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Thursday, May 31, 2018

Danish Parliament Votes to Ban Burqas, Niqabs

Islamization Backlash in Denmark
By Sara Shayanian  |

Danish Parliament voted Thursday to ban face veils worn by Muslim women, becoming the latest European country to outlaw the burqa and niqab. File photo by Julien Warnand/EPA-EFE

UPI -- Lawmakers in Denmark voted Thursday to ban face veils worn by Muslim women, becoming the latest European country to outlaw the burqa and niqab.

Danish Parliament voted 75-30 for the bans. Seventy-four lawmakers did not vote. Wimps!

The law will take effect in August.

Violators could be fined nearly $160. The ban does not involve headscarves, turbans or Jewish skullcaps but does include false beards, masks and other ways of obscuring the face.

Danish National Radio reported the ban won't apply in some cases if the garments serve a "worthy purpose," like protection from cold weather.

The Danish People's Party first proposed banning burqas in public in 2009. Party spokesman Martin Henriksen said the garments are incompatible with Danish culture.

"It has taken almost 10 years to convince a majority in the parliament that we should ban burqa and niqab in public space. Now it falls into place," Henriksen said.

"Of course, we have individual freedoms we must protect. But some people use them to promote an ideology that, if they are successful, will mean many more lose their freedoms."

Amnesty International said Thursday though safety grounds might be legitimate, a blanket ban on face veils violates freedom of expression and religion.

"All women should be free to dress as they please and to wear clothing that expresses their identity or beliefs," the group said. "This ban will have a particularly negative impact on Muslim women who choose to wear the niqab or burqa."

Denmark's ban follows similar laws in France, Germany, Belgium, Bulgaria and parts of Switzerland. A similar law was proposed in Norway schools this year.



Sánchez to Spanish PM Rajoy: ‘Quit and This Will Be All Over’

Socialist leader says ‘corrupt’ conservatives
aren’t fit to govern

Corruption is Everywhere - Obviously in Spain's government
By DIEGO TORRES

MADRID — Spanish Socialist Pedro Sánchez demanded Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s resignation Thursday as a condition for stopping a no-confidence vote whose success now hangs on five Basque lawmakers.

“Quit, señor Rajoy, and it will be all over,” the leader of the opposition Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) said at the start of a two-day parliamentary session that, if he succeeds, would install Sánchez as prime minister and make Rajoy the first Spanish leader to be ousted via a motion of no confidence.

Lawmakers will vote on the motion on Friday, presuming that Rajoy does not follow Sánchez’s advice and resign beforehand — something he has adamantly refused to do so far.

Five lawmakers from the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV) were expected to announce later on Thursday whether they would back the PSOE leader or not.

The Socialists launched the initiative to oust Rajoy following a court ruling earlier this month in which 29 people, including former senior officials from the prime minister’s conservative Popular Party (PP), were sentenced to a total of 351 years in prison for corruption.

Rajoy warned lawmakers in Congress: “You need to be aware of what you’re going to do.”

Sánchez presented the motion of censure, which includes his own candidacy for the post of prime minister, in Congress by accusing the conservative leader of asking Spaniards to accept corruption “as a chronic illness that you want to heal by looking to the other side.” He defended the “unquestionable moral strength” of his own initiative.

Rajoy counterattacked by listing the many graft cases involving Sánchez’s PSOE over the years. “Are you [Mother] Teresa of Calcutta?” the conservative leader asked at one point. “There is corruption everywhere, as you well know because you’re near it.”

Rajoy also hit back by arguing that the only reason behind Sánchez’s bid for power is “his little confidence in reaching the premiership the way everyone else does — that is, by winning at the ballot box.”

The Socialists came second behind the PP in the 2016 general election, though both now face a serious challenge from the fast-growing centrist party Ciudadanos, which wants new elections but has so far declined to back the PSOE’s no-confidence vote.

Sánchez said he would lead a “pro-European” Cabinet guaranteeing “macroeconomic and budget stability.” He promised to respect the 2018 budget approved by the Popular Party with support from Ciudadanos and the Basque nationalists. This was a gesture apparently aimed at securing the support of the PNV, who had managed to secure investments for the Basque region in return for their support for Rajoy’s budget bill.

The Socialist leader also needs the support of Catalan pro-independence parties PDeCAT and the Catalan Republican Left for his bid to oust Rajoy. The latter has all but guaranteed its support to Sánchez and the former is expected to follow the lead of the Basques, and should announce its position later on Thursday.

Although he has firmly supported the anti-independence stance of Rajoy’s government, Sánchez made a nod to the secessionists by promising to promote “dialogue” between Madrid and the separatist regional government in Barcelona while respecting Spain’s unionist constitution.

Rajoy leapt on such apparent contradictions in Sánchez’s remarks to Congress, reminding him that not long ago he accused the new Catalan regional president, Quim Torra, of “xenophobia.”

“We don’t know how you’ve convinced your partners to vote for you. We do know that it won’t be good for Spain,” said Rajoy.

However, in what looked like an admission that defeat was possible, Rajoy warned lawmakers in Congress: “You need to be aware of what you’re going to do.”

At the end of his speech, Sánchez told Rajoy that he still respects him, adding: “I wish you the best.”


Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Maajid Nawaz on Tommy Robinson - Brilliant

The remarkably quick arrest of Tommy Robinson for apparently breaching a court order for media silence, by reporting from outside of a trial of Pakistanis for raping and sexually trafficking little, white, British girls, shocked the UK and people around the world. At least I think that's what the trial was about; there was a publication ban.

British police are not known for speed in resolving cases. The Madeleine McCann case has been going on for 11 years. Child sex abuse cases involving mostly Muslim men on an industrial scale, have been ignored for decades and are only recently starting to be dealt with. Robinson was arrested, charged and sentenced within five hours.

The judge who was involved in all aspects of this case claimed that Robinson's reporting could de-rail a very long and expensive trial. He didn't explain how that might happen. He also ordered temporary media silence on the arrest and imprisonment of Robinson.

Maajid Nawaz, one of the most honest and intelligent media personalities in Britain, a Muslim, I think, nails the truth again in this brilliant rant.



The reluctance to speak the truth about Muslim men's prolific involvement in sexually abusing young, British girls is still going on years after the realization that 1500 girls in Rotherham were trafficked, raped and gang-raped because police and council were afraid of being called racist. 

No-one is addressing that issue with the exception of Nawaz. Certainly, no-one in the police or government are willing to even consider addressing the issue. Consequently, little, white, British girls are still in danger of sexual exploitation by Muslim men.

Political correctness is cultural suicide and is destroying another generation of girls.



The Insanity of Canadian Politics - Honestly, It's Not Just Americans, eh

I am quite certain there has been outside interference in Canadian elections in the past few years, not from Russia, but from far-left liberal organizations, some of which are most likely financed by George Soros and other left-wing lunatics. The consequence is a series of wins by far left leaning parties in both provincial legislatures and the federal parliament. 

It's not that Canadians aren't capable of making remarkably stupid decisions at the polls, we've proven that we are, we re-elected Pierre Trudeau several times. Pierre was Justin's dad and threw the country into spectacular debt from which we have not recovered in the 40 years since. Now, son Justin is following in his father's footsteps, dismissing a balanced budget and driving another generation of Canadians into massive debt.

Ontario madness

One Liberal government, Ontario's, is so far left that they installed a school curriculum that was, in part, written by a convicted pedophile. The consequence, elementary children are being taught gender dysphoria, a mental illness, is a good thing, and are being read to by drag queens in full gear. 

An election is underway in Ontario this week and the Liberals with their gay leader are being tossed out like yesterday's trash. The somewhat right-wing Progressive Conservatives have lead the polls by a wide margin over the Liberals and a largely unknown NDP (New Democratic Party). The NDP were only ever in power once in Ontario's history and left the province with crippling debt and a bad taste in their mouths.

Nevertheless, this same NDP party is rapidly closing on the PCs. Traditionally in Canada, the NDPs are farther to the left than the Liberals. That may not be the case any longer as it is almost impossible to be further to the left than the Ontario Liberals or the Federal Liberals for that matter.

So, why are Ontarians even considering voting-in the NDP? I suspect it has somewhat to do with outside interference. I can't believe Ontario voters would willingly risk voting-in someone who might be even farther from equilibrium than Kathleen Wynne.


Alberta & British Columbia - the Wild West Show

It has never happened before but both BC and Alberta have elected NDP governments. Well, not exactly. BC has 3 parties in the legislature, left, far left, and out of this world. That would be the Liberals, the NDP and the Green Party respectively, but not respectfully. More Liberals were elected in last year's election than NDP but not enough for a majority government. The NDP, with the Green Party's 3 seats had just enough to form a coalition government. 

The NDP and the Greens hooked up because they are both far left loonies and because neither of them like the Liberals. The BC economy was the best in the country last year, but that matters not when there is money coming into election coffers from mysterious sources south of the border. The agreement to hook-up was dependent of the NDP Premier, John Horgan, being determined to block the twinning of an existing pipeline by Trans Mountain Pipelines. 

Horgan has gone to court to get a ruling that he has the authority to refuse the movement of diluted bitumen through such a pipeline. That ruling has yet to occur. Meanwhile, the proposed pipeline has already passed environmental review by the federal government and consultation with first nations bands along the route from near Edmonton to near Vancouver. Many of those bands are in favour of the project, and many are against and complaining that the consultation was inadequate.

Enter Justin Trudeau, climate hero. He who thinks Canadians are not paying nearly enough for gasoline, so he added a carbon tax to improve things for us. He doesn't seem to realize that this is Canada and there are hundreds, and even thousands of miles (excuse me, kilometers) between major cities. The first major city east of Vancouver is Calgary, over a thousand kms away. We drive long distances because we have to and most of us didn't inherit millions of dollars from our dad to pay for the gas.

Justin, with his shallow cabinet based solely on looks, very quickly after being elected closed two pipeline projects aimed at getting Alberta oil to markets. Suddenly, Alberta is suffering from a lack of investment as oil companies see no way of getting their oil to tidewater or to refineries on the US gulf coast. So, Alberta's NDP Premier, Rachel Notley, makes a deal with Justin to install his carbon tax in exchange for a promise to get the Trans Mountain pipeline built. 

Now we have two far left governments fighting to build a pipeline through BC that the BC government doesn't want. Never mind that the majority of Canadians and the majority of British Columbians do want it. Horgan can't throw in the towel because Green leader, Andrew Weaver, will throw it right back in his face and collapse the government.

