is also not a progressive. My choice for president was Warren, and her as Biden's VP choice. But I knew Bloomberg wouldn't let Biden choose someone who he declared more dangerous than Donald Trump. More dangerous to our controlling 1 %. I'll vote for Biden/Harris though. Trump is a monster in my mind.