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April 3, 2023
Song's been in my head since Michael Avenatti had a law license.
IOW: a long time.
Lena Horne! What a voice.
April 3, 2023
LAPD 1968
In the case of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination…
https://what-when-how.com/conspiracy-theories-in-american-history/kennedy-robert-f-assassination-of/
April 3, 2023
by Gregory Stanton
JustSecurity.org, September 9, 2020
Excerpt...
QAnon’s conspiracy theory is a rebranded version of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
QAnon purveys the fantasy that a secret Satan-worshiping cabal is taking over the world. Its members kidnap white children, keep them in secret prisons run by pedophiles, slaughter, and eat them to gain power from the essence in their blood. The cabal held the American Presidency under the Clintons and Obama, nearly took power again in 2016, and lurks in a “Deep State” financed by Jews, including George Soros, and in Jews who control the media. They want to disarm citizens and defund the police. They promote abortion, transgender rights, and homosexuality. They want open borders so brown illegal aliens can invade America and mongrelize the white race.
QAnon true believers think Donald Trump will rescue America from this Satanic cabal. At the time of “The Storm,” supporters of the cabal will be rounded up and executed.
The QAnon conspiracy theory has now spread to neo-Nazis in Germany, where over 200,000 German QAnon accounts infest the internet. A faction known as “Reichsbürger,” or citizens of the Reich, orchestrated a brief storming of Parliament on Aug. 29.
Many people are perplexed at how any rational person could fall for such an irrational conspiracy theory. But modern social science shows that people in groups don’t always think rationally. They respond to fear and terror. They blame their misfortunes on scapegoats. They support narcissistic demagogues they hope will rescue them.
Continues...
https://www.justsecurity.org/72339/qanon-is-a-nazi-cult-rebranded/
Sad, elevating fascism to respectability through TV journalism.
QAnon is a Nazi Cult, Rebrandedby Gregory Stanton
JustSecurity.org, September 9, 2020
Excerpt...
QAnon’s conspiracy theory is a rebranded version of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
QAnon purveys the fantasy that a secret Satan-worshiping cabal is taking over the world. Its members kidnap white children, keep them in secret prisons run by pedophiles, slaughter, and eat them to gain power from the essence in their blood. The cabal held the American Presidency under the Clintons and Obama, nearly took power again in 2016, and lurks in a “Deep State” financed by Jews, including George Soros, and in Jews who control the media. They want to disarm citizens and defund the police. They promote abortion, transgender rights, and homosexuality. They want open borders so brown illegal aliens can invade America and mongrelize the white race.
QAnon true believers think Donald Trump will rescue America from this Satanic cabal. At the time of “The Storm,” supporters of the cabal will be rounded up and executed.
The QAnon conspiracy theory has now spread to neo-Nazis in Germany, where over 200,000 German QAnon accounts infest the internet. A faction known as “Reichsbürger,” or citizens of the Reich, orchestrated a brief storming of Parliament on Aug. 29.
Many people are perplexed at how any rational person could fall for such an irrational conspiracy theory. But modern social science shows that people in groups don’t always think rationally. They respond to fear and terror. They blame their misfortunes on scapegoats. They support narcissistic demagogues they hope will rescue them.
Continues...
https://www.justsecurity.org/72339/qanon-is-a-nazi-cult-rebranded/
April 1, 2023
‘A Design for Fascism’:
President Reagan’s Attempts to Parse the Politics of the New Deal
https://cafe.com/article/a-design-for-fascism-president-reagans-attempts-to-parse-the-politics-of-the-new-deal/
Fascism: Accept No Substitute.
‘A Design for Fascism’:
President Reagan’s Attempts to Parse the Politics of the New Deal
https://cafe.com/article/a-design-for-fascism-president-reagans-attempts-to-parse-the-politics-of-the-new-deal/
April 1, 2023
By Mark Aarons and John Loftus
Richard Nixon’s political career began in 1945, when as a navy officer he was assigned to review some captured Nazi documents. Allen Dulles told Nixon to keep quiet about what he had seen and, in return, arranged to finance the young man’s first congressional campaign.
The documents that Dulles was eager to cover up concerned Karl Blessing, the former Reichsbank officer and then head of the Nazi oil cartel called Kontinentale 01 AG, or “Konti.” Konti was in partnership with Allen and John Foster Dulles’ principal Nazi client, I.G. Farben, the infamous chemical/weapons producer. Both companies had despicable records regarding their complicity with the Na- zis and their ill treatment of Jews during the Holocaust.
