SIDEBAR #55 - Travis Alexander forum

[GigiG]

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New CIA Information on JFK Assassination

"Since 1961, on every morning except Sunday, CIA briefers have presented the president of the United States with a top-secret, five-to-ten-page report on world events pertinent to national security. White House press secretary Ari Fleischer called the report, now known as the President's Daily Brief, "the most highly sensitized classified document in the government." Former CIA Director George Tenet believed the PDBs to be so sensitive that none could be released for publication "no matter how old or historically significant it may be." Yet, yesterday, the CIA declassified and released every PDB produced during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, some 2,500 in all.
Why?..."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/keith...154208.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592&ref=yfp

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I was recently reading stuff about Dorothy Kilgallen. She was a ground-breaking female journalist for Hearst newspapers and a panelist on "What's My Line."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Kilgallen

She was found dead under mysterious (and suspicious) circumstances, and some conspiracy theorists have speculated that was she was murdered due to her investigation into the assassination of JFK. She openly questioned the Warren Commission, and had a notebook of extensive research on the subject which has never been found.

http://oswaldsmother.blogspot.com/2008/06/lonesome-death-of-dorothy-kilgallen_21.html

Previously, she was one of the first reporters to suggest that the CIA, in concert with the mafia, had plans to assassinate Fidel Castro. Her assertions have since been proven to be true. She also questioned the conviction of Sam Shepherd, which was also later called into question.

I am not a big fan of conspiracy theories, but the circumstances surrounding her death, in combination with entanglements of other big news stories of the day, are quite interesting, websleuthy kind of stuff...

 

[daisymae]

I put the Serena picture up so you will see that she is not thick and heavy as we see her on TV. I saw her 2 years ago here in Charleston and she is solid muscle and her tush doesn't protrude as on TV either.

 

[Bernina]

This afternoon, I am ending this 12 year relationship with my BF.
I can't do it anymore.
He misrepresented himself. He lied.
I am dying inside, I am just a speck of what I once was.
There is no reason why I can't be happy, be loved, share life's adventure with someone of a like mind.
My heart has been broken, again, because I believed at this age, who would lie about their aspirations, goals, experience, etc.
I will get myself back, I will pick up the pieces, I will be stronger, wiser, more cautious.......
And I will not loose my hope, or the possibilities the future has to hold for me.
I just hope it doesn't get ugly.
Wish me luck, prayers, positive thoughts........I'm really going to need it!
I am really scared.........stupid PTSD is kicking in, AURGH!!!!

 

[atthelake]

(((Bernina)))

 

[GigiG]

This afternoon, I am ending this 12 year relationship with my BF.
I can't do it anymore.
He misrepresented himself. He lied.
I am dying inside, I am just a speck of what I once was.
There is no reason why I can't be happy, be loved, share life's adventure with someone of a like mind.
My heart has been broken, again, because I believed at this age, who would lie about their aspirations, goals, experience, etc.
I will get myself back, I will pick up the pieces, I will be stronger, wiser, more cautious.......
And I will not loose my hope, or the possibilities the future has to hold for me.
I just hope it doesn't get ugly.
Wish me luck, prayers, positive thoughts........I'm really going to need it!
I am really scared.........stupid PTSD is kicking in, AURGH!!!!

I applaud your courage to take that step. I'm sure the PTSD makes it a hard step to take. But please take heart. The best is yet to come.

Some well-worded thoughts from other people. Maybe one of them will resonate for you:
:heartbeat:

“I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken, and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken pieces as long as I lived”
-Margaret Mitchell

“We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
-E.M. Forster

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
-Eleanor Roosevelt

 

[daisymae]

I have no doubt of your strength, Bernina, and that you will come through shining. Speaking for all of us here, we love you and will be here to listen, provide hugs and hang here with you anytime. :blowkiss:

 

[Spellbound]

This afternoon, I am ending this 12 year relationship with my BF.
I can't do it anymore.
He misrepresented himself. He lied.
I am dying inside, I am just a speck of what I once was.
There is no reason why I can't be happy, be loved, share life's adventure with someone of a like mind.
My heart has been broken, again, because I believed at this age, who would lie about their aspirations, goals, experience, etc.
I will get myself back, I will pick up the pieces, I will be stronger, wiser, more cautious.......
And I will not loose my hope, or the possibilities the future has to hold for me.
I just hope it doesn't get ugly.
Wish me luck, prayers, positive thoughts........I'm really going to need it!
I am really scared.........stupid PTSD is kicking in, AURGH!!!!

sweet Bernina, hold onto yourself and be well, so you can be happy. I am sending the most heartfelt love, prayers, thoughts, and luck I can possibly muster. What you are doing will be very difficult. You know what you need to do, and you will somehow manage. I just wish some of us could be there to hug and hold you through the rough patches ahead.

