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But, Jim, my impression is that the M$M in the U.S. largely blacked out coverage of JFK Revisited, while publishing a few ridiculous hit pieces, like the Alecia P. Long article in WaPo. To me, it is proof that CIA Operation Mockingbird is alive and well in the 21st century. They're still trying to suppress the truth about the JFK assassination in the U.S. mainstream media. Will we ever see a headline in the NYT or WaPo acknowledging that the CIA was involved in a conspiracy to murder JFK? I doubt it. This has also been obvious in the case of M$M coverage of the 9/11 evidence. How many Americans know, even in 2022, that the World Trade Center skyscrapers (WTC1, WTC2, and WTC7) were demolished by pre-planted explosives? How many Americans know that five Mossad agents got caught, and arrested, for filming and celebrating the WTC demolitions on 9/11? Not many. Russ Baker just published a piece about the long-suppressed George W. Bush 9/11 Commission interview.* But even Baker doesn't dare to broach the subject of possible Bush/Cheney administration complicity in a PNAC/CIA/Mossad/Saudi black op on 9/11. He approaches the Bush interview as a putative cover up of an intelligence failure. * Revealed: What Bush Said About 9/11 Behind Closed Doors - WhoWhatWhy

Geez...more of Chris's typically ludicrous ad hominem nonsense, and pseudo-psychological misdiagnoses of forum members. Does it never cease? I was responding to Chris's silly, inaccurate comment (above) implying that members of the Education Forum have been in the dark about Operation Mockingbird and its 21st century manifestations-- enlightened only by the heroic posts of Ben and Chris on the subject... 🤥 No, Chris, I don't believe "conspiracy theories" are monolithic, and I do believe that the CIA and U.S. military are selective in their use of the M$M to conceal military and intelligence black ops. Now, please, spare us the ad hominem misdiagnoses, and let's stay on topic.

Huh? Reality check, Chris. Speaking of illusions... I've been posting about Operation Mockingbird and its modern permutations for several years here-- including references to the work of the late Udo Ulfkotte on the subject. In contrast, Ben expressed skepticism about whether Mockingbird was still operational when I raised the subject during the premier of JFK Revisited at Cannes. As I suggested at the time, the coverage of JFK Revisited by the M$M would be a kind of acid test for the continued existence of Operation Mockingbird in the U.S. And what did we observe? NYT largely blacked out coverage of the film, and WaPo published a completely erroneous review/hit piece by What's-Her-Face, Fred Littwin's favorite Professor from Louisiana State University, Alecia P. Long. That summer, we also witnessed similar Mockingbird censorship of Spike Lee's documentary interviews of the Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth. So, yes, CIA Operation Mockingbird is alive and well in the U.S. mainstream media.

