tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306030502024-03-07T23:10:51.002-05:00Bleier's BlogRonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06894911763711058827noreply@blogger.comBlogger376125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30603050.post-71995640855653851812022-01-11T10:59:00.000-05:002022-01-11T10:59:12.809-05:00 Could Germany Have Defeated Russia in the Summer of 1941? An Exchange on the July -August 1941 Battle of Moscow that was never fought<br /><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk92785987;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk92785987;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span><b><span lang="EN-GB">The History of the Exchange</span></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk92785987;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">In December 2013 the <i>New York Review of
Books </i>published a review by Cambridge Professor Richard J. Evans attacking
a new book by Paul Kennedy. [</span><span lang="EN-GB">Paul Kennedy<i>, Engineers
of Victory: The Problem Solvers Who Turned the Tide in the Second World War </i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">(2013)]</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk92785987;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk92785987;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The <i>NYRB</i> printed my letter of reply
and Evans’s response in their February 2014 issue but I didn’t see the exchange
for some years later until I happened on it by chance on the internet. Recently
I polished up my unpublished reply to Professor Evans and I emailed him asking
if he would like to continue the conversation. I received no reply .</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk92785987;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">What follows is the relevant section from
Evans’s original review article, followed by my reply, his reply to mine and finally
my unpublished reply to his.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> <br /></span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><h3><span style="font-family: verdana;">A. from Professor Evans’s original article </span></h3><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2013/12/05/what-war-was-really-about/"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2013/12/05/what-war-was-really-about/</span></a></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Kennedy
speaks of “the folly of the cruel Nazi treatment of the Ukrainians and other
ethnic groups within Stalin’s loathed empire.” But such treatment was more than
“folly”; it was built into the Nazis’ war aims. Similarly, it would be missing
the point to see a strategic error in the diversion of German resources into
the extermination of the Jews. In the deranged vision of the Nazis, Germany’s
war was being waged above all to destroy a worldwide conspiracy against the
“Aryan” race orchestrated by international Jewry, of whom Churchill, Roosevelt,
and Stalin were the willing tools. This was a racial war, in which the
extermination of six million European Jews, not dealt with at all in Kennedy’s
book because it did not seem to belong to the normal arsenal of military
strategy, was a paramount war aim, to be extended ultimately from Europe to
America itself, from which, Hitler supposed, the world conspiracy against
Germany was being orchestrated.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Struggle,
conflict, aggression, and violence were central to Nazi ideology, which
envisaged endless war as the only way of keeping the “Aryan” race supreme. In
the face of irrationality of this order, it is rather beside the point to
suggest, as Kennedy does, that the Germans might have won the war, or to claim
that without the contribution of this or that logistical, organizational, or
technological innovation, “victory would remain out of grasp.” Defeat was
pre-programmed for the Axis by the very nature of its war aims, not just by the
means through which the Axis powers sought to achieve them. Like every book
that treats World War II as a rational conflict along the lines of the Seven
Years’ War or the Franco-Prussian War or the American Civil War, which were
fought for clearly defined ends that either side might have achieved, <i>Engineers
of Victory</i> in this sense is fundamentally misconceived from the outset.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<h3>B <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2014/02/06/could-hitler-have-won/"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">R<span style="font-size: large;">onald Bleier replies to
Professor Evans, followed by his reply to mine.</span></span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"></span></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2014/02/06/could-hitler-have-won/</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Professor
Richard J. Evans dismisses Paul Kennedy’s suggestion that the Germans might
have won the war as “beside the point,” writing that “defeat was pre-programmed
for the Axis by the very nature of its war aims” [“What the War Was Really About,”
<i>NYRB</i>, December 5, 2013].</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Regarding
Japan few would doubt that her resources were unequal to destroying US might,
nor that its “brutal and sadistic </span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">behavior</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">” in pursuit of a Co-prosperity Sphere
served to doom its prospects.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">But
Germany is another story. Evidence suggests that it wasn’t horrific Nazi war
aims, but radical interference by Hitler himself that brought German ruin.
Early victories in Operation Barbarossa unveiled remarkable and still not
adequately explored possibilities. Bevin Alexander (<i>How Hitler Could Have
Won WWII: The Fatal Errors That Led to Nazi Defeat,</i> 2000) writes of Army
Group Center’s “astonishing success” advancing 440 miles in only six weeks. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">With few
Soviet troops in their way, Guderian’s and Hoth’s tanks were only 220 miles from
Moscow when Hitler issued orders that amounted to self-sabotage. He ordered a
halt to the drive on Moscow, forcing instead Center’s panzer groups south to
the Ukraine and north to Leningrad. Guderian was so outraged by Hitler’s
deflection orders that he struggled, ultimately unsuccessfully, to force Hitler
to allow him to proceed to Moscow before</span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2014/02/06/could-hitler-have-won/#35956434" title=""Click to Continue > by DNSUnlocker" "><span style="color: windowtext; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="mso-ignore: vglayout;"><img alt="http://cdncache-a.akamaihd.net/items/it/img/arrow-10x10.png" border="0" height="10" src="file:///C:/Users/Ronald/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image001.png" width="10" /></span></span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> the end of the summer.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Surely
the possibility of an early Nazi victory over Stalin and the prospect of
Hitlerian world domination is a topic worthy of continued research<span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB">Ronald
Bleier<br />
New York City <br /></span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></span></p>
<h3>C Richard J. Evans<i> replies</i>: </h3>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Mr.
Bleier’s points are all dealt with in my review, which I urge him to re-read.
Far from there being few Red Army troops in its way, the German army met with
stiff resistance at every stage. The Army Supreme Command ordered a halt to the
advance on July 30, 1941, because the troops were exhausted, losses </span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">totaled</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> more than 200,000, and supplies
were running low. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">It was
only on August 21 that Hitler ordered the diversion of some forces to the
Ukraine. Already on August 2, Army Chief General Franz Halder confessed: “We
have underestimated the Russian colossus.” Every time a Russian division was
destroyed, he confided to his diary, “The Russians put up another dozen.” He
was already thinking of how to get winter clothing for the troops at this
point. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The
capture of Moscow would have made as little difference to the situation as it
did to Napoleon’s Grand Army in 1812. In any case, Mr. Bleier seems not to have
grasped my main argument, which is that since Nazi war aims were without limit,
involving perpetual warfare, first in Europe and then, in the event of success,
against the US, defeat at some point was inevitable.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">*** </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<h3>D<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ronald Bleier’s unpublished reply
to Professor Evans</h3>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">In my
response to Evans I emphasized one of the decisive moments of the war, the
battle for Moscow that could have begun in late July up to mid-August 1941 when
German forces were at their peak. That battle, which I call <i>Moscow Summer
1941</i>, was never fought because Hitler blocked it. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">By not
allowing Moscow Summer 1941 to be fought, Hitler ensured that his Eastern
campaign would not be over before the Russian winter and would continue
indefinitely. In his reply, Evans takes up the question of winter clothing but
he doesn’t mention that in 1941 Hitler repeatedly refused his generals’ timely
requests to provide his troops with winter clothing and winter provisions,
ensuring that many of his soldiers would freeze to death and much of his </span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">armor</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> would be immobilized during the
bitter cold Russian winter. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">In my
letter I noted Army Group Center’s “astonishing success … advancing 440 miles
in only six weeks” of June-July 1941.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Professor Evans noted an error which that I had copied from Alexander. I
wrote: “With few Soviet troops in their way, Guderian’s and Hoth’s tanks were
only 220 miles from Moscow when Hitler issued orders that amounted to
self-sabotage. He ordered a halt to the drive on Moscow, forcing instead
Center’s panzer groups south to the Ukraine and north to Leningrad.”</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Evans<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>points out that it was incorrect to say that
there were “few Soviets troops” ready to defend Moscow. Later I found evidence
to support my larger point that despite all the available men and resources
Stalin was able to scrape together to defend Moscow the best defence that he
could manage was not likely to stand up to the powerful German forces that
could have been marshalled against him if Hitler had allowed it. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">According
to U.S. historian R.H. S.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stolfi,<i> Hitler’s
Panzers East: World War II Reinterpreted </i>(1991), by August 5, 1941, about
45 days into the war, the Germans</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="Indent07"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>faced weak
Soviet field armies, [of] a combat strength of thirty-five divisions, compared
with sixty intact individually superior German divisions.” [cites Halder diary,
vol 7, p.22] </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="Indent07"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt;">The Germans knew [the Soviets] had put together a
total of 28 new divisions, moderately well-armed though badly trained.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="Indent07"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Stolfi, p. 181</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="Indent07"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">In
Stolfi’s view, “That the Soviets concentrated their strategic reserve around
the capital, does more to buttress the theme that they had lost the war by
early August than perhaps any other argument.” (p. 181) </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="Indent07"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt;">Only in one place on the eastern front – in front
of Army Group Center – is the enemy really smashed. … Now is the time to attack
with all of the mobile troops toward Moscow. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="Indent07"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>–General Fedor
von Bockm Commander of Army Group Center on 13 July 1941., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Tagebuchnotizen Osten I</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>–
Quoted in Stolfi, p. 76.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Evans’s
second sentence of his reply reads: “Far from there being few Red Army troops
in its way, the German army met with stiff resistance at every stage.” It’s not
clear what Evans is referring to by “stiff resistance at every stage.” </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">As is
well-known and as he has written himself in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Third Reich at War</i> (2009), the unprepared Soviet Union suffered terrible
losses especially in the first days and weeks of the war. The map he provides
shows very clearly the vast amount of the Western Soviet Union territory won by
Germany by the end of August.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">In the
first two weeks of the war, Germany had cut through Soviet defences like the
proverbial knife thru butter so much so that it appeared to all the world,
including to Hitler and his High Command, that the war was essentially over if
the German army simply continued Army Group Center’s attack toward Moscow. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Not only
were Soviet troops demoralized – though they struggled heroically – but Stalin
actually had a breakdown, well aware that he had crippled the Soviet military
in the 1937-1940 purges of more than 30,000 of the cream of his officer corps,
and had refused to heed alarms from his own intelligence services about the
coming Nazi attack. At the end of June, six days into the war, he retired to
his dacha and refused to come to work. Three days later, when his Kremlin
subordinates came to beg him to resume his duties, his first thought was that
they had come to arrest him.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">It
doesn’t seem much of a stretch to opine that Stalin’s depression had much to do
with the clarity of his understanding that due to his mismanagement he didn’t
have the resources to block Hitler from taking Moscow and winning the war. Just
before he left Moscow for what might have been the end of his career, he
admitted to his brain trust, “We’ve fucked it up.”</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Evans’s
next sentence reads: “The Army Supreme Command ordered a halt to the advance on
July 30, 1941, because the troops were exhausted, losses totalled more than
200,000 men, and supplies were running low.” </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Evans’s
formulation, “The Army Supreme Command” could give the impression that Hitler
was somehow uninvolved in blocking the summer attack on Moscow. I follow those
historians who believe that the <b>Army</b> <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">High Command</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> (</b>routinely
labelled OKH, Obercommando des Herres [Army]<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">)</b>, to distinguish it from <b>Hitler's</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Supreme Command</b> (labelled OKW, Obercommando der Wehrmacht) did not
make independent decisions. In fact, Hitler micro-managed the war in the East
(down to the battalion level in some cases), and OKH <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">always</b> took orders from Hitler.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Against
the wishes of his Chief of Staff Franz Halder, his Army Commander- in-Chief
Brauchitsch, his brilliant panzer commander Heinz Guderian, his Commander of
Army Group Center (AGC), General Hoth; and remarkably in the case of <i>Moscow
Summer 1941</i> even his sycophantic aide, General Alfred Jodl, Chief of his
Operations Staff, it was Hitler's order, not OKH’s, to halt the drive on Moscow
in August 1941, </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
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</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Of this
decision, noted historian Ian Kershaw: “The tenacity and stubbornness with
which [Hitler] refused to concede the priority of an attack on Moscow, even
when for a while, at the end of July, not just the army leadership but his own
closest military adviser, Jodl, had accepted the argument, was quite
remarkable.” (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hitler 1936-1945 Nemesis </i>2000,
p. 417)</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
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writes that German army losses at the end of July 1941 totaled 200,000. While
this is technically true, it misrepresents the situation confronting Hitler's Army
Group Center. The 200,000-figure referred not to AGC but to the three large
Armies, Army Group Center, Army Group North and Army Group South, comprising
1.3 million men when Operation Barbarossa began on June 22<sup>nd</sup>. In
context, the 200,000 German casualties up to the end of July were relatively
light compared to almost a million Soviet casualties, about 15 to 1.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
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York, December 2021<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
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<b>by Ronald Bleier</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">The
nine essays in this volume
written between 2005 and 2015—and two in 2019—trace the arc of
evidence
exposing the myth that Arab hijackers, led by Osama bin Laden,
were responsible
for the terror attacks of 9/11. The essays by editor Ronald
Bleier and four
contributing authors, contend that 9/11 was a false flag
operation, an inside
job, planned and executed by the George W. Bush White House. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">Two
essays by Ronald Bleier
summarize evidence presented by the late Gerard Holmgren, Morgan
Reynolds and
others that no planes crashed on 9/11: the so-called No Planes
Theory (NPT).
The central implication of the NPT is that there were no Arab or
Muslim hijackers,
nor were any planes hijacked, and that no planes crashed on
9/11. Unsurprisingly,
Osama bin Laden correctly protested his total innocence. The NPT
asserts that
the 9/11 terror attack was a homemade U.S. operation conducted
by elements of
the security services, overseen largely by Vice President Dick
Cheney. The
shock and awe of 9/11 did not require outside assistance
although it seems
likely the Israeli government had prior knowledge. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">9/11
was to be seen as a new Pearl
Harbor, conceived to jump-start permanent Global War, employing
terror to
advance its imperialist and nihilistic war plan, intending
destruction,
destabilization and mass suffering as collateral damage. After
the collapse of
the Soviet Union in the early 90s, the U.S. sought a replacement
bogeyman—and
created one in the Muslim nation. The new enemy facilitated the
U.S. agenda of
permanent war to maintain and enlarge its security budgets and
to support Israel’s
agenda of destroying its enemies. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">The
claim that no planes were
involved on 9/11 is sustained by the controlled demolition of
three World Trade
Center towers, the refusal or inability of the government to
produce evidence
of hijackings and hijackers, of plane crashes, or of plane
wreckage. Also
addressed is the question of how the cell phone calls were made
and what
happened to the airline passengers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">The
volume’s last essay by Ronald
Bleier, “Did Dick Cheney Plan to Assassinate President Bush?,”
ventures into
speculation arising largely from the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>unsuccessful attempt to assassinate President Bush in
Florida on the
early morning of 9/11, and the suppression of news of this
foiled plot. </span></div>
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Ronaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06894911763711058827noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30603050.post-40984248438458101302019-04-14T11:18:00.002-04:002019-04-14T15:45:38.062-04:00Snowden archives memory-holed !! -- As alarming as Assange's arrest!! --Cat McGuire<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">Cat McGuire writes:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Virtually
nothing is being said about how billionaire Pierre Omidyar, essentially
the owner of the Snowden docs, has shut down the release, analysis and
custodial care of the archives claiming lack of funds. This decision was
made just this past March, 2019 with the full participation and
agreement of Glenn Greenwald and Jeremy Scahill. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Understanding
the historical significance of the Snowden cache, Laura Poitras
screamed bloody murder that this important treasure trove has been
summarily shuttered, particularly since only 10% of the documents have
ever been released. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The
raison d'etre of the new company Poitras, Greenwald and Scahill created
in partnership with Omidyar called The Intercept (First Look) was for
Omidyar to finance the herculean effort of responsibly releasing the
Snowden documents. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">To
date, however, once Omidyar got control of the goods around October
2014, only a trickle of the Snowden archives has seen the light of day.
The remainder of the digital documents are in dire danger of never being
released -- or worse, being destroyed, accidentally or otherwise.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Remember,
from June of 2013 when the Snowden event happened to late 2014, for
weeks on end all we heard about were the Snowden docs, with one side
saying they're a violation of national security, and the
Greenwald/Poitras side championing the right to whistleblow state
secrets.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So
now that the famous Snowden archives have been unilaterally shut down
by Omidyar, Greenwald, and Scahill, why is hardly anyone from the left,
right, or center raising red-flag alarms? Even Snowden himself has been
suspiciously silent. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We
would not know about any of this were it not for Poitras who released
the private emails explaining how she was excluded from this momentous
decision. She exposed how alleged budget concerns were a smokescreen
since a mere 1.5% of the Intercept budget was allocated to the Snowden
archives team anyway.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Since
the very beginning, my sister Colleen and I have wondered what manner
of subterfuge has been going on with Greenwald et al. For a long time
now, a few brave critics have raised serious questions about Snowden,
Poitras, Greenwald, Scahill, and Omidyar to the ire of indignant
leftists who deem them all sacred cows immune to criticism. </span></div>
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to steal Craigslist for which in an unusual move against a corporate
principle, a Delaware judge all but called Omidyar a thief</span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After
taking over Intercept and poaching star reporters, barely allowing
anyone to publish their whistleblowing articles (e.g., Ken Silverstein,
Matt Taibbi)</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Past
duplicity notwithstanding, this recent development of the shuttering of
the Snowden docs is an unprecedented violation of the public trust.
