Catholicism's #UnitetheClans Was Not In Cabal Plans

At the invitation and specific request of the site owner, I’ve compiled a succession of historical facts, trivial items and some established palace intrigue to put into perspective the Scandals of the Catholic Church both sexual and Francis himself who is a walking scandal. More or less, this is how we got to here: where the laity don’t really, necessarily believe in the Real Presence of the Eucharist anymore and may or may not actually go to Mass regularly, that’s if they still identify as Catholic regardless of their Baptism and Confirmation which mark their souls as members of the Faithful.

To avoid making this walk through history entirely too long, which it might well be anyway, and primarily about Dogma (I’m leaving as much of that out as possible), we’ll begin well into the play at somewhere after the Council of Trent closed in 1563, AD.

From Her inception, temporal and satanic forces have tried to bring down the longest lived entity on Earth, the Catholic Church, and following the splintering apart of the northwestern part of Her (in the 16th century) resulting from protests that came in the form of open revolt, the behind the scenes forces seeking to destroy the Bride of Christ hatched a plot to do so via what amounts to destruction from within. By all accounts, the origins of the current campaign are in the 17th century at the hands of Freemasons. Further research is needed to confirm this, but the notion is backed by one of the whistleblowers in the Church who is currently in hiding, and in fear for his life.

Whether or not that is the case, and leaving aside for now the French Revolution as being part of the overall campaign to destroy Catholicism, and the questions surrounding the Rothschilds and the Vatican Bank loans of 1832, there does exist a document known as the PERMANENT INSTRUCTION OF THE ALTA VENDITA dating from the early 19th century which was published in 1859 by Pope Pius IX. It is the instruction by and to the Freemasons in Italy and France, primarily, outlining the plan for destruction of the Church and her Traditions. It was never meant to be published. But over a hundred years after Catholics were forbidden to be Freemasons, it was published by the very person targeted within its words: the pope.

Following this publication is the first marker in this section of Church history: the First Vatican Council in 1869.

Essentially, the result of the First Vatican Council was Papal Infallibility on matters of faith and morals (on nothing else is he infallible, but that little tidbit gets ignored by the news sorts). The council itself was planned in secret and not announced until June 29, 1868 (the Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul). Pope Piux IX made sure that it could not be corrupted, but it did open a can of worms that comes up later.

The second marker in this mini-era happened on October 13, 1884. (Lots of Church things happen on October 13.) It is an incident not well known outside of the Church, but Pope Leo XIII, one of the longest serving popes after St. Peter, Pope Pius IX, and Pope Saint John Paul II, said Mass in his private chapel, and after the Purification heard a conversation happening in the vicinity of the Tabernacle.

When asked what had happened, he explained that, as he was about to leave the foot of the altar, he suddenly heard voices – two voices, one kind and gentle, the other guttural and harsh. They seemed to come from near the tabernacle. As he listened, he heard the following conversation:

The guttural voice, the voice of Satan in his pride, boasted to Our Lord: “I can destroy your Church.”
The gentle voice of Our Lord: “You can? Then go ahead and do so.”
Satan: “To do so, I need more time and more power.”
Our Lord: “How much time? How much power?
Satan: “75 to 100 years, and a greater power over those who will give themselves over to my service.”
Our Lord: “You have the time, you will have the power. Do with them what you will.”

Rather fantastic, yes, but given the events of the next one hundred years….

Following this remarkable exchange, Pope Leo XIII, about the only pope during the time period examined here to have no cause for canonization open let alone completed, went to his study and composed his famous prayer to St. Michael the Archangel. The longer form is close enough to the old rite of Exorcism that it is not recommended it be said by the laity, but the shorter form of it is. And in 1886, the short form of the Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel was ordered to be said at the conclusion of all low Masses. (This will come up again.)

Fast forward a bit to May 13 to October 13, 1917. These are the dates of one of the most discussed Marian Apparitions, Our Lady of Fatima. For those five months, the Blessed Mother appeared to three peasant children in a small town in Portugal giving them messages for the world. Really, what she had to say was more in the form of prophesy, and a lot of it came true.

The Blessed Mother talked about fashions offensive to God being worn at Mass, a World War worse than the one that was being fought at the time, Russia being in real trouble, and a third secret that has yet to be revealed fully it was so terrible, apparently. But if this account is correct, it would explain a lot:

But some say John XXIII fainted when he read the third secret because it specifically states, according to eyewitnesses, that the Pope would betray the flock and turn his sheep over to the slaughter devised by Lucifer himself. John XXIII fainted because he thought he would be the Pope who would open the door to Satan and that he would be the long-awaited antipope.”

https://www.liveabout.com/the-fatima-prophecies-2594629

And then there was the dancing sun miracle that happened on October 13, 1917, labelled demonic by critics of the Catholic Church. (A lot more was said, but for these purposes, those can be investigated another time.)

We actually are not under any obligation to believe any of this as apparitions are really a private matter and subject to approval by the Church as being supernatural in origin (Fatima is approved), but when the Blessed Mother wants something, she includes a miracle with the request, and flowers, usually roses. That did happen at Fatima. The Church, for Her part, insists that the third secret actually foretold of the assassination attempt on Pope Saint John Paul II, but a lot of us have our doubts.

Back to the timeline….

In the 1920s, we know from Bella Dodd’s claims, records found after the Berlin Wall fell, and at least one book that is out of print, the homosexual infiltration of the Catholic priesthood began prompted by the people posing as communists, actually. The express purpose was to destroy the priesthood itself by sowing distrust in the men of the cloth. This is not the first time homosexuals were in the priesthood. Records indicate there was in issue with this in the Middle Ages, but that’s a subject for another post. What is important here is that the modern infiltration started almost a hundred years ago, with the express final goal of destroying the priesthood. The reason being, this writer assumes, is that so long as a single priest lives, Christ in the Eucharist can (and will) remain on Earth. Without consecrated hands passed down for 2,000 years when the priesthood candidate places his hands between the bishop’s for blessing at Ordination, there is no Real Presence/Eucharist.

So the installation began, and through the decades these men rose in the ranks until some of them were in positions of power. The abuse cases began, and the cover-up networks got their start. And then came the Trojan Horse of the entire effort: the SECOND Vatican Council. That is where the rubber met the road.

Just as an aside, in the backdrop during all this time, the “elites” aka the Rockefellers and their networks, were busy with a campaign that they still have yet to get the Church to cave into their demands. It’s known as many names, but population control is the goal, and the idea is for the people to participate in eugenics willingly rather than being forced to surrender their fertility.

The Second Vatican Council was very open, was attended by prelates of all sorts, and for all intents and purposes, was hijacked by the modernists. They produced documents, some of which are fine, and others that promote heresy. And when it comes down to it, when the gatekeepers of information “translated” the documents from Latin, what they had to say bore next to no resemblance to what was really said in the documents. The Faithful were very much lied to. In addition, the documents were written by known progressives, one of whom was later forbidden to teach theology by Pope Saint John Paul II. Below the rotten fruits of the council are described, but it should be noted pretty specifically that what the council really changed was the power of the papacy. The council, we are told, called for the establishment of the national bishops councils which pretty much carried out the tactics of the plan of making a mess of the faith.

At the time of the council, more than one cleric who would become well known sounded the alarm that Vatican II, as it is known, was not all it was cracked up to be. One was a German priest by the name of Joseph Ratzinger who would become Pope Benedict XVI. The other was a French priest by the name of Marcel Lefebvre who would later be responsible for a schism that has been left hanging since Benedict’s abdication. Both signed the documents and as will be shown below, both sought to right the Barque of Peter in different ways.

