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Yeah, Steve and, meanwhile, Fox News and the MAGA media are running with a sh*t post by some MAGA xxxxx who claims that he is a cousin of a juror in Trump's hush money trial. The trial was rigged. Incidentally, my cousin is a friend of Judge Aileen Cannon, and she told me that Aileen is determined to sabotage the prosecution for Trump. Start spreading the news... 😬

Paul, I was a fan of James DiEugenio's scholarly work-- and a donor to his excellent K&K website-- long before he achieved notoriety through his film with Oliver Stone. And Jim and I have occasionally discussed the history of the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Jim Crow era, including Professor Eric Foner's work. That is why I seriously doubt that Jim agrees with RFK, Jr.'s recent public comments decrying the removal of Jim Crow era Confederate statues. Unlike RFK-- who risked alienating Dixiecrats by freeing Martin Luther King from prison-- RFK, Jr. appears to be pandering to white supremacists. I mentioned this Confederate statue issue in the context of Michael Griffith's claim that RFK, Jr. can "heal the partisan strife that is tearing this country apart." Do we "heal partisan strife" by denying that slavery, racism, and Trump's J6 attack on Congress ever happened? My psychiatric opinion is that the first stage of "healing" requires overcoming denial-- not reinforcing it.

Stu, The question, technically, is what Sirhan remembers. Amnesia is the sine qua non of dissociation. Have you studied the history of Sirhan's apparent dissociative disorder and pre-assassination hypnotic programming? Susceptible people can perform complex, sustained behaviors as a result of post-hypnotic compulsions. They can also have total psychogenic amnesia for post-hypnotic suggestions, if amnesia is effectively induced during hypnosis. Thirdly, they tend to confabulate explanations for otherwise inexplicable post-hypnotic compulsions. See, for example, Dr. Bernard Diamond's hypnotic session with Sirhan, where he told Sirhan to climb on the bars of his cell when Diamond pulled out his handkerchief. Per instructions, Sirhan had amnesia for the hypnotic suggestion. So, when he was asked why he climbed on the bars of his cell, after Diamond pulled out his handkerchief, Sirhan confabulated. He said he was, "trying to exercise." Hypnotized subjects with dissociative tendencies are typically lucid and even rational. Sirhan was not psychotic or otherwise mentally ill, as Dr. Daniel Brown documented with a battery of psychological tests. We know that Sirhan was hypnotically programmed to go into "range mode," and fire a gun at RFK, in response to a cue-- being pinched by a girl in a polka dot dress. He could have also been programmed to take a gun to the Ambassador Hotel on June 6th and seek out a girl in a polka dot dress. He could also have been programmed to have total amnesia for his hypnotic sessions. So, superficially, he would look like a normal, sane malingerer.

Geez, Paul, what a ludicrous ad hominem post-- unworthy of you, really. Have you dodged the evidence of right wing MAGA billionaire Timothy Mellon's multi-million dollar donations to RFK, Jr.'s stalkng horse campaign? As for your nonsensical claim that I get my concepts from "propaganda hit pieces," I was a Magna Cum Laude American Studies major at Brown University before attending Harvard Medical School back in the day. I usually cite the scholarly sources for my arguments. And my EF commentaries are informed by a lifelong study of history and science, not partisan pundits. Incidentally, the FBI arrests and 70 day incarcerations of the five "Dancing Israeli" Mossad agents apprehended near Giants Stadium on 9/11 isn't "my story." It's a documented fact, confirmed by FBI files obtained through an FOIA law suit. The five Israelis were arrested after witnesses in New Jersey saw them filming and celebrating the explosive demolitions of the WTC Twin Towers. Those photos can be seen in the FBI files.

Kirk, I'm, frankly, astonished to learn that someone has, apparently, blocked me from receiving any personal messages on this forum. What in the hell is going on around here? I tried to send Ron Bulman a PM this weekend, and got a message that Ron could not receive any messages.

