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This is what the 5-4 GOP Citizens United SCOTUS ruling was all about-- letting billionaires buy U.S. elections. Forget climate change mitigation, healthcare, education, and the public good. Donald Trump is the billionaires' useful tax-cutting, fossil fuel-promoting idiot. And RFK, Jr. is the billionaires' useful Biden saboteur. Billionaire Grandson of Gilded Age Plutocrat Gives Trump Super PAC $50 Million June 21, 2024 Timothy Mellon is one of at least a dozen billionaires backing Donald Trump's bid for another four years in the White House. Billionaire businessman Timothy Mellon, the grandson of Gilded Age plutocrat Andrew Mellon, made a $50 million donation to a pro-Donald Trump super PAC last month, a day after the former president was convicted by a New York jury on 34 felony counts. Mellon had previously donated $25 million to super PACs backing both Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an independent presidential candidate. The New York Timesnoted late Thursday that Mellon, a reclusive GOP megadonor who has described safety net programs as "slavery redux," is "now the first donor to give $100 million in disclosed federal contributions in this year's election." "The grandson of Andrew Mellon peering out from behind a shrubbery to drop $50 million on an effort to defeat the strongest anti-monopolist element in government in decades is poetic," The American Prospect's David Dayen wrote in response to Mellon's donation, alluding in part to the Lina Khan-led Federal Trade Commission's bold efforts to fight corporate consolidation. Matt Stoller, director of research at the American Economic Liberties Project, wrote in his book on monopoly power and American politics that Andrew Mellon used his corporate empire and appointment as U.S. treasury secretary "to fuse government and business to make the world safe for monopolists." "Unlike other tycoons, he did not specialize in one area. At one point, five Fortune 500 companies owed their lineage directly to Mellon: Alcoa, Gulf Oil, Mellon Bank, Carborundum, and Koppers. He controlled a network of ninety-nine banks. He had interests in coal, steel, chemicals, oil, sleeping cars, railroads, building construction, utilities, magnesium, and airplanes," Stoller wrote. "Mellon even commandeered the use of an entire element of earth—aluminum—through his control of the monopoly aluminum producer Alcoa." Timothy Mellon's donation to the Make America Great Again Inc. super PAC was the largest single campaign contribution this election cycle and accounted for most of the roughly $70 million that the pro-Trump outfit raised last month. The Times reported that "within days of the contribution," the super PAC "said in a memo that it would begin reserving $100 million in advertising through Labor Day." Mellon is one of at least a dozen billionaires supporting Trump's bid for another four years in the White House. The former president has solicited donations from fossil fuel executives and hedge fund investors, promising to deliver regulatory rollbacks and more tax cuts if he defeats President Joe Biden in November. Trump has also actively courted casino billionaire Miriam Adelson—his biggest 2020 donor and a fervent supporter of Israel—with apparent success: Politicoreported last month that Adelson is "planning to play a major role in funding Preserve America, a pro-Trump super PAC founded during the former president's 2020 reelection campaign." "How much Adelson will donate to the super PAC is not clear, though the person familiar with her plans said the group was expecting to spend more than it did four years ago when Adelson and her late husband, Sheldon, donated $90 million to Preserve America," the outlet noted. "Their funds accounted for about 85% of what the organization raised in total." Biden's campaign, meanwhile, has received roughly $20 million in donations from billionaire former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. The Washington Postreported Thursday that "the transfer of funds includes a $19 million check to FF PAC, an independent pro-Biden group also known as Future Forward, and a max-out donation of $929,600 to the Biden Victory Fund, an amalgamation of Biden campaign and Democratic Party committees."

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Get a clue, Matt. You need to study our detailed forum discussions about the credibility of Prouty and Landale's sociopathy. And, incidentally, I spent my career dealing, professionally, with personality disorders. What are the signs of sociopathy in Lansdale's history?

Allen Dulles, James Angleton, and Richard Helms had a "short shelf life," eh? On what planet? Also, you ducked my questions about the RFK assassination. If private businessmen like Hughes and Maheu were working independently of the CIA (and FBI) on the RFK assassination op, why were two CIA men supervising the sham investigation of RFK's murder? Why did the FBI disappear Faura's John Fahey tape-- documenting foreknowledge of the assassination at the Ambassador Hotel? And why were MK-Ultra personnel, apparently, involved in Sirhan's Manchurian Candidate programming? The Hughes/Maheu theory fails to explain all of the facts.

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Matt, Lansdale was a skilled manipulator-- a master of psy ops-- whom Prouty described as a "chameleon." He was also a favorite of Allen Dulles, following his success with Magsaysay in the Phillippines. Should we take anything Lansdale said about his CIA black ops (and psy ops) at face value? And, unlike his colleague, Ed Lansdale, Prouty never worked directly for the CIA-- nor did Prouty ever sign a CIA NDA. Reading between the lines, Prouty also disapproved of Lansdale's sociopathic "fun and games." We've discussed this subject at length on the forum.

