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Joe Biden never won. This is our Real President – 45, 46, 47.
AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.
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Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.
Daily outrage and epic phuckery abound.
We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.
Joe Biden didn’t win.
And we will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win until we get His Fraudulency out of our White House.
Wolfie’s Wheatie’s Word of the Week:
quartan
noun
a fever recurring every third day
a fever occurring every fourth day, counting inclusively, or every 72 hours
of or pertaining to the fourth; occurring every fourth day, reckoning inclusively -“a quartan ague, or fever”
recurring every four days; especially in designating a form of malaria with such symptoms
Used in a sentence
A quartan is not to be confused with the French mathematician Élie-Joseph Cartan.
Shown in a picture
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MUSIC!
Scott reminded me of this song, which I loved back in the day. This video is a great tribute to one of the best “back-up bands” and “warm up acts” of its day, with what was realistically their only true big hit. Nonetheless, I remember when this song caught fire back then – good times! It got played on many a juke box – for years.
Here is the OFFICIAL story on how the band got its name!
And in case you want to hear it again, here is a reaction video by “The Wolf HunterZ”. No connection to yours truly – I swear!
THE STUFF
OK – more of that “hoe_math” dude who scorches feminists with simple pseudo-scientific blatancy about what they blatantly do. Here he is, explaining a “hoe-down” in which a bunch of allegedly “conservative” female influencers attacked each other, some with great truth and precision, showing why so many of them are really (a commenter coined this term) “deservatives”! Or grifters, as Aubergine so sharply spotted.
I was expecting Elon Musk’s latest drama mama, Ashley St. Clair, to be one of them – surprisingly, no.
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I wanted to give a smattering of information to show what Trump’s DOJ is up against. Remember this is all connected. It is a giant spiderweb going back centuries.
This move by POTUS Trump shows we are getting a lot closer to the indictments.
FIGHTING CRIMINAL FRAUD NATIONWIDE: Today, the Trump Administration is announcing the upcoming creation of the Department of Justice’s new division for national fraud enforcement. White House
“Complicated business folks” is an understatement. I have tried to capture a bit of the mess.
Brave and Free put up this tweet last Friday.
🚨🧵EXCLUSIVE: OBAMA AND BIDEN WHITE HOUSES, ARABELLA ADVISORS, LETITIA JAMES, AND MARC ELIAS LINKED TO ANTI-ICE RIOTS.
Last night my team infiltrated a Zoom call held by the group ICE Watch whose sole purpose is to obstruct ICE agents from arresting illegal aliens.
Trained as a community organizer. Non profit leader. Voracious reader. · Experience: Self Employed · Education: Drew University · Location: United States · 500+ connections on LinkedIn. View Gabe…
NED = National Endowment for Democracy. “The National Endowment for Democracy is a private, nonprofit foundation dedicated to the growth and strengthening of democratic institutions.” So WHY is it taking MY TAX MONEY?
How many Americans could identify the National Endowment for Democracy? An organization which often does exactly the opposite of what its name implies. The NED was set up in the early 1980s under President Reagan in the wake of all the negative revelations about the CIA in the second half of the 1970s… Seemingly every other day there was a new headline about the discovery of some awful thing, even criminal conduct, the CIA had been mixed up in for years. The Agency was getting an exceedingly bad name, and it was causing the powers-that-be much embarrassment.
Something had to be done. What was done was not to stop doing these awful things. Of course not. What was done was to shift many of these awful things to a new organization, with a nice sounding name – The National Endowment for Democracy. The idea was that the NED would do somewhat overtly what the CIA had been doing covertly for decades, and thus, hopefully, eliminate the stigma associated with CIA covert activities…
Thus it was that in 1983, the National Endowment for Democracy was set up to “support democratic institutions throughout the world through private, nongovernmental efforts”. Notice the “nongovernmental” – part of the image, part of the myth. In actuality, virtually every penny of its funding comes from the federal government, as is clearly indicated in the financial statement in each issue of its annual report… [Well that answers why Tax Money for funding NED was just approved again. — GC]
In effect, the CIA has been laundering money through NED.
The Endowment has four principal initial recipients of funds: the International Republican Institute; the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs; an affiliate of the AFL-CIO (such as the American Center for International Labor Solidarity); and an affiliate of the Chamber of Commerce (such as the Center for International Private Enterprise). These institutions then disburse funds to other institutions in the US and all over the world, which then often disburse funds to yet other organizations.
In a multitude of ways, NED meddles in the internal affairs of numerous foreign countries by supplying funds, technical know-how, training, educational materials, computers, faxes, copiers, automobiles, and so on, to selected political groups, civic organizations, labor unions, dissident movements, student groups, book publishers, newspapers, other media, etc. NED typically refers to the media it supports as “independent” despite the fact that these media are on the US payroll…
The NED, like the CIA before it, calls what it does supporting democracy. The governments and movements whom the NED targets call it destabilization.
…In 2006, Kremlin denounced the proliferation of foreign associations in Russia, some of which would have participated in a secret plan, orchestrated by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), to destabilise the country. To prevent a “colour revolution”, Vladislav Surkov drew up strict regulation over these non-governmental organizations (NGOs). In the West, this administrative framework was described as a “fresh assault on freedom of association by Putin the “Dictator” and his adviser”.
This policy has been followed by other States who in their turn, have been labelled by the international press as “dictators”.
The US government guarantees that it is working towards “promoting democracy all over the world”. It claims that the US Congress can subsidize NED and that NED can, in turn and wholly independently, help directly or indirectly, associations, political parties or trade unions, working in this sense anywhere in the world. The NGOs being, as their name suggests, “non-governmental” can take political initiatives that ambassadors could not assume without violating the sovereignty of the States that receive them. The crux of the matter lies here: NED and the network of NGOs that it finances: are they initiatives of civil society unjustly repressed by the Kremlin or covers of the US Secret Services caught red-handed in interference?
In order to respond to this question, we are going to return to the origins and function of NED…
Looks like Andy Biggs agrees with Russia. I wonder how much of the funding of the Anti-Ice protests can be traced back to NED?
81 Republicans just voted to fund NED. So did every single Democrat. If Republicans voted in block like Democrats, NED would be defunded now. But the blocker, as I've said so many times, is not Democrats. If it was, all these things could be fixed. It's the Blob side of the GOP. https://t.co/QWnAbRon2fpic.twitter.com/udxf0cNYKd
One thing I learned living in Uruguay in the 1980s — after the fall of the CIA-backed military dictatorship — is that the agency likes small countries where it can operate through a local tight-knit familial network. Torture and clandestine activities, in the right trusted hands, are “as American as apple pie”...
The CIA carries out clandestine activities overseas to cause regime changes — this is well known. What’s also apparent is that USAID is effectively a front for the CIA — a channel through which to fund various “non-profits” at home as well as overseas and to use those to steer policy and affect change. USAID stands for United States of America International Development. It is not “aid”.
