The Humble Shepherd, Hidden Master, Warrior Monk, Noble Samurai… How do we relate to them and to the Archetype of the Magician?
It’s a Dog Eat Dog World
The sheep dog, the Border collie, Australian shepherd, Hungarian Puli…these are the breeds of herding dogs. And if you ever speak to someone who has owned such a breed, they will tell you that left to their own devices these dogs will herd anything. Stuffed animals, guests at a dinner party. A herding dog’s instinct is so strong, that if it sees its environment in disarray it feels uncomfortable, anxious:
“Something’s just not right…I have to bring order to this chaos…these people are all over the place!” Actually, that’s a little sophisticated for a dog. “I’ll put things right…I’ll sort it out…I’ll set ‘em straight!” That’s more like it.
These types of dogs somehow just cannot just relax and…
Bingham Junction development celebrates removal from Superfund list
By Amy Joi O’Donoghue and Nkoyo Iyamba | Posted Apr 20th, 2015 @ 7:23pm
6PM: Bingham Junction development celebrates removal from Superfund list
MIDVALE — Once rife with contaminants like lead and arsenic and plagued by a toxic reputation that derailed neighboring home sales, a sprawling 446-acre site now supports a $300 million tax base and is being heralded as a national model for cleanup and site redevelopment.
The Midvale slag site, first named to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Superfund list in 1991, was removed from the list earlier this month — a milestone celebrated in a ceremony Monday featuring a tour of the mixed-use development that occupies the land.
“This is a day of miracles,” Midvale Mayor JoAnn Seghini said.
Seghini recalled a time in 1986 when the area was dominated by contamination and the time clock of “to do’s” put completion of the cleanup 80 years into the future.
Instead, just three decades later, the site is teeming with robust economic activity, jumping from an appraised value of just $2,500 to more than $200 million.
“Midvale is an example of what a Superfund site can achieve and a national example of what a community can achieve,” said Shaun McGrath, the regional administrator for the EPA that covers Utah and several other Western states.
Now called Bingham Junction, the land once sported a smelter that operated from 1871 to 1958 and an ore processing mill that left behind 14 million cubic yards of contaminated tailings. More than 2,000 jobs are now part of the thriving commercial development that has earned the city the Environmental Achievement Award for Excellence in Site Reuse.
The cleanup was massive.
In 1984, studies revealed that groundwater and soils were contaminated with heavy metals that were a legacy from processing the ore that came out of Bingham Canyon.
Midvale is an example of what a Superfund site can achieve and a national example of what a community can achieve.
–Shaun McGrath, EPA
Ultimately, the tailings at the adjacent Sharon Steel site were capped and extensive remediation was carried out throughout the entire site, the heavy metals buried and held in place under layers of protective soils to prevent disturbance.
By 1999, the site became a Superfund redevelopment initiative as part of a pilot project for the EPA in the Western U.S. and was featured as a case study for the agency in 2011 and 2012 as an example for reuse of contaminated lands.
Fran Costanzi, who was the EPA’s initial Superfund project manager for the site, said the contrast today is startling: large mounds of slag and dilapidated buildings are just a memory, and shiny new buildings are sprouting in their place.
“It’s fabulous,” Costanzi said.
Dave Allison serves as the Utah Department of Environmental Quality’s community involvement coordinator, acting as a liaison between the community and the government as cleanup has progressed throughout the years.
Midvale’s slag site is unique in that it was so large and located in the middle of a metropolitan area experiencing rampant growth, he said.
Shaun McGrath regional administrator of the EPA, presents Midvale Mayor JoAnn Seghini an award after announcing that the Midvale slag superfund site was officially removed from the U.S. Superfund list at a ceremony Monday, April 20, 2015, at FLSmidth in Midvale. (Photo: Scott G Winterton, Deseret News)
“The site was going to be cleaned up, but it was the vision the partners had to develop this area that is remarkable,” Allison said. “To see it and then see what it has become, it’s incredible. It is just what is supposed to happen.”
Despite the celebration, some nearby residents think there might still be contamination in the area. Julie Hansen, who has lived in the area for over 40 years, is one of the skeptics.
“They had a playground � and they tore it down because they said it was contaminated,” Hansen said. “Those condos over there could be sitting on some contamination.”
Other longtime residents, like James and Julie Hall, are lukewarm about the improvements in the area.
“They’ve improved the area, in my opinion, but underneath the improvement the slag still exists,” James Hall said.
But Amanda Smith, with the Utah Department of Environmental Quality, was quick to add reassurance to the new non-Superfund label.
“It’s far from a Band-Aid. The site is actually cleaned up � it’s actually safe to be here,” Smith said.
MontanaGuy · 14 minutes ago
The problem is not regulation, it is that there are so many different agencies that attempt to regulate (State and Federal). One says turn left, the other says turn right and the third says stay where you are. Also, the rules are cryptic and obviously written by a legislator that does not understand how the business works and what is feasible. I recently attended WEFTEC, a water quality conference in New Orleans that occupied the entire conference center. If one were to walk all of the exhibition hall, you would have walked 10 miles. The point is that while there is a lot of money tied up in industry, there is just as much profit to be made in regulation. Only difference is that industry builds wealth, regulation leaches wealth.
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massman · 15 minutes ago
This is good news, probably. However, with the current administrations attempts to weaken the EPA one must wonder if political interference has had a hand in these decisions before accepting this news as good news at face value. This sort of thing does have precedence. In a 2007 study (released in 2008) the Union of Concerned Scientist documented political interference at the EPA, and a lot of news articles have raised similar concerns with the current administration, starting with the naming of a long-time foe of the EPA as the EPA chief. He (Mr. Pruitt) later resigned under pressure from multiple investigations, many of them involve ethics. It was so bad that in April of 2018 Bloomberg published and article titled “A Guide to the Scott Pruitt Investigations” and found the need to update the article in July.
Andyjaggy · 4 minutes ago
Privatize the profits, socialize the costs. These companies make a killing on extraction, and then leave the public to foot the bill on the cleanup.
African slaves were first brought into Utah in 1847 by Mormon Pioneers. At the time, slavery was illegal in Mexico, but became de facto law, based on Mormon acceptance of slavery.[2] Several prominent Mormon leaders had slaves, including Charles C. Rich, Abraham O. Smoot and William H. Hooper.[3] Also, they had begun to acquire Indian slaves, through purchase or through wars. At the end of the Mexican-American War, Utah, became a part of the United States, and the issue of slavery in the new territories became a highly political subject. Finally, members of Congress passed the Compromise of 1850, which allowed the Territories of Utah and New Mexico to choose by popular sovereignty whether to make slavery legal in those territories. Still, no law was made on slavery. At the end of 1851, Don Pedro Leon Lujan was charged with trading with Indians without a license, including Indians slaves. The trial was in progress and the ambiguous status of slavery had become an issue in the trial.
On January 5, 1852, Brigham Young, Territorial Governor of Utah, addressed the joint session of the Utah Territory legislature. He discussed the ongoing trial of Don Pedro Leon Lujan and the importance of explicitly indicating the true policy for slavery in Utah.[4]:108 He argued that owning slaves was a way to improve the condition of the Africans, because it would teach them how to live a useful life. He said it would give them a platform to build off of and allow them to build as far as the Curse of Hamwould allow them to progress. He argued that service was necessary and honorable, and important for all societies. However he urged moderation, not to treat Africans as beasts of the field, nor to elevate them to equality with the whites, which was against God’s will.[4]:109 He argued slavery was a good balance in building on the foundation of how God wanted the African race to progress, while observing the law of natural affection which would lead whites to favor other whites. He said that this was the principle of true liberty according to the designs of God.[4]:110
With these directions, the Utah legislature then drafted a bill entitled “An Act in Relation to African Slavery”. All of the legislature was Mormon and regarded Young as a prophet.
On January 23, 1852, Young followed up with another speech to the Joint Session of the Legislature advocating slavery. He first argued that they must support slavery on religious grounds, stating that “inasmuch as we believe in the ordinances of God, in the Priesthood and order and decrees of God, we must believe in slavery”.[5]:26 He argued that the blacks had the Curse of Ham placed on them which made them servants of servants and that he was not authorized to remove it.[5]:27 He argued that blacks needed to serve masters because they are not capable of ruling themselves, and that when treated right, blacks were much better off as slaves than if they were free.[5]:28 He also suggested that the name of the act be changed it to “An Act in Relation to Manual Service” to emphasize that slaves should be treated better. It was later changed to just “An Act in Relation to Service”.[6]
Many scholars have hypothesized why Young supported slavery. John Smith suggested that with New Mexico leaning toward entering the Union as a free state, Young may have felt it would be easier to enter the Union as a slave state in order to preserve the balance of power in Congress. He also pointed out that several Mormons owned slaves, partially because the Mormons had actively proselyted in the southern United States prior to their arrival in Utah, including several prominent Mormons (including apostlesCharles C. Rich and Abraham Smoot). He also said Young may have felt that white slave owners from the South would be more likely to convert to Mormonism and migrate to Utah if their slaves were treated as property.[3]
An Act in Relation to Service was passed on Feb 4, 1852. The act had a few special provisions unique to slavery in Utah. Masters were required by law to correct and punish their slaves, which particularly worried Republicans in Congress.[7] Slaves brought into the Territory had to come “of their own free will and choice”; and they could not be sold or taken from the Territory against their will. Though a fixed period of servitude was not prescribed for Negroes, the law provided “that no contract shall bind the heirs of the servant … for a longer period than will satisfy the debt due his [master].” Several unique provisions were included which terminated the owner’s contract in the event that the master had sexual intercourse with a servant “of the African race,” neglected to feed, clothe, shelter, or otherwise abused the servant, or attempted to take him from the Territory against his will. Some schooling was also required for slaves between the ages of six and twenty.
Section Four of the statute prohibited sexual relations or miscegenation between whites and blacks. The section read in part, “if any white person shall be guilty of sexual intercourse with any of the African race, they shall be subject, on conviction thereof to a fine of not exceeding one thousand dollars, nor less than five hundred, to the use of the Territory, and imprisonment, not exceeding three years.”
The day after the act passed, Brigham Young gave the explanation of the Curse of Cain for slavery. He also taught that blacks should have no part in the government, including the right to vote. (Blacks had previously been barred from voting.) He warned against interracial marriages and treating blacks as equals. He also declared following the passage of the statute, “I am as much opposed to the principle of slavery as any man in the present acceptation or usage of the term. It is abused. I am opposed to abusing that which God decreed, to take a blessing and make a curse of it. It is a great blessing to the seed of Adam to have the seed of Cain as servants, but those they serve should use them with all the heart and feeling, as they would use their own children and their compassion should reach over them and round about them, and treat them as kindly, and with that human feeling necessary to be shown to mortal beings of the human species. Under these circumstances their blessings in life are greater in portion than those that have to provide the bread and dinner for them.”[5]:45
Act for the relief of Indian Slaves and Prisoners[edit]
When Young called for an act on slavery, he referenced both African and Indian slavery. After the name of the bill changed from “An Act in Relation to African Slavery”, it lost all mention of race, except in the section on sexual conduct, and technically included Indian slavery. However, in the following month the legislature passed a similar law specific to Indian slavery, with increased educational requirements for Indian slaves over African slaves. The requirement for ownership was also considerable less, with Indian slaves only having to be in possession of white person. Utah is unique in that it had an active enslavement of both Africans and Indians.
The slavery portion of the act was repealed on June 19, 1862, when Congress prohibited slavery in all US territories. The anti-miscegenation portion remained in effect until 1963.[citation needed]
This article treats the topic of slavery as it occurred in the borders of what is now the state of Utah. Under Spanish and Mexican rule, Utah was a major source of illegal slave raids by Mexican, Ute and Navajoslave traders, particularly on Paiute tribes. When Mormon pioneers entered Utah, they introduced African slavery and provided a local market for Indian slavery. After the Mexican–American War, Utah became part of the United States and slavery was officially legalized in Utah Territory on February 4, 1852 with the passing of the Act in Relation to Service. It was repealed on June 19, 1862 when Congress prohibited slavery in all US territories.
From 1824–1848, Utah was part of Alta California Territory in Mexico. Mexican trading parties would often travel the Old Spanish Trail, which went through modern day Utah, and buy Indian slaves to sell in the neighboring territory of Santa Fe de Nuevo Mexico or other places in Alta California. Mexicans, Utes and Navajos would raid Paiute and sometimes Ute villages for slaves. Slavery had been made illegal in Santa Fe de Nuevo Mexico in 1812 and in Alta California Territory in 1824, but lax enforcement and high profits kept it going.[1] Boys would sell for $100 and girls between $150 and $200. Indigenous girls could demand a higher price because they had a reputation for making the best house servants.[2] In addition, Mexican laws allowed for an aggressive debt bondage in the form of the peonage system.[3]
Shortly after, the Mormon Pioneers arrived in Salt Lake Valley, they began expanding into Indian territory, which often resulted in conflict. After expanding into Utah Valley, Brigham Young issued the extermination order against the Timpanogos, resulting in the Battle at Fort Utah, where many Timpanogos women and children were taken into slavery. Some were able to escape, but many died in slavery.[4] After expanding into Parowan, Mormons attacked a group of Indians, killing around 25 men and taking the women and children as slaves.[5]:274 News of the enslavement reached the US Government, who appointed Edward Cooper as Indian Agent in September 1850.[6] Edward Cooper made the issue of Indian slavery one of his first efforts.[7]
A statue of Chief Walkara who was a licensed slave trader in Utah.
At the encouragement of Mormon leaders, the Mormon pioneers started participating in the Indian slave trade.[8][9] In 1851, Apostle George A. Smith gave Chief Peteetneetand Walkara talking papers that certified “it is my desire that they should be treated as friends, and as they wish to Trade horses, Buckskins and Piede children, we hope them success and prosperity and good bargains.”[10] Brigham Young encouraged the saints to “buy up the Lamanite children as fast as they could”.[11] (Lamanite is a Mormon term for Native Americans.)
However, the Mormons strongly opposed the New Mexican slave trade.[3] In November 1851, Don Pedro Leon Lujan, a New Mexican slave trader who had been operating in Utah with a New Mexico license, asked Young as the newly appointed governor of Utah for a license to trade with the Indians, including slaves. Young refused to given Lujan a license to conduct any trade with the Indians. On the way home to New Mexico, Lujan’s party was attacked by Ute Indians who stole his horses. Lujan retaliated by kidnapping some of their children to sell in New Mexico. He and his party were caught in Manti and charged with violating the Nonintercourse Act, which prohibited trading with the Indians without a valid license.[12] His property was seized and the children were sold into slavery to families in Manti. He contested, claiming it was hypocritical to not allow him to have slaves, but allow the Mormon families to have slaves.[13]
Many of Walker’s band were upset by the interruption with the Mexican slave trade. In one graphic incident, Ute Indian Chief Arrapine, a brother of Chief Walkara, insisted that because the Mormons had stopped the Mexicans from buying these children, the Mormons were obligated to purchase them. In his book, Forty Years Among the Indians, Daniel Jones wrote, “[s]everal of us were present when he took one of these children by the heels and dashed its brains out on the hard ground, after which he threw the body towards us, telling us we had no hearts, or we would have bought it and saved its life.”[2]
A month after legalizing slavery with the Act in Relation to Service, Utah passed the Act for the relief of Indian Slaves and Prisoners, which officially legalized Indian Slavery in Utah. The bill provided several protections for the Indian slaves, including a requirement to educate and clothe the Indians, and a limit of twenty years, which was greater than the New Mexican limit of ten years.
Mormons continued taking children from their families long after the slave traders left and even began to actively solicit children from Paiute parents. They also began selling Indian slaves to each other.[14]:56 By 1853, each of the hundred households in Parowan had one or more Paiute children.[14]:57 Indian slaves were used for both domestic and manual labor.[15]:240 In 1857, Representative Justin Smith Morrill estimated that there were 400 Indian slaves in Utah.[9] Richard Kitchen has identified at least 400 Indian slaves taken into Mormon homes, but estimates even more went unrecorded because of the high mortality rate of Indian slaves. Many of them tried to escape.[5]
In 1847, the Mormon pioneers arrived with African slaves, which was the first time African slavery was in the area.[1] Mormons arrived in the middle of the Mexican–American War and ignored the Mexican ban on slavery. Instead, slavery was recognized by custom, naturally coming from the Mormon view on blacks.[16] Like many Christians of the day, Mormons believed in the Curse of Cain and Curse of Ham. Mormon leaders taught that God decreed that blacks should be “servants of servants” and that governments did not have the power to reverse God’s decree.[17] Three slaves arrived in the first company of pioneers, but more arrived in later companies.[18]
After Utah territory passed to American rule following the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, the issue of slavery in the newly acquired territories became a major issue, with the Whigs wanting to keep Mexico’s ban on slavery and the Democrats wanting to introduce slavery. During discussions, Utah lobbyist John Milton Bernhisel hid Utah slavery from members of Congress.[19] With the Compromise of 1850, Utah was granted the right to decide by popular sovereignty whether it wanted to allow slavery. By 1850, there were around 100 blacks, the majority of whom were slaves.[20] It is difficult to know the exact numbers, because Utah continued to hide slaves. The 1850 census of Utah territory was taken without the certification of Territorial Secretary Broughton Harris, who complained that the census was done in his absence and that it had several irregularities.[21] The census only reported 26 slaves, with a note that all of them were heading to California, making it seem like there would not be any slaves in Utah. It did not include any of the slaves held in Bountiful, Utah.[22]
On February 4, 1852, Utah passed the Act in Relation to Service, which officially legalized slavery in Utah territory. Like in other slave states, slaves tried to escape, were sold or donated,[23] wanted their freedoms and were often treated similar to the slaves in other states.[24] However, there were several unique characteristics to Utah slavery laws. The slave could be released for abuse or sexual relationships. Masters were required to clothe, educate and punish their slaves.[25]
When the Civil War broke out, Utah sided with the North and many slave owners returned to the South because they were thought they were more likely to keep their slaves.[26] On June 19, 1862 Congress prohibited slavery in all US territories.
The Curse of Cain was often conflated with the Curse of Ham. According to the Bible, Ham discovered his father Noah drunk and naked in his tent, but instead of honoring his father by covering his nakedness, he ran and told his brothers about it. Because of this, Noah cursed Ham’s son, Canaan by saying that he was to be “a servant of servants”. (Genesis 9:20-27) One interpretation of this passage states that Ham married a descendant of Cain, who was black, so that the descendants of Canaan were both marked with black skin and cursed to be servants of servants. While there is no indication in the Bible of Ham’s wife descending from Cain, this interpretation was used to justify slavery and it was particularly popular in America during the Atlantic slave trade.[26][27]
Modern scholars now believe that the Canaanites are of Semitic origin, and therefore unrelated to black Africans.
Mormonism began during the height of Protestant acceptance of the curse of Cain doctrine in America, as well as the even more popular curse of Ham doctrine. Like many Americans,[26][27]Mormons of the 19th century commonly assumed that black Africans had Cain’s “mark” of black skin,[28] and Ham’s curse to be servants of servants.[29] While Joseph Smith indicated his belief in the curse of Ham theory in a parenthetical reference as early as 1831,[30] however, the reference is not to the “curse or mark of Cain” as in the Pearl of Great Price, it is attributed to an act of genocide upon “the people of Shum” and includes the statement that after this act the descendent of Cain were shunned: “And Enoch also beheld the residue of the people which were the sons of Adam; and they were a mixture of all the seed of Adam save it was the seed of Cain, for the seed of Cain were black, and had not place among them.” (Moses 7:22)
The Old Testament student manual, which is published by the Church and is the manual currently used to teach the Old Testament in LDS Institutes, teaches that Ham’s wife was a descendant of Cain:
Therefore, although Ham himself had the right to the priesthood, Canaan, his son, did not. Ham had married Egyptus, a descendant of Cain (Abraham 1:21–24), and so his sons were denied the priesthood.[33]
There is evidence that Joseph Smith did not consider the ban on black men to the priesthood to be relevant in modern times, since he himself (and other church leaders close to him) ordained black men into it,[34]notably Elijah Abel and Walker Lewis.
After the death of Joseph Smith, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) was the largest of several organizations claiming succession from Smith’s church. Brigham Young (the second President of the Church) accepted the idea that people of African ancestry were generally under the curse of Cain, and in 1852, he stated that people of black African descent were not eligible to hold the church’s priesthood.[35] Young taught that in the war in heaven, both Cain and Abel were leaders. The spirits of black people fought under Cain and were assigned to be Cain’s descendant. Those that fought under Abel were assigned to be Abel’s descendants. Cain hoped that by killing his brother, the spirits that were under him would have an advantage over the spirits under Abel. However, God cursed Cain and his descendants to not have the priesthood until all of Abel’s descendants had the priesthood. The spirits of black people understood this and stood with Cain and accepted the punishment.[36][37] The ban on the priesthood affected black members differently than it did in other churches because the LDS Church has a lay priesthood in which virtually all worthy male members become priesthood holders.
Several of his successors defended it as being a result of the curse of Cain, though some disagreed. Sterling M. McMurrin reported that, in 1954, church president David O. McKay said: “There is not now, and there never has been a doctrine in this church that the negroes are under a divine curse. There is no doctrine in the church of any kind pertaining to the negro. We believe that we have a scriptural precedent for withholding the priesthood from the negro. It is a practice, not a doctrine, and the practice someday will be changed. And that’s all there is to it.”[38]
In 1978, LDS Church president Spencer W. Kimball reported receiving a revelation from God allowing all worthy male members of the church to receive the priesthood without regard to race or color.[39][40] The news was greeted with joy and relief by Mormons. Although the church had previously been criticized for its policy during the civil rights movement, the change seems to have been prompted by problems facing mixed-race converts in Brazil.[41]
There has neither been an official or an explicit church repudiation of its policy, nor has there been an admission that it was a mistake. Many black church members think that giving an apology would be a “detriment” to church work and a catalyst for further racial misunderstanding. African-American church member Bryan E. Powell says: “There is no pleasure in old news, and this news is old.” Gladys Newkirk agrees, stating: “I’ve never experienced any problems in this church. I don’t need an apology …. We’re the result of an apology.”[42] Many Black Mormons say that they are willing to look beyond the former teachings and cleave to the doctrines of the church, in part because of its powerful, detailed teachings on life after death.[43]
The LDS Church has issued an official statement about past practices and theories regarding skin color, stating: “[t]oday, the Church disavows the theories advanced in the past that black skin is a sign of divine disfavor or curse, … Church leaders today unequivocally condemn all racism, past and present, in any form.”[44]
When Utah was considering slavery, Brigham Young told the Utah Territorial Legislature that the curse of Cain required slavery. He argued that until all of the descendants of Abel have access to the priesthood, all of the descendants of Cain should remain in servitude.[45]:28 He argued that because they did not have the right to govern the affairs of the Church due to the priesthood ban, they also shouldn’t have the right to govern the affairs of the state, including the right to vote.[45]:47 He warned that if they made the children of Cain equal to them, they would be cursed.[45]:48 He also argued that if someone married a descendant of Cain, that they would also have the same curse.[45]:48
6PM: Family searches for graves of slave ancestors in northern Utah
Mike Anderson, KSL TV
WELLSVILLE, Cache County — The descendants of some Utah pioneers who were brought to the state as slaves honored their ancestors by finding and marking their graves Thursday in Cache County.
On the southeast corner of the Wellsville City Cemetery is a patch of grass that looks mostly empty. It’s where Judee Williams and her family believe some of their slave ancestors were buried.
“We know that they were buried in a segregated part of the cemetery,” Williams said. “These poor babies. They’ve laid there without their names for so long. We’re going to give them their name.”
Williams said her great, great grandfather, Nathan Bankhead, helped settle the town but eventually left for California after being freed. He did, however, have three children who died young, as well as a fellow slave, Louis Bankhead. Williams believed all four were buried near each other.
Wellsville City put a small monument in the area in May 2017. However, Williams felt it was important to find the actual graves and put down something more specific.
“This has haunted me for a year,” Williams said. “I just haven’t been able to let it go.”
Not knowing what she would find, she came to Wellsville from her home in Northern California, and hired an underground radar company to do a search of the area. Williams’ cousin, Marsha Boyd, brought her family up from Salt Lake City for the event.
“It would be nice to be able to come up here and say, ‘Yeah, this is where we started, this is where we were,’” Boyd said. “I have been told most of my life that no, we didn’t come as slaves — that we were free people — and we weren’t. We came as slaves, and the history needs to be taught right.”
Judee Williams (left) consults with a radar technician from Ground Penetrating Radar Systems, inc. on Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018. (Photo: KSL TV)
After several passes from the lawnmower-shaped radar machine, a technician was able to locate four graves close together; one large, and three small.
“I feel good. I think we did it,” Williams said, starting to tear up.
“I feel like I have found something that I never knew,” Boyd later added. “Something that was missing in my life, and I’m really happy about that.”
The family’s next step was to decide on markers for the graves, something they hope to have in place in time for their family reunion next Pioneer Day in 2019.
“This has been a long journey,” Williams said. “(It’s) been over a year that I’ve been trying to find our babies, and I’m so glad we did.”
6PM: Bingham Junction development celebrates removal from Superfund list
MIDVALE — Once rife with contaminants like lead and arsenic and plagued by a toxic reputation that derailed neighboring home sales, a sprawling 446-acre site now supports a $300 million tax base and is being heralded as a national model for cleanup and site redevelopment.
The Midvale slag site, first named to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Superfund list in 1991, was removed from the list earlier this month — a milestone celebrated in a ceremony Monday featuring a tour of the mixed-use development that occupies the land.
“This is a day of miracles,” Midvale Mayor JoAnn Seghini said.
Seghini recalled a time in 1986 when the area was dominated by contamination and the time clock of “to do’s” put completion of the cleanup 80 years into the future.
Instead, just three decades later, the site is teeming with robust economic activity, jumping from an appraised value of just $2,500 to more than $200 million.
“Midvale is an example of what a Superfund site can achieve and a national example of what a community can achieve,” said Shaun McGrath, the regional administrator for the EPA that covers Utah and several other Western states.
Now called Bingham Junction, the land once sported a smelter that operated from 1871 to 1958 and an ore processing mill that left behind 14 million cubic yards of contaminated tailings. More than 2,000 jobs are now part of the thriving commercial development that has earned the city the Environmental Achievement Award for Excellence in Site Reuse.
The cleanup was massive.
In 1984, studies revealed that groundwater and soils were contaminated with heavy metals that were a legacy from processing the ore that came out of Bingham Canyon.
Midvale is an example of what a Superfund site can achieve and a national example of what a community can achieve.
–Shaun McGrath, EPA
Ultimately, the tailings at the adjacent Sharon Steel site were capped and extensive remediation was carried out throughout the entire site, the heavy metals buried and held in place under layers of protective soils to prevent disturbance.
By 1999, the site became a Superfund redevelopment initiative as part of a pilot project for the EPA in the Western U.S. and was featured as a case study for the agency in 2011 and 2012 as an example for reuse of contaminated lands.
Fran Costanzi, who was the EPA’s initial Superfund project manager for the site, said the contrast today is startling: large mounds of slag and dilapidated buildings are just a memory, and shiny new buildings are sprouting in their place.
“It’s fabulous,” Costanzi said.
Dave Allison serves as the Utah Department of Environmental Quality’s community involvement coordinator, acting as a liaison between the community and the government as cleanup has progressed throughout the years.
Midvale’s slag site is unique in that it was so large and located in the middle of a metropolitan area experiencing rampant growth, he said.
Shaun McGrath regional administrator of the EPA, presents Midvale Mayor JoAnn Seghini an award after announcing that the Midvale slag superfund site was officially removed from the U.S. Superfund list at a ceremony Monday, April 20, 2015, at FLSmidth in Midvale. (Photo: Scott G Winterton, Deseret News)
“The site was going to be cleaned up, but it was the vision the partners had to develop this area that is remarkable,” Allison said. “To see it and then see what it has become, it’s incredible. It is just what is supposed to happen.”
Despite the celebration, some nearby residents think there might still be contamination in the area. Julie Hansen, who has lived in the area for over 40 years, is one of the skeptics.
“They had a playground � and they tore it down because they said it was contaminated,” Hansen said. “Those condos over there could be sitting on some contamination.”
Other longtime residents, like James and Julie Hall, are lukewarm about the improvements in the area.
“They’ve improved the area, in my opinion, but underneath the improvement the slag still exists,” James Hall said.
But Amanda Smith, with the Utah Department of Environmental Quality, was quick to add reassurance to the new non-Superfund label.
“It’s far from a Band-Aid. The site is actually cleaned up � it’s actually safe to be here,” Smith said.
SALT LAKE CITY — A man once charged with child sex abuse, only to have his case thrown out due to faulty evidence, is now suing Roosevelt City and its police department for $7.5 million.
Jerahmia Hardman, 30, of Roosevelt, filed a civil lawsuit in federal court in late September against Roosevelt City, the police department, and specifically officer Pete Butcher and detective Tracy Bird.
In 2014, Hardman was accused of sexually abusing a young girl. He was taken to the Roosevelt Police Department to be “interrogated” by Butcher and Bird, according to the lawsuit.
“The entire interrogation was riddled with lies and falsehoods about the allegations and the evidence that had already been collected. The lies and manipulation were intended to get Mr. Hardman to admit guilt,” the lawsuit states.
Hardman was later charged in Uintah County’s 8th District Court with aggravated sexual abuse of a child.
But it wasn’t until nearly two years later during court proceedings that police disclosed significant portions of the video-recorded interview with Hardman were missing, the lawsuit states.
