tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75176481332430237952023-11-16T06:22:45.329-08:00Cannonruminationsgordon cannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13214685068053076008noreply@blogger.comBlogger336125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7517648133243023795.post-9496734354374988572014-06-18T08:30:00.002-07:002014-06-18T08:30:44.893-07:00Dr. ooz is ozing us; or Dr. Oz is jamming us, so to speak.<span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3,"tn":"K"}"><div class="text_exposed_root text_exposed">
Dr. ooz is ozing us; or Dr. Oz is jamming us, so to speak.<br /> =================<br /><br /> The celebrity doctor Dr. Oz was called to testify yesterday before a US Senate committee on his promotion of weight loss products.<br /><span class="text_exposed_hide">...</span><span class="text_exposed_show"><br /> The good doctor admitted that the natural products he has promoted lack scientific evidence to support the contention that quick weight loss will be the result.<br /><br /> Why should this surprise us?<br /><br /> Our system is consumer capitalism; and many celebrities are corporate shills, making big bucks as part of the system.<br /><br /> It's also important to have a realistic perspective on our power structure; and the 1950ies analysis by C. Wright Mills, in The Power Elite still resonates.<br /><br /> Mills describes three levels of power in the US: the corporate elite which dominates; the politicos in Congress, the White House and active politicans at the state/local level comprises the 2nd level; and the bottom level is the mass public, the media, and the celebrities.<br /><br /> Dr. Oz is at the third low level; and we should be focusing on the top level power elite, the corporate/finance sector.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/17/dr-oz-congress_n_5504209.html" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank"><span>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span><span>2014/06/17/</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>dr-oz-congress_n_5504209.html</a></span></div>
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</span>gordon cannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13214685068053076008noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7517648133243023795.post-61941831192501789012014-06-17T07:10:00.000-07:002014-06-17T07:10:08.918-07:00Iraq, Bush 2 and the blame game.<span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3,"tn":"K"}"><div class="text_exposed_root text_exposed">
(IRBIL, Iraq — The stage was set Friday for a major sectarian confrontation in Iraq after the government and the country’s most powerful Shiite cleric implored civilians to take up arms against Sunni militants — a move that would partially plug the ranks of the decimated security forces with religiously motivated volunteers. <br /><br /> Those developments appeared directly at odds with the approach urged by President Obama in Washington, who appealed to the Iraqi government to find way<span class="text_exposed_hide">...</span><span class="text_exposed_show">s to bridge the country’s sectarian divisions. <br /><br /> After an offensive this week by the al-Qaeda-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) triggered a massive retreat by security forces in the north, the government turned to its citizenry for help, issuing a call for volunteers to join the battle. On Friday, that call was echoed in a message from Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, delivered at prayers in the southern city of Karbala, a Shiite holy city.)<br /><br /><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/volunteers-flock-to-defend-baghdad-as-insurgents-seize-more-iraqi-territory/2014/06/13/10d46f9c-f2c8-11e3-914c-1fbd0614e2d4_story.html?hpid=z1" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank"><span>http://www.washingtonpost.com/</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span><span>world/middle_east/</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span><span>volunteers-flock-to-defend-bagh</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span><span>dad-as-insurgents-seize-more-i</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span><span>raqi-territory/2014/06/13/</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span><span>10d46f9c-f2c8-11e3-914c-1fbd061</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>4e2d4_story.html?hpid=z1</a><br /><br /> =================<br /><br /> The Grand Ayatollah Alial-Sistani has called for an Islamist Sunni caliphate of Iraq.<br /><br /> I am not a Muslim; and to have a religious leader call for a violent caliphate (whatever caliphate means) is grotesque. <br /><br /> Even in the Caltholic Church, the presiding Pope is generally ignored on faith issues that are antiquated and silly.<br /><br /> If the Pope, with over a billion Church followers, were to call for a violent crusade against various Christian sects, he would be laughed out of the Vatican.<br /><br /> The blind following of a call by a Muslim Ayatollah for violence is stupid. The majority of Shiites and Sunnis have only a shadow knowledge of why they oppose each other. Ask them, and most of the those fighting would throw up their hands, and say the divide happened centuries ago, and all we really are sure of is that Muslim females must wear the vials and remain in the house.<br /><br /> The Iraqi PM Maliki (sp.?) is a Shiite and is a non-democratic autocrat. His Shiite sect religious leaders are also forcing him to exclude Sunnis from real power in Baghdad.<br /><br /> Saddam Hussein was a bad guy; a ruthless dictator who kept the lid on the sectarian divisions.<br /><br /> Bush 2, Cheney, Rummy , William Kristol, and the neo-con coterie in Bush 2's circle were all wrong when they invaded Iraq. The current turmoil in Iraq is a case of the chickens coming home to roost.</span></div>
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(Clinton’s favorability rating has hit a six-year low, according to a new Fox News poll.)<br />*******************<br />HRC will not run for POTUS 2016.<br />In any case, no potential candidate will jump in until the Nov. mid-terms are completed.<br />Methinks the Clintons' daughter, Chelsea, will oppose her mother running, arguing that the campaign will be very toxic, vicious, and exhausting.<br />The Clintons have lived in the White House; and all three likely call the WH and Capital buildings a giant political sinkhole.<br />The argument that HRC will break the glass ceiling if she becomes POTUS is historically mushy.<br />Woodrow Wilson's second wife, Edith, became the defacto (not constitutional) POTUS when WIlson was incapacitated by a severe stroke.<br />She kept all visitors away, including Cabinet members.<br />She controlled the paper flow, and actually made decisions on what her hubby should see and sign.<br />The GOP national committee has already compiled a negative notebook on HRC; a file that would be J. Edgar Hoover's wet dream.<br />There is a long history of HRC's public career; and possibly the most damaging would be her administrative style.<br />In 1993, Bill wanted a health care reform bill and gave HRC the charge to develop the plan.<br />She ignored Congress, worked secretly behind closed doors, and used the wonkish consultant Ira Magaziner to produce a convoluted, complex plan that put heavy emphasis on HMOs.<br />HRC had been captured by the HMO interests.<br />HRC opened the closed conference door; took the plan to Congress; and dropped it on the legislatures' desks. GOP Senate leader Bob Dole pronounced it DOA.<br />But more importantly, the 1994 mid-term election saw the GOP take control of the House, with the HRC health plan a major issue.<br />With the House victory, the then radical conservative firebrand Gingrich became Speaker.<br />The last six years of the Clinton presidency never recovered.</div>
