Friday, January 31, 2025

One Of A Kind Mensa Hex Puzzler

 


For  each of the hexagons composed of mini-hexagons above, sketch a path through all of the empty mini-hexagons. Your path can start in any mini, but must visit each white mini hex only once and can change direction only when it hits the edge of the grid, or the previous path, or one of the black mini hexess.


How To work the puzzle on paper:

1) Download Microsoft snipping tool.

2) Use it to make a jpg. image  (screenshot) of the puzzle and save.

3) Bring image up in a viewing tool (e.g. Vueprint) and copy.

4) Past the image into a WORD document, then print out.

5) You should now be able to work the puzzle on paper (make several copies!)

Thursday, January 30, 2025

Donnie Dotard's Chaotic OMB Freeze 2 Days Ago Was More Important To Him Than Solving Inflation ("Not My Problem!")

 

                           "Let 'em eat s'mores! Inflation ain't my problem any more!"

"If Trump's freeze on federal funding caused the airplane crash in Wash DC, then Trump should be criminally investigated for murder," posted SiriusXM host Dean Obeidallah. "Same for Trump's Secretary of Defense. Their actions appear to have killed Americans."

"This constant barrage of executive actions and outrageous rhetoric coming from the White House is meant to overwhelm, intimidate and distract. Don’t let it. Distinguish the signal from the noise — and focus on stopping a power grab that would fundamentally change the nature of our democracy".- Eugene Robinson, Washington Post, 

In a colossal dumpkopf move on Tuesday Dotard Trump had his Office of Management and Budget (OMB) authorize a broad freeze on $3 trillion in federal funds until his administration completes a full spending review. The ill-conceived horse shit move triggered mass confusion and chaos across the country forcing an immediate effort to halt the perfidy – which succeeded – when a judge ordered an injunction. 

Well, fortunately, the imbecilic OMB Trumpkins who crafted the memo came to their senses in time and rescinded their freeze (at least for now - but they claim the exec order still applies.)  This likely averted a constitutional crisis - again at least for now. This is because a president, no matter who he is, doesn’t have a right to order mass budget freezes on monies that have already been appropriated through congress. Thus, any changes to the appropriations must be approved by congress.

The idiot memo that spawned the revolt was itself so full of blatherskite it boggles the mind, i.e.

The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve,” the memo reads.

The memo explained that all federal spending must align with “Presidential priorities” and continues by citing Trump’s emergency orders on immigration, foreign aid, the environment, and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs."

What a pile of horse pocky!  In fact within hours of this memo being dumped on the transom  a host of critical programs - from Meals on Wheels, to Head Start, to support of vets' suicide prevention and burial services, to community health programs (20 in Colorado alone serving 850,o00 to the tune of$24m) went into spending limbo, sending the designated recipients into hysteria.   Even the Medicaid portals in all 50 states were shut down. Meanwhile, $324m to support cancer research at Colorado State University went into limbo as did other ongoing projects in a number of states.

Let’s also get clear none of these executive orders has the force of law, and every one can and will be challenged in the courts. ( A federal judge in Seattle has already put on hold Trump’s attempt to revoke birthright citizenship, calling it a blatant violation of the nation’s foundational legal document.)  It does not matter that the Traitor-Felon resident "floods the zone" with his dozens of demented executive orders to "reduce the federal bureaucracy" and exterminate diversity, equity and inclusion programs from all agencies.  

Those elements cannot be destroyed because they also embody key elements of humanity and decency which the orange fungal pestilence infecting the White House will never grasp. The remaining decent fraction of Americans will never tolerate such a misbegotten move, as we will see in the assorted unfolding constitutional crises to come.

 Given all this hullaballoo it may not surprise those more advanced and up to date citizens (i.e. who read the regular ("Legacy") media for news, not social media cartoons) that last week  (in an AP news item in Denver Post) Trump baldly proclaimed he isn't going to do a damned thing on inflation. In his words, quoted in the piece: 

"They've all said inflation is the Number one issue and I disagree. How many times can you talk about the price of eggs or how apples have doubled in cost?"

