“We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error undetected will flourish and subvert.” –J. Robert Oppenheimer
The first one is always the toughest, and then it gets much easier, so we’ll muddle through this together.
As Friday usually begins the weekend(s) for most of us, I propose weekend things for the theme of the threads: porches, pools, pergolas, picnics, and, of course, patios. This time is to be relaxing and a sort of time out – when feasible – from the horrors of our reality.
I was out a good portion of Thursday celebrating my heritage, so this may be a little lacking.
Well, there you have it folks. A gas generator being used to charge a dead battery in an electric car. My day is complete now!pic.twitter.com/yVmiymy31U
The discourse on this site is to be CIVIL – no name calling, baiting, or threatening others here is allowed. Those who are so inclined may visit Wolf’s other sanctuary, the U-Tree, to slog it out. There is also a “rescue” thread there for members of the Tree to rendezvous if the main site goes kablooey. A third site has been added for site outages of longer duration.
This site is a celebration of the natural rights endowed to humans by our Creator as well as those enshrined in the Bill of Rights adopted in the founding documents of the United States of America. Within the limits of law, how we exercise these rights is part of the freedom of our discussion.
Fellow tree dweller Wheatie gave us some good reminders on the basics of civility in political discourse:
No food fights.
No running with scissors.
If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
And Auntie DePat’s requests:
If you see something has not been posted, do us all a favor, and post it. Please, do not complain that it has not been done yet.
The scroll wheel on your mouse can be your friend. As mature adults, please use it here in the same manner you would in avoiding online porn.
16When he summoned a famine on the land, and broke every staff of bread, 17he had sent a man ahead of them, Joseph, who was sold as a slave. 18His feet were hurt with fetters, his neck was put in a collar of iron; 19until what he had said came to pass the word of the LORD tested him. 20The king sent and released him, the ruler of the peoples set him free; 21he made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his possessions,
Some people really do have too much time on their hands.
Companion Planting, a favorite with organic farmers.
Native Americans were our first farmers, including the Cherokee, who adopted and adapted an interdependent farming system known colloquially as the Three Sisters. The main characters are corn, beans, and squash or pumpkin, called selu, tuya, and iya in the Cherokee language. Each of them provided foodstuffs, of course, but their role wasn’t singular. Farmers hilled up the three together in mounds, not rows. The cornstalks formed the center pole, giving the beans purchase to climb sunward. Nodules on the weblike bean roots returned vital nitrogen to the soil. Broad squash leaves shaded the ground, slowing evaporation, and the plant itself produced an allelopathic substance that reduced weeds when it washed off in the rain. Meanwhile, the prickly hairs on the ropey squash vines deterred marauding animals….
What is often left out, is this type of farming, although it is labor intensive produces more food per acre than mono-cropping according to a study by ETH Zurich.
Traditional farming.
This type of farming takes into account the type of land and the interplay of animals and plants. Crops are best on well watered, flat fertile land without rocks. (It is amazing how New England soil can GROW ROCKS each year.) Hay can be grown on more hilly & rocky ground. The steepest ground can be used for pastures, orchards or woodlots. Pigs can be run under the trees in orchards to eat the dropped fruit that are likely full of bugs or in woodlots to scrounge for acorns, insects and other eatables . They are also great ‘garbage disposals’. Chickens and other fowl do a great job of eating the bugs that attack crops and fruit trees. Manure and crop rotation keep the soil in good shape and if a field becomes poor, grass with clover (a nitrogen fixing legume) can be planted and livestock run on it for a few years to return it to productive health. Various sources suggest agricultural land is split into 70% pastureland, and 30% arable/crop land. Vegans seems to miss this point. Much of the land that is flat, is fine for pasture but too dry for crops. Plant Types: I. C3 Plants, Comparison With C4 and Cam Plants
KöppenClimate Classification Map
Monoculture farming
This type of industrial farming grows a single crop usually using lots of fertilizers, pesticides and water. Without crop rotation it exhausts the soil. In animals it is called CAFO “concentrated animal feeding operation” These CAFOs are based on feeding large quantities of TAXPAYER SUBSIDIZED grain in a confined area, where the animals are often fed antibiotics to prevent illness from crowding and the overfeeding of grain. The main goal is to make $$$ and not to preserve the land for the next generation. My farm lost over two foot of top soil in 50 years according to the 1945 county soil survey. This was thanks to monoculture tobacco farming. It was sold because there was no organic matter left in the soil and therefore would no longer produce a decent crop.
SPS measures were found in the original GATT Articles, mainly Article XX “General Exceptions,” and later in the 1979 Tokyo Round Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade, a plurilateral agreement known as the Standards Code. The intent of the Agreement was to ensure that when SPS (Sanitary and Phytosanitary) measures were applied, they were used only to the extent necessary to ensure food safety and animal and plant health, and not to unduly restrict market access for other countries (James and Anderson, 1998; Roberts, 1998).
1957 Poultry Products Inspection Act — These acts mandate sensory or organoleptic (sight, smell, and touch) inspection of all carcasses. This was why the USA used to have the safest food in the world.
1961 PVP is the Plant Variety Protection — The International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants: Gave seed companies a monopoly on only the commercial multiplication and the marketing of seeds.
1980 the Supreme Court decision in Diamond v. Chakrabarthy, 447 U.S. 303 enabled living organisms to be patented
1986 Global commodity prices slumped in the mid eighties Pressure from commodity exporters inspired a decision to pursue Agricultural Policy reform at Uruguay round of GATT. It was lead by Under Secretary of Agriculture Dan Amstutz. <=== A REALLY NASTY PERSON!
Launched in 1986, the General Agreement on Tariffs & Trade (GATT) Uruguay Round of international trade talks has been dominated by a confrontation between the US and the EC over farm policy reform. Both sides proclaim their commitment to devising a GATT regime which will bring an end to the anarchy in world agricultural markets, yet neither is willing to address the underlying cause of the present malaise: structural over-production in their own farm sectors and the resulting accumulation of surpluses. The use of export subsidies to put these surpluses on to world markets caused developing countries severe trade and food security problems in the 1980s; and a Uruguay Round deal is unlikely to bring any relief. What it will do, however, is introduce new regulations which, enshrined in international trade law, will restrict the right of developing countries to manage their own food systems. Most importantly, the use of trade measures to control food imports and price support measures to promote staple food production could be severely constrained, or banned, by a ‘farm superpower’ GATT agreement. http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a769339885~db=all (Defunct URL)
The U.S. comprehensive proposal for agricultural trade reform in October 1989 covered:
* market access: convert all nontariff barriers to bound tariffs;
make substantial cuts in these and existing tariffs over 10 years;
use tariff rate quotas and safeguard measures to facilitate transition;
- export competition: phase out export subsidies over five years;
prohibit export restrictions on foodstuffs imposed because of short domestic supplies;
* internal support: phase out most trade-distorting measures;
discipline those that interfere less; permit those with small
trade effect that meet specific criteria;
* sanitary and phytosanitary measures: place these under an international process for dispute settlement and harmonization. http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/1999/12/30/000178830_98101901511298/.../multi_page.txt (now unavailable to the serfs)
1991 PVP monopoly has applied to seed multiplication and also to the harvest and sometimes the final product as well. Previously unlimited right of farmers to save seed for the following year’s planting has been changed into an optional exception. Only if national government allows, can farm-saved seed still be used, and a royalty has to be paid to the seed company even for seeds grown on-farm. (https://web.archive.org/web/20110113061506/http://www.grain.org/seedling_files/smar2002.pdf)
1993 Published: International HACCP guidelines developed by the Codex Alimentarius, a joint Programme of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO). revised in 1997. http://www.fao.org/DOCREP/005/Y1579E/y1579e03.htm
“Measures to trace animals…to provide assurances on…safety ..have been incorporated into international standards… The Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures…Aims to ensure that governments DO NOT USE QUARANTINE AND FOOD SAFETY REQUIREMENTS as Unjustified trade barriers… It provides Member countries with a right to implement traceability {NAIS} as an SPS measure.” <== Well there went your disease prevention methods. Thanks Dan.
“Development of risk-based systems has been heavily influenced by the WTO Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures ”
WTO
OIE report Oct 2008 http://www.oie.int/eng/normes/mcode/en_chapitre_1.6.1.htm
Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) introduction of intellectual property rules on plants, animals and seeds under WTO’s Agreement “could damage the livelihoods of these 1.4 billion farmers worldwide and undermine food sovereignty and food security ” Joint Communication from the African Group to the Council for Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (2003)
September 1995, Catherine Bertini, Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Program, and former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, stated “Food is power. We use it to change behavior. Some may call that bribery. We do not apologize.”UN’s 4th World Conference on Women: Beijing, China. http://ngin.tripod.com/280702c.htm
September, 1995, USDA’s Food Safety & Inspection Service presented a 600-page document Farm-To-Table – CONTROL of every step in the food chain from production to HOME PREPARATION.Http://haccpalliance.org/sub/news/AAMPReport.pdf
July 1996 Major re-structuring of USDA food policies: Pathogen Reduction/Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) Systems rule. Under the HACCP rule, industry is responsible for assessing potential food safety hazards and systematically preventing and controlling those hazards. FSIS is responsible for verifying that establishments’ HACCP systems are workingUSDA – THE EVOLUTION OF RISK-BASED INSPECTION (It is YOUR HEALTH they are risking…)
January 1998USDA – Pathogen Reduction and HACCP Systems…and Beyond
1996 The destruction of animals, Disposal procedures and Decontamination operation procedures published
This Manual of procedures for disease eradication by stamping out is based on The destruction of animals, Disposal procedures and Decontamination operation procedures manuals of AUSVETPLAN (second edition, 1996). AUSVETPLAN is a series of technical response plans that describe the Australian approach to an exotic animal disease incursion. The procedures are adapted in this manual to apply to eradication of foci of serious infectious diseases of domestic livestock in any country where they may occur.
December 2004 Union president Stan Painter receive reports from union member that SRM regulations are not uniformly enforced. Painter writes to the Assistant FSIS Administrator for Field Operation about enforcement problem. USDA responses by placed Painter on disciplinary investigation status and contacts the USDA Office of Inspector General about filing criminal charges…..It (the recall of Hallmark/Westland Meat) highlights one of the problems that we have attempted to raise with the agency ever since 1996 when the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) inspection system was put in place. There seems to be too much reliance on an honor system for the industry to police itself. While the USDA investigation is still on going at Hallmark/Westland, a couple of facts have emerged that point to a system that can be gamed by those who want to break the law. It (HACCP) shifted the responsibility for food safety over to the companies .
Stan Painter
December 2004 Freedom of Information Act requests August 2005 Over 1000 non-compliance reports – weighing some 16 pounds — were turned over
When the Hallmark/Westland scandal broke in 2008, the agency promised Congress that FSIS inspectors would receive additional training to enforce the provisions of the HMSA. All we received was an on‐line training module that we could access on the internet to refresh our responsibilities under the Act. There was no follow‐up by the agency management to emphasize the importance of enforcing the provisions of the Act.
