Truthsmack #23: Month in conspiracy studies

Mr. X, Navarro's VP quest, chemtrails go mainstream, Biden rabbit hole, Mary Poppins

Election season has clanked into drive and the air is thick with conspiracy. It's hard to keep up, but we'll give it a try.

First, a moment of silence in honor of actor Donald Sutherland, who died this month at the age of 88.

Mr. X dead at 88

Donald Sutherland played X in Oliver Stone’s 1991 film, JFK. Stone was criticized for playing Hollywood with the facts, as if the three-hour dramatization was a documentary of real-life New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison (played by Kevin Costner). One good example of dramatization was a scene in which a mysterious intelligence insider named only X meets Garrison in Washington, D.C. in kind of a Deep Throat session to voice the Big Picture behind Kennedy's assassination. X was, in fact, inspired by a real-life special operations chief U.S. Air Force Col. L. Fletcher Prouty. X tells Garrison only the CIA and the military had the ability to cover-up the truth of the assassination.

Prouty's 1973 book, The Secret Team, claimed to reveal a hidden history of how the military and intelligence community have worked at the behest of a “high cabal” of industrialists and bankers. Prouty died in June, 2001 at the age of 84…