Their voices of alarm were, frankly, ignored. And overnight, for all intents and purposes in Church terms, since movement is usually glacial in time frame, everything changed. It took about five years, but would not have happened without the cooperation of three specific groups of people: papal nuncios who recommend candidates for the episcopacy (bishops), bishops who choose the staff for recruitment and seminaries, and the staffs of said offices. Where these offices were filled by modernists and where “rigidity” (a euphemism for orthodoxy) was used as the reason to weed out candidates for the priesthood is where the mess was (and still is) the worst, including the sexual abuse problem. And by this time, 40 years after the infiltration began, there were plenty of the homosexual group in positions of power (ready to be papal nuncios and bishops) to make the rotten fruit of Vatican II happen. (Michael Rose goes into great detail on this subject in his book Goodbye, Good Men.) The goal, just like the elites’ depopulation plan that included lots of artificial contraception, was to get the faithful to leave the Church and quit practicing the Faith on their own.

Between the closing of Vatican II in 1965 and 1970 is when the mass exodus began, just as the cabal (or the Freemasons, or Communists, take your pick) planned it.

The first real visible change that happened was Mass in Latin was suppressed and Mass was to be said in the vernacular. Service music did not really exist at the time, and vernacular hymns were not all that prevalent. So, choir directors used what they could find which was, in a lot of cases, Dogmatically wrong. The Latin vestments were put away and the Gothic ones pulled out, etc.

The changes put into place also called for all Liturgies to be rewritten, beginning with the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. (The last to be rewritten was the Rite of Exorcism, and the exorcists claim it doesn’t work.) Language and the words used are important. The 1968 translation of the Mass was changed in 1970 (it was essentially changed back to the 1968 version in 2012 by Pope Benedict XVI) and the Holy Sacrifice offered on a stone altar became a meal at a table. What are known as propers were dropped (BIG mistake in this writer’s opinion), as was the Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel instituted by Pope Leo XIII. Suddenly, the worship was in dialogue, not directed at the Savior. The changes go on and on. (See “wreckavation” as a practice brought about by Rembert Weakland, Archbishop of Milwaulkee who offered his resignation during the first wave of the sex scandal in 2002 as a gesture, and the Vatican accepted it) Essentially, the sense of wonder and awe, the majesty, and sacredness of the Mass was removed. (So was a lot of logic, but that’s a personal observation.)

This is also the time period when a number of Catholic institutions of higher learning started turning control over to lay boards, the most famous being the Land O’Lakes Conference in 1967 when the Fathers of the Holy Cross surrendered Notre Dame University. This was the period when required Daily Mass for school kids stopped, and all school Masses were 1-3 days a week. The Baltimore Catechism was suppressed. (No real catechesis was being taught, to be honest.) The teaching orders of nuns imploded as they modernized. (Those who did not modernize have healthy populations and vocation numbers.) The Rosary was no longer to be said by the people in the pews during Mass (this is discouraged, actually, but a lot of people did it). The Churches were wreckovated and the music suffered for a lack of trained professionals to lead it. More or less, Catholic culture began to die.

And in the midst of this sea change, word was that Pope Paul VI was preparing an encyclical on the very subject that leaders of the cabal begged Pope Saint Pius X to change: the Church teaching forbidding artificial contraception. (Instead of bowing to their demands, Piux X wrote Pascendi Dominici Gregis, On the Doctrine of Modernists, which took them apart, actually.) Paul VI went along with a lot of the changes, so far. He’d get with the 20th century on this, right?

Wrong.

On July 25, 1968, Pope Paul VI published his encyclical, the vitally important, and not read much at all Humanae Vitae. The interpreters of the news went looking for the bottom line decision, and that is about all most people know about it: the Church affirms the teachings of the Apostles as given to them by Christ. The transfer of life is not to be purposefully stifled by artificial means. Ignored in the aftermath of disbelief that he would not just go along with the world on this were Pope Paul VI’s words which really were prophetic:

Consequences of Artificial Methods
Responsible men can become more deeply convinced of the truth of the doctrine laid down by the Church on this issue if they reflect on the consequences of methods and plans for artificial birth control. Let them first consider how easily this course of action could open wide the way for marital infidelity and a general lowering of moral standards. Not much experience is needed to be fully aware of human weakness and to understand that human beings—and especially the young, who are so exposed to temptation—need incentives to keep the moral law, and it is an evil thing to make it easy for them to break that law. Another effect that gives cause for alarm is that a man who grows accustomed to the use of contraceptive methods may forget the reverence due to a woman, and, disregarding her physical and emotional equilibrium, reduce her to being a mere instrument for the satisfaction of his own desires, no longer considering her as his partner whom he should surround with care and affection.
Finally, careful consideration should be given to the danger of this power passing into the hands of those public authorities who care little for the precepts of the moral law. Who will blame a government which in its attempt to resolve the problems affecting an entire country resorts to the same measures as are regarded as lawful by married people in the solution of a particular family difficulty? Who will prevent public authorities from favoring those contraceptive methods which they consider more effective? Should they regard this as necessary, they may even impose their use on everyone. It could well happen, therefore, that when people, either individually or in family or social life, experience the inherent difficulties of the divine law and are determined to avoid them, they may give into the hands of public authorities the power to intervene in the most personal and intimate responsibility of husband and wife.

As Mary Eberstadt points out in the introduction to her beautifully written Adam and Eve after the Pill, Paul VI was not the first to point out the pitfalls of the matter, but it was the release of this encyclical that caused more upheaval, more people leaving the Church, more disdain, et al, but even moreso, may well have led to one of the conspiracy world’s enduring theories. The picture on the left is the real Pope Paul VI. Is he the same man as the picture on the right?

This is not the only comparison of photographs of the real Pope Paul VI, and the man thought to be a body double. There is also a witness who claims to have seen the real Pope Paul VI escorted from a canonization Mass at its conclusion, but there is no footage of that, so is it true? Was there an imposter on the Throne of St. Peter from sometime after Humanae Vitae was published until 1978? That’s yet to be answered. (An unapproved Marian apparition containing errors and inconsistencies in Brooklyn claims that he was held hostage in the Vatican, but this has not been confirmed.)

During this time period, on October 13, 1973, (there’s that October 13 again) there was another approved Marian apparition in Akita, Japan, that talks about a time when Satan’s work will be fairly obvious.

The work of the devil will infiltrate even into the Church in such a way that one will see cardinals opposing cardinals, bishops against bishops. The priests who venerate me will be scorned and opposed by their confreres… churches and altars sacked; the Church will be full of those who accept compromises and the demon will press many priests and consecrated souls to leave the service of the Lord.

Again, this is a private revelation that was accompanied with a confirmed miracle of a wooden statue of the Blessed Mother crying tears of human blood. There is no requirement to believe it. But….

What is known is that during the last ten years of Paul VI’s pontificate, the papal nuncios mentioned above elevated a whole lot of bishops who became cardinals and those specific men were very much at the root of the sexual abuse Scandal that exploded in 2002. They were the ones who refused to ordain priests due to “rigidity” in belief in the actual teachings of the Church. What the papal nuncios did is sort of like what President Trump is doing with the judiciary and conservatives: they stuffed modernists into the Episcopacy, at least in Europe and the Americas.