Since Ben Cole's multiple, redundant RFK, Jr. fluffing threads-- and commentaries promoting RFK, Jr.'s Timothy Mellon-funded stalking horse candidacy-- are, apparently, being allowed on the JFKA board, let's talk about the subject more contextually, for a change. No censorship, please. Typically, when anyone tries to introduce context to these RFK, Jr. promotional threads, they are immediately removed from the JFKA board. And accurate contextual comments have even been deleted from these RFK, Jr. threads by the mods. Herewith... Michael Griffith has described RFK, Jr. (above) as someone who can overcome the "partisan strife that is tearing apart our country." What does that mean, precisely? How does Griffith imagine reconciling rational democracy with the Trump cult's assault on democracy? Does it refer to RFK, Jr. assiduously avoiding any criticism of Donald Trump's historic crimes? His bogus claim that Trump's J6 Capitol attackers have been denied their Constitutional rights? RFK, Jr. lamenting the takedown of Jim Crow era Confederate statues prized by white supremacists in the Trump cult? Robert F. Kennedy Jr. offered praise for members of the Confederacy (msnbc.com) James DiEugenio is a knowledgeable American historian. Does JD agree with RFK, Jr.'s regrets about the modern movement to replace Jim Crow era "Lost Cause" mythology with true history? I doubt it. Columbia University historian Eric Foner has written very cogently about these Jim Crow era Confederate statues. RFK went out on a political limb to get Martin Luther King out of prison back in the day. He knew the Dixiecrats would be angry. RFK, Jr. is doing the opposite. He's pandering to white supremacists in the Trump cult.

Can you give us the gist of it, Larry? It's been a while since I read A Lie Too Big to Fail, but I recall Lisa Pease describing the forensic evidence and ballistics in considerable detail.

Not counting all of those who died as a result of our "progressive" bombing campaigns, and defoliation, during the LBJ and Nixon administrations. What did they accomplish?

Well, John, the "sickness" is, apparently, contagious. I feel similarly nauseated by your willful ignorance. Some of you guys across the pond have simply never understood the reality of our modern American political spectrum. I can re-direct you the facts, but my hunch is that it will do no good. I should qualify this by saying that I know very little about politics in Ireland or the UK, so I wouldn't presume to tell an Irishman or a Brit what is happening in their own country. With regard to plutocracy and modern American politics, here are few key facts and references for your remedial education. FACTS 1) The gargantuan U.S. national debt has largely been created during the past 40 years by a series of Republican Party tax cuts for billionaires; --By Ronald Reagan and the GOP in the 1980s --By George W. Bush and the GOP in 2001 and 2003 --By Donald Trump and the GOP in 2017 2) In conjunction with "Reaganomic" tax cuts for the rich, the Republican Party has pursued a stealth agenda since the 1980s of "Starving the Beast"-- i.e., using their tax cut-induced budget deficits to pressure a de-funding of the social safety net for the working class-- i.e., food stamps, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Obamacare, etc. 3) The Republican Party has been doggedly dedicated since 1980 to sabotaging environmental protection and climate change mitigation-- on behalf of oil industry moguls 4) As documented by Professor Nancy MacLean, (see reference below) Republican "Federalist Society" plutocrats have pursued a long-term stealth plan to stack the U.S. courts with arch-conservative, pro-plutocracy judges. Their most important plutocratic GOP success story was the 5-4 SCOTUS ruling in the Citizens United case, which wiped out a century of campaign finance reforms in the U.S., allowing billionaires to buy elections with unlimited "dark" money. REFERENCES Amazon.com: Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America: 9781101980972: MacLean, Nancy: Books Arguing with Zombies: Economics, Politics, and the Fight for a Better Future: Krugman, Paul: 9781324005018: Amazon.com: Books

Many years ago, I was treating a patient who was a very wealthy, arch-conservative businessman here in Denver. He loved Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, and he told me that he had just attended some sort of local Republican event, for heavy rollers, where Scalia was the keynote speaker and guest of honor. At the time, I was deeply troubled by this story. Naturally, I didn't burden or upset my patient by talking about my own political views, but I privately wondered what in the hell a SCOTUS justice was doing at a highly partisan political event. Geez... I didn't know the half of it... 🙄 Database Reveals 'Staggering' $6.6 Million in Gifts to Supreme Court Justices | Common Dreams

Well, thanks to Mr. Kozma and Mr. Cloud for explaining to us that Suharto, Pinochet, Efrain Montt, et.al., were actually "progressives." How could we have been so naive? Perhaps the CIA was correct all along... 🙄 Compared to the mass civilian murders committed by our progressive CIA-backed leaders-- Suharto, Pinochet, Montt, et.al.-- just look at the communist disaster in modern Vietnam! The Domino Theory turned out to be true in Vietnam-- people can now order Domino's Pizza in Ho Chi Minh City.