“There was no plausible explanation for the missing portion of the video and the officers did not disclose to the court or the prosecutor that there were significant portions of the video missing until a motion was filed and they were compelled to do so. The missing portions of the video would have contained exculpatory evidence. The missing portion of the video would have shown officers manipulating the defendant’s statements into what they claimed to be an admission,” according to the lawsuit.
The lawsuit further contends the missing portions of video include the officers telling Hardman what to write in his confession and even telling him how certain words are spelled, the suit states. Attorneys for Hardman believe “the officers destroyed that portion of the video because it contained exculpatory evidence,” the lawsuit states.
Hardman, a friend of Hardman, and Hardman’s mother later met with Butcher for a recorded interview. During that interview, the mother stated she was skeptical the written admission came from her son.
In court, Hardman’s mother testified that her son cannot read or write beyond a rudimentary level, according to court documents, and he would not have been able to write some of the words contained in his purported admission on his own.
That interview with the friend and mother was never presented to the court, according to the lawsuit.
“By the time the interview was discovered, something had happened to the recording and it no longer existed,” the lawsuit states.
A former nurse has filed a civil lawsuit in federal court against the police detective who arrested him for investigation of raping a patient, only to have the charges thrown out of court.
In September of 2017, 8th District Judge Edwin Peterson wrote a lengthy ruling dismissing the case against Hardman. In his decision, the judge noted that not only was a long portion of the video missing, but possibly the most crucial part of interview.
“The fact that the purported written confession was not part of the recording is highly suspect, particularly in light of the evidence that the defendant cannot read or write at a competent level,” wrote Peterson, who further went on to say that the officers’ failure to inform the court in a timely manner that the alleged recorded confession was lost “is extraordinarily troubling.”
Hardman’s prolonged court proceedings lasted three years before the charges were eventually dismissed. During that time, he lost his job, was not allowed to have contact with the alleged victim for two years, and garnered heavy legal bills, according to the lawsuit.
Roosevelt city leaders have hired attorney Heather White to represent them in the case. In a prepared statement, White said the city has yet to be formally served with the complaint, but she was aware of the underlying facts. She said the missing video confession is not really missing.
“We have the video and always have. The end of the recording is garbled and then cuts out. Earlier downloads of the recording ended before the confession, which is presumably what the trial judge had when he issued his ruling in the criminal case. However, we were able to restore several minutes of the recording, in which Mr. Hardman confesses to touching his (victim).”
This isn’t the first time Butcher has been accused of falsifying evidence.
In 2016, Joshua Shumway filed a complaint in U.S. District Court against Butcher and the city. Shumway, a nurse, was charged with raping and threatening to kill a patient in 2013. But in 2015, the charges against Shumway were dismissed. While dismissing the case, the judge blasted Butcher in his 33-page ruling for the detective’s “superficial and insufficient” investigation.
In his lawsuit, Shumway said, “Butcher misled, fabricated and omitted information in order to obtain an arrest warrant directed to Josh Shumway.
“Officer Butcher’s probable cause affidavit, and his later testimony concerning it, contained false statements, exaggerations, and outright fabrications, and further omitted facts that were necessary to prevent statements contained therein from being misleading,” he continued.
The lawsuit was settled in August 2016. Butcher has since retired from the Roosevelt Police Department.
The Billionaire Pedophile Who Could Bring Down Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton
Billionaire sicko Jeffrey Epstein was long thought to be ammo against the Clintons—until a lurid new lawsuit accused Trump of raping one of Epstein’s girls himself.
Brandy Zadrozny
Photo Illustration by Brigette Supernova/The Daily Beast
Editor’s note: This article has been updated to reflect the withdrawal of Virginia Roberts Guiffre’s allegations against Alan Dershowitz and the striking of the allegations from the court record by a federal judge.
For Jeffrey Epstein and his famous friends, the Aughts were a simpler time, when the businessmen, academics, and celebrities who counted themselves among the playboy philanthropist’s inner circle could freely enjoy the fruits of his extreme wealth and connections.
Epstein’s little black book and flight logs read like a virtual Who’s Who: Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, Larry Summers, Kevin Spacey, Prince Andrew, and Naomi Campbell all hitched rides on Epstein’s private planes. Socialites and distinguished scientists went to visit Epstein’s island in St. Thomas, and cavorted at epic dinner parties at his palatial townhouse—then the largest privately owned residence in New York, as he liked to brag. There, they picked at elaborate meals catered by celebrity chefs like Rocco DiSpirito, marvelled at Epstein’s opulent decor, and noted the pack of very, very young model-types with whom Epstein always seemed to surround himself.
But a darker story was going on underneath the glamour. In 2008, Epstein was convicted of soliciting sex from an underage girl and quietly paid settlements to scores of alleged victims who said he serially molested them. But the girls kept coming out of the woodwork—in 2014, another young woman filed a lawsuit claiming that Epstein used her as a sex slave for his powerful friends—and that she’d been at parties on his private island with former President Clinton.
And just last week, yet another “Jane Doe” filed a suit in New York accusing Epstein and Donald Trump of raping her at a series of sex parties when she was only 13.
Trump has denied Jane Doe’s claims and his reps have said he barely knew Epstein—even though New York media in the ’90s regularly chronicled his comings-and-goings at Epstein’s Upper East Side palace, and even though Epstein had 14 private numbers for Trump and his family in his little black book. Meanwhile, Bill and Hillary Clinton have remained mum about their ties to the Palm Beach pedophile—despite evidence that shows Bill was one of the most famous and frequent passengers on Epstein’s “Lolita Express” and that Epstein donated money to the Clinton Foundation even after his conviction.
For months, talking heads have wondered whether Trump would use Epstein and his girls as a weapon against Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Now, with the latest federal lawsuit against Trump himself, it seems the notorious financier has become a serious liability for both campaigns.
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Less than a year before Florida police began investigating Jeffrey Epstein for the alleged rape and abuse of scores of young girls, the questionable billionaireresponded to a call on Edge—an online club where navel-gazing intellectuals and academics meet to pose questions to one another—for a “bit of wisdom, some rule of nature… that you’ve noticed in the universe that might as well be named after you.”
“Epstein’s First Law,” he wrote, “Know when you are winning.”
“Epstein’s Second Law: The key question is not what can I gain but what do I have to lose.”
What the 63-year-old Ralph Lauren lookalike had to lose was his perverted double life. According to law-enforcement officials and alleged victims, between the years 1998 and 2007—and possibly even earlier—he ran a particularly vile pyramid scheme that involved paying minors around $200 at a time to perform sexual massages nearly every day and then recruit even younger girls to do the same. (“The more you do, the more you are paid,” one said.) During these massages, girls as young as 13 told police they were instructed to get undressed. Epstein would masturbate or penetrate them, they said—with his finger, or a vibrator, or his allegedly egg-shaped penis.
By the time Epstein was arrested in 2008, police in Palm Beach County, Florida, had already spent months monitoring his movements, rifling through his trash, and interviewing potential victims and witnesses. Police reported to prosecutorsthat they had gathered enough evidence to charge the money manager with several felonies: lewd and lascivious molestation and four counts of unlawful sexual activity with a minor. Epstein’s freedom, his wealth, his little black book full of famous folk—including princes, presidents, and prime ministers—all were seemingly at stake.
So Epstein did what the mega-rich do in these situations: hired star attorneys Gerald Lefcourt and Alan Dershowitz, who defended their client vigorously, reportedly having witnesses followed and discrediting the alleged victims by offering their MySpace pages as evidence of supposed drug use and scandalous behavior.
Prosecutors said Epstein’s dream team made successful prosecution unlikely. “Our judgment in this case, based on the evidence known at the time, was that it was better to have a billionaire serve time in jail, register as a sex offender, and pay his victims restitution than risk a trial with a reduced likelihood of success,” U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta explained in a 2011 letter.
And so, despite a decade of alleged serial sexual abuse and rape of an unknowable number of girls, some as many as 100 times according to court filings, the notoriously secretive financier was offered a deal. For the alleged systematic victimization of young girls—most of whom were plucked by Epstein’s assistants from Palm Beach’s poorer neighborhoods and groomed to adore or acquiesce to him—he was slapped with a 2008 conviction on a single charge of soliciting a minor; and sentenced to an 18-month stay in a Palm Beach county jail—of which he served only 13 months and was allowed to leave six days out of every week for “work release.” He also agreed to a few dozen confidential, out-of-court payoffs to his accusers, the most recent of which was finalized in 2011.
Epstein’s “potential co-conspirators,” as the U.S. Attorney called them—women who allegedly procured girls for Epstein—also received immunity from prosecution as a condition of the 2007 agreement that enraged the local police force for its leniency. As of 2015, according to TheGuardian, two of these women had changed their names, and were operating businesses out of a building owned by Epstein’s brother, where it was alleged in court documents that Epstein had housed young women.
Though Epstein must register as a sex offender for life, and arguably suffer the world’s most revolting Google presence, he has seemingly retained his collection of elite academic and media friends as well as his fortune. Since his release in 2009, Epstein has gone about his business, running a mysterious money management firm (clients unknown, income unknown, investments and activities unknown) from his private 70-acre island in the U.S. Virgin Islands and spending time at his Uptown stone mansion. The palace was gifted to Epstein, some say, by its previous owner—Epstein’s guardian angel and the founder of The Limited Inc., Leslie Wexner.
From his plush perch, Epstein continues to dismiss any notions that he should be viewed as the child rapist that victims and Florida police say he is.
“I’m not a sexual predator, I’m an ‘offender,’” he told theNew York Postin 2011, shortly after a New York judge classified him as a level 3 offender, or “a threat to public safety.”
“It’s the difference between a murderer and a person who steals a bagel,” Epstein said.
But for the wealthy and famous in Epstein’s orbit, his conviction has meant suspicion by association.
In December 2014, just as the Palm Beach lawsuits were winding down, another alleged victim emerged and her claims were salacious: Epstein, she said, had loaned her out as an underage sex slave to his famous friends—including Britain’s Prince Andrew and Epstein defense attorney Dershowitz (both men denied the charges). Coming forward in Britain’s Daily Mail in 2011, Virginia Roberts Guiffre—called Jane Doe #3 in a related lawsuit (PDF)—claimed that Epstein and his “girlfriend,” alleged madame Ghislaine Maxwell, forced her to have sex with the pair’s powerful pals and gather intel that Epstein could later use. In court documents, Guiffre testified, “Epstein and Maxwell also told me that they wanted me to produce things for them in addition to performing sex on the men. They told me to pay attention to the details about what the men wanted so I could report back to them.”
Guiffre noted that Epstein appeared to be collecting information on Prince Andrew—particularly on his alleged foot fetish—and claimed, “Epstein also trafficked me for sexual purposes to other powerful men, including politicians and powerful business executives. Epstein required me to describe the sexual events I had with these men presumably so that he could potentially blackmail them. I am still very fearful of these men today.”
A judge threw out Guiffre’s motion in 2015, but Guiffre stands by her claims and is suing Ghislaine Maxwell, whom she claims acted as Epstein’s madam.
Meanwhile, the men named by Guiffre seem eager for her to go away. “It’s as if I’ve been waterboarded for 15 months,” Dershowitz told the Boston Globe after the settlement of a defamation case related to Guiffre’s claims. “This has taken a terrible toll on my family, on my friends…” Buckingham Palace has also denied the allegations against Prince Andrew, calling them “categorically untrue.”
UPDATE: This April, Giuffre’s lawyers withdrew her allegations against Dershowitz and said that it was a “mistake” to have filed the accusations in the first place. A federal judge later struck her allegations against Dershowitz from the court record. At Dershowitz’s request, Louis Freeh, the former head of the FBI, also conducted an independent investigation of her claims and published a statement noting, “Our investigation found no evidence to support the accusations of sexual misconduct against Professor Dershowitz.”
In her lawsuit, Guiffre had claimed that during trips to Epstein’s private island, she’d also encountered another very famous person: former President Bill Clinton. Guiffre alleges the former U.S. president visited Epstein’s “Orgy Island” when there were underage girls present, but added that she never had sex with him and never saw him have sex with any of the young women.
Still, it’s these sorts of allegations that have journalists and Clinton-haters circling. Just last month, pundits on MSNBC’s Morning Joewere speculating about Bill Clinton’s oft-discussed friendship with Epstein and whether it would be the go-to play for a Trump campaign looking to combat Hillary Clinton’s claims that Trump is bad for women.
Requests for comment to Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Clinton Foundation were not returned.
The former president, who flew on the “The Lolita Express”at least 26 times from 2001 to 2003, has never addressed his ties with Epstein, a onetime major Democratic donor, according to Federal Election Commission records, who also gave millions to the Clinton Foundation even after his arrest for abusing underage girls. “I invest in people—be it politics or science. It’s what I do,” Epstein has reportedly said to friends.
“There’s a 100 percent chance [Trump] is going there,” said former McCain strategist Steve Schmidt on Morning Joe, referring to Clinton’s friendship with the pervy moneyman.
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Still, Trump may not want to actually “go there” in light of the new federal lawsuit against him.
Just last week, Trump’s own connections to Epstein made headlines when a Jane Doe claimed that the presumptive Republican nominee and his financier pal raped her on several occasions when she was 13 years old.
The allegations are explosive. And the circumstances surrounding them are very, very strange.
According to the complaint, filed in a Manhattan federal court, one of Epstein’s assistants approached Jane Doe as she waited for a bus at the New York Port Authority terminal and offered the teenager money and contacts that could lead to a modeling contract if she came to a party at Epstein’s house. Jane Doe says she attended several parties at Epstein’s Upper East Side mansion, and supposedly had sexual contact with Donald Trump at four of them. The fourth and final time she attended a party with Trump, she alleges he tied her to a bed with pantyhose, raped her, then beat her and threatened to kill her and her family if she told a soul.
This is the second time the woman has brought a suit against Trump and Epstein. The first, which she filed herself this April in California using the name Katie Johnson, was dismissed for failure to bring a claim under the civil-rights law under which she had filed suit. Calls to the phone number listed on the original suit were never answered, with no way to leave a voicemail. The plaintiff’s reported address in Twentynine Palms was a one-bedroom, one-bath home belonging to 72-year-old David Stacey, who had died on Oct. 9, and public records show no evidence of a Katie Johnson living at the property. Neighbors told RadarOnline that squatters had overrun the home while Stacey was hospitalized, and a real-estate agent reported the home had been turned over to the bank by April.
“The allegations are not only categorically false, but disgusting at the highest level and clearly framed to solicit media attention or, perhaps, are simply politically motivated,” Trump told RadarOnline, responding to the original lawsuit. “There is absolutely no merit to these allegations. Period.”
The new complaint charges that Trump’s denial amounts to defamation. This time, Johnson also has a declaration from a woman who claims to be a corroborating witness, known in the suit as Tiffany Doe. According to her statement, Tiffany was 22 when she lured Johnson to Epstein’s home and witnessed Johnson’s alleged rape firsthand.
Johnson has a number of non-anonymous supporters, though it’s a cast of characters who do little to allay Trump’s assertion that her claim was brought solely to influence the election.
According to a lengthy article on the site Jezebel, some eight months before Johnson filed her California lawsuit against Epstein and Trump, a man named Al Taylor—who claimed to be the “PR person” for something called the Erotic Heritage Museum in Las Vegas—reached out to a reporter at Gawker to shop a video recording of Johnson and her rape story. Taylor, who identified himself to The Daily Beast as “a friend” to Johnson, claims to have met her at a party where she revealed her alleged childhood assault by Trump. In a video published in part on Jezebel, a woman claiming to be Katie Johnson appears—wearing a blond wig, her face pixelated and her voice disguised. In it, she details the allegations of rape.
When The Daily Beast asked Taylor for a copy of the video, Taylor suggested it was still for sale. “I heard it would be worth $1 million,” Taylor said, claiming the proceeds from the sale would go to Johnson’s protection.
“We’ve got her in hiding,” he said.
Taylor has coincidentally been the subject of Epstein-related news before. In 2011, Taylor, at first freelance producing for The Jerry Springer Show then working alone, claimed to have made a million-dollar deal with Casey Anthony for an interview after the Florida woman’s acquittal in the murder of her 2-year-old daughter. When the interview didn’t happen, Taylor retained the services of Spencer Kuvin, a Palm Beach lawyer who also represented three Epstein victims. Taylor says he met Kuvin during an attempt to interview his Epstein clients. They settled with Epstein out of court and declined to be interviewed by Taylor.
But Taylor wasn’t the only party working to get the tape and Katie Johnson’s story to the media. According to Jezebel, Steve Baer, described in National Review as “a conservative activist and major, if secretive, donor to the conservative movement,” lobbied their reporter to publish Johnson’s claims. Baer is also, according to Jezebel, the father of Chandler Smith, an Ohio woman who happens to be the co-founder of an organization called Vote Trump Get Dumped, a campaign that urges ladies to withhold sex from Trump supporters. “Until Trump is defeated, we don’t date, sleep with, or canoodle with Trump supporters,” the group’s manifesto reads.
When Johnson’s case was thrown out in California, Taylor says he began looking for an attorney to file a new case for his “friend.” They approached Brad Edwards, the lawyer who has represented a number of Epstein victims through settlements—and who is now representing Virginia Roberts Guiffre in her claim against Epstein’s former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell as well as four alleged victims in the case against the federal government.
“I will say I’ve never represented [Johnson] and I won’t be representing her,” Edwards told The Daily Beast.
Edwards couldn’t comment on the conversations he had with Johnson or her representatives, citing attorney-client privilege. Concerning Trump’s involvement in Epstein’s illicit affairs, Edwards said he hadn’t seen any evidence that would implicate the GOP nominee and described Trump as “extremely helpful and honest,” during questioning.
When Edwards declined to take the case, Taylor told the website GossipExtra they were shopping for representation. That’s how Johnson’s current attorney, Tom Meagher, says he found his client.
Meagher is a patent attorney in New Jersey who openly admits, “I’ve never taken on accusations like this,” but says he was drawn to Johnson’s story and believes her “100 percent.” In an effort to get media attention for Johnson’s case, Meagher attended a May fundraiser in Lawrenceville, New Jersey—thrown to pay off the debt incurred by Chris Christie’s failed presidential campaign, and one at which Donald Trump spoke. Described as “a protester” by a local reporter, Meagher confirms he was removed by security after holding up a sign that read: “Ask Trump About Katie Johnson.”
“I don’t have a view on the race,” Meagher now tells The Daily Beast. “I did before the matter, but now I’m apolitical so I can focus on my client.”
Concerning the timing of the lawsuit, Meagher says: “Of course, she does not want her rapist to be president.”
Despite several requests, The Daily Beast was not able to speak with Katie Johnson or Tiffany Doe. When asked whether any evidence of their claims existed outside of the Doe declarations, Taylor said Tiffany kept a journal of Epstein contacts. “She has all the goods,” Taylor said, but would not elaborate and said future names would only be released in response to a scandal on par with Donald Trump’s political ascent.
But Mike Fisten, a retired Miami-Dade homicide detective who worked as a private investigator in several Epstein-related cases, is skeptical about the new claims.
Fisten says Epstein had in effect two lives: “a business life and deviant pedphile life.” To find out which friends were involved in which life, Fisten carried a book with photos of Epstein’s contacts. In hundreds of interviews with hundreds of witnesses, he said no one has ever identified Trump as being involved in any kind of sexual activity with underage girls. In fact, Fisten recalls learning in the early 2000s that members of Trump’s private Palm Beach club, Mar-a-Lago, complained that Epstein was often accompanied by very young girls–“a different girl every week”—each of whom he would refer to as “his niece.” Fisten says he offered to look at Tiffany Doe’s book to vet her free of charge, but Taylor and Meagher declined.
Emails to the Trump Organization and the campaign for this story were not returned, but Trump’s attorney Alan Garten has repeatedly denied any relationship between his client and Epstein, other than Epstein’s Mar-a-Lago membership.
Still, it’s clear that Trump’s association with Epstein runs deeper than just pool days at Mar-a-Lago.
“I’ve known Jeff for 15 years,” Trump told New York Magazine in 2002. Calling him a “terrific guy,” Trump continued, “He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it—Jeffrey enjoys his social life.”
According to a 2003 profile inVanity Fair and New York gossip rags that covered the goings-on of Epstein and his famous friends in the late ’90s, Trump would attend dinner parties at the 71st Street mansion. In April 1999, The Mail spotted Trump among the guests at a dinner Epstein threw in honor of Prince Andrew. In 2000, they reported he attended a “hookers and pimps” Halloween party. New Yorkmagazine reported Trump’s attendance at a 2003 dinner party thrown in honor of Bill Clinton. Magician David Blaine entertained the “barely clad models” with card tricks, but Clinton never appeared.
“I often see Donald Trump and there are loads of models coming and going, mostly at night,” a neighbor told The Mail on Sunday in 2000.
Then there is the black book, in which Epstein lists 14 phone numbers for Trump, including ones for his future wife Melania. Police evidence shows Trump has called Epstein, flown on Epstein’s plane, and eaten in Epstein’s Florida home.
Garten did not return a request for comment on these connections.
“Mr. Trump’s only connection with Mr. Epstein was that Mr. Epstein was one of thousands of people who has visited Mar-a-Lago,” the Trump attorney told a BuzzFeed reporter in 2015. “That’s it. Mr. Trump has NEVER been accused of having any involvement or even having any knowledge of any of Mr. Epstein’s conduct by anyone.”
That was true until last week. And while the media has been hesitant to report on Katie Johnson’s accusations, stories have emerged in recent days in outlets like the New York Daily News and Gothamist and more may be in the works: Johnson’s attorney says he taped an interview with ABC News and sources spoken to for this story said they had been contacted by other national news organizations.
Johnson will likely have her day in court, but—perhaps ironically, given Trump’s habit of “just asking” about conspiracy theories while claiming he’s not endorsing them—the veracity of her claims may not matter. True or not, they bring to light a number of disturbing questions about Epstein and his pre-Palm Beach days—ones both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump will likely have to address.
RON UNZ • SEPTEMBER 24, 2018 • 1,100 WORDS • 352 COMMENTS
Jonathan Greenblatt, National Director and CEO of the Anti-Defamation League since 2015. Credit: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0
I’ve recently taken a bit of a break after three long months of writing in my American Pravda series, during which I finally got around to publishing many of the very surprising discoveries I had made over the last fifteen-odd years. That total came to more than 90,000 words of text, and required me to read or (mostly) reread some 40-50 books, so I was quite exhausted by the end of the cycle.
However, the results were quite encouraging, with my small series of articles generating nearly half a million pageviews of readership over that short period, while helping to drive our small webzine to record-setting traffic. Even more remarkably, those articles provoked nearly 13,000 comments, totalling an astonishing 1.8 million words of text. Indeed, the three most heavily-commented articles in our webzine’s history came from that group, as did five of our seven most widely-read pieces from the last six months.
Furthermore, several of these articles appear to have very strong “legs” and are still attracting enough readership to remain on the front page many weeks after they were first released, suggesting that they may end up accumulating remarkable aggregate traffic across the coming months and years.
Please go to The Unz Review to read the entire article.
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Paul Craig Roberts: Jonathan Greenblatt, Anti-Defamation League, Earns Almost $700,000 a Year and Is Overpaid by 57%
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is the Zionist secret police, an agent of a foreign power (Zionist Israel) that specializes in censoring and digitally assassinating anyone who dares to address Zionist penetration of all US communications and computing systems; Zionist looting of the US Treasury via their US citizen agents (neoconservatives including Dick Cheney and John Bolton); Zionist genocide against the Palestinians’ and Zionists acts of war including false flag terrorist events that have cost the USA over $7 trillion so far, with nothing to show for it expect profit to the Zionist leaders of Israel.
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Evidence is being presented here to allow readers to come to their own conclusion about the ADL and B’nai B’rith. Henry Makow suggests that “the interests of the worldwide Jewish Community the B’nai Brith is in fact a Masonic Order that represents British Freemasonry and shifts blame for its Luciferian world government agenda onto Jews in general. Thus, while pretending to fight anti-Semitism, it actually exacerbates it and puts Jews in jeopardy.”
The evidence doesn’t seem to correspond with the evidence Henry Makow presents.
“The Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith is a sort of American Jewish secret police which maintains files on some 12,000 organizations and individuals, liaisons with many police departments, and has an annual budget of $40 million. Its contributors’ list “is like a rogue’s gallery of the [Jewish] criminal underworld” (Piper (1997)). Since the 1930s the ADL “has systematically defamed, libeled and smeared anybody who gained public prominence as an anti-Communist” (Editorial, Resister, v 3 #1&2: 5; Otero (1988): 642). Its long-range goal is “to make ‘hate’ a federal crime” (ibid) — except, of course, for the kinds of hate it approves of. Several years ago it was convicted in San Francisco of various crimes in conjunction with its spying activities, but received only the lightest of penalties and continues its operations apparently unabated. It is currently the defendant in a lawsuit over its spying operations brought by former congressman Pete McClosky.”
Of the media products that suggest prior knowledge of the 9/11 attacks, the Iron Man cartoon that aired on October 22, 1994, must be at the top of the list because the 17-minute television cartoon depicts a plane and missiles hitting the Twin Towers and a plane smashing into the Pentagon in the first minute. The 52-second video clip (above) from the episode entitled “The Grim Reaper Wears a Teflon Coat” shows these depictions.
Because this program clearly suggests prior knowledge of the 9/11 plot to attack the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the first question to be asked is, who produced this program?
The producers of “The Grim Reaper Wears a Teflon Coat” episode in which the Twin Towers and Pentagon are attacked are the Israeli Avi Arad and Stan Lee, born Stanley Martin Lieber in New York City.
The strike on the Pentagon as depicted in the cartoon by Avi Arad and Stan Lee
Avi Arad is an Israeli producer who has worked closely with Arnon Milchan, the senior Israeli agent in Hollywood who smuggled nuclear triggers for Israel’s nuclear arsenal in the 1980s. Here Arad and Milchan are seen at the premiere of their film Daredevil in February 2003. Milchan also made a film depicting an airplane attack on a high-rise tower in New York.
RUMOR: PEOPLE ARE SO PISSED AT FORD’S FAKERY THAT 8 DEMS FLIPPED. RUMOR: VOTE TO HAPPEN ON SCHEDULE TOMORROW.
RUMOR: THIS JUST IN: KAVANAUGH VOTE TOMORROW, ON SCHEDULE.
Nothing to corroborate it except comments on social media referring to a Reuters report I can’t find.
My hope: The s*** show was allowed to happen to let Americans know what neurotic traitors some of these senators are, especially on the dem side before mid terms.
TRUMP TWEET: Judge Kavanaugh showed America exactly why I nominated him. His testimony was powerful, honest, and riveting. Democrats’ search and destroy strategy is disgraceful and this process has been a total sham and effort to delay, obstruct, and resist. The Senate must vote!
Bumped to the top because this is why my processor got attacked, “they” did not want this re-posted here:
PROBABLE STONE COLD FACT FROM MICHAEL SAVAGE: BLASEY FORD IS AN SCI LEVEL CLEARED CIA ASSET THAT JUST SCAMMED CONGRESS ON A COMPLETELY HUSHED CLASSIFIED MISSION. SHE IS THE HEAD OF THE CIA INTERNSHIP PROGRAM AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY. No wonder why they scrubbed her history clean!
Blasey Ford has an SCI security clearance, works for the CIA and is the head of the CIA internship program at Stanford University. This was reported by Michael Savage. If that be the case, the CIA is still working to undermine Trump, and it is time to disband the entire agency. Ford would be an absolute high crime committed by the CIA against its own host government.
I HAVE HIT MICHAEL’S SITE AND IT LOOKS TOTALLY LEGIT. HOLLLLLYYY S***********************************!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is MILES beyond watergate!!! A high ranking CIA worker – Blasey Ford, with an SCI security clearance just ran a scam in the heart of Congress!!!
It appears Savage did not botch this, and that the CIA really did just run a coup against a supreme court justice. TIME TO SHITCAN THE ENTIRE AGENCY, this is not a forgivable offense.
WELL, BESIDES BEING A “PROFESSOR” AT THE OFF BRAND UNIVERSITY, SHE ALSO WORKS AT A MAJOR UNIVERSITY DOWN THE STREET FROM PALO ALTO. SHE JUST SO HAPPENS TO HEAD UP THE CIA UNDERGRADUATE INTERNSHIP PROGRAM AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY.
CHRISTINE BLASEY’S BROTHER, RALPH THE THIRD, USED TO WORK FOR THE INTERNATIONAL LAW FIRM OF BAKER, HOSTETLER. THE FIRM CREATED FUSION GPS, THE COMPANY WHO WROTE THE RUSSIAN “DOSSIER”. THEY LATER ADMITTED IT WAS ONLY A COLLECTION OF FIELD INTERVIEWS.
BAKER HOSTETLER IS LOCATED IN THE SAME BUILDING WHERE THE CIA OPERATES THREE COMPANIES CALLED:
RED COATS INC.
ADMIRAL SECURITY SERVICES AND
DATAWATCH
THEY ARE OPERATED BY RALPH BLASEY II. HE IS THE FATHER OF CHRISTINE AND RALPH III.
CHRISTINE AND RALPH III’S GRANDFATHER WAS NICHOLAS DEAK. FORMER CIA DIRECTOR WILLIAM CASEY ACKNOWLEDGED DEAK’S DECADES OF SERVICE TO THE CIA.
IS THERE ANYTHING I TWEETED ABOUT DR FORD’S CIA CONNECTIONS THAT CAN BE PROVEN FALSE?
Who leaked Christine Blasey Ford’s Kavanaugh letter?
But then you see, the letter turns out to be fake. How’s that for CIA clandestine activities? Don’t you see, a “leaked” letter gives the CIA asset at Stanford “credibility.” Oh shucks, cover blown.