Rachel Notley, in the meantime, has passed a bill allowing her to stop the flow of oil on the existing pipeline to the Burnaby refinery near Vancouver. If she does that, the price of gas will skyrocket in southwest BC. It is already the highest in North America. Horgan is challenging that bill in court.

So here we have Horgan, on the one hand, fighting in the courts for the right to prevent diluted bitumen from flowing into BC, and, on the other hand, fighting in the courts to prevent Alberta from having the right to stop oil from flowing into BC. 

It's all very silly. Horgan will almost certainly lose his court battles, at least the one that counts. But the struggle along with the usual left-wing activists demonstrating and trying to block any construction has caused Trans Mountain to give up on the project. Canada, Alberta and BC are not investment-friendly environments under left-wing lunie governments. Are you getting this Ontario?

Justin is smart enough to realize this is a disaster that will shut down a lot of investments coming to Canada, and so he decided today to buy Trans Mountain's entire stake in the pipeline. $4.5 billion - the good news is, they are Canadian dollars which, in Trudeau's Canada, aren't worth an awful lot. But it does increase our budget deficit by about 25%. Not to worry, sunny ways, my friends, the budget will balance itself, eventually, if we live long enough, which seems unlikely.

So now, we Canadians own a pipeline that may or may not get built. But our tax money is going to buy the company and, hopefully, build the pipeline. Meanwhile, as British Columbians, we have to pay for Premier Horgan to fight against our pipeline in court, the pipeline that British Columbians own and will pay for for at least a generation. And, we may possibly have to endure extreme gas prices should Premier Notley turn off the tap.

Is there any possible way all three governments could screw this up any more? If there is, I'm sure these fools will find it.



Tuesday, May 29, 2018

2 Police Officers, Woman, Gunman Dead in Belgium Terrorist Shooting

Just moments after posting a story about France releasing radicalized Muslims from prison, we get this from Belgium where, apparently, a radicalized Muslim, out of prison on a pass, kills 3 people and wounds two more, all but one were police officers.

As I wrote in the previous story, radicalized Muslims should be declared insane and locked up for the rest of their lives in a secure asylum.

By Sara Shayanian  | 

A bomb squad arrives at the scene following a shooting in Liege, Belgium on Tuesday.
Photo by Michel Tonneau/EPA-EFE

UPI -- A gunman shot dead two police officers Tuesday after taking a woman hostage in Belgium, authorities said.

The shooter, released from jail Monday, was on leave for a short period of time when the standoff in the town of Liege began.

Officials said two female police officers stopped the 30-year-old gunman. He disarmed one of the women and began shooting -- killing both officers and a 22-year-old female bystander.

The attacker fled from the scene and took a cleaning woman hostage at the entrance of a nearby high school, authorities said. Two police officers were injured in a shootout there and the gunman was killed. The hostage was not harmed.

A teacher at the school, identified as Vincent by Belgian outlet La Libre, said he evacuated more than 800 students from the building.

Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel condemned the violence.

"Violence cowardly and blind," Michel said in a tweet. "All our support for the victims and their loved ones. We are monitoring the situation with the security services and the crisis center."

Belgian Interior Minister Jan Jambon said the country's anti-terrorist crisis center is monitoring the situation.

Belgian authorities consider the shooting to be a terror attack.

Liege is an industrial city close to the German border in the French-speaking Wallonia region of Belgium.


Papua New Guinea’s Facebook Ban: Govt Declares War on Porn & Fake News

Great idea: get control of it early


Facebook is set to be banned in Papua New Guinea while the government hunts out fake profiles and porn, and assesses the social media network’s effect on the population, the country’s communications minister has said.

Papua New Guinea’s (PNG) Communications and Information Technology Department, together with the National Research Institute, will research how the platform is being used by locals, and Facebook will be banned in PNG for one month.

“The time will allow information to be collected to identify users that hide behind fake accounts, users that upload pornographic images, users that post false and misleading information on Facebook to be filtered and removed,” Communications Minister Sam Basil told local media outlet the Post-Courier.

Basil also floated the idea that PNG could create its own indigenous version of Facebook to rival the social network, as the country seeks to clamp down on the spread of so-called fake news and the dissemination of pornagraphic images.

Out of a population of just over 8 million, only an estimated 12 percent of those have access to the internet.

Further to conducting an audit of Facebook, the month-long outage also gives the government time to enforce the CyberCrime Act, passed in 2016, which criminalises online activities including hacking, cyber-bullying, identity theft, unlawful advertising, and the production and publication of pornography.

The world’s largest social network has come under increasing scrutiny from government in recent months over how user data is managed – and by whom – in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal.



France - The Most Dangerous Country in Europe is About to Get Worse

Release of 40 radicalized prisoners a 'major risk'
– French counter-terrorism prosecutor

France's Vendin-le-Vieil prison is pictured on February 4, 2018. © Eric Vidal / Reuters

France is gearing up to release 40 radicalized prisoners in the coming months, a move which the country's lead counter-terrorism prosecutor says is a "major risk," as they could have become more radicalized behind bars.

Speaking to French broadcaster BFM TV, Francois Molins confirmed that France will be releasing around 20 radicalized prisoners this year and a further 20 in 2019, while warning about the dangers of such a move.