Trawling through Datarepublican.com , you can look up names of New Hampshire non-profits and their directors and find out exactly how they link to USAID. Thus I looked up the NHCADSV, Granite Children’s Alliance (Children’s advocacy Centers) and New Hampshire Charitable Foundation — all funded in part by USAID and all tied to other non-profits funded in part by USAID.
These are also tied to news control organizations such as Internews which is also a recipient of USAID money as is Politico which promoted Amanda Grady Sexton of NHCADSV in 2016….
So, not only is USAID a slush fund for the CIA & dems, so is NED. This gives you an idea of what POTUS Trump is up against. However POTUS has help, what Q and Flynn call the ‘Digital Army.’
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Lets start here from last year with DataRepublican (small r)
DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican
11 Feb 2025
After thinking it over last night, here’s how I would summarize it: These seven NGOs (eight if you count the off-the-chart Solidarity Center) together function as an “off-the-books” shadow U.S. government.
The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) was created to unify the U.S. against communism. [Colonel Towner suggests that the ‘communism’ label is used to make the overthrow of a government, that will not cooperate with the transnational corporations rape of their country, palatable to the American public. — GC] Its four core organizations reflect a neat ideological symmetry of America’s two-party system:
➜CIPE pushes free-market policies, Solidarity Center represents labor and unions. [Centre for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), managed by the US Chamber of Commerce; –GC]
➜IRI serves Republican interests,[International Republican Institute (IRI), run by the Republican Party; — GC] and NDI aligns with the Democrats. [National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI), run by the Democratic Party. — GC]
CEPPS [Center for International Media Assistance — GC] is another umbrella group that includes IRI and NDI but also brings in IFES [International Foundation for Election Systems — GC] under the guise of fortifying election integrity.
And to make sure the narrative sticks, Internews Network spreads these viewpoints through global media.
Most of these NGOs were born during the Reagan years. While not all USAID and State Department funding flows through them, they control the purse strings for much of America’s global financial influence.
DEI initiatives created a system of unaccountability and dependency, which ended up injecting more money into them and further entrenches their power.
They see any challenge to their authority as a threat to democracy itself. But their greatest enemy is still the same one they’ve had since the Cold War—Russia. They’ve never lost the “Cold War” boomer mindset.
In their minds, they’re the superheroes keeping America from crumbling. And that entitles them to their travel perks, cushy post-election gigs, and all the other benefits that come with running an unacknowledged empire.
@AsheinAmerica and I have been going deep on searches & charts through the lens of elections.
Every search of the numerous election related NGOs all traced back to what we called “the motherships.”
Originally I thought the mothership orgs were the orgs controlling the “vertical” of elections.
That led me to posit there must be other mothership clusters that controlled different verticals like food, or energy.
We tested the verticals theory and afawct no. There aren’t other mothership clusters for other verticals.
All the stolen taxpayer money pumps through the same mothership cluster, and there is a splintering toward the end of the funding chains / loops as the orgs get smaller & more specialized.
It makes sense from a management pov. It would get very difficult to manage if there were too many mothership clusters.
Where this gets interesting from the election pov is in the smaller orgs that are indirectly funded. Orgs on both sides of US elections are funded.
It’s counterintuitive. Why would funding go toward adversaries?
My theory is to guarantee full control of US elections, the smart move is to own both sides.
It’s like big businesses hedging their bets in politics. Often times they contribute to both parties.
I believe there’s more to this election control / NGO issue. My next step is to start overlaying “the people” factor. That will likely give us a clear picture of who’s driving this bus.
Thank you DR for your work!
This is very important if you are trying to build a RICO case. If you follow the threads of various problems to the top you keep hitting the same organizations. It is like the same Mafia organization controls gambling, prostitution, extortion and bribery. Colonel Towner calls it the Criminal Syndicate. I call it the Cabal.
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Niz Parvez @NizParvez 28 Feb 2025
B. Federal Grants and the Anti-Lobbying Laws
•31 U.S.C. § 1352 prohibits federal grant recipients from using taxpayer money to influence legislation or elections.
•Legal issue: If these NGOs receive hundreds of millions in taxpayer funds, are they improperly engaging in political lobbying, narrative control, or election influence—either domestically or abroad
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While researching the numerous far left wing NGOs that are working to destroy America, it's clear that it's not only taxpayer money funding them but it's also the big global financial institutions' multi-billion dollar "charitable" foundations.
Gee, don’t you know the source of their [NGOs] contributions is “restricted” information. They don’t want to be exposed. This is from their tax return:
Us sucker taxpayers aren’t supposed to know
Here are other comments that are interesting.
Note in this LinkedIn post, NEO Philanthropy is credited for starting States at the Core as well.
NEO Philanthropy is Ford Foundation. Ford Foundation is also a major grantor of Hopewell Fund.
Groups like States at the Core (STAC) run ICE Watch trainings nationwide, including in MN, prepping activists to disrupt ops like in Minneapolis. Ties to Chicago's Protect RP and Portland's Western States Center show… https://t.co/bba7aDJLn9
Hopewell Fund Courtney Cuff, Project Director $359,880 Sharona Roth, Project Director $340,974 Sarah Pray, Project Director $263,204 Meagan Cavanaugh, Project Director $254,949 Melanie Gelling Zurek, Project Director $250,207 Source: IRS Form 990 (page 7), filing year 2023
These from DataRepublican are especially interesting.
🧵THE UNIPARTY UNMASKED – They Believe They Are “Democracy”
The seven NGOs in the chart below, in my view, represent the Uniparty. Each of these organizations receives substantial financial support from USAID or the Department of State.
THE UNIPARTY UNMASKED – They Believe They Are “Democracy”
The seven NGOs in the chart below, in my view, represent the Uniparty. Each of these organizations receives substantial financial support from USAID or the Department of State.
Around 2019, the phrase “democracy in danger” began to dominate public discourse, amplified by the media. This was odd—after all, the U.S. is a democracy (or more precisely, a constitutional republic). But as I traced the influence of these NGOs, a pattern emerged: they are controlled by establishment politicians, they play a major role in shaping political narratives worldwide, and their core mission is always framed as “protecting democracy.”
Originally, these NGOs were created to support U.S. democratic efforts abroad—many of them emerging during the Cold War to combat the spread of communism. But with the fall of the Soviet Union, their original purpose faded. Instead of dissolving, they redefined their mission. Now, they have positioned themselves as the guardians of democracy itself.
This shift explains why Trump’s re-election was framed as a “threat to democracy.” To these NGOs, “democracy” means themselves. Their survival depends on maintaining that role, and any challenge to their authority is perceived as a direct attack on democracy itself.
Check out this interactive visualization and analysis tool I’m developing to explore USAID data more systematically—with some AI muscle under the hood! It’s still a work in progress, but I’m excited about how it’s shaping up.
