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Collapsing Conspiracy Cover-Ups?

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The 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy possibly ranks as the single most famous event of the twentieth century.

For nearly sixty years, there have been widespread suspicions that he died at the hands of a conspiracy, as did his brother Robert a few years later. Although these “conspiracy theories” have been ignored or dismissed by nearly our entire mainstream media, they have inspired hundreds or thousands of books and films along with countless articles, and have been widely believed by large portions of the American public. The resulting loss of faith in our major institutions has been dramatic, leading to today’s intense popular skepticism on so many other issues, whether justified or unjustified.

Our government has still never released all of its official records on the death of our 35th President, but after almost six decades that monumental cover-up may finally be starting to collapse.

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I do not want to get into this too much and I have absolutely not read all of Ron Unz’s work on this topic. But I do want to say that he seems to have become obsessed with the idea that he is the only person that figured out that covid could have been or was a bioweapon attack on China by Western powers. My understanding is he believes rogue elements within the American and Western intelligence communities released covid in China during a military sporting event in late 2019. That may be what happened but there are many other even more plausible ways the virus may have been released. There are also many reasons why China might have done it. And there are many good reasons to believe that elements in the West cooperated with elements in China to do it. Both sides gained by getting rid of Donald Trump and seizing more power. The other side of Ron’s argument that is lacking is he naively accepted CDC covid pseudoscience, including the vaccines. Strong support for the argument that Western powers released covid is the Western response to covid looks most of all like part two of a 5G war against the West. To see this for yourself just consider that nothing good has happened in the West for many years while at the same time many bad things have happened, covid being just one of them. Ron’s linked essay is well worth reading and I recommend it otherwise I would not have posted it. His point of view is very often refreshing and always worth considering. ABN

Investigation Shows How Involved Nancy Pelosi’s Office Was With January 6 Security

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was apparently very involved in the security for the Capitol prior to the incident prior to the certification of the 2020 presidential election. Text messages and emails reveal that the Speaker’s office had regular meetings about the security detail for January 6, 2021, the Daily Wire reported.

The report said that the Speaker’s office “helped edit authorities’ plans, and turned down several requests from federal law enforcement needed to protect the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021.

“Reps. Jim Banks (R-IN), Rodney Davis (R-IL), Troy Nehls (R-TX), Jim Jordan (R-OH), and Kelly Armstrong (R-ND) independently published a 141-page investigative report on Wednesday outlining what they describe as House Democratic leadership and Capitol authorities’ failures that left the complex vulnerable,” it said.

“Democrats and the Jan. 6 Committee used the Capitol Police as a political prop, then did nothing when USCP officers were harassed for telling the truth. They should be ashamed,” Rep. Banks, who led the investigation after he was banned from participating in the January 6 Select Committee, said to The Federalist.

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Origin of the word ‘slave’

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The word “slave” is derived from the Old French word “esclave,” which itself comes from the Latin word “sclavus.” The term “sclavus” referred to a person who was captured and enslaved during the barbarian invasions of the Roman Empire in the 5th and 6th centuries. The term “sclavus” was originally used to describe the Slavic people, who were often captured and sold as slaves in the early Middle Ages. However, over time, the term came to be applied to anyone who was held in bondage or slavery, regardless of their ethnicity or origin. The modern English word “slave” ultimately derives from this Latin root.

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Background for understanding Ukraine and also the past in Eastern Europe and East of Europe

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The Khazars[a] (/ˈxɑːzɑːrz/) were a semi-nomadic Turkic people that in the late 6th-century CE established a major commercial empire covering the southeastern section of modern European Russia, southern Ukraine, Crimea, and Kazakhstan.[10] They created what for its duration was the most powerful polity to emerge from the break-up of the Western Turkic Khaganate.[11] Astride a major artery of commerce between Eastern Europe and Southwestern Asia, Khazaria became one of the foremost trading empires of the early medieval world, commanding the western marches of the Silk Road and playing a key commercial role as a crossroad between China, the Middle East and Kievan Rus’.[12][13] For some three centuries (c. 650–965) the Khazars dominated the vast area extending from the Volga-Don steppes to the eastern Crimea and the northern Caucasus.[14]

