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John, My free psychiatric advice for today is, "Don't believe everything that your little green friends tell you." Did you ever get around to studying those comparative COVID mortality rates for vaccinated and un-vaccinated adults in the U.S.? As for RFK, Jr.'s recent comments, people were understandably offended by his suggestion that a virus may have been bio-engineered to selectively kill black people and non-Jews. It is true that black people in the U.S. died of COVID at higher rates than whites and Asians, but the ethnic group with the highest COVID mortality rate in California was Latino, predominantly Mexican. The Mexicans are the same group that your political fellow MAGA travellers want to stop with razor wire, while ordering troopers to push their hungry, little brown babies into the Rio. Have you figured out yet which corrupt plutocratic political party in the U.S. has been cutting taxes for billionaires and corporations, while sabotaging climate change mitigation for Big Oil? (Hint: It's the party that is using RFK, Jr. to sabotage Joe Biden.)

What will it take for the Orange Menace to finally get slapped with a gag order? Is the judge going to wait until Jack Smith gets murdered by a MAGA Bomber?

Hey, wait a minute... I thought RFK, Jr. was refraining from criticizing Trump's historic corruption because he wanted to end America's partisan polarization. But now RFK, Jr. is starting to sound like Rudy Giuliani... 😲 In major shift, RFK Jr. calls for corruption investigation of Joe Biden | Just The News

Leslie, If it's any consolation, I once suggested to Ben, on the old 56 Years thread, that, if he ever started a right wing talk radio show in Thailand, he should use Kinky Friedman's song, Get Your Biscuits in the Oven and Your Buns in the Bed as his introductory theme song... 🤥

Wow. Cool. The Cavern Club in Liverpool?

Ron, I remember those Beatle wigs for sale at Woolworth's, (in 1964) and my older relatives being shocked and appalled by the Beatles' haircuts. My older sister bought a copy of that Vee Jay album, Introducing the Beatles, in 1964, and I know for certain that Please, Please Me was the first track on Side Two of her copy of the album. (I bought a vinyl copy of that album many years later, but it didn't include the Please, Please Me track.) The Beatles' first U.S. hit single, I Want to Hold Your Hand, went to #1 in the U.S. in January of 1964. 1964 was when I first heard their music, including their historic February 1964 appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show-- almost a year after they released Please, Please Me in the U.K. As Bob Dylan mentioned in Murder Most Fowl, the Beatles' historic U.S. invasion happened on the heels of the JFK assassination.

Matt, Did the subject of the JFK records come up in RFK, Jr.'s recent House testimony?

Robert, Isn't it fair to say that Prouty was very careful to avoid disclosing classified U.S. intelligence, while trying to tell the public that the CIA and Dulles' "secret team" were operating beyond the purview of our elected government officials and national ideals? For example, Prouty revised his initial draft of The Secret Team to include previously classified material relating to the newly published Pentagon Papers (some of which he, himself had written.) I don't think it's "cult like" to try to accurately characterize Prouty's writings and motives. My take is that he was deeply troubled by his suspicion that Dulles and his CIA black ops people (and sub-contractors?) had murdered the President of the United States.

It's no joke, Ben, it's a serious problem. Tell Paul Rigby the bad news. How Putin’s Russia embraced fascism while preaching anti-fascism - Atlantic Council As for Trump's proto-fascist MAGA cult... Trump and the Republican party exemplify these five elements of fascism | Robert Reich | The Guardian Report: Trump keeps Hitler book at bedside - UPI Archives

Robert, Larry, David, et.al., Isn't it fair to say that, ultimately, Prouty proved to be a rare "inside" critic of the CIA-- viewing Dulles & Co. as a rogue black ops organization operating beyond the purview-- and, at times, in opposition to-- the policies of the U.S. President and Congress? And he was, certainly, in a position to understand that important problem. His involvement in the CIA's Trujillo op underscores his explicit opinion that it would not have been difficult for the CIA's assassination ops experts (including external sub-contractors) to re-direct their efforts toward Dallas.

Paul, Based on my reading of The Secret Team, Prouty always worked FOR the USAF (and Army prior to 1947) as a (later) liaison to the CIA. In fact, he never signed a CIA non-disclosure agreement, insisting to Dulles that he had a higher level military clearance. If I'm not mistaken, Prouty wasn't involved in planning CIA black ops around the world, including Lansdale's CIA ops at Saigon Station. His job was to supply transportation and military supplies for Dulles' CIA ops. It sounds like Robert Montenegro has a rare 1973 edition of The Secret Team-- which was confiscated and destroyed (?) by the CIA. I have only read a 2011 Kindle edition.

Larry Schnapf may have already addressed this question, but is there any way for the public to obtain a judicial ruling invalidating Biden's illegal June 30th executive order? It seems quite clear, from this article, that Biden's order violates the letter of the law.

