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Petroleum

th.deflo — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 19:46:01 -0400

Kennedy was probably assassinated because he didn't comply with energy policies (Vietnam was one of the main locations for subterranean extraction of petroleum). It is interesting to note that the US officials have always sympathized with an international regime for energy, based on the US priorities – free access to resources, security of investment and free trade. These general principles – embodied in the WW II ‘Atlantic Charter’ and subsequently in the Havana Charter (never legally effective) – have been searching for an institutional home since 1945.

Boston Marathon bombings

RJD — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 16:06:08 -0400

Being a marathon runner, I like to follow the Boston Marathon coverage. Right near the finish line there were two big explosions. Highly unusual, I think. Some injuries but no deaths so far, thankfully. Maybe it's just me, but the first thing that comes to mind with something so out of the ordinary like this, are the "usual suspects".

http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/news-general/20130415/US-ATHLETICS-MARATHON-BOSTON-BLAST/?cid=hero_media

http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/sports-general/20130415/Boston.Marathon-Explosions/?cid=hero_media

I met Caroline Kennedy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

JFKRFK4Ever — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:35:29 -0400

She came to our county today with Michelle Obama. I got to shake hands with both of them but I was most excited about getting to meet Caroline. She signed a copy of a Kennedy Family Portrait book that I have. I am still reeling over this. Anyway I just thought this would be the perfect place to share my joy with everyone.

National-socialist assets take over American government

th.deflo — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 14:33:34 -0500

See
http://knol.google.com/k/thomas-deflo/national-socialist-assets-take-over/ibo34n8xv1r1/57?auth=DQAAAIcAAACj0L2qfMh2p-z4b5DTYYdmFOdEH7nlSaDSD&pli=1#

Episode 23--50 Reasons

LordBalto — Sun, 12 May 2013 17:04:36 -0400

Good episode. I wasn't aware of the lack of code books at critical places and the taking out of service of the communications lines. Clearly this operation was planned at the highest levels of government and wasn't restricted to rogue elements of the CIA. And the idea that the Kennedy assassination was Revision A of Operation Northwoods is quite fascinating. If I recall correctly, it was John Judge who also saw the antiaircraft guns at the Pentagon. Clearly, someone who was in a position to know things no one else did.

9/11 Smoking Gun: WTC 6

Nutzy — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 02:31:11 -0500

   I came up with this idea a few years ago and submitted it to someone
who should've been able to be at least critical of it (Jim Fetzer) but
instead I heard nothing from him and I was to find out later that I
hadn't done my homework.
   My theory met with dead air because
Fetzer is a proponent of a conflicting theory, that of Laser beam and Directed Energy weapons and I find that theory far fetched
at best, no matter what Fetz's and Dr Judy Woods' credentials.
My
theory is simple. Sure WTC's 1, 2 and 7 are smoking guns but I was going
through pictures at the time on the web and Building 6 seemed to be the
biggest smoking gun to me.
   Begin by googling "WTC 6".
   The
official story would have us believe the buildings fell around their
core causing the core to disintegrate and somehow disappear (bullshit at
best).
   "But" if you look at WTC 6 you'll notice a large hole in
the center where the core column(s) should be but the building is still
standing. Why?
   I believe WTC 6 proves the central cores were
removed before the collapses and the exterior structure of 6 was strong
enough to support the building and much of the remaining floors long
after the disaster. In fact, Buildings 5 and 6 had to be demolished
afterward.
   The questions remain, "Where are the core columns?"
"Why is this building the exact opposite of the official theory?" "Did a
piece of building 1 or 2 fall into the center of 6 and drive the core
columns into the ground like a huge nail?"
   This, to me proves that
Steven Jones is on the right track, the core columns were removed by
explosive devices planted in the days/weeks/months leading up to 9/11
and Building 6 could be considered one of their failures, standing after
the event as mute testimony.
Any comments for or against are welcome. I'm open to changing my direction if there is an intelligent reason.

