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Weekender, 11-28-21

If you wish to discern either the presence or absence of integrity, you need ask only one question. What is missing? Has anything been left out?* — M. Scott Peck

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Bruce** and I had breakfast together yesterday. It was a reminder that this blog had its start a few weeks before our walk across Massachusetts in April and May 2018 with “9/11 TRUTH” signs on our chests and backpacks, to encouragingly positive response by motorists, fellow pedestrians and others. There have been about 400 postings since then. The meal was at The Soda Chef, a retro luncheonette on Pittsfield’s North Street, the same place we ate at just before taking the first of three buses that got us to Hyannis, where a friend picked us up; she got us to our talk at the Provincetown library, then fed and put us up for the night, got us breakfasted and saw us off walking toward Truro.

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Last night “The Insider” was playing at our house. It’s the 1999 docudrama starring Russell Crowe and Al Pacino about whistleblowing executive Jeffrey Wigard (Crowe) and TV producer Lowell Bergman (Pacino). The latter maneuvers within CBS to get Wigard’s documentation of Big Tobacco’s addiction-fostering ways on “60 Minutes.” A good movie, which is probably borrowable through inter-library loan.

It’s based on a 1996 article in Vanity Fair magazine article by Marie Brenner titled “The Man Who Knew Too Much.” Click HERE for it.

A paragraph from the DVD case: “As they soon find out, Corporate America will use all legal means at their disposal to save a billion-dollar-a-year habit. And as the corporate giants soon find out, Bergman and Wigard are honorable men, driven to smoke out the evidence.”

Substitute Big Pharma of the 2020’s for Big Tobacco of the 1990’s and add the growing clout of the Internet for a current drama playing out worldwide — but as yet without the analogous victory for reality and truth.

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Speaking of movies, HERE’s a chance to be a co-producer of one being put out by the Lawyers’ Committee for 9/11 Inquiry. The film-in-the-making is titled “9/11: From Crime Scene to Courtroom.” It is self-described as “An Unprecedented Documentary Taking Hard evidence of 9/11 Crimes to Court.” The crime scene is the World Trade Center of Sept. 11, 2001. The courtrooms would be in New York City and Washington, D.C., where the Lawyers’ Committee has been trying to get impressive evidence of shocking federal crimes on dockets, in the face of yawning lack of interest by news media outlets. This blog has tried to do justice to the LC’s efforts in probably a dozen entries. (Among the things lacking in the 2020s so far in the effort to expose the murderous criminality and fraud is a piece like Marie Brenner’s in Vanity Fair mentioned above, and a publication like that one willing to publish it.)

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What with the Northern Hemisphere continuing to get colder and darker, some humans can probably use something cheerier, like Eleanor Bearsdsley’s story on NPR’s “Morning Edition” the other day Josephine Baker making it into the Pantheon in Paris. (Although the same humans may want to consider THESE RESERVATIONS by Washington Post guest columnist Rokhaya Diallo, headlined “No congratulations to France on Baker honor” in the Springfield Republican.) Or pick their way through a Le Monde story about Baker in the original French, like this one

Quand Joséphine Baker la résistante évoquait « sa vie de caserne » dans la presse, en 1944

Or if you don’t want to read at all, try looking at these paintings, also from France. (Thanks to a 9/11 truther Facebook friend.)

— Mark Channing Miller

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* From Meditations from the Road, a 1993 compilation of 366 quotes from The Road Less Traveled and The Different Drummer.

** Bruce Riblet Henry, for whom the walk was a perfect way to help get the word out.

A Song and a Story

This morning, while out walking after hearing, HERE, about the jury’s guilty verdicts in the Ahmaud Arbery murder case, I started humming the melody and maybe singing some of THIS SONG.

I had just picked up a newspaper with a slight variation of THIS NEWS STORY about the decisions and read it when I got home.

— Mark Channing Miller

A Boston Tea Party

HERE is something else to share on Thanksgiving Day 2021 and the long Thanksgiving weekend.

It’s from 2006.

It’s an example of why Boston is called the Cradle of Liberty and the Hub of the Universe.

Thanks to everyone at Boston 9/11 Truth.* Keep it up, y’all.

And thanks to everyone who is involved in the 9/11 Truth Movement (which is related in spirit to the other truth movements).

