Saturday • May 18 • 2024
Vol.XVI • No.XX
Manchester, N.H.
The past week has revealed two very interesting situations that will affect us in the near future. One is the revelation that an EU vice president and six of her lackeys have been arrested for taking $1 million in bribes from Qatar.
Also, two Americans are under a cloud, a retired Marine general is under investigation and an ex-American ambassador pleaded guilty to accepting bribes. The gushers of funds keep rising to the surface as the desperation of the thieves accelerates before the cataclysm.
Also, in an unrelated situation, during an interview in Der Spiegel, Angela Merkel admitted that the 2014 Minsk Peace Accords were just a front so that Ukraine would have time to rearm. Another coincidence is that the Fried kid at FTX was laundering money from the US taxpayer through Ukraine and back to the DC political cabals. The Fried boy was arrested to keep his mouth shut about for whom he was laundering money and where it went.
I imagine that any life insurance policies he was carrying have been canceled by the underwriters.
The moral pillars of our society have crumbled, and this has led to a run on our treasury as well as our societal standards. Leadership by the left habitually leads to massive corruption and incompetence by the type of people you did not invite to the HS prom, and they have not forgotten it. The gushers of money are voted by acclamation and not the budgetary process that is constitutional. This allows 3,000 pages of graft to slide through in 24 hours providing appropriate parachutes for the insiders.
One money sponge that feeds on the gushers is the church’s benevolent societies. These groups receive large government checks for the support of illegal aliens. These millions provide some food and shelter to people, but there is always enough left for a healthy skimming. I thought churches relied on members for donations for charitable works. Wrong again! The people that these groups sponsor are given things that American citizens do not receive from their own government. Our taxes go to aliens and do not help our own people.
The medical industry is a totally owned subsidiary of the Pharma complex. It has moved this way rather quickly since the advent of bammy care. Billions of dollars in government subsidies to drug companies are a huge source of profit for the Hospital Industry, with the usual corrupt system leading the way. If you don’t get stuck, you can’t come in.
A new German study on vaccine mortality is finally getting media recognition. All those young lives wasted with suicide or birth defects are now apparent. The sterilization of young people is horrifying. Prescribing useless or dangerous drugs is all in a day’s work for your friendly doctor. It is a job requirement, but he also gets a commission to pay his tuition loans or buy the new beach house. Joseph Mengele would be proud.
The Army is filled with perverts of various types in another obammy innovation. The latest revelation is that wearing dog masks to sexually mount subordinates also dressed as dogs is not punished or even discouraged in today’s military. The lack of condemnation from within the Army reveals that the officer corps is totally corrupt. They will tolerate anything that leads to a flag rank. As we all know, there are hundreds more generals now than during WW2, even though the army is about 15% of the size it was then.
Ukraine is quite the magnet for the financially connected of all types. Why in the world was school teachers union president Randi Weingarten in Ukraine? Would it be to try to protect herself from the illegal campaign contribution trail through the FTX scam? Could it have something to do with the illegal gain of function labs there? After all, she was instructing the FDA on keeping her schools closed which extended the paid vacation for woke teachers.
The sad thing is that these are all revelations of the past couple of months. There are so many that we have forgotten other large monetary scandals, such as the Clinton Foundation, ACORN, CAIR, and BLM, to name a few. Will we CREATE change in the coming year or whine and await our fate?
Courage is the first and most important step in defending our values; without courage, there is no protection for our lives.
Madame Defarge writes at The Blue State Conservative
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The fourth wall, the proscenium, is the barrier that separates performers from the audience. The characters break the fourth wall when they include or refer to the audience. It can draw attention to the other three walls and the experience within them.
That’s a gross generalization, but there is a normalizing of the relationship between the actor(s) and the audience. You’ve been upgraded to first class, given VIP access, and allowed to see behind the veil, and Democrat Rep. Katie Porter just invited you behind hers. And you’ll be wondering. Is this just her, or does the whole cast agree?
According to California Democrat Rep. Katie Porter, pedophilia isn’t a crime — it’s an “identity.” pic.twitter.com/aHvedy3r0R
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) December 15, 2022
What a great Q and A opportunity at your Dem congressperson’s next town hall. “Is pedophilia a sexual identity?” And, If pedophilia is an identity, are the Democrats openly accepting them as a protected class?”
“What does that mean?”
I am curious whether the political Left is prepared to admit to this. They’ve been open about it in an indirect way. Promoting the sexualization of children at ages where sex has no meaning is absurd on its face, but they’ve used misdirection to excuse it. The term minor-attracted persons is offensive but delivered as if this is something that can’t help much the way the LGBT agenda insists that this is just who they are.
Normalizing it is on their bucket list.
We should also assume that pedophilia will continue to be child rape and a sex crime when the wrong people do it (priests, Republicans) but just who someone is when it’s a protected class (teachers, administrators, donors).
Our stance is that it is child rape regardless of how Democrats, including Katie Porter, frame it, but we’d like to thank her for breaking the fourth wall and letting us in on what her party is trying to do.
Dem Rep Breaks the Party’s “Fourth Wall” On Pedophilia
HT | LifeSite News
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Title 42 is set to expire this week. Title 42 was an emergency plan put in place during COVID to prevent an unchecked influx of illegals across what used to be our Southern Border. When used in conjunction with effective Border Patrol and the building of the Wall, the flow of illegals and Getaways coming across our Border under the Trump Administration was minimal. Joe Biden’s first actions on Day One of his Presidency were to cease all construction of the Wall, which Congress had already funded, and to end the Return to Mexico policy. Those actions did a few things detrimental to America. It destroyed our sovereignty by eliminating a secure Southern Border. It increased the number of illegal crossings to over two million per year. It increased the amount of Fentanyl smuggled so that Fentanyl poisoning is now the number one cause of death, resulting in close to 100,000 per year. Will any Democrat defend those actions or effects? Of course not. They refuse to accept the data. They turn their heads which makes them complicit in Biden’s destruction of America.
Joe Biden has never held a private sector job. He has been in Congress or the White House for fifty years, raking in money from foreign countries through his son, Hunter Biden. He has been sucking off the teat of the people of Delaware and America. Without this country, and some say a naive electorate, Joe Biden would simply be Joe from Scranton. Joe Biden is far from Scranton and Amtrak, which he likes to identify. The Biden’s are a very wealthy family, thanks to America. Instead of being grateful, he is on a mission to destroy it. Why? We may never have the answer, and he may not even know himself. We may give this man far more credit than he deserves or has earned.
We all see the lack of acuity in Joe Biden if we allow ourselves to be objective. The thought of him running again in 2024 and his level of mental ability when he is 86 years old in the eighth year of his Presidency is frightening. If the Democrat Party nominates him to run for re-election, it is proof he is a proxy President. But this brings you to the question of who is using Biden? Who is actually running this White House? With the ineptitude shown by his Vice President and Cabinet, it cannot be any of these diverse individuals. Is it the Obamas or Clintons? Doubtful. It may be as easy to deduce as to look to Biden’s Chief of Staff, Ron Klain. This would explain how quickly gaffes by Biden are corrected. There have been times the White House, Ron Klain has retracted or corrected a Biden statement “before” his public comments have ended. If this assumption is correct, it places Ron Klain at the head of the spear plunged into America’s heart.
Hyperbole? Maybe, but how else do you explain what this administration is doing to America, and we are only talking about the Border? If we expand to education, mandates, the destruction of Title IX, the gender transformation of our children, the assault on fossil fuels, the decline in value of our retirement accounts, and inflation, the story darkens.
The Republicans taking control of the House on January 3 will help slow the process, but only a significant change in our leadership in 2024 can save this great country.
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Part 1 was the reveal by Don Surber, while letting the info drop that I’d been looking for some time (where did the policy on “Transgender and Non-conforming” originate?). But as I said at the end of that post, Surber also made another observation I think is important, one that I think all Normal people can identify with it.
