Well, it's Obama as alpha male of the US. He has the office but not the power.

[Myra Bronstein]

Guys and gals: And welcome Mark, nice to see you here. But as I said on another thread I believe Obama KNOWS all about the powers behind the curtain. I think he learned a LOT from his former pastor. I just returned from a child protective services mediation and the family mambers- all afro Americans- know the truth about JFK, MKL. So if these young not very educated people know (late 30's) don't you think Obama did some studying before he even ran? His wife was afraid. Michelle clearly knows in my opinion.
So he will have to walk a delicate line to try to accomplish all that he wants to accomplish without getting himself assassinated.
Like Peter I'd have perferred Cynthia (who is one of us!!) or Nadar, but we are a long way from a true chance of a 3rd party winning. In '76 it gave the election to Ray- gun and in '92 it gave the election to Clinton.

I just hope the up the number of secret services and that they truly do thier jobs this time. We don't want another Dallas. But we know that if the bastards decide to take him out it will be a plane crash --(like JFK Jr)- or an untraceable heart attack or cancer like Ruby....WE will know...
Or another Dallas. In our face like JFK.
The best we can hope for is that he surrounds himself with advisors who know true history.
Dawn

Ya know that's an excellent point Dawn. It's been apparent to me for years that many African Americans know the dark secrets, the deep politics. I mainly learned them after the advent of the internet.

I'm not just assuming Obama knows some dark secrets, he tipped us off in his famous race speech when he acknowledged that many AAs believe that AIDS was introduced into the population for the purpose of black genocide. I've heard that from black contacts since 1990. When I first heard it I thought it was incredible. I now find it quite credible.

I think that whites have long been perceived by AAs as saddly naive. And that perception is based on the fact that whites were naive. Thus episodes like the OJ verdict, which shocked whites but was likely based on the fact that AA's were victimized in the shadows by corrupt law enforcement for decades, so of course they didn't trust the racist cop who testified.

Well thanks to the internet we've all seen countless YouTube videos of corrupt and violent cops. We've seen videos of street protests, people exercising the first amendment rights they thought they had, being maced and tazed and arrested for no legit reason. It think many whites are now much less naive.

From what little I've seen of Rev Wright he seems to know the dark secrets of his country. From what little I know of President-Elect Obama, he has learned much from Rev Wright. I hope this knowledge serves President Obama well.

[Jack White]

AIDS was invented by the CIA at Fort Detrick MD, along with other diseases. It was introduced into Africa in the guise of malaria shots by racist eugenics radicals, and in San Francisco among homosexual men by homophobes, and among drug users in various cities who thought them cheap subjects easily
controlled and studied.

Jack

[Peter Lemkin]

Please do take the time to watch the very interesting debate on Obama on Democracy Now today - an international perspective and discussion by some sane and progressive minds. http://www.democracynow.org/2008/11/6/stream

[David Guyatt]

I like Obama's smile.

White glowing teeth and so cool with crinkly smiling eyes.

He's just what the nation needs to happily (but with understandable reserve) defray a multi-trillion dollar bitter cup.

Yours cynically

Barack Guyatt
(fusion candidate for 2012).

[Linda Minor]

AIDS was invented by the CIA at Fort Detrick MD, along with other diseases. It was introduced into Africa in the guise of malaria shots by racist eugenics radicals, and in San Francisco among homosexual men by homophobes, and among drug users in various cities who thought them cheap subjects easily
controlled and studied.

Jack

Jack,
Have you read the book by Ed Haslam--Dr. Mary's Monkey? It might change your conclusions somewhat.

Another Trine Day publication:
http://www.themonkeyvirus.com/

[Dawn Meredith]

Jack,
Have you read the book by Ed Haslam--Dr. Mary's Monkey? It might change your conclusions somewhat.