Now that Ford’s cover is blown, let’s find out who she is in a little more detail. But before we go on to the following video, in an interesting article by Yoichi Shimatsu, he states Ford is a “Madam MK-ULTRA Abortion Lobbyist“. There are as Shimatsu points out, all types of very strange and bizarre connections between Christine Blasey Ford, the MKULTRA program, Stanford University, drugs and the CIA.
GROUNDSHAKING!! Christine Blasey Ford’s Deep Ties To The CIA Uncovered
Since nobody does anything for free, nothing like a little money to get motivated, and what better platform than GoFundMe. Yes, Christine needs the love and support since she “has nothing to gain”, never mind that Brett Kavanaugh’s reputation has been cynically smeared for political gain. Is the CIA production company manipulating these events in a society of victims? The culture of victimization has been engineered by the CIA’s technique of divide-and-conquer for a very long time. What better way to showcase this further division than at these supreme court hearings. Watch the next staged mass shooting in America be perpetrated by a woman or derivative thereof, maybe a transgendered male.
Alright then, now that everyone has a little background on the CIA asset Ford, let’s take a good look at her body language. Imagine your own son or daughter is studying at Stanford and this woman is vetting them for potential CIA recruitment material?
Body Language: Brett Kavanaugh Hearing Christine Blasey Ford
Then if the body language isn’t enough, it was just released Christine Ford had published an article on “self-hypnosis used to retrieve and create artificial situations” reported on at Gateway Pundit indicating Ford might have been under some type of hypnotic trance during her testimony.
Who is Jane Willhite and why did she contribute to Dianne Feinstein’s political campaign in 1999? This question is being raised because Jane Willhite has an interesting background.
Let’s listen to Dianne Feinstein at the hearing. The floor is yours Dianne, and oh yes, about the Ford letter, can you elaborate please now that we know the letter is fake, just like these hearings and accusations against Brett Kavanaugh are fake?
Kavanaugh to Feinstein: ‘I wanted a hearing the next day’
Word for Word: Sen. Schumer Calls for Postponement of Kavanaugh Confirmation (C-SPAN)
Lindsey Graham erupts: Kavanaugh hearing an unethical sham
Now onto the money, because that’s where it’s at. Lots of money. Well, you didn’t think she would turn this trick without a price, did you? This is Ford’s payoff. So, if you go to the clip above outlining Ford’s body language, the first indications are Ford is acting, and she is not very good at it either. Do Ford’s CIA bosses expect to receive a “best producer” Oscar for her hammy acting in this media circus? But the usual pattern here is for book contracts, so look for Ford to publish a book after this escapade into the political surreal.
Readers shouldn’t get the impression either we are all for placing Brett Kavanaugh on the supreme court. There is a downside to Brett Kavanaugh readers may want to know more about here:
WELL, BESIDES BEING A “PROFESSOR” AT THE OFF BRAND UNIVERSITY, SHE ALSO WORKS AT A MAJOR UNIVERSITY DOWN THE STREET FROM PALO ALTO. SHE JUST SO HAPPENS TO HEAD UP THE CIA UNDERGRADUATE INTERNSHIP PROGRAM AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY.
CHRISTINE BLASEY’S BROTHER, RALPH THE THIRD, USED TO WORK FOR THE INTERNATIONAL LAW FIRM OF BAKER, HOSTETLER. THE FIRM CREATED FUSION GPS, THE COMPANY WHO WROTE THE RUSSIAN “DOSSIER”. THEY LATER ADMITTED IT WAS ONLY A COLLECTION OF FIELD INTERVIEWS.
BAKER HOSTETLER IS LOCATED IN THE SAME BUILDING WHERE THE CIA OPERATES THREE COMPANIES CALLED:
RED COATS INC.
ADMIRAL SECURITY SERVICES AND
DATAWATCH
THEY ARE OPERATED BY RALPH BLASEY II. HE IS THE FATHER OF CHRISTINE AND RALPH III.
(PHILADELPHIA, PA) – The White House Veterans’ line is a farce. My VA primary health care doctor refuses to approve any of my scripts, except for the adult diapers. Even with that I have to remind him to reorder from the VA pharmacy or be forced to buy them from at CVS out of pocket. I needed help so I called the White House hot line.
The White House veterans hot line is staffed by 22 VA employees; none of whom have the power to initiate corrective action. They simply send you back into the VA system on your own to fight the battle. If you want frustration, Trump has found the perfect solution.
President Herbert Hoover signed Executive Order 5398 and elevated the Veterans Bureau to a federal administration—creating the Veterans Administration—to “consolidate and coordinate Government activities affecting war veterans.”
Fair or not, Herbert Hoover is also credited with the Great Depression.
The VA is an immense burearacy with a $170 billion annual budget, and a many on the staff badly in need of personal management skills.
If you think the IRS is bad, you haven’t seen anything.
If President Trump was briefed on the Veterans Hotline, you would think that he would ask if the subject matter expert had any authority to take corrective action. I doubt it. Mr. Trump, please ask the next time.
I spent the better part of an hour talking with one of VA’s subject matter expert on Friday, Sept. 9th. Nice person. Good listener. However, she had no power to correct a horrendous medical situation in the Philadelphia Regional Hospital. Her recommendation was for me to present my prescriptions to the VA pharmacy and then see the VA’s Patient Advocate, if they weren’t filled. That sounded to me like a fast track to nowhere.
I have been a 100% disabled veteran since 2009. My VA primary health care doctor refuses to approve any of my scripts, except for adult diapers. Even with that I have to remind him to reorder from the VA pharmacy or buy them at CVS out of pocket. I pay thousands of dollars annually for health insurance, and prescriptions. These are for medical conditions linked to military service.
My VA doctor’s line that since I have a civilian doctor and Medicare and other health insurance, I can pay for medical services and prescriptions out of pocket. I’m okay with that when the deductibles are low but when the cost is $120 or more per script, it really impacts the family budget. And, the catheters provided by a civilian company are paid by my health insurance. Last month, the supplier cut the supply from 90 to 30 days. I asked if there was a problem with Medicare. I got no answer. I thought, “This is not going well.”
My many medical conditions are directly linked to service in the Marines. I have been seriously ill for 32 years. I had to fight for disability benefits. Marines are good at fighting. They can be your best friend or your worst enemy. I won the battle but had to retain an attorney. He was good but it cost me $27,000 out of my lump sum payment.
I had three cancers and never been referred to a VA specialist. Without Medicare and my Blue Cross/Blue Shied, I would have been dead years ago. I have been through the ‘cancer mill.’ Surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation. I had good doctors. All paid on my dime.
I have to admit that I was really angry today. Based on a second call to the VA last night, a VA social worker will call me Monday or at least that was the promise. Maybe this person can take action to fill my many scripts. I’m not asking for medical help from a VA medical specialists. No need to access VA medical doctors or nurses. No, just fill the scripts and I’ll go my own way.
Giving him the doubt, it’s possible that Trump trusted the judgement of his new VA Administrator, longtime hospital administrator Dr. David Shulkin. Well, I’ve got news for both of them. The use of SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS is a ploy used by the government to hold down costs and give the illusion of service. For example, not too long ago, disability claims for Camp Lejeune Marines were sent to a VA Louisville office for review by SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS. The denial rate was over 90%. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. I’m hoping that this is not a political move on Trump’s part: “Look how I’m helping veterans. They have direct access to the White House.”
Mr. Trump, if you really want to drain the VA swamp and help veterans, then take action to do away with the VA. Allow disabled veterans to seek medical care from private doctors and hospitals. Let them use CVS or other successful retail outfit to fill their prescriptions at no cost to them. You would save billions of dollars. The VA’s budget in 2017 is $180 billion. Looks to me like you could save billions, and maybe even build your magic ‘wall’ or better yet, come up with a national health care plan.
Maybe you could do a cost/benefits analysis to evaluate turning over the VA hospitals to private management and allowing them to clean house. Congressman, VA staff, and many Veterans Service Organization that collect dues from veterans and give lip service to helping veterans will be mad as hell. You’re a tough guy with a reputation as a counter-puncher. Here’s your chance to demonstrate the skills that you and your staff boast about and do some good at the same time.
I had three cancers and never been referred to a VA specialist. Without Medicare and my Blue Cross/Blue Shied, I would have been dead years ago.
Based on a second call to the VA today, a VA social worker will call me Monday. I will see if this person can take action to fill my many scripts. Note, I’m not asking for medical help from a VA medical specialist. Here’s my laundry list of prescriptions:
Medications
Gabapentin, 800 400 mg/day
Catheters, FR 14/4.7 mm/2x/day
Myrbetriq Tab, 50 mg/day
Clonazepam, .5 mg/1-2/day
Procardia XL Tab, 30 mg/day
Losartan Potassium, 50 mg/day
Hydrochlorothiazide, 25 mg/day
Atorvastatin, 20 mg/day
Cabergoline Tablets .5 mg/2 wk
Onglyza, 5mg/day
Betamethasone DP, .05% CRM/ 2/day
Medical Conditions
Peripheral Polyneuropathy/Foot Drop
Incontinence
Erectile Dysfunction
BPH (TURPs 1987, 2001)
Bladder Cancer (2005 & 2015)
Prostate Cancer (2013)
Urethral Stricture
Tinnitus
Chronic Gastritis
Hypertension
Hyperprolactinemia
Osteoarthritis (hips)
Skin Rash
I served 52 months on active duty in the Marines, exposed to toxic chemicals and radiation. When I fell on my right hip from peripheral polyneuropathy and foot drop in the VA hospital last month on a marble floor, the VA’s ER did take X-rays, give me an anti-inflammatory shot in the hip, and provide a cane. I’m thankful for the cane. A referral for orthotics may have been helpful but that didn’t happen. I’m on own dime, I made an appointment with Penn Spinal just to be sure there’s nothing that could be done to stop the falling.
The sad thing is I don’t think my experience is unique.
If Trump can’t fix the VA, he will never tackle more complex problems, like health care, taxes, immigration, North Korea.
President Trump is giving ‘lip service’ to helping veterans with a White House hot line. But, it won’t work. We have his number. If thing don’t change quickly, he will be voted out of office with the rest of the Republican ‘do nothings.’
Robert O’Dowd, Environmental and Military Reporter
Robert O’Dowd is a Marine veteran who served 52 months on active duty with the 1st, 3rd and 4th Marine Aircraft Wings in the 1960s. At Marine Corps Air Station El Toro, CA, Robert was assigned to Marine Wing Services Group 37 (MWSG-37), the most environmentally contaminated air group on the base with 11 contaminated sites in 200 acres, and the area where CIA proprietary C-130s offloaded their deadly cargo of cocaine. At El Toro for 20 months, he worked and slept on duty watch in a Radium 226 contaminated work space in Hangar 296. He has survived three cancers linked to service in the Marines. After honorable discharge from the Marine Corps and graduation from Temple University, Robert worked in a series of accounting and financial management positions with the federal government, including the EPA Office of Inspector General and the Defense Logistics Agency. In 2008, he teamed up with Tim King of Salem-News.com to write about the environmental contamination at US military bases, the health effects to veterans unknowingly exposed to toxic chemicals and radiation, and the use of El Toro in a guns-for-drugs covert operation in the 1980s and 1990s. You can write Robert O’Dowd at rodowd@outlook.com. Robert O’Dowd is the author of TREACHERY: Murder, Cocaine, and the Lucifer Directive and A Few Good Men, Too Many Chemicals: Toxic Exposure of US Marines and Government Lies. Both books are available from Amazon.
Recently, a story about a special chip “the size of a grain of rice” that China allegedly put in countless electronic items to spy on everyone made the MSM rounds. Perhaps a few dolts in alt media also ran this. I have been thinking of a perfect way to debunk this crap. I have it.
If this spy chip is in your iPhone, then whoever produced the story will have it identified and be able to tell you the part designation and where it is on the circuit board. A part “the size of a grain of rice” is an ENORMOUS part for an iPhone; all parts except for the main processor are smaller than a grain of rice, and a grain of rice is much thicker than any circuit board in an iPhone, so it ought to be pretty easy to find. But you won’t find it because the story is a hoax.
The story was fabricated by an electronics ignoramus who thought, “gee, a grain of rice is small, so I’ll just say that’s how big it is”. But the reality is that many parts in modern electronics are so small you can fit 50 in a grain of rice – surface mount resistors, diodes, and fuses are all a LOT smaller than a grain of rice – but since the story is bullshit, written by a bullshitter, “a grain of rice” will do. Whoever wrote it said that because it gave the impression of being small enough to be hidden. In an iPhone, a grain of rice could never be hidden: a grain of rice is bigger than a 1/4 watt resistor; you would not keep that hidden in even a 1970s vintage 8-track player.
So why would a B.S. spew be fronted about a “Chinese spy chip” at this point in time? ANSWER OBVIOUS:
Because the Jews, mainly via engineering departments based in Israel, made the main processors in everything – “Chinese spy chips” being a misdirection away from Israel. They are not Chinese in origin; they exist at the heart of every CPU made now, in the form of a second processor running a second root operating system that forms the basic nervous system in any device that has a screen. The backdoors are all held by Israel and perhaps a couple of American intelligence agencies. Now that Trump is making headway, they are afraid of being held accountable for bugging the living shit out of everything from a root hardware level and are trying to push the blame off on China before it all explodes.
China cannot design a processor of their own well enough to get the bugs out of copies they try to make of ours. China cannot design a spy chip; they are not there in technology yet, and if they did design such a chip, we are back to the “grain of rice” scenario: they’d NEVER keep it hidden in even production run 1, version 1.0.
The original “Chinese spy chip” report talked all about how they got them into American military hardware. Why is it only iPhones and Amazon now? Obvious answer: Because attempting to pass off a hardware bug in military hardware that anyone could just look at and discover was patent bullshit, and someone called it.
You cannot put a second processor on any circuit board without its being noticed.
It’s not about just the chip, it’s about additional circuit board runs, power supply paths, the whole 9 yards: the Chinese chip story is BULLSHIT. They would never get even the first unit fired up in a secret area of the U.S. government.
Fact: Anything China makes that America uses in military and government applications is done via specific designs that have to be followed. An additional part, especially one that would require many additional circuit board runs as all chips do, would get noticed before any such hardware arrived in an American port. The Chinese spy chip story is BOGUS.
This morning’s press conference about China Russia Iran attack hacking garbage, in conjunction with a huge “exposé” about a “secret chip” China put in everything to spy on us, is laying the groundwork for war against China and Russia. Do not fall for it.
What they are doing with this is using totally compromised Google, Faceplant, and others to gauge public opinion and see if people forgot that Israel is the real culprit in all of this; and if people sufficiently forget and blame China for the hacks that are now in everything, it will be a green light they will use to front the war against China and Russia they always wanted, but never had public support for.
This would be the war America loses, and they would lose it on purpose, obviously after they made good and sure it was long and drawn-out and trashed everything. Trump had better wake up about this and realize they are attempting to use him to destroy himself and the nation after their efforts to destroy America through the political system hit a “Trump” iceberg.
Plan A is failing, so they are off to plan B: to destroy America by blowing everything up.
BIG HACK??!!?? Yes, the news is full of how “China used a tiny chip to infiltrate America”. How about the real news? Israel used the BIG CHIP to infiltrate America.
So while they use China as a distraction, Israel rapes, then cuts the hands and head off the victim, then offers the remains to SATAN and will one day have a holiday over it. Yes, they are doing a GREAT job of using their media to push it all off on China right now. The spying problem is ISRAEL, not China!!!
FIG. 1–RICHARD C. WALKER, AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES (PALO ALTO, CA) HOLDS MONSTROUS “INTERNET OF THINGS” PATENTS THAT CAN TAKE DOWN PLANES WITH REMOTE INSTRUCTIONS TO ONE LITTLE QRS-11 SENSOR IN THE AUTOPILOT SYSTEM. The global surveillance grid includes embedded chips in planes, devices, equipment and people to remotely send signals and control every element of The Internet of Things network. The QRS-11 quartz rate sensor (the diameter of a quarter; also see AbelDanger.org for more detail on the uninterruptable autopilot) is embedded in most aircraft autopilots. The intelligence version of the sensor can be turned off remotely and bring down the plane. In the late 1980’s and early 1990’s, Hillary Clinton’s Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, Arkansas handled the QRS-11patent family. Her mentor, managing partner J. Joseph Giroiri, was on the board of the assignee of the patents – BEI Technologies, Inc. Hillary Clinton’s Rose Law Firm [AD note: Hillary Clinton was not a patent lawyer, however, she was an intellectual property lawyer at the Rose Law firm which is the third oldest law firm in the United States. How can lawyers assist Abel Danger to strip Serco – formerly RCA GB 1929, a radio patent monopoly company – out of the USPTO before Hillary Clinton builds the next death-pool patent thicket around the technology of a variable yield atomic bomb? Or how can a petition get going among patent and IP law associates to have the operations of the USPTO taken away from Serco and returned to the United States government?] in Little Rock, Arkansas was the original attorney representing the inventor of the QRS-11 sensor in BEI Electronics/Technologies (US Pat. Nos. 3,974,428; 3,976,997; 4,628,298). This sensor was so critical to national security that the State Department fined Boeing $16 million for illegal exports. After many mergers and company sales, the rights to the QRS-11 went to France for a decade owned by Schneider Electric SA. Schneider sold the rights to a Barclays Bank client in London. The Rose Law Partner who hired Hillary, J. Joseph Giroiri, Walker’s system can crash planes remotely served on the BEI Technologies board of directors. He also coordinated the Clinton’s China and Indonesia banking connections associated with their Mena, Arkansas drug smuggling, money laundering and sex trafficking.
Barclays then sold the company and the QRS-11 patent rights to Sensata, Inc. which is controlled by Mitt Romney’s Goldman Sachs-aligned Bain Capital in Boston. Tellingly, dozens of former Clinton staff have died in mysterious airplane and vehicle crashes. Also telling, the late FBI Superstar Ted Gunderson, said in 2005 that Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVay had a bio chip surgically installed in him by Dr. Louis Jolyon “Jolly” West who led the rogue C.I.A.’s MKUltra mind control program. Conveniently for Bill and Hillary, the Oklahoma City bombing destroyed the records of the FBI investigation on Janet Reno’s WACO criminality. The bombing also killed former Clinton chief of security Alan G. Whicher. Four other Clinton’s bodyguards (C. LeBleu/T., T. McKeaham,, R. Williams,, S. Willis) were shot in the head by a helicopter sniper at the illegal military siege of the Branch Davidian property in Waco, Texas (1993). Some call these deaths “Arkancide” since most everyone associated with the Clintons in Arkansas, except Larry Nichols, have died. Nichols produced The Clinton Chronicles (1994) to expose the Clinton devilish corruption. Despite ill health, Larry carries on the struggle to bring the Clintons to justice.
I wanted to start off with a discussion about the concerns a few people in the alt media have expressed about the Presidential Wireless Emergency Alert test conducted yesterday on cellphones and televisions.
Folks are launching into fear mode over it and saying we should have turned our phones off yesterday because it’s being used for information gathering.
I think it’s a little late for that, folks. They know every little thing about us. There is a huge digital dossier on everyone on this planet, and they can identify us via our DNA and energy signature, too. They listen, they watch, they collect.
Turning off your phone is like turning off your water where it enters your house when it’s pouring and you’re being flooded out by rain and runoff. You’re holding these time bombs in your pockets and hands and in front of your faces for hours a day, surrounded by WiFi, knowing they can cause cancer and they are tracking your location and you’re afraid of a digital message? Maybe I’m thick but I don’t understand the hysteria.
It was a Presidential alert that QAnon told us about—twice. Did Q warn us? Did he say we need to turn our phones off? I guess POTUS and Q get the non-confidence vote over night. What is to be afraid of?
It sounds like this particular Presidential alert is a new system and can ONLY be used by POTUS in an emergency. Perhaps it cannot be hacked by the psychopaths. Trump is not the shadow government, the cabal, a globalist and had nothing to do with what happened in Texas, or Puerto Rico, or anywhere else. That is the psychopaths—the ones being taken down as we speak.
While not everyone can be protected from the psychopaths eleventh hour schemes to hurt us, they will not be permitted to decimate huge swaths of Humans.
On August 31st the President asked Americans to prepare. If you did everything you can to prepare for whatever might occur then you’ve performed your due diligence and can do nothing more except perhaps be of assistance to those didn’t prepare or who have been under attack.
What we DO have is a serious issue in the Carolinas right now as a result of the man-made/engineered and steered Hurricane Florence.
We also know that most of the plans the sub-humans had for us have not unfolded. Many weapons—including bioweapons—have been neutralized so they failed, and look! Much to their chagrin we’re still here. We weren’t supposed to be here at this point—but we are. There’s a reason for that. We have been protected as much as possible and can’t run around like victims waiting for the sky to fall.
We have to keep it together, people. Yes, this is war, and some of us will be tested. We have to keep our wits about us and help each other get through it. We want to be proud of how we behaved when this is all over.
We know what the White Hats and patriots have in store for the criminals and they asked us to trust the Plan. “Watch”, Q said. What—is Q chopped liver now? We have to assume they are doing the best they can to address the most crucial aspects of the take-down first. The President’s life has been threatened multiple times.
We do realize there are some potential threats for localized areas. Last I heard (last night), Hurricane Leslie, after stopping for tea and crumpets in the middle of the Atlantic, simply vanished from the models a few days after everyone said she was a huge force to be reckoned with and was going to make landfall on the eastern seaboard. Now they say she has Alzheimers and will wander off into the Atlantic, forgetting why she was there.
While the televisions are saying Leslie’s a threat, perhaps that’s their usual fear porn. Or, if they lift the warning she could still arrive. After the Indonesian government failed to warn their people of the tsunami, saying none of the sensors on the buoys were working, we have to be our own watchdogs, and have credible alternative media sources we trust.
After all the threats about Rosa, we had some beautiful rain and stunning, dramatic clouds from that storm for a few days but she’s gone now and it’s sunny and warm. More rain is forecast for this weekend—and that’s a good thing, here in the desert. There was a little flooding in the city but nothing we haven’t seen before.
We need to take responsibility for our own well-being. When you see a tornado heading right for you, it’s not the time to sit on the patio with a drink simply because the tornado alerts did not come out of your television or your cell phone. Just be sensible.
No matter what happens, prepare, stay alert, maintain your situational awareness, and do what you need to do to protect yourself and your loved ones. If you are able, help others, particularly children, the disabled, and the elderly.
We’re going to get through this. We’re not going to be marched off to FEMA camps, disarmed, and guillotined, as the psychopaths planned. Don’t go there.
Ultimately, THE FEMA CAMPS ARE FOR THEM. Yes, some folks will have to go to FEMA camps for shelter—and they have. Some kind souls have opened their homes as a bed and breakfast for stranded refugees after Florence hit.
Remember the mirror effect? We will use everything they throw at us against the psychopaths. They prepared for their own demise. Isn’t that rich? Guantanamo has been updated, redecorated and even additions put on—all for THEM.
Until the threat is gone, we keep our friends in the Carolinas in our thoughts. There are precautions to take for biting and stinging insects. Take those precautions as best you can. DEET is the least of your worries used short term only but Sawyer Premium Insect Repellent with 20% picaridin works well for us. It’s colourless and odourless and DEET-free, made from the pepper plant.
When I get bites or stings, I immediately apply a Montmorillonite clay paste which pulls the offending toxins out and takes the itch and swelling away, fast. Any facial clay masque would probably work.
Having said that, IF these supersized mosquitoes were armed with Zika or any other virus, I choose to believe it has probably been neutralized, as similar threats have in the past.
This article reports there isn’t a threat of disease:
The good news is that despite their monstrous size and painful bites, the breed that’s overrunning North Carolina—called Psorophora ciliata, or gallinippers—are known predominantly as nuisance mosquitoes. “Those are not the kind that transmit pathogens causing disease in people,” said Chris Barker, an expert of mosquito-borne viruses at UC Davis. “These are often floodwater species whose eggs are in the soil when the hurricane arrives.” The eggs stay dormant near ponds, streams, and other bodies of water. When those areas flood, they hatch en masse. Source
Personally, I would think the greater risk of disease would originate with the flooded pig and chicken farms and the runoff from those areas tainting the water.
Perhaps Thomas Williams will have a word about the mosquito threat on his show tonight. You can listen here, or here. There should be some interesting intel this week, hopefully including on the financial situation and how it’s being managed; 7:30 EDT, 4:30 Pacific on the Truth, Honor & Integrity Show.
I am not familiar with this vlogger and don’t know how much of this is truth or hype. The terminology in the article they use is obviously used to alarm people—and they acknowledge that. The media would love for us to be afraid of everything, all the time. Use your own discernment.
Something MONSTROUS Is Taking Place IN North Carolina!
Now for the good news.
Wow. Never mind the mosquitoes—this is a sting like no other.
In fact, I would venture to say this is 5D chess, and based on the degree of confidence Q had about the Kavanaugh confirmation, we knew it had to be something of this magnitude as the ultimate plan. Amazing, Dave. Thank you for your perspective. It had to be something that was going to work out highly in favour of the Patriots. There are so many good actors giving Grammy-winning performances. Can’t wait for the awards ceremony.
Q reminds us that when the deep state players know some very bad news is about to come out about them, they freak out and pull off a false flag event of some kind; an Arkancide, a plane crash, a shooting, an assassination attempt on the President… pick something from their playbook. They repeat the same ones time and time again. Q warns us to be wary because nothing is out of bounds for them at this point. They are deranged.
Q breadcrumbs are here and there are lots of new ones. Refresh the page for the latest updates.
It’s looking good for the Kavanaugh confirmation vote.
The new administration really needs to take Big Tech to task. They are out of order and must be controlled. They are equally as much an enemy of the People and the current administration in America as the legacy media is.
BOOM! Trump Admin Just COMMANDED GOOGLE To The White House – It’s About to Go DOWN!
AIM4Truth uploaded a great video the other day about Berners-Lee and the Internet and Robert David Steele just published an article about it from Berto Jongman. I say this is a MUST LISTEN: short (17 min.) video. Douglas is pretty hot under the collar about this latest “CIA propaganda” and Michael McKibben reveals the absolute absurdity about this very timely lie from Big Tech and the digital demon Eric Schmidt.
The most frightening, appalling horror film ever created has nothing on the freak show unfolding on our planet, my friends.
Many will be in denial because Human Beings could never do these things to another Human unless there is something otherworldly influencing our society—and there is; the devil himself. He is the one they worship and make Human sacrifices to. We are prey—particularly our youth.
So many have come forward over the years and tried to tell us this, but it fell on deaf ears. Those who know will no longer be silenced. We have to face the problem to eradicate the infestation from our societies globally.
This is why Donald Trump accepted his position as President of the United States. He and his team are committed to systematically addressing this problem or die doing it, but they will be successful.
They will rout out the traitors and predators embedded in every institution including the church and law enforcement. I hope Humanity will be a help rather than a hindrance.
While there is always a lot of misinformation, disinformation and bad intelligence put out, over time we learn what the truth is, and the truth is ugly beyond words. There has been endless carnage on our planet, and it’s time to end it. ~ BP
TheWorld is About to Learn About Khazarian Mafia Crimes Horrific Beyond Imagination
October 8, 2018
by Benjamin Fulford
The Khazarian mafia have been torturing, murdering, and cannibalizing children on a horrific scale, and the world is about to find out as military tribunals begin. Some very disturbing images and testimony sent by the New York Police Department and the CIA show just how evil the Khazarian mafia really is. These people are beyond truth and reconciliation and do not deserve even a quick death.
The photographs below, sent by the CIA, are linked to CNN star and FRB Vanderbilt heir Anderson Cooper and may give a hint as to what happened to at least some of these children.
Even more gruesome is the video still-shot linked below that was sent to the CIA via courier by the NYPD. It shows a young girl whose face was allegedly peeled off by Hillary Clinton in a satanic ritual. Be warned, it is graphic and I stopped watching shortly after the 2 minute mark.
Now I begin the understand the look of sheer horror on the face of George Soros when I asked him a question at a press conference about the families that own the Federal Reserve Board (FRB). He had probably seen some of this sort of stuff firsthand.
The prosecution of these criminals is set to finally start now that the U.S. military government backing President Donald Trump has secured a majority on the Supreme Court with the confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Pentagon sources say. “Attorney General Jeff Sessions has already met with the real special prosecutor, U.S. Attorney John Huber in Utah, so that the 57,000 indictments may be unsealed,” the sources explain.
“The seating of Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court should unleash declassification of FISA and other documents as well as military tribunals,” the sources say. Furthermore they add, “The Senate unanimously approved a resolution calling for declassification of 9/11 documents, so the stage is set to take down the Zionists and the deep state.”
Another aspect to starting the prosecution of these criminals is the ongoing U.S./Russian military action against the rogue state of Israel, the sources say. In particular, “Russian electronic warfare is aimed not just to impose a no-fly zone over Israel, but to stop ICBMs and other missiles from being launched, rendering the Samson option obsolete and making de-nuking the only feasible option,” the Pentagon sources explain. In other words, Israel can no longer use nuclear blackmail to protect the satanists in the U.S. Also, Vatican P2 sources confirm that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a satanist mass-murderer who needs to be either arrested or killed as soon as possible.
The U.S. and Russia are also considering imposing a sea and land blockade on Israel to force that state to stop its criminal activities, they continue.
The sources sent this photo with the explanation that “even the White House has declared Red October.”
The Pentagon sources also said, “It appears that the cabal may have lost a submarine or underwater base and retaliated by sending ricin to Secretary of Defense James Mattis and Naval Chief John Richardson.”
What the Pentagon sources were referring to was the destruction of a “Clinton escape residence with entourage, including an underground bunker built to store the gold,” according to CIA sources in Indonesia.