He went on to assert that his current executive orders clamping down  on immigration - using raids like the ones conducted Tuesday night in NYC (by his new Homeland Security chief Christi Noem) is "the real number one issue" and he will stay with it.

Those who believed this lying Turd, before the Nov. 5th election - that they'd get help with lowering the cost of their groceries and maybe even their housing-  and hence voted him in, are the real American suckers. Gullible morons who actually believed a felon and insurrectionist traitor would save their economic asses, when it was clear to the basest dullard that wasn't going to happen. It was always going to be about Trump, his Project 2025 BS, his war on the "Woke" and conducting a campaign of retribution as he sought dictatorial power.  The OMB memo was merely the latest episode of an extended autocratic power grab, following the firing of over a dozen inspectors general while pushing through entirely unqualified confirmations for key cabinet positions and mounting surprise raids on migrants.

In respect of the latter, now we learn he plans to incarcerate 30,000 migrants - who might otherwise be picking your tomatoes, or other produce - into Guantanamo to rot.  E.g.

Trump plans to build mass detention camp for deportees at Guantánamo Bay

Where formerly Islamic terrorists from Isis, Al Qaeda and other groups had been locked up. 

Thanks, Trump voter morons, for putting us all in this shit bucket stew for the next four years! You've now ensured four years of strife and chaos, as well as one constitutional crisis after another as we try to save what's left of our democracy.

As the AP piece first paragraph put it:  

"Just a little over a week into his second term, President Donald Trump took steps to maximize his power, sparking chaos and what critics contend is a constitutional crisis as he challenges the separation of powers that have defined American government for more than 200 years".

See Also:

by Tom Engelhardt | January 31, 2025 - 6:15am | permalink

— from TomDispatch

Let’s face it: Electing Donald Trump was nothing short of a suicidal act.

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by Carl Gibson | January 30, 2025 - 6:45am | permalink

— from Alternet

President Donald Trump may be about to strike out in a separate federal court — this time, concerning his administration's attempted 90-day freeze on federal grants and loans.

Politico reported Wednesday that U.S. District Judge John McConnell, who was appointed to the bench by former President Barack Obama in 2011, indicated he would halt the order implementing the funding freeze, which he described as "hugely ambiguous." McConnell made the remarks to multiple Democratic attorneys general who are suing the Trump administration over the executive order.

“I’m inclined to grant the restraining order,” McConnell said during a Tuesday hearing. “I fear ... that the administration is acting with a distinction without a difference.”

The Trump White House's Office of Management and Budget attempted to circumvent the legal challenges to the freeze by rescinding the memo that caused panic for most of Tuesday. However, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt appeared to undercut those efforts by stating that the funding freeze was still in effect despite the memo's retraction, pointing to a previous executive order.

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by Amanda Marcotte | February 2, 2025 - 6:13am | permalink

— from Salon

Instead of actually showing up for his hearing before the Judiciary Committee, Kash Patel should have propped up a TV playing the video of "It Wasn't Me" on a loop for six hours. Donald Trump's nominee to head the FBI has a long, well-documented history of being the looniest sort of conspiracy theorist. Still, when confronted with his own words by Senate Democrats, he denied it all with the insincerity of the cheating narrator of Shaggy and RikRok's 2000 hit song. Democrats were visibly frustrated by Patel's gaslighting, but one has to feel even sorrier for the nearly 40,000 FBI employees who will likely soon be working for this sorry man.

Trump obviously picked him as a direct insult to them, especially as lurid lies about FBI agents are a favorite mode of conspiracy content for Patel. This hearing comes on the tail of two weeks of Trump waging all-out war on the largely anonymous staff at the FBI and larger Justice Department, from pardoning over 1,500 Capitol rioters to mass firing prosecutors who investigated Trump's attempted coup.