First, a quick note that Surber made about Sam Brinton:
If the charges are true, they show a man who is a slave to his impulses. He needs a checkup from the neck up.
But he’s LGBT and therefore exempt in our society from rules and standards.
And so it seems. There is a political saying that “the Left operates on its Emotions, the Right operates on Reason”. And from my perspective, that gap exists and has been getting wider.
Surber nails it – “slave to his impulses“. Translation: “feel it, do it”. Translation Two: in other words, NO SELF-CONTROL
This also ties into the whole Sexuality thing – let me summarize. For years, we have heard from the Left that when it comes to sexual matters, we humans can’t control ourselves. In essence, we are no better than animals who rut when they have the urge. And the Left, having seized upon sexual morality and weaponized it, wants us all to believe that we cannot control our emotions, we cannot control our urges. We can’t control ourselves.
They dismiss the idea that most of us can and DO control ourselves as a matter of course. That there are those of us that can say “No” to them and say “we are above the animals”. Why else do they dismiss the idea of abstinence? Sure, teens and young twenty-somethings do get randy, frisky…and risky. The Left capitalizes on that by changing what used to be a moderate and chaste Society. What they won’t discuss is that this is the age cohort that biology now says that young brains have not matured but applies that to the rest of us.
They wish to infantilize all of us in this regards.
And in doing so, by making “Transgenders” yet another protected class (THANKS! Governor Chris Sununu in implementing this in NH! /sarc), Surber notes this as well in expanding Brinton writ small to Society writ Large
But he’s LGBT and therefore exempt in our society from rules and standards….
But half the country now believes LGBT teachers have the right to blab about their weekend orgy. A law to ban this kind of talk in Florida faced opposition from Disney.
Librarians meanwhile are demanding that schools stock books that depict children engaged in homosexual activity. The laws against child pornography need to be enforced.
Yes, when men can be on womens’ teams, when Normals are told that they must adopt politically made up language (“cisheteronormativity”? ze/zir?) to control speech and therefore thought (“1984” was written as a warning, not a how-to manual), when school districts and judges “take away” children from their Parents simply because of the Left’s new sexual identity morality – they are exempt from our former norms and standards. They are out to destroy them to remake Society in their own sexual urges – at least at the surface level. The same goal, which Grokster Aaron recalled, was attempted to be put into place in Hungary during WW I.
And Surber is also right – certainly not during my time in school were teachers proclaiming their sexuality to young students. Prositalizing, preaching, indoctrinating seems to now be part of their job description. Look at the Rainbow, Gay Straight Alliance, and other such sexually based clubs in Middle and High Schools that have popped up all over the country. “Transition Closets” in schools where those kids that believe that they are something that they can never be hang up the clothes they left home wearing to put on others that would horrify their unknowing Parents.
And School staff members are sworn to secrecy, sometimes under the penalty of losing their jobs, are all in on this separation of kids from their parents. In this respect, it’s a sword cleaving that special and needed bond.
And churches that should be upholding Godly norms, have decided to not just put that light under a bucket but have let it go out altogether. They have, as Revelations foretold, have left the Word of God and are adopting the Gospel of Licentiousness. They serve themselves having lost that separation from Church and Society. When a determined set of people are out to destroy the norms of this country, its history, its values, we all will suffer the injuries.
Surber ends on a similar dismal note.
I have nothing against the LGBT people. I just don’t want them around children. I don’t want anyone so obsessed with sex hanging around kids.
This is unacceptable behavior and yet we as a society accept it.
And no, we shouldn’t.
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People have asked if I would create a post or two on how to craft an RSA 91-A demand. This is also known here in NH as a Right To Know, and it is specific to all government agencies (and often, non-governmental bodies that receive tax monies but only in some cases).
Its purpose is the same as a Federal FOIA – Freedom of Information Act demand – but at that level.
I. Purpose
Its purpose is to help an ordinary citizen to do one thing: demand certain information for YOUR purpose that your government officials, either elected, appointed, or employees, would rather not have to give you. It puts you back in charge, let’s them know that someone is starting to shine a Big Flashlight into dark corners.
Most people in Government are decent people and when requested, will give you information about their procedures, processes, and inventories and we should be glad about that. After all, our taxes pay their salaries, their benefits, the equipment they use, the buildings in which they are housed, and the information that they manufacture and use. Like contracts, payroll, curriculum, financial audit materials, card catalogs, staff training, purchases, expendatures, dues, subscriptions, meals, travels, swag, and more.
Just tons and tons of stuff. Mostly, al for the asking – until it isn’t. Oh, you can ask – and ask, and ask again.
And sometimes, you won’t get answers. Sure, you ask and you might get a response:
Well, maybe not that last part – but it may well end up there. Unfortunately, there are those in Government that believe that your purpose in asking doesn’t rise to the level of them answering truthfully. Or worse, they don’t believe that you are “just getting in our way”. You’ve impacted their work, slowing them down, or worse – they don’t want you to know. Period. And they will do what is necessary to hide that which is in their Dark Corner.
These are the people (fortunately, the few, the haughty, the hubristic, and the outright evil) who believe you are there for their benefit. They DON’T work for you – you serve Government. No, they won’t come right out and say that last bit – but actions speak Louder Then Words.
And that’s why NH RSA 91-A exists. Here is the link to the actual black and white Letter of the Law. It is set up for different purposes:
1-Preamble – the Why Does This Exist?
1-a: Definitions – the WHAT Does This Cover?
2-Meetings Open to the Public – the WHO (running the meeting, attending the meeting) and the HOW and WHEN?
3-Nonpublic Sessions – the WHEN and WHERE YOU can’t attend (and the Limitations placed upon them)
4-Minutes and Records Available for Public Inspection – the WHAT can You Demand?
5-Exemptions – What You CAN’T Demand?
5-a and 6 are some special additions/exceptions to #5 and I’ve never had reason to invoke them
And here are the two clauses that put “teeth into your bite” – the “oomph” that cannot be disobayed by the “Respondents”.
And lastly, the new Office of the Right To Know Coordinator which is going to make things a bit “interesting”.
So, there’s more here than can be covered in a single post. Thus, will be continued.
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After all, sometimes guys just don’t know what or worse – know how to ask. Especially if they are one of those 8 pm Christmas Eve “Lord help me once again” shoppers as the fear in his eyes is palpable. Have mercy upon his soul – or shake his procrastination butt into motion.
Here’s an easy tip, care of Pleated-Jeans:
Merry Christmas!
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The death cult in Canada is really on their game. There’s an “activity book” available that explains how people can ask the government for permission to kill themselves (assisted suicide), but you have to be at least fifteen years old.
Related: Assisted Suicide is Now Available in Vermont after a Zoom Call with Dr. Death
I’ve never been a fan of this. You can’t trust the government; legally assisted suicide is another way the regime could eliminate opponents. Example: Seth Rich would have “asked” to die (depression, sudden chronic illness) instead of “someone” faking a robbery to have him killed.
And think about how less messy the Clinton trail of dead bodies would have been if people could “have claimed” to be in so much emotional pain they could no longer go on living. He consulted with (Canada calls them assessors), and they determined that ending that life was…well, you can work out the rest.
So here’s the relevant tweet (screengrabbed version here).
Health Canada (@GovCanHealth) and Veterans Affairs(! @VeteransENG_CA) are the two Federal Government partners in the release of a new colouring & activity book on #MAiD suicide for Canadian children.
All options remain on the table. pic.twitter.com/WO33UmsB5T
— Canada Unity (@can_unity) December 18, 2022
Canada Health didn’t produce the thing, but they linked to the third-party resource, which, if we understand the rules correctly, is an endorsement of the product – an activity book for children.