Those documents belong to the American people, no matter how deftly
Omidyar purloined them -- or whatever deals-with-the-devil Greenwald et
al signed on to. As Greenwald purportedly said in December 2014 when
asked why he joined forces with Omidyar, "What billionaire do you expect
me to go with?" </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Why
is the press silent on such a momentous issue? Why has Greenwald
colluded in this outrageous new development, including the ousting of
Poitras? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">With
the arrest of Julian Assange, Greenwald has rightfully spoken out in
strong opposition to the extradition. Nonetheless, it is the height of
unseemly opportunism when Greenwald sent the attached email on April 11
to The Intercept's readers bemoaning Assage's arrest. . . and then
asking readers to support free speech by donating -- not to Assange's
legal defense! -- but rather to the already richly-endowed Intercept,
the very organization that is abandoning the valuable assets entrusted
to them by Edward Snowden, another besieged whistleblower.</span></div>
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claims the interview "became contentious" when NPR characterized him as
a "colleague of Julian Assange." Why on earth would being a colleague
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are some starter articles. Pass them on to journalists and beseech
them to publicize the memory-holing of the Snowden archive</span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">s.</span></div>
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Ronaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06894911763711058827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30603050.post-78989354448758193652019-03-15T15:22:00.002-04:002019-04-16T12:28:04.165-04:00 What Caused the Boeing 737 Crashes? Corruption at Boeing and the FAA. Duh!<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";"><span dir="ltr"><span class="_3l3x _1n4g">As
of March 14, 2019, Democracy Now, the <i>NYT</i>, the <i>NY
Daily News</i>, the <i>NY Post</i>, the <i>Wall St
Journal,</i> chose not to explain that Boeing, instead
of redesigning a new fuselage for its new and larger MAX
engines, introduced instead faulty software
which has now resulted in two terrible crashes this
year. <br />
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An informed comment by Lochearn appeared in Bernhard's
Moon of Alabama blog entitled<a href="https://www.moonofalabama.org/2019/03/boeing-the-faa-and-why-two-737-max-planes-crashed.html?fbclid=IwAR0K6NNrfLCRWygb4kOmf3UuMTGa-_lnMuFzmYF5bouVP3iFh5irwYaMy5Q#more">
</a></span></span><a href="https://www.moonofalabama.org/2019/03/boeing-the-faa-and-why-two-737-max-planes-crashed.html?fbclid=IwAR0K6NNrfLCRWygb4kOmf3UuMTGa-_lnMuFzmYF5bouVP3iFh5irwYaMy5Q#more"><span dir="ltr"><span class="_3l3x _1n4g"></span></span>"Boeing,
The FAA, And Why Two 737 MAX Planes Crashed</a></span><span dir="ltr"><span class="_3l3x _1n4g"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";"><a href="https://www.moonofalabama.org/2019/03/boeing-the-faa-and-why-two-737-max-planes-crashed.html?fbclid=IwAR0K6NNrfLCRWygb4kOmf3UuMTGa-_lnMuFzmYF5bouVP3iFh5irwYaMy5Q#more">"</a>
(3.12.19) which goes into more detail. </span></span></span><br />
<span dir="ltr"><span class="_3l3x _1n4g"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Lochearn wrote: </span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span dir="ltr"><span class="_3l3x _1n4g">Over the space of a
few months 2 almost new Boeing 737 MAX aircraft have
crashed. Rather than going to the expense of designing
an entirely new fuselage and normal length landing
gear for its larger and much more powerful 737 MAX
engines Boeing stuck with the now ancient 737 fuselage
design that sits only 17 inches from the ground –
necessitating changes to the positioning of the
engines on the wing, which together with the vast
increase in power, created aerodynamic instability in
the design that Boeing tried to correct with software,
while not alerting pilots to the changes.</span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span dir="ltr"><span class="_3l3x _1n4g">Through
the 1980s and early 1990s Boeing executives had
largely resisted pressure from Wall Street to cut
staff numbers, move plant to non-union states and
outsource. The 777 was the last real Boeing, though
significant outsourcing did take place – but under the
strict control and guidance of Boeing engineers. After
the “reverse” takeover of MacDonnell Douglas in 1997
the MDD neoliberal culture swamped Boeing and its HQ
was moved from the firm’s home near Seattle to Chicago
so executives could hobnob with speculators. Wall
Street had taken down another giant.</span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";"><span class="text_exposed_show">Bernhard
argues that the crashes are largely the responsibility of the
FAA which was aware of the danger and allowed the planes to fly
with faulty software and without properly alerting pilots.<br />
</span></span>Ronaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06894911763711058827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30603050.post-44194164185674115832019-02-08T12:06:00.000-05:002019-03-15T15:24:32.545-04:00Bleier: “On the Brink of Armageddon: LBJ, the Six-Day War, and the Attack on the U.S.S. Liberty” Amazon and B&N ebook<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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announce that “</span>On the Brink of Armageddon: LBJ, the Six-Day War, and the
Attack on the U.S.S. <i>Liberty</i>” is now available as an ebook on Amazon’s Kindle
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/books/1130433860?ean=2940161386736">On
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“On the Brink” is
also posted on <a href="https://desip.igc.org/LBJLiberty.html">my DESIP website</a>
and on <a href="https://bleiersmiscellany.blogspot.com/2018/12/on-brink-of-armageddon-lbj-six-day-war.html">bleiersmiscellany.blogspot.com</a></span></div>
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Brink of Armageddon" highlights the theory outlined in a<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>book by BBC documentarian, Peter Hounam:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"Operation Cyanide: Why the Bombing of
the USS Liberty Nearly Caused World War III." From Hounam and others it
can be inferred that President Johnson masterminded both the Six-Day War of
1967 and the Israeli attack on the Liberty. The latter operation was planned as
a false flag attack, not unlike Johnson’s Gulf of Tonkin hoax, this time to be
blamed on Egypt. It seems that President Johnson hoped the sinking of the
Liberty would serve as a pretext to join Israel’s war.</span></span></div>
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Stephen Green in the 1980s, principally his book, "Living By the Sword:
America and Israel in the Middle East," revealed that the U.S. was deeply
involved in Israel's<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>war and must have
been colluding with Tel Aviv for many months before June 1967. </span></span></div>
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details some of the evidence supporting Hounam’s incredible theory that LBJ
planned to initiate<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>World War III with
the bombing of a Soviet air base near Cairo with a nuclear-tipped weapon. In
the end, Cairo<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was spared the intended
nuclear attack when the USS Liberty miraculously somehow escaped from its
intended fate.</span></span></div>
Ronaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06894911763711058827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30603050.post-53228855706158960192019-02-06T12:37:00.002-05:002019-02-06T12:37:32.926-05:00Support for ISIS Comes From the U.S. and Israel -- Bernhard Curates the EvidenceHow did ISIS get started? Who has been supporting them all these
years? The U.S. and Israel. Duh.<br />
<br />
The Russians indirectly shamed the U.S.
into finally attacking ISIS oil tankers in 2015. See "Caught On Tape:
Russian Air Force Destroys Dozens Of ISIS Oil Trucks." <br />
<br />
After
initially making a show of finally following the Russian example and
destroying some ISIS tankers, the U.S. found excuses not to continue.
See for example, "US Planes Left ISIS Fuel Tankers Unharmed Because '<span class="text_exposed_show">They Ran Out of Ammunition'"</span><br />
<br />
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The interesting question is whether Trump knows or wants to know of
U.S. support for ISIS. If, for example, he really wanted to put an end
to the ISIS threat, all he would have to do, as Bernhard explains, is
leave Syria and allow Assad to do the job. Which Damascus would be only
too glad to do including ISIS sleeper cells which, once again are
supported by the U.S. and Israel because they serve their interest in
continuing the war indefinitely. <br />
<br />
For years, Bernhard has been citing documentation of U.S. attacks on Syrian forces in coordination with ISIS.<br />
<br /> Here’s a brief reference in his blog of 2.4.19 (Search for moonofalabama.org: "Trump Says U.S. Will Leave But Pentagon Keeps Adding Forces.)<br />
<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">
On Saturday a U.S. air attack targeted a Syrian army position south of the Euphrates near the border town al-Bukamal:<br />
A military source told SANA that the U.S.-led coalition warplanes
carried out an air strike overnight Saturday on Syrian artillery
position in Sokkariyeh village, west of al-Bukamal city. <br /> The source added that the attack resulted in destroying the artillery and injuring two soldiers.<br />
SANA reporter said that, in parallel with the coalition’s aggression,
Daesh terrorists attacked military points in the area, but the army
units repelled the attack and killed and wounded most of the attacking
terrorists.</blockquote>
<br /> This is one of several incidents indicating the U.S. intentionally lets some ISIS fighters escape to attack the
Syrian government.</div>
Ronaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06894911763711058827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30603050.post-1659073208832933352019-01-02T16:00:00.000-05:002019-01-02T16:00:21.606-05:00Bleier: On the Brink of Armageddon: LBJ, the Six-Day War, and the Attack on the U.S.S. Liberty<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">My long essay, </span><a href="https://bleiersmiscellany.blogspot.com/"><span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">“</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">On the
Brink of
Armageddon: LBJ, the Six-Day War, and the Attack on the U.S.S.
<i>Liberty</i>”</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">
recapitulates Part I (August 2018) and adds Part II, “The
Evidence,” supporting
the theory advanced in Part I. The notable change in the new Part I is that I
tried to clarify my notion that President Lyndon Johnson was the
mastermind of the Six-Day War and the attack on the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Liberty</i>. (See the first five paragraphs below.)<br />
<br />
</span><span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">In addition, I argue
that
it was President Johnson who fatefully insured that Israel would
capture and
retain captured Arab territory. Thus Johnson bears the major responsibility for
the consequences of the Greater Israel that was then born. </span><span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;"></span><br />
<br />
<span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">President Johnson’s decision
to suborn Israel into attacking the U.S.S. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Liberty</i>
and start WWIII in a failed false flag operation, intending to
publicly join
Israel’s war with a nuclear attack on Egypt, is the most
difficult element to
credit. The concluding section on “World War Three?,” appended below,
includes
author Joan Mellen’s cogent summary of our narrow escape.</span><span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">
<span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">***</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
<span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Part I
– The Exposé</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;"> </span><br />
</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
<br />
<span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">Largely through the
work of one researcher, BBC documentarian and author Peter
Hounam, a disquieting
revisionist theory has been abroad, opening windows onto the
history of the
1967 Arab-Israel war (a/k/a, the Six-Day War) as well as on the
Israeli attack
on the U.S.S. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Liberty, </i>a
spy ship.
Hounam published his exposé, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Operation
Cyanide</i>:</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Why
the Bombing of
the USS </i>Liberty <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Nearly
Caused World War
III</i> in <span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">2003,<a href="mailbox:///C:/Users/user/AppData/Roaming/Thunderbird/Profiles/6wdbrafk.default/Mail/Local%20Folders/Pubs%20resendinge1d5126e?number=7619806#_edn1" name="_ednref1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[i]</span></span></span></span></a>
asserting that the U.S. and Israel colluded to provoke the war
and to sink the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Liberty</i>
in a false-flag attack, blaming
it on Egypt. The sinking of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Liberty</i>
was to serve as President Johnson's pretext to publicly join
Israel's war and
to strike a Cold War blow against U.S.S.R. support for Israel's
Arab neighbors.</span><span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;"></span><br />
<br />
<span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">Hounam's book revises
our understanding of Israel’s otherwise inexplicable attack on
its ally’s ship.
Even more than a decade later, many, especially in the West,
believe that
Israel’s motivation for trying to sink the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Liberty</i>
was to suppress its eavesdropping capabilities so as to
outmaneuver U.S.
objections to its planned attack on Syria the next day, the
fifth day of the
war. But Hounam reveals that besides the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Liberty</i>,
the U.S. had alternate surveillance platforms monitoring the
battlefield,
making the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Liberty</i>'s
intelligence
collection essentially redundant when it came to controlling
Israel’s military
movements. Furthermore Hounam insists that the Israelis were
aware of U.S.
surveillance capabilities, and so had no discernible rationale
for its attack. <br />
<br />
</span><span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">Hounam’s revelation
of
President Johnson’s crucial role in conceiving of the war itself
and his plan
to openly join Israel’s war via the attack on the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Liberty</i>, overturns the popular understanding that
both were secret,
independent Israeli initiatives. Hounam reprises previously
unearthed testimony
from an American whistleblower who played a significant
operational role in the
war. In addition, Hounam uncovers a second operative who details
his
operational involvement on Israel’s behalf. From these
testimonies, and others,
and the from the wealth of circumstantial evidence Hounam lays
out, it’s clear
that the war was the result of long-planned U.S.-Israeli
collusion and thus
must have been masterminded by President Johnson, who propelled
it. Only
President Johnson, in complete control of his government’s
military and
diplomatic apparatus, had the motive, the means and the
opportunity to plan
such a war and execute the U.S.’s role in it.</span><span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;"> </span><br />
<br />
<span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">Fatefully it was also
Johnson’s decision to shield Israel from international pressure
to withdraw
from captured Arab territory, which opened the door to the
ongoing tragedy of
more than five decades of Israeli military rule over millions of
Palestinians.
President Lyndon Johnson thus may be seen as the father of all
the terrible
ramifications, especially for the Palestinians and for the U.S.,
of the Greater
Israel that he made possible.</span><span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;"> </span><br />
<br />
<span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">Hounam's subtitle, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Why the Bombing of the USS
Liberty Nearly
Caused World War III,</i> references the even more
inconceivable element of his
theory, namely that only the unanticipated survival of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Liberty</i> prevented President Johnson from
proceeding with his plan
to initiate World War III by employing nuclear weaponry to
attack Egypt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
<br />
</span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">***</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">
</span></span><br />
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<span>World War Three?</span><br />
</div>
<br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">What are we to make of Hounam's
finding that Johnson was
determined to embark on World War Three by joining Israel’s war
with a nuclear
attack against Egypt? <span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">The
evidence
suggests that had the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Liberty</i>
not
narrowly escaped its intended fate, President Johnson seemed
intent on
proceeding with a plan that may very well have put an end to
civilization as we
know it. </span><span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;"></span><br />
<br />
<span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">Joan Mellen lists the
steps that led to our hairsbreadth deliverance. </span><br />
</span>
<blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><span><span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">Had Lyndon Johnson’s
order that no rescue planes be dispatched achieved its
intended result, the
sinking of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Liberty</i>;
had Egypt (with
Soviet assistance) been blamed for the attack, as was also
intended; had the
United States then retaliated by bombing Cairo with those
nuclear weapons at
the ready on the U.S.S. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">America</i>; had
the Soviets then responded with a nuclear retaliation on
Israel, as a Soviet
submarine commander has testified that they were prepared
to do; and had the
Strategic Air Command then further retaliated with its<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>hydrogen bombs,
raising the ante, Lyndon
Johnson’s legacy would have been World War Three. He came
close.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"> <a href="mailbox:///C:/Users/user/AppData/Roaming/Thunderbird/Profiles/6wdbrafk.default/Mail/Local%20Folders/Pubs%20resendinge1d5126e?number=7619806#_edn2" name="_ednref2" style="mso-endnote-id: edn2;" title=""><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[ii]</span></span></span></a></span></span></span></b><br />
</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;"></span><span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;"></span><span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">It's hard to imagine a
more stark difference between John F. Kennedy, who stood
virtually alone
against his government, trying to prevent World War Three in the
course of the
Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962, and Lyndon Johnson who,
five years later,
planned to start the conflagration.<br />
</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">***<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Read more: </span><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><a href="https://bleiersmiscellany.blogspot.com/"><span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">“</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">On
the Brink of
Armageddon: LBJ, the Six-Day War, and the Attack on the
U.S.S. <i>Liberty</i>”</span></a><br />
</span><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span><span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bleiersmiscellany.blogspot.com/">https://bleiersmiscellany.blogspot.com/</a>
</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;"> </span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">***</span><br />
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<a href="mailbox:///C:/Users/user/AppData/Roaming/Thunderbird/Profiles/6wdbrafk.default/Mail/Local%20Folders/Pubs%20resendinge1d5126e?number=7619806#_ednref1" name="_edn1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">[i]</span></span></span></span></a>
Peter Hounam, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Operation
Cyanide: Why the
Bombing of the USS </i>Liberty <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Nearly
Caused World War III</i> (London, Satin Publications, Ltd.,
2003).<br />
</div>
<div id="edn2" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<br />
<a href="mailbox:///C:/Users/user/AppData/Roaming/Thunderbird/Profiles/6wdbrafk.default/Mail/Local%20Folders/Pubs%20resendinge1d5126e?number=7619806#_ednref2" name="_edn2" style="mso-endnote-id: edn2;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">[ii]</span></span></span></span></a>
Mellen, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Faustian
Bargains, </i>p. 214.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"> </span><br />
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Ronaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06894911763711058827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30603050.post-21881121183624983932018-11-07T15:38:00.002-05:002018-11-07T15:38:24.937-05:00The GOP Steals Another Election – The Senate 2018<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span> Yup, once again, the
election was stolen --this time for the Senate. Jonathan Simon has already <span> </span>concluded that "it does look for all the
world like a masterful job of surgical rigging." He explains that it will
be clear in the coming weeks -- but will not appear in the MSM. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span>Evidently the
Republican operatives were clever enough to allow the Democratic takeover of
the House. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span>The following message is from
Mark Crispin Miller 11.7.18</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span>Note the rebuke of Gillum
because he conceded when he could have contested the election since AUDITUSA managed to get the ballots preserved. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span>MCM wrote:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span>In the wee hours of this
morning, Jonathan Simon wrote the following assessment of the outcome on
"Election" Day,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span>based on his study of the (as
usual) weird numbers coast to coast.