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gordon cannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13214685068053076008noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7517648133243023795.post-25343579764278582482014-01-31T10:06:00.000-08:002014-01-31T10:06:22.034-08:00Amanda Knox and the new guilty verdict<span class="userContent">Amanda Knox was found guilty in a do over by the second highest Italian court.<br /> <br />
In the earlier RedBlue blog, I had a good go round on this case with
others, particularly with a blogger who believed Knox was guilty.<br /> <br /> I have not changed my po<span class="text_exposed_show">sition on this.<br /> I understand the new guilty verdict was garnered without going into all the evidence from the previous trial.<br /> <br /> Knox can appeal to the Italian appeals court, which can take months or years.<br /> This court may simply affirm yesterday's guilty decision.<br /> <br /> After that Knox could appeal to the European Court of Justice, which can overturn the guilty verdict.<br /> <br /> In any case, Knox should never return to Italy.<br /> And our State Dept. should deny Italy's request for extradition in the future.<br /> Knox has been tried 3 times, and this latest do over would constitute a violation of US double jeopardy guidelines.<br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/01/30/amanda-knox-afraid-of-today-s-court-verdict.html" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/01/30/amanda-knox-afraid-of-today-s-court-verdict.html</a> </span></span>gordon cannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13214685068053076008noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7517648133243023795.post-62992830538094617352013-09-24T08:06:00.002-07:002013-09-24T08:06:26.479-07:00The buzz among the politico cognoscenti, and talking heads, is the current New York mag. interview with Hillary.<h5 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":1,"tn":"K"}">
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(..In the world of the Clintons, of course, what constitutes<br /> <br /> ordinary<br /> <br /> <span class="text_exposed_show"><br /> and everyday has never been either. So the question was inevitable:<br /> Given who he is, and who she is, does Bill, among their guffaws over the<br /> dogs and stupid movies, harangue her daily about running for president?<br /> ….To this, Hillary Rodham Clinton lets loose one of her loud, head-tilted-back laughs. “I don’t think even he<br /> is, you know, focused on that right now,” she says. “Right now, we’re<br /> trying to just have the best time we can have doin’ what we’re doin’.?”<br /> <br /> There’s a weightlessness about Hillary Clinton these days.<br /> She’s in midair, launched from the State Department toward … what? For<br /> the first time since 1992, unencumbered by the demands of a national<br /> political campaign or public office, she is saddled only with<br /> expectations about what she’s going to do next. And she is clearly<br /> enjoying it….”<br /> <a href="http://nymag.com/news/features/hillary-clinton-2013-9/" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank"><span>http://nymag.com/news/</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span><span>features/</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>hillary-clinton-2013-9/</a><br /> ***************<br /> <br /> The buzz among the politico cognoscenti, and talking heads, is the current New York mag. interview with Hillary.<br /> <br /> Her comments are being interpreted as being open to running for POTUS in 2106.<br /> <br /> Sure, such comments make good fodder for our 24/7 news media.<br /> But no ambiguous politico plans beyond the next electoral cycle..in this case, 2014.<br /> <br /> Will 2016 be a good year for a Dem. POTUS candidate?<br />
How will the stupid party, now morphed into the crazy party (GOP)
evolve? Will it become embers in the tea party bonfire? or will it shed
its’ extremism, and move toward the middle?<br /> <br /> If Obama burns up, and is as unpopular as Bush 2 in 2008, the Dem. POTUS nomination will not be worth it.<br /> <br /> And HIllary’s potential candidacy really depends on her, and Bill’s health, and other personal factors.<br /> <br />
Should Hillary run, her polarizing role in Bill’s White House years;
and her somewhat mediocre tenure as Sec. of State will be major issues.</span></div>
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gordon cannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13214685068053076008noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7517648133243023795.post-22553446560895926152013-09-24T08:03:00.000-07:002013-09-24T08:03:07.646-07:00(Iran's new president, Hasan Rouhani, is leadings the country's delegation at the annual U.N. General Assembly in New York.) **************<ol class="clearfix fbTimelineCapsule fbTimelineCapsuleBorn" data-end="1380610799" data-referrer="pagelet_timeline_recent_tc" data-start="1378306394" id="u_jsonp_4_j">
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(Iran's new president, Hasan Rouhani, is leadings the country's delegation at the annual U.N. General Assembly in New York.)<br /> **************<br /> <br />
And that cuddly curmudgeon Newt Gingrich says the POTUS, any US Pres.,
should only meet with a head of state if there is an agreement to sign,
or a treaty to ok. A extemporaneous meet-up would not meet that
standard.<br /> <br /> Newt, the historian, surely recalls the JFK and Khrushchev meeting in Vienna in Summer 1961.<br /> There was little to original<span class="text_exposed_show">ly agree to, except a possible Laos neutrality agreement.<br />
Otherwise, Kh. ranted to the young new POTUS , giving a long tirade on
how communism would "bury" capitalism; and how he would sign a separate
agreement with East Germany/East Berlin that would block the West from
access to W. Berlin.<br /> <br /> After a day of the rambling tirade, JFK had to get a shot from Dr. Feelgood; a concoction of speed and vitamins.<br /> <br /> After two days, JFK put a hat on over his face, sat down, and told James Reston,NYT, how it was the worse two days of his life.<br /> <br /> Well, that wouldn't happen with Obama and Rouhani....different time, different personalities.<br /> <br /> So what would be wrong with meeting informally?<br />
It would not require a duel press meet after the meeting, but would
signal a potential break threw in bringing Iran back into the
international community.<br /> <br /> Iran is hurting, economically, with the hard-hitting sanctions.<br /> Rouhani, with the apparent concurrence of the Allotaha, seems to want a new beginning in relationships.<br /> <br /> Israel is opposed; and the Israeli lobby in DC is very influential.<br /> <br /> Is Rouhani lying in saying Iran does not want a nuke military weapon?<br /> <br /> Can Israel, alone, conduct a quick strike on Iran's nuke facilities, as it did in Syria a couple of years ago?<br /> <br /> It would not be the same walk in the park for Israel.<br /> <br /> Diplomacy is the path to follow; peace is the goal that is necessary.<br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/24/iran-un-talks_n_3981107.html" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/24/iran-un-talks_n_3981107.html</a></span></div>
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gordon cannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13214685068053076008noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7517648133243023795.post-17370783846395427682013-09-10T10:07:00.001-07:002013-09-10T10:07:28.991-07:00Is there no sense of decency anywhere nowadays?<span class="userContent">(MIAMI — Diana Nyad's 110-mile swim from Cuba
to Florida has generated positive publicity and adoration for the