“Clinton has done business with a certain faction of the Indonesian military for years—those who control access there.
“The Chinese had confirmed all of this and knew that the only way was to flood it out. The tsunami was triggered by the Chinese.
“The tsunami was not possible—scientifically, that is. It was all carefully done, and then blamed on faulty technology and a “weird” fault slip angle. But that fault slip angle was “weird” (if you ask geologists) because it wasn’t natural.
“Communication systems can be manipulated. That’s why it failed to show the third tsunami. That tsunami warning system has worked ever since they got it developed after the 2004 Christmas disaster.
“There are non-visible lasers that have no color in the visible spectrum. This goes beyond the DEW (Directed-Energy Weapons). Beyond DEW is NON-visible laser. The Chinese military are smart—this cannot be detected. They took DEW technology and made it better.
“This was a direct hit from a Chinese non-visible laser satellite weapon. It took out the Clinton escape residence, the entourage living there, and the underground bunker. Unfortunately, there was serious collateral damage.”
The CIA sources say that close to $500 million in cash (not $270 million as was reported last week) was seized by Special Forces in the raid on that Clinton hideout before it was destroyed. A Google Earth screen shot of the destroyed complex is below.
The money was divided “between a certain group of top-level white-hat Indonesian government officials—one of them being Vice President Jusuf Kalla—and Trump’s inner circle, military included,” the sources say. So now we know why the generals got ricin mailed to them.
We have also been allowed to give our readers more information on one of our CIA sources. He was in charge of the agency’s clandestine services in Jakarta working out of the U.S. Embassy from 1965-1985.
“When he was there, he told me there were only 20 American citizens permanently living in Jakarta. All of them worked at the Embassy under diplomatic cover. He told me, and this is a quote, ‘Our team escorted Bung Karno (President Sukarno) out of power and we installed Soeharto into power.’
“And yes, his team as well as Langley headquarters and other alphabet agencies were involved in assisting Soeharto in the killing of up to 1 million Indonesian Chinese that were labeled PKI (Partai Komunis Indonesia). This was a well-planned takedown of all Soeharto’s so-called opposition. It was planned with the Australian government as well; they were heavily involved in this attempted genocide. This was also about the time that Soeharto handed control of Freeport to the Agency. There is so much more to this, but enough for now.
“I asked the cowboy why he did this; his answer, ‘It was my job. I worked for the U.S. government. You did not ask questions back then. If you did, you disappeared.’ He did tell me that he personally was involved in sending two cargo ships of rice to Kalimantan, as they had no food and the Dayaks and Malays were dying from starvation during this crisis, as all rice shipments from Jakarta were stopped. (He did this with private personnel.) And to add more, yes, he was close to the Bush Senior cartel back in the day. He was part of the old guard. Not many left now.”
On a final note, our source who is connected to the secret bases in Antarctica (he is a relative of Admiral Richard Byrd of Antarctic exploration fame) got back to us to insist that something really weird was happening there, saying the quote below from last week was true:
“Antarctica is opening up a WORMHOLE. Yes, there is an ‘opening’ to other dimensions down there. Due to the extremely high magnetic shifts going on in and near Antarctica, it’s literally ‘tearing a new fabric’ in the dimensional field. THIS is the reason why ALL those government leaders went down there. THIS is why they shut off Antarctica to the public and so forth. The public only gets 5% of the ‘story.’ And now you have the other side.”
We will try again to visit Antarctica this Southern summer and report directly to our readers what is really going on there. If there really is an anomaly like a wormhole opening up there, the entire population of the planet should be told and shown proof, not just a few leaders.
Vincenzo Mazzara, a Cavalier of the Teutonic Knights and a senior member of the Vatican P2 Freemason lodge, says preparations are being made for humanity to start building a fleet of ark ships and expanding out into the universe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xpMcEBZqiY&feature=youtu.be
As usual, my reaction to this sort of stuff is to believe it when I see it. For now, the White Dragon Society is working towards getting multi-trillion-dollar funding for an earth-based massive campaign to end poverty and stop environmental destruction.
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah’s residential housing market is among the hottest in the nation, but for some, particularly renters, the increasing cost of apartment living is weighing heavily on their household bottom lines.
Wasatch Front resident Garrett Cooper, 34, is among the growing number of Utahns coping with the economic realities of paying rising rental rates while trying to balance other personal financial obligations. Following a divorce, he now shares custody of his son while renting an apartment in Millcreek.
“It’s very tough,” Cooper said. “It’s difficult. I find every year that I have to make cuts and sacrifices on different things as the rent goes up year to year.”
He pays approximately 35 percent of his gross monthly income for rent, but more than 50 percent of his net monthly household income, he noted. Dedicating such a large portion of his wages to rent has been challenging, he said, and the cost has gone up significantly over the past several years.
Sometimes his household budget cuts involve discontinuing a movie streaming service, while other “belt-tightening” choices force him to look for the “best bargain” when shopping for necessities, he said.
“It can be a real struggle,” he said. “I get paid biweekly, so there are times when I’ll get paid almost a full two weeks before the rent is due and won’t get paid again until after the rent is due.”
Homelessness continues to be an issue for many Utahns, but officials believe it is because there is a dearth of affordable housing options. They held a meeting on Saturday to discuss the ongoing need and possible solutions for Utah’s housing crisis.
“(I’ll be) at the point where I have to decide which bills to skip or which groceries to skip,” Cooper explained. A number of his friends and family members have found themselves in similar circumstances, he said, due in large part to rising rental rates.
According to the 2018 Cost Burden Report, nearly half — 49.5 percent — of all renter households nationwide are “cost-burdened.” The report stated that moderately burdened households spend 30 percent to 50 percent of household income on rent, while severely burdened households spend more than half their income on rent.
In the U.S., the number of rent-burdened households in 2017 was 3.1 million greater than in 2007, the report stated, with Florida registering the highest cost-burden rate at 56.4 percent. A household earning the median renter income would be burdened by the median rent in 20 of the nation’s 25 largest metro areas, explained report author Chris Salviati, senior economist for Apartment List.
“Half (of all renters) are cost-burdened, and 1 in 4 are severely cost-burdened — spending more than half their income on rent,” he said. “When you’re spending that much of your gross income on rent, it really doesn’t leave much for even covering basic necessities, let alone planning for the future.”
Rental Rates by County (Photo: Aaron Thorup, CBRE Research, H2 2017)
A major factor in the rising rents has been the increase in the number of renter households while homebuying households have declined, Salviati noted. Additionally, the number of high-income renter households has grown as well.
“Keeping the higher income households in the rental market are driving rents up, and making it even tougher for people that are at the lower end of the (overall) income distribution,” he said.
That dynamic is occurring in Utah as well, he noted. Last year, the overall rate of cost-burdened renters in the Beehive State was 44.3 percent — 5.2 percentage points below the national average. The percent of moderately cost-burdened renters was 25.3 percent, virtually even with the national average, with the rate of severely cost-burdened Utah renters at 19 percent — 4.9 points below the U.S. rate.
Utah’s growing economy comes at a cost: As more people move to Utah, apartment prices are rising faster than wages.
Despite the state’s below-average rent-burden rates, the data still points to a larger challenge confronting renters.
“You could be doing much better than the national average, but still be facing a severe and overwhelming issue,” Salviati said.
Housing affordability is a growing concern in Utah, said Mary Jane Fine, chief operating and financial officer with Utah Nonprofit Housing Corp. — a Salt Lake City-based organization that helps low- and very-low income individuals and families find decent, affordable housing.
“Because of the shortage of rentals, people are really, really increasing the rents,” she said. Noting the average one bedroom apartment rental rate in Utah is just over $1,000, she said people making minimum wage are hard-pressed to afford such accommodations.
“This is what the populations that we deal with are facing every day,” she said. “Sometimes you find yourself, in order to afford housing, working two and three minimum wage jobs just to survive.”
Central 9 Lofts under construction in Salt Lake City are pictured on Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018. (Photo: Kristin Murphy, KSL)
Luis Delgado, with Kyco Services, works on a unit at Central 9 Lofts in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018. (Photo: Kristin Murphy, KSL)
Utah County newlywed Hanna Miller, 21, lives in an apartment with her husband, who attends Utah Valley University and also works part time. While Miller has a full-time job, the couple spends nearly half of their income on rent for a one-bedroom unit.
“Honestly, it’s something we kind of accepted because we wanted something that wasn’t broken,” she said with a laugh. “An apartment that was actually decent to live in and didn’t have any problems.”
She said their first rental was an old unit that was drafty and had mold, so they vowed to avoid a similar circumstance in their next place. Keeping that promise to themselves has come at a cost, she added.
“We found a place that had a pretty good base rent and then the fees started adding to the cost,” she said. The base rent was $1,029, but the monthly cost also included fees for parking, an electronic security system and other expenses, she said.
“All of those fees added up to another $300 or $400 more,” Miller said. “And it was mandatory!”
Utilities also add to the monthly cost, she noted.
One thing she would like to see is cities encourage developers to build more affordable units so that families like hers don’t have to pay half their monthly income just to keep a roof over their heads.
“People are being forced into paying more than 30 percent of their income, which is not allowing them to save (anything),” Miller said. “I honestly think there is a lack of affordable housing and nobody is doing anything about it.”
“There is no vaccination or specific treatment for enteroviruses. People with mild illness typically need treatment only for symptoms,” Barbare said in a statement.
LOGAN — A Logan man is facing criminal charges after allegedly raping and threatening to tie down a woman he matched with on the dating app Tinder.
Wyatt Dean Martin, 21, was charged Tuesday in 1st District Court with aggravated kidnapping and rape, both first-degree felonies, and forcible sexual abuse and obstructing justice, both second-degree felonies.
Logan Police Capt. Tyson Budge confirmed Tuesday evening that police have been contacted by other possible victims and believe more assaults may have occurred. Anyone with information is asked to call 435-753-7555.
Wife of Israeli Prime Minister, Sara Netanyahu on Trial for Aggravated Fraud, Breach of Trust October 10, 2018–It seems the El-lites of Israel have been living high off the hog on the taxpayers’ expense account, buying lavish accoutrements like catered personal meals when they had a cook to boot. It seems lady Sara has a penchant for food, and it’s obvious. Sara and Benjamin Netanyahu are accused of using power and money
Jesus was once asked when the kingdom of God would come.
The kingdom of God, Jesus answered, is not something people will be able to see and point at, instead, he said:
Neither shall they say, Lo here! Or, lo there! For, behold, the kingdom of God is within you. ~ (Luke 17:21)
Jesus spoke a truth that is timeless and universal. I have read through many religious holy books and spiritual scripts and often they all share the same precept — that life’s greatest treasure, its ultimate truth, resides within us.
But what about the Kingdom of Hell and the Devil? Is hell within us?
My experience is that Hell is not a flaming hole under the earth. Hell is actually a spiritual place of torment that we carry around every day.
The Gates of Sin
You see glimpses of Heaven and glimpses of Hell around us every day. We see heaven in the magnificent beauty and acts of goodness we experience, and Hell in the wretched feelings we experience and injustices we perceive.
Few people know that the word ‘sin’ comes from the Greek word Hamartia (ἁμαρτία), which, when translated actually means “to miss the mark” or “to miss the target“. This changes the whole modern-day concept of sin. When we are small, we’re taught that to sin is to be a terrible person. So many of us carry around the guilt of the mistakes we’ve made, thinking we’re horrid people.
I grew up in a Catholic household and the discovery of the true definition of Sin revolutionized my perception of life entirely. I had been taught sinning was to do something wrong, to be a bad person. But the true definition means to make a mistake, it means that I wasn’t a bad person (guilt), and I had only done something misguidedly (shame). Sins were meant to be a guideline to help us go through life in such a way as to cause the least amount of harm possible, to ourselves and others. Remove ads on lonerwolf?
Deep down before I discovered this revelation, I only felt constant guilt for being a bad person. If sin is seen as an act of badness, it makes you feel guilty and dirty. I couldn’t feel like a religious person at all with this mindset.
In fact, guilt became a barrier to experience any divine feelings of gratitude and love.
The Devil Called Karma
If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. ~ (Matthew 5:29)
If you were to take Jesus’ words literally at face value, he would sound like a ruthless brute. But Jesus was a loving man, and with this new understanding of sin, you see what he was really trying to say: if one eye is making you perceive the world sinfully, get rid of it. It’s a metaphor that tries to teach us to become aware of whatever is making us sin and remove it.
Karma is often thought of as an external force that creates justice, that balances the world out. It teaches us that bad people have bad things happen to them.
The mistake of the ‘sins’ concept is thinking that changing the external acts will change the internal being as well. Changing the surface of something by making you afraid of it cannot change its core, or the source of the behavior. To change where it ends (external actions) you have to change where it begins (the way you perceive it).
You also often see people complain about the same mistakes, for example, women complaining that they always end up with the wrong guys that cheat on them or take them for granted. Repeat offenses are also very common amongst criminals who, according to statistics, re-offend almost 50% of the time (of the ones that are caught).
Why does this happen? The mystical religion of the Upanishads consider the concept of ‘sin’ as darkness. They teach that the reason why we sin, the reason why we cause harm to ourselves and others is because we are unaware. But if you shed some light into your darkness, if you become more alert and start questioning your continuous unconscious habits, then you will stop sinning.
Karma is wrongly confused with the notion of having a fixed destiny. The truth is that Karma is constantly in the making, and we have an accumulation of tendencies (all the way back to childhood) that can lock us into particular behaviour patterns. If I’m a criminal, commit crimes and have surrounded myself with other criminals from a young age, I shouldn’t be surprised if something bad happens to me. Not because I’m a bad person, but because my negative behaviour and perception of life attracts negative forces around me.
If you are alert, if you are mindful of everything that you do, then bad things stop happening as much as they do when you live with unmindfulness. In fact, you begin to see the true consequences of your ‘sinful’ actions or impulses to both yourself and other people, and you begin to make decisions to avoid doing them.
For instance, giving into ‘sinful’ temptation by seeking quick stimulation by cheating on my partner will have long lasting consequences in the form of guilt and negative emotions. These will affect my relationship, possibly resulting in its termination and both of our unhappiness. Instead, with mindfulness, I could become aware of my dissatisfaction, communicate it, and try to create stronger bonds through new activities with my partner to find greater stimulation again.
It’s easy to blame karma for all the bad things that happen to us. It’s easy to attribute our suffering to external forces that are out of our control. But these aren’t responsible, in fact, we carry out karma with our lack of mindfulness and awareness. It’s our actions that cause our mistakes, and our ‘sins’.
The Devil Comes In Many Forms
Aimless television watching, eating fast food instead of preparing your own, playing vacuous games on your smartphone or holding grudges instead of communicating them. There are many ways we commit sins against ourselves every day.
We all carry a Devil inside, trying to trick us into indulging primitive pleasure impulses (violence, stimulation, sex) or habitual addictive behaviours. We’ve all experienced this inner conflict, this duality, of Good versus Evil, refraining ourselves from wanting to do something because we know it’s bad.
Hell is a place that is ever present, it exists when you ‘miss the mark’ of being mindful of your ‘sinful’ temptations that harm yourself and others. Hell is a cycle of endless suffering. If you’ve ever found yourself inside one of those life cycles where you’ve hit rock bottom, making mistake after mistake, it feels eternal with no way out.
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If the Kingdom of Heaven/God is only a mindful action away, then why not try it? Religion’s only concern should be with your behaviour and personal responsibility, and deep down, isn’t that what religion is all about? Yet somehow we always focus on other people and their sins. Preoccupying ourselves with other people’s mistakes is a good way to feel relief by avoiding the focus on our own.
Once you see sin as a transgression to yourself, without the ‘deadly’ religious punishment element, it becomes a very helpful tool to enhance the quality of your life. Start by asking yourself: is what I’m doing right now harming myself or someone else in some way? Could I be doing something that would benefit me more? There’s a reason why Sloth is on that seven sinful mistakes list.
Thinking of ‘sin’ as creating harm against ourselves is much more useful than thinking of it as violating a spiritual ‘code of conduct’ or destined Karma force. You’ll see the results in this lifetime as well.
There’s a certain addiction that many of us have in this modern culture – that of becoming self-help junkies.
In essence, we receive a little bit of a ‘high’ when reading a book and discovering about the possibilities for a better life, but often the improvement ends there; and so we move on to the next ‘high’. Don’t get me wrong, some self-help books have good and extremely useful advice, but it’s our failure in executing these changes that are to blame.
Did you know that the Amazon “Self-Help” book section has over 300,000 search results, 40,000 results on the keyword “happiness” alone? Improving our lives is undoubtedly something we all want, but why is it so difficult?
Before Tony Robbins, countless religions for centuries have been trying to send us on a path of ‘self-improvement’ … you’d think we would have figured out how to do it well by now, wouldn’t you?
Knowledge Is Not The Same As Knowing
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. ~ Isaac Newton
Whenever I’m hosting one of our Involution groups I have someone who asks the difference between the Involution paths of Self-Discovery and Self-Understanding.
The difference lies in the process of assimilation. Memorized knowledge is not the same as assimilated knowledge. If you think of knowledge in terms of nourishing food, memorizing knowledge is like carrying the food in your backpack, whereas assimilating it is eating, digesting and absorbing the food so that it becomes a part of your person.
Assimilated knowledge becomes “knowing” – it nourishes our being. What Newton meant in the quote above was that what distinguishes us from animals in our evolution, is that we don’t have to re-discover the use of penicillin or how to make fires, we have the ability to assimilate and build upon the work of other human beings from the past; from Lao Tzu and Buddha, to Einstein and Jobs.
Don’t make the mistake of thinking that intellectually registering your self-discovery (through your self-exploration) is the same as actively experiencing self-understanding through applied use. Almost everyday I come across someone who recommends to me a ‘revealing’ book on Gratitude or Ego-Awareness, but after a few days of excitement, returns to their habitually complaining egocentric selves. Remove ads on lonerwolf?
Self-Improvement Is Not Self-Understanding
All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves. ~ Ralpho Waldo Emerson (Essential Writings)
One of the first observations I encountered when I came to live in a Western country like Australia is the association that exists between Success and Happiness. It’s as if success in your career or studies is synonymous with being happy.
Whenever I ask someone how they are in such a country, I’m met with a response similar to: “You know, busy busy”, implying that was a good thing. Trying to explain the process of Involution to a psyche and mindset that is goal-and-success oriented can become very tricky.
The process of Involution, especially that of Self-Understanding, has much more to do with ‘Self-Growth’ than it does with ‘Self-Improvement’. On the surface the two sound very similar but there is one subtle major distinction.
On one hand, Self-Improvement is absolutely goal driven – you have an ideal in mind that you’d like to live up to, let’s say; becoming more confident, or as muscular as Arnold Schwarzenegger, or financially secure and independent. When you’re improving, you’re improving towards an ideal objective. It’s a tunnel-focused vision that you progressively improve towards reaching.
On the other hand, Self-Growth which is the essence of Involution works in a completely different way. When you go on a personal-growth journey for Self-Understanding, you have no objective in mind. You’re planting an unknown seed into a soil mix and nurturing it, watching it grow. You don’t know what type of tree will sprout from it or how big it will be, or even when it will stop growing (if it ever stops at all). It’s a mystery.
It’s important to learn the nature of this distinction between Self-Improvement and Self-Understanding as it will provide your Involutionary journey with an open acceptance of who you are, without any objective to measure yourself against, free from unnecessary tensions that can hinder and limit you along the way.
The Secret To Self-Understanding . . .
I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.
~ Hermann Hesse, (Demian)
Once you embrace the perception of Self-Growth in your journey, you’ll find out exactly how interconnected everything is within you. We fool ourselves into wanting to change something specific in us without being aware that every function is counterbalanced by another function inside ourselves.
You change your diet and suddenly you feel in a better mood. You liberate yourself from a false belief because you see through its fallacy, and now you suddenly feel depressed.
This is also the nature of Involution: each one of the seven paths of Involution is interdependent in relation to the other. It’s quite impossible to study any one function or path without studying all the others. In order to know one thing truly and deeply, we have to know everything else about ourselves. To know everything is possible, but it requires much time and labor, and above all, the application of the right methods and guidance.
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It’s important to remember that there are two main reasons why we so often fail to execute what we learn on our journey of Involution: procrastination and poor self-discipline. On the other hand, the two secret ingredients that we need to be aware of in order to mindfully apply the knowledge that we encounter along our journeys, is action and responsibility.
Taking action, or having willful determination, first requires you to be capable of holding yourself accountable for the many failures, miseries and struggles you experience. You need immense motivation to provide yourself with enough incentive to continue on a path that involves such difficult and drastic changes in your attitude and perception towards life.
But where does this motivation come from? It comes from the development of respect and love for yourself; for your body, mind, spirit and life. And in order to develop these qualities, you’ll need to wander through the Involutionary path of Self-Love, which we’ll explore next.
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these. ~ Jesus of Nazareth
I was 8 years old when I was first taught Catholic ideals, coupled with a strange mix of shamanic teachings. The above passage from the bible was my first taste of the concept of Self-Love.
My teacher Don Angel saw my confusion and explained: “This is where we vary from Catholicism. We learn to love ourselves alongside Mother earth. How can you love your neighbour as yourself if you don’t love yourself first?” It took me a few years to understand what he meant.
As I grew older I observed how common it was for people to advise others who were struggling with themselves to “accept who they are in order to live happily”. I’d observe that many would take this advice on board; they’d build up enthusiastic momentum, but something would happen. Their enthusiasm would fade, and they returned again to their old patterns.
Self-Love is at the core of learning anything that will improve your life. If you don’t have enough esteem for yourself, what will motivate your pursuit for a better you?
Loving Others Requires Selfishness
It sounds like a paradox, but unless you’re selfish, you cannot be altruistic. Unless you’re capable of truly and honestly loving yourself first, even the darkest side of your being, you can never love somebody else.
Egotism and selfishness are preached in all societies as sinful behavior. We encourage the virtues of self-sacrifice towards a ‘greater good’. History, (including many modern films), is plagued with stories of the individual hero’s willingness to sacrifice his life for the survival of a group or collective of people. If these ‘selfless’ virtues hadn’t been imposed, none of our societies would have prevailed.
The truth is that the purpose of our society’s social conditioning is to preserve and develop society as a whole, not to allow individuals to reach their full potential, or get what they want if that will affect the basic structure of society.
The virtue of Selflessness essentially allows for the physical survival of the collective, but not for the soulful and peaceful happiness of the individual. Remove ads on lonerwolf?
First we must be able to truly see through this conditioning if we are to make any change to our life through Self-Love. As a theory, Altruism implies that the purpose of life is to serve other people. What are these people you are serving doing here? They are here to serve you. Doesn’t it make more sense to serve yourself in what you truly want instead of what others think that you might want, just as long as it doesn’t result in violence, chaos or death?
Otherwise we have a situation where the blind are guiding the blind. But someone must be ‘selfish’ enough to learn how to see first, to learn how to read a map (even if reading will give him individual ‘power’ above the rest) in order to guide others.
If you can’t love yourself – where your love originates from in the first place – how will you ever be capable of true altruism, or of loving anybody else? You can’t give away that which you don’t actually have.
Selfishness Does Not Mean Egotism
On the surface it’s understandable how the word ‘Self-Love’ could be confused with the words ‘Egotism’ or ‘Narcissism’. But this couldn’t be further from the truth.
A person who loves themselves wants to become the best they can be, they want to explore themselves using techniques such as Involution in order to see their faults, deepen their lives, and in doing so they discover how harmful gaining their self worth from the ego can be.
We are taught to believe that being “selfish” will jeopardize society as a whole – regardless of what you actually do – so it is condemned unconditionally. This attitude is evident when we describe the behaviour of a person who succeeds at the expense of the well-being of others, with words like ‘selfish’. But this isn’t selfish, this is foolish and idiotic!
A person with mindful Self-Love is aware that they aren’t actually looking after their own interests if they step on other people, because they’re causing pain and suffering while also creating enemies and negative consequences in the long term, which makes life a lot more difficult for them. This behaviour is actually Self-Destructive, which is the complete opposite of selfish Self-Love.
Also, is there any such thing as Altruism, really? The actual act of helping other people does benefit us: it makes us feel good. In a way Altruism can also be thought of as a ‘selfish’ act, which in a way is what we want. If you truly love yourself you want to take care of yourself. It’s only self-hating egotistical people that harm themselves physically or mentally.
Self-Love has nothing to do with egotism. On the contrary, the desire for honest self-exploration requires immense respect and love for yourself. Egotism revolves around the ego, and the ego depends upon the respect of others, not yourself.
Active Authenticity
You can’t just decide to suddenly feel good about yourself. It will never work.
As I mentioned in my previous Self-Understanding article, there are two important elements to Self-Love; love and respect for yourself. But don’t make the mistake of confusing self-love with feeling love and respect for yourself by itself. The way you behave is just as important.
Incongruent living is exhausting. Many of us claim we love and respect ourselves, yet we work in jobs we don’t find fulfilling, we don’t take care of our bodies or minds, and we ignore the exploration of our deeper selves to find out who we truly are. Self-love is action, not just believing or feeling it, but proving it with your being. The more active you are and the more you practice, the greater the feelings of Self-Love you’ll experience.
Here are some suggestions you can use to begin your cultivation of active Self-Love:
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Take care of your body: Everything you do in life begins first with your physical well-being, from mental to spiritual matters. Be nice to your body. Stay in good shape. Don’t poison, abuse or neglect it. The only way you can be authentically you is if there’s no interference from external physical factors such as grogginess, bad moods, fatigue, hangovers or ill-health.
De-construct who you think you are: You may idealize being an artist and waste your life trying to become one without finding fulfillment. Alternatively, you might be naturally artistic yet fail to understand and measure the difficulty of following that career. One of Buddha’s observations applies perfectly here in that the main cause of suffering is our desires, that is; wanting to be something other than what we truly are, or the constant attempt to escape our own intrinsic nature in both what we are, and what comes naturally to us.
Be true to your emotions: We all carry around an incredibly ‘fragmented’ individual self within us. A person who is afraid or who has not honestly faced their anger, or their sexuality, or their controlling tendencies, or their fear, or their jealousy, and so on, tends to handle adversity poorly. People who have psychological breakdowns do so because they ignored or rejected too many parts of their personalities. Be authentic to your emotions, if you’re sad, accept it and allow yourself to be sad. Don’t pretend to be happy, to smile and put on social masks.
Respect your surroundings: Respect everything from the environment that you live in, to the little mushrooms that push their way through the ground at your local park. Respect everything and everyone around you.
Cultivate knowledge and qualities: For example, you could try furthering yourself with skills, languages, abilities and art crafts you are interested in. Feeling as though you have a variety of skills is a great way to build your self-esteem. Are there any qualities you admire in other people, for example: compassion, generosity, humour, thoughtfulness? Cultivate and improve these qualities within yourself.
Respect your time: Put aside the action that provides immediate gratification for the action that bestows you with long term benefits. Spend time pursuing things that build a better future for you, rather than running around doing aimless activities that provide momentary stimulation.
Don’t confuse indulgence for self-love: In the marketing age that we live in, we’ve been taught that buying ourselves ‘things’ is the best way to prove how much we love ourselves. While rewarding yourself when you’ve achieved something every so often is a good idea, don’t confuse things like seeking comfort from your fears through food or material objects, with that of acts of self-love.
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Cultivating Self-Love is essential if you ever hope to improve your relationship with yourself and the people around you.
Are there any activities that you find help you increase love and respect for yourself? Please feel free to share them below!
We are often referred to as “Social Creatures” because of our innate desire to feel like we belong to a group or community of other people.
This feeling of “belonging” comes in the form of identification, of believing that the group we belong to is an extension of our individual self.
Last night I found myself staying up all night watching Soccer matches from the World Cup. Growing up in a Latin family it’s become somewhat of a tradition through the years.
In fact, in High School Soccer was an obligatory sport to participate in. Through time I grew fairly proficient at playing it, receiving a few scholarships to travel and play in junior leagues. But I never quite fully understood the fanaticism that surrounds this game, or any game for that matter.
The Beauty of Sports
For me, playing Soccer provided an opportunity to channel all my adolescent excess of energy into, an outlet to immerse myself in with complete absorption in the present moment.
The feeling is like when you experience an adrenaline rush: there’s no room for thoughts in your mind, your brain automatically becomes overwhelmed by the present stimulation.
But I always wondered, why do other people enjoy watching us play? Or why do so many people I know get so absorbed and aggressively defensive of their teams?
In the mean time, the more I watched sports, the more I developed the appreciation for the structuring of the game. A sport field is almost like a self-contained mini-world in which there exists an order that we cannot experience in our real, chaotic life. Remove ads on lonerwolf?
The mental allure in sports is well-refined; there’s a clear set of rules that we can all understand. Nowhere else will you find a mini-world that is so sharply defined and the parameters so firm. Every action has clear implications and makes the viewers certain of what is really good and bad. Apart from that, each team has a Hero or group of Heroic individuals that are idolized because of their superior talents or skills.
Emotionally, the attraction is much more beneficial. It provides an environment for us to release any repressed or built up emotions by cheering for our teams. The team we support becomes a catalyst for arousing emotions within us that we can express as part of a group.
I also noticed that the more I played, the more I began to feel like a soldier going to war. Sports are a modern battlefield. While it is more civilized and gentlemanly, it is still an Us Versus Them mentality.
At the end of each match half the stadium would leave celebrating and the other crying; a roller coaster of emotions that they had played no part in to earn or deserve except from passive-aggressive observance. That’s when I realized I didn’t enjoy playing competitive sports any more.