2013 New Orleans JFK conference, seeking information

robert1 — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:53:49 -0400

I believe that Jim D. mentioned on the show last week that a possible New Orleans JFK conference in the works. Anyone have any additional information on this, please?

The Warning in Gary Webb’s Death

zcopley — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 16:31:26 -0500

The Warning in Gary Webb’s Death
December 9, 2011

Special Report: Modern American history is more complete because journalist Gary Webb had the courage to revive the dark story of the Reagan administration’s protection of Nicaraguan Contra cocaine traffickers in the 1980s. However, Webb ultimately paid a terrible price, as Robert Parry reports.

By Robert Parry

Every year since investigative journalist Gary Webb took his own life in 2004, I have marked the anniversary of that sad event by recalling the debt that American history owes to Webb for his brave reporting, which revived the Contra-cocaine scandal in 1996 and forced important admissions out of the Central Intelligence Agency two years later.

But Webb’s suicide on the evening of Dec. 9, 2004, was also a tragic end for one man whose livelihood and reputation were destroyed by a phalanx of major newspapers – the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times– serving as protectors of a corrupt power structure rather than as sources of honest information.
....

http://consortiumnews.com/2011/12/09/the-warning-in-gary-webbs-death/

Coogan on UFOs

heinrich — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 08:40:57 -0400

Coogan seemed surprised that there were no attacks on his UFO piece. His reaction is itself surprising since when it comes to UFOs and conspiracy research -- never the twain shall meet. UFOlogy, to the extent that such a thing exists, pays no attention to political conspiracy research other than as it relates to the supposed UFO coverup. I'm pretty sure no UFO researchers pay attention to CTKA and its reviews.

There's another reason why his review didn't cause ripples in UFOlogy as well: a number of UFO figures don't buy into the MJ-12 documents to begin with. Even Stanton Friedman, who makes a plausible case for the authenticity of a certain few documents, says that the majority of them are fakes.

It's hard not to conclude that Coogan, unfortunately, isn't really on top of UFOlogy, and that in a way, him offering opinions on UFO research-related topics is a bit like a Farrell or other paranormal author riffing on JFK in order to make wild, provocative claims.

Coogan in this interview identifies the two crazy positions as 'UFOs exist' and 'UFOs do not exist' with the only *sane* position in the middle being that, of course, they are a PSYOPS-type conspiracy. Of course, if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail, as they say. If you are a political conspiracy researcher, the UFO phenomenon can only appear in any credible sense to be a CIA mind-control operation taking advantage, in Coogan's words, of people's 'desire to believe'. Naturally, even a show like 'The X-Files' featuring a whole host of paranormal and UFO-related phenomena can itself only be the result of government involvement.

Coogan's interview, and his original article, shows how unfortunately his grasp of UFO-related phenomena ends in the 'fifties. He doesn't seem to have absorbed anything related to the more recent abduction phenomenon. Nothing suggests that he has any knowledge of the limited work done with implants. He is unaware evidently of even the fairly new idea that supports one of his own opinions: that some portion of abductions are 'MILAB' (military abductions).

None of this is any surprise. But if there is an irony here -- a major one -- it is this: the split between the camps represented by somebody like a Coogan on one hand and a Farrell on the other is itself proof of the triumph of the 'commodification' of research Coogan complains about in the interview. People devoted to one *genre* of research (and who prove that JFK or UFOs at bottom are consumed like entertainment genres) have a natural distaste for the other field. UFOs are the go-to topic if you are an assassination researcher and you want to pooh-pooh some other field as being an example of a field that *really* has no credibility. Meanwhile, to the outsider it all appears like one prostitute calling another prostitute a slut.

Did ya'll hear Rachel Maddow tonite? please respond to her!

harryashburn — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 22:42:59 -0400

OK, OK. I know Rachel Maddow is no leading light toward progressive change. she has to pull some punches. I thought she was brilliant 'til tonite. she began tonite's show on gun control showing the Manlicher-Carcano and talking about Oswald having killed JFK. I was floored. flummoxed. i tuned out. How should I respond? I e mailed her at rachelmaddow@msnbc.com, but i dont know if its valid. i told her she burst my balloon. i thought she was a genius. shes an idiot. i told her to return her Rhodes scholarship and spend the rest of her life in self-flagellation. I guess I'm hoping she willl come back on tomorrow nite, having been inundated with backlash like mine; and apologize and mend her ways.