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span>Although the numbers will be
closely studied in the weeks to come (albeit not by "our free press,"
but by those very</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span>few who are devoted to the
premise, and the promise, of electoral democracy), I'm confident enough that
they will</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span>bolster Jonathan's
interpretation that I am sending it around today, in hopes that it may shed a
bit of light on what </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span>went down last night (as
usual), and, therefore, on what's going to happen for the next two years—and
what will</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span>keep on happening, until
enough of us wake up to the annulment of our voting rights, and the necessity
of our </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span>reclaiming them, however we
may need to do it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span>For those who want a link to
the scoresheets that Jonathan compiled, it's here: </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span>https://codered2014.com/2018-midterm-elections/
-- MCM</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span>Jon wrote:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span>Have to wait for tomorrow and
the full returns to complete my scoresheets but . . . it does look for all the
world like a masterful job of surgical rigging; the pattern of red shifts seems
to correlate with how I would have strategized and targeted it if I were in the
GOP war room, including letting Nancy Pelosi (or her "radical left"
usurper) stand there like a punching bag for Trump for two years - much better
to have the Democrats running the House, but the Senate (especially with an eye
to the contests in 2020) had to be beefed up, and key governorships (FL, GA,
MO, WI) held. And lo and behold . . . ! We don't have a full set of EPs [exit
polls] to work from (only 21 states, missing key races like Kobach) and those,
we were informed, were tweaked to neuter out the red shift. Well even that
tweaking didn't work - at least not in cases like Walker, McCaskill, Donnelly,
Nelson - actually most of the critical contests. And the pre-election polls
were even more red-shifted.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span>I guess what I want to say at
this point is that we shouldn't let the fact that we're pretty used to this
plotline numb us to what we're seeing here. This is exactly how you go about
stealing a nation and then keeping it stolen without doing anything stupid
enough to get caught. This is what the election fraud maintenance plan looks
like. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span>Candidates like Gillum [in Florida] conceding (I still can't believe it -
did I hear it wrong?) aren't much help, especially after AUDITUSA managed to
get the ballots images preserved. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span>But given the prevailing attitude to our
little election forensics cottage industry, I'm pretty sure nothing we can
mutter about this election, the red shift, the tweaked exit polls, etc. will
move that mountain. I think we're going to have to get ballot measures passed
proactively, not reactively - though it probably won't hurt to throw in a few
gentle observations about numbers that, tonight, yet again, didn't add up and
call canted in the same direction. Thanks to all, especially if your still up
and working on this and/or listening. - Jon</span></span></div>
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Ronaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06894911763711058827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30603050.post-26203333335797623342018-11-04T15:51:00.003-05:002018-11-04T15:51:30.543-05:00Flipping the election to Trump<span style="font-size: large;">Jaded observers are pessimistic about a blue wave this Tuesday because
dramatic change of the Congress takes place when the incumbent gives
little to his constituency to get excited about.<br /> (Obama 2010?)<br />
As it turned out Trump has given his base victory over victory even
though his victories amount to crippling the supports of an already
shaky polity.<br /> So it seems we’re in for a whole lot more of the du du.<br /> Aside from Republican inspired voter suppression, gerrymandering, purg<span class="text_exposed_show">ing
voter roles by the scores or hundreds of thousands, and Secretaries of
State with conflicts of interest -- in a race as close as this, it’s
easier to flip the results by means of computer reversal of the numbers.
<br /> Not did the bad guys find it hard even to flip landslides. Note
the risible 2004 re-election of Bush-Cheney – not to mention their
incredible numbers for the popular vote. Nor was the 2000 election close
before they changed the numbers.<br /> One thing we’ve learned to watch
out for is when they announce a temporary computer shutdown in the midst
of the vote count when the trends and the exit polls are not to their
liking.</span></span>Ronaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06894911763711058827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30603050.post-12677120986447820582018-10-18T23:14:00.001-04:002018-10-19T11:03:16.575-04:00Is Trump Trying to Block a Leak That He Gave MBS the Green LIght<span style="font-size: large;">The title of Kristof's op ed, <b>Trump kowtowing to MBS</b>, suggests that Trump might fear that the Saudis could leak that he himself
gave the green light for what eventually happened. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Democracy Now (Oct 15, 2018) reported that </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Khashoggi had originally gone into the Saudi Embassy in Washington, D.C. to apply for his marriage papers. He was
told to go to the one in Turkey.
His fiancée is Turkish. Could the conspiracy have been born then?</span><br />
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Trump is providing cover for Saudi barbarism.</div>
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Former Saudi Political Prisoner: Khashoggi’s Disappearance Is Sending a Gruesome Message to Critics</h1>
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Ronaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06894911763711058827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30603050.post-9492678584370821992018-09-11T13:40:00.001-04:002018-09-11T13:45:44.830-04:00Two articles by Ronald Bleier on No Planes on 911<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://desip.igc.org/NoPlanesOn911.html"><b>Holmgren
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The second one <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>explains, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>among other things, how those cell phone calls
were made since they couldn't have been made from cruising airplanes. The plane(s)
were taken to an unknown location -- identified by one researcher as somewhere
in upstate NY if memory serves -- gassed to death, with a few passengers culled
to make the cell phone calls before they too were dispatched. Another section
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like himself would need a dozen or more practice runs before he could accurately
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If you're going to read only one ten page article, try Gerard
Holmgren's <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.supremelaw.org/authors/holmgren/manufactured.html">"Manufactured
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</span>That's all it took for me to become a no planer.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If you're only going to read one book, David Ray Griffin, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The New Pearl Harbor </i>is
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<h3>
<span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">Part I -- Introduction</span></h3>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">Largely through the
work of one researcher, BBC documentarian and author Peter Hounam, a shocking new
revisionist theory is abroad, opening windows onto the hidden history of the 1967
Arab-Israel war (a/k/a, the Six-Day War) as well as on the Israeli attack on
the U.S.S. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Liberty, </i>a spy ship. Hounam
published his exposé, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Operation Cyanide</i>,
in 2003,<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=30603050#_edn1" name="_ednref1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a> asserting
that the U.S. and Israel colluded to provoke the war and to sink the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Liberty</i> in a false-flag attack, blaming
it on Egypt. The sinking of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Liberty</i>
was to serve as President Johnson's pretext to publicly join Israel's war and
to strike a Cold War blow against U.S.S.R. support for Israel's Arab neighbors.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">Hounam's book points
to the inconsistencies in the theory that the attack on the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Liberty</i> was a secret, independent
Israeli operation. According to this "consensus" theory -- the theory
held by <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Liberty</i> survivors, their
families and supporters -- the Israelis intended to attack Syria the next day,
outmaneuvering U.S. objections to further Israeli attacks on Arab territory. Key
to this secret plan would have been the elimination of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Liberty</i>'s eavesdropping on their forthcoming military operation. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">However, along with
information previously published in the 1980s by author Stephen Green,<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=30603050#_edn2" name="_ednref2" style="mso-endnote-id: edn2;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">[2]</span></span></span></span></a>
Hounam reveals that the U.S. had an array of surveillance platforms, making non-essential
the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Liberty</i>'s intelligence collection
when it came to Israeli military operations the next day. Hounam insists that
the Israelis were well aware of redundant U.S. capabilities, and so had no discernible
rationale for their assault on the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Liberty</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">Hounam's subtitle, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Why the Bombing of the USS Liberty Nearly
Caused World War III,</i> references the even more incredible and unthinkable element
of his theory, namely that only the unlikely survival of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Liberty</i> prevented President Johnson from
proceeding with his plan to initiate World War III by deploying a nuclear
weapon to destroy the Soviet air base outside of Cairo.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">***</span></div>
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<h3>
<span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">The Attack on the U.S.S. Liberty</span></h3>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">In the early afternoon
of June 8, 1967, the fourth day of the Six-Day War, several off-duty crewmembers
of the USS <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Liberty</i> were on deck,
enjoying the bright sun, and calm seas as the ship plied its slow, five-knot
progress, to and fro, off the Egyptian coast, not far from the Gaza border.
Although the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Liberty</i> was in a war
zone without the military escort they had requested, crewmembers were reassured
by sightings of the more than half-dozen Israeli overflights beginning in the
early morning hours. There was no doubt in the minds of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Liberty</i> crewmembers that the Israelis had identified their ship as
American.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">Shortly before 2 p.m.
local time, Israeli Mirage III jets appeared on the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Liberty</i>'s radar screen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Moments
later, all hell broke loose and the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Liberty</i>
was ferociously attacked with napalm canisters, 30 mm </span>cannon and rockets
aiming to take out the ship's bridge, the fore and aft gun mounts, and
especially the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Liberty</i>'s antennae.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=30603050#_edn3" name="_ednref3" style="mso-endnote-id: edn3;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">[3]</span></span></span></span></a> Survivors
estimate 30 or more sorties were flown over the ship by a minimum of 12
attacking planes.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=30603050#_edn4" name="_ednref4" style="mso-endnote-id: edn4;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">[4]</span></span></span></span></a></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">Israel's thirty-five
minute air attack was followed by the arrival of Israeli torpedo boats which
fired five torpedoes at the ship, the last one of which struck its target.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=30603050#_edn5" name="_ednref5" style="mso-endnote-id: edn5;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">[5]</span></span></span></span></a>
That explosion was responsible for most of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Liberty</i>'s 34 deaths and 171 injuries, a 70 percent casualty rate out
of the 294 men aboard. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">After the torpedo
attack, Israeli gunboats shot at crewmembers who were dousing the fires. Contrary
to international rules of engagement, the Israelis also shot up the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Liberty</i>'s lifeboats, some of which had
already been deployed -- though none had yet been boarded, as the order to
abandon ship had fortunately been reversed. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">Somehow the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Liberty</i> -- alone, defenseless --
initially cut off from communications, survived, but it was an extremely
close-run thing. The first piece of good fortune was that one of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Liberty</i>'s antennae, which had been out
of order and so didn't attract Israel's heat-sinking missiles, was repaired
under fire within ten minutes. Soon, an SOS reached the nearby Sixth Fleet,
despite the Israeli jamming of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Liberty</i>'s
radio channels by the attacking jets. Fortunately <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Liberty</i>'s radiomen found that the blocked channels were momentarily
open while the barrage of the jets' rockets was airborne.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=30603050#_edn6" name="_ednref6" style="mso-endnote-id: edn6;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">[6]</span></span></span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">Ordinarily, the
torpedo that struck the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Liberty</i>
should have been sufficient to sink the ship. But, by good fortune, the starboard
side remained above the waterline since the ship listed on the side opposite the
thirty-nine foot hole blown open by the torpedo. A second piece of luck was
that the torpedo struck one of the ship's I-beams, allowing the interior
bulkhead walls to remain intact, keeping seawater restricted to a few forward
compartments. Had the seawater penetrated to the hot boilers, the resultant
explosion would have sunk the ship within minutes.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=30603050#_edn7" name="_ednref7" style="mso-endnote-id: edn7;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">[7]</span></span></span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">Just as an approaching
Israeli helicopter, packed with armed commandos, hove into the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Liberty</i>'s view, about to deliver the <span class="js-headword"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">coup de grâce</i>, the
attack was called off.</span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"> <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=30603050#_edn8" name="_ednref8" style="mso-endnote-id: edn8;" title=""><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">[8]</span></span></span></a></span> <span class="js-headword">Evidently, it was </span>the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Liberty</i>'s SOS, which saved the ship probably because, after the
last shots had been fired, about an hour and fifteen minutes after the aerial
attack began,<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=30603050#_edn9" name="_ednref9" style="mso-endnote-id: edn9;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">[9]</span></span></span></span></a>
news of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Liberty</i>'s distress had
spread widely, making it problematic to attribute culpability to the Egyptians.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">The unexpected
survival of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Liberty</i> left both the
U.S. and the Israeli governments embarrassed. How was such an outrage to be
explained?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Soon the Israelis officially
apologized, contending that they had attacked a U.S. ship in error, mistakenly
believing that they had been under threat from an Egyptian destroyer.Although few, if any, senior
members in either the U.S. or the Israeli governments believed that such an
attack could happen "in error," the U.S. quickly endorsed the Israeli
explanation. Both governments continue to maintain the official, friendly-fire
narrative to this day. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">American witnesses who
could testify that the Israeli attack was no mistake were silenced by the U.S.
government's airtight gag order, which largely succeeded in squelching contrary
information. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Liberty</i> survivors were
admonished to refuse all interviews. Presumably to keep them from conferring on
their terrible, shared experience, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Liberty</i>'s
crewmembers were soon separated into various naval commands. The hasty and
superficial U.S. investigation that immediately followed, conducted by the Navy
Board of Inquiry, produced a predetermined whitewash. Similarly, Israeli
investigations into the incident supported the official account -- as do
Israeli and U.S. spokespeople to this day.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">The strict blanketing
of reliable information was broken about a dozen years later. Survivor, Jim M.
Ennes, Jr., the ship's electronic materials officer, managed to publish his
1979 book, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Assault on the Liberty</i>
despite the gag order still in effect. His account left little doubt that
Israel deliberately attacked a ship known to be that of its U.S. ally. Almost
singlehandedly, Ennes succeeded in reviving "the conversation" about
what really happened. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">Ennes also made a
point of addressing the obvious question: Why would Israel deliberately try to
sink a U.S. ship? Ennes's theory became what could be called the "Ennes
consensus theory," which <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Liberty</i>
survivors and their supporters even now uphold. Ennes wrote that Israel
intended to go ahead with its plan to attack Syria the next day despite President
Johnson's public opposition. To capture Syrian territory, they felt it
necessary to eliminate the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Liberty's </i>ability
to report Israeli battlefield movements to Washington.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=30603050#_edn10" name="_ednref10" style="mso-endnote-id: edn10;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">[10]</span></span></span></span></a> </span></div>
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A recent restatement of this theory is Philip Geraldi's 2017
opinion piece on the 50th anniversary of the attack in which he summarizes
Ennes's view that the Israelis ruthlessly tried to sink his ship.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=30603050#_edn11" name="_ednref11" style="mso-endnote-id: edn11;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">[11]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Similarly, a 2010 talk by British writer,
Alan Hart, a critic of Zionism, offered key supporting details. Hart emphasized
President Johnson's warning to Israel to limit its war aims. According to Hart, </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">Johnson gave
Israel’s generals a conditional green light for war with Egypt</span></b><b>. </b>But<b> </b>Johnson warned that on<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">
no account was Israel to widen the war for the purpose of grabbing Jordanian or
Syrian territory</span></b>." Hart spelled out what he believed was
the <i>Liberty</i>'s mission. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The idea behind the <i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">Liberty’s</span></i>
deployment was that if it picked up messages indicating that Israel was <b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">re-deploying from the Sinai to
launch major offensives in the north</span></b>, <b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">and against Syria in particular</span></b>,
the evidence of Israeli intent and duplicity would be passed to Johnson, and
that he would then pick up the phone to [Israeli] Prime Minister [Levi] Eshkol
and say something like: “<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">We
know what your generals are up to. You must order them to stop, and if you don’t
or can’t, I will</span></b>.” <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=30603050#_edn12" name="_ednref12" style="mso-endnote-id: edn12;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">[12]</span></span></span></span></a>
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">(Emphasis added</span>)</span></div>
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Undergirding this Ennes-Hart consensus
theory is the assumption that the Israelis acted independently and secretly,
apparently believing that the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Liberty</i>
was the sole source of U.S. real-time battlefield information.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Secondly, Hart assumes that the U.S. was
opposed to allowing Israel to attack Syria the next day. Thirdly it takes for
granted what is still widely believed, that the Six-Day War was a wholly
independent Israeli operation, not necessarily welcomed, or even suspected by
the U.S. The Hounam-Green theory debunks all these assumptions.<s><span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;"></span></s></div>
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<h3>
<span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">Stephen Green's Contribution</span></h3>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">Little new information
that would have countered Ennes's theory of Israel's motivation appeared until
shortly after the turn of the 21st century -- with a notable exception. In the
1980s, as noted above, Stephen Green published two books on U.S. Middle East
policy, motivated by what he saw as President Johnson's dramatic departure from
the policy of his three predecessors, Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy. According
to Green, until the Johnson administration, U.S. Mideast policy had prioritized
maintaining peace between Israel and its neighbors. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">Green was distressed by
what he believed to be the Johnson administration's turn away from the U.S.'s "principled
objectivity" in dealing with Israel's conflicts, which he "</span>transformed
into unreserved support of one side" --Israel's. "This departure in
American Middle East policy occurred during and immediately after the Six-Day War
in 1967."<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=30603050#_edn13" name="_ednref13" style="mso-endnote-id: edn13;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">[13]</span></span></span></span></a>
Green emphasizes Johnson's most dramatic and destructive policies which
forfeited, at least temporarily, its previous role as "primary
mediator" of the Arab-Israeli conflict. These included <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">the initial steps Johnson took toward
becoming Israel's major arms supplier as well as supporting Israel's nuclear
program, ignoring the U.S.'s long-standing nuclear non-proliferation policy.</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=30603050#_edn14" name="_ednref14" style="mso-endnote-id: edn14;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">[14]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;"></span></div>
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Notably, Green scooped key elements of the Hounam's theory
in his <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Taking Sides: American's Secret
Relations with a Militant Israel,</i> making public <span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">new and disquieting evidence of officially unacknowledged U.S.
operational involvement in the Six-Day War. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Green unearthed detailed testimony by an
unnamed participant -- subsequently identified as Airman Gregory Reight<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=30603050#_edn15" name="_ednref15" style="mso-endnote-id: edn15;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">[15]</span></span></span></span></a>--
that in the course of the war, the U.S. provided Israel with tactical
air-reconnaissance support. Reight testified that he and other U.S. personnel
worked side-by-side with Israeli technicians. The sophisticated photographic
equipment required to interpret battlefield film was provided to Israel by the U.S.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=30603050#_edn16" name="_ednref16" style="mso-endnote-id: edn16;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">[16]</span></span></span></span></a> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The unstated but startling implication was
that Israel and the U.S. had colluded in month's-long preparation for war. </span></div>
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Green also uncovered U.S. foreknowledge of the attack on the
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Liberty</i>. Such news should have shocked
many of Green's readers but the author kept his discovery hidden in plain sight
by limiting it to one sentence. He wrote: "The Joint Chiefs of Staff knew
about the planned attack by Israel on the U.S.S. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Liberty</i> before it occurred, and presumably informed the White
House."<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=30603050#_edn17" name="_ednref17" style="mso-endnote-id: edn17;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">[17]</span></span></span></span></a>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">Was Green aware that
the U.S. knew <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">a day in advance</b> that
the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Liberty</i> was to be attacked --
information that Ennes provided in his "</span><a href="http://www.ussliberty.com/addendum.pdf"><span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">Addendum to 2007 Edition</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">
of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Assault on the </i>Liberty?<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=30603050#_edn18" name="_ednref18" style="mso-endnote-id: edn18;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">[18]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If Green did know, it's not clear what he
could or should have done with the information. Once exposed, it would have
been clear that the U.S. could have prevented the attack, but chose not to.