64-year-old endurance athlete — along with skepticism from some members
of the small community of marathon swimmers who are questioning whether
she accomplished the feat honestly.<br /> <br /> Read more: <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/diana-nyad-swim-cuba-florida-questioned-article-1.1449150#ixzz2eV4fxtoP" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/diana-nyad-swim-cuba-florida-questioned-article-1.1449150#ixzz2eV4fxtoP</a>)<br /> **********<br /> <br /> Is there no sense of decency anywhere nowadays?<br /> <br /> I<span class="text_exposed_show">s the level of competition in sports at a level that a 64-yr. old lady can't get the plaudits she apparently deserves.<br /> <br /> I don't hear that Cuban exiles in Miami are challenging her bona fides.<br /> <br /> How many of these exiles would have gladly swam from Castro's Cuba to Miami, without jellyfish protection</span></span>gordon cannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13214685068053076008noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7517648133243023795.post-73505068423409288872013-09-10T10:06:00.001-07:002013-09-10T10:06:01.189-07:00A second senior official, who has seen the most recent planning, offered this metaphor to describe such a strike: If Assad is eating Cheerios, we're going to take away his spoon and give him a fork. Will that degrade his ability to eat Cheerios? Yes. Will it deter him? Maybe. But he'll still be able to eat Cheerios..."<span class="userContent">(..The strike, as envisioned, would be limited
in the number of targets and done within a day or two. It could be
completed in one fell swoop with missiles, said one senior official
familiar with the weapons involved. A smaller, follow-on strike could be
launched if targets aren't sufficiently damaged.<br /> <br /> A second
senior official, who has seen the most recent planning, offered this
metaphor to describe such a strike: If Assad is eating Cheerios, we're
going to take away his spo<span class="text_exposed_show">on and give
him a fork. Will that degrade his ability to eat Cheerios? Yes. Will it
deter him? Maybe. But he'll still be able to eat Cheerios..."<br /> <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/09/08/syria-tomahawk-missiles-chemical-weapons/2770949/" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/09/08/syria-tomahawk-missiles-chemical-weapons/2770949/</a><br /> **********<br /> <br /> I'm a supporter of small, locally owned businesses.<br /> A capitalist who can think globally, but buy locally.<br /> <br /> So I'm always skeptical of the large, primary sector corporations; and their 24/7 marketing imprints.<br /> <br /> Are Cheerios still owned by Kellogg? and is Kellogg owned by General Mills?<br /> CherriOats was the original name for Cheerios, according to the wikipedia.<br /> And who wasn't imprinted with the Cheerio breakfast brand?<br /> Not eating Cheerios was like missing Howdy Doody. <br /> <br /> Now, the issue here seems to be that the US military spokesperson assumes Assad eats Cheerios.<br /> Now isn't that the height of consumer , multinational corporate imperialism?<br /> **********<br /> On a more serious note, the Charlie Rose interview with Assad was informative; and useful.<br /> As of this morning, there is talk, movement to see if Assad, Syria, will agree to give up its' chemical wmds.<br /> I would like to see this.</span></span>gordon cannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13214685068053076008noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7517648133243023795.post-44129518106349261562013-08-30T10:17:00.001-07:002013-08-30T10:17:55.418-07:00We are all Martians..<h5 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":1,"tn":"K"}">
<span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}">"We are all Martians.<br /> <br />
That’s the astonishing claim from a biochemist who says he has evidence
that essential ingredients for life originated on Mars and made the
journey to Earth aboard a meteor.<br /> <br /> “The evidence seems to be
building that we are actually all Martians; that life started on Mars
and came to Earth on a rock,” said Steven Benner of The Westheimer
Institute for Science and Technology in Gainesville, Fla...."<span class="text_exposed_show"><br /> <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/says_blood_runs_red_earth_life_was_YfOcqv4iJbTCSqSC4sB5gO" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank"><span>http://www.nypost.com/p/news/</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span><span>international/</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span><span>says_blood_runs_red_earth_life_</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>was_YfOcqv4iJbTCSqSC4sB5gO</a><br /> **************<br /> <br /> Are you kidding me? <br /> We left the red planet; settled on Earth; and made civilization.<br /> Our descendents came here from Mars on a rock?<br />
Well, that may explain why we have unending wars everywhere;climate
change; the sectarian blood feuds between the Shiites and Sunnis;
private cars that dominate our lives, and destroy everything in its'
path; floods; wild fires; and Miley Cyrus.<br /> <br /> Perhaps there can be
a reverse trip. Perhaps our Miley Cyruses can be put inside a rock-like
meteorite and sent to the Red Planet, one way of course.</span></span></h5>
gordon cannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13214685068053076008noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7517648133243023795.post-76993132014496803552013-08-27T09:24:00.001-07:002013-08-27T09:24:13.516-07:00What would be our goal in attacking Syria? Retribution for the immoral chemical attack? Overthrow of Assad" Just what is our goal when we do this?<h5 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":1,"tn":"K"}">
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there’s an unholy alliance pushing for attacks on Syria. We have
liberal zealots, such as our UN ambassador, Samantha Power, who believe
that our military’s primary purpose is to protect people who hate
America. We have a few Republican senators like John McCain and Lindsey
Graham who support any war, any time. We have a president who thinks
that, “Gee, maybe, well, gosh, I said I’d do something, so maybe I
should...” And we have elements in the defense industry who long for a
return to our free-spending years in Iraq and Afghanistan and view a war
in Syria as a great way to beat the sequester.<br /> And the one thing every member of that bomb-Syria-now coalition has in common? Not one will have to fight….”<br /> <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/obama_third_war_wouSScjkNB1FutCDpAU2cN?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=OpedColumnists" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank"><span>http://www.nypost.com/p/news/</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span><span>opinion/opedcolumnists/</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span><span>obama_third_war_wouSScjkNB1FutC</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span><span>DpAU2cN?utm_medium=rss&utm_con</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>tent=OpedColumnists</a> <br /> I seldom agree with the NY Post’s editorial and op.ed. pages, but Ralph Peters’ column this morning is a goo<span class="text_exposed_show">d read, and an important statement on the impending air strikes by the US, and Britain.<br />
Chemical weapon use against civilians is barbaric; and it is a moral
issue. It should be condemned by all civilized countries and its’
leaders.<br /> It should be condemned by the UN, in spite of the expected
opposition of the Russians and likely Chinese to higher level sanctions
against Syria. <br /> But Peters opposition to the coming strikes is based on real politick.<br />
The strikes will toughen Assad’s resistence. They will be opposed by