The Risks of Identification
The moment you identify with a belief, a team or a country you are giving up control by putting your happiness in the hands of others. Not only that, but it encourages and supports the attitude of group separation, of “Us Versus Them” and in doing so creates endless strife and friction.
An example of this can be found in military and political leader Simón Bolívar. Bolivar was a man who led Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia to independence from the Spanish Empire. Many claim he helped lay the foundations for democracy in most of Latin America.
Simón Bolívar had a dream; that of uniting the five main Latin american republics into one whole free and independent county much like the USA, in order to make it a world power. His dream could have provided an immense economical wealth for South America that suffers from such great poverty and economical imbalance.
But unfortunately his dream failed. It’s amazing: it seems illogical that the European Nations having countries that speak different languages, have different religions and different origins could unite together successfully – but five countries that speak the same language, have the same religion and origins couldn’t.
Interestingly, most of the failure is attributed to the immense, passionate identification that exists in the Latin culture with their own countries, resulting in absurd xenophobias (dislike of people from other countries and cultures), ridiculous regionalisms and petty founded wars between themselves.
Another reason for the failure of uniting these countries was the immense social corruption that existed (and still exists) within these countries. Social statuses and appearances are the foundation of these Latin countries. The desire for egotistical admiration from others due to superior economical or genetic status rules at large.
This is exactly all that defines identification: the desire to feel part of a large, usually elite, group of people: from teams and religions, to countries and psychological types.
The irrational idea is that your country is better that others simply because you were born into it. That your belief is better than others just because YOU chose it. This implies that whatever you identify with is superior to others identifications because you consider it an extension of yourself.
Life Without Identification
Identification is merely an extension of your ego, it is not a true act of Self-Love.
The more you travel, the more you experience, the more you’ll realize that we all have a tendency to identify ourselves with our origins, without being aware of it. It is our primal instinct to feel we have a “home turf”, just as every animal protects his own territory.
But as we evolve, as we grow and develop the understanding we have of ourselves, and in the process others as well, we see through the superficial instincts of embracing beliefs that create friction between ourselves and others. They become less appealing.
We also learn to find more healthier outlets of emotions, new ways of catharsis; perhaps in the form of meditation, dancing or exercising, to name a few.
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You’ll also begin to notice that when you simply appreciate sports, you don’t have that necessity to identify with a team. Your appreciation of sports becomes much more centred, much more whole and free from the attachment of expectations.
You don’t feel dragged around in stimulation seeking roller-coasters of happiness or sadness, but instead simply admire the skills of both teams and support the one that exhibits the most talent, without pre-conceived ideas of who should win versus who shouldn’t.
This, at least, is my own experience and I’ve found it to be immensely beneficial in the way I perceive life now. Without any limiting borders or boundaries that identification creates, life is much more whole.
Feel free to share your thoughts and experiences regarding identification below!
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. ~ Edmund Burke
Intuitively I’ve always felt that there was something wrong with the popular quote above. In fact, the deeper I’ve ventured into exploring myself the more I’ve come to dislike the concepts of “good” and “bad”.
In my life I have come across countless thieves, a few psychopaths and rapists, and a murderer, but in my conversations with them I concluded that none of these people had ever actually set themselves out to do “evil” for the sake of evil. Instead, they were all acting out of what they felt and could justify as goodness, whether that was as self-preservation, pleasure, or something else.
Morality as a Collective Guideline
Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good. ~ Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Morality is a collective attempt to create a ‘system’ or structure of what is “good” and what is “bad” – it’s a way we can rationalize arguing with life itself. Morality makes it easier for us to look at reality and say, “this shouldn’t be!” and believe that we are right.
However, the truth is that there is no general morality, but rather, morality is relative from culture to culture.
For example, what is moral in an Italian restaurant is immoral in a vegan one. What is moral in Australia is immoral in some Arabic countries. Not only that, but what we call “bad” now can also become “good” at any point in time. For example, killing other people is normally immoral. But when wartime begins, we suddenly rationalize that killing is not only OK, but the more “enemies” you kill, the more respectable you become.
Morality serves to justify whatever we collectively consider an ideal: in this case self-preservation and protection of our “ideals”. What we fail to realize is that on the other side of war, the enemies also consider themselves to be the ‘good’ guys protecting their ideals, beliefs and ways of life.
Most of the people around us will agree with us on what’s moral and what is not, but the people around us can change as easily as a trip to the “ghetto” areas of our city. In that case, good and bad is simply what is popular at the time.
You may be wondering “Surely there are some acts that are unquestionably immoral? Crimes against children perhaps?” Our emotions and personal values are always the determiners of our moral assessments, and these two factors are entirely different from person to person. In fact, within the same person ideas of morality can change throughout our lives. For instance, what I thought of as “bad” many years ago now I consider to be “good”. So although there are some acts that are unquestionably immoral for the majority of us in this moment in time, it still comes down to popularity and cannot serve as an “absolute” rule. Remove ads on lonerwolf?
How can there be a sturdy moral “baseline” from which we all make the same measurements, when man himself is so volatile in his perceptions of reality? A static idea of good and evil can only be accepted by a man who is static, stagnant in self-growth, and has a static permanent aim and a permanent understanding.
For such an unchanging person, belief systems are created.
Religion as a Morality
For many people in the world there is a very absolute and definite baseline for morality and that is Religion.
The same morality as the one mentioned above applies here as well: what the most popular opinion around you is, is generally what you consider to be moral, and anyone who believes in a different faith or has other ideas is considered to be wrong, or along a “bad” path and is in need of saving (think of The Great Inquisition for example). There are roughly 4,200 religions in the world so you better choose carefully!
The problem with identifying yourself with anything other than your own experience is that it is difficult to talk about these subjects without creating friction. Whenever there is a great emotional investment in any element of life, analyzing it is a difficult and confronting experience because our very basis for life and existence is being examined.
Personally, I was raised Catholic and still hold a few of their teachings to be full of insight and wisdom. However to live a life of spiritual truth I’m willing to go to great depths and be ruthless in my exploration of what I hold to be true and untrue, and analysis contributes to either reaffirming my belief that I am on the best path, or helps to open my eyes to new perceptions.
At its core morality – religious or otherwise – is basically judgment of other people. Morality establishes the idea that there is an objective way to assess another person based on the values they hold. This makes morality a tool for the devaluation of other people, to estrange, divide and dehumanize someone in the name of the state, the religion or as a species at large. Once we’ve morally assessed someone, any form of disdain, or even cruelty, can be rationalized (wars, prisoner interrogation tactics, social alienation, etc.)
And yet the underlying premise behind all the great prophets’ teachings is that of non-judgment, love, respect for others, forgiveness, charity, and tolerance. How can that be? At some point in time, the original message behind most of these prophet’s words was lost or misinterpreted.
The word “sin” for example came to mean “against the rules” and deserving of punishment, when in fact, as mentioned in a previous article, “sin” actually means in the original biblical Hebrew language: “to miss the mark“.
Sinning was to make a stupid mistake, a transgression against ourselves – it didn’t have anything to do with being a bad person. If the only reason we avoid killing someone is that we don’t want to go to Hell, then maybe Hell would be the best place for us.
So, how can we avoid making mistakes that harm ourselves and others in the process?
The Highest Morality
Intelligence is not enough to live a wise and sensitive life.
Some of the most famous serial killers and dictators were highly intelligent people, for example, but failed to feel any sense of compassion or sympathy for their victims.
So, why do people suffer, and why do people feel pain at the hands of these people if there is no “evil” in the world?
The answer? Because these “evil” people lack sensitivity of soul. They lack wisdom.
Intelligence and knowledge are tools that help us process and play with the ideas of the fragmented reality that our minds create. Wisdom, on the other hand, is the sensor that experiences a direct connection to it, it is the sentient perceiver of our existence, the pathway straight to the heart.
These misguided and unwise people are incapable of cultivating peace and harmony in their lives, so instead they act on whatever provides a fleeting sense of fulfillment: money, power, gratification. To them these feelings are “good”; they provide security and a false sense of fulfillment, and so they are willing to do anything to anyone to continue feeling these things.
This, to me, is the message our major religions were trying to teach: there are wise ways to live and unwise ways to live. Many people can argue that without a ‘moral code’ the world would go to hell, and it’s true to some degree. There are fear-focused and love-focused courses of action as incentives in life, and our purpose is to grow in wisdom to the point where we can realize the benefits of being kind to others, and the drawbacks of being unkind.
As I’ve previously mentioned, Karma is not an external force that balances the world, but is rather an internal one where we create our own Hell. We attract into our life the same energy we put out into it.
“Good” could be said to be conscious, loving and wise behavior while “Evil” could be considered egotistical, fearful and unconscious behavior. These words work as metaphors for personal growth, as measurements for the quality of life you’re attracting. For example, anything which helps you ‘awaken’ to this wisdom, to experience yourself, to become more authentic and experience something higher than yourself is “good”, while anything that hinders this is “evil”.
The wiser people will realize that “evil” behavior will attract many problems into their lives – such things as enemies, low self-esteem, paranoia, addictions, attachments, persistent dissatisfaction and suffering, world-weariness and cynicism to name a few.
Essentially, those people who do “good” in life aren’t perfectly saintly beings, but are people who realize, if only intuitively, that doing good benefits them, that being compassionate results in less suffering for themselves and produces a deeper sense of fulfillment and connection to others.
If we keep all of this in mind, we realize that people who misbehave due to lack of wisdom aren’t deserving of our judgment, but are in fact letting us know that they are the ones who are in most need of compassion, forgiveness and support. These are the people who have never truly tasted peace or love in their lives, only glimpses of gratification, and therefore act in ways that harm others, and in the process harm themselves.
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The cultivation of wisdom often comes to those who are willing to struggle with themselves and work on themselves for a very long time in order to attain it. To develop our wisdom is to create a conscience.
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Morality and wisdom are quite different things. One person’s morality can contradict another person’s morality, but one person’s wisdom can never contradict another person’s wisdom (although many confuse their beliefs with wisdom).
Morality is created and sourced from collective beliefs, and prevents the individual from feeling any true freedom. To become authentic, to be a true individual, we require a thirst for freedom, freedom from the unwise, from psychological traumas, from self-pity, from self-preserving fearful ideas, from primitive instinctual behavior, and from dogmatic beliefs, ideals and values that have been taught to us throughout our entire lives.
Forget about morality, become consciously aware and search for the evolution, or the Involution, of your inner wisdom.
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SALT LAKE CITY — Medical marijuana is shaping up to be a major topic for Utahns this November, even with a deal in place between those who support and those who oppose an initiative to legalize the medicinal use of the drug on Utah’s ballots come election day.
That deal, which was reached last week, called for Proposition 2, the medical marijuana initiative on Utah ballots, to remain untouched for the November election but also for a special legislative session to be held to address the issue after the general election.
The deal centers around how medical marijuana is consumed, how it’s sold, and defines conditions for how a medical cannabis card would be issued, according to a report by the Deseret News.
It was a compromise agreed upon by parties on both sides of the initiative, including the Drug Safe Utah and the Utah Patients Coalition, two of the leading coalitions for and against the initiative, respectively.
“Whether (Proposition 2) passes or fails, we’re going to arrive at the same point and conclusion, which is going to be (of) benefit to the people of Utah,” Gov. Gary Herbert said during a press conference announcing the deal last Thursday.
Prop 2 in the polls
The deal didn’t seem to impact the overall opinion of the proposition. The Deseret News released results from a poll on Tuesday that found 43 percent strongly supported and 21 percent somewhat favored Proposition 2, as compared to 21 percent who strongly opposed and 12 percent somewhat opposed. The polling was conducted by ScottRasmussen.com/HarrisX on behalf of the newspaper.
The results were strikingly similar to the results of a poll conducted by Dan Jones & Associates for Utah Policy Sept. 4 that also found 64 percent in favor of the initiative and 33 percent opposed. The results of that poll showed a change from 73 percent in favor of it and 25 percent opposed in May.
Some of the shift in attitude came at the same time as those against the proposition publicly ramped up their opposition toward it. Drug Safe Utah held a press conference Aug. 23 to voice concerns about the proposal, after which groups on both sides to begin to air ads for or against Proposition 2.
Being informed is 100 percent the issue. There’s so much misinformation out there currently and most of it gets mired and bogged down in minutiae of what the laws may or may not include down the road.
–John Saltas, Salt Lake City Weekly founder
Proponents and opponents of the initiative both said their views of the initiative haven’t changed, but planned to pull ads after last week’s agreement was reached.
While public opinion appears to be set in stone on the topic, Boyd Matheson, opinion editor for the Deseret News, said on KSL Newsradio’s “Dave and Dujanovic” Wednesday that the polling results don’t mean everyone has made up their minds on the issue and it’s all resolved.
“It doesn’t mean that everyone is locked and loaded and there’s no more conversations to be had,” he said.
The debate moving forward
There’s been plenty of debate regarding medical marijuana and the initiative this year, especially prior to the agreement reached last week.
It was the main reason John Saltas, founder and publisher of Salt Lake City Weekly and a supporter of medical marijuana, announced the state’s first ever Medical Cannabis Conference back in August. The event, which features speakers and panels, was intended to educate Utahns on what exactly medical marijuana is and does for those who use it in the weeks before the election, Saltas said.
The event is still slated to be held at the Mountain America Expo Center in Sandy Oct. 19-20. The discussions at the event are expected to be centered on the different medical uses for marijuana, including as an alternative to prescription opioid drugs.
“Being informed is 100 percent the issue,” Saltas told KSL.com in September. “There’s so much misinformation out there currently and most of it gets mired and bogged down in minutiae of what the laws may or may not include down the road. … There’s just a broad, broad, broad range of medical relief to be had.”
A new compromise between supporters and detractors of Proposition 2 is detailed at length in a drafted bill which Utah’s legislative leaders have promised to get passed when a special lawmaking session convenes shortly after Election Day.
The Deseret News poll released Tuesday signaled to a possible concern Utahns have with medical marijuana. It stated 57 percent of those polled were “at least somewhat concerned” the proposition could clear the way for recreational marijuana, which is legal in two of Utah’s neighboring states, Colorado and Nevada.
“I think that’s one of the bigger concerns out there,” Matheson said Wednesday. “Is this the glide path in? We’ve seen the impacts on places like (Nevada) and Colorado and California in terms of where that leads to the recreational use of marijuana.”
A portion of the compromise was to ensure central pharmacies would distribute marijuana so Utah could move away from the “pot shop mentality,” he added.
Does the vote matter?
Saltas noted prior to the agreement that Utahns were fed up with legislatures that weren’t addressing the issue.
“The state had their chance many times over the past few years to collectively get together and fix a path to this and they didn’t,” he said. “It’s only through the referendum that forced the vote, then they finally make a rational attempt to make something happen. The people have to do it or it’s not going to happen.”
If Proposition 2 passes untouched, it would go into law 2019. The plan under the agreement is to piece together a new law on medical marijuana whether or not the bill passes.
Sen. Todd Weiler, R-Woods Cross, explained the process.
“An initiative that passes, like Proposition 2, that’s one bill. The citizens collectively have an equal power to the legislature to pass bills. If I pass a bill in 2017, the legislature can pass another bill in 2018 that changes my bill or revokes my bill or amends my bill or whatever,” Weiler said in an interview on KSLNewsradio Wednesday.
He said he supports medical marijuana, but the problem he saw in Proposition 2 was that it wasn’t a yes or no question; it asked how medical marijuana should be distributed in Utah.
“I think by Proposition 2 having the support in passing, it sends a clear signal ‘yes, we want medical marijuana,'” he added. “Proposition 2, I think, had some fatal defects, but it did advance the discussion and I think we’re going to land in a good place.”
Medical marijuana poll
A recent Deseret News poll showed 64 percent of likely Utah voters support Proposition 2. Thirty-three percent of respondents said they were against it.
Here’s the breakdown:
43 percent strongly support Proposition 2
21 percent somewhat support Proposition 2
12 percent somewhat oppose Proposition 2
21 percent strongly oppose Proposition 2
3 percent were not sure
The poll questioned 1,087 likely Utah voters from Sept. 30 to Oct. 7. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.97 percentage points.
The compromise, while public and something agreed upon from both sides, isn’t quite set in stone since lawmakers will have to wait for the November vote before holding the special session.
In fact, when state lawmakers return to the Utah State Capitol for the special session, they will have to decide whether and how to make changes to the proposition passed by the people.
“The political pressure will be very interesting coming out of this,” Matheson said. “I think that’s why you’re seeing (Drug Safe Utah), including The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, still saying ‘we want people to vote no’ for that very reason. It isn’t a binding agreement, in terms of the compromise with the legislature, so that could be suspect once we get past the vote.”
Contributing: Debbie Dujanovic and Dave Noriega, KSL Newsradio
Editor’s note: A quote in the article previously had the typo of “wired” instead of “mired.” That has been corrected to reflect that the person said “mired.”
The balloon-borne Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA), pictured here shortly before a launch in 2014, is a physics experiment that has detected mysterious emissions from deep within Antarctica’s ice. Credit: NASA and Balloon Program Office
There’s something mysterious coming up from the frozen ground in Antarctica, and it could break physics as we know it.
Physicists don’t know what it is exactly. But they do know it’s some sort of cosmic ray—a high-energy particle that’s blasted its way through space, into the Earth, and back out again. But the particles physicists know about—the collection of particles that make up what scientists call the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics—shouldn’t be able to do that. Sure, there are low-energy neutrinos that can pierce through miles upon miles of rock unaffected. But high-energy neutrinos, as well as other high-energy particles, have “large cross-sections.” That means that they’ll almost always crash into something soon after zipping into the Earth and never make it out the other side.
And yet, since March 2016, researchers have been puzzling over two events in Antarctica where cosmic rays did burst out from the Earth, and were detected by NASA’s Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA)—a balloon-borne antenna drifting over the southern continent.
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ANITA is designed to hunt cosmic rays from outer space, so the high-energy neutrino community was buzzing with excitement when the instrument detected particles that seemed to be blasting up from Earth instead of zooming down from space. Because cosmic rays shouldn’t do that, scientists began to wonder whether these mysterious beams are made of particles never seen before.
All the explanations were intriguing, and suggested that ANITA might have detected a particle not accounted for in the Standard Model. But none of the explanations demonstrated conclusively that something more ordinary couldn’t have caused the signal at ANITA.
A new paper uploaded today (Sept. 26) to the preprint server arXiv changes that. In it, a team of astrophysicists from Penn State University showed that there have been more upward-going high-energy particles than those detected during the two ANITA events. Three times, they wrote, IceCube (another, larger neutrino observatory in Antarctica) detected similar particles, though no one had yet connected those events to the mystery at ANITA. And, combining the IceCube and ANITA data sets, the Penn State researchers calculated that, whatever particle is bursting up from the Earth, it has much less than a 1-in-3.5 million chance of being part of the Standard Model. (In technical, statistical terms, their results had confidences of 5.8 and 7.0 sigma, depending on which of their calculations you’re looking at.)
BREAKING PHYSICS
Derek Fox, the lead author on the new paper, said that he first came across the ANITA events in May 2018, in one of the earlier papers attempting to explain them.
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“I was like, ’Well this model doesn’t make much sense,’” Fox told Live Science, “but the [ANITA] result is very intriguing, so I started checking up on it. I started talking to my office neighbor Steinn Sigurdsson [the second author on the paper, who is also at Penn State] about whether maybe we could gin up some more plausible explanations than the papers that have been published to date.”
Fox, Sigurdsson and their colleagues started looking for similar events in data collected by other detectors. When they came across possible upward-going events in IceCube data, he said, he realized that he might have come across something really game-changing for physics. [5 Mysterious Particles Lurking Underground]
“That’s what really got me going, and looking at the ANITA events with the utmost seriousness,” he said, later adding, “This is what physicists live for. Breaking models, setting new constraints [on reality], learning things about the universe we didn’t know.”
As Live Science has previously reported, experimental, high-energy particle physics has been at a standstill for the last several years. When the 17-mile (27 kilometers), $10 billion Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was completed on the border between France and Switzerland in 2009, scientists thought it would unlock the mysteries of supersymmetry—the mysterious, theoretical class of particles that scientists suspect might exist outside of current physics, but had never detected. According to supersymmetry, every existing particle in the Standard Model has a supersymmetric partner. Researchers suspect these partners exist because the masses of known particles are out of wack—not symmetric with one another.
“Even though the SM works very well in explaining a plethora of phenomena, it still has many handicaps,” said Seyda Ipek, a particle physicist at UC Irvine, who was not involved in the current research. “For example, it cannot account for the existence of dark matter, [explain mathematical weirdness in] neutrino masses, or the matter-antimatter asymmetry of the universe.”
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Instead, the LHC confirmed the Higgs boson, the final undetected part of the Standard Model, in 2012. And then it stopped detecting anything else that important or interesting. Researchers began to question whether any existing physics experiment could ever detect a supersymmetric particle.
“We need new ideas,” Jessie Shelton, a theoretical physicist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, told Live Science in May, around the same time that Fox first became interested in the ANITA data.
Now, several scientists not involved in the Penn State paper told Live Science that it offers solid (if incomplete) evidence that something new has really arrived.
“It was clear from the start that if the ANITA anomalous events are due to particles that had propagated through thousands of kilometers of Earth, then those particles were very likely not SM particles,” said Mauricio Bustamante, an astrophysicist at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen, who was not an author on the new paper.
“The paper that appeared today is the first systematic calculation of how unlikely is that these events were due to SM neutrinos,” he added. “Their result strongly disfavors a SM explanation.”
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“I think it’s very compelling,” said Bill Louis, a neutrino physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory who was not involved in the paper and has been following research into the ANITA events for several months.
If standard model particle created these anomalies, they should have been neutrinos. Researchers know that both because of the particles they decayed into, and because no other standard model particle would even have a fragment of a chance in a million of making it through the Earth.
But neutrinos of this energy, Louis said, just shouldn’t make it through the Earth often enough for ANITA or IceCube to detect. It’s not how they work. But neutrino detectors like ANITA and IceCube don’t detect neutrinos directly. Instead, they detect the particles that neutrinos decay into after smashing into Earth’s atmosphere or Antarctic ice. And there are other events that can generate those particles, triggering the detectors. This paper strongly suggests that those events must have been supersymmetric, Louis said, though he added that more data is necessary.
Louis said that at this stage he thinks that level of specificity is “a bit of a stretch.”
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The authors make a strong statistical case that no conventional particle would be likely to travel through the Earth in this way, he said, but there isn’t yet enough data to be certain. And there’s certainly not enough that they could definitively figure out what particle made the trip.
Fox didn’t dispute that.
“As an observer, there’s no way that I can know that this is a stau,” he said. “From my perspective, I go trawling around trying to discover new things about the universe, I come upon some really bizarre phenomenon, and then with my colleagues, we do a little literature search to see if anybody has ever thought that this might happen. And then if we find papers in the literature, including one from 14 years ago that predict something just like this phenomenon, then that gets really high weight from me.”
He and his colleagues did find a long chain of papers from theorists predicting that stau sleptons might turn up like this in neutrino observatories. And because those papers were written before the ANITA anomaly, Fox said, that suggests strongly to him that those theorists were onto something.
But there remains a lot of uncertainty on that front, he said. Right now, researchers just know that whatever this particle is, it interacts very weakly with other particles, or else it would have never survived the trip through the planet’s dense mass.
WHAT’S NEXT
Every physicist who spoke with Live Science agreed that researchers need to collect more data to verify that ANITA and IceCube have cracked supersymmetry. It’s possible, Fox said, that when IceCube researchers dig into their data archives they’ll find more, similar events that had previously gone unnoticed. Louis and Bustamante both said that NASA should run more ANITA flights to see if similar upward-going particles turn up.
“For us to be certain that these events are not due to unknown unknowns—say, unmapped properties of the Antarctic ice—we would like other instruments to also detect these sort of events,” Bustamante said.
Over the long-term, if these results are confirmed and the details of what particle is causing them are nailed down, several researchers said that the ANITA anomaly might unlock even more new physics at the LHC.
“Any observation a non-SM particle would be a game changer, because it would tell us which path we should take after the SM,” Ipek said. “The type of [supersymmetric] particle they claim to have produced the signals of, sleptons, are very hard to produce and detect at LHC.”
“So, it is very interesting if they can be observed by other types of experiments. Of course, if this is true, then we will expect a ladder of other [supersymmetric] particles to be observed at the LHC, which would be a complementary test of the claims.”
In other words, the ANITA anomalies could offer scientists the key information necessary to properly tune the LHC to unlock more of supersymmetry. Those experiments might even turn up an explanation for dark matter.
Right now, Fox said, he’s just hungry for more data.
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SALT LAKE CITY — For years, Sen. Orrin Hatch has moonlighted as a songwriter, even penning a tune that found its way into a Hollywood movie soundtrack.
On Thursday, the 84-year-old Utah Republican stood next to the likes of Kid Rock, Beach Boys’ Mike Love and “Soul Man” singer Sam Moore as President Donald Trump signed Hatch’s bill to help songwriters get paid fair value for their songs.
“They’ve been working on this for years and years and years, and I guess certain entertainers have been taken advantage of for a long time, but no longer, because of Trump, can you believe it?” the president said before signing the Music Modernization Act in a ceremony at the White House.
Calling him a “legendary” senator, Trump recognized Hatch as an “accomplished musician and songwriter in his own right, which I heard, but I haven’t heard his music. I’ll let you know when I do.”
Hatch has written dozens of songs, often with religious or patriotic themes. He wrote a love song for the late Sen. Ted Kennedy and his wife, Vickie, titled “Souls Along the Way.” His lullaby “Little Angel of Mine” was used in the movie “Stuart Little 2.”
The senator even has a song written about him. Rock musician Frank Zappa recorded an instrumental on his 1988 album “Guitar” called “Orrin Hatch on Skis.”
Hatch called the bill, which passed the House and Senate unanimously, the most important copyright legislation in a generation.
“It’s going to renew the interest in music throughout the country and throughout the world,” he said.
Hatch also used the occasion to praise Trump, saying, “you’re making a real helluva difference in this country, it’s a good difference.”
The law will improve the lives of songwriters, recording artists, producers, sound engineers and just about everyone who works in the music industry, the senator said.
The legislation updates music licensing laws to make it easier for songwriters to get paid when their music is streamed or purchased online. It ensures that songwriters are paid a fair market rate when their songs are played, and that recording artists and producers are fairly compensated for their work. It also revises outdated songwriter royalty standards.
According to Standard and Poor’s, there were 86 million paying subscribers to digital streaming services in 2016 who streamed music 252 billion times.
Revenues generated from online music accounted for half the music industry’s revenues in 2016. As digital streaming has increased in popularity, the number of individual song downloads and compact discs sold has fallen.
Between 2015 and 2016, individual song downloads dropped 24 percent, and CD sales fell below 100 million units, resulting in less royalties paid to songwriters.
Reverse payment patent settlements, also known as “pay-for-delay” agreements,[1] are a kind of an agreement that settles patent infringement litigation, in which the company that has brought the suit agrees to pay the company it sued. That is, the patentee pays the alleged infringer to end the lawsuit and stop challenging the validity of the disputed patent. These agreements are distinct from most patent settlements, which usually involve the alleged infringer paying the patent holder.[2][3]
Reverse payment patent settlements result from a peculiarity in US regulatory law arising from the Hatch-Waxman Act passed in 1984. The law encourages patent infringement litigation with incentives outside the patent system.[4] Under the Act, the first generic company to successfully challenge the patents of the innovative company, and that has its Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) accepted by the FDA, is awarded with six months of exclusivity. During that time that FDA is not allowed to approve any other company’s ANDA, and only the originator company and the winning generics company can market the drug. Because of the lack of competition, the price that the generic company can charge during this period is much higher than it eventually will be when other generic companies are allowed to sell the drug as well.[4][5] In settling the litigation, the generics company can calculate the income it would get due to that 6 month administrative exclusivity, and the innovator can calculate the amount of money it would lose from sales to the generic company. The parties might agree that a cash payment from the innovator to the generic company is an arrangement in which both parties benefit more than they would if the litigation were to continue.[4][6]
The settlements have been criticized as anti-competitive and thus violating United States antitrust law, and contrary to the public interest, principally because they frustrate the purpose of the Hatch-Waxman Act, which was to increase competition and incentive the entry of generic drugs.[6][7]
The first ruling by the US Supreme Court in relation to reverse payment settlements came in 2013, in which the Court ruled that the “Federal Trade Commission can sue pharmaceutical companies for potential antitrust violations” in the face of such settlements.[8][9] Following that case, which involved Solvay Pharmaceutical’s drug AndroGel and a reverse payment settlement between Solvay and Actavis, the number of academic papers about reverse payment patent settlement greatly increased.[10]
Clinton has proposed to redirect subsidies that go to direct-to-consumer drug company advertising to research and development of drugs.[97][99] According to her plan, health insurance plans will be required to place a monthly limit of $250 on covered out-of-pocket prescription drug costs for individuals.[97][99] She proposes to “fully fund the FDA’s Office of Generic Drugs to clear out their multi-year generic drug approval backlog.”[97][99] She proposes to lower the exclusivity period of “biologics” from 12 to 7 years to “spur greater competition” and save government spending.[97][99] Her prescription drug plan says that she will seek to prohibit “pay for delay” arrangements, referring to arrangements where patent holders make payments to potential competitors to stop them from entering the market with generic drugs.[97][99]
In June 2015, when TPP was still being negotiated, Clinton said that drug firms that benefit from deal should offer discounts.[104] One of her stated reasons for opposing the final version of the TPP agreement is that it puts “the interests of drug companies ahead of patients and consumers”.[105]
If you are growing more confused by the day, this may clear up some of the fog. These are fascinating and frustrating times, my friends.
