The inevitable end result of our last 56 years

[W. Niederhut]

9 minutes ago, Sandy Larsen said:

W.,

 I think you just didn't follow the instructions. You're not supposed to post anything on the Water Coolers thread. You're supposed to click the link that says

CLICK TO SELECT YOUR COOLER!

which will take you to the Water Coolers forum. You will then see three water coolers to choose from.

 

Got it, Sandy.  Clever.

You must be an engineer.  😉

[Leslie Sharp]

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In the early 1950s, [Roy] Cohn [future US president Donald Trump’s first political guru] had caught the eye of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover who soon recommended the twenty-four-year-old attorney to his personal friend, Joe McCarthy, to fill the role of his chief counsel. For assistant counsel, McCarthy fulfilled another request, that of his good friend Joseph P. Kennedy who was looking for a spot for his young and restless son, Robert F. Kennedy. McCarthy designated RFK as assistant counsel to his committee, working alongside Hoover’s professional protégé, Roy Cohn . . . 

 

A Far-Right Ecosystem Spanning Decades

This analysis began with the question: what might the America First Committee and a figure named Roy Cohn have in common, and how might that commonality relate to contemporary politics? In addition to pointing me in the direction of the history behind Roy Cohn’s protégé Donald Trump’s own version of America First, Albarelli’s thinking before he passed was also influenced by our research into the history of rabid anti-communist Senator Joe McCarthy and the men surrounding him, including Robert Morris of the John Birch Society who served as attorney to one of our prime suspects, General Edwin A. Walker. Morris worked alongside Senator McCarthy’s legal counsel, Roy Marcus Cohn. 

 

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Nearly seven months before JFK’s assassination, on April 8, 1963, The Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s New York Office sent a brief memorandum to FBI director Hoover marked “Attention: Foreign Liaison Unit.” The memo’s subject was: ALDERSONS, 5803 Burlinghall, Houston, Texas. [IS-FRANCE.]” The memorandum, still partially redacted to date, opens with the words: “For the information of the Bureau and Houston, on 4/3/63, CSNY [Confidential Source New York, name redacted] reliable [several lines redacted].” The memo’s next and final section reads: “Houston is requested to identify the ALDERSONS, and when this information is forthcoming, the Bureau is requested to advise what, if any, information may be furnished to this source.” The memorandum is stamped in bold letters: “EXP. PROC” [Expedited Processing].

                  

About a month later, on May 3, 1963, the FBI office in Houston, Texas sent a memorandum to FBI director J. Edgar Hoover concerning Lawrence Mason Alderson and what was referred to as a “New York letter to the Bureau dated April 8, 1963captioned ‘Alderson, 5803 Burlinghall, Houston, Texas, IS-France.’” (The memorandum was also marked “ATTENTION: FOREIGN LIAISON.”) . . .

 

On May 20, 1963, the FBI’s Special Agent in Charge sent a memorandum to director Hoover, subject: Lawrence Mason Alderson, but also bearing Jean Rene Souetre’s CIA assigned 201 file number: 105-120510. The memorandum was also marked: “1-Mossburg,” meaning a copy went to the FBI’s E. Hyatt Mossburg, a Special Agent in the Washington, D.C. headquarters of the FBI. Copies also went to the Bureau’s Foreign Liaison Unit and its Houston office.

                  A typed “NOTE” on the document made at least two references to the Confidential Source in New York [CSNY] but five lines were redacted obscuring the paragraph.

                  The memorandum reads: “CSNY [name redacted] should be advised that the Aldersons, referred to in New York letter 4/8/63, may be identical with Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence M. Alderson, who reside at 5803 Burlinghall, Houston, Texas. Dr. Alderson is a dentist in Houston, Texas. He reportedly served in the US Army from 1953–1954. Our files contain no information indicating that Dr. Alderson and his wife have been outside the US or have been engaged in any anti-France activity. [Italics added.]

