Have you heard of Family of Secrets? If you have, it’s in spite of a reflexive taboo against sharing anything that may be deeply disturbing to the system.
John Foster Dulles, brother of Allen Dulles, spent time as a Bush family lawyer.
LBJ lobbied and argued extensively with JFK to seat Sen. Yarborough in the John Connally seat in the Presidential limo for the trip through Dallas. He did this lobbying the night before in Ft. Worth and also on the tarmac at Love Field 11/22/63. If Yarborough had been shot dead in the seat Gov. Connally actually occupied, that would have helped the Republican candidate for U.S. Senator in Texas in the pending 1964 election. That candidate was George H. W. Bush.
A few weeks after Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, he was shot in the chest. Had he been assassinated his successor would have been George H. W. Bush.
The day before the 9/11 attacks, the Twin Towers guards were told to stand down and bomb-sniffing dogs were not allowed to be present in the building. Later odd pieces of snipped wires were found around the building. The order to stand down and exclude bomb-sniffing dogs was carried out by a security company run by Marvin Bush, son of George H. W. Bush and brother of "W."
During World War I the Bush Dynasty sold armaments to both sides. To avoid a Senate investigation in the early 1920's they promised to put their company papers on public access filing at the National Archives. True to their noble and majestic word, this they promptly did. And after a few days the entire collection disappeared from the National Archives.
Ditto for JFK's brain. The National Archives is where JFK's brain was deposited. Expert autopsy authority Cyril Wecht went there to examine it, only to find nobody knew where it was. The paperwork for the chain of custody to account for where it went led in circles. Wecht went back (as an investigator experienced in dealing with hundreds of previous murders) several times to get nothing but more runarounds and finger-pointing. After about his forth effort he started getting phone call death threats against himself and his family. So to feel safe he hid them away in a gated building with armed guards.
Leading up to World War II, Prescott Bush and his friends actively funded and promoted the early career rise of Adolf Hitler out of Union Banking/Brown Brothers Harriman, in conjunction with the German arms magnate Thyssen. His funding efforts were so blatant they were nixed by none other than J. Edgar Hoover. The Bush Dynasty ideal for WWI and WWII was that if Germany and Russia could be manipulated to hate and attack one another, it would keep them weak tearing one another down plus it would give Bush & Co. extensive and lucrative arms sales possibilities.
As soon as the U.S. recklessly bugged out of a dreary lumbering dragging lowering profits war in Afghanistan, Ukraine heated up almost immediately. Lots of money to be made on that one. And, conveniently, as long as Ukraine is played like a fiddle to the last drop of Ukrainian blood, Ukraine is the latest McGuffin to be posited so Germany and Russia can be manipulated to antagonize one another for yet another go-around. So far this latest permutation of the same old gambit is working, as with any two boxers or wrestlers put in the same ring-- to draw money out of the pockets of the gullible spectators. Or like any other greased up dogfight or cockfight. As long as the spectators don't understand that money for the big boys at the expense of the little suckers standing ringside is what it is really all about.
Well I'm not sure of that last part. You have said nothing about Putin. He is a fan of Stalin & his life's dream was to return all the land that the U.S.S.R. had. He illegally stole Crimea from Ukraine to that effort. How about when Georgia was considered by NATO to become a member in 2003 & then in 2008, Putin attacked & committed war crimes including ethnic cleansing & he is doing the same thing in Ukraine. He is a tyrant in the mold of Hitler & Mussolini & he has to be stopped. I am sure RT & other pro-Russian state propaganda want to claim otherwise, but this is not about money. This is Totalitarianism.
It is totalitarianism and totalitarianism to get the money. There is the greed for power, and once there is power over a territory there is greed to extract the wealth for one's own interests at the expense of the peasants.
