“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 dates for these stories about Ukrainian babies sacrificed for parts is 2006 -2007. I am going to address Putin first since he is the most likely scapegoat if the story goes viral. Also he, like President Trump has repeatedly called out the pedophilia in the West.
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin[c] (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who holds the office of president of Russia. Putin has served continuously as president or prime minister since 1999:[d] as prime minister from 1999 to 2000 and from 2008 to 2012, and as president from 2000 to 2008 and since 2012…
Sharon Tennison has written an indepth article drawing not only on her experience but that of her Russian friends and US officials . She has also written a book published in 2011.
….Putin obviously has his faults and makes mistakes. Based on my earlier experience with him, and the experiences of trusted people, including U.S. officials who have worked closely with him over a period of years, Putin most likely is a straight, reliable and exceptionally inventive man.
He is obviously a long-term thinker and planner and has proven to be an excellent analyst and strategist. He is a leader who can quietly work toward his goals under mounds of accusations and myths that have been steadily leveled at him since he became Russia’s second president.
I’ve stood by silently watching the demonization of Putin grow since it began in the early 2000s –– I pondered on computer my thoughts and concerns… In addition to my personal experience with Putin, I’ve had discussions with numerous American officials and U.S. businessmen who have had years of experience working with him––I believe it is safe to say that none would describe him as “brutal” or “thuggish”, or the other slanderous adjectives and nouns that are repeatedly used in western media.
I met Putin years before he ever dreamed of being president of Russia, as did many of us working in St.Petersburg during the 1990s….
A Russian friend (a psychologist) since 1983 came for our usual visit. My first question was, “Lena what do you think about your new president?” She laughed and retorted, “Volodya! I went to school with him!”
She began to describe Putin as a quiet youngster, poor, fond of martial arts, who stood up for kids being bullied on the playgrounds. She remembered him as a patriotic youth who applied for the KGB prematurely after graduating secondary school….
My next question was:
What do you think he will do with Yeltsin’s criminals in the Kremlin?
Putting on her psychologist hat, she pondered and replied:
If left to his normal behaviors, he will watch them for a while to be sure what is going on, then he will throw up some flares to let them know that he is watching. If they don’t respond, he will address them personally, then if the behaviors don’t change–– some will be in prison in a couple of years.
I congratulated her via email when her predictions began to show up in real time…..
Another interesting tidbit about Putin is his Christianity and his views of the Western governments attack on Christianity and Christian morals.
June 30, 2017….Mr. Putin’s position on the matter of child-abusing Elites remains the same, saying:
“Europe and the West thrives on a culture of pedophilia and Satanism”
Looking forward following his meeting with Mr. Trump though, Putin said they had set the scene for a new era of cooperation describing their talk as a “breakthrough” and a “huge step forward” in the fight against the current Satanic pedophile world order….
Consider what Putin and his military may be finding as evidence in Ukraine. I think SOMEONE, probably NOT Putin is doing a bit of clean-up. Wolf believes that the clowns are trying to scare Putin’s loyal oligarchs with stories, when their fellow ex-pat oligarchs are in fact falling victim to either the clowns themselves, or MANDATED JABS in Europe and America.
Healthy new-born babies may have been killed in Ukraine to feed a flourishing international trade in stem cells, evidence obtained by the BBC suggests.
Disturbing video footage of post-mortem examinations on dismembered tiny bodies raises serious questions about what happened to them.
– Ukraine has long heralded itself as a leader in modern science’s embryonic stem cell quest. BBC News reports that video footage they obtained suggests that the Ukraine is no longer meeting the demand with just embryonic stem cells but is now also killing newborn babies to harvest cells from their more developed bodies. The Institute for Problems of Cryobiology and Cryomedicine in Kharkov, Ukraine was founded in 1972 as a research facility in the little known field of stem-cell therapy….
By Meg Jalsevac KHARKIV, Ukraine, December 12, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com)
These is an organization of physicians in Alabama, Physicians for Life, that did investigative research on the use of Stem Cells. They wrote the story below. I copied just a snippet.It is chilling.
Ukrainian trafficking in baby parts—Reported by Brian Clowes, March 2007: The trafficking of baby parts in the Ukraine & the Institute for Regenerative Medicine in Barbados. This follow-up report exposes the horrific industry that connects these distant locales. The March 2006 HLI Special Report described how John Fusto and I visited Barbados in 2005 and exposed the Institute for Regenerative Medicine, or IRM. The doctors at this facility claim on the IRM Website that they can completely cure or ameliorate every disease or injury known to man — including spinal cord trauma, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases, diabetes, cancer, arthritis, and diseases of the liver, nervous system, blood, heart, and bowel. The IRM has gone a long way towards fulfilling its promise to make Barbados the “Embryonic Stem Cell Capital of the World.” It imports aborted baby parts from Ukraine, liquefies them into a kind of “preborn pureé,” then injects them directly into the arms or body organs of customers. According to the IRM, these cells use a kind of “radar” to seek out diseased or damaged cells in the patient’s body and repair them. The IRM claims an astonishing 96% improvement rate in curing virtually every disease ever recorded. Rich English and American women find their way to this remote complex (at their own expense, of course), and are injected with fetal stem cells at $25,000 per session. Barnett Suskind, CEO of the IRM, says that “It’s the most natural form of healing there is. You think better, sleep better, look better. Your quality of life improves and your libido certainly improves.” Only the Beginning When John and I were investigating the IRM in Barbados, we had no clue that we were taking the first steps towards uncovering an international conspiracy involving corruption at the highest levels of several governments, mad scientists by the score, a Nazi-style eugenics breeding program, mass murder, and Russian Mafia executions of witnesses. When you’ve spent a few years in the pro-life movement, nothing tends to surprise you. But I have to tell you, this sure comes close. Upon arriving back at Human Life International, I was curious to see if the Institute for Regenerative Medicine was just a fluke — a unique facility unlike any other in the world.
by APFLI | Jul 12, 2007
The adrenochrome skuttlebutt was easily disprovable CRAP that was probably meant to be a cover for THIS. It was a provably false trail, just like Wolfie explained yesterday that the Gates quote:
The world today has 6.8 billion people…that’s headed up to about 9 billion. If we do a really great job on vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by perhaps 10 to 15 percent.
And just in case you think this type of inhuman behavior is not loose in the Modern world, here is a video on oran harvesting from live people. Again to serve an Elite, wealthy clientele.
I just realized something horrible, which makes it even more imperative that we either get our American prisoners out of DC Gitmo, or ask our military to bomb a certain building conducting inhumane experiments on American prisoners of war.
The House, now under Patriotic American control, needs to stop pussyfooting around. The fastest way to make the evil communist DOJ give up its hold on our patriotic Americans, is to make their friends in CIA sweat for what it is doing to our fellow Americans. The CIA hates exposure, so it’s time to expose.
I am absolutely convinced of the following.
Part of the reason patriots are being slow-walked in DC Gitmo, is so that they can be experimented on by the CIA.
First, some background on CIA human experimentation.
You may or may not be familiar with a documentary which the CIA absolutely HATES, called “The Minds of Men“, by an outfit called Truthstream Media, otherwise known as a couple of filmmakers named Aaron and Melissa Dykes.
This documentary explains, very calmly and rationally, an important PART of the broad and comprehensive research program called MKULTRA. In particular, it discusses the secret history of CIA human experimentation on American mental patients, fronted through a bunch of ingenious American university scientists, who never got Nobel prizes, because their important but shocking work was basically kept on the down low by the CIA and the elite who funded it. This was all very typical of how scientists are ABUSED by politicians, corporations, spies, and “higher powers” (i.e., rich elites, secret organizations, etc.).
The Minds of Men makes all the connections, all the way back to the elite, and it will blow your minds.
Unless things have changed recently, you cannot get this DVD on Amazon, because Amazon is Bezos, and Bezos clicks his heels to CIA orders.
You have to get the documentary mailed directly from Truthstream. In any case, it’s very eye-opening. The CIA has deep ties to American university research, and the whole “CIA recruiting on campus” fake controversy is basically a kind of cover, assisted by dupey communist agitators, who likely have no clue that the CIA which helps run communism in America, is already deep in the universities, and has been from the beginning.
Anyway, today, our friend Aubergine posted a new video by Truthstream, which is this:
If you watch this, you will get a sense of Truthstream’s style, which is very patient and visually reinforcing, so that their message really embeds. It’s worth skimming the above, if you’ve never seen The Minds of Men. That documentary is very much in the same style.
This video is great, of course, and if you watch it, you will realize that it’s extraordinarily “meta” and ironic in regards to this very post. However, that’s tangential to my point.
Aubergine pointed out the new video’s discussion of the Stanford Prison Experiment, in which pretend prison guards abused pretend prisoners. You should already be getting some vibes here.
“…it was a real social experiment in which some college students were assigned to play guards while others were to be prisoners. It is most notable for the fact that although it was supposed to last two weeks, it had to be terminated after only six days because the “mistreatment of prisoners escalated so alarmingly.””…”
and then making this connection to January Sixth:
Think of the Jan 6th Political prisoner where the guards KNOW there will be NO REPERCUSSIONS FOR THEIR BEHAVIOR…-Gail Combs
That is when I realized suddenly what is going on.
All of the January Sixth prisoners have reported maltreatment at the hands of guards, appalling living conditions, isolation, and other forms of abuse.
However, SOME of the prisoners have also reported on the PROPAGANDA to which they are being subjected. And I’m not just talking about being forced to watch only CNN, or having been given leftist “defenders” who try to talk them into parroting DOJ propaganda to get out.
In particular, after much initial isolation from the world, they are then given very “read-only” tablets, which are loaded with typical “donkey com” propaganda – pro-left, pro-Islam, anti-Christian, etc., etc.
They don’t get to choose what information they get. They only get REGIME INFORMATION. And when it’s interactive, like these tablets, it has to be like Facebook on steroids.
This was immediately clear to me as CIA experimentation. Let me explain why.
The CIA didn’t just experiment surgically on mental patients, using university scientists. They did a LOT of experimentation on prisoners – both Americans and foreigners. How do I know this?
By reading this book:
This book is what is known as a “limited hangout” by CIA. It’s actually very easy to tell what they’re hiding and what they’re not, by reading it, if you go in with the idea that the CIA actually HELPED this book get written.
The basic idea of the MKULTRA hearings back in the 1970s, was to make people think that the project was an old, discredited, FAILURE. Lots of shiny objects in the way of nasty and seemingly pointless experiments, drugs, sex, and mistreatment of CIA personnel BY other CIA personnel were provided.
This is how the CIA closes out a successful project, and makes the success “disappear”.
Kinzer’s book is just more of the same, updated for what has already leaked out or been figured out, since the MKULTRA hearings. New scandalous clickbait information in the same directions, plus a few harmless new angles, help to make it look like:
MKULTRA was an abject failure
benzodiazepines and modern super-opioids never existed
drugged hypnosis and “brainwashing” never worked
everything CIA worked on was stupid, bizarre, and “paranormal”
Sidney Gottlieb didn’t know what he was doing, and just messed around
there was no real plan to MKULTRA
there was no successor to MKULTRA
the experimentation was mostly on captured foreign spies
the experimentation on American prisoners was just stupid LSD trips
Very typical limited hangout. Deny, deny, deny all the successes.
The reality is that Sidney Gottlieb was an excellent top-level researcher, much in the same vein as Oppenheimer, and when tasked with a formidable technical challenge, approached it from all the best logical angles.
The successes of MKULTRA were substantial
brainwashing techniques on par with the Soviets and Chinese
expertise in drugged hypnotic debriefing and programming
ability to suppress conscious memories
ability to implant false memories
ability to program mental patients to commit crimes
strong understanding of human brain electromagnetics
strong understanding of psychology, memory, altered states
If you prowl around on this site, searching in the search widget on MKULTRA and similar, you will find much information about those successes, including my personal experiences with the technology, shortly AFTER it was declared “case closed” in the late 1970s. The drugs most likely used are NEVER mentioned in the Kinzer book. Kinzer is New York Times. Yeah he had great contacts – and they either used the hell out of him, or he’s part of their game. I don’t really care which, or need to know.
So how does this fit in with January Sixth?
The Kinzer book does not mention the shocking brain surgical experimentation on American civilians discussed in The Minds of Men, but it does talk about drug experiments on:
captured foreign spies during the early cold war
Whitey Bulger and other American criminal prisoners
This is why I’m very confident that we’re seeing experimentation on Trump supporters in DC Gitmo. What kind of experimentation do I suspect?
typical social stuff – study of resistance to isolation, maltreatment, reward/punishment
searching for “John McCains” who are amenable to “reform” / brainwashing
drugged hypnotic interviews while sleeping (see my own experience here)
social media psychological experimentation (Facebook stuff) using the “tablets”
I suspect that the “American Soviets” who run DOJ and CIA are very busy studying these captured patriots, trying to figure out how to turn them into good socialists.
DC Gitmo = Hanoi Hilton
I suspect that if DC gulag prisoners are given this knowledge, they will be able to think back and realize exactly how they were experimented on by their communist keepers.
Congress, or course, can demand information, but expect that if they are given anything, it will just be limited hangouts.
Nevertheless, it should be interesting to hear from the J6 prisoners themselves, what was done to them, once they realize that they were being experimented on by communists.
W
PS – the CIA is always dumping massive amounts of CHAFF on MKULTRA, to cover up the reality. Don’t believe everything you hear about it – especially the stuff that seems “too attractively controversial”. Shiny objects, IMO. I will discuss that, shortly.
It is very hard to be concise on such a complex subject. So, please forgive the length of this story as it cannot be done well in two parts and BIMD will be on hold for a month or so through the holidays as I work on a family project.
As many of you know, there is a war of Biblical proportions underway, to quote the substance of Q, over America’s soul. Everything I have posted in BIMD’s past leads to this storyline and truth. There are many parallels of events and people that interconnect within my own sphere. Now multiply that by millions or more of others unrelated to mine. Examine your own and I am sure you will see them as well.
All have been arranged and managed by one Creator. Yet, even with the benefit of having truth and history to explore some still say there is no God. That position has far more faith involved than any believer in God will ever have.
This war is about the enemy using anything as a wedge to create disunity in a United States of America to achieve its destruction. Seeking truth has nothing to do with their efforts. In the words of Pontius Pilate, which represents the ancient Rome from whom they all descend figuratively and literally in some cases, “What is truth?”
So we will continue to explore “why” it is the way it is. If there was nothing to fear from America’s existence there would be very little conflict. Civilized war would not be underway. There would be no need to lie, manipulate, murder, steal and deny God’s imprint on this nation.
So let’s drill down.
On The Ground
As an example of the subtleties of engaging in the Civilized War, there are issues being decided without the general public being aware problems exist. To illustrate, in November in TN we passed a constitutional amendment that specifically outlaws any form of slavery despite an anti-slavery amendment in the federal constitution and all of the legal rulings and precedents on the state and federal level prohibiting it for over a century. The ballot measure stated that the language does not prohibit an inmate from working when the inmate has been duly convicted of a crime. Why was that amendment passage necessary? I promise you that question was on the lips of over 90% of the voters in this state. Yet it passed by a 4-1 margin anyway, partially because of the trust that has been built in our overall conservative state legislature and governor. Another reason is it simply reaffirmed constitutionally supported state law against slavery. However, those appeared to be overdone and unnecessary, like killing a fly with a sledgehammer. What was the real reason?