The "Democracy" Censorship Predicate: A Quick Primer
– After 2016, the national security state, the foreign policy establishment, & the gov't-funded NGO-plex orgs redefined the word "democracy": it no longer meant a consensus of individuals, it meant a consensus of institutions pic.twitter.com/5gdxBqKZOR
$700MM moved in two years, a burn rate of rough $1MM, every day, for around 730 days. We’re talking about an industrial pipeline of cash. There are more than a problems here, but let’s go through a couple:
1. Physical cash is not infinite at the branch level. It’s ordered, tracked, and replenished through a Federal Reserve district system that is designed to notice abnormal demand.
Now put that into Minnesota. Not New York. Not California. Not Texas.
Minnesota has a finite banking footprint, finite vault cash, finite armored-car routing, finite Fed cash-office capacity relative to the national hubs. So if MN alone was sourcing anything close to $1MM a day in high denominations for two straight years, you’d see strain. You’d see persistent, repeat demand, unusual denomination ordering, recurring cash logistics. You’d see it because the system has to move the paper from somewhere. And the Fed doesn’t “guess” about that. They account for it. That kind of sustained pull would stick out to the people whose entire job is watching demand, ordering patterns, and abnormal flows.
2nd Problem:
Two states wouldn’t fix his issue. OH + MN still leaves the same daily requirement. You still need a million dollars a day, still need continuity, still need reliability. You still need enough branches, enough institutions, enough cash order capacity, enough distance between the transactions so the pattern isn’t screaming from the dashboard. If you try to push that volume through only OH & MN, you’d concentrate the signal, compress the footprint, and create repetition.
Repetition is how you’d get caught, not on day one, but at some point within that 2 year period, you are getting nailed. When a pattern forms, multiple layers of oversight can see it. Bank compliance teams see it, BSA/AML monitoring systems see it, Federal cash distribution oversight sees it.
Airports… Inter state agencies.
You get the point.
And that leads us to our 3rd problem:
If the story is “they declared it at the airport,” that does not make it invisible.
Declarations create paper trails. So if the cash is being sourced, consolidated, and exported on a drumbeat for two years, the only way it stays operational is by spreading the sourcing footprint wide enough that no single district, no single metro, no single cluster of branches is carrying an abnormal share of the load. That means our “two-state” theory is implausible if not impossible. And it doesn’t hold on how many different tripwires would start chirping once that demand becomes consistent.
So where does that place us in SomaliFraud right now?
It places us in a multi-state network—AT LEAST—5 states. More plausibly 5-8.
Why?
Because 5-8 states lets you dilute the daily pull into smaller, more “normal-looking” slices. It lets you rotate institutions and geographies, avoid hammering one Federal Reserve district with a sustained, abnormal appetite for high-denomination currency, and avoid creating a single obvious hotspot. It also fits the only thing that matters in a long-running operation. Continuity.
A scheme that runs two years can’t depend on one state’s vault cash and one district’s tolerance.
It needs redundancy.
It needs alternate routes.
It needs multiple hubs.
Essentially, is mandatory for a large enough footprint that the volume becomes background noise instead of a siren. A five-to-eight-state network is the only mathematically feasible option. And that’s exactly why our lens is widening.
More soon. 🇺🇸
Exclusive: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on The Somali Fraud Investigation
And Finally More Datarepublican
🧵🚨 MAJOR BREAKING: Inside The New Pluralists: how billionaires weaponized the Biden Administration, targeted Charlie Kirk, and are quietly financing America’s color revolution 🚨🚨
In 2017, a quiet meeting brought representatives of Soros, Koch, Rockefeller, and Ford… pic.twitter.com/sC49WqzNHT
The list of partner organizations for "ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA: DAY OF TRUTH" on January 23 includes Minnesota Nursing Association (MNA) along with about 95 others.
Sponsors/hosts for the event (and related actions) include Faith in Minnesota (the advocacy arm of ISAIAH), along… pic.twitter.com/WjG6Nhibwb
Bad news. Looks like insurrection act will be necessary. Sorry.
Democrats take absolute power in Virginia and the first thing they do is introduce the “Legalize Crime”, “Steal All Future Elections”, and “Duplicate Somali Daycare Fraud” Acts. pic.twitter.com/qwLglzinfU
CIA and Spamburger are forcing insurrection to be multi-state. [It always was — GC]
𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐂𝐇𝐔𝐑𝐂𝐇 𝐖𝐀𝐒 𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐌𝐄𝐃 𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑 𝐀 𝐍𝐀𝐌𝐄 — 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐋𝐄𝐅𝐓 𝐃𝐎𝐄𝐒𝐍’𝐓 𝐖𝐀𝐍𝐓 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐓𝐎 𝐊𝐍𝐎𝐖 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓 Let’s strip this lunatics message down to its piece-parts and make this 𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐦𝐞.
𝐅𝐀𝐂𝐓: You can’t — 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐬𝐧’𝐭. This was a 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧. There is 𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐦𝐚𝐧 named 𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐝 𝐄𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐰𝐨𝐨𝐝 who serves as an 𝐈𝐂𝐄 𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐝 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫. 𝐒𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞. 𝐃𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞. 𝐙𝐞𝐫𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧.
Protestor: 𝘍𝘤𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮.
𝐅𝐀𝐂𝐓: That rage wasn’t aimed at ICE. It was screamed at 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬 inside a church.
Protestor: 𝘍𝘤𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘕𝘢𝘻𝘪𝘴.
𝐅𝐀𝐂𝐓: Slapping labels on innocent people doesn’t make them true. It just proves you 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐬.
Protestor: 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘮𝘦.
𝐅𝐀𝐂𝐓: When you invade a 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩, intimidate congregants, and brag about it on camera, that’s not bravado — that’s 𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐥 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞. Here’s the entire story in one sentence:
𝐀 𝐜𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐦𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞 — 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐧’𝐭 𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐟𝐲. That’s why the 𝐃𝐞𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞 launched an investigation. Churches are 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐬. Intimidation is 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭. And cameras are 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐢𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲. Facts matter. Names matter. And 𝐜𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐬.
He is also one of the agitators at the Whipple building every single night Most of them that storm the church is at the Whipple building every single night
He goes all of the country. He’s one of the main guys who fires up the crowd and incites more violence.
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I do not envy POTUS Trump in his quest to unravel this mess!
On a side note, we all know that the judiciary, esp in Democrat run states has been corrupted thanks to Blue Slips in the Senate. This makes prosecuting in a state like Florida much more attractive. If this whole mess; Russia,Russia,Russia, the stolen 2020 election, the judicial travesty of Jan 6th, the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago, and now the Anit-Ice protests against deportation of illegal aliens, can all be connected, then the court case could possibly be moved to a better venue.
Joe Biden never won. This is our Real President – 45, 46, 47.
AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.
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Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.
Daily outrage and epic phuckery abound.
We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.
Joe Biden didn’t win.
And we will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win until we get His Fraudulency out of our White House.
Wolfie’s Wheatie’s Word of the Week:
headsail
noun
sail set forward of the foremast of a ship
Used in a sentence
Learn about the different types of headsails we make, such as jibs, genoas, yankee cut, and staysails.
Shown in a picture
Shown in a video
MUSIC!
Not sure which is more eye-popping – Crosby’s weight or Nash’s mullet! In any case, this song always reminds me of sailing, despite the grim lyrics.