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by Heather Digby Parton | January 30, 2025 - 6:54am | permalink

— from Salon

Right now, Donald Trump has the highest approval rating he's ever had as president, and he's still just below 50%, the lowest of any president this early in his term — except for himself, right after taking office in 2017. That hasn't stopped him and his lackeys from insisting that he has an unprecedented mandate to enact a radical agenda, based on what they ludicrously call a landslide victory. In reality, he won the popular vote by 1.5 percentage points, falling just short of a majority, and his 312 electoral votes are historically unimpressive. Compare that to real landslides, such as Ronald Reagan's victory in 1984, when he won 49 states with a popular-vote margin of 18 points, and the claim becomes embarrassing. That's just how they roll.

According to the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll, "45% of Americans approve of Trump's performance as president," which is down a couple of points from their Inauguration Day poll, while those who disapproved increased from 39% to 46%. When it comes to Trump's early policy moves, a majority disapproves of almost all of them. These range from the substantive to the ridiculous: Only 25% approved of renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the "Gulf of America," while 70% disapproved; pardoning the Jan. 6 defendants has 62% disapproval; and ending birthright citizenship gets thumbs-down from 59% of respondents. Trump's tariff plans also fall well short of majority support, as do his withdrawal from the Paris climate accords and his orders to end DEI and non-discrimination programs within the federal government.

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And:

by Amanda Marcotte | January 29, 2025 - 6:51am | permalink

— from Salon

Donald Trump's endless first-term bleating about crime and how he was the only one who could bring an end to it was always a joke. It took on new levels of ridiculousness when he spent the next four years accumulating a dizzying number of felony indictments and, eventually, 34 convictions. (There would certainly have been more if he had actually faced trial for stealing classified documents and attempting to steal an election.)

Trump's alleged crimes weren't bloodless "white-collar" matters, either. Jan. 6, of course, was a violent assault on the Capitol. A civil jury also found Trump liable for sexually assaulting journalist E. Jean Carroll, which is anyone's definition of a violent crime. But American political discourse left behind quaint concepts like "making sense" years ago. Trump forged ahead with claims that he would "dismantle the gangs, the street crews and the criminal networks that are ravaging our towns," even though he and his Jan. 6 co-conspirators look an awful lot like one of those "criminal networks."

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And:

Trump’s federal spending power grab is far from over


And:


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by Carl Gibson | January 31, 2025 - 6:46am | permalink

— from Alternet

One California airport is now without any air traffic controllers, and it's unclear when the airport will be able to replace them.

The San Francisco Chronicle reported Thursday that beginning this weekend, the San Carlos Airport, which lies along the final approach to San Francisco International Airport (SFO), will no longer have anyone manning its control tower. The resignations came after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reassigned controllers' contracts to a firm that pays less.

Airport manager Gretchen Kelly said "understandably, all current controllers have declined [the firm's new] offers." The proposed compensation packages for air traffic controllers reportedly did not account for the Bay Area having the highest cost of living in the nation, which is roughly 18% higher than the national average. The region has had the highest cost of living in the U.S. for six consecutive years, with the San Jose and Napa areas close behind.

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Trump’s ‘Very Unclear’ Orders ‘Sparking So Much Confusion’ Among Army Officials
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by Maya Boddie | January 29, 2025 - 6:46am

— from Alternet

President Donald Trump's slew of executive orders have left the US Army in disarray in the MAGA leader's eight days since taking office once again, according to a Tuesday Politico report.

Per the report, the 47th president's moves to begin the administration's mass deportation efforts and end diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives — to name only a few — are "sparking so much confusion that top officials directed a halt on new contracts and then walked it back."

For example, Politico reports, "Top officials misinterpreted Trump’s order on diversity, equity and inclusion and set an Army freeze on deals for new weapons," then, "The Pentagon clarified on Tuesday that it wasn’t going to issue a pause," upending the entire defense industry.