“There is a major risk of seeing people who are not at all repentant at the end of their sentence come out of prison, who could even be more radical given their stay in prison,” said Molins, who will soon leave his post after seven years as the head of France's counter-terrorism prosecution service.

“We need to do a lot more talking to ensure that they are properly monitored which requires thorough work between the prison administration, the intelligence services, the prefectures, those working in the judicial system and the prosecutor's office,” Molins added.

The release of the prisoners follows criticism of France's ability to keep track of those who are on the country's terror watch list, as some of them have gone on to commit terrorist attacks. For example, the man who killed one person and wounded four others with a knife in Paris earlier this month was reportedly on the list.

Molins' worry that prisoners could become more radicalized in prison is a legitimate one, according to reports in the French press which say that more than 1,200 people who have been imprisoned for non-terrorism crimes have become radicalized while behind bars. Molins says prisons serve as "incubators" by allowing interactions to take place between radicalized and non-radicalized prisoners.

In an effort to combat that problem, the French government said in February that it would seal off extremists within prisons and open new centers to reintegrate jihadists into society. However, French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe admitted at the time that "no one has a magic formula for 'deradicalization' as if you might de-install dangerous software."

The fact that there is no magic formula means that France remains on high alert, a state it has been in since January 2015, when gunmen killed 17 people in Paris, including 12 at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. In November of the same year, terrorist attacks killed 130 people in and around the French capital. All in all, more than 240 people have been killed by terrorism in the country over the past three years.

The prisoners due to be released are just some of the more than 500 people currently being held in French prisons for terrorism-related offenses, according to French media.

How about this: You declare all radical Muslims insane, for they most certainly are, and lock them up forever in an asylum!!! Huh?




Monday, May 28, 2018

Remembering Jack Kennedy

The best weapon conspirators have in their arsenal against truth is to label those who seek it as conspiracy theorists. It's as though conspiracies are dreamed up by lunatics rather than realized by thoughtful, careful researchers who don't accept government statements at face value. What government tells the truth about much of anything?

Did you know that much of Hitler's war effort was supplied by American companies? 

By Stephen Lendman
Global Research

Killing Kennedy mattered. It changed America’s direction. Things might have been different had he lived.

November 22, 1963 remains a stain on America’s legacy. It was Friday. A light rain fell.

Kennedy spent the night at the Texas Hotel. A platform was set up outside. He came out. He made some brief remarks.

“There are no faint hearts in Fort Worth,” he said. “I appreciate your being here this morning. Mrs. Kennedy is organizing herself. It takes longer, but, of course, she looks better than we do when she does it.”

He addressed “the willingness of citizens of the United States to assume the burdens of leadership.”

His motorcade traveled to Carswell Air Force Base. He took a 13 minute flight to Dallas. Rain ended.

The plastic bubble atop his car was left off. Lyndon and Mrs. Johnson accompanied him in a separate car.

The procession headed downtown. It wound through Dallas en route to the Trade Mart. Kennedy was scheduled to speak at a luncheon.

Crowds along the route waved. His car turned off Main Street at Dealey Plaza. It was around 12:30PM. The procession passed the Texas School Book Depository.

Gunfire was heard. Kennedy was struck. His car sped to Parkland Memorial Hospital. It was a few minutes away. It was too late. He was given his last rites. Around 1PM, he was pronounced dead.

The New York Times headlined in bold type across the top of its front page: “KENNEDY IS KILLED BY SNIPER AS HE RIDES IN CAR TO DALLAS; JOHNSON SWOWN IN ON PLANE”

“Gov. Connally Shot; Mrs. Kennedy Safe”

“President is Struck Down by a Rifle Shot From Building on Motorcade Route – Johnson, Riding Behind, Is Unhurt”

Less than an hour earlier, police arrested Lee Harvey Oswald. He was a convenient patsy. He had nothing to do with killing Kennedy.

He alone remains officially blamed. The Big Lie persists. Lots of evidence refutes it.


Plato once said:

“Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught falsehoods in school.”

“And the person that dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool.”


On November 29, 1963, Lyndon Johnson established the Warren Commission. On September 24, 1964, it delivered its 888-page report.

Three days later, it released it publicly. It pronounced a bald-faced lie. It said Oswald acted alone.

It later published 26 volumes of supporting documents. They included testimonies or depositions of 552 witnesses.

Its distortions included over 3,100 exhibits. It went all out to conceal truth and full disclosure.

All records are in the National Archives. Included are unpublished reports. They’re sealed until 2039.

They’re no longer applicable under the 1966 Freedom of Information Act and 1992 JFK Records Act.

Nothing released ahead will change the official story. The Big Lie persists. It remain etched in stone. It’s for others to challenge it.

The Commission’s job was suppressing truth. It was coverup. It was stacked with insiders. They included:

Chief Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren
Senator Richard Russell (D. GA)
Senator John Sherman Cooper (R. KY)
Representative Hale Boggs (D. LA)
Representative Gerald Ford (R. MI)
former CIA director Allen Dulles, and
former WW II Assistant Secretary of War/World Bank president/prominent presidential advisor John J. McCloy.

Testimonies were taken in secret. Sanitized versions were published.

Peter Dale Scott coined the phrase “deep politics.” It means “in every culture and society there are facts which tend to be suppressed, because of the social and psychological costs of not doing so.”