Evidently Green preferred not to highlight the Johnson administration's apparent
intention to allow the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Liberty</i> to be sacrificed,
because such treachery was too toxic, too unthinkable, to lay before readers in
1984 -- just as it is today.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">Many of Green's readers
must have wiped from their awareness Green's single sentence asserting U.S.
foreknowledge. But Green's highly detailed ten-page exposé uncovering U.S. air-reconnaissance
assistance could not be easily dismissed, even as it conflicted with the common
understanding in the west of the Six-Day War as a wholly independent Israeli
initiative. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cognitive dissonance must
have been the mind-set of many readers unable to reconcile the opposing
theories: that the U.S. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">had no advance
knowledge </i>of the war or its opposite: that the U.S. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">was a key player in the war itself and could have prevented the attack
on the </i>Liberty. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">Relevant revisionist
information appeared on the site of </span><a href="http://dcdave.com/article5/141125.htm"><span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">blogger David Martin, (a/k/a, DCDave</span></a>). There he reviewed Philip
F. Nelson's <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">LBJ: From Mastermind to Colossus</span></i><span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">, Nelson's second book on the crimes of Lyndon Johnson.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=30603050#_edn19" name="_ednref19" style="mso-endnote-id: edn19;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">[19]</span></span></span></span></a> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this book he included two long chapters on
the attack on the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Liberty</i> which were
in turn based on Philip Hounam's </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Operation
Cyanide: Why the Bombing of the USS </i>Liberty<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Nearly Caused World War III</i> as well as Hounam's companion
documentary <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjOH1XMAwZA&t=57s"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dead in the Water</i></a><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">.</i> <span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;"></span></div>
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Hounam's book -- published in Britain but not the U.S. --
wholly supported the implications suggested by Green's findings, and much more.
In addition to repeating the testimony of Gregory Reight (though Hounam doesn't
mention or credit Green) he presented a great deal of mostly new witness
testimony that supported the theory that the U.S. was deeply involved
operationally in the Six-Day War and that the war was a U.S.-- not an Israeli
-- initiative. Hounam also took detailed testimony from another whistleblower
who was operationally involved in Israel's war, Joe Sorrels. Sorrels was a
communications expert who helped Israel suppress Egyptian, Syrian and Jordanian
signals and transmit misleading messages to confuse Arab leaders and
commanders.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=30603050#_edn20" name="_ednref20" style="mso-endnote-id: edn20;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">[20]</span></span></span></span></a></div>
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Hounam traces the background surrounding zealously
pro-Israeli President Johnson's decision join Israel's war and to create a
sacrificial lamb as a pretext to do so. In the context of rising domestic
opposition to his Vietnam War policies, the president's motivation was to gain
U.S. Zionist support for his 1968 re-election campaign and to score a Cold War
victory against Egypt's Soviet allies. Hounam's narrative reveals that the
question of why Israel attacked the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Liberty
</i>is really subsidiary to the strategic issue of U.S. initiation of the war
which would not have otherwise broken out. </div>
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Hounam recounts much of the information available from
public sources -- though generally downplayed at the time -- that President
Johnson, working through his pro-Zionist ambassador to the U.N., Arthur Goldberg,
acted to delay a cease-fire -- which the world body had been attempting to
secure from Day Two of the war. The U.S. thus made possible maximum Israeli conquest
of Arab territory feasible under the circumstances. Fatefully, Johnson also
gave Israel the required diplomatic cover to beat back world-wide demands that
Israel withdraw from the Arab territories it had conquered, much of which it
controls to this day.<span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;"></span></div>
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From the evidence Hounam presented we can deduce that the
Israelis, unsurprisingly, were reluctant co-conspirators in the attack on the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Liberty</i> since they had nothing to gain.
Their only reason for attempting to sink the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Liberty</i> would have been political -- to accede to U.S. demands, since
it was clear they were winning the war handily before the end of Day One. Nor
did they need the headache of their military personnel understanding that their
country had attacked a U.S. ship. Indeed, it seems that one of their pilots
refused to follow orders to attack the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Liberty</i>
and returned to base. He was duly cashiered. </div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">Hounam's book goes a
long way toward discrediting the illusion of Israel as a lone David, striking
down the mighty Arab Goliath. Hounam's evidence suggests </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-text-animation: lights;">that an independent Israel
would not, and could not have undertaken such a war against its Arab neighbors
in 1967; and would certainly not have independently dared to attack the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Liberty</i>.</span></b></div>
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<h3>
Anomalies and Other Questions</h3>
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In addition to providing a persuasive answer to the major
question surrounding the assault on the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Liberty</i>
-- why would Israel attack its ally's ship? -- Hounam's research provides coherent
answers to many of the anomalies and otherwise unanswered or unaddressed
questions surrounding the Israeli attack. For instance: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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-- Why was the date the war began moved up ten days from its
original intended starting date and how did this affect the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Liberty?</i></div>
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-- Why, three weeks before war broke out, was the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Liberty</i> rushed to the eastern
Mediterranean from its West African station when there was already another spy
ship, the U.S.N.S. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Private Jose Valdez, </i>already
in place? </div>
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--What are we to make of an alleged series of misrouted
messages to the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Liberty</i> that left the
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Liberty</i> vulnerable?</div>
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-- Why did Secretary McNamara and President Johnson recall
the rescue jets while the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Liberty</i> was
under attack? </div>
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-- Why were some of the jets sent to come to the aid of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Liberty</i> carrying nuclear weapons?</div>
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--Why did the U.S. refuse to provide the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Liberty</i> with the armed escort it requested?
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-- Why was the U.S. Embassy in Cairo warned that the city (or
its environs) would undergo a U.S. retaliatory attack? And why was the attack
cancelled?</div>
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<h3>
<span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">Lyndon Johnson's Dark Legacy </span></h3>
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Even before he died President Johnson's legacy as an
effective but irremediably damaged president seemed set in stone. Had it not
been for his disastrous Vietnam War policies, his ranking would have been high on
the roll of U.S. presidents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even his
detractors will concede that his presidency marked "a peak of modern
liberalism" as Wikipedia has it. It has taken right-wing opponents the
better part of a century -- and the advent of a Donald Trump -- to find
themselves in a position to overturn the great bulk of his Great Society and
War on Poverty reforms in civil rights, Medicare, Medicaid, voting rights and
more. </div>
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The U.S. and the world were particularly unlucky in that
Johnson had two formidable allies running critical U.S. government agencies empowered
to facilitate his terrible plans: FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and CIA chief
Allen Dulles. Without their indispensable participation in high crimes, LBJ might
not have been able to proceed as he did. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Even before books charging Lyndon Johnson with masterminding
the assassination of President Kennedy appeared in bookstores in the late 90s,
many people had determined by themselves that, besides the murder of JFK, Johnson
had also overseen the assassinations of the two other major political figures
on his watch, Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. Observers might have
reasoned that since Johnson controlled the investigations into those murders,
he must also have directed them.</div>
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One of the books pointing to LBJ's bloody hand which
appeared with the turn of the century was Barr McClellan’s<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";">Blood, Money & Power: How LBJ Killed J.F.K </span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";">(2003).<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=30603050#_edn21" name="_ednref21" style="mso-endnote-id: edn21;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">[21]</span></span></span></span></a> Its
portrait of Johnson, the man and his life and career in Texas, supported
evidence of the dark side of his record in Washington as senator and
vice-president. </span></div>
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Then, in 2010, Phillip F. Nelson published <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">LBJ, the Mastermind of JFK's
Assassination, </i>the first of his trio of books on the crimes of Lyndon
Johnson. Nelson provides in-depth chapter and verse that for <span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">Johnson there were no red lines he didn't dare
cross when it came to his political ambition; nor did Johnson feel constrained
to follow the law when it came to amassing great personal wealth. In <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mastermind, </i>Nelson provided the evidence
that supported his theme that Johnson was the indispensable actor who had the
motive, means and opportunity to put down the men who stood in his way on a
national level just as he had done in Texas. </span></div>
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By the turn of the 21st century, due to the work of
revisionist investigators and authors,<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=30603050#_edn22" name="_ednref22" style="mso-endnote-id: edn22;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">[22]</span></span></span></span></a>
we are beginning to see that Johnson's unshakable determination to prolong the Vietnam
War was only one appalling element of his utter ruthlessness. The case can now
be made that he was a monster; perhaps the most pernicious and destructive of
all U.S. presidents. It's almost too shocking to take in that one man was responsible
for the elimination of the leading lights of the progressive movement and the enduring
vacuum in the Democratic opposition. It's no surprise that such a vacuum has resulted
in the cynicism and alienation of the public from good government. The result has
been the remorseless devolution of the U.S.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>-- well before Donald Trump -- into the dark well it currently resides,
seemingly ever moving further and faster from hope of recovery. </div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">Nevertheless, even
those open to absorbing Green's and Hounam's evidence of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>U.S. responsibility for the Six-Day War and
the assault on the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Liberty </i>are likely
to have trouble wrapping their minds around Johnson's apparent intention to
employ nuclear weapons and contemplate WWIII, a plan that can be understood as suicidal.
The record suggests that, had the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Liberty</i>
not narrowly escaped its intended fate, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>President Johnson would have proceeded with a
plan that is likely to have cost him his own life -- and as likely as not, civilization
as we know it.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">It's hard to imagine a
more stark difference between John F. Kennedy who stood alone against almost
his entire government trying to prevent WWIII and Lyndon Johnson who planned to start
it.</span></div>
<h3 align="center" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">The
End</span></h3>
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<span style="mso-text-animation: lights;">Ronald Bleier (rbleier@igc.org)
is an independent researcher based in NYC where he edits Bleier's Blog and his
DESIP website.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-text-animation: lights;"><span style="font-size: large;">Note: </span>This article is also posted on my DESIP website at:</span><br />
<span style="mso-text-animation: lights;">http://desip.igc.org/desip/thesixdaywar.html </span><br />
<br />
<span style="mso-text-animation: lights;">Part II of
this essay (forthcoming) summarizes the evidence provided by Green, Hounam and
Nelson, addressing many of the unanswered questions and anomalies of widely
accepted accounts. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-text-animation: lights;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It includes sections on:</span></div>
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<span style="mso-text-animation: lights;">-- Alternate U.S.
Surveillance Platforms</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-text-animation: lights;">-- The U.S.
Operational Role in the Six-Day War</span></div>
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<span style="mso-text-animation: lights;">--LBJ Wants the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Liberty</i> Sunk</span></div>
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<span style="mso-text-animation: lights;">--<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Liberty</i> Captain McGonagle's
Foreknowledge of an Attack on His Ship</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=30603050#_ednref1" name="_edn1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a>
Peter Hounam, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Operation Cyanide: Why the
Bombing of the USS </i>Liberty <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Nearly
Caused World War III</i> (London, Satin Publications, Ltd., 2003).</div>
</div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=30603050#_ednref2" name="_edn2" style="mso-endnote-id: edn2;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">[2]</span></span></span></span></a>
For details on Green's contribution, see below.</div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=30603050#_ednref3" name="_edn3" style="mso-endnote-id: edn3;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">[3]</span></span></span></span></a>
Phillip F. Nelson, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">LBJ: From Mastermind
to "The Colossus,"</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Lies, Treachery and Treason Continue </i>(Skyhorse Publishing, 2014), p. 382. See
Stephen Green, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Living By the Sword:
America and Israel in the Middle East</i> (Battleboro, Vermont, Amana
Books,1988),</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>pp. 228-229.</div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=30603050#_ednref4" name="_edn4" style="mso-endnote-id: edn4;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">[4]</span></span></span></span></a>
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Phillip F. Nelson, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Remember the Liberty</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">!Almost Sunk by Treason on the High Seas,</i>
With Ernest Al Gallo, Ronald G. Kukal; and Phillip F. Tourney (Trine Day LLC,
Oregon, 2017) p. iv.</span></div>
</div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=30603050#_ednref5" name="_edn5" style="mso-endnote-id: edn5;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">[5]</span></span></span></span></a>
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Phillip F. Nelson, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Remember the </i>Liberty<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">! Almost Sunk by Treason on the High Seas,</i> With Ernest Al Gallo,
Ronald G. Kukal and Phillip F. Tourney (Trine Day LLC, Oregon, 2017). p.63.</span></div>
</div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=30603050#_ednref6" name="_edn6" style="mso-endnote-id: edn6;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">[6]</span></span></span></span></a>
James M. Ennes Jr., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Assault on the </i>Liberty<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">: The True Story of the Israeli Attack on an
American Intelligence Ship</i> (New York: Random House, 1979),</div>
</div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=30603050#_ednref7" name="_edn7" style="mso-endnote-id: edn7;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">[7]</span></span></span></span></a>
Nelson, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">LBJ: From Mastermind to "The
Colossus," </i>p. 391. Nelson, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Remember
the Liberty</i>!, p.63.</div>
</div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=30603050#_ednref8" name="_edn8" style="mso-endnote-id: edn8;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">[8]</span></span></span></span></a>
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Peter Hounam, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Operation </i>Cyanide, p. 268. </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">A long
article in the Chicago Tribune </span></i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">on the
Israeli attack in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Liberty</i></span></a><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"> -- unusual in that it supports Ennes's contention
that the attack was deliberate, contends </span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">that the Israeli helicopter offered help, not armed
commandos. According to </span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Ennes's
eyewitness testimony, the Israeli helicopter, about 50 yards away, was close
enough so that the commandos in battle dress could be seen and their intent
surmised. On board the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Liberty</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the order was heard: "Repel boarders,
they've come to finish us off" p. 96. </span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=30603050#_ednref9" name="_edn9" style="mso-endnote-id: edn9;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">[9]</span></span></span></span></a>
The attack began about 1:56 pm local time and ended at 3.12 pm. It did not last
for hours as some writers still aver. Ennes, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Assault on the Liberty, </i>p. 215.</div>
</div>
<div id="edn10" style="mso-element: endnote;">
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=30603050#_ednref10" name="_edn10" style="mso-endnote-id: edn10;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">[10]</span></span></span></span></a>
Ennes, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Assault on the Liberty</i>, p.
212.</div>
</div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=30603050#_ednref11" name="_edn11" style="mso-endnote-id: edn11;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">[11]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"> Search for: Philip Giraldi, "Remembering the
U.S.S. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Liberty</i>,"<span class="datewords"> June 6, 2017.</span></span></div>
</div>
<div id="edn12" style="mso-element: endnote;">
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=30603050#_ednref12" name="_edn12" style="mso-endnote-id: edn12;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">[12]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"> Alan Hart, "Why Really Was the USS <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Liberty</i> Attacked by Israel?" 12
June 2010.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">http://www.alanhart.net/why-really-was-the-uss-liberty-attacked-by-israel/</span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 10.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=30603050#_ednref13" name="_edn13" style="mso-endnote-id: edn13;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 10.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">[13]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 10.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Stephen Green, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Living by the Sword:
America and Israel in the Middle East</i> (Battleboro, Vermont, Amana
Books,1988) p. 2.</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=30603050#_ednref14" name="_edn14" style="mso-endnote-id: edn14;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">[14]</span></span></span></span></a>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Stephen Green, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Taking Sides</i>, </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">American's
Secret Relations with a Militant Israel</i> (New York: William Morrow and Co,
1984) <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">p. 180.</span></div>
</div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=30603050#_ednref15" name="_edn15" style="mso-endnote-id: edn15;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">[15]</span></span></span></span></a>
Peter Hounam, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Operation Cyanide</i>, p.