Stan Painter
This is a transcript of the USDA patting Stan Painter and John Munsell on the head before blowing them off: Stan Painter was not invited….”I mean I know the Agency invited Stan Painter (ph.) but unfortunately they didn’t give him his authorization code. So he’s not here. So we have no inspectors here….”
This is the Senate hearing where Stan Painter is ripped to shreds by the USDA – FSIS.
…Question. Is USDA’s investigation of union president Stan Painter retaliatory?
Answer. USDA’s investigation into the validity of allegations that Specified Risk Material (SRM) regulations are not being effectively carried out or properly enforced was conducted solely to ensure the safety of our Nation’s food supply.
Question. Stan Painter, the president of the food inspectors union, set forth a series of concerns about SRM removal in a letter to the agency in early December. I understand that FSIS has responded to the letter by launching a personal investigation of Mr. Painter. In January, for example, FSIS flew Mr. Painter to Washington DC and questioned him for 3 hours, to try to get him to divulge the sources of his information. However, FSIS has a database of non-compliance reports, which should document instances in which inspectors have reported non-compliance with SRM removal. Why has FSIS chosen to investigate Mr. Painter personally instead of addressing the questions and concerns raised by his letter?
Answer. In a December 8, 2004, letter, the chairman of the National Joint Council of Food Inspection Locals made unsubstantiated and non-specific allegations that FSIS is not properly enforcing regulations requiring the removal of Specified Risk Materials (SRMs) from beef products. Because of the serious nature of the allegations contained in Mr. Painter’s Letter, FSIS immediately initiated an inquiry into those allegations which included an informal interview of the union chairman. During that interview, Mr. Painter refused to provide specific information to support the letter’s allegations. That inquiry subsequently resulted in a formal investigation by FSIS to determine the validity of the allegations. As part of that investigation, Mr. Painter was formally interviewed on two occasions in January. The FSIS investigation has been completed and the allegations concerning improper enforcement of SRM regulations were not substantiated..… [Remember the FOIA request resulted in Over 1000 non-compliance reports – weighing some 16 pounds — being turned over…]
I ran across a comment made in another forum that will chill the blood of any farmers or small business people reading this article. It shows the cover-up for large corporations and targeting of Mom & Pop businesses is systemic within the US bureaucracy.
“…worked for the EPA in oil field site inspections. Consistently he [his brother] was tasked with fining, and shutting down mom, and pop outfits, but consistently was ordered to leave the big boys like Exxon Mobil alone..” – Sancho @ ATS
1996 “Freedom to Farm” legislation of 1996. Cargill played a significant role in pressurizing the US government to move away from its farmer support programmes and eventually adopt the Federal Agricultural Improvement and Reform Act otherwise known as Freedom to Farm, or to its critics “Freedom to fail”. — Corporate Watch
The latest assault on the right of farmers to save seed is a technology developed by USDA and the seed industry. In March of this year the USDA and Delta & Pine Land Co., a Monsanto subsidiary, proudly announced that they received a patent on a technique that genetically alters seed so that it will not germinate if re-planted the following season.
Hope Shand
April 16, 1999 A veritable who’s who of corporate agribusiness writes a letter to Clinton about WTO meeting in Seattle: They want to establishment a three year goal, and a more effective set of trade rules for the agricultural sector – The Calamity Howler
1999 UK traceback (traceability) program in place, millions of animals are killed in the 2000 outbreak of Foot & Mouth. “depopulation” is used instead of Vaccine due to OIE requirement for returning to Disease free status SEE: http://www.fao.org/AG/AGAINFO/resources/documents/Vets-l-2/5engArt.txt
March 28, 2000 Senate -“Freedom to Farm” becomes “Freedom to Fail” The bill has made sweeping changes in agriculture–it has produced one of the worst economic crises that rural American has ever experienced. Tens of thousands of farm families are in jeopardy of losing their livelihoods and life savings. http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?r106:S28MR0-0011: (URL is dead) “ According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, almost 90 percent of the total income of rancher or farmer households now comes from outside earnings.” — Multinational Monitor
July 2000, USDA officials claimed in court hearing that, “The farmers have no rights. No right to be heard before the court, no right to independent testing, and no right to question the USDA.” –– Linda Faillace: Mad sheep
2001 Issues for the Agricultural Talks and WTO Trade Round:
“The un-scientific so-called “precautionary principle” is unfortunately being successfully and constantly misused as justification to immobilize science and its applications, as well as to confuse the public. ..The so-called principle, which is in fact a concept rather than a principle, is indeed a wonderful tool to avoid delicate political decision. .. the so-called precautionary principle – in reality a concept rather than a scientific principle – should not be used as a tool to stop innovation, even under the guise of a moratorium, which is what has happened in the EU today. There will always be scientific uncertainty in any scientific field and reasonable approaches to risk management must be adopted to manage this uncertainty. Prohibition must only be used as an extreme risk management tool. Abuses of the precaution concept to justify political positions, or to cloak distorting import restriction policies, should equally be avoided and expressively exposed. The European Commission’s recent white paper was helpful in clarifying the limits to be set on the use of the so-called “precautionary principle.” …. The internationalization of the food chain demands that identification, registration, tracking and tracing systems also become internationalized. — Mr Auxenfans
After 31 years with Monsanto, Mr. Auxenfans, retired from the Monsanto Corporation at the end of 1999 as the former Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the Agricultural Division, and its Chairman for the Europe-Africa operations. He is a member of the Board of Directors at both the IPC and the IAMA.
2001 Polish entry into the European Union: EU Chair states intent to remove 1 million Poles from their land (using regulations as a weapon) The Battle to Save the Polish Countryside:
2002, the National Institute of Animal Agriculture (NIAA) began a major push for NAIS (traceability).
Listen up, America. Apparently, there’s a big, new threat to our national security: Terrorist chickens. Luckily, though, our national government, with the support of agribusiness corporations and high-tech firms, have a plan to tag and track every one of these terrible terrorists…. Holy George Orwell! Forced surveillance of livestock and pets – who came up with this? The National Institute of Animal Agriculture – a lobbying front for the likes of Cargill, Monsanto, Schering-Plough, and other agribusiness giants, as well as for the makers of the billions of electronic tags that Americans will be forced to buy. Since 2002, this tiny group has quietly pushed the Bush ag department to impose this mandatory program on all livestock owners, literally invading our homes and farms, while trampling our privacy and property rights
2002 Effect of new Ag policies on farmers in USA and Mexico:
FTAA is essentially an expansion of NAFTA. But NAFTA has proven to be a nightmare for working families and the environment. A look at NAFTA’s legacy shows why these kinds of “free trade” agreements should be opposed. Working families suffer: In the US, more than 765,000 jobs have disappeared as a result of NAFTA. When these laid off workers find new jobs, they earn 23 percent less on average than at their previous employment. In Mexico, manufacturing wages fell 21 percent from 1995 to 1999, and have only started to recover. The percentage of Mexicans living in poverty has also grown since NAFTA went into effect. The environment suffers: In the maquiladora zones along the US-Mexico border, the increased pollution and the improper disposal of chemical wastes have dramatically raised rates of hepatitis and birth defects. NAFTA should be repealed, not expanded.
March 6, 2004 “It is important to note that no animal identification program will prevent an introduction of animal disease, ensure safe food or prevent a recall.” – SCOTT CHARBO, Chief Information Officer at USDA
“Tracking of Cattle Becomes Key Goal,” Houston Chronicle, March 6, 2004, p.1.
“According to APHIS-USDA (2004a), the increasing number of animal disease outbreaks that have been reported around the globe over the past decade, and the single US cow that tested positive for BSE, have greatly intensified public interest in developing a national identification program for the purpose of protecting animal health.
Marshall (2004a) reported that USDA Secretary Ann Veneman announced on April 30, 2004:
(a) USDA will now move forward on a National Animal Identification System (NAIS) using $18.8 million to start the program and with $33 million more in the FY-2005 federal budget,
(b) the frame work will be “technology neutral” but RFID will be the method of choice to get the program going as soon as possible,
(c) the USAIP will be modified to protect producer confidentiality (against inappropriate use of the Freedom Of Information Act—FOIA), and (d) NAIS will initially be voluntary, with premises IDs assigned in Fall 2004 and individual animal IDs used at a later date. http://www.theisef.com/CMDocs/isef/05Traceability.pdf [Dead URL]
January 30, 2004, Bush signed Homeland Security Presidential Directive-9, “to defend the agriculture and food system against terrorist attacks, major disasters, and other emergencies.” USDA’s Jeremy Stump, says, “It’s from farm to fork.” The order covers animals and crops – the entire food supply chain – and includes shared operations with the CIA. — CBS News
January 2005:Guide to good farming practices: This draft guide to good farming practices for animal production food safety was taken from the Report of the Meeting of the OIE Terrestrial Animal Health Standards Commission (Paris, 17-28 January 2005) www.oie.int/boutique/extrait/25berlingueri823836_0.pdf?PHPSESSID=64969a28688594daf57a7263f42fb1ce (Dead URL– I have a copy on my computer and it is jaw dropping. Think Max security facility…. With guards and health papers required for visitors.)