That stopped in 1984 as part of a trio of events that put the Church on a correction course that Francis and the rest of his groupies of the St. Gallen gang are trying to stop.

Remember, 1984 marks the one hundreth year following Pope Leo XIII’s vision described above. (Were Satan’s hundred years up?) At the five year mark of his papacy, Pope Saint John Paul II replaced all of the papal nuncios, including the group left over from the Paul VI years who may not have been that pope’s actual picks, with his own men. JPII also allowed the Tridentine Mass, or Mass in Latin, to be said with the permission of local bishops (this was the mark of the good vs. not good for years. Those who allowed the Indult were in the “good” category). Latin was also allowed back into Mass in the vernacular. And at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) November meeting, the president of the group, the late Archbishop John May, a good and holy man, oversaw the signing of a document in secret that was meant to clean up the seminaries which were openly dens of sodomy and willingly taught error. (I remember reading about this document some time ago, and can’t find a source right off.)

It didn’t work as advertised with the more obstinate of the homosexual hierarchy, that’s for sure. But, it was a start, and in May’s own archdiocese, St. Louis, he had no qualms about laicizing criminal priests and sending them to prison. It happened more than once.

So, what does all this have to do with #UNITEtheCLANS and the current situation we Catholics find ourselves in? Well….

The group of prelates currently with the reigns of power were the ones who passed the “rigidity” test that a whole lot of seminaries had back in the 1950s and 60s. Not every seminary had them, but those that did produced Francis, as well as a circle known as the St. Gallen Group. These men largely became cardinals eventually, but they are/were a group of priests who met in St. Gallen, Switzerland, to plot their moves. Their original choice for the papacy, reportedly, was Joseph Bernardin who died in office as the Archbishop of Chicago in 1996. After Bernardin’s demise of pancreatic cancer ( a triumph for Pope Saint John Paul II, ultimately, outliving his most strident opponent as with Bernardin out of the way, he could get some things done), the St. Gallen group somewhat lost hope. They were aging out of the College of Cardinals and beginning to die off, and sooner or later, the window of opportunity would disappear.

That was until, somehow, they managed to get Pope Benedict XVI to abdicate. Recent leaks from the 2013 Papal Conclave indicate his “resignation” was a deal cut, but when it comes down to it, Francis was installed as the group’s choice, vowing to change the Church in such a way She could not be changed back.

“They” may have gotten Francis in at the Vatican, but lost the White House. Oops.…okay, that’s just a guess.

In the timeline above, what this writer skipped over was the role Lefebvre played in instituting a splinter segment of the Faith that is now led by a group of priests known as the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP). (The Remnant, a traditional Catholic periodical, is published by a family that is part of this splinter.) In 1970, Pope Paul VI (I assume it was the real Paul VI) actually allowed Lefebvre to have his group, where Mass in Latin is the norm and traditional Catholicism is practiced, and be able to ordain priests, etc. (Their seminaries are huge and full on a regular basis.) For decades, this group was looked at with disdain by the main body of the Latin Rite (the main rite of the west). They were considered schismatic even though the actual schism didn’t happen until 1988 when Lefebvre elevated priests to bishop, which he was not allowed to do. FSSP did not follow Lefebvre when he did this.

So, Lefevbre’s splinter of the splinter, and the factions who consider ourselves faithful Catholics, but are not part of the FSSP crowd, have been famously at odds with just about everyone else for quite while over a whole lot of stuff. In fact, there are so many factions, it’s hard to keep up with them all. Well, now that Francis has come out and not just sowed confusion with meetings and useless synods that just talk about issues that the modernists would like to see changed in the Church (nothing has actually changed other than pronouncements on the environment), but has openly said – in a direct heresy – that Catholics should follow the United Nations, he’s managed to get all the practicing factions of Catholicism not still under the spell of the modernist Jesuits and the Spirit of Vatican II all on the same side.

They want you divided.

Well, not anymore, at least not among the informed and serious about their faith Catholics. The clans of Catholicism in the west are more united than not when it comes to Francis now. With declarations that are outright in contradiction to Church teaching, Francis has no standing with those of us who are in the know about that, and who have chosen to stay and fight. Michael Matt of the The Remnant is right about that. And his #UNITEtheCLANS concept and effort really needs to happen. Archbishop Fulton Sheen once said that about every four hundred years or so, the laity saves the Church. It’s beginning to look like we are in that place again as the talking heads of traditional and faithful Catholicism are lining up on the same side against a heretical papacy.

As Francis is a product of what gave us the sexual abuse scandal and more…what got us here was a plot to bring down the Church that was hatched hundreds of years ago and is still in motion. What the Cabal did not count on was that the days of pay, pray and obey are well and truly over as the misdeeds of their plants have been brought to light. The people who remain in the faith do so in spite of all that was done to destroy the Bride of Christ for love of Her. And we will stand shoulder to shoulder to defend Her just as Americans are doing to make America great again, and as the French are protesting in their yellow vests, and as the Italians are with their support of Salvini. In the end, from a certain perspective, it is all part of the same movement.

20190920: Australia State Visit

The State Visit has begun. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=LSjhTmIBPTE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXLGXaQ5mKk
Hat tip to Duchess for this link.

CSPAN will offer hours and hours of coverage over several days. Here is their schedule:

White House Schedule:

♦ 9:00am ET THE PRESIDENT and THE FIRST LADY participate in the arrival ceremony of the Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Mrs. Jenny Morrison of Australia – South Lawn

♦ 9:30am ET THE PRESIDENT and THE FIRST LADY participate in the official guest book signing and leader gift exchange – Blue Room

♦ 9:40am ET THE PRESIDENT and THE FIRST LADY participate in a receiving line with the official Australian Delegation – Cross Hall

♦ 10:00am ET THE PRESIDENT participates in a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Scott Morrison of Australia – Oval Office

♦ 10:30am ET THE PRESIDENT participates in an expanded bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Scott Morrison of Australia – Cabinet Room

♦ 11:45am ET THE PRESIDENT participates in a joint press availability with Prime Minister Scott Morrison of Australia – East Room

♦ 7:00pm ET THE PRESIDENT and THE FIRST LADY participate in the arrival of the Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Lady Jenny Morrison of Australia – North Portico

♦ 7:05pm ET THE PRESIDENT and THE FIRST LADY participate in couples reception with the Prime Minister of Australia and Mrs. Morrison – Yellow Oval Room

♦ 7:35pm ET THE PRESIDENT and THE FIRST LADY participate in a receiving line – Blue Room

♦ 8:20pm ET THE PRESIDENT and THE FIRST LADY host a state dinner with the Prime Minister of Australia and Mrs. Morrison – Rose Garden

First Lady Melania has chosen to deck the Rose Garden with green and gold, with yellow garden roses, wattle and golden champagne grapes decorating the tables.

Approximately 100 guests will enjoy a menu of sunchoke ravioli, Dover sole with fennel mousseline, and Lady Apple tart was chosen to “pay homage to Australia’s special blend of culinary adaptations from its various cultures, not unlike the diverse food traditions of the United States”, a spokesperson for Mrs Trump said.

♦ 9:40pm ET THE PRESIDENT and THE FIRST LADY participate in entertainment with the Prime Minister of Australia and Mrs. Morrison –

FLOTUS Melania has been working hard on the preparations.

Look at all the violinists practicing.

Australia is a member of Five Eyes. With the recent discovery of Canada’s top intel official being a spy, there will be much to discuss. Look for conversations about China, rare earth elements, muslim immigration, tech, Iran, and more China.