On the surface we have the Christine Blasey-Ford/ Kavanaugh standoff, but it goes much deeper. It always does.
As Jim alludes below, the relentless attack on women, symbolic of the Goddess, is so often at the forefront of the cabal’s attacks. Combine that with the dark’s ability to completely confuse the issue for so many people, polarizing them so they can’t agree or can’t see to the bottom of it, and you have a recipe for chaos.
Do you ever wonder what the MOSS and EXMOSS covert operations Cobra talks about are? We’re going to find out. The fact that this is an Interdimensional war further complicates matters for Humans. It’s not only about the physical, although that’s all we can see. In truth, that’s the least of it.
Read below and then tune in tonight to Ground Crew Command Radio when Jim will explain many things that relate to our liberation process, including the on and off-planet sit-rep.
It is important for multiple reasons that Humanity takes control of the liberation process as much as possible. Since the ones reading this are aware of the reality, it’s up to us. As Q commands—Fight! Fight! Fight! Any way you can. ~ BP
Reaching The Frequency of The Event, to Manifest It… The Whole Moss & ExMoss Business Explained & Why It’s Made Victory Nigh + Blasey Ford’s CIA/MK Ultra Connections + Much More
Lot’s happening as always, the ramifications of which is yet again reminding us that planetary liberation ain’t for the faint-of-heart.
But DO hang-in there … and ‘keep it together’ … because here’s why.
On this week’s show, I’ll be putting needed focus on analyzing the whole Moss & ExMoss business Cobra has been reporting on.
I’ll reveal:
what Moss & ExMoss actually is, and how it was used to suppress consciousness of the kind that’s crucial to a more smoother – not just quicker – planetary ascension.
how it’s affected us individually & as a collective to unite at a whole new level to expedite planetary liberation.
the powers it unleashes for those who are consistently doing their internal work
These are critical breakthroughs for planetary liberation.
… with our minds not freed, it’s ‘a wee bit hard’ to unleash our power & expedite planetary liberation … (what, did you think our off-world brethren were going to do it for us??). This is just one (of MANY) parts to manifesting the Event sooner, rather than later.
Physical & Non-physical darkness has placed so many layers of interferences on us, that the situation was – beyond stupid -. And that’s the off-world’s perspective, because they see things a lot more clearly than us.
Actually … they’re surprised we’re still standing.
BIG kudos to us!
All-in-all … it’s been full steam ahead with winning the war on the non-physical planes. The unavoidable pre-requisite to liberation on the physical plane.
The Cabal’s Frame-Job, To Prevent It’s Arrests & Quick Incarceration … and thus, prevent humanity’s freedom.
Of course, it’s nothing short of sickening & disgusting how the Cabal is using rape – the utmost terrifying crime against the Goddess… as a weapon to frame someone they fear could take action against them, … thus trivializing & making it harder for women who really were raped, to be believed – whenever there’s little or no evidence to go on.
Yep … Sure enough, it’s beginning to look like the whole thing could all be a lie, to prevent Kavanaugh’s nomination & thus the Supreme Court’s ability to decide on military tribunals (instead of civilian criminal trails that would last a decade) and for the civilian majority named in the sealed indictments to be quickly incarcerated, (see 5min video below).
Thanks to Blasey Ford’s CIA farther & MK Ultra connections (watch the video) there’s little or no doubt she was raped & tortured when she was young. But for those of us who’ve done their homework on MILABS … an umbrella of the trauma based MK ULTRA Mind Control program … you’ll know that she’s probably had at least one of her ‘alters’ activated (alternate personality created from the torture) in order to make a false accusation.
…..and then there’s the fact that all the named witnesses insist that they didn’t see anything happen….
Here’s Bill’s recent update on Christine Ford and her CIA Connections.
(Skip to: 1 min: 25 seconds)
More damning info about some of the evidence, from Q.
The lies that bring about – or maintain – tyranny, are what we’re fighting against.
What To Shine The Transmutational Light of Your Consciousness On, This Week
This week I also get into…
for the Liberals among us (as far as our 3D false persona is concerned) … get crucial clarity on why Q is asking for all Americans to vote Republican these mid-terms. And it’s not what you think.
Q confirm’s that Trump is part of the Q-Team
US White Hats promise a ‘bloody October’ in retaliation for Cabal’s latest attempt to assassinate Trump, (yet again weakening theories that “Trump is a Rothschild/Black Nobility agent pretending to be a good guy”). And what it means to us, that the Cabal had to use an Israeli sub in order to launch the missile against Air Force One.
White Hats fight back in the Kavanaugh hearings circus as they & their Senate colleagues not working for the Cabal prepare legal charges against those propped up by the Cabal who made false accusations. Find out how Lightworkers helped bring this development about.
Find out what one Lightwarrior did to the replica of the Babylonian Arch of Ba’al, known as the Gate of Satan, erected in Washington, D.C. ‘just as the slander fest against Judge Kavanaugh ramped up’.
… and as always much, much more on – Ground Crew Command (live broadcasts every Wed 9pm EDT) … YOUR central support network; and your weekly dose of empowering clarity, inspiration & motivation to get you through the Archon invented “work week” –
Also, Nobel Prize winner, Dr. Otto Warburg’s research revealed:
1) Healthy cells have TMP voltages from 70-90 millivolts (mV) or higher. At this voltage, cells are completely charged and the body has ample energy and health.
2) Stress of life, poor diet, impure water and air, lack of sleep, emotional problems, poor environment, etc., cause the cell voltage to drop. If the voltage drops below 50 millivolts (mV), a person starts to feel ill (may experience chronic fatigue and other disease symptoms)
3) If the voltage drops to 15 millivolts (mV) or lower, it is usually because the cell is cancerous.
Within the cell membrane the sodium-potassium pump forces a ratio of 3 sodium ions out of the cell for every 2 potassium ions in, for proper metabolism and cellular functioning. This is the pump that drives the absorption and assimilation of essential nutrients and also the removal of metabolic waste products and other unwanted compounds (heavy metals, chemicals, free radicals, etc.).
This pump also assists in maintaining a healthy cellular voltage or TMP. Because 3 sodium ions are pumped out versus 2 potassium pumped in, there is a net positive charge on the outside of the cell creating a voltage across the cell membrane that can store energy. An impaired sodium-potassium pump results in edema and a tendency towards fermentation (anaerobic respiration) as well as diminished ATP production. Studies have shown when sodium potassium exchange is restored, pain reduction, increased wound healing, and bones heal faster as a result3
An alkaline environment has a surplus of electrons. An acidic environment has a lack of electrons. All diseases occur from an acidic environment, so disease occurs when your voltage is low
When using the anaerobic pathway, only 2 molecules of ATP are produced with lactic acid as a byproduct. That’s a big double whammy. Less energy and a more acidic body! !The two always go hand in hand. It’s not possible to have highly energized cells and an acidic body. Again, that’s because pH is indirectly a measurement of voltage. Cellular voltage and pH are married in either sickness or in health. And oxygen is a vital key to shifting gears to more energy and voltage because when oxygen is present in healthy amounts in the mitochondria, your cells produce ATP via aerobic respiration.
As we have mentioned, aerobic respiration yields 38 molecules of ATP versus only 2 for anaerobic PLUS aerobic respiration has no acidifying lactic acid. !e only by-products of aerobic respiration are water and carbon dioxide. Also, maintaining a healthy TMP (trans-membrane potential) is key to allowing oxygen to be delivered into the cells. Another important point is that water itself dissolves and holds more oxygen when it’s at a higher voltage. When oxygen drops the cells are forced to anaerobic respiration which yields only 2 ATP compared to 38 ATP. Your 100 trillion cells struggle with so little energy, manifesting infection, waste buildup, toxicity, sickness and disease. Most bacteria and parasites are anaerobic, hating oxygen. So low oxygen allows bugs to wake up and begin feeding on us. Remember the terrain is key. Having an optimal level of oxygen is one of the most important components for a healthy terrain, a healthy body and a strong and healthy bio-energy field.
Cellular voltage and pH are married in either sickness or in health.
with oxygen – byproducs are water, and co2.
Without oxygen, byproducts are lactic acid
Here is the kicker, if you are lacking suffcient oxygen, your cells will revert to what is called the fermentation cycle, lactic acid cycle or anaerobic respiration cycle (all three are synonymous). This means ATP is created without oxygen with lactic acid as a by-product. This is why you get cramps in marathons and endurance events and why you can proverbially “hit the wall” at a certain point, because your body is not delivering oxygen fast enough to the mitochondria to make ATP.
cancel is a cellular voltage problem, that complicates over time
you do not have enough oxygen, you go from Arobic respiration – making 38 ATP per unit of glucose. If you are oxygen deficient, you make 2 ATP per unit of glucose.
According to this report, and unbeknownst to the masses of the American people, Hillary Clinton, her Democrat Party, and the shadow government “Deep State”, all comprise what can only be described as one of history’s largest criminal organizations, but whose very existence was threatened by the election of President Trump—thus necessitating these criminals’ need to throw their entire nation into sustained political chaos in order to protect themselves as they believe they can claim Trump is persecuting them for their political beliefs when he begins arresting them—and when that happens, are relying on masses of leftist mobs to descend upon American cities to demand their freedom, and is exactly what they’re practicing for today with the Kavanaugh Charade.
One such example of the wholesale corruption of this Clinton-Democrat-Deep State criminal syndicate, this report explains, was put forth this past January to Russia’s top three intelligence agency chiefs, during their historic visit to Washington D.C. to meet with Trump’s top intelligence organizations—and where the Americans detailed their full knowledge of how Russian Deputy Attorney General Karapetyan directed hundreds-of-millions of dollars to then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that enabled Russia to purchase US uranium reserves—and is known as the Uranium One Scandal.
In exchange for not placing sanctions on Russia’s entire uranium industry for their part in illegally paying Hillary Clinton and her criminal cohorts, this report details, President Putin directed both the SVR and FSB to cooperate with Trumpintelligence officials by providing them with information on how these payments were made, as the Americans were solely focused on Clinton’s theft of $84 million—and whose only non-classified details about that are able to be contained in this general report shows SVR “asset” Foreign Minister of EstoniaUrmas Paet working with then Secretary Clinton to create a secret account for illegal money transfers at the Estonian branch of Danish Danske Bank—that US Department of Justice officials have now descended upon, and whose shocking discovery shows over $1 trillion having been illegally laundered through there, and that Karapetyan was supposed to identity Clinton’s accounts, but is now unable to do so because of his assassination.
Foreign Minister of Estonia, and SVR “asset” Urmas Paet (left) with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (right)
On 14 July, this report further notes, Deputy Attorney General Karapetyan “retreated” to his summer dacha in the village of Vonyshevo outside of Moscow—where new FSB reports from obtained after his believed to be assassination describe that his “patterns and practices” were not considered by his associates to be “of normal occurrence”—with it further being described to FSB agents that Karapetyan had become “mentally agitated” after his discovering that President Trump had penetrated Hillary Clinton’s law firm Perkins Coie to learn their secrets—and two of whose founding partners Trump appointed to be US federal judges in exchange for the information they had given him.
Most stunning (at least to us) about this SVR report is its ending with a reference directing the reader to the appendix of Deputy Attorney General Karapetyan’s foreign travels—most particularly his August-2016 visit to London where he met with FBI Counterterrorism Chief Peter Strzok who was visiting there too—and in whose notes Karapetyan related how Strzok was concerned that his “implants” weren’t taking and were causing him to continue failing his FBIpolygraph exams.
The idea that it is a good thing to confront, intimidate, and even rough up people with whom you disagree to advance a political agenda dates back to community organizer and former President Barack Obama but is reaching new levels of hostility since the election of President Donald Trump.
“I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors,” Obama said on the presidential campaign trail in September 2008. “I want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether they are Republican.”
“I want you to argue with them and get in their face,” Obama said.
Fast forward to 2018 when lawmakers and activists are encouraging confrontations with members of Congress who disagree with them or support Trump.
The latest rant took place on Saturday ahead of the confirmation vote on Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh when protesters gathered on the steps of the high court, including Jennifer Epps-Addison, network president and co-executive director at the leftist Center for Popular Democracy.
“If you think a few women were getting up in their faces at an airport, if they thought of us calmly saying, ‘Listen to survivors’ was enough to shake and intimidate them, well, wait till they go home,” Epps-Addison said. “Wait till they go to the state fair. Wait till they go to the coffee shop. Wait till they go to the movies. Wait till they go anywhere we see them.”
“Make your voice heard,” Epps-Addison said. “Do not be calm. Do not be silenced. Do not be patient.”
Leftists continue to get marching orders from elected officials, including Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA).
In June, Waters told her supporters at a rally in Los Angeles to “push back.”
”Let’s make sure we show up wherever we have to show up,” Waters said. “And if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd.”
“And you push back on them,” Water said. “And you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.”
Booker gave similar advice in July at theNational Conference on Ending Homelessness.
“Please don’t just come here today and then go home,” Booker said. ”Go to the Hill today. Get up and, please, get up in the face of some congresspeople.”
Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-KY) wife, Kelley, recently wrote an open letter to Booker expressing her anguish over the harm done to her husband after a neighbor attacked him. She shared other “horrifying” threats the family has faced and called on Booker to condemn the ongoing threats and violence.
The same angry anti-Kavanaugh protesters confronted Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) recently at an airport.
And in June, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders and her guests were thrown out of a restaurant in rural Virginia after the owner refused to serve them because of Sanders’ service in the Trump administration.
Melania Trump on #MeToo: Women Need to Be Heard, but ‘Show the Evidence’
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First Lady Melania Trump believes the #MeToo movement is important, but women and men should also have hard evidence when making allegations of sexual assault.
“I support the women, and they need to be heard. We need to support them. And also men, not just women,” the first lady said. “You need to have a really hard evidence that if you are accused of something, show the evidence.”
Trump defended her position, noting that sometimes the media went too far with coverage of #MeToo stories
“You cannot just say to somebody, I was sexually assaulted or you did that to me … sometimes the media goes too far, the way they portray some stories, it’s not correct, it’s not right,” she said.
WATCH: One-on-one with First Lady @MelaniaTrump. She’s opening up for the first time about her life and her time in the White House to @TomLlamasABC.
Trump commented on the movement during a sit-down interview with ABC News reporter Tom Llama, who traveled with the first lady to Africa. The first portion of the interview was aired on Good Morning America on Wednesday morning.
Llama boasted Wednesday that “no question was off the table” in the interview, including a question about President Donald Trump’s infidelity.
“You’re not the first first lady to have to deal with your husband’s infidelities, has this put a strain on your marriage?” he asks, in a promotion clip of the interview.
A truck owner whose vehicle was set ablaze and vandalized with spray paint in Washington says he was targeted because of his Donald Trump bumper stickers.
“If you say anything that someone doesn’t like, you are ultimately a target,” truck owner Johnny MacKay told Portland’s KOIN-TV. “You’re automatically the enemy, and they have to hurt you.”
The Vancouver, Washington, resident found his vehicle set on fire outside the Garage Bar and Grille after he had left the truck in the bar’s parking lot the night before.
MacKay told the media he felt overserved the night before and had taken an Uber home, but when he returned the next day to retrieve his vehicle, he found it destroyed.
“All of a sudden I saw the tires were melted, the windows were shattered, and I was just in shock,” MacKay told the media.
Not only was his truck burned to ruination, but it was also spray-painted with anti-Trump slogans. The truck owner said he did not vote for Trump in 2016 but does support him now that he is in office.
“I literally just put them on this weekend,” he said of the bumper stickers. “If I would’ve known somebody would’ve taken politics this far — I saw them, I thought they were funny and apparently somebody didn’t get the joke.”
A local resident heard the ruckus when the firebomb went off. “All of a sudden I hear a loud bomb and the windows shake,” Randy Sanchagrin said:
Check this video out! A Vancouver man believes his car was set on fire because if his @realDonaldTrump bumper stickers: “If you say anything that someone doesn’t like you are ultimately a target. You’re automatically the enemy and they have to hurt you.” #KOIN6Newspic.twitter.com/gIa24VyDzp
An internal company briefing produced by Google and leaked exclusively to Breitbart News argues that due to a variety of factors, including the election of President Trump, the “American tradition” of free speech on the internet is no longer viable.
Despite leaked video footage showing top executives declaring their intention to ensure that the rise of Trump and the populist movement is just a “blip” in history, Google has repeatedly denied that the political bias of its employees filter into its products.
But the 85-page briefing, titled “The Good Censor,” admits that Google and other tech platforms now “control the majority of online conversations” and have undertaken a “shift towards censorship” in response to unwelcome political events around the world.
Examples cited in the document include the 2016 election and the rise of Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) in Germany.
Responding to the leak, an official Google source said the document should be considered internal research, and not an official company position.
The briefing labels the ideal of unfettered free speech on the internet a “utopian narrative” that has been “undermined” by recent global events as well as “bad behavior” on the part of users. It can be read in full below.
It acknowledges that major tech platforms, including Google, Facebook and Twitter initially promised free speech to consumers. “This free speech ideal was instilled in the DNA of the Silicon Valley startups that now control the majority of our online conversations,” says the document.
The briefing argues that Google, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter are caught between two incompatible positions, the “unmediated marketplace of ideas” vs. “well-ordered spaces for safety and civility.”
The first approach is described as a product of the “American tradition” which “prioritizes free speech for democracy, not civility.” The second is described as a product of the “European tradition,” which “favors dignity over liberty and civility over freedom.” The briefing claims that all tech platforms are now moving toward the European tradition.
The briefing associates Google’s new role as the guarantor of “civility” with the categories of “editor” and “publisher.” This is significant, given that Google, YouTube, and other tech giants publicly claim they are not publishers but rather neutral platforms — a categorization that grants them special legal immunities under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Elsewhere in the document, Google admits that Section 230 was designed to ensure they can remain neutral platforms for free expression.
Trump, Conspiracy Theorist
One of the reasons Google identifies for allegedly widespread public disillusionment with internet free speech is that it “breeds conspiracy theories.” The example Google uses? A 2016 tweet from then-candidate Donald Trump, alleging that Google search suppressed negative results about Hillary Clinton.
At the time, Google said that it suppressed negative autocomplete suggestions about everybody, not just Clinton. But it was comparatively easy to find such autocomplete results when searching for Bernie Sanders or Donald Trump. Independent research from psychologist Dr. Robert Epstein also shows that Google search results (if not autocomplete results) did indeed favor Clinton in 2016.
Twice in the document, Google juxtaposes a factoid about “Russian interference” in American elections with pictures of Donald Trump. At one point, the document admits that tech platforms are changing their policies to pre-empt congressional action on foreign interference.
The document did not address the fact that, according to leading psychologists, the impact of foreign “bots” and propaganda on social media has a negligible impact on voters.
From Suggestions to Company Policy
It is unclear for whom the “Good Censor” was intended. What is clear, however, is that Google spent (or paid someone to spend) significant time and effort to produce it.
According to the briefing itself, it was the product of an extensive process involving “several layers of research,” including expert interviews with MIT Tech Review editor-in-chief Jason Pontin, Atlantic staff writer Franklin Foer, and academic Kalev Leetaru. 35 cultural observers and 7 cultural leaders from seven countries on five continents were also consulted to produce it.
What is also clear is that many of the briefing’s recommendations are now reflected in the policy of Google and its sibling companies.
For example, the briefing argues that tech companies will have to censor their platforms if they want to “expand globally.” Google is now constructing a censored search engine to gain access to the Chinese market.
The document also bemoans that the internet allows “have a go commenters” (in other words, ordinary people) to compete on a level playing field with “authoritative sources” like the New York Times. Google-owned YouTube now promotes so-called “authoritative sources” in its algorithm. The company did not specifically name which sources it would promote.
Key points in the briefing can be found at the following page numbers:
P2 – The briefing states that “users are asking if the openness of the internet should be celebrated after all” and that “free speech has become a social, economic, and political weapon.”
P11 – The briefing identifies Breitbart News as the media publication most interested in the topic of free speech.
P12 – The briefing says the early free-speech ideals of the internet were “utopian.”
P14 – The briefing admits that Google, along with Twitter and Facebook, now “control the majority of online conversations.”
P15 – Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act is linked to Google’s position as a platform for free expression. Elsewhere in the document (p68), Google and other platforms’ move towards moderation and censorship is associated with the role of “publisher” – which would not be subject to Section 230’s legal protections.
PP19-21 – The briefing identifies several factors that allegedly eroded faith in free speech. The election of Donald Trump and alleged Russian involvement is identified as one such factor. The rise of the populist Alternative fur Deutschland (Alternative for Germany) party in Germany – which the briefing falsely smears as “alt-right” – is another.
PP26-34 – The briefing explains how “users behaving badly” undermines free speech on the internet and allows “crummy politicians to expand their influence.” The briefing bemoans that “racists, misogynists, and oppressors” are allowed a voice alongside “revolutionaries, whistleblowers, and campaigners.” It warns that users are “keener to transgress moral norms” behind the protection of anonymity.
P37 – The briefing acknowledges that China – for which Google has developed a censored search engine – has the worst track record on internet freedom.
P45 – After warning about the rise of online hate speech, the briefing approvingly cites Sarah Jeong, infamous for her hate speech against white males (Google is currently facing a lawsuit alleging it discriminates against white males, among other categories).
P45 – The briefing bemoans the fact that the internet has until recently been a level playing field, warning that “rational debate is damaged when authoritative voices and ‘have a go’ commentators receive equal weighting.”
P49 – The document accuses President Trump of spreading the “conspiracy theory” that Google autocomplete suggestions unfairly favored Hillary Clinton in 2016. (Trump’s suspicions were actually correct – independent research has shown that Google did favor Clinton in 2016).
P53 – Free speech platform Gab is identified as a major destination for users who are dissatisfied with censorship on other platforms.
P54 – After warning about “harassment” earlier in the document, the briefing approvingly describes a 27,000-strong left-wing social media campaign as a “digital flash mob” engaged in “friendly counter-commenting.”
P57 – The document juxtaposes a factoid about Russian election interference with a picture of Donald Trump.
P63 – The briefing admits that when Google, GoDaddy and CloudFlare simultaneously withdrew service from website The Daily Stormer, they were “effectively booting it off the internet,” a point also made by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the FCC in their subsequent warnings about online censorship.
P66-68 – The briefing argues that Google, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter are caught between two incompatible positions, the “unmediated marketplace of ideas” vs. “well-ordered spaces for safety and civility.” The first is described as a product of the “American tradition” which “prioritizes free speech for democracy, not civility.” The second is described as a product of the “European tradition,” which “favors dignity over liberty and civility over freedom.” The briefing claims that all tech platforms are now moving toward the European tradition.
P70 – The briefing sums up the reasons for big tech’s “shift towards censorship,” including the need to respond to regulatory demands and “expand globally,” to “monetize content through its organization,” and to “protect advertisers from controversial content, [and] increase revenues.”
P74-76 – The briefing warns that concerns about censorship from major tech platforms have spread beyond the right-wing media into the mainstream.
Liberal billionaires like Michael Bloomberg, Tom Steyer, and others, are donating hundred of millions of dollars in hopes of helping Democrats beat pro-gun Republicans in the coming mid-term elections.
On September 28, 2018, Breitbart News reported that Bloomberg added $20 million to his original pledge of $80 million, thereby dedicating $100 million to flipping enough seats for a pro-gun control Congress.
Fox News reports that Steyer is ready to go stride-for-stride with Bloomberg. Steyer has already spent $41 million and prepared to spend a total of more than $110 million to see Congress flipped.
Like Bloomberg, Steyer has been working at flipping Congress for some time. On March 13, 2018, Florida Public Radio reported that Steyer had begun pouring millions in Florida races for the purposes of registering young voters who “will help elect pro-gun control politicians in the midterm elections.”
Steyer is also open about his goal of impeaching President Trump.
Democrats are also receiving help from billionaire Donald Sussman, James Simons, and Reid Hoffman.
Hoffman donates less money than the other billionaires–giving millions instead of hundreds of millions–but he gets the most out of every dollar by using his donations in very specific ways. Those ways include purchasing unorthodox political ads to appeal to millennials and non-traditional voters.
The far-left CNN spent much of Tuesday defending mob action against Republicans as a “Constitutional right” and as fearless acts of free speech.
On her low-rated afternoon show, CNN’s Brooke Baldwin mocked both of her guests as they described the left-wing activists who chased Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and his wife out of a DC restaurant last month as a “mob.”
“Oh, you’re not going to use the mob word here,” Baldwin moaned after the Daily Caller’s Matt Lewis brought up the mob that harassed Cruz and his wife.
“A mob is what we saw in Charlottesville, Virginia, two Augusts ago. A mob is not what we saw chasing — I’m not saying what they did was right.” Baldwin argued.
When asked what she would call the people banging on the Supreme Court walls, Baldwin refused to answer. She just mocked her guests by shaking her head and covering her eyes before moving on to another subject.
Get ready to roll your eyes…
CNN’s Brooke Baldwin is offended that the left’s angry mob was called… a mob.
Later, during his last-place evening show, far-left activist Don Lemon went even further in defending mob action against the political right by framing it as free speech.
Again the guest was Lewis and again the example was of Cruz and his wife being intimidated out of a restaurant.
“Don, if they started following you around a restaurant and running you out of places,” Lewis said.
Lemon interrupted, “But that doesn’t mean that people don’t get to object. That’s your right as an American to object. It’s covered in the First Amendment. It’s like the first one!”
After Lewis continued to press his case that there is a difference between free speech and harassing a man and his wife until you are able to bully them into fleeing a public restaurant, Lemon started screaming at Lewis.
Will you let me finish? Matt, please! Let me finish,” Lemon shouted.
“Bring it on. Mind if I have a drink?” Lewis asked.
“You can do whatever you want. You can leave the show if you want,” Lemon fired back.
“I’m not going to do that,” Lewis said.
“Shut up and let me do it,” Lemon snarled.
With the floor to himself, Lemon launched into a full-throated defense of mob action:
“In the Constitution, you can protest whenever and wherever you want. It doesn’t tell you that you can’t do it in a restaurant, that you can’t do it on a football field. It doesn’t tell you that you can’t do it on a cable news — you can do it wherever you want.”
“To call people mobs because they are exercising their constitutional right is just beyond the pale,” Lemon said before cutting to a commercial.
This was not the first time Lemon has defended mobs harassing Cruz and his wife.
CNN’s history of dismissing, inciting, downplaying, or outright advocating in favor of political violence against Republicans and conservatives is a long and sordid one.
The anti-Trump outlet has openly called for race riots, frequently defends and even championing the left-wing terror group Antifa… And here is a list of more examples, though far from an exhaustive one:
To turn the Trayvon Martin story into a black vs. white narrative, CNN falsely identified George Zimmerman (the man who shot and killed Martin in self-defense) as white. Zimmerman is Hispanic.
CNN fabricated evidence against Zimmerman with the false claim he used a racial slur while calling 9-1-1.
CNN’s Jake Tapper stood in the middle of the Ferguson, Missouri, tinderbox and poured gasoline all over it with a hysterical anti-police rant.
Just after the riots in Ferguson finally ceased, to gin things back up, CNN released unverified audio of what they claimed was the shooting of Michael Brown. The audio has still not been verified and there is one gunshot missing.
No other news outlets pushed the incendiary Ferguson lie about “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” more than CNN.
CNN’s Chris Cuomo, Marc Lamont Hill, and Miguel Martinez, openly attacked and sewed seeds of mistrust against those police officers trying to bring calm to Baltimore.
CNN anchor Brooke Baldwin suggested Baltimore cops were staffed with unstable war veterans.
CNN attempted to turn the man who tried to assault then-candidate Donald Trump into a folk hero.
CNN compares Trump to Hitler; claims that he is Putin’s Manchurian candidate; that he is an illegitimate president; and then after presenting the president as a unique threat and danger to the country, CNN points what looks like a sniper scopeat Trump’s Oval Office window.
As of this writing, Breitbart News has documented over 580 individual acts of violence, harassment, and vandalism, against the political right in just under three years.
CNN is seen by many as one of the prime instigators and defenders of this reign of domestic terror.
Despite CNN’s extremist behavior and tabloid approach to news coverage, the cable channel continues to shed viewers and earn dismal ratings that put it in last place by a wide margin.
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Hillary Clinton told the far-left CNN that the sexual misconduct allegations against her husband were different than those against Brett Kavanaugh.
The interview was conducted by the left-wing Christiane Amanpour. It was made up of 30 minutes of softballs that allowed Hillary to tee off on whatever she wanted (primarily President Trump) without any tough follow ups.
The most outrageous moment, however, came at the end when Amanpour spread some breathtaking fake news. In reference to the Clintons upcoming speaking tour, Amanpour asked:
Obviously you’re going to be prepared to have questions about that moment in 1998, the impeachment, the allegations of sexual harassment against your own husband. Are you prepared to answer those questions? Is he prepared to answer them? And how do you see that similar or different from what President Trump is being accused of and Kavanaugh and others today?
Before we get to Hillary’s answer, let’s look at the question… Amanpour describing the allegations against Bill Clinton as “harassment” is like describing an apple as, say, a banana, an uzi as a Dreamsicle, CNN as a legitimate news outlet.
Bill Clinton was not accused of harassment. Among other things, he was credibly accused of rape (Juanita Broaddrick), of exposing himself (Paula Jones), and of groping a grieving widow in the Oval Office (Kathleen Willey).
What’s more, over the exposure allegation, Clinton was forced to settle a lawsuit filed with Paula Jones for $850,000, which was $100,000 more than Jones originally asked for.
Here’s Hillary’s answer:
There’s a very significant difference. And that is the intense, long-lasting partisan investigation that was conducted in the ’90s. If, you know, the Republicans, starting with President Trump on down, want a comparison, they should welcome such an investigation themselves.