June 2006 Global Diversity Treaty:Standard Material Transfer Agreement (SMTA) a standardized contract that will enable much easier access to crop diversity. [ germplasm for patenting] royalty payment (1.1% of sales) is paid only if product is unavailable for further breeding and research. Funds will be devoted to conservation efforts. Translation: Bio-techs Corporations steal seed from third world farmers, patents it and pay money to Bioversity International
December 2006 “In the EU, there is now a list of ‘official’ vegetable varieties. Seed that is not on the list cannot be ‘sold’ to the ‘public’ To keep something on the list costs thousands of pounds each year…Hundreds of thousands of old heirloom varieties (the results of about eleven thousand years of plant breeding by our ancestors) are being lost forever . https://web.archive.org/web/20080601185703/http://www.defra.gov.uk/planth/pvs/pbr/app-procedure.htm & http://www.realseeds.co.uk/terms.html
Feb 2007 GRAIN press release USA: Seed companies want to ban farm-saved seeds A new report from GRAIN reveals the new lobbying offensive from the global seed industry to make it a crime for farmers to save seeds for the next year’s planting. See History at: https://web.archive.org/web/20070528091510/http://www.gmfreeireland.org/news/2007/feb.php
Feb 2007: U.S. Department of Agriculture’s “risk-based” inspection plan: Food Safety and Inspection Service will focus more on plants (factories) judged to have a higher risk of contamination. (if there are no complaints or non Compliance reports no inspections made) http://articles.latimes.com/2007/feb/23/business/fi-meat23 (requires fee to view in archives)
Feb 2007 Clones declared save: FDA decides based on “risk assessment” that meat and milk from adult clones and their offspring are as safe to consume as those from standard animals. “There has, of course, been no public debate about whether US citizens, let alone the recipients of US exports, wish to consume such fare, and surveys of US public opinion show a decided lack of appetite for cloned food. But we may not have the choice. The FDA has already concluded labelling should not be required “ — IndyMedia Org
2007 “In 1981, there were 181 FSIS employees per billion pounds of meat and poultry inspected and passed; in FY 2007, FSIS employed fewer than 88 workers per billion pounds “ — House Oversight Committee 2008
April 2007 Monsanto, Cargill and Maseca-ADM sign agreements to establish regional seed banks in the center and south of Mexico. https://web.archive.org/web/20080123221104/http://www.counterpunch.org/ross11212007.html
September 2007 Arctic Seed Vault http://www.physorg.com/news90236313.html
A Premises has no protection under the Constitution of the United States while property always has the exclusive rights of the owner tied to it. Property rights are protected by the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the Constitution. The word Premise is a synonym for the word tenement… Websters New World Dictionary 1960 College Edition defines Premises as the part of a deed or lease that states its reason the parties involved and the property in conveyance. Webster then defines conveyance as the transfer of ownership of real property from one person to another. It is quite obvious that the bureaucrats in Washington had a very good reason to use the term premises and never mention PROPERTY…. Page 22 The New User Guide-USDA
The Truth about Premises Identification, Before you sign up did they release this information to you? premises identification number, or PIN, is then assigned to that location associating it with the mailing address. Page 22 The New User Guide It is important to remember that the premises identification number (PIN) is assigned to a geophysical location. If an owner or entity sells his/her farm, the next operators of the premises use the original premises identification number that had been assigned to that location. If the seller buys a new location to build a new operation that never had livestock, he/she would register that location and obtain a new premises identification number. It will carry with the land forever….. That means this PIN must be disclosed when selling the property.
January 8 2008 ~In the UK Defra has dropped the word ‘farming’ from its title. “Defra and the Treasury’s joint vision document of 2006 presented to the EU argued that supports for farming should be completely abandoned.. farming is a drain on the country’s finances and we are in a “post agricultural era”…“ —Warmwell
The terminator gene technology, or genetic use restriction technoligy (GURT0 is the genetic modification of plants to make them produce sterile seeds in second generation…This technology was patented by the US Departmetn of Agriculture and the Seed company, Delta and Pine Land Company … During 2002 Monsanto acquired Delta and Pind Land (DPL)….
According to Vandana Shiva the termanator gene was stolen from India.
May 2008: Creekstone Farms loses appeals for right to test for BSE (Mad cow disease) http://www.animallaw.info/cases/causfd2007wl1020786.htm
2008: Documents USDA cuts and changes in poultry inspection https://web.archive.org/web/20080529054505/http://www.organicconsumers.org/irrad/industry.cfm
2008 Who’s who in Corporate take over of food. https://web.archive.org/web/20080209021546/http://www.politicalfriendster.com/showPerson.php?id=4185&name=Biotech-Brigade
FAO is supporting harmonization of seed rules and regulations in Africa and Central Asia in order to stimulate the development of a vibrant seed industry…An effective seed regulation harmonization process involves dialogue amongst all relevant stakeholders from both private and public sectors. Seed quality assurance, variety release, plant variety protection, biosafety, plant quarantine and phytosanitary issues are among the major technical areas of a regional harmonized seed system. The key to a successful seed regulation harmonization is a strong political will of the governments involved
2008: USDA is moving toward supporting fewer labs nationwide, with the remaining labs serving as regional labs and supporting larger geographic areas. The first-point testing program is the “early warning system” for the brucellosis program, enabling detection of infection prior to sale of cattle within the state. With the discontinuation of first-point testing, slaughter testing will become the primary method for brucellosis surveillance. Texas Animal Health Commission
Alongside this, as hoped for by designers of NAFTA, has been ‘modernisation’ – a sharp decline in the share of agriculture and allied sectors in the workforce. From nearly 27% in 1991 it declined to slightly less than 15% in 2006, losing more than 2 million jobs[18]. Again small and marginal farmers and agricultural labour bore the brunt, as evidenced by very sharp decline in the number of rural households. According to a study by Jose Romero and Alicia Puyana carried out for the federal government of Mexico, between 1992 and 2002, the number of agricultural households fell an astounding 75% – from 2.3 million to 575, 000[19]. There has been a significant increase in migration out of rural areas as livelihoods are lost and farms have been abandoned.
Ejidos are a system of community-owned lands which, in some cases, have been owned “in trust” by communities for centuries. Ejido lands were protected from sale as a result of the 1910 Mexican Revolution. However, a significant amount of ejido land passed into private hands during the 1980s and 1990s due to extreme credit pressures and changes to the Mexican Constitution. These constitutional changes allow, for the first time since the Revolution, the sale of ejido land to private owners. The changes were a crucial concession by Mexico to ensure the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1993.
2008: The draft guide to good farming practices from International Standards Organization. Sources: http://www.oie.int/eng/publicat/rt/2502/review25-2BR/25-berlingueri823-836.pdf (Removed from archives)
2008: Good farming practices lead to transition to sustaniable Agriculture Slide prsentation to FAO Source: http://www.fao.org/prods/PP6401/GoodFarming/tsld001.htm (Removed from archives)
2009 The Largest Wave of Suicides in History
Farmer suicides in India: Now the full toll—surely among the largest sustained waves of suicides in human history—is becoming apparent. And as Sainath emphasizes, these numbers still underestimate the disaster, since women farmers are excluded from the official statistics… It is important that the figure of 150,000 farm suicides is a bottom line estimate…. As Professor Nagaraj puts it: “There is likely to be a serious underestimation of suicides…what has driven the huge increase in farm suicides, particularly in the Big Four or ’Suicide SEZ’ States? “Overall,” says Professor Nagaraj, “there exists since the mid-90s, an acute agrarian crisis. That’s across the country. In the Big Four and some other states, specific factors compound the problem…. Cultivation costs have shot up in these high input zones, with some inputs seeing cost hikes of several hundred per cent… Meanwhile, prices have crashed, as in the case of cotton, due to massive U.S.-EU subsidies to their growers. All due to price rigging with the tightening grip of large corporations over the trade in agricultural commodities.”
2013 – Biologist Pushpa Bhargava spoke of terminator seeds being sold to farmers in India.
While the debate rages as to whether certain seeds contain a ‘terminator gene’ or more likely some other trait that at least diminishes seed virility, the outcome of global policies that have benefited big agribusiness, as well as seed patenting and seed monopoly (and the swallowing the seed companies’ pesticides!) has been the widespread termination of farmers’ lives in India. With reports of collapsed cotton yields throughout the state of Maharashtra in India , ‘cutting edge’ biotechnology is proving to be terminal on many levels.
We are an independent, non-governmental organization. We are a global network of national standards bodies with one member per country. Our job is to make International Standards.
We are coordinated by a Central Secretariat in Geneva, Switzerland…
ISO standards for agriculture cover all aspects of farming, from irrigation and global positioning systems (GPS) to agricultural machinery, animal welfare and sustainable farm management. They help to promote effective farming methods while ensuring that everything in the supply chain – from farm to fork [Where have I read that before…]– meets adequate levels of safety and quality…. Who benefits from ISO standards for agriculture? INDUSTRY, consumers, regulators…..
Guess what another ship from that Evergreen company ran aground.
This one wasn’t really leaving the US, but, man those ship pilots can’t seem to avoid running aground.
The whole purpose of tank treads is to go off-road and flank civilian areas… the fact a tank is on the road should be a red flag….a drone conveniently flying over head another. They painted a Z on a 50 year old out of service tank and blew it up… that’s your war? https://t.co/bTGcuO2x1r
"We heard the president stand here and talk about 'buy American, made American.' Well, we can't do that without American energy." pic.twitter.com/NecIvJIAd6
— Congressman Fred Keller (@RepFredKeller) March 16, 2022
And here all you good Q-Treepers thought the wearin’ of the green would be the theme of the day. Nope.
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One of the obstacles to full understanding of just what the enemy is all about revolves around the concept of symbolism.
Today we explore just how far back the symbolism goes. It goes back A LONG WAY.
Gail brought up the topic of Alice in Wonderland being symbolic. I went searching and found this:
https://youtu.be/vTJ0Emfo0Wg
There are some errors in the narration. Lewis Carroll was NOT Jack the Ripper, and Baphomet is the demon of human sacrifice, but otherwise it’s interesting – if really disturbing – stuff.
And…as far as symbols go:
The Christians also saw hares in this symbolic light and associated them with death and resurrection. Thus, many early Christian gravestones include depictions of hares.
Many churches, illuminated manuscripts and breastplates throughout Europe, especially in Germany and England, depict three hares in a circle. The three ears one sees make a triangle in the center, symbolizing the Holy Trinity: “Drei Hasen und der Ohren drei und doch hat Keiner mehr als Zwei” which means “Three hares and three ears and yet none [hare] has more than two [ears].”
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1Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; 2but his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night. 3He is like a tree planted by streams of water, that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers. 4The wicked are not so, but are like chaff which the wind drives away. 6for the LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.
The backstory on last week’s Sea Island meeting IS HERE. We all know these people, though sometimes we can be distracted by their Machiavellian schemes and manipulations. Exactly on cue, the Associated Press steps up to deliver the advanced revelations of the quiet discussion:
(VIA AP) – Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan is planning trips to Iowa and New Hampshire. Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., is considering a rough timeline for a potential presidential announcement. And allies of Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., are openly talking up her White House prospects.
More than two years before the next presidential election, a shadow primary is already beginning to take shape among at least three fierce Republican critics of former President Donald Trump to determine who is best positioned to occupy the anti-Trump lane in 2024.
Their apparent willingness to run — even if Trump does, as is widely expected — represents a shift from previous years when “Never Trump” operatives failed to recruit any GOP officeholders to challenge the incumbent president. But with the 2024 contest almost in view, the question is no longer whether one of Trump’s prominent Republican critics will run, but how many will mount a campaign and how soon they will announce.
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It looks like the good little globalists are going to give it a shot: staying in power.
This is not something new in America. In the 1960s, such machinations were noticed by a prelate. This quote is part of the answer. When the globalists make their moves, it is almost always in the mode of leaving God out of the equation.
[Archbishop Fulton] Sheen said, “Patriotism is a virtue that was allied to the old virtue of the Greeks and Latin called pietas, meaning love of God, love of neighbor, love of country. And when one goes out, all go out. When we no longer have love of God, we no longer have love of country.”
Sheen continued, “We started our country with a revolution. Revolution is in the air today. In fact, the arguments, today, are that we started that way, why not continue it? We do live in America with a revolutionary tradition. But the question is, what kind of revolution should we have?”