Dear KMAG: 20190920 Open Thread

Welcome to the Q TreeHouse, we’re glad to have you with us to lurk or post on the events of the day. At the QTH, you can say what you want, comment on what other people said, and so on. Free Speech is practiced here. ENJOY IT. Use it or lose it. Keep it SOMEWHAT civil. Expanded rules are available in the Jan 1st open thread. So, grab a beer or a peach tea lemonade and wander around our house for a while.

We’re still eating the leftovers from our MAGA Rally New Mexico Fajitas on Monday and birthday cake celebration on Wednesday, but we’re happy to share our viddles. As Grandma used to say, “May I always have more guests at my table than I have dining room chairs.” Not to worry, we can squeeze in a few more friends. A slight nip in the air, weekends, and college football, bring us to the low country boiled crab dinner in the Southeast, the Shrimp Boil on the Gulf, or the Clambake in the Northeast.

Today Adam Schiff will still be screaming about the “WhistleBlower” and everything he thinks President Trump has done wrong, to be followed by more attention on the President’s trip out west, including his fundraising haul, and the reopening of the Washington Monument.

Everything will be overshadowed however, with quite a bit of press about Scott and Jenny Morrison, The Prime Minister of Australia and his wife. President Trump and “FLOTUS Extraordinaire”, Melania, are hosting a state dinner for Australia. PM Morrison won in August of 2018, defeated Malcolm Turnbull, seen as a rejection of “climate change” gone too far. Morrison is far more conservative. Here he is with Jenny and the girls.

The menu for Friday’s State Dinner includes: -Sunchoke Ravioli -Dover Sole, Zucchii Squash and Fennel Mousseline -Lady Apple Tarts and Calvados Ice Cream.

Be kind in your comments, please. And yes, you can disagree with the board owner as nicely as possible, but let’s not give the odious Internet Censors a reason to shut down this precious haven.

SPEAK THE FIVE WORDS BOLDLY TO OUR PRESIDENT! “I AM PRAYING FOR YOU!“ (and please slip in a little prayer for the Houston area as well – they’ve had 40 inches of rain).

Now that we’re done with official business, I thought it might be nice to take a breath and relax. Recently, we’ve had many group members who are going through a tough time, personal loss, illness, etc. It is Friday, and we should do something a little special. It’s been a REALLY big week. Maybe? How about this idea? While the world swirls around us, take a Friday afternoon break and join me at the shore.

Tradewinds in your hair and the sound of waves make all the stress disappear.

Appetizers are in the buckets.

Grab a beer, and later on you might need a light blanket. Just steps from our treehouse, we’ve had the pit pan going for hours. Don’t worry about the Spanish Moss hanging from our tree. It won’t bite you.

Pit pan is for the Oysters and Steaks.

Sure hope you’re hungry.

Later on, we can give the kids some sparklers and make s’mores by the fire.

We can put on some breezy music and tell stories.

Mom and Dad could slow dance and sway a little bit.

Grandmas and Grandpas, aunts and uncles can teach the little ones. Dad’s don’t mind if their little girls use their feet to learn how to dance.

Before long, we would all be Dancing in the Moonlight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMc8naeeSS8

We can do battle again in the morning. We need rest and regroup every now and then. You can spend the weekend if you like. The world is fine with our POTUS on watch.

The Money Shot.

Have a great weekend…… wherever you are.

20190918: Robert C. O'Brien Named National Security Advisor

The President announced it himself:

The Pic in the header comes from the first day of the A$AP Rocky Trial in Stockholm. Robert O’Brien was there. The LATimes article is spectacularly devoid of background on Robert O’Brien, other than the position is the 4th National Security Advisor (we were cheated out of Flynn), and that the position is not subject to Senate Confirmation. https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-09-18/national-security-advisor-robert-c-obrien

From FOX News, we understand O’Brien was under consideration as Sec of the Navy for a period of time. He is currently the Special Envoy in charge of hostages. Hmmm…. the President has had excellent success in releasing American hostages.

You get the feeling the pundits are still digging for background on Robert O’Brien? Yeah, me too.

As information comes in on O’Brien, we will edit and add to inform the QTree. If any of you have info to add, please drop it here so we can compile a full bio and be informed.

Hat tip to the greatest group of crowd-sourcers on the Internet.

Zero Hedge is the first media org to come in with background on Robert O’Brien. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-nominates-special-envoy-obrien-replace-bolton-national-security-advisor

Ambassador Robert C. O’Brien serves as the Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs at the U.S. Department of State. Working for Secretary Pompeo, O’Brien leads the U.S. Government’s diplomatic efforts on overseas hostage-related matters. He works closely with the families of American hostages and advises the senior leadership of the U.S. Government on hostage issues. O’Brien also coordinates with the interagency Hostage Recovery Fusion Cell on the development and implementation of U.S. hostage recovery policy and strategy.
O’Brien previously served as Co-Chairman of the U.S. Department of State Public-Private Partnership for Justice Reform in Afghanistan under both Secretaries Rice and Clinton. The PPJRA promoted the rule of law by training Afghan judges, prosecutors and defense lawyers and provided scholarships for young Afghan lawyers to study in the U.S. From 2008 through 2011, O’Brien was a presidentially-appointed member of the U.S. Cultural Property Advisory Committee, which advises the federal government on issues relating to the trafficking of antiquities and other cultural items. In 2005, Mr. O’Brien was nominated by President George W. Bush and confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve as a U.S. Representative to the 60th session of the United Nations General Assembly where he worked with Ambassador John Bolton. Earlier in his career, O’Brien served as a Senior Legal Officer for the UN Security Council commission that decided claims against Iraq arising out of the first Gulf War. O’Brien was a Major in the U.S. Army Reserve.
O’Brien is the co-founding partner of Larson O’Brien LLP in Los Angeles, a nationally recognized litigation firm. His law practice focuses on complex litigation and international arbitration. In addition to his client work, O’Brien has served as an arbitrator in over 20 international proceedings and he has been appointed by the federal courts to serve as a special master in numerous complex cases.
O’Brien is a graduate of the Boalt Hall School of Law at U.C. Berkeley. He received his B.A. degree in political science, cum laude, from UCLA. He is a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy.
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Like Mitt Romney, whose campaign he worked on as an advisor, O’Brien is a mormon. And after he is confirmed, will be the highest ranking Mormon in the Trump Administration.

As many federal jobs remain unfilled, Trump didn’t take long to nominate O’Brien, which suggests the administration already had him in mind, and that they only needed to vet him.
O’Brien has been involved in many high-profile incidents during the Trump years, including, most recently, the negotiations with Sweden over the fate of rapper A$AP Rocky.

This makes O’Brien the highest ranking Morman in the U.S. government https://t.co/ZN3QOsDHxL
— John Hudson (@John_Hudson) September 18, 2019
Back in 2017, O’Brien was reportedly considered to be Secretary of the Navy, but was instead nominated to his current position, and given the rank of ambassador one year later.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-nominates-special-envoy-obrien-replace-bolton-national-security-advisor

20190918: Horowitz Testimony Thread

11:00am Eastern Time, the show begins. Michael Horowitz is the Inspector General for the DOJ, FBI, DEA. His testimony (To House Oversight Committee – read as Dems in charge) is supposed to be about progress in oversight over the past 10 years…….. however, with all the interest in the FBI/DOJ scandal, we can expect a few more questions.

