Intel Community, Organized Crime & Corrupt Govt.

John R. Houk, Blog Editor

December 30, 2022

 

Dr. Joseph Mercola Uses the Youtube video “The Mafia, CIA & Jeffrey Epstein Worked TOGETHER To Traffic Minors” as the starting point to examine how the U.S. Government (whose Constitutional function WAS to protect and to serve We The People) partnered with organized crime to enhance the capabilities of America’s Intelligence Community. (DISAPPOINTING NOTE: The Youtube video is not Trump friendly in an indirect manner. In full disclosure I’m a Trump supporter ergo I need a bit more corroboration before I believe the side-ways swipes as concrete rather than just another pile of unproven besmirching.)

 

The intriguing concept – for me – explains how today’s power Elites currently ruling the USA has made the U.S. Government an untrustworthy corrupt tyranny that has NOT served We The People for quite some time. NOW RATHER the once limited by the U.S. Constitution -  Government - RULES with authoritarian diktats demanding We The People bend like Sheeple to unchecked Elitist demands.

 

Dr. Mercola has two videos in his post. I suggest you read his analysis before watching the shared videos. It is my sense the analysis will deepen the understanding of the videos.

 

As a bonus I am also cross posting four videos showing tyranny in America and a world-wide tyranny affecting the one-time Free West:

 

o   Dr. Alexander Explains The Orchestrated Coup Against President Trump Conducted By Medical Deep State

 

o   Ed Dowd and Mike Adams discuss catastrophic civilization implications...

 

o   THE UN’S NEW WORLD RELIGION | BEYOND THE COVER

 

o   3.5 BILLION GOT JABBED!! WE WILL BE IMPACTED FOR MANY GENERATIONS!!

 

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One Nation Under Blackmail

 

Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola

December 30, 2022

Mercola.com

 

Youtube VIDEO: The Mafia, CIA & Jeffrey Epstein Worked TOGETHER To Traffic Minors

 

[Posted by The Jimmy Dore Show

Dec 11, 2022

 

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STORY AT-A-GLANCE

 

Ø Organized crime fused with intelligence agencies during World War II, forming the precursor of the CIA — the Office of Strategic Services (OSS)

 

Ø The web of corruption grew from there, as criminal factions and intelligence agencies developed a symbiotic relationship using blackmail as a tool to achieve their goals

 

Ø There’s evidence that the fusion of organized crime and government occurred even before what was formally termed Operation Underworld, beginning with the Democratic party in New York City, which was entwined with organized crime in the early 20th century

 

Ø It’s not just about money, although wealth is certainly part of it; it’s about power and control, which those involved, including Jeffrey Epstein, would stop at nothing to achieve

 

Ø Webb explains her reasons for believing Epstein won’t be replaced with a cadre of new blackmailers; thanks to modern surveillance technology, they can find blackmail material on anyone without any help

 

Investigative journalist Whitney Webb spoke with The Jimmy Dore Show about her book, "One Nation Under Blackmail: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Crime That Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein." The book is so long — and packed with so many incredible details and references — that it was split into two volumes.

 

When you get into this fascinating read, you learn that organized crime fused with intelligence agencies during World War II, forming the precursor of the CIA — the Office of Strategic Services (OSS).

 

The web of corruption grew from there, as criminal factions and intelligence agencies developed a symbiotic relationship using blackmail as a tool to achieve their individual ends. It's not just about money, although wealth is certainly part of it. It's about power and control, which those involved, including Jeffrey Epstein, would stop at nothing to achieve.

 

War Was Used to Justify the Precursor to the CIA

 

Bitchute VIDEO: THE SORDID UNION BETWEEN INTELLIGENCE AND ORGANIZED CRIME- INTERVIEW WITH WHITNEY WEBB

[Posted by Mercola

First Published September 14th, 2022 19:57 UTC

 

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When I interviewed Webb in 2022, she started at the beginning, going back to World War II, detailing the connections between the intelligence community in the U.S. and organized crime. There was a decentralized network of different organized crime groups operating in the U.S. in the early 20th century. It was known as the national crime syndicate. Webb told Dore:¹

 

"Historically, organized crime in the U.S. — most people are probably familiar with it because of Hollywood — tended to be an ethnic enclave. So you'd have Irish organized crime, the Jewish mob, the Italian mafia and so on. The national crime syndicate broke down those silos and brought these different groups together. That made them a lot more successful."

 

According to Webb, the main people behind this were Meyer Lansky, representing the Jewish mob, and Lucky Luciano of the Italian mafia. The pair formally teamed up with the Office of Naval Intelligence and the OSS during World War II.

 

"OSS is the precursor to the CIA," Webb said, "and this was justified as necessary because it was the war, right? So a wartime necessity justification." Webb continued:²

 

"Then the war ends and the intelligence apparatus of the U.S. and these mob guys realize they have a lot in common and they work really well together. So that's why in the '60s and '50s you see a lot of people involved in assassination stuff for the CIA … you see a lot of mob guys around, for example. There's a lot of other examples of them interacting on and off over the years."

 

From there, it expanded into shadow banking, finance and the world of corporate power as well "and just really became out of control," Webb said.³ This was a worldwide effort, however, not one contained to the U.S.