Iran, Iraq, and Russia. Russia has a warm water port in Damascus, the
only one available to the Russians.<br /> Assad is a despicable tyrant; and should be replaced. But he has military superiority in the civil war. <br />
He is also the current head of a nation. The bombing of Syrian military
sites by us is an act of war. While it is a quaint notion, our
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executive war actions within a short period of weeks after military
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He looks at the wage gains of the bottom 60% of the working population ;
the vast inequality of wealth and income; and concludes that a national
minimum wage of $10-15 is appropriate.<span class="text_exposed_show"><br /> <br /> The majority of workers at the McDonalds and Walmarts are adults, most with children to support.<br /> A living wage for these workers will not compell the corp. honchos to send the jobs to low wage under-developed countries. <br /> <br /> The Walmarts and McDonalds on almost every block of our country will remain open; and the workers are needed.<br /> <br />
One study estimated that paying McDonald workers as much as $15 hour
might raise the price of the Whopper by 2-3 cents. Not a big deal.<br /> <br />
Some bloggers here may say that Reich is an unrepentant New Deal
liberal; a big government , centralized control, old FDR new dealer.<br /> <br /> You can call Reich anything you want, just don’t call the low-paid workers to a dinner they can’t afford</span></div>
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“Why is this still an issue?”<br />
“Are we really all that<br />different?”<br />
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NPR’s Michele Norris has had what she calls a Race Card<br />Project, with her distributing post cards for people to describe racial<br />attitudes and opinions in six words. <br />
Norris has learned a lot about racial beliefs, attitudes and<br />opinions on racial issues, all within the 6 allowable words….smaller than<br />Twitter characters.<br />
<br />
The two quotes above are just two examples of post card<br />jottings.<br />
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Next week marks the 50th anniversary of the Aug.<br />28th, 1963 March on Washington. The 250,000 who gathered at the<br />Lincoln Memorial, and tidal basin, came from all over the country; were<br />integrated, black, brown, red and white; and had different agendas to display<br />at the gathering.<br />
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The Kennedy brothers, John and Bobby, were reluctant to<br />endorse this March; and when it could not be stopped, they controlled it with<br />all the power that had. This control included previewing all the speeches, with<br />a censuring of any hard criticism of the Kennedys; asking the Reuther brothers<br />to organize labor union whites to attend; closing all the bars and liquor<br />stores for several hours; and having the National Guard troops standing by.<br />
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The essential goal of the March was to apply pressure to<br />pass a tough civil rights bill that would end de jure Southern segregation. MLK’s dream speech is<br />the speech most remembered , and it was a conservative call for integration.<br />
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Our nation has come a long way since 1963. De Jure segregation<br />is history; blacks are visible at high levels of our corporate and political institutions,<br />including the Presidency.<br />
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But as Norris’ postcard project reveals, there is a long way<br />to go before our nation could be labeled color-blind.<br />
Schools can no longer be legally segregated, but the<br />segregation, both North and South, of our schools is perhaps greater than the<br />196ies.<br />
The cultural “pathology” within the black underclass<br />prevails, with high levels of unwed mothers, school dropouts, and violent<br />crime.<br />
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How would the bloggers here describe our current racial<br />relations, in 6 words?<br />
http://www.aarp.org/politics-society/history/info-07-2013/race-card-project-and-racism-in-america.html<br />
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gordon cannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13214685068053076008noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7517648133243023795.post-19302636997841554932013-08-12T06:54:00.002-07:002013-08-12T06:54:46.979-07:00(...ReelzChannel is getting back into the Kennedy family business ....)<div class="postContent" id="cdPostContentBox_Mx3OUWK8CGQFSN8" style="display: block;">
(...ReelzChannel is getting back into the Kennedy family business,
and once again likely to make some waves. In November, the network that
aired the Emmy-winning 2011 miniseries "The Kennedys" will debut "JFK:
The Smoking Gun," a new documentary offering the theory that John F.
Kennedy was killed, not by Lee Harvey Oswald's rifle, but by the
friendly-fire bullet of an inexperienced Secret Service agent. It is a
theory that has been around awhile and has had a difficult track record
and the news that Reelz is airing a show based on it has already ignited
anger in this hotly disputed stretch of history...."<br />http://tv.yahoo.com/blogs/tv-news/reelzch<wbr></wbr>annel-ceo-defends-controversial-jfk-docum<wbr></wbr>entary-theory--president-was-killed-by-ac<wbr></wbr>cidental-secret-service-shot-220053275.ht<wbr></wbr>ml<br />*****************************<br /><br />This alleged accidental shot from a SS agent in the followup car has been discredited long ago..the theory has no legs.<br /> ReelzChannel , like O'Reilly, is working diligently to continue the coverup of the JFK murder conspiracy.<br /><br />This movie is based on the Bonar Menninger book, Mortal Error.<br />Menninger's
book is red meat for those who are in denial that there was a vast
conspiracy...what ol' Jack Ruby labeled a high level coup d'état. <br /><br />My
family has had difficulty finding me this weekend, as I have Thurston
Clarke's masterpiece, JFK's Last Hundred Days, and sequestered myself
away to read this gem; what historian Douglas Brinkley has called a book
that sings: (""The three-months before President John F. Kennedy was
shot in Dallas were frenetic times: civil rights, Vietnam, Berlin and
reelection were on his mind. Thurston Clarke's JFK's Last Hundred Days
does a marvelous job of reliving Camelot's fragile promise. Clarke is a
masterful storyteller and able researcher. This book sings. Highly
recommended.")<br /><br />Clarke takes no position on whether JFK died thru a conspiracy or thru a single demented Oswald.<br />But
his book is a spell binding read because it provides details on what
JFK was doing and thinking in the last 100 days of his life.<br /><br />Clarke gives us a picture of how JFK was alienating a litany of very powerful power centers:<br />the military...as he rejected ground troops in Laos, Cuba, and Vietnam.<br /><br />the
Texas oil men...as he pushed for changes in the oil depletion
allowance; and in the case of quasi-fascist H.L. Hunt, confronting the
rise of right-wing radicalism.<br /><br />the NE bankers....as he was
experimenting with issuing direct money bills, bypassing the Federal
Reserve and cutting into the interest that the banks were earning from
the Treasury.<br /><br />the clandestine wing of the CIA...as he was moving
to cut funding for dirty tricks, drug experiments, and executive action
"black bag" operations.<br />JFK's firing of Allen Dulles also threatened
the vast spy operations of the former Nazi Reinhard Gehlen , who was
brought into the CIA by Dulles.<br /><br />the anti-Castro Cuban
exiles.....as JFK was sounding out Castro on some type of accommodation.