He then tells the story of a soldier who fought at Concord. The soldier was asked why he fought, why he went to Concord. The answer came, “For one reason, that we might govern ourselves.” Sheen goes on to say, “Now, what’s the revolution of today? VIOLENCE! Violence just for the sake of violence … the new type of revolt, which involves the destruction of everything in the past. And these people who are actuating violence today, claim they are in line with the American Revolution. THEY ARE NOT!”
The point Venerable Fulton Sheen makes is that our nation was founded, and has thrived, by the understanding that our rights and liberties come from God. The revolution he was viewing in the 1960s, and we are seeing reenacted today, is a rejection of God, in favor of man.
Yes, we the people are revolting, albeit quietly at this point. So far, we have not given the globalists a reason to really crack down on us here in the USA. Why? Well, January 6, 2021, is part of it. So is the matter of mass surveillance as explained by BioClandestine and Anonymous Conservative in any number of his posts.
Vox Day looks at the failure of the Canadian Convoy to accomplish anything. The biggest problem we face is people presenting this narrative that our problem is we face bad leaders, or corrupt leaders, or even “the Elites” who are bent on dominating us. It feeds into this natural sense that you meet your enemy on their battlefield. So Trudeau is the enemy, and you go to Ottawa and face him down. But the truth is, if you see “them,” they are not the real enemy. They are a distraction. The real enemy is thus far unknown to us. It is a shadow, it is a gust of ether, that evaporates into nothing when you look at it, because that is how this enemy is designed. It is a covert intelligence operation, and it is organized. Read Vox’s account, and then understand that on the other side were intelligence professionals who had surveillance files on everyone present, flowsheets showing interrelationships among convoy members, a plan to infiltrate the right people into the right places to create chaos, and more importantly they long ago seized complete situational awareness and control over government. They knew everyone in government, had decades of surveillance files on all of them, blackmail on probably all of them, and they installed all of them in office in rigged elections. The real battlefield, is the political establishment, not the hearts and minds of the people. The real war, should have been to infiltrate all those truckers into government positions, political parties, local politics, and to expose the other side’s surveillance to the people. Instead everybody drove to Ottawa and spent a week sitting around in their trucks, hoping people whose votes don’t even count would like them. It was the completely wrong battlefield. We are in an intelligence war. Until that is exposed by exposing the surveillance, nothing will change.
And that is the main issue we all seem to face. A surveillance state that we didn’t vote for is hiding among us. They don’t want the patriot sorts in the government at all, so the fix is in to keep the globalist WEF trainees from “losing” at the polls even as we try to keep the protest and revolt peaceful and non-violent.
However, it would be short sighted to claim that the convoy(s) achieved nothing. If anything, they reminded the globalists that the people are no longer asleep completely.
Meanwhile:
The founder of the Freedom Convoy is welcomed home after being locked up for weeks by Trudeau. https://t.co/iv5xh66MmB
(I don’t remember who brought this to a daily in the comments, but thanks.)
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I’m just asking. I want YOUR opinions. I don’t have an opinion yet.
Like the case of the many different COVID vaccines, this is complicated – possibly even MORE complicated, if some of the vaccines are substantially “safe”. There are many different vaccines, seemingly for different target age groups.
Some are produced by Pfizer, or by companies now owned by Pfizer.
Not a lot of TRUST there, I must admit.
Here are some “mainstream” references to get people started:
TheseTruths mentioned Professor David Clements a few days ago. Clements has not been posting on Rumble to The Professor’s Record very much but he has put up some very interesting clips from other people. In light of Wolf Moon’s post How Mayorkas and DHS plan to Purge Republicans, the last two videos by Byrne make sense. Problem – Reaction – and he offers the ‘Solution.’
A bit of Dot connecting.
There was a big carfuffle over General Flynn vs Lin Wood just after Kyle Rittenhouse was found not guilty back in November. This caused a major split in the MAGA Movement and even cause a blow-up here at the Qtree.
Con Artist #1 David Hancock, a grifter, disgraced navy seal who moved in on the Rittenhouse family, seems to be behind Kyle Rittenhouse’s attack on Lin Wood.
And that mess resulted in a riff between Lin Wood and General Flynn and our loss ofgrandmaintexas.
Thesetruths made a long comment in response to FG&C
….I also want evidence. Wood has provided evidence about Hancock. He has provided evidence that Byrne lied in his video….
Wood has provided financial records of his FightBack organization.Wood produced the audio of the Byrne phone call to prove that Byrne was lying about him, and probably also to reveal Byrne’s character, as someone who would say those things about Powell.
Thesetruths
At this point in time more information has come up and it looks like Thesetruths maybe correct about Byrne.
Joshua Merritt was on Lindell’s Red Team and trashed his Cyber Symposium to the media.
Mike Lindell’s Cyber Symposium created waves in both mainstream and conservative media after Josh Merritt, a member of Lindell’s “Red Team” of cyber experts, went to the media and said the data was illegitimate just prior to presenting at the event.
Merritt told the Washington Times that packet captures are unrecoverable in the data and that the data, as provided, cannot prove a cyber incursion by China. “So our team said, we’re not going to say that this is legitimate if we don’t have confidence in the information,” Merritt said on Wednesday….
Josh Merritt ALSO showed up in the Sydney Powell’s lawsuits. And HE ALSO BETRAYED SYDNEY!
Despite the fact that the Post had spoken with Merritt and confirmed his identity as “Spyder,” Powell refused to answer questions about his qualifications…..
Sidney Powell,….appears to have misled courts as to the qualifications of one of her key witnesses….Powell’s team described the witness in question as a “Military Intelligence expert” who would provide unambiguous proof that voting systems used in the election were compromised. The witness was known only as “Spyder”
But a Friday report from the Washington Post revealed that “Spyder,” whose real name is Joshua Merritt,…. actually an army vehicle mechanic who had never even worked in military intelligence.
Merritt even conceded to the Post that describing himself as an “electronic intelligence analyst under 305th Military Intelligence” was specious. He said legal clerks on Powell’s team wrote that information on his declaration without informing him of the specific language….
CAN YOU SAY BULLSHIT ARTIST?? Someone inserted into MAGA as a poison pill? IIRC David Clement ALSO interviewed him, felt great affinity for him and DID NOT SPOT HIM as a Con Artist. He took the video down after the symposium when all this came out. So that is Con-Artist #2.
MARCH 4th – Gen. Michael Flynn’s Henchmen EXPOSED – 25 minutes
I do not think it is General FLYNN, I think it is PATRICK BYRNES who is doing a lot of manipulating! Here are three very telling videos.
Rough translation/synopsis.
In brackets throughout are captions by David Clement. I labeled my comments within brackets with -GC. I also inserted additional information from other sources to flesh out the story.
There was a bunch of back and forth between Mike Lindell and TruNews. Mike accused TruNews of bringing in ANTIFA. HOWEVER Mike and TruNews (Rick Wiles) TALKED and got the matter cleared up. The CON ARTIST in this case was JEREMY OLIVER. He claimed to be UNDER CONTRACT with TruNews. He wasn’t he had submitted an application and then was slipped in. He was the freelance videographer that Edward Szall took to Sioux Falls. Ed asked at the last minute if he could bring Oliver along. TruNews did not have a production team or media creds. Ed said he had a person who was very close to Mr Lindell who could get the creds pushed through and he is a videographer and will do it FOR FREE. He wants to impress you and wants a job with TruNews. He had NOTHING on paper, it was a MISTAKE on the part of TrueNews. [I think the person close to Mike Lindell who got Jeremy Oliver in under media creds was Patrick Byrne as is shown later. -GC]
Then the story got really weird. He was given the information by Colonel Waldren who was head of the Red Team. His security team, who fed the information to him about the guy (Oliver) being Antifa and that TruNews was funded by MediaMatters.
Rick Wiles does not think Oliver is ANTIFA, BUT he does not think he is a Free lance videographer either [INTELLIGENCE ASSET]
Doc found another video today. It was at another event where Mr Lindell spoke. (thinks April or May) Put on by a group supporting Lindell [The America Project = Joe Flynn, Michael Flynn & PATRICK BYRNE] It was at a hotel in Vegas.
@ 6 MINUTES a very important clip by a U-Tuber/journalist with his own talk show. He is Jason Goodman. His show is Crowd Source the Truth. Doc & Rick Wiles had a long conversation with the guy and thought he was a nice Jewish man who is trying to connect dots.
The video shows a few people:
Jason Goodman doing the interview.
Patrick Byrne as interviewee
Jeremy Oliver as Bodyguard – strong arm.
2nd Body guard carrying a firearm.
Hotel Security in white shirt.
Patrick Byrne, is the person being interviewed. He was involved with a Russian SPY ON BEHALF OF THE FBI. Per Byrne he was involved in STING OPERATIONS against wall street businessmen involved in white collar crime. (2019) This wasn’t a one off, he had been an informant for a number of years. He said he was recruited by those ABOVE THE FBI.
@ 9:46 minutes Fox news interview of Byrne
Interviewer: You said you got tangled up in the Deep State Investigation INTO DONALD TRUMP
Byrne: … About 12 years ago I helped them Fight Wall Street. I was kinda a one man Occupy Wall Street. In 05,06 the Feds showed up and it was my honor to help them TAKE DOWN A COUPLE HUNDRED PEOPLE ON WALL STREET.
In 2015/2016 I was given some fishy orders. I carried them out…. Don’t say the FBI, the FBI is barely involved in this. It is all the way in top, The Men in Black as I called them showed up and asked for this THIRD favor. I’m not going to go into that... [ Wall Street #1, the Russian Spy #2, and DONALD TRUMP #3 – GC]
THE ORDERS CAME FROM PETER STZROK. [Remember Stzrok was on loan to the FBI from the CIA -GC] …. I can’t go into it…. I feel terrible, people getting killed, country coming apart so I WENT TO SEE WARREN BUFFET kinda my Rabbi [ photo of Obama giving Presidential Metal & he is on Council on Foreign Relations]
Buffet advised Byrne to go public… Here is what it is, this was all political espionage. CONDUCTED AGAINST HILLARY CLINTON, Rubio, Cruz and Trump. This is not theory, I was in the room when it happened. I was part of it. He said he had to wait to come forward until Bill Barr was installed. [Bill Barr of Kirkland & Ellis? The same that handled the $400 million capital raised to purchase Dominion Voting?]
@ 14:30 Second video showing an ATTEMPTED Byne interview by Goodman. [This is where it gets really wierd. -GC]
Goodman: I know you have been working with Mike for a while. I do not know if you were aware, I called Mr Lindell and he got very upset.
Byrne: Not aware.
Goodman: I had a good impression of Mike, obviously I support Donald Trump, I am not into stealing elections or a communist becoming the president.