 

"The Israeli intelligence got involved in this developing power nexus," she continued, "because the Jewish mob side of the national crime syndicate was heavily involved in the arming of the Haganah [a paramilitary group] and the precursor to the IDF [Israel Defense Forces]. So, basically, by the time the state of Israel is created, these alliances are part of its national security state from the off."⁴

 

Operation Underworld — The Consolidation of Power Networks

 

Webb states there's evidence that the fusion of organized crime and government occurred even before what was formally termed Operation Underworld, beginning with the Democratic party in New York City, which was entwined with organized crime in the early 20th century. The mob had taken over most of the unions, which means they had also largely taken over the Democratic party.

 

Later it expanded to the Republican party as well, but initially power consolidation began in New York, including with the political machine Tammany Hall. Infamous New York described it this way:⁵

 

"Organized, politically connected and deadly, by the 1870s the gangs of New York had metastasized from leaderless hordes of criminals of the Civil War era into a cancerous pox, directed and controlled by New York's political machine, Tammany Hall. With names like the Dead Rabbits, the Whyos, the Monk Eastmans, and the Five Pointers, gangs became a hallmark of New York politics in the early 20th Century."

 

Sexual Blackmail's Role in US History

 

One theme that pops up repeatedly in Webb's book is the use of sexual blackmail in various scandals in U.S. history. She ties it back to Jeffrey Epstein, who, she says, is not an anomaly with behavior exclusive to him:⁶

 

"This is a type of activity that has been done over and over again in our political system … It's a type of operation that was perfected first by the mob. So this is something that's really born out of, in my opinion, this organized crime intelligence team. It's been going on for an excessive amount of time at this point."

 

J. Edgar Hoover, who led the FBI from 1924 to 1972 and was the top law enforcement official in the U.S., was sexually blackmailed by the mob in the '30s, Webb said, which is why he didn't go after organized crime:⁷

 

"The sexual blackmail operation that entrapped him [Hoover] also intimately involved a man named Roy Cohn, who was best known as Donald Trump's mentor. And the two of them, along with the mob-linked businessman named Lewis Rosenstiel, were seen engaging in sexual blackmail operations themselves. But, again, Hoover and Cohn only joined that after they had been entrapped — and this involved minors."

 

Epstein's Ties to the Powerful Elite

 

Scandals involving sexual blackmail are numerous in U.S. political history. Webb rattles off several, including the page boy scandal in 1982, where congressmen were caught engaging in sex with underage Congressional pages, as well as the Franklin Scandal, a nationwide child-trafficking and pedophilia ring. The most prominent modern-day scandal, however, involves Epstein.

 

Epstein, while dismissed as a simple sex criminal, was far more instrumental to the globalist cabal than it first appears. In addition to being a mastermind at shadow banking and illicit finance, he engaged in major financial crimes and had ties to many powerful people, from Bill Clinton, Bill Gates and Donald Trump to the CIA, which Webb details in her book:⁸

 

"In my book I talk about how, in my opinion, Jeffrey Epstein was involved in two parallel operations of sex trafficking. So there's the one that everyone knows about — the underage exploited girls — but then there's these women that he invested a lot of time in when they're minors, then funds their education and what have you over time. He developed them as assets and then married them off to his powerful friends."

 

Webb also delves into Epstein's ties to Bill Gates. While mainstream media narrative states that Epstein and Gates didn't meet until 2011, Webb says that's not true:⁹

 

"There's mainstream media articles from 2001 saying that Jeffrey Epstein made all his money from his business connections — to three men — and those three men are Leslie Wexner [former owner of Victoria's Secret], Donald Trump and the third one is Bill Gates."

 

One example of the deep connection that actually existed between Epstein and Gates involves Melanie Walker, who is also, by the way, involved with the World Economic Forum:^10,11

 

"She was recruited by Epstein in 1992, allegedly as a Victoria's Secret model, but there's no evidence she ever actually modeled for Victoria's Secret. He apparently was funding her education, hires her as his science adviser in the late '90s and then a couple years after that, in the early 2000s, she becomes the science adviser to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

 

So if you're going to apply to be science adviser to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and your CV says my most recent experience is being the science adviser to Jeffrey Epstein, and you're Bill Gates hiring your top science adviser, you would have to know who Jeffrey Epstein is and what kind of science he's into."

 

Webb believes Gates is lying about his ties to Epstein not only to protect himself but also to protect Microsoft. "You also have, in the '90s, Jeffrey Epstein flying around on planes to official Microsoft functions in Russia, apparently giving women to the chief technology officer who was very close to Bill Gates … all sorts of stuff going on there with Epstein and Microsoft," Webb explained.¹²

 

Suspicious 'Suicides' Continue

 

From Epstein's death to the death of Ghislaine Maxwell's father Robert, many "suicides" appear to be tied back to the global cabal and intelligence agencies attempting to hide incriminating information. One such death is that of Mark Middleton, special assistant to the chief of staff at the Clinton White House, who was responsible for setting up Epstein's visits to the White House:¹³

 

"Jeffrey Epstein had 15 meetings in about a year with a guy named Mark Middleton. Mark Middleton died earlier this year with an extension cord around his neck and a shotgun wound to the chest in Little Rock, Arkansas, which was ruled a suicide.