Scott noted “the ability of the government to establish a guilty party or parties immediately, and the press and media consumption of that product to the exclusion of all other possibilities.”

The Warren Commission’s mandate was “to validate what was already decided by the FBI on the day in question.”

“In Oswald’s case, FBI and CIA documents described him as five feet, ten inches, weighing 165 pounds.”

“But it contradicted the actual height and weight of the man picked up and charged being slightly shorter and weighing 140 pounds.”

“It appears someone had already decided who was going to be charged before the police found Oswald in the Texas Theater.”

He was named within 15 minutes from when Kennedy was shot. It was impossible to know that soon. The official story was bogus.

Jim Marrs book titled, “Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy” discussed a Cartha DeLoach memo. He was FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover’s close aide.

He said then Congressman Gerald Ford may have been the bureau’s Warren Commission informant. He had close CIA ties.


It was later learned he reported to Hoover. He did so secretly. He admitted instructing the Commission to move Kennedy’s back wound up several inches. A lower location disproved the single gunman theory.

A subsequent Commission report was titled “A Presidential Legacy and the Warren Commission.”

It said the investigation put “certain classified and potentially damaging operations in danger of being exposed.”

The CIA hid or “destroy(ed) some information, which can easily be misinterpreted as collusion in JFK’s assassination.”

Family spokeswoman, Penny Circle, said Ford approved the text. Before his death, he publicly said the CIA destroyed or hid critical secrets related to the killing.

He suggested a “conspiracy.” He barely stopped short of admitting one. Commission conclusions were rubbish. They hid dirty truths. They were too disturbing to reveal.

Jim Fetzer has done extensive research on Kennedy’s assassination. He said the following:

“The weapon Oswald is alleged to have used cannot have fired the bullets that killed JFK.”

“The ‘magic bullet’ theory is provably untrue and was not even anatomically possible.”

“JFK was hit four times – in the throat from in front, in the back from behind, and in the head from in front and behind.”

“X-rays were altered. A brain was substituted, and photos and films were faked to conceal the true causes of his death.”

Fetzer cited “more than 15 indications of Secret Service complicity in setting JFK up for the hit.”

“Two agents assigned to the limousine were left behind at Love Field. The flat-bed truck for reporters that should have preceded the limo was cancelled.”

“The motorcycle escort was cut down to four and was instructed not to ride ahead of the rear wheels.”

“Open windows were not covered. The manhole covers were not welded, and the crowd was allowed to spill into the street.”

“…Vehicles were in the wrong order, with (Kennedy’s) Lincoln first, when it should have been in the middle.”

“This was such a blatant violation of protocol that any security expert would have detected it.”

The Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB) destroyed the Presidential Protection Records. It did so to eliminate important evidence.

Kennedy’s route was changed days before he arrived. Included was a strictly prohibited 90 degree turn.

After gunfire struck him, driver William Greer pulled to the left. He stopped the vehicle.

“At Parkland Hospital, (Secret Service) agents got a bucket of water and a sponge, and washed brains and blood from the crime scene.”

Kennedy’s “limousine was taken back to Ford. (It) was stripped to bare metal and rebuilt.”

Doing so destroyed important evidence. It included the windshield. It had “a through-and-through bullet hole.”

Kennedy was shot from in front and behind. He was struck four times.

The Warren Commission claimed he was hit twice. The Commission claimed the bullet striking Kennedy in the back passed through his neck, then exited from his throat.

It struck Governor Connally. It shattered a rib. It damaged his right wrist. It embedded itself in his left thigh.

Fetzer called this explanation “a most unlikely scenario that is known as the ‘magic bullet’ theory.”

To make it remotely plausible, Commission member (then Congressman) Gerald Ford “had the description of the wound to the back changed from ‘his uppermost back.’ ”

The weapon Oswald was accused of firing couldn’t have killed Kennedy. His death certificate and autopsy said high-velocity bullets above 2,600 fps killed him.

Oswald’s Mannlicher-Carcano rifle had a muzzle velocity of 2,000 fps.

Even with a more powerful weapon, “the shots themselves were highly improbable,” said Fetzer.

“(T)he simple expedient of locating where the bullet hit JFK’s back is enough to establish the existence of a conspiracy has not inhibited those who want to obfuscate the facts.”

Pseudo-documentaries air on TV. They obscure what happened. They hide vital truths.

They stick to the long ago discredited lone gunman explanation. “Authentic evidence, once separated from (fabrications), refutes it,” said Fetzer.

“The demise of the ‘magic bullet’ (theory) alone establishes conspiracy.”

“Creating a false photographic record of the assassination was crucial to the cover-up.”

“As much thought was given to concealing the truth from the public as was given to executing the assassination itself.”

“By removing some events and adding others, the home movie known as the Zapruder film became the backbone of the cover-up.”

“As long as it was taken to be authentic, it would be impossible to reconstruct the crime.”

Much has been written about Kennedy. James Douglas contributed some of the best. His book titled “JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters” debunked mainstream myths and much more.

He showed how Kennedy threatened the military-industrial complex. He had to go. “(T)he CIA’s fiingerprints (were) all over the crime and the events leading up to it,” said Douglas.

The lone gunman theory long ago lost credibility. A state-sponsored coup eliminated Kennedy. He changed during his time in office. He evolved from cold warrior to peacemaker.