— Mark Channing Miller

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* www.boston911truth.org

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Notes, 11-23-21

It’s Thanksgiving Week 2021, which I hope is also Kennedy Week.  That’s because when family and friends get together for some kind of a feast this year, I hope that in addition to pausing and acknowledging how thankful they are for all sorts of things . . . they spend at least a few minutes getting into talking about (1) the murder, 57 years ago this past Monday, of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and how the official explanation was physically impossible and therefore whether it was in fact a coup d’etat with consequences today and in the foreseeable future until Americans do something about it, or (2) the latest book by Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. — about which more below — and how the government/media explanation for the current Covid-19 mess is not worthy of the credibility it has been granted. Please read on.

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The Groaning Board: Many Americans have some familiarity with Norman Rockwell’s 1943 painting, HERE, of a family of white Americans gathered around a dining room table as an enormous cooked turkey is presented at one end by someone’s grandmother. One title is “The Christmas Bird,” but the image is appropriate for Thanksgiving Day. People who are groaningly bored with the conversation as it is going at the table or elsewhere might experiment by asking someone present, “What do you think about the Kennedy assassination back in 1963?” or “Has anyone heard about the new book by Bobby Kennedy Jr. about Dr. Fauci?” . . . and take it from there.

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Book Availability: I was in a Barnes & Noble this morning, a week after the release of The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health, and asked if they had it. Maybe for Christmas, a clerk said. He continued from behind his mask: “It’s a small, questionable . . . .” “Publisher?” I offered, from behind mine. He nodded. Yes, Skyhorse, I added, and said I was reading it, and that Amazon says it’s their top seller. “They can’t even get it,” he said. I said I was reading it and it’s really good. I may have more about it below or tomorrow. Meanwhile, see THIS or THIS or THIS.

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Credibility: At lunch today (once we had sat down and taken off our masks), somehow the topic of the Covid came up. I asked my lunch mate what he thought of Anthony Fauci. “Who’s that?” “America’s Doctor?” “Oh, him. Trump couldn’t stand him.” Then, my lunch mate called Dr. Fauci the most credible person on any subject. I noted I heard him interviewed on “Morning Edition” yesterday by cohost Steve Inskeep, who didn’t bring up the subject of Kennedy’s new book, (HERE’s the interview.) It was a good lunch, without further talk about any of that. We did agree about the state of the news media, and how tough a time newspapers are having getting ads, and I wondered whether a country is a democracy without news that informs people about what’s going on. I reminded him of his long-held opinion that “People don’t read.”

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Thoughts on Stupidity: A Facebook friend just sent a diagram of “The Five Laws of Stupidity” with accompanying narration. Click HERE to find both. It’s a seemingly offensive topic, but the thing has much that’s true and helpful. It’s from a website called “The Voluntary Life” and is derived from a 1987 essay in The Whole Earth Catalog by Carlo M. Cipolla, HERE. It may be comforting to learn that practically everyone is stupid in one way or another.

— Mark Channing Miller

It’s Nov. 22

Some people will never forget that Nov. 22 is the anniversary of the assassination in 1963 of the 35th president of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy — and I’m one. I am happy to link, HERE, to an excellent article from the current edition of Garrison: The Journal of Deep History and Politics. I found it this morning on the website of Edward Curtin’s blog, “Behind the Curtain.” There is no byline, but I assume that Curtin is its main, if not sole, author. It begins below. — MCM

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President John F. Kennedy: His Life and Assassination

The following article on the life of President John F. Kennedy, and his assassination on this date, November 22, 1963, is the lead piece in the eighth issue of Garrison: The Journal of History and Deep Politics that has just been published: “The Political Assassinations of the 1960s.” From JFK, RFK, MLK, and Malcolm X, to Hammarskjold and Lumumba, the 1960s were a tragic period when the CIA took over the United States and profoundly changed the course of history, and Garrison is indispensable for understanding that history and its importance for today.  This issue is double-sized (348 pages), a book really.  If you like the following article, please support and purchase Garrison. 

Despite a treasure trove of new research and information having emerged over the last fifty-eight years, there are many people who still think who killed President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and why are unanswerable questions. They have drunk what Dr. Martin Schotz has called “the waters of uncertainty” that results “in a state of confusion in which anything can be believed but nothing can be known, nothing of significance that is.”[1]

Then there are others who cling to the Lee Harvey Oswald “lone-nut” explanation proffered by the Warren Commission.

Both these groups tend to agree, however, that whatever the truth, unknowable or allegedly known, it has no contemporary relevance but is old-hat, ancient history, stuff for conspiracy-obsessed people with nothing better to do. The general thinking is that the assassination occurred more than a half-century ago, so let’s move on.

