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The CIA’s Assassination Plots

Posted by M. C. on July 18, 2024

“As I write in my book Brothers, Robert Kennedy, who served as his brother’s attorney general and knew more about the dark side of American power than any other official of his day, was the first JFK conspiracy theorist. Journalist Jack Newfield, a close friend of RFK, told me: ‘With that amazing computer brain of his, he put it all together on the afternoon of November 22,’ the day in 1963 that President Kennedy was assassinated. Bobby Kennedy figured out that his brother was killed by CIA plotters, using members of the criminal underworld and Cuban exiles.

By Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

The attempt to assassinate Donald Trump and his heroic response to it are uppermost in our minds. We don’t yet know the details of who was involved in the attempt on his life, though I suspect that the “lone gunman” theory will turn out to be false. But the sad event offers us a chance to reflect on something that we do know, and that may well be relevant to the attempt on the former—and we trust soon to be next—president’s life: The CIA has been involved in numerous assassination plots since its inception.

One of these plots is especially important in current circumstances. The CIA is implicated in the assassination of President Kennedy in November 1963. Jacob Hornberger has done a great deal of research on this topic and here is what he says. “Why would the CIA snuff out the life of President Kennedy? Because Kennedy was determined to snuff out the life of the CIA, which the CIA, not surprisingly, considered would be a grave threat to ‘national security.’ Kennedy also was determined to move America in a direction different from that of the Pentagon, the CIA, and the NSA, which they considered would result in a communist takeover of the United States. Worst of all, Kennedy was saying good things about Russia and establishing friendly and normal relations with both Russia and Cuba. In the eyes of the national-security establishment, what Kennedy was doing was not only cowardly incompetence that would result in a communist takeover of the United States, it also consisted of treason. We all know what happens to traitors.

Thus, this was a war to the finish. If Kennedy lives, the CIA is put down, America makes friends with Russia and Cuba, and America’s militarist direction comes to an end. If Kennedy dies, the CIA survives and prospers, the never-ending hostility toward Russia and Cuba continues, and America’s militarist direction proceeds indefinitely. The die was cast, but Kennedy obviously proved to be no match for the overwhelming power of the national-security establishment.” See this.

For the same reasons, the CIA killed President Kennedy’s brother, Robert Kennedy. After Lyndon Johnson withdrew from the presidential race in 1968, Kennedy was the odds-on favorite to become the next president. He blamed the CIA for his brother’s death and was determined to bring the agency to heel. For that reason, the CIA had to kill him. David Talbot, the author of Brothers, a book about President Kennedy and his brother Robert Kennedy, gives a vivid account:

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Why Progressivism Creates Hitlers and Genocides || Thomas Sowell Reacts

Posted by M. C. on July 18, 2024

Thomas Sowell Reacts

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Why We’ll Never Know What Really Happened in Butler, PA

Posted by M. C. on July 17, 2024

The Ron Paul Liberty Report

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Liberty is Married to the Market Economy – w/ Dr. Walter Block

Posted by M. C. on July 17, 2024

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Is Informational Asymmetry a Market Failure?

Posted by M. C. on July 17, 2024

Lemons absolutely exist, but so does Carfax.

In sum, there ain’t no such thing as a market failure, the claims of most neoclassical economists to the contrary notwithstanding, certainly not this particular one.

https://walterblock.substack.com/p/is-informational-asymmetry-a-market

Walter Block

We all seek an end to fraud. Aside from being inherently wrong, this type of crime also undermines the economy. Yes, mutual gains from fraudulent transactions can still be made ex ante (looking ahead). This is so for all commercial interaction, without exception. Each side, even in fraudulent interactions, expects to gain in utility from the purchase or sale or rental or borrowing or lending, etc. However, fraud plays havoc with utility ex post (after the fact). Only one side can gain; the other is the clear loser. All men of good will must necessarily oppose fraud, as it is in opposition to human flourishing.

How, then, to eradicate fraud? One possibility is to declare informational asymmetry a market failure, and to have government address this problem. One way to do so would be for the state to educate the ignorant. Another equally positive approach would be to dumb down the smart. Here we would employ Kurt Vonnegut’s “Handicapper General.” (Many critics think, not without good reason, that this is what public education now accomplishes.) A third option would be to do a bit of both. After all, the goal here is not to improve information; rather, it is to equalize it, amongst all of us.