Additionally, Politico reports:

Some service members also are concerned that Trump’s team will purge officers who are not deemed loyal enough. The president last week dismissed Adm. Linda Fagan, the Coast Guard’s commandant. A Homeland Security official credited her firing to program delays and an 'excessive focus' on diversity and inclusion efforts.

"What kind of signal does this send to the defense industrial base, which is already plagued with a number of challenges?" ex-Army official Becca Wasser said to the news outlet.

"A lot of that stems from a very unclear demand signal from the U.S. government," the Center for a New American Security senior fellow added.

Politico's full report is available here.

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by Thom Hartmann | January 29, 2025 - 6:27am | permalink

— from The Hartmann Report

Democrats are warning that Trump’s threats to increase our national debt by as much as $7 trillion (with new tax cuts for billionaires), shift billions of Treasury dollars into crypto, and impose tariffs on imported goods risk creating a financial crises and maybe even a second Republican Great Depression.

After all, tariffs will jack up inflation, crypto is incredibly volatile, and increasing the national debt will pull hundreds of billions out of the treasury in interest payments that could have otherwise been used to help the American people, rebuild our infrastructure, and upgrade our schools. Any of the three could trip off a national economic emergency: all three could be a perfect storm.

Trump, though, seems unconcerned, even though Republican economists are also signaling their alarm. Which raises the question: Why is he so willing to risk an economic crash on his watch with these risky policies?

To the average person, the idea of a recession or even a crash like we saw under Bush in 2008, Reagan in 1981/82, or Hoover in 1929 seems grim. Millions are laid off work, businesses are in crisis as bankruptcies erupt across the nation, and poverty explodes during a time when more than half of American families live paycheck-to-paycheck.


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by Robert Dodge | January 29, 2025 - 6:02am | permalink

by Robert Dodge and Talia Wilcox

Eighty years ago saw the dawn of the nuclear age with the development and subsequent sole use of nuclear weapons when the United States dropped them on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killing roughly 200,000, mainly civilian Japanese citizens. These events and the subsequent nuclear arms race driven by the myth of nuclear deterrence have hung over civilization to this day, threatening our very existence.

On Tuesday, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists unveiled its prophetic “Doomsday Clock” moving the hand to 89 seconds to midnight, the closest it has ever been to midnight, representing the time at which our planet is uninhabitable and life as we know it is no longer possible. The Bulletin was originally founded in 1945 by the developers of the atomic bomb, including Albert Einstein, Robert Oppenheimer, and University of Chicago scientists to inform the public of man-made threats to human existence.

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Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Solution of First Order Partial Differential Equations (The Method Of Lagrange)

For general linear partial differential equations of the first order we may write, in x, y and z:

1) P(x, y, z) z x + Q(x, y, z) z y = R(x, y, z)

 the technique for finding the general solution of this equation is to find wo integrals of the system of ordinary differential equations:

2) dx/ P(x,y,z) = dy / Q (x,y,z) = dz/ R(x,y,z)

Now, let u(x,y,z) = a and v(x,y,z) = b, Then either:

3)  f (u, v) = 0    or:  u = y(v)  

Is a general solution of (1):

Example Problem: Find the general solution of:

x2   z x   -  xy  zy  =  y2

Solution:

Form the system of ordinary differential equations:

dx/ P = dy/ Q = dz/ R

Or: 

dx/x2    =  dy/ -xy  = dz/ y2  

Two independent solutions of the system are desired. To obtain the 1st:

dx/x2    =  dy/ -xy    Or:   dx/ x  + dy/ y = 0

Which yields:  xy = c1

The 2nd solution is obtained by using the first solution in the equation of the last two fractions, so:

dy/ -c1 =  dz/ y2    Or:     y2     dy  =  - c1 dx

Which has the solution:   

 y3  /3  + c1 z = c2   

Since c1 = xy:

  y2     + 3 xz  =  3 c2 y-1    = c3 x   

Since c3 is an arbitrary constant we can let it be an arbitrary function of c1, f (c1)

then replace c1 by c1 = xy  to  obtain the general solution:

 y2     + 3 xz  =  x  f (xy)