Russ: you've made some excellent points about Bob Woodward, and forever changed my view of Watergate. I always appreciate reading journalism that challenges the conventional view. I support the 'marketplace of ideas.' My thoughts: Over the past 2 years, trust in the mainstream media has plummeted to an all time low, and WILL continue on that trajectory. Why am I so sure of this? They're telling us things we know are lies: 'the economy is strong based on the S&P' (never mind the debt, inflation, consumer sentiment); 'the labor market is strong, because of low unemployment' (they don't report on the alarming drop in labor force participation). So many of our current problems are self inflicted, yet the media shifts the blame. This doesn't feel like America anymore. Suddenly, the government / large corporations / news orgs / Big Tech are all carefully coordinating their messages, in lock-step. It's Orwellian, yet surprisingly ham-handed. Even my children (teenagers) can tell the news is fake. I recently canceled my subscriptions to WaPo and NYT. No more NPR either. Almost every news outlet has become a pawn of corporate media, and thereby made themselves irrelevant. I've since found new sources I trust, and I will never go back.
Thank you for sharing this, painful though it is to recall. It's valuable for others and rings true, both in the specifics you recount and more generally regarding what others have experienced in similar circumstances.
Rutten's review says more about him than about the book or the author.
P.95 of Family of Secrets suggests that 'The figure of Oswald, the lone gunman, was a highly questionable fit with the evidence, but neatly fulfilled the psychological needs of the country.'
Rutten essentially states that a pre-requisite for being a 'serious American' is a belief that JFK was killed by a lone nut. This may instead reveal his own psychological need for unquestioning concensus, and his assertion that dissenters are 'not entitled to a seat at the table where serious discussions occur' is nonsensical. If there can be no questioning of a particular point of view, and no new evidence and perspectives allowed, what is there to discuss ?
It is not necessary to present a fully-developed theory to show the existence (or probable existence) of conspiracy. Perhaps this is the real fear behind the denial of everything other than the neatest narrative - a single lie or inconsistency can fatally undermine it.
Suppression of information about embarrassing foreign developments is as forceful as the domestic campaign.
Amazon assigned my book on China to an internal reviewer, then released his (very long) review simultaneously with the book, so that it remains the first opinion readers see.
The review faithfully recounts the book's explanations of China's astonishing progress, and concludes wistfully, "If only there was some way to verify the author's amazing claims”.
It would be difficult to miss the fact that the book has 479 footnotes, most of them Western sources like the NYT.
There are varying degrees and methods of censorship deployed around the world dependent on the whims and fancies of each respective regime. The West employs a soft censorship approach whereas Russia and China and many Middle Eastern countries employ a more explicit, overt hard form of censorship. What makes the West's censorship so onerously hypocritical is that Western propaganda claims the West is freer and honors the aspiration for free expression when in fact it does not. What's amazing is, they will deploy soft censorship targeted at investigative journalists like Russ, yet obliterators of free speech like McDonald Trump are given the stage 24/7. Free expression comes with substantial responsibility and accountability for one's speech and the likes of McDonald Trump degrade any notion of free expression by flouting that concept.
I read your excellent book Family of Secrets years ago when you first published it. I pay no attention to book reviews, but I also know I am an exception to the rule and many do read reviews before deciding to read a book.
Imagine if you tried to publish it today, Russ. Dubya has been rehabilitated by the Dems and is now a darling (he and Michelle are besties) versus the war criminal he is. Considering that, if you tried to publish it today, you'd be hard-pressed to find a publisher let alone anything resembling a positive or even neutral review.
I bought Family of Secrets shortly after it was published and it has had a place of honor in my home library ever since. The current Ukraine crisis sent me back to FofS to review the links between the Nazis and the oligarchic elites here in the Land of Liberty. Between Russ Baker’s work and that of David Talbot, we can begin to piece together a continuing link between the post-WWII rescue of Nazi leaders and the Empire of Chaos and Lies and the war crimes being perpetrated by the Kiev regime.
Glad you liked my book but saddened to see you susceptible to disinformation from Putin, who surely understands how to manipulate people. The situation in Ukraine is pretty easy for anyone to see who has their eyes open. To blame Ukraine for an invasion by another country is most unfortunate.
