All the reports of rigging --electronic voting machines flipping votes, voters bussed around to vote multiple times, voters casting ballots without showing ID, ballots counted secretly and the counts withheld as long as possible on election night, impaired elderly voters being helped, ballots cast in the name of dead voters, and ballots cast by illegal aliens, all --ALL, without exception, indicated prior to election day that the cheating favored Clinton.

The suggestion, the meme, that cheating favored Trump was issued only after Clinton lost. If you subtract the estimated 3 million illegal alien votes, and 4 million names found on the voter rolls of dead voters, Trump won the real popular vote by a 60-57 margin. This is without even considering vote-flipping et cetera. My estimate would be that, if all these are considered, Trump won the popular vote about 64-53. A Trump landslide.

There is zero chance that the Electoral College will be abolished, because it would require a Constitutional amendment. This would require not only passage by a Republican-controlled Congress but also ratification by 2/3 of the state legislatures. But 2/3 of the state legislatures are at present majority Republican.

In fact, if the Republicans win just one more state legislature, while keeping their current control of the White House, Senate, and House, then the Republicans will be able to pass any Constitutional amendment they please and the Democrats will be powerless to stop them.

Some possibilities for amendments:

--seize all television and Internet media, for redistribution to the individual states. Put ABC, NBC, CBS, NPR, Fox, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon video, and Netflix all out of business.
--mandate the right of Federal election authorities to examine and publish birth, educational, and other public records now under the control of states.
--declare all Federal student loan debt null and void.
--prohibit money from being distributed directly to educational institutions by the Federal government.
--nationalize health care, with a voucher system and no restrictions on choice of provider.
--end H1B visas.
--freeze all immigration.
--revoke the citizenship of all anchor babies going back 20 years and deport them.
--institute mandatory military service.
--repeal all Federal affirmative-action and discrimination laws.
--abolish the Federal Reserve and break up the big banks into separate insurance, investment, commercial banking, and consumer banking companies.
--outlaw option trading and impose a 0.5% tax on all trading transactions, to put an end to high-frequency trading.
--end deficit spending.
--inaugurate a guaranteed minimum personal income.
--abolish Federal taxes on personal income.
--mandate a return to bullion-backed currency.
--end all foreign aid.

As Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff it was Lemnitzer who proposed Operation Northwoods; Kennedy relieved him of his chairmanship for it, citing insubordination, and sent him to Europe to be Supreme Allied Commander of NATO. In that capacity he ran Gladio-style operations, false-flag assassinations of political leaders. French President Charles de Gaulle withdrew French troops from NATO and ordered NATO to move its headquarters from Paris to Brussels during Lemnitzer's command, quite likely because de Gaulle suspected Lemnitzer of a role in the many assassination attempts against him.

It was Lemnitzer who nominated Lansdale to be Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations (including wet ops), and then approved his promotion to Assistant Secretary, from which job Lansdale commanded Operation Mongoose.

Jim Marrs, author of the book Crossfire, on Rense tonight, said a newly discovered print of one of the films of the assassination, he didn't say which one, is uncropped and thus shows a wide view. An apparent rifleman and his muzzle flash can be seen in an upper-floor window of the County Building, he says.

So, the prosecutor had typed it up and, unlike a regular indictment, published it...but had not yet filed it with the court. Mike Mansfield said the Senate was preparing to try it. So, the court had acknowledged the existence of the indictment everybody in the US knew was coming down, and its intent to try it.

So, formally, not yet a case, but still, the whole nation knew it was about to go forward.

Congress couldn't have been too aggressive in its proceedings against Nixon. That was the practical reality of the time. A significant fraction of the electorate had elected Nixon in a landslide and still supported him. And, though J. Edgar Hoover died in 1972, the FBI was still a formidable blackmail machine, with a lot of dirt on key Congressmen.

Not so different from today.

But with one critical difference: if Obama preemptively pardons Hillary, Trump could simply name
an Obama critic, maybe Joe Arpaio, to a post which gives him national security authority to compel the State of Hawaii to hand over the birth certificate. At that point Obama faces firing-squad espionage charges.

So, nope, there will be no preemptive pardon for Hillary.

Here's another fascinating fact which may influence Obama's thinking: if the Democrats lose just one more state legislature, they will lose the power to block the Republicans from passing any ol' Constitutional amendment they please.

Second that. I reply to "How ya doin'?" from cashiers et cetera with "Six feet up and still sucking air."

True. It's a minor quibble at this remove in time. A smidgen of distant history to most people alive today, they weren't even born yet. We might as well be talking about the assassination of William McKinley.