The “partisan investigation” Hillary is obviously referring to is Independent Counsel Ken Starr, who was appointed, not by Republicans, but by three judges on the DC Circuit. What’s more, he was appointed to replace a man appointed by Clinton’s own attorney general, Janet Reno, who launched the special prosecutor … at the request of President Clinton himself.
And it was Clinton’s sleazy Oval office affair with Monica Lewinsky, a much young subordinate, along with the Jones’ suit, and his own act of perjury, that brought his sex life into the Starr investigation.
Apparently, Hillary would also like us to believe the now-debunked allegations against Kavanaugh were not partisan, when that is all they were. Accuser Christina Blasey Fordsurrounded herself with left-wing, activist lawyers. Donna Ramirez is herself a left-wing activist. Julie Swetnick is the creation of Michael Avenatti, a deeply partisan attorney determined to destroy Trump’s presidency.
Kavanaugh not only survived a deeply partisan three week investigation conducted by the establishment media, the Senate Judiciary Committee, and the FBI — he walked out of it exonerated.
On the other hand, Bill Clinton settled the indecent exposure case, was caught lying about Lewinsky, committed perjury, and Broaddrick’s rape allegation is about as credible as they come, including contemporaneous witnesses.
And what was Amanpour’s follow up question after Hillary spewed that nonsense?
Hillary Clinton, thank you very much indeed for joining me.
This is CNN.
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Michael Avenatti Vows to Sue Man Who Said Julie Swetnick Isn’t Credible
AP Photo/Amanda Lee Myers, MSNBC
Television lawyer and 2020 Democrat hopeful Michael Avenatti says he is weighing civil and criminal legal action for his client Julie Setnick leveled against Supreme Court Brett Kavanaugh, even as it appears the Senate will confirm him Saturday.
In a brief interview with The Washington Post‘s Aaron Blake, Avenatti vowed to file a defamation lawsuit against Dennis Ketterer — a self-described former boyfriend of Swetnick who, in a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee, raised doubts over her allegations. Asked why he chose to publicize Swetnick’s claims before the committee could fully vet them, Avenatti scoffed, “Why in God’s name would I have gone through the media? The media does not determine the veracity of facts and evidence.”
According to Ketterer, Swetnick said she liked group sex, and he said her father told him she “had psychological and other problems.”
During a conversation about our sexual preferences, things got derailed when Julie told me that she liked to have sex with more than one guy at a time. In fact sometimes with several at one time. She wanted to know if that would be ok in our relationship.
I asked her if this was just a fantasy of hers. She responded that she first tried sex with multiple guys while in high school and still liked it from time-to-time. She brought it up because she wanted to know if I would be interested in that.
A.I.D.S. was a huge issue at the time. And I had children. Due to her having a directly stated penchant for group sex, I decided not to see her anymore. It put my head back on straight. That was the last conversation we had.
Julie never said anything about being sexually assaulted, raped, gang-raped or having sex against her will. She never mentioned Brett Kavanaugh in any capacity.
Responding to the letter, Avenatti called Ketterer’s claims nothing more than “garbage” and sign of desperation from the Republicans. “The allegations he makes are false and without any basis,” he tweeted. “We demand that the FBI interview my client & him, and that anyone found to have submitted false info be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”
In a sworn statement, Swetnick alleged she attended house parties in Maryland during the 1980s, attended by Kavanaugh and friend Mark Judge. According to Swetnick, she claims to have become aware of instances in which Kavanaugh spiked punch bowls and alcohol and quaaludes for the purpose of targeting inebriated women. Swetnick claims she was gang-raped at a gathering where Kavanaugh and Judge were present.
MSNBC aired a 10-minute story Monday about reporter Kate Snow’s interview with Julie Swetnick, with an excerpt on NBC’s Nightly News. The interview was a continued topic of conversation — and further reporting — in the following days. In her story, Snow pointed out differences between what Swetnick told her and the affidavit released earlier by her lawyer, Michael Avenatti. For instance, Swetnick in her previous statement had accused Kavanaugh and his friends of “spiking” the punch at parties with drugs or grain alcohol so girls would lose their inhibitions. In the interview, Swetnick said she saw Kavanaugh standing near the punch but didn’t see him or friend Mark Judge spike it.
Swetnick also walked back allegations that Kavanaugh and other boys at the party waited their turn to “gang rape” girls who had been drugged. She told Snow she had no specific knowledge that this was happening. She did say that she was “violated” by boys at one party but couldn’t say whether Kavanaugh was involved. She said she contacted the Montgomery County, Maryland, police about it; when NBC contacted the police to ask if there were any records, they said it could take up to a month to find them.
The morning after the interview, Snow said Swetnick provided the names of four people she said she went to some of these parties with. One of these friends is dead, and one said he does not recall a Julie Swetnick. Two others had not returned NBC’s inquiries before the story aired and still had not on Tuesday, the network said.
Hours after it aired, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity that NBC was a “co-conspirator” in Kavanaugh’s destruction. He said NBC News would never have done the story if the nominee were a Democrat.
“Their journalistic integrity has been destroyed over this case,” Graham said.
As previously reported, Swetnick has an extensive history of involvement in legal disputes, including a lawsuit in which an ex-employer accused her of falsifying her college and work history on her job application. Legal documents from Maryland, Oregon, and Florida provide a partial picture of a woman who stepped into the media glare amid the battle over Kavanaugh’s nomination for the nation’s highest court.
Further, court records show Swetnick has been involved in at least six legal cases over the past 25 years. Along with the lawsuit filed by a former employer in November 2000, the cases include a personal injury suit she filed in 1994 against the Washington, D.C., regional transit authority.
Despite her past legal troubles, Avenatti claimed he “fully vetted” Swetnick before helping her take her claims against Kavanaugh public.
Avenatti released a sworn statement by Swetnick in which she says she witnessed Kavanaugh “consistently engage in excessive drinking and inappropriate contact of a sexual nature with women in the early 1980s.” In the statement provided to the committee, Swetnick alleged she had been sexually assaulted at a party attended by members of Kavanaugh’s social circle, but did not accuse him of assaulting her.
Swetnick was the third named Kavanaugh accuser to emerge when Avenatti released details of her accusations on Twitter on the eve of Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony.
Kavanaugh denied the claims made by Swetnick and other women, characterizing the allegations as a “joke” and a “farce.”
Swetnick, who is from the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C., has claimed she is willing to be interviewed by either Congress or the FBI.
Some details of the legal disputes she’s been involved in aren’t known, because documents in the cases are incomplete or no longer available. Records in the lawsuit filed in late 2000 by her ex-employer, Oregon-based software company Webtrends, don’t indicate why it was dismissed. Avenatti said there was a settlement in the case but no money changed hands.
In its civil complaint in a state court in Oregon, the company said Swetnick, a software engineer, was an employee for a few weeks before its human resources department received a report that she had engaged in “unwelcome sexual innuendo and inappropriate conduct” toward two male co-workers at a business lunch.
The lawsuit said that Swetnick in turn accused Webtrends of subjecting her to “physically and emotionally threatening and hostile conditions” and that she claimed that she’d been sexually harassed by four co-workers. The co-workers denied the allegations, the suit said.
Company officials later determined, the suit said, that Swetnick had provided false information on her employment application. The suit alleged that she had misrepresented the length of time she worked at a previous employer and falsely claimed that she’d earned an undergraduate degree in biology and chemistry from Johns Hopkins University.
Swetnick was on the other side of a civil case in 1994, as a plaintiff, when she filed a personal injury lawsuit in Maryland against the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. She claimed she lost more than $420,000 in earnings after she hurt her nose in a fall on a train in 1992.
Swetnick, who described herself in court records as a model and actor, claimed she had “numerous modeling commitments” with several companies at the time of the accident but missed out them because of her injuries.
To support her claim for lost wages, Swetnick named “Konam Studios” as one of the companies promising to employ her. A court filing identified Nam Ko, a representative of “Kunam Studios,” as a possible plaintiff’s witness for her case.
However, Ko said he was just a friend of Swetnick’s and that he had never owned a company with a name spelled either way and had never agreed to pay her money for any work before she injured her nose. He said he first met Swetnick at a bar more than a year after her alleged accident.
“I didn’t have any money back then. I (was) broke as can be,” Ko said.
Ko said he has a hazy memory of Swetnick asking to use him as a “character reference” but doesn’t recall hearing about her lawsuit. “I thought it was for a job application,” he said.
The paperwork filed in the suit includes a letter addressed to Swetnick’s attorney from Richard Zamora, who is identified as a marketing executive from a San Jose, California-based company called Fiber Sign Inc. In the letter, dated March 1994, Zamora said the company had been prepared to hire Swetnick as a model and spokeswoman and pay her a $60,000 base salary but offered the job to someone else after learning of her accident.
Zamora later asked a court in Florida for a restraining order against Swetnick. The remaining court records don’t show the reasons he gave for asking for the restraining order, but indicate that the case was dropped less than two weeks later when neither party appeared in court.
Avenatti said the request for a restraining order was “nonsense.”
Court records show Swetnick’s lawsuit against the transit agency was dismissed in 1997 after a settlement was reached. Vincent Jankoski, one of the lawyers who defended the agency, said the case was resolved without paying Swetnick any money after she failed to provide documentation supporting her lost-wage claims.
While “Mean Girls Day” is being marked Wednesday in reference to a mention of Oct. 3 in the popular 2004 cult movie, the parents of a former Seneca Valley High School student claim in a federal lawsuit filed this week that their teenage son was terrorized by false accusations made by five “mean girls” at the school.
Michael J. and Alecia Flood of Zelienople, Butler County, the parents of a teenage boy identified in the lawsuit as T.F., seek unspecified civil damages against the girls’ parents, the school district and Butler County District Attorney Richard Goldinger’s office. The lawsuit, which includes the term “mean girls,” alleges they “conspired in person and via electronic communication devices to falsely accuse T.F. of sexual assault on two occasions.”
Neither Goldinger nor Seneca Valley school officials returned calls seeking comment.
The 26-page lawsuit — filed in Pittsburgh on the eve of Mean Girls Day — alleges that T.F. “was forced to endure multiple court appearances, detention in a juvenile facility, detention at home, the loss of his liberty and other damages until several of the girls reluctantly admitted that their accusations were false” this summer.
The lawsuit contends T.F. was bullied on multiple occasions by classmates. In one example, the lawsuit said students last year placed masking tape with the word “PREDATOR” written on it on his back without his knowledge during choir practice.
The lawsuit alleges the boy was further damaged from “gender bias” by school officials and Goldinger’s office, which even after learning the girls’ accusations were false “did not take any action against the females involved,” said attorney Craig Fishman of Pittsburgh, who represents the Floods.
“(T.F.) was basically being tortured in school by the other students and investigators, but the administration was only focused on protecting the girls who were lying,” Fishman said. “Once the allegations were proven false, they really didn’t care one bit about T.F. and there has been absolutely no repercussions against the girls.”
The teen boy is being home-schooled, Fishman said.
According to the lawsuit, the first allegation occurred in July 2017 at an area swimming pool where T.F. worked as a lifeguard with then Seneca Valley High School graduate Megan Villegas, who is the only teenage defendant named in the lawsuit. The others are minors and are referred to only by initials, Fishman said.
Villegas could not be reached for comment.
The lawsuit contends T.F. was charged with sexually assaulting a girl identified in the lawsuit as K.S. on the pool premises, and Villegas corroborated the K.S. claim by saying she was present during the alleged assault.
“T.F. was fired at the pool,” Fishman said.
In a tape-recorded interview with school officials in 2017, the lawsuit alleges K.S. said she made the sexual assault claim against T.F. because “I just don’t like him.”
“I just don’t like to hear him talk. … I don’t like to look at him,” K.S. reportedly disclosed in the recorded interview obtained by Fishman.
On Oct. 2, 2017, K.S. told fellow students “that she would do anything to get T.F. expelled … and accused T.F. of sexual assault” with school officials, the lawsuit states. T.F. was subsequently charged in juvenile court with indecent assault and two counts of harassment.
The Floods eventually agreed in late 2017 to a consent decree where he would not admit guilt but was required to stay out of trouble for six months and report to the county probation department.
In March, another girl — identified as C.S. and a friend of K.S. — reported to a school counselor that the boy had walked into her home uninvited and sexually assaulted her. The allegations were supported by information from two other girls, identified as E.S. and H.R., according to the lawsuit.
On April 9, Zelienople police charged T.F. with indecent assault, criminal trespass and simple assault.
“On April 10, T.F. was removed from class at Seneca Valley High School and placed in leg and wrist shackles by the Jackson Township Police with the assistance of Juvenile Probation Officer Michael Trego,” the lawsuit said.
Trego testified at a hearing that T.F. was a threat to the community, and the teenager had to spend nine days in a juvenile detention center before being released on home-electronic monitoring.
“After 28 days, T.F. was only allowed out of his home to mow his lawn,” the lawsuit contends.
During the case, T.F. was told by school officials he could not play baseball “because every time he was wearing a Seneca Valley jersey, he was representing a school.”
According to the lawsuit, the criminal complaints against the boy began to unravel in May when three of the witnesses admitted they had lied.
On Aug. 30, Goldinger’s office sought an order dismissing all charges against T.F. filed for the March allegation because of the false reports, according to court documents. On Sept. 10, the charges in connection with the 2017 swimming pool incident were ordered closed, according to the lawsuit.
“The Butler County District Attorney’s office promised to file a petition to expunge the record of T.F. in September, but has not yet done so, providing further evidence of gender-based discrimination. The (district attorney) has refused to file criminal charges against K.S., Villegas, C.S., E.S. and H.R. due to gender-based discrimination,” the lawsuit states.
The lawsuit claims school officials have repeatedly refused to mark the academic records of the girls who lied about the assaults.
“T.F. has had psychological trauma because of all this. He’s had to see a psychologist to deal with the physical symptoms which are the direct result of being accused of something when he did not do anything wrong,” Fishman said.
Paul Peirce is a Tribune-Review staff writer. You can contact Paul at 724-850-2860, ppeirce@tribweb.com or via Twitter @ppeirce_trib.
The most effective mentors are people with a wealth of professional experience, those already in leadership positions. More often than not, that means they’re men. “Male mentors are particularly important, as men typically have more power than women in most organizations,” Ragins points out.
There’s just one small problem: all too often, men aren’t comfortable taking female protégés under their wings. That’s the conclusion reached by Sylvia Ann Hewlett, CEO of the Centre for Talent Innovation. “Our research shows that some 64% of senior men avoid solo interactions with junior women because they fear rumours about their motives,” she says.
And that was before the #MeToo revolution. What started out as a hashtash used by actresses to highlight sexual abuse in Hollywood quickly spread, exposing male predators in just about every industry. While many male allies saw the movement as an opportunity to listen and better understand how they could help, some men had a different reaction, instead deciding it was safer to limit contact with their female colleagues. Fears of a backlash that would reverse all progress have quickly spread.
According to this report, The World Economic Forum is an independent international organization committed to improving the state of the world by engaging the foremost political, business and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas—and one of whose major efforts for the past 30 years has been the equalizing of highly trained workers with global companies needing their skills.
With Russian engineering graduates being some of the most sought after due to their rigorous training and fluency in English, this report says, their acceptance rate for internships within the world’s largest engineering firms has remained exceptionally high for the past two decades, and remained undiminished even as unconstrained Russian hysteria turned the United States into a virtual lunatic asylum after the 2016 election of President Donald Trump.
Last year, however, this report notes, Russian engineering universities began reporting that their female graduates were being rejected for internships at American companies at an astronomical rate, but that the same didn’t apply to male graduates—thus prompting The World Economic Forum to begin an investigation, and whose shocking findings discovered that the #MeToo Movement was making US companies terrified to hire women—and whose report titled “#MeToo Is Having Unexpected Consequences For Working Women”, in part, stated:
Researchers have found mentors can help with everything from closing the gender gap in STEM subjects to getting more women into leadership roles.
In fact, for Belle Rose Ragins, a professor at the Lubar School of Business who has been studying workplace diversity for decades, mentoring could be one of the most effective ways of achieving equality at work. “Our research has found that mentoring is one of the main strategies used by women who have made their way to the top,” she explains. “Mentoring relationships are the chisels that help women break through the glass ceiling.”
The most effective mentors are people with a wealth of professional experience, those already in leadership positions. More often than not, that means they’re men. “Male mentors are particularly important, as men typically have more power than women in most organizations,” Ragins points out.
There’s just one small problem: all too often, men aren’t comfortable taking female protégés under their wings. That’s the conclusion reached by Sylvia Ann Hewlett, CEO of the Centre for Talent Innovation. “Our research shows that some 64% of senior men avoid solo interactions with junior women because they fear rumours about their motives,” she says.
And that was before the #MeToo revolution.
What started out as a hashtash used by actresses to highlight sexual abuse in Hollywood quickly spread, exposing male predators in just about every industry.
While many male allies saw the movement as an opportunity to listen and better understand how they could help, some men had a different reaction, instead deciding it was safer to limit contact with their female colleagues.
Fears of a backlash that would reverse all progress have quickly spread.
Fortunately, at least for Judge Kavanaugh, this report notes, Republican Party US Senator Susan Collins rose up against this #MeToo Movement insanity yesterday to proclaim, at least for her, that the standards of “innocence until proven guilty” and fairness still prevail in America, and at the end of her momentous speech on the floor of the US Senate before the entire peoples of America, saw her simply stating: “I Will Vote to Confirm Judge Kavanaugh”.
The worst nightmare of radical leftist #MeToo Movement Democrats comes true as tens-of-millions of women march to 2018 Midterm Election in support of Judge Kavanaugh and President Trump
American Rebels Win “Battle Of Kavanaugh Hill” As Bloodied Democrat Forces Retreat And Regroup At November Plain
7 October 2018
Hello Again Folks,
To say this has been a stressful month for everyone doesn’t even come close to what’s been happening, but I’d like to take a few minutes with you here to explain the context of what’s just happened—that is the circumstances that form the setting for an event, statement, or idea, and in terms of which it can be fully understood and assessed.
So, and firstly, let’s go back to the Spring of 1775, in a little thought of to the rest of world British Empire enclave in North America called the American colonies.
The British subjects living in these American colonies at this time had reached their breaking point because their King and government in London weren’t listening to them anymore—even worse were these people continually suffering indignity upon indignity on both themselves and their families by a King and government who couldn’t care less about them, taxed them to the point of poverty, and was preparing to take all of their guns away.
These British subjects had formed themselves into various groups their King and government in London called rebels, and whose various names included “Sons of Liberty” and “Minutemen”.
On the evening of 18 April 1775, over 700 regular army British troops marched out of Boston towards the Massachusetts colony villages of Lexington and Concord to begin the confiscation of guns from the King’s subjects living there—but the peoples of these villages were given advanced warning, formed themselves into their Minutemen militias, and on the morning of 19 April 1775, met these British troops on a bridge where “the shot heard round the world” was fired after a British major yelled, “Throw down your arms! Ye villains, ye rebels!”
As Hillary Clinton was reminded so famously during her 2016 election campaign, the hardscrabble people living in America can take and suffer many indignities at the hands of those who rule over them—BUT DON’T EVER DARE CALL THEM NAMES!!!—as these people will rise up and fight you with everything they’ve got—and that the British soon realized when they surrendered to these American Rebels a few short years later.
On 19 April 1775, the British army learns what happens when you call the American people disparaging names and treat them like dirt
On the morning of 16 September 2018, Democrat Party aligned “Deep State” shadow government forces launched an unprovoked attack on US Federal Judge Brett Kavanaugh, who was President Trump’s nominee to the US Supreme Court—but whose gravest tactical failure, like the British 243 years prior, was calling him a vile name—“rapist”—and that then ignited “The Battle of Kavanaugh Hill”.
First to take the field in “The Battle of Kavanaugh Hill” were the powerful forces of The New York Times and Washington Post, who were then followed by the equally powerful forces of NBC News, CBS News, ABC News, MSNBC News, CNN News, Huffington Post, London’s Guardian, Vox News Service, The Daily Beast (to just name a few), and all the forces Google, Facebook and Twitter could muster, too.
I’ll admit that the “eye-searing” comment the Guardian made about us hurts me a little because of its meanness, but when considering its source, it’s a badge of honor I’ll wear proudly—and the reason is because their knowing, but not telling their readers, that the battle waged against Kavanaugh has an actual name—“Nuts and Sluts”.
First coined by President Bill Clinton political operative James “Ragin’ Cajun” Carville, the term “Nuts and Sluts” is a vile tactic to smear and destroy someone these despicable human beings have targeted—and in this battle was Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s rape accusation that was supposed to create the kind of uproar that would have Kavanaugh withdraw well before any of the dots could be connected by Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley and others.
After uncovering and connecting these “dots” being kept hidden by the mainstream media forces, however, WhatDoesItMean was quickly joined on the field of battle by American patriot rebel sites Townhall.com, ZeroHedge,RumorMillNews, TheGatewayPundit, TheDailyCaller and NaturalNews—to just name a few of the fast dwindling Christian, conservative and libertarian sites under constant attack and censorship still engaged in this epic struggle for the very soul of America against godless enemies.
And, as unbelievable as it really is, our rag tag forces of good, truth and honesty, only being able to survive by the good will of the American patriot rebel forces that support us, won “The Battle of Kavanaugh Hill”, yesterday, against all of the multi-billions-of-dollars backed mainstream media establish enemy forces arrayed against us!
President Donald Trump signs document ascending Judge Brett Kavanaugh to US Supreme Court on 6 October 2018
US Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. administers Constitutional Oath to the Honorable Brett M. Kavanaugh on 6 October 2018
Though “The Battle of Kavanaugh Hill” was, beyond all doubt, a resounding and historic victory for American patriot rebel forces, you must keep in mind that this war is FAR FROM OVER—in fact, and even as I write these words, these “Deep State” aligned Democrat forces are in full retreat to the “November Plain” where the next great battle will take place in just one month’s time—and whose actual meaning is the 2018 Midterm Election occurring in the United Stateson 6 November.
In the days and weeks leading up to “The Battle of the November Plain”, I can assure you with absolute certainty that our demonic enemies are preparing to throw everything they have against us—but I can, also, assure you even more that the Sisters of Sorcha Faal are prepared to meet whatever comes at you with everything they’ve got, too—as will countless other American patriot rebel sites who know the full magnitude of what’s occurring.
Thank you for listening and aiding us in our hour of desperate need, and, as always too, please feel free to write me at sorchafaal@fastmail.fm with any comments/questions/suggestions, and remembering to put ATTN: BRIAN in the subject line.
On 6 October, this report continues, a demonically enraged New York Times (the official “newspaper of record” for the United States) published a terrifying “license to kill” article titled “White Women, Come Get Your People-They Will Defend Their Privilege To The Death”—wherein these radical “Deep State” leftists declared open warfare on all white women whom they claimed were supporting “white male privilege”.
With this New York Times-NBC News-CIA “license to kill” order against white women reverberating around the globe, this report grimly states, its first target was found yesterday in the rape and murder of white woman journalist Viktoria Marinova—who was labeled as an “Enemy of the Deep State” for her daring to support President Trump and exposing the crimes of his enemies in both the EU and US.
TVN Network battles through “enormous pain and insurmountable grief” to announce to the European Union the brutal rape and murder of Viktoria Marinova on 8 October 2018
To why the radical “Deep State” leftist forces in the United States have now declared open warfare against white women the world over, this report explains, is due to their stunning defeat in trying to prevent US Federal Judge Brett Kavanaugh, President Trump’s nominee for the US Supreme Court, from being confirmed—but even in whose defeat now sees the anti-TrumpCBS Network having one of their The Late Show With Stephen Colbert writers demonically proclaiming about Kavanaugh with sadistic glee “I’m just glad we ruined his life”.
“And we’re going to make YOU PAY, no matter how many of your husbands, sons and fathers we have to falsely accuse of sex crimes until we destroy you once and for all!”
Terror Strike Kills 20 After Chlorine Gas Bomb Explodes In New York State Limousine
By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers
A seemingly routine new Security Council (SVR) report circulating in the Kremlin today authorizing the Ministry of Defense (MoD) to deploy chemical weapons experts to work on an investigation being headed by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) takes a shocking and unexpected turn by its noting that this investigative inquiry is solely focused on a mysterious incident occurring in New York State, on 6 October, that killed 20 people said to have died in an accident that barely damaged the limousine they were riding in—and whose owner of, Shahid Hussain, is a long known AQIS al-Qaeda terrorist familiar with how to make and use chlorine gas bombs. [Note: Some words and/or phrases appearing in quotes in this report are English language approximations of Russian words/phrases having no exact counterpart.]
Barely damaged New York State limousine with no broken windows (above) preposterously claimed to have killed 20 people
(L-R): Sisters Allison King, Abby Jackson, Mary Dyson and Amy Steenburg were among the 20 victims
To the current working hypothesis compiled by the SVR about this mysterious limousine assassination plot that killed 20 Americans, this report concludes, is that in no way whatsoever could these deaths have occurred due to blunt force trauma in the vehicle itself, as the physical damage that would have had to occur in such a vehicle crash would be beyond catastrophic, and would have left it in literal pieces—but whose most likely explanation is that these deaths occurred from a timed chorine gas bomb attached to this vehicles’ ventilation system that would have incapacitated everyone instantly, and left them dead in less than 2 minutes, and that all traces of (except in the victims lungs) would dissipate when this vehicles doors would have been opened by emergency personal—and whose most obvious reason for was to present President Trump with an horrific terrorist attack just weeks before his nation’s critical election that he’d be blamed for—but that couldn’t have been accomplished without the full knowing of “Deep State” elements with the FBI, who are currently battling Trump to the death as more of their vile crimes are being exposed by the day.
Two decades ago, the media weren’t obsessed with Chinese interference in a presidential election.
This summer we mark the 20th anniversary of a major investigation by Congress of attempts by a hostile foreign power to influence an American presidential election.
I’m glad the news media is pursuing the Trump–Russia scandal, but let’s not forget the differences between how they are covering Russia compared with how they reported a similar story — this one involving Communist China — that developed during Bill Clinton’s 1996 reelection campaign. The Washington Post reported in 1998 that “evidence gathered in federal surveillance intercepts has indicated that the Chinese government planned to increase China’s influence in the U.S. political process in 1996.”
Many people still believe that a major cover-up of that scandal worked — in part because the media expressed skepticism and devoted only a fraction of resources they are spending on the Trump–Russia story. Network reporters expressed outright skepticism of the story, with many openly criticizing the late senator Fred Thompson, the chair of the Senate investigating committee, for wasting time and money. On June 17, 1997, Katie Couric, then the Today co-anchor, asked the Washington Post’s Bob Woodward about the story: “Are members of the media, do you think, Bob, too scandal-obsessed, looking for something at every corner?”
According to an analysis by the Media Research Center, the news coverage of the congressional hearings on the China scandal in the summer of 1997 were dwarfed by reports on the murder of fashion designer Gianni Versace and the death of Princess Diana.
The Chinese fundraising scandal involving DNC finance vice chairman John Huang first came to light in the final weeks of the 1996 presidential campaign. A former Commerce Department official, Huang was a top fundraiser who scooped up suspect foreign cash for Team Clinton.
Russian intelligence fears grow after Hillary Clinton (right) receives “acid throwing” briefing from police forces under the command of Mayor of London Sadiq Khan (left)
Acid throwing attacks themselves, this report explains, are a form of violent assault defined as the act of throwing acid or a similarly corrosive substance onto the body of another with the intention to disfigure, maim, torture, or kill—and in past modern times was confined to the Indian subcontinent where this criminal practice was most often carried out against women marrying outside of their caste.
If you think these radical leftist mobs were just joking around when they declared war on America, you’re about to be rudely awakened to how fearfully true it really is!
Some people have asked about the computer projections for a tremendous increase in civil violence. There is absolutely no resolution to the great divide that has unfolded politically. The Democrats advocate violence as Hillary clearly states. She says that civility can ONLYreturn when the Democrats take back the government. Clearly, this is throwing down the gauntlet that it shall be their way or no way. This is the end of Democracy for what she is saying is there is to be none.
Back at the beginning of the current Private Wave on the Economic Confidence Model in 1985, I warned that we would face a Crisis in Democracy. It would begin as the government loses power over the economy and the people, it first becomes more abusive. We have been gradually witnessing this trend with the hunt for taxes.
The next stage is the violence. This is what will carry us into the peak of 2032. By that time, the hatred we are witnessing today drawn on political lines is simply that what will happen is all civility vanishes and this will build into violence and end in civil war. Unfortunately, this is not my OPINION. It is simply a correlation of trends that repeat throughout history.
Hillary is effectively advocating the destruction of the United States. She has simply stated bluntly that democracy will no longer be tolerated unless the Democrats win and then subjugate the opposition. She just can not see what she is doing.
So welcome to the new reality of where this madness is going. The embattled Supreme Court nominee secured 50 votes in the Senate and was sworn in as Justice Brett Kavanaugh. The Democrats knew that they would lose so they turned the appointment into a dramatic confrontation that was so outrageous at this point NOBODY in their right mind would ever again throw their hat into the ring. This was all staged and it is intended to be taken all the way into 2020. My live sources say the strategy will make Kavanaugh as a poster child and they will label him as a rapist from here on out.
We have crossed the line. There is no going back. We will now face the Decline & Fall of the United States and this is part of the shift of the Financial Capital of the world to China after 2032. When I lived in New Jersey, at the home next door, a bitter divorce took place. The wife refused to agree with anything and even refused to sign their taxes. The house had been on the market and was under contract for $2.6 million. She refuse4d to sign just to spite her husband. The IRS seized the house, put it up for auction, and sold it for $750,000. Her bitterness wiped out her own future. This is what is taking place on a national level.