John, As a fellow musician, (guitarist and violinist) I'm truly surprised to hear you endorsing Mathew Koch's disparaging nonsense about the highly original, creative guitar compositions of David Evans (aka the Edge.) His guitar compositions during the past 40 years speak for themselves, including my original U2 favorite* (below.) Where did you ever hear a guitar played like this before 1983? De gustibus non est disputandum. 🤥 I'm responding in red to your other recent post (below.) William, You haven’t identified any flaw in my reasoning. Rather have you exposed flaws in yours. You, Bono and his U2 colleagues profess to be Christians. Yet you reject the teaching of St Thomas Aquinas and other Church Fathers on the question of wealth, and instead subscribe to the thinking of Adam Smith, which is based on greed, one of the seven deadly sins of Christianity. Not entirely accurate. I was referencing Adam Smith only in the context of pointing out that commercial wealth isn't necessarily a zero sum game-- i.e., one man's earnings don't necessarily result in another's poverty. At the same time I, certainly, agree with St. John Chrysostom and the Church Fathers on the subject of wealth and poverty. Who doesn’t advocate peace? As I said, motherhood and apple pie. The sad reality is that the peace process in Northern Ireland, by definition, only happened as a result of the IRA’s anti-imperialist guerrilla warfare – which campaign, by the way, contrary to what you suggested, was not sectarian. Obviously sectarian atrocities were committed by both sides during “The Troubles”, but those atrocities were not approved by the IRA leadership and had nothing to do with the IRA’s anti-imperialist campaign. Just like freedom for southern Ireland came only after the blood sacrifice by a brave minority in 1916. The majority of the Irish – like the majority in any society – were (and are) authoritarian lickspittles who kowtow to their overlords whoever they are. It was only after the British executed the 1916 leaders that the Irish War of Independence began, and it was only after that that Ireland won some degree of independence (now being frittered away, thanks to the likes of Bono). I'll defer to your knowledge on the subject of Irish history. My understanding is that Bono and U2 were mainly opposed to violence against civilians in Ireland. Unfortunately, imperialists understand only one language, the language of physical force. How did the USA win its independence from Britain? That’s why John Lennon was right and Bono was wrong. Not entirely in agreement. The United States was rooted in rebellion against authority from the beginning. That phenomenon was always a mixed bag-- even linked to "anti-intellectualism" in American history, as described by historian Richard Hofstadter. It's one reason Canadians are more civilized than Americans, and not plagued by America's epidemic of gun homicides. American cowboys insist on "independence" and associated gun-slinging. As for John Lennon, he has been lionized by atheists, but was always a disturbed character, IMO-- the kind of sacrilegious guy who used to piss on nuns' hats from his balcony in Hamburg. Bono’s ostentatious “standing with” Ukraine in its purported armed resistance to Russian imperialism contrasts starkly with his condemnation of the IRA in its armed resistance to British imperialism. It's one thing to fight the Brits for independence. It's another thing to bomb Irish (or British) civilians, isn't it? In any case, I prefer Gandhi and Martin Luther King's non-violent approach to freedom. What he’s really standing with (at a safe distance of course – like a succession of Hollywood celebrity clowns such as Sean Penn) is the current unipolar world order – the establishment that has made him rich, the establishment that’s maintained by violence, the violence of Anglo-American/Nato militarism. So much for peace. U2 has long been implicitly critical of American imperialism and the U.S. military-industrial complex. They have also been critical of militant Russian imperialism. I see no contradiction in that. As for economic inequality, as I’ve said repeatedly, there is only one logical and fair solution – economic equality or as close to it as possible. Philanthropy and charity only mask and reinforce the fundamental problem of inequality. As the African saying goes, the hand that gives is always above the hand that receives. IMO, the ideal political system is social democracy with free market economies that are properly regulated in the public interest-- Denmark and the Scandinavian countries are the model. That's why I support Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and the progressive Democrats. Republicans in the U.S. want nothing of the kind. They have systematically fought against progressive policies in the U.S. that would regulate plutocratic profiteering, and reduce wealth inequality-- the graduated income tax, government subsidized healthcare, education, and housing for the poor. In the U.S., Republicans are the party of plutocracy and wealth inequality. *

George Clooney, Gladys Knight, U2 among Kennedy Center honorees Performers such as Gladys Knight or the Irish band U2 usually would be headlining a concert for thousands George Clooney, Gladys Knight among Kennedy Center honorees - ABC News (go.com) December 4, 2022 Excerpt Sometimes the Kennedy Center honors not just individuals but groups. This year it's the band U2. The group's strong connection to America goes back decades. They performed in Washington during their first trip to America in 1980. In a statement the band — made up of Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen Jr. — said they originally came to America with big dreams “fueled in part by the commonly held belief at home that America smiles on Ireland.” “And it turned out to be true, yet again,” read the statement. “It has been a four-decade love affair with the country and its people, its artists, and culture.” U2 has sold 170 million albums and been honored with 22 Grammys. The band’s epic singles include “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For,” “Pride (In the Name of Love)” and “Sunday Bloody Sunday.” Lead singer Bono has also become known for his philanthropic work to eradicate poverty and to raise awareness about AIDS.

Mathew, This is complete garbage, like most of your posts here. Edge (David Evans) is actually a very talented, original artist. And I say that as a musician and life long guitarist. He has had many imitators after 40 years, but few role models. Your claims about U2 corruption also sound like bunk to me, based on what I know about Bono and his band. What is the source for your latest skullduggery about U2? Tucker Carlson?

John, I was referring to your argument that, "U2 is part of the problem we need to fix," presumably because they have been commercially successful, and commercial wealth causes of poverty. But doesn't that imply that commercial wealth is a zero sum game? Adam Smith disagreed. Also, isn't Bono's advocacy of debt relief for Third World nations part of the solution for world poverty? Wasn't his advocacy of peace part of the solution for Ireland? From what I know about America, U2's criticism of our military-industrial complex, latent racism, and nascent fascism is part of the solution. It's what Americans need to hear in stadiums in the age of Trump and the military jet flyovers at football games.