The Bay of Pigs fiasco chastened him. He refused authorizing another attempt to remove Castro.

He supported Palestinian rights. He opposed Israel’s nuclear weapons program. He offended energy giants. He wanted the oil depletion allowance cut or eliminated.

RFK waged war on organized crime. JFK’s first executive order expanded the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). He was a gradualist on civil rights. He believed integration was morally right.

He favored Federal Reserve reform. His Executive Order 11110 authorized replacing Federal Reserve notes with silver certificates if the occasion arose to do so.

It’s believed he ordered Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon to begin issuing United States notes. Perhaps he had in mind replacing Federal Reserve ones altogether. He was assassinated to soon to know.

He deplored the CIA. He fired director Allen Dulles and his deputy General Charles Cabell.

He once said he wanted to “splinter the (agency) into a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds.” It was reason enough to kill him.

He increasingly opposed imperial wars. Initially, he sent troops and advisors to Southeast Asia. He opposed sending more to Laos.

He told his Geneva Conference representative, Averell Harriman:

“Do you understand? I want a negotiated settlement in Laos. I don’t want to put troops in.”

He opposed deploying nuclear weapons in Berlin. He was against using them in Southeast Asia.

He once called Pentagon generals “crazy” for suggesting it. He refused to attack or invade Cuba during the 1962 missile crisis. He said he “never had the slightest intension of doing so.”

He urged abolishing all nuclear weapons. He knew using them is lunacy. He favored general and complete disarmament.

He opposed Pax Americana enforced dominance. He signed the Limited Test Ban Treaty with Soviet Russia.

Weeks before his assassination, he signed National Security Memorandum 263. It called for removing 1,000 US forces from Vietnam by yearend. He wanted them all out by December 1965.

He underwent a spiritual transformation. It bears repeating. He switched from cold warrior to peacemaker.

He was at odds with Pentagon commanders, CIA, most congressional members, and nearly all his advisors.

He understood his vulnerability. He paid with his life. He was favored to win reelection. Imagine if he had two full terms.

Imagine a new direction. Imagine deploring war. Imagine turning swords into plowshares.

Imagine a world at peace. Imagine nuclear disarmament. Imagine ending the Cold War a generation earlier.

In June 1956, he addressed Harvard’s commencement. He was Massachusetts junior senator at the time.

He ended by quoting an English mother. She wrote the Provost of Harrow saying: “Don’t teach my boy poetry. He is going to stand for Parliament.”

“Well, perhaps she was right,” said Kennedy. “But if more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a better place in which to live on this commencement day of 1956.”

Killing JFK, RFK, MLK, and Malcom X “decapitat(ed) America’s left,” said Fetzer. In the 1970s, the nation began shifting right. Progressive charismatic leaders were gone.

None exist today. Their absence is sorely missed. It lets America get away with murder and then some.

Dark forces run things. War on humanity persists. Peacemakers aren’t around to stop it. Survival hangs in the balance.

Those 'Dark Forces' are now labelled 'Deep State' and they are not restricted to the American right. They are the military industrial establishment and include many elements of America's national and international policing and spy agencies as well as those from other countries. NATO is particularly rife with Deep State influence. 

The spectacular wealth the military industrial establishment accrues during wars and threats of wars fills many pockets of politicians and those chosen to protect Americans at home and abroad. They do anything but. They destroy outsiders like the 4 men mentioned above and they are desperately attempting to control Donald Trump. How successful they are at that may determine how long Mr Trump has to live. 

2nd Shooter, Wrong Person Jailed? Robert Kennedy’s Son Questions Assassination Probe

Robert F. Kennedy sits at his desk at the Justice Department in this 1968 file photograph. Kennedy was shot in Los Angeles 30 years ago on June 5, 1968, and died the following day. / Reuters

The wrong man may be in prison for the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, according to none other than Kennedy’s son, who has called for a reinvestigation of the 1968 assassination.

In an interview with the Washington Post, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he does not believe that Sirhan B. Sirhan, the Palestinian man convicted of killing his father in Los Angeles on June 6, 1968, was actually the person who carried out the crime.

Kennedy, who is now 64 years old and an environmental lawyer, told the newspaper that he believes a second shooter is responsible for the death of his father — a conclusion that he reached after spending months reviewing autopsy results and police reports, as well as talking to witnesses who were present when his father was shot.

Kennedy also told the Post that, as part of his investigation into the death, he went to visit the now 74-year old Sirhan at the California state prison where he is being held.

“I went there because I was curious and disturbed by what I had seen in the evidence,” Kennedy said. “I was disturbed that the wrong person might have been convicted of killing my father. My father was the chief law enforcement officer in this country. I think it would have disturbed him if somebody was put in jail for a crime they didn’t commit.”

Kennedy did not disclose the details of his discussion with Sirhan, but he eventually reached the conclusion that a second gunman had carried out the shooting and said he would like to see a reinvestigation into the death of his father, who served as US attorney general between 1961 and 1964 and as a senator for New York from 1965 until his death in 1968.

Kennedy was assassinated five years after his brother, President John F. Kennedy, was killed and two months after civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was shot in Memphis, Tennessee.