 

Here's the other thing. Mark Middleton was so scandalous for what he was doing at the same time Jeffrey Epstein was meeting with him that he was being investigated by Congress, and the only reason that investigation never finished is because the first time George W. Bush — the subsequent president — invoked executive privilege was to keep documents about Mark Middleton from being made available to Congress.

 

Mark Middleton was not a big fish, you would think, at the White House. He was just an aide to the chief of staff to Bill Clinton. So what was going on with Mark Middleton there?

 

Well, it's mostly remembered as this scandal in 1996 called The Campaign Finance Scandal of '96. It's related to the fundraising of the DNC for Clinton's re-election campaign, but a lot of what was going on is that foreign citizens were laundering campaign contributions, filling DNC coffers, but a lot of it was targeting Ron Brown."

 

Ron Brown, Clinton's secretary of commerce, also died under mysterious circumstances:¹⁴

 

"A lot of what was going on there were efforts to change Commerce Department policy so that a lot of very sensitive military technology could be sent to adversary nations when that was normally not allowed.

 

And some of the people at the center of this were people like Lockheed Martin's CEO, who actually later goes on to create InQTel for the CIA. And you have a guy named Bernard Schwartz that runs a race to run Loral Space. He was one of Biden's biggest donors in 2020.

 

So basically you have this huge effort to undermine the Commerce Department and buy off Ron Brown. Ron Brown at some point — as all of this kept going on pieces of it began to unravel — he agreed to cooperate with investigators. Not long after that he was unexpectedly invited to go on a trade mission to Croatia, and the plane crashes because of a supposedly aging navigational system.

 

Everyone on the plane dies except for a flight attendant that apparently walked away but then when she arrived at the hospital in a military helicopter, she arrived with a broken neck. Ron Brown's body was so odd when it was discovered that people in Congress called for it to be investigated because he appeared to have a bullet wound in the skull not caused by a plane crash."

 

The Solution — Don't Be Afraid and Get Local

 

In her book, Webb explains her reasons for believing Epstein won't be replaced with a cadre of new blackmailers. They don't need people like him anymore, thanks to modern surveillance technology.

 

They can access everything, all your accounts, cameras, phones, microphones, surveillance cameras, you name it. They can find blackmail material on anyone these days. Of course, this tech is also being used to enslave and control the rest of us. They're counting on you taking your cellphone with you everywhere, and adopting other forms of digital control, like vaccine passports and central bank digital currencies.

 

You don't have to volunteer to give this information and give up your control, however. You can opt out. Stay local and build connections in your community. Webb explained:

 

"What we need are regular people to take responsibility. So many of us are looking for the good guy versus the bad guy on the level of nation state leadership. No. The good guys are just the regular people like you and me, and the bad guys are the people most often at the top that have stomped on heads and clawed their way to the heights of power, regardless of what nation state you're talking about.

 

It's among regular people where you will find the 'good guys' you're looking for and it's time for those people to come together and say 'Enough!' And we really can do it. It just is about taking personal responsibility … We have to take our power back and that starts on an individual level."

 

To learn more, be sure to pick up a copy of, "One Nation Under Blackmail: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Crime That Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein." If you would like to view more of the interviews that Webb did for this book, this page on her site has links to all the many podcasts she has done about this book.

 

Sources and References

 

¹ YouTube, The Jimmy Dore Show December 11, 2022, 1:17

^2, 3 YouTube, The Jimmy Dore Show December 11, 2022, 2:36

⁴ YouTube, The Jimmy Dore Show December 11, 2022, 3:24

⁵ Infamous New York, Tammany Hall

⁶ YouTube, The Jimmy Dore Show December 11, 2022, 10:49

⁷ YouTube, The Jimmy Dore Show December 11, 2022, 15:13

⁸ YouTube, The Jimmy Dore Show December 11, 2022, 21:53

⁹ YouTube, The Jimmy Dore Show December 11, 2022, 33:34

¹⁰ World Economic Forum, Melanie Walker

¹¹ YouTube, The Jimmy Dore Show December 11, 2022, 34:00

¹² YouTube, The Jimmy Dore Show December 11, 2022, 35:16

¹³ YouTube, The Jimmy Dore Show December 11, 2022, 41:15

¹⁴ YouTube, The Jimmy Dore Show December 11, 2022, 42:29

  

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Rumble VIDEO: Dr. Alexander Explains The Orchestrated Coup Against President Trump Conducted By Medical Deep State

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Published December 28, 2022

 

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Rumble VIDEO: Ed Dowd and Mike Adams discuss catastrophic civilization implications...

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Bitchute VIDEO: THE UN’S NEW WORLD RELIGION | BEYOND THE COVER

Posted by The New American

First Published December 30th, 2022 17:38 UTC

 

It is becoming increasingly well-known and understood that the UN’s “climate” agenda is about shackling the planet in the name of saving it. At last November’s “climate” COP27 conference in Egypt, the UN took another step in this direction by calling for climate reparations entailing a gargantuan transfer of wealth from the United States and other developed nations to poor nations supposedly suffering from the bad effects of climate change. But less well known than the UN’s political/economic power grab is the emerging New World (Green) Religion that is occurring in tandem. Yet the religious implications of the UN’s overall agenda, according to The New American’s Alex Newman, is even more important than the UN’s very serious and frightful political machinations. In this interview with “Beyond the Cover” host Gary Benoit, Newman explains why.

