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@TheRealCurly5 @mcarmystrong @GWOTstudies I think the conversation between Dulles and LBJ happened. How it went and who first brought up the idea of killing the president I don't know. However, I do think Allen Dulles was a lot meaner and had a history of toppling democracies.

@mcarmystrong @GWOTstudies LBJ was the beneficiary, not the architect. The people who killed Kennedy had means, motive, and opportunity that LBJ lacked. LBJ got the presidency handed to him. He didn't have to plan anything. He just had to let it happen and not ask questions. And he did exactly that.

MURDER MOST FOUL: THE MYSTERY OF THE LIBERTY By M.C. Armstrong How did America get so lost? I recently read an article by Jeremy Kuzmarov titled, “State of Israel and Lyndon Johnson Deliberately Murdered 34 American Sailors in 1967, Fabricated Massive Cover-up Still in Effect After 55 Years.” As Kuzmarov details, “On June 8, 1967, Israeli air and naval forces—with covered over insignia—fired rockets, torpedoes and napalm on a US spy ship, the USS Liberty, in the Mediterranean Sea, killing 34 Americans and injuring 174 more. A secret congressional hearing revealed that two of the pilots were Americans—ex Navy fliers.” Studying the JFK assassination these past decades has immersed me in the world of amateur and professional historians who are obsessed with the crimes of Lyndon Johnson and the way LBJ’s foreign policy revealed the DNA of contemporary America’s madness. Kuzmarov’s article, published in @CovertActionMag, drew heavily from primary documents. He demonstrated, through recently released @CIA files, that Israeli fighters, under instructions from Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, knew they were attacking their ally on June 8 and that our National Security Agency, at that time a secret entity, was actively monitoring the attacks with agency aircraft. Furthermore, the historical record revealed that neighboring carriers witnessed the attack on the Liberty and sought to defend their American brothers but were commanded by none other Robert McNamara and Lyndon Johnson to recall all defensive aircraft. Why did nobody tell me about this treacherous act at @JMU when I was studying history? One of the survivors of the USS Liberty (a passionate subculture that still meets yearly) recalled an explosive detail. Ernest Gallo, a “28-year CIA veteran specializing in electronics,” said that when an American Admiral named Lawrence Geis challenged McNamara’s orders, “President Johnson came on the line and stated, ‘I don’t care if the ship sinks; I won’t have my ally embarrassed.’” Why were documents pertinent to this story concealed for so long? Why were newspapers at the time “forbidden from photographing the battered” Liberty and why were American sailors “ordered not to talk to reporters?” Why was LBJ putting Israel above his own country? Why was Johnson more concerned about embarrassing Israel than saving American lives and what does that have to do with the Kennedy assassination? Kuzmarov and others insistently make the argument that the Israeli attack on America was a premeditated and “botched ‘false-flag’ operation” designed to draw America into a proxy war with the Soviet Union via Egypt. In other words, Lyndon Johnson, in 1967, wanted what folks like George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, @LindseyGrahamSC, and @realDonaldTrump continued to want throughout the twenty-first century: regime change wars in the Middle East to shift the dynamics of power between America and Russia. Russia supported Egypt’s nationalist leader, Gamal Abdel Nasser, and so had JFK. Under Lyndon Johnson, not only did the JFK policy of withdrawal from Vietnam flip, but so did the support for Nasser’s Egypt and Kennedy’s stance against Israel’s desire to acquire nuclear weapons. Did JFK's conciliatory foreign policy position have anything to do with his murder? Did the murder of the USS Liberty sailors serve as a precedent for the argument that Johnson was capable of treacherously conspiring to kill another American—John F. Kennedy? There was an entire subculture of JFK assassination researchers who agreed with me that LBJ played a decisive part in the murder of Kennedy. But some believed Israel was the true mastermind. They pointed to the 12/3/63 Secret Service file that showed a Cuban exile named Homer Echevarria claiming to an ATF informant named Thomas Mosley that “our new backers are Jews.” These “Israel did it” scholars believed LBJ was the quarterback but Israel was the coach. But I don’t see the primary documents or eyewitness accounts that I find in support of the LBJ/CIA hypothesis. What I do see, however, is a community of researchers beginning to foreground a worldview that—regardless of guilt or innocence—demonstrates a massive elephant in the room of American history. What happens when one widens one’s lens to the world setting, that view that eschews narrow tribalism and allows every voice from around the world to join in the story? What does the Kennedy assassination tell us about our relationship with Southeast Asia and the Middle East? How did Kennedy’s murder change our policies in Vietnam, Cambodia, Ukraine, France, India, Indonesia, China, Central America, Israel, Congo, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, and Egypt? Was America captured by Israel? Is our foreign policy and our media beholden to Zionist interests like AIPAC? If so, how do we go about declaring our independence here in the year of #America250? @timfattig @Andria816 @TheOliverStone @TruthSerum2016 @RogerJStoneJr @RepLuna @RoKhanna @StephenKing @usslibertyvets @BeschlossDC @timgproject @SolvingJfk @jeffersonmorley @FourDiedTrying @TuckerCarlson @ggreenwald @JFKChokeholds @KenBurns #JFK

@_nativeamerica Another community has a John Redcorn situation

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@StevenNekhaila They definitely went after H.W. Bush. Kind'a got 'em too.

“Every President I worked for, at some point in his presidency, would get so pissed off at the Israelis that he couldn’t speak. It didn’t matter whether it was Jimmy Carter or Gerry Ford or Ronald Reagan or George Bush. Something would happen and they would just absolutely go screw themselves right into the ceiling they were so angry and they’d sort of rant and rave around the Oval Office. I think it was their frustration about knowing that there was so little they could do about it because of domestic politics and everything else that was so frustrating to them.” — Robert M. Gates

@detorresbruce If he tipped off the Chicago assassination plot he sure should. That would indicate he'd been set up to take the fall in Dallas. Angleton deserves all the hate directed at LHO.