It’s not the first time someone has questioned the official stories of the Kennedy deaths. A number of independent researchers have also questioned the official US government line.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. attends Keep it Clean to benefit Waterkeeper Alliance on March 1, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. © John Sciulli / AFP

I personally knew one in 1979 who had investigated JFK's assassination and found no end of leads, but all the leads ended up leading to a dead person. After a couple years he abandoned the investigation and moved to Canada for fear of his life.

Journalist Stephen Lendman told Press TV last year he believes that Sirhan had nothing to do with the murder of Bobby Kennedy and that Lee Harvey Oswald had nothing to do with the assassination of President Kennedy — and that the CIA was responsible instead.

“Sirhan Sirhan is still alive, in prison. He had nothing to do with the killing of Bobby Kennedy. Lee Harvey Oswald had nothing to do with the killing of Jack Kennedy. The CIA killed Jack Kennedy,” Lendman claimed.

Lendman also disputes the findings from the official report into President Kennedy’s assassination.

“Kennedy was not shot twice from behind as the official report said. He was shot at least four times, from the front and from the back. And there was a bullet hole in the windshield of his limousine, and that was covered up, rather poorly, but it was covered up,” he said.

Lendman claims that Oswald was “set up” and was then assassinated by Jack Ruby, who was also later killed.

“The moral of the story is: dead men tell no tales,” Lendman said.

As my friend figured out!

During Sirhan’s trial in 1969, he admitted that he had killed Bobby Kennedy, but said he had no recollection of doing so. An autopsy report showed that Kennedy was shot at point-blank range from behind — yet Sirhan was standing in front of him.



Why Colorado's Black Market for Marijuana is Booming 4 Years After Legalization

Briar Stewart · CBC News

Criminal organizations have moved into Teller County, a community of 24,000 nestled in the Rocky Mountains about 160 km south of Denver, and are illegally growing marijuana there that they smuggle out of state. The sheriff's office in the county says it has 400 kilograms of marijuana sitting in storage as evidence. (Teller County Sheriff)

When recreational marijuana went on sale in Colorado in 2014, the government's goal was to regulate and tax a drug that was already widely used and to squeeze out dealers and traffickers in the process.

But law enforcement authorities in the state say legalization has done the exact opposite.

Even though there are more than 500 recreational marijuana dispensaries in the state, the black market is booming. It's being driven by criminal organizations that grow weed in Colorado and smuggle their crop into states where it is still illegal and can be sold for a much greater profit. 

The black market hasn't gone away within the state, either, because some marijuana users are deterred by the higher dispensary prices and are loyal to their long-time dealers.

Investigators say the illegal trade has flourished because the state laws around growing marijuana were overly generous in the beginning and hard to enforce.

As Canada prepares for legalization, CBC News spoke to insiders to get their perspective on why the black market is thriving in a place where pot is legal.

The DEA

Investigators with the federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) focus on the largest and most serious drug trafficking rings operating in the United States.

Paul Roach, a DEA supervisor, says his team spends about 15 per cent of its time on marijuana trafficking cases — a threefold increase from before legalization.

"Colorado has basically become the marijuana capital of the United States," he said.

And Canada is determined to become the marijuana capital of the world! There are several companies already planning on growing massive amounts of pot in Canada and shipping it to Europe. Of course, they will only be going to legitimate markets

"You find drug trafficking organizations moving here, setting up shop in Colorado and sending it back to their home states where they can sell it at incredible profit."

Not in Canada, all our drug trafficking organizations will be legal, honest and completely trustworthy. Sunny ways, my friends, sunny ways.

DEA agents document Operation Golden Gopher, in which they raided several Denver warehouses they say housed marijuana intended to be smuggled out of state.

Colorado's high-altitude weed is being trafficked to dozens of states, but some of its largest recipients are Florida, Illinois and Texas, according to a report by the Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Traffic Area. It works to support the national drug control strategy while co-ordinating investigations between different authorities. 

When DEA agents raided this home in April, they found marijuana grow lights, dodgy electrical wiring, and mildew and mould. They say the people who were living here had hastily packed up. (Briar Stewart/CBC)

Criminal organizations, including groups tied to Mexican and Cuban drug cartels, are growing marijuana in rental homes, warehouses and even on forested federal land.  

In some cases, they are operating in plain sight and are disguised as legitimate operations.

"The cartels and drug trafficking organizations, in general, will go where they will make money," Roach said.

"If they see an opportunity in Canada to increase their profits by exploiting Canada's laws, then I expect them to do that."

The local sheriff

Jason Mikesell is sheriff of Teller County, Colo., a rural community nestled against the Rocky Mountains.

This picturesque county of 24,000 is favoured by young families and retirees, but Mikesell says criminal organizations are also moving in to smuggle pot out.

"Never would we have thought that we would have this issue going on in our community," he said.

Jason Mikesell, who will soon be up for re-election as Teller County sheriff, says the issue of illegal marijuana is a major concern for his rural community. (Chris Corday/CBC)

While he believes most of the illegal marijuana grown in Teller County is destined for out of state, he also says there is a local black market.

Last fall, Mikesell wanted to sell an SUV, so he listed it on Cragislist. A prospective buyer offered to trade for nearly two kilograms of pot.

Mikesell set up the trade, and when the buyers arrived, they were arrested and charged with illegal distribution of marijuana. One of them was convicted and recently sentenced to four years in prison.