                  Despite the fact that the memorandum bore the 201-file number for Jean Souetre, it contained no reference to him. 

 

 

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How do we know that these experienced assassins, who emerged from the ranks of La Cagoule to deal directly with Otto Skorzeny, coalesced in 1963 specific to our investigation of events in Dallas? Some of the answers reside in a series of obscure post-assassination letters addressed to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover from a Mr. Paul Gluc, 112 General Leclerc Avenue, Boulogne Billancourt (92) France. According to one of the letters, Mr. Gluc, a self-described benevolent detective, was employed by French automobile manufacturer Régie Renault and lived in a populous suburb five miles from the centre of Paris.

                  A detailed account of this strange and revealing correspondence over a span of nine years, and the subsequent FBI memo traffic that attempted to discredit its significance and impugn the character of the author, is available to the reader in the endnotes to this chapter. For now, the following excerpts serve to not only validate the aforementioned history of assassins directly associated with one another, and by inference with Otto Skorzeny, but they also provide Gluc’s independent confirmation of certain entries in the 1963 datebook of Pierre Lafitte essential to the investigation of the assassination of John Kennedy.

 

Mr. Director, only you can clear OTTO SKORZENY of guilt

of being (an) agent in the Dallas operation with (the) passive

complicity of Allen W. Dulles.

                                                      —Paul Gluc, March 14, 1975

 The 1975 letter was Gluc’s fourth and final correspondence with the FBI. The first letter, dated March 18, 1964, just four months after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and later claimed by the FBI to be either lost or misplaced, was hand-written in English to “Mr. Hoover, director of the FBI.” It reads: 

I understand you are very close to the solution of all the mysteries of President Kennedy’s assassination, but I suspect you are without key information. This information concerns the holders of many of the missing cards, Jean Souetre, as well as Jean Paul Filiol, both known to have been in Dallas on 22 November 1963. . . . Included in this knowledge are Mme. Lamy and M. Litt, all mentioned before, and extremely distasteful individuals. . . . I am anxious to spell this out for you by coming to Washington, D.C.

The letter was signed: “Mr. Gluc.” 

                  

                  . . . With his letter, Gluc has provided us independent corroboration that Filiol, Lamy and Litt were known associates and that they were in Dallas, and as noted, he did so as early as March 1964. We also see, perhaps for the first time outside of cryptic reports that revealed a smattering of facts, that the FBI was made aware of the possibility that known assassin Jean Souetre had been in Dallas. Yes, Gluc could have simply picked up on the obscure rumors about Souetre being expelled from the Dallas-Fort Worth area, but there was no known trail in the public domain of the presence of Filiol, Lamy and or Litt in Dallas that would tie the three to Jean Souetre.

 

Edited March 21, 2023 by Leslie Sharp

[Douglas Caddy]

If you listen to the podcast, you will get the latest info on artificial intelligence. For example, in this interview the expert being interviews states: My best guess is that there are people right now trying to develop A.I. systems that can develop A.I. systems, because there’s people trying to develop A.I. systems that can do every human job.

 

Transcript: Ezra Klein Interviews Kelsey Piper

• March 21, 2023, 11:15 a.m. ET
•  

68 MIN READ

Real conversations. Ideas that matter. So many book recommendations.

Listen to “The Ezra Klein Show”: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocket Casts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, How to Listen

Every Tuesday and Friday, Ezra Klein invites you into a conversation about something that matters, like today’s episode with Kelsey Piper. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

[Leslie Sharp]

Private school choice plan is a contemporary euphemism for segregation, a policy John Kennedy struggled to reverse during his years in government.  Trump administration advanced Betsy de Vos's (lifelong commitment to) school vouchers more than any president of the past century, yet another example of the inevitable end result of the past 60 years. De Vos is the sister of Trump's very own private mercenary contractor, Erik Prince.