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Khazar Khaganate, 650–850 click images for larger

We have to look into the past and beyond the borders of Europe to understand what is happening in Ukraine today. ABN

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‘The footage will haunt me for the rest of my life.’ Jeffrey Epstein survivor claims she watched tapes the pedophile made of his wealthy friends having sex with a female victim for ‘blackmail’ – and says she still has copies stashed

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  • Epstein victim Sarah Ransome claims in a newly released deposition that she personally watched sex tapes the late financier made of his friends 
  • She says that the footage showed two of his wealthy associates having sex with a female victim 
  • Ransome said the footage will ‘haunt me for the rest of my life’
  • Epstein does not appear in the video, something that Ransome says showed how ‘clever’ he was 
  • Ransome claims to have copies of the footage which she has stored at several secure locations around Europe
  • The bombshell claim gives new insight into the long-held theory that Epstein blackmailed his wealthy male friends with secretly recorded videos 
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The usual complaint in cases like this is “just release the tapes, already!” Ransome may be courting danger by delaying or, as often happens, nothing happens, the story goes away. Behind the scenes it is probable people in her position frequently accept large sums of money (the carrot) while also being informed that there is a very large stick ready just for them. Then the story goes away. In most cases we have no way of knowing what happened or if the story was even true. I am posting this because the victims should have voices and should not be forgotten. I am also aware that wealthy perps can and will use poison or drugs to make victims looks crazy and unbelievable. It’s a dirty world and you can’t understand it unless you have a strong mind and are willing to think about it. ABN

‘Yes, the CIA was involved in the Kennedy assassination’ ~ anonymous CIA insider

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This is an OK report for slow-witted Americans. The guest says the material is being kept secret for only two possible reasons: 1) to protect CIA for not protecting JFK or 2) the CIA was actively involved. Then she mumbles some anodyne pabulum about how we need to have a reckoning, etc. But there are other possibilities, the most likely of which is another country was involved along with the CIA. Add JFK secrecy and untouchability to the other really big American thing that is completely untouchable and you probably have something much closer to what really happened, something which may take yet more years before it can even be mentioned, assuming this nation survives it. ABN

Review: Jews and Crime in Medieval Europe

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Jewish scholars have deliberately disregarded some of the source materials I mine in this book, out of fear of its implications for the image of the Jews, and as part of a long tradition of apologetics. Indeed, I was advised by some colleagues not to pursue the subject. Ephraim Shoham-Steiner, 2021.

Thus begins Ephraim Shoham-Steiner’s Jews and Crime in Medieval Europe— a clear and remarkable enunciation of the sanitized, curated, and paranoid nature of Jewish historiography. The above statement illustrates that, while Europeans and their history have long been open to every group libel and accusation, the writing of Jewish history has always been a careful, censored, self-conscious process, designed in large part to portray Jews in a positive light or, at the very least, in such a way as to bleach out all transgressions. Arguably, Jews also engage in such activity as a form of self-deception, leading to a commonplace self-image of innocence and high self-esteem—which in turn fuels higher levels of ethnocentrism. David Sclar, in reviewing Shoham-Steiner’s text for the Jewish Book Council, comments that “con­tem­po­rary Jews do not gen­er­al­ly view their ances­tors as crim­i­nals. Jew­ish mem­o­ry, shaped by images of East­ern Euro­pean shtetls and the wounds of the Holo­caust, con­jures a past filled with meek Jews sur­viv­ing vile accu­sa­tions, cru­saders, and expul­sions.” Jewish historiography is thus less a relating of some historical truths than the presentation of a doctored image of the past. In other words, it is propaganda. Only in rare exceptions, such as Shoham-Steiner’s interesting text, do we get to see behind the curtain, and what we find there is generally disruptive to the image of the Jews we are used to.

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