This is part three of six of “Evidence of Revision,” an eight-hour video collection which covers many a taboo subject in American history including the assassinations of JFK, RFK and MLK, the causes of the Vietnam war, the social uprisings of the 1960s and ’70s, the Jonestown massacre, government mind control programs such as MKULTRA, and vote rigging and political corruption at the highest levels. Coming on the heels of part two’s in-depth discussion of the corruption of the Johnson administration, this installment shifts the focus onto the blackmailing of FBI head J. Edgar Hoover, who for years denied the existence of organized crime, and then returns to LBJ’s possible connections to the JFK assassination. Attorney General Robert Kennedy, the President’s brother, made it clear that it was his ambition to relentlessly pursue the mafia and found no friend at all in Hoover in this. Perhaps we can find some insight in Hoover’s statement that “Justice is merely incidental to law and order. Law and order is what covers the whole picture.” [END] Permalink: Evidence of Revision 3: LBJ, Hoover and Others
On October 27, 2007, then-U. S. Presidential hopeful Barack Hussein Obama promised American voters that, if elected, he would end the war in Iraq. Today, Obama has been President for a year and a half, the war in Iraq has continued, the war in Afghanistan has been escalated severalfold and the chatter about invading Iran over its supposed nuclear bomb program is at its peak. Transcript of Obama’s promise: “I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am President, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home; we will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank.” [END] Permalink: Barack Obama’s Presidential Campaign Promise to End the War in Iraq