Dulles was also cove also covering up for Blessing in order to protect continued control of German oil interests in the Middle East. Blessing’s Konti was the Nazi link to King Ibn Saud [whose family was empowered to rule the Arabian peninsula thanks to Nazi collaborators within British and U.S. intelli- gence] and Aramco (the Arab-American Oil Co.). If Blessing went down, he could have taken a lot of people with him, including Allen Dulles.
The Dulles brothers took Nixon under their wing and escorted him on a tour of fascist, “freedom fighter” op- erations in Germany.
Continues…
http://coat.ncf.ca/our_magazine/links/54/54_35.pdf
Spiggy Agnew “worked” in Saudi Arabia after uh leaving office,
Destined for Greatness
The Nixon-Bush Nazi ConnectionBy Mark Aarons and John Loftus
Richard Nixon’s political career began in 1945, when as a navy officer he was assigned to review some captured Nazi documents. Allen Dulles told Nixon to keep quiet about what he had seen and, in return, arranged to finance the young man’s first congressional campaign.
The documents that Dulles was eager to cover up concerned Karl Blessing, the former Reichsbank officer and then head of the Nazi oil cartel called Kontinentale 01 AG, or “Konti.” Konti was in partnership with Allen and John Foster Dulles’ principal Nazi client, I.G. Farben, the infamous chemical/weapons producer. Both companies had despicable records regarding their complicity with the Na- zis and their ill treatment of Jews during the Holocaust.
Dulles was also cove also covering up for Blessing in order to protect continued control of German oil interests in the Middle East. Blessing’s Konti was the Nazi link to King Ibn Saud [whose family was empowered to rule the Arabian peninsula thanks to Nazi collaborators within British and U.S. intelli- gence] and Aramco (the Arab-American Oil Co.). If Blessing went down, he could have taken a lot of people with him, including Allen Dulles.
The Dulles brothers took Nixon under their wing and escorted him on a tour of fascist, “freedom fighter” op- erations in Germany.
Continues…
http://coat.ncf.ca/our_magazine/links/54/54_35.pdf
Spiggy Agnew “worked” in Saudi Arabia after uh leaving office,
March 30, 2023
The Force they worship…
That was 1993…a couple of million gun victims ago.
Thank you -- and from Obi Wan...
The Force they worship…
That was 1993…a couple of million gun victims ago.
March 29, 2023
Fox News CEO said correspondent’s fact-check of Trump’s election lies was ‘bad for business,’ new emails show
By Oliver Darcy and Marshall Cohen, CNN
CNN, Wed March 29, 2023
Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott sounded the alarm inside the company about the financial fallout that the right-wing network would suffer if it continued fact-checking then-President Donald Trump’s lies after the 2020 election, according to messages that became public Wednesday.
In one instance, Scott emailed Meade Cooper, executive vice president of prime time programming, and laced into correspondent Eric Shawn for fact-checking Trump.
“This has to stop now,” Scott said in a December 2, 2020, message.
“This is bad for business and there is a lack of understanding what is happening in these shows,” Scott added. “The audience is furious and we are just feeding them material. Bad for business.”
Snip…
In another email written by Scott, zinging host Dana Perino for her “dismissive tone” in November 2020 after the presidential contest, the Fox News chief disclosed that the company had “lost 25k subs from FOX NATION,” its streaming service.
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https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/29/media/fox-news-dominion-messages/index.html
Fox a News Corpse
Fox News CEO: Fact-Checking Trump Election Lies "Bad for Business."
Fox News CEO said correspondent’s fact-check of Trump’s election lies was ‘bad for business,’ new emails show
By Oliver Darcy and Marshall Cohen, CNN
CNN, Wed March 29, 2023
Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott sounded the alarm inside the company about the financial fallout that the right-wing network would suffer if it continued fact-checking then-President Donald Trump’s lies after the 2020 election, according to messages that became public Wednesday.
In one instance, Scott emailed Meade Cooper, executive vice president of prime time programming, and laced into correspondent Eric Shawn for fact-checking Trump.
“This has to stop now,” Scott said in a December 2, 2020, message.
“This is bad for business and there is a lack of understanding what is happening in these shows,” Scott added. “The audience is furious and we are just feeding them material. Bad for business.”