This technique is known as the method of Lagrange, after the 18th century French mathematician Joseph-Louis Lagrange. It is based on the fact that any solution: u(x,y,z) = c  of the system:

dx/ P = dy/ Q = dz/ R 

Is also a solution of:

P (   u/  x ) + Q   u/  y )   + R    u/  y )   = 0


 Suggested Problems For The Math Whiz:

1)  Find two integrals (solutions) for:

dx/z2    =  dy/ x( z - y) = dz/ x

           

2)  Find two integrals of:

dx/x   =  dy/ y  = dz/ xy


Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Trump To Release Remaining Highest Security (1%) Of JFK Assassination Files? Why I Remain A Skeptic

                         JFK in limo moments before the shots rang out in Dallas

So Dotard J. Trump has signed an executive order- among the 78 -odd churned out last week - to release the remaining 3,000-odd classified JFK assassination files. Pardon me while I take a snooze. Recall, as is standard for the Neoliberal media, much hoopla had  already been made over the prospective  release of all documents to do with the Kennedy assassination, back in 2017.  This was when Trump was last in Office. What did he do? He punted and obeyed the CIA 'protectors' when they told him thousands of redacted files could not see the light of day owing to "national security concerns."  This pertained to the methods used by the agency in the  60s. 


Trump has now given the agency 15 days to deliver the goods. What can go wrong? They have to deliver, right? Yeah right, except now they can redact even more files.  When the file keepers believe you're getting a tad too close to the truth and they're ordered to release the ones with utmost security they will redact them. Example: we know themoomommmmmmom! .

Oh, you can't read it? Okay, the CIA wins.  Redacted then means all the expected communication or critical signal is blotted out. It's rendered inaccessible.  But I get ahead of myself. Recall back in 2022 then President Joe Biden also claimed to be releasing the relevant files still locked up. Biden wrote in his Executive Order: 

"Pursuant to my direction, agencies have undertaken a comprehensive effort to review the full set of almost 16,000 records that had previously been released in redacted form and determined that more than 70 percent of those records may now be released in full. This significant disclosure reflects my Administration's commitment to transparency and will provide the American public with greater insight and understanding of the Government's investigation into this tragic event in American history."  

Which is commendable, but why only 70 percent of the redacted records released and not 100 percent?  Let me put it another way: 70 percent of redacted records released "in full" is not 100 percent of the redacted records released in full. Which brings us to where Trump is this year, in this latest iteration of the CIA game "catch our JFK records if you can.". 

At the top of the list of unredacted records should be all those connected to CIA provocateur George Joannides.  As I noted in my Dec. 16, 2022 post:

"Researcher Jefferson Morley conjectures the CIA is behind the delay -  "slow walking" the release because some of those files are downright explosive - especially regarding one particular renegade, George Joannides:   

Joannides, we learn from the film, played a major role in helping to block HSCA  access to critical JFK files at the time of that investigation. Later, in 1992, when the Assassinations Review Board wished to release a key Joannides' file and asked a CIA go-between if this could be done, he replied: "I know there's a reason why that file shouldn't be released, I just can't think of it!" 

 It never did see the light of day.  Only after Joannides' role was fully made clear to HSCA Chief Counsel Robert Blakey, did he finally say he would never trust the CIA again.  Blakey also observed:

"The purpose of the Warren Commission wasn't to find out what really happened but to assure Americans what didn't happen."  

