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Conspiracies Too Awful To Imagine?

Over the decade of Donald Trump’s political career, the left – as exemplified by Democratic politicos, the media, academics, the Washington military hierarchy, and the permeant bureaucratic state – illustrated a level of furor, venom, and near madness unprecedented in modern American history.

Yet stranger still about such visceral, indeed lunatic hatred, despite Trump’s eccentricities and lack of a traditional political resume, his administration between 2017-21 was successful by traditional economic, military, security, and diplomatic standards. It was certainly not characterized by weaponizing the DOJ, Pentagon, CIA, or FBI, get-even vendettas, the use of lawfare, corruption, optional wars, open borders, hyperinflation, or a war on the environment—as predicted and alleged. Nevertheless, the idea of Trump as president justified to the left the greatest assault on our civil liberties, justice system, and free expression in modern history.

Indeed, at times the frenzy has ranged the gamut of an unprecedented two impeachments, a first Senate impeachment trial of a private citizen ex-president, and a coordinated effort to deplatform the major Republican presidential candidate from state ballots.

But at other times, the efforts were more sinister—and conspiratorial—to the point that the attempt to destroy the purported threat of candidate, president, and two-time candidate Trump apparently justified any means necessary.

In retrospect, what is the legacy of these unmatched efforts? They have established precedents, if ever again followed, will destroy the republic as we have known it.

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RFK Jr. wants to prove CIA killed his uncle

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is lobbying for his daughter-in law to become deputy CIA director so she can get to the bottom of the assassination of his uncle, John F. Kennedy, the Washington outlet Axios has claimed.

President Kennedy was fatally shot in Dallas, Texas in November 1963. The official investigation identified Lee Harvey Oswald as the sole suspect. Oswald himself was killed soon afterward by local resident Jack Ruby. RFK Jr. has long suspected the CIA of being behind the hit, however.

“RFK believes that and wants to get to the bottom of it,” an anonymous Republican source told Axios on Wednesday, suggesting this rationale might be behind the proposal to nominate Amaryllis Fox Kennedy as deputy director of the CIA.

Fox Kennedy ran her father-in-law’s independent presidential campaign after the Democrats closed off their primaries. RFK Jr. ended up endorsing Republican Donald Trump, who won in November. The former Democrat has been nominated to head the Department of Health and Human Services in the next administration, while former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe has been tapped to head the CIA.

According to Axios, RFK Jr. has been telling people that Fox Kennedy would help get to the truth about JFK. She has previous experience at the CIA, having been an undercover agent for almost a decade.

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An Accidentalist’s Guide to Denying the Obvious

There’s a peculiar comfort in believing that things simply happen by accident. That the powerful don’t conspire, that institutions don’t coordinate, that the crumbling pillars of society represent mere happenstance rather than design. I’ve come to call these people “accidentalists” – those who find refuge in randomness, who dismiss patterns as paranoia.

The Cost of Seeing

Like the red pill in The Matrix, recognizing patterns changes everything. Many choose comfortable illusions over uncomfortable truths. As Hannah Arendt observed, “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction no longer exists.”

For the professional class – academics, journalists, corporate managers – acknowledging these patterns means confronting their own complicity. Their success, their status, their sense of self – all are built on supporting rather than questioning power structures.

The accidentalist mindset offers refuge from this self-examination. Better to dismiss than face one’s role in the machinery.

The Death of Coincidence

It requires impressive mental gymnastics to believe that those with power – who achieved it through careful planning and coordination – suddenly stop planning and coordinating once they obtain it. That they abandon the very tools that brought them success. That they become, somehow, passive observers of their own decline.

When confronted with evidence of coordination – be it documented government censorship, institutional narrative control, or coordinated media campaigns – the accidentalist draws an arbitrary line. “Well, that’s different,” they say. “That’s not a conspiracy, that’s just…” And here they trail off, unable to articulate why some coordinated actions by the powerful count as conspiracies while others are merely business as usual.

The Weaponization of Skepticism and Manufacturing Outcasts

The term “conspiracy theory” itself reveals institutional manipulation. The CIA’s 1967 dispatch (Document 1035-960) explicitly directed media assets to use this label to discredit Warren Commission critics. They transformed skepticism into pathology – making the very act of questioning power seem delusional.

