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Reading the news today gives me an overwhelming sense that we are in a downward spiral that cannot be arrested. On top of everything in Mark's post there is another headline stating that our President* is paying African countries to shut down their coal production. What other explanation can there be other than another attempt at destroying "fossil" fuels? I don't even know what to think anymore .
The heights of power have been captured by the globalists and the greens. It follows from that, then, that they will push their interests to the maximum. Namely, one world government and a global economy built on solar panels and unicorn farts. The good news is that more and more people are becoming aware of this as it starts, slowly, to impinge upon their lives.
Uh oh. I'm old enough to have had a smallpox vax. 😨 Back then, smallpox, polio vaxes & tuberculosis tests were all that was required to attend school. We just muddled thru real time versions of measles, mumps, rubella & chicken pox.
I find I can only believe in one conspiracy at a time - two at the very most - without going crazy. The Covid scam? Conspiracy. The Climate scam? Conspiracy. That's me done. Therefore, I believe that JFK was killed by a lone nut. Nearly all the theories put forward that LHO couldn't have done it have been disproven, whether it's his "poor" marksmanship skills, the magic bullet, or there not being enough time to fire off 3 shots.
from JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters, Chapter 1 (you can read this entire chapter asa preview on Amazon):
(TLDR version: Oswald was not a communist, but rather a counterintelligence agent for the CIA; he served his country faithfully and was rewarded by being framed for JFK's murder.)
[...] Now as we begin to trace Oswald’s path, which will converge with Kennedy’s, we can see the emergence of a strangely complementary question: Why was Lee Harvey Oswald so tolerated and supported by the government he betrayed?
On October 31, 1959, Lee Harvey Oswald, who had been discharged two months earlier from the U.S. Marine Corps in California, presented himself at the American Embassy in Moscow to Consul Richard E. Snyder. Oswald said his purpose in coming was to renounce his U.S. citizenship. He handed Snyder a note he had written, in which he requested that his citizenship be revoked and affirmed that “my allegiance is to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.” [...]
The Soviets had reason to think Oswald knew “something of special interest.” From September 1957 to November 1958 Oswald had been a Marine Corps radar operator at Atsugi Air Force Base in Japan. Atsugi, located about thirty-five miles southwest of Tokyo, served as the CIA’s main operational base in the Far East. It was one of two bases from which the CIA’s top-secret U-2 spy planes took off on their flights over the Soviet Union and China. [...]
After Atsugi, Oswald was reassigned as a radar operator to Marine Air Control Squadron No. 9 in Santa Ana, California, which was attached to the larger Marine Air Station in El Toro. Oswald continued to have access to secret information that would have been of interest to a Cold War enemy. [...] Oswald “had the access to [...] the authentication code of entering and exiting the ADIZ [...]. He knew the range of our radar. He knew the range of our radio. And he knew the range of the surrounding units’ radio and radar.”
However, Donovan’s knowledge of Oswald’s connection to the top-secret U-2 was clearly off limits for his Warren Commission questioners. [...] at the end of his testimony, he asked, “Don’t you want to know anything about the U-2?” The lawyer said, “We asked you exactly what we wanted to know from you and we asked you everything we wanted for now and that is all. And if there is anything else we want to ask you, we will.” [...]
On May 1, 1960, six months after Oswald defected to the Soviet Union, a U-2 was shot down by the Soviets for the first time. [...] It reinforces the case that Oswald’s volunteering all the information he had as a Marine radar specialist to the Soviets was an apparently criminal act.
Yet when Oswald returned to the U.S. Embassy in Moscow [...] he was welcomed back by American officials with open arms. Not only did the United States make no move to prosecute him, but the embassy gave him a loan to return to the country he had betrayed. The toleration of Oswald’s apparent treason extended to his later obtaining a new passport overnight. On June 25, 1963, Oswald was miraculously issued a passport in New Orleans twenty-four hours after his application. He identified his destination as the Soviet Union.