The answer is simple, but has far reaching implications. Slavery has many forms. Slavery by race is just one form and it left this nation a century and a half ago. The leftists in authority positions have obviously been setting the stage for claims of its existence with their refusal to prosecute crimes all over the country; which includes the crimes of illegal aliens, ANTIFA, BLM, etc. – who are their supporters and mercenaries. They have been setting up the lawfare type legal view that those prisoners convicted of crimes and sentenced to prisons are being enslaved if they are required to work while incarcerated. So it is a pretext for their immediate release. We also know that hard work by inmates serves as method to reduce internal prison conflicts and as a deterrent toward committing future crimes upon release. Now before you think I am talking out my azz on those later points, I am stating the observations of a retired Christian friend who has 25+ years of warden experience in two states and is supported by statistics in both states.
The passage of this amendment in TN removes that angle of attack constitutionally and in any other states that have the proper language in their Constitutions. The TN GOP has been paying attention. The action closed the door on using fear (and lies) to free the NWO cabal’s criminal lackeys, which is what they sought to introduce by associating the word “slavery” with those imprisoned for crimes.
We need to understand that the NWO cabal seeks to build their narratives and lies into the lexicon of the general public. Creating fear works to that end. Listen to the language that you, loved ones, co-workers, etc. use on daily basis. Are you hearing the words of the media, culture warriors and politicians in those discussions? Are you tired of their continuous lectures on what and how you should think and behave yet? Have your grown weary hearing about all of the “oppressed” groups of people, some of whom they claim deserve reparations?
As disheartening as it has been for patriots to observe and live through, the real enemy outs themselves throughout the process if we pay attention. The good news is that more people are waking up every day. As an example, per recent reports in even the fake news media only 13% of the population have chosen to be jabbed with the most recent COVID booster. Quite a change from the 70+% who got the first jabs. That being the case despite all the money spent by the government and Big Pharm promoting it. All of us who call things for what they are started calling them “the jab”, “the clot shot”, and so on. The words entered the every day lexicon of Americans and began reducing the fear related to not going along with the scam.
The battle with COVID and the jabs has been part of the spiritual, civilized war. They are connected. Trust government of man, or, trust the kingdom of God. Pick one. One is the blue pill, one is the red pill. Only one has truth to tell if you prefer The Matrix image.
Moral Decay and Collusion with the Enemy
The continuing Civilized War in America is over control of life; in particular, your right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It involves every aspect of life in America all at once. A full out assault on truth and good all of the time, every hour of every day. They entice people to willingly enter into lives of sin and moral decay. They intentionally undermine the economic system, strip people of property and legal rights as well as the ability to earn incomes sufficient to live the American Dream. They develop a new normal where crime is acceptable while tolerance of the immoral and unthinkable are virtues to be prized. Both political parties knew and have participated in it for decades. The proof is they did nothing to change it despite having the authority and tools to do so.
The Uniparty only does show pony justice when it comes to themselves. Present the image of administering penalties for crimes. However, they know their subterfuge will be over if PDT goes back in as #47. So just enough states keep lax voter ID laws, illegally loaded voter registration rolls, hackable electronic voting, and use illegal ballot harvesting to keep them in power. The fake news intentionally lies as directed. The swamp will trot out the hoaxes and scams du jour to see if they can strengthen their hold over the sheeple that they need for the diehard Democrat socialists and communists to stay in power as they have always done. All while the Establishment GOP sends forth the Pences, Haleys and Pompeos of the world as potential POTUS candidates they know can never earn the nomination, but hope can siphon off votes and interest in the general election to help their Uniparty Dem buds. They sit quietly on their hands with silent voices hoping none of it reduces their dividend checks from a monetary and economic system that is as fake as they are. They want the GOP base to be fractured because it will reduce PDT’s and MAGA’s chances. So they play their parts to make sure it stays that way.
Caving to Fear
Fear has enabled so many genocides in societies in this world over thousands of years. Will it enable genocide in ours? Excluding the Scamdemic genocide, if the genocide that has already occurred in America with unborn children is any indication, then we have our answer. That one issue has been an American litmus test for totalitarianism versus liberty and freedom. It should divide us. There is no unification possible when one group of people argue for and pursue laws that the mother should have the right to choose to murder her unborn child, not consult with the other sexual partner in the act that created the child, and then take the action with the assistance of medical professionals in a nation dedicated to God. It is scripturally impossible to justify as well as within many legal entanglements.
As proponents, they have needed to deny America was ever dedicated to God and build this belief into the national lexicon and psyche. Does that help explain the lies and false narratives about our nation’s founding? They have to twist the meaning and use the corrupted government and judicial system to support their efforts. The same system created for We the People that they have corrupted with our unwitting assistance by not paying attention and challenging their claims at every turn.
To accomplish their goals the NWO cabal made the case with the support of the corrupted Supreme Court that life does not begin at conception and states’ rights did not apply in conflict with the Constitution and rule of law – that are based on God’s principles and commands throughout as discussed in my previous installment.
The Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Wade was a fraud and nothing was done to change it or to the justices ruling in its favor without having authority to do so. The Constitution is clear. If an issue is not addressed specifically in it, the issue is left to the individual states to determine. The Court’s fraudulent ruling led to a large percentage of approximately 60 million unborn children being brutally murdered a half century later. That’s genocide.
Yet, fear as a people kept us from taking steps through states’ rights to stopping a lot of the abortion genocide for half a century. Legal roadblocks were erected that caused fear of reprisals. For many it meant not wanting to offend others by opposing the legality of the issue openly; or to not risk the prospect of going to jail for protesting. Or politicians’ fear of losing federal tax dollars in state governments. For others it meant fear of losing relationships, jobs and being ostracized. For churches it meant congregational and denominational splits. Many felt hopeless as the Supreme Court was viewed as the final decision maker. They feared nothing could be done to change it.
They were wrong. Focus efforts here. How did this issue, this genocidal atrocity get reversed in states that have a conscience? Consider spending time thinking about how it was changed when the media and politicians repeatedly told the country for decades it was “settled law.”
To illustrate below is a trailer from the movie Lifemark that was released in 2022. I urge you to watch this movie that was inspired by a true story.
The abortion issue has been similar to not standing up against the removal of school prayer and deemphasizing patriotism in public schools. Accepting the old freedom “from” religion lie that was applied in opposition to the actual statement and intent in the Constitution keeps it alive. The recent Marriage Defense Act is yet another obvious destructive action taken by the NWO cabal that was Uniparty supported. Another open announcement on where they stand in relation to God and Satan that tramples on states’ rights as prescribed in the Constitution.
The NWO cabal clears the way for a drug culture through open borders that allow the cartels to operate with impunity, neocon wars of the moment to make money, sexual perversion and permissiveness, etc. All of which have undermined the foundations of society. In reality they are just other forms of slow, less obvious, and less detectable genocides that our current government leaders permit and even encourage. That once again, trample on states’ rights and the Constitution. Since when can undeclared wars be conducted without impunity? Since fear gained control.
Where do your elected officials in your states stand on these death provoking issues? Have you as an individual citizen asked them in writing?
Has it been worth it to fear? Why would it not divide a nation? It should in a nation that has a large segment of its people who believe life is good and a gift from God. We should be at extreme odds with those who push death and destruction.
When it comes to abortion, you either believe life begins at conception or not. There is no Switzerland on the issue. You either believe the life in the womb of a woman is a fetus, or, in the God-given reality that the life is a male or female human being. You are choosing love (and life) or fear (and death) with your choice. This is where Greta should focus her outrage…
Everything else is idle talk, just noise to deflect from truth and rationalize’s one’s decision. If you have made this choice of death and regret it, there is good news! The Lord provides a path for forgiveness and restoration. I pray you make that next choice to build or restore your relationship with the giver of all life.
Now take each cultural issue pushed by the NWO cabal to divide us and decide – life or death, love or fear. Then identify the proponents and opponents of each with authority to do something about it or strongly influence others. Those are your personal targets for prayer, communication and influence.
Personal Example
Please be clear about one thing. When the life of the mother is on the line and she is lying there bleeding out, save her life in accordance with her wishes. But do not kill the baby intentionally under a false pretext that it will save the mother’s life. There is a difference. Allow me the opportunity to give a personal example.
My wife’s first child from her previous marriage is alive and living a normal life today as a result of not making the choice to save one or the other as presented by her physician, who was also a Christian. However, well before the events of the actual day her child was born, my wife was given a choice to terminate the pregnancy due to many serious medical complications. It would have given many women an opportunity to opt out, however, despite her terrible marital situation she chose to have her baby if at all possible due to her Christian beliefs.
One day at 7.5 months into the pregnancy she began hemorrhaging badly and was rushed to the hospital. She and her father (the now ex-husband was not there) made the choice for the physician to try to save both despite the physician telling them to make a choice. You see that was the critical point. The physician predetermined that one was likely to die due to hemorrhaging, so she wanted to know which one she should focus her efforts on saving. It was a reasonable diagnosis given the situation and loss of blood. The choice of my wife and her father was to save both. There was no either or option to consider in their minds. They were at peace with none, one, or both dying in accordance with God’s will that life is sacred. Had my wife already been in a coma her father knew her choice long before the event. He would choose life and God’s will. Fear of death was not a material consideration. Of course death was not a desired outcome, however, being held in the hands of the Savior produces assurance that the outcome will go according to His plan.
At that point my wife slipped into a coma from the loss of blood. My future FIL sat in the waiting room and prayed to the Lord he loved, trusting in His will. The physician laid it all on the line to save both. She was amazed both lived and perhaps had her own faith and understanding strengthened. My rock star wife was cut wide open to get her child out quickly and the placenta removed. Then blood vessels, tissue and muscles were repaired while being given blood and her baby’s lungs suctioned. She lay in a coma for two days before waking up with her father holding her hand. He never left her side. Her daughter made great progress quickly and has lived a healthy life for 49+ years. My wife was told that she would never have any more children, that the risk would be too high. At age 24, she thought she was done with child bearing. She sensed she would not want any more by her ex-husband anyway. She never regretted making the decision for life and trusting God.
Fast forward 12 years later. The fraud of her first marriage had ended. She met Goober Gump at a graduate banking school over 400 miles from her home who had also ended the fraud of his first marriage. Two very different people in two very different situations who never had any previous connections at all. She had embarked on a quest to boost her career to help her financial situation as a single mom with the support of her wonderful, grandfatherly bank President who was more of a friend than a boss. It was a school that Goober had been on the waiting list to get in, who was notified he could attend two days before it started due to a cancellation. He felt fortunate to be admitted as he was restarting a planned business banking career that had been derailed by his ex’s uncompromising, selfish desires. Little did either know at the time that God had plans for good for both.
Each arrived at school and met the next day in classes that would last for a week. Each knew almost immediately that something had clicked. The week went by quickly before they headed their separate ways back to their homes, jobs and lives. However, they continued to talk over the phone frequently getting to know more about each other. A few weeks later Goober paid a visit to her over a weekend and it was all over. They knew immediately. A year later they married.
Through the years every time the following songs came on the radio they would bring smiles to their faces as they thought about the time they first met in Memphis.
Rock star’s and this guy’s earlier separate, quiet prayers in solitude 500 miles away from each other for peace and a loving loyal partner for life at some point had led to this. I had no reservations marrying the woman of my dreams knowing that she could not have children. I was happy to help raise my step daughter and enjoy our lives together.
One day we both came home from work and as we were preparing dinner, she asked me to sit and talk with her for a minute. Unbeknownst to me she had been to see her long time OB/GYN who had delivered her daughter, who was no longer doing obstetrics. My wife inquired of her about the prospects of having another child. Her physician referred her to the top practice in the area that specialized in high risk pregnancies.
She had taken a morning off from work and gone without my knowledge. She saw one of three OB/GYN’s in the practice and he examined her. He told her he thought she had healed well enough through the years to have another child if done as a Caesarian with the cut in her abdomen made in the same manner as her first. That led to rock star telling me that evening that nothing would make her happier than to have my child. My first reaction was that I did not want to risk losing her if there was any chance that something could go wrong. She assured me that she and the physician were good with it and did not foresee anything that would prevent it all from going well. We committed it all to the Lord. If it was to happen, He would make it happen.
My wife’s pregnancy and delivery of our 6 lb. 2 oz baby girl back in our day went perfect. Wifey said that during the pregnancy she had never felt so good in all of her life. I cannot count the number of late night runs to Shoney’s for the breakfast bar we made. To hear our daughter’s cry as I stroked my wife’s head in the delivery room was a God moment I will never forget. Miracle.
To cut to the chase and as a result some 36 years later, many of you have been involved and made a positive impact in the life of our oldest grandson. You are a part of our story.
But it would never have happened if fear had ruled any of us at any point from the delivery of her first child on throughout life. None of it would have turned out the same had that same man with PTSD who had endured 15 months of living Hell in a Nazi prison camp in WW II had not stepped into the gap for his daughter. Fear could have kept us in failed marriages or with a strong reluctance to take a chance on love again. After what she had lived through with the first pregnancy, nobody would have ever questioned her fear of ever trying that again.
Fear. For the Christian there is no other way than the courageous freedom that exists under God’s dominion. Victory comes from conquering fear with love.
The Rest of the Story
Being Goober Gump means stuff just happens at times. Just dunno. During the course of going to doc appointments when wifey was pregnant with our daughter, she saw all three of the practice physicians. Her favorite, of course, was the good looking one. All women are the same. My favorite was the stout guy with the big sense of humor. Then there was the older one; highly intelligent, competent and experienced, who had a dour military attitude. He was unrivaled as a skilled surgeon per the area’s medical community. His attitude was probably because he was a retired surgeon of the Air Force.
You probably can guess where this observation is headed. That former military surgeon and chief of staff of the base hospital was assigned to the same SAC Air Force base near the same small town I lived in Arkansas in the same time period I lived there. We probably saw each other in stores and restaurants without having a clue who each other was. He retired from military service a few years before I left and accepted a position in a practice in Knoxville, earning his OB/GYN credentials in the process. He and the other two formed the new practice a couple of years before my wife had her appointment. As it turned out the AF surgeon who had replaced him at the base, was a personal friend of mine as his father was my district manager and mentor in my employment. During a medical appointment we figured out our common connections and his dour attitude turned to one of joy as we shared with each other. As God sometimes arranges things, he was the one on call at our hospital of choice, St. Mary’s, the evening wifey’s water broke. He worked hard and well to make sure it all went as it should and we will be forever grateful. He even allowed me to film a tasteful video of the delivery with a curtain protecting the actual bloody view. A video that included a paramedic in training who watched the procedure from the foot of the operating table, who completely passed out during the surgical part. He came by wifey’s room later and apologized. He said they were going to make him watch another Caesarian without passing out before they would let him pass his course.
And Goober, once again, learned just how much God loved him and his loved ones. Humbled to my knees again.
A few years later we were talking with Pat and RB Summitt at church about how wifey’s pregnancy went as an older mother as Pat had just found out she was pregnant with Tyler. She wanted some insights from another mother at a similar older age. Her high risk OB/GYN’s office was located down the hall from wifey’s at the same hospital. Her physician was a bank customer of mine. Her pregnancy went just like rock star’s even if her marriage did not later on.
That older hospital was one of four in Knoxville at that time. As things go again, it was the same hospital that my Mamaw chose to use over 65 years before with her pregnancies and health issues through the years. The circle of life had been completed with 4 generations of my family. The hospital was later sold and closed at that location in recent years. Only for the land and facilities to be recently purchased and renovated beautifully to house…
Lincoln Memorial University’s new College of Dental Medicine.
Yeah, there’s that Goober thing again. Hi, Pete, thank you from all of us hillbillies. Teach them well, Otto. My best regards to both of you. We the People will be the winners from your efforts.