THE STUFF
If you’ve ever wondered why neutrons are themselves unstable, there’s another complication before we get there. We can’t even figure out what’s happening to them, because we measure different answers for how long they last, depending on the experiment, and nobody can figure out why.
So are neutrons “adjacent” to dark matter? Or are they just slipping out to party somewhere else?
Joe Biden never won. This is our Real President – 45, 46, 47.
AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.
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Although drapetomania was initially proposed as a sham explanation for escaping slaves in the antebellum South, it has proven to be a real condition among white wymynz, primarily in the North, during their delinquent youths, as well as among their daughters, due to the poor parenting skills of woke momz.
Shown in a picture
The most listenable and non-woke music video I could find with the name “drapetomania”.
MUSIC!
Another AI-assisted hymn by my favorite “group” of that nature.
THE STUFF
It’s time for…….. THE SNAKE.
Cottonmouth capture, venom extraction, and reaction with blood.
By the dude who has shown us a variety of insect bites and stings.
Maybe those copperheads up north ain’t so bad. At least they don’t keep us on the plantation, like them cottonmouths down south.
Joe Biden never won. This is our Real President – 45, 46, 47.
AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.
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).
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Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.
Daily outrage and epic phuckery abound.
We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.
Joe Biden didn’t win.
And we will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win until we get His Fraudulency out of our White House.
Wolfie’s Wheatie’s Word of the Week:
quinzaine
noun
piece of verse having 15 lines
piece of verse having 15 syllables
poetic form similar to haiku, with 3 lines, 15 syllables, and 7/5/3 form
French word for 15 things, 15 people, 15 days, or 2 weeks
the 15th day after a feast day, using both end days in counting
Used in a sentence
Even though the word quinzaine looks like some kind of heterocyclic, nitrogen-containing chemical, it is no such thing. However, quinazoline with the stable isotope nitrogen-15 at one or both nitrogen atoms would make a good candidate.
Shown in a picture as quinazoline
Quinazoline
Described as a form of poetry with 3 lines, similar to haiku
Quinzaine is an unrhymed verse of fifteen syllables. The word comes from the French word quinze, meaning fifteen. The syllables are distributed over three lines so that there are seven syllables in the first line, five in the second line, and three in the third line (7/5/3). The first line makes a statement. The next two lines ask a question relating to that statement.
Directions
Line 1: (7 syllables that make a statement) Line 2: (5 syllables that asks a question about the statement) Line 3: (3 syllables that asks a question about the statement)
Quinzaine Example :
The Call
The beach calls my name today. Would it warm my soul? Should I go?
Not to be confused with a cinquain poem
MUSIC!
Apparently, in French, quinzaine sounds like “khan zen”
THE STUFF
Are you a fan of those Veritasium videos I love to show you?
If so, then you will enjoy this “meta-Veritasium” video!
So how will this affect any “Fake Science” trying to sneak in? Or has it already snuck in?
Joe Biden never won. This is our Real President – 45, 46, 47.
AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.
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The bands called “Ox” are lacking, IMO. The two best options are (1) German heavy metal, and (2) Canadian alt-country that can’t be found. Let’s try something else.
THE STUFF
Although I’m not exactly a fan of recent country, this badly AI-visualized compilation of real human country from 2025 is in fact a fairly enjoyable playlist for New Year’s Eve. Listen – don’t watch.
I had to find a new video – the one I put there earlier got wiped by YouTube. Guess that’s the way it is. AI songs, stolen songs, monetization games.
In any case, enjoy!
OK, some of that stuff was pretty good. But we need MOAR.
Feel like some science? How about something that touches on the very design of how things change – something very close to math itself?
Why, that almost sounds like the hand of God!
Feel like recalculating your life? Maybe you need some new resolutions!
Joe Biden never won. This is our Real President – 45, 46, 47.
AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.
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).
Our various sister sites, listed in the Blogroll in the sidebar
Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.
Daily outrage and epic phuckery abound.
We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.
Joe Biden didn’t win.
And we will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win until we get His Fraudulency out of our White House.
Wolfie’s Wheatie’s Word of the Week:
rounce
noun, verb (multiple meanings)
The handle for moving the carriage on a hand printing press
The handle by which the bed of a hand press, holding the form of type, etc., is run in under the platen and out again; — sometimes applied to the whole apparatus by which the form is moved under the platen.
The handle by which the bed of a hand press, holding the form of type, etc., is run in under the platen and out again.
The whole apparatus by which the form is moved under the platen.
to be agitated
to flounce around
to fuss
to restore damaged coffee by stirring it in a tub with boiling water and then drying it.
Used in a sentence mixing some of the above meanings
Through our leaflets protesting the lies of the Wall Street Journal, we did our best to rounce the bubble, one might say.
Shown in a picture of “rounce and rails”
Printing press, part of. 1995.0214.002.
Shown in another picture of “rounce and girths (straps)”
Shown in a video (“oiling the rounce”)
So how does one “pronounce the rounce”?
MUSIC!
You guessed it! Another hymn by these folks. For full disclosure, I don’t think this woman on the thumbnail is an actual person. Suspicious Cat doesn’t think this is her actual voice, either.
THE STUFF
Christmas is almost here! Are you ready?
Look what I discovered by searching on “rounce” and finding something uploaded by a teacher named “Nicole Rounce”!
Enjoy a patriotic musical!
Not exactly sure some of this conversation is historically accurate.
Joe Biden never won. This is our Real President – 45, 46, 47.
AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.
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This explainer is powerful, making very understandable the link between tail loss and other differences between humans and apes and/or monkeys. And not only is the “genetic clock” consistent with what we know – this hypothesis almost certainly explains other inherited traits which come from similar larger patterns in DNA, and not from smaller base-pair mutations.
And – drum roll – they got (ethically, using mice) confirmation in a lab. Yes. Really.
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I want to archive these videos from Mike Benz, Promethean Action & the Transition Integrity Project interviews, since it documents the switch from the Fabian model (gradual) to a Color Revolution after the Cabal lost complete control of the USA under D.J. Trump.
Why I Think The Seeds Of The J6 Fedsurrection Plot Were Planted At This Secret Meeting In June 2020 (And What This Means For The J6 Pipe Bomber Investigation) pic.twitter.com/DO8LGmqHQz
PublishedSeptember 25, 2020 (17 minutes) Have a barf bag ready…
The White House is pushing back against its own FBI director who disputed President Trump’s claims about widespread voter fraud. This as Trump refuses to commit to a peaceful transition of power should he lose the election. Fmr. KY Secretary Of State Trey Grayson (R) is a member of the Transition Integrity Project, and he discusses what the Trump administration might pull come November.
Nils Gilman of the Berggruen Institute Discusses the Transition Integrity Project on Al Jazeera (5 minutes)
This is a good compilation of information, including a 33 minute audio interview of Nils Gilman by KGNU’s Liz Lane. It also includes a pointer to the 22 page PDF: Transition Integrity Project Report
The progressive coalition Fight Back Table has been meeting to game out what happens if Joe Biden doesn’t win by a landslide. It’s not pretty.
