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Another magical JFK assassination pseudo-debate and limited hangout

Edward Curtin
Off-Guardian Org
Sun, 17 Sep 2023 18:27 UTC

Much has been made of the September 9, 2023 simultaneous reports in The New York Times and Vanity Fair of the claims of a former Secret Service agent, Paul Landis, who was part of the security detail in Dallas, Texas when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963. Like so many reports by such media that have covered up the truth of the assassination for sixty years, this one about "the magic bullet" is also a red herring.

It encourages pseudo-debates and confusion and is a rather dumb "limited hangout," which is a strategy used by intelligence agencies to dangle some truth in order to divert attention from core facts of a case they are desperate to conceal. With these particular articles, they are willing to suggest that maybe the Warren Commission's magic bullet claim is possibly incorrect. This is because so many people have long come to realize that that part of the propaganda story is absurd, so the coverup artists are willing to suggest it might be wrong in order to continue debating meaningless matters based on false premises in order to solidify their core lies.

Despite responses to these two stories about Landis that credit them for "finally" showing that the "magic bullet" claim of the Warren Commission is now dead, it would be more accurate to say they have revived debate about it in order to sneakily hide the fundamental fact about the assassination: that the CIA assassinated JFK.

We can expect many more such red herrings in the next two months leading up to the sixtieth anniversary of the assassination.

They are what one of the earliest critics of The Warren Commission, Vincent Salandria, a brilliant Philadelphia lawyer, called "a false mystery." He said:

After more than a half century, the historical truth of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy has been finally established beyond rational dispute. The Kennedy assassination is a false mystery. It was conceived by the conspirators to be a false mystery which was designed to cause interminable debate. The purpose of the protracted debate was to obscure what was quite clearly and plainly a coup d'état. Simply stated, President Kennedy was assassinated by our US national security state in order to abort his efforts to bring the Cold War to a peaceful conclusion.

That the corporate mainstream should trumpet these reports as important is to be expected, but that they are also so greeted by some people who should know better is sad. For there is no mystery about the assassination of President Kennedy; he was assassinated by the CIA and the evidence for this fact has long been available. And the Warren Commission's claim that Lee Harvey Oswald fired the so-called "magic bullet" - Commission Exhibit 399 - that entered JFK's back and exited his neck and then went into the back of Gov. John Connally, who was sitting in the front seat, zigzagging in multiple directions, causing him five wounds and then emerging in pristine condition, has always been risible.

Only fools or those ignorant of the details have ever believed it, but desperate conspirators led by the late Arlen Specter, the future Senator, did desperate things for The Warren Commission in order to pin the rap on the patsy Oswald and cover-up for the killers.

Archaeologists reveal largest palaeolithic cave art site in Eastern Iberia

University of Southhampton
Mon, 11 Sep 2023 03:21 UTC

Archaeologists have discovered a major Palaeolithic cave art site, arguably the most important found on the Eastern Iberian Coast in Europe.

Over a hundred ancient paintings and engravings, thought to be at least 24,000 years old, have been found in a 500 metre-long cave in 'Cova Dones' or 'Cueva Dones' - a site located in Millares near Valencia in Spain.

The cave site is well-known by locals and often visited by hikers and explorers, but the existence of Palaeolithic paintings was unnoticed until researchers from the universities of Zaragoza and Alicante (Spain), and affiliated to Archaeology at the University of Southampton (UK), made the exciting discovery in June 2021.

Findings of a study into the cave art, which highlight its true significance, are now published in the journal Antiquity.

Dr Aitor Ruiz-Redondo, Senior Lecturer of Prehistory at the University of Zaragoza (Spain) and research affiliate at the University of Southampton (UK) comments: "When we saw the first painted auroch [extinct wild bull], we immediately acknowledged it was important. Although Spain is the country with largest number of Palaeolithic cave art sites, most of them are concentrated in northern Spain. Eastern Iberia is an area where few of these sites have been documented so far.

"However, the actual 'shock' of realising its significance came long after the first discovery. Once we began the proper systematic survey we realised we were facing a major cave art site, like the ones that can be found elsewhere in Cantabrian Spain, southern France or Andalusia, but that totally lack in this territory."

Secret Service agent who was with JFK on day of his assassination breaks silence - suggests there WAS more than one shooter

The Daily Mail
Tue, 12 Sep 2023 20:32 UTC

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Paul Landis, front in sunglasses, is seen with President Kennedy and First Lady Jackie Kennedy earlier on November 22, 1963, the day of the assassination

A former Secret Service agent who was present at President John F. Kennedy's assassination has come forward with a new claim that would debunk the 'magic bullet' theory and raises questions about whether there was a second shooter.

Paul Landis, 88, broke his silence on Saturday, nearly 60 years after Kennedy was shot dead in a motorcade passing through Dallas, to share his bombshell recollection with the New York Times.

Landis, who in 1963 was a young Secret Service agent assigned to protect First Lady Jaqueline Kennedy, said that in the chaos following the shooting, he picked up a nearly pristine bullet sitting on the top of the back seat of the open limousine.

It was just behind where Kennedy was sitting when he was killed, he says. Landis says he took the projectile and placed it on the president's hospital stretcher to preserve it for the autopsy investigators.

Comment: A nurse who was on duty at the hospital when Kennedy was brought in adds corroboration, in long-forgotten interviews:

Multiple interviews given by nurse Phyllis J. Hall a decade ago appear to back up former Secret Service agent Paul Landis' claim, after she described seeing a bullet sitting on the mortally wounded president's stretcher next to his head.

Landis, 88, broke his silence in an interview on Saturday, nearly six decades after Kennedy's assassination in Dallas, to share a claim that upends the infamous 'magic bullet' theory and raises the possibility of multiple shooters.

In short, he claimed to have picked up a nearly pristine fired bullet from the back seat of the limousine where Kennedy was shot and placed it on the president's hospital stretcher to preserve as evidence.

That bullet would seem to be the one that the Warren Commission claimed was recovered from Texas Governor John Connally's stretcher -- the so-called 'magic bullet' that appeared nearly intact despite the Commission's theory that it struck both Kennedy and Connally.

Several interviews given by nurse Hall in 2013 seem to corroborate Landis' fresh claim.

'On the cart, halfway between the earlobe and the shoulder, there was a bullet laying almost perpendicular there, but I have not seen a picture of that bullet ever,' she told The Telegraph almost 10 years ago.

Separately, she told the Sunday Mirror:
'I could see a bullet lodged between his ear and his shoulder. It was pointed at its tip and showed no signs of damage. I remember looking at it - there was no blunting of the bullet or scarring around the shell from where it had been fired.

'I'd had a great deal of experience working with gunshot wounds but I had never seen anything like this before.

'It was about one-and-a-half inches long - nothing like the bullets that were later produced.

'It was taken away but never have I seen it presented in evidence or heard what happened to it. It remains a mystery.'
In fact, her description of the mystery bullet nearly perfectly matches the first piece of evidence logged by the FBI under the tag number 'C1' -- the bullet supposedly recovered from Connally's stretcher after falling from a wound on his leg.

Hall openly admits that she personally believes multiple gunmen, and also waited decades to come forward with her story, explaining that she feared harassment and retaliation.

She was not on the list of ER personnel who attended Kennedy, because she was not assigned to the emergency room, explaining that she was visiting a friend in triage when she was pulled into to assist the futile attempts to save the president's life.

Ms. Hall's remark about Johnson looking 'very frightened' is interesting. Some corners of the Kennedy research world have speculated that the assassination was not meant to be completed, but was only to scare Kennedy into complying with the agenda(s) of the various conspirators. Actually going through with it was a double-cross and a power-play by one of the factions involved.

8,000-year-old Cave paintings found in Türkiye's İnkaya Cave depict life and death

Leman Altuntaş
Arkeonews Net
Sun, 10 Sep 2023 21:06 UTC

A number of cave paintings dating back some 8,000 years have been found in İnkaya cave in the Marmara province of Balıkesir during a field study conducted by Associate Prof. Dr. Derya Yalçıklı from Çanakkale (18th March) University, in 2015.

During the same studies, another cave located 5 kilometers away from the İnkaya cave was discovered. The discovery of both caves is known as the most important archaeological discovery made in Anatolia in recent years.

The cave paintings discovered in the Baltalıin and İnkaya Cave, which are situated in the Delice neighborhood of the Dursunbey district in the Balkesir province of Turkey, offer information that sheds light on Neolithic Age life.

One of the remarkable findings showing that people in the Prehistoric Age were undeniably knowledgeable about the phenomenon of childbirth is the scene found among the cave paintings of İnkaya Cave.

The painting depicts a woman becoming pregnant, the pregnancy, and childbirth in an expression that has yet to be matched.

The enemy within: Story of the purge of American intelligence

Cynthia Chung
cynthiachung.substack.com
Sat, 09 Sep 2023 00:00 UTC

OSS • CIA • National Security Council • Trilateral Commission • Council on Foreign Relations National Endowment for Democracy

"Western Europe has only 20 to 30 more years of democracy left in it; after that it will slide, engineless and rudderless, under the surrounding sea of dictatorship, and whether the dictation comes from a politburo or a junta will not make that much difference."

- Willy Brandt (German Federal Chancellor, right before he stepped down in 1974)

Believe it or not, but the dystopic view that democracy is dead is by no measure a new idea. However, what might disturb you is where this design, in its contemporary form, really germinated from.

The idea that democracy is in a crisis and needs to be replaced with a new form of "governance" did not originate from the outcries of an oppressed people demanding their rights to a decent life. We are not presently seeing an organic, grassroots process in reforming how government, that is, democracy will be "improved" upon. Rather, what we are seeing is a controlled disintegration of the very thing we think we are trying to uphold, and this destruction has been in the works for over 45 years.

It is no coincidence that Samuel P. Huntington is very fond of the Willy Brandt quote "prophesising" the end of democracy (which was used at the beginning of both his books The Crisis of Democracy and Disaffected Democracies), that is after all his purpose in life...to see to it that that prophecy comes true.

In this paper I will go through how the Henry Kissinger crew successfully purged the last significant remnants of decency within the CIA and reshaped the government structure into the Deep State that we see it grotesquely throbbing as today. In this story, we will see how those prominent figureheads who prophesise the "end of democracy" have been the very orchestrators of its destruction.

A medieval manuscript likely hides a record of an impending recurrent nova

Jon Voisey
Universe Today
Fri, 08 Sep 2023 19:00 UTC

Approximately every 80 years, a faint 10th magnitude star in the constellation of Corona Borealis dramatically increases its brightness. This star, T CrB, is known as a recurrent nova and last flared in 1946, peaking at magnitude 2.0, temporarily making it one of the 50 brightest stars in the night sky.

Aside from the 1946 eruption, the only other confirmed observation of this star's outburst was in 1866. But new research by Dr. Bradley Schaefer suggests that a medieval monk may have spied T CrB brightening in 1217.

In medieval monasteries, monks would regularly keep chronicles - a list of notable events that happened throughout the year. In 1217, the abbot of Ursberg Abbey (in southern Germany, west of Augsberg) was Burchard. In the chronicle for that year, he wrote:

In the autumn season of [1217], in the early evening, a wonderful sign was seen in a certain star in the west. This star was located a little west of south, in what astrologers call Ariadne's Crown [Corona Borealis]. As we ourselves have observed, it was originally a faint star that, for a time, shone with great light, and then returned to its original faintness. There was also a very bright ray reaching up the sky, like a large tall beam. This was seen for many days that autumn.

But was this "wonderful sign" a nova, or one of many other types of transient events that could grace the night sky?

From Golda Meir to Ben-Gvir: Examining Israel's supremacist apartheid legacy

Miko Peled
MintPress News
Fri, 08 Sep 2023 20:00 UTC

Remarks by Israel's minister of national security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, saying his rights are superior to those of Arabs. He received the precise reaction he wanted - his comments were posted and repeated everywhere. His face was shown, and the video of him making these comments made waves worldwide. He, of course, knew that this would happen, and he is undoubtedly very pleased with himself. What is not clear is why we give him the attention.

Israel has a seventy-five-year history of dispossessing, murdering, stealing, and imposing a supremacist apartheid regime on Palestinians. Now, one government minister punk who cannot get enough of the limelight says what has been the practice since the Jewish supremacist regime has been in place. People all over the political spectrum are excited. Instead of giving him the attention, we would do well to focus on what needs to be done to get rid of Ben-Gvir, bring the cruel Zionist regime to an end and once and for all free Palestinians from the brutality they are subjected to.

Recent discoveries in East Kazakhstan unveil mysteries of past

Aruzhan Ualikhanova
Astana Times
Mon, 28 Aug 2023 07:40 UTC

ASTANA — In a series of captivating archaeological excavations that have been taking place in the East Kazakhstan region, revealing an astonishing discovery. A necropolis containing the burial of a Bronze Age woman has emerged as the focal point, shedding light on a complex tapestry of history and culture. The site's significance has deepened with the uncovering of 180 alcoves and an exquisite silver accessory depicting a frog, reports Kazinform.

Led by Rinat Zhumatayev, Head of the Department of Archaeology, Ethnology, and Muzology of KazNU, in collaboration with specialists from the University of Cambridge, these excavations have steadily unveiled secrets of the past. The ongoing excavations have gained momentum since 2016 when the journey to explore the region's historical treasures commenced in the Zaisan district, spearheaded by Abdesh Toleubaev.

"The results of our work were showcased at the first international exhibition, specifically in Moscow, London, and Kazan. Thanks to the exhibition 'Altai - the Cradle of the Turkic World,' we have strengthened our relationship with Cambridge University. Since 2020, archaeological excavations have been conducted in collaboration with scientist Rebecca Roberts," said Rinat Zhumatayev.

The artifacts, belonging to the Bronze Age spanning from the 25th to 18th centuries BC, were initially discovered in the ancient burial grounds of Ainabulak in 2017. Exploration continued in subsequent years in Yelek, and in 2023, focus returned to Zaisan. The unearthed artifacts are set to be displayed in the historical and local history museum of the East Kazakhstan region. Local budget allocations have facilitated the preservation of these invaluable pieces.

Ukraine's 'biggest arms supplier' orchestrated 2014 Maidan massacre, witnesses say

Kit Klarenberg
The Grayzone
Wed, 06 Sep 2023 00:00 UTC

Once denounced by Zelensky as a "criminal," gun runner Serhiy Pashinksy has become the top private supplier of arms to Ukraine. Eyewitness testimony has fingered Pashinsky as the architect of a bloody false flag operation which propelled the 2014 Maidan coup and plunged the country into civil war.

Years before emerging as Kiev's top private weapons trafficker, ex-legislator Serhiy Pashinsky played a key role in the 2014 US-backed coup which toppled Ukraine's democratically-elected president and set the stage for a devastating civil war. Though the notoriously corrupt former Ukrainian parliamentarian was condemned by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as a "criminal" as recently as 2019, a lengthy exposé by the New York Times has now identified Pashinsky as the Ukrainian government's "biggest private arms supplier."

Perhaps predictably, the report makes no mention of evidence implicating Pashinsky in the 2014 massacre of 70 anti-government protesters in Kiev's Maidan Square, an incident which pro-Western forces used to consummate their coup d'etat against then-President Viktor Yanukovych.

In an August 12 report on Ukraine's new weapons-sourcing strategy, the New York Times alleged that "out of desperation," Kiev had no option but to adopt increasingly amoral tactics. The shift, they say, has driven up prices of lethal imports at an exponential rate, "and added layer upon layer of profit-making" for the benefit of unscrupulous speculators like Pashinsky.

Comment: The spoils of war fill big pockets.

Saving the Iraqi Jews in 1950: The (fake) "race against time" vs Near East Air Transport

Tom Suarez
Mondoweiss
Sat, 26 Aug 2023 20:21 UTC

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© Photographer unknown/Fair use of uncredited photos found on multiple internet sites
One of Near East Air Transport’s planes at Baghdad’s airport, with Iraqi Jews awaiting space on a flight. The stairs are marked “Transocean Air Lines,” another US charter airline.

Zionists deny that Israel had any part in the ethnic cleansing of Iraq's Jews in 1950 to encourage Jewish immigration to Israel. But a core aspect of their exodus is omitted: the role of the Israeli airline, Near East Air Transport

In 1951, an Iraqi court determined that the main perpetrators of a series of attacks on Baghdad's Jews were Zionists — not, as it was intended to appear, their non-Jewish countrymen. But it was by then too late to stop the goal of the crime: the ethnic cleansing of the city's ancient Jewish community, in order to ship as many of its people as possible to Israel — "as cannon and demographic fodder" for the state, in the words of ex-Hagana member Hanna Braun, who once had the task of receiving them.^[1] As a bonus, the false-flag attacks reinforced the core construct upon which Zionism depends: that the world is an irredeemably dangerous place for Jews.

There remains today among the Zionist movement the utmost vested interest in preserving the belief that the ethnic cleansing was the work of Baghdad's non-Jews, or the "Arabs," as Western parlance likes to frame it. If the public knew it was Israel's crime, the ripple effects would cut far beyond the scandal of Iraq; they would force the question of Israel's and Zionism's very claim to exist for the benefit of Jews.

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Another magical JFK assassination pseudo-debate and limited hangout

Archaeologists reveal largest palaeolithic cave art site in Eastern Iberia

Secret Service agent who was with JFK on day of his assassination breaks silence - suggests there WAS more than one shooter

8,000-year-old Cave paintings found in Türkiye's İnkaya Cave depict life and death

The enemy within: Story of the purge of American intelligence

A medieval manuscript likely hides a record of an impending recurrent nova

From Golda Meir to Ben-Gvir: Examining Israel's supremacist apartheid legacy

Recent discoveries in East Kazakhstan unveil mysteries of past

Ukraine's 'biggest arms supplier' orchestrated 2014 Maidan massacre, witnesses say

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