Link to testimony: (We are still looking, the below link just takes us to the Committee website.) https://oversight.house.gov/legislation/hearings/overseeing-the-overseers-council-of-the-inspectors-general-on-integrity-and

We HAVE a link, here we go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH6ltqAD8dY

We missed the spectacular Lewandowski testimony yesterday, don’t want to miss anything today.

There are three witnesses testifying today:

Witnesses

Ms. Kathy Buller
Inspector General, Peace Corps, on behalf of Executive Director, Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency Legislation Committee

Mr. Scott Dahl
Inspector General, Department of Labor, on behalf of Chairman, Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency

Mr. Michael Horowitz
Inspector General, Department of Justice, on behalf of Chairman, Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency

Happy BIRTHDAY, Q Tree!

Today is our birthday!

One year ago today, our fearless leader, Wolfm00n, took it upon himself to create a another meeting place for Treepers. He showed great wisdom and foresight. Thank God he did it. Little did we know, the dark days of the “Great Ban” were just around the corner, November 10th -12th. Thankfully, Wolm00n planted a new QTree.

Susan Dyer via imgur.com

Although we didn’t know it, many of us had been banned over the years. People whom we admired had strangely disappeared into the internet ether. We thought they drifted away or found other pursuits. No, a good many of them were intentionally silenced. The big purge happened after the midterm elections of 2018 and hundreds of us woke up, oblivious to our crimes and homeless. Some were banned for talking about Q or Jeff Sessions, various reasons, and some of us never knew the reason why we were abruptly excluded.

Well, of course we’re going to talk about it. You can’t tell us what we can say or not say…. or cast us as crazy because we’re asking questions. AND don’t tell me not to look at the pink elephant in the room….. cuz all I want to do is look at that damn elephant….. and it’s a BIG elephant.

That was me, screaming at dear husband, November 2018.

But suddenly, we were alone in the woods.

Like some of you, I assumed something was wrong with my computer, or WordPress, and went looking for help to resolve the issue. We all remembered Wolfm00n from his pivotal doctrine Roller Coaster treatise. I searched out Wolfie, and learned my fate = Banned! Shut out! Silenced! Yet, Wolfm00n extended a hand of friendship, to join a new Tree, this beautiful young and vibrant tree. At that point, we only had a couple of pieces of plywood for our Treehouse, but the view was grand and the potential was glorious.

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To be silenced is antithetical to most of us. It’s why we fight the media and big tech attempts to silence conservatives. Therefore, it was a shock when conservatives attempted to silence each other. Felt like betrayal. It hurts. Many of you still harbor resentment to the other side, which is warranted, but ….. after a little time to nurse the wound, I can’t carry the grudge and still admire SD and all the work he’s done over the years. Something happened, something unexplained, and we may never know the reason why. Those who were still angry wanted to cut down all the Trees, but that would mean no voice for any of us, and we can’t stay quiet for too long.

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So, we embarked on a new adventure. Wolfm00n had no idea how fast his new Tree would grow. We are forever indebted to Mrs. Wolfm00n and the time she shares her husband with us, here. Thank you, Mrs. Wolfm00n. Speaking of Mrs. Wolfm00n, when the girls showed up at QTree, we were tempted to make the Tree “pretty”, but pink was not the right color for patriotism. We needed RED, WHITE, and BLUE.

Sharyn Richards via CakesDecor.com

We were a little bit bumpy and awkward at first, like a toddler learning to walk, but we’re strong, thriving, and running with the wind, a year later. Our forecast for the remainder of 2019 and into 2020 is excellent, a “strong buy”.

A few days ago, we crossed 250K comments. It was a big moment and personal vindication for Wolfm00n – you were right to do what you did. Checking this morning, we’re over 253K. Our tree is blessed with an overabundance of fertilizer (hehe), plenty of sunshine (We value free speech – “Use it or lose it”.), and an ample supply of water (comments), which are sometimes a steady drip, and at other times…. a great flood. We even have “Butterfly” for our tree, and a church to help us through the rough spots.

Our Tree can be a wondrous and beautiful thing, especially on Saturday mornings when Wheatie posts great pics. The QTree is tended and grows daily with FLEP’s Good News Roundup. Thank you, FLEP. Other members have chipped in to contribute. We learn something new, every day.

Our Tree is still smaller, which is fine with us. We’re more friendly, and far more optimistic. We care about each other (PHC and CrossThread, the daughter to Ga/FL) and many of us have become friends. It’s kind of like we were all kids together, growing up in the same neighborhood, who found each other again.

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We’re really just…. normal Americans (with MANY like-minded friends overseas), who represent an unbelievably broad pool of expertise. We have members who can sing like an angel, CPA’s, lawyers, health experts, pilots, engineers, DRILLERs, IT experts, a spelunker, and those who can actually “can” the summer bounty. ALL of them have common sense. Gheez, if our group was rounded up and dispatched to another planet, we could start a new civilization quickly.

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But we might need to save our country …… first. As in, America, first.

There are very few absolutes at the QTreeHouse. Yet, one thing is certain, you guys love good food and drink. For our birthday, I looked long and hard for an appropriate birthday cake, but I found as many great cakes as their are opinions and wisdom in the QTreeHouse. I may have to start over again. If you need me, I’ll be in the kitchen…… trying to create a masterpiece worthy for our friends.

circa 1955: A young girl licks frosting from a bowl as she helps her smiling mother frost a cake in the kitchen. (Photo by Lambert/Getty Images)
Sharyn Richards for AmericanCakeDecorating.com

Congratulations to Wolfm00n and all the best birthday wishes to Treepers here. Together, we look forward to the Trump/Pence Reelection campaign of 2020.

It’s been the best year, EVAH!

Credits can be found underneath or on each photo, the main top photo is listed below.

The masterful Enchanted Treehouse cake was created by Veena Azmanov: https://veenaazmanov.com/enchanted-forest-tree-house-cake/

20190916: New Mexico Rally Thread, 9:00pm Eastern Time.

Trump will rally in Rio Rancho at the Santa Ana Star Center, a 7,000-seat facility about 20 miles northeast of downtown Albuquerque. Don’t let the media fool you, New Mexico is in play. Only reason we lost New Mexico in 2016 was because of Gary Johnson (who took almost 10% of vote).

CSPAN will carry the rally at 9:00pm Eastern Time.

RSBN LINK: https://rsbnetwork.com/2019/09/live-president-donald-trump-holds-rally-in-rio-rancho-nm-9-16-19/

Golden State Times LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfFtBHXMR4M

FOX News LINK:

Interesting to note:

In 2016, Hillary Clinton won 48.3 percent of the vote in New Mexico, while Trump won 40 percent and Gary Johnson won 9.3 percent.

https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/local/2019/09/06/trump-rally-rio-rancho/2236609001/

“Trump Victory is leaving nothing on the table in 2020, and New Mexico is definitely a focus as part of that strategy,” Samantha Zager, regional communications director for the campaign in Western states, told the Santa Fe New Mexican in August. “New Mexico voters can expect to see our army of volunteers recruiting, registering and contacting individuals to share their support for President Trump and Republicans up and down the ticket.”

https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/local/2019/09/06/trump-rally-rio-rancho/2236609001/
https://twitter.com/Barbara95702548/status/1173599128225337344
Lining up already!!!!!!!!!!!!
https://twitter.com/B__McKerracher/status/1172609816491175936

Here we go. It’s a one stop shop. Get your peppers and Trump Gear at the same place!

https://twitter.com/Barbara95702548/status/1173362134782115841

Check this out. Remember how President Trump describes the election of 2016….”They came from the hills…. They came from the rivers….” Well, this guy is riding his bicycle. That’s dedication. Hey…. #Cyclists4Trump.