E. Howard Hunt in his deathbed confession indicated that LBJ was at the top of the command structure for the assassination. But LBJ, shrewd cold-blooded killer that he was, did not have experience in planning and carrying out military-precision highly-compartmentalized triangulated-crossfire assassinations.

Neither, actually, did Giancana.

Lemnitzer sure did, though.

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No he can't, according to Obama. Obama claims that he cannot pardon someone (Edward Snowden) against whom no formal legal proceeding has been initiated by a prosecutor.

Against Nixon a case _had_ been initiated; the House of Representatives had voted a bill of impeachment, listing specific charges, which is legally equivalent to the filing of an indictment with a court by a district attorney or special prosecutor.

Nixon resigned before the Senate could exercise its Constitutionally prescribed duty to sit as a court to try the charges.

Odd fact: though I have no connection to the music industry, I've met Eric Clapton twice.

In 1979 he and Muddy Waters hailed the taxi I was driving, off the Edgewater Inn stand, in Seattle. Their scheduled limo had failed to show up and they needed a ride to the airport.

And in 2002 he answered the door at a girl's house I went to visit, I'd prefer not to say where. Told me she'd gone off to attend a sports event.

I guess that if I were the girl, expecting me to show up, but somehow meanwhile I'd bumped into Eric Clapton, and taken him home, I'd have sent him to the front door to offer excuses to me too.

If the pattern holds, when next I meet him, in 2025, I'll remember to get a selfie and an autograph.

And if his guitar is handy, snip a couple of his damn strings

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.

--attributed to Plato

Ever since the Civil War ended slavery, there have been two opposing currents of political thought in the US.

One current is commonly identified with the winning side, the abolitionist side, the North. It holds that the Federal government is the rightful arbiter of morality and supreme seat of power.

The other current is commonly identified with the losing side, the slaveholding side, the South. It holds that the state governments are the rightful arbiters of morality and supreme seats of power, and the Federal government should not raise its hand against state governments.

The ethical dilemma which divides Americans to this day stems from the fact that the so-called "supreme law of the land," the Constitution, was carefully composed to define a Federal government which would remain accountable to the states. Which, ever since the Civil War, it has not been.

The unspoken dogma is that the outcome of the Civil War conferred such moral supremacy on the Federal government as to give it the right to be the supreme lawgiver forever.

On the one hand, obedience to the principle that the same law should apply for everyone means that the law has to be written down and its written form must be honored consistently.

On the other hand, the moral victory of ending slavery through Federal conquest in disregard of the rule of local law, set a powerful precedent. One which the would-be spiritual heirs of the abolitionist victors and the freed slaves continue to advocate for and act based on to this day.

I myself favor defined law over make-it-up-as-you-go do-what-feels-right morality.

But my preference for strict Constitutional law over de facto rule by Federal military conquest doesn't mean I'm a racist, misogynist, or bigot. It just means I prefer that government be locally headquartered and accountable.

Anderson Rabin and Wakeman (the re-formed Yes minus Alan White and of course their late bassist Chris Squire) are playing the Moore Theater in Seattle one week from tonight.

Hello. I'm a native. I live about 70 miles north of Tacoma, near Everett. I used to live in Tacoma, and for two years after my wife died I dated a lady who lived in the University Place suburb of Tacoma.

All the nice girls from good families are travelling to be with family for the Thanksgiving holiday tomorrow. Friday will be the biggest holiday shopping day of the year. Tacoma Mall will be jammed.

As for the weekend, the Pacific Northwest is a beautiful place where people go hiking in summer, skiing in winter, and boating all year round. But outdoor activities are being discouraged this week by the windy, rainy weather.

Tacoma's night life is on and around Pacific Avenue downtown --Indochine is a nice eatery-- --the Sheraton Hotel has a nice bar-- --there's an art museum, but it's nothing to compare with the museums in London. There's a zoo, at Point Defiance, out in Ruston. There's also some nightlife on the waterfront over toward Ruston. But Tacoma is a relatively sleepy town. Seattle is a much more cosmopolitan and lively city than Tacoma.

It is difficult to give more specific advice unless I know what you're after, what sort of place you like to hang out in, what activities you like to do. Heck, I don't even know what religion you are. For all I know, if I suggest a bar, you might be offended!

The weekend nightlife centers in Seattle are the Capitol Hill, Pioneer Square, Fremont, and Ballard neighborhoods. The most avant garde of the four, also where runaways and drifters congregate, is Capitol Hill. Just take a walk up Pike Street during the weekend from about I-5 to Broadway, turn north and walk up Broadway to East Roy Street and you'll see what I mean (Seattle is an interesting city to walk around in, practically anywhere). The hotels downtown have the best bars but you are less likely to meet locals there.

