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C'mon, Cliff. There's an astonishing amount of historical detail in DiEugenio's essay about Fetzer. It's the kind of fund of knowledge that results from years of immersion in a subject-- by a magazine editor and author. And my questions (above) were not rhetorical. Do we know, for certain, that LBJ wasn't ducking in the limo? Isn't it true that Mary Pinchot Meyer was killed by an expert assassin? Was the guy promoting the 9/11 "hologram" hoax, in fact, affiliated with the CIA?

WaPo ran a major, front-page feature story on this two days ago. Here's Al Jazeera's reprise. Pro-Israel billionaires urged New York crackdown on Gaza protests: Report | Israel War on Gaza News | Al Jazeera

Geez, Cliff... You seem to turn every thread around here into a discussion of JFK's shirt, while ignoring/leap-frogging salient posts. I've got nothing against shirts, but how about DiEugenio's multi-faceted historical essay about Fetzer and conspiracy theorists?

What an outstanding, informative 2016 essay by James DiEugenio on The Decline and Fall of Jim Fetzer. I knew next to nothing about Fetzer before reading this essay. I wish I had read this essay several years ago. It answers a great many questions. The DiEugenio essay about Fetzer reviews an array of books that I have studied in the process of exploring the JFK assassination-- including Regicide, LBJ-- Mastermind of the JFK Assassination, and Mary's Mosaic-- along with describing details of Gary Webb's suicide and Fetzer's "divorce" from 9/11 Truth physicist Stephen Jones. A few comments and questions. 1) The enhanced Altgens photo, allegedly, demonstrates that LBJ was not ducking in the limo before JFK was shot. Is this a shared consensus today? 2) If I recall correctly, Mary Pinchot Meyer was, in fact, executed by an expert point-blank shot to the back of the head, followed by a shot to the heart. But the alleged assassin, William Mitchell, has not been accurately identified by Peter Janney. Is this correct? 3) Gary Webb did, in fact, commit suicide by firing two shots with a .38 special? (I always doubted that story until reading this essay.) 4) The man who promoted the dubious, on-line "hologram" theory about the 9/11 airplanes was affiliated, in some way, with the CIA. I saw that material on-line several years ago, and wondered if the author was merely deluded, or employed to discredit the serious 9/11 research. 5) Fetzer had a falling out with physicist, Stephen Jones, who has done truly exemplary work documenting the explosive demolitions of the WTC on 9/11.

The title of this thread is an oxymoron, at least in the case of JFKA research. It's like writing, "Democrats Keep On Cutting Taxes for Billionaires."

That's a reasonable point, Sandy. From what I can tell, Rafah has not yet been subjected to the kind of indiscriminate IDF bombing that obliterated northern Gaza. But its refugee population is trapped and starving, with minimal medical resources. Another problem is limited access to Rafah for humanitarian aid. Also, the IDF has killed many journalists in Gaza, and the Israeli government has recently shut down Al Jazeera in Israel. Netanyahu's right-wing government is controlling the narrative.

Sandy, Speaking of "fake news," where have you been getting your "news" about Netanyahu's Gaza genocide? What are your sources lately? Truth is one of the first casualties of war, and that is especially true during genocides. Remember when the Israeli government tried to blame Hamas for bombing the first hospital destroyed by the IDF in Gaza? Did you study the photos I posted for you in recent months about the so-called, "targeted bombing," of Gaza? How many buildings in Gaza were spared during those allegedly "targeted" strikes? As for accurate news, there are a few on-line sites that have been covering the genocide honestly, IMO. I would include Jeremy Scahill, Ryan Grim, and the journalists at The Intercept in the honest, accurate category, along with the progressive journalists at Common Dreams, and Professor Juan Cole's Informed Comment site at the University of Michigan. American Medical Missions Trapped in Gaza, Facing Death by Dehydration (theintercept.com) May 14, 2024

Israeli tanks push deeper into Rafah, battles rage in northern Gaza By Nidal Al-Mughrabi May 14, 20244:52 PM MDTUpdated 2 hours ago Summary LATEST DEVELOPMENTS U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan to visit Israel and Saudi Arabia at the weekend Israel says it has killed 100 militant fighters in Rafah CAIRO, May 14 (Reuters) - Israeli tanks pushed deeper into Rafah on Tuesday, reaching some residential areas of the southern Gazan border city where more than a million people had sought shelter, and its forces pounded the enclave's north in some of the fiercest attacks in months. Israel's international allies and aid groups have repeatedly warned against a ground incursion into Rafah, where many Palestinians fled and Israel says four Hamas battalions are holed up. Israel says it must root out the remaining fighters. Advertisement · Scroll to continue The White House said U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan will visit Israel and Saudi Arabia this weekend. The Biden administration declined to comment on a report by Axios that Israel agreed not to expand its Rafah operation significantly before Sullivan's visit. A U.S. official who declined to be identified told Reuters that Israel promised not to make a major move in Rafah without advising Washington.