Last week, a coalition of leading progressive groups gathered on Zoom to begin organizing for what they envision as the post-Election Day political apocalypse scenario.
Put together by the Fight Back Table—an initiative launched after the 2016 election to get a constellation of lefty organizations to work more closely together—the meeting dealt with the operational demands expected if the November election ends without a clear outcome or with a Joe Biden win that Donald Trump refuses to recognize.
Sources familiar with the discussions described them as serious with a modestly panicked undertone. A smaller FBT session last fall had talked about post-election planning, but those discussions were tabled because of the COVID-19 pandemic. This was the first time they were bringing the matter to the 50-plus organizations that make up the coalition. To formalize the effort, they gave it a name: the “Democracy Defense Nerve Center.”
Over the course of two hours, participants broached the question of what the progressive political ecosystem can functionally do in a series of election scenarios. They began charting out what it would take to stand up a multi-state communications arm to fight disinformation, a training program for nonviolent civil disobedience, and the underpinnings of what one official described as “mass public unrest.” And they pored over a report from the Transition Integrity Project, a bipartisan group formed in 2019, that analyzed various election-season scenarios and made clear the type of ratfuckery, corruption, and chaos that potentially was ahead.
“The potential for violent conflict is high,” the report noted….
The co-founder of the Transition Integrity Project, Brooks hasconducted war games [Washington Post Article] to play out the range of Election Day and post-Election Day scenarios. And virtually all the outcomes, save one—a Biden landslide—have ended up facilitating a nightmarish fallout…
In real life, former (now aggrieved) associates of the president have warned [The Atlantic] that he will use extraordinary means to hold on to power. And Biden himself has openly worried that Trump might move to contest the election results if they don’t go his way. Beyond that, there has been very little said about what plans the Democratic nominee or his team have in store. Under law, Biden is restricted from coordinating with outside groups like those involved with the Democracy Defense Nerve Center….
The progressive leaders helping spearhead the Democracy Defense Nerve Center harbor no such illusions. Though conversations have just now begun dealing with the operational details of how to navigate life after Election Day, few if any anticipate a scenario in which Trump bends to elite opinion. Instead, the larger game plan is to apply pressure through mass mobilization….
While the sheer number of groups and volunteers involved in the effort has given organizers hope, there is some fear that they may not all be operating from the same playbook. Two sources involved with the FBT discussions said they worry Biden would concede a contested election too early, with an eye toward ensuring a peaceful transition of power. Inside the coalition, there is dispute over whether Biden should even concede if he wins the popular vote but loses the Electoral College, à la Clinton in 2016 and Gore in 2000.
Under that scenario, Eldridge said, his organization would not support mass mobilization. “I support the national popular vote,” he explained. “Our organization does advocacy for the popular vote… Unfortunately, the Electoral College is the system that we have.”
But the Transition Integrity Project noted that there would be immense pressure on Biden to fight it out if, for the third time in 20 years, the Democratic candidate won the popular vote but didn’t take office. In a simulation they ran, Team Biden “encouraged Western states, particularly California but also Oregon and Washington, and collectively known as ‘Cascadia,’ to secede from the Union” unless structural reforms were made. In exchange for Trump getting the presidency, for instance, Republicans would need to agree to abolish the Electoral College, give Puerto Rico and D.C. statehood, and divide California into five states for better Senate representation….
I included the Daily Beast article to show the type of Fear Mongering that was going on in the progressive sphere. Is there any doubt that some of those spooked by such reports might help set up peaceful MAGA on Jan 6th?
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As I have theorized for years, the Brits never gave up their attempts at taking over the USA. In 1913 they managed a ‘soft coup’ by installing the Federal Reserve Central Bank and passing the 16th Amendment to transfer American wealth to that central bank. Once the central bank was in place they moved to gain control of the media in 1915 (LINK), and shortly thereafter they started their very profitable endless wars.
One core feature of the Cabal is their contempt and hatred of the middle class. A class that challenges their absolute rule of the world.
KARL MARX & COMMUNISM
Notice that the target of Karl Marx is the bourgeoisie–the middle class, and NOT the aristocracy or Ruling Elite.
“The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley feudal ties that bound man to his ‘natural superiors,’ and has left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, callous ‘cash payment.’ It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervor, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single, unconscionable freedom—Free Trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation.
The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honored and looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, into its paid wage laborers.
The bourgeoisie has torn away from the family its sentimental veil, and has reduced the family relation to a mere money relation.” ― Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
A second point that a lot of people miss is that the goals of the Fabian Socialists and the Marxist Communists are the same. Just the methods are different. The Fabians favor a gradual take over, like we have experienced here in the USA, while the Communists favor bloody revolution. Both are inventions of the Brits.
“You must understand. The leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They hated Russians. They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic hatred they tortured and slaughtered millions of Russians without a shred of human remorse. The October Revolution was not what you call in America the “Russian Revolution.” It was an invasion and conquest over the Russian people. More of my countrymen suffered horrific crimes at their bloodstained hands than any people or nation ever suffered in the entirety of human history. It cannot be understated. Bolshevism was the greatest human slaughter of all time. The fact that most of the world is ignorant of this reality is proof that the global media itself is in the hands of the perpetrators.” – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Funny how we have the Nazis’ treatment of the Jews pounded into our heads as kids but you very seldom hear about the slaughter of Russians, the worst Democide of the 20th Century. After all sympathy for the Russian people would not fit the Cabal’s twin goals, Communism as the reason for the CIA to over throw governments and Communism taught to US students as the best form of government. (Logic? We don’t need no stinkin’ logic!)
4. 61,911,000 Murdered: The Soviet Gulag State 5. 35,236,000 Murdered: The Communist Chinese Ant Hill 6. 20,946,000 Murdered: The Nazi Genocide State 7. 10,214,000 Murdered: The Depraved Nationalist Regime
III 19,178,000 VICTIMS: THE LESSER MEGA-MURDERERS
8. 5,964,000 Murdered: Japan’s Savage Military 9. 2,035,000 Murdered: The Khmer Rouge Hell State 10. 1,883,000 Murdered: Turkey’s Genocidal Purges 11. 1,670,000 Murdered: The Vietnamese War State 12. 1,585,000 Murdered: Poland’s Ethnic Cleansing 13. 1,503,000 Murdered: The Pakistani Cutthroat State 14. 1,072,000 Murdered: Tito’s Slaughterhouse
I wonder what the total is for the CIA’s murder of Americans via the forever wars and drugs?
The Cabal has had a plan in place for well over a century. A plan to re-establish a feudal society. That is what Agenda 21 is. A modern version of feudalism with the transnational corporations taking the place of the Aristocracy. LINK As an example of implementation: November 29, 2012 The Demise of Christchurch City New Zealand Since then we have seen similar activity here in the USA.