This was part of a detailed agenda to cool down the Cold War. Through
private letters and secondary contacts, JFK was engaging Khrushchev in a
dialogue for "peace". Khrushchev brought Castro to Moscow for a month;
and during this stay, Kh. explained that Castro should seek an
accommodation with the US.<br /><br />NASA....as an element of JFK's "peace"
agenda, he was exploring a joint space program with Khrushchev. This
was a threat to the NASA scientists, and programmers, many of whom were
former Hitler/Nazi scientists. Wernher von Braun was especially
threatened by this JFK move for a joint space exploration with the USSR.<br /><br />Clarke
gives a vivid account of what JFK was working to do, without concluding
that this agenda led to his murder. But one can speculate on this.<br /><br />All
of the powerful interests described above, with the addition of the
Mafia godfathers and Jimmy Hoffa, were the constellation, configuration
of interests that coalesced to decide that JFK had to be removed. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/159420425X/ref=cm_cd_asin_lnk">JFK's Last Hundred Days: The Transformation of a Man and the Emergence of a Great President</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312080743/ref=cm_cd_asin_lnk">Mortal Error: The Shot That Killed JFK, A ballistics expert's astonishing discovery of the fatal bullet that Oswald did not fire</a>
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gordon cannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13214685068053076008noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7517648133243023795.post-30451031238942028142013-08-12T06:52:00.001-07:002013-08-12T06:52:43.182-07:00Amazon's owner Jeff Bezo bought the Wash. Post last week, for a reportedly $250 million...pocket change for Mr. Bezo.<div class="postContent" id="cdPostContentBox_Mx1RIACA7CZHXEA" style="display: block;">
Amazon's owner Jeff Bezo bought the Wash. Post last week, for a reportedly $250 million...pocket change for Mr. Bezo.<br /><br />The
Post was owned by the Graham family and the Grahams will
apparently continue to have a major role in the Post's operations.<br /><br />There is a relationship between the Post's Graham family and the assassination of JFK.<br /><br />Phil Graham ran the newspaper from 1946-'63.<br />By
the late 50ies and early 60ies, his major editor Ben Bradlee was close
to JFK. Bradlee and his wife Toni visited the White House numerous
times. <br />Bradlee's wife Toni's maiden name was Antoinette Pinchot; and
she was the sister of Mary Pinchot Meyer, who had a serious
relationship with JFK during his Presidency.<br /><br />It was Mary who
allegedly formed a Georgetown coterie of women married to, or having a
relationship, with very powerful DC men. Mary's friend was JFK.<br />These
women formed a support group to work to have their hubbies and partners
see an alternative world; a universe without war, nuclear weapons or
dangerous Cold War machinations.<br /><br />Mary allegedly visited Harvard's Timothy Leary to get details on, and even a supply of LSD.<br />Leary is the only non-collaborating source for this.<br /><br />Mary
allegedly wanted to turn JFK on to LSD; to allow him to see an
alternative universe of milk, honey, flowers and universal peace.<br />Or at least, have the sidewalks turn different colors.<br /><br />While
Mary was deepening her relationship to JFK, Ben's wife Toni, Mary's
sister, apparently told Ben; and Ben in turn informed Phil Graham.<br />And
Graham, a heavy drinker and bi-polar, went out West in 1963, got to the
podium of a newspaper editors conference, and began screaming that JFK
was "screwing" Mary Meyer.<br /><br />(..In January 1963 Graham disclosed
to a meeting of newspaper editors that John F. Kennedy was having an
affair with Mary Pinchot Meyer, but his claim was not reported by the
news media.[citation needed] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Graham)<wbr></wbr>)<br /><br />Word
got back to the Kennedy brothers. They got Phil on a plane back to DC;
and his wife Katherine had him committed to a psy. center.<br />He shortly thereafter committed suicide.
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gordon cannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13214685068053076008noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7517648133243023795.post-82595185619810866852013-08-05T09:01:00.002-07:002013-08-05T09:01:37.612-07:00Christopher Anderson's new Kennedy book, These Few Precious Days: The Final Year of Jack with Jackie is in the bookstores tomorrow.<div class="postContent" id="cdPostContentBox_MxBEVDPEGSEJ35" style="display: block;">
Christopher Anderson's new Kennedy book, These Few Precious Days:
The Final Year of Jack with Jackie is in the bookstores tomorrow.<br /><br />While
the early blurbs do not appear to reveal much that is not already
known, one headline story this morning concerns Anderson's account of
the Marilyn Monroe, Jack and Jackie situation.<br /><br />Anderson has
additional sources that confirm that MM was in an alternative universe
(not a parallel one with Earth and reality) by the Summer '62.<br /><br />She
called Jackie and revealed her affair with Jack; and that she (MM) was
going to be Jack's second wife, move into the White House, and become
the new FLOTUS (First Lady).<br /><br />Jackie allegedly responded that that was nice; and hoped MM could handle the various problems that will occur. LOL.<br /><br />While
Jackie may have been aware of the various affairs that Jack had, MM
apparently was the most difficult and dangerous. MM could have been the
only one who told Jackie of the affair and what her psychotic intentions
were in becoming 1st Lady.<br /><br />MM was searching for love in all the wrong places.<br /><br />RFK was dispatched to deal with MM, keep her quiet and away from the press.<br />MM had the power to bring down the Kennedys.<br />RFK likely had sex with MM, but he was using that to control her. He was not about to divorce Ethel and leave his 9 kids for MM.<br /><br />I have not read Anderson's tomb and do not know if he concludes that MM was murdered.<br /><br />The
prolific scandal writer Darwin Porter claims that MM was indeed
murdered; and he even has photos of the Mafioso godfather Sam Giancana's
hit team. The team are men you would not invite home to dinner.<br />(Marilyn At Rainbow's End: Sex, Lies, Murder, and the Great Cover-up [Paperback]<br />Darwin Porter (Author) )<br /><br />Would the Kennedys have hired Giancana to hit MM?<br />By 1962, RFK was working almost 24/7 to put Giancana in prison. <br />Why would Giancana have considered doing this hit for the Kennedys?<br /><br />Perhaps
Giancana thought that doing this hit would make the Kennedy brothers
happy; and neutralize RFK in his campaign to destroy the Mafia.<br />If so, Giancana would have considered it a serious double-cross.<br /><br />The alleged murder of MM was a warning shot to the Kennedy brothers.<br /><br />There is a direct link between MM and the Dealey assassination.<br /><br />These Few Precious Days: The Final Year of Jack with Jackie [Hardcover]<br />Christopher Andersen (Author)
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(The NY Daily News editorial board is calling on Governor Cuomo to push Weiner from the race.)<br />
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Agree, but should be with a hidden hand, private actions.<br />
The Gov. may be reluctant to go public on this moral issue, but a hidden hand push may convince Weiner to withdraw.<br />
Huma's role here is ambigious.<br />
Is it ambition overcoming rationality?<br />