Ukraine is merely the latest helpless innocent baby being tossed from bayonet to bayonet, so that Germany and Russia can be kept at one another's throats. The current gambit limiting wheat exports will also help foment mass starvation, to reduce the world population by a few million. Financial stress worldwide will bias people in the direction of having fewer children. All part of the plan. In the U.S. in particular a decreased population ultimately means fewer trillions will be needed to appear out of thin air to pretend to fund Social Security, Medicare, and Obamacare.
Okay, so now I'm confused again. Does this mean the SCOTUS overturning Roe v Wade is an attempt to increase the population so there is a next wave to tax to pay for SS, Medicare and Obamacare? The overturning of Roe v Wade contradicts your claim and thesis.
Depopulation is coming whether it's managed in an egalitarian fashion, an unegalitarian fashion or not managed at all. Basic physics dictates this. A contraction and decline in the growth economy is imminent and with it population collapse.
The Dobbs decision was phrased not about population but about state authority re abortion, rather than federal specifications being determinative. SCOTUS in Dobbs basically said it's up to states and not dictates from federal courts. Relating Roe v. Wade to my current cited comment is in any event off-topic and an attempt to impute things neither stated nor intended. The comment was about Ukraine and the cynical way in which Ukraine is being exploited, but not about Roe.
Physics does not dictate population levels at the current range of the human species population. What determines population levels is more about agricultural production and politics. The physics of weather can be influential, but it doesn't have to make mass starvation inevitable, at current levels of population and food availability. Pay attention to the wisdom and experience of Norman Borlaug to see what I mean.
We do not have to have an economic collapse, and the collapse that is likely will be due to stupidity, manipulation, and a failure to plan/anticipate that doesn't have to collapse the human population. But it will if the politicians and the people who puppetmaster economies decide that is what they want to have happen. Just to address the red herring you have introduced for some reason.
My point was about Ukraine being used to keep Germany and Russia distracted by one another, continuing the same effort that has been engineered for over a century now. For instance, Germany and Russia fighting one another was the main purpose of both World Wars, as engineered by the Bush Dynasty among others. This began once the Spanish-American War was over and the U.S. with its British and French allies wanted to profit from the pushing down of the competition .
Ukraine or corona virus or financial collapse can be used as pretext for starvation meanwhile, but even with Ukraine or corona virus or financial collapse-- starvation doesn't necessarily have to follow. Pay attention to the bullfighter's sword, not his cape. Pay attention to underlying motives, not the public facades. The main gambit is to keep Russia and Germany at one another's throats, and if along the way millions of people die in Hitler's concentration camps or millions of people starve in Africa in coming months, the puppetmasters don't care a whit. Any more than they care about what happens to you or me. Pay attention to the sword, not the bullfighter's cape.
And notice when it is convenient to pretend Germany is horrible and Russia is wonderful, that's the public story. And when it is convenient to pretend Russia horrible and Germany is wonderful, that's the public story. Review Orwell's "1984" concerning the ambiguous hypocritical pretexts for Oceania's self-contradictory alliances as they change over time, and you will see another version of the same manipulative nonsense.
I don’t blame Ukraine. I blame the US for fomenting and supporting the Maidan coup, spending years arming and training the Ukraine armed forces while ignoring their relationship with neo-Nazi militias, encouraging the coup regime to ignore the Minsk accords instead of implementing them, and then throwing billions of dollars of weapons into the country instead of negotiating a new European security framework with Russia. This war could be ended tomorrow if it were advantageous to the US to do so. It’s not, so more Ukrainians will die.
This comment is so very similar -/ nearly identical — to others I have seen that it smells like it is coming out of a Russian disinfo machine. Real messages have some variety to them
The obligatory and somewhat gratuitous gatekeeping review by DiEugenio was what bothered me after being transformed by Russ opening the window into real history. Family of Secrets is about the Bushes, not about the Kennedy assassination - other than both focuses are essential to understanding the subtitle of the book, "the Bush dynasty, America's invisible government, and the hidden history of the last 50 years". I'm sorry that Jim didn't like Russ' style. Perhaps intentionally taking a different track than the mainstream and by omitting the "paranoid style" label, DiEugenio settles for name calling Russ "Inspector Javert" and smearing him by comparison to another ridiculed author. At least Russ uses complete sentences, more than Jim can say for his own writing. In addition, Jim's criticisms are not free of misguided interpretations of Russ' analysis. I'll note here, that for all the gatekeeping in the word, DiEugenio has never definitively named JFK's actual assassin. Stay strong, Russ, and keep on challenging the media.