Bucolic Teller County has seen an uptick in illegal activity related to marijuana following legalization of the drug in Colorado in 2014. (Briar Stewart/CBC)

Mikesell says Colorado was the test subject for legal weed in the U.S., and the state regulations that made enforcement difficult because people were allowed to grow so much of their own marijuana.

In the beginning, each person could grow up to six plants, and they could pool them together in a co-op.

Medical patients could grow up to 99 plants and appoint a caregiver to grow it for them.

More restrictive laws were introduced earlier this year, limiting each residence to a maximum of 12 plants, so the sheriff's office has been able to ramp up enforcement.

The sheriff's team has raided eight houses so far this year and has seized more than $3.5 million US of marijuana. During those investigations, they arrested more than 20 cartel members with connections to Cuba and Miami. 

Mikesell says his team has been tipped off about some of the grow operations because people have called in complaining about strong odours in their neighbourhood. 

"We know there are another 60 or 70 marijuana houses we haven't got to yet," said Mikesell.

Other local police departments in Colorado are getting similar calls from residents who also report excessive noise from air conditioning units and blown electrical transformers, according to the DEA.

I can hardly wait for the stink and the noise to come to Canada full force.

The drug dealer

A dealer who agreed to speak with CBC News on condition that he not be named said he spends most of his days in the front seat of his sedan driving around Denver. An air freshener dangles from the mirror of his vehicle, but it can't disguise the lingering smell of weed.

On his lap, he holds a plastic bag containing marijuana buds.

"In a good day … I am making $400 to $500," he said.

This man advertises online and runs a marijuana delivery service in the Denver area. He has his own plants and also gets product from other growers. (Briar Stewart/CBC)

The father of two advertises online along with dozens of others who grow and sell marijuana illegally.

He runs a delivery service and sells marijuana that he's picked up from a network of growers who have "extra" product, and he also grows his own. He compares himself to a pizza delivery man because, he says, he guarantees delivery to anywhere in Denver in less than an hour.

He says legalization hasn't had a big impact on his business because he caters to clients who don't want to be seen going into a dispensary. 

"I have had nurses that have contacted me via the internet and have a delivery brought to their home or their office or wherever they feel comfortable," he said.

His clientele also includes a number of truck drivers, who are prohibited from using marijuana under federal transportation laws.

Dozens of ads listing cannabis for sale in bulk quantity can be viewed on sites like Denver Craigslist. (Craigslist)

While the dealer's operation helps him provide for his family, it isn't his full-time job. He says he has a couple of more "respectable" side projects that keep him busy, but he says one of his goals is to make marijuana more accessible.

He does worry about being caught by the police but admits there are other risks to operating in the black market.

"I have had people sit right there ... with a gun to my head," he said, pointing to the front passenger seat.

"It's a definite risk."

This tourist from Michigan was one of the thousands who gathered in Denver's Civic Center Park in April to take part in the city's annual 420 celebration. (Chris Corday/CBC)

The advocate

Whenever Larisa Bolivar, 42, wants to pick up some marijuana, she heads to one of her preferred Denver dispensaries where she can buy cannabis to smoke and edibles to eat. 

As president of Colorado's Cannabis Consumers Coalition, she is both a longtime user and an advocate. For the past two years, she has conducted online surveys by polling marijuana users about just where they get their pot from. She reached out through the coalition's Facebook page, which has 17,000 members, and contacted people directly after obtaining customer lists from cannabis-related companies. 

Larisa Bolivar, president of the Cannabis Consumers Coalition, conducted a series of online surveys asking people to disclose where they purchase their marijuana. The surveys found around 50 per cent of respondents are not getting their marijuana at dispensaries. (Briar Stewart/CBC)

She had 527 people respond to her 2017 survey, and while she is still tallying the results for this year, she says the findings are consistent. 

Black market still bigger than legal one

"There is still a larger percentage of people buying from the black market [than legally]," she said.

The results of Bolivar's Facebook survey suggested nearly 50 per cent of the respondents were not shopping at the state's licensed dispensaries. Bolivar says most are buying their pot off of friends or sticking to their regular dealers because they trust them.

In Colorado, you have to be 21 to buy from a dispensary, and you have show identification. Bolivar says accessibility is also an issue: not all communities have retail stores.

And, there is a large market for under-21s that needs to be serviced. Legalizing pot does not reduce the number of teens accessing it. In Colorado, more teens are using pot than ever and it is very dangerous for teens, especially young or mid-teens, to smoke pot as it frequently results in the onset of Schizophrenia and/or other psychotic disorders that seriously affect the rest of your life.

Colorado, which has a population of around 5.6 million, has more than 500 recreational marijuana dispensaries. (Briar Stewart/CBC)

Taxes and fees on marijuana have brought in more than $250 million US to the state last year. Bolivar says those additional costs are the biggest driver toward the local black market.

"I really think a lot of it has to do with price," Bolivar says.

The tax rates vary by municipality. In Denver, for example, people buying recreational marijuana pay a tax of 23.15 per cent.

"If I can save $5 on a purchase, that is a cheap lunch," Bolivar said.

The haste in Canada to start collecting taxes from pot smokers without serious study of the consequences, is extremely disturbing. I believe there will be unforeseen, and even foreseen consequences that will cost Canadian society dearly. Instant and inexpensive gratification will continue to increase dramatically to the detriment of long-term planning and the next generation. Nothing good will come out of this.