Nothing could be further from the truth, for the assassination of JFK is the foundational event of modern American history, the Pandora’s box from which many decades of tragedy have sprung. READ MORE . . .

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Weekender, 11-21-21

This was the week Skyhorse Publishing came out with Robert F. Kennedy’s new book, The Real Anthony Fauci; this coming week readers, viewers and listeners will see what the mainstream news media have to say about it, if anything. This was also the week that an AE911Truth affiliate, 9/11 Free Fall, responds to a rare mainstream news media segment defending the National Institute for Standards and Technology report on the collapse of the Twin Towers at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.

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Excepts from Chapter 1: “Mismanaging a Pandemic” is the title of the first chapter of The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health. In its first segment, titled “Arbitrary Decrees: Science-Free Medicine,” Kennedy relies heavily on Yale epidemiologist Harvey Risch; Dr. Peter McCollough, an internist and cardiologist at the Baylor University Medical Center and the Baylor Heart and Vascular Hospital; and Dr. Pierre Kory, a pulmonary and critical care specialist.

Kennedy calls Risch “one of the leading global authorities in clinical treatment protocols.” Of McCullough, he says, “His 600 peer-reviewed articles in the National Library of Medicine make him the most published physician in history in the field of kidney disease related to heart disease, a lethal sequela of Covid-19.” Kory is president of Frontline COVOD-19 Critical Care Alliance, a former associate professor and medical director of th Trauma and Life Support Center at the Univeristy of Wisconsin Medical School Hospital, and the Critical Care Service Chief at Aurora St. Luke’s Mmedical Center in Milwaukee.

Here are some quotes from the three in that segment:

”The Best Practices for defeating an infectious disease epidemic dictate that you quarantine and treat the sick, protect the most vulnerable, and aggressively develop therapeutic drugs, and use early treatment protocols to avoid hospitalizations. . . . Unless you are an island nation prepared to shut out the world, you can’t stop a global viral pandemic, but you can make it less deadly. Our objective should have been to devise treatments that would reduce hospitalization and death. We could have easily defanged Covid-19 so that it was less lethal than seasonal flu. We could have done this very quickly. We could have saved hundreds of thousands of lives.” — Dr. Harvey Misch

”We could have dramatically reduced Covid fatalities and hospitalizations using early treatment protocols and repurposed drugs including ivermectin and hydroxychlorine and many, many others. . . . The strategy from the outset should have been implementing protocols to stop hospitalizations through early treatment of Americans who tested positive for Covid but were still asympomatic. If we had done that, we could have pushed fatality cases below those we see with seasonal flu, and ended the bottlenecks in our hospitals. We should have rapidly deployed off-the-shelf medications with proven safety records and subjected them to rigorous risk/benefit decision-making. . . Using repurposed drugs, we could have ended this pandemic by May 2020 and saved 500,000 American lives, but for Dr. Fauci’s hard-headed, tunnel vision on new vaccines and remdesivir.” — Dr. Peter McCullough

”I find it appalling that there was no consultation process with treating physicians [regarding repurposed medicines for use in fighting Covid-19]. Medicine is about consultation. You had [Dr. Deborah] Brix, Fauci, and [former Centers for Disease Control Director Robert] Redfield doing press conferences every day and handing down these diktats and not one of them ever treated a Covid patient or worked in an emergency room of ICU. They know nothing.” — Dr. Pierre Kory

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AE911Truth Board Members Critique NBCLX Broadcast: Usually mainstream media outlets deal with the WTC building collapses on Sept. 11,  2002, by ignoring assertions of controlled demolition. Around the time of the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks, however, NBCLX broadcast a four-minute video defending the 2004 National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) report that concluded that jet fuel-ignited office fires brought down the Twin Towers. HERE, 9/11 Free Fall host Andy Steele interviews structural engineer Kamal Obeid and architect Kent Rattan from the board of Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth in an hour-long show about the broadcast and the NIST conclusions.

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AE911Truth Wants to Advertise Again in Times Square: Roland Engle, the new CEO of Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth, is appealing to friends to send $17,000 to pay for a one-month billboard across the street from the New York Times. Engle notes that the Times has “led the way in pushing the official story and denigrating those who question it.” “It’s time,” he says, “to start calling out ‘the newspaper of record’ more directly for its role in covering up the truth about the murder of nearly 3,000 people.” Actually, it will be at least the second billboard AE911Truth will have used at Times Square, but this calls attention to the new documentary “The Unspeakable.” Read Engle’s message HERE.