John, It's true that U2 has been commercially successful, but I'm puzzled by your perspective on their philanthropic work relating to international AIDs relief and debt relief for Africa and the Third World. They were also early advocates for ending South African apartheid. And they are inherently critical of fascism and the U.S. military-industrial complex. God bless them. In this crazy country we have military jet fly overs at football games! With their music, U2 has also championed Kennedy-esque causes in the U.S. like the Civil Rights movement-- not universally popular with white guys in the U.S., as we have seen in the case of the Black Lives Matter movement. Their song, Pride-- In the Name of Love, (from the marvelous Unforgettable Fire album) has become a stadium rock tribute to Martin Luther King. When Love Comes to Town, recorded with B.B. King during the Rattle and Hum tour, is another erstwhile Civil Rights anthem. As for the sectarian violence in Ireland, my impression is that Bono and the band were mainly interested in helping to end the carnage. Bono, himself, narrowly missed being killed in a Dublin bomb attack when he was a teenager, as he describes in his memoir. Honestly, my main interest in U2's music during the past 40 years has been musical, but I have also appreciated Bono's lyricism and use of the Psalms. The man is a sincere Christian, in the best sense of the word-- someone who cares about humanity and social justice. Liberal Christians are a vanishing species. I consider myself one of them. Reading Surrender, I learned that Bono, the Edge, and Larry Mullen actually pray together before every concert that their music may be useful to humanity! It's also damned good stuff.

Elon Musk is a disgrace, and so is Matt Taibbi. The Hunter Biden laptop October Surprise was always another Republican dirty trick, orchestrated by the fraudster Rudy Giuliani. It was an attempt to replay the 2016 Anthony Weiner laptop October Surprise. Do Mathew Koch and the Trumplicons remember when Fox News suppressed the Stormy Daniels story in October of 2016? Were the similarly indignant? The obvious difference between the sex scandals is that Joe Biden is not Hunter Biden, while Donald Trump is, unfortunately, Donald Trump.

Ron, I don't think it's a stretch to say that the spirit of John and Bobby Kennedy lives on in the music of U2-- a deep concern about the plight of suffering humanity, and the quest for social justice and peace on earth. The band was disillusioned and on the verge of breaking up when Bono and the Edge wrote, "Sunday, Bloody Sunday." (Larry Mullen's snare was "the hook" for the song-- adapted from Larry's experiences in an Irish military drum corps.) They wanted to be more than rock musicians. They wanted their music to make the world a better place. At the time, IRA leader Gerry Adams made scatological references to Bono, because the band was urging Americans to stop donating to the IRA. (Adams later shook Bono's hand, following the peace accords in Ireland.)

Non sequitur alert... I'm posting this for our rock historian, Cliff Varnell, our Irishman John Cotter, and any U2 fans on the forum. I've been a U2 fan for almost 40 years, after I first saw and heard their New Year's Day video at a punk club in Greenwich Village in (?) '83, and bought a copy of the War album in Harvard Square. So, I've been reading Bono's new memoir, Surrender, and learning a lot about Bono's childhood and teen years in Dublin. His dad was Catholic and his mother, Protestant. Well written and from the heart, as we would expect from this great man. Bono has been on the talk show circuit recently-- Colbert, NPR-- but this is the best interview I've seen. He talks about U2 in relation to punk rock beginning around 9:20 here. In the book he tells a funny story about the band playing at a hardcore London punk venue before they became famous, and a local Brit yelling, "You need more punk in that monkey!" 🤥

Good grief. Dr. Crenshaw said that he saw definitive evidence that JFK was shot in the head from the front. He was, obviously, referring to the visible bullet hole/entry wound in JFK's forehead. If Bill Brown and Pat Speer believe otherwise, by all means, let's hear the Brown/Speer Hypothesis about the definitive evidence Dr. Crenshaw saw. Hopefully, it will be more accurate than the ludicrous Brown/Speer Hypothesis about the backward momentum of JFK's head following the fateful head shot.

John, In cases of paranoid schizophrenia, as you probably know, the age of onset is usually late teens or early 20s, but there are some psychotic disorders with earlier ages of onset. Childhood trauma, understandably, worsens the course of any life, as does later life trauma.

John, If people take the time to talk to some of these homeless people who sleep under bridges in the U.S., they will learn that many of them are hearing voices and experiencing paranoid delusions. Their paranoia often makes it difficult for them to trust anyone, and most have also experienced a lifetime of abandonment, rejection, and even violence from social contacts. Sad but true.

Geez... I quoted directly from what Crenshaw said. He said that, after viewing JFK before he was put in the coffin, he had no doubt that he was shot in the head from the front. Newsflash. Doctors are trained to carefully observe patients. I noticed the bullet hole/entry wound in JFK's forehead the first time I ever saw the photo (above.) I'll leave it at that, and bid you adieu.