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QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; You have worked with politicians worldwide and both sides. What is your opinion of the politics that has emerged post-Great Depression?
LM
ANSWER: The major difference between the socialism supported by the Democrats/Labour in Western Society is that to them the individual has no value, it is the collective society, which they then elevate themselves to rule. Conservatives believe in the individual has rights and value and that the state is to serve the people. In the eyes of socialism, it is not the individual but the collective society which is the value and they are qualified to rule from above. The socialist always seeks to control others and in so doing, the individual is always sacrificed for the collective state. It is not what your country can do for you personally, it is the teaching that you as the individual are to be sacrificed for the greater good of the whole which is controlled by the politicians – i.e. former the Soviet Union.
Nevertheless, the socialist always pretend that they are on your side. They have flipped everything upside down. Your personal well being is only possible by surrendering your individuality to the state. It is what they have done with Death Insurance. The insurance companies could not sell Death Insurance, so the reversed it and called it Life Insurance. Like fire insurance protects against fire, life insurance does not protect you from living forever. They reversed the label to make you feel proud how much Death Insurance you own. Socialist did the exact same thing. They get people to surrender their individuality to the state and always blame the rich when your quality of life declines.
Keep in mind that career politicians even on the right also support the government against the individual. Thomas Paine in Common Sense took the position. “Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first a patron, the last a punisher.”
This to me is the ultimate struggle. We are talking about our freedom which the Founding Fathers made clear – it was to be We the People, not the people as economic slaves to support the state as the tax burden constantly always rises. The average person pays about 50% of their income to support the government on all levels. When politicians want more, they point to the rich but amazingly taxes always rise for everyone. They have never taxed the rich and lowered taxes for everyone else.
Just look at Venezuela. A country with the highest oil reserves turned left and its people are starving, fleeing the country, and retired people’s pension will buy them perhaps one cup of coffee. Meanwhile. identical to what they found in Russia after the collapse of the government, those in power live lavishly and never starve. The people are outraged by the latest story of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro dining on expensive steak at a “Salt Bae” restaurant in Istanbul during a stop-off returning from a visit to China. Red meat is a rare luxury.
You cannot pursue personal security and happiness when you are subservient to the State. Civilization was not created to make economic slaves out of the people to serve the state. This is why the Founding Father prohibited DIRECT TAXES, which the socialists in the rising era of Marxism embraced at the start of the 20th century. Career Republicans do not support this position either for they have indeed confounded society with themselves and have lost sight of what was the original spirit of freedom.
Once they created the income tax, every individual was now required to account to the state what they possessed and what they did. Since then, all we have are laws that constantly remove our freedoms because they assume we are all hiding money. They constantly lower the definition of the “rich” from $5 million in 1940 to now $250,000 and made it total household income not even individual.
It is now money laundering to keep cash in a safe deposit box for the new interpretation is hiding money from the government is a crime even if you paid your tax. We have Australian boasting “Cash is for Criminals” and they now follow your children to school and interrogate the school how you pay for your children. All of these laws, including confiscating cash when you travel, are all justified because the collective society is more important than the individual.
I am glad I am personally closer to my expiration date for this life than my birth. I feel sorry for my family who I will leave behind because they will NEVER know the freedom that I grew up under. With each passing year, we lose more and more of our human rights and individual security. This can only end in civil war as it has always done throughout history when these two philosophies confront each other. One just wants to be left alone and the other cannot sleep at night if others have what they do not. Their interpretation of “We the People” is the collective state comes before the individual.
Unfortunately, go to the far left and the far right and you end up at the same place for different reasons. We do not seem to just find a middle ground and cling to it. It seems as if history just is compelled to repeat endlessly in bloodshed. Giving 1/10th of our income to support a government is reasonable – 50% is unreasonable. John Stuart Mills in his On Liberty concluded that the only reason government has any right to deprive a citizen of their liberty is to protect another. Today, less than 4% of the people in prison are there for violence. Mueller’s prosecutions are all about taxes.
Well, this one is off the standard blogging path (sort of), although it relates to some images and terms I have seen floating around the 8chan Q posts and so on. I’ve seen “Pepe the Frog”, and really had no idea where this all came from. I’ve also seen the phrase “KEK“, which I found out is an alternative way of writing “lol” (Laughing out Loud). But I never really knew where these things came from, until I was pointed to this article.
This is one story I found absolutely “fascinating”… Perhaps others will feel the same.
“Pepe the Frog is, in fact, the modern-day avatar of an ancient Egyptian deity accidentally resurrected by online imageboard culture. Does that sound like the most b@tsh#t crazy thing you’ve ever heard?
“…sometime around 2010, a sad-looking cartoon frog began to trend among posters on 4chan.org and similar “underground” imageboards. Shortly after, the age-old piece of online vernacular used to express laughter—”LOL”—fell out of favor on these sites. In its place a new slang term of synonymous meaning rose to common use: “KEK.”
“The origins of this trend are much more important. It comes from an odd technicality involving the Korean language and the popular video game World of Warcraft.
“…the 2016 Election… By this time, Pepe the Frog had become the unofficial mascot for 4chan’s political discussion board (a highly despised corner of the Internet fittingly entitled “Politically Incorrect”)… /Pol/ is a place where the unspoken outsiders of Millennial culture gather en masse. Here you’ll find the lonely and depressed, the socially inept, the generational dropouts, and all shades of disenfranchised youth—every one of them united with an unshakable underdog mentality…
“when Donald J. Trump strolled onto the political scene in 2015, it was a match made in heaven. He immediately became /pol/’s candidate of choice. And it wasn’t long before Trump was mated with /pol/’s beloved mascot, in typical imageboard fashion:
“Every post on 4chan and similar venues comes with an 8-digit numerical stamp. This number represents that post’s entry position in the entire posting lineage of the imageboard. With the amount of traffic these sites get, the last couple digits of this number are essentially a random roll. When a poster gets repeated digits, its called “dubs”, “trips”, “quads”, and so on.
“Out of this practice, a strange phenomenon began to take place on /pol/: discussion threads associated with Trump displayed noticeably frequent GETs. [double digits]… Soon, it became all the rage on /pol/ to hail Trump as nothing less than god’s chosen candidate.
“…it turns out Kek is also—and always has been—an ancient Egyptian deity… A frog-headed one… Kuk’s [Kek’s] male form was depicted as a frog, or as a frog-headed man… As a symbol of darkness, Kuk also represented obscurity and the unknown, and thus chaos. Also, Kuk [Kek] was seen as that which occurred before light, thus was known as the bringer-in of light.
“[It] all… came to a head on September 11th, 2016, when three major, mind-blowing events transpired within 48 hours of each other. Three events that would change the face of Kek worship forever: [1] Hillary Clinton fainted or nearly fainted in New York. The overwhelming sentiment of /Pol/ —still reeling from the event—is captured two days later… [2] Hillary Clinton literally declares Pepe the Frog an enemy of the state with paper-thin reasoning… [3] Kek/Pepe’s musical anthem is discovered on YouTube… one or a few anonymous 4chan contributors discovered an old track from the 80’s on YouTube. A track stamped all over with a very familiar face… A B-side vinyl by performer “P. E. P. E.”, sporting a frog with a magic wand.
“Okay, What The Hell Is Going On? Most likely? Chaos Magick. You see, one of the core tenets of Chaos Magick practice (the only mainstay, really) is the creation of magic sigils (also called “glyphs”) to “codify and project one’s Will into the Universe.” Basically, you make an image that represents your “will” (desire fueled by powerful emotions or altered states) and the universe will take care of the rest.”
The precise origins of Pepe the Frog are, like all imageboards memes, obscure and unimportant.
All you really need to know is that sometime around 2010, a sad-looking cartoon frog began to trend among posters on 4chan.org and similar “underground” imageboards.
Shortly after, the age-old piece of online vernacular used to express laughter—”LOL”—fell out of favor on these sites.
In its place a new slang term of synonymous meaning rose to common use: “KEK.”
And so, just like that, two seemingly unrelated elements that would later give life to a deity were arranged in piecemeal fashion. But they remained dormant for several years, up until…
Donald Trump and the 2016 Election
By this time, Pepe the Frog had become the unofficial mascot for 4chan’s political discussion board (a highly despised corner of the Internet fittingly entitled “Politically Incorrect”).
/Pol/ is a place where the unspoken outsiders of Millennial culture gather en masse. Here you’ll find the lonely and depressed, the socially inept, the generational dropouts, and all shades of disenfranchised youth—every one of them united with an unshakable underdog mentality that pervades the forum’s every kilobyte.
To call this place a “white nationalist” or “alt-right” message board is categorically incorrect. /Pol/, above all else, is place where our society’s status quo is mercilessly challenged. It’s a melting pot for well-meaning free thinkers and misguided mad men alike.
It is a place of chaos.
So when Donald J. Trump strolled onto the political scene in 2015, it was a match made in heaven. He immediately became /pol/’s candidate of choice.
And it wasn’t long before Trump was mated with /pol/’s beloved mascot, in typical imageboard fashion:
And then, something very strange began to happen…
The Digits Declare a Deity
One last thing you need to understand about imageboard culture: dubs.
Every post on 4chan and similar venues comes with an 8-digit numerical stamp. This number represents that post’s entry position in the entire posting lineage of the imageboard.
With the amount of traffic these sites get, the last couple digits of this number are essentially a random roll. When a poster gets repeated digits, its called “dubs”, “trips”, “quads”, and so on.
Since a poster can’t know their post number until after they’ve submitted the post, its common for people to “bet” the contents of their message on the occurrence of repeating digits, like so:
When that endeavor proves a successful, a “GET” has been made and the stroke of luck is celebrated.
Out of this practice, a strange phenomenon began to take place on /pol/: discussion threads associated with Trump displayed noticeably frequent GETs.
It wasn’t long before all of these seemingly random elements discussed so far became irreparably tied together within imageboard culture:
Pepe the Frog (now /pol/’s unofficial mascot)
Donald Trump (/pol/’s overwhelming candidate of choice)
Repeating digit post numbers (“GETS”)
“KEK” (used as an expression of delight, particular in response to Trump’s “trolling” of the establishment, as well as in reaction to unlikely GETs in general)
…and a god was born.
Here’s Where It Starts To Get Weird: The Queer Coincidence of Kek
Soon, it became all the rage on /pol/ to hail Trump as nothing less than god’s chosen candidate.
But which god’s chosen candidate exactly?
The answer is obvious: Kek.
Remember how we learned that “kek” the meme came about from an obscure Korean language onomatopoeia, completely independently from Pepe the Frog?
Well, it turns out Kek is also—and always has been—an ancient Egyptian deity…
A frog-headed one.
Quite the coincidence, wouldn’t you say? “A little,” perhaps you reply.
“A little” indeed, but that’s just the very tip of the synchronicity iceberg. That’s just where this unfathomable string of “coincidences” begins. And where it ends? We just don’t know. Day by day this all getting stranger…
Kuk (also spelled as Kek or Keku) is the deification of the primordial concept of darkness in ancient Egyptian religion…
…Like all four dualistic concepts in the Ogdoad, Kuk’s male form was depicted as a frog, or as a frog-headed man, and the female form as a snake, or a snake-headed woman. As a symbol of darkness, Kuk also represented obscurity and the unknown, and thus chaos. Also, Kuk was seen as that which occurred before light, thus was known as the bringer-in of light.
And who else, at this point, had been declared a “bringer of light” into the world by enthusiastic supporters (mainstream and imageboard alike)?
It gets even weirder.
The pot really started to boil when this bizarre misprint statuette was dug up from a mysterious vendor called “Ancient Treasures” on Amazon. For years the product had been coincidentally mislabeled a “KEK” statue, despite actually bearing the hieroglyphics for the frog goddess HEQET.
And ya know, the thing about this ONE unique arrangement of hieroglyphics…they bear an undeniable resemblance to a certain special something:
Do you see it?
A person sitting down. In front of a computer.
Like say, to post on an imageboard?
And what’s that on the other side of the computer?
With this “holy talisman’s” discovery, The Cult of Kek suddenly took on a concrete form. This new digital “faith” is summed up neatly in this image passed around on all the major imageboards of the day:
It Gets Weirder: Pepe/Keke “Emerges” in Plain Sight on September 11th, 2016
Soon, /pol/’s users were—quite ironically, at first—attributing all strokes of luck for the Trump campaign (and likewise, all strokes of misfortune for the Hillary campaign) to their benevolent frog-headed deity that spoke to them in dubs.
But all of that came to a head on September 11th, 2016, when three major, mind-blowing events transpired within 48 hours of each other. Three events that would change the face of Kek worship forever:
Here’s the short version: Pepe is a cartoon frog who began his internet life as an innocent meme enjoyed by teenagers and pop stars alike.
But in recent months, Pepe’s been almost entirely co-opted by the white supremacists who call themselves the “alt-right.” They’ve decided to take back Pepe by adding swastikas and other symbols of anti-semitism and white supremacy.
What can I or anyone else hope to add here? How bizarre does reality get? How deep does the rabbit hole go?
Oh, I see how deep…
(REALLY F#CKI’N WEIRD)Kek/Pepe’s musical anthem is discovered on YouTube:
Now get a load of this one.
While all of this was happening, one or a few anonymous 4chan contributors discovered an old track from the 80’s on YouTube. A track stamped all over with a very familiar face:
That’s right folks. A B-side vinyl by performer “P. E. P. E.”, sporting a frog with a magic wand.
A frog.
And what’s P. E. P. E. stand for?
Point
Emerging
Probably
Entering
“Probably.” What are sweet repeating digit GETs all about? Probability.
What is this “gist” of Kekism on /pol/? He speaks to them through dubs. Their ancient egyptian god of obscurity and chaos “emerges/enters” at “points” of “probability.”
Feel like that’s a stretch? Check out what the full-length vocal version’s album artwork is adorned with:
Don’t see the significance? Let 4chan help you:
(Again, note the post’s number)
And—hey—who’s that fair-haired man pointed towards Trump Tower’s clock in the artwork?
You see, one of the core tenets of Chaos Magick practice (the only mainstay, really) is the creation of magic sigils (also called “glyphs”) to “codify and project one’s Will into the Universe.”
Basically, you make an image that represents your “will” (desire fueled by powerful emotions or altered states) and the universe will take care of the rest.
When a lot of people pool their united willpower towards a single sigil, its called a Hypersigil, and its exponentially more potent.
Pepe/Kek is 4chan’s hypersigil.
Millions of the “little people” that browse 4chan have embedded the image of Pepe with their hatred for Hillary’s alleged corruption, and their hope for Trump’s victory over her in November. Whether they did this consciously or not, its exactly what has happened.
And so far, their hypersigil seems to be working.
Hold Up: You’re Seriously Telling Me Magic Is Real?
Absolutely I am. But you must understand, “magic” probably isn’t what you think it is. It’s not about wand-waving or pentagrams or sacrificing babies.
Magick is actually much less involved than that. As a matter of fact, you’re casting magick right now. You pretty much always are, whether you like it or not.
That’s because the REAL magic comes from plain and simple human attention. How you look at reality shapes it in ways that we’re only now beginning to fully understand. Ironically, the science of quantum physics is rapidly bringing the reality of magick to light (shadilay).
In my book You’re Imagining Things, I’ll tell you how it works–and WHY it works–in plain-spoken English. I’ll also explain how you can use your attention to alter your own little pocket of reality in extraordinary ways. Click here to check out You’re Imagining Things on Amazon.
So What Happens Next?
Most likely? Kek will continue to grow in power and continue to oppose Hillary Clinton and the corrupt political establishment. Will the Lord of Light win out over the powers that be? We shall find out very soon. (UPDATE 11/9/16: We found out what happened, didn’t we?)
This is awesome.
Yes.
What can I do to help?
Meme.
(And spread this around on social media.)
(And keep an eye on TheCultofKek.com for big things on the horizon.)
(More questions? Click the triangle at the bottom of the page.)
Cancer cells possess different electrical and chemical properties than normal cells.
In cancerous tissue the electrical potential of cell membranes is maintained at a lower level than that of healthy cells. Dr. Jerry Tennant says that at +30 millivolts we get cancer, a level of voltage where the polarity has shifted from negative to positive.
Dr. Merrill Garnett reports that all cancer cells have abnormal electron transfer systems and that normal cell development involves normal energy flows.
Dr. Steve Haltiwanger says,
“What is known is that in cancer changes in cell membrane structure, changes in membrane function, changes in cell concentrations of minerals, changes in cell membrane potential, changes in the electrical connections within the cells and between cells, and changes in cellular energy production all occur.”
Heavy metals and chemical toxins are capable of causing cancerous transformations because they affect the structure and function of the cell membrane and the mitochondria – disrupting the electrical potential of cell membranes and the structure of mitochondrial membranes, which ends up deactivating the electron transport chain and disturbing oxygen-dependent energy production.
Cells will then revert to fermentation, which is a less efficient primeval form of energy production.
The German cancer researcher Dr. Paul Gerhard Seeger found that cancer cells utilize only between 5 and 50% of the oxygen of normal cells. The virulence of cancer cells is directly proportional to their loss of oxygen utilization, and with this to the degree of blockage of the respiratory chain.
In 1957 Seeger successfully transformed normal cells into cancer cells within a few days by introducing chemicals that blocked the respiratory chain.
Seeger demonstrated in 1938 that in most cases cancer starts in the cytoplasm, the jelly-like outer part of the cell, and especially in the energy-producing mitochondria. Here food fragments are normally oxidized in a series of enzymatic steps called the ‘respiratory chain’.
Seeger showed that in cancer cells this respiratory chain was more or less blocked, especially at the site of the important enzyme cytochrome oxidase. Without it the cell can produce energy only anaerobically like a fungal cell.
This is very inefficient and the resulting overproduction of lactic acid makes the cell and the whole body overly acidic.
Cancer tumors not only have a low voltage but they go beyond that into a range that it is so low that they are stealing electrons from the surrounding tissues thus lowering their voltage-pulling them down into cancer as well.
A plus sign in front of the voltage number means that they have crossed a threshold, they have reversed polarity and have thus become the enemies of the healthy cells of the body. When our voltage goes down too far (even when still on the healthy negative side) we start to experience pain and sickness.
A reading of -15, -10, or even -5 can be experienced (as increasing pain) but it is not until they go down below zero and beyond to a +30, that cancer occurs.
A plus sign means they are stealing, hungry for electrons whereas a negative sign (normal) means cells have energy and electrons to give. The negative sign of the membrane potential indicates that the inside surface of the cell membrane is relatively more negative than the than the immediate exterior surface of the cell membrane. (1)
According to Seeger cancer cells become more electronegative as their membrane degenerate.
In the initial phase of carcinogenesis, the external cell membrane weakens and then the inner mitochondrial membrane, which alters the energy producing capacity forcing the cell into fermentation as an alternative source of energy.
The degenerative changes in the inner membrane of the mitochondria causes loss of anchorage of critical mitochondrial enzymes. The mitochondria in cancer cells degenerate and die off in large numbers.
When we add voltage to cells we improve cell membrane potentials and increase mitochondrial production of ATP, cell membrane permeability, production of proteins and as well as increase absorption of nutrients and elimination of cellular wastes.
pH, Voltage and Oxygen
Voltage circuits run through the nervous system and heart.
Body fluids, vessels, fascia and other connective tissues conduct electrical energy. When we have enough voltage, enough energy our body transports oxygen efficiently. All cells need a steady supply of oxygen to power their mitochondria, where more electrons are generated.
We can raise voltage in the body by directly imputing electrons to facilitate oxygen delivery, which of course raises energy levels and the health of all cells.
Research scientists from the Cancer Research UK-MRC Gray Institute for Radiation Oncology & Biology at the University of Oxford have discovered that oxygen makes cancer cells weak and less resistant to treatment.
Previously scientists have tried to cut off the blood (thus oxygen) thought to be fueling tumor growth.
The idea has been to starve and kill the tumor. When we use oxygen as a treatment it actually improves the blood vessels within the tumors thus increasing the concentration of oxygen present.
That is the same as saying low voltage stimulates tumor cell invasion and metastasis.
Sodium Bicarbonate, which increases tumor pH, inhibits spontaneous metastases. Basic scientific research confirms the benefits of using sodium bicarbonate in cancer treatment.
“The degree to which pH is depressed in tumors – as mirrored by their lactate levels – tends to correlate with prognosis, the more acidic tumors being associated with poorer outcome.
In part, this phenomenon may reflect the fact that tumor acidity is serving as a marker for HIF-1 activation, which works in a variety of complementary ways to boost tumor capacity for invasion, metastasis, angiogenesis, and chemo-resistance.
However, there is increasing evidence that extracellular acidityper se contributes to the aggressiveness of cancer cells, boosting extracellular proteolytic activities, expression of pro-angiogenic factors, and metastatic capacity.”
Cancer cells have a lower voltage and a lower pH than surrounding tissues. Our body’s pH and voltage will control the activity of every metabolic function happening in our body.
pH is behind the body’s electrical system and intracellular activity as well as the way our bodies utilize enzymes, minerals, and vitamins.
The link between voltage and cancer goes back to the late 1930s, when Dr. Harold Saxton Burr used a new-fangled device called a voltmeter to show that tumor tissue has different electrical properties from normal tissue.
In the early 1970s Dr. Clarence Cone, a biophysicist at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Virginia, traced this difference to a disparity in cell polarization, or how much more negatively charged the inside of a cell is compared with its outside.
Tumor cells, Cone found, are less polarized than normal cells, and he suggested that electric polarization might somehow be a regulator of cancer and other cell proliferation.
Tumorous cells (highlighted in red) have consistently lower voltages than healthy cells.
Dr. Michael Levin at Tufts University in Medford, MA, and doctoral student Brook Chernet have in recent years found persuasive evidence that Cone was right.
In their experiment, they injected messenger RNA that encodes human oncogenes – genes that can transform normal cells into tumor cells – into tadpoles. Next, they soaked the frog larvae in fluorescent dye.
This dye was voltage-sensitive, fluorescing more brightly when the cell polarization was greater.
Levin and Chernet did not know which tadpoles would develop tumors. However, as soon as a tadpole exhibited a dark patch of low fluorescence, indicating lowered cell polarization, the researchers segregated it from the others to monitor it.
They found that, over several days, such patches of lowered polarization nearly always developed into tumors, confirming the link between cell polarization and cancer.
Stop Cancer by Increasing Polarization of the Cells
Dr. Jerry Tennant says,
“We do not treat cancer. We do support patients with cancer to help get their nutrition, minerals, acid-base balance, etc. in as good a condition as possible.”
He also says,
“The reversal of polarity occurs in a battery in a circuit and the accompanying loss of oxygen with low voltage tells local stem cells to make a placenta (cancer) to attempt to correct the low voltage and oxygen via fermentation since there is inadequate oxygen to keep that organ functional.
The on switch for cancer is an accumulation of electron stealers in an acupuncture circuit; the off switch for cancer is removing the causes of low voltage and inserting enough electrons to reverse the polarity back to normal.”
According to researchers at Tufts University, the two phenomena – lowered polarization and tumor development – are connected by a straightforward chain of events.
Cells become polarized when there is an imbalance of the positive and negative ions that flow in and out of cells through channels in cell membranes.
Polarization itself regulates the operation of so-called transporter proteins, which pump signaling molecules through the channels.
Through their experiments, Levin and Chernet have found that a lowered polarization inhibits the function of a transporter protein that draws in the signaling molecule butyrate, which, through various enzymes, controls the expression of growth genes.
With less butyrate in the cell, these genes are free to instigate abnormally high, cancerous growth.
Levin is encouraging scientists to consider the possibility that tumor cells are not irrevocably damaged, at least not all of them, and other researchers have suggested the same.
Dr. Johanna Budwig‘s emphasis on ingesting quality lipids gives cell membranes the potential to heal and increase their voltage.
Conclusion
Surviving cancer is never going to be completely easy but is possible as long as one does all the right things.
The right things brought together into a meaningful protocol will yield the results we might expect from anything that declares itself to be a cure. It is foolish to declare any one substance or approach a cure when we can combine many powerful things starting with treating cancer with electrons – with pure energy.
The obvious way to stop cancer growth is to increase the polarization of the cells by adding voltage, alkalinity and oxygen.
The point is that we are talking in the most basic language of biological existence – of an axis of agents:
cell voltage (electrons as medicine)
pH (any agent that is alkalizing as medicine)
oxygen as medicine (which is needed for efficient metabolism)
…because it is an important key to raising pH, cell voltage and oxygen levels.
Wherever the body suffers from low oxygen conditions, we have disease and eventually cancer.
Wherever the body becomes acidic, voltage drops as does tissue oxygen levels.
What is pH after all? It is ultimately a measure of redox potential.
Redox potential is a measure of whether electrons are available in surplus (and thus are “electron donors”) or whether electrons are deficient (and thus are “electron stealers”).
Electrons are necessary for life and are needed for health and in high quantities for healing and the growth of new cells.
Cancer can be kept under control and even reversed by adding voltage, alkalinity and oxygen to healthy cells around tumors, which will help prevent healthy cells from deteriorating into cancer.
The immune system would benefit directly from voltage administration and this is bad news for cancer…
Treating cancer with the triad of voltage, alkalinity and oxygen is an interesting new approach because it treats the fundamental reasons cancer cells form and get aggressive.
What is most interesting is that voltage, alkalinity and oxygen levels track each other. They all increase or decrease together yet we can use treatment approaches that focus on each of the triads arms.
The most important factor in creating proper pH is increasing oxygen because no wastes or toxins can leave the body without first combining with oxygen. The more alkaline you are, the more oxygen your fluids can hold and keep.
Oxygen also buffers/oxidizes metabolic waste acids helping to keep you more alkaline.
The quickest way to increase oxygen and pH is through the administration of sodium bicarbonate and that is why bicarbonate has always been a mainstay emergency room and intensive care medicine.
Of course, when we increase oxygen and pH levels we are simultaneously increasing cellular voltage.
“The Secret of Life is both to feed and nourish the cells and let them flush their waste and toxins”, according to Dr. Alexis Carrell, Nobel Prize recipient in 1912.
Dr. Otto Warburg, also a Nobel Prize recipient, in 1931 and 1944, said,
“If our internal environment was changed from an acidic oxygen deprived environment to an alkaline environment full of oxygen, viruses, bacteria and fungus cannot live.”
Oxygen Disassociation Curve
The position of the oxygen disassociation curve (ODC) is influenced directly by pH, core body temperature and carbon dioxide pressure.
According to Warburg, it is the increased amounts of carcinogens, toxicity and pollution that cause cells to be unable to uptake oxygen efficiently. This is connected with over-acidity, which itself is created principally under low oxygen conditions.
“The strength with which oxygen binds to hemoglobin is affected by several factors. These factors shift or reshape the oxyhemoglobin dissociation curve.
A rightward shift indicates that the hemoglobin under study has a decreased affinity for oxygen.
This makes it more difficult for hemoglobin to bind to oxygen (requiring a higher partial pressure of oxygen to achieve the same oxygen saturation), but it makes it easier for the hemoglobin to release oxygen bound to it.
The effect of this rightward shift of the curve increases the partial pressure of oxygen in the tissues when it is most needed, such as during exercise, or hemorrhagic shock.
In contrast, the curve is shifted to the left by the opposite of these conditions.
This leftward shift indicates that the hemoglobin under study has an increased affinity for oxygen so that hemoglobin binds oxygen more easily, but unloads it more reluctantly.
Left shift of the curve is a sign of hemoglobin’s increased affinity for oxygen (e.g. at the lungs).
Similarly, right shift shows decreased affinity, as would appear with an increase in either body temperature, hydrogen ions, 2,3-bisphosphoglycerate (formerly named diphosphoglycerate, which is now considered incorrect) or carbon dioxide concentration.”
According to Annelie Pompe, a prominent mountaineer and world-champion free diver, alkaline tissues can hold up to 20 times more oxygen than acidic ones.
When our body cells and tissues are acidic (below pH of 6.5-7.0), they lose their ability to exchange oxygen. Increases of carbon dioxide, bicarbonates and electrons lead to increased oxygen.
Tumor cell differentiation, tumor hypoxia and low cellular pH and voltage affects gene expression, genetic stability, genetic repair, protein structures, protein activity, intracellular mineral concentrations, and types of metabolic pathways used for energy production.
There is no shortage of research showing the link between pH and cancer, which translates clearly into there is plenty of research showing a link between cancer and low voltage since voltage and pH are measurements of the same thing.
Cancer thrives in an acidic low voltage low oxygen environment, and doesn’t survive in a normal, more alkaline (high voltage) environment.
Cancer cells make your body more acidic as they produce lactic acid.
Tumor Hypoxia
The severity of hypoxia and acidosis in tumors can affect tumor cell invasiveness, metastasis as well as the risk of recurrence.
UT Southwestern scientists led by Dr. Ralph Mason reported in the online issue of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine that countering hypoxic and aggressive tumors with an “oxygen challenge” – inhaling oxygen while monitoring tumor response – coincides with a greater delay in tumor growth in an irradiated animal model. (1)
Scientists at the University of Colorado Cancer Center said,
“It seems as if a tumor deprived of oxygen would shrink.
However, numerous studies have shown that tumor hypoxia, in which portions of the tumor have significantly low oxygen concentrations, is in fact linked with more aggressive tumor behavior and poorer prognosis.
A team of researchers lead by Dr. Bradly Wouters, at the University of Toronto, Canada assert that tumors with large areas with low levels of oxygen (areas known as hypoxic regions) are associated with poor prognosis and treatment response.(3)
Not all the regions of a tumor are equal in terms of their oxygen levels. One clinically important implication of this is that tumors with large areas with low levