The mention of the Trilateral Commission or the CFR would brand you as a kook in the not so distant past. Maybe it still does, but that is definitely changing as the mainstream stories diverge from observable reality. Before blogging or facebook, there was Mae Brussell, one of only a handful of people to have ever read the entire 26 volumes of the Warren Commission.
Mae was a homemaker (just like me) with five kids (just like me) when JFK was shot. But unlike most Americans, she just couldn't let it go. Struggling to make sense of what happened, she started doing some research, which took some initiative in the days before you could just punch up a search and find digitized docs. She started clipping newspaper articles and filing them away. The problem was, that every lead led to five more leads, with no end in sight. She uncovered a lot about Nazi war criminals, CIA mind experiments, and all manner of government corruption. She shared her research via her radio program out of Carmel, CA. For those not in range, she mailed out cassette tapes with a bibliography sheet with her source information for that show. I find it really interesting to see how this stuff holds up over the years.
Mae Brussell was the daughter of Rabbi Edgar Magnin, the "Rabbi to the Stars" and leader of Wilshire Boulevard Temple. Mrs. Brussell grew up around all the Hollywood stars, and had an interesting childhood. Her grandfather was the founder of the Magnin Department Stores. She went to Stanford, but quit her senior year to get married. She is methodical and names names, and connects directorships using mainstream newspapers and government documents. Now, I don't go along with all her conclusions (like her view of Larry McDonald), and some of it seems pretty far out, but hey, in 2012 the regular news is far out. So I don't dismiss anything anymore unless I can find that the source of the claim is discredited. Keep an open mind, but not so that your brains fall out, kwim? Here she is in her own words from 1974 Playgirl:
Mae Brussell was the daughter of Rabbi Edgar Magnin, the "Rabbi to the Stars" and leader of Wilshire Boulevard Temple. Mrs. Brussell grew up around all the Hollywood stars, and had an interesting childhood. Her grandfather was the founder of the Magnin Department Stores. She went to Stanford, but quit her senior year to get married. She is methodical and names names, and connects directorships using mainstream newspapers and government documents. Now, I don't go along with all her conclusions (like her view of Larry McDonald), and some of it seems pretty far out, but hey, in 2012 the regular news is far out. So I don't dismiss anything anymore unless I can find that the source of the claim is discredited. Keep an open mind, but not so that your brains fall out, kwim? Here she is in her own words from 1974 Playgirl:

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