Choose This Day…
Have you noticed that life goes on and many good things happen when you are not paralyzed by fear? It does not mean you stop doing things to prevent evil. It just means to live life within God’s dominion and trust in His provision.
We can stop the genocides in whatever form they exist. Simply choose love over fear. Choose God and His ways and will. When you spot evil and destruction in play; call it out, go to work against it and do not fear. Let Him guide your path. Even if persecuted you will have peace, just like Paul as he wrote to the early churches from prison.
Joshua was born a slave in Egypt. He was in the group that Moses led that left during the Exodus. He saw the mighty power of God with the Red Sea parting. He became a personal assistant to Moses. It was Moses who gave Hosea son of Nun his name. Joshua means “the Lord is salvation” or “Yahweh saves” in Hebrew. The name was a reminder to all that their future victories would be accomplished by God, who would be fighting the battles for them.
Joshua was one of the twelve spies sent into Canaan and one of the two along with Caleb who told Moses they could take them. Because of the fear of the other ten spies infecting the people, God was angered and sentenced all of them to wander 40 years in the wilderness. It should be no surprise that of the 12 spies, only Joshua and Caleb survived during those 40 years. They still had to go through it even though they were faithful. This is a recurring theme for the faithful. Even Jesus prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane for release from what was to come, yet wanted The Father’s will to be done. He still had to go through it.
Upon Moses’ death, it was Joshua who was chosen to lead the people. It was Joshua who led the battles and conquests that took control of The Promised Land. A deeper study of Joshua reveals much depth. He even sent spies into Jericho who were assisted by Rahab the prostitute in its conquest. At every juncture Joshua trusted God and did as he was instructed. He is viewed as a foreshadowing of the coming Messiah, Jesus Christ, whose lineage extends through that same Rahab.
Obviously, 40 years before Joshua’s time came to lead, God knew it was not yet time for him to do what he was to do on behalf of the kingdom. Obviously as well, it was time 40 years later as we look back on what transpired. God’s timing is perfect.
Rahab and her family were the only people or animals left alive in Jericho due to her faithfulness and service to God and Israel. This young gentile woman was accepted, honored and married into the royal family of Judah, and is in the lineage from which our Jesus came. Fear of the evil people around her did not stop her from doing what she willingly felt she needed to do by sheltering the spies at great risk to herself and family. In return she was saved with her family and became an integral part of the kingdom of God with special praise of her acts in His Holy Word as an example to all of us who follow.
Despite terribly difficult circumstances that would strain any person’s faith, fear was not in Joshua’s vocabulary as he trusted God and His provision for the people. Fear did not prevent Rahab from helping either. Which leads to…
Joshua 24:15.
If it is disagreeable in your sight to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves today whom you will serve: whether the gods which your fathers served which were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living; but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”
We still have to go through it and remain faithful.
This is the path to regaining our freedom and fulfilling the promise of America that was acknowledged by God at our nation’s dedication. Collectively choose love over fear and trust God as we go about doing what is right in His sight. It took 50 years for Roe v. Wade to be overturned. It took 40 years in the wilderness for the faithful people of Israel to enter into the Promised Land. Those and other events tell us it may take time and will take the will of God for great things to happen in America. Our task is to be as Joshua and Rahab – trust God, be faithful and respond when He calls our number.
Next Up
I will return to personal stories that blend into examples of the Civilized War that continues to rage. It will be time to bring other Goober Gump adventures into periods you may remember and weave in the primary points of our nation’s calling. It even leads to Wall Street and to the halls of Congress.
However, I will be taking a break through the holidays as Rock Star wants me to begin the work of writing our story, as I have with both sets of parents, as a gift of love to our descendants. Whatever Rock Star wants, Rock Star gets! Have a Blessed and Merry Christmas!
Thanks to Darren Beattie, Elon Musk, and Gail Combs, I have been struck by lightning, and can now see the origins of the highly successful “trust and safety” censorship paradigm.
I survey the catastrophe that “Trust & Safety” has been for not only Twitter and Apple, but all of Big Tech, America, and the world, and I cry out “Well played, CCP! Well played!”
And you, my fellow coders who watched it all turn to crap, know I’m right. We did not object to the early assaults on Free Speech, as CHINA slyly moved into our tech businesses, and now we have paid the price.
Or if we really want to be complete…..
The part about “can’t code” welcoming in the Trojan Horse is important. In my opinion and experience, it was the non-coding “verbal world” of bureaucratic policy which welcomed “trust and safety”, then forcing it on the more mathematical geek world which had once been a bastion of honesty, truth, and freedom.
Free speech mattered to old tech. Not so much to the people who took control of tech.
This is relevant, in that WOMEN tend to show up as the cops, police chiefs and ambassadors of “trust and safety”. It’s a very female and “beta male” thing, even at the high levels.
BEFORE ELON:
After Elon:
Yeah, those pictures are a bit of an unfair comparison, because they’re different company functions as well, but in other ways, that in itself is exactly the problem.
Coders versus the people who tell them what to do. Twitter was filled with chiefs and not enough Indians.
ALTHOUGH perhaps one too many……
NOW PROVEN: Vijaya Gadde had more interference in the US election than Russia ever did.
This corporate cultural insanity ("satire is dangerous") was a product of the cultural over-feminization of Twitter, steeped in woke, into which was seeded the "problem" of free speech and the "solution" of moderation. Then add authoritarian influence by Eric Holder and DOJ. https://t.co/iReTmDGI4qpic.twitter.com/SrlDJNvENV
Yoel Roth’s problems don’t end with his refusal to “manspread” like a man, but the problems surely start there. Any “man” who is threatened by the Babylon Bee needs help, not power.
Turns out that Eric Holder’s former chief of staff was the head of censorship at Apple for quite a while, including the 2020 election.
Here is the brief version of what happened. Please go to the original for the full story. I am only including a highly edited snippet of the middle of the story (and yet it’s VERY long).
FTA…..
The current head of Apple Trust and Safety is someone who is clearly aware of the value of having a low profile online. Look for details on Jessica Gimarc-Savini and you’ll find her sparse LinkedIn page, her (lesbian) wedding page, and not much else.
While we know little about Jessica Savini, we can learn much from a profile of her predecessor, former head of Trust and Safety at Apple Margaret Richardson.
Richardson served as Apple’s top trust and safety figure from August 2020 through May 2022.
As you read the following, keep in mind that Apple is the largest company in the world, with a market capitalization of $2.3 trillion dollars. Its annual revenues exceed the GDP of most U.S. states. It’s annual net profits are worth more than the GDP of Bulgaria. Apple might as well be a country unto itself, and a powerful one at that. Of all of the people they could have chosen to be the key decision maker for content moderation and safety — that is, censorship — you’d think they’d at least choose someone with the appearance of moderation and lack of political bias.
Think again.
While Richardson wisely avoided tweeting during her tenure at Apple, at her previous job, first as “director of global policy” and then “director of trust” as Airbnb, Richardson was entirely unrestrained. Her still-extant tweets from August 2020 and before give a stark demonstration of her thinking, a perpetually-spinning hamster wheel of stock left-wing political tropes. For starters, Richardson’s Twitter banner screams “Black Lives Matter”!
But that’s only scratching the surface.
Dig back through 5+ years of tweets and retweets, and you see a type that is disturbingly common: A person’s whose public life consists almost wholly of mindlessly affirming, then reaffirming, and then re-reaffirming, far-left and liberal partisan orthodoxies.
It’s not that any one tweet from Richardson is particularly bad. It’s that that’s all there is. She never strays into talking about her family or her favorite books or even, say, her favorite vacation spots (she was working at a lodging company, after all!). It’s just the current partisan lib obsession du jour, every time, with ruthless tedium.
Richardson isn’t just deeply ideological, pro-BLM, and so forth. She’s also narrowly and almost pettily partisan.
If this was your barista at Starbucks, or a Congressional staffer, or heck, an ordinary Apple engineer, this would be rather lame but unremarkable. But this is the person Apple chose to lead its Trust and Safety division, the person chosen to be head censor at the most powerful company in the world. This is the person who was empowered to make crucial, politically-loaded decisions during one of the most hotly-contested elections in American history.
Five months after Richardson started at Apple, the company made one of the most ideologically aggressive cancellations ever when it banned Parler from its app store. While Apple works hard to obscure its decision-making process, Richardson was without a doubt central to that decision, and with her involved, it wasn’t a surprising one. In April 2022, shortly before she left, the company also committed itself to a ridiculous internal “racial equity audit.”
So, where did this person come from? Well, just looking at her tweets, one notices that Richardson doesn’t just have a habit of boosting left-wing causes. She has a noticeable preference for boosting senior figures from the Obama Administration itself — Valerie Jarrett, Arne Duncan, John Kerry, and so forth. Richardson was particularly active when President Trump dismissed acting attorney general Sally Yates for insubordination after she refused to enforce his executive order implementing a travel ban on several nations linked to Islamic terrorism.
This isn’t random.
After earning dual degrees in law from UC-Berkeley and in public policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School, Richardson spent three years working at a free legal clinic in the Bay Area. From there, she went to the Obama campaign, and after his election she joined the Justice Department as a top adviser to Eric Holder, eventually ascending to become his chief of staff.
Wolf again….
SO – I hope that is crystal clear.
The Obama-Holder DOJ directly controlled Apple’s view of “acceptable content” during the engineered fall of the Trump administration (a.k.a. “The Coup”) as well as first two years of the Biden administration.
This is exactly why I absolutely cannot stand Apple News, for it’s horrible, judgmental, left-wing slant.
If you read the rest of the Revolver article, it is VERY clear that the “Trust and Safety” racket is largely an infiltration of Big Tech by an ideology centered on Eric Holder and the DOJ.
In my opinion, Trust & Safety in Big Tech was ultimately a downstream effect of the disastrous Obamacare website, which was used to “lure in” Big Tech for what became an infection operation.
People who had no idea how to deal with criminals and communists were sheep led to the slaughter.
SO – back to Twittergate.
I didn’t really make the connection of Twitter’s “Trust and Safety” machine to DOJ, until Elon Musk revealed The Twitter Files to the world, via left-trusted journalist Matt Taibbi, in a massive act of transparency.
Somewhere in the middle of Matt Taibbi’s tweet-thread, I realized that Apple and Twitter were undoubtedly similar stories – and that Eric Holder likely had an insider at Twitter.
17. On October 14, 2020, the New York Post published BIDEN SECRET EMAILS, an expose based on the contents of Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop: https://t.co/q4zaMw6aVV
19. White House spokeswoman Kaleigh McEnany was locked out of her account for tweeting about the story, prompting a furious letter from Trump campaign staffer Mike Hahn, who seethed: “At least pretend to care for the next 20 days.” pic.twitter.com/CcXTfsdzCT
23. The decision was made at the highest levels of the company, but without the knowledge of CEO Jack Dorsey, with former head of legal, policy and trust Vijaya Gadde playing a key role.
https://t.co/j4EeXEAw6F can see the confusion in the following lengthy exchange, which ends up including Gadde and former Trust and safety chief Yoel Roth. Comms official Trenton Kennedy writes, “I'm struggling to understand the policy basis for marking this as unsafe”: pic.twitter.com/w1wBMlG33U
But THIS is where the DOJ comes back into things. The next tweet (28) is like discovering Eric Holder working at Twitter.
28. To which former Deputy General Counsel Jim Baker again seems to advise staying the non-course, because “caution is warranted”: pic.twitter.com/tg4D0gLWI6
Crooked FBI Lawyer James Baker, the main architect of Spygate was involved in Twitter's Decision to Suppress Hunter Biden Laptop From Hell Story!!!https://t.co/2oTfJrufII
I had figured there was some Holder groupie analogous to Richardson at Apple, inside Twitter’s Trust & Safety apparatus. I had no idea that Holder’s henchman – THE Jim Baker, fired as part of Spygate – was there.
Let’s just look at that Jim Baker message more closely…..
This is an incredible stall tactic. Twitter can hold off the truth forever with this thinking.
Note how the “hacked materials” policy is already anti-journalism, but combine it with a DOJ Obama/Hillary toadie INSTALLED INSIDE TWITTER, and, it’s every bit like Apple. Complete DOJ commie control.
SO – it’s clear that “Trust and Safety” is a DOJ gig – right?
How could this possibly be worse?
The trick is understanding the “environmental push” for “Trust and Safety” over free speech, which overwhelmed both government and tech. It almost certainly had foreign help.
Gail Combs Exposes Trust-and-Safetygate
Today, Gail posted a series of deep dives into the subject of where much of the “trust and safety” censorship has appeared and festered in both government and Big Tech – spilling over into everything, including elections, journalism, STEM, and even White House policymaking.
The big picture blew me away, as I saw how successful this movement was, in transforming our own government and national security complex away from freedom and toward CCP-style totalitarianism, without even being fully understood by the victims.
Some of the CCP infiltration is obvious – some of it is not.
I present it to you now, largely unedited except by Gail herself, in preparing it for this post. I have also taken the liberty of embedding the videos by hand, rather than just leaving links. I have further included some comments that Gail left out, because I feel they are still important, even though she did not.
From BadKitty’s Thread — The KEY INFO showing GOVERNMENT CENSORSHIP IMPACTING ELECTIONS!!!
They also submit reported tweets to CISA at DHS. Boom!
DHS puts on its CISA website for election misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation to be reported to Misinformation@Cisecurity. (NGO Katie Hobbs used for reporting.)
RUMOR CONTROL PAGE START-UP GUIDE Misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation (MDM) can present risks to the election infrastructure community, its owners and operators, and the public. MDM can spread quickly, causing rumors to undermine facts.
The risks of MDM range from undermining confidence in institutions to activating and inspiring dangerous behaviors and violence. This Rumor Control Page Start-Up Guide is for organizations seeking to dispel specific MDM narratives through transparent and authoritative information. Designed for use by state, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) government officials and private sector partners, this guide cites the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) Rumor Control page as a model for debunking inaccurate narratives. The recommendations in this guide are not intended to be one-size-fits-all and should be adapted to the capabilities and resources available, as well as the MDM risks facing the community. Organizations should only set up a rumor control webpage related to issues for which they have access to information and expertise necessary to properly dispel MDM narratives and articulate facts. Each organization that plans to set up a rumor control page may want to consult with the appropriate organization legal counsel, if possible, prior to beginning operations. What is a rumor control page? A rumor control page is a web page that offers the public accurate and authoritative sources of information which will help address common MDM narratives. It is provided by a trusted voice to either preempt or respond to developing narratives. Credible messengers are most effective at disproving falsehoods. A rumor control page should not be considered the sole source of truth, rather it should drive people to seek more information about a complex subject by directing them to other trustworthy sources.
With a rumor control page, election officials and stakeholders can dispel rumors about the systems and assets they manage and have unique insight into. Some election offices may already have public information websites, which commonly include a “Frequently Asked Questions” page and/or press releases that seek to clarify information. In this sense, a rumor control page can be viewed as an extension of existing efforts….
It is important to note that a rumor control page is only one element of a successful MDM response strategy. Improving resilience of elections to MDM also requires reporting MDM narratives. The Center for Internet Security (CIS) was established to support the cybersecurity needs of the election subsector. The CIS can be leveraged to report real-time MDM via email at misinformation@cisecurity.org
Be sure to include links and screenshots as well as details on the misinformation and your jurisdiction.