 Newman attended COP27,  where the New World Religion was on full display. He is also the author of “The UN’s New World Religion” and other articles about the UN’s “climate” agenda in the January 16, 2023 issue of The New American magazine.

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Bitchute VIDEO: 3.5 BILLION GOT JABBED!! WE WILL BE IMPACTED FOR MANY GENERATIONS!!

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First Published December 30th, 2022 09:19 UTC

 

Hundreds of millions will eventually die from this... 300 million dead is a best case scenario. People will not be able to ignore this.

 

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Amish farmer scores major victory in battle against federal agriculture apparatus

 Score one for the Amish giving a black-eye to government tyranny. Religious Liberty trumps unelected bureaucratic idiocy – at least for now. I suspect tyranny will take another swing. (Yup, I’m aware the Amish would object to the black-eye metaphor, but the mind’s-eye image felt good).

 

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Amish farmer scores major victory in battle against federal agriculture apparatus

'The government can always destroy any single individual if it chooses. We must refuse'

 

 

Amish Farming

 

By Yudi Sherman

December 27, 2022

AFLDS Frontline News

 

Amish farmer Amos Miller will be able to continue selling his organic meat after winning a major court victory on appeal last week against the US Department of Agriculture (USDA).

 

The USDA began pursuing Miller last year for selling “adulterated meat,” which refers to food that has not been treated with the USDA’s chemical cocktails. All USDA-licensed processing plants are required to lace their food products with synthetic preservatives.

 

“Often they use citric acid, which you’d think comes from oranges or lemons, but it’s a modified substance made from corn . . . and they don’t even have to label it on the meat,” Miller said, according to Return to Now. “Our members don’t want any of that,” Miller added, referring to his 4,000 private food club members who pay top dollar for his “adulterated” products. “They want fresh, raw meat, with no additives. Our members want it straight from the farm with no preservatives on it.”

 

The USDA also forbids its licensed processing plants to sell certain organs which Miller says are “nutrient-dense" and beneficial for consumption.

 

Furthermore, the process and cost of becoming licensed by the USDA are too prohibitive to small farmers.

 

“The rules and regulations are such that you have to get into debt $100,000 before you ever sell your first pound of meat, and the market’s not guaranteed,” Miller said. “There’s no option for farmers to start small and add on and buy equipment as they can.”

 

The federal government brought a lawsuit against Miller, who was ordered to submit his facilities, meat and poultry inventory, records, employees, and other staff for inspection. When he refused to “fully cooperate,” according to the court’s appointed inspector, Miller was raided by US Marshals who were authorized to use “reasonable force” including “the authority to break open locks, to remove barriers to entry, and physically to remove persons from the Premises.”

 

The court also imposed a $300,000 fine on Miller, which would be used to reimburse the US Marshals for the raid they carried out and to cover the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) investigative costs. The court demanded a “good faith” payment of $50,000 in one week.

 

But Miller, with the help of attorney Robert Barnes, managed to score a victory in the US Court of Appeals, which placed the case in stay and abeyance and allows the farmer to continue selling his stored meat until a resolution is reached. The court also cut Miller’s fine to $55,000, payable over the next six months.

 

"I think this is an important story,” commented human rights leader and America’s Frontline Doctors Founder Dr. Simone Gold. “One: the attack on our freedoms is EVERYWHERE. Schools, doctors, food. Two: saving our freedom requires every ‘little’ person to say no! Three: our government agencies take regulations and distort and expand them beyond all recognition to control and curtail every aspect of our freedom. Prosecutors used USDA regs to shut down a small farmer! The government can always destroy any single individual if it chooses. We must refuse.” [Bold text added by Blog Editor]

 

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There is a Tyranny Frying Pan – JUMP OUT

John R. Houk, Blog Editor

© December 26, 2022

 

YOU must become aware the current Elitist government overlords are more interested in perpetuating a godless fundamental transformation of America than in protecting Individual Liberty, Religious Liberty and honest information for WE-THE-PEOPLE to make informed decisions – or at least while we can make decisions.

 

It is evident that corruption among all the Branches of government (Executive, Legislative & Judicial) set up by the Founders’ Constitution is so pervasive that WE-THE-PEOPLE no longer can rely on the so-called Checks and Balances to promote the domestic/social/political welfare of American citizens.

 

Currently government promotes a power structure that keeps Elitist-transformists in control and WE-THE-PEOPLE in a darkness that nears a slavery of the Sheeple. The sadness of it all is that the Sheeple have become so brainwashed, most are unaware of the darkness that increasingly – step-by-step – erases Liberty. The darkness has moved so slowly, the Sheeple are not deciding if they should leap out of the frying pan of tyranny before they are totally cooked.

 

In light of the frying pan of tyranny, here are some cross posts of a corrupted government. Will Sheeple embrace American Patriotism AND JUMP out tyranny’s frying pan?

 

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Bitchute VIDEO: MISSING VAERS REPORTS: CDC ARE COVERING UP THE SCENE OF A CRIME!!

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First Published December 26th, 2022 09:12 UTC

 

"Dr. Ealy has confirmed, & (Jessica Rose as well), that CDC, has removed 32,000+ records of myocarditis and pericarditis from the VAERS database between Sep & Dec 2022" -Naomi Wolf

 

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Who Killed President Kennedy?