Health Canada supports a website that has produced an activity book normalizing #MAiD to our children.
The book doesn’t address the flawed premise behind assisted death making it difficult for children to trust doctors who are there to provide health care not death care. pic.twitter.com/lw8aRFeTPo
— Rod Taylor (@CHPCanadaLeader) December 17, 2022
The source is Virtual Hospice Canada, which says it helps care for a seriously ill or dying child and those experiencing child or pregnancy loss. So they can kill your kid and provide therapy after? The site also promotes inclusive and respectful “health care” for the LGBTQ (again, end-of-life services). As well as end-of-life education resources for teachers.
All of which, by the way, gives them business on both sides of death.
And they are not shy about it. Note: I did not find the activity book on the site, but I gather it is supposed to help kids grasp assisted suicide as a choice by others and not just themselves – normalizing the practice.
So, the government promotes assisted suicide which, as I’ve noted, is a bad idea. Don’t expect the news out of Canada to get any better than it has in Europe, where otherwise healthy young people are offing themselves with a State blessing.
If you are not convinced, this is a bad idea; most of the world’s elites think the planet is overpopulated. The same ‘leaders’ encourage assisted suicide while implementing social and cultural agendas in early school-age children that increase the likelihood of mental health issues and depression. And we recently had a pandemic response whose major success was stress and depression, mainly among young persons.
We know that what is sold as end-of-life compassion for the terminally ill evolves (as it has in Europe) into a legal way to address the rising mental health issues like depression which is often temporary – through assisted suicide.
Health “Professionals” are constantly under pressure from elites to identify political opposition to the ruling class as a form of mental illness, while partisan professionals are tripping over themselves to make it so.
And is it only a matter of time before cultural selective suicide evolves to include an experimentation routine (well, they’re going to die anyway)?
Some will say what a ridiculous thing to suggest but what is not absurd about letting productive young people off themselves with the government’s blessing because they got a case of the sads or felt remorse because the same government encouraged them into a gender transition that they later regret?
Canada is normalizing this in children.
They might be normalizing it here; we’ll have to discover it to find out. It’s not like they are going to admit it openly.
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Heh! Reader Bruce sent this in. Not exactly as showy as the Bridges or the Buildings but I find it ironic that while we are hearing calls for “More! More!”, they are taking them down. For what reason, I don’t know: they stopped working, too expensive to maintain, putting up new ones? Who know – and who cares? People just like to see explosions, I guess
The first one makes you think “What, not enough boom? Was it a dud?”
Yes, it seems like this is a “video ad for Controlled Demolition, Inc.”. I really don’t care. I just like to watch.
(H/T: Bruce)
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The body positive are at higher risk of hospitalization and death from COVID-19. Above-average weight also makes you more likely to be or become diabetic, and that, too, can lead to severe infection and death. Is that why the CDC just changed the BMI charts defining obesity in children?
Obesity for children is defined as a BMI that is higher than 95% of kids of the same age and gender, according to the CDC. Severe obesity is a BMI that is 120% higher than the 95th percentile.
Although children’s BMI is calculated using the same formula as adults, a healthy weight is measured in relation to other kids of the same age and gender. This is because children’s height and weight can vary significantly as they grow.
Obesity is officially on the spectrum. It’s not about what might be healthy for the average human being. If everyone around you is obese, then that’s normal and not a concern.
When can we expect this to apply to heart disease or cancer clusters? Don’t worry, dear. Everyone else has that, too, so it’s normal.
Obesity does not just increase the risk of COVID infection or severe disease. There is a long list of health ills associated with being overweight, including heart disease. By making the determining factor tribal or local, it essentially encourages a circumstance that will put a strain on the healthcare system, something the architects of Obamacare insisted they were trying to prevent.
That ship sailed a decade ago, then burned and sank with the response to the so-called pandemic.
We should not be surprised that the Centers for Disease Control have redefined what it means to control disease from prevention to manipulation.
To what end, we encouraged you to debate.
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The letter claims that federal programs funding food stamps, unemployment insurance, “public” education, and student loans are authorized by the preamble. The letter claims the preamble makes social welfare programs “the very purpose of constitutional government”. All these claims are false.
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I knew that it had to come from some central group as it seemed like it was a case of “not here, not there – and then it exploded ALL OVER THE COUNTRY!”. With all of the “Schools, Woke, Transgender, CRT” posts I’ve been putting up (click here for most (but not all) of those story snippets), I would have thought it would have surfaced by now in one of them. No such luck. However, it finally surfaced but in a most unexpected place.
Thanks to Don Surber – a retired journalist that I read fairly often. He writes well and on an interesting topic. This time, in a post called “We are letting weirdos run things“, he brought up Sam Brinton, the former “deputy assistant secretary of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition in the Office of Nuclear Energy”. This is the narcissistic nitwit who thought that his sexual identification was his most important attribute.
Sidenote: happy to see that Surber used the older word “transvestite” in describing him instead of the newly made-up “Social Justice “non-binary” term.
John Burtis and Steve have already written about him and since his “Governmental Elevation”, he’s elevated his deranged and deviant behavior (including his “pup fetish”) to make sure that EVERYONE knows that he and that behavior should be “normalized” so I’m not going to do a short historical rehash. Instead, I’m going to go back to the title of this post (emphasis mine, links added):
“Before joining the federal government, Brinton was in charge of advocacy and government affairs at the LGBTQ youth suicide prevention nonprofit The Trevor Project, where he helped craft a ‘Model School District Policy on Suicide Prevention’ in 2019 along with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, the American School Counselor Association and the National Association of School Psychologists.
“Brinton cheered the model at the time, saying it’s imperative for school suicide prevention policies to be LGBTQ competent.”
Look, I have been saying for a couple of years since Policy JBAB appeared in my School District that if you think you are something that you are not, have at it. If your friends and family accept it, more power to you. But DON’T believe that the rest of us have to accept it. At all. And NOT at the demand of giving up our Constitutional Rights (or have them taken away):
And here in NH, we are a Dillon’s Rule State which means that no subdivision of the State can do anything without a State Statute (an RSA) that enables it. My District actually states it in their Policy BBA.
Fortunately, after two years of fighting them, the Gilford School Board has rescinded #1 and it is no longer an issue. It’s also no longer an issue in a lot of districts because Parents across the nation are bringing them to court and winning.
Sidenote: really, we have to bring Government to court to obey the First Amendment and their State Constitutions??? It looks like I may have stopped them on #2 but, once again, they won’t answer my questions (verbally, email). Thus, this Constitutional battle continues. And yes, it IS a Constitutional and a Parental battle that is being waged.
So we have four groups, two embedded into school districts, that are responsible for attacking Free Speech and the role of Parents in the lives of our children (e.g., PRIMARY responsibility backed up by SCOTUS decisions – not the school systems). I did a quick dive into each of the four organizations and while I DIDN’T see a specific “School District Policy” like those that have been adopted by NH districts and around the country. However, they all do have similar intents and messaging: LGBT must be “affirmed” including speech and they see Parents as the enemy.
Once again, the Moral Superiority Complex of the Woke is at work here.
It was NEVER about suicide prevention. That was the Shiny Object. “LGBT competent” was merely the payload delivery mechanism. For what, you may ask?
The smoke and curtains goal was to ALWAYS separate children from their Parents – blowing up the nuclear family. Then finish Obama’s ultimate finish line: to “fundamentally transform America“.
There’s still another important point that Surber brought up that I believe most Normal Parents agree with but that will be the point of another post.
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A New York Times "op-doc" posted this week zeroes in on a persistent myth that has helped inspire and sustain harsh policies aimed at sex offenders: the idea that their recidivism rate is "frightening and high," as Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy put it in a pair of cases decided a decade and a half ago. David Feige, a former public defender who directed Untouchable, a 2016 documentary about sex offenders, shows how an uncorroborated assertion in a 1986 Psychology Today article continues to influence the politicians who pass laws and the judges who uphold them.