214.</div>
</div>
<div id="edn16" style="mso-element: endnote;">
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=30603050#_ednref16" name="_edn16" style="mso-endnote-id: edn16;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">[16]</span></span></span></span></a>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Stephen Green, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Taking Sides</i>, pp. 204-209.</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=30603050#_ednref17" name="_edn17" style="mso-endnote-id: edn17;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">[17]</span></span></span></span></a>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Stephen Green, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Taking Sides</i>, p. 241.</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=30603050#_ednref18" name="_edn18" style="mso-endnote-id: edn18;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">[18]</span></span></span></span></a>
James M. Ennes Jr. PDF, <a href="http://www.ussliberty.com/addendum.pdf">”Assault
on the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Liberty</i>: Addendum to the 2007
Edition" (2007)</a> </div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=30603050#_ednref19" name="_edn19" style="mso-endnote-id: edn19;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">[19]</span></span></span></span></a>
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">David Martin, a/k/a <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">DC Dave,
</span><a href="http://dcdave.com/article5/141125.htm"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">"Lyndon Johnson, Sinister<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Colossus</span></a><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">” a review of Philip
F. Nelson's second book on the crimes of Lyndon Johnson: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">LBJ: From Mastermind of Colossus</i></span>. <span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Thanks to my editor, Molly Nelson Haber, for
pointing me to DC Dave's website.</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=30603050#_ednref20" name="_edn20" style="mso-endnote-id: edn20;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">[20]</span></span></span></span></a>
Peter Hounam, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Operation Cyanide</i>, pp.
214-219.</div>
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<div id="edn21" style="mso-element: endnote;">
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=30603050#_ednref21" name="_edn21" style="mso-endnote-id: edn21;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">[21]</span></span></span></span></a>
Barr McClellan, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";">Blood, Money & Power: How LBJ Killed J.F.K, (</span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";">Hanover House, N.Y. 2003)</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=30603050#_ednref22" name="_edn22" style="mso-endnote-id: edn22;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">[22]</span></span></span></span></a>
See for example, Roger<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stone’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against
LBJ<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(2013,</i></div>
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LBJ<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(2013,</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>A friend sent me this email opening my eyes to the
sinister intentions behind Trump's tweets. Trump intends his supporters to harass his latest victims. He's using his tweets as weapons, fighting back in the only way he
knows.</b> </span></span></div>
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When Trump uses his tweets to go after the principals of
“Morning Joe,” not only is he grossing out the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He’s also—as he well knows—calling down death
threats on the targets of his wrath and derision.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Megyn Kelly writes in detail, in her book, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Settling for More</i>, about the terror
visited on her and her young daughter when she got crosswise of Trump and his
more unruly followers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m sure Judge
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All this has to be well known among journalists and
jurists.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So Trump’s targets extend well
beyond those he expressly names.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He’s
trying to instill physical fear in whole professions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Alas, pointing this out publicly would
probably make matters even worse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">NYT</i> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>reminded readers <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">of </span>what spurred Trump's ire: He was reacting to being called stupid, a goon, a thug, mentally ill and that he has dementia. Trump's tweets are more than unpresidential. They're the mark of the thug, the criminal. </span></b></div>
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<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/30/business/media/morning-joe-trump-twitter.html?_r=0">‘Morning Joe’ Row Is Fresh Sign of TV’s Iron Grip onTrump</a></h1>
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On Thursday, <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trumps-tweets-morning-joe-hosts-defenders/story?id=48375239">during
an interview on Fox News</a>, the Republican National Committee chairwoman
Ronna Romney McDaniel said of Mr. Scarborough and Ms. Brzezinski: “They’ve said
he has dementia. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">They’ve said he’s
stupid. They’ve called him a goon. They’ve called him a thug. They’ve said he’s
mentally ill.” And they have said all that</b>.</blockquote>
Ronaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06894911763711058827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30603050.post-70198464831933723742017-06-26T14:34:00.000-04:002017-06-26T14:34:16.187-04:00<a href="http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/mitch-mcconnell-healthcare-bill-may-lose/2017/06/22/id/797758/">Mitch McConnell: The Health Care Bill May Lose</a><br />
<br />
I was pleasantly surprised to see the NYT actually reporting news.<br />
I
gather Trump/McConnell care only about the tax cuts they want to pass
after their health care "reform" goes down.<br />
I suppose they're pretty
confident they have the votes for that.Ronaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06894911763711058827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30603050.post-57507303260357999842017-06-18T12:46:00.002-04:002017-06-18T12:46:48.998-04:00Moon of Alabama exposes example of AP's fake news.As if we didn’t know, the major purveyors of FAKE NEWS are the major
media. Here Bernhard points out a recent example of fake news from AP
--which we used to think was reliable. The route that the fake news
takes is that AP prints it and then others run with it and don't
bother correcting it even after AP does. In the second paragraph below,
Bernhard informs readers of the political slant of AP's Moscow
correspondent.<br />
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<a href="http://www.moonofalabama.org/2017/06/when-ap-spreads-fakenews-a-forensic-appraisal.html#more">http://www.moonofalabama.org/2017/06/when-ap-spreads-fakenews-a-forensic-appraisal.html#more</a></div>
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<i>For the record: Russia (and Syria and its other all<span class="text_exposed_show">ies)
have fought ISIS whenever and wherever they possibly could. It was the
U.S. that did not fight ISIS but used and uses it for its own purpose.
Obama and Kerry publicly admitted such (scroll down for their quotes).
Only after Russia pointed out that thousands of tanker trucks moved oil
from ISIS areas to Turkey without U.S. interference did the U.S. join in
to destroy them. Cruickshank is using the fake news from AP to spread
his own false claim that Russia and Syria did not and do not fight
ISIS.</span></i></blockquote>
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<i> Note that the
original AP report, seen in the AP screenshot above, has "Moscow" as the
dateline. The corrected one is datelined from "Beirut". The original
author of the AP fake news was its Moscow correspondent Vladimir
Isachenkov. It is certainly fair to say that Isachenkov's other
reporting from Moscow is rarely sympathetic to the Russian viewpoint on
the issues in question. His reporting is always a reflection the
unquestioned predominant U.S. view - be that right or wrong. The Russian
standpoint is never analyzed for its own value but always in relation
to the U.S. position which is a-priori taken as the ultimate truth.</i></div>
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Ronaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06894911763711058827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30603050.post-66375871808854390302017-03-11T11:37:00.002-05:002017-03-11T11:38:50.408-05:00Xymphora on CIA Cache<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="dtcn7" data-offset-key="5040m-0-0">
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<span data-offset-key="5040m-0-0"><span data-text="true"> <a href="http://xymphora.blogspot.com/">Xymphora.blogspot.com</a></span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="5040m-0-0"><span data-text="true">-- the go-to guy for links.This time on the CIA. As he notes, the supporters of the CIA are busy trashing the messenger. (His end quotation mark is confusing. I assume he wrote the last sentence.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span data-offset-key="5kk5l-0-0"><span data-text="true">The Truth About the WikiLeaks C.I.A. Cache". "WikiLeaks CIA cache: Fool me once". Army of CIA minions scurry to secure the honeypots. The sad truth is that the CIA is the direct cause of massive insecurity: "The CIA are the real ‘threat to national security’; leaks show they treated software exploits like toys". If the United States was functioning properly, the CIA would be immediately wound up, and there would be mass trials of all involved, with long, long, long jail sentences."</span></span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="2pinf-0-0"><span data-text="true">Yes, if there were justice and if the good guys were in the saddle. It turns out we lost our chance when LBJ offed all three --with help from the CIA, DoD and all the rest: JFK (1963) MLK (April 1968) and RFK (June 1968) -- not to mention Malcolm (1965) -- all on LBJ's watch!</span></span></div>
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Ronaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06894911763711058827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30603050.post-71119448271707674342017-01-13T13:06:00.000-05:002017-01-13T13:06:08.726-05:00Responses to my post on Trump's reversal? of Obama's bloody policie<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Several<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>people have
registered confusion regarding my last post and at least two
have explicitly asked if
I'm a fan of Trump. <br />
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">People are
confused since most readers understand <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that I've long been a
progressive, a Democrat,
a liberal, etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">I voted for Jill <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stein hoping Clinton would
win despite
everything I believe about her.</span></div>
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But we live in strange times.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">No I don't support
Trump. <br />
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">As I wrote, we
have probably not
ever seen anyone so unprepared and so unqualified to be
president as Donald Trump.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Nor do I think
Trump actually won -- and certainly not fair
and square. <br />
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">As <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the unadjusted exit polls
suggest, Clinton won the electoral college as well as the
popular vote. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I believe that <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>critical vote totals were
reversed by <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>computer
fraud -- never mind, in addition the massive voter
suppression, etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think the same
organized computer manipulation of the vote totals is what
changed in the
outcome in 2000 and 2004. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">In a previous post
I mentioned that Karl Rove was
caught out on national TV revealing that he intended the same
thing in 2012.
(Not to mention the dozens of such instances changing the
outcomes in
state-wide elections going back at least to the late 90s.)</span></div>
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</span></div>
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</span>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">At the same time
there is room for nuance.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">
</span>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Trump's "victory"
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>has already had some
major benefits; namely
burying the political career of the most criminal and most
corrupt candidate of just about
anyone who has ever been U.S. president.<br />
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><br />
</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">
</span>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Trump has also,
for the moment at least, taken the TPP, the
corporate giveaway pushed by Obama, off the table.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">
</span>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">And also, before
he takes office, he has called out the CIA for the liars and
manipulators that they are and have been since WWII. <br />
</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">
</span>
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<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">
</span>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">My intention was
to post a message before Trump takes office
when there is still hope that he will actually make a dent in
the fake news and
powerful propaganda --- especially the anti-Putin propaganda <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-- emanating from the White
House, from the
Democratic Party, the CIA and the mainstream media.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">
</span>
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<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">
</span>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">A tiny <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>example of how
I view the Orwellian world in which we are living --- vide <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the JFK assassination and
9/11 --<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New York
Times</i> Quotation of the Day" for 1.12.17, quoting Donald
Trump.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">
</span>
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<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">
</span>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">"If Putin likes
Donald Trump, I consider that an asset,
not a liability, because we have a horrible relationship with
Russia."</span></div>
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</span>
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<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">
</span>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">I can only guess
that the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Times</i> highlighted that quote hoping to further
smear Trump's
reputation<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>by
associating him with U.S. enemy
number one!</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">
</span>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">
</span>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">But Trump is
right!. Our relationship with Russia is horrible, exactly as
President Obama and the CIA intended.. <br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">As I indicated, at
the end of my post, I don’t think the chances are good that
Trump will actually change policy. <br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">If nothing else,
the forces against him are
too strong and Mike Pence is waiting in the wings to take
over. </span></div>
<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">
</span>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">But days before he
takes office, we can still hope.</span></div>
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Ronaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06894911763711058827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30603050.post-39394513158250504522017-01-11T12:46:00.000-05:002017-01-12T16:47:48.907-05:00Will Trump reverse Obama's bloody CIA Middle East and European Destabilizaiton?<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name">
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We still have a week or so before the inauguration to hope that the most
unqualified person to become president will actually change U.S. Middle
East/Anti Soviet policy by rejecting the sixteen years of CIA/White House policy. <br />
<br />
See below for some of the details regarding Obama's parting shot:
punishing Syria
and the Assad regime by cutting off utilities, water, gas, electricity
to millions of people in government-held areas. Presumably he ordered
such punitive actions against the Syrian people out of revenge for the
success of Assad's forces (with crucial Russian and Iranian and other
help) in ridding Aleppo of Jihadist control. <br />
<br />
I believe that Obama has been using the Moslem Brotherhood -- who are
still active -- and all the brutal jihadis like ISIS, al-Qaeda al-Shams
and others who want to overthrow secular rule in Syria as they have done
in Iraq and Afghanistan -- as pawns to wage perpetual war against
Syria. By tactically limiting their weapons supply, Obama revealed that
he doesn't actually want regime change, in part, because it would
expose the chaotic, and brutal aftermath, as in Libya. Together with
Israel he just wants continued and endless destabilization and
destruction. He's succeeded in keeping the war going for more than
five years. <br />
<br />
Had Clinton won there would have been less chance of a change in the status quo. .<br />
<br />
Here's the opening sentences from an email sent by one <span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , "serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Feroze Mithiborwala.</span>... <br />
<br />
<blockquote>
<blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , "serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I still cant believe that there are people out there
who are </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , "serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;">supporting the Imperial-Zionist-Political Islamist agenda. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , "serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">That there are people out there who are
tacitly, rather openly </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , "serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">
supporting the ISIS-Qaeda-Nusra-Ahrar al Sham agenda of converting </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , "serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">
Syria into an Islamic theocracy. </b></span></blockquote>
</blockquote>
Here Feroze might have mentioned Amy Goodman's Democracy Now (DN) as
one of those supporting Obama's destructive agenda. It would be
instructive to understand what forces are operating to keep DN in the
jihadist camp. I noticed, though, on at least two occasions, that
Amy's co-producer, Nermeen Shaikh, had the temerity to raise the
question of whether or not attacks on civilians were also perpetrated by
the "rebels." <br />
<br />
We’ll soon see if Tr<span class="text_exposed_show">ump
continues President Obama's destructive and ruthless CIA policy. We still don't know what Trump knows. Does he
know for example that Zionists are cheering on Obama's bloody eight year program of destroying the Middle East?: If
Trump actually intends to attack ISIS, then those like the Zionists, hawks, and the CIA
will be unhappy. And if Trump actually changes policy, the pressure to
remove him in favor of Pence will only grow. The prospects for positive change aren't rosy. </span><br />
<br />
<span class="text_exposed_show">Here's an opening paragraphs from
Bernhard's January 9, 2017 blog.</span><br />
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Currently a
campaign is waged by the Takfiri [jihadi] forces opposing the Syrian
government and by the U.S. to deprive the people under its protection of
all public utilities - water, gas and electricity. After the start of
the current blocking of the water supplies to Damascus and its 5-6
million inhabitants we noted: This shut down is part of a wider,
seemingly coordinated strategy to deprive all government held areas of
utility supplies. Two days ago the Islamic State shut down a major water
intake for Aleppo from the Euphrates. High voltage electricity masts on
lines feeding Damascus have been destroyed and repair teams, unlike
before, denied access. Gas supplies to parts of Damascus are also cut.</div>
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My revi<a href="http://desip.igc.org/Bleier-Range-Review.html%20.">ew essay <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">on </span>Peter
Ross Range's excellent <i>1924: The Year that Made Hitler </i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">(2016) is posted on DESIP (10 pp, 3900
words) </span></a></div>
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<a href="http://desip.igc.org/Bleier-Range-Review.html%20."><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">http://desip.igc.org/Bleier-Range-Review.html</span></b></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> . </span></a></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The excerpts
below (1,000 words) include the first two paragraphs and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>sections on "W<b>ere Germans Too,
Hitler's Intended Victims</b>?" and "<b>Hitler's Homosexuality</b>."</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Sections not included in this post </span></b></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Hitler's
Anti-Semitism</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Hitler's Lebensraum</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Hitler Finds a
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The Wobbly Weimar
Republic</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The Beer Hall Putsch</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Rare Opposition to
Hitler Noted</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Parole for Hitler and
Escaping Deportation</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Effect of Hitler's Homosexuality on His Policies</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Another Book</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">***</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">(Complete footnotes
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<h1 style="margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">
Despair and Triumph in Hitler's First Miracle Year:</h1>
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A Review-Essay on Peter Ross Range's <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">1924</i></h1>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">December 2016 by Ronald
Bleier</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">I was agreeably surprised to find that my modest
expectations for a book dealing with a single year of Hitler's life were more
than exceeded by Peter Ross Range’s <i>1924: The Year That Made Hitler </i>(Little,
Brown; 2016). I regard Range’s book as one of the most important works on
Hitler's political development. Range's lucid a<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a>nd
well-paced narrative details the critical events during the thirteen months
between November 1923 and December 1924. By the end of 1924, at the age of
thirty-five, Hitler rose from the ashes of his failed Munich beer hall putsch,
emerging from prison unbowed and confident, poised to pick up the reins of his
Nazi Party and drive it to its next level. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Range's focus on Hitler's consequential year also
opens the way to examining some of the elements that will figure for the
remainder of Hitler's career:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>his key
anti- Semitism and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">lebensraum</i>
watchwords; his homosexuality and his fateful plans for Germany, Europe, and
the whole world.</span></div>
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Were Germans, Too, Hitler's Intended Victims?</h3>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Jews of course were not Hitler's only victims. Among
the 60 million WWII deaths were also eight million Germans.</span><span class="MsoCommentReference"><span style="font-size: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a class="msocomanchor" href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=30603050#_msocom_1" id="_anchor_1" name="_msoanchor_1">[</a><span style="mso-special-character: comment;"> </span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Were
the Germans who died merely collateral damage, or were they also Hitler's
intended victims? </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Joachim Fest, one of Hitler's German biographers,
tellingly wrote in 2004 of Hitler's "</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">hatred of the world and his thirst for extermination<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="mso-comment-date: 20161218T1424; mso-comment-reference: MNH_2;">."</a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=30603050#_edn1" name="_ednref1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span style="mso-comment-continuation: 2;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">[1]</span></span></span></span></span></a></span><span class="MsoCommentReference"><span style="font-size: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-special-character: comment;"> </span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In
March 1945, a month and a half before ending his life, Hitler issued his
scorched-earth orders for Germany, similar to the orders he issued as his
troops retreated from occupied territory. (Hitler had ordered the destruction
of Paris, but mercifully his orders were not carried out.) But when it came to
similar orders for Germany, Albert Speer, Hitler's senior minister for
armaments, objected, arguing that Hitler had no right to doom </span><span class="MsoCommentReference"><span style="font-size: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-special-character: comment;"> </span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Germany's
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plans: "No one," said Speer, "has the right to take the
viewpoint that the fate of the German people is tied to his personal fate. . .