I wrote a lot about this back in 2014 at Tony Heller’s old website because Global Warming was the ‘Fear’ the Cabal was using to push their agenda.
Rothschild/Aristocracy connection to Agenda 21:
World Bank Carbon Finance Report for 2007
The carbon economy is the fastest growing industry globally with US$84 billion of carbon trading conducted in 2007, doubling to $116 billion in 2008, and expected to reach over $200 billion by 2012 and over $2,000 billion by 2020 http://www.carbonplanet.com/navigating_the_carbon_economy(Now dead)
3. New Carbon Finance, “UK in Pole Position as Carbon Funds Surge – but More Funds required”. Press release 4 April 2007, www.newcarbonfinance.com.
38. Analysis from new Carbon Finance estimates that in the last six months, nearly US$4.7 billion of new capital had entered the market at the end of March 2007 (Source: New Carbon Finance, “UK in Pole Position as Carbon Funds Surge – but More Funds required”. Press release 4 April 2007, www.newcarbonfinance.com). Most of the newly raised money was of private origin and was targeted to the sell-side (project development and carbon asset creation). The remainder (about 15%) sits on the buy-side for direct purchases by public and private compliance buyers, compliance funds and investor funds targeted at the compliance segment. The same source estimated in addition that even more funds are required to bring to the market enough emission reductions to satisfy the appetite of compliance buyers.
…The draft hands effective control of climate change finance to the World Bank; would abandon the Kyoto protocol – the only legally binding treaty that the world has on emissions reductions; and would make any money to help poor countries adapt to climate change dependent on them taking a range of actions.
The document was described last night by one senior diplomat as “a very dangerous document for developing countries. It is a fundamental reworking of the UN balance of obligations. It is to be superimposed without discussion on the talks”….
If you bother to look you find Shell Oil’s finger prints all over CAGW. Shell is also very much entangled with the Banksters. The Rothschilds and Rockefellers are major shareholders
Shell Oil wanted to push natural gas. Ged Davis, the Shell Oil VP who wrote the Sustainability Scenarios for the IPCC, shows this in the “Sustainable Development (B1)” part of the February, 1998 Climategate e-mail which asks for comments on the attachment: “Draft Paper for the IPCC Special Report on Emissions Scenarios by Ged Davis.
Another Shell Oil exec Doug McKay was at the IPCC scenario meetings. McKay was also Senior Financial Analyst with the World Bank. Robert Watson worked for the World Bank while Chair of the IPCC.
Then you have Shell Oil, BP and a Rockefeller Foundation funding the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia. Marlan Downey, “Former President of the international subsidiary of Shell Oil, founder of Roxanna Oil; former President of Arco International” on the Advisory Board of Richard The Liar* Muller’s consulting firm, Muller & Assoc. (Muller is known for the so-called BEST temperature Data set.)
Who owns Shell? The Dutch royal family (The House of Orange) is still reportedly the biggest shareholder in Royal Dutch Shell, although the size of its stake has long been a source of debate. Another major stockholder is the Rothschilds. The Rothschild Investment Trust was formed in 1988 and united the Rockefellers and Rothschilds as did the merger of their two banks. The Queen of England was also a major stockholder.
SHELL and WWF:
Prince Bernhard of the Dutch Royal Family, a Nazi, is the Founding President of the World Wildlife Fund. (WWF) HRH The Duke of Edinburgh served as International President of WWF for 16 years until his retirement at the end of 1996. John H. Loudon, Better known as “the Grand Old Man of Shell”, headed Royal Dutch Shell from 1951 to 1965. He was President of WWF from 1976 to 1981.
Ruud Lubbers served three terms as Prime Minister of the Netherlands between 1982 and 1994, thus becoming the longest serving Dutch Prime Minister…. He continued in Parliament as Senior Deputy Leader, and later Parliamentary Leader of the Christian Democratic Alliance. He became President of WWF International on 1 January 2000.
Peter Voser Chief Executive Officer … a member of the Swiss Federal Auditor Oversight Authority from 2006 to December 2010. In 2011…
Josef Ackermann Non-executive Director … He is Chairman of the Board of Directors of Zurich Insurance Group Limited and of Zurich Insurance Company Limited, positions he has held since March 2012.
…he held a variety of positions in corporate banking, foreign exchange/money markets, treasury and investment banking. In 1990, he was appointed to SKA’s Executive Board, on which he served as President between 1993 and 1996. He joined Deutsche Bank’s Management Board in 1996 with responsibility for the investment banking division and, from 2006 and 2002 respectively until May 2012, he was Chairman of the Management Board and of the Group Executive Committee of Deutsche Bank AG. He is a member of the Supervisory Board of Siemens AG, the Board of Directors of Investor AB and a number of advisory boards. He also has various roles in several foundations and academic institutions….
Charles O. Holliday Non-executive Director … He served as Chief Executive Officer of DuPont from 1998 to January 2009, and as Chairman from 1999 to December 2009…. He previously served as Chairman of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Chairman of The Business Council, Chairman of Catalyst, Chairman of the Society of Chemical Industry – American Section, and is a founding member of the International Business Council. He is Chairman of the Board of Directors of Bank of America Corporation and a Director of Deere & Company.
Gerard Kleisterlee Non-executive Director …He is Chairman of Vodafone Group plc, a member of the Supervisory Board of Daimler AG, and a Director of Dell Inc.
Christine Morin-Postel Non-executive Director …. she was Chief Executive of Société Générale de Belgique, Executive Vice-President and a member of the Executive Committee of Suez S.A., Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Crédisuez S.A. and a Non-executive Director of Pilkington plc, Alcan Inc. and EXOR S.p.A. She is a Non-executive Director of British American Tobacco plc.
Sir Nigel Sheinwald GCMG Non-executive Director …He was a senior British diplomat who served as British Ambassador to the USA from 2007 to 2012. He joined the Diplomatic Service in 1976 and served in Brussels (twice), Washington and Moscow and in a wide range of policy roles in London. He served as British Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the European Union in Brussels from 2000 to 2003. Prior to his appointment as British Ambassador to the USA, he served as Foreign Policy and Defence Adviser to the Prime Minister and Head of the Cabinet Office Defence and Overseas Secretariat. He retired from the Diplomatic Service in March 2012….
Linda G. Stuntz Non-executive Director She is a founding partner of the law firm of Stuntz, Davis & Staffier, P.C., based in Washington, D.C. Her law practice includes energy and environmental regulation as well as matters relating to government support of technology development and transfer. From 1989 to 1993, she held senior policy positions at the U.S. Department of Energy, including Deputy Secretary. She played a principal role in the development and enactment of the Energy Policy Act of 1992.
From 1981 to 1987, she was an Associate Minority Counsel and Minority Counsel to the Energy and Commerce Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives. She chaired the Electricity Advisory Committee to the U.S. Department of Energy from 2008 to 2009, and was a member of the Board of Directors of Schlumberger Limited from 1993 to 2010. She is a member of the Board of Directors of Raytheon Company. [Raytheon does mostly government contracts G.C.]
