I have always thought that My Funny Valentine, by Rogers and Hart from 1937, is one of the most emotional songs ever written.  And it is difficult to sing too because it has a wide range. I know I couldn't sing it. I don't have the voice for it.  And that's why I was very pleased when my good friend Karen Mitchell agreed to do it, as a favor, especially since this is my own piano arrangement. And I think Karen did it; she captured the feeling of the song. So, thank you, Karen. And to everyone, please give it a listen. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5b213kdcYM&feature=youtu.be

The Nazi Connection to the JFK Assassination

by Ralph C. Cinque

Everyone knows about Michael Paine, the man who was separated from Ruth Paine, but who, like a good father, still supported her and their two children. But then, she decided to be generous and take on a pregnant woman and her daughter (Marina and June Oswald) and since he was the only source of income for that household, it became his generosity. And Oswald himself was there too on weekends, eating the food, running the water, etc., and Diamond Mike didn't mind a bit. The more the merrier; What a guy. 

And it played mightily in the story. Remember, I'm a filmmaker now, and the Paine house was a "location" in the JFK assassination "shoot" (pun intended). That house was the way Oswald was linked to the murder weapon - some clever writing.  

But, Michael Paine worked at Bell Helicopter directly under Walter Dornberger, and do you know who he was? He was a Nazi.  He came over here by way of Operation Paperclip, the brainchild of Allen Dulles. 

You see, Dulles spent the war in Switzerland, a neutral country, and there, he mixed and mingled with Nazis all the time; went to the parties with them, etc. And at the war's end, he kept a lot of them out of Nuremberg.  And you know what happened at Nuremberg; Nazis were tried and convicted of war crimes. 10 of them were executed by short-drop hanging- which is not an easy way to go. It would have been 11, but Hermann Goring clamped down on a potassium cyanide capsule the night before.  

Other Nazis were sentenced to prison, but not many. But, 1600 of them were given a pass. It was accepted that they knew nothing about the death camps, including the head of German Intelligence, Reinhard Gehlen. My friend Craig Roberts researched it, and he claims that the actual number was well over 2000. 

The largest group of Nazis who were brought over here and given new lives and careers were their rocket scientists, such as Walter Dornberger. But, do you know what the second-largest group was? It was their chemical weapons people. 

The Nazis were big on chemical weapons. They didn't actually use any in World War 2, and that's a mystery. But, they developed sarin, toban, and soman- all nerve agents and among the worst. So, Dulles brought them over here and set them up in a lab so that they could teach us how to make the stuff, which we did, to the tune of thousands of metric tons that we stockpiled. Hmmm. Just think: we attacked Iraq because Saddam supposedly had weapons of  mass production, while we, ourselves, held the largest stockpile in the world.  We also had the distinction of being the only country in the world to use a nuclear weapon. Twice. But, I digress. 

So, they created a place in Maryland for these Nazi scientists to work and called it Edgewood Arsenal. There, they did experiments on human beings, exposing them to chemical weapons, and studying the effects: soldiers, prisoners, mental patients. They also did experiments on psychochemical warfare, and a big one in that domain was LSD, which became very big in the MK-ULTRA mind control program, which was also Dulles' brainchild. 

And then in 1975, the Church Committee discovered the existence of the CIA heart attack gun, which would deliver a frozen missile containing a drug that would mimic a heart attack. But, they also had a missile that delivered a nerve agent, and the effect of these nerve agents is to interfere with the process by which muscle contractions are abated. For some nerve agents, "a lethal dose via skin absorption may be as minuscule as a few droplets." 

It is my opinion that the weird muscle contractions exhibited by JFK in the Zapruder film are the result of a nerve agent. He was really not in control of himself. The proper term for this is dyskinesia. 

I think the odds are great that the R&D to weaponize these Nazi nerve agents was done by the Nazi scientists that Allen Dulles brought over in Operation Paperclip. Who else? And why even try to get anyone else?  The spasticity seen here is definitely pathological, and it is the effect of poisoning. The reason the back missile only penetrated an inch into JFK's back is because it wasn't a bullet, nor was it from a high-powered rifle. It was literally a "frozen dart " that was designed to burst on entry and feel like nothing more than a mosquito bite. And that's from testimony at the Church hearing in 1975. That shot hit Kennedy high on the hill, much earlier than claimed, and it worked fast to immobilize him, which was the purpose of the shot. Whether it was the same drug or another drug, there had to be something to disable him mentally as well, because JFK is obviously mentally out of it in the Zapruder film. He is not himself. He is extremely blunted mentally and really quite gone. And that cannot be explained by a trivial wound in his back. It's very likely that Nazi scientists came up with the means to do this to him. 

With the ink not yet dry yet on the peace deal, and just hours after Trump's "very good talk" with Baradar, the U.S. struck the Taliban militarily. This was after the Taliban unleashed multiple attacks on the Afghan government. But, they said all along that their peace deal with us had no bearing on their war with the Afghan government, which would continue. They have not been ambiguous about that. 

The 1 1/2 years of negotiations with the Taliban have been a  colossal failure. The 19 years of war have been a colossal failure. And it's amazing that Esper would spin it into a success. He says the proof of success is that there have been no subsequent 9/11 attacks on U.S. soil. 

There's a joke that goes: an old man is riding on a London train, and he is crumpling up pieces of paper and throwing them out the window. Another rider sees him doing it and asks him why he's doing it, and the old man says "it's to keep the elephants away." The other rider points out, "But, there are no elephants," and the old man says, 'I know. It really works, doesn't it?"