Ron, Lansdale never spilled any beans about CIA ops in Vietnam, or the JFK assassination. In fact, Lansdale tried to disparage Prouty's revelations about CIA special ops-- claiming that Prouty was merely a pilot. (Prouty was actually a briefing officer and the main Joint Chiefs liaison to the CIA for special ops in 1963.) Also, if I recall correctly, Jim Garrison did actually consult with Prouty in the course of his investigation and prosecution of Clay Shaw.

So, Pat, can we file your clever notion that Maheu--not the CIA --was behind assassination ops targeting Castro, JFK, and RFK with your claims that; -- JFK didn't have a blow-out exit wound in his occipital skull, and -- JFK's head wasn't knocked violently backward by the momentum of the fatal bullet? Who'd have thunk? 🙄 BTW, Donald Trump, apparently, disagrees with you. Trump now says that the CIA killed JFK. Also, if the CIA wasn't involved in the RFK assassination op, why was MK-Ultra involved in Sirhan's hypnotic Manchurian Candidate programming? And why did two CIA agents supervise the sham RFKA investigation?

Anthony Fauci: Donald Trump got hydroxychloroquine treatment idea from Fox host Laura Ingraham (thehill.com)

Geez... The shocking ignorance, and arrogance, of Donald John Trump... 🙄 Trump's scientific education probably ended in the 5th grade. He's a man who never read books. His fund of knowledge has come mainly from watching television. Even during his disastrous presidency, he got his "intelligence briefings" mainly from Fox News. So, some of his science-related policy proposals included using nukes to neutralize hurricanes and using bleach to "treat" COVID. And his clueless fans think the Orange Idiot is a genius.

Ben, You still have to explain why the FBI disappeared Faura's John Fahey tape, and why the LAPD incinerated the Ambassador Hotel photos. As with the JFK assassination, the FBI and local police (LAPD) were involved in the cover up of the RFK assassination op. It isn't a question of "viewpoints." It's about facts. In terms of the big picture, it's also worth asking, "Cui bono?" IMO, the person who benefited most from RFK's murder (and Bremer's shooting of George Wallace) was Richard Nixon.

Yeah, Matt, Michelle Obama's comment was an incisive response to Birther Trump's 2016 slogan, "Make America Great Again," which Trump borrowed from the Nazis. Trump, the Anti-Obama, apparently, wanted to "Make America Great Again" by, among other things, destroying America's first framework for universal healthcare coverage-- Obamacare. Meanwhile, here's a meme for Michael Griffith and other ostensible 2024 RFK, Jr. voters. P.S. (I suspect Griffith will secretly vote for Trump, while urging liberals to vote for RFK, Jr.)

Geez... America has a serious MAGA Stupid problem. This Missouri anecdote reminds me of the MAGA outrage after Michelle Obama had the audacity to point out, in 2016, that the U.S. "wasn't always that great," at least for black people, Mexicans, and impoverished workers.

Michael, You have so much to learn, but you must first recognize your profound, sophomoric ignorance. Regarding reason, let's compare notes about our comparative knowledge of philosophical logic, advanced math, science, and history. Logical analysis is one of my specialties. I won't dwell on your abysmal ignorance (or nauseating dishonesty) about Prouty and the 9/11 science data. Most of the science is over your head, in any case. Instead, let's focus on Lincoln and RFK, Jr.'s embarrassing apologetics for the Jim Crow era Confederate statues. I've already provided you with the definitive scholarly references on both subjects (above.) Surely you're not still stuck in the bogus Dunning School of Civil War historiography, are you? Columbia University historian Eric Foner has debunked "Lost Cause"/Dunning historiography with his exhaustive, definitive history of Reconstruction. He also penned an excellent essay (above) about the Jim Crow era Confederate statues, which documents precisely why RFK,Jr.'s "whitesplaining" is so misguided. Study it, and learn. As for Lincoln, Foner has, coincidentally, written the definitive history of Lincoln's public and private statements about slavery-- The Fiery Trial. Lincoln was always morally opposed slavery, privately, but he didn't want to alienate Copperhead bigots in the North and slave holders in the South-- prior to Secession--and in the Border States after the onset of the War. So, he played his Emancipation cards carefully, and in a manner that often frustrated Abolitionists, like Garfield and Thaddeus Stevens.

Denny, Ben is disagreeing with Peter Dale Scott's inter-agency coalition theory here-- the day after it was mentioned on one of Ben's other RFK1A threads. Ben's mathematical equation might go something like this; JFK1A + RFK1A = CIA + 0 J (FK1A) + R (FK1A) = CIA J+R (FK1A) = CIA J+R = CIA/(FK1A) J+R= CI/FK1

So now Bibi is fully aligned with the MAGA goons in the U.S., and is even making stuff up to impugn Biden's reputation. Terrific. What a swell guy... 🙄 White House Scolds Netanyahu June 19, 2024 at 3:26 am EDT By Taegan Goddard “The White House canceled a high-level U.S.-Israel meeting on Iran that was scheduled for Thursday after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a video on Tuesday claiming the U.S. was withholding military aid,” Axios reports. “President Biden’s top advisers were enraged by the video — a message U.S. envoy Amos Hochstein delivered personally to Netanyahu in a meeting hours after it was published, two U.S. and Israeli sources say. Then the White House decided to go a step farther by canceling Thursday’s meeting.”

