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Doug, Everyone knows how much I despise Donald Trump, but I am also profoundly disappointed with Joe Biden for his mismanagement of the Gaza genocide. America needs to start talking about Gaza genocide denial. I pointed out to some genocide deniers recently that Bosnian Serbs were prosecuted for genocide for murdering 8,000 Muslim men at Srebenica. What Netanyahu and the IDF have done in Gaza is far worse.

Yeah, Ron. In the Netflix documentary about Muscle Shoals there was a chapter about Duane Allman hanging out, briefly, in Muscle Shoals, before he formed the Allman Brothers Band. In the film, one of the Swampers said, "That was the beginning of Southern Rock."

Steve, My older sister bought the 45 rpm of Aretha Franklin's hit song, "Respect," in '67. I think the flip side was, "Think." But I didn't know until recently-- after watching a Netflix series about Muscle Shoals-- that Aretha's great soul band on those hits was the "Swampers"-- a bunch of mostly white guys from the backwoods of Alabama. I was astonished.

Sandy, According to a YouTube search, Pompeo became a featured Fox commentator in April of 2021. I vaguely remember Tucker Carlson mentioning, in December of 2022, that Pompeo had been a guest on his show, but had declined to be interviewed about the JFK records.

Didn't Tucker Carlson also say, in December of 2022, that he wanted to interview Pompeo on Fox, but Pompeo declined the invitation? As for Carlson, he deserves a lot of credit for speaking up about this. I hope he doesn't die in a mysterious plane crash, like Hale Boggs and Paul Wellstone.

Hey, do I get any Education Forum Brownie points for voting for Mike Pompeo as Tucker Carlson's secret JFKA/CIA source, on December 16, 2022? 🤥 And, if so, can I use my EF Brownie points to restore the Rafael Cruz/JFKA/National Enquirer thread to the board? I was interested in Robert Morrow's inside stories about his work with Roger Stone, including Stone's flawed editing of Robert's contributions to the LBJ Did It manuscript-- certainly relevant to the JFK assassination. And how often do we get to read inside stories about JFKA books, in which the final edition of a book is compared to hyena excrement?

Bill Barr has the moral compass of a Mafia consigliere. His only "virtue" is loyalty to his party.

Wow. Bernie Sanders dunks on Netanyahu. Bernie's commentary should have been headline news in America today. Instead, it was blacked out by the corporate media (as were his 2016 and 2020 Presidential campaigns.) Another good example of why I voted for Bernie in our 2016 and 2020 Democratic primaries in Colorado, (and why I donate to the Progressive website Common Dreams.) https://www.commondreams.org/news/sanders-netanyahu-antisemitism

Ron, Robert Morrow's familiarity with Roger Stone is extremely interesting, IMO. I'm still curious about Roger Stone's claim (in Nixon's Secrets) that LBJ and Nixon had a three-hour private meeting in Dallas on November 21, 1963. Because of Robert Morrow's history with Roger Stone, I'm wondering if Robert has any information about the alleged LBJ/Nixon meeting-- which is, obviously relevant for the JFK assassination. That story aroused my curiosity, since LBJ and Nixon occupied the White House for the next ten years after 11/22/63.

Robert, My only hesitation about ordering your Clinton sex opus with Roger Stone is that the single WORST book I purchased during the 21st century -- bar none-- was Roger Stone's tome, Nixon's Secrets! Nixon's Secrets was so poorly edited, poorly written, and generally worthless that I gave it away at a Christmas Party as a comical white elephant gift. It may have come in handy during the COVID pandemic toilet paper shortage. BTW, were you, perchance, a co-author/ghost writer of Roger Stone's book about LBJ? After reading, Nixon's Secrets, I had no interest in reading Stone's LBJ manuscript. P.S. Stone claimed, in Nixon's Secrets, that LBJ and Nixon had a private three hour meeting in Dallas on 11/21/63, but I could never find any corroboration of that story.

Trump’s Lawyer Says a President Could Assassinate Rival (politicalwire.com)

If today's argument by Donald Trump's attorney at the SCOTUS is upheld by Alito, Kavanaugh, Thomas, et.al., LBJ may not be (posthumously) liable for any role he played in JFK's murder. We could call it the MacBeth Immunity precedent... 🙄 Trump’s Lawyer Says a President Could Assassinate Rival (politicalwire.com)

Robert, As I recall, Trump also brought some of Bill Clinton's former sex partners to one of his debates with Hillary-- while simultaneously paying hush money to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal. Hypocrisy on steroids. And, incidentally, Pecker testified today that he was in contact with Trump administration staffers-- Hope Hicks and Sarah Huckabee Sanders-- about the hush money ops. David Pecker Spoke With Hope Hicks and Sarah Sanders About Hush Money (mediaite.com)

Geez... De ja vu all over again. The nationwide hostility to these anti-war protesters is starting to remind me of the Vietnam years. Texas State Troopers in Riot Gear Crack Down on UT Students' Gaza Protest | Common Dreams Israel-Gaza student protests: Tom Cotton calling for the National Guard at Columbia University is dangerous hysteria. (slate.com)

So, Robert, let me get this straight. Trump, Stone, Pecker, et.al., were crafting stories about Ted Cruz's alleged mistresses, in 2016, while simultaneously burying stories about Trump's mistresses? 🙄

So, MAGA Mike Johnson went to Columbia University today to public denounce the students --who are protesting against Netanyahu's brutal bombing campaign against Gaza's civilian population-- as "Anti-Semites." It sounds like MAGA Mike, like the U.S. mainstream media, is promoting a false narrative about these anti-war protests. Slate published an interesting article this week about what is really happening at Columbia. Columbia University protests: What's really happening isn't what you've been told. (slate.com) There is also some ADL data on the internet today indicating that 100% of Anti-Semitic hate crimes in the U.S., since 2002, have been committed by right wingers-- not by Muslims or liberals. Perhaps MAGA Mike Johnson needs to speak to his own fascist, right wing constituents in Louisiana. (And Tom Cotton and Josh Hawley need to speak to their right wing constituents in Arkansas and Missouri, instead of calling for the National Guard to attack the anti-war protesters.)