 

By Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

December 26, 2022

LewRockwell.com

 

In a remarkable television broadcast on December 15, 2022, Tucker Carlson made an explosive charge. He pointed out that, contrary to law, the White House was refusing to release thousands of pages of documents about the assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. Carlson said that these documents proved CIA involvement in the assassination and that someone within the government who had looked at these documents made a direct statement to this effect.

 

Here is what Carlson said: “Not long after Jack Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald on camera in the basement of Dallas police headquarters, a lot of Americans started to have some questions about the Kennedy assassination. It was, you’d have to admit, a pretty extraordinary sequence of events. A lone gunman murders the president of the United States. And then, less than 48 hours later, that lone gunman is himself murdered by another lone gunman.

 

What are the odds of that? It’s one thing if you get struck by lightning – rare but possible. But if every member of your family also gets struck by lightning, all on different days, you might begin to suspect these are not entirely natural events. But oh, replied the U.S. government, they are. This bizarre chain of killings was all entirely natural.

 

So less than a year after the JFK assassination, the Johnson White House released something called the Warren Commission Report. And the report concluded that while their motives remained unclear, both Lee Oswald and Jack Ruby had acted alone. No one helped them. There was no conspiracy of any kind. Case closed. Time to move on.

 

And many Americans did move on. At the time, they had no idea how shoddy and corrupt the Warren Commission was. It would be nearly 50 years before the CIA admitted under duress that in fact, it had withheld information from investigators about its relationship with Lee Harvey Oswald.

 

But even then, at the time, before that was known, the government’s explanation didn’t seem entirely plausible. And some people started asking obvious questions about it. It was at that point, as Americans started to doubt the official story, that the term ‘conspiracy theory’ entered our lexicon. As Professor Lance DeHaven-Smith points out in his book on the subject, ‘The term conspiracy theory did not exist as a phrase in everyday American conversation before 1964. In 1964, the year the Warren Commission issued its report, the New York Times published five stories in which ”conspiracy theory” appeared.’

 

Now, today, of course, the term ‘conspiracy theory’ appears in pretty much every New York Times story about American politics. It’s wielded, now as then, as a weapon against anyone who asks questions the government doesn’t feel like answering. But despite 60 years of name-calling, those questions have not disappeared. In fact, they have multiplied with time.

 

And here’s one of them. In April of 1964, a psychiatrist called Louis Joylon West visited Jack Ruby in his isolation cell in a Dallas jail. According to West’s written assessment, he found that Jack Ruby was ‘technically insane’ and in need of immediate psychiatric hospitalization. Those are conclusions that puzzlingly no one who had spoken to Jack Ruby previously had reached. Ruby had seemed perfectly sane to the people who knew him. Louis Jolyon West pronounced him crazy.

 

But what West did not say was that he was working for the CIA at the time. Louis Jolyon West was a contract psychiatrist for the spy agency. He was also an expert on mind control and a prominent player in the now infamous MKUltra program in which the CIA gave powerful psychiatric drugs to Americans without their knowledge.

 

So of all the psychiatrists in the world, what in the world was this guy doing in Jack Ruby’s prison cell? The media did not seem interested in finding out. In fact, the New York Times, in an extensive 1999 obituary of West, never mentioned the fact that he had worked for the CIA, much less his time in Jack Ruby’s cell, which seems relevant. So you can see why non-crazy people would wonder about what really happened. And of course, many have wondered.

 

In 1976, long forgotten, the House of Representatives impaneled a special committee to reinvestigate the JFK assassination. Their bipartisan conclusion? Jack Kennedy was almost certainly murdered as the result of a conspiracy. But the question is a conspiracy by whom? Well, the obvious suspect would be the CIA. Why else would the agency withhold critical evidence from investigators? Is there a benign explanation for that, for maintaining this level of secrecy for this many years? Not that we’re aware of. And it is illegal.

 

In 1992, Congress passed the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act. That act mandated full disclosure of all documents by 2017, 54 years after JFK was killed. The last administration promised to comply fully with that law. But under intense pressure from CIA Director Mike Pompeo, withheld, in the end, thousands of pages of CIA documents.

 

Today, this afternoon, the Biden administration did exactly the same thing. That would be thousands of pages of documents after nearly 60 years, after the death of every single person involved. But we still can’t see them. Clearly, it’s not to protect any person. They’re all dead. It’s to protect an institution. But why?

 

Well, today we decided to find out. We spoke to someone who had access to these still hidden CIA documents, a person who was deeply familiar with what they contained. We asked this person directly, ‘Did the CIA have a hand in the murder of John F. Kennedy, an American President?’ And here’s the reply we received verbatim. Quote, ‘The answer is yes. I believe they were involved. It’s a whole different country from what we thought it was. It’s all fake.’

 

It’s hard to imagine a more jarring response than that. Again, this is not a ‘conspiracy theorist’ that we spoke to. Not even close. This is someone with direct knowledge of the information that once again is being withheld from the American public. And the answer we received was unequivocal. Yes, the CIA was involved in the assassination of the president. Now, some people will not be surprised to hear that they suspected it all along. But no matter how you feel about it or what you thought about the Kennedy assassination, pause to consider what this means.