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They’re flying so thick and fast it is amazing. And take heart – there will be a Meme Overflow and I will back-edit to include the link. And there will likely be a Friday Meme Overflow-Overflow. Last week’s Friday Overflow-Overflow.
Remember, ridicule and mockery are effective weapons:
Now, let the mockery and mayhem begin. And if you send an individual meme, please consider sending a link to the post as well.
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But first, a random sampling of three of my cartoons. Please note these are my concepts but I pay a professional to do them.
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Question – please comment – if this were available on a T-shirt, would you buy one?
Speaking of buying:
Here. Also available in .223.
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Special PSA – car safety / prep idea:
Another suggestion: an empty gallon / two gallon gas can. Not full – that’s dangerous to cart around (though in cold winters that might be considered low risk vs. running out on a wintery road at night – not recommending it but a thought to weigh) – but something you can have to get to a gas station without having to drive to go buy one first. Any other thoughts? Obviously, these will vary depending on where you live and what season you are in. I’d definitely add road flares. (That reminds me… need to get some.) Also, on flares specifically, remember that three things – flares, fires, smoke columns – in a triangle is an international sign of distress.
Also, cash!! Enough to cover gas, food, and possible a place for the night if it comes to it (and toiletries and 1-2 night’s worth of medication too).
One thing I’ll be doing this week – late, I know, but better late than never – is a five-gallon bucket for each vehicle with a 50/50 sand / salt mixture and a scoop.
Speaking of preps:
Survival Sunday – PREP Edition – Granite Grok
Survival Sunday on Thursday (On Friday): SITREP Edition – Granite Grok
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https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/war-zone-girl-1.mp4
Coming soon to a neighborhood near you. Because “Diversity is a strength”. Remember, long term, this GREAT REPLACEMENT is the plan to create a forever-majority for the Left.
Not to mention the bonus for the Globalists: the chaos that ensues will be fertile loam for the globalists to offer the “benevolent” hand of Socialism as the savior. Socialistopia needs its foundation.
Related memes:
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Images below from here:
The Truth Behind The Insane Vaccine Push is Revealed Through Leaked Pfizer Government Contracts – Red, White, and F You (redwhiteandfyou.com)
Incestuous doesn’t begin to cover this. Don’t forget the $350 million in “kickbacks royalties” since 2009 that, per Fausti, don’t need to be reported. And you have to wonder at the ethics of someone who makes this jump – for example, the woman who paves the road for a company’s drug, then moves over to be employed by that company? Maybe it’s me, but I’d feel slimy even thinking about doing that.
Jab-related memes:
And now, a few words from – last I knew – the most published cardiologist in history:
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/mcollough-on-mRNA-persistence-and-transferral.mp4
Seven Hairy Hells. An Immunologist PhD I know (internet know) said that the mRNA base chemistry was modified to increase duration in the body. If this transferal to others and persistence in the body, never mind possible intergenerational effects, are verified – and all good science requires verification & replication of data collection methods and results – then I see only two possibilities:
First, this is intentional. Which means that every pharma scientist involved, let alone everyone with decision-making authority at every single company and government agency, is culpable of crimes against humanity. IMHO we need gallows.
Second, this is accidental. Which means that this was so rushed into production and injections into billions that the negligence reaches Tower of Babylon levels. IMHO we need gallows.
More:
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/mcollough-on-mRNA-and-myocarditis.mp4
Remember, myocarditis is permanent heart damage.
FDA Now Says Pfizer’s COVID-19 VACCINE Linked to Blood Clotting – Geller Report
It’s my opinion that the dam is cracking. When – please Hashem soon! – the dam finally goes…
If you’re alive that is:
In a 2013 Trial of Over 200,000 People Testing MRNA-Based Medication – Less Than 5 Are Alive Today | EU | Before It’s News (beforeitsnews.com)
Before all of this went down I would have said no way could they cover up 200K dead people. But since they have been able to cover up tens of millions injuries and deaths, I believe they very well could have done just what he is describing.
And, they got exactly the results they wanted. Think about it. The trials they did with the animals that we know about were a joke. They were almost nothing as far as size goes.They really did not do enough to know how successful they would be at killing off people…unless they had already done some very large trials on human subjects over several years. They would need that test data to get the dosage right to not kill off everyone too quickly to give away what they were doing and planning to do. What he is saying actually makes sense.
What a way to answer the 7.3 billion person question. Remember, “… there will be a need to kill many billions of people … or prevent them from giving birth…”
One example of the last link:
Covid Vaccines Affect Jewish Marriages, by Etana Hecht (Daily Clout/Wolf); this data can be extrapolated across cultures & it is troubling as to impact of COVID injections on fertility & reproduction (substack.com)
Anecdotally, in her own community pre-vaccination, there were generally 5-6 celebrations of newborns per week. After the Covid shots rolled out, that number dropped to 1-2 per month.
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The average number of births seen in Hasidic communities in NY has been cut in half. Pre-Covid vaccine, there was a consistent ~20 births per week across the various communities. The practice of announcing those births in community newsletters has been in place for decades, and there’s a definitive sharp decline to ~10 births per week, beginning in 2021.
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The same funeral director reported that while they rarely used to get stillbirth cases, they now get multiple stillbirth babies per month.
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Fighting for freedom entails risks and effort. I am 100% sure I’m on several lists by now. But in these immortal words:
(Link to AZQUOTES per their policy.)
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The more I learn, the more I am convinced that so much that happens in government spending is merely laundering taxpayer money into Dem pockets. One way or another. In this case… aid to Ukraine gets to FTX, which donates to Democrats. Republicans too, but IMHO many still have some vestiges of decency left.
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Pick of the post:
Many good ones, but… this struck me.
We communicate through our faces and body language. Absent visual cues in general, communications become very difficult. Yes – when you cover a face the person becomes less than human. And when you condition people to cover up en masse they start to see all people as less than human over time. Every genocide in history has been effected after the target group has been painted as subhuman.
Globalist communists ramp up the rhetoric against the unvaccinated – American Thinker
The enemy, or the “villain” is the unvaccinated, they’ve made that clear, and if history is any indication of what comes next, oppressors don’t just stop when they reach the fourth stage of genocide.
WHO Labels Unvaccinated People a ‘Major Killing Force Globally’ – Slay News
The WHO is promoting a new video that targets “anti-vaccine activism” by blasting those who choose not to be vaccinated for supporting “anti-science aggression.”
The video features pediatrician and vaccine advocate Dr. Peter Hotez who laments the “devastating impact of misinformation and disinformation” regarding Big Pharma’s Covid shots.
Hotez goes on to link the so-called “anti-science aggression” of people who refuse the Covid vaccines to “far-right extremism.”
The professor continues by making several unsupported claims that “anti-vaccine activism” now “kills more people” than terrorism, gun violence, and several other crimes.
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“We have to recognize that anti-vaccine activism, which I actually call anti-science aggression, has now become a major killing force globally,” Hotez said in the video, using a backdrop of photos of protestors against the Covid shots.
The University Professor of Biology at Baylor College of Medicine claims that “during the Covid pandemic in the United States, 200,000 Americans needlessly lost their lives because they refused a COVID vaccine, even after vaccines became widely available.”
So we’re anti-science heretics, and we’re mass murderers because we doubt The Jab. How soon before it’s compelled “for the good of all”? And my answer?
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Palate Cleansers:
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[December 15th was] “Bill of Rights Day” – commemorating ratification on Dec. 15, 1791. But what the government-run schools – and supporters of the monster state – “teach” about the Bill of Rights has almost nothing to do with the foundational principles which motivated the people who supported – and demanded it.