Jeroen van der Veer Non-executive Director ….He was Vice-Chairman and Senior Independent Director of Unilever (which includes Unilever N.V. and Unilever plc) until May 2011 and is Chairman of the Supervisory Boards of Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. and of ING Group. He also has various roles in several foundations and charities.
Gerrit Zalm Non-executive Director …He is Chairman of the Board of Management of ABN AMRO Bank N.V., a position he has held since February 2009. Before joining ABN AMRO, he was the Minister of Finance of the Netherlands from 1994 until 2002, Chairman of the VVD Liberal Party in the Lower House (2002) and Minister of Finance from 2003 until 2007. During 2007 until 2009 he was an adviser to PricewaterhouseCoopers (2007), Chairman of the trustees of the International Accounting Standards Board (2007-2010), an adviser to Permira (private equity fund) (2007-2008) and Chief Financial Officer of DSB Bank (2008). Prior to 1994, he was head of the Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis, a professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and held various positions at the Ministry of Finance and at the Ministry of Economic Affairs. ….
Rather well connected to governments, NGOs and various banks, were they not? The present lot exhibit more ‘Woke’ credentials.
The Bankers/Cabal have already captured the corporations.
…we find that only 737 top holders accumulate 80% of the control over the value of all TNCs [Trans National Corporations] …This means that network control is much more unequally distributed than wealth. In particular, the top ranked actors hold a control ten times bigger than what could be expected based on their wealth…
…In detail, nearly 4/10 of the control over the economic value of TNCs in the world is held, via a complicated web of ownership relations, by a group of 147 TNCs in the core, which has almost full control over itself. The top holders within the core can thus be thought of as an economic “super-entity” in the global network of corporations. A relevant additional fact at this point is that 3/4 of the core are financial intermediaries….
The Leveraged Buyouts/Hostile Takeovers during Reagan’s Admin. dismembered and killed wealthy, no-debt mid-level American corporations and transferred the accumulated wealth to the Banksters/Cabal. Worse, this meant ‘American’ corporations were no longer actually American. Thus this was a very important move by the Cabal.
Under Reagan
…A leveraged buyout (or LBO, or highly-leveraged transaction (HLT), or “bootstrap” transaction) occurs whenan investor, typically [a] financial sponsor, acquires a controlling interest in a company’s equity and where a significant percentage of the purchase price is financed through leverage (borrowing).👉The assets of the acquired company are used as collateral for the borrowed capital,👈[BEFORE it was acquired]sometimes with assets of the acquiring company. Typically, leveraged buyout uses a combination of various debt instruments from bank and debt capital markets…
The leveraged buyout boom of the 1980s was conceived by a number of corporate financiers, most notably Jerome Kohlberg, Jr. and later his protégé Henry Kravis. Working forBear Stearns at the time, Kohlberg and Kravis, along with Kravis’ cousin George Roberts, began a series of what they described as “bootstrap” investments…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leveraged_buyout
What they did was take corporations WHICH HAD NO DEBT, like the one I worked for, 👉 borrowed against the assets — THAT THEY DID NOT OWN!!👈 — and used that money to buy stock in the corporation so they could take control. (I do not know why this was not ILLEGAL!)
…Both economic and regulatory factors combined to spur the explosion in large takeovers and, in turn, large LBOs.The three regulatory factors werethe Reagan administration’s relatively laissez-faire policies on antitrust and securities laws, which allowed mergers the government would have challenged in earlier years; the 1982 Supreme Court decision striking down state antitakeover laws (which were resurrected with great effectiveness in the late eighties); and deregulation of many industries, which prompted restructurings and mergers.The main economic factor was the development of the original-issue high-yield debt instrument.
The so-called “junk bond” innovation, pioneered by Michael Milken of Drexel Burnham, provided many hostile bidders and LBO firms with the enormous amounts of capital needed to finance multi-billion-dollar deals…. http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc1/TakeoversandLeveragedBuyouts.html
This led to a feeding frenzy that was started…
…In January 1982, [by]former US Secretary of the Treasury William Simon and a group of investors[who] acquired Gibson Greetings, a producer of greeting cards, for $80 million, of which only $1 million was rumored to have been contributed by the investors. By mid-1983, just sixteen months after the original deal, Gibson completed a $290 million IPO and Simon made approximately $66 million.The success of the Gibson Greetings investment attracted the attention of the wider media to the nascent boom in leveraged buyouts. Between 1979 and 1989, it was estimated that there were over 2,000 leveraged buyouts valued in excess of $250 billion…..—WIKI
NOTE THIS WAS IN JANUARY 1982. What happen before then???
Did that shooting influence the Reagan administration’s failure to prosecute the buyouts under Anti-Trust? The possibility certainly sheds a different light on that shooting…
The 1980’s leveraged buyout feeding frenzy allowed the Transnational Financiers to GUT American industry. But even more important it got a transnational foot into the door of US Politics. I will address that below.
….Of mergers and acquisitions each costing $1 million or more, there were just 10 in 1970; in 1980, there were 94; in 1986, there were 346. A third of such deals in the 1980’s were hostile. The 1980’s also saw a wave of giant leveraged buyouts.
Mergers, acquisitions and L.B.O.’s, which had accounted for less than 5 percent of the profits of Wall Street brokerage houses in 1978, ballooned into an estimated 50 percent of profits by 1988...
THROUGH ALL THIS, THE HISTORIC RELATIONSHIP between product and paper has been turned upside down.
Investment bankers no longer think of themselves as working for the corporationswith which they do business. These days, corporations seem to exist for the investment bankers…. In fact, investment banks are replacing the publicly held industrial corporations as the largest and most powerful economic institutions in America.…
THERE ARE SIGNS THAT A VICIOUS spiral has begun, as each corporate player seeks to improve its standard of living at the expense of another’s.Corporate raiders transfer to themselves, and other shareholders, part of the income of employees by forcing the latter to agree to lower wages.
The 1980’s leveraged buyout feeding frenzy was followed by the establishment of the World Trade Organization (WTO), on 1 January 1995. The take-over of US corporations by the transnationals, helped set up the transfer of US manufacturing to third world sweat shops. These transnationals and financiers, (see The Network of Global Corporate Control above) would have zero loyalty to the USA since the actual control of corporations was transferred FROM stockholders/corporate boards TO the financiers/cabal. Thus we see that corporations can now be used as a WEAPON.
…New convergence and strengthened interdependence coincide with a third trend, relating to income distribution. In many countries the distribution of income has become more unequal, and the top earners’ share of income in particular has risen dramatically. In the United States the share of the top 1 percent has close to tripled over the past three decades, now accounting for about 20 percent of total U.S. income (Alvaredo and others, 2012). At the same time, while the new convergence mentioned above has reduced the distance between advanced and developing economies when they are taken as two aggregates…
Remember those terms Convergence, Interdependence and Divergence.
Convergence of the poor with the middle class ultimately leading to a new serf class.
Interdependence of nations ultimately leading to ‘Global Governance’ aka a world government.