 

It means that within the US government, there are forces wholly beyond democratic control. These forces are more powerful than the elected officials that supposedly oversee them. These forces can affect election outcomes. They can even hide their complicity in the murder of an American president. In other words, they can do pretty much anything they want. They constitute a government within a government mocking, by their very existence, the idea of democracy. As cynical as we have become after 30 years of watching government officials ignore the voters who employ them, we were shocked to learn this. It’s not acceptable.” See this.

 

After this broadcast, Robert Kennedy, Jr, JFK’s nephew, tweeted: “The most courageous newscast in 60 years. The CIA’s murder of my uncle was a successful coup d’état from which our democracy has never recovered.”

 

If the CIA was involved, the obvious next question is why? Why did they want JFK eliminated? The best answer has been provided by Professor Jim Douglass in his book JFK and the Unspeakable. In brief, JFK didn’t trust the CIA and planned to dismantle it. For that reason, the CIA got rid of him before he could do it.

 

I interviewed Douglass over a decade ago, and her are some of the things he told me:

 

“Now, Jim, you were close to Thomas Merton, influenced by Thomas Merton, and part of this title comes from Merton. Would you explain that to us?

 

DOUGLASS: Yes, Lew. Thomas Merton wrote a book called Raids on the Unspeakable, a series of essays. He talked about the unspeakable as a kind of power and a kind of reality that went almost beyond the power of speech. It was suggested for him by the nuclear arms race, by the Vietnam War, and by the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Malcolm and Martin and RFK. It was a kind of evil where we don’t want to go. That might be one way of coming up with what he meant by the unspeakable.

 

ROCKWELL: Well, Jim Douglass, thank goodness you have gone where maybe others have feared to go. And all the people that I’ve talk to – and I’ve read, myself, a good amount of Kennedy revisionism, but I was extremely impressed by all you’ve done. And the people I’ve talked to who are the real experts tell me this is the best book and the most important book ever written on the Kennedy assassination. So not only do you go over why, clearly, this was a conspiracy, it just wasn’t a typical lone nut who appears from time to time in American history and is of great use to the power elite, but you show us why he was killed, why this is so important, and why we should all be concerned about it, not simply a historical event we can forget about, but why it continues to have impact on the nature of American society, of the wars that the government fights, what’s happening in terms of the police state here at home, and why it affects every person here today listening to this show

 

DOUGLASS: Yes, I really appreciate your emphasizing the whys, because all I hoped to do was to tell the story of the why. I, of course, included the plot, but the only reason I did that was to fill in the picture. My point is not, and I did not write an analysis of the Kennedy assassination. It was to tell the story of JFK, and of all of us, for that matter. It was representing everyone in this country and, because of the nature of the conflict, in some sense, everybody in the world. We’re talking about weapons that could destroy the world. And that story, and of his turning – I use that word advisedly. It comes from the Hebrew Scriptures – his turning away from that kind of destructive power, towards peace, that’s the ‘why’ of his assassination.

 

ROCKWELL: You know, we hear, for example, about his speech where he said he was going to undo the CIA as an organization. Was that part of it, I mean, in terms of what the CIA did then, what it does today, what the Pentagon does, the Military-Industrial Complex?

 

DOUGLASS: He underwent a break with the CIA relatively early in his administration at the Bay of Pigs because he understood – he was not a stupid man. He was a very shrewd person. (Laughing) And he understood that he was being manipulated and set up at the Bay of Pigs so that he would have to call in the U.S. troops to win against Castro, and the CIA lied to him to set him up, they lied about the conditions of the uprisings that they told him were going to occur in Cuba and all this kind of thing. And the whole Bay of Pigs invasion had been organized during the Eisenhower administration. But when Kennedy realized afterwards the extent to which he had been lied and set up, he said, I want to splinter the CIA in a thousand pieces and scatter it to the wind. And he very deliberately did take steps to impair the CIA from doing that in the future. He fired the man in charge, Allen Dulles, who had been the cold warrior up to that point, and fired his main subordinates who had set him up in the Bay of Pigs. And then, of course, after his assassination, who does Lyndon Johnson, his successor, appoint for the so-called Warren Commission as the major influence within it, but Allen Dulles. He should have been considered, rightly, as the main suspect in the assassination rather than appointed to investigate it. That’s the fox investigating the murder in the hen house.

 

ROCKWELL: Can you look at the Kennedy assassination as a coup d’etat?

 

DOUGLASS: Yes. But it’s a very subtle coup d’etat in that the propaganda is so enormous and the transition is done so fluidly into an administration under Lyndon Johnson, that is reversing all of Kennedy’s main decision. That happens with so little disruption. I mean, Kennedy’s main advisors don’t all surrender and say this is a coup d’etat or anything like that. Everybody sort of surrenders. This is Cold War thinking. This is the mission to the Powers That Be, if you want to put it in biblical terms. And so, although it is, in fact, a coup d’etat in terms of the power – and the way Kennedy was moving, he had become so isolated, and even his closest – well, most of his closest advisers were so subordinate to the Powers That Be that it was not seen as anything like that.

 

ROCKWELL: Did Robert Kennedy see it as a murder by the Powers That Be, and is that why he himself was murdered?