Jean, Dr. Crenshaw said that he looked carefully at JFK before he was put in the coffin, and had no doubt that he was shot in the head from the front. To me, that doesn't imply a mere deduction from the posterior exit wound. I've seen a dead man with a bullet hole in his forehead before, and I recognized the entry wound in JFK's upper right forehead the first time I ever saw the photo. Crenshaw was afraid of Murder, Inc. A lot of JFK witnesses were afraid to talk for years. Wayne January comes to mind.

Sometimes I have to laugh at myself. Recently, there has been a lot of local press warning about a looming triple-demic-- RSV + COVID + flu. So, I went out and got a flu shot and COVID/Omicron booster yesterday, partly in response to my wife badgering me about the triple-demic. Woke up this morning feeling lousy and, when I read the Denver Post, one of the lead stories was an article saying that the triple-demic may not turn out to be as severe as predicted.

Bill B., IMO, you're not debating this evidence in good faith. Not sure what your agenda is here. Mine is to get at the truth about JFK's murder. I posted the references to Dr. Crenshaw's commentaries TWICE for you, and you're still being disingenuous about what Dr. Crenshaw said. He said that he took at last look at JFK's corpse before it was placed in the coffin, and had no doubt that JFK was shot in the head from the front. In other words, he clearly saw an entry wound on the front of JFK's head, as the cadaver photo shows.

And Crenshaw said that, based on his finally look at JFK's corpse, he had no doubt that JFK was shot in the head from the front. He also said that he and his Parkland colleagues were afraid to talk about what they saw.

Well said, but it is also important to properly define what constitutes an ad hominem argument or post. It isn't ad hominem to disagree with someone's theses or claims about alleged facts. Ad hominem arguments are attacks against the person rather than against their theses and/or claims about alleged facts.

Bill, Go to the 5:56 mark in this 20/20 interview.

Ron, If I understand his analysis correctly, Dr. Chesser has described evidence of a possible keyhole fracture of the right temporal bone, suggestive of an oblique shot to the right side of the head. He has done a very impressive analysis of the metallic fragment trail from the right frontal head shot-- in a distribution that is completely inconsistent with a posterior entry wound, as claimed by the WCR and HSCA fraudsters. I find it, frankly, absurd that a non-physician like Pat Speer would presume to impugn Dr. Chesser's reputation and expert analysis of the neurological evidence. Is Pat Speer board certified in neurology?

Ben, I was the medical director of a project at the University of Colorado in the mid-90s that successfully placed homeless mentally ill adults in stable housing here in Denver. We used a treatment model developed by Dr. Len Stein at the University of Wisconsin called a High-Intensity Treatment Team. (I met with Stein at the time to learn about his model.) On our team we had one "high-intensity" case manager assigned to every eight homeless people, and the case managers helped their clients find and maintain housing, groceries, medications, etc. It worked! But it was expensive. The City of Denver paid for the project per a court order, after losing a class action lawsuit filed on behalf of a homeless mentally ill woman, named Ruth Goebbels, who had frozen to death on the streets of Denver. (The judge in the Goebbels case is the husband of an old high school friend of mine.) De-institutionalization of the mentally ill has been a mixed bag in the modern U.S. Understandably, people don't want to be locked up in state hospitals, but many have difficulty maintaining themselves in communities. Many homeless people on the streets today are suffering from severe mental illnesses-- sleeping under bridges and in alleys, etc. Stein's HITT model is one alternative to institutionalization. State hospital beds are actually more expensive than HIT Teams. Not sure what New York has in mind. My guess is that, like most of the country, they don't have enough state hospital beds to care for their mentally ill homeless population. And, incidentally, about one third of the beds in our prisons here in Colorado are occupied by mentally ill convicts.

Pat, Do you ever answer any of the questions that people ask you in these discussions? All I have see from you on this thread is recurrent dodging of questions, deflections, and lame attempts to "kill the messenger," in Dr. Crenshaw's case. You seem to have trouble grasping the concept that the Parkland doctors, including Crenshaw, feared for their lives. Why is that concept so difficult for you to grasp? I'll reiterate the key points that you keep dodging. 1) The law of conservation of momentum proves that the fatal bullet was fired from a location in front of the limo. 2) The radiographic evidence proves that a bullet struck JFK in the right upper forehead. (As clearly demonstrated by Dr. Michael Chesser at the recent Lancer conference.) 3) Multiple medical witnesses at Parkland described an exit wound in the occipital-parietal skull with avulsed brain matter. 4) Douglas Horne's exhaustive analysis confirms that the Zapruder film was altered to photo-shop out the evidence of the occipital-parietal exit wound and perpetuate the false CIA narrative that JFK was shot from the TSBD. 5) Doctors at Parkland were fearful of contradicting the Warren Commission Lone Nut narrative.