Is Huma channeling the early Hillary when the Clintons went on 60
minutes, and Hillary proclaimed she is NO Tammy Wynette stay at home
cook while the hubby goes out to conquer the world, and also play kid
games at the same time?<br />
Weiner allegedly said to Leathers that his marriage to Huma was "a sham....a political union..."<br />
Huma should take away all of her hubby's toys...the phones, close the
twitter account, the laptop, the tablet and all the other toys that
little boys like.<br />
Should social media and Steve Jobs take some responsibility for what Weiner has, and is, doing?<br />
Facebook, smart phones etc. allow humans to communicate without touching other humans; without interacting on a human level.<br />
But then there is that "San Diego mayor Bob Filner caught up in sex
scandal. 7 women now accusing Bob Filner of sexual misconduct."<br />
Filner actually interacted in person, rather than the impersonal online shenanigans.<br />
At least one woman says Filner would get her in a head lock.<br />A head lock? Is that uncommon in an office environment?<br />
Filner says he will go into a 2 week intensive therapy session to purge the inner demons.<br />Will he put the female therapists and aides in head locks? <br />
Somebody help me...I'm on the floor convulsed in uncontrollable laughter.<br />
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(..Rush Limbaugh Says Huma Abedin Is Muslim, Powerless, So Anthony Weiner Can 'Get Away With Anything'<br /> <br />
"It's relevant to point out here by the way ... Huma is a Muslim,”
Limbaugh said, according to Mediaite. “In that regard, Weiner ought to
be able to get away with anything.”<br />
“Muslim women don’t have any power, right?” he continued. “Muslim <br />women are beheaded, stoned, whatever, if they drive, have affairs. In <br />certain countries, Muslim women, if they’re raped, are killed -- it’s <br />their fault..."<br />http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/27/rush-limbaugh-huma-abedin-muslim_n_3664662.html<br />*************************************************<br />
I carry no water for ElRusbo, and his slur above lacks credibility.<br />
Yes, Huma is a Muslim; and both her parents, highly educated, were ,are Muslims.<br />
Huma has a resume, bona fides that give evidence of her professionalism, and activity in the public arena.<br />
Is ElRusbo claiming that Weiner is applying Sharia law to Huma and that explains her continued loyalty to this man-child?<br />
Huma has been close to Hillary for years; and was her scheduling coordinator for the 2008 POTUS campaign.<br />
If Huma was practicing Sharia law, I assume a female POTUS would be a Sharia violation. <br />
I don't speak with knowledge on this matter, so others weight in.<br />
As I've suggested previously, Huma should take away all of Weiner's
electronic toys; hit him aside the head; tell him to leave their abode;
grow up; and get good professional help.<br />
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(..Friends say Abedin was “furious” and
considered ending her marriage after she discovered last summer that her
husband had relapsed even after the couple had publicly reconciled and
begun raising a child.<br />
As NYC women try to figure out what’s motivating Abedin, a
spokesman for Weiner declined to say whether his wife would continue to
play an active role in his campaign.<br />
Anthony Weiner’s smartest path from here to primary day: Retail, retail, retail.<br />
Leathers’ mother, Laura, told the DN: “I have nothing to say
except God help New York if he gets to be mayor. You can print that..)<br />
************<br />
In my humble opinion, Weiner’s smartest path from here to primary
day is hightail, hightail, hightail to the nearest competent therapist.<br />
Humorist Andy Borowitz reveals that Weiner was actually sexting during yesterday’s apology press meet up.(<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport" rel="nofollow">http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport</a>).<br />
This Leathers young lady that Weiner was sexting with last Summer
went public and declared that Mr. Anthony was lousy at phone sex.<br />
I’m older than dirt, and I don’t understand what phone sex is all about.<br />
Can you do it only with a smart phone?<br />
Is there an app. for this?<br />
If it is done with a pay phone, what would it cost; and is it a higher felony than when done privately?<br />
Expect Mayor Bloomberg to don his nanny hat and declare that his
great city, the beacon to the world, the home of the Statue of Liberty
that asks to “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses
yearning to breathe free.”…that this great metropolis doesn’t need a
mayor who is lousy at phone sex.<br />
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A little bit of this, and a little bit of that.<br />
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Last Fri.'s NYT had some good reads. Is it all accurate? Not according to Fox News, but what do they know?<br />
The front page, and the business section, have good reads on the
civil charges that the SEC is bringing against hedger owner, Steven
Cohen.<br />
The SEC alleges that Cohen, as owner/CEO of SAC Capital Advisers,
should have known about the shenanigans that his subordinates were
engaged in....that Cohen ignored "red flags".<br />
Not being privy to Cohen's defense briefs, I imagine his concierges
will argue that bureaucracies, organizations, are structured
hierarchical in order to encase the high mucky-mucks in a bubble of
ignorance. <br />
How could Cohen know what his bureaucratic ants were doing?<br />
The business story suggests that the new SEC chair Mary Jo White has
removed her Wall Street protector headgear , and is now wearing a
prosecutor's battle helmet.<br />
The real test for White will be if she argues that Cohen's alleged
ignorance could have been avoided if the hedge fund's hierarchical
structure was flattened, made more democratic and horizontal. LOL.<br />
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Putin's antagonist Aleksei Navalyn was found guilty of allegedly stealing $500K from a state-controlled company in Kirov.<br />
The case was weak in documentation, and the anti-Putin organizers blame Putin for the harassment.<br />
Navalyn was sentenced to 5 years in prison, but was suddenly released pending the outcome of appeals.<br />
He is still planning to run for Mayor of Moscow.<br />
And if he wins, Putin can be in deep dodo.<br />
Can you imagine the reaction if Navalyn wins the election, and is then put in prison?<br />
Perhaps Navalyn should seek asylum in the Moscow airport hotel, and share a double room with Snowden.<br />
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Another story has DC US District Judge Rosemary Collyer ruling
that the executive branch, i.e.POTUS Obama, does not have authority to
kill Americans on foreign soil, without judicial approval.<br />
She wrote in her ruling that the AG brief argument that the
decisions on killing Americans are approved within the executive branch,
with Congressional oversight, and are therefore legal is Constitutional
rubber-band stretching.<br />
She would like the 3rd branch, the judiciary , to make this decision.<br />
Who would have thunk it?<br />
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("It's so hot that I saw a dog chasing a cat and they were both walking."<br />
"It's so hot today I saw two trees fighting over a dog."<br />
...the Statue of Liberty was asked to please lower her right arm.<br />