Wow, everyone in town in going to the Trump Rally. Shutting down schools and city. I know, I know, the press says it’s because of traffic delays….. but we know…… everyone is going to the rally!

Michael, where are you? Help, please! We need Tex-Mex snacks tonight. Need something with a little bit of zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzip.

China, Inc. ~ The Largest Financial Crime of the Last 25 Years, and It's Not Over.

We watch China more closely since Donald Trump was elected President. Don’t think China, Inc., only includes the Chinese, because it also includes Americans with a penchant for avarice. Every day we learn more about how much America has been abused. It makes us angry. Please, don’t look away. We need full disclosure to even attempt putting our Humpty Dumpty country back together again. Giving up, surrender, it is not an option. We MUST clean up the mess.

I implore you to read the following. I’ve never written anything more important. It’s the biggest problem in our country. Someone like AOC comes on the scene, and yesterday she demanded action on student loan debt. Well, the entire budget for the Dept of Education is about 61 billion dollars (including student loans). The problem with China is about 500 billion in trade imbalance (which gives China the USD needed to purchase raw materials in an open market they desperately need to import), 200-500 billion in annual intel theft, about 40K dead Americans every year from fentanyl, ……… and today, hundreds of billions in outright fraud. If we fix the China problem, Student Loan Debt becomes easy.

Now, we understand why Candidate and now President Trump has been screaming about China.

We have to understand how China’s fraud has grown and become galactic. We need to know how and why Americans assisted in the corruption. We need to stop China.

We may have to do several articles on this because it’s more complicated than we ever imagined and it’s impossible to land in the middle of the storm without reference. Let’s start small and quickly work our way up. Stay with me, please.

BackgroundA Frame of Reference

Site Visits to Publicly Traded Companies Are Necessary for Confirmation of Representations Made by the Company. Investors must have accurate information.

A publicly traded company creates a series of financial statements to give investors a picture of where they stand. The financial statements are then audited by an accounting firm. These representations are published in a “prospectus” (which no one reads except people like me), kind of like a brochure, on thin paper, with small words, bad fonts, and lots of footnotes. It’s the duty of the brokerage firm or investment banking firm bringing a company public in an IPO to check the company’s representations with site visits or forensic accounting.

Months ago, I wrote a story about a progression of parties at the B&B where the staff, miraculously, over-performed. Laying in bed on Monday morning, my best corporate client demanded my presence, asap. Turned out, he expected reps from brokerage houses which owned about 40-50% of the company’s outstanding stock – the next day. The following day, they expected bond daddies from all over the world who held about 60% of the corporate “paper” or debt. My dear friend, the plant manager, had no idea how important the site visit was. As a former partner in a brokerage firm, trained to inspect property, plant, and equipment…. as well as the financials…… I knew was a big deal. It was a “do or die” two days, which would affect stock price, my friends, and the entire company. So, you have a personal anecdote, a visual, of lots of people running around, clipping trees, making pretty food, dressed in their Sunday best, trying to make a good impression, with ALL lights on and ALL equipment working. THAT’s a site visit.

American Investors Understand the Importance of Due Diligence and GAAP

SEC filings in the USA are serious, and if you misrepresent earnings or commit fraud, your executives end up on CNBC, or in front of a Congressional Committee, or they may land in jail. It’s serious in the USA.

It’s NOT so serious in other countries. The USA, for decades, was the most reliable country in which to do business, less than a 5% corruption expense (yes, we really do have studies for such things). Doing business in South America, I was shocked by my own naivety and our American innocence about the rest of the world and how they operate. The ever-present corruption in South America/Central America/Caribbean was calculated about 30% of expenses. Middlemen had to have their palms greased along the way. Shady payments and odd bank loans were commonplace. We have no grasp of how lucky we are in the USA, how reliable our banking and legal systems are, and how much it helps our GDP.

The Ethics Have Changed Within the USA

Way back when, if a broker advised clients to pour hundreds of millions of dollars into a company, they damn well knew whether or not the company was “as represented”. Any whiff of irregularity was a problem. The ethics of a new generation are not necessarily the same. I was trained in the 1980’s and our local site visit was in the mid-90’s before internet bubble, the Twin Towers coming down, Enron, and the Great Crash of ’08. In the OLDEN DAYS, we all followed the same rules.

Doing Business In Another Country – Expectations vs. Reality

Cashed out of the firm, married and a mom, living in obscurity in rural Mississippi, the world of portfolios and long-term airport parking was far away….. until I met Big T and we decided to build a pool. The tile was too expensive and I decided to become an importer to save money. The company took off from there. I’ve written many stories about importing, but there’s another part which is critical to understanding this whole spiderweb of a story and today’s monumental topic.

More than anything else, it’s about Judeo-Christian ethics in the USA versus ethics in other countries. We expect others to do business as we do, act honorably to develop MORE business, but they don’t. A quick profit is too tempting and the culture consistently promotes cheating on a first order…… because there is a never-ending stream of gullible Americans. Ya’ gotta check what you buy and babysit the order.

Big T and I intended to open a stone yard… just like many others did in the mid-2000’s. You’ve probably seen such businesses, granite and marble slabs, plumbing supplies, kitchen sinks, etc. Yet, mistakes within the first container made me see a problem in the supply chain which no one else was addressing. I ordered stone and might as well have received bikini tops and BIC razors. After a 30K loss, I was mad. Told my sad story to other stone yard owners, and they grimaced and nodded. We spent time commiserating about our similar problems. I decided “reliability” would be my focus. Somehow, I needed to FIX the trustworthiness problem and my clients could become my stone yard friends. If we couldn’t order with certainty, then none of us were safe.

Previously, other stone companies would send someone all the way to China/India/Brazil to approve the material for a container. They often bragged about Mr. XYZ who traveled the world in search of their perfect stone. Truth was, no one can be in all places at one time. It was inefficient. I loved to travel but had the B&B and Gunner was little. Taking off for 4 days to China was not an option and added $5K in expenses to the cost of each order. Plus, Chinese companies were incredibly sneaky about hiding problems while I was standing there. Broad Daylight! I also noticed my American competition would arrive to China, expecting a completed order, and the material was not as advertised, wasting more time, fighting over money/material at the last minute, and the American always lost. What to do?

Solving the Trustworthiness Problem of Overseas Orders

I decided to hire people overseas, fluent in their own language, well educated, well respected men in their communities, ……… and men with specific knowledge about the material I was buying. All of these men spent decades in the business and forgot more than I would ever know. They became my eyes and ears on the ground, and I valued their opinions and judgement dearly.

What I did, innocently, was send my trusted men into places to inspect materials before processing, to oversee the production process, supervise the loading and check for quality, BEFORE shipping. In other words, our guys were inspecting property, plant, and equipment + finished goods, insuring a smooth delivery. No one else in our industry offered a similar service. It worked. The reason I did it was because of past experience in the finance industry – which has nothing at all to do with stone. Pure happenstance. Gotta check before you buy.