Snip…
In another email written by Scott, zinging host Dana Perino for her “dismissive tone” in November 2020 after the presidential contest, the Fox News chief disclosed that the company had “lost 25k subs from FOX NATION,” its streaming service.
Continues…
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/29/media/fox-news-dominion-messages/index.html
Fox a News Corpse
March 29, 2023
Makes sense, but there's more.
Fat Tony Scalia and now his ventriloquist dummy Clarence Mumbles Thomas have done all they could to put machine guns in the hands of the most vicious dimwits this greedhead system for warmongering has ever produced. Drug-addled turds like the late NAZI gasbag Rush Limbaugh made hatred for one’s fellow Americans normal. It isn’t to bring “freedom,” but rather to arm a significant section of the civilian population to the teeth. IMFO, they plan on assisting some ultra-conservative NAZI p-resident in the near-future round up the communists, socialists, liberals, progressives, and Democrats when ordered — especially, you know, the woke.
Remember REX-84…
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During the 1987 Iran-Contra hearings, the following exchange took place between Representative Jack Brooks of Texas, Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii, and Brendan Sullivan, attorney for Colonel Oliver North, during North's testimony before Congress:
REPRESENTATIVE BROOKS: Colonel North, in your work at the NSC, were you not assigned, at one time, to work on plans for continuity of government in the event of a major disaster?
BRENDAN SULLIVAN: Mister Chairman?
SENATOR INOUYE: I believe that question touches upon a highly sensitive and classified area so I request that you not touch on that.
REPRESENTATIVE BROOKS: I was particularly concerned, Mister Chairman, because I read in Miami papers, and several others, that there had been a plan developed by that same agency, a contingency plan in the event of emergency, that would suspend the American constitution. And I was deeply concerned about it and wondered if that was the area in which he had worked. I believe that it was and I wanted to get his confirmation.
SENATOR INOUYE: May I most respectfully request that this matter not be touched upon at this stage. If we wish to get into this, I'm certain arrangements can be made for an executive session.
SOURCEs:
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Moyers/Democracy_TSG.html
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2012/12/06/brks-d06.html
March 28, 2023
‘I Have the Right to Take Stuff’:
Trump Assures Hannity He’d Take Government Documents After Host Tells Him He Wouldn’t
Story by Michael Luciano
Mediaite • Yesterday 9:54 PM
Snip…
“I’ve known you for decades,” Hannity said to Trump during an interview on Monday night on Fox News. “I can’t imagine you ever saying, ‘Bring me some of the boxes that we brought back from the White House. I’d like to look at them.’ Did you ever do that?”
“I would have the right to do that,” Trump responded. “There’s nothing wrong with it.”
“But I know you,” Hannity said. “I don’t think you would do it.”
Trump replied by disabusing Hannity of the idea he wouldn’t do that by telling him, yes, he would.
“I don’t have a lot of time, but I would have the right to do that,” he said. “I would do that.”
“All right, let me move on,” Hannity said, trying to steer Trump away from the topic.
Continues…
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/i-have-the-right-to-take-stuff-trump-assures-hannity-he-d-take-government-documents-after-host-tells-him-he-wouldn-t/ar-AA199xhH
"I Have the Right to Take Stuff."
‘I Have the Right to Take Stuff’:
Trump Assures Hannity He’d Take Government Documents After Host Tells Him He Wouldn’t
Story by Michael Luciano
Mediaite • Yesterday 9:54 PM
Snip…
“I’ve known you for decades,” Hannity said to Trump during an interview on Monday night on Fox News. “I can’t imagine you ever saying, ‘Bring me some of the boxes that we brought back from the White House. I’d like to look at them.’ Did you ever do that?”
“I would have the right to do that,” Trump responded. “There’s nothing wrong with it.”
“But I know you,” Hannity said. “I don’t think you would do it.”
Trump replied by disabusing Hannity of the idea he wouldn’t do that by telling him, yes, he would.
“I don’t have a lot of time, but I would have the right to do that,” he said. “I would do that.”
“All right, let me move on,” Hannity said, trying to steer Trump away from the topic.