 

DOUGLASS: Yes, he did. But he could not, as one individual – even though he was attorney general of the United States, he could not see a way to do anything in the extreme isolation that he and his brother together had been before the assassination. But now it was Robert Kennedy alone. He, on the very day of the assassination, within an hour, he was suspecting – well, within minutes – (Laughing) – he was suspecting it was the CIA. And he actually confronted people in the CIA that afternoon, asking them about their role in the assassination. But this was all kept very much under the visibility of anyone. And he did not come out with that view. He said to his friends that he would wait until he became president himself. That was a very tragic and fatal decision. He needed to speak up long before that. And, of course, he was never given that opportunity. And he was assassinated 15 minutes after he took the turn by winning the California primary toward becoming president of the United States.”

 

Isn’t it time the cover-up ended? Let’s do everything we can to release the missing documents and then get rid of the evil, war-mongering CIA. But let’s not stop there. Let’s get rid of the NSA, the FBI and the other agencies that are terrorizing and spying on the American people. [Blog Editor Bold text emphasis]

 

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Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. [send him mail], former editorial assistant to Ludwig von Mises and congressional chief of staff to Ron Paul, is founder and chairman of the Mises Institute, executor for the estate of Murray N. Rothbard, and editor of LewRockwell.com. He is the author of Against the State and . Follow him on Facebook and Twitter.

 

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When the FBI Attacks Critics as “Conspiracy Theorists,” It’s Time to Reform the Bureau

 

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By Jonathan Turley

December 26, 2022

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Below is my column in the Hill on the need for a new “Church Committee” to investigate and reform the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) after years of scandals involving alleged political bias. In response to criticism over its role in Twitter’s censorship system, the FBI lashed out against critics as “conspiracy theorists” spreading disinformation. However, it still refuses to supply new information on other companies, beyond Twitter, that it has paid to engage in censorship.

 

Here is the column:

 

“Conspiracy theorists … feeding the American public misinformation” is a familiar attack line for anyone raising free-speech concerns over the FBI’s role in social media censorship. What is different is that this attack came from the country’s largest law enforcement agency, the FBI — and, since the FBI has made combatting “disinformation” a major focus of its work, the labeling of its critics is particularly menacing.

 

Fifty years ago, the Watergate scandal provoked a series of events that transformed not only the presidency but federal agencies like the FBI. Americans demanded answers about the involvement of the FBI and other federal agencies in domestic politics. Ultimately, Congress not only investigated the FBI but later impaneled to investigate a host of other abuses by intelligence agencies.

 

A quick review of recent disclosures and controversies shows ample need for a new Church Committee:

 

The Russian investigations

 

The FBI previously was at the center of controversies over documented political bias. Without repeating the long history from the Russian influence scandal, FBI officials like Peter Strzok were fired after emails showed open bias against presidential candidate Donald Trump. The FBI ignored warnings that the so-called Steele dossier, largely funded by the Clinton campaign, was likely used by Russian intelligence to spread disinformation. It continued its investigation despite early refutations of key allegations or discrediting of sources.

 

Biden family business

 

The FBI has taken on the character of a Praetorian Guard when the Biden family has found itself in scandals.

 

For example, there was Hunter Biden’s handgun, acquired by apparently lying on federal forms. In 2018, the gun allegedly was tossed into a trash bin in Wilmington, Del., by Hallie Biden, the widow of Hunter’s deceased brother and with whom Hunter had a relationship at the time. Secret Service agents reportedly appeared at the gun shop with no apparent reason, and Hunter later said the matter would be handled by the FBI. Nothing was done despite the apparent violation of federal law.

 

Later, the diary of Hunter’s sister, Ashley, went missing. While the alleged theft normally would be handled as a relatively minor local criminal matter, the FBI launched a major investigation that continued for months to pursue those who acquired the diary, which reportedly contains embarrassing entries involving President Biden. Such a massive FBI deployment shocked many of us, but the FBI built a federal case against those who took possession of the diary.

 

Targeting Republicans and conservatives

 

Recently the FBI was flagged for targeting two senior House Intelligence Committee staffers in grand jury subpoenas sent to Google. It has been criticized for using the Jan. 6 Capitol riot investigations to target conservative groups and GOP members of Congress, including seizing the phone of one GOP member.

 

The FBI also has been criticized for targeting pro-life violence while not showing the same vigor toward pro-choice violence.

 

Hunter’s laptop

 

While the FBI was eager to continue the Russian investigations with no clear evidence of collusion, it showed the opposite inclination when given Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop. The laptop would seem to be a target-rich environment for criminal investigators, with photos and emails detailing an array of potential crimes involving foreign transactions, guns, drugs and prostitutes. However, reports indicate that FBI officials moved to quash or slow any investigation.

 

The computer repairman who acquired the laptop, John Paul Mac Isaac, said he struggled to get the FBI to respond and that agents made thinly veiled threats regarding any disclosures of material related to the Biden family; he said one agent told him that “in their experience, nothing ever happens to people that don’t talk about these things.”

 

The ‘Twitter Files’

 

The “Twitter Files” released by Twitter’s new owner, Elon Musk, show as many as 80 agents targeting social-media posters for censorship on the site. This included alleged briefings that Twitter officials said was the reason they spiked the New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story before the 2020 election.

 

The FBI sent 150 messages on back channels to just one Twitter official to flag accounts. One Twitter executive expressed unease over the FBI’s pressure, declaring: “They are probing & pushing everywhere they can (including by whispering to congressional staff).”