[...] Sylvia Meagher concluded: “Decision after decision, the [State] Department removed every obstacle before Oswald—a defector and would-be expatriate, self-declared enemy of his native country, self-proclaimed discloser of classified military information, and later self-appointed propagandist for Fidel Castro—on his path from Minsk to Dallas.”
The process would, of course, be reversed in Dallas. There Oswald would be arrested and killed quickly, before he could say what he knew of the president’s murder. In Dallas whatever light Oswald might cast on the assassination would be switched at once into darkness.
The Warren Commission dealt with the U.S. government’s odd toleration of the apparently treasonous Oswald, first of all, by a selective reading of his history. [...] they neglected to point out that the future defector had a “Crypto” clearance, which was higher than “Top Secret,” and that his work immersed him in information about the CIA’s super-secret U-2 flights. By omitting such facts, the government’s story was able to sidestep questions arising from Oswald’s offer of U-2 information to the Soviet Union, his defection to that Cold War enemy, and his wondrous acceptance back into the good graces of the U.S. government.
According to the Warren Report, Lee Harvey Oswald had been a lone assassin in the making for years, “moved by an overriding hostility to his environment.” [...]
Why was the ex-Marine Lee Harvey Oswald not arrested and charged a year and a half before the assassination when he came back to the United States from the Soviet Union, [...]? Whereas in Dallas Oswald would be arrested and murdered before we knew it [...]. What was the secret of Oswald’s immunity to prosecution for having criminally betrayed the United States at the height of the Cold War? How did this unrepentant enemy of his country merit treatment as a prodigal son, embraced by his government with financial help and preferential passport rulings while he continued to proclaim allegiance to the USSR and Cuba?
A solution to the mystery was suggested by former CIA agent Victor Marchetti [...] In regard to Oswald, Marchetti told author Anthony Summers of a CIA-connected Naval intelligence program in 1959, the same year Oswald defected to the USSR: “At the time, in 1959, the United States was having real difficulty in acquiring information out of the Soviet Union; the technical systems had, of course, not developed to the point that they are at today, and we were resorting to all sorts of activities. One of these activities was an ONI [Office of Naval Intelligence] program which involved three dozen, maybe forty, young men who were made to appear disenchanted, poor American youths who had become turned off and wanted to see what communism was all about. Some of these people lasted only a few weeks. They were sent into the Soviet Union, or into eastern Europe, with the specific intention the Soviets would pick them up and ‘double’ them if they suspected them of being U.S. agents, or recruit them as KGB agents. They were trained at various naval installations both here and abroad, but the operation was being run out of Nag’s Head, North Carolina.”
The counterintelligence program described by Marchetti dovetails with the Oswald story. It provides an explanation for the U.S. government’s indulgence of his behavior. That Oswald was in fact a participant in such a program was the belief of James Botelho, his former roommate in Santa Ana. Botelho [...]: “If he was [a Marxist] I would have taken violent action against him and so would many of the other Marines in the unit.”
Judge Botelho said Oswald’s “defection” was nothing but a U.S. intelligence ploy: “I knew Oswald was not a Communist and was, in fact, anti-Soviet. Then, when no real investigation occurred at the base [after Oswald’s presence in the Soviet Union was made public], I was sure that Oswald was on an intelligence assignment in Russia [...] Oswald, it was said, was the only Marine ever to defect from his country to another country, a Communist country, during peacetime. That was a major event. When the Marine Corps and American intelligence decided not to probe the reasons for the ‘defection,’ I knew then what I know now: Oswald was on an assignment in Russia for American intelligence.”
Not so sure about the MB theory being a lie. The two seats - JFK's and Connoly's - weren't directly aligned. Connoly's was higher and to the right. That would make the bullet trajectory un-magic and normal.
More and more, with each passing day, Putin’s description of the US as an empire of lies seems both apt as well as accurate.
I’m appalled, embarrassed and saddened by everything that has been revealed of late.
I would have to agree with the commenter
who thinks that we are in a downward spiral without remedy.
Harder and harder to remain positive. The “slough of despond” beckons.
Reading the news today gives me an overwhelming sense that we are in a downward spiral that cannot be arrested. On top of everything in Mark's post there is another headline stating that our President* is paying African countries to shut down their coal production. What other explanation can there be other than another attempt at destroying "fossil" fuels? I don't even know what to think anymore .
The heights of power have been captured by the globalists and the greens. It follows from that, then, that they will push their interests to the maximum. Namely, one world government and a global economy built on solar panels and unicorn farts. The good news is that more and more people are becoming aware of this as it starts, slowly, to impinge upon their lives.
I never watched X-Files, but I think I maybe should have:
https://twitter.com/KimDotcom/status/1603512101485805569
Thanks, RNO. I think we'll check it out after we're done with current series...
Uh oh. I'm old enough to have had a smallpox vax. 😨 Back then, smallpox, polio vaxes & tuberculosis tests were all that was required to attend school. We just muddled thru real time versions of measles, mumps, rubella & chicken pox.
Was that the one in NYC that recently caught fire?
I find I can only believe in one conspiracy at a time - two at the very most - without going crazy. The Covid scam? Conspiracy. The Climate scam? Conspiracy. That's me done. Therefore, I believe that JFK was killed by a lone nut. Nearly all the theories put forward that LHO couldn't have done it have been disproven, whether it's his "poor" marksmanship skills, the magic bullet, or there not being enough time to fire off 3 shots.
from JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters, Chapter 1 (you can read this entire chapter asa preview on Amazon):
(TLDR version: Oswald was not a communist, but rather a counterintelligence agent for the CIA; he served his country faithfully and was rewarded by being framed for JFK's murder.)
[...] Now as we begin to trace Oswald’s path, which will converge with Kennedy’s, we can see the emergence of a strangely complementary question: Why was Lee Harvey Oswald so tolerated and supported by the government he betrayed?
On October 31, 1959, Lee Harvey Oswald, who had been discharged two months earlier from the U.S. Marine Corps in California, presented himself at the American Embassy in Moscow to Consul Richard E. Snyder. Oswald said his purpose in coming was to renounce his U.S. citizenship. He handed Snyder a note he had written, in which he requested that his citizenship be revoked and affirmed that “my allegiance is to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.” [...]
The Soviets had reason to think Oswald knew “something of special interest.” From September 1957 to November 1958 Oswald had been a Marine Corps radar operator at Atsugi Air Force Base in Japan. Atsugi, located about thirty-five miles southwest of Tokyo, served as the CIA’s main operational base in the Far East. It was one of two bases from which the CIA’s top-secret U-2 spy planes took off on their flights over the Soviet Union and China. [...]
After Atsugi, Oswald was reassigned as a radar operator to Marine Air Control Squadron No. 9 in Santa Ana, California, which was attached to the larger Marine Air Station in El Toro. Oswald continued to have access to secret information that would have been of interest to a Cold War enemy. [...] Oswald “had the access to [...] the authentication code of entering and exiting the ADIZ [...]. He knew the range of our radar. He knew the range of our radio. And he knew the range of the surrounding units’ radio and radar.”
However, Donovan’s knowledge of Oswald’s connection to the top-secret U-2 was clearly off limits for his Warren Commission questioners. [...] at the end of his testimony, he asked, “Don’t you want to know anything about the U-2?” The lawyer said, “We asked you exactly what we wanted to know from you and we asked you everything we wanted for now and that is all. And if there is anything else we want to ask you, we will.” [...]
On May 1, 1960, six months after Oswald defected to the Soviet Union, a U-2 was shot down by the Soviets for the first time. [...] It reinforces the case that Oswald’s volunteering all the information he had as a Marine radar specialist to the Soviets was an apparently criminal act.
Yet when Oswald returned to the U.S. Embassy in Moscow [...] he was welcomed back by American officials with open arms. Not only did the United States make no move to prosecute him, but the embassy gave him a loan to return to the country he had betrayed. The toleration of Oswald’s apparent treason extended to his later obtaining a new passport overnight. On June 25, 1963, Oswald was miraculously issued a passport in New Orleans twenty-four hours after his application. He identified his destination as the Soviet Union.