. At this stage of the war it makes no sense for us to undertake demolitions
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If the war is lost, the people will be lost also. It
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survival. On the contrary, it is best for us even to destroy these things. For
the nation has proved to be the weaker, and the future belongs solely to the
stronger eastern nation. In any case, only those who are inferior will remain
after this struggle, for the good have already been killed.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=30603050#_edn3" name="_ednref3" style="mso-endnote-id: edn3;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"></span></span></span></span></a></div>
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committed suicide, can also be read as a disguised acknowledgement that by
engaging in war, he was responsible for the destruction of Germany. In his
testament he wrote that the Jews were “the real people to blame for this murderous
struggle," calling upon Germany and the Germans "to observe the
racial laws precisely and to resist pitilessly the world-poisoner of all
peoples, international Jewry."<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=30603050#_edn4" name="_ednref4" style="mso-endnote-id: edn4;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"></span></span></span></span></a>
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from himself onto the Jews. One clue is his use of the meaningless intensifier
"real" when he wrote: "the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">real
</b>people to blame would be the Jews!" The real person to blame was of
course himself. Ever the ultimate cynic and con-man extraordinaire,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hitler attempted to obscure his use of Allied
personnel and Allied weaponry as his means of killing his own people and
destroying his country. His last testament, was indirectly his sardonic boast
that he was going to his death knowing that he had accomplished much more of
his agenda of destruction, suffering, and death than he could have expected to
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Hidden Hitler </span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(2001)
has convinced many “by the sheer weight of direct and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><a href="http://allreaders.com/book-review-summary/the-hidden-hitler-10328"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">circumstantial evidence,"</span><span style="mso-endnote-id: edn5;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="color: windowtext; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">[5]</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that Hitler was a homosexual -- <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of the type that could not bear the slightest
intimacy with women. (Hitler's homosexuality is not addressed in Range's book.)
In Machtan's view, Hitler was able to conceal his sexual nature because he
relentlessly pursued and destroyed whatever evidence he could find. He was also
determined to silence, even by means of murder, those who could expose him.
When he became Chancellor of Germany he made a point of confiscating the
six-volume file kept on him by the Munich police.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=30603050#_edn6" name="_ednref6" style="mso-endnote-id: edn6;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">[</span></span></span></span></a>Similarly, in 1938, when Germany absorbed Austria into Greater Germany in the
Anschluss, Hitler sent agents to confiscate the files that the Vienna police
had compiled, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>presumably because in
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stresses that Hitler was a frequent target of blackmail attempts. Machtan
asserts that it was the threat of exposing his sexuality that spurred much of
the blackmail efforts, some apparently successful. Along similar lines, Machtan
provides a revisionist angle to at least part of the motivation for Hitler's
bloody purge of June 30, 1934, known as the "Night of the Long
Knives." Among the hundreds Hitler ordered murdered was his mentor,
friend, and perhaps lover, Ernst Rohm, leader of the SA, the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sturmabteilung</i>, Hitler's paramilitary wing.
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special treatment. Machtan reports that in the so-called Feldherren wing, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hitler and Hess and others took pleasure in
sporting contests, rowdy evenings, and hot baths in the "modern bathroom
reserved for us alone<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="mso-comment-date: 20161218T1439; mso-comment-reference: MNH_5;">."</a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=30603050#_edn7" name="_ednref7" style="mso-endnote-id: edn7;" title=""><span style="mso-comment-continuation: 5;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">[</span></span></span></span></span></a></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The prison governor had to restrain their unruly behavior from time to time
with such messages as: "Nudity outside the fortress living room . . . is
not allowed. The proprieties have to be observed everywhere, especially when
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RRonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06894911763711058827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30603050.post-10903770554679776742016-11-06T14:02:00.000-05:002016-11-06T14:02:04.210-05:00Flipping the Election <div align="center">
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When Trump speaks of vote rigging he's
intending voter suppression, especially blacks. No big secret. I
suspect that until he met with Karl Rove months ago he was ignorant
of computer vote flipping; and that virtually all computer vote
counting is done on Republican controlled companies which are
routinely strategically manipulated. (See Professor Mark Crispin
Miller's recent compilation of the evidence.
<a href="http://markcrispinmiller.com/2016/11/election-theft-a-conspiracy-theory-only-an-ignoramus-or-a-troll-would-say-so-heres-the-evidence/">http://markcrispinmiller.com/2016/11/election-theft-a-conspiracy-theory-only-an-ignoramus-or-a-troll-would-say-so-heres-the-evidence/</a>)</div>
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One dramatic example of such flipping
I've cited in the past is the theft of the 2002 election from Don
Siegelman for governor of Alabama. It was a close race and one county
reported a set of results from electronic machines that made
Siegelman governor. Then in the middle of the night the computers
recalculated and reported a different set of results. He lost the
race. (He now sits in jail, afterwards railroaded by Karl Rove and
his cronies. President Obama refuses to pardon Siegelman, nor did the
White House make any effort to intervene to keep him out of jail in
the first place.
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Computer vote flipping to reverse
election results on a state and local level goes back to the 90s if
not before. On a national, presidential level I'm not aware of such
interventions till 2000 when the votes in Florida were flipped to
give the race to George W. Bush. In 2004 the flippers learned their
lesson and they made sure it wouldn't be close and they gave the
national vote to Bush as well as shifting the electoral college. Is it
amazing that they could get away with giving the election to someone
who was so deeply unpopular after four years in office, not least
because of Iraq? Kerry was well aware that Ohio was stolen but he
turned out to be one of a long line of Democrats who didn't want to
be president. He apparently was also briefed on the the long planned US attack to retake Falluja which would
have to be indefinitely postponed if he contested the election.</div>
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Needless to say the major media – as
well as the left alternative media – are unwilling to report on
such high level hijacking of a presidential election. One symptom
that they prefer to look the other way is that is that they refuse
to engage in exit polling in critical areas which would reveal the
discrepancy between official results and how people actually voted.
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Interestingly, a similar high profile
signal of election rigging happened in two presidential elections --
in 2012 and in 2000. In 2000 Florida was so clearly won by Gore that
the TV media were calling it for the Democrats by around 10 pm. Soon
a surprise national interview was granted by the Bush family as
they watched the results on TV in their hotel room. The Bush spokesperson
warned that no matter how clearly the results in Florida seemed, the
Bush camp were still confident it would change in their favor. In
hindsight, we can deduce that that they preparing the country for a
contested election, not to mention that the fix was in.
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On the evening of the 2012 election,
despite the overwhelming numbers, Karl Rove also tipped his hand that
he had intended to reverse a potential Obama victory. Search: "Karl
Rove's election night melt-down on Fox News." On national TV
he kept insisting that it wasn't over, that late results would swing
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A fly on
the wall reported to me that in Karl Rove's meeting with Trump a few
months ago, the substance of their talk was that
Rove assured Trump that in a close election, he could shift the results
in crucial states. Because Trump's opponent is Hillary, it's far from
clear, how hard Karl Rove might have to work. <br />
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For the latest iteration in computer
vote flipping see <a href="http://blackboxvoting.org/fraction-magic-1/">http://blackboxvoting.org/fraction-magic-1/</a></div>
Ronaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06894911763711058827noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30603050.post-15992937444952596162016-09-15T13:48:00.000-04:002016-09-15T13:48:10.681-04:00Hillary and Parkinson's?
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Stage Lying: Pneumonia Theory
vs. Parkinson’s Disease Theory; Doctors Chime In,”</span></a></span></span>
which included <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr1IDQ2V1eM">a 16
minute video on youtube by <span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span lang="EN-AU">Dr
Ted Noel</span></span></a><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"> <span lang="EN-AU">which
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confronted with multiple questions and goes into out of
control <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>head-shaking
and bug- eyed, open-mouthed <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>symptoms. She could
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Parkinson’s might explain her falls<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dr. Noel also asserts
that her coughing fits are not <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>due to
bronchitis but to a<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>swallowing
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downside to this otherwise powerful video comes at 13.56
when Dr Noel launches
into politics. He seems not to be aware that the evidence he
presented, and his down- to-earth, low-key, objective
explanations, have already
enabled viewers to come to their own conclusions. He does
make one good point
at the end which is that Hillary and her doctors, and
undoubtedly others, knew
she had Parkinson’s since at least 2012. We really don’t
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Ronaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06894911763711058827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30603050.post-57331279944813718552016-08-20T00:05:00.001-04:002016-08-20T00:05:18.086-04:00Staged Western Anti Assad Anti Putin Propaganda?<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Moon of Alabama’s blog post for 18 August
2016, <a href="http://www.moonofalabama.org/2016/08/the-wounded-boy-in-orange-seat-another-staged-white-helmets-stunt.html#more">“The
‘Wounded Boy In Orange Seat’- Another Staged "White Helmets" Stunt” </a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>deconstructs <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a dramatic video and a photo of a purported wounded
boy that has been <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>widely shown in
western media . (Berhard <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>links to the CNN
video.) Naturally, as Berhard points out, no such photos – staged or real – are
shown of the carnage inflicted by U.S. supported jihadis in Syria. I found B’s
evidence convincing that the photo was staged.B <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>also links to his June 2016 post of "’Dramatic
Rescue! Man With Kid Runs Towards Camera!’ - 44 Staged Pictures” where he similarly
exposes photo after photo of the same meme. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Along the same lines, I was not surprised
but distressed to find Democracy Now (DN) seemed to have no option but to fall
in line with <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Western anti-Assad,
anti-Putin disinformation/ distortion on their August 17, 2016 program. A key
clue was when DN’s guest, Dr. Zaher Sahloul explained that the Syrian regime
(with Putin’s help) has cut the Castello Road from Allepo to Turkey which has been
used to evacuate patients. Fair enough, but no mention was made that the same
road surely also brings in jihadis and weapons supplied by the U.S. and the
Saudis so as to keep the Syrian war going indefinitely. Could this be the reason
that Assad and Putin want to close such terror pathways?</span></span><span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></h3>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Update:</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Later I noticed that the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New York Times</i> (8.19.16) sported <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/pages/todayspaper/index.html?action=Click&module=HPMiniNav&region=TopBar&WT.nav=page&contentCollection=TodaysPaper&pgtype=Homepage">a
large 2.5 by 6 inch photo of the “Wounded Boy” on its front page.</a> Luckily I
had already seen B’s blog so I knew what to think of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Times</i>’ credibility and ruthlessness as they continue to operate as
CIA’s mouthpiece. Even later I tried to imagine how different things will be if
(should I now say ‘when’?) Hillary takes over the White House.</span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Excerpt from Democracy Now 8.17.16</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">DR. </span></strong><span class="caps"><b>ZAHER</b></span><strong><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></strong><span class="caps"><b>SAHLOUL</b></span><strong><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">:</span></strong>
I mean, before the siege happened, this—that’s been going on for more than five
weeks, the road to Turkey and to other places in Syria was open—the Castello
Road. That’s the same road that I went to Aleppo through and left Aleppo
through. And it’s right now blocked by the Syrian regime, and also assisted by
the Russians and the Iranian paramilitias. So, if the United Nations oversaw
this road, to keep it open, so we can have patients evacuated to Turkey.<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"></span></div>
Ronaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06894911763711058827noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30603050.post-41448971402571746582016-07-05T13:06:00.000-04:002016-07-05T13:06:38.343-04:00Roger Stone’s Expose of the Clintons<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Although I’ve had a
healthy political animus against Hillary Clinton for years, it was only after
reading Roger’s Stone’s </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Clintons’
War on Women</i> (2015) that my. eyes were opened to the unspeakable extent of
the Clinton crimes and corruption. Indeed the book should be called: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Crimes and Corruption of the Clintons.</i>
I had lately taken to calling Hillary “a monster,” largely due to the baleful,
destructive foreign policy outcomes that she oversaw in Syria, Honduras, Libya,
the Ukraine and the Maldives – and surely elsewhere. The Stone book showed me
that I had only scratched the surface of how deeply debased were the Clintons
and what might be the prospects if she reached the Oval Office.</div>
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Regarding Bill, I had a passing acquaintance from the work
of Christopher Hitchens of his history of his sexual assaults on women. From
Stone I also learned that it was Hillary who was<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bill’s chief<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>enforcer; compelling the silence of many of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bill’s victims. Stone insists that it is
Hillary who is the dominant figure in their marriage, and his portrait suggests
that she is one of those larger- than- life figures – a force of nature that
overwhelms those who oppose her. Stone portrays her as <span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">intimidating, powerful, ruthless, and as corrupt perhaps, as anyone in
public life.</span></div>
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While I had<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>assumed
that ethics was not the Clintons’ highest priority, I<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>hadn’t realized the extent to which<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>they were in the major leagues, scoring into
the hundreds of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>millions of dollars for
their various “charitable”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and
non-profit organizations such as the Clinton Foundation, the Clinton Global
Initiative, the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Clinton Health Access
Initiative and the Clinton Presidential Library. Stone alleges that some of the
funds from these organizations went to support their extravagant and grandiose
lifestyle. A measure of the Clintons’ brazen hypocrisy was exposed when Hillary
was forced to concede that it was “inartful” to claim that they were<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>broke when they left the White House. </div>
<h3>
Stone’s credibility?!</h3>
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Roger Stone is a long-time senior Republican operative
currently working for the Donald Trump campaign. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Obviously, he has every reason to dig up as
much the dirt as he can. But since he eschews policy debates, and writes only
of their personal histories, I found him a more reliable source for the reality
behind Bill and Hillary than I could expect from Democratic Party operatives
and from Clinton supporters. Stone makes clear that he understands that it
would do him little good with much of his intended audience to print
accusations that are not credibly supported. He quotes from sources like the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New York Times</i> and the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Washington Post</i> and he includes the
traditional scholarly apparatus of an index, a <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ten- page bibliography and hundreds of footnotes.
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Potential readers will decide for themselves whether to take
his charges seriously and whether to read his book. For the most part I found
Stone’s narrative persuasive, revelatory – and shocking. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was made aware that much of what I had known
about the Clintons was largely restricted to what appeared in the mainstream
media. I was also largely persuaded that the Clintons’ public relations and
intimidation campaigns were generally successful in that they have managed to keep
a great deal of damning information from acceptable public discourse. </div>
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<h3>
Co –president Hillary of the sharp elbows</h3>
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Stone alleges, and had little difficulty persuading me of
his finding, that Hillary was a sharp elbowed, foul-mouthed bitch, who
regularly cursed out her aides, not to mention her security detail. Nor was her
husband or colleagues spared her often brutal tongue lashings. A terrible
example may very well be the case of Deputy White House Counsel Vince Foster, (her
former lover, claims Stone) whom she publicly humiliated in a July 1993 White
House meeting. According to FBI agent Copeland, at the well-attended meeting, Hillary
told Foster “that he didn’t get the picture, and he would always be a little
hick-town lawyer who was obviously not ready for the big time,”(208)<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=30603050#_edn1" name="_ednref1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a> It
was this public humiliation, opine insiders, that pushed him “over the edge” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to suicide. (see below) </div>
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According to Stone, when Hillary thought it appropriate, she
both verbally and physically abused her husband. Stone includes several pages
of examples of Hillary’s “outrageous, nasty, and even violent behavior,” which took
place both before and during Bill’s presidency. Among other examples, Stone cites
an article by David Brock for the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">American
Spectator </i>entitled “His Cheatin’ Heart: Living With the Clintons: Bill’s
Arkansas bodyguards tell the story the press missed,” According to state
trooper Larry Patterson, once, when Hillary was unhappy with a quote Governor Bill
gave to the [Little Rock] morning paper, she unleashed her “garbage mouth”
calling him a “motherfucker, cocksucker, and everything else. (190-191) </div>
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One outburst of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“shrieking profanities” allegedly occurred <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>on the day of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bill Clinton’s inauguration in January 1993
when Hillary made her feelings known when her husband stubbornly refused to
accede to her demand that he transfer to her Vice President Al Gore’s office. (190)] </div>
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In another example in March 1993, when Hillary learned that
her husband was partying in D.C. with Barbara Streisand while she and Chelsea
were in Little Rock, attending vigil on her dying father, Hughie, Hillary rushed
back to the White House and beat her husband to the point where Bill sported a
“nasty-looking scratch on his neck.” Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers said that
“it was a big scratch, clearly not a shaving cut.” (192-193)</div>
<h3>
Bill’s and Hillary’s Co –Presidency</h3>
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While it was public knowledge that Hillary wielded
great<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>influence, I had not been aware of
Stone’s assertion that Hillary was effectively co-president. Stone claims that on
key issues she was very often or most often the decider. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If that’s true, then at the very least she
shares responsibility for some of the worst of his politics. Prominent among Bill
Clinton’s presidential betrayals, were: </div>
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--<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the Violent <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Crime</span> Control and Law Enforcement Act
of 1994 for which both Bill and Hillary have lately <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>been forced to <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>apologize in the face of the Black Lives
Matter movement and the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sanders
challenge <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>for advancing <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the New Jim Crow. </div>
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-- <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Gramm–Leach/Financial Services Modernization
Act of 1999 overturned New Deal banking and investment restrictions. Critics
have charged that the law opened the way for banks too-big-to-fail. Graham
Leach led to the “</span>creation of giant financial supermarkets that could
own investment banks, commercial banks and insurance firms, something banned
since the Great Depression<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">.” (Wikipedia)</span></div>
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-- the<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"> <span lang="EN">Telecommunications
Act of 1996 which many, not least this writer, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>have to thank monthly for our ever-rising
cable bills in exchange for<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>mediocre service.