[Mary Fanning-Kirchhoefer is married to Kirkland & Ellis IP attorney Greg Kirchoefer. The law firm that handled the $400 million capital raised to purchase Dominion Voting Systems.]
I called him to share information about Mary Fanning who I know is very involved in the project and Dennis Montgomery and he became very irate and hung up the phone and wouldn’t listen to me.
Byrne: I have no comment… walks away.
Goodman: Hey Patrick … no need to push me… Why won’t you speak to me about Mary Fanning. He just instructed his security to keep me away from him…
Byrne calls some guy.
Byrne shows up again and tells Goodman the reason he is getting tossed is because his question is ridiculous…. Foul language… Two guys come up and give him the bum’s rush and herd him towards the elevators.
While the VIDEOGRAPHERJEREMY OLIVER (who TOLD Mike Lindell he was with TrueNews @ the symposium)cages Goodman at the elevators the other guy goes and gets Hotel Security to toss Goodman out of the hotel.
ALL THAT OVER THE TOP REACTION FOR MENTIONING MARY FANNING AND DENNIS MONTGOMERY?
Back to Ed Szall who recommended the guy.
[INSERT by Professor: Remember this hit piece against me?
Influencer on line made claims of an ANTHRAX Attack at the Reawaken America Tour in Dallas. We looked into it and found it was from Ed Szall on the Stew Peters Show and reported by RedVoiceMedia (Dec 2021)
“Look… I like Stew Peterson But this is Shit reporting
This morning I literally walked the reporter through the timeline referring him to specific posts made by Joe Oltmann AND the livestream where joe talked about what happened, BEFORE I commented publicly and asked for prayer.
Edward Szall, a colleague of Jeremy Oliver, Created a story attacking me, aired by Stew Peters, instead of asking Joe Oltmann and Jovan Pulitzer about an alleged bio-attack they experienced at Mike Flynn’s ReAwaken America Event in Dallas. See:
@ 19:00 TrueNews does a replay of the Goodman video without sound so they can make comments. They watch Jeremy Oliver and say he acts like Byrne’s bodyguard. He has no ID no name tag but puts himself in a position to watch over Byrne. Oliver’s companion bodyguard, according to Goodman was armed. He said he saw the fire arm.
The mention Mary Fanning produced the Lindell video earlier in the year and Dennis Montgomery is the alleged source of the massive voter data dump. They ask WHY did Byne go bonkers at the mention of those names.
TrueNews later found out that Edward Szall had known Jeremy Oliver for five years. [THINK, That is since beginning of TRUMP ELECTION AND PRESIDENCY -GC]
And then I found out that Lauren Witzke?[SWAG on my part as to who this is -GC] has known him for years. Seems he gets around to a lot of events and knows a lot of people.
Well according to Edward Szoll, Oliver told him he was very close to Mike Lindell but Mike said he had never heard of him. [That is why I think it was Byrne’s who got the media creds for Jeremy Oliver -GC]
Rick Wiles: SO SOMEBODY IS LYING.
But Oliver shows up at multiple meetings where Mr Lindell is at. And he gets very very close to very prominent speakers like Patrick Byrne. That was UNUSUAL BEHAVIOR. The behavior of a body guard, a security agent, someone empowered by a wealthy man to keep people away from him.
We wanted to put up this video because that’s the man who put out a document that he was under contract with TruNews. Even if you hate me, would you help me just this one time and help me investigate him.
Who is this guy?
Who does he work for?
Two other very short clips of Patrick Byrne
Michael Flynn and Patrick Byrne claim Trump QUIT! March 2. 2022 – 14 sec clip
[INSERT by David Clements General Mike Flynn Sat Sept 25 9:38 PM Lin. I am very disappointed in his old messages and those vital health issues he failed to mention. Same old stuff. We need encouraging words of how to win not what he did. People are hungry for solutions SADLY TRUMP QUIT. And although he says we won’t be a socialist country, we look more and more like one each and every day. And he does nothing about it. The Arizona Audit was paid for by two organizations (mine and Byrne’s to the tune of $5M0 and the cyber company is still in $2.5M debt and T’s team hasn…]
Byrne: Ahhhh… and so on and so forth, I promise Trump was not Stranglove, trying to grab onto power. I’m not sure he wanted to stay. I think he was a seventy-five year old tired guy, who put on fifty pounds. I think he hated what was going on.
March 3rd – Michael Flynn and Patrick Byrne are Anti-Trump Globalists (6:30 min)
… how about a coalition government that does not include Donald Trump, but it includes Micheal Flynn. I want to make it clear I have not run this by Flynn….. I think he would do this because he would do something to save the country.
But we all know behind dear President Biden and our nice pristine VP Kamela Harris we all know there are a couple other shot callers in there and that is all really the government, let’s say four people.
[@40secs Clements puts up a photo of Flynn and Susan Rice shaking hands and smiling at each other like lost lovers.]
I would suggest, as a solution that could, I mean if the Left wants to just pound their way through this. I don’t… I mean their own federal agencies are melting on them. I am hearing 65% of people in the federal agencies ARE ON MY SIDE [notice it is NOT POTUS TRUMP’s side. – GC] I hear all kinds of stuff is going on and people are revolting and the military, and do they really think they are going to play that out?
Let me propose, this other alternative, HAVE A COALITION GOVERNMENT. Mike Flynn, is like Steve Jobs
[…was the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple; the chairman and majority shareholder of Pixar; a member of The Walt Disney Company’s board of directors following its acquisition of Pixar; and the founder, chairman, and CEO of NeXT. – WIKI also see https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0423418/bio – GC]
Flynn is a STRONG PLAYER. He is the only guy on the Republican side who can be trusted by the People [What about Donald Trump, Patrick? – Clements] [What about DeSantis??? What about Peter Navarro??? -GC] Because the people saw the entire republican party throw Donald Trump under the bus and do nothing for him [Can’t the American people still trust Trump?] Essentially all the republican politicians and all of the RNC fat cats, no one, the people need to have someone they accept and trust. Those 57 to 69% of Americans who see thru this charade. There is no doubt. And Mike Flynn is talking to Donald Trump every day…. [Mike Flynn would be the most senior level person of the coalition government with Trump assisting him?]
Could the Republicans live with that, that Donald Trump did not get to walk back into the White House?
I don’t know, I think Donald Trump could live with it. I can not speak for him. And this guy [POTUS? That is a rather disrespectful way to address a former president. -GC] could press what ever lawsuits he wants to press, I am not opining on, the validity of such lawsuits. [This from a guy who FUNDED the Arizona Audit??? Kinda tepid isn’t he? -GC] So I mean he has every right to press all the lawsuits he wants. I am throwing this out there as something he might see the logic of. [ERRRRrrr didn’t Trump’s plane just have problems on 3/9/2022??? – GC]
And the Left, the people in power, the Biden admin, may see some logic in this. And with it, in this coalition government, COALITION SUPER THINK TANK of Biden, Harris, with a couple intellectual figures behind them. Put Mike Flynn in there and two economists. [Biden, Harris, Obama, and Susan Rice. Put Mike Flynn in there.]
One is a Democrat named Simon Johnson. We’re friendly but I haven’t talked to him in a couple years.
[The only one worse would be Klaus Schwab!]
Simon Johnson is the co-author (with Jonathan Gruber) of Jump-Starting America: How Breakthrough Science Can Revive Economic Growth and the American Dream. You remember Gruber don’t you? Jonathan Gruber is “ObamaCare’s architect” and a MIT professor. He is also the guy who made this statement about the Affordable Care Act. Gruber told an audience at the University of Pennsylvania in November 2014 that Democrats required “the stupidity of the American voter” for Obamacare to become law. -GC]
SIMONJOHNSON is the Ronald A. Kurtz (1954) Professor of Entrepreneurship the MIT Sloan School of Management, where he is head of the Global Economics and Management group. In 2007-08 he was chief economistat the International Monetary Fund, and he currently co-chairs the CFA Institute® Systemic Risk Council…
CFA Institute Systemic Risk Council (CFA Institute SRC) is a private sector, non-partisan body of former government officials and financial and legal experts committed to addressing regulatory and structural issues relating to global systemic risk, with a particular focus on the United States and Europe…. CFA Institute SRC was formed by CFA Institute and The Pew Charitable Trusts in June 2012 to monitor and encourage regulatory reform of U.S. capital markets focused on systemic risk…
[IMF = International Monetary Fund globalist Organization –Clements, Remember IMF/World Bank SAPs destroy countries -GC]
He is English by birth, Oxford…. But was quite critical of some of the things that happen under Obama. HIS JOB WAS TO GO AROUND TO DIFFERENT COUNTRIES AND BAIL THEM OUT. [So he was the IMF SAP hitman -GC] So he would sit across the table from a bold new leader and say if we write you this check are you going to bailout your elites or are you going to fix things? He was very critical of Obama that Obama wasn’t doing anything to fix Wall Street. So he is an honest democrat that I would vouch for. [AN HONEST GLOBALIST DEMOCRAT THAT PATRICK WOULD VOUCH FOR.]
He is very capable and he knows more about countries going through financial crises than anyone in the world…. Tirade against wall Street types…. There are not enough of the INTELLECTUAL ECONOMISTS [in the US government They are-GC] At the World Bank and IMF who have much more to offer in my view. [World Bank?] They have a THEORETICAL KNOWLEDGE THAT I BELIEVE IS LACKING in the personnel at the senior levels in general and in the treasury Department and SEC. They are very orthodox thinkers.
The other economist I would name to this dream team, this working group is a Spanish economist of the Austrian School is Jesús Huerta de Soto [A spanish economist (a non-us citizen) would be part of a coalition government running America?] He has worked on dual sovereign currencies.
Between Johnson who knows all about countries going through TRANSITIONS, DOING THE HARD THINGS.
[OK EXACTLY what does this Johnson Dude mean by HARD THINGS? A 2013 Forbes article reported the probable reason he did not agree with Obama.]
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) quietly dropped a bomb in its October Fiscal Monitor Report. Titled “Taxing Times,” the report paints a dire picture for advanced economies with high debts that fail to aggressively “mobilize domestic revenue.” It goes on to build a case for drastic measures and recommends a series of escalating income and consumption tax increases culminating in the direct confiscation of assets.
Yes, you read that right. But don’t take it from me. The report itself says:
“….”The sharp deterioration of the public finances in many countries has revived interest in a “capital levy”— a one-off tax on private wealth—as an exceptional measure to restore debt sustainability.….”
Note three takeaways. First, IMF economists know there are not enough rich people to fund today’s governments even if 100 percent of the assets of the 1 percent were expropriated. That means that all households with positive net wealth—everyone with retirement savings or home equity—would have their assets plundered under the IMF’s formulation.
Second, such a repudiation of private property will not pay off Western governments’ debts or fund budgets going forward. It will merely “restore debt sustainability,” allowing free-spending sovereigns to keep tapping the bond markets until the next crisis comes along—for which stronger measures will be required, of course.