They want us to focus on inane trivia – and they definitely present things as if the Bill of Rights “granted” our rights, or were meant to create a nationwide liberty enforcement squad in the federal government.
No, it was – you guessed it – about the principles behind what was ratified as the 10th Amendment. Drawing a line in the sand, as Samuel Adams put it, “between the federal Powers vested in Congress, and the sovereign Authority belonging to the several States.”
Richard Henry Lee – who on Sept 27, 1787 in the Confederation Congress proposed adding a Bill of Rights to the Constitution drafted by the Philadelphia Convention – BEFORE sending it to the states for ratification, agreed. He said that drawing that clear line between expressly delegated power – and those reserved is “the great use of a bill of rights.”
The same thing happened in a number of state ratification documents, starting with Massachusetts, then South Carolina, New Hampshire, Virginia – and New York.
I covered this in some detail in an episode of Path to Liberty, here:
https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2021/12/bill-of-rights-the-untold-story-of-why-it-exists/
In early 1788, ratification of the Constitution was almost certain to fail in Massachusetts – home of Samuel and John Adams, Theophilus Parsons, John Hancock – and so many others. A loss there – Federalists understood – would send them reeling in states where it was expected to be a very close call at best – like New York and Virginia. In other words, the entire proposal was close to being doomed.
But – as advised by Richard Henry Lee months earlier, Samuel Adams and John Hancock went along with a plan to ratify, but only with the option of including recommended amendments as well. On Feb 6, 1788 – they did just that, and the very first recommended amendment from the Sons of Liberty will probably look familiar to any reader of the Tenth Amendment Center:
First. That it be explicitly declared, that all powers not expressly delegated by the aforesaid Constitution are reserved to the several states, to be by them exercised.
South Carolina followed their lead with this:
This Convention doth also declare that no Section or paragraph of the said Constitution warrants a Construction that the states do not retain every power not expressly relinquished by them and vested in the General Government of the Union.
And on June 21, 1788 – New Hampshire sealed the deal on ratification by also including as their first recommended amendment the same precursor to the 10th Amendment from Massachusetts.
But even after New York and Virginia followed with similar proposals, Federalists in the First Congress stonewalled – and did everything they could to prevent amendments from being considered and sent to the states for ratification.
Samuel Adams, however, didn’t let up – pushing friends like Elbridge Gerry and Richard Henry Lee to get the Bill of Rights done. To Adams, adding these amendments was solely about having a “a Line drawn as clearly as may be, between the federal Powers vested in Congress and the distinct Sovereignty of the several States.”
James Madison – who was initially opposed to including a Bill of Rights – and even voted against Richard Henry Lee’s proposal in the Confederation Congress, slowly came on board – maybe for just political strategy. But his dogged persistence pushed it through the congress.
With that history in mind, it makes even more sense why Thomas Jefferson, on Feb 15, 1791 – 10 months to the day before ratification – made this essential point about the structure of the constitution:
I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground: That ” all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States or to the people.”
Why don’t they teach this history? We can only guess, but I personally think it has plenty to do with the fact that the bill of rights wasn’t about granting rights to people – or having a central government to protect us – but instead – it was about opposition to centralized power.
Please do check out this episode of the Path to Liberty Podcast for a deeper dive into this essential history. There, you’ll find both video and audio versions of the show – and if you prefer reading – there’s a bunch of original source documents so you can read and learn more – in context – on your own time.
This is the kind of information we work to get out to more and more people every single day of the year. Nothing – absolutely nothing – helps us roll up our sleeves and get the job done more than the financial faith and support of our members.
Michael Boldin | The Tenth Amendment Center
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Big city school superintendents are scratching their totalitarian itch. “Public school students in Philadelphia will have to wear face coverings at school for 10 days after their winter break, officials said.”
The mandate, which will run from Jan. 3-13, is aimed at reducing the spread of respiratory illnesses after a holiday season likely filled with more social gatherings and increased exposure, the school district said in a statement on Thursday.
Philadelphia is among state and local agencies around the United States rolling out mask mandates or recommendations this month to fight a new surge in virus cases, which is expected to grow as Americans travel and socialize around the winter holidays.
Rolling out useless mandates and Dr. Meryl Nass would like to know,
Maybe it would be easier for these progressive tools if they just handed out armbands (black or rainbow would be my first best guesses). It’s not like they will be any more effective than cloth or medical masks, but you’ll get them used to their future as stooges for the regime without compromising their health.
Or is that the point?
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There was a time when expressing your sexuality in a public space was inappropriate. The new rule is to lay it out there and demand others acknowledge it.
Silence is sexual violence, they might say.
You will be made to care and to express that care or be labeled a bigot. At the same time, there aren’t enough safe spaces to talk about sex. Do you mean like the Public Library, the grammar school, the online reading app with material an adult would be arrested for saying out loud to a child or in public, or everything, every day, everywhere? Those safe spaces!
The only unsafe place, as far as I can tell, is the room where the priests and altar boys “get dressed” for service.
Hosted by the University of Vermont Program Board on Dec. 2, the event was described on Instagram as a night of “sexperts, sex toy prizes, condom giveaways, and more.”
“We all need a safe place to talk about sex (and play some sex toy BINGO :). You know you want to come!,” the description states.
Double entendre, anyone?
And don’t get me wrong, I don’t care what college students waste their money on (they are technically adults), but apparently, this was paid for with other college kids’ money.
University of Vermont student Jacob Brocklin told YAF he’s “uncomfortable with my tuition dollars going toward something like this.”
“The Program Board’s mission statement says that they will hold events committed to ‘social justice.’ I don’t understand how giving out sex toys is accomplishing some form of justice,” Brocklin said.
The University of Vermont Program Board also hosted an event titled En-Sex-Clopedia on April 18, which was described as “a safe place to talk about sex,” and included sex bingo.
Jacob misunderstands either Vermont or “college.” A university used to be the place where you could challenge established thinking. These days they define what you should think and what words you should use to express those thoughts. It is less about learning and more about training. There are even words and thoughts you should not use or have.
Oh, and they are all about money.
Colleges have been sieves for Democrat campaign funds for many years and, in recent decades, THE Democrat party education camp of choice. But that’s evolved. Forward, and all that. The re-education begins in grammar school, so UV and its like are more of the progressive finishing school. And whatever happens, don’t be grateful. You were entitled to that useless degree in social justice, something or other.
And since you will likely emerge a toxic intolerable shrew (with or without a penis), sex toys are likely an essential part of your social justice future. As is legal drug use, and at least one house cat.
HT | Fox
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There is something called an ‘elimination diet,’ which people use to find out what foods their bodies have trouble processing. You start by cutting out everything but one food — typically beef, because you can stay healthy indefinitely eating just beef. It’s boring but sustainable.
If a problem is diet-related, it should clear up. (If it doesn’t clear up, either you have a problem with beef, which is unusual, or your problem isn’t caused by your diet.)
At this point, you slowly start adding other foods to your diet, watching for the effects they have on you.
If a problem occurs when you add a food — for example, if adding gluten leads to bloating or joint pain — you know to stay away from that food.
What makes this work is that you don’t approach your problems by trying to cut things from your diet. There’s too much going on in a typical diet to figure out which foods might be causing which reactions.
You have to start at the ground and build up. It’s essentially a variation on the scientific method. You vary one thing at a time over here and see what variations result over there.
This is exactly what we should be doing with schools.
How would that look?
We would start by teaching reading and only reading. That’s because reading is the educational equivalent of beef.
That is, if you’ve learned to read, you can read about how to learn anything else — including how to read better and how to write. Reading is, in that sense, a complete skill in the same sense that beef is a complete food.
Once we get close to 100% of the kids reading at grade level, then we would start adding in other things — but only so long as we see improvements in the things that we have designated as ‘essential.’