Breaking thread! The CCP is heavily involved with the majority of orgs involved in disinformation work, social media, and targeting of conservatives as extremists thru the Carnegie Endowments. What’s worse is Bidens CIA director was president of Carnegie Endowments from 2015-2021 pic.twitter.com/GZgdfNBQcQ
Texas Republican Rep. Lance Gooden called on CIA Director William Burns to address his “strong ties” to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) while formerly heading an elite Washington, D.C., think tank, according to a letter obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
At least 20 undisclosed CCP members worked at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace during Burns’ presidency of the think tank, the DCNF recently reported.
“Evidence would suggest Director Burns lied under oath during his confirmation hearing,” Gooden told the DCNF, referring to Burns’ February 2021 CIA confirmation hearing.
Texas Republican Rep. Lance Gooden called on CIA Director William Burns to address his “strong ties” to the Chinese Communist Party while formerly heading an elite Washington, D.C., think tank, according to a letter shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation Monday….
“The vast influence the CCP had at Carnegie during your tenure as president and the continued influence they have today — despite claims you made at your confirmation hearing that you had ended the CCP’s influence — presents a significant lapse in judgment and brings into question your ability to identify and mitigate national security risks,” Gooden’s letter said. (RELATED: Biden’s New Green Energy Adviser Has Ties To Chinese Communist Party Front Group)
There is a lot of information coming out and We want to capture it before it disappears.
First a Youtube from August 25, 2020 just before early voting started.
Are We Ready? Foreign Interference, Disinformation and the 2020 election Streamed live on Aug 25, 2020 Public and private sector leaders join the Digital Forensic Research Lab of the Atlantic Council to discuss what steps they have taken to secure the information space around the 2020 presidential election. For further information, please visit: https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/event…
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The Department of Homeland Security has hired the former chairman of the Election Assistance Commission, Matt Masterson, to help federal, state, and local authorities coordinate cybersecurity efforts ahead of the 2018 midterm elections, the department announced Monday. Masterson will serve as senior cybersecurity adviser within the National Protection and Programs Directorate’s Office of Cybersecurity and Communications. “There are few who have Matt’s experience working with all levels of government and the private sector to protect our nation’s election systems. His wealth of experience and depth of knowledge make him highly respected on both sides of the aisle,” Chris Krebs, NPPD senior official performing the duties of the undersecretary, said in a statement. Krebs added that Masterson’s previous work as chief information officer in the Ohio secretary of state’s office and at the EAC “significantly advanced” the country’s cybersecurity efforts.
Matthew Masterson, former chairman of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, has been named senior adviser for the Department of Homeland Security‘s cybersecurity unit, Washington Examiner reported Monday.
DHS expects Masterson to continue working with federal, state and local officials to protect election systems against cyber threats.
He served as EAC commissioner for nearly four years, following his nomination by then President Barack Obama and subsequent confirmation by the Senate in late 2014.
Masterson previously held various positions within the Ohio secretary of state’s office, where he managed voting system certification procedures and led the development of online voter registry and ballot delivery platforms for military and overseas voters.
Christopher Cox Krebs (born 1977) is an American attorney who served as Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency in the United States Department of Homeland Security from November 2018 until November 17, 2020 when President Donald Trump fired Krebs for contradicting Trump’s claims of election fraud in the 2020 presidential election.[1]
Clara Tsao is a nonresident fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab. Clara is a national security and disinformation expert and technology entrepreneur currently serving as the co-founder and on the board of the Trust & Safety Professional Association and the Trust & Safety Foundation. Clara previously was the Senior Advisor for Emerging Technology at the Department of Homeland Security and the Chief Technology Officer of two U.S. Government task forces focused on countering foreign influence, election security, and homegrown extremism. Clara also serves as a nonresident expert at the German Marshall Fund, a senior advisor for the UN-backed initiative, Tech Against Terrorism, and the President/Chair of the White House Presidential Innovation Fellows Foundation. Clara has also held fellowships focused on national security and technology policy with the Mozilla Foundation and Google.
Clara Tsao is Cofounder of the Trust & Safety Professionals Association (“TSPA”), a new, nonprofit, member-based organization for trust & safety professionals that launched in June 2020. The TSPA will support the global community of professionals who develop and enforce principles & policies that define acceptable behavior online.
Clara was inspired to build an association for trust & safety professionals due to her background as a national security/disinformation expert and technology entrepreneur. She is President of the White House Presidential Innovation Fellows Foundation and a Senior Advisor at the UN-CTED-backed Tech Against Terrorism.
Clara has held various national security and tech policy roles for the U.S. Government, Google, and Mozilla.
most of the page is just icons with very few words. I wondered if she was a non-native English speaker while Hubby suggested it was a method to prevent word searches.
Her Awards/honors/networks section shows:
Fulbright Canada Clinton Global Initiative Hesslbein Global Academy Pembroke College Cambidge Univ California United Nations: Many Cultures One Humanity – Linked to spam Alliance of Civilizations – Linked to spam GES Malaysia 2013 – Linked to spam Global Startup Youth Malaysia – Linked to spam Yale School of Management [Emerging Leaders Seminar Entrepreneurship & Innovation] – Access denied TITLE – Global Network for Advanced Management
Clara Tsao is an entrepreneur and a White House Presidential Innovation Fellow. Prior to government, she led global strategic partnerships in education for Microsoft. In addition to corporate roles with Google, Apple, Sony, Playstation, HP, and AT&T, Clara is also the co-founder and former Executive Director of the Congressional App Challenge.
Clara Tsao – Guidance on building better digital services in government Through the Presidential Innovation Fellows program, Clara has worked across various national security roles in US Government, serving as a senior advisor and Chief Technology Officer focused on emerging technology policy, countering terrorist use of the internet, and foreign influence operations online. News and Events
About Clara Tsao Clara Tsao was a non-resident fellow at the Alliance for Securing Democracy. She is an online disinformation expert and a civic tech entrepreneur, who recently co-founded the Trust & Safety Professional Association and the Trust & Safety Foundation to support the global community of professionals who develop and enforce principles and policies that define acceptable behavior and content online. Clara is also a non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab. Her previous roles include CTO at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Countering Foreign Influence Task Force and the interagency U.S. Countering Violent Extremism Task Force and Senior Advisor for Emerging Technology at the Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency. She has spent a decade working in the technology industry across global teams at Microsoft, Apple, Sony PlayStation, AT&T, and also as a Google and Mozilla Technology Policy Fellow. Clara is also the Board Chair and President of the White House Presidential Innovation Fellows Foundation and a Senior Advisor at Tech Against Terrorism.
MUST READ about her views on ‘Disinformation’ Interesting tidbit”…we need to encourage more technologists to lend their expertise to support better policy-making, through incubators like Aspen’s Tech Policy Hub….”
…..Much of your current work lies at the intersection of tech and policy, focusing on issues like disinformation and online safety. How did you first become interested in these issues?
JFK once said, “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win.” In a similar way to how JFK committed the nation to the ambitious goal of landing on the moon,I believe the field of “trust and safety” (including online safety / disinformation), is the most difficult challenge of this decade that technology companies, governments, civil society, and internet users must stand united behind.
This is a challenge we need to win. From live-streamed mass shootings, terrorist content, online sexual exploitation and conspiracy theories, to election interference, there are endless problems that require collaboration, starting with strengthened dialogue. I have always been fascinated with how people behave online, and I spend my free time evaluating how people behave on social media. I especially love testing and exploring new technology platforms to understand the new ways in which people interact and connect with one another.
However, I was first exposed to the offline consequences of fake news and misinformation while I was at Microsoft in early 2014. At Microsoft I was managing a partnership program focused on growing the capacity of libraries in Myanmar to serve as trustworthy information hubs. We piloted new platforms and approaches to tackle digital and information challenges in the lead-up to the country’s critical 2015 general elections, the first time the nation could participate in a democratic vote after nearly 50 years of military rule. Over the span of months,I saw firsthand the impact of rampant disinformation as Facebook unintentionally introduced the country to a new digital era that causing offline chaos, violence, and eventually, ethnic genocide.
Years later, I joined the US Government as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence’ where I served as the CTO of two teams within the Department of Homeland Security focused on online safety issues, ranging from terrorist use of the internet, to foreign influence operations and election security. Most recently, I worked with human rights defenders, civil society groups, and policy professionals at Mozilla, evaluating regulatory policies and tools around harmful content online. My Passion for problem solving in this space was cultivated by these experiences.
What particular questions/challenges have you been tackling recently, and why is now the right time to address these?
Over the last year, I have been building a new organization to support and advance the trust and safety profession through a shared community of practice. Today the biggest challenge in trust and safety is the lack of formalized training and support for the professionals that determine and enforce acceptable content policies and behavior online.Professionals working in trust and safety teams at technology companies are tasked with adjudicating what is acceptable behavior or content, while also protecting free speech, user safety, and society. Trust and safety teams are also asked to make difficult decisions to protect users, while also having limited support from product and engineering teams to carry out and enforce these policies at scale.
There has never been a better time to support trust and safety professionals and to do their best work. Due to recent media coverage of content moderation, there has been more awareness of the psychological and mental health risks associated with content review that impact employee wellness.
As fake news and misinformation has gone rampant in election processes, governments around the world have threatened regulation or fines for the inability of timely content review and removal. Some countries, like Germany, have introduced and are enforcing such regulations. Hate speech that stays online in Germany for more than 24 hours can accrue a fine of €50 million under Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz. Examples like these have led companies to invest more resources in their trust and safety operations and have more transparency in their decision-making practices.
Furthermore, technology companies are increasingly realizing the impact that toxic users and behavior have on “user churn” and bottom line.
“Advertisers like Unilever have threatened to take their marketing budgets elsewhere if platforms don’t mitigate the spread of toxic content or toxic users.”
Are certain types of misinformation more dangerous than others? What criteria should companies use to evaluate whether a piece of content should be removed from their platform as misinformation?
The perceived danger of misleading content is a key element that influences the way many companies prioritize and investigate removal. Misinformation can include false or misleading information, ranging from rumors, gossip, errors, propaganda. While misinformation can be harmless (i.e married celebrity having an affair), information can become dangerous when the content has offline or behavioral consequences for users and goes viral (i.e. drinking diluted bleach will prevent you from COVID-19 infections).
When evaluating misinformation, companies can evaluate the actor behind the campaign, the behavior of the post (is it a bot network?), and the context of the content to determine how to prioritize removal. Other times, misinformation is automatically detected by AI/machine learning or flagged manually by users reporting the post
One challenging part of misinformation is when content is further bolstered by recommendation engines and algorithms, originally designed to heighten user engagement but now leaving users in partisan and polarized filter bubbles.
When Someone searches for content reinforcing fake science such as the flat earth theory, they become stuck in a “rabbit hole”of other conspiracy theories unknowingly, of which many include content from the anti vaccine movement. To Counteract this, AI researchers like Guillaume Chaslot have advocated internet platforms to have increased algorithmic transparency.…
Alicia Wanless is the director of the Partnership for Countering Influence Operations at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Alicia researches how people shape — and are shaped — by a changing information space. With over a decade of experience in researching and analyzing the information environment, focusing on propaganda and information warfare, Wanless applies this learning to support government, military, and major tech companies to develop policies and integrate information activities into training programs that better reflect how the information environment is manipulated. Wanless is currently a PhD Researcher at King’s College London exploring alternative frameworks for understanding the information environment.
In 1836, King’s became one of the two founding colleges of the University of London…
Biography Alicia researches how we shape — and are shaped — by a changing information space. With more than a decade of experience in researching and analysing the information environment, focusing on propaganda and information warfare, Alicia conducts content and network analysis, and has developed original models for identifying and analysing digital propaganda campaigns. Alicia applies this learning to support government, military and major tech companies to develop policies and integrate information activities into training programs that better reflect how the information environment is manipulated. She has shared her work and insights with senior government, military, industry leaders and academic experts at Wilton Park, the Munich Security Conference, the Hedayah Centre, NATO’s ARRC and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Alicia’s work has been featured in the CBC, Forbes, and The Strategy Bridge
Alicia Wanless is the director of the Partnership for Countering Influence Operations at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Wanless is a PhD Researcher at King’s College London exploring how the information environment can be studied in similar ways to the physical environment.
This interest led me to research things like nationalism, propaganda, and language engineering in my undergrad, and later in the 2010s, to start analyzing how influence operations were changing in a Digital Age. That research, which covered political campaigns and alternative media outlets, led me to work with militaries, major tech platforms, and civil society organizations—and ultimately to pursue a Ph.D. in War Studies at King’s College London….
The disinformation landscape surrounding the 2020 elections was so different than what we saw in 2016, with domestic, verified users supplanting bots and fake accounts, and new narratives focusing on both Covid and electoral fraud. The actors, behaviors, and content keep changing. How do you see the disinformation landscape evolving in the future? I’m not sure it’s the information environment changing quickly so much as our focus on what happens within it shifting. In researching the U.S. primary election in 2016, it was apparent that domestic actors were likely far more active and prevalent than any foreign actors, and this was later confirmed in Benkler, Faris, and Roberts’ Network Propaganda. The disclosure that Russian actors were actively running influence operations made for more shocking news, whereas disentangling the complex web of domestic actors can be difficult and highly politicized. The role of domestic actors engaging in influence operations has certainly come to the fore in the wake of the attack on Congress on 6 January. One major challenge in understanding the information environment is that research tends to focus on threat actors, tactics, and the content they produce, often in the form of case studies— interesting and informative, but fairly narrow in scope. Unless it is all brought together in bigger meta studies, it leaves us focused on the last bad thing that happened, which is not great for being strategic about addressing the problem. To that end, I think we need to move towards a more systemic understanding about disinformation and influence operations, looking at the wider information environment in which these things occur to find patterns that might offer a warning where the next problem is emerging. That would allow us to intervene sooner.
Breaking thread! I found the directions for submitting tweets to El-ISAC (CiSecurity) like Katie Hobbs did. They land at Stanford for determination
There is also a hidden Twitter Portal and a gov Twitter email address.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FjLxKJWWIAAnyc0.jpg (see below)
The Stanford Partnership site that fact checks submitted tweets etc:
1. It’s home page changed dramatically in months. 2. They lied and said Trump supporters went to J6 Armed. 3. They work with the Zinc Network/Integrity Initiatives Graphika and DFRLAB.
I missed putting the biggest part in the top tweet because I was eating ham salad crackers. And ran outta edit time.
They also submit reported tweets to CISA at DHS. Boom!
DHS puts on its CISA website for election misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation to be reported to Misinformation@Cisecurity. (NGO Katie Hobbs used for reporting.)
It is important to note that a rumor control page is only one element of a successful MDM response strategy. Improving resilience of elections to MDM also requires reporting MDM narratives. The Center for Internet Security (CIS) was established to support the cybersecurity needs of the election subsector. The CIS can be leveraged to report real-time MDM via email at misinformation@cisecurity.org Be sure to include links and screenshots as well as details on the misinformation and your jurisdiction.
RUMOR CONTROL PAGE START-UP GUIDE Misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation (MDM) can present risks to the election infrastructure community, its owners and operators, and the public. MDM can spread quickly, causing rumors to undermine facts. >> The risks of MDM range from undermining confidence in institutions to activating and inspiring dangerous behaviors and violence. This Rumor Control Page Start-Up Guide is for organizations seeking to dispel specific MDM narratives through transparent and authoritative information. Designed for use by state, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) government officials and private sector partners, this guide cites the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) Rumor Control page as a model for debunking inaccurate narratives. The recommendations in this guide are not intended to be one-size-fits-all and should be adapted to the capabilities and resources available, as well as the MDM risks facing the community. Organizations should only set up a rumor control webpage related to issues for which they have access to information and expertise necessary to properly dispel MDM narratives and articulate facts. Each organization that plans to set up a rumor control page may want to consult with the appropriate organization legal counsel, if possible, prior to beginning operations. What is a rumor control page? A rumor control page is a web page that offers the public accurate and authoritative sources of information which will help address common MDM narratives. It is provided by a trusted voice to either preempt or respond to developing narratives. Credible messengers are most effective at disproving falsehoods. A rumor control page should not be considered the sole source of truth, rather it should drive people to seek more information about a complex subject by directing them to other trustworthy sources. >>With a rumor control page, election officials and stakeholders can dispel rumors about the systems and assets they manage and have unique insight into. Some election offices may already have public information websites, which commonly include a “Frequently Asked Questions” page and/or press releases that seek to clarify information. In this sense, a rumor control page can be viewed as an extension of existing efforts….