— Mark Channing Miller

 

Notes, 11-18-21

Today’s entry is a followup to yesterday’s, which was mostly about the new book The Real Anthony Fauci, by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Kennedy is founder and board chair of Children’s Health Defense, from the website of which the story below is excerpted. Its headline is borrowed from the top story in today’s edition of The Defender. — MCM

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CDC Forced to Admit It Doesn’t Collect Data on Natural Immunity to COVID

By Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D.

Notes, 11-17-21

Truth Is Contagious: Andrew Kreig’s guest column yesterday is about the murder of a U.S. president in 1963 and researchers’ efforts, continuing this weekend, to end its coverup. This blog has been mostly about ending the coverups surrounding the mass murders of September 2001 on U.S. soil. In both decades-old cases, government commissions prominently did the coverups, and news media have bent over backwards to support them. A book out this week concerns a global killer not even two years old and obviously relevant today and for the future — and what its author contends is another media-assisted coverup of vital facts. Title: The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health. Author: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing. Please read on . . . .

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An Author’s Aim: My copy of The Real Anthony Fauci arrived yesterday and so far I’ve read only the extensive dedication & acknowledgements, the publisher’s note, and the author’s 10-page introduction (not including three pages of endnotes). “I wrote this book,” Kennedy says at the end of it, “so that Americans … can understand Dr. Fauci’s pernicious role in allowing pharmaceutical companies to dominate our government and subvert our democracy, and to chronicle the key role Dr. Fauci has played in the current coup d’état against democracy.” This is a big order. Can he deliver?

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Previous ‘Coups d’État’: One reason many “truthers” on the September 2001 attacks are truthers on the JFK assassination — and vice versa — is that both events can be viewed as coups d’état with countless consequences. Following both, commissions beholden to the White House conducted coverups lasting decades. In the case of Americans’ deteriorating public health, Robert Kennedy Jr. contends, federal agencies beholden to pharmaceutical (and other) corporations played lethal roles. Wikipedia says, HERE, that RFKJr.’s organization, Children’s Health Defense, is “mainly known for anti-vaccine activities and has been identified as one of the main sources of misinformation on vaccines”; Wikipedia also terms 9/11 truthers and JFK assassination truthers conspiracy theorists.

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Blurbs of Praise: So far it’s too early for major news media outlets to weigh in with reviews on The Real Anthony Fauci, published by Skyhorse Publishing. But enthusiastic paragraphs appear, HERE, on the website of another book publisher, the mainstream Simon and Schuster.

— Mark Channing Miller

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Kreig, 11-16-21

Below are the first paragraphs of an extensive column by Andrew Kreig of the Justice Integrity Project. It promotes three research forums — the first, for students, begins this Friday — concerning President John F. Kennedy’s murder on Nov. 22, 1963, in Dallas; a new book on that assassination; and the next issue of the magazine/webzine Garrison. For the column as it appears on the JIP website, click HERE.

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Documents, Deadlines, Disclosures, Disputes

By Andrew Kreig

The Biden Administration’s recent delay in releasing the final trove of classified documents pertaining to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy tees up three annual research conferences scheduled this month during the anniversary of JFK’s slaying in downtown Dallas.

The conferences and postponed document releases build on millions of pages of previously declassified documents and many hundreds of books through the decades fanning widespread public doubts about official accounts. Those official accounts, most notably the 1964 Warren Commission report, assigned guilt for the president’s death solely to ex-Marine Lee Harvey Oswald. Flaws in the report largely ignored by government, academic and mainstream media foster lingering fears that watchdog institutions fail to probe and prevent civic tragedies and cover-ups, including in current times.

Today’s column will survey this fall’s major developments. These include the records release delay, the three conferences and Oliver Stone’s sequel, “JFK Revisited,” to his blockbuster film “JFK” three decades ago. The new documentary launches in the United States on Showtime on Nov. 22, the anniversary of JFK’s death.

This month also sees the publication of a major new book: Coup in Dallas: The Decisive Investigation into Who Killed JFK (Skyhorse, 720 pages) by the late H. P. Albarelli Jr. with a foreward by best-selling JFK author Dick Russell.

This editor has worked closely with leaders in records release advocacy and also is scheduled as a speaker in two of the three November conferences scheduled this year.