Third, should politicians fail to muster the courage to engage in this kind of wholesale robbery, the only alternative scenario the IMF posits is public debt repudiation and hyperinflation. Structural reform proposals for the Ponzi-scheme entitlement programs that are bankrupting us are nowhere to be seen….
[That was almost a decade ago before our National debt really sky rocketed. ‘You will OWN NOTHING….’ All of a sudden makes a lot more sense. — GC]
Between Johnson and Desoto who knows about a dual sovereign currency and Mike Flynn and Biden, Harris and the two shot callers in a room, I don’t want any part of it. I think that offer might be attractive to the current administration. [Sounds Like a Transition to the New World Order. -Clements]
March 2ndPatrick Byrne: Michael Flynn and Susan Rice Instead of Trump? (2 minutes)
…Get together and CRUSH the other side [No doubt referring to Steve Bannon’s hopes of completely destroying the Democrat party in the mid terms -GC]
Maybe it is time we take a breath and .. there are ways out of … there are totally peaceful ways out of this.
If this was a business situation I could tell you exactly what I would do. If this was a business situation and something went on in a corporation or something, I would say the Human Terrain Mapping here is there are two shot callers. There are two shot callers.
One shot caller is Barrack Obama and the other shot caller is Donald Trump. And it does not matter their names have nothing next to it but former. None of that matters. I would say each of them would appoint one person and those ahhhh I do not know… One obvious person would be General Mike Flynn.
And I am going to criticize Donald Trump. He is surrounded by mendacious mediocrities. [On that I would very much disagree!- GC] A bunch of them are swamp rats, he has gotten rid of about ½ of them. He still has a bunch of swamp rats around him…. And there is one guy in his circle, it is like dealing with Steve Jobs, His name is Mike Flynn. Mike Flynn is sharp, I have dealt with a lot of people he is top crown.
ON THE OTHER SIDE IT IS SUSAN RICE. She would not remember, we actually met when we were students. And I remarked on her then. If those two people met, I bet things could be worked out. If it was a business situation that is what I would say. The guy who have a shot are those two. There are peaceful way through this. And Given we may be on the edge of WWIII,… IT WOULD BE NICE IF WE COULD DO SOMETHING REALLY QUICK AND THERE ARE PEACEFUL WAYS THROUGH THIS.
Hey Byrnes, I know another way. RESTORE HONEST ELECTIONS and TRY AND CONVICT THE REAL TRAITORS. Real Simple!
And to take the bad taste of that garbage from your mouth. Patel Patriot has two new additions to the The Devolution Series.
Remember when people got COVID vaccine tattoos, right after they got Resist tattoos and Me Too tattoos and BLM tattoos and whatever TF else was a hashtag trend at the moment tattoos? Do they have enough space on their pasty, do-nothing forearms for Ukraine tattoos?
I’d throw in a few Rockefellers and Rothschilds also.
Of course, this does not mean committing felonies, but standing up to the forces that want to tear this nation – and humanity apart. The very people XVII told us will be destroyed by the time this movie comes to an end are currently roaming the halls of power…supposedly. It’s a sickening sight.
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10Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom! Give ear to the teaching of our God, you people of Gomor’rah! 16Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil, 17learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; defend the fatherless, plead for the widow. 18“Come now, let us reason together, says the LORD: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool. 19If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land; 20But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured by the sword; for the mouth of the LORD has spoken.”
PSALMS 50:8-9, 16-17, 21, 23
8I do not reprove you for your sacrifices; your burnt offerings are continually before me. 9I will accept no bull from your house, nor he-goat from your folds. 16But to the wicked God says: “What right have you to recite my statutes, or take my covenant on your lips? 17For you hate discipline, and you cast my words behind you. 21These things you have done and I have been silent; you thought that I was one like yourself. But now I rebuke you, and lay the charge before you. 23He who brings thanksgiving as his sacrifice honors me; to him who orders his way aright I will show the salvation of God!”
MATTHEW 23:1-12
1Then said Jesus to the crowds and to his disciples, 2“The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat; 3so practice and observe whatever they tell you, but not what they do; for they preach, but do not practice. 4They bind heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with their finger. 5They do all their deeds to be seen by men; for they make their phylacteries broad and their fringes long, 6and they love the place of honor at feasts and the best seats in the synagogues, 7and salutations in the market places, and being called rabbi by men. 8But you are not to be called rabbi, for you have one teacher, and you are all brethren. 9And call no man your father on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven. 10Neither be called masters, for you have one master, the Christ. 11He who is greatest among you shall be your servant; 12whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
"Nothing great is ever achieved without enduring much."
St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray. And do thou, Prince of the Heavenly Hosts, by the power of God, cast down to Hell Satan and all his evil spirits, who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.
>>148156518 Amen brother. Q
As always, prayers for the fight against that which seeks to enslave us are welcome. Via con Dios.
If Republicans don’t rein in DHS now, they will be unable to stop what’s coming – to your state, your city, and your county
TL;DR – If you know how to read the Mayorkas document (because it IS in fact his document), then you will understand that the purpose of the report is to purge non-RINO Republicans and MAGA Democrats from law enforcement – FIRST from DHS, and then from all branches of state, federal, and local government, as well as private contractors, which may take federal dollars or “partner” in any way with DHS.
INTRODUCTION
It is tempting to believe that “these people are stupid”, but in my opinion, that is a tragic mistake, and it is a good part of why everything is going to hell right now.
Never assume that your enemy is not also reading Sun Tzu, and perhaps excelling as a student.
The ChiComs have used “lulling” as a technique from the very beginning. I saw it up close, when I worked in a place I call “shallow state”. The CCP’s and PLA’s lieutenants took us over, with the aid of American Bolsheviks and globalists. They’re ALL very good at what they do.
Trust me – when a ChiCom “assures you” of anything positive about yourself or your side, what he or she is doing is solidifying your position for their next move. They are making sure you stay exactly where you are, so that you don’t mess up their plans to BEAT YOUR ASS.
American communists work the same way.
Alejandro Majorkas plays the bald idiot spectacularly, but he is not an idiot, and neither is Barack Obama, nor are any of the players between THEM and “Mr. Global”, whoever (s)he is.
Don’t think that “Q” is stupid for saying they’re stupid, either. It’s a complicated business.
“Think mirror corollary.”
Their Plan
Whether or not you believe there is some kind of “plan” by the “white hats” for “devolution”, I can tell you this.
Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security installed by Barack Obama and “Big Sister” Janet Napolitano, has a plan to get ahead of devolution, and YOU are paying for it.
Gateway Pundit has the story – but they don’t have all of it. They did NOT read the fine print.
This is not just bluster.
This is not just for the bureaucrats at DHS.
This is not just for “we the little people” going to Trump rallies.
This is how they are going to PURGE state and local government and law enforcement of MAGA Republicans, moderate Democrats, and anybody else who SPEAKS THE TRUTH.
This is the “Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, and Mitt Romney support policy”, but it goes far beyond the federal government.
This is an attack on RED states, RED counties, RED cities, and even BLUE moderates who are not willing to toe the communist line.
So how does it work? For that, we look at the document.
We will be looking CLOSELY at two words – INSIDER and CONTRACTOR. These words lead us to what Mayorkas is really up to.
Now, before we get started, I have to tell you how such documents work under cryptocommunist bureaucracy.
When the communists took over my old employer, which I call “shallow state”, their Bolshevik and globalist puppets (who were installed to work around the compromised and paralyzed normals) had to tamp down all “upward flow” of information – and particularly the idea that this information should result in any unapproved action. All action had to be approved TOP-DOWN, and in general, it needed to actually ORIGINATE top-down.
Once that was accomplished, the commies and their go-alongers restored what LOOKED like upward flow, but was actually a kind of FAKE upward flow.
Off the books, and off the record, lower-level commie-compliant managers were TOLD FROM ABOVE exactly what they were to request, suggest or propose, perhaps doing so in their own words. No matter what, that request, proposal or suggestion was then “approved”.
Anything that did not arise in such a fashion was “studied” but not approved. On rare occasions, when it suited management’s purposes, some such proposals WERE approved after long study, but only as SHAMS and COVER processes, designed to deceive and hide. Credit for the stolen, killed, and skin-suited project would then be given to an apparatchik in need of a new cap feather. Nothing good would result from these projects.
This is EXACTLY what we have here. Mayorkas was GIVEN exactly what he wanted and needed, albeit with some cover language by the working group to suggest independence. One way you can see that smoke signal is in the larger message (I’m paraphrasing) that:
“We found almost no problem at all, BUT HERE ARE 15 RECOMMENDATIONS THAT SOUND LIKE WE DID FIND A BIG PROBLEM.”
We KNOW that the millions of horrified and pissed-off LAW-ABIDING patriots are not “domestic violent extremists”. We know that people like us are not dangerous. We know that protected leftist violent groups like ANTIFA and BLM are the actual “domestic violent extremists”, and that this is an Orwellian reversal.
But THAT is all cover.
That is a DISTRACTION.
What is REALLY going on here is something underneath the “outrage” of calling Americans like us “domestic violent extremists”, or even just “potential domestic violent extremists”.
This image is social programming from some Hollywood toxin called “The Purge”. This “purge” is actually antithetical to the quiet, silent, stealthy, Stalinist, DHS-planned “purge” I am talking about, but in an Orwellian and Hegelian way, it is used to create enough FEAR in the minds of average Americans, that they go along with the communist plan to purge patriotic Americans from Government.
Goebbels would be proud.
This is psychological SLANDER. And yet, at the very same time, it’s a PART of this.
JFK understood exactly what the other side is doing. This is what the Democrat communists do by saying we cannot speak the truth about the deliberately broken election system.
They give us one apparent exit – violence – and dare us to go through it.
They are making it impossible for us to object peacefully, while they stand ready to turn our own government upon us if we even hint at trying anything else.
Antifa? No problem. They’re OWNED and PROTECTED by DHS and FBI.
Americans? Problem. We’re OPPOSED and SLANDERED by DHS and FBI.
OK – I’ve stalled long enough. I did have a reason – a very good reason.
I wanted you to appreciate the enemy’s tactics here. They are NOT STUPID.
The enemy has BOTH a strategy and tactics, and they are apparent in the Mayorkas Document.
Assuming that you read the Gateway Pundit article…..
…..let’s look at the document itself….. (H/T Gateway Pundit and SCRIBD)
If you just skim through this document, you will find fascinating stuff EVERYWHERE.
Start off with a point that MUST be made. The discussion of “who is a domestic violent extremist” completely ignores leftist violence.
I mean COMPLETELY.
Let me just put that into a quote for Zoe and other low-vision readers.
