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Kid Berwyn's Journal10 Facts about Lee Oswald that make 70% of Americans Wonder...
The great DUer KurtNYC posted in 2013:1. No Motive. Oswald was by all accounts a devoted and loving father who had a family and a long comfortable life ahead of him. There was no simmering hatred for Kennedy and apparently no delusions of grandeur or aspiration to become famous for killing JFK. No wish to impress Jodi Foster or anything similar. Nothing.
2. Oswald never confessed or took credit. Just the opposite, he asked for legal representation and never confessed to anything. Eventually Oswald said he was "a patsy." They were still trying to get a confession from him after he was shot by Ruby.
3. Oswald was a loyal Marine who given a very high security clearance and worked on the most secretive military projects of the day -- U2 spy flights over the USSR and radar operations.
4. Oswald got a hardship discharge from the USMC, allegedly to care for his mother, but then he went to the USSR instead. His mother was in good health and lived until 1981, age 74.
5. The USSR didn't believe Oswald's story or motivation for wanting to enter the USSR. They rejected his requests to defect. And then stationed him in a snowy hellhole under government observation for 3 years, until...
6. Oswald was welcomed back to the USA after his defection(?) to the USSR. He said he was "bored" and asked for his passport back and got it.
7. There was no official de-briefing of Oswald after his time the USSR. The government was running a USSR defector program to get people into the USSR, much the way Oswald went in but when Oswald came out there is no record of his being de-briefed despite Oswald being an expert on radar and surveillance.
http://jfkassassination.net/russ/jfkinfo4/jfk12/defector.htm
8. Oswald becomes the solo member of "Fair Play for Cuba" and passes out flyers for the group (of one) in one of the most heavily ANTI-Castro areas of the country, New Orleans. He gets reaction only from anti-Castro people. The only address ever given for FPFC was 544 Camp Street -- a building shared with Guy Bannister among a cluster of agency related offices and a garage used by the FBI and other alphabet entities.
9. Oswald didn't have a car and didn't drive. Oswald couldn't even go to the grocery or work without help from someone else.
10. Jack Ruby has no clear motivation to shoot Oswald. Ruby leaves a lucrative business to do so and dies in prison after saying:
“Everything pertaining to what's happening has never come to the surface. The world will never know the true facts of what occurred, my motives. The people who had so much to gain, and had such an ulterior motive for putting me in the position I'm in, will never let the true facts come above board to the world.”
She says Biden is too old and you get angry at me...
…for pointing out her husband’s age.
She’s 20 years his Junior, hence the gold digger reference.
Likely to face Martial Law, unless that's what all the AR-15s are for.
When Rep. Jack Brooks (D-TX) asked Ollie North about deputizing the Michigan Militia and so on to round up “South American immigrant protesters,” the proceedings moved into secret session. Looks like Mr. Brooks was spot-on and Ollie would become president of the NRA. We were warned, but, hey! It sounded too kooky to be true, I heard.
Neo-fascism and the religious right
John M. Swomley
The Humanist, January-February 1995
After the collapse of the Soviet Union's communist system, most Americans breathed a sigh of relief that the danger of totalitarianism had largely passed. There was a similar relief when fascism of both the German and Italian varieties was defeated during World War II.
However, few Americans ever examined the roots of fascism or its implications as they did communism. The reason is that communism by its very existence was an alternative to capitalism, and the business and news interests that determine the nature of American politics and economics have steadily proclaimed the danger and disadvantages of communism.
While there is no immediate danger of a fascist movement taking control of the United States, it is well to examine the characteristics of European fascism and note any parallels in the United States.
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There is an important chapter on Oliver North in Out of Control, written by Leslie Cockburn with the assistance of other CBS personnel. That chapter discusses North's career from altar boy at Sacred Heart Church to the present, including his psychiatric treatment in 1974 after roaming around naked in a Virginia suburb brandishing a 45-caliber pistol, and his plan for suspension of the Constituion and the imposition of martial law. During the war in Vietnam, he returned to the United States to appear on William Buckley's TV show "Firing Line" to protest press coverage of the bloody My Lai massacre.
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Busted old link: http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1374/is_n1_v55/ai_16399959
Waybac Internet archive:
https://web.archive.org/web/20091003002450/http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1374/is_n1_v55/ai_16399959
Traitors, who need traitors, are the uckyest traitors in the world.