Summary for Background: We understand doing business in foreign countries is tough because their culture does not do business as we do in the USA. We have a problem with ethics in the USA, Club Med prison sentences, and no serious repercussions. We understand Investment Banks who represent IPO’s, or brokerage houses, are supposed to do their due diligence to check property, plant, and equipment, and the SEC is supposed to guarantee GAAP procedures and investigate irregularities in corporate representations or a filed prospectus. Yet, …………………..

That’s not what happened on Wall Street with Chinese companies.

What happened in the USA between 2006 until today is economic warfare, pure and simple. It was intentional with malice aforethought. Americans were complicit because of their laziness and greed. Almost no due diligence has been done on Chinese companies which are publicly listed on the NYSE, and the financials are hidden from our SEC, or are easily faked by Chinese auditors who bought a franchise in Deloitte/Price Waterhouse, etc. Billions and billions of dollars has been bilked from US investors. The fraud and corruption are like nothing we’ve ever seen.

This story is the biggest worldwide financial crime of the last 25 years, and almost no one is listening.

“Dan” was a broker selling securities for publicly traded Chinese companies on the NYSE when he got wind of the fraud. Dan got mad, began to investigate, and turned into a short seller, investigating what he thought were fraudulent Chinese companies, and taking them down. Dan tried to get the attention of Senator Toomey, the SEC, Congress, and the media. No one wanted to burst the China bubble. Dan stars in a movie made about the story, “The China Hustle”, in 2018. Here’s the movie trailer….. hold onto your seat.

The movie/documentary is riveting (no wonder they made a movie about it) and about an hour and a half long. Here’s the summary for those who don’t have time: Grab a cup of coffee and a chair. You won’t believe what you’re about to read…………

Here we go:

Roth Capital was a small investment banking company on the west coast. They held terrific “investor conferences” with big name entertainment like Billy Idol, Sting.

Rodman and Renshaw was on the East Coast and a little more highbrow. General Wesley Clark, former NATO Commander, and Presidential Candidate was their CEO. He brought in speakers like former Presidents Bush and Clinton + Colin Powell. All in all Rodman and Renshaw = 40 companies brought to market = 31 billion USD. Assets are either gone, or almost worthless. As companies were exposed, their stock prices tanked and the Chinese company was delisted from the NYSE.

How did they do it? ………. it was easy.

After 2008 crash, everyone was looking for a way to recover, quickly. The USA and EU were dead but China’s economy was growing like a rocketship (allegedly). American Wall St types wanted an invitation to the party, but they couldn’t invest in China Companies on the NYSE……… until Roth Capital figured a way in via the back door.

Roth looked for older and inactive companies, like a mining company, mostly in Nevada, which still was a publicly traded company with NYSE listing (had a ticker symbol). Then, they did a reverse merger” with a Chinese company, didn’t matter if the sectors were different, and the new company emerged with a new name, maybe with the old ticker symbol or a maybe a new ticker symbol.

Between 2006-2012, 400 Chinese companies were listed on NYSE Stock, and about 80% were reverse mergers. Normally, for a US company, SEC filings are complex and watched closely. Audits and reporting are constant. Therefore, the US investor has confidence in the “prospectus” (balance sheets accounting GAAP representations) of a particular company. But the greed was HUGE and companies were audited by Deloitte/Coopers Lybrand/Price Waterhouse…… in China, which is nothing more than a franchise. From 2009-2010, most reverse merger companies rose 300-400% in value. Everyone wanted in the game….. the champagne flowed…… just don’t be looking for a chair when the music stops.

Everything was fine until an older stockbroker asked his son, who was working in China, to check out a particular company called Orient Paper, Inc. Dad was old school, gotta check it out before you buy…… that’s how we were trained. Dad was doing his due diligence. Well, what the son, Carson Block, learned was extraordinary. It was a paper company, but there was water everywhere in the factory. Half the equipment was broken, and there was no way in hell they were doing 100 million USD/year. The company listed 5 million in inventory on the books, which amounted to a rotting pile of cardboard, outside in the rain. Carson called his dad, asap. Carson also decided to write up a report about his findings and short the stock. Next morning, down 25%, by afternoon, down 55%. The company was a fraud.

Carson’s discovery was the very first ripple or WHIFF of irregularity. Of course, powerful people were angry and sent lawyers, guns, and money……. literally. Roth Capital sent lawyer Nussbaum from Loeb and Loeb, the super-lawyers, to smear young Carson. Yet, Carson was correct. The interview with Nussbaum, years later…….. is…. amazing=no due diligence, the auditor, a rented Deloitte shop “reviewed” docs from the management team and rubber stamped them. No one had any culpability for the false statements on balance sheets. No way to seek restitution against a Chinese company …. and the salesmen had to face the investors with bad news.

Dan was the founder of a little firm in Skippack, Pennsylvania. Dan was at an investor conference for Rodman and Renshaw on the east coast when the report about Orient Paper broke. He was stunned and went back home to discuss with his other partners. One partner sold 21 million dollars worth of shares in Orient Paper and he was furious, “Not As Represented”. He went on an African safari to think about it, came home, and decided to fight back. They became curious about the companies they were selling. They decided to go to China and check on China Green Agriculture. Rumor had it, Nestle was thinking of buying the company, and they were looking to cash in.

China Green Agriculture managed to do 100 million in revenue on paper…. but only had one truck driver. They videotaped the company for about a year and sent in a guy posing as a tea salesmen giving away samples of Chinese tea to figure out how many employees were there. The company was a fraud. Crocker Coulson was the guy on Wall St who pushed companies like China Green Ag., who claimed years later, paraphrasing, “We did a lot of effort/research to flag inconsistencies…. but there was no way to know what was happening”.

These Wall St firms did no background, because one visit was all they would have needed. 113 Million USD ~ Poof! Gone. Dan at Skippack went to the bigger investment banking firm and told them the problem, showed them his year-long research, on a pitch for the investment firms to HIRE him to do the due diligence…. but they threw him out and told him to keep quiet….. which turned Dan into a short seller and an activist to take fraudulent companies DOWN.

Dan and the others were convinced they were onto something bigger. He began to investigate company after company. The “filings” in China were mostly accurate, but enormously inflated earnings were represented in the USA. Dan couldn’t find Chinese auditors who were honest, because, as Dan said, “We can’t find auditors in China that will help us, because let me tell you something, if we do…..find those people…….. the government of China will kill ’em. I mean, they will take their ass out and shoot them in the fucking head.”

Is that who you want to buy Nike T-Shirts and Northface gear from? No, we’re definitely NOT in Kansas anymore.

Word got out and they began to unwind a spider web of deception, purposely funded and promoted by the Chinese government, assisted by Chinese police and bureaucrats. The scale of fraud was enormous and surprised the “smartest people in the room” on Wall Street. Somewhere between 20-50 BILLION dollars from USA investors, for companies that could be worthless. Mom and pop investors, mutual funds specializing in “emerging markets” became victims, even the pension fund of the NYTimes represented by VANGUARD was in on the deal.

Remember what I said at the top about brokers, old school fund managers being trained to inspect property, plant, and equipment? Well, we’re also trained to to look at patterns across multiple pieces of informations to spot trends. For instance, I can look at a couple’s checkbook and almost immediately spot a cheating spouse, and identify within a week, when they started the affair. Their patterns change. MANY short sellers, who are highly trained in forensic accounting can spot a pattern. Today, they look at companies to compare data across a wide spectrum to uncover problems. In this way, the short sellers become the champions of the fraud busters. They become another investigative arm – motivated by incredible profits.