Continues…
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/i-have-the-right-to-take-stuff-trump-assures-hannity-he-d-take-government-documents-after-host-tells-him-he-wouldn-t/ar-AA199xhH
March 26, 2023
A SHORT HISTORY OF EVERYONE WHO CONFIRMED REAGAN’S OCTOBER SURPRISE BEFORE THE NEW YORK TIMES
A lot of people beyond Ben Barnes have said that Reagan’s 1980 election campaign conspired to keep American hostages in Iran.
by Jon Schwarz
The Intercept, March 24 2023
ON SATURDAY, THE New York Times published a blockbuster story that said two prominent Texas Republicans flew across the Mideast in the summer of 1980 for secret meetings with regional leaders to urge them to tell Iran to keep the U.S. hostages in Tehran until after the election that pitted GOP candidate Ronald Reagan against then-President Jimmy Carter.
The Times reported that Ben Barnes, a key figure in Texas politics, said he made the trip with former Texas Gov. John Connally, a major supporter of Reagan’s campaign, and that when they returned home, Connally met in an airport lounge with William Casey, who’d been a top U.S. spy during World War II and was then Reagan’s campaign manager. Connally and Casey discussed the trip, according to Barnes, who The Times quoted as saying, “History needs to know that this happened.” After Reagan beat Carter in a landslide, Reagan appointed Casey head of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Snip…
This memo from Beach and the mysterious cable from the Madrid embassy were somehow never turned over to the House investigation. Lee Hamilton, an Indiana Democrat who’d led the inquiry, wrote a letter to then-Secretary of State John Kerry in 2016 asking for the cable. He did not receive it. For Kai Bird’s book “The Outlier,” which includes a chapter of additional evidence about an October Surprise, Bird submitted a Freedom of Information Act request for the cable. The State Department likewise has not produced it for Bird — even after he filed a lawsuit in 2019 — informing him that they can’t find it.
At this point, even James Baker, first Reagan’s chief of staff and later his treasury secretary (and then Bush’s secretary of state), won’t say Casey wasn’t in Madrid. Asked about it by one-time Carter staffer Stuart Eizenstat, he responded: “Would I be surprised if Casey did it? There is nothing about Casey that would surprise me. He is a piece of work.”
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https://theintercept.com/2023/03/24/october-surprise-ben-barnes/
LOOT.
https://archive.org/details/LiesOfOurTimesCollection/Aug1990-V1-N8/
A short history of everyone who confirmed October Surprise in NYT
And yet, for some reason even in their own reportage, The New York Times doesn’t like to mention it.A SHORT HISTORY OF EVERYONE WHO CONFIRMED REAGAN’S OCTOBER SURPRISE BEFORE THE NEW YORK TIMES
A lot of people beyond Ben Barnes have said that Reagan’s 1980 election campaign conspired to keep American hostages in Iran.
by Jon Schwarz
The Intercept, March 24 2023
ON SATURDAY, THE New York Times published a blockbuster story that said two prominent Texas Republicans flew across the Mideast in the summer of 1980 for secret meetings with regional leaders to urge them to tell Iran to keep the U.S. hostages in Tehran until after the election that pitted GOP candidate Ronald Reagan against then-President Jimmy Carter.
The Times reported that Ben Barnes, a key figure in Texas politics, said he made the trip with former Texas Gov. John Connally, a major supporter of Reagan’s campaign, and that when they returned home, Connally met in an airport lounge with William Casey, who’d been a top U.S. spy during World War II and was then Reagan’s campaign manager. Connally and Casey discussed the trip, according to Barnes, who The Times quoted as saying, “History needs to know that this happened.” After Reagan beat Carter in a landslide, Reagan appointed Casey head of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Snip…
This memo from Beach and the mysterious cable from the Madrid embassy were somehow never turned over to the House investigation. Lee Hamilton, an Indiana Democrat who’d led the inquiry, wrote a letter to then-Secretary of State John Kerry in 2016 asking for the cable. He did not receive it. For Kai Bird’s book “The Outlier,” which includes a chapter of additional evidence about an October Surprise, Bird submitted a Freedom of Information Act request for the cable. The State Department likewise has not produced it for Bird — even after he filed a lawsuit in 2019 — informing him that they can’t find it.
At this point, even James Baker, first Reagan’s chief of staff and later his treasury secretary (and then Bush’s secretary of state), won’t say Casey wasn’t in Madrid. Asked about it by one-time Carter staffer Stuart Eizenstat, he responded: “Would I be surprised if Casey did it? There is nothing about Casey that would surprise me. He is a piece of work.”
Continues…
https://theintercept.com/2023/03/24/october-surprise-ben-barnes/
LOOT.
https://archive.org/details/LiesOfOurTimesCollection/Aug1990-V1-N8/
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