ADDED NOTE BY WOLF
This stuff is just off-the-charts suspicious to me.
The Big Picture – CCP Subversion and Influence
I’m going to let people draw their own conclusions here. I’m not going to do anything other that talk about my own experiences with Chinese spies and assets in tech. You do the math.
It is beyond any doubt that the CULTURE of “trust and safety” is off-the-charts CCP in tone. There is SMOKE everywhere. And where there is smoke, there is probably fire.
It is my suspicion that “trust and safety” is filled with CCP-bots of various kinds, both Chinese and non-Chinese. However, diagnosing a spy from a non-spy is difficult, and requires an enormous amount of personal knowledge. I may have suspicions, but they are little more than that. Some may think I have TOO MANY suspicions, and that is fine.
However, it is my opinion that anybody with a potential CCP spy or asset background (thus including non-Chinese Americans) who strongly advocates or (even more tellingly) creates outcomes for things which serve CCP’s interests, and which oppose freedom-loving Americans’ interests, needs to be treated as such, particularly in regards to sensitive information or access. Just my opinion.
CCP loves to use women spies, operatives, and agents of influence, just like CIA. CCP girl spies are not just out of the mainland – many come out of Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan, England, Canada, America, and Latin America. Having them come out of somewhere other than the mainland, gives them a lot of flexibility, by lowering people’s guard and defenses.
CCP girl spies are smart, and the ones in tech tend to be excellent at both the coding side AND the schmoozing, verbal, business and policy side. They will sometimes HIDE one side of their abilities, if that deception is useful. However, in many cases, they will leverage both sides openly.
ChiSpies are often (but not always) among the most relentless social climbers you will ever meet. It’s the job – get as high as they can, targeting higher and higher up the chain. The Russian spies Maria Butina and Anna Chapman were the same way. I saw this much more often with the women than the men. The men tended to be far less obvious in trying to make new connections, whereas the women were extremely socially focused.
Many CCP spies are what I call “two-steppers”, which involve two generations of family as a form of cover. The parents may appear in America as refugees or economic migrants, being apolitical or (less often) even anticommunist. They may come from a place or background which throws off suspicion. The child, however, ends up in a sensitive position, and engages in actions, both of which clearly serve CCP interests. Thus, “two steps” to achieve a solid and easily dismissed infiltration.
CCP spy girls will often change their stories quickly and believably when questioned. They are quite good at planting false or compromising background information in social networks, although men tend to be used when planting something directly to another man, as a technique of peer influence.
Washington is the perfect environment for CCP players, because the operatives don’t stick out. The culture is one of influence and networking, so it looks like everybody else. ChiSpies tend to stick out more in the hinterlands.
Non-Chinese who carry water for CCP can be of many different types. Many are CCP allies, such as old Russian communists, American leftists, American rightists with economic ties to China, or dupes who become personally or professionally involved with agents.
It is important to understand that CCP operatives can have dramatically negative effects on other nations without doing ANYTHING illegal. I saw this form of stealthy sabotage over and over in tech. Just by burying into a key position and turning into an unremovable goldbrick, a CCP operative can create negative effects that have an organization chasing its tail. With only a bit more effort, such as engineered incompetence, organizations can be made weak, unprofitable, and ripe for takeover.
I put the “Trust and Safety” movement in this category of organizational sabotage. I think this entire movement serves CCP goals, and not American interests.
Others may disagree. They may assert that China helped America, if anything, by supporting “trust and safety” in any ways that it did, such as by providing “moderation” services.
To those who might think so, I simply add one more “unit” to my previous assessment of “4”.
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 yes, it’s Monday…again.
But we WILL get through it – over it – WHATEVER!
We will GO WHEATIE on vampires and demons!
Maybe work off some of that Thanksgiving dinner!
And experience once again what TRUMP GRAVITY feels like!
Please forgive us, Wheatie, we did not know That you had left us with armor in tow We had no idea with what you dealt We did not know the pain you felt And now we can only imagine With you what really did happen Cause rarely did you complain And/or share your personal pain Of one thing we are most certain You are flying high behind the curtain Watching over us above the crowds Our Warrior Angel above the clouds Thank You, Wheatie, for caring for us While you were here among the fuss We miss you dear you have no idea Since time began in the pangaea With you there was no time In your wisdom you would chime To clarify and magnify The what where how and why We did not question when you left We were not slightly bereft But over time we wondered why You did not at least stop by Now we know where you have gone With the break of this new dawn We could be angry but are not Tho with an arrow we’ve been shot Rest peacefully Warrior Angel dear Send us a sign that you are near A butterfly a flower a kiss of rain From your love do not refrain God sends Angels to watch over us And now we have an Angel Plus A Warrior Angel of Magnificence From today and forward hence
Boilerplate, more or less, but worth reading again and again, if only for the minor changes, and to stay out of moderation.
MINOR CHANGE NUMBER 1
Never talk about committing violence in a reply to Wolf or in response to anything Wolf has said, or you may get put into moderation so that your comments can be screened. This is ONLY because DHS is now playing door-knock Gestapo with people who have spoken at school board meetings, made public comments, etc. DHS regime jackboots are knocking on doors of school board mama bears and stupidly insinuating potential violence from things people say or don’t say on social media. A guy in Ohio pointed his FINGER at the school board, and they went after him, armed with pictures of the pointing, and screen captures of online comments. Yeah.
SO – give the Nazis ZERO ammo. Keep any mention of violence, even joking, away from Wolf, so that he doesn’t have to “explain” humor to humorless jackboots who pretend not to know things.
As for discussion of “violent humor” among yourselves (e.g., “#TeamHeadsOnPikes”), just use whatever discretion you think is appropriate for yourselves. I will only put you in moderation if your comments create problems for ME or THIS SITE, but not if they only impact you.
YOU are responsible for your own comments, if they come knocking. YOUR choice. Just remember this…..
OTHER THAN THAT…….
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.
Bottom line – respect other people’s FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS.
Our only additional requirement is that you do so NICELY. Or at least try to make some effort in that direction.
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.
You may also pray for our nation, our world, and even our enemies.
Musical Interlude
In honor of dear Wheatie, we now present some music to soothe, inspire, invigorate, or relax.
Democrats know more than a dozen ways to commit election fraud – they are good at it and have lots of practice. They have cheated since the days of Huey P Long, Gene Talmadge, and the Chicago Mob Bosses.
Here are some of their methods: • dead people on rolls still vote • fictitious people on rolls • people bussed across counties and states to vote illegally • ballots harvested from nursing homes, rehab/inpatient facilities • manufactured, pre-printed, fake ballots delivered in the dark of the night in unmarked trucks • illegal aliens/non-citizens voting • No voter ID required • manipulated/hacked machines • ballots selectively discarded • multiple ballots mailed to phantom addresses • people registered to vote in multiple locations receive multiple mail-in ballots, enabling them to vote multiple times • ballots scanned through machines multiple times • polling places run out of paper/ballots, etc. • ballots don’t fit machines, won’t scan/read properly
Southerners have always known that Democrat ballots didn’t really mean real live Democrat voters.
The fraud we have seen in 2020 and 2022 is the modern evolution of the old pull the boxes of pre-filled ballots from the trunk of a car practiced all over the South since the great depression or earlier.
We’ve got to True the Vote – or we don’t have a free country – we have tyranny.
Southern Voting
Historically, southerners know all about vote cheating. It was perfected in the south. What many readers should realize is that it was the southern Democrats with the help of their northern co-conspirators who did it. The methods GA/FL list above plus some others are used throughout the country now, just emphasized in blue and swing states more heavily due to the now institutionalized corruption with foreign assistance.
An analogy of what is happening with electioneering would be the approach to enforcing the rules in the sport of football. At one time offensive linemen were penalized for holding defenders with their hands and arms. Over time it became apparent that on most every play there were multiple offenders. Calling all the penalties would result in 10 hour games and make them unplayable and unwatchable. As a result leadership in the pros, colleges, high schools, etc. approved modification of the rules to allow forms of it, while other forms would still be penalized. Yep, they kept doing the stuff that would be penalized multiple times on every play. The leadership then added an official in the backfield of the offense so that they had two officials to watch the line play and make the calls. This equated to sending FIB and DODGE to protect the elections, there was never going to be an honest attempt to enforce the laws. So, adding the extra official just added payroll with no benefit. It was lipstick on a stinky pig.
Today, the officials have become so callous to what they see that they rarely call them. They only call penalties on infractions if they are just ridiculously obvious and/or in the open view of the entire world, or, as some suggest, if they desire to influence the outcome of games. The later of which implies corruption, of course. Like maybe the stuff below.
Nah, nothing to see here with Tom Brady at QB. No penalty was called by the officials in front, behind and to the side of the ball in the above photo.
Institutionalized, illegal, unpenalized, influence on final outcomes by the enforcers of the rules.
Sound familiar?
Wouldn’t it have been better to swallow big and make all the penalty calls for a season or two until the offenders stopped offending and started playing by the rules? Make it tougher while coaches learned to use players who play by the rules.
Which is all we are asking to happen in our elections, which are infinitely more important than football games. Behavioral modification methods like doing your job as an enforcer and playing the game by enforcing the laws. Round up the offenders, charge then, convict them, and have them cool their jets in prison for awhile. Problem solved.
Formerly the southern region of America was known as “The Solid South” on Election Day to the benefit of Democrats. But then the Howard Deans of the world burst on the scene and the Dems made a hard turn left without a signal. The populist, southern Democrat was rooted out of the party. The now disenfranchised southerner began adopting the GOP as the more conservative in social issues and better at economics and taxes. The GOP attempted to portray itself as moving away from its rich man’s club image to being inclusive of all people. The shift had begun. Existing and wannabe politicians began shifting to the GOP at the local level and up.
Over time we have clearly learned why the left went lefter. Globalism. Well, actually it is the godless corporate communist model of panda. Southerners in general have faith in God and Christ and that just would not do for them.
Even with the manufactured split off of the southern Democrat voters, the Dem electioneering apparatus remained in place in the south. People have to have jobs you know, even it does mean sacrificing your friends and family for Satanic influences. For them it was a matter of fueling the economic and population growth of blue disciples into the urban areas of the south and key swing states while continuing to promote the ongoing national cultural dishevel. Anything to create disunity among people works for them using the long view of their globalist backers. They also know they can influence younger people through indoctrination in public schools and promotion of social media. The further the young people are removed from real community, faith and traditional family; the more likely they are to vote for Democrats.
All of it was happening while the Establishment GOP looked on and did nothing to counter as long as they got their share. If The Solid South did not move fully to them, why should they even care? The Establishment GOP believes their jobs are about perception, to influence people to think they represent different values than the left. Losers at everything but tax cuts, which benefit them and their cronies the most, they obstruct occasionally to give the appearance of serving their supporters. I do not have to state the names of the Establishment and RINO GOP from the Senate and House here, every reader of this story can recite them by memory.
In all deference to Sundance, the two political parties may have separate corporate entities, but they are not separate entities in practice. They do not really fight against each other as many would lead you to believe. They stage it. It’s a show, a movie that has already been produced (right, Q?). For many reasons, January 6 would not have happened had that not been the case, which includes the stolen elections in which the GOP Establishment participated. The large majority of participants are all in the same Big Club by choice. Unless blackmailed or extorted they do not have to be, they choose it for personal gain and power. Most could return to the private sector and be left alone by simply keeping their mouths shut. But they don’t.
How do you think many arrive with minimal financial net worth and leave mega wealthy? That’s why there is an endless supply of them willing to take the abuse and run for office. Life, liberty and the pursuit of power and money.
My personal experiences and observations going back around 50 years has been provided in this series as my evidence. An election system is in place that is being allowed to become dysfunctional and manipulated subject to corruption and fraud. The evidence and proof is there for all to see. Both parties have been in power throughout the many decades of the existence of voter fraud with nothing materially done to change the system of doing it.
Uniparty.
Along the way populist patriots have risen up. In recent times the Tea Party, then MAGA and PDT. A large segment of society began experiencing an awakening to the real world around them. They saw it was not a pretty scene and definitely not what it was portrayed to be for a very long time. In fact, it was seen as disgusting and unAmerican. Many wanted things fixed, a return to the values of their forefathers and God’s ways. Some non-participants in the movements stuck their heads in the sand. The largest segment of sheeple bleated their approval of the powers that be from either party as long as a stimulus check was given, there was free to cheap healthcare and they could access social media. But the Establishment GOP and Democrats have been united. They want the patriot movements destroyed to never rise again. Don’t take my word for it, listen to them and watch their actions. They openly say it and act on it.
Goober Plays the Game
It was 1983 and I had finished a round of golf at the local club. While chatting with friends, a well known Democrat Party frumpy female operative made her way over to talk with me. She immediately started a conversation about why I had openly supported the local GOP candidate who had lost a surprisingly close race for HR in our district the previous year against the long term incumbent Dem rep, Bill Alexander. She knew I was active in local community organizations and on the Board of my employer’s employee led PAC.
I responded directly that the GOP opponent in the race was a future local circuit court judge and friend who I knew would look after the best interests of the people in NE Arkansas first and foremost. I added that I felt it was time for a move away from Teddy Kennedy and John Kerry type politics in Arkansas. Alexander was in the back pocket of both. She seemed somewhat taken aback by my response, probably because of how tight she was with my ex’s family. She then asked me why I was not registered to vote in that county.
I played her game. She obviously had been checking me out and was correct. I replied I had not yet registered in Arkansas after having been a resident of three states in my more recent past. She asked where I was registered, but a friend walked over about then and rescued me. Which was good, because I was about to tell her to shove it. I was able to move on without responding.
What she had not yet figured out is I had never registered to vote in my life up to that point. Besides being young and not all that interested in politics, I saw very little of value to support. Voting seemed to make no difference in the average person’s life. You could tell no difference in the results of either party. The economy was awful, Iran had just made us look like chumps, Vietnam and Watergate still rolled through my mind. My participation on the PAC Board was at my employer’s request. They chose me for the role, I never asked or wanted it, even if it ended up being a lot of fun causing the GOP Establishment and Democrats some trouble.
As I looked around me that is all I saw, the haves and have nots. The agriculture industry wanted low wage labor. It was amusing to watch $3-5 per hour labor driving then $70 K cotton pickers and combines on all the farms. Then the farm owners would wonder why they would be wrecked or always down for repairs at harvest time. The wealthier farmland owners openly worked against manufacturing and distribution employers locating there. In their minds the wages and benefits would be pushed higher and reduce their pool of cheap labor. The Dem politicians wanted lower income, lesser educated residents in large numbers for the votes they would get by sponsoring and voting in DC for entitlement programs. If there were more jobs and the local wage base went up, more people would work and thrive, coming out of poverty. They would identify less with them and more with the GOP. It was a system that led to the area having 35-40% of its residents living below the poverty line year after year, decade after decade, cradle to grave in awful living conditions. That was happening despite having a SAC Air Force base with a B-52 squadron in a nearby town along with all of the related personnel and support businesses there. The Democrats needed that to stay to keep lower paid military people who could rarely afford to spend money in the local economy that were totally dependent on the federal government. But hey, they got their votes.