This weaponization of language worked brilliantly. Today, pattern recognition itself becomes suspect. In 2022, the New York Times published perhaps the most revealing example of institutional arrogance – an essay warning citizens against “doing their own research,” suggesting they weren’t competent to question expert conclusions. The message was clear: leave the thinking to us. Trust the experts. Stay in your lane.

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Why has the CIA been Hiding the JFK Files for 62 Years?

Now that all of the principals who were alive when John Fitzgerald Kennedy was murdered in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963 are dead, there are only two reasons — neither mutually exclusive — to explain why the complete files have not been released — 1) The CIA is implicated in the assassination and/or 2) A country with influence in the United States is implicated.

While many have speculated that the CIA is hiding evidence that Cuba was involved, the CIA has no reason, in my judgment, to withhold evidence of Cuba’s guilt. I have shied away from pursuing the various JFK assassination theories, but I recently came across a video by Ryan Dawson that suggests a credible reason for keeping the files from the public — Israel is implicated.

What!!!??? That was my first reaction. But then I listened and examined the evidence proffered by Ryan. There is certainly some smoke that points to Israel and members of Jewish organized crime. Why would Israel be involved? Let me summarize Ryan’s argument — the Kennedy’s represented an existential threat to Israel:

1 Prior to the assassination, the Kennedys wanted Israel inspected for nuclear weapons. The CIA had collected evidence from Dimona indicating that the Uranium Israel was processing had been illegally removed from the US Nautilus project via NUMEC (i.e., Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation).

2 John and Robert Kennedy supported Palestinians right of Return.

3 President Kennedy directed Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, in October 1963, to require the Zionist Organization of America to to register as foreign agents.

4 JFK along with France’s Charles de Gaulle, who also survived an assassination attempt, supported Algeria independence.

5 Robert F Kennedy was prosecuting aggressively Italian and Jewish mobsters. Many of the Jewish mobsters played a direct role in providing Israel with weapons prior to and after Israel’s establishment as a country in 1948. Jack Ruby, aka Jacob Rubenstein, was involved with the Italian mafia.

This does not prove that Israel or some of its agents helped kill Kennedy, but there is circumstantial evidence warranting further investigation. This would not be the first time that Israel attacked the United States. Just ask the survivors of the USS Liberty. However, this provides one reasonable explanation for why the CIA wants to keep the files locked away.

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DEA Should Be Removed From Marijuana Rescheduling Hearing After Illegally Conspiring With Prohibitionists, Legal Filing Says

A Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) judge is being asked to remove the agency from its role in an upcoming hearing on the Biden administration’s marijuana rescheduling proposal, with a new legal filing citing alleged statutory violations that include “unlawful” communication with a prohibitionist group.

When the Department of Justice formally proposed moving cannabis from Schedule I to Schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA)—consistent with a recommendation from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)—one aspect stood out: The DEA administrator didn’t sign the notice of proposed rulemaking, breaking with historical precedent on federal scheduling proceedings. Instead, it was signed by Attorney General Merrick Garland.

That was one of several factors that led to a motion being filed with DEA Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) John Mulrooney on Monday, seeking corrective action. It was submitted on behalf of Hemp for Victory and Village Farms International, which were both invited to participate in the rescheduling hearing that’s set to begin next month.

The issue isn’t just that DEA Administrator Anne Milgram declined to sign the proposed rule. Throughout that notice, the agency said it needed additional data on a variety of issues—namely cannabis-related health issues and law enforcement concerns—in order to make a complete assessment. The motion argues that the backwards approach to the rulemaking violates federal statute.

“By waiting until the publication of the [proposed rule]—and thus after DOJ had initiated proceedings under [the CSA]—to flag categories of supposedly ‘necessary data,’ DEA ensured that HHS would not get to respond to that data in its recommendation and evaluation,” the motion says. “Even worse, DEA effectively turned the [proposed rule] into a blueprint for the Prohibitionists it apparently was communicating with behind the scenes.”

Another issue that’s arisen concerns DEA’s selection of witnesses to participate in the December hearing, which was scheduled following a public comment period that saw tens of thousands of submissions—a majority of which favored rescheduling or otherwise pushed for bolder reform such as removing marijuana from the CSA altogether.