Biden Moves Forward on $1 Billion in New Arms for Israel Source: WSJ The Biden administration notified Congress on Tuesday that it was moving forward with more than $1 billion in new weapons deals for Israel, U.S. and congressional officials said, a massive arms package less than a week after the White House paused a shipment of bombs over a planned Israeli assault on Rafah. The latest weapons package includes the potential transfer of $700 million in tank ammunition, $500 million in tactical vehicles and $60 million in mortar rounds, the officials said. The decision to proceed with the transfers underscored the Biden administration’s reluctance to deepen its rift with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the Rafah operation by restricting longer-term weapons deals with its closest Middle East ally. U.S. officials have stressed their opposition to a full-scale Israeli attack in the city, saying it could result in widespread civilian casualties and deepen Gaza’s humanitarian crisis without ending the threat Israel faces from Hamas. But they have registered their opposition so far only by withholding a single shipment of 2,000-pound bombs. Read more: https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/biden-moves-forward-on-1-billion-in-new-arms-for-israel-844b761c?st=wzaazmh1nnmk0j5&reflink=article_copyURL_share

Honestly, I feel sorry for the college classes of '24-- and not only because of the staggering increases in college tuition nowadays, and the school shooter drills they lived through. Their schools were shut down by the COVID pandemic during their senior year (in high school.) Then the George Floyd/BLM protests broke out across the country, in May of 2020. Then, while still dealing with the COVID pandemic during their freshman year in college, Trump's mobsters attacked Congress, followed by three more years of the Trump sh*t show and election denialism. Now their final semester-- and graduation ceremonies-- have been disrupted and/or cancelled by the Gaza Genocide protests.

Sandy, I, certainly, agree that Trump is an unmitigated disaster, and that Biden is a far superior alternative. But disgust with Biden's role in Netanyahu's Gaza genocide is not based on what psychiatrists (and psychologists) refer to as "emotional reasoning"-- as the term is used in Beck's cognitive therapy. The emotionally disturbed characters are Lindsay Graham and the pro-genocide MAGAts who are cheering for Netanyahu's crimes against humanity. Moral outrage about the genocide is a sign of mental health, IMO.

Sandy, Why do you keep repeating your misdiagnosis about emotional reasoning? Are people supposed to have no emotions about the horrific massacres of women and children in Gaza? C'mon, man. Emotion serves an important purpose in human life. We should feel horror about genocide. BTW, I don't happen to agree with rapper Macklemore's lyrics about not voting for Biden, but I posted the story as information about how a younger generation views the Gaza debacle. It has damaged Biden's reputation significantly. Meanwhile, IMO, Macklemore's "music" is terrible. I have a personal story about the subject of rap music, which also involves Ron Bulman's recent references to the Derek and the Dominos Layla album. Several years ago, I was visiting with my nephew-- a young, out-of-town hot shot grad student at UC Berkeley-- and he and another nephew of mine were sharing some God-awful rap music with me. Like a genuine geezer, I finally asked, "Do you guys ever listen to the great old rock classics by guys like Eric Clapton, the Allman Brothers, the Grateful Dead, Steely Dan, or the Doobie Brothers? "Who?" So I decided to record an album of rock classics in my basement studio, and I gave them my rock CD "album" at Christmas. I called the album, "It's Not Too Late," and the first track on my CD was Chuck Willis's 1956 hit, "It's Too Late," from the Layla album. (Willis recorded this in 1956 as a slow doo-wop song, but I used the Derek and the Dominos up-tempo version from 1970.) I don't think my nephews even owned a CD player, so my recording may have been in vain, but perhaps they'll listen to it some day after I'm dead. The moral of the story is that it's not too late to play rock 'n roll. https://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=14781637

Since this is the Water Cooler, I'm posting this clip of the final 21 seconds of the first half in the Denver Nuggets playoff Game Four tonight in Minneapolis. The Nuggets are the reigning NBA champs, but they lost the first two games of this series (in Denver) to the Minnesota Timberwolves. I thought they were finished. After tonight's game, the series is now tied 2-2. But check out the end of the first half. Unreal. My daughter got mad because I was watching the game with headphones on and I spontaneously let out a loud holler when Jamal Murray nailed this 55 foot buzzer beater.

Macklemore’s ‘Hind’s Hall’ supports protesters & Palestinians & calls out Biden (dailykos.com)

Ouch. Hillary gets a beat down by Middle East scholars, for her "Inside the Beltway Goy Zionism." 🤓 Palestine and History: Macklemore v. Hillary Clinton (juancole.com)

It's bad form to ridicule a person whose brain was eaten by a worm, but I was wondering today if RFK, Jr., possibly, forgot that his father and uncles were liberal Democrats. He mentioned that the worm caused memory impairments. 🙄

Well, I'll be damned, Matt. I learn something new every day on this forum. I've been playing that Layla ending on the piano for 50 years, and I always thought it was written and performed on the album by Bobby Whitlock-- the keyboard player in Derek & the Dominoes. Now I learn that it was actually written and performed by the drummer, Jim Gordon. I should have read the old liner notes more carefully. Incidentally, IMO, the most poignant, beautiful love song on the album isn't Layla, but Whitlock's song, Thorn Tree in the Garden.