White House Scolds Netanyahu June 19, 2024 at 3:26 am EDT By Taegan Goddard “The White House canceled a high-level U.S.-Israel meeting on Iran that was scheduled for Thursday after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a video on Tuesday claiming the U.S. was withholding military aid,” Axios reports. “President Biden’s top advisers were enraged by the video — a message U.S. envoy Amos Hochstein delivered personally to Netanyahu in a meeting hours after it was published, two U.S. and Israeli sources say. Then the White House decided to go a step farther by canceling Thursday’s meeting.”

Well, I'll be jiggered... More RFK1A posts and threads on the JFK1A board today, in which our latter day JFK1A/RFK1A sleuth, Ben Cole, has now disagreed with Peter Dale Scott's opinion that the JFK1A and RFK1A were carried out by an inter-agency coalition. Does Ben know that the LAPD incinerated the Ambassador Hotel photos, while the FBI disappeared the Fahey tape, and two CIA men supervised the sham "investigation" of RFK's murder? That'd be three agencies right there, Benjamin... 🙄 BONUS QUOTE OF THE DAY "My friends, I knew RFK1 and, believe me, RFK2 is no RFK1." -- Robert Reich

Interesting American history article and map for Juneteenth today. Incidentally, Juneteenth has been celebrated by the black community in my old neighborhood in Denver for decades. Mapped: Emancipation Proclamation to Juneteenth (axios.com)

What we're witnessing, IMO, is the catastrophic end stage of Likud Party/Neocon militarism in the Levant. Not sure what "solution" could have resulted in a less bloody outcome for the European Zionist experiment in Palestine. A constructive two-state solution should have been imposed years ago-- backed by the U.S. and the UN. Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith, and the Neocons wrote papers in the 1990s about strategies to use the U.S. military to weaken and destroy Israel's Muslim neighbors-- Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, and Iran-- after a catalyzing "New Pearl Harbor" event. But the post-9/11 Wolfowitz plan, ultimately, backfired by creating a Shiite axis from Tehran to Baghdad and Damascus-- after Saddam Hussein's Baathist regime was deposed in Iraq. Hezbollah is aligned with the Tehran-Baghdad-Damascus Axis. So is Russia. If full blown war breaks out between Israel and the Moscow-Tehran-Baghdad-Damascus Axis, Lord help us. Netanyahu will use nukes if he has to.

Get real, Griffith. Prouty was a rare inside source about CIA special ops in the 1950s and early 60s. Your defamatory McAdams.edu tropes smearing Col. Prouty haven't fooled many people here on the Education Forum-- with one or two exceptions. As for your 9/11 ignorance-- the scientific evidence proving that the Twin Towrs and WTC7 were demolished by explosives on 9/11 is definitive at this point. I used to tutor undergrads in physics at Brown, before graduating from Harvard Medical School. Those massive steel structures collapsed to Ground Zero at near free fall acceleration-- i.e., the substructures were abruptly demolished by explosives. What are your academic scientific credentials? Do tell. Did you study any advanced science during your stint at the U.S. military intelligence language-training facility in Monterrey?

Denise, If I recall correctly, the theft of the photos occurred in the context of Scott Enyart's lawsuit/trial over the theft of his photos. Meanwhile, hundreds of other Ambassador Hotel photos were destroyed by the LAPD. Who knows what all they showed? The girl in the polka dot dress? Cesar? Other assassins and CIA personnel in the area?

Yeah, Steve, and, after initially, feigning contrition about January 6th, and denying responsibility, Mango Mussolini is now openly celebrating his J6 Capitol mobsters as "warriors." The Orange Psychopath would burn the country down, and incite mass murder, to save his own skin.

Paul, In retrospect, I regret ever starting this thread. I was surprised when I saw this series of scurrilous JFK headline news stories in the Daily Mail, and they seemed newsworthy for the JFK forum. The author, Maureen Callahan, apparently worked as a right-wing propagandist for Rupert Murdoch, for years, at the NY Post. So, this may simply be more of the usual anti-liberal yellow journalism in a right-wing rag.

Ben, You should cite Lisa Pease's scholarly investigative work on these threads, rather than posting her material without attribution. One thing she mentioned about the courier incident with the Enyart photos is that the photo thief didn't steal anything else in the car. And, to reiterate, the evidence implicating the LAPD, FBI, and CIA in the cover up of the RFK assassination doesn't "point away" from LBJ-- your thesis on this thread. Instead, it points to an inter-agency "coalition" in the Kennedy assassination ops-- as Peter Dale Scott theorized. LBJ was involved with all of them.