Well, I'm shocked, shocked to learn today that Ted Cruz's father didn't kill JFK! What's next? Finding out that Hillary isn't really dying of brain cancer? National Enquirer Made Up Story About Ted Cruz’s Father April 23, 2024 at 4:26 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard “David Pecker, the former publisher of the National Enquirer, testified at Donald Trump’s trial Tuesday that the tabloid completely manufactured a negative story in 2016 about the father of Sen. Ted Cruz, of Texas, who was then Trump’s rival for the GOP presidential nomination,” NBC News reports. “The paper had published a photo allegedly showing Cruz’s father, Rafael Cruz, with Lee Harvey Oswald handing out pro-Fidel Castro pamphlets in New Orleans in 1963, not long before Oswald assassinated President John F. Kennedy.” “Trump repeatedly referred to the story on the campaign trail and in interviews.”

Matt, Jamelle Bouie published an op-ed in the NYT about this subject a month or two ago. The gist of it was that Rudy Giuliani has always been a sleazeball. Most Americans don't know that Rudy Giuliani lied to the 9/11 Commission about the fact that he was forewarned on 9/11 that the Twin Towers were going to, unexpectedly, collapse to the ground. Giuliani admitted this to Peter Jennings on 9/11. (The NYFD thought Giuliani was nuts when he told them the steel skyscrapers were going to collapse.) Ron: Yes, I'm familiar with the Elizabeth Reed story-- about the headstone and the magic mushrooms. Fascinating rock 'n roll history about Dickey Betts's brilliant composition.

Bill, My point is that the specific forensic details of many of these deaths render mere actuarial probabilities less than significant-- although the actuarial stats indicate high improbability. For example, it's one thing to estimate the actuarial probability of George De Mohrenschildt suddenly dying at age 66, and another thing to estimate the probability that he would suddenly die of a gun shot wound to the head the day before his scheduled testimony about the JFK assassination. Why did De Mohrenschildt die on that particular day, rather than on one of the other 5,100+ days that had elapsed after JFK's murder? The same probabilistic logic applies to Giancana's murder, and most of these JFK witness murder cases. So, yes, we can get a composite number about the actuarial probabilities of all of these witness deaths-- as Beltzer and Wayne did, in Hit List -- but what is even more improbable are the strange, specific circumstances of the murders occurring when, and how, they did by mere chance. What is the probability that Giancana would have been murdered, by chance, by multiple gunshot wounds spelling an "O" around his mouth-- for "Omerta"-- the day before his scheduled testimony about the JFK assassination? What is the probability that a random burglar would have stolen Koethe's JFK assassination notes, by mere chance, after killing Koethe with a karate chop? (We could ask the same question about the Killgallen and Pritchard Smith murders.) Aside from actuarial mortality stats, how frequently do burglars steal manuscripts and notes written by their victims?

Indeed. These poll numbers tell us nothing about the JFK assassination evidence, per se. They are merely an index of public ignorance vs. public knowledge about the evidence. Propagandists may find them useful, in line with Ronald Reagan's old concept that, "Perception is reality." As examples of this all-too-common disconnect between reality and mass ignorance, 50% of Republicans in a recent Washington Post survey believe that human activity has not contributed to climate change. The poll tells us nothing about the scientific climate change evidence.

Bill, Getting back to my point (above) about the salience of forensic details, how would we calculate the probability that both Sam Giancana and George De Mohrenschildt would have been murdered, by chance, one day prior to their scheduled testimony about the JFK assassination?

Kevin, The issue of actuarial probabilities is one interesting aspect of these cases, but the specific forensic details are more telling, IMO. As an example, we could look at the actuarial probabilities that Sam Giancana and George De Mohrenschildt would be shot in the head at a particular age. But what are the actuarial probabilities that they would be shot in the head immediately before their scheduled testimony about the JFKA assassination? Related forensic examples are endless here. As another example, we could focus on the actuarial probability that Koethe would be killed by a karate chop, but a more salient question might be, "Why did the alleged burglar steal Koethe's notes about the JFK assassination?" The same question could be asked about James Angleton's theft of Mary Pinchot Meyer's diary, or the theft of Dorothy Killgallen's (and Florence Pritchard Smith's) notes about Jack Ruby, after these women were murdered.

Rush to Conspiracy? Huh? It has taken years for independent researchers to identify and publish all of the evidence debunking the Warren Commission cover up of the JFK assassination plot-- including the systematic murders of important witnesses. And the Mockingbird contractors in the mainstream and social media have been working to discredit them for decades. Meanwhile, I wonder if Bill Brown and Mark Ulrik have even studied the forensic data in Hit List. Do they know what Lee Bowers said, privately, about what he had witnessed in the parking lot on 11/22/63?

Columbia University protests: What's really happening isn't what you've been told. (slate.com)