It is with heavy heart and no small amount of hand-wringing that I am announcing my departure from Piece of Mindful. I will henceforth be blogging at CuttingThroughTheFog.com. My decision does not stem from any ill will towards Mark or anybody else here. Everyone has been nothing but gracious and supportive towards me, so I have nothing to complain about. I like this little community, and I intend to remain active here in comments (time permitting). At the end of the day, the problem is that I’m a control freak, and I simply don’t feel in control here. So I decided to start my own blog. In other words, PoM, “it’s not about you, it’s about me.”

I invite all of you to come check out my first post, “Shattered by Choice” and to subscribe to the blog. I expect I’ll be posting infrequently, but I hope that when I do write something you will find it worth reading.

[Edit: this is not an April Fool’s joke.]

 Oswald the Damned

Once you get past the suffocating and contradictory details of Dealey plaza, the largest amount of time lost is in chasing the elusive character known as Lee Harvey Oswald; it should not surprise you that this fictional creation is named after a cartoon rabbit.

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Praetorian Guard- The Dallas Police Force

Along with the Secret Service, the Dallas motorcycle cops escorting the President were ordered to remain behind and to the side of the limousine so as not to obstruct the public’s view of the President and First Lady. Like the leashed in Secret Service agents, the trailing motorcycle cops gave the shooters an unobstructed view of their target. Again, the opportunity was seized upon to blame the President for his own death. Kennedy’s detractors in the postmortem literature have kept up this barrage.

Kennedy’s apparent reckless disregard for his safety echoed these detractors’ assertions: that the commie loving traitor had a total disregard for the safety of the nation, to which these claims invariably implied America didn’t lose much with Kennedy’s murder and almost subconsciously suggested a vote of thanks to the assassins for getting rid of such a dangerous peacenik.

Continue reading “JFKTV: Segment Five” →

Praetorian Guard- The Secret Service

In the literature dealing with the actions and inactions of the Secret Service, the man most cited as suspicious is shift commander Emory Roberts, the man leading the team of agents in the car directly behind the Presidential limousine. In video footage from Love Field he is shown telling agent Henry Rybka to stand down from his perch on the running board behind Kennedy. Rybka dutifully but frustratingly complies and is summarily ordered to remain at Love Field. This interaction might suggest that some of the Secret Service were not in on the hoax as it unfolded, but it is just as likely that this apparent “innocent” named Rybka was the decoy to lay the blame on the President when postmortem legends were dispersed that JFK had ordered the Secret Service not to get so close as to block the view of the crowd. Continue reading “JFKTV: Segment Four” →

One thing that has become very clear to me in the last few months is that TPTB have dialed the smoke machines up to 11 trying to blanket us in a thick fog of misdirection and disinfo. It’s just an intensification of what they’ve been doing for a long time. I came across this article from cracked.com on “5 Ways to Stay Sane in an Era of Non-Stop Outrage.” It sounded like click-bait but actually offered some surprisingly sound advice. What caught my eye, though, was the advice to “Understand the ‘Firehose of Falsehoods.'” What’s that? Continue reading “Firehose of Propaganda” →