Yes. He was an innocent man.

@SabresClassics ha, that changed from something to be tolerated to something cool. No Archies allowed.

"WE'RE GONNA WIN THAT CUP" #Sabres (From the Buffalo Sabres 70s Night)

@mmpadellan Dumb okie.

Good lord, Rand Paul is playing the video that should have ended the tenure of Sen. Markwayne Mullin. In a sane world, his nomination would be COOKED, as we're shown his violent, unfit temper. But this world is INSANE.

@FourDiedTrying Ike and Dulles worked to have Lumumba killed before Kennedy would take office. They went to their graves thinking they had done the right thing. It would have been interesting to see what Lumumba might have done with the proper support in Congo.

Hard to imagine any American president since Kennedy reacting with such poignancy to the murder of an anti-colonial leader from another continent. JFK had championed the freedom and self-determination of African countries since his time in the House. FOUR DIED TRYING will be covering this story in-depth once we are finally free to release our films again. For those who may not know, Patrice Lumumba helped transform Congo from Belgian colony to democratic republic and became the newly independent nation's first prime minister in 1960.

@JamesLucasIT Lynching. A crowd will follow the will of the stupidest, meanest members.

George Carlin once said, “Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.” What is a good example of that?

@BeingJWood ... or Elon counting the votes.

Donald Trump would never have been elected without the votes of the ignorant and misinformed.

@PennyRed Critical thinking skills matter. He should apologize for not applying himself to learn a thing or two before voting. It's not OK. He, and all trumpers, should swear to never vote again. Their judgement is not good enough for democracy.

Are you fragile and easily baited? Have you ever traded your integrity for a tablespoon of liberal tears?Do you struggle to take responsibility for your actions like an adult? Here’s how to say ‘I made a huge mistake’:

@McFaul Overthrowing democracies for Big Business, no effort toward diplomacy towards a Stalin-less USSR, not standing up to McCarthy, letting the State Dept posts get stripped by HUAC to be filled by CIA makes him a mediocrity, at best. Cincinattus returned to his fields. He stayed.

"I hate war as only a soldier who has lived can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity." -Dwight D. Eisenhower

@DougWahl1 When Kennedy was murdered by the fascists in the 'permanent government.' We've had free elections since but "conservatives" would never let a new-dealer type near the office again and with the lack of prosecution they know they can get away with anything. And they do.

@KwikWarren Looks like they made sound investments before they helped kick off the war. And there's 15% capital gains tax on this new wealth! Making out like Barron.

WTF is going on with Lindsey Graham and Marco Rubio?!! Ten years ago they were dismissing trump as a race-baiter, vulgar conman, a kook and xenophobic. But now they’re among his biggest lickspittles. WTF?!

@johnpavlovitz I wish Maga would start a grass roots campaign stating, "For the good of the country, we must never vote again. Our judgement is not good enough."

The fact that you looked at this vile, ignorant, several-times bankrupt, traitorous, 34-count felon, and court adjudicated rapist for a decade, and decided that an experienced, intelligent, and qualified woman of color was a "greater evil" tells me you were never paying attention or that you're more like Trump than you want to admit.

@mark_slapinski I'd go with: restore the Fairness Doctrine and overturn Citizens United. Repukes are just piping in Fox News into retirement homes and getting payoffs. (Trump got $200 million from a casino before the '24 election)

Once Trump gets tossed out of office, the next American government needs to do two things: - Ban Fox News - Increase funding to public schools

@JoyceCarolOates "Preventing war" by overthrowing democracies in Iran, Guatemala, Indonesia, Congo seems pretty shortsighted ... so, classify all ops in the name of national security and hide it for 50 years. It would've been better to do nothing at all. Not a fan.

General Dwight Eisenhower actually knew something about war. how amazing to have had a Republican president like Eisenhower, decades ago; & what a tragedy, how the US presidency has declined with T***p. it just does not seem possible that Americans have declined so in intelligence & vision...

@DougWahl1 They'd surrender, convert and form up against us again.

DO YOU LOVE HER PLAN! Representative Sara Jacobs- a Democrat from California- has a brilliant idea! She is calling for every ICE agent to be sent to Iran. "They want to play Army Soldiers so bad.. So Let em!" Do you approve? Your Thoughts?

@TheRealCurly5 Ike and Dulles wanted Lumumba out of the way before Kennedy could take office. In near contemporaeous sources they were confident they were doing the right thing. It's stunning. Some kind of nihilism.

Yes Allen Dulles and the CIA plotted to assassinate Lumumba by any means necessary. One of them was poisoning him with substances. They also were involved in handing him over to his enemies where he would be taken out.

@TageForHart There's also a video of Carrick punching Hathaway in the mouth pretty hard. My lizard-brain likes these moves.

This is my personal favorite Logan Stanley clip HAHA. Logan Stanley and Brady Tkachuk are gonna be in the same division now #Sabrehood #GoSensGo

@stlsports08 @SabresBuzz In his defense, it was JT Miller. It was probably the right thing to do at the time.

@SabresBuzz Watch almost every blues game. 55 is big. Long reach great stick. Great skater. Great defensemen. But I was shocked to see that fight last year at 4 nations because that is so rare. Seems to be a great guy tho!

Armchair GMs complaining about Colton Parayko ad museum until they watch the massive RD beat the brakes off JT Miller at 4Nations tourney in 2025 #SabreHood ⚔️