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Will Trump Buckle Again on the JFK Records?

 A fascinating situation has now developed between President-elect Donald Trump and the U.S. national-security establishment with respect to the long-secret JKF-assassination-related records that the CIA has succeeded in keeping secret for more than 60 years. Despite Trump’s campaign vow to release those records, it’s not at all clear how this matter is going to be resolved. I will give my prediction at the end of this article.

There are three major factors at play:

1. During his 2024 campaign, Trump vowed that this time around he is definitely going to order the National Archives to release those 60-year-old secret CIA records. Moreover, as he told Joe Rogan, he is going to do it “immediately.” See “Trump to Rogan: If Elected, I’ll Open Remaining JFK Files ‘Immediately’” by Jefferson Morley.

Let’s place this first factor in a historical context.

The JFK Records Act, which was enacted in 1992, ordered the national-security establishment and all other federal agencies to disclose their JFK-assassination-related records to the public.

However, the law gave federal officials an out. If they claimed that the release of certain records might jeopardize “national security” in various ways, they could keep them secret for another 25 years. Yes, 25 additional years of secrecy, on top of the secrecy from 1963 to the 1990s! Taking advantage of that out, the national-security establishment, especially the CIA, continued keeping thousands of its assassination-related records secret.

That 25-year-period ran out during Trump’s first term as president. At first, Trump declared valiantly that he was going to comply with the law and permit the National Archives to release and disclose the records.

But then just before the deadline arrived, Trump was visited by the CIA, who insisted on continued secrecy of its assassination-related records.

Trump immediately buckled. While allowing some records to be released, he did what the CIA wanted him to do and ordered that thousands of other records continue to be kept secret for another few years.

When the new deadline occurred under President Biden, the CIA convinced Biden to continue the secrecy of the records into perpetuity. Thus, the CIA felt it could now sleep easy, knowing that its long-secret assassination-related records would never see the light of day.

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Israel, Blackmail and the Presidents

Just days before Election Day, Wikileaks reported: “Author of book about the Trump White House, Michael Wolff, claims to have 100 hours of Epstein talking about Trump but releases only a one minute fragment.” More along these lines is now atop pages like The Daily Beast with journalistic scoops like “Epstein claiming Trump liked to ‘f—’ his friends’ wives”.

I didn’t realize until recently that Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s stepfather, Samuel Pisar — who Blinken has invoked at high profile events — was not only lawyer and confidant to media mogul and Mossad “super spy” Robert Maxwell but apparently to Jeffrey Epstein himself. (Updated meme of flowchart making these connections.)

Robert Maxwell was of course father of Ghislaine Maxwell who was Epstein’s partner in crime.

It has been largely kept from public view and understanding in numerous ways, but there is substantial evidence that the Epstein network was involved in gathering information on political figures from both parties which could be used for blackmail. The molesting of the girls was often apparently the insidious means, not the ultimate goal. The above referenced Daily Beast piece, to take the most recent example, does not contain the word “blackmail”.

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Unraveling JFK: The Conspiracy Theories That Just Won’t Die

The assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963 remains a subject of intense scrutiny and debate, particularly within the context of modern political discourse. Recent conversations, especially among supporters of former President Donald Trump, have revived interest in various conspiracy theories surrounding Kennedy’s death. Many attendees of commemorative events at Dealey Plaza express doubts about the official government narrative, which claims that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.

The Warren Commission, established to investigate the assassination, concluded in its 1964 report that Oswald was the sole shooter. However, decades of skepticism surrounding this conclusion have fueled alternative theories. Recent polling data indicates that approximately 65% of Americans question the findings of the Warren Commission, suggesting a persistent mistrust of official narratives.

Individuals like Nelson Vargas and Jeff Fulginiti have come forward, suggesting that the assassination involved wider conspiracies that included elements of the military-industrial complex, organized crime, and possibly even high-ranking government officials. Vargas articulated his belief that government entities collaborated to orchestrate Kennedy’s death, while Fulginiti pointed out the apparent motives behind these factions.