Best of luck on this.

What positive can be said of such a silly proposal? One argument in its favor is that if there were full symmetry in terms of informational holdings, then, from a praxeological point of view, there could be no such thing as a swindle. If both parties had exactly the same knowledge of all relevant considerations to bring to the market, then it would be a logical contradiction for one to be able to take advantage of the other’s relative ignorance in any such manner.

But this is a highly problematic way of dealing with the problem. For one thing, only a small percentage of all commercial dealings are criminal in this way. Yet, of the almost 8 billion people now occupying the third rock from the sun, it would be difficult to reject the notion that there are roughly an equal number of people for whom it may be properly said that they have different amounts of information. Asymmetrical knowledge is here to stay,

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“The First Amendment Is Out Of Control”: Academic And Media Figures Rally Against Free Speech

Posted by M. C. on July 16, 2024

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by Tyler Durden

Friday, Jul 12, 2024 – 11:45 AM

Authored by Jonathan Turley via jonathanturley.org,

“The First Amendment Is Out of Control.” That headline in a recent column in the New York Times

Some citizens seem sufficiently afraid or angry to surrender their free speech rights. They have lost faith in free speech. For the rest of us, their crisis of faith cannot be allowed to become a contagion. We must have a reawakening in this country that, despite our many divisions, we remain united by this indispensable human right.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/first-amendment-out-control-academic-and-media-figures-rally-against-free-speech

“The First Amendment Is Out of Control.” That headline in a recent column in the New York Times warned Americans of a menace lurking around them and threatening their livelihoods and very lives. That menace is free speech and the media and academia are ramping up attacks on a right that once defined us as a people.

In my new book “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage,” I discuss how we are living in the most dangerous anti-free speech period in our history. An alliance of the government, corporations, academia, and media have assembled to create an unprecedented system of censorship, blacklisting, and speech regulation. This movement is expanding and accelerating in its effort to curtail the right that Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis once called “indispensable” to our constitutional system.

It is, of course, no easy task to convince a free people to give up a core part of identity and liberty. You have to make them afraid. Very afraid.

The current anti-free speech movement in the United States has its origins in higher education, where faculty have long argued that free speech is harmful. Starting in secondary schools, we have raised a generation of speech phobics who believe that opposing views are triggering and dangerous.

Anti-free speech books have been heralded in the media. University of Michigan Law Professor and MSNBC legal analyst Barbara McQuade has written how dangerous free speech is for the nation. Her book, “Attack from Within,” describes how free speech is what she calls the “Achilles Heel” of America, portraying this right not as the value that defines this nation but the threat that lurks within it.

McQuade and many on the left are working to convince people that “disinformation” is a threat to them and that free speech is the vehicle that makes them vulnerable.

It is a clarion’s call that has been pushed by President Joe Biden who claims that companies refusing to censor citizens are “killing people.” The Biden administration has sought to use disinformation to justify an unprecedented system of censorship.

As I have laid out in testimony before Congress, Jen Easterly, who heads the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, extended her agency’s mandate over “critical infrastructure” to include “our cognitive infrastructure.” The resulting censorship efforts included combating “malinformation” – described as information “based on fact, but used out of context to mislead, harm, or manipulate.” So, you can cite true facts but still be censored for misleading others.

The media has been running an unrelenting line of anti-free speech columns. Recently, the New York Times ran a column by former Biden official and Columbia University law professor Tim Wu describing how the First Amendment was “out of control” in protecting too much speech.

Wu insists that the First Amendment is now “beginning to threaten many of the essential jobs of the state, such as protecting national security and the safety and privacy of its citizens.” He bizarrely claims that the First Amendment “now mostly protects corporate interests.”

So free speech not only threatens your life, your job, and your privacy, but serves corporate masters. Ready to sign your rights away?

Wait, there is more.