One is organized by Citizens Against Political Assassinations (CAPA), to be shown via Zoom with details here, on the weekend days of Nov. 20 and 21, with a free all-day session on Friday, Nov. 19, for students.

The other is the JFK Assassination Conference, which can be seen both via Zoom and in person at the Magnolia Hotel in downtown Dallas, extends for four days, beginning Friday, Nov. 19.

A third conference, organized since 1996 by the JFK Lancer event and publishing company, will be its November in Dallas annual event, this year via remote viewing from Nov. 19 through 21, with heavily discounted admission for students. Our project promotes all three conferences each year with the view that there is much to discuss, with many valuable perspectives deserving an audience.  

An appendix [linked below] contains more details on these events, as well as excerpts from news stories and commentaries this fall regarding the records release process and its implications, plus analysis of several recent assassination witness revelations.

This column is also the 57th segment of the Justice Integrity Project’s JFK Assassination Readers Guide, which lists major books, films, archives and interpretative articles, with an index and links in the appendix.

Described also below is a preview of the forthcoming issue of Garrison, a 348-page double-issue webzine published last week. This edition’s focus is on original commentaries about the 1960s assassinations of Kennedy (JFK), his brother, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy (RFK), the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. (MLK) and Malcolm X. This editor is among the authors.

A rare feature this fall regarding these inquiries was the deadline on Oct. 26 for federal authorities to release to the public all remaining documents pertaining to the JFK assassination.

On Oct. 22, the White House issued an executive order postponing the release until Dec. 15 for an unknown number of documents. The order set the same date next year, Dec. 15, 2022, to release remaining documents. The only exception under the terms of the 1992 JFK Records Act is for the Executive Branch to provide specific “national security” reasons for any documents withheld.

In ordering this latest postponement, the White House cited as an excuse the pandemic’s impact on federal staff, particularly at the National Archives and Records Administration.

The Justice Integrity Project has been working closely with active researchers, several of whom issued blunt criticisms of the delay and overall process. One of them, researcher Lawrence Schnapf, a New York City-based lawyer, promptly filed a federal Freedom of Information suit seeking prompt release of relevant documents and specific reasons (as required under the Records Act) regarding any documents that are withheld.

Researchers also criticized many in the major news media for their failure to cover the delay more prominently and for a longstanding pattern of fostering a false narrative that no remaining significant questions exist about the assassination and conventional accounts. The 1964 Warren report blamed the assassination solely on Oswald.

U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren chaired the commission, which included several other top government leaders all chosen by Kennedy’s successor, President Lyndon B. Johnson.

The New York Times, the Washington Post and nearly all other major newspapers and broadcast outlets consistently state that Oswald was “the assassin” of Kennedy without attributing the claim and without for the most part informing audiences of strong evidence disputing that claim that has been offered through the decades by well-credentialed experts.

Instead, the major news organizations and most widely quoted academics on the topic use the smear term “conspiracy theory” to demean those researchers who question commission’s report and other highly irregular proceedings after the killing. The controversies continue to provoke worldwide interest in JFK’s death.

Our appendix to this column contains a large amount of relevant material and provides a roadmap for further in-depth research. READ MORE . . .

Weekender, 11-14-21

In the last ten days in this blog I’ve been able to relay so much that’s new or nearly new that today I simply recommend that over the next ten days readers examine at their leisure some of what is in recent entries.

An opportunity to talk — tactfully — about some of it may come on Thanksgiving Day and over that long weekend.

I was impressed by the letter, HERE, by Roland Angle, new CEO of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, directed toward veterans, and by actor William Hurt’s statement, HERE, about his evolving perspectives on the September 2001 attacks, particularly as they pertain to the World Trade Center building collapses.

I’m glad the Lawyers’ Committee on 9/11 Inquiry yesterday made it easier for people so inclined to revisit or visit for the first time the 2021 Global Livestream Conference it put on with 9/11 TAP (the 9/11 Truth Action Project). Eight hours in all, it was difficult to do justice to on that day, Sept. 11, or even in the following week. As noted yesterday, the links are Lawyers’ Committee for 9/11 Inquiry – YouTube and Lawyers’ Committee on Super U.

Hurt was motivated to become an executive producer of Dylan Avery’s movie “The Unspeakable,” which premiered this month all over the world online for free and even in a few theaters. Well worth seeing. Click on the title for a front row seat.

— Mark Channing Miller