It had existed that way for decades despite having direct access to I-55, being less than an hour from I-40 in the Memphis area that crosses the entire USA from shore to shore, the Mississippi River and ports within 30 minutes, halfway between Chitcago and New Orleans at the Gulf, with ample developmental land and utility infrastructure, and a low cost workforce available with ample ability to add low cost housing.
Intentionally restricted. It was disgusting. Fellow American citizens who were relegated to lives of poverty, who really did not know any better. I hated it, so I did what little I could against the people causing it. What a waste of potential human capital for their own families and lives as well as our nation. I am very sure the evil enslavement did not escape God’s attention.
The community itself was well on its way to dying. In 1991, Clinton authorized the closing of bases around the country and the local SAC base was on that list. The globalists decided it was time to use the tax revenues and deficit spending in other ways since the Iron Curtain had fallen. With its closing and without manufacturing and distribution to carry the day, the community began the painful process of dying slowly with population declining from 24 K when I lived there to 13 K today. Used and abused by the politicians that claimed to support them. The wealthy farmland owners picked up more cheap labor from the closed businesses that supported the air base. The Democrats got to keep the remaining votes of the people who existed on those government checks.
The last person out of there, please turn out the lights.
But Wait, There’s MOAR!
About a year later in 1984 it became time to leave a loveless, fraud of a marriage along with my ex’s family and their cronies’ duplicity and corruption for good. I filed for divorce, shocking quite a few in the community and made the physical move to east TN later that summer. I was fortunate to have the support of many friends who fully understood and assisted me in various ways including three younger men my age that shored me up as a human being and Christian. There will be more on that in a future story.
I went to the east TN DMV to have my driver’s license changed, obtain a new car tag and register to vote for the very first time. My new job offered upside in my chosen career of business banking and a fresh start in an area of the country I loved with extended family and roots. Having been thrashed by Satan a bit, I also finally understood the value of actually voting, even if it was just in protest of the world around me.
Soon after that I learned from my Arkansas divorce attorney in a follow-up that I was registered to vote there. He was on the local election commission and casually asked me if I had registered yet in TN. I told him that it was not possible for me to be registered in AR, that I had never registered anywhere before my move to TN. Then it hit me – the Dem operative. I asked him to also check with the county of my last residence in Missouri when he had the opportunity. A few weeks later he called to say the same thing happened there. Had we continued the process I am sure we would have found I had supposedly registered in Ohio where I grew up. Well, wasn’t I special, having the right to vote in three different states! I asked him to have my name removed in the other places.
My ex’s family handled all of our federal tax filings through the years of our marriage. They had my social security number and all other personal information. It appeared the Dem operative got the information from my ex’s family and had managed to register me to vote in both counties in the two states. The county officials in that part of the country at that time were deeply Democrat and corrupt. I did not have the presence of mind back then to ask my attorney about how long I had been registered or if they showed I voted in each location. My ex’s family skirted many a law in those days, so none of it surprised me. One way was with a vote fraud conviction years before I met my ex that I was unaware of before marriage. More on that at a later date.
It Takes Time – The Long View
Many southern voters began moving toward the GOP about the time I arrived in TN. Over the ensuing 35+ years the Democratic party began to fade from power in TN except in the two major urban areas of Memphis and Nashville. It has evolved to the point that the state legislature and governor’s office have been overwhelming controlled by the GOP for over a dozen years, whereas Arkansas flipped to total GOP control a half dozen years ago. With the political changes came great prosperity and population growth while becoming even more traditional and conservative as a culture in much of the state.
The GOP in TN is more conservative than in Arkansas. For too long the people in TN watched the incompetency, nasty actions and scandals of politicians that did not reflect their values. Changes were made at the grassroots that resulted in the fruits of today. We’ve had more time to flush out the leftist control foisted up on us by other regions of America. Most Establishment types decided they better lean right harder when put under the microscope that we keep them under now. As an example former Gov. Bill Haslam, a Bush backer, has no shot to be elected for anything currently. He refused to move right, we refused to open the door. But as I stated in a previous part, former Senator Bob Corker is a family friend, so no Haslam will move right toward MAGA and Trump. As a result the Bush and Haslam friend in the primary for governor in 2018, Randy Boyd, did not win despite being a qualified candidate. It was a Christian business and family man with no political experience or entanglements and a soft, plain speaking demeanor who won, Bill Lee. Who also just landslided into a second term. It took patience while he learned on the job, but it has been well worth it to rid ourselves of cronyism. It is 8/9 GOP HR and both Senators for TN. Only the Memphis area’s Dem Rep. Cohen, and he is really dim, is still in office.
The need to root out RINOs and lean on Establishment in Arkansas is greater. The landslide election of Sarah Huckabee Sanders should assist this process. As I laid it out previously, in the past Arkansas only had one GOP HR and no GOP Senators with just a once-in-a-long-while GOP governor. With GOP Gov. Mike Huckabee’s arrival in the governor’s mansion combined with the the Clinton’s grifting, corruption and sexploits in the White House; that began to significantly change as the average Arkansan was upset and embarrassed. Today, Arkansas is totally controlled by the GOP from Little Rock to DC elected officials. For every delusional RINO like Asa, a dinosaur from the Arkansas mafia days, there are two or more rising MAGA politicians. The DC representation in the HR and Senate is 100% GOP in AR. They have to lean harder on their GOP Establishment types like Cotton, but they now have the power to do so.
I hope my friends and readers will pay attention to what I now say because it is what PDT along with many other MAGA supporting politicians and leaders are attempting to accomplish in the public arena. He has been openly stating it in his rallies. We need GOP Establishment and populists to join our ranks. It is why he will endorse a Rubio or Oz. Yes, they need to be re-indoctrinated into the guiding principles of our founding documents and America First. They need us and we need them. It will be a longer slog with an uncertain outcome if we do not embrace those who have gone astray, yet, are redeemable. The only things that cannot be sacrificed are our MAGA principles. They need to adapt to our ways now. Which means there needs to be watchers (operatives) employed among them and the sheeple, just as the Democrats have done since The Civil War. They learned that you have community observers and influencers. This was used and took a more ominous turn in countries ruled by fascism and communists. Democrats were given more modern methods as they aligned themselves with panda. Yet, there is nothing wrong with having influencers and observers within the public if they follow the law. It just makes good sense to know who is with and against you along with their positions on the issues.
We know we need to open our doors to some who have been less than politically ethical or pure. It is the right thing to do because that is exactly what God did for us with our eternal souls through the unearned and undeserved gift of sacrifice and love of our Savior. It is also what our founding fathers and patriots have done throughout the history of America. It has been messy. There were rival groups who worked against the formation as well as continuation of the nation. However, patriots prevailed and delivered the founding principles that are the envy of every nation on earth throughout world history. Reconciliation ensued. We survived the violence of that war 160 years ago only to rebuild and make positive changes.
Which is why our enemies have worked so hard to circumvent MAGA and the patriots.
Canned Beans
As I move to finish most of the observations, people of interest and events of my days in Arkansas, I would be remiss to not discuss a prominent family with whom I became acquainted and had a relationship. Some readers will have heard about or consumed their products.
Bush’s Beans from Bush Brothers and Company.
Wait, you say, Bush’s Beans was headquartered in Chestnut Hill in East TN back then. It has a 115+ year history of being headquartered in East TN, with the main office now in Knoxville. How does that tie into Arkansas? Let’s do a brief company ownership and leadership history to explain.
AJ Bush started a tomato canning company in partnership with the Stokely family in 1904. Yes, the larger veggie canning company already in existence back then in the same area of east TN. The Stokely family that later bought Van Camps and who later developed the Gatorade product and sold their company to Quaker Oats in the mid 80s. AJ bought Stokely out four years after start up and brought his two sons into partnership with him, Fred and Claude. The three then went about building their company into the top brand for canned beans in the south. There were always cans in my Mamaw and Papaw’s pantry in east TN during our visits. Dad said he grew up on them. Claude was in my grandparents’ age bracket and lived about an hour’s drive away.
The story of their growth into an industry leader is well documented.
It connects to Arkansas when the Bush family bought a struggling canning operation in NE Arkansas in 1944 after the TVA acquired some prime farmland of theirs in east TN. As the story goes, the founder and father, AJ, passed away soon after in 1946. Claude’s older brother, Fred, took over as company CEO. The TVA went on to build a dam and create Douglas Lake in that area. The Bush family used part of the proceeds of the sale to buy that operation in Arkansas to gain access to product and new markets. The AR location continued to do poorly after their acquisition due to overall economy pressures, so Claude loaded up his family and headed to Blytheville, AR to take over and turn it around, which he did successfully. He and his wife also decided to make the community their home for the rest of their lives. The company continued to prosper. In 1959 Claude took over as CEO after the death of Fred. He then commuted between AR and East TN frequently. For perspective of his dedication to staying in AR, he drove the 450 miles to the company’s headquarters multiple times each month for years. Claude felt it was time to expand due to the company’s strong cash and receivables positions, so they acquired canning operations in Wisconsin, Oklahoma and Louisiana while also adding their own trucking company.
After getting that done, Claude retired from daily operations in 1965 at age 70 and became Chairman. His brother-in-law, CJ Ethier took over as President and CEO until retiring at which time, Claude’s oldest son, Condon, took over as President and CEO. Son Condon had moved to Blytheville with his parents as a youngster. He returned to Knoxville to attend the University of Tennessee. After graduation he joined the Army. When his father purchased the Wisconsin canning operation, he left the Army and headed there with his family to become Plant Manager, which is where his son, Jay, grew up. While in Wisconsin, Condon developed the Bush’s Best Baked Bean formula that made the company famous nationwide and is the subject of the ads linked below.
Claude retired as Chairman during the time I moved with my ex back to the area in 1978. Ethier then took over as Chairman and CEO until 1992, when Condon moved back to Knoxville and took over as CEO with son Jay taking his spot as the Wisconsin plant manager. Jay moved back to Knoxville at the death of his father and had already become the public face and spokesman for the company.
For decades after that through today the Bush family has remained in ownership and operation of the company although they expanded the Board in the 1990s to modernize company leadership to stop family infighting and improve operations. They added four executives to the Board from other national companies that included Hershey and Gerber. It worked well and the company grew exponentially into the industry leader. In 2007 they finalized a unique family trust that is run by a family “senate” for executive, Board level decisioning. The ownership of the trust is comprised of the individual trusts of all of the family members with ownership, which is around 90 people now. Over the past ten years or so they began hiring highly qualified executive management outside of the family to lead the company into its continuing bright future.
In the early-mid 90s Jay and the outside marketing team hit on a simple, fun, award winning advertising campaign with a dog, Duke, that was a similar breed to his own pet. Below are some short ads for those who have not seen them or want to watch again. The first is from near the start of the campaign. They have not run the campaign since the last acting Duke passed in 2018.
My personal connection story begins with Claude and son, Allen Bush, an attorney, along with their wives Kathleen and Ann respectively. I first met Claude at the club golf course in 1981. All golfing members understood that Claude and two of his buddies had the same tee time on specific weekdays, so don’t ask for that time. They did not play on weekends. Claude was around 85 years old and the middle kid in the golfing threesome. The oldest was around 90 and the other was around 80. It was fun to watch them and they were loved by all. They would talk and joke around with everybody until it was time to play. Each would tee up and hit the ball 150 yards down the middle, then do it again, then pitch it on the green and then make the putt. Each would ride to their ball in their own golf cart. It was all done with military precision. After they finished they would drive back to their cart shed and close up, get in their cars, go home for lunch, and take a nap. There would probably not be 10 words spoken to each other the entire time they were golfing. It was serious business with bragging rights afterwards. They each approached their daily golf game the way they approached their work lives as younger men.
Unfortunately, Claude’s wife, Kathleen, passed away a year after I met them. That made all three of the golfing buddies widowers. Claude did not return to the golf course for nearly a year. It was a sad and difficult time for the family and it was the second time Claude had lost a wife. His first wife passed away at the age of 22. She was a Caton from the well known Caton’s Chapel area of Sevier County, TN.
Each of the threesome were Christians. Claude was UMC, the older bud was SBC, and the younger one was RCC. I know there is joke in there about walking into a bar.
Claude, Allen, and wives were members of the same United Methodist Church as my ex and I. Being active in church committees and classes with common friends together, we became better acquainted and I looked up to them. It was my observation that they were class acts and the opposite of many local wannabe snobs in a small pond and the wealthy plantation types. They seemed to be men and women of the people while being professional in their dealings. A reflection of their rural hillbilly East TN mountain roots before moving to the flatlands. They chose to stay when they could have moved back to the more urban, affluent, growing Knoxville area and its high quality of life. Outside of the air base their company was one of the biggest employers in town with 300 workers. It was a jobs lifeline for many residents and is still in operation today.
One year Allen was appointed to lead the area’s United Way fund drive. He asked me to be the Publicity Chairman and I agreed. We worked together on that drive, which was successful. We continued to work in church committees together. Allen was also Director of Sales for Bush’s Beans while remaining in Blytheville and maintaining his law practice. His brother, Condon, stayed in east TN until his passing in 2003 and is buried there. Claude passed away in 1990 and was also buried in Knoxville with Kathleen in the same Greenwood cemetery as my aunt and uncle on my father’s side, with my uncle passing the same year as Claude. Allen was a grad of the University of Tennessee law school and remained in Blytheville with his father the entire time. He has long since retired, leaving his law practice there to his son, Doug.
Another notable in the Bush family is Kristian Bush, a great grandson of founder AJ, who is one half of the star, award winning country music duo, Sugarland, with Jennifer Nettles. His family sold out of the bean business many years ago. His early days in music including performing with his brother as the opening act for Dolly at the Bush Beans Jamboree. He is reported to strongly dislike eating beans per a close friend of his and ours.
When using canned veggies, wifey and I love many Bush’s Beans products including their black eye peas, kidney beans and pinto beans. She uses the later two in her chili. Yum.
Civil War Redux
Many of you may have detected in the BIMD series of my Arkansas days that it provides evidence of the ongoing battles of the Civil War that is still raging from over 160 years ago. The current battlefield is concerned with gaining control of the minds, hearts, and assets instead of a full out violent conflict by region of the country. Before you think I’m on something I shouldn’t be, consider that even Harvard provides a course that believes that to be true.
I’m pretty sure they look at it the opposite of what We the People do although we can agree the weaponry is different and the battle still rages. The NWO cabal incites their soldiers to sell racism at every corner of the universe with owned media breathlessly hyping. Progs and anarchists lead the woke and cancel culture mobs. Sexual perversion rules their minds and hearts. If you listen to the talking heads and social media long enough, you would think there is no hope for America remaining the land of the free and the home of the brave for ordinary, normal American citizens.
Or is there? I contend the opposite is happening despite all of the leftist noise stirred up by the NWO cabal. It’s just the positive changes and safeguards are not happening quickly and obvious enough to suit many of us. So in the future I am going to go “there” and make what I believe is a credible case for the existence of this ongoing struggle for freedom and liberty in our nation – that We the People are winning. My case will be made without devolution and other theories that involve more intrigue and interpretation than my mind can handle. Mine will be historical, observable, logical, with much of it already in evidence.
Conclusion
We have reached the end of my involvement in the state of Arkansas although we will still occasionally briefly touch on some people, events and observations from those days. Until next time, I leave you with…
From the Rat Ranch to the heavens! RIP, Elvis and JD. His truth IS marching on….