 

[Niner]

Hey! :wave:

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I was recently reading stuff about Dorothy Kilgallen. She was a ground-breaking female journalist for Hearst newspapers and a panelist on "What's My Line."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Kilgallen

She was found dead under mysterious (and suspicious) circumstances, and some conspiracy theorists have speculated that was she was murdered due to her investigation into the assassination of JFK. She openly questioned the Warren Commission, and had a notebook of extensive research on the subject which has never been found.

http://oswaldsmother.blogspot.com/2008/06/lonesome-death-of-dorothy-kilgallen_21.html

Previously, she was one of the first reporters to suggest that the CIA, in concert with the mafia, had plans to assassinate Fidel Castro. Her assertions have since been proven to be true. She also questioned the conviction of Sam Shepherd, which was also later called into question.

I am not a big fan of conspiracy theories, but the circumstances surrounding her death, in combination with entanglements of other big news stories of the day, are quite interesting, websleuthy kind of stuff...

I also believe that Dorothy Kilgallen was the only journalist that got to interview Jack Ruby... before he died... Yep, a LOT of people died because of this assassination!

I put the Serena picture up so you will see that she is not thick and heavy as we see her on TV. I saw her 2 years ago here in Charleston and she is solid muscle and her tush doesn't protrude as on TV either.

Well... my Huz says she still has a BIG :behind: :giggle: :hiding:

Bernina :hug: Do what you have to do and you will be happy! You never know what the future holds for ya!

Later everyone! :seeya:

 

[Nore]

Bernina , you know we are here for you. It will take time but you will be better off in the long run.
Just hang in there girl!! :blowkiss:

 

[coffeejunkie]

Bernina :hug: and all my loving thought/prayers are with you as you travel on this new journey. Hang in there and you know that we, our little SB family will be here for you.
:loveyou:

 

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1962 - Monster Mash - Bobby “Boris” Picket


[video=youtu;vNuVifA7DSU]http://youtu.be/vNuVifA7DSU[/video]

 

[Spellbound]

Thank for all the fun music .... you have hit my favorite oldies!

ETA ...... Monster Mash brought back a silly memory. I was out trick-or-treating with a couple friends and we were heading home down the back lane when a green monster approached us...... carrying a potato masher. It was my mother!! Complete with curved pointy shoes, green dyed longjohns, and that darned potato masher. We had many laughs over that unusual act by her. And yes, it was the year Monster Mash was a hit. :laughing:

 

[Renee110]

Hey everybody....I haven't posted in awhile, but I think about you often! I kind of miss the Jodi Arias trial. Er, trials.

Bernina, I'm sort of in the same situation only I haven't made up my mind yet. I know what the best thing to do would be but it's hard to do. Good luck with your situation!

 

[daisymae]

A minister from my town of Summerville was just on Anderson Cooper. He was in the river pulling out floating caskets with no help except one man on land pulling them in.

 

[daisymae]

Hey Renee - good to see you here.

 

[Spellbound]

A minister from my town of Summerville was just on Anderson Cooper. He was in the river pulling out floating caskets with no help except one man on land pulling them in.

I saw that, daisymae. Glad he was able to do that safely. I cannot imagine my loved one floating away like that.

 

[GigiG]

A minister from my town of Summerville was just on Anderson Cooper. He was in the river pulling out floating caskets with no help except one man on land pulling them in.

saw that on CNN. Quite moving...

 

[daisymae]

Down here and maybe everywhere, some black people are afraid of water so I assume that's why he was standing on the edge. Bless their hearts for doing that.

 

[daisymae]

My pages are again not wanting to load and is frustrating me. Why does this happen at night? Has something to do with all the standing water around here?

 

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1973 - At 6 a.m. on Saturday October 6, 1973 White House Chief of Staff Alexander Haig woke up President Nixon at his home in California with news that Egypt and Syria had attacked Israel.



(In connection with the 40th Anniversary of the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon, Roger Stone is releasing his second book, Nixon’s Secrets: The Rise, Fall and Untold Truth about the President, Watergate, and the Pardon (Skyhorse Publishing), on August 11th. Stone was a close confidante and adviser to Nixon during his post-presidency.