The Pike Place Market is a traditional tourist destination with a lively vibe.

The Space Needle has a spectacular view, but the view from the 75th (I think) floor observatory of Columbia Tower is better. There's a $9 admission charge. There is also a Starbucks on the 40th floor with a pretty nice view and it's free.

If you go to the Space Needle, just east of it is the MoPoP, Museum of Popular Culture, formerly known as the Experience Music Project, with a permanent Jimi Hendrix collection.

There's an Imax theater just west of the Needle.

The traditionally black area of Seattle is the southeastern quarter of the city along Rainier Avenue. 38 years ago when I was driving taxi I would not pick up fares there. About 15 years ago a light rail transport system was installed and that whole giant ghetto became transformed, boutiquified, and now it's trendy. Park yourself on a bar stool in Daniel's Broiler on Lake Washington Boulevard and you may meet some interesting company.

I hope this helps.

Lemnitzer's curriculum vitae is highly suggestive. He had the necessary experience in organizing "wet ops," he had Mafia connections in Italy including Sicily itself, and he's the guy who hired Lansdale to run Operation Mongoose. Read this:
http://www.progressivepress.com/blog-entry/50-years-after-jfk-murder-finger-finally-points-pentagon-chief-lemnitzer

The operation to assassinate Castro, Operation 40, was repurposed after the Bay of Pigs to instead hit Kennedy.

Gambino had gambling interests in pre-Castro Cuba, in partnership with Meyer Lansky. Therefore had reason to hate Kennedy for supplying insufficient support for the Bay of Pigs invasion.

James Files, who has confessed that he fired the fatal shot from the grassy knoll, worked for Charles "Chuckie" Nicoletti, an underling of Sam Giancana.

Jim Marrs, in the radio program I cite above, speaks of a letter removed from the Dallas police files by the FBI, but seen and noted by several credible witnesses before its removal. The letter warns of a plot to assassinate JFK in Chicago. Giancana's city.

An unauthorized attempted hit in Chicago previous to the successful Dallas attempt, might at least partly explain why Giancana met his death the way he did.

As for Trafficante, note paragraph three of this article:
https://www.maryferrell.org/pages/Santos_Trafficante_-_It_Should_Have_Been_Bobby.html

I know that Zapata Oil and other offshore oil companies benefitted from side contracts to spy on Cuba and Russia. But Clint Murtchison's company was primarily an onshore gas pipeline company. Onshore oil companies in western Texas, Oklahoma, and elsewhere had no capability to spy on Cuba and Russia, thus JFK would have cost them an enormous amount of money.

When I say "Illuminati" I am not talking about the 18th-Century anti-Catholic southern Bavarian organization of Adam Weishaupt, rather about the Rothschild Khazarian banking mafia which governs the City of London and schedules meetings every year at Davos, Switzerland and at the annual Bilderberg conference, both of which are closed to the press.

Agreed, LBJ was the kingpin, along with his next door neighbor J. Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI, who collaborated in the coverup.

But Bush, Nixon, Dulles, Giancana, Ben Gurion, Hunt, Sturgis, Murtchison, Lansdale, Lemnitzer, Files, Ford, and many others were all in on it.

They didn't kill him because he was a monumental F**k up. Rather, powerful enemies had each their own motive to kill him, and they proceeded to combine forces to do it. And then to cover it up to this day:

1. The Billy Sol Estes investigation threatened to criminally implicate LBJ.

2. Robert Kennedy was preparing to bring Federal prosecutions against the Mafia, specifically the Sam Giancana crime family, in violation of Joe Kennedy's promise to it that, in exchange for delivering the 1960 Illinois vote fraudulently to Kennedy, Kennedy would lay off the Mafia during his presidency. (Yes, it really is true, Kennedy stole the election from Nixon).

3. Many Cubans in exile, and soldiers of fortune sympathetic to the Cuban exiles, were angry at JFK for denying air support to the CIA's failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba.

4. Allen Dulles held a personal grudge for having been fired by JFK from his post as CIA Director for having lied to him about the Bay of Pigs invasion.

5. Admiral Lymen Lemnitzer held a personal grudge against JFK, who fired him from his post as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for insubordination over Operation Northwoods.

6. The government of Israel disliked JFK's insistence that the Dimona nuke plant be opened for inspection so that Israel would not get the bomb.

7. Texas oil men were angry at his proposal to eliminate the oil depletion allowance.

8. The world's international banks hated him for issuing Executive Order 11110 calling for $4 billion in paper currency backed by silver to be issued, in direct competition with Federal Reserve Notes, in an attempt to break the power over the US economy of the Federal Reserve.

