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PCIntern

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Thu Feb 19, 2026, 09:04 AM Yesterday

The view from 50,000 feet: [View all]

When I was a kid, there were two situations which perplexed me terribly. The first was the assassination of President Kennedy and the second was the nature of the hierarchy in the US space program.

Those of us who watched the aftermath of the assassination knew there was much more complexity to this story than the media and law enforcement was stating. It was clear, even to a ten year old that there was some sort of a coverup just in the manner in which the “facts” were presented, coincidences dismissed, witnesses who were utterly disregarded, and evidence ignored. It was as obvious then as the Trump people are now in this miasma of corrupt lies and felonious behaviors. (As an aside, if you’re a proponent/fan of the Oswald-as-lone-nut theory, may God bless you and keep you.)

Watching the origins of NASA, as someone who lost one entire side of my family in the Holocaust, the fact that these Nazis, who developed the technology, remarkable at the time to launch rockets with explosive warheads into Britain, were heralded as the heroes of our post-war America. Believe me when I tell you that many veterans, especially of the European Theater were not happy about this, but the Space Race with the USSR was of “paramount importance” and we were to let bygones be bygones.

So this was the foundation of my lifelong skepticism and I constantly found myself wondering “how come” individuals and corporations managed to get away with all kinds of stuff which seemed to transcend the “money passed” explanation.

I believe I have my answer. Jeffrey E. Is hardly the first individual who has brokered this horrifying industry of sexual criminality and perversion, but he is the victim, as it were of the Internet Era. In the past, there was no central repository for information or connectivity but with our electronic version of Asimov’s Encyclopedia Galactica, we now have it. And there is one critical truth, at least I believe it to be the truth, which has come out of this, and that is this: We now know that when there is a missing puzzle piece, something which makes little or no sense for being withheld or not-occurring, there is a very good chance that someone or possibly several or even many, are in a photographic or video file which would destroy them if released. A tale as old as time, as the lyric goes….

So remember what seems like an eon ago when Trump, at the Republican Primary debates, abused the other candidates unmercifully and they just stood there with frozen smiles on their faces? They were terrified to open their mouths. I recall sitting there shrieking at Jeb, Marco, Ted, and the rest of them, “What the fuck are you doing just standing there while this lunatic defames you and your families and for Carly Fiorina, that and your looks???” My God, these people weren’t working in a warehouse somewhere, they were governors, senators, president of a multinational corporation. And this swindler con man gets to insult you with no response?

The above I believe, is why. You may extrapolate to everything and everyone else. The fix is in my friends. We shall see what happens with the former Prince Andrew, I’m certain it will be complex.

Thank you for your attention in this matter (sic and sick).

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