Below is an exclusive excerpt where Stone writes of President Nixon’s support of Israel during the Yom Kippur War, despite much opposition from both his Cabinet and Congress.)


The news of Middle East aggression shocked the American foreign policy and intelligence communities to such an extent that a study prepared by the CIA Center for the Study of Intelligence in conjunction with the Nixon Presidential Library concluded, “To intelligence historians, the October 1973 war is almost synonymous with ‘intelligence failure.'”

It became clear in the hours after the attack that the Arabs had surprised Israeli forces and the Israeli state faced the greatest threat to its survival since the original war of independence three decades earlier. Along the border with Syria, along the so-called Golan Heights, 180 Israeli tanks faced 1,400 Syrian tanks supplied by the Soviet Union; likewise Egypt crossed the Suez with 80,000 soldiers facing little Israeli opposition.

In the days following the Yom Kippur attacks Israel suffered a number of setbacks, and Washington became increasingly concerned. Nixon alone concluded that the US must step in to back Israel against Arab forces whose primary military supplier was the Soviet Union—the 1973 war became more than just necessary to save the Jewish state, it became a struggle between the world’s preeminent Super Powers. Kissinger opposed the US action.

It is one of history’s great ironies that Nixon’s proposed airlift played an integral role in the salvation of the Jewish state, as in the years since the release of the Watergate Tapes it has become one of the established facts of the Nixon mythos that the president was a raving anti-Semite. The tapes continue to damn Nixon, who maintained a cognitive dissonance when it came to several prominent Jewish members of his senior staff-Kissinger, White House counsel Leonard Garment, and speechwriter William Safire as well as economist Herb Stein.

In one rant from 1971, Nixon railed against the Jews who in his estimation were both “all over the government” and disloyal, he told Haldeman that the Jews needed to be controlled by placing someone at the top “who is not Jewish.” Incredible, given the position in which he would find himself in two short years, Nixon would argue to Haldeman that, “most Jews are disloyal,” and “generally speaking, you can’t trust the bastards. They turn on you.” In another exchange, just months before the 1973 war, Nixon rants to Kissinger about American Jews and what he saw as their selfish view of foreign policy.

On a call on April 19, 1973, Nixon revealed a concern that American Jews would “torpedo” a US-Soviet summit vowing that, “If they torpedo this summit… I’m gonna put the blame on them, and I’m going to do it publicly at nine o’clock at night before eighty million people”. Then, perhaps most damning, Nixon would go on to argue, “I won’t mind one bit to have a little anti-Semitism if it’s on that issue… they put the Jewish interest above America’s interest and it’s about time that the Jew in America realizes he’s an American first and a Jew second.”

Yet, Nixon would play a pivotal role in protecting the Jewish state, as Nixon recognized that the defeat of Israel was unthinkable for US interests. Nixon went to Congress to request authorization for emergency aid for Israel despite the Gulf States announcing a price increase of seventy percent in the wake of the Arab assault. After Nixon went to Congress for authorization, the Gulf States responded vigorously, announcing a total boycott of the United States, causing the oil shock of 1973.

The Gulf States’ retaliation simply served to further entrench the opposition of many who had fought to slow or halt the shipment of weapons to the Israelis (the former being represented by Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Kissinger, the latter being represented by Secretary of Defense Schlesinger). Nixon hit the roof when he learned that Kissinger was delaying the airlift because of a concern that it would offend the Russians. Despite the opposition of his national security and foreign policy brain trust, Nixon ordered the airlift, saying, “We are going to get blamed just as much for three planes as for three hundred,” and later in exasperation at the slow start of US support, said “Use every [plane] we have—everything that will fly.”

Finally, after several days of internal politicking amongst the upper echelons of the Administration, Nixon got his airlift: “Operation Nickel Grass.” Over the course of the airlift 567 missions were flown, delivering over 22,000 tons of supplies, and an additional 90,000 tons were delivered to Israel by sea. Later in her life, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir would admit that upon hearing of the airlift during a cabinet meeting, she began to cry.

Nixon’s loyalty drove him to save a US ally from the threat of utter destruction despite the real risk of economic crisis, and political cost to himself. To borrow the phrase from the Kennedy clan, Nixon’s decision to aid Israel was a true “profile in courage.”



And we're at the same place forty two years later - Russia backing Syria, and the US mouthing that they'll back Israel. Putin told BiBi to not attack the Iranians fighters in Syria or else. BiBi told Putin back at you.


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