JFK had multiple assassins. Once he refused to allow U.S. citizens to be sacrificed for Operation Northwoods, he himself became the false flag pretext for an invasion of Cuba or at least a boost of effort in Vietnam to supersede National Security Action Memorandum 263. Beyond the Joint Chiefs, the CIA was already in on Northwoods. And it didn't take much to get others to eagerly jump in like LBJ, Texas oil, the Mafia, FBI, and elements of the Secret Service.
The triggermen (there were at least 5 shooters who made at least 6 hits) are unimportant beyond their technical expertise. What counts is who recruited them and who ran interference for them before, during, and after. Do we remember who killed Thomas a Beckett? No. We remember only that the King said "Is there not a man in all the realm who will rid me of this troublesome prelate?" Beyond that, the difference between mediaeval England and modern America is that the instigator from the Middle Ages evolved to remorse, but the modern American instigators killed and killed and killed some more to cover up their crime. And, the chroniclers of today largely cooperate in the cover-up, thus aiding and abetting JFK's murder up (actually down) through 2022.
One triggerman some may or may not know about was Al Carone, repeat Al Carone. He was supposed to pick off JFK at Love Field on 11-22-63 but couldn't get a good sniping angle. We know this from Frank Sturgis (as discovered by Jim Rothstein) and Carone's daughter. We know from Dan Marvin (refused to murder Lt. Cmdr. William Pitzer) that had JFK made it past the underpass he would have been finished off by long-distance expert snipers from Corsica.
Jackie was given bright red roses (by Mayor Cabell's wife) and Nellie Connally had a big spray of yellow roses. Note that Lady Bird was given only a smaller bouquet of half-open flowers. That was to mark which vehicle was to be shot at in case the Corsicans got a radio message along the lines of "JFK's head hasn't been blasted wide open yet." Ditto was the message from Umbrella Man, but for people further down Elm St., since JFK's head was supposed to be blasted wide open by the bungled "throat" shot, which came from the southern grassy knoll and was heard (despite a silencer) and smelled by Tosh Plumlee.
Had that shot not drifted low due to a defective silencer (most likely) it would have lined up with the book depository, and appeared to have come from TSBD with a little creative enlarging of the entrance wound to make it look like an exit wound. When people practice with cheapie 7.62x39 mm ammo, it often actually tends to measure .312 caliber instead of the nominal .308. More lethal and accurate for the "throat" shot to JFK's head, 7.62x51 would have been preferable from any assassin's point of view, and being a higher-quality type of ammo its caliber is usually right on .308 inches diameter. So a shot with 7.62x51 through a bore-stretched silencer would leak propulsion gases as wasted blowby gases and yield an underpowered bullet. Down into the windshield and throat, and so slowed it couldn't even get out the hindside of JFK's neck. Other than that, the professional sniper for the intended final fatal shot through JFK's head, lined up with the TSBD, was so excellent that left-to-right his aim was meticulously precise-- only an eighth of an inch to JFK's right from the exact center of his neck.
I just posted the part about Democracy Now! on the You Tube comments section for the August 28 news summary, noting that with GW Bush now offering an online class on leadership -- I know, what a joke -- there is a news peg they can use to revisit how the book was ignored..
I'm not willing to bet that DN will address the issue.
John Foster Dulles, brother of Allen Dulles, spent time as a Bush family lawyer.
LBJ lobbied and argued extensively with JFK to seat Sen. Yarborough in the John Connally seat in the Presidential limo for the trip through Dallas. He did this lobbying the night before in Ft. Worth and also on the tarmac at Love Field 11/22/63. If Yarborough had been shot dead in the seat Gov. Connally actually occupied, that would have helped the Republican candidate for U.S. Senator in Texas in the pending 1964 election. That candidate was George H. W. Bush.