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).
Please forgive us, Wheatie, we did not know That you had left us with armor in tow We had no idea with what you dealt We did not know the pain you felt And now we can only imagine With you what really did happen Cause rarely did you complain And/or share your personal pain Of one thing we are most certain You are flying high behind the curtain Watching over us above the crowds Our Warrior Angel above the clouds Thank You, Wheatie, for caring for us While you were here among the fuss We miss you dear you have no idea Since time began in the pangaea With you there was no time In your wisdom you would chime To clarify and magnify The what where how and why We did not question when you left We were not slightly bereft But over time we wondered why You did not at least stop by Now we know where you have gone With the break of this new dawn We could be angry but are not Tho with an arrow we’ve been shot Rest peacefully Warrior Angel dear Send us a sign that you are near A butterfly a flower a kiss of rain From your love do not refrain God sends Angels to watch over us And now we have an Angel Plus A Warrior Angel of Magnificence From today and forward hence
Boilerplate, more or less, but worth reading again and again, if only for the minor changes, and to stay out of moderation.
MINOR CHANGE NUMBER 1
Never talk about committing violence in a reply to Wolf or in response to anything Wolf has said, or you may get put into moderation so that your comments can be screened. This is ONLY because DHS is now playing door-knock Gestapo with people who have spoken at school board meetings, made public comments, etc. DHS regime jackboots are knocking on doors of school board mama bears and stupidly insinuating potential violence from things people say or don’t say on social media. A guy in Ohio pointed his FINGER at the school board, and they went after him, armed with pictures of the pointing, and screen captures of online comments. Yeah.
SO – give the Nazis ZERO ammo. Keep any mention of violence, even joking, away from Wolf, so that he doesn’t have to “explain” humor to humorless jackboots who pretend not to know things.
As for discussion of “violent humor” among yourselves (e.g., “#TeamHeadsOnPikes”), just use whatever discretion you think is appropriate for yourselves. I will only put you in moderation if your comments create problems for ME or THIS SITE, but not if they only impact you.
YOU are responsible for your own comments, if they come knocking. YOUR choice. Just remember this…..
OTHER THAN THAT…….
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.
Bottom line – respect other people’s FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS.
Our only additional requirement is that you do so NICELY. Or at least try to make some effort in that direction.
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.
You may also pray for our nation, our world, and even our enemies.
Musical Interlude
In honor of dear Wheatie, we now present some music to soothe, inspire, invigorate, or relax.
OK – this is WHEATIE-APPROVED….
EPIC THANKSGIVING DANCE PARTY!
They get a bit worse from there – but here’s one more….
OK – no more “furries”. Let’s go back in time and get away!
That’s better!
But what is best in thanksgiving? Wolf! Answer!
2Jesus invited a little child to stand among them. 3“Truly I tell you,” He said, “unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. 4Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. 5And whoever welcomes a little child like this in My name welcomes Me.
Call To Battle
Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.
We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.
Aw, heck – let’s have a twofer!
Daily outrage and epic phuckery abound.
For @elonmusk to allow Donald Trump back on Twitter, ostensibly after a brief poll, shows he is not remotely serious about safeguarding the platform from hate, harassment and misinformation. https://t.co/Rf0NjAubpI
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 DayYear Week:
defamation
noun
The act of defaming; calumny, slander, or libel.
The act of defaming; the wrong of injuring another’s reputation without good reason or justification; aspersion.
The act of communicating to a third party false statements about a person, place or thing that results in damage to its reputation.
Any intentional false communication, either written or spoken, that harms a person’s reputation; decreases the respect, regard, or confidence in which a person is held; or induces disparaging, hostile, or disagreeable opinions or feelings against a person. Defamation may be a criminal or civil charge.
[Formerly defamation was used more with reference to slander or spoken words. In modern use slander is spoken defamation and libel is published defamation. Both are subjects for civil action for damages. Libel alone is usually punishable criminally, the common test of criminality being that it tends to a breach of the peace.]
Newsflash: Preventing political candidates, who 74 million people voted for, from having a voice because you and people who agree with you don’t like them… is a threat to democracy. https://t.co/wrU7zRw1CA
REALLY? Should we take this criticism from an FBI agent?
Or is blaming Christians just more “Battered Christian Syndrome”?
More “blame the victim”?
Or are Christians SUPPOSED to actually risk some battering?
It’s certainly BRAVE to make this claim to fellow Christians.
And FBI?
Well…….
Complicated business.
I’ll be brief. This is a possibly tough or angering, but definitely necessary read, which argues very effectively that “pure politics” and “no politics” are not places where Christians should be. We must strive to CHANGE THE WORLD. It is our SLACK in doing so, which has led to the sorry state of the planet, with SATANISTS, SCOUNDRELS, and CRIMINALS in charge.
Yeah, that’s a tough message, after losing to CHEATING. But why are they cheating? BECAUSE THEY CAN and BECAUSE THEY WILL – and both of those are because we have not been culturally effective. This article actually “goes there in kindness” with the internal rightness and external wrongness of American Christianity’s “Church Lady” insularity, wrapped up in a slap of TURTLEHEAD McCONNELL.
So how can we integrate politics into Christian living without being corrupted by the mendacity and horror of current American politics?
Some of that may involve cementing and guarding the places where truth and justice are safe (the “Aubergine strategy” in real life, and the “Wolf strategy” in cyberspace), but some of it involves going out and winning the world for GOD, just like Paul did, armed with every weapon that CHRIST gave him.
Perhaps we have not been doing as much of the latter as we could.
And perhaps not “perhaps”.
I’m not saying I have the final answer, but I see that the region where the answer lies does NOT exclude POLITICAL SAVVY, SUBSERVIENT TO GOD.
We can whine about the lackluster results of the 2022 mid-term election cycle — there’s plenty of blame to share. Certainly top Republicans like Senator Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy bear direct responsibility.
Republicans seem poised to wrest power from the totalitarian Democrats in the House. This victory should not be discounted, despite the thinner than hoped for margin. …
…American Christians have desperately tried to believe that politics can be left to secularists who besmirch themselves with temporal concerns — as good fundamental, Bible-believing Christians, we’ll just lock ourselves in our prayer closets, cloister ourselves in our sanctified communities, and pull up the draw-bridge in front of our Christian schools.
At the risk of being branded a heretic, I must assert, good Christian, your prayers are not enough.
For far too long we’ve whistled past the graveyard, dithering about the inconsequential virtues like skirts versus pants, blind to the reality that we’ve succumbed to the same sinful myopathy that possessed medieval scholasticists, who quarreled uselessly about how many angels could dance on the head of a pin.
All the while, the infernal forces of tyranny have marched forward, gobbling up the entire structure of American education, the arts, entertainment, and politics.
The Bible is replete with examples of men and women of what we would call political action. The Apostle Paul insinuated himself in the culture and, by extension, the politics of his time. …
…having arrived at Athens, Paul “disputed” with the Jews in their synagogues and “in the market daily with them that met with him.” (Acts 17:17) The Athens market would have been the equivalent of our public place of discourse.
That means, if Paul were still walking the face of the earth, you just might see his Twitter feed.
A suit and tie are ennobling things, but they are mere rags if they are a substitute for a monk’s habit. Far too many Christians mistake arrogance for piety and cowardice for meekness.
…..Christendom must rediscover the apostolic formula of prayer, piety, and action or watch liberty devolve into totalitarianism. Loosen your tie, hang up the frock, and become relevant again.
Christians have lost the culture, in part by lionizing “full-time Christian service.” Anywhere a Christian is called, is his or her place of “full-time Christian service.” There is no inherent virtue in teaching at a Christian school. Virtue lies in obeying the call of God, and what is sorely needed are men and women of faith in the “secular vocations,” impacting culture at its source. A wise man once said that for the Christian, “there is no difference between the sacred and the secular.”
It’s great knowing you’re on the winning side, but countless battles still rage wherein nations may rise or fall. Quit acting like you’ve won the war when the enemy still rages across the battlefield.
…..Christians possess the most powerful weapon in cultural warfare, The Word of God. But, if you’re not engaged in the culture or in politics, you’ve no standing to complain about lousy results or cultural rot.
[Final judgment STRAIGHT FROM THE WORDS OF CHRIST.]
This is where I am now seeing the need to BRING OUR COMMS INTO THE REAL WORLD.
That means networking – not only with the LIKE-MINDED, but with the WINNABLE – and trusting that GOD will finish the job, using CHRIST and the HOLY SPIRIT OF TRUTH.
The TRUTH we gain here must be SPREAD to the world, and the NEEDS of the world must be brought back here to share among ourselves, and with our readership.
We need to be a reactor of TRUTH that IRRADIATES and ILLUMINATES a cold and dark world.
It’s time to let that radiation and illumination SHINE.
You will see more specifics from me as we move forward.
Our purpose is unchanged, but we WILL be more effective.
LIGHT INTO DARKNESS.
W
NOTE: This piece was written BEFORE Trump announced his 2024 presidential candidacy, and apart from minor editing for style and notation of John Nantz’s background, it remains almost unchanged.
This part of Goober Gump’s adventures will finish the story of my college friend before divulging the money players of the Arkansas mafia back in my day, whose descendants have continued the “family” businesses. I will expand the parallels and comparisons in the part that follows this one. Don’t think that ole Goober is just focused on himself, read on and be rewarded with knowledge.
From the NFL to the Pulpit
I will first focus on my college friend referenced in the last part. Jerry Muckensturm (Muck) is his name. Long before he and several other football players of our school’s team joined our fraternity, I admired the way they played the game. My first love in playing team sports was football, however, I did not have the size to play at a D1 level (now FBS D-1) at what I excelled at in high school. So I stayed with the baseball/academic scholarship and admired the play of the football program at Arkansas State.
Muck had a reckless abandon and would just nail ball carriers. His senior year was exceptional. He led the defense and conference in stats while the offense was led by a tiny, quick QB in the triple option who had played safety his first three years at our school. The brief linked story explains the rest.
It might have been partially Goober Gump’s fault Muck missed the phone call from the Bears on draft day. It was the spring, graduating soon, there was this party at Goober’s apartment…
However, Muck was not the only high quality player on the team. Something happened in those years with that second fiddle university in a state that whole heartedly supported the larger university and Razorback program. It recruited a big school roster that was the envy of smaller programs around the country. The coaching staff led by Bill “Bull’ Davidson was top notch. Over the four years I was there something special was built. From 1974-1976 the program had 15 NFL draft choices. That was unheard of for a school of that size and standing. Follow the money…maybe?
It even included the longest field goal kicked in collegiate history to that point during my junior year at 63 yards. Joe Duren was the kicker and he did it old school, not soccer style, albeit wind aided that day. He also kicked a 56 yard game winner as time ran out in the same game against McNeese State. His achievement was publicized nationwide and later earned him a tryout in the NFL. Goober Gump just managed to be places when stuff happened.
Another frat friend, Ken Jones was drafted even higher than Muck in the second round that year. He went on to play in the NFL for 11 seasons with Buffalo and the NY Jets along with Steve Burks, who was a receiver with the NE Patriots for 3 seasons. Defensive back Roy Painter went on to play with Edmonton in the Canadian Football League for a season before heading back home Arkansas to the farm to get out of the cold. He, Muck and several others are in the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame. Another star on the team, Leroy Harris, played fullback with Miami and Philadelphia for 5 seasons.
It was pure joy to watch these guys and others I ran with playing in the NFL. For what it’s worth, football players generally make crappy racquetball players. They think they can knock the walls down and run head long into them chasing that little ball. Never lost one game to any of them. Which drove them crazy.
But the thing that matters most to me is that Muck found grace in the arms of Jesus and responded to his calling to teach The Word of God. He has made far more of an impact on the world with what matters most with that than any of his exploits on a football field.
Back to Business
Enough with the glory years. The point has been made that money made it all happen. It helped many student athletes like me who could not afford college. It also helped the university add more accomplished students and create a higher profile through athletics. Most of all it helped the big dog employers in the state who had a larger stable from which to choose employees.
Time for the meat. Let’s follow the money of the Arkansas Mafia. If you want to know who is in just one cluster of the NWO Big Club, look no farther than the membership roll of Augusta National Golf Club, the home of the annual world renowned Masters Golf Tournament. The task is to gather all the member names from this somewhat secretive bunch. Then you simply tie the known associates, businesses, political affiliations and so on to those names. Which leads to more clubs, secret societies, politicians, financial/business connections and such.
Would it surprise you to know that Bill Gates and Warren Buffet are members? Of course the NFL would have their crony commissioner there, Roger Goodell, along with Rob Manfred of MLB. CEOs of international corporations litter the rolls along with Condoleeza Rice and famous athletes.
In summary, you’ve got to be a big dog at something and get an invite to this exclusive 300 member club. Before that invite comes, trusted members have to approve it. Sort of interesting that Trump has not been a member, isn’t it? He loves and plays the game well, is active with professionals that play it, and owns beautiful world class courses. He obviously has the money and contacts. But the PGA has even gone to the point of ruling out tournaments at his courses.
Yet, other prominent Dem and GOP supporters are all in there.
Do we think that might be a clue? We all know PDT would never have kept quiet about his membership if he was in it. But he rocks the Establishment boat a bit too much.
Then there was Bloomberg’s infamous list of 118 members out of the 300 total that leaked out that they pieced together in 2015.
The club has always been secretive and exclusionary that way since the great Bobby Jones founded it in the early 1930’s.
There is a Chairman elected from the membership who leads club affairs and is also assigned to handle the annual Masters Tournament, which is what brings the high profile to the club internationally. The links below list past Chairmen with brief backgrounds.
My “Follow the Money” story features one of those seven Chairmen, Jackson “Jack” Thomas Stephens. Buckle up.
Back to the Bank
It was the spring of 1977 and by now, Mike and I had pretty well figured out that we were minions in the middle of the Arkansas mafia. One day, Paul, Slick’s college roommate and on-going confidant, asked me to jump in his car with him to go to the airport as he was flying out with some folks. He wanted to make introductions and then I would drive his car back to the bank as he was going to be gone for awhile to lobby in DC. When we arrived we walked to a waiting Falcon jet. Inside were Jackson “Jack” Stephens and his lady friend who became his wife several years later, Mary Anne Hurst (maiden) Keller Smith Stephens. It was a brief introduction with Paul explaining who I was and what I handled for the bank. There were several others from Jack’s investment company, Stephens, Inc. already on board. Having completed my duty, I headed back to the car. However, it was not the last time I would see Jack and Mary Anne.
Jack Stephens had an older brother named Witt Stephens, who was very well known in the state and nationally as a wealthy king maker. He was the founder of the largest off-Wall Street private equity firm in the nation in the run up and including the Clinton POTUS years. He also had ownership in many other large business holdings including fossil fuels, which is where the big money was made. Witt and his family’s story is interesting. The following is a really good business history type primer that is easy to follow from the current company website. There are also other more personal stories about Witt available from numerous other sources. They include stories about his belt buckle, Bible, and highway bond selling days. Go to the History to learn more.
https://www.stephensgroup.com/our-history/
Paul and the bank’s close association with the Stephens brothers tied it all together. Do you see any interesting names of corporations you know in the company history?
Remember my previous discussion that my bank employer (Union National) was later sold to the largest bank in the state, Worthen, and then Worthen sold to Boatman’s and Boatman’s sold to NationsBank and NationsBank merged with Bank of America as the dominant owner while taking the name of Bank of America? Guess what family’s investment company held ownership through all those mergers? Yup. The rich got mega richer. Their holdings in the banking empire was only one of many investments.
