Posted on 02/04/2026 1:29:09 PM PST by CharlesOConnell
My sister saw Gary Cooper in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington as a teenager, so that she became a political junkie.
She watched LBJ's "Gulf of Tonkin" speech live on t.v.; she stated that she could tell he was lying because his knuckles were white clutching the podium.
History records that it was a false flag operation designed to ensure LJB's election in the 1963 Presidential Campaign, as documented in "Flawed Giant: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1961–1973" by Robert Dallek.
This strategy was repeated in Operation Cyanide, the false flag attack upon the U.S.S. Liberty which nearly resulted in the nuking of Cairo with an approximate population of 3.5 to 4 million people, Operation Cyanide designed to ensure LBJ's re-election in 1967, as demonstrably detailed in "Operation Cyanide: Why the Bombing of the USS Liberty Nearly Caused World War III" by Peter Hounam.
This was one of many, historically documented false flag operations designed to ensure an incumbent's election. Nixon manipulated the issue of American POW's in Viet Nam, an assertion presented with the greatest detail and most thorough footnoted documentation in "Kiss the Boys Goodbye: How the United States Betrayed Its Own POWs in Vietnam" by Monika Jensen-Stevenson and William Stevenson.
The most grievous instance was the FDR Administration's foreknowledge of Pearl Harbor as similarly documented in "Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor" by Robert B. Stinnett.
Before the 1933 presidential election, John T. Flynn had been a prominent progressive journalist and financial columnist, writing for liberal publications like The New Republic, Collins Magazine and Harper’s. He was known for his criticism of big business, Wall Street corruption, and militarism, aligning closely with the ideals of the progressive movement. At this stage in his career, Flynn supported government regulation of the economy and was generally sympathetic to reformist causes—positions he would later abandon as he became a leading critic of Roosevelt and the New Deal.
"I'm glad you dug up your constitution, Joe. I can't find ours."
Flynn supported FDR in 1933, when unemployment stood at 11 million; after 4 years of "Alphabet Soup", Federal Governmental Agency expansion (CCC – Civilian Conservation Corps, WPA – Works Progress Administration, and NRA – National Recovery Administration, among many others), unemployment in the 1937 presidential campaign stood at—11 million.
A blabbermouth FDR administration official told Flynn in 1938 not to worry that Roosevelt was suffering political damage, the New Deal would use war as political salvation, focused originally on getting the U.S. involved in the war against Germany, but ultimately against Japan, against the America First sentiments of 80% of the American population (now disparaged in the oligarch controlled media and education as "isolationism").
Now the attack on Iran is on hold because Israel is telling the Administration that, while it can sustain a 700 hypersonic missile attack–the deal is contingent on the strict proviso that the Iranian political leadership must be decapitated, "you don't attack the King unless you can kill him", otherwise, the King will kill you.
In other words, the Israelis are willing to see their whole country devastated, in a repeat of their deliberate targeting of their own people, the co-called Hannibal Option, to sacrifice 100,000s or more of their own people, to take Iran to the guillotine. Likewise Israel and its American partners are potentially willing to sustain an oil price rise to $150–$200 per barrel or higher when the Strait of Hormuz is closed by Iran, as long as the operation can assure a victory in the 2026 mid-terms.
Jimmy Stewart was in that movie.
If you cannot get THAT right, I have to wonder about the rest of the article.
“she refused to rewrite, edit or write another paper for the semester’s assignment. the issue was brought up to the dean and she was summarily expelled.”
Thanks for the story from 1947.
Academic freedom has been a myth for a very long time—in a wide range of topics.
I was very cynical as a student and took the opposite approach.
All my professors had written books on the subject matter they taught. I mastered those books to the point of memorization—and had the exact “correct” answer in class or on quizs/exams.
Students who voiced or wrote valid criticisms of the professors ended up on the “dog list”.
I remember talking with the (usually very bright) students—often they could prove with metaphysical certainty the professor was totally wrong on some topic—and I would just tell them you are a visitor in the professor’s home. Making them look bad is like taking a dump on their living room floor.
Lol.
Let’s see, he has the wrong actor in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, blames Israel for defending itself against the mullahs, buys into a discredited book on Pearl Harbor.
The entire article is assumed bull manure…
That’s on the Iranians. If yhey would be stupid enough to do that.
The USA would not have gotten me to War with Germany likely until 1943, at the earliest, it was hitler’s dumb idea that he could take on the USA that did him in. He declared war on us.
Thank you for this post, I will enjoy pawing through it, but I don’t know if I can afford these books.. KUDOS Sir.
The 2 European Wars messed that we got dragged into. My Great - Grandfather fled Ukraine because Europeans were killing Jews. Then my Grandfather had to go back to Europe and be wounded at the Battle of Britain he Buldge because Europe was as killing Jews again. And now, Iews are threatened in Europe again. EUROPE can rot.
Thank you for your work posting this thread.
It is amazing the resembance between LBJ and a former female leader of Israel. He was never truly an American Patriot, let along a decent man.
Clicking on the link, denies access...reason is, Too many requests.
Should be more concerned about Russia killing tens of thousands of Europeans and wasting tens of thousands of Russian lives in the process.
As for Iran, you have given as good a reason as any ( and there are many) to kick their ass. They are long overdue for it.
Us navy warships are like honey combs. They are hard to sink
outright because they are designed to take damage. Add in a highly trained crew doing damage control and the ship going to the bottom is probably not going to happen.
At Archive.org? Try it later. The whole thing makes for one heck of a thread, representative of the FR of old.
AI is now the editor. Several types of errors.
1) Objective fact errors. Wrong County for correct City, State.
2) Subjective opinion as objective fact. Quoting SPLC as objective fact on what clearly is opinion.
3) Incomplete data. Today Gemini listed the newest candidate for GA Gov, who declared this afternoon and mentioned 2 of the 8 other candidates. But did not mention the 5 other candidates, one of which, Brad Raffensberger, is high profile.
4)..... other types of AI error.
yep
the enemy is inside the gate
The Israelis attacked the USS Liberty so I don’t understand why that is/was called a false flag...If anything had come of it, it would have been the US at war with Israel...
I read it as “Wha-choo talkin’bout, Willis” Gary Coleman.
Good point.
I was going to say the same thing but you did it better.
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