[...] Sylvia Meagher concluded: “Decision after decision, the [State] Department removed every obstacle before Oswald—a defector and would-be expatriate, self-declared enemy of his native country, self-proclaimed discloser of classified military information, and later self-appointed propagandist for Fidel Castro—on his path from Minsk to Dallas.”
The process would, of course, be reversed in Dallas. There Oswald would be arrested and killed quickly, before he could say what he knew of the president’s murder. In Dallas whatever light Oswald might cast on the assassination would be switched at once into darkness.
The Warren Commission dealt with the U.S. government’s odd toleration of the apparently treasonous Oswald, first of all, by a selective reading of his history. [...] they neglected to point out that the future defector had a “Crypto” clearance, which was higher than “Top Secret,” and that his work immersed him in information about the CIA’s super-secret U-2 flights. By omitting such facts, the government’s story was able to sidestep questions arising from Oswald’s offer of U-2 information to the Soviet Union, his defection to that Cold War enemy, and his wondrous acceptance back into the good graces of the U.S. government.
According to the Warren Report, Lee Harvey Oswald had been a lone assassin in the making for years, “moved by an overriding hostility to his environment.” [...]
Why was the ex-Marine Lee Harvey Oswald not arrested and charged a year and a half before the assassination when he came back to the United States from the Soviet Union, [...]? Whereas in Dallas Oswald would be arrested and murdered before we knew it [...]. What was the secret of Oswald’s immunity to prosecution for having criminally betrayed the United States at the height of the Cold War? How did this unrepentant enemy of his country merit treatment as a prodigal son, embraced by his government with financial help and preferential passport rulings while he continued to proclaim allegiance to the USSR and Cuba?
A solution to the mystery was suggested by former CIA agent Victor Marchetti [...] In regard to Oswald, Marchetti told author Anthony Summers of a CIA-connected Naval intelligence program in 1959, the same year Oswald defected to the USSR: “At the time, in 1959, the United States was having real difficulty in acquiring information out of the Soviet Union; the technical systems had, of course, not developed to the point that they are at today, and we were resorting to all sorts of activities. One of these activities was an ONI [Office of Naval Intelligence] program which involved three dozen, maybe forty, young men who were made to appear disenchanted, poor American youths who had become turned off and wanted to see what communism was all about. Some of these people lasted only a few weeks. They were sent into the Soviet Union, or into eastern Europe, with the specific intention the Soviets would pick them up and ‘double’ them if they suspected them of being U.S. agents, or recruit them as KGB agents. They were trained at various naval installations both here and abroad, but the operation was being run out of Nag’s Head, North Carolina.”
The counterintelligence program described by Marchetti dovetails with the Oswald story. It provides an explanation for the U.S. government’s indulgence of his behavior. That Oswald was in fact a participant in such a program was the belief of James Botelho, his former roommate in Santa Ana. Botelho [...]: “If he was [a Marxist] I would have taken violent action against him and so would many of the other Marines in the unit.”
Judge Botelho said Oswald’s “defection” was nothing but a U.S. intelligence ploy: “I knew Oswald was not a Communist and was, in fact, anti-Soviet. Then, when no real investigation occurred at the base [after Oswald’s presence in the Soviet Union was made public], I was sure that Oswald was on an intelligence assignment in Russia [...] Oswald, it was said, was the only Marine ever to defect from his country to another country, a Communist country, during peacetime. That was a major event. When the Marine Corps and American intelligence decided not to probe the reasons for the ‘defection,’ I knew then what I know now: Oswald was on an assignment in Russia for American intelligence.”
That doesn't mean that Oswald didn't get doubled.
But anyway - if all this is true, who shot at General Walker, and who killed J. D. Tippit?
Not so sure about the MB theory being a lie. The two seats - JFK's and Connoly's - weren't directly aligned. Connoly's was higher and to the right. That would make the bullet trajectory un-magic and normal.