And by essential — as opposed to elective — I mean reading, writing, reasoning (logical, mathematical, scientific, and statistical), and whatever else is important enough that everybody needs to learn it.
(Does everyone need to learn calculus, or French, or welding, or forestry? If not, then they aren’t essential, are they?)
Of course, there’s a slight head fake going on here. In a system in which all the students can read, ‘adding in’ a new academic subject merely requires (1) providing suggestions about what the students should be reading, and (2) testing to see that they’ve actually learned what they’re supposed to.
Without the need to hire teachers to read the textbooks to the students, the marginal cost of adding an academic subject to such a system is close to zero.
If we add an academic subject (Elizabethan literature or Excel), or an extra-curricular activity (football or band), and there’s no improvement in the things we’re tracking (literacy, numeracy, reasoning), then we take them back out again.
They are the public school equivalents of high-fructose corn syrup, making budgets fatter without making education any better.
Of course, there is a simpler way to accomplish the same thing, which is just to prohibit a school from offering electives (non-literacy classes, sports, other extra-curricular activities) unless 95% of its students are reading at or above grade level. That could be done with a one-line addition to the rules at the Department of Education.
This would, however, punish students who are reading at proficiency.
Fortunately, there’s a way around that, which is to allow schools to offer electives but only as self-study courses. The school’s only responsibility would be to assign graduation credit to a student who passes a particular test. The students themselves would be responsible for learning the material — which they’ll only be able to do if they’ve learned to read with fluency and comprehension.
Another head fake. See how, when you teach kids to read, so many things that seem like problems just take care of themselves? (And how, when you don’t, everything else spirals out of control?)
One final benefit of putting schools on an elimination diet is that as students take charge of their own learning, they can learn anywhere, at any time. So there’s no reason to keep them locked up during normal business hours.
Which would be an excellent first step towards disentangling ‘education’ from ‘daycare.’
One way to think about the Elimination Diet for Schools is that it implements Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s observation that perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. Which is what we should be aiming for with any institution that is funded by taking money away from people who would prefer to use it for something else.
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The news is typically johnny on the spot when “explosive devices, gasoline, & road flares” and discovered after the arrest of troublemakers outside an area where a government facility is being built. Unless they are connected to Antifa, and maybe no one thinks that’s a story that needs reporting.
To test the theory, you must replace the reported association with the words ‘Trump Supporters” and boom – wall-to-wall 24/7 coverage. But this isn’t a story that ends this way.
Yesterday’s arrests came after several people threw rocks at police cars and attacked EMTs with rocks and bottles outside local fire stations. After police cleared the area, they found explosive devices, gasoline, & road flares.
— GA Bureau of Investigation (@GBI_GA) December 14, 2022
From Andy Ngo.
On Dec. 13, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) launched a raid on the so-called autonomous zone at the site of the future Atlanta Public Safety Training Center. Since June 2021, Antifa and other far-left extremists from across the US have descended on the location to prevent the construction of what they call a “cop city.” Responding law enforcement were assaulted with rocks and bottles by militants occupying makeshift treehouses. The GBI says it found explosive devices and gasoline after the rioters were cleared from the area.
So the occupation, disruptions, and violence have been happening for 18 months with little media attention beyond the locals, throughout which Democrats in Congress have been trying to emphasize the importance of their January 6th show trial. A conspiracy concocted by the political left as a potential path to the indictment of Donald Trump to prevent him from being able to run for President.
It’s an intriguing contrast, an indictment of the Major Media left and their political patrons. Or maybe I have that reversed.
Daily Mail | Legal Insurrection | PM
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People sometimes look upon athletes and actors as pampered individuals paid exorbitant salaries to play a game or fantasy characters and never give back. We are blessed that there are exceptions to this stereotype.
The two men I write about today break the mold and are stepping up to work with one of my favorite charities, Tunnels to Towers. For what these two guys are doing to help our veterans, and first responders who did their jobs and either came home broken or never came home at all, they share this week’s Sunday Spotlight.
Andy Pettitte played 18 seasons pitching for the New York Yankees. In an era where my Red Sox and the Yankees were the greatest rivalries in baseball, you were born in New England to hate any athlete who wore the pinstripes. Try as I might, I could never hate Andy Pettite. Pettite was not flashy, brash, or cocky. He went out every five days, took the mound, and gave his all in every game he pitched. He seemed like he owned the Red Sox for nearly two decades. You would check the lin-ups for an upcoming game, see Pettitte penciled in as starting pitcher, and know the Sox were in for a challenging contest. I cannot remember a game where the Sox slayed this big left-hander on the mound. You couldn’t hate him. You just had to respect him and hope tomorrow would bring an easier game.
Cole Hauser is one of those actors you watch and think is not acting. Their character is who they are. As one of the stars who portray Rip Wheeler in the blockbuster series Yellowstone, Hauser looks totally natural in a cowboy hat sitting on a horse. He is one of the reasons we tune in on Sunday night. Hauser started his acting career in 1992, so he is not a newcomer to the screen, but his role in Yellowstone has been his most notable.
It is when athletes and actors leave their realm and use their notoriety for the benefit of others that we see their true value. These two men have joined forces and volunteered to help one of my favorite organizations Tunnels to Towers. It is not because it is my favorite, but because there may be no more worthy cause than to care for those who sacrificed their bodies or lives to protect us.
Both of these men remember well the fateful day in 2001 when fundamental terrorists attacked our country. These memories motivate them to step up and use their names and faces to aid Frank Siller in the mission of assuring that every man or woman who comes back from duty with a broken body has a comfortable home and every survivor of a First Responder has their mortgage paid in full.
It is my honor to feature these two men and to make them this week’s Sunday Spotlight.
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Joa from Breaking The Flaw Crypto6 Jury Drawing
Today we get further confirmation from the governments own ‘victim’ witnesses that Ian’s not involved in scamming in any shape or form. We try and follow along with what the governments dirty tricks are and what the point of introducing certain audio and video clips are. The government touches on an “international” bank account, a threatening FinCEN letter, and a letter from Attorney Seth Hipple advising the church it’s not required to register as a money services business under state or federal law. The government has been kind enough to submit these documents to the docket for us so everyone can read them for themselves.
Also take note that the trial has been on hiatus due to Renee and lawyer falling ill, but it is planned to resume Monday December 19th at 9AM. The defense should begin introducing it’s own witnesses and evidence and likely get way more interesting. The trial is open to the public and supporters of the Crypto6 are highly encouraged to attend. The address of the courthouse is: 55 Pleasant St, Concord, NH 03301. Also note that you don’t have to come for the full day. It starts at 9AM and there is usually an hour for lunch with a conclusion of the trial day at 5PM.
Crypto6 Day 6
FBI agent from prior day takes the stand again and prosecution continues questioning the ‘witness’…
Crypto Church Of New Hampshire Questions
Certificate of invisible hand trade name document on screen
Certify’s nobody is certificate to do business as church of the invisible hand
NH Peace Church
7/22/2020
Document shown on screen: Trade name registration for NH Peace Church
Certificate of registered trade name: NH Peace Church
Showing drivers license and passports of Renee, Nobody, and others
[The ‘expert’ refers to “Word documents”, but humorously these are actually LibreOffice documents in a different format being shown on a computer that merely is associating them with Microsoft Word, yes, this is who we are suppose to be relying on tell us Ian’s guilty of some not-very-clear ‘crime’, all the while exposing their own ‘victims’ to ‘identity theft’… I’ll quote the word ‘identity theft’ as this is actually a fraud against another, not the individual whose identity has been used and moves the blame or really liability from those accepting said documents to other parties primarily being the victims]
List of folders with bank names shown
~ 15 banks
GFA Letter
Suspected fraudulent activity, froze account, colleene
Has determined account has been used to exchange virtual currency for real currency
You may be a money transmitter
Document shown on screen: International Bank Application Ian Filled Out
International Bank Account Application
Q Does it say profit from bitcoin sales?