Any of ya'll willing to do the same? I'd really appreciate it...I was about to start sex-change surgery so i could woo her.....

Enemy of the Truth: Fiester

LordBalto — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 13:09:53 -0500

At some point I swore I would never buy another book on the Kennedy Assassination, and I have pretty much kept to that except for the Douglas Horne AARB volume on the photographic evidence. I did, however, recently order a copy of Sherry Fiester's new book on the forensics of the case. I'm particularly interested in her take on the origin of the fatal shot, which I take was 20 degrees to the left of the underpass. For those of you planning on doing the same, keep in mind that there is a hefty processing and postage charge from her website, as opposed to ordering it through Amazon. So unless you need an autographed or inscribed copy or wish to support the author in her endeavors, the big box is probably a better buy. I'll post a short review when I receive it and read it, hopefully including my take on where the forensics can be overridden by evidence alteration and general deception.

SF

Rush TO Judgment

RJD — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 11:13:13 -0400

I recently acquired a copy of Mark Lane's Rush To Judgement at a local used book store(unusual; they had 4 copies come in, 2 soft, 2 hard cover), and am almost halfway through. It's incredible that they were able to get away with pulling that garbage and were so blatant about it. Alot of the things I already knew(excepting some details) from having read other Assassination books, but every chapter I find myself just shaking my head in disbelief and saying, "Wow".

Black Op Radio, March 14, 2013: Glen Echo

LordBalto — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 22:35:39 -0400

Jim made a big deal on this episode about Ruth Payne not knowing whether her sister lived in Virginia or not. I feel I should point out a few facts here.

I used to attend some of the estate sales in Washington and its suburbs. Traveling south on the Capital Beltway (I-495), you come to the Clara Barton Pkwy, which runs along the C & O Canal directly into Glen Echo, Maryland. If you drive across the bridge over the Potomac and get off at the next exit, you're in McLean, Virginia. Get off a couple of exits farther south and you're near Falls Church. And I'll tell you, if you didn't have a map, you wouldn't know whether you were in Maryland or Virginia. You have to go fairly far out before you start hearing a southern accent.

In the end these places are all western suburbs of DC. What she knew was that her sister lived near the Potomac River (accent on the -to-) west of DC. It's not as if she didn't know the difference between Rockville and Alexandria. Now that I would find suspicious.

9/11 as Intelligence Op

heinrich — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 09:45:11 -0500

I've not accepted the official story on 9/11 for ages now. But naturally, it's always been unclear exactly what happened, what parties were responsible, etc.

More specifically, while it's always seemed clear that some sort of 'powers-that-be' were behind it, I always thought it possible 9/11 was more a Defense Dept./Private contractor op.

Well, now I feel sure that the old-school intelligence agencies were involved. Reason?

Do a search for the Mohammed Atta visit to a certain Dept. of Agriculture office looking for a loan. Or you can also listen to an MP3 interview with Prof. Paul Zarembka on "Guns and Butter".

Atta goes in, spells his name out loud repeatedly. Says he wants a loan to get a small plane to do crop-dusting (this was to link the anthrax attacks with 9/11 in the minds of the public later -- but this fell through). When the woman said there was a process and that he couldn't just walk out the door with a couple hundred thousand dollars, Atta blew up at her, asked what would happen if he came behind the desk and slit her throat. Then as if nothing had happened, he noticed an aerial photograph of D.C. on her wall and demanded that she sell it to him. When she refused, Atta began to ruminate out loud about how it would be if a foreigner came and destroyed all those national monuments. Etc. Etc. The story goes on.

What this should remind you of is Lee Oswald handing out pro-Castro flyers right next to Navy ships, getting into 'fistfights', etc., to make sure everyone in the world was aware he was a pro-Castro leftist, etc.

'Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States' doco series on Showtime

GBaxter — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 01:32:50 -0500

http://tv.nytimes.com/2012/11/12/arts/television/oliver-stones-untold-american-history-on-showtime.html?_r=0

The Insider show had a story yesterday on a doco show Oliver Stone made 2 years ago, that's only now airing on Showtime
in the US, 'Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States'.

I haven't seen it, so can't make any comment, as I don't reside in the US, but if it's at least half decent, it'd be cool if Len
could do a phone interview Mr. Stone about the series.

What improvements would you like to see to the forum?

zcopley — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:47:32 -0400

Hey guys,

I'm wondering whether there are any improvements to the forum or BoR site people would like to see. Please leave feedback.

Thanks!

Zach

The Bay of Pigs and the Kennedy Assassination

LordBalto — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 10:41:14 -0500

I just noticed that Webster Tarpley's George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography is available online. Of particular interest is Chapter 8b, "The Bay of Pigs and the Kennedy Assassination," available here: http://tarpley.net/online-books/george-bush-the-unauthorized-biography/chapter-9-the-bay-of-pigs-and-the-kennedy-assassination/

COPA 10 Points of Agreement

heinrich — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 14:22:57 -0500

Anybody else think this misfires?

I looked at it and thought -- wow, if they're planning on using this for a public relations campaign, forget it. These guys have been so long down the rabbit hole they have produced something that only makes sense from the perspective of researchers. It's dense and tedious reading.

Harvey and Lee, Previous Generation!

LordBalto — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 18:35:01 -0500

I'm working on a graphic of the family tree of the two Lee Harvey Oswalds that I will post when finished based on the work of John Armstrong. However, at least on the audio tape, Armstrong claims that the name "Harvey" comes from (the tall) Lee Harvey Oswald's maternal grandmother, which would make the name of (the tall) Marguerite (Claverie) Oswald's mother "Dora Harvey." Dora was the wife of John M Claverie. Now this is still possible, and I may have misheard something, but the fact is that the father of (the tall) LEE Harvey Oswald, as opposed to the short Lee HARVEY Oswald, shows up in the census of 1910 for New Orleans, Louisiana, not as Robert E L Oswald, as he does in 1920, but as LEE Oswald. And this LEE Oswald, the son of William and Mary Oswald, has a brother named--I'll give you folks one guess at this! Yes, when the elder LEE was 14 years old in 1910 his brother HARVEY was 21 years old. Which raises the tantalizing possibility that Lee HARVEY Oswald was the son, not of Robert Edward Lee Oswald and Margaret Keating, as Armstrong tentatively hypothesizes in the interview, but of the uncle of LEE Harvey Oswald, Harvey Oswald, and his wife, perhaps the very same (short) Marguerite well-known to everyone. This would make the two Lee Harvey Oswalds not half brothers, as some of the evidence suggests, but 1st cousins, which would answer a lot of the inconsistencies in the evidence. Stay tuned. This is getting interesting.

JFK place in black history/civil rights

RJD — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 20:45:21 -0500

Interesting article, especially where it mentions Hoover thought that the civils rights movement was under the influence of communism. And of course JFK's support for civil rights. There were so many things going on around JFK during his time in office.

http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/news-general/20130223/US.JFK.Martyr.for.Blacks/

B-1 Bob

Doctorno — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 07:36:41 -0400

It's "B-1 Bob" Dornan was listed in 365 or 366 as B-29 Bob.

He was a California Congressman in the District where Rockwell
was big, the contractor that built the B-1 bomber that Carter
shelved, since Carter knew the B-2 was in the works.

If he was the B-29 cheerleader, that would have been for Boeing.

Which title belongs to Henry "Scoop" Jackson, "The Senator From
Boeing"

Scoop was the war monger, water hauler in the Democratic Party
who kept the Trotsky Gangsters under his wing, until they
reinvented themselves as NeoCons in about 1980 and were vouched
for by CIAs Wm. F. Buckley, sandwiched themselves into the
Reagan Revolution much to the dismay of the (Today's Ron Paul)
Taft Wing of the republican party who would have no part of the
Wall St. corporatist war mongers that the Trotsky bunch worked
with since the Russian and Mexican revolutions.