Divergence of the elite from the middle class leading to a new Ruling Class.
Holding: Political spending is a form of protected speech under the First Amendment, and 👉the government may not keep corporations or unions from spending money to support or denounce individual candidates in elections.👈 While corporations or unions may not give money directly to campaigns, they may seek to persuade the voting public through other means, including ads, especially where these ads were not broadcast.
Judgment:
Reversed, 5-4, in an opinion by Justice Anthony Kennedy on January 21, 2010. in a 5-4 decision with an opinion written by Justice Kennedy. Justice Stevens dissented, joined by Justices Ginsburg, Breyer, and Sotomayor.
Building on Buckley v. Valeo, which held that spending money can be critical to exercising the freedom of speech, the majority also ruled that corporations have First Amendment rights and can spend money to exercise them. The Court overruled precedents that restricted political spending by unions and corporations during elections, finding that they were constitutionally permitted to support or oppose candidates, as long as they did not contribute to their campaigns or parties directly. As a result, the section of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act that banned independent expenditures by corporations and unions was unconstitutional. It appeared that the majority used a heightened standard of review, similar to strict scrutiny. Kennedy noted that the government does not have the authority to level the playing field among speakers such that each speaker has equal access to the public. He used a vision of the First Amendment as protecting the marketplace of ideas from intrusion by the legislature, even if that intrusion was based on concerns of fairness. He was not persuaded that corporations would corrupt the marketplace of ideas by flooding it with speech that they supported because of their funding advantages. Kennedy felt that corruption was limited to quid pro quo exchanges and that all citizens should be able to make their own judgments on whether certain information is valuable, without having some information removed from the marketplace of ideas in advance. However, the majority held that provisions of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act that required disclosure of who funded the speech were valid here, although they might not be valid in all instances.
A PAC is an entity formed by individuals, organizations, corporations, or unions to raise funds to help influence elections.They impact elections because they can donate to candidates and campaigns (within defined limits) and conduct independent expenditures (without limits) to help support the election or defeat of candidates.
PACs endorse and financially support specific candidates and causes. Individuals and corporations donate to the PAC, then the committee donates the pooled funds to political campaigns or uses them to create political ads, perform field work, or do other election-related activities.
PACs can also conduct independent expenditures (sometimes called IEs). The FEC defines an independent expenditure as“an expenditure for a communication, such as an advertisement through a website, digital device, application, advertising platform, newspaper, TV or direct mail” that expressly advocates for the election or defeat of a candidate and “is not made in consultation or cooperation with, or at the request or suggestion of” a candidate, their authorized agents, or a political party or its agents…
The purpose of PAC fundraising must be to impact elections. PACs raise funds to influence elections in a few ways. They can do so by:
Donating directly to political campaigns for any local, state, or federal office (*traditional PACs only, Super PACs cannot)
Paying for political advertisements on TV, social media, or other communication channels (*as long as these advertisements are not made in cooperation with the candidate or at their request — check with your relevant election authority to ensure compliance with relevant laws)
Financing get out the vote (GOTV) initiatives to help turn out voters for important candidates or causes
Essentially, PACs raise funds to attain more political power and use it to influence elections in ways that align with the group’s ideals and goals.
Super PACs are a relatively new type of committee that arose following the July 2010 federal court decision in a case known as SpeechNow.org v. Federal Election Commission.
Technically known as independent expenditure-only committees, super PACs may raise unlimited sums of money from corporations, unions, associations and individuals, then spend unlimited sums to overtly advocate for or against political candidates. Unlike traditional PACs, super PACs are prohibited from donating money directly to political candidates, and their spending must not be coordinated with that of the candidates they benefit. Super PACs are required to report their donors to the Federal Election Commission on a monthly or semiannual basis — the super PAC’s choice — in off-years, and monthly in the year of an election.
As of March 19, 2025, 2,502 groups organized as super PACs have reported total receipts of $5,096,825,517 and total independent expenditures of $2,688,997,939 in the 2023-2024 cycle...
On March 26, 2010, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals held that the provisions of the Federal Election Campaign Act that limit the contributions that individuals may make to SpeechNow.org, and the contributions that SpeechNow.org may accept from them, violate the First Amendment. Background
SpeechNow is a nonprofit, unincorporated association organized as a section 527 entity under the Internal Revenue Code. The organization was formed by individuals who seek to pool their resources to make independent expenditures expressly advocating the election or defeat of federal candidates. SpeechNow plans to accept contributions only from individuals, not corporations or other sources prohibited under the Act. The individual plaintiffs wish to contribute to SpeechNow, both in federally permissible amounts and in amounts exceeding the federal limits… The plaintiffs contend that the Act unconstitutionally restricts their association guaranteed under the First Amendment. By requiring registration as a political committee and limiting the monetary amount that an individual may contribute to a political committee, SpeechNow and the other plaintiffs assert that the Act unconstitutionally restricts the individuals’ freedom of speech by limiting the amount that an individual can contribute to SpeechNow and thus the amount the organization may spend. SpeechNow also argues that the reporting required of political committees is unconstitutionally burdensome.
The plaintiffs asked the court to find the contribution limits, reporting requirements and political committee registration requirements unconstitutional as applied to their proposed activities. The plaintiffs also requested that the court preliminarily and permanently enjoin the FEC from enforcing these provisions against SpeechNow and the individual plaintiffs….
Super PACs (independent expenditure only political committees) and Hybrid PACs (political committees with non-contribution accounts)
Super PACs (independent expenditure only political committees) are committees that may receive unlimited contributions from individuals, corporations, labor unions and other PACs for the purpose of financing independent expenditures and other independent political activity.
Hybrid PACs (political committees with non-contribution accounts) solicit and accept unlimited contributions from individuals, corporations, labor organizations and other political committees to a segregated bank account for the purpose of financing independent expenditures, other ads that refer to a federal candidate, and generic voter drives in federal elections, while maintaining a separate bank account, subject to all the statutory amount limitations and source prohibitions, that is permitted to make contributions to federal candidates…
So the result of all these different moves is that a transnational corporation (or union) can now contribute unlimited funds to influence US elections as long as they have an ‘office or affiliate’ in the USA and thus claim to not be a ‘foreign entity.’ And even with all this maneuvering POTUS Trump STILL WON!
So the cabal had to escalate to a Color Revolution.
Joe Biden never won. This is our Real President – 45, 46, 47.
AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.
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Joe Biden didn’t win.
And we will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win until we get His Fraudulency out of our White House.
Wolfie’s Wheatie’s Word of the Week:
remeant
adjective, proper noun
returning
coming back
(both meanings archaic and poetic)
recycled material brand name
Used in a company statement
Remeant REMEANT is a beautiful eco friendly textile created from upcycled plastic used in packaging materials. Through cutting-edge technology, REMEANT has produced the first-ever solution for reusing this non-biodegradable waste. The eco friendly fabric is waterproof, washable, highly durable and lightweight. It can be used to produce ethical fashion, including bags, home decor, accessories and clothing.
