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The Assassination of John F. Kennedy, Jr.

Twenty five years ago, I was glued to the television set, watching endless video of helicopters scanning the waters off of Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. You know, the guarded and gated community where in 2022 a handful of migrants so frightened the tanned One Percenters, that the National Guard was immediately sent for.

I knew immediately that they’d never find JFK, Jr. alive. While Ted Kennedy did survive one of the numerous plane crashes involving this family, I was thoroughly versed in th...

Caged in Oligarchic Contradictions

A contronym is a word having two definitions that contradict each other.  Two examples are the word bolt, which can mean to lock with a bolt and to flee, and clip, which means to attach and to detach.

There are many such words and there is also a system of thought based on them.  It has no name except for the one I give it here, admittedly an awkward one: The Contronymal Circus.   Like words that are their own antonyms, this system of thought confuses and traps, as it is meant to do.

Language is...

The Young Man Was ‘The Patsy’

Besides not being able to kill the president, the other thing that went very wrong for the killers is that the young man did not climb to the highest point of the roof as he would have had to do for the present narrative to have a basis.  At the spot in which the young man died, he was in fact distant from the uppermost point of the roof and unable to even see the campaign rally.  He would have had to climb to the very top, to the apex of the roof, since only from that point would he have been a...

Lakota Elder Dan Explains English

We didn’t see that you had to name everything to make it exist, and that the name you gave something made it what it was.

In his fascinating book “ Neither Wolf nor Dog, On Forgotten Roads With an Indian Elder” researcher and author Kent Nerburn answers an ad and discovers Lakota Elder Dan who, after thinking deeply and for many years, has decided we pale-face could use some help.

Stuck in the boonies, researcher Nerburn buys a cheap recorder and carefully transcribes what Elder Dan has to say, ...

Fed’s Fake Victory Over Inflation

If you don’t think the Fed has become an abject handmaid of the Wall Street gamblers, take a gander at the chart below. Owing to the slight down-tick in this week’s monthly CPI report, the outcry for rate cuts is reaching a deafening roar down in the trading pits. And judging by Powell’s presser on Wednesday, the Fed is fixing to bend over soon, bar of soap in outstretched hand.

And yet and yet. On everything that makes a difference to the main street cost of living, prices are up by 32% to 36% ...

Choose One: Law Enforcement at Trump Shooting Was Either Incompetent or Complicit

Within minutes of the July 13 attempted assassination of Donald Trump, observers were asking how the assassin managed to gain a clear shot of Donald Trump at the Butler Farm Show Grounds near Butler, Pennsylvania. Since then, the question remains unanswered, but many allegations about the shooting have emerged. For example, multiple sources plausibly contend that both local police and the Secret Service had spotted the armed shooter—on a nearby roof with a rangefinder and a gun—several minutes b...

National Burden of Injury and Deaths From Shootings by Police in the United States, 2015‒2020

The nation is at a loss as to why law enforcement officers did not fire first on Michael Crooks instead of let him shoot and injure former President Trump, David Dutch, James Copenhaver, and kill Corey Comperatore. How often to police shoot first in tough situations with potential threats?

Ward et al reviewed nonfatal and fatal police shootings from 2015 to 2020 in the United States.

“A total of 1769 people were injured annually in shootings by police, 55% fatally. When a shooting injury occurr...

Inflation and the Fed’s Monetary Policy

The dynamics behind interest rate policy

Undoubtedly, market values everywhere are predicated on the Fed cutting rates. To a limited extent, this could become a self-fulfilling prophecy. So far, the effect on the 10-year US Treasury Note, which sets the valuation tone for all financial assets, has been to reduce its yield in recent months from 4.7% to under 4.2% currently. I have pencilled in a potential support line at 4.08% (the pecked line).

While there is little evidence that this line will...

Cock-ups, Conspiracies and the Failed Trump Assassination

First, I have some corrections and expansions to yesterday’s post.

WPXI in Pittsburgh, who have good sources in Pennsylvania law enforcement, are now clarifying that no counter-sniper teams were staged in the building that Crooks shot from at all. They were rather on the second floor of an adjacent building, which I have circled here in red:

This should clarify why nobody heard Crooks moving on the roof before he opened fire. WPXI also note that law enforcement first took notice of the would-be...

We Must Pray for Those Misled by ‘Usurper Bergoglio’

The following is a sermon written and published by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò for the Solemnity of the Most Precious Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

IN SANGUINE TUO

Homily on the external Solemnity
of the Most Precious Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ

Redemisti nos, Domine, in sanguine tuo,
ex omni tribu, et lingua, et populo, et natione:
et fecisti nos Deo nostro regnum.

Rev 5:9-10

Dear brothers and sisters,

First of all, allow me to share with you my serenity of mind in facing this trial. I e...