I personally think Reagan was not strong enough to fight Wall.
St. alone, nor could He see an alternative,,,

To his credit, RR heartily endorsed Warren Beatty's movie "REDS"
whose central theme was about being betrayed and overwhelmed by
those who hold power after the revolution. The Handlers, etc.

It will remain to us to educate people and build a bigger base of people
who understand what is going on if we are ever going to have a government that is accountable.

DiEugenio/Pease/Fetzer/Janney Spat

heinrich — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 08:41:26 -0500

Anybody else follow this? There was an online tit-for-tat between the abovementioned participants over Janney's book on Mary Meyer.

First off, the CTKA review:

http://www.ctka.net/reviews/Pease_Janney_Mary's_Mosaic.html

Then Fetzer and Janney:

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/07/22/marys-mosaic-a-litmus-test-of-jfk-research-integrity/

I found this to be an entertaining spat and worth posting here if only because Fetzer and DiEugenio have both been long time recurring guests on BlackOp.

"Margt O. Keating," 1947

LordBalto — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 14:13:33 -0500

Just a curiosity I ran into while looking at the records for Margaret Keating. In 1947, while continuing to live at 120 N. Telemachus in New Orleans, which identifies her as the correct Margaret Keating, she is listed as "Margt O Keating," widow of "Lee O Keating." The O in her name is clearly Oswald. This is a fairly rare usage, the reversal of the last and middle name, but I have seen it before. Now R. E. Lee Oswald had been dead since 1939, and "Lee" hadn't been married to her, at least officially, since 1933, so why is she calling herself his "widow" in 1947? And why is she calling Robert, "Lee Oswald Keating"? I have seen Robert, Sr, referred to as Lee elsewhere, so that's not a problem, but the distortion of his last name says something, I'm not sure what, about her perception of her own identity.

DiEugenio on Coast to Coast

heinrich — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 10:06:58 -0500

Anybody else catch this show?

I did my part and wrote Coast to Coast demanding that he be on.

JFK, Vietnam, and Super-Imperialism

heinrich — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 13:53:35 -0400

Here's an article I wrote reviewing Michael Hudson's book "Super Imperialism" in the context of JFK assassination research. The book and the review will be of interest to anybody interested in the JFK coup, Vietnam, and economics.

https://superimperialismandjfk.wordpress.com/

Cheers!

Kennedy Kids on Assassination

heinrich — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 04:37:15 -0500

See link:

http://news.yahoo.com/rfk-children-speak-assassination-dallas-050810379.html

Of course, Charlie Rose quickly turns the discussion toward the mafia.

Conspiracy Theory - Season 3

heinrich — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 08:25:20 -0500

It's starting to look as if Jesse Ventura's Conspiracy Theory - Season Three has been watered down, made a bit more ridiculous so as to be made harmless.

Anybody else been able to catch the new season? Any thoughts?

#591 Jim Marrs Alternate Zapruder Film Claim

LordBalto — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 23:26:24 -0400

I did a quick search on Google Video and came up with this: http://www.videoce.info/9aab4e63e.html

It's a short interview with a French journalist, name of Reymond, who claims to have seen the early Zapruder version mentioned in an email to Jim DiEugenio. Take it for what it's worth.

Just a couple of points.

1) The reporter claims the copy came from H. L. Hunt--who bought a copy from Zapruder--via a French right-winger.

2) The car came to a full stop, at which point Kennedy was shot TWICE in the head.

3) There was an obvious hole in the freeway sign.

4) Elm Street turn is on film.

5) Eight or nine shots were fired.

One wonders what DiEugenio will do with this, considering his belief that the film was not altered. Clearly, if this guy is for real, Costella is right about film alteration and reconstruction.

"Curiouser and curiouser."