Mark, No teeth gnashing here. Members should post threads on the appropriate boards. But we have a member who has started numerous, redundant threads attacking Joe Biden for not releasing the JFK records. Should those anti-Biden threads be posted on the Political Discussion board, the JFKA board, or the MAGA Water Cooler board? To jog your memory, I started a rare thread in 2020 on the JFKA board about Trump's historic 2017 decision to block the release of the JFK assassination records. You, or one of the mods, moved it to the JFK Deep Politics board.

Terrific, Mark. Here's one suggestion. To maintain a functional, intellectually honest forum-- now that the previous moderators have, apparently, been sacked-- let's set limits on redundant political propaganda posts on the JFKA board bashing Joe Biden, and/or promoting Donald Trump or RFK, Jr., which are disguised as references to the JFK records and/or the RFK assassination.

Ben, The mods never censored your repetitive false posts denying that Trump orchestrated and incited his historic J6 mob attack on the U.S. Congress, (on the 56 Years thread) so I doubt they'll censor additional threads now about Trump's historic 2017 snuff job on the JFK records, or Biden later pulling a Trump by also blocking the release of the records. BTW, the mods deep-sixed the only forum thread, (from 2020) about Trump's historic refusal to release the JFK records, to the JFK Deep Politics board. Not sure why. It was recently transferred to the Political Discussion board, at my request. In the Trump/JFK Records case, the mods ruled that discussing Trump's 2017 snuff job on the JFK records-- even once-- was not an appropriate subject for the JFK Assassination board. But, perhaps, your redundant Biden-bashing will be fair game under the new management. You could try posting your 25th "Biden snuff job" thread on the JFKA board now to re-test the waters. Some people on the forum may not have read any of your previous 24 "Biden snuff job" threads. MAGA!

Denise, My impression is that RFK well knew that he was a persona non grata, and in danger, after the 11/22/63 coup. Robert Morrow, and others, know all the sordid LBJ/RFK details but, as I recall, J. Edgar Hoover stopped communicating with RFK after 11/22/63. RFK was, more or less, stranded on a political island in the Deep State, surrounded by mortal enemies-- including LBJ. And Jackie rightly feared that RFK would be murdered if he ran for POTUS in 1968.

Had to laugh when I saw this headline juxtaposing howler monkeys and Trump fans-- although, admittedly, this heat dome is a serious climate catastrophe. 94 F in windy Denver right now, and we dodged the worst of it. I've been playing golf from 6-9 AM lately, before the heat gets up to 70. Trump supporters, Mexican monkeys drop from extreme heat; Scientists say, power outages will cause record deaths (msn.com)

Except that it's completely false, John. I was (and remain) bitterly disappointed with Biden for suppressing the JFK Records, as I have expressed from the beginning. Like others, I had also written a letter to Biden in 2021, politely requesting that he comply with the law and release the JFK records. I thought he would. He's an Irish Catholic, for God's sake! Meanwhile, where were Tucker Carlson and the Trump cult people in 2017 and 2018, when Donald Trump refused to release the records on their historic due date? The MAGA silence was deafening. I started one of the few forum threads on the subject in 2020-- long before Tucker Carlso and the MAGA cultists started bashing the Biden "snuff job" on the records. And, even at this late date, Mathew Koch and the Trump cult members are blaming Mike Pompeo-- instead of the former President-- for Trump's refusal to release the JFK records. It's a characteristic of cult members to drink the kool aid and eschew any criticism of their Great Leaders. Mathew Koch is a case study. He recently likened Trump to Mother Theresa. 🙄

My wife and I visited Pitlochry, in the Scottish Highlands, about 34 years ago. It's on the "Whiskey Trail," where distilleries like Macallan and Glen Fiddich are located. I had never heard of the Calvine incident until reading this article today. Can't vouch for the authenticity in the Daily Mail, but it's an interesting read. Two British friends took this UFO picture then vanished after a visit from sinister men in dark suits. Breaking his silence after 34 years, their old colleague now reveals what happened and says: 'They were not meant to see it' | Daily Mail Online