It is so hot that Al Gore landed one of his jets, sold the rest of his <br />carbon credits and drove his caravan of suv's north and discovered the <br />North Pole. Yes he did! Santa said so.<br />
It is so hot that Polar Bears are wearing sun screen.<br />
It’s so hot and dry in Kansas that the Baptists are starting to baptize <br />by sprinkling, the Methodists are using wet-wipes, the Presbyterians are<br /> giving out rain-checks & the Catholics are praying for the wine to <br />turn back into water.")<br />
*************<br />
Ok, it's your turn.<br />
How about it's so hot that Paladino was sunbathing and came back
inside and warned that he was going to run against Andrew again.<br />
It's so hot that Anthony Weiner is texting nude.<br />
It's so hot that Christine Quinn's newly sound proofed City Council
office will be air conditioned but only after she agrees to attend
Charley Sheen's anger management classes.<br />
***************<br />
On a more serious note, climate change is real.<br />
Droughts, floods, heat waves, violent storms, oceans warming, sea level rising, glacier ice melting are real.<br />
Robert Redford has a good blog on the positive Obama moves to curtail
power plant carbon emissions; and the POTUS's likely, but not
guaranteed, rejection of the Keystone pipeline.<br />
And Jeffrey Goodell has a good read on why the city of Miami will long longer exist in a few decades<br />
..http://www.huffingtonpost,com/robert-redford/we-need-climate-action-on_b_3532691.html<br />
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-the-city-of-miami-is-doomed-to-drown-20130620<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Pulitzer-award winning historian David McCullough was recently
profiled <br />
on 60 Minutes, as he engaged in an informative tour with Morley
Safer. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The historian raptures us with his knowledge and enthusiasm for
our founding<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>fathers .</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">McCullough is scheduled to be the main speaker at the Dealey Plaza
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">His charge will be to speak about JFK's life; and his rhetoric
will contain all the right words.<br />
McCullough will describe JFK's youth, charisma, and the brief shiny moment that
has been labeled Camelot. Without being privy to McCullough's speech, it will
likely emphasize JFK's <br />
intellectual curiosity; his humor; and the glamour that prevailed in the <br />
White House.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">With his knowledge and love of the early tradition <br />
of our country, McCullough is likely to retell the story of the Nobel <br />
Prize winners' dinner at the White House, when JFK<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>said :" "I think this<br />
is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, <br />
that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the <br />
possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone." </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">McCullough will also likely talk about Camelot's Lady Guinevere
,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jackie Kennedy,<br />
and how she brought culture and refinement to the White House.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Finally, McCullough will praise the Dallas Mayor, the city, and
its' <br />
business/cultural establishment for<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>its’
progress in the last 50 years.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This commemoration will give a positive hue to Dallas, its’
political/business elite, and to JFK’s life. It will make for an uplifting
media presentation.</span></div>
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To ensure that the occasion is not marred by actions or demonstrations by
conspiracy adherents, the Dallas Mayor will control a limited number of passes
for entrance to <br />
Dealey Plaza. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The danger is that this Dealey Plaza commemoration can also allow
us to lose site of the stark reality that Dealey Plaza is a crime scene;
the scene of the brutal murder of a young leader that remains an
unsolved cold case; the location of multiple gunshots within 7 seconds that
changed history. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">McCullough will not likely remind us that the 1960ies
Dallas was<br />
the epicenter of very rabid, irrational ,and violent right-wing <br />
groups and individuals. In fact, within this swamp of radical right-wing
activity, the Dallas John Birch Society was a paragon of prudence; a model of
moderation.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I would favor another speaker, Jeffrey Sachs, to
also be included in the commemoration festivities.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sachs has penned what could become one of the crown jewels in the
JFK <br />
legacy.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In To Move the World: JFK's Quest for Peace ,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sachs <br />
elegantly describes JFK's last year as President It was a year that
Kennedy <br />
devoted to peace in a dangerous nuclear age. During 1963, JFK worked to achieve
a limited test ban treaty; made a historical American University
"peace" speech that called for us to <br />
re-examine our hard-wired Cold War beliefs; and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>continued a<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>personal <br />
dialogue with Khrushchev.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">By 1963, Kennedy and Khrushchev had exchanged over 200 personal
letters.<br />
These letters circumvented the Cold War bureaucracies; and helped to promote a<br />
mutual understanding that nuclear war had to be avoided.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Kennedy also used Pope John 23rd and Saturday Review editor Norman
Cousins as back-channel communication links to the Kremlin.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The October 1962 Cuban missile crisis provided an epiphany for
JFK. He chose the blockade option, opposing the military and national security
advisors’ support for a military attack. With Khrushchev having moved almost
200 battlefield nuclear warheads into Cuba, a full-fledged world nuclear war
was very possible. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In the last year of his life, Kennedy joined Khrushchev in a
step-by-step campaign for an end to nuclear testing; in stopping the stock
piling of nukes on both sides; and in preventing the spread of nuclear weapons
to other nations. This peace journey was a huge threat to each country's
steel-eaters,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> the
military-industrial complexes.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As we take this 50<sup>th</sup> anniversary of JFK’s murder to
discover the details of his peace journey during 1963, the historical question
of whether he would have sent 500,000 ground troops to Vietnam is
resolved.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It would not have happened if
he had lived and served a second term.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sachs were to speak in
Dealey Plaza, his words would remind us <br />
of the real reason JFK was murdered:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>JFK's quest for nuclear sanity. <br />
Khrushchev was also removed from power a year after Kennedy's assassination.<br />
The steel-eaters, the hard-liners, were the winners in the struggle within both
