"But it was not until 1967, when Jim Garrison burst upon the scene, that an inner circle of the French government, including de Gaulle and his secret service chief, Andre Ducret, made a move. The first overt act came in the form of a phone call from New York to Garrison. The caller identified himself as a representative of Frontiers Publishing Company of Geneva, Switzerland. He said that his firm had an important work in progress [Farewell America] on the Kennedy assassination which would soon be published in Europe [in French as L'Amerique Brule], and wondered if Mr. Garrison would be interested in taking a look. It was like dangling a carrot in front of a rabbit."
William Turner, Farewell America: How French Intelligence Wrote a Book about the Kennedy Assassination, February 13, 1984
“What happened to Kennedy is what nearly happened to me. His story is the same as mine. It looks like a cowboy story, but it’s only an OAS [Organisation armée secrète tried to assassinate de Gaulle 22 August 1962] story. The security forces were in cahoots with the extremists. All of them together will observe the law of silence. They will close ranks. They’ll do everything to stifle any scandal. They don’t want to know. They won’t allow themselves to find out.”
Charles de Gaulle, President of France, to Alain Peyrefitte, 1963
"It is so important to understand that one of the
primary means of immobilizing the American
people politically today is to hold them in a state
of confusion in which anything can be believed
but nothing can be known, nothing of significance
that is.
And the American people are more than
willing to be held in this state because to know the
truth - as opposed to only believe the truth - is
to face an awful terror and to be no longer able to
evade responsibility."
E. Martin Schotz, History Will Not Absolve Us, 1996
“The Unspeakable is a term Thomas Merton coined at the heart of the sixties after JFK’s assassination—in the midst of the escalating Vietnam War, the nuclear arms race, and the further assassinations of Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, and Robert Kennedy. In each of those soul-shaking events Merton sensed an evil whose depth and deceit seemed to go beyond the capacity of words to describe.
What is unrecognized about JFK's presidency, which then makes his assassination a false mystery, is that he was locked in a struggle with his national security state. That state had higher values than obedience to the orders of a president who wanted peace.
It’s unbelievable—or we’re supposed to think it is—that a president was murdered by our own government agencies because he was seeking a more stable peace than relying on nuclear weapons. It’s unspeakable. For the sake of a nation that must always be preparing for war, that story must not be told. If it were, we might learn that peace is possible without making war.
These brass hats have one great advantage in their favor. If we listen to them, and do what they want us to do, none of us will be alive later to tell them that they were wrong.
When we become more deeply human, as Merton understood the process, the wellspring of our compassion moves us to confront the Unspeakable. There is nothing so threatening to systemic evil as those willing to stand against it regardless of the consequences."
James W. Douglass, JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters
"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers, against the rulers of the darkness in this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places."
Ephesians 6:12
Stocks shook off the interest rate blues and swung hard into rally mode today.
Of course the VIX fell.
The Dollar fell as well.
Gold and silver were in rally mode after the recent, protracted decline that culminated on the stock option expiration last Friday.
What a surprise.
Comex metals option expiration next Monday the 28th.
The Fed will be meeting again tomorrow.
This November 22 will be the 60th anniversary of the murder of the US president John F. Kennedy.
I have been watching quite a few documentaries and reading articles to bring myself back up to date on how the body of knowledge around this even has progressed in the past 20 years.
I am watching far more video and documentaries on demand, and reading these days, than I spend watching network television.
I think it's a positive development
Have a pleasant evening.