A No
[humorous cause it does say church investments which would include bitcoin ‘profits’]
~ 16 exchanged listed in folder on Ian’s laptop on screen
[really it’s the church’s laptop, there exists a double standard here and depending on when it is convenient for them to say it’s Ian’s laptop or the church as both have financial implications in legal land]
Showing church policies on screen
[verification and KYC policies which are done with intent to stop fraud, whether or not it works, these are the governments own rules for what banks have to do even if they’re not technically applicable to the church’s sale of its own bitcoin]
Shows document on screen which banks church has “broken up” with
~22 banks listed
~7 rejected in advance
~6 active banks
Exchange statuses
Ian OK at ~7
Colleen OK at ~1
~9 denied or canceled
[remember that what a bank can legally do or the risks thereof is not the same thing as what you can do as a customer thereof, so for instance, you might have worked in the sex industry 20 years ago, nothing illegal about that, it’s not illegal for you to open a bank account, but banks will likely cut you off because the banks have been threatened by a bureaucrat at the federal level via a letter sent to all financial institutions, this actually happened not that long ago, and as a result all financial institutions in the US cut off anybody connected to the sex industry- the letter used words like “sex trafficking”- but that’s merely code for anything connected to sex, you opening a bank account, them closing it, and you repeatedly doing this at other banks doesn’t make you guilty of a crime, and the banks generally don’t tell you why they are closing your account for liability reasons]
Now looking at downloads folder on screen
Third folder down is KYC folder
Q What is that?
A It stands for know your customer
[I wonder how she knows what Ian’s intentions were for that, though it’s almost certainly a correct interpretation of what he intended, you’d think they’d need to have Ian up on the stand to testify to it, not some third party]
Q What is the last folder?
A Telegram desktop
Ian recommendation file
Showing (Melanie Neighbours Tax Planning & Preparation) Unsigned/recommendation/certification of asset document
KYC Telegram folder shown on screen
This folder shows a list of peoples names with KYC documents in them
[yes, the government is exposing these people and putting them at risk of ‘identity fraud’ during the trial, none of it is censored, or more honestly the government is aiding fraudsters who need ID information like this in defrauding others]
[FBI agent is confirming what is found in KYC folder contains ID of people who testified as “victim” witnesses at trial previously]
Q Did you go through all photos of all people?
A Yes
Q What was the average age?
A 59 from 2020
[there were 4,000 transactions, and these was a TINY fraction, call me skeptical, it’s not clear if these were folks that the church was calling to do verification with which would also have bumped the age of these folks up, but even if it was the average age of those conducting 4,000 transactions suggests that you’re not allowed to do sell bitcoin to older people which just sounds crazy- you’ll note later though that the ‘red flags’- a government term doesn’t actually mean you have to stop a transaction either so if these are people who were ‘red flags’ and the church did do business with them after a phone call that would be identical to what the banks procedure if not more than what financial institutions do]
Q You found Patrick Brown folder empty when you got it?
A Yes
[thinking about this a bit this is what I’d probably consider remnants, just not in it’s better more obvious form, but basically it’s partial data left over after some task has been performed and only gives you a partial picture of things]
[It’s curious to note that it would appear they are trying to point out that Ian missed or lost records or something happened to KYC records assuming they’re not just stored somewhere more permanent elsewhere of ONE ‘victim’ which is interesting because later we also see the banks have lost data as well yet the government doesn’t make them out to be scum]
They are going through dozens of picture IDs to show the various ages of some of the people, but not all of the people in this folder
Of those they are showing it appears to be those in the 45-70 age range mostly
[something else to note here is that they are not all victims and there is nothing suggesting that these are all victims… rather the government is trying to show through implication of the fact that this folder had a lot of older people in it that Ian is somehow guilty of targeting older folks and working with scammers]
[weird fed church photo on screen in one folder but out of place, how did it get there? presumably it ended up there by accident, but it’s curious mostly just in that I’m not sure what federal incident the photo comes from, there have not been that many, but I guess there have been some other incidents particularly if it’s quite dated]
[it’s very apparent that the prosecutor is trying to convince the jury buying bitcoin as an older person is illegal or should be]
Q Anything else you noticed?
A Buying on behalf of another
Playing audio exhibit from FTL
[unfortunately I wasn’t able to capture the episode this came from, it’ was a VERY brief cut of a show, clearly intentionally misleading although I’m not sure what it was suppose to show exactly]
Ian, Aria, Matt, and a caller talk about the Nigerian scammer
Ian “So you got hit for over $16,000?”
Ian “What was going through head?”
Caller “Never said to write no refunds”
Talking about man in the middle attack
[I’m not clear if this was someone who got scammed by someone pretending to be Ian online or what the case was, but I think that might have been what happened here, and the misleading part on the prosecutor’s side might be that they want the jury to think Ian was somehow actively partaking in scamming people and then talking about it on air with the victim of his scam?]
[I mean, it seems like what this should be showing if played and explained in context is that Ian is aware of and warns people about these sorts of scams, but this isn’t the defense playing this, it’s cut up by the prosecution with some sort of specific intent]
Good client bought on multiple occasions and was buying for good friend
All hoops for know your customer were jumped through
Ian “I generally don’t do third party trades either, but this was a good customer”
[aww maybe the objective here although poorly explained to the jury is the “third party trades”]
Q Is this what you saw?
A No
[this audio is undated, maybe third party trades became more common? it’s not like we have a ton of third party trades evidence here by the prosecution though anyway given only a small small percentage were shown of the ~4000 transactions]
[something else to point out is people don’t start getting social security until 62-70 depending on different factors and the average age was 59 according to the governments own math]
Q Was this person asked why they had so much cash they wanted to turn into bitcoin?
A No
Q Where was all this?
A On Ian freeman’s computer
[again, wrong, it was the church’s laptop, how can someone testify to something they don’t even know the answer to and while this may not be useful to the defense I’d still love to have asked the question what is your basis for claiming this is Ian’s laptop? it’s presumably the user name ftl_ian, but if that is the case then if I create a user called FBI can I claim it was the FBI’s computer when they seize it as evidence and try to use something on it from my house? the other thing is I’m pretty darn sure there were other people who touched that system here and there and I think this comes up somewhere too which begs the question how did you do determine who was the person who actively created a given document? etc]
Q How many did you interview?
A 30-40
[that’s a pretty big gap… ya think you might be able to do a little bit better than that as far as narrowing down the #?]
Q Did any not have third party involved?
A No
[so you selectively looked then… hmmm if you only look at x you’ll only find x, and I’m also curious what is mean by third party here exactly hmmm]
Q Are you trying to investigate one of the people in the Telegram folder?
A Yes
Q What makes this one different?
A We have his true name
[correct me if I’m mistaken, but don’t you have the true name of everyone? aka that is what is happening with KYC after all.. you’re getting a picture of both the ID and the ID next to the person for all persons in the transaction… and isn’t this the result of IDK Ian doing KYC and the church having a policy thereof which I think you already testified to here at this point in the trial ]
Q What has been different in these types of scams?
A Fake name, no ID
“in this case bitcoin clouds the money even more”
[but he got ID!!!!!! so lets get this right… he used a fake name and had no idea between the victim and the scammer, but the church got ID and it was a result of the raid and the church doing KYC that you got the ID? right? right ?]
A 2019 audio clip of free talk live is played
Ian “this show is generally got an older audience”
Ian “and also unfortunately the age of target scammer”
[it seems very much like they are trying to pull stuff out of context and are trying to suggest the church’s objective is to scam older folks]
Q What is in this folder?