A few weeks after Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, he was shot in the chest. Had he been assassinated his successor would have been George H. W. Bush.
The day before the 9/11 attacks, the Twin Towers guards were told to stand down and bomb-sniffing dogs were not allowed to be present in the building. Later odd pieces of snipped wires were found around the building. The order to stand down and exclude bomb-sniffing dogs was carried out by a security company run by Marvin Bush, son of George H. W. Bush and brother of "W."
During World War I the Bush Dynasty sold armaments to both sides. To avoid a Senate investigation in the early 1920's they promised to put their company papers on public access filing at the National Archives. True to their noble and majestic word, this they promptly did. And after a few days the entire collection disappeared from the National Archives.
Ditto for JFK's brain. The National Archives is where JFK's brain was deposited. Expert autopsy authority Cyril Wecht went there to examine it, only to find nobody knew where it was. The paperwork for the chain of custody to account for where it went led in circles. Wecht went back (as an investigator experienced in dealing with hundreds of previous murders) several times to get nothing but more runarounds and finger-pointing. After about his forth effort he started getting phone call death threats against himself and his family. So to feel safe he hid them away in a gated building with armed guards.
Leading up to World War II, Prescott Bush and his friends actively funded and promoted the early career rise of Adolf Hitler out of Union Banking/Brown Brothers Harriman, in conjunction with the German arms magnate Thyssen. His funding efforts were so blatant they were nixed by none other than J. Edgar Hoover. The Bush Dynasty ideal for WWI and WWII was that if Germany and Russia could be manipulated to hate and attack one another, it would keep them weak tearing one another down plus it would give Bush & Co. extensive and lucrative arms sales possibilities.
As soon as the U.S. recklessly bugged out of a dreary lumbering dragging lowering profits war in Afghanistan, Ukraine heated up almost immediately. Lots of money to be made on that one. And, conveniently, as long as Ukraine is played like a fiddle to the last drop of Ukrainian blood, Ukraine is the latest McGuffin to be posited so Germany and Russia can be manipulated to antagonize one another for yet another go-around. So far this latest permutation of the same old gambit is working, as with any two boxers or wrestlers put in the same ring-- to draw money out of the pockets of the gullible spectators. Or like any other greased up dogfight or cockfight. As long as the spectators don't understand that money for the big boys at the expense of the little suckers standing ringside is what it is really all about.
Well I'm not sure of that last part. You have said nothing about Putin. He is a fan of Stalin & his life's dream was to return all the land that the U.S.S.R. had. He illegally stole Crimea from Ukraine to that effort. How about when Georgia was considered by NATO to become a member in 2003 & then in 2008, Putin attacked & committed war crimes including ethnic cleansing & he is doing the same thing in Ukraine. He is a tyrant in the mold of Hitler & Mussolini & he has to be stopped. I am sure RT & other pro-Russian state propaganda want to claim otherwise, but this is not about money. This is Totalitarianism.
It is totalitarianism and totalitarianism to get the money. There is the greed for power, and once there is power over a territory there is greed to extract the wealth for one's own interests at the expense of the peasants.
Russ: you've made some excellent points about Bob Woodward, and forever changed my view of Watergate. I always appreciate reading journalism that challenges the conventional view. I support the 'marketplace of ideas.' My thoughts: Over the past 2 years, trust in the mainstream media has plummeted to an all time low, and WILL continue on that trajectory. Why am I so sure of this? They're telling us things we know are lies: 'the economy is strong based on the S&P' (never mind the debt, inflation, consumer sentiment); 'the labor market is strong, because of low unemployment' (they don't report on the alarming drop in labor force participation). So many of our current problems are self inflicted, yet the media shifts the blame. This doesn't feel like America anymore. Suddenly, the government / large corporations / news orgs / Big Tech are all carefully coordinating their messages, in lock-step. It's Orwellian, yet surprisingly ham-handed. Even my children (teenagers) can tell the news is fake. I recently canceled my subscriptions to WaPo and NYT. No more NPR either. Almost every news outlet has become a pawn of corporate media, and thereby made themselves irrelevant. I've since found new sources I trust, and I will never go back.