Their love explains why Republicans don’t need the FBI counterintelligence team specializing in Russia in a way so simple a jury of their peers can understand.
Trump’s Top Targets in the Russia Probe Are Experts in Organized Crime
Some of President Trump’s favorite targets in the Russia probe have spent their careers in the Justice Department and the FBI investigating organized crime and money laundering, particularly as they pertain to Russia.
NATASHA BERTRAND
The Atlantic, AUG 30, 2018
Bruce Ohr. Lisa Page. Andrew Weissmann. Andrew McCabe. President Donald Trump has relentlessly attacked these FBI and Justice Department officials as dishonest “Democrats” engaged in a partisan “witch hunt” led by the special counsel determined to tie his campaign to Russia. But Trump’s attacks have also served to highlight another thread among these officials and others who have investigated his campaign: their extensive experience in probing money laundering and organized crime, particularly as they pertain to Russia.
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Trump’s latest obsession is with Bruce Ohr, a career Justice Department official who spent years investigating Russian organized crime and corruption—an expertise he shared with another Trump target named Christopher Steele, the former British intelligence operative who provided valuable intelligence on Russia to the State Department and the FBI’s Eurasian Organized Crime Task Force prior to authoring the Trump-Russia dossier in 2016. Ohr and Steele met in 2007, according to The New York Times, and stayed in touch as a result of their shared interests and mutual respect. Trump has tweeted about Ohr nearly a dozen times this month alone, complaining about his relationship with Steele and Ohr’s wife’s past work for Fusion GPS—the opposition-research firm that hired Steele in 2016 to research Trump’s Russia ties.
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Trump’s fixation with seeing Ohr ousted from the Justice Department could be perceived as yet another attempt to undermine the credibility of the people who have investigated him. It could also be interpreted as an attack on someone with deep knowledge of the shady characters Trump and his cohort have been linked to, including Semion Mogilevich, the Russian mob boss, and Oleg Deripaska, a Russian aluminum magnate close to Putin who did business with Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort. (Incidentally, another Manafort associate, the Ukrainian billionaire Dmitry Firtash, admitted that he only managed to be in business because Mogilevich allowed him to be, according to a leaked 2008 State Department cable.) Ohr was involved in banning Deripaska from the U.S. in 2006, due to his alleged ties to organized crime and fear that he would try to launder money into American real estate. Nearly a decade later, Ohr and the FBI sought Deripaska’s help in taking down overseas criminal syndicates.
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The president has denied having any business ties to Russia, and his dream of building a Trump Tower Moscow never materialized. But his links to Russian oligarchs and mobsters from the former Soviet Union have been documented: Millions of dollars from the former Soviet Union flowed into Trump’s developments and casinos throughout the 1990s, as the journalist Craig Unger has chronicled, as oligarchs looked for a place to hide their money in the West. The Trump Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, was once known as a hot spot for Brooklyn mobsters associated with the Russian Mafia, and quickly became the “favorite East Coast destination” of the top Russian mob boss Vyacheslav Ivankov, according to the 2000 book Red Mafiya: How the Russian Mob Has Invaded America. It was also repeatedly cited by the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network for having inadequate money-laundering controls.
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https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/08/trumps-top-targets-in-the-russia-probe-are-experts-in-organized-crime/569056/
The truth is Trump is beholden to Putin, even helping derail the career FBI investigators. I remember when patriotic Americans called that treason.
Americans who support Trump carry Putin.
The polls indicating he leads President Biden in a number of key states demonstrates the power of propaganda and the corrupt nature of America’s profit-driven news media. Otherwise, most Americans would know Trump hosted Russia’s top spies and did all he could to weaken NATO.
The photo of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and dip above was taken by TASS, the official Russian news agency. The US media were not informed about the 2017 visit. We learned about it because the Unhinged Moron himself spread the pic proudly on social media.
How many people do you know who’ve seen that picture or the one below, taken on an earlier date in the Oval Office?
“I just fired the head of the FBI. He was crazy, a real nut job," Trump said, according to The Times. "I faced great pressure because of Russia. That's taken off.”
"I'm not under investigation," he added.
Sources:
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/05/10/527755991/trump-meets-with-russias-lavrov-at-the-white-house-today
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-nut-job-james-comey-russia-2017-5
Trump Davidians
A cult to reestablish the Old South, the ones who assassinated Abraham Lincoln.