Denise, If I recall correctly, the CIA's assassination protocols-- from the 1950s-- included the concept of setting up a patsy, who would be the designated fall guy for assassination ops. The setting up of patsies was an important aspect of these black ops, to disguise the op and deflect blame from the actual perpetrators. As in Oswald's case, a patsy was set up in the JFK Chicago assassination op (before Dallas.) In Sirhan's case, the perpetrators went the extra mile to ingeniously set up an actual "assassin" who had been hypnotically conditioned to fire a gun in front of a crowd. Lisa Pease discusses the actual ballistics evidence in detail in her definitive analysis of the RFK assassination op-- A Lie Too Big to Fail. IMO, Sirhan was a genuine Manchurian Candidate-- a young man with a dissociative disorder who was highly susceptible to hypnosis and techniques of skilled hypnotic programming. Dr. Daniel Brown had to jump through a lot of hoops to finally examine Sirhan in prison, but he was able to elucidate the nature of Sirhan's post-hypnotic conditioning to go into "range mode" and fire a gun at RFK, in response to a command cue. (See the "George Estabrooks" EF thread for those details.) Incidentally, another fascinating back story on the RFK assassination op is Fernando Faura's 2016 book, The Polka Dot File. We talked about Faura and Fahey on the RFK Assassination board a few years ago.

Matt, You probably know that Michael Flynn was working as an unregistered foreign agent in 2016, when he was serving as Donald Trump's chief national security advisor. Unreal. He was also one of Trump's J6 Willard Hotel associates, and he repeatedly pled the 5th during the Congressional investigation of J6. I still suspect that Flynn and his brother were involved in the Trump Pentagon blocking the deployment of National Guard troops to the Capitol on January 6th. Hopefully, we'll eventually learn the truth about Flynn's shocking skullduggery.

The criteria should be erudition, sound judgment, and intellectual honesty. We, certainly, don't want people who think that January 6th was a mere "scrum," or a Deep State "Patriot Purge," moderating the Education Forum. Those guys belong on 4Chan or Truth Social.

What old garbage, Ben. Lone Nutter stuff blaming Khruschev and the KGB for the murder of JFK? No thanks. If anyone engaged in hypnotic espionage protocols in Oswald's case, it would have been Estabrooks or one of his proteges, working for Angleton. Oswald did exhibit behavior consistent with Estabrooks' 1943 espionage protocol-- e.g., wooden recitations of Marxist jingles-- especially during his initial encounters with U.S. Embassy personnel in Moscow. But that had nothing to do with the KGB. It was his false defector persona. If he had been working for the KGB, why did he secretly draft a detailed diagram of the radio factory in Minsk?

Geez, folks... It's not about political opinions, partisanship, bias, or the political spectrum. We've heard this same erroneous argument repeatedly, from Benjamin Cole since he first joined the forum-- confusing matters of opinion with matters of fact. Should there be a process for Education Forum moderators to set limits on forum members who repeatedly post clearly proven falsehoods, in the interest of limiting the posting of redundant disinformation? Hopefully, James Gordon and/or Mark Knight will eventually answer my question (above) about forum management.

Roger, You and Ben need to study Dr. Daniel Brown's truly stellar forensic psychology evaluation of Sirhan. Ben has never understood Dr. Brown's psychological data about Sirhan's hypnotic programming and dissociative disorder-- which was also described by Dr. Bernard Diamond. Post-hypnotic suggestion is an unusual phenomenon. It can induce profound amnesia, and superficially inexplicable behavior-- which is often rationalized by subjects in odd ways. For example, Dr. Diamond once hypnotized Sirhan in prison, and suggested that, after his hypnotic session, Sirhan would climb around on the bars of his cell after Dr. Diamond gave him a cue by taking out his handkerchief and blowing his nose. But he also told Sirhan that he would not remember being told to climb on the bars of his cell. Some time after Sirhan came out of his trance state, Dr. Diamond took out his handkerchief and blew his nose. Then Sirhan began climbing on the bars of his prison cell. When he was asked why he was climbing on the bars of his cell, Sirhan said that he was trying to get some exercise. Similarly, Sirhan had psychogenic amnesia for his hypnotic programming to fire a gun at RFK in response to a cue-- being pinched by a girl in a polka dot dress. But, like climbing on the bars of his cell for exercise, Sirhan also created an explanation for firing a gun at RFK. He wanted to free Palestine. In other words, he had total amnesia for the hypnotic suggestion to shoot RFK, in response to a specific cue.

Actually, Mark, my last two posts are directly relevant to the subject of forum management/improvements. And I would appreciate a response to my (above) question: Under the circumstances, should there be a process for Education Forum moderators to set limits on forum members who repeatedly post clearly proven falsehoods, in the interest of limiting the posting of redundant disinformation?