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It’s Time to Rationally Re-Investigate the JFK Assassination

A few weeks ago, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. suspended his presidential campaign to endorse former President Trump. As Kennedy joined Trump on stage, Trump announced that, if he is elected, he will immediately declassify all records related to the JFK Assassination that continue to be held by the National Archives – something Trump failed to do during his last term. Trump also announced that he would form a commission on assassinations, which would include looking at his own assassination attempt, and the murders of Robert Kennedy, Sr. and President John F. Kennedy.   

Whether it is former President Trump or Vice President Kamala Harris, America desperately needs leadership that will provide transparency into these historical events. While the declassification of remaining JFK assassination records would be a wonderful development, the most important thing that could be done to regain the trust of Americans in their intelligence agencies is to reopen the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. 

Most Americans know that the Warren Commission determined in 1964 that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone to kill President Kennedy. Fewer Americans are aware of the conclusion of a congressional committee – the House Select Committee on Assassinations – in 1978 that President Kennedy was “probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy.” Yes, you read that correctly. The recent government investigation into the JFK Assassination determined that there was a conspiracy. 

After Oliver Stone’s film, JFK, was released in 1991, the public outcry to remove the shroud of secrecy around this historical event resulted in the JFK Records Act, which was passed unanimously and signed into law by George H. W. Bush. The JFK Records Act required the declassification of records and created the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB), which forced the respective agencies to turn over records and sit for depositions. 

The work of the ARRB and subsequent declassified documents led to a mountain of new information about the assassination that has now had sufficient time to be absorbed by JFK Assassination scholars. The weight of that evidence now establishes by a standard of clear and convincing evidence that Lee Harvey Oswald didn’t act alone to kill President Kennedy. 

So, what evidence has been unearthed that would justify the time and resources of reopening the JFK Assassination? There are at least ten indisputable facts that establish that President Kennedy was killed as the result of a conspiracy, all of which are explored in depth in a book that I co-authored with James DiEugenio, Paul Bleau, Andrew Iler and Mark Adamczyk called The JFK Assassination Chokeholds: 

  • Interviews with numerous insiders who worked on previous investigations, from the Warren Commission to the HSCA to the ARRB, confirm that the Warren Commission got it wrong. 
  • Oswald had indisputable connections to intelligence agencies. 
  • Oswald was impersonated by others on numerous documented occasions. 
  • Oswald could not have been on the sixth floor when the shots were fired. 
  • Jack Ruby’s murder of Oswald was not in the heat of passion. It was premeditated. 
  • There were at least two other prior plots to kill President Kennedy before Dallas. 
  • Best practices for conducting autopsies were not followed for President Kennedy, resulting in an evidentiary mess. 
  • The single bullet theory cannot be true. 
  • There is overwhelming evidence of shots fired in front of President Kennedy. 
  • There has been sixty years of obstruction of justice, which was apparent in each investigation, and continues to exist today. 

When we put these bodies of evidence together, it is clear that President Kennedy was not killed by a lone assassin. Researchers and authors have speculated as to who was behind the conspiracy and whether Oswald was involved at all over the years. Still, we do not know exactly who killed President Kennedy. 

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New Film Commemorates Legacy Of Lawyer Who Exposed Conspiracy To Murder MLK

 Conventional wisdom holds that James Earl Ray was a deranged white supremacist who killed Martin Luther King, Jr., on April 4, 1968.

Research carried out by King family attorney William F. Pepper determined, however, that King was really killed in a conspiracy coordinated by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover.

Pepper died in April. He is the focus of a new film by John Barbour, with Len Osanic, A Tribute to William Pepper, that was screened on July 30 at American University at the 12th Annual Whistleblower Summit in Washington, D.C.

Barbour is a Canadian-born comedian, actor and TV host who directed two documentary films on Jim Garrison, the New Orleans District Attorney who uncovered a conspiracy to kill John F. Kennedy that involved elements of the CIA.

In introducing his film, Barbour said that Pepper and Garrison should be regarded, along with Abraham Lincoln, as among the greatest lawyers in U.S. history.

A Tribute to William Pepper begins by detailing the friendship that developed between Pepper and King after Pepper wrote an article in the countercultural magazine Ramparts in 1967 about the use of napalm in Vietnam called “The Children of Vietnam.”

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