Among the lowlights of the Act are <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>media
consolidation; the loss of scores if not hundreds of independent radio stations,
and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the “corporate welfare” which freely
gave away <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>valuable public digital
broadcasting licensees. </span></span></div>
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-- <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the Waco 1993<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>standoff and assault</div>
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Stone is particularly exercised by the ruthless role he
claims Hillary played in ordering the U.S. assault on the Branch Davidian
compound in Waco, Texas in April 1993 ending a 50-day standoff with the FBI.
The assault took the lives of 76 women, children (eighteen younger than eight)
and men -- some burned to death. Stone devotes a page to listing the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>names and ages of the victims at the front of
his book. </div>
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Stone’s charges that it was Hillary who was mostly
responsible for needless death<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>at Waco is
at variance with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waco_siege#Final_assault">official story claims
that Attorney General Janet Reno, representing the FBI, persuaded President
Bill Clinton</a> to ok the attack. His allegation is bolstered by phone-log
evidence pointing to<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hillary’s role,
along with Vince Foster and Associate Attorney General Webb Hubbell, who
together <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>coordinated the crisis. Stone
cites a source that claimed that an impatient Hillary, frustrated with the long
standoff, pressured a reluctant Janet Reno to act. (199-200)</div>
<h3>
Bill’s assaults on women</h3>
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Stone goes into some of the details of Bill’s alleged myriad
assaults on women including details alleging three assaults, citing one rape (Juanita
Broaddrick, pp. 49-56) one inappropriate advance (Paula Jones, pp. 58-61) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and one assault/attempted rape (<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Kathleen Willey 77–88). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stone alleges that these instances are a</span>
fraction of the sexual assaults committed by Bill that Hillary and her team had
not managed to squelch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/4l88wu/hello_i_am_roger_stone_ask_me_anything/">Stone
put it on reddit</a>, these accusations are not about consensual sex or merely
adultery or one night stands. </div>
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It's about sexual assault and rape. The number of women who
have accused Bill Clinton is staggering, and they are entirely believable. They
have not been paid by anyone to bear false witness against Bill.</div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Early in Stone’s book
we get a glimpse of where Bill might have picked up his “cavalier attitude
toward sexual conduct” and where both Clintons might have learned lessons
regarding the impunity that comes with high office. It seems that Bill told
Cliff Jackson -- one of his buddies during his Rhodes Scholar days at Oxford --
a story about how President Lyndon Johnson had sex with an anti-war hippie on
the floor of the Oval Office. It seems that they were in flagrante when a
secretary walked in on them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The lesson
Bill took away from the incident was: “How slick, how neat that Lyndon could
get away with this.” (p. 341)</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Stone cites reports that
Bill was a notorious assaulter of women going back to his twenties. As a Rhodes
Scholar, Bill was one of the few who left Oxford without a degree when he was
expelled at age 23 in 1969 “for sexually assaulting a 19-year- old coed named
Eileen Wellstone … at a pub.” (40-41)</span></div>
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According to Stone, Bill was a close associate of convicted pedophile
Jeffrey Epstein. Stone claims that Bill took seventeen flights on Epstein’s private
jet, the “Lolita Express,” routinely used for orgies at 30,000 feet, often with
underage girls. (See also <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/06/30/the-billionaire-pedophile-who-could-bring-down-donald-trump-and-hillary-clinton.html">“The
Billionaire Pedophile Who Could Bring Down Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton,”</a>)</div>
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Stone alleges that it was due in large part to Clintonian political
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>influence that Epstein received a mere slap
on the wrist prison sentence of thirteen months during the course of which
he<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>spent most of his time out of jail,
only retiring there in the evenings since the judge allowed him a sixteen-hour-a
day pass. </div>
<h3>
Hillary’s emails</h3>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Stone cites widely
quoted remarks by an exercised Mitt Romney, in April 2015, where he points to
some of the alleged corruption which could be the motivation behind Hillary’s
decision not to allow her emails to flow through government servers. Romney
said: </span></div>
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I mean, it looks like bribery. I mean, there is every
appearance that Hillary Clinton was bribed to grease the sale of [perhaps] 20%
of America’s uranium production to Russia, and then it was covered up by lying
about a meeting at her home with the principals, and by erasing emails. And you
know, I presume we might know for sure whether there was or was not bribery, if
she hadn’t wiped out thousands of emails. (352)<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Stone claims that
Hillary never followed through on the promise she made to the Obama
administration to “disclose the names and seek approval on donations” to the
Clinton Foundation as a means of inhibiting conflicts of interest. (339-340).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">In the most recent
flap over ongoing Justice Department inquiries regarding Hillary’s emails, the
mind boggles – even after reading Stone – at the Clintonian sense of impunity.
What could Bill have been thinking, one wonders, when he found or created an
opportunity to engage in a 30-minute “largely social” conversation with
Attorney General Loretta Lynch in her plane at the Phoenix airport on July 2, 2016?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New
York Times </i>reported that, when the inevitable outcry exploded, an
all-too-obviously embarrassed Lynch joked that “she should have acted more
swiftly to keep [Clinton] from boarding.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span>If, in the course of their conversation, Bill did indeed read
Lynch the riot act, spelling out her career prospects if she did not decide in
Hillary’s favor, then the Clintons may very well have made a cold calculation
that a few days of unpleasant headlines <span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">is
a smallish price to pay for dodging a government indictment and a presidential
campaign in shambles. (See for example: <a href="http://observer.com/2016/07/exclusive-security-source-details-bill-clinton-maneuver-to-meet-loretta-lynch/">“<span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">Former president delayed Phoenix takeoff to
snare '20-25 minute encounter' with Attorney General”)</span></a></span></div>
<h3>
The Clinton Foundation – A Cash Cow</h3>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">I had heard of the
Clinton Foundation before I read the Stone book but I<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>hadn’t realized how seemingly easy it has
been for the Clintons to brush aside regulatory restrictions intended to prevent<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>charitable donations from leaking into
personal accounts.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stone charges that while Clinton was Secretary
of State she oversaw large contracts to corporations like Boeing, G.E.,
Lockheed Martin which in turn made donations to the Clinton Foundation of $5 million,
$1 million, $250, 000 respectively. One example of extraordinary amounts going
to the Clintons was the $600,000 NBC (49% of which was owned by General
Electric) paid to Chelsea Clinton just before an enormous U.S. contract was
awarded to General Electric while Hillary was Secretary of State. (346)</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Nor does Stone have many
kind words for Chelsea Clinton whom, he charges, is a “grifter”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>just like her parents. Stone cites witnesses
describing her as “loud and demanding,” offensive to top staff at the Clinton
Foundation resulting in a good deal of turnover. Nicknamed by them as “the
Princess,” she has been termed “opinionated and aggressive.”(347)</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Stone spends several
pages detailing a number of complicated deals beginning <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>when Hillary was a senator in 2009 and later
as Secretary of State which involved transferring control of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>uranium mining from Kazakhstan to a Canadian
company<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and finally to Rosatom, a
Russian state-owned company. Stone claims that Russia now controls uranium
mining holdings stretching from Central Asia to the American West; and that the
Russians control one-fifth of the uranium mining in North America. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">In addition to the
national security implications of these uranium deals, Stone alleges
corruption, citing payments from these deals going to the Clintons. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stone points to, among much else, a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New York Times </i>April 2015 article
headlined: “Cash flowed to Clinton Foundation amid Russian Uranium Deal.” Stone
says that the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New York Times</i>
“confirmed” that investors who profited from the deal “’donated’ an astounding
$145 million to the Clinton Foundation.” Bill was paid a $500,000 speaking fee
by Renaissance Capital, a Russian investment firm with ties to the Kremlin in
June 2010, the same month that a key contract was signed for Rosatom control of
the uranium holdings. (349-353)</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Stone lists about a
page (of “instances in which the actions of the State Department benefitted the
immediate interests of the Clinton Foundation.” 341-342) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stone details the amounts in these cases that
flowed to the Foundation and to the Clintons. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">-- a developer donates
$100, 000</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">-- Chevron donates
between $500,000 and $1 million</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">-- Swedish telecom
company Ericsson pays Bill $750,000 for a single speech</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">-- a Chinese firm
Rilin Enterprises pledged $2 million to the foundation’s endowment</span></div>
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<h3>
The Haiti Earthquake Opportunity</h3>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Stone charges that the
Clintons were deeply involved the corruption surrounding recovery efforts
consequent to the 2010 Haitian earthquake. The Clintons were crucial brokers
“involved in every phase of the relief effort including a UN donors conference
at which 150 nations and organizations pledged an “astonishing” $9 billion. Stone
charges that the Clintons controlled the disbursement of this money and tapped it
for their own benefit and for the benefit of “their foundation and friends.”
(345) Stone writes that only 900 homes were built with the “millions and
millions” donated.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Stone notes that in
one Haiti-related case, a Clinton pal from Florida, one Claudio Osorio,
acquired federally backed tens of millions of dollars in 2010 to build hundreds
of homes there but constructed nothing and pocketed the money. He was a
contributor to Hillary’s 2008 campaign and also to the Clinton Global Initiative.
(374)</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Along with Osorio,
Stone lists details of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Clinton pals and
“crony-funders:”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vinod Gupta, Sant
Chatwal, Amar Sigh, Victor Dahdaleh, and Gilbert Chagoury who were all
variously charged with, and in some cases convicted, variously, of fraud,
illegal campaign financing, obstruction of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>justice, illegal campaign donations, and tampering with witnesses..
Among the monies that went to Clinton and/or to the Clinton Foundation or to
the Clinton Global Initiative from these persons was $3 million from Gupta,
millions from Chatwal and Singh, and millions in fundraising for Clinton and/or
the Democratic Party from Chagoury. (374-375) </span></div>
<h3>
Clinton and Drugs and Mena and the CIA</h3>
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While Clinton was president I had heard of CIA drug
smuggling at the airfield at Mena, Arkansas –about 135 miles from Little Rock --
that allegedly took place during the period of Clinton’s governorship -- <span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">1983 – 1992. (Clinton was also governor of
Arkansas from 1979-81.) Not </span>until I read Stone’s book, did I see allegations
that a portion of those drugs were for Bill Clinton’s personal use. </div>
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Stone’s evidence for Bill’s drug use comes from several
witnesses, including </div>
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<br /></div>
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-- Betsey Wright, his chief of staff when he was governor,
who said that Clinton had to be sent to drug rehab multiple times; </div>
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-- from “party girl” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and self-confessed drug courier Sharline
Wilson, who saw him “messed up” one night (131); <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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--from his long-time lover Gennifer Flowers (who witnessed
him taking marijuana only);</div>
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-- from Sam Houston, “a respected Little Rock doctor” who
claimed that Clinton “was admitted to the University of Arkansas Medical Center
for emergency treatment for cocaine abuse and overdose.” (132)</div>
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<br /></div>
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Stone also asserts that an investigation into Bill’s half-brother,
Roger, <a href="http://www.apfn.org/apfn/pardons.htm">who pleaded guilty to
distributing cocaine</a>,, had to be cut short because the “trail led directly
to the governor.” (132-134) According to a book by R. Emmett Tyrell,<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Madame Hillary</i> (2004):<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/Domestic/Hillary_Clinton_Drugs.htm">“Half a
dozen or more Arkansans have testified to doing drugs with both Clinton
brothers or to witnessing them doing drugs.” </a></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
The testimony from Betsey Wright comes second-hand from <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Larry Nichols, a Clinton former associate,
whistleblower, and Clinton nemesis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nichols
<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">went to work for Governor Clinton as
marketing director for the Arkansas Development Finance Authority (AFDA) in the
summer of 1988 and was fired a few months later in December 1988 after
confronting Clinton regarding the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>corruption he saw <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in the AFDA. (69) </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Stone writes that like
the Clinton Foundation years later, the AFDA, an agency intended to provide low
interest loans to schools, churches and small businesses, was a cash-cow for
the Clintons. The AFDA turned out to be a vehicle for “grants” to wealthy
contributors, a portion of which came back to Clinton in campaign
contributions. Nor was Clinton, Stone alleges, averse to “dipping in to get
cash from the agency.” (68) </span></div>
<h3>
Clinton, the CIA, and GHW Bush</h3>
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How did it happen that, as Stone alleges, Mena, Arkansas
became a major site for drug drops and distribution?” Stone alleges that Bill
along with the CIA and Vice President (and former CIA director, and later president)
George H. W. Bush, provided protection for Barry Seal, “one the biggest drug
smugglers ever brought before [a U.S. court].” (146)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stone reports that Clinton himself was a “CIA
asset recruited at the University of Oxford in 1968 as documented by authors
Roger Morris, Cord Meyer and … Christopher Hitchens.” (148)</div>
<h3>
40 Clinton Murders? </h3>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">In his introductory
chapter Stone notes “widespread claims” of Clinton responsibility for 80
murders. Stone thinks that that is too large an estimate by half. ( 25) Does
Stone believe that Clinton oversaw 40 murders? Even Lyndon Johnson was accused
of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>fewer than a dozen murders. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">In any event, Stone explicitly
examines circumstantial evidence of only one Clinton-related murder, that of
Jerry Parks, a decade-long associate of Clinton. Stone believes that it was
“Parks’s knowledge and participation in the Dixie Mafia/CIA drug running at
Mena. Stone’s claim is that what “Parks knew threatened the Clinton presidency”
and he was murdered in 1993.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">In one other case, investigator
Robert Morrow, Stone’s co-author, charges that in 1992 the Clintons and Buddy
Young sent “three goons<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to beat up and
nearly murder Gary Johnson” the next door neighbor of Bill’s inamorata,
Gennifer Flowers, whose security camera happened to record some of Bill’s
comings and goings. (170) </span></div>
<h3>
The boys on the tracks </h3>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">On the night of August
22-23, 1987 two teen-age boys – Kevin Ives (17) and Don Henry (16) were killed
under mysterious circumstances. Their prone bodies were run over by a train as
they lay on a stretch of track known to be a hub of “prolific illegal activity”
in Saline County Arkansas, not far from Little Rock, (137) Stone doesn’t
actually accuse Bill Clinton of their murder but presents evidence of his
participation in the cover-up and his close association with one of the key
players, Don Harmon. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">At first the boys were
officially deemed to be killed by accident. They were incapacitated, claimed
Arkansas medical examiner Fahmy Malack, from “twenty marijuana joints” and they
fell into “a trance on the railway tracks … side by side.”(139).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Later this account was seen to be a cover
for murder. The mother of one of the boys, Linda Ives, relentlessly pursued the
case and her story was told in a book by Mara Leveritt, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Boys on the Tracks</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">A key player in these
events was one Don Harmon, a Defense Attorney who was named as special
prosecutor, presumably by Governor Bill Clinton. It turned out that Don Harmon
is likely to have had a deep conflict of interest. One witness, Sharline Wilson,
drug courier for Harmon, puts him at the scene of the crime on the night and
hour that it seems likely the boys were killed. Sharline Wilson claimed that
Harmon and his men were at the railway tracks, watching over a drug drop --
expecting to pick up three to four pounds of cocaine and five pounds of
marijuana. While she waited in the car some distance away she heard two trains,
then she heard screams. “When Harmon came back [she reported], he jumped in the
car and said, ‘Let’s go.” He was scared. It looked like here was blood all down
his legs.” (138) </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Clinton protected Arkansas
medical examiner, Fahmy Malack<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(138)
whose controversial finding of accidental death for some time managed to cover up
alleged murder. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Clinton subsequently gave
Malack a $14 thousand raise and when Malack became a political liability he was
moved to a new job at three quarters of his old salary. (140)</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">According to Stone
many “other witnesses, close to the deaths of Ives and Henry, also met brutal,
mysterious deaths.” (142) Stone details four other potential witnesses <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>who died or disappeared in 1989 and briefly details
their connection to the incident. They are: Greg Collins, Daniel “Boonie”
Bearden, Jeff Rhodes and Richard Winters, a grand jury witness, whose murder, Stone
believes, was “staged to appear as if he were gunned down during a robbery.”
(142-143) </span></div>
<h3>
Vince Foster</h3>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Stone doesn’t
subscribe to conspiracy theories that the Clintons murdered Vince Forster.