Steve Bannon, per Jonathan Karl
WHAT THE 2024 ELECTION IS REALLY ABOUT FOR TRUMP SUPPORTERS
He promised them: “I am your retribution.”
By Jonathan D. Karl
The Atlantic, November 2, 2023
Excerpt…
Waco became a rallying cry for right‐wing activists who believed that Washington, D.C., was out to get them. “Citizens’ militias” stockpiled arms and ammunition as well as food and survival gear. Some played weekend war games in vacant parking lots, on farmland, or in remote woodlands. “The ranks of the militias are made up of factory workers, veterans, computer programmers, farmers, housewives, small‐business owners,” I wrote in the book’s introduction. “The most shocking thing about these ‘paramilitary extremists’ is how normal they are. They are your neighbors. But in another sense, many members of America’s new militias live in a parallel universe, where civil war is already being waged by tyrants within the federal government.”
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“[Trump’s] making a statement, I believe, by coming to these stomping grounds where the government, the FBI, laid siege on this community just like they laid siege on Mar‐a‐Lago and went in and took his stuff,” Charles Pace, a Branch Davidian pastor who knew Koresh but left the compound several years before the deadly fire, told The Texas Tribune. “He’s not coming right out and saying, ‘Well, I’m doing it because I want you to know what happened there was wrong.’ But he implies it.”
Shortly after the rally was announced, I asked Steve Bannon, who had served as the CEO of Trump’s 2016 campaign and had once again emerged as one of Trump’s most important advisers, why the former president would go to Waco for his big campaign reboot. He wasn’t coy.
“We’re the Trump Davidians,” he told me with a laugh.
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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/11/what-2024-election-really-about-trump-supporters/675869/
ND GOP Chief Resigns After Suggesting Black People Belong In Wakanda
Black Information Network
October 31, 2023
The executive director of the North Dakota Republican Party has resigned after a series of controversial social media posts surfaced.
“I believe the best path forward for the NDGOP is for me to take a different path,” Dave Roetman said in a statement announcing his resignation, per Raw Story. “I wish them all the best.”
The resignation came less than two weeks after Roetman was appointed to the position. According to a report by the Forum of Fargo-Moorhead, Roetman previously made “dozens and dozens of ignorant social media posts” about Black people and women.
Roetman’s posts allegedly included jokes about women making sandwiches and a suggestion that Black people should leave America and move to Wakanda. When the report dropped, Roetman refused to apologize, telling the outlet “I am a man who stands by his words.”
SOURCE:
https://michiganchronicle.com/2023/10/31/gop-chief-resigns-after-suggesting-black-people-belong-in-wakanda/?utm_source=newsshowcase&utm_medium=gnews&utm_campaign=CDAqEAgAKgcICjDbr8kLMJvL4AMwvL_kAQ&utm_content=rundown
Not when they do it.
"This is treason." -- President Lyndon B. JohnsonThree days before the 1968 presidential election, President Johnson contacted Senate Minority Leader Everett M. Dirksen [R–Illinois] to inform him that the White House had received hard evidence from the Federal Bureau of Investigation that the campaign of Republican presidential candidate Richard M. “Dick” Nixon was interfering with Johnson’s efforts to start peace talks to end the Vietnam War. In this call, Johnson referred to contacts between Nixon’s campaign and South Vietnamese president Nguyễn Văn Thiệu that urged Thiệu to thwart any such negotiations.
https://lbjtapes.org/conversation/treason
When the Cabinet had to pledge allegiance to the unhinged moron.
Bush and Trump Tax Cuts Destroyed US Tax Structure
One of the nice things the rich get by a dysfunctional and disrupted Congress is richer.
$10 Trillion in Added US Debt Since 2001 Shows 'Bush and Trump Tax Cuts Broke Our Modern Tax Structure'
"In their blind loyalty to their mega-donors, Republicans' fixation on giant tax cuts for billionaires has created a revenue problem that is driving up our national debt," said Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse in response to new Treasury Department figures.
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"The point I want to make again and again and again is that, relative to the last time CBO was projecting stable debt/GDP, spending is down, not up," Kogan said in a tweet Friday night. "It's lower revenue that's 100% responsible for the change in debt projections. If you take away nothing else, leave with this point."
SOURCE: John Queally @ https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-bush-tax-cuts-fuel-growing-deficits
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