I too have stopped listening to NPR. I read recently public trust in the media is now down to 11%. Kinda' shocking it is that high.
Thanks for the update Russ! Just snapped up a copy at Amazon.
600 pages? No problem!
Good for you! Wear being ignored in mainstream media as a badge of honor.
It's also a wry 'hat tip' from the co-opted that they can't beat you.
Thank you for sharing this, painful though it is to recall. It's valuable for others and rings true, both in the specifics you recount and more generally regarding what others have experienced in similar circumstances.
Rutten's review says more about him than about the book or the author.
P.95 of Family of Secrets suggests that 'The figure of Oswald, the lone gunman, was a highly questionable fit with the evidence, but neatly fulfilled the psychological needs of the country.'
Rutten essentially states that a pre-requisite for being a 'serious American' is a belief that JFK was killed by a lone nut. This may instead reveal his own psychological need for unquestioning concensus, and his assertion that dissenters are 'not entitled to a seat at the table where serious discussions occur' is nonsensical. If there can be no questioning of a particular point of view, and no new evidence and perspectives allowed, what is there to discuss ?
It is not necessary to present a fully-developed theory to show the existence (or probable existence) of conspiracy. Perhaps this is the real fear behind the denial of everything other than the neatest narrative - a single lie or inconsistency can fatally undermine it.
Suppression of information about embarrassing foreign developments is as forceful as the domestic campaign.
Amazon assigned my book on China to an internal reviewer, then released his (very long) review simultaneously with the book, so that it remains the first opinion readers see.
The review faithfully recounts the book's explanations of China's astonishing progress, and concludes wistfully, "If only there was some way to verify the author's amazing claims”.
It would be difficult to miss the fact that the book has 479 footnotes, most of them Western sources like the NYT.
There are varying degrees and methods of censorship deployed around the world dependent on the whims and fancies of each respective regime. The West employs a soft censorship approach whereas Russia and China and many Middle Eastern countries employ a more explicit, overt hard form of censorship. What makes the West's censorship so onerously hypocritical is that Western propaganda claims the West is freer and honors the aspiration for free expression when in fact it does not. What's amazing is, they will deploy soft censorship targeted at investigative journalists like Russ, yet obliterators of free speech like McDonald Trump are given the stage 24/7. Free expression comes with substantial responsibility and accountability for one's speech and the likes of McDonald Trump degrade any notion of free expression by flouting that concept.
I read your excellent book Family of Secrets years ago when you first published it. I pay no attention to book reviews, but I also know I am an exception to the rule and many do read reviews before deciding to read a book.
Imagine if you tried to publish it today, Russ. Dubya has been rehabilitated by the Dems and is now a darling (he and Michelle are besties) versus the war criminal he is. Considering that, if you tried to publish it today, you'd be hard-pressed to find a publisher let alone anything resembling a positive or even neutral review.
I bought Family of Secrets shortly after it was published and it has had a place of honor in my home library ever since. The current Ukraine crisis sent me back to FofS to review the links between the Nazis and the oligarchic elites here in the Land of Liberty. Between Russ Baker’s work and that of David Talbot, we can begin to piece together a continuing link between the post-WWII rescue of Nazi leaders and the Empire of Chaos and Lies and the war crimes being perpetrated by the Kiev regime.
Glad you liked my book but saddened to see you susceptible to disinformation from Putin, who surely understands how to manipulate people. The situation in Ukraine is pretty easy for anyone to see who has their eyes open. To blame Ukraine for an invasion by another country is most unfortunate.
Ukraine is merely the latest helpless innocent baby being tossed from bayonet to bayonet, so that Germany and Russia can be kept at one another's throats. The current gambit limiting wheat exports will also help foment mass starvation, to reduce the world population by a few million. Financial stress worldwide will bias people in the direction of having fewer children. All part of the plan. In the U.S. in particular a decreased population ultimately means fewer trillions will be needed to appear out of thin air to pretend to fund Social Security, Medicare, and Obamacare.