Current Domestic Violent Extremism Threat Landscape
A March 2021 unclassified threat assessment prepared by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), Department of Justice, and DHS, noted that domestic violent extremists“ who are motivated by a range of ideologies and galvanized by recent political and societal events in the United States pose an elevated threat to the Homeland in 2021.”3 The assessment pointed to newer “sociopolitical developments such as narratives of fraud in the recent general election, the emboldening impact of the violent breach of the U.S. Capitol, conditions related to the COVID-19 pandemic, and conspiracy theories promoting violence” that “will almost certainly spur some [domestic violent extremists] [sic] to try to engage in violence this year.”4
Report to the Secretary of Homeland Security Domestic Violent Extremism Internal Review Observations, Findings, And Recommendations
You can be damn sure, based on this, that the current bunch of [smart and devious] communist goofballs running DHS considers this blog to be a threat. Whatever. Keep it in mind. Act accordingly.
One of the things they do, right up front, is to put a LULL quote about protecting Constitutional rights at the end of a footnote. Yes, it’s just a footnote, and it’s just a sentence in that footnote, which isn’t even from this current study, but from a PRIOR one. Do not kid yourselves, in any case. This little qualifier means no real commitment, but it’s designed to promote self-deception by our side, and to provide some gristle for the FAKE NEWS FACT CHECKERS to say “toldjaso”.
MY EMPHASIS IN BOLD.
2 The Working Group used the definition provided in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s “Domestic Violent Extremism Poses Heightened Threat in 2021” assessment issued on March 1, 2021, which defines a domestic violent extremist as “an individual based and operating primarily in the United States without direction or inspiration from a foreign terrorist group or other foreign power and who seeks to further political or social goals wholly or in part through unlawful acts of force or violence.” It is important to note that the mere advocacy of political or social positions, political activism, use of strong rhetoric, or generalized philosophic embrace of violent tactics does not constitute extremism and is constitutionally protected.
This mealy-mouthed stuff can be used to EXCUSE Antifa and GO AFTER patriots at the very same time. Up is down, down is up, and DHS is in control for OBAMA.
The text of this footnote quote is not on its own indicative of the idea that they ARE going to go after patriots and NOT violent leftists like Antifa. However, the fact that their definition of DVE (domestic violent extremists) above is so highly politicized, trying to shift the entire message of DVE 100% away from their political allies, Antifa and BLM, and onto the victims of their phony buffalo jump narrative, tells you all that you need to know.
Now, to start seeing their plan, you need to search for the word insider in this document.
The word insider shows up 27 times in the document. Two of those are in the executive summary, right at the beginning.
I am including the ENTIRE executive summary, because it shows how there is no evidence of a NEED for what Mayorkas and the communists are doing, but “because there are gaps”, they are going to do it ANYWAY.
CLASSIC. Classic communist tactics.
EMPHASIS IN BOLD IS MINE.
These are points that lead to the motherlode.
Executive Summary
At Secretary Mayorkas’ direction, a cross-Departmental working group of senior officials conducted a comprehensive review of how to best prevent, detect, and respond to potential threats related to domestic violent extremism within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The Department’s Chief Security Officer led the Domestic Violent Extremism Internal Review Working Group (Working Group), which included experts from across the Department, including from DHS oversight offices. The Working Group also consulted with several interagency partners during the course of its review.
The Working Group found very few instances of the DHS workforce having been engaged in domestic violent extremism. However, the Working Group assessed that the Department has significant gaps that have impeded its ability to comprehensively prevent, detect, and respond to potential threats related to domestic violent extremism within DHS. These gaps, which the Department is working with urgency to close, may have impacted DHS officials’ ability to adequately identify and address related threats, and include the following:
• a lack of an official definition of “domestic violent extremist,” guidance as to what constitutes violent extremist activity, and an established list of behaviors that may be indicators of domestic violent extremism;
• a lack of workforce training specific to identifying and reporting violent extremist activity;
• a lack of specialized training for those best situated to identify violent extremist activity or behaviors that may be indicators of violent extremism (e.g., background investigators, Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties inquiry officials, and DHS Insider Threat Program personnel);
• a lack of a centralized, interoperable DHS-wide investigative case management system, as well as standardized reporting and information sharing mechanisms for investigating allegations of violent extremist activity; and,
• insufficient funding needed to support the expansion of the DHS Insider Threat Program, development and implementation of related training programs, establishment of a DHS-wide related reporting mechanism, and implementation of the government-wide federal personnel security reform effort called Trusted Workforce 2.0.
To address these gaps, the Working Group made 15 recommendations described further below to enhance the Department’s ability to comprehensively address internal domestic violent extremism-related activity to protect our employees and DHS’s ability to continue executing its critical mission.
Wolf again.
The idea of INSIDERS is critical. Never mind that the CLASSIC insiders are “left wing extremists” like Obama, Jarrett, and – boom – Alejandro Mayorkas. Yes – the entire government has been turned on its head.
The actual “insiders” are now calling the shots – and calling the patriots “insiders”.
If it wasn’t SICK, it would be hilarious.
Like I said, I lived through this shit. And my mom did, too.
DHS obviously is a target for any group wishing to take over or influence the United States. Trust me – the place is chock full of trouble, not only top-level Kim Philby insiders like Mayorkas, but also including ChiComs, very likely in the form of red diaper two-steppers who have not yet “decloaked” as commies.
Searching further on insider, we are led to multiple interesting sections.
Most of these have to do with “solutions” to the threat of DVE as insiders, despite the fact that there don’t seem to be any.
If you just look through the headlines of the 15 recommendations of the “working group” that gave Mayorkas what he wanted, you will see that they provide a ROADMAP for purging DHS of those who may be threats – like people who question sketchy elections or murderous vaccinations.
Recommendation 1: Adopt a consistent definition of “domestic violent extremist” and descriptions of violent extremist activity and integrate both into DHS policies and guidance.
Recommendation 2: Adopt and implement a DHS-approved list of behaviors that may be indicators of domestic violent extremism.
Recommendation 3: Develop and implement an official DHS Directive that provides guidance on how to identify and respond to violent extremist activity within the Department.
Recommendation 4: Incorporate the list of violent extremist activity into DHS policy.
Recommendation 5: Educate the DHS workforce on the threat that domestic violent extremists within the Department could pose to the DHS mission.
Recommendation 6: Inform employees of their obligations to refrain from violent extremist activity and the existing reporting requirements.
Recommendation 7: Provide training on how to identify and adjudicate violent extremist activity to employees charged with personnel screening and vetting activity.
Recommendation 8: Enhance hiring practices through initiatives under Trusted Workforce 2.0 in order to deter and detect individuals engaged in violent extremist activity from applying to work for the Department.
Recommendation 9: Establish the intra-departmental sharing capability for investigations and inquiries involving DHS contractors and other non-employee insiders.
Recommendation 10: Promote early intervention to get support to employees who may be at risk of radicalizing to violence.
Recommendation 11: Establish efficient and accessible reporting and intake mechanisms to facilitate information sharing among stakeholders charged with addressing allegations of violent extremist activity.
Recommendation 12: Accelerate the expansion of DHS Insider Threat Program capabilities.
Recommendation 13: Incorporate the DHS list of behaviors that may be indicators of violent extremism into insider threat tools, including user activity monitoring.
Recommendation 14: Explore expanding the use of publicly available information, including social media, beyond personnel security vetting, to identify or investigate potential violent extremist activity within the DHS workforce.
Recommendation 15: Establish an ongoing DHS Domestic Violent Extremist Working Group.
Let’s look at those in reverse order.
The last one (Number 15) creates a permanent “Mayorkas control group” that can begin doing things much more under the radar. Again, as I said, they will not originate any ideas that are not fed to them from above. But once this group is created, there will be MUCH less sunlight.
Number 14 is notable in that it shows how they will use social media to purge patriots based on social media posting, and prevent new ones from taking their places.
Number 13 shows how they will monitor employees on the inside. This was done in “shallow state” too, but the original purpose was actual national security, later turned to politics, once the commies took over.
Number 12 means they are going to do this stuff quickly, before the 2022 and 2024 elections.
Number 11 is more Obama “information-sharing” crap, whereby DHS will blackball patriots and honest Americans quickly throughout the entire government. That INCLUDES Woke Military, now turned to shit.
Number 10 is code for “risk mitigation” by social isolation of identified patriots, and suppression of any networking by patriots and honest Americans inside DHS.
Number 9 is HUGE. We will come back to that one.
Number 8 is about preventing patriots from joining DHS. They are going to socially change DHS to be WOKE, and that means NEVER hiring anybody like Christina Bobb ever again.
They are going to do their best to keep people like Ms. Bobb OUT of DHS.
Number 7 is pure “top-down” re-education of DHS personnel, in terms of how to deal with patriots.
Number 6 is how they begin the behavior modification of people at DHS. This is just like what they did in Shallow State, and it works like crazy. People will politically change, when the job forces them to do so. They don’t THINK they will change, but they will.
Number 5 is how they set up the more intrusive behavior modification, by starting with “education on the threat”. This indirect accusation of patriotic American staff within DHS is also designed to have a huge “chilling effect” within the organization. It will create internal division and isolation of the “problem” people. This works on the same Bolshevik principles that were used to create Christian-Jewish division in the United States in the 1970s – but THAT is another story for a different post.
Number 4 is how they give the policy teeth BEFORE it’s actually tested and rolled out. This is totally unscientific if what you’re trying to do is create an effective organization. However, if you are taking over an organization, in an occupied country, it’s exactly what you want to do.
Number 3 is the big cheese – the big policy of “what to do” about the people to be purged or suppressed.
Number 2 is a big part of the real payload – the “how to determine who is bad” part. This is the PRACTICAL part of the “identification of the enemy”. This is how they DEFINE who is “bad” in practice, like the Nazi genealogical rules on who was a Jew and who was merely racially impure. This is the Nazi stuff. This is what my mother warned me about. This is straight out of the Third Reich.
Number 1 leads us back to where I started, with this image:
This is the THEORY of who is bad. This is the GUIDANCE of who needs to be purged. This is the “top-down” message on who should not be in DHS. It will by highly political, and BY DESIGN won’t touch the PROG-NAZIS that they want in DHS.
Now – I skipped over Number 9 because that one is going to be hugely important for what DHS is actually setting up. Numbers 1-8 and 10-15 are more about getting political control of DHS.
Number 9 is about spreading the purge.
Recommendation 9: Establish the intra-departmental sharing capability for investigations and inquiries involving DHS contractors and other non-employee insiders.
Understand this. “DHS contractors and non-employee insiders” is YOU, all patriots and honest Americans in law enforcement and contracting entities outside of DHS.
This is how it spreads.
One needs to look closely at the relevant section. If you search on the word contractors, it appears almost exclusively in the section for Recommendation Number 9.
Which I repeat below:
Establishing a centralized, interoperable DHS-wide investigative case management system and information sharing procedures for these types of investigations and inquiries will help mitigate against the risk that a contractor under investigation for potential misconduct leaves the applicable contract prior to the completion of the investigation.
