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Conspiracy Theory Wednesday – The Cloward-Pevin Strategy

Posted in Conspiracy Theory Wednesday, tagged , , , , , , , on February 17, 2011| 2 Comments »

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Sorry I’m day late but at least not a dollar short ~ Week two in the exploration and exposition of various conspiracy theories held dear by members of the Tea Party movement.  This week there is a link you will have to copy and paste into your browser to read.  I thought about cutting and pasting the entire article for you all but quite frankly it is long, but most definitely interesting and intriguing.  Below is an excerpt to tantalize your interest.

“Why does the Cloward-Pevin conspiracy hold great appeal? And what, if anything, does it accomplish? On one level it’s entertainment. It allows believers to tease out the left’s secrets and sinister patterns. Since none of the evidence that supposedly confirms the existence of the Cloward-Piven strategy is, in fact, secret, this proves rather easy to do, and so the puzzle is both thrilling and gratifying.”

I also love a descriptive list of who makes up Tea Party membership: “… the tea party is an uneasy conclave of Ayn Rand secular libertarians and fundamentalist Christian evangelicals; it contains birthers, Birchers, racists, xenophobes, Ron Paulites, cold warriors, Zionists, constitutionalists, vanilla Republicans looking for a high and militia-style survivalists.”

Take a few minutes and explore the dark regions of a conspiracy at its best!

Roots of The Tea Party’s Conspiracy Mania – CBS News.

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Conspiracy Theory Wednesday – OIL MONEY

Posted in Conspiracy Theory Wednesday, tagged , , , , , , on November 18, 2010| Leave a Comment »

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HAROLDSON LAFAYETTE HUNT in 1963, Dallas was a Mecca for the ultra-right, and H.L. Hunt was their Godfather.  An oil billionaire, Hunt supported right-wing causes such as the John Birch Society, William F.  Buckley’s Young Americans for Freedom (YAF), the political campaigns of Senator Joseph McCarthy, and the tax-exempt “news” organizations Facts Forum and Lifeline.  On Nov. 4, 1063, Hunt’s security chief, an ex-FBI agent, wrote Hunt a memo on “reports of possible violence” during Kennedy’s  upcoming trip.  Hours after the assassination, the FBI told Hunt to go into hiding, and for several weeks provided him with security.  Years later, Hunt’s personal aide alleged Hunt knew of the plot, having unwittingly influenced his right-wing followers to conspire to kill Kennedy.  He added that Hunt had sent him to check on Oswald’s security in police custody.  Though Hunt and Jack Ruby claimed not to know each other, a reliable witness alleged he and Ruby had won a considerable amount of money from Hunt, an inveterate gambler, wagering on football games.  Among Ruby’s effects was the phone number of H. L.’s son, Lamar Hunt, whose offices Ruby visited on November 21, 1963.Another son, Nelson Bunker Hunt, sat on the board of the anti-communist International Committee for the Defense of Christian Culture (led by a former Nazi Abwehr agent) and was a major backer of YAF.  Bunker helped buy an ad (placed by YAF’s future executive secretary) in the Dallas Morning News the day of Kennedy’s visit, portraying the President as a Kremlin dupe.  Texas Senator John Tower, a YAF board member, personally interceded in 1962 with the Immigration and Naturalization Service in the case of – Marina Oswald.

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COUP D’ETAT – TEXAS UBER ALLES

Posted in Conspiracy Theory Wednesday, tagged , , , , , , on October 6, 2010| Leave a Comment »

 

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Well we are now in week 19 of the exploration of a n elaborate conspiracy theory  about the assassination of John F. Kennedy.  The title of this theory is COUP D’ETAT and as we get further into it, the title will ring true. Remember every conspiracy is not a theory!!