Okay, so now I'm confused again. Does this mean the SCOTUS overturning Roe v Wade is an attempt to increase the population so there is a next wave to tax to pay for SS, Medicare and Obamacare? The overturning of Roe v Wade contradicts your claim and thesis.
Depopulation is coming whether it's managed in an egalitarian fashion, an unegalitarian fashion or not managed at all. Basic physics dictates this. A contraction and decline in the growth economy is imminent and with it population collapse.
The Dobbs decision was phrased not about population but about state authority re abortion, rather than federal specifications being determinative. SCOTUS in Dobbs basically said it's up to states and not dictates from federal courts. Relating Roe v. Wade to my current cited comment is in any event off-topic and an attempt to impute things neither stated nor intended. The comment was about Ukraine and the cynical way in which Ukraine is being exploited, but not about Roe.
Physics does not dictate population levels at the current range of the human species population. What determines population levels is more about agricultural production and politics. The physics of weather can be influential, but it doesn't have to make mass starvation inevitable, at current levels of population and food availability. Pay attention to the wisdom and experience of Norman Borlaug to see what I mean.
We do not have to have an economic collapse, and the collapse that is likely will be due to stupidity, manipulation, and a failure to plan/anticipate that doesn't have to collapse the human population. But it will if the politicians and the people who puppetmaster economies decide that is what they want to have happen. Just to address the red herring you have introduced for some reason.
My point was about Ukraine being used to keep Germany and Russia distracted by one another, continuing the same effort that has been engineered for over a century now. For instance, Germany and Russia fighting one another was the main purpose of both World Wars, as engineered by the Bush Dynasty among others. This began once the Spanish-American War was over and the U.S. with its British and French allies wanted to profit from the pushing down of the competition .
Ukraine or corona virus or financial collapse can be used as pretext for starvation meanwhile, but even with Ukraine or corona virus or financial collapse-- starvation doesn't necessarily have to follow. Pay attention to the bullfighter's sword, not his cape. Pay attention to underlying motives, not the public facades. The main gambit is to keep Russia and Germany at one another's throats, and if along the way millions of people die in Hitler's concentration camps or millions of people starve in Africa in coming months, the puppetmasters don't care a whit. Any more than they care about what happens to you or me. Pay attention to the sword, not the bullfighter's cape.
And notice when it is convenient to pretend Germany is horrible and Russia is wonderful, that's the public story. And when it is convenient to pretend Russia horrible and Germany is wonderful, that's the public story. Review Orwell's "1984" concerning the ambiguous hypocritical pretexts for Oceania's self-contradictory alliances as they change over time, and you will see another version of the same manipulative nonsense.
I don’t blame Ukraine. I blame the US for fomenting and supporting the Maidan coup, spending years arming and training the Ukraine armed forces while ignoring their relationship with neo-Nazi militias, encouraging the coup regime to ignore the Minsk accords instead of implementing them, and then throwing billions of dollars of weapons into the country instead of negotiating a new European security framework with Russia. This war could be ended tomorrow if it were advantageous to the US to do so. It’s not, so more Ukrainians will die.