Esper is like the old man. The Taliban has never admitted to having any involvement in 9/11, and they have always denied having any involvement. And it makes no sense that they would have had any involvement.  How would it have helped them? Do you really think they would have done that just for the satisfaction of killing Americans? Their interest has always been Afghanistan. Even in 2001, they were at war. They were fighting the "Northern Alliance." And no doubt, the Northern Alliance was getting help from us. But despite that, the Taliban had nothing to gain and everything to lose by attacking us. And they surely knew it. People do things out of self-interest, and it was not in their self-interest to attack us. And if Esper really thinks the Taliban was involved in 9/11, then it really is a disgrace what he and Trump have done. But of course, the Taliban had nothing to do with 9/11. The towers were imploded. 9/11 was an inside job. Both Esper and TIME and everyone else in government and media keep chanting the false and preposterous 9/11 narrative.  And, it does seem that 911 was done primarily to justify launching a war against the Taliban.  In the short term, that was the main objective. But, it was an atrocity built upon an atrocity. The magnitude of the evil involved in all this is unspeakable. And "unspeakable" is the right word because words can't describe the monstrousness of it all.  

I feel happy tonight because of some information I received, unofficially, about a future award that My Stretch of Texas Ground will be getting. The success the film is having at the festivals is incredible. On the one hand, I realize it is a very controversial movie- and to the extreme, especially for today. Hollywood used to make controversial movies, but not any more. For instance, there was The Deer Hunter and Coming Home; both were anti-war movies, Did you know that in Little Big Man starring Dustin Hoffman that for the raid on his Native American encampment, which gets mercilessly savaged by the Cavalry, that they got Vietnamese actors to play the parts of the natives in order to send a message? 

And, the ironic fact is that one of the very first talking movies was an anti-war movie. I am referring to All Quiet On The Western Front, starring Lew Ayres, from 1930, which was an American movie about three German soldiers in World War 1 who experience the horror, inhumanity, and gruesome deaths of that war. I don't compare my movie to it qualitatively, but I do compare it inspirationally.

And the truth is, there is really nothing controversial about My Stretch of Texas Ground because, at heart, what it does is mourn the loss of human lives. It points to the fact that  "hundreds of thousands and more" have died in the post-9/11 wars, which is not in dispute. So, what is so controversial about mourning the deaths of men, women, and children? And for the record, I mourn for the Americans killed in these wars as much as anyone else. I am very affected by it, and that's why every time the film gets some recognition, I am moved. 

Please take a look at this. It is the menu page for the upcoming DVD of the film. There will be three choices: to watch the movie, to watch the trailer, and to watch a 15 minute commentary by yours truly. I think it's a great shot of Jeff Weber, Christian Stokes, and Jeremy Stein. And,  I think this scene is the most creative writing I did. The objective of the scene was simply to introduce Butch and Nelson, Joe's deputies, but I wanted to convey that they were more than his deputies, that they were his friends, and they really were more like brothers to him. 

So, how could I do that without being obvious about it and  "on the nose"? And then it hit me: I'll have one of them be insolent to Joe, right to his face, and get away with it.  If that doesn't convey brotherhood, what does?

They finally released the terms of the peace deal, and it's just what I thought.  

All U.S. troops to leave Afghanistan in 14 months if Taliban meets commitments of peace deal signed today

So, apparently, they spent a year and a half thinking they could convince the Taliban to accept some U.S. troops in that country. I'm glad they finally got it that they all have to leave. 

But now, the question is: how long will it take them to realize that Ghani has to step down? The Taliban will NEVER accept him as President. He is the face of puppetry to them. Maybe there is someone who is acceptable to both them and us to lead the country, but it definitely isn't Ghani. 

We're not going to let this deal fall apart by insisting on keeping Ghani in power, are we? Tell me we're not going to do that.  

I am very pleased that My Stretch of Texas Ground has won 3 awards at the Creation International Film Festival in Los Angeles. Junes Zahdi has won for Best Actor; Brian Villalobos has won for Best Supporting Actor; and director Erich Kemp and I have won for Best Crime Drama.

It's ironic to me receiving these awards today, on the threshold of the signing of a peace agreement between the U.S. and the Taliban in Afghanistan, since that war features so prominently in the film. After 19 years of hellish war, please may that agreement hold and last.

Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai, the first to follow the U.S. invasion in 2001, who is still the most widely recognized face from Afghanistan, has issued a statement welcoming the peace prospects that are now looming but also chastising the U.S. for killing so many Afghans. 

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/w/former-afghan-leader-hits-out-at-us-for-bringing-immense-suffering-to-the-people

However, there is something that is going unstated and ignored, and that is that the U.S. and Afghan governments assume that the Taliban is now going to work with Ghani, the current President, while they have said all along that he is a puppet, and they will not work with him or even talk to him. Here is a candid article about it that skips the syrupy hoopla. The fact is that Taliban has agreed to talks with other Afghans, including ones from the current government, but not in their capacity as government officials, and they reserve the right to exclude any individuals whom they oppose. 

https://thediplomat.com/2020/02/the-rocky-road-from-doha-to-intra-afghan-talks/


So, what happens if after the treaty is signed with the U.S. that the Taliban says that Ghani can't come to the talks? I'm sure the U.S. hopes to butter-up the Taliban with promises of lots of money, but still, the chance that they are going to accept Ghani as the ongoing President of Afghanistan, I rate at zero. 

But, there is a bigger issue that is also being completely, totally ignored by everybody, that is, we would not be doing this at all, making peace with them, if we really believed that the Taliban was involved in attacking the U.S. on 9/11. WE KNOW DAMN WELL THAT THEY HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT, and that's why we're doing what we're doing. And that makes our entire war against them completely and totally illegitimate.