We also still need the release of all the following records:

- All of Oswald's CIA files (OS-351-164 (office of security), the 201-289248 CI/SIG, and the 74-500) and what was done with them, e.g. by the guy who framed him: CIA Mexico City Station chief David Atlee Phillips:


-The elements of the Staff D program run by NSA contact William Harvey. As pointed out by researcher Peter Dale Scott in Deep Politics Quarterly, January, 1994:

In 1961, when William Harvey headed Staff D, he was assigned the task of developing the CIA Assassinations Project, ZR/Rifle.

When ZR Rifle was altered from targeting Castro to targeting JFK, it was all over except for the triangulation of gunfire that took Kennedy out in Dallas.  The closest we likely got to who the actual shooters (mechanics) were occurred during the (1975) Church Committee hearings.  Former CIA Director Richard Helms spoke at length about ZR Rifle in one session. When pressed, he identified two generic (i.e. for any purpose) hit team members by their code names: WI/ROGUE and QJ/WIN.  Helms described the former as   "a stateless soldier of fortune and a criminal(Church Committee Report, pp. 43-44) .

 Helms summarized the latter statement in these terse terms:

"If you need somebody to carry out murder I guess you had a man who might be prepared to carry it out.”

- The names of the 2 CIA hit men WI/ROGUE and QJ/WIN.  Richard Helms disclosed the code monickers in the Church Committee Hearings, but we need to know: 1) WHO were these guys?  And (2):  Were they in Dallas that day as part of an assassination K Group team?   Which existence has already been exposed, e.g.

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB4/

Wherein we read:

"The idea of forming assassination teams ('K' groups) apparently originated with Castillo Arenas in 1952.  Adopting Castillo Arenas' concept the [  ] chief routinely included two assassination specialists in his training plans.  CIA training for sabotage teams in early 1954 also included creating a 'K' group trained to perform assassinations."

- How many of these "assassination teams" were active at the time of JFK's murder?  How many were under control of Staff D, William Harvey's program with NSA connections, and how many were connected to David Atlee Phillips and his operations?  I suspect the 3% of files still unreleased hold the answers, I also dispute "protecting tradecraft" has anything to do with keeping the files secret.  

We already know one specific assassin (NOT Lee Oswald) made the kill (fatal head) shot from the grassy knoll with the shot direction identified from the acoustics in the HSCA investigation of 1978-79 and captured Z-frame 314:

This was traced to the right front temple wound in JFK's skull, as revealed by Robert Groden in his superb book, The Killing of a President. (On page 178 is shown the complete path of the bullet from the right front of Kennedy’s forehead to the rear of his head.)

Let us recall here that Oswald was alleged to be shooting from the Texas School Book Depository which was behind the limo, so no shots from there could have delivered the right frontal head shot. In addition we have the Z-film frame after 314 showing Jackie clearly moving backwards over the limo trunk, she said (in secret WC testimony) to try to retrieve a piece of the skull)

Which comports with the physics of the bullet trajectory, i.e. shooter being in front and the momentum driving the head backwards, with Jackie's backward motion consistent with backward momentum of dislodged skull fragments.

With the Biden release, the National Archives said 97% of the roughly 5 million pages in its collection related to the assassination had made it out to the public. But some experts then said the government continued to redact or withhold important information that might cast the CIA or other agencies in a negative light.  From what I have noted above, that much is obvious.  The question is why - after nearly 60 years of this hide and seek B.S. - is this withholding still being done? What possible national security interests could there be after so long a time?  I believe the core basis is to protect LBJ as the de facto architect of the assassination.

Most of us who are researchers in deep politics firmly believe that the Vietnam war was the “Devil’s deal” LBJ struck with his JFK assassination collaborators, in order that he be catapulted into office – while facing  felony charges(barely days before).  This isn’t “blowing smoke” either. As Steve Kornacki reported in his ‘UP’ journal on MSNBC, the morning of Nov. 23, 2013. Using tapes and media documents, Kornacki showed that Johnson was about to be exposed as an influence peddler in conjunction with the Bobby Baker scandal by LIFE magazine in its upcoming issue.