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Tucker Responds to Trump Assassination Attempt and JD Vance for VP | Milwaukee, WI Speech

Posted by M. C. on July 16, 2024

Some highlights: Most politicians and government people are empire, power, anti-people and control builders. This is a spiritual battle. Government is the god. Christianity and Christians hampers it’s efforts and therefore must go. When Trump said the invasion of Iraq was a mistake he put himself on the empire builders bad boy list. Vance is NOT (Correction!!!) anti-interventionist.

Even if you don’t like Carlson, the first 18 minutes are worth your time.

Tucker Carlson

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JFK Secret Service Standdown

Posted by M. C. on July 15, 2024

The best version of this original video footage from Love field in Dallas Texas the morning of November 22, 1963. It’s amazing that this footage has been withheld from the public for so long. To all of you who accept the official story that Oswald was the lone gunman, or at the least that there was no governmental conspiracy to kill Kennedy, please, please, tell me how Oswald pulled this off. How did he get the Secret Service to stand down that day? Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.

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Trump Gunman Reported To Be Thomas Matthew Crooks

Posted by M. C. on July 15, 2024

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by Tyler Durden

Trump’s team reportedly asked for ‘beefed up protection’ and was rebuffed over and over by Biden DHS.

“The secret service, which reportedly ignored a warning about the shooter climbing a building…”

One Trump supporter told the BBC that he and others saw the shooter before the assassination attempt, alerted police and the secret service, and was ignored…”

Rooftops not a priority?

We know the first comment is correct. The rest, will we ever know?

‘Who says what’ from now on will be interesting. So will what is not said.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-bleeding-rushed-stage-after-shots-fired-pennsylvania-rally

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Fearless

Posted by M. C. on July 15, 2024

I can think of better candidates but…

And putting aside his motivation, how can you not say that choosing to stand on stage after being shot instead of ducking, hiding and scurrying away isn’t courageous?

At the end of the day, I don’t care what drives him. Trump is a guy that perseveres.

And if you view the country like I do right now, as a scattered, disorganized free-for-all, badly losing its grip on both law and order and its moral compass, a little drive, direction, perseverance and courageousness could go a long way for us.

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by Tyler Durden

Sunday, Jul 14, 2024 – 08:10 AM

Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/fearless

A couple of hours before the assassination attempt of President Donald Trump, I was sitting in a bar having a laugh with some new friends I had just met from Texas.

Our discussion was centered around how divided the country has become and why we all felt another four years of President Biden would be an unmitigated disaster.

In the spirit of honest discourse among new friends, we began to rattle off the things we liked and didn’t like about Trump, as well. We conceded to each other that Trump was vain and a narcissist, obsessed with his own image, but we also agreed his policy stances would be far better for the country than those of the Democratic party.

And the self-obsessed narcissism criticism you, and everybody else, should know by now: it’s been lobbed at Trump for so many decades now he probably takes it as a compliment.

Look, I’m a realist. I understand that it’s easy to look at Trump’s personal life and career prior to being President and conclude he’s always prioritized the money and the image over substance.

From Trump Airlines to Trump Steaks to Trump University to Trump’s namesake casinos in Atlantic City, combined with allegations of not paying vendors that worked for him on projects and fabricating positive press about himself in the media, I don’t fault people for taking that view of the man.

We could sit here and analyze what drives Trump to engage in these patterns of behavior, which would probably take forever since it would require him to undergo a trillion hours of therapy to uncover his deepest trauma, or we could zoom out, take a 30,000-foot view and simply take note: for one reason or another, the f*cking guy is driven.

And it’s this incessant, relentless, fearless drive and desire to win — no matter what is fueling it — that has allowed Trump to shake off his past business failures and eventually land on The Apprentice, which became a resounding success. It’s the same drive that empowered Trump to campaign obsessively in 2016 and then defy all odds to win the presidency.

People first joked that Trump was running in 2016 as a PR stunt. Maybe he was. But at the end of they day, he manifested himself into the White House. And, to boot, he did a decent job: he ran the country effectively, slashed regulations, cut taxes, kept us out of war, and kept the economy booming. Regardless of why he wanted to become president, once he was put in that position, he did a decent job of “getting shit done” and won the respect of many world leaders who otherwise wouldn’t have taken him, or the United States under a President Hillary Clinton, seriously.

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