The fraud was simple and could not be perpetrated without a blessing from Chinese bureaucrats, the CCP. A Chinese factory, a CEO who was willing to lie (who would never go to jail in China if caught and who could never be extradited to the USA for crimes), an auditor who was compliant, pre-packaged Chinese legal, and a compliant US investment bank who happened to find an old company in the USA who was still public, but inactive….. and the reverse merger was set.

Another canary in the coalmine began obscure postings on Yahoo chat boards under the name Alfred Little, very similar to the modern day QAnon. He turned out to be one of the few short seller “activists” left in China. He went after Silvercorp with a Chinese national “source”, who was eventually imprisoned and made Chinese Christmas lights for two years……… from prison. Silvercorp called local Chinese constabulary for assistance. Jon Karnes (the real Alfred Little), tried to get help from OUR Securities and Exchange Commission but the SEC bureaucrat in charge told him, “Our phones can’t even dial China.”

Carnes joined Dan, and surfer dude who understood the machinations of the fraud. They decided to keep going, unraveling Chinese companies, along with Carson Block the son of the stockbroker. Dan went as far as hiring a lobbyist and taking the information to Congress – so they would ACT and help Americans. He tried to speak at Congressional hearings, but was rebuffed. Now, hundreds of billions in fraud on Americans, and no one was listening.

As of this movie in 2018, the SEC only busted 1-2 of these companies. All the Chinese CEO’s got away with the money. Only one Taiwanese CEO went to jail in the USA. The little band of misfit short sellers, had taken down about 40-50 companies. Hundreds of companies were delisted as worthless stocks. Yet, over 100 Chinese companies remain, a little bit cleaner, with a market cap of over 1.1 TRILLION dollars, no way to verify if the accounting is real, and no way to investigate or sue them for wrongdoing. Heads or tails, the Chinese win.

The SEC, on this issue, was a farce and cannot protect USA investors. In China, it is not illegal to steal from a foreign company. The USA cannot compel a Chinese “Bernie Madoff” to come to the USA to testify. There’s no way to look at the real books of Chinese companies. If you go to China to meet with the bankers of Chinese companies, often, the bankers will change the books for the Chinese company.

Frustration grew. No one would listen, not Congress, the SEC, his Senator, not the Chinese authorities (who helped the crooked companies). So….. in real robber baron fashion, our misfits decided to steal their money back. Take…. from the thieves. First target was Tech Pro, a 2 billion dollar company. Dan flew to Hong Kong, gave a presentation to analysts on his research about Tech Pro, and drove the stock down 93.66% in two weeks.

Did Dan make money shorting the companies he investigated? Bet your a$$ he did. BUT he also outed the rats. And there are, still, so many rats. In fact, they call it Cockroach Theory. Kill one, but who knows what’s behind the walls?

Public pensions and retirement funds lost an estimated 14 billion…. but the real number is much higher. These folks were lucky to grab a chair when the music stopped. That 14 Billion alone makes China the biggest financial crime of the last 25yrs. There is no way to tell how many private investors were hit, but their stories are heartbreaking.

As Carson Block explains, “China is fundamentally a broken or a f$cked up system. The people who get to the top, get to the top by breaking rules. The little people who want to play by the rules get pushed to the bottom.” As explained earlier, there really is no legal system of any merit in China. A bad guy can always buy his way out of a problem. With no rules or repercussions, of course, our guys on Wall St would do the same thing.

It’s also why the reliability of the legal system in the USA is sooooooooooo important, and why our push for culpability with FBI/DOJ/CIA/State Dept is necessary. If we don’t fix it, and restore order, we become China.

It’s not just these 400 companies either, and this 50 billion (estimated) dollars, we know there is so much more fraud in China.

The credit buildup in China is nothing like we’ve ever seen before, their crash will hit everything. Over 40 Trillion in printed Yuan has been added to the system since 2008 (subject for another article).

Take for example, Alibaba. I joined Alibaba in 2004 as a member. When they went public on the NYSE, my jaw hit the floor. Why were they allowed to trade on the NYSE? In 2016, the SEC started an investigation into Alibaba’s accounting practices……. and Jack Ma is gone from the board….allegedly signed over all his interest and shares…. and not in jail. (Jack Ma’s downfall is the subject of another article)

Today, Roth Capital still has investor conferences with big name entertainment. Rodman and Renshaw were fined and lost their license, but emerged under a new name. The game continues. Remember, over 100 Chinese firms trade on the NYSE, with a market cap over 1.1 TRILLION dollars.

Concerning sidenote: —– Jay Clayton, a lawyer who worked on Alibaba’s IPO, was appointed as head of the SEC by President Trump. It’s interesting how a few guys brought this scandal to the surface. When President Trump started talking about China, it all started to come out. And we sure would like to dig into those 400 companies, most of which were based in Nevada, to find any possible connections to Harry Reid.

And look at Retired General Wesley Clark at the end of this movie. He’s shamed in this movie, barely “able to walk the streets” for his involvement. Yet, he still sits on the boards of 18 publicly held companies.

Here’s the whole movie, The China Hustle, with Spanish subtitles, but the movie is in English. Have fun!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQGpdgV_ifI

I told ya’ it was good!

Dear KMAG: 20190913 Open Topic

Happy Friday! Are we ready for a weekend? Settle into the Q Treehouse and let’s catch up. Let’s see what our buddies are doing down the street and across the world. Yes, it is Friday the 13th, but bad karma can’t touch us. In fact, this Friday afternoon would be a lovely time for a big info drop from the OIG, especially since it’s the 13th.

We welcome you to the Q Tree, WQTH! Here, you can say what you want, comment on what other people said, and so on. Free Speech is practiced here. ENJOY IT. Use it or lose it. Please, keep it SOMEWHAT civil because most of the people here are our friends. They tried to FORCE fake Orwellian civility on us. In response, we CHOOSE true civility to defend our precious FREEDOM from THEM.

Please also consider the Important Guidelines, outlined here in the January 1st open thread. Let’s not give the odious Internet Censors a reason to shut down this precious haven.

You may have noticed the sun has shifted and the days are getting shorter. Time to get out of our Treehouse for a while and still enjoy the outdoors while we prepare for winter. When we were little, we could watch a caterpillar for hours…….. and in the grand scheme of life, probably more important than our latest text message. Yet, it’s mid-September and time to take that last dip in the lake…….

…… before we stock the pantry, recaulk the exterior doors, and clean gutters. Don’t forget to clean out the birdhouses and bird baths for winter. Might be nice to make a little treehouse, a smaller version of our own, for our fine feathered friends.

Never let the music die, and look for the music in the most unexpected places.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bv_Mbssc86s

As we discuss topics of the day, never forget Wheatie’s Rules.

  1. No food fights.
  2. No running with scissors.
  3. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.

Our rules began with the civility of the Old Treehouse, later to become the Wolverinian Empire, and one might say that we have RESTORED THE OLD REPUBLIC – the early high-interaction model of the Treehouse – except of course that Q discussion is not only allowed but encouraged, and speech is considerably freer in other ways. Please feel free to argue and disagree with the board owner, as nicely as possible.

SPEAK THE FIVE WORDS BOLDLY TO OUR PRESIDENT, “I AM PRAYING FOR YOU!


When you’re finished with chores and taken a walk in the forest, come on back to the Q Treehouse. We’ll still be here.

Time to Talk About Mike Flynn

There are so many questions and bombshells found within this document, I thought it best to turn it over to the group for a thorough vetting.

Can’t wait to read your comments.