countries.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For those of us in the large community who believe JFK’s
assassination was a conspiracy, the hope is that this year’s 50<sup>th</sup>
anniversary will see serious progress on solving the cold case of JFK’s murder.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">All classified files related to JFK’s murder, in all the federal
bureaucracies, should be released to the public.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A special prosecutor should be appointed to gather all the
evidence, subpoena living witnesses, and indict the assassination planners, and
those who have covered-up the crime.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Opaqueness and secrecy are not democratic; democracy demands
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(Amid a filibuster, Texas legislators did not act on an abortion bill. (Texas Tribune))<br />
**************<br />
Kudos to the courageous Sen. Wendy Davis in helping to stop this GOP bill.<br />
The bill was one of the most extreme measures that are streaming through the various state legislatures.<br />
It would have circumvented the SCOTUS Roe v. Wade, and related laws, that allow abortions under certain circumstances.<br />
Texas Gov. Perry recently invaded NY state; and suggested that Cuomo should favor eliminating the state income tax.<br />
This Texas imperialism can also easily find anti-abortion moves here in NY, similar to what is happening in Texas.<br />
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(Edward Snowden has disappeared, possibly in Russia. (AP))<br />
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One would think that the NSA would have data on any phone calls Snowden may have made on his getaway.<br />
And why wouldn’t the NSA, the FBI, op.cit., have installed a GPS on his laptops.<br />
Seems that should be a basic requirement for any contract employee hired by the NSA.<br />
And as methinks Jay Leno said, Putin will return Snowden when Putin returns the Super Bowl ring.<br />
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Does anyone believe the mega
mining of tele. logs; and social network info. by the NSA is overkill;
using a sledge hammer when a chisel would be sufficient?<br />**********<br />
The latest stories coming out describe how one of the social networks
actually went into the Intelligence Court; and fought the order to have
their patrons' info. mined into NSA computers.<br />The social network lost the argument.<br />
The national security complex has grown into a all encompassing
sprawling bureaucracy, all housed under the Homeland Security umbrella.<br />
Recently, Fortune magazine complied its' list of the most powerful women in the world.<br />
#3 is Janet Napolitano, Sec. of Homeland Security...just behind Indra
Nooyi, CEO, Pepsi and Sonia Gandi,Pres.,Indian National Congress Party.<br />
Napolitano has a $48 billion budget; 240k staff; and 22 agencies under her control.<br />
The NSA is really part of the Defense Dept.<br />
Evil does exist in the world.<br />There are evildoers living in that world; crazy criminal evildoers.<br />
Maslow's famous hierarchy of values remains germaine for human existence.; and the base of his hierarchy of needs is security.<br />We must have security in our lives; or nothing else matters.<br />
It is how security is provided that is an important policy question.<br />
The tele. logs, and social network info. remains "unopened" in the huge NSA computers.<br />
But it is there; and who is telling us how long the data remains retrievable? When is the data deleted?<br />Can this vast storage of raw data be used by private contractors, such as Booz Allen?<br />Can
the data provide the future base for an authoritarian US gov.,whether
of the left or right, to use against defined enemies of the state; or
ideological threats to the power of the state?<br />
Someone suggested that one positive result of the NSA revelations is
that it has motivated more people to read...to read Orwell's 1984.<br />
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( Edward Snowden, 29, revealed himself as the analyst who leaked documents on a massive government surveillance program. (WP))<br />
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When Senators Rand Paul and Bernie Sanders are on the same page, we should take notice.<br />
They are both on the same page in describing the NSA’s mega data
mining of phone numbers and locations; and in the storing of internet
emails and social network information.<br />
They consider it a civil liberties threat; and an undermining of the 4th A.<br />
Sen. Feinstein, the chair of the Senate Intelligence Cmt., argues
that this NSA collection is legal, and has the approval of the
leadership of Congress.(<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/week-transcript-sen-dianne-feinstein-rep-mike-rogers/story?id=19343314#.UbSyckpcGKI" rel="nofollow">http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/week-transcript-sen-dianne-feinstein-rep-mike-rogers/story?id=19343314#.UbSyckpcGKI</a>)<br />
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Feinstein argues that the phone chats are not listened to, and the
web entries are not perused unless the government goes to the
Intelligence Court for approval.<br />
But that is a small , rather meaningless, safeguard.<br />
The case to the Court is presented by the government; and there is no
adversary proceeding…no defense lawyer arguing not to open the web
entries or listening to the phone chats.<br />
Liberal NYT’s columnist Paul Krugman suggests that there are two
different possible surveillance states..a democratic one and an
authoritarian one.<br />
The NSA data collection is the latter.<br />
How long are the phone chats alive…able to be listened to?<br />
You can combine this with cameras almost everywhere; small drones
making flights over the cities in the future (with cameras looking at
all of us); and the future google glasses that can photo everyone on the
street; and you have the perfect Orwellian surveillance storm. <br />
Foreign , and domestic, evildoers, bad guys and gals, need to be monitored.<br />
And in our advance information era, they can’t resort to smoke signals or pony express (or can they?).<br />
Our Bill of Rights are important elements of our freedoms; and the 4th Amend. is one of the most important ones.<br />
I’m not an evildoer, but the NSA data mining does raise concern.<br />
Fox’s O’Reilly has his shorts all twisted on this issue.<br />
He exclaims, loudly, that if a husband calls Rosy’s Massage Parlor for
an appointment, the data on the call is stored in the NSA huge data
bank.<br />
So he says we should be afraid, really afraid.<br />
Big Bill is engaging in hyperbole.<br />
The husband’s wife could not petition NSA to tell her what the Rosy calls by her husband are all about.<br />
Oh, I suppose the wife could walk into the Intelligence Court and ask that the calls become transparent.<br />
The Justices would tell her to leave (LOL).<br />
In some ways, this issue can be considered a women’s issue.<br />
How so, you exclaim?<br />
It is because polls have shown that females make more phone calls than males. <br />
And here is a somewhat apropos joke: <br />
The husband shouts out to his wife that he swatted several flies in the kitchen….3 females and 4 males.<br />
The wife yells back, how can you tell the sex of a fly?<br />
The husband informs her that the 3 females were on the phone; and the 4 males were on a beer can.<br />
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