Their business interests also led to Riady and Indonesia as well as to the Middle East and the House of Saud. Which gives their descendants inroads into all globalism worldwide even today. Yes, that is The Riady related to Slick’s escapades.
If it wasn’t so sick and obvious it would be funny as you watch these slime balls pretend to be honest and sincere human beings. Please note the Riady connection to the PRC.
As a side note, guess who worked for Union National and found himself later working for NationsBank after my bank employer at the time sold out to them after the completion of the Pilot financing? Yup, this guy. Who then left a year later to begin my small business banking career. It’s just one big circle of strange for Goober Gump.
There are many internationally sourced investors involved when it comes to private equity placements of large transactions. There is less regulatory oversight (as if that even matters today) when private funds are used to make investments into and by companies that generate revenues from a multitude of sources including private business, domestic and foreign business and governmental related contracts, military industrial complex contracts, etc. Many more ways to launder the cash. So, an Indonesian source originating funding for NWO cabal and Clinton political objectives would be a great big nothing to accomplish, especially since the Indonesian sources were connected worldwide all the way to China. The one mistake you do not make as an investment money manager in these situations is to lose the client’s investment. That would be a very bad thing for remaining alive.
Again, we will stay focused on Jack’s side of things; although the succeeding business, politics, etc. interests of Witt’s children will lead in a direction of their own. Can your stomach stand for you to see more of the financial network that propelled the coke snorting womanizer from Hope, AR into the highest elected office in America? Then read this unauthorized account of Jack’s involvements that does not appear in the cleaned versions one finds on the web. When I add my observations to them, well, it just is what it is.
For the record, he did not switch to support Clinton for POTUS as he had always supported Clinton in his governor races while supporting Reagan and HW in their POTUS terms. Jack Stephens always placed his bet on the person and not the party because of his own membership in the uniparty. Notice some of his reported business “activities” and “connections”? CIA, cartels, NSA, Hong Kong, Macao, gambling, illegal drugs, etc. all on the list; that can also be found on the list of other business leaders and politicians worldwide. By just connecting Riady to him you know the linked report is largely true.
Would it help explain things even more if I mentioned that Cankles, Webster (Hubbell) and Vince (Foster) were employed by Jack during some of those family business development years through the Rose Law Firm where they worked? While I worked down the street for a bank that was in the middle of all that mess for a couple of years and later, when I made business trips to the capital in my future management role. Again, a supposed staunch GOPer using a Democrat owned and operated law firm.
There always seems to be another hidden side of things with the NWO types. Taking them at face value and to not dig deeper is a mistake.
The foundational software the NSA used to track the most sophisticated banking system in the world at that time was owned by Witt and Jack Stephens’ company, Systematics. It was later sold in 1990 to Alltel (remember that company name from the aforementioned Stephens company website) who later sold the “Information Services” (software systems) in 2003 (before Jack’s death) to Fidelity National Financial. Alltel was in the telecom industry and held an early wireless phone (cell/mobile) company that was sold off in pieces to Verizon and AT&T.
So what does that tell us about Fidelity National?
So the largest title company in North America, which knows every real estate property, owns a one time banking operations software company that provided the NSA access that now claims to focus on Sales, Accounting and Performance Analysis. What could possibly go wrong?
That is what we were facing then and even more so now. Does it help you understand whatever fraud is next to be sprung and sold to the American public? It is a system with a methodology they follow to the grave, which is perpetuated by the generations that follow. Belief that America has political parties who oppose each other is a fantasy. It is all a projected image. The majority are playing parts and are on the same team while simply posing to influence voters in their districts/states. You can tell by the bills that receive an element of bipartisan support with the opposing side rotating supporters subject to each bills appeal to their constituencies.
All of which becomes less important the more they can build the walls around the vote cheating mechanism – that both sides use. Oh Dominion, wherefore art thou? Alas, in red states as well as blue. However, that mechanism is just one of several utilized. We will discuss another that has been used for decades in the next part. We all are seeing the ballot harvesting in states that intend to cheat with both political parties knowing it.
Has the GOP leadership or Establishment politicians protested the illegal ballot harvesting we have seen in 2020 and currently in 2022? Nope. Uniparty.
The only things standing in their way are Donald Trump and We the People.
For an example, officially, brother Witt Stephens was a Democrat and Jack Stephens was GOP. The cleaned public press releases and media stories state Jack and wife, Mary Anne, were tireless supporters of Reagan and HW. The revered Reagan did not necessarily bow down to Dem demands. But he could be influenced into supporting some by Establishment, RINOs and Neocons. HW was the fox in the henhouse all along. All former CIA officials are as we have learned through the years. Jack knew all of that because he and Witt were in The Big Club.
How did you feel about it when you learned from the links that Jack and Jimmy Carter were close buddies going back to the Naval Academy? How about the large hunting lodge Jack owned in Jimmy’s native south Georgia? Or that Jack was a member of Augusta National in Georgia since 1962 knowing that major Democrat and RINO GOP supporters have always been in that club? How does that square with Jack handling the initial public capital offering (IPO) and being on the Board of Walmart for 15 years with its founder, Sam Walton? The same retail legend, Sam Walton, who along with his family members were/are Clinton as well as GOP Establishment, RINO and Dem supporters? All of it happening while having token HR John Paul Hammerschmidt, representing their district, working for their interests inside the GOP back in those days. The connections are mind boggling. Uniparty all the way, which continues today.
Truth is all uniparty participants play parts in the Big Club even if they are not full members. Jack’s sons and grandkids are doing it the same way today. They just have less media profile. The following news article from 1993 is quite revealing
What do you think of their claim that Jack, Jr. was a strong conservative with Tea Party connections while supporting Jim DeMint, Marco Rubio, and Sharron Angle? Ridiculous. However, that is how it is done. Build a story based on creating images, assumptions and misdirection; then claim it as factual repeatedly in the media until the general public accepts it.
All while brother Warren is openly playing with GOP Team Establishment. You may have noticed in the Bloomberg article that he took over his deceased father’s membership in Augusta National. Imagine that. The sons were admitted into The Big Club or Warren would not be in Augusta National membership.
The sons are both establishment globalists who lean GOP when it is in their best interests, yet, work with Dems with ease to win in other ways. That’s how it works in The Big Club.
Marriage and Divorce
So what happened to Mary Anne? She became Mary Anne Stephens in 1981. Mary Anne had burned through two marriages to average Joes by her late 20’s. After the second one, she got involved in politics and started meeting powerful men. Along the way and about the time I was in Little Rock, she began hooking up with Jack Stephens, who was over 20 years her senior, closer to his sons’ ages. One thing you will not observe is any public connection or acknowledgement in the media of Jack’s first wife, Mary Goodman Amerine Stephens, the mother of his two sons. It is as if she never existed in most press accounts. But divorce her he did in 1971. She took custody of the sons and moved to Alabama for ten years before returning to Little Rock. She never remarried and passed away five years after Jack. She was well taken care of financially by Jack. The local word was she was not all that torn up over divorcing him as they lived separate lives anyway.
Mary Anne married Jack in 1981. She was younger, attractive and useful to him working the societies and with the Reagan and HW campaigns as well as POTUS administrations.
We had moved back to my ex’s family roots in late 1977, where I took a job with a predecessor company to Arkansas Power & Light that would lead to a business office management position a year later. One day about a year before Jack and Mary Anne married, I saw them again in a small town not far from The Rat Ranch. They had flown into a nearby airport for Mary Anne to visit with family (IIRC a grandmother of her or her ex), which was in the same small town of some of my ex’s extended family. My ex’s family were invited to come by and see them. According to my ex’s family members, said family Mary Anne was visiting was allegedly raising her kids from her last average Joe marriage. Oops. We cordially talked after I became reacquainted as it turned out my ex’s parents knew them. So, my wealthy Democrat supporting ex’s family knew the supposed staunch GOP Stephens power couple, with both Jack and my ex-FIL knowing Jimmy Carter well and openly supporting Slick’s rise to power. It was not a surprise when I learned my ex-BIL went hunting at a lodge in south GA not long after that.
I received yet another wake up call.
The link below provides more info about their ten year marriage that ended in 1991. Seems they got sideways over politics and society life, with Mary Anne being the high profile player politically. With the divorce, gold digger Mary Anne received the couple’s Indian River, Florida mansion, which she sold recently for $12 million. She also received alimony of $1 million a year for life with no regard to her future marital status and continues being paid from family trust assets for the remainder of her life.
Jack wanted her gone from his life as he was the one who filed and did not remarry. She was just too much to handle with her need to be in the news and high profile politics. He liked to work and pull strings in the shadows. The divorce was finalized the year he was named Chairman of Augusta National. Over the ensuing years I would see Jack with Jim Nantz at the mic on TV in Butler Cabin awarding the green jacket to the winners of each Masters Tournament. Yes, it was surreal and would take me back to a time I wanted to forget.
Within two years of the divorce, Mary Anne remarried. You’ve probably heard of the fella she married – Don Shula. Yeah, the same guy who played in the NFL and then became a Hall of Fame head football coach for the Baltimore Colts and Miami Dolphins. The later being the only team in NFL history to have an undefeated season. Another high profile, society marriage for Mary Anne to a man 15 years her senior. It does appear they were very happy together in a marriage that lasted about 27 years. Fourth time was a charm for her. She could stay high profile and Don did not care since his primary income came from speaking fees. Some history below.
Don passed away in 2020 at 90 years old. Mary Anne sold her home afterwards.
Conclusion
The story about the Arkansas mafia during my day could go many directions from here. I have handed you, the reader, a major key to what we have seen play out on the national stage in politics and some related business endeavors leading up to Obama. There has been enough presented for digging purposes if you choose to jump into some rabbit holes. Simply go backward and forward from Witt and Jack Stephens. You will find Rockefellers and other cabal elites from around the world. The Stephens brothers and many of their noted contemporaries have passed away. However, their family members are still involved in the wealth building along with related international connections that developed over time.
Oftentimes I write my stories in generalities. I no longer have much interest in digging deeper into what I already know from past personal observations or involvement. It is all so horribly corrupt, criminal, and murderous. You don’t have to take my word for it. You can take what I write and run with it, see for yourselves where it leads. You will see the names, places, and events that will tie to what I offer you now and a whole lot more.
The masses never much believe what we “conspiracy theorists” say anyway. They would rather cover their ears and pretend all is well as good sheeple do. However, God cares. He knows all of it before it even happens because He knows what is in our minds and hearts. Which is what has been missing with so many of the people I have described in the Arkansas stories and will continue to describe in other Goober Gump adventures that follow. It is a lack of connection to their Maker that could provide a moral compass. In reality they rarely came across a line they did not cross if it would put money in their pockets or add power. They would just act on it without a second thought.
So, if you want to know what or who has kept Slick, Cankles and their cronies out of prison or worse, look no farther. In all deference to Q, they are still playing the game. They are intertwined with all of the connections in this story. They, their cronies, handlers and puppet masters know stuff about each other while playing their parts in all of it. Violating the confidences results in bad things happening to the revealer and/or their loved ones and associates. Which is why nearly all of them go to the grave with it. Arkanciding and being Epsteined are real things, plus a whole lot more.
The next part in this series will tie up some loose ends and provide some more interesting connections of prominent people. I will address a real world experience of voting in elections without being registered or actually physically voting. Still happening today as you know. Then we will dive into a few real reasons for the War Between the States, the Civil War, the War of Northern Aggression, or whatever your favorite term is for that untidy event. Were you aware the war is still being fought?
However, for now let’s go back in time to a song that still says it all.
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 WILL get through it!
In Wheatie style!
And maybe in Trump style, too!
Enjoy the ride!
Dedication
WHEATIE – OUR WARRIOR ANGEL
by Duchess01
Please forgive us, Wheatie, we did not know That you had left us with armor in tow We had no idea with what you dealt We did not know the pain you felt And now we can only imagine With you what really did happen Cause rarely did you complain And/or share your personal pain Of one thing we are most certain You are flying high behind the curtain Watching over us above the crowds Our Warrior Angel above the clouds Thank You, Wheatie, for caring for us While you were here among the fuss We miss you dear you have no idea Since time began in the pangaea With you there was no time In your wisdom you would chime To clarify and magnify The what where how and why We did not question when you left We were not slightly bereft But over time we wondered why You did not at least stop by Now we know where you have gone With the break of this new dawn We could be angry but are not Tho with an arrow we’ve been shot Rest peacefully Warrior Angel dear Send us a sign that you are near A butterfly a flower a kiss of rain From your love do not refrain God sends Angels to watch over us And now we have an Angel Plus A Warrior Angel of Magnificence From today and forward hence
Boilerplate, more or less, but worth reading again and again, if only for the minor changes, and to stay out of moderation.
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Bottom line – respect other people’s FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS.
Our only additional requirement is that you do so NICELY. Or at least try to make some effort in that direction.
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.
You may also pray for our nation, our world, and even our enemies.
Musical Interlude
In honor of dear Wheatie, we now present some music to soothe, inspire, invigorate, or relax.
Since I’m the only one who can currently embed YouTube videos, I owe Cthulhu at least one Pomplamoose video. Let’s get that out of the way!
Ah, what the heck. Let’s throw in a “bonus Beths”! If not for Cthulhu, then for me!!!
But now it’s time to get serious. We have to start talking about greatness again.
Let’s try one more.
NOW we’re ready.
Call To Battle
Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.
Sanctimonious? In a brilliant way that elevates both DeSantis and Trump – but that takes a bit of explanation (see below). My God, this popcorn is fantastic!
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 DayYear Week:
sanctimonious
noun
behaving with sanctimony (excessive or hypocritical piousness)
characterized by sanctimony
affecting piety or making a display of holiness
showing or marked by false piety or righteousness; hypocritically virtuous
Used in a sentence or two:
The brilliantly sanctimonious (or maybe not) DeSantis video is truly a gift to both DeSantis and Trump, although that may be hard for some to see. The TRUTH of the message cannot be missed, and if anything, the message is understated, as all of us thank God for Ron DeSantis. Honestly, I get choked up watching that video. EVERY single time.
I’ll say it right here. Thank GOD for Ron DeSantis.
But is it too much? Well, the TRUTH of the message exceeds the message – so no real misstep there. When you “get chills” watching that video, it’s for a reason. And yet, the more you watch it, the more you realize that we should not be afraid to invoke the name of God. Not in truth. And every word of that video is true.
It’s BOLD is what it is.
When it’s not hypocritical – when it’s bold and true – then it cannot be sanctimonious.
AND YET…..
I’m sure the video does appear to be sanctimonious to some. It did to me, at first. I think that’s part of the genius of it. We are drawn into the truth of it.
Interestingly, I think the video also serves as a statement of principle to “The Club”.
“This is who I am. I’m a fighter. And THIS is what I fight for.”
LET THAT SINK IN, CLUB.
That sure looks like a very Trumpian wish-list to me. Indeed, I think that video is going to change some scheming Club minds in a way that is very positive for both DeSantis and Trump. Those who want to create division between the two are going to have a much harder time, because there sure doesn’t seem to be much space.
To hear our daughter’s cry as I stroked my wife’s head in the delivery room was a God moment I will never forget. Miracle.
My favorite was the stout guy with the big sense of humor. Then there was the older one; highly intelligent, competent and experienced, who had a dour military attitude. He was unrivaled as a skilled surgeon per the area’s medical community. His attitude was probably because he was a retired surgeon of the Air Force.
He came by wifey’s room later and apologized. He said they were going to make him watch another Caesarian without passing out before they would let him pass his course. 
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Metaphysical
Newsflash