 

Inside the rural Texas resistance to the GOP’s private school choice plan'
Classroom battles over racism and LGBTQ inclusion have supercharged the movement for private school choice. Remote public schools like the one in Robert Lee, Texas, could pay the price, opponents warn
Mike HiXenbaugh

Mar 21, NBC News
. . . . Officials in communities like Robert Lee, which has a population of about 1,000, warn these policies will chip away at already razor-thin public school budgets. With only 250 students — about 18 children per grade — even a slight drop in enrollment and funding can force rural schools like Robert Lee to make hard decisions, Hood said.

“We don’t have the same economy of scale as larger districts,” he said, which is one reason he obtained a commercial driver’s license to serve as a substitute bus driver. “If we lose five or 10 students, that’s a teacher salary. But we can’t afford to have one less teacher, so now we’re cutting academic programs, we’re cutting sports, we’re cutting the things that this community relies on.”
https://www.aol.com/news/inside-rural-texas-resistance-gop-211351103.html

Edited March 21, 2023 by Leslie Sharp

[Ron Bulman]

2 hours ago, Leslie Sharp said:

Private school choice plan is a contemporary euphemism for segregation, a policy John Kennedy struggled to reverse during his years in government.  Trump administration advanced Betsy de Vos's (lifelong commitment to) school vouchers more than any president of the past century, yet another example of the inevitable end result of the past 60 years. De Vos is the sister of Trump's very own private mercenary contractor, Erik Prince.

 

Inside the rural Texas resistance to the GOP’s private school choice plan'
Classroom battles over racism and LGBTQ inclusion have supercharged the movement for private school choice. Remote public schools like the one in Robert Lee, Texas, could pay the price, opponents warn
Mike HiXenbaugh

Mar 21, NBC News
. . . . Officials in communities like Robert Lee, which has a population of about 1,000, warn these policies will chip away at already razor-thin public school budgets. With only 250 students — about 18 children per grade — even a slight drop in enrollment and funding can force rural schools like Robert Lee to make hard decisions, Hood said.

“We don’t have the same economy of scale as larger districts,” he said, which is one reason he obtained a commercial driver’s license to serve as a substitute bus driver. “If we lose five or 10 students, that’s a teacher salary. But we can’t afford to have one less teacher, so now we’re cutting academic programs, we’re cutting sports, we’re cutting the things that this community relies on.”
https://www.aol.com/news/inside-rural-texas-resistance-gop-211351103.html

This should upset the six man football world.  It could affect virtually every school in that category, in many more respects than sports.  E.G., Silverton, Turkey-Valley.

[Leslie Sharp]

4 minutes ago, Ron Bulman said:

This should upset the six man football world.  It could affect virtually every school in that category, in many more respects than sports.  E.G., Silverton, Turkey-Valley.

I know, Ron.  Heartbreaking on so many levels.

[Douglas Caddy]

 

[W. Niederhut]

Biden Awards the Boss a National Medal of the Arts

Here's one for Ron Bulman-- one of my favorite Bruce Springsteen numbers.

I've driven through Amarillo a few times over the years, Ron, but I've never visited the Cadillac Ranch.

 

[Douglas Caddy]

 

Are we growing more dumber? Americans’ IQ scores drop in four of five measurements - Study Finds

[W. Niederhut]

Popular AI-generated images of Trump's possible arrest

Edited March 22, 2023 by W. Niederhut

[Douglas Caddy]

1981 & 2005 -Two Interesting Years

Interesting Year 1981 
1. Prince Charles got married. 

2. Liverpool crowned soccer Champions of Europe . 

3. Australia lost the Ashes. 

4. The Pope died. 

Interesting Year 2005 

1. Prince Charles got married. 

2. Liverpool crowned soccer Champions of Europe . 

3. Australia lost the Ashes. 

4. The Pope died. 

Lesson to be learned: 

***The next time Charles gets married, someone should warn the Pope.!!!!

 

[Douglas Caddy]

 

[Douglas Caddy]

[Sandy Larsen]

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