A Signed agreements for assistant positions, termination agreements
On screen is an agreement between shire [free church I presuming?] and aria [reformed satanic church I’m presuming] for loan of $72,000, 50 BCH to spread crypto
A similar agreement is also shown that is signed between the shire free church and nobody
Play two related audios from BoA recorded call
[aka for quality and assurance purposes this call is being recorded … or something like that!]
Nobody: My first and and last name is nobody
Nobody: Actually fnk nobody
Nobody: Church of the invisible hand
BoA representative: How can I assist you?
Nobody: I’ve got an ongoing dispute with the bank for some time, you shut down account
Nobody: You still owe us $40,000
Nobody: Your belief is our customer defrauded someone else
Nobody: I would like a police report and full accounting of what happened with the money
Nobody: It has to come back or be explained
BoA representative: Ok awww….
[speechless]
Nobody: I do have a claim #, let me find my reading glasses
Nobody: I got church treasurer on the line
Ian: I got reference #
New witness
Name: Dannela Virel
Q Live?
A Portagon, Fl
Q How long?
A 30 years
76
2012 retired
widow since 2018
financial flanner
Q Dec of 2014 were you on a dating website?
A Match.com
I met Jerry Harmon and he worked on oil rigs
He lived in Raleigh, NC
We would Skype and text
Skype video site in beginning and then telephone calls later
Q Was an actual person on Skype?
A Yes
Yes, same voice as in video
Q How often?
A Several times of day
Talked about children, what he did in his time off, etc
Q You spoke to family too?
A Yes
A women claimed to be his sister
Q Did you make arrangements to see him?
A Yes, but when arrived was told to go to Alexandria, Virginia
Q Did you see him during your trip?
A No
Q Did he send you any gifts?
A Yes, but he didn’t know about them so it must have been someone else
[very bizarre, you’d think she’d just have said no if she knew they weren’t from the guy]
Q He’d send you photos of himself?
A Yes
Q His oil rig broke and asked me for money? Did you send money?
A Yes
I sent him wires from bank. I was given detailed instructions on where to send and what to put on the paperwork as dictated by Mr Freeman via Harmon.
Q What kind of photos were sent?
A Myself and ID/documents
Exhibit on screen of victim with ID shown
[aka the scammer’s victim, they’re not saying Ian scammed anyone, just that he worked with scammers, of which they have provided no evidence, and the governments own witnesses all testified to the fact the scammers didn’t work with Ian]
Q What did you send?
A I sent a photo to Mr Harmon
Q What is this photo?
A Wire transfer document
Q What does it say?
A I authorized….
[this is just a standard disclaimer that the church requires the deposit of cash or in this case the wirer of the funds to put on the receipt to ensure that they understand what the wire is for aka buying bitcoin, from localbitcoin.com or telegram, the username used, signature, and date, etc]
Q Date of wire?
A Jan 15, 2020
Q Sent to?
A Ian B Freeman
Q What is reference?
A Drilling equipment and virtual goods supplied to me by jerry
Q Date of 2nd wire?
A Jan 21, 2020
Q Did you know why you had to put rebeca down as to who you were buying bitcoin for?
A No
[ok, so, we’re all suppose to stop buying or selling bitcoin or anything else online because there are vulnerable people in the world? come on…]
Q Did you know what bitcoin was at the time?
A Yes
[I kid you not, she actually says she did know what she was buying at the time, but not who it was for]
Q Why did you use two banks?
A To avoid red flags
[doesn’t this sound awfully couched? How many times have you heard an old lady utilize the term red flag?]
Q Who told you this?
A Jerry
[I am skeptical here because I don’t think scammers know of or utilize this terminology ‘red flag’, but maybe I’m just not familiar enough with the scamming world]
Q Did you speak to freeman?
A yes
Q Did you call him?
A He called me, once or twice
Q What did he ask?
A If I wanted to send this money
[so this is evidence that the church’s policy was followed… when a ‘red flag’ occurs the thing a bank might do, but won’t do generally most of the time is take an additional step to approve a transaction or investigate and confirm… the government is evidencing Ian did more than the banks were doing and wasn’t even technically required to do it as he and the church are not a money transmitter and nor a financial institution that is regulated by the feds according to their own rules and of which the lawyers already had advised of]
Q Did Mr Freeman ask why you were buying drilling equipment?
A No
Q About what bitcoin was?
A No
The following day he said he was needing to pay tax at port so I broke up with him
Bank told me that wire was fraudulent and if you accept fraudulent wire you would be on the hook for it so I declined it
[I’m pretty sure she is talking about the scammer here given she didn’t have a relationship with Ian]
Q Where did money come from?
A Sale of plane, money I made, inheritance from mother and partner
Q How has this impacted you?
A Changed how I live
Defense Cross Examines ‘Victim’ Witness
The lawyer starts off with kind words saying “I was touched by your story”
Q This Harmon guy was a fabrication?
A Yes
Q You invested a lot in the guy not just money?
A I did
Q After one video did you preserve it?
A I have no idea
Q Did government ask for it?
A No
Q Charlotte was a setup right?
A Yes
Q You got to Alexandria you had specific place to meet?
A No
Q He never sent flowers?
A He never said that, but sent in his name despite this he seemed unaware
Q Did Chase bank advice this might be a problem?
A No
No one managed my money
Q They didn’t question what you did with your money?
A Right
Q You did wire with other bank to avoid authorities?
A Yes, Jerry said to
Q You never asked about Rebeca?
A That is correct
Q Two short calls with Ian Freeman?
A Yes
Q Asked if really wanted to send money? He was concerned?
A Yes
[ok, so red flag, warned, sent money anyway, exactly what the bank would do in most cases assuming they even went that far as the evidence shows from these government witnesses that the banks rarely questioned transactions]
Q Did he know who Jerry Harmon was?
A I don’t know
Q Did Harmon know Ian?
A He represented himself as knowing Ian
Q He represented himself as a lot of things that were untrue, right?
A That is correct
[yikes!]
Back to FBI case manager agent
Prosecutor asks questions first
Q Do you recall how much was being discussed?
A About $350,000 and $40,000
Q Documents found at radio studio?
A Yes
BoA audio played
Ian “My name is nobody and church of the invisible hand”
Ian: “So BoA decided they would close my church account, but decided that a wire was fraudulent so went to local branch and James Baker came (Aria) and he certified that it was not fraud and notarized it.”
Ian: “No one in your department indicated they got it.”
Ian: “You are sitting on $350,000 and I’d like to get that back”
Q Was that nobody?
A No, it was Ian
[just love this, cause he’s presumably authorized to speak on nobody’s behalf]
Search warrants for emails: shirebtc@gmail.com
From Ian to Chris
We don’t check it because vending machine is part of church and respect privacy
Q Letter say bank wants to know source of funds?
A Yes
Q Did he reply?
A Yes
Ian said: “We have received contributions from people in various parts of the US, is that a problem?”
Reply “No, not a problem”
Ian: “Are you referring to check that came out?”
Q Any discussion of bitcoin?
A No
One email says
“Never invest more you can afford to lose”
email (FinCEN letter):
Threatening FinCEN Letter Displayed On Screen
Another letter from Attorney Seth Hipple is displayed about how a vending machine is not an ATM and no KYC is required to sell crypto from ones own wallet.
Letter Written By Attorney Seth Hipple Explaining Why Church Is Not A Money Service Business
Another set of letters is shown on the screen to at least one or more banks in an effort to find a less hostile bank and identify what the issue is exactly that causes banks to close accounts. The letter asks one of the banks is it threats or fines by government?
Plays video clip where I believe it is Ian talking about vending machine and explains that it is like candy, can’t be taxed, can’t be stolen, I didn’t ask permission to sell Bitcoin.
[note: Ian’s not required to ask permission to sell Bitcoin as prior letters from attorney clearly state no registration is required at state or federal levels within the context of the churchs crypto operations]
That’s it for day 6!
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