Another Trine Day publication:
http://www.themonkeyvirus.com/

Gosh Linda I am so jealous that you are able to retire and READ. That book has been on my must read list now for years.
What is you opinion -if any- of the veracity of LHO's alleged girlfriend, who worked with (murdered) Dr. Mary Sherman and others in NO on this project? (Her name escapes me at the moment, I know the second I post this it will hit me
Dawn

[Jack White]

Jack,
Have you read the book by Ed Haslam--Dr. Mary's Monkey? It might change your conclusions somewhat.

Another Trine Day publication:
http://www.themonkeyvirus.com/

Yes, I have read the original, but not the reissue which features Judyth Baker. I have reservations about the book, because so much of it reads like disinformation to me. This seems to be especially true since he later included the Judyth story, which is wholly-hokum. But even disinformation books often have nuggets of good information in them.

Jack

[Linda Minor]

Gosh Linda I am so jealous that you are able to retire and READ. That book has been on my must read list now for years.
What is you opinion -if any- of the veracity of LHO's alleged girlfriend, who worked with (murdered) Dr. Mary Sherman and others in NO on this project? (Her name escapes me at the moment, I know the second I post this it will hit me
Dawn

I found Judyth's book fascinating and quite credible. I had read Haslam's Ferrie, Mary and the Monkey Virus years ago, before anyone heard of Mary Vary Baker. Then I read the updated edition, which is much better. There were changes made in addition to the additional chapter which enlighten the reader as to Haslam's long-term interest in the monkey research that went on at Tulane.

In my opinion, there was a connection between certain universities in the South that were struggling to build up research facilities for decades--beginning at about the same time that Wilson became president--while at the same time selling medical services to anti-Communist dictators in various Central and South American countries. There seems to have been both a legitimate research group as well as some type of off-the-books network. Vary was hired to work on the legitimate project but says she met Oswald accidentally at the Post Office and was introduced to others in the black network and was therefore allowed to remain there for the summer.

Oswald never told her what intelligence group he was with which had loaned him to the CIA, but while she was working with Ferrie and Dr. Sherman on developing a cancer virus that could be used to kill Castro, she did learn that Oswald was being sent to Mexico, hoping to find a way to get the virus into the hands of someone who could have Castro injected with it.

Both she and Haslam attempted to explain how the cancer virus they were developing in Ferrie's apartment became tainted with one or more other monkey viruses then unknown, which seem to be identified with HIV/AIDS.

It's been well more than a year since I read either book, so I may have some of the facts skewed, but will be happy to look it up if anyone isn't already familiar with this story.

[Jack White]

Linda...Very credible researchers who have studied Judyth's tale
for over a year have found it to be as full of holes as Swiss cheese.
She is believed to have a medical form of "Munchausen by Proxy"
syndrome in which the patient suffers from a psychological need
to insert oneself into historical situations. Remember ANASTASIA of
Russia, and all of the women who sincerely believed that they were
the real Anastasia?

There is little doubt that Tulane, Dr. Oschner and maybe Mary Sherman
were likely working on covert medical projects. The Judyth fiction perhaps
was introduced into the revised edition to DISCREDIT good information
that had been disclosed in the original version.

Also consider that LHO was being very strictly controlled by his CIA
handlers for a specific project. It is highly unlikely that they would
have allowed his use in OTHER projects.

Jack

[Linda Minor]

Linda...Very credible researchers who have studied Judyth's tale
for over a year have found it to be as full of holes as Swiss cheese.
She is believed to have a medical form of "Munchausen by Proxy"
syndrome in which the patient suffers from a psychological need
to insert oneself into historical situations. Remember ANASTASIA of
Russia, and all of the women who sincerely believed that they were
the real Anastasia?

There is little doubt that Tulane, Dr. Oschner and maybe Mary Sherman
were likely working on covert medical projects. The Judyth fiction perhaps
was introduced into the revised edition to DISCREDIT good information
that had been disclosed in the original version.

Also consider that LHO was being very strictly controlled by his CIA
handlers for a specific project. It is highly unlikely that they would
have allowed his use in OTHER projects.

Jack

Thank you for your opinion. Mine is quite different.