This comment is so very similar -/ nearly identical — to others I have seen that it smells like it is coming out of a Russian disinfo machine. Real messages have some variety to them
Russ, check this out. It supports the p.o.v. of persons such as Charles (and I) that believe Ukraine/the US/NATO bear some degree of responsibility for the invasion ... https://accuracy.org/release/ukraine-and-international-law-precedents-of-permissibility/?link_id=0&can_id=34fb1e57d99007fa29048f4fb440c9d5&source=email-ukraine-and-international-law-precedents-of-permissibility-interviews-available&email_referrer=email_1502322&email_subject=ukraine-and-international-law-precedents-of-permissibility-interviews-available
The obligatory and somewhat gratuitous gatekeeping review by DiEugenio was what bothered me after being transformed by Russ opening the window into real history. Family of Secrets is about the Bushes, not about the Kennedy assassination - other than both focuses are essential to understanding the subtitle of the book, "the Bush dynasty, America's invisible government, and the hidden history of the last 50 years". I'm sorry that Jim didn't like Russ' style. Perhaps intentionally taking a different track than the mainstream and by omitting the "paranoid style" label, DiEugenio settles for name calling Russ "Inspector Javert" and smearing him by comparison to another ridiculed author. At least Russ uses complete sentences, more than Jim can say for his own writing. In addition, Jim's criticisms are not free of misguided interpretations of Russ' analysis. I'll note here, that for all the gatekeeping in the word, DiEugenio has never definitively named JFK's actual assassin. Stay strong, Russ, and keep on challenging the media.
JFK had multiple assassins. Once he refused to allow U.S. citizens to be sacrificed for Operation Northwoods, he himself became the false flag pretext for an invasion of Cuba or at least a boost of effort in Vietnam to supersede National Security Action Memorandum 263. Beyond the Joint Chiefs, the CIA was already in on Northwoods. And it didn't take much to get others to eagerly jump in like LBJ, Texas oil, the Mafia, FBI, and elements of the Secret Service.
The triggermen (there were at least 5 shooters who made at least 6 hits) are unimportant beyond their technical expertise. What counts is who recruited them and who ran interference for them before, during, and after. Do we remember who killed Thomas a Beckett? No. We remember only that the King said "Is there not a man in all the realm who will rid me of this troublesome prelate?" Beyond that, the difference between mediaeval England and modern America is that the instigator from the Middle Ages evolved to remorse, but the modern American instigators killed and killed and killed some more to cover up their crime. And, the chroniclers of today largely cooperate in the cover-up, thus aiding and abetting JFK's murder up (actually down) through 2022.
One triggerman some may or may not know about was Al Carone, repeat Al Carone. He was supposed to pick off JFK at Love Field on 11-22-63 but couldn't get a good sniping angle. We know this from Frank Sturgis (as discovered by Jim Rothstein) and Carone's daughter. We know from Dan Marvin (refused to murder Lt. Cmdr. William Pitzer) that had JFK made it past the underpass he would have been finished off by long-distance expert snipers from Corsica.
Jackie was given bright red roses (by Mayor Cabell's wife) and Nellie Connally had a big spray of yellow roses. Note that Lady Bird was given only a smaller bouquet of half-open flowers. That was to mark which vehicle was to be shot at in case the Corsicans got a radio message along the lines of "JFK's head hasn't been blasted wide open yet." Ditto was the message from Umbrella Man, but for people further down Elm St., since JFK's head was supposed to be blasted wide open by the bungled "throat" shot, which came from the southern grassy knoll and was heard (despite a silencer) and smelled by Tosh Plumlee.
Had that shot not drifted low due to a defective silencer (most likely) it would have lined up with the book depository, and appeared to have come from TSBD with a little creative enlarging of the entrance wound to make it look like an exit wound. When people practice with cheapie 7.62x39 mm ammo, it often actually tends to measure .312 caliber instead of the nominal .308. More lethal and accurate for the "throat" shot to JFK's head, 7.62x51 would have been preferable from any assassin's point of view, and being a higher-quality type of ammo its caliber is usually right on .308 inches diameter. So a shot with 7.62x51 through a bore-stretched silencer would leak propulsion gases as wasted blowby gases and yield an underpowered bullet. Down into the windshield and throat, and so slowed it couldn't even get out the hindside of JFK's neck. Other than that, the professional sniper for the intended final fatal shot through JFK's head, lined up with the TSBD, was so excellent that left-to-right his aim was meticulously precise-- only an eighth of an inch to JFK's right from the exact center of his neck.
I just posted the part about Democracy Now! on the You Tube comments section for the August 28 news summary, noting that with GW Bush now offering an online class on leadership -- I know, what a joke -- there is a news peg they can use to revisit how the book was ignored..
I'm not willing to bet that DN will address the issue.