 A paper trail of bank statements and payments was to have been included, and as Kornacki pointed out a Senate investigation would likely have ensued with LBJ being dumped from Kennedy’s 1964 ticket.  In other words, LBJ had by far the most to gain from JFK’s assassination.  He also had full say in planning the motorcade route in Dallas, along with the Mayor (Cabell) - the brother of the CIA deputy (Charles Cabell) JFK fired after the Bay of Pigs.


Philip Nelson, whose powerful book ‘LBJ – The Mastermind of the JFK Assassination’ – is noteworthy for its exacting documented detail, observes (Chapter 6: The Conspirators, p. 317):


“The crime could only have been accomplished with at least the acquiescence and foreknowledge of the only man capable of choreographing the massive cover-up which was immediately launched. It is axiomatic that since the cover-up started before the shots were fired, the order for JFK’s assassination could only have come from his successor, Lyndon B. Johnson.”

He goes on to note that no other conceivable person, whether Santos Trafficante, Sam Giancana, Clint Murchison, H.L. Hunt….or Lee Harvey Oswald…" had the motive, means, the opportunity, the demonstrated pattern of previous criminal – even murderous conduct, and the resolve to see it through.”

Before any reader's head pops, let's ask: Could Johnson have actually stooped to have anyone killed? The Dallas Morning News story from March 23, 1984  (see image below):

 is blunt about it. Billie Sol Estes reported that Johnson had Henry Harvey Marshall, a USDA official in charge of the federal cotton allotment detail,  killed because he had attempted to link Estes’ nefarious dealings to the then Vice-President.  While Estes ended up doing prison time, he did have his say before a grand jury (which subpoenaed him) after his release in 1984. As reported in news story, Estes linked Johnson and two others to the slaying of Marshall.   In the follow-up grand jury investigation, Johnson, his one-time aide Cliff Carter, and ‘Mac’ Wallace were all deemed “co-conspirators in the murder” of Marshall[1].

Lastly, it's important for researchers or others keen to obtain any new records, not be distracted by horse manure, disinformation. At the top of that list is Oswald's alleged visit to Mexico City, long since dispatched by serious deep politics researchers.  

For example, back in October, 2017 at the last Trump effort at release, we read:

"Longtime JFK-watchers had hoped the trove would shed more light on what the U.S. government knew about Oswald before Kennedy's assassination, particularly his activities in Mexico City in the weeks before he opened fire in Dallas."

But as I have repeatedly pointed out, the Mexico City babble is total disinformation based on an inaccurately reported image of an alleged "Oswald" appearing at the CIA station there, e.g.  

Hence, this is all irrelevant to the facts already known, disclosed, i.e. from earlier file releases in the 1990s. And we know Oswald not only had no part in it but was himself assassinated within two days of Kennedy's assassination, eg.



likely to prevent him from revealing his role (as a decoy) in Bill Harvey's Staff D operation. For the most authentic depiction of how the assassination went down, check out the relevant sequence from 'Executive Action' (1973):


In the meantime it will be interesting to see if Trump really can deliver on getting the spooks to release all the redacted files- and in unredacted form.  My bet is he'll flop just like all of his hollow exec orders - when the courts get hold of them.

See Also:

Dallas Journalists Need To Grow Up And Face The Reality of Conspiracy In Kennedy Assassination

And:

And:

In One Blockbuster JFK Assassination Documentary 7 Parkland Doctors Expose The Chicanery Of The Warren Commission

And:

One Of Top Ten Books On The JFK Assassination - From Former British Intelligence Officer

And:

'JFK Through The Looking Glass' - A Superb Oliver Stone Documentary (But Perhaps Too Much For Casual Viewers)

And:

NOVA 'JFK Cold Case' Special - Another Hit Job - On The Truth

And:

James K. Lambert- Another WC Toady and Tool - Tries To Spin JFK Assassination Researchers As The Original Fake News Purveyors