Given that DHS has about 170,000 contractors, special consideration must be given to vetting this sizeable population, which has direct authorized access to DHS assets (e.g., facilities,equipment, information, and systems).
DHS has remedies available to address domestic violent extremism threats involving DHS contractors and other non-employee insiders, including limiting or prohibiting access to DHS owned, leased, and operated facilities and/or removing an individual from a contract, as well as referring information to an appropriate criminal investigative agency for further action.
Action 9.1: Establish a working group composed of relevant subject matter experts from across the Department to identify and implement procedures and system capabilities needed to permit information sharing of investigations and inquiries.
This is designed to spread the infection.
Do not think – with federal money going along with DHS contracts – that this infection of Federal Law Enforcement and National Security by flat-out communist political purges is going to be contained inside DHS by simply ignoring it.
Also remember this – with Mayorkas’ “working group” modifying DHS policy in perpetuity, it could get EVEN WORSE in the future.
In my opinion, Republicans in Washington won’t do ANYTHING about this.
And even if they TRY, Mitch McConnell, on behalf of China, will stop it.
Ain’t that right, Mitch?
Notice how stealthy and smart this attack was. DHS and other federal law enforcement and national security assets made themselves “integral” to all sorts of state, regional, county and local agencies and offices. They are now a “normal” part of local and regional American law enforcement. It is far easier to give in to DHS demands, than to tear up contracts over a few people who DHS asks to be blackballed and driven out of a “partner”.
170,000 contractors is a LOT of people.
Now, as DHS begins purges at home, it is going to “investigate” and “purge” patriots and honest Americans from everybody it works with.
It doesn’t matter whether any kind of “devolution” is planned, or just happening.
The idea of “devolution” to reduce federal dependency is a THREAT to these people.
If you thought the communists in Washington were not going to FIGHT BACK, when states like Florida decided to resist, you were WRONG.
DHS is GRANTING ITSELF the power to “vet” not only private contractors but also state and local law enforcement officers in contract with DHS, for the Washington communist definition of “extremism”.
To KEEP THOSE CONTRACTS, individuals will be thrown under the bus, and they will GO UNDER THE WHEELS OF DODGY JUSTICE.
THAT is the state of things.
In my opinion, if we ignore this, we will be beyond the salvation of “peaceful revolution”.
This is designed to give DHS the power to make all law enforcement OBEY WASHINGTON.
And you ain’t gonna like that world – trust me.
So what do we have to do?
We will have to fight back against this at every level. ALL Republicans who don’t want to live under Democrat neo-Bolshevism for the rest of their lives must resist.
If we don’t, the entirety of law enforcement and the military will – eventually – be turned against everyday Americans.
Those who would be our friends will not speak up.
We will be living in something very much like China, but also like Nazi Germany.
“Progzi America.”
I know this for a fact. I don’t want to live there.
Hopefully there are people who see how to attack the DHS strategy.
And if they do, hopefully they will not telegraph OUR strategy in return.
Get your rest, Trumpy Bear! You’re going back to the White House!!!
We can’t let SNIFFY BEAR destroy it any more than we already have!!!
The Business At Hand
This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).
And indeed, it’s Monday…again.
But we are COOL WITH IT.
The Rules
Boilerplate, more or less, but worth reading again and again, if only for the minor changes, and to stay out of moderation.
The bottom line is Free Speech. Theories and ideas you don’t agree with must be WELCOME here, and you must be part of that welcoming. But you do NOT need to be part of any agreement.
SO….. [ENGAGE BOILERPLATE…..]
We must endeavor to persevere to love our frenemies – even here.
Those who cannot deal with this easy requirement will be forced to jump the hoops of moderation, so that specific comments impugning other posters and violating the minimal rules can be sorted out and tossed in the trash.
In Wheatie’s words, “We’re on the same side here so let’s not engage in friendly fire.”
That includes the life skill of just ignoring certain other posters.
We do have a site – The U Tree – where civility is not a requirement. Interestingly, people don’t really go there much. Nevertheless, if you find yourself in an “argument” that can’t really stay civil, please feel free to “take it to the U Tree”. The U Tree is also a good place to report any technical difficulties, if you’re unable to report them here. Please post your comment there on one of Wolf’s posts, or in reply to one of Wolf’s comments, to make sure he sees it (though it may take a few hours).
We also have a backup site, called The Q Tree as well, which is really The Q Tree 579486807. You might call it “Second Tree”. The URL for that site is https://theqtree579486807.wordpress.com/. If this site (theqtree.com) ever goes down, please reassemble at the Second Tree.
If the Second Tree goes down, please go to The U Tree, or to our Gab Group, which is located at https://gab.com/groups/4178.
We also have some “old rules” and important guidelines, outlined here, in a very early post, on our first New Year’s Day, in 2019. The main point is not to make violent threats against people, which then have to be taken seriously by law enforcement, and which can be used as a PRETEXT by enemies of this site.
In the words of Wheatie, “Let’s not give the odious Internet Censors a reason to shut down this precious haven that Wolf has created for us.”
A Moment of Prayer
Our policy on extreme religious freedom on this site is discussed HERE. Please feel free to pray and praise God anytime and anywhere.
Thus, please pray for our real President, the one who actually won the election.
Prayers for your enemies, and your enemy’s enemies, and your enemy’s enemy’s enemies, are all permissible.
MUSICAL INTERLUDE
For your listening enjoyment, and general encouragement, we continue Wheatie’s tradition of fine music videos, shipped fresh from the seas of information by our intrepid authors.
While looking at videos in an earlier week, I accidentally discovered this oddball American sister duo on the Latin “pop country whatever” music charts.
…..and later realized that such a sister act is not a totally unique thing…..
…..although it certainly looks like BOY DUOS are more common…..
Q’s post addressed to Nate Cain (qanon.pub post 2578) had a line which really struck a nerve: YOU ARE NEVER ALONE. Here is the post. Q !!mG7VJxZNCI ID: 52a4e6 No.4250950 Dec 10 2018 23:13:47 (EST)https://twitter.com/cain_nate/status/1072221511443013633Sometimes ‘intrusions’ have a way of safeguarding people & evidence.Sometimes ‘intrusions’ are a necessary event in order to safeguard chain of custody [post OIG WB status …
…..and while I was looking for that Elenyi video, I found this, but it’s not a duo…..
…..and that kinda balances out the Barlow Girl trio.
“And so it goes.”
Call To Battle
Actors Henry Fonda and James Coburn on the set of Universal Studios movie ” Midway” in 1976. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.
Daily outrage and epic phuckery abound.
…..and then…..
We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.
If you want to download the Pfizer documents – the ones that they wanted to hide for 75 years or whatever – it’s easy. But first, a couple of videos to set things up a bit.
Now it’s really a one-page site – they get right down to business on the landing page…..
You can search through the site to select documents first, OR you can just download to your heart’s content. Here is the bottom of the page, with nothing selected, so the download button is grayed out.
Now, if you want to download ALL of the documents just go to that drop-down button in the lower left corner…..
…..and change the setting from “Show [ 25 ] per page” to “All”. Then, you will get a single page, and you can put a checkmark on ALL 150 documents (which is tedious as hell, but it works).
When you download all of these documents, they will come in a ZIP file. You can then extract all of the documents out of the zip file, and then view each of them with the proper application.
Enjoy!
Wolfie’s Wheatie’s Word of the Day:
endeavor
noun
A conscientious or concerted effort toward an end; an earnest attempt.
Purposeful or industrious activity; enterprise.
verb
To exert oneself to do or effect something; make an effort; strive.
To attempt; try.
Used in a quote:
We thought about it for a long time, “Endeavor to persevere.” And when we had thought about it long enough, we declared war on the Union.
It’s time for some frank discussion of the future of this site.
My primary mission remains unchanged – to get important thoughts and ideas out where they can be seen – whether those ideas are mine or somebody else’s (AND generally a mixture of the two, anyway).
Secondary missions (haven for the Qrious, MAGA rally site, free speech site, etc.) are also unchanged.
The attrition of commenting on the site is only moderately concerning to me, outside of impeding the primary mission, which is to GET THE WORD OUT. But the truth is, the primary mission IS being impeded. THAT cannot be allowed.
Lately, I’ve had SEVERAL very important articles missing either writing, editing, or publication – both ON TIME and AT ALL. I can’t do that any more. Some of what was missed may be life-or-death for the Republic.
Thus, I’m taking some actions to shore things up.
POINT 1
In order to focus my limited time on important political, scientific, and spiritual/religious articles, which I have been SKIPPING in order to do the Monday and Friday dailies, I am going to change the nature of those dailies to more suit getting substantial messages out quickly as single articles. Thus, I’m planning to drop the honorific elaborations of “Wheatietoo” style” and “Grandmaintexas format” – that is, unless somebody else steps up to take those dailies. It would then be their choice to either DROP or continue those styles. Those authors could even do placeholder posts just like me – I’m not picky.
Yes, I loved those Wheatie and Grandma styles. However, I’m a poor substitute for the real thing, and it takes me a LOT of time to emulate them. Something has to give, and THAT is it.
If somebody wants to keep up those dailies in something resembling their current format, or would like to try something different, great. Please volunteer as an author.
Otherwise, I will be shortening all of my daily threads, now and in the future, to placeholders like on CTH.
Authorship isn’t difficult, if you want to make the dailies “more interesting placeholders” with fresh header images, a brief message, or something of the sort. Authors are free to do whatever they want. We do have a suggested guideline HERE:
[NOTE: Everything after this in square brackets is me as the IMPETUOUS EDITOR. Don’t put any of the square bracket [] stuff in a post. It’s just us talking – MKAY?] [RE the TITLE: Dear KMAG, Dear MAGA, Dear KAG, or Dear KAG! is required, followed by a colon, a space, the date in YYYYMMDD …
The last “honorific” daily on my part will be tomorrow’s post, for Pi Day, 20220314. Enjoy!
Point 2
In the same vein, I no longer have time to EDIT any articles by authors. If you want to publish it, you have to carry the ball the whole 100 yards, and PUBLISH or SCHEDULE. I will release articles that get stuck by the failure of the scheduler, but that’s it.
Point 3
Otherwise, the future of the site is very solid. We are now on good hosting, free of censorship concerns for the moment. I am investing appropriately and substantially, as planned, and the “church budget” is good. This site is NOT going away.
Point 4
If you have any concerns, ideas, suggestions, or contributions, this is an appropriate place to make them known. However, I will not be changing my plans regarding Points 1 and 2 unless YOU YOURSELF ARE VOLUNTEERING to do the heavy lifting of your own suggestion(s).
Suggestions for OTHER PEOPLE to carry out YOUR IDEAS will have to pass muster with my assistant.
Compared to Morris the Finicky Cat, this guy isn’t just picky – he’s downright suspicious!
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