 

We also have learned that Twitter hired a number of retired FBI agents, including former FBI general counsel James Baker, who was a critical and controversial figure in past bureau scandals over political bias.

 

Attacking critics

 

It is not clear what is more chilling — the menacing role played by the FBI in Twitter’s censorship program, or its mendacious response to the disclosure of that role. The FBI has issued a series of “nothing-to-see-here” statements regarding the Twitter Files.

 

In its latest statement, the FBI insists it did not command Twitter to take any specific action when flagging accounts to be censored. Of course, it didn’t have to threaten the company — because we now have an effective state media by consent rather than coercion. Moreover, an FBI warning tends to concentrate the minds of most people without the need for a specific threat.

 

Finally, the files show that the FBI paid Twitter millions as part of this censorship system — a windfall favorably reported to Baker before he was fired from Twitter by Musk.

 

Criticizing the FBI is now ‘disinformation’

 

Responding to the disclosures and criticism, an FBI spokesperson declared: “The men and women of the FBI work every day to protect the American public. It is unfortunate that conspiracy theorists and others are feeding the American public misinformation with the sole purpose of attempting to discredit the agency.”

 

Arguably, “working every day to protect the American public” need not include censoring the public to protect it from errant or misleading ideas.

 

However, it is the attack on its critics that is most striking. While the FBI denounced critics of an earlier era as communists and “fellow travelers,” it now uses the same attack narrative to label its critics as “conspiracy theorists.”

 

After Watergate, there was bipartisan support for reforming the FBI and intelligence agencies. Today, that cacophony of voices has been replaced by crickets, as much of the media imposes another effective blackout on coverage of the Twitter Files. This media silence suggests that the FBI found the “sweet spot” on censorship, supporting the views of the political and media establishment.

 

As for the rest of us, the FBI now declares us to be part of a disinformation danger which it is committed to stamping out — “conspiracy theorists” misleading the public simply by criticizing the bureau.

 

Clearly, this is the time for a new Church Committee — and time to reform the FBI.

 

Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. You can find his updates online @JonathanTurley.

 

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14 Signs of Totalitarianism

 

 

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By Jon Miltimore

December 25, 2022

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We all know the cons of Twitter, but one of the pros is discovering new and interesting people.

 

One of my favorite new follows is Benjamin Carlson, a public relations guru and former editor at The Atlantic. Carlson’s tweets are among the best you’ll find on Twitter, and he clearly has a keen understanding of the intersections between media and government, power and propaganda (both current and historically).

 

One of his recent tweets caught my eye, and I share an adaptation of it below.

 

1. Dissent is equated to violence

 

2. Media is controlled

 

3. The legal system is co-opted by the state

 

4. Power is exerted to quash dissent

 

5. State police protect the regime, not the people

 

6. Rights—financial, legal, and civil—are contingent on compliance

 

7. Mass conformity of beliefs and behaviors is demanded

 

8. Power is concentrated in inner ring of elite institutions and people

 

9. Semi-organized violence is permitted (in some cases)

 

10. Propaganda targets enemies of the state regime

 

11. Entire classes singled out for persecution

 

12. Extra-legal actions are condoned against internal regime opponents

 

13. Harsh legal enforcement against unfavored classes

 

14. Private and public levers of power are used to enforce adherence to state dogmas

 

The list is a bit troubling. At the very least, some of these techniques are playing out before our eyes. This is certainly not to say that the US is a totalitarian state, however.

 

There are many definitions of totalitarianism, and I don’t believe one can seriously argue that the United States has arrived there. But authoritarianism is certainly in the air, and it emanates most strongly from our nation’s capital.

 

While both the political Right and the political Left accuse each other of harboring tyrannical ambitions, the philosopher Karl Popper offered a clue as to when a legitimate government crosses the line and becomes a tyrannical one.

 

“You can choose whatever name you like for the two types of government,” Popper wrote. “I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence ‘democracy,’ and the other ‘tyranny.’”

 

Popper’s quote is an important reminder: the people ultimately have the right to choose their government. In his seminal Two Treatises of Government, John Locke carved out what would become the foundation of America’s founding philosophy, as FEE’s Dan Sanchez recently explained.

 

Equality, in the original sense, not of equal abilities or equal wealth, but of non-subjugation;

 

Inalienable Rights, not to government entitlements, but to life, liberty, and property;

 

Democracy, in the original sense, not of mere majoritarian voting, but of popular sovereignty: the idea that governments should not be masters, but servants of the people;

 

Consent of the Governed: the idea that governments can only legitimately govern by the consent of the governed, i.e., the sovereign people;

 

Limited Government: the idea that the sole purpose and proper scope of legitimate government is only to secure the rights of the people;

 

Right of Revolution: the idea that any government that oversteps its limits and tramples the very rights it was charged with securing is a tyranny, and that the people have a right to resist, alter, and even abolish tyrannical governments.

 

As the state drifts further and further from its moral purpose, it becomes more and more important to understand the rights of man and the limits of government.

 

Youtube VIDEO: The Ministry of Truth is Worse Than it Sounds #shorts

 

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A version of this article appeared on the author’s Substack.

 

Jonathan Miltimore is the Managing Editor of FEE.org. (Follow him on Substack.)

 

His writing/reporting has been the subject of articles in TIME magazine, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, Fox News, and the Star Tribune.

 

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