Agreed, Leslie. But, on the flip side, no one else in the mainstream U.S. media has ever been willing to tell the truth about the JFK assassination-- even giving a Fox platform to James DiEugenio and Lawrence Schnapf. I think Fletcher Prouty faced a similar problem years ago. As he said about the Liberty Lobby, he was, "a writer in search of a platform," which was unavailable in the Mockingbird mainstream media. It's the same reason that some accurate critics of the U.S. military industrial complex could only find a platform at Russia Today. (I used to read Russia Today just to get perspectives censored by the Mockingbird M$M. Of course, some of it was Kremlin bs, but some of it was true.)

Ahmaud Arbery tried jogging in a small town. He was murdered by two rednecks.

Here's the 2004 NYT mea culpa, Paul. FROM THE EDITORS; The Times and Iraq - The New York Times (nytimes.com) But, as Glenn Greenwald and the Intercept pointed out 11 years later, the NYT continued to crank out military industrial propaganda about our Middle East war ops for years after the 2003 Iraq invasion. The Spirit of Judy Miller Is Alive and Well at the NYT, and It Does Great Damage - The Intercept

Paul, Thanks for sharing your perspective from Planet Rigby. Not sure what solar system you're posting from, but it's, obviously, way out there. And speaking of blobs, here's an old Bacharach tune to go with your Blob article. The year was 1958. Beware of the Blob!!! 😲

Paul, My point is that, in some instances, we need to speak the truth, even if some people are offended by it. In my experience, the best approach to helping delusional people is to be scrupulously honest. The case of Ron Johnson is a good example. Should we, out of politeness, refrain from criticizing a man like Ron Johnson who actively participated in Trump's false Elector scam in 2020, and then refused to endorse Biden's election? I'm reminded of the old quote, inaccurately attributed to Edmund Burke, that, "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

Interesting stuff, Robert. I first learned about Operation Gladio from a lecture by the Swiss historian, Daniele Ganser, a few years ago. For some reason, I thought Gladio was being run by NATO and/or the CIA, but it sounds like Italian Military Intelligence was playing a major role. If I recall correctly, the Gladio guys were conducting false flag terrorism ops in Europe after WWII, to discredit European communists.

Get a clue, Mathew. Tucker's advocacy for JFKA truth is an admirable anomaly. It doesn't mitigate the fact that he deliberately lied about Trump's Stop the Steal scam, and tried to blame the "Deep State" for Trump's J6 attack on Congress. As for Tucker Carlson's glowing coverage of the fascist, Viktor Orban-- it's a well known fact. In other breaking news, Tucker's favorite Russian dictator has promoted right wing, fascist movements elsewhere in the G-7-- including, of course, the United States. (I'm assuming that you are aware of Putin's openly expressed contempt for liberal democracy.)

For months the right wing has been screaming about Hunter Biden’s laptop, Marjorie Taylor Greene even showed private photos of Hunter Biden. Now it appears that the whole thing may have been engineered by Russia. - Aired on 07/20/2023.

Paul, C'mon, man. You can't "both sides" these issues with a sociopathic, white supremacist Trump/GOP party that is trying to subvert American democracy-- suppressing voting rights, denying election results, appointing slates of false Electors, and even denying that Trump and his Willard Hotel goon squad orchestrated a violent attack on the U.S. Congress. On the contrary, people of conscience need to stand up and tell the truth about the GOP under Donald Trump's "leadership." RoJo was one of the Trump/GOP clowns who approached Pence on J6 about recognizing a slate of false Electors from Wisconsin. When dealing with sociopaths like Trump and RoJo, both siderism is toxic, and, certainly, intellectually dishonest-- however well-intentioned.

Robert, Your posts about these CIA European associates/assets are quite educational. I have read about some of that history in Stephen Kinzer's books about the Dulles brothers (Brothers) and Sidney Gottlieb's MK Ultra ops, (Poisoner-in-Chief) in addition to David Talbot's, The Devil's Chessboard. As I recall, Allen Dulles protected a number of Nazis from the Nuremburg trials, and put them to work for the CIA. My questions for you have to do with trying to understand how Nazis like Skorzeny fit into the larger picture of Allen Dulles's international CIA black ops, including the JFK assassination (and the JMWave Cubans who, apparently, participated in that Dallas op.)

David, I had the impression that our U.S. Vietnam ops from 1954 to 1964 were largely being run by the CIA. Prouty describes a lot of those details in his book on JFK and Vietnam. He was providing transportation and other USAF services to Lansdale and the CIA people at Saigon Station. As examples, Prouty specifically mentions his role in transporting Vietnamese Catholics from North Vietnam to the South, in an op to shore up the artificial Diem regime. He also mentions Lansdale's order for Prouty to ship Diem a fancy desk, and a plaque describing Diem as "The Father of His Country."