9. He had begun to warn the world of the existence of what today is called the Illuminati, the Cabal, the globalists, in his famous speech of April 27, 1961.

Of course the new Johnson Administration high-fived and hurried back to work in their offices across the Potomac after his funeral in Arlington National Cemetery. To set to work reversing everything he had done. To overturn the Sol Estes conviction, to remove Robert Kennedy as Attorney General, to resume covert operations against Fidel Castro, to drastically expand the Vietnam War, to allow Israel to get the bomb, to reauthorize the oil depletion allowance, to withdraw Kennedy's silver-backed currency from circulation, and to begin deriding anybody who studied the globalists as a "conspiracy theorist."

Ah, I forgot: the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which stopped atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons by the US and the Soviet Union, was Kennedy's accomplishment too.

True, a womanizer. Not a saint. But, as someone once said, when you're very rich they make it easy, they let you be direct in your approach, or something like that.

A truly great man, his life cut short by the evil powers that be. Every person now alive, owes him a debt of gratitude.

"It is not necessary to bury the truth. It is sufficient merely to delay it until nobody cares." --Napoleon

One of the states this organization, SIIP, claims the Republicans committed suppression against minority voters in, is North Carolina.

The North Carolina Democratic Party is now attempting to prevent a recount in the very close gubernatorial election there, where the putative loser is the Republican incumbent, Pat McCrory.

A recount would of course entail a close examination of the ballots. This may supply telltale clues as to whether SIIP's allegations have merit or not.

Oswald had nothing to do with it, except to be set up as the patsy. There is evidence that Oswald acted to thwart an earlier assassination attempt in Chicago, had foreknowledge of the Dallas assassination plan, and attempted to communicate the Dallas danger beforehand to several contacts including Robert Kennedy.

LBJ met the previous night with the conspirators, and from the White House coordinated the subsequent cover-up.

I was only five years old when JFK took office and eight when he was killed, but I was intellectually precocious and still remember the wonderful mood of the neighborhood and at school while he was President. The liberals' current sadness over Hillary's loss is a very faint echo of the worldwide grief at his death. That grief was felt not by just half the US but rather across the planet.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was drafted by the Kennedy Administration. His actions during the Cuban Missile Crisis saved the world from nuclear war. His tax and trade policies unleashed the economic boom of the 1960's. He inaugurated the ambitious space program, America's pride and primary science driver for the next decade. He had plans to withdraw from Vietnam as soon as safely re-elected. And he openly challenged the monetary monopoly of the Federal Reserve with Executive Order 11110. "Mediocre at best?" Sir, I would beg to differ. He was the greatest President of my lifetime.

This document substantiates that there was a man named George Bush in the CIA on November 23, 1963:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bush_Sr,_JFK_-_J_Edgar_Hoover_memo_2.jpg

This article goes into more detail and includes the photograph which appears to show George H.W. Bush standing near the front entrance of the Texas School Book Depository:
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/05/01/did-george-h-w-bush-coordinate-a-jfk-hit-team/

I suggest you acquaint yourself with the pioneering work in reverse speech analysis, by David John Oates.

And then, listen to this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGRpN1zJ-Ks
wherein Mr. Rense presents two shows combining:
--the foremost author on the JFK assassination, Jim Marrs;
--David John Oates;
--and famous remote viewers Dick Allgire and Courtney Brown.

Their combined research is absolutely conclusive.

Three problems with focussing the prosecutorial proceedings on Hillary:

One, daughter Chelsea is BFF's with daughter Ivanka.

Two, Hillary may very well die of natural causes before a verdict can be rendered. This would abruptly end prosecution and create a martyr.

Three, people in possession of knowledge or evidence against the Clintons have an uncanny history of ending up dead in mysterious circumstances before they can testify.

My guess is, President Trump will instruct Attorney General Sessions to wage a carefully coordinated phalanx of prosecutions against all the individuals around Hillary, including both the DNC and individual members of Congress.

This strategy minimizes the risk of being derailed by the demise of any single individual.

No doubt we will see the contents of both Hillary's and Anthony Weiner's computers leaked out at a pace calculated to inflict the hellish tortures of anticipative fear on the guilty, and wreak maximum annihilative devastation on the reputation of the Democratic Party as a whole.

The phrase "soul mate" was in use in Seattle in the late 1960's to mean a couple who stay together because, though not alike, they are complementary to each other. As opposed to the only other kind of couplehood which lasts, according to the prevailing wisdom of the time, which is when the partners are "twin rays," meaning, they are very much like each other (same age, background, tastes, aspirations, talents et cetera).