Yeah, Ron, Duane Allman played those high slide-guitar, bird-like riffs on Layla. He could really wail. That classic Derek & the Dominoes album has been near and dear to me for the past 50 years-- a vinyl rock & blues education. In fact, I've recorded a lot of those songs in my basement studio over the years, and I can still play Bobby Whitlock's piano solo from the end of Layla. (Oddly, I've been playing the piano part in E Flat for 50 years. Not sure why.) Here's my own studio recording of Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out. This great blues song was written back in the 1920s, but I learned it from Derek & the Dominoes. I usually play the electric blues with my old Fender Strat but, for some unknown reason, I played the lead guitar part on this recording on my Samick ES-175-- a Korean made facsimile of the famous Gibson ES-175. https://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=12910685

Sandy, What's obvious, to me, is that Biden has been an AIPAC-indoctrinated Zionist for decades-- as Douglas Caddy (and Paul Rigby, on a JFK and Gaza thread) has documented-- and Biden got played by Netanyahu. It's a historic debacle. More recently, Biden has finally realized that Bibi played him for a fool-- as the New Republic author pointed out, (above) and as I have been saying since October. I'm not sure what your resistance is to recognizing this painful reality, but I think it may have something to do with a need to maintain an idealized, illusory concept of who Joe Biden is. For my part, I first observed Joe Biden in the 1992 Democratic Primary debates, (against Bill Clinton) and I always thought there was something slightly shady about the man. He's an old-fashioned glad-hander who knows precisely where his bread is buttered (e.g., by AIPAC and the military industrial complex.) My suspicions about Biden were confirmed when he aggressively sabotaged the release of the JFK Records. I voted for Bernie in the 2020 Democratic primary here, and I sincerely believe that the Gaza Genocide would not have happened if Bernie had been POTUS. He has called for Biden to stop shipping bombs to Bibi for weeks now. In fact, Bernie is one of the very few American politicians who has accurately and honestly criticized Netanyahu's right wing Zionist ethnic cleansing ops for the past few months.

Sandy, The indiscriminate murders of 35,000 civilians in Gaza has been shocking, but so has the utter obliteration of the Gaza strip since October-- 56,000+ demolished residential buildings, including schools, hospitals, universities, and mosques. I posted references to the photos and film of the annihilation of Gaza when we first began discussing the bombings a few months ago. And now 600,000 starving children are trapped in Rafah. Under the circumstances, it's difficult to construe Netanyahu's Gaza genocide as anything less than a geopolitical failure of historic proportions. As for whether Biden could have prevented the obliteration Gaza, who knows? At the very least, Biden shouldn't have provided the bombs. And he should have supported the UN cease-fire resolutions, IMO.

Netanyahu Is Humiliating Biden May 9, 2024 at 10:59 am EDT By Taegan Goddard New Republic: “There is nothing new or unexpected about Benjamin Netanyahu’s arrogance. When President Bill Clinton first met him at the White House in 1996—mere weeks after Netanyahu first took office as Israel’s prime minister—he reportedly seethed to aides, ‘Who the xxxx does he think he is? Who’s the xxxxing superpower here?’ That arrogance subsequently caused rifts with Republican and Democratic presidents alike. Netanyahu, now in his third stint as prime minister, has not changed at all over the last 30 years.” “And yet, President Biden apparently thought he could influence how the Israeli leader responded to Hamas’s October 7 terrorist attacks. In the ensuing months, as the civilian death toll of Israel’s military campaign in Gaza climbed past 10,000 and then 20,000 and then 30,000, Americans were treated to stories in the press suggesting that although Biden publicly embraced Netanyahu at every opportunity, he was working hard in private to constrain him. This notion stretched credulity, given that Biden was no stranger to Netanyahu’s ways, having served as chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and, as vice president, witnessed Barack Obama’s increasingly frosty relationship with him.” “But now, given the events of the past few days, we can say with total certainty that this back channel pressure—to the extent it existed—has been a spectacular failure.”

This guy always cracks me up... 😂

Geez...the time when RFK, Jr. really could have used some Ivermectin... 🙄 R.F.K. Jr. Says Doctors Found a Dead Worm in His Brain dnyuz.com/2024/05/08/r-f-k-jr-says-doctors-found-a-dead-worm-in-his-brain/ May 8, 2024

Trump classified documents trial delayed indefinitely, judge rules - The Washington Post Meanwhile, back at the ranch, we learn that Trump's Judge Aileen Cannon has taken luxury vacations funded by Federalist Society plutocrat Leonard Leo.... Geez... 🙄 Judge Cannon's secret right-wing getaway: Why didn't we know about this? | Salon.com