GENERAL EDWIN WALKER

The “Wanted for Treason” leaflets posted in Dallas on Nov. 21,1963, were produced by an aide to retired General Edwin Walker, who had been removed from command of the Army’s 24th Division in Munich in 1961 for indoctrinating his troops with fascist propaganda.  In 1962 he was arrested and held in a mental hospital on orders  from Attorney General Robert Kennedy for leading a violent mob that tried to keep black student James Meredith from enrolling at the University of Mississippi.  Walker was visited several times in 1962-3 by Jack Ruby.  He was a leader of the John Birch Society and the Minutemen, a paramilitary group that armed and trained anti-Castro Cubans.  Two of his Cuban  contacts were Carlos Bringuier , a fellow director of the Christian Anti-Communist Youth University, and Felipe Vidal, a member of the anti-Castro terrorist group Alpha 66  who later worked in Oliver North’s illegal Contra aid network.

Walker was on a flight from New Orleans to Dallas when Kennedy’s death was announced.  He told fellow passengers they were his alibi.  The next day he phoned a neo-Nazi newspaper in Munich to report that Oswald had tried to kill him the previous April, predating Marina’s mention of this by 10 days.  Later, he posted a sign by his house reading:  “Cuba: Oswald won, Kennedy lost.”  There is no hard evidence that Oswald shot at Walker, but his name and number were in Oswald’s address book, and Oswald had a photo of his house (in which appears 1957 Chevy, possibly Felipe Vidal’s).  A further link between the two is a roll of film shot in 1963 by an acquaintance of Walker, showing the General in his Dallas home and Oswald handing out pro-Castro leaflets in New Orleans.

You can read this theory from the beginning by clicking on the category, Conspiracy Theory Wednesday.

 

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Conspiracy Theory Wednesday-COUP D’ETAT

Posted in Conspiracy Theory Wednesday, tagged , , , , , , , , on August 25, 2010| Leave a Comment »

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For thirteen (13) weeks we have been unraveling a well-known and much ascribed-to conspiracy theory of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.  As I have said before there isn’t a baby boomer alive who doesn’t know where they were or what they were doing when the horrific news that our young President had been shot and killed.   This time in history was the Generation X’s Challenger explosion and Generation Y’s 9/11 WTC.  I mention this because if you are in the latter two categories and think that this theory doesn’t concern you and it’s ancient history anyway – THINK AGAIN!  This theory known as COUP D’ETAT, because in fact it was engineered by others in the government who sought power, is only an example, a lesson of what could and may have already occurred again.  The question is: Do You Believe Everything the Government Tells You?

CONTROL AGENT II – GUY BANNISTER

In April 1963, Oswald began a bewildering 5-month stay in the city of his youth, New Orleans.  There he started and was the only member of a chapter of the pro-Castro Fair Play for Cuba Committee (FPCC) and began passing  out leaflets at various locations.   On August 9 he was arrested after a street scuffle with anti-Castro activist Carlos Bringuier.  A week later, Oswald and Bringuier were joined in a radio debate by Ed Butler, director of the  CIA-backed information Council of the Americas.  Butler “exposed” Oswald’s Soviet defection, smeared the  FPCC as a Kremlin front, and made a “truth tape” of the debate for distribution in Latin America.  Was Oswald really pro-Castro, or was he an agent-provocateur?

One clue is the address stamped on the back of some of Oswald’s FPCC materials: 544 Camp Street.  Other tenants recall Oswald working in an office on the 2nd floor.  Not only was this the former HQ of the Cuban Revolutionary Council, a CIA-created government-in-exile with which Bringuier was involved, it was the address of Guy Banister Associates, a private detective agency fronting o the CIA’s anti-Castro activities in New Orleans.  Guy Banister former head of the FBI’s Chicago office, with ties to Naval Intelligence dating back to WWII, was a member of the John Birch Society and the paramilitary Minutemen, and published racist materials.  Although his files were confiscated shortly after his 1964 death, index cards were found revealing that the subjects of the files included Ammunition and Arms, the CIA, Anti-Soviet Underground, the Civil Rights Program of Kennedy, the International Trade Mart- and the Fair Play for Cuba Committee.


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