Stone seems to agree that Vince Forster committed suicide in 1993. The
conspiracy theory that Stone does advocate, for which he provides persuasive circumstantial
evidence, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is that after Foster committed
suicide in his White House office, his <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>body was secretly and illegally moved to Fort
Marcy Park, a public park in nearby McLean, Virginia.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Stone deduces that the
body was rolled up in a carpet and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>moved
so as <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to keep investigators away from
his White House office which otherwise would have become a crime scene. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In that case, the Clintons would not have been
able to retain control over Foster’s presumably highly sensitive files. Hillary
later wrote that “sweeping” Foster’s office [of Whitewater documents] was ok
because it wasn’t “a crime scene.” (213) </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">***</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">At the end of his
book, Roger Stone wonders why an aging Hillary (born in 1947, she’s nearly 68)
wants to run for president since doing so <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>focuses intense attention on what she has been
attempting to hide throughout her career. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My own guess is that she may be on the corruption
treadmill. Absent<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>her candidacy she<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>would lose the leverage she currently enjoys
with those seeking multi-million dollar favors.</span></div>
<h3>
A voter’s dilemma</h3>
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This election has thrown up perhaps the worst two choices of
major party presidential candidates perhaps in U.S. history – although to some
it might seem that every quadrennial election does the same. Stone’s book has made
it that much harder for me to support the Democratic ticket. I voted Green in
NYC in 2012 though I supported President Obama’s candidacy to the extent that I
hoped he would defeat George Romney. I hoped that he might be constrained in
some cases by his party affiliation.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
While I applaud Donald Trump’s attack on the Trans-Pacific Partnership
(TPP), I panic at the thought of him in the White House. As for Hillary, I’m
now less convinced than I might have been that the former Goldwater girl has
the least interest in working for any segment of the American people beyond
herself and the .01%</div>
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This is going to be a tough year and an even tougher future.</div>
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Numbers in parentheses refer to page numbers in Roger Stone and Robert Morrow, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Clintons’ War on Women </i>(New York,
Skyhorse Publishing, 2015)</div>
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Ronaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06894911763711058827noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30603050.post-67212539911467890952016-05-01T14:41:00.001-04:002016-05-02T13:12:04.558-04:00Did Obama Sabotage his Mortgage Relief program?<div class="MsoHeaderCxSpFirst">
May 2016<o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In January 2008, when Senator Obama was running for the
Democratic nomination for president he
shocked many Democrats when <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/01/obama_praises_ronald_reagan_as.html">he
went out of his way to praise President Ronald Reagan.</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"> </span>It was impossible at the time to know what he meant,
but it now seems clear that he was signaling his intention to govern not as a
reformist Democrat, but as someone who would oversee the world on fire --- a
world where Donald Trump can seriously vie for the presidency. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The way in which he sabotaged his own mortgage relief
program – HAMP (Home Affordable Modification Program) – ensuring that in most
cases no relief would be forthcoming -- stands
as a model of his retrograde and
intentionally destructive agenda. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A follow-up article will outline a theory explaining his
motivation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Obama Inherits 15 Million Underwater Homeowners<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: large;">At the heart of the Great Recession of 2008 were the
millions of underwater homeowners -- those whose mortgage debt had risen more
than 20 percent higher than the value of their homes. At the peak of the 2008 crisis, there were <a href="https://secure.marketwatch.com/story/american-homeowners-still-drowning-in-mortgage-debt-2015-06-12">15
million</a> underwater homeowners. By
late 2015, their numbers had dropped, according to various estimates, to as low
as <a href="https://secure.marketwatch.com/story/american-homeowners-still-drowning-in-mortgage-debt-2015-06-12">4
million</a> – or as high as <a href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/04/21/houses-living-happily-ever-after/">7.4
million</a><span class="MsoHyperlink">.</span>.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">That the numbers had fallen from their highs were no thanks
to the Bush administration which was nearing the end of its term -- nor did
their Republican party remit do more than barely feign interest in such
matters. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">‘What about the incoming Obama administration? Supporters of
the new president might have expected that helping distressed homeowners would be
a priority since a goodly number were surely among his core constituency. Not
to mention assisting more than 10
million families would provide a crucial
boost to the economy and would immeasurably strengthened his party and burnish
his national appeal. Yet, apart from lip service and misleading press releases,
the Obama administration turned out to have just as little interest as had its
predecessor in assisting Main Street.
Indeed, looking back, we can now see that, just like his predecessor,
his agenda, when he entered office was to block aid to homeowners, despite its negative
effects on the economy. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Two books that emerged in 2012 which trace the Obama administration’s refusal to assist middle and lower class homeowners are Neil Barofsky’s <i>Bailout: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street
While Rescuing Wall Street</i>; and
Sheila Bair’s <i>Bull By the Horns:
Fighting to Save Main Street from Wall
Street and Wall Street from Itself </i>. Both books are insider accounts
attesting to the authors’ struggles against the Treasury Department run by
Timothy Geithner. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Indeed, it turns out that Geithner was basically following
White House orders. Neither books come right out and nailing President Obama as
chiefly responsible for setting US policy, but there can be little doubt that
Geithner acted throughout with the complete backing – and understanding of the
White House. By 2012 and certainly by
the time I read the Barofsky and Bair books in 2014 and 2015, I was clear that
President-elect Obama chose Geithner because he understood that the former head
of the New York Federal Reserve (and tax dodger) favored Wall Street over Main
Street on principle and would act accordingly. It was evident that Obama chose Tim Geithner to be his point man
blocking reform.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-AU">In the
spring of 2012 </span><a href="http://bleiersblog.blogspot.com/search?q=schneiderman"><span lang="EN-AU">I had
blogged</span></a><span lang="EN-AU"> on
the homeowner crisis issue when evidence emerged that, as he began his third
year of office, President Obama was
again breaking his promises. A</span><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/obama-mortgage-unit-awol-article-1.1063094"> <span lang="EN-AU"> New York <i>Daily
News</i> op ed </span></a><span lang="EN-AU"> revealed the administration’s
treachery. The </span><span style="background: white;">two authors of the op-ed,
Mike Gecan and Arnie Graf, had hoped that at long last, the president was
indeed serious about “speeding assistance to homeowners.” That many were
still suffering there was no question.
Gecan and Graf reported that in 2012 </span>there were 12 million
homeowners who were collectively $700 billion underwater. The writers were
exercised when they found that the administration’s newly formed “Residential<span lang="EN-AU"> “Residential Mortgage-Backed
Securities Working Group” was a sham even though it was to be co-chaired by
high profile New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. </span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">They cited the experience of a <span lang="EN-AU">hopeful Schneiderman who twice travelled to
Washington to take up his duties with the mortgage fraud Working Group. There </span><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/obama-mortgage-unit-awol-article-1.1063094"><span lang="EN-AU">he found that there was no sign of
an office, no phones or phone number, and no staff.</span></a><span lang="EN-AU"> According to their op-ed, <i> </i>this newly formed group was
the sixth such group that the White House had created and the total number of staff hired for the
previous five groups, “according to a
surprised Schneiderman,” was one! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-AU">By 2013
White House’s opposition to supporting Main Street was so widely understood
that half a dozen states attorney’s general for a time refused to sign off on
the administration’s clearly insufficient plan to stem mortgage fraud. They
couldn’t support </span><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/obama-mortgage-unit-awol-article-1.1063094"><span lang="EN-AU">a program whereby the government
offered merely $25 billion which was merely !0% of what homeowners who were victims
of “predatory banking practices”
required.</span></a><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A little hint from Barofsky? <o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: large;">President George W. Bush had appointed Neil Barofsky
Inspector General to monitor the $700 billion bank bailout program called TARP
– the Troubled Asset Relief Program.
Barofsky’s oversight position was created as a concession to Congress
which had hoped to ensure that at least a portion of the bailout funds would go
to struggling homeowners. A Democrat, Barofsky, was chosen for the post of SIGTARP –Special
Inspector General of TARP -- largely
because Congress hoped to put in place a
man who would stand up to powerful banking interests. He had been serving with
distinction for the past eight years as Assistant District Attorney for the
Southern District of N.Y. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Barofsky recounts an incident from early in Obama’s
presidency that had dismayed and confused me and later made me reconsider what
I took to be the new president’s priorities. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In February 2009, President Obama spoke at the Dobson High
School gymnasium in Mesa, Arizona to announce a $50 billion mortgage
modification program. Arizona was an appropriate
venue for Obama’s presentation, reeling, as it was, from an avalanche of
foreclosures,. Barofsky points to some of the statistics: Nationally there were
“2.3 million properties receiving foreclosure fillings and more than
900,000 bank repossessions in 2008 alone.”
Unemployment had shot up 2% in
the previous six months. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Behind the scenes, even while many were heartened by Obama’s
speech, Barofsky and his team were concerned -- as well as was Sheila Bair for
slightly different reasons (see below).Especially worrying was that Treasury
hadn’t given SIGTARP any details about the program even while it was announced
that the plan guidelines would be issued in two weeks. Barofsky felt it was too
short a time “put together a well thought out program.” Barofsky’s office was
in the loop because SIGTARP was created to oversee government expenditures on
these programs and to insure a clean, fraud-free disbursement of funds.
(Barofsky 124-127)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The day after the president’s mid February announcement in
Arizona, Barofsky was working with his colleagues in his Washington office with
the TV in the background when they heard some shouting. They looked up at the
TV monitor and saw <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Rick Santelli, a CNBC anchor, in midrant against the new TARP
mortgage modification program. He described it as a plan for
"losers" and compared it to Castro's Cuba. At one
point, he turned to the roaring traders on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile
Exchange and asked, "How many of you people want to pay for your
neighbor's mortgage that has an extra bathroom and can't pay their bills? Raise
their hands.” Finally, in a phrase that would change the landscape of
conservative politics in the country, "We're thinking of having a Chicago
tea party in July.”…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="Indent07">
<span style="font-size: large;">Santelli’s rant , and the political movement it inspired,
hung over the [SIGTARP] program for the rest of my time in Washington. (p. 127)
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In February 2009 I wondered if Rick Santelli was to have the
last word -- if his rant would be sufficient to kill U.S. action to help
underwater homeowners. Barofsky’s
narrative helped remind me that Santelli’s rant came just a day after
the president’s announcement and suggested an otherwise outlandish conspiracy
theory – defined as any theory not sanctioned by the authorities and their
media messengers. I wondered if the Obama
administration may have had a hand in engineering Santelli’s high profile
public relations attack on his own mortgage modification program -- perhaps via
a leak from someone in Geithner’s Treasury Department, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I wondered how Santelli could know in advance that President
Obama’s program would allow “losers” to mooch on government largess? Barofsky
writes that the details of the program, “the nuts and bolts of how the program
would work” were not yet in place, and so could not yet be public
information. President Obama, in his
remarks in Arizona, had emphasized that his plan would focus on “rescuing
families who've played by the rules and acted responsibly.” <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-mortgage-crisis">The
president was careful to emphasize that his plan</a> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">will <b>not</b> rescue
the unscrupulous or irresponsible by throwing good taxpayer money after bad
loans. It will not help … speculators who took risky bets on a rising
market and bought homes not to live in but to sell. It will not help
dishonest lenders who acted irresponsibly, distorting the facts and dismissing
the fine print at the expense of buyers who didn't know better. And it
will not reward folks who bought homes they knew from the beginning they would
never be able to afford. So I just want to make this clear: This
plan will not save every home. (my emphasis)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">While Santelli might have simply ignored Obama’s cautious guidelines
and rushed to judgment about the way “losers” and speculators might get their
hands on taxpayer funds, how could he know –without a heads up – that his
remarks would not face a strong White House inspired rebuttal from sympathetic spokespeople
inside and outside government?
Santelli’s reference to the Tea Party later made me wonder if the White
House and Treasury actually welcomed and encouraged Tea Party and Republican
opposition.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The White House rebuttal never happened. By not engaging in
strong pushback, the White House was effectively green-lighting the upcoming
Tea Party campaign and Republican and grass roots opposition.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Shelia Bair<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Widely perceived as an effective reformist and an opponent
of banks that were “too big to fail,” Sheila Bair served as Chairperson of the
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation from 2006 to 2011 -- two years into
Obama’s term. Bair also found Timothy
Geithner to be her bête noire, forcing her to work around the obstacles he
often put up, as she did her best to work for the public interest. Well before
the end of her term it was clear that she would not be reappointed by the Obama
administration. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<h3>
<span style="font-size: large;">Cheating homeowners, not helping <o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;">As it happened, Sheila Bair was at the president’s side in
Arizona when he announced his home modification program. <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/25/sheila-bair-book_n_1912699.html">Bair
cringed when the president announced that he aimed to help three to four million
homeowners</a>. She was vexed because
she understood that Obama was announcing figures he should have known (or
surely knew) were inflated. Her own, more aggressive, program –turned down by
Treasury -- would at most help about 1.2 million homeowners. History proved her right when three years
later, by the time she wrote her book, fewer than 900,000 homeowners were
making lower modified payments. <b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Worse than merely inflated claims, an adverse effect of the
White House’s inadequate program, was that about a million homeowners were cruelly thrown into foreclosure by the program even
though they had been making timely modified payments for months. These homeowners
had signed up for “trial modifications” -- an administration idea to quickly
announce high numbers – but were later informed that they had not filed all the
extensive documentation required. Thus
more homeowners suffered than were helped as the unlucky ones were duped into
premature or unnecessary foreclosures. .
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<h3>
<span style="font-size: large;">Geithner’s motive vs Obama’s<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Geithner’s motive for blocking aid to Main Street is
comprehensible, though reprehensible. He seems to have viewed his area of
responsibility as a zero sum game: i.e., his policies reflect the view that
help for Main Street conflicts with the interests of big banking and Wall
Street. What’s clear is that Tim Geithner should have been among the last
people tapped by a Democratic president to administer programs so critical to
the middle class and others. Nor is it accidental
that regimes such as Bush’s and Obama’s should especially target the middle
class since they are the ones with the wherewithal and the interest in
challenging injustice and inequity. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;">The question remains: Why did Obama choose someone like
Geithner who represented the interests of the 1%, or perhaps more accurately
the .001% Why didn’t Obama
take seriously his mandate to serve the national interest? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;">What was Obama’s motivation?
Why would he deliberately sabotage his own constituency, his own
reputation and that of his party, not to mention the health of the US economy
and the resulting international ramifications? Why did he pursue a malevolent
agenda? Why did he become the more effective evil, institutionalizing
retrograde and destructive policies? Why
did he act in a way that would make him so unpopular and so weaken his party?
Why would he deliberately give up the opportunity to gain public acclaim and
enhance his legacy?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;">One thing we can construe from the Barofsky and Bair
narratives is that they portray an Obama administration that has not been
passive. Barack Obama has not been conflict averse, nor disengaged. The
president’s destructive and obstructive record instead bespeaks an aggressive,
focused, determined mind, equally as ruthless and relentless as the people he
placed in powerful positions. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Obama’s appointments to senior and mid-level positions
all-too-often represent the president’s counterintuitive agenda. Geithner was
not alone in subverting the policies that Obama’s supporters hoped to see.
There were and are too many others -- often Republicans -- who continue to
serve as Obama's point men and women, pursuing policies antithetical to the
hope and change the country and the world so sorely needed. Some of their names
are Eric Holder, Larry Summers, Robert Gates, James Comey, David Petraeus, John
Brennan, Michael Hayden, Hillary Clinton – and more.. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Barack Obama is, or ought to be, known by the company he
keeps. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Ronaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06894911763711058827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30603050.post-40108030998134879042015-10-12T00:05:00.000-04:002015-10-12T23:18:37.641-04:00Is Obama doubling down on his Proxy War on Russia in Syria? <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span data-mce-style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12.0pt;" lang="FR" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12.0pt;">On October 9, 2015 it appeared to blogger Moon of Alabama (MoA) that the US was giving up on its war against Syria due to Russian determination to employ heavy duty military force in support of Assad. The next day, MoA reported that Obama is, instead, doubling down, risking war with Russia. </span></h4>
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<span data-mce-style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12.0pt;" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12.0pt;">The person who told the Saudis to deliver 500 TOW missiles to Syria ASAP was likely CIA chief Brennan. He also ordered to plan for attacks on the Russian base.So instead of a calming down and cooperating with Russia to fight the Islamic State the Pentagon was told to shorten its program and to hand out weapons to everyone who asks. The CIA is feeding more weapons to its mercenaries via its Gulf proxies and is planning for direct attacks on Russians.The war on Syria, and now also on Russia, is unlikely to end in the near future. With the U.S. throwing more oil into the fire the war will burn not only in Syria but in every other country around it</span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12.0pt;" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12.0pt;">.(</span><b><span data-mce-style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12.0pt;" lang="FR" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12.0pt;">Obama Launches A Proxy War On Russia In Syria, 10.10.15, MoA </span></b><span data-mce-style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12.0pt;" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" data-mce-href="http://www.moonofalabama.org/" href="http://www.moonofalabama.org/">http://www.moonofalabama.org/</a>)</span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12.0pt;" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12.0pt;">Ruthless Obama? Yes, he’s been ruthless since the third day of his administration in January 2009 when he launched his first drones strikes on West Waziristan. But reckless? Up to now he’s only been reckless with the lives and homelands of foreigners. But to let Brennan loose on Syria, and allow the U.S. to escalate the proxy war with Russia is cause for concern about a recklessness that we haven't seen before.</span></h4>
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<span data-mce-style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12.0pt;" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12.0pt;">Up to now Obama seemed to be content with winning the domestic public relations war attacking Assad and Putin, while covertly arming ISIS, al-Nusra, the Free Syrian Army and all the other jihadist factions. His agenda has not been to topple Assad, but to keep the war going indefinitely. But with this new escalation the administration now seems to be ready fight Russia on more level terms. </span></h4>
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<span data-mce-style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12.0pt;" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12.0pt;">Hopefully Obama will maintain the flexibility to pull back from red lines that shouldn’t be crossed. In that case, the only ones who will suffer will be millions of Syrians and Iraqis and Turks, etc.,. – and hundreds of millions of Europeans who will continue to be flooded with a continuing mass of refugees. </span></h4>
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<span data-mce-style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12.0pt;" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /> At his next press conference, reporters might like to ask what the president thinks will be the effect on the world economy and polity of the continuing unrest, destabilization and suffering his policies have been causing. </span></h4>
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<span class="Heading3Char"><span data-mce-style="font-size: 16.0pt;" lang="FR" style="font-size: 16.0pt;">Update</span></span><span data-mce-style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12.0pt;" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /> MoA <span data-mce-style="font-size: x-small;" style="font-size: xx-small;">(10.12.15)</span> published evidence – a photo of a downed drone -- of U.S. special forces operating in South Syria, in contravention of international law.<br /> </span></h4>
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<span data-mce-style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12.0pt;" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12.0pt;">MoA concludes on an optimistic note citing Russian plans to triple its daily sorties in support of several thousand new fighters from Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq and Lebanon in support of Assad. He feels this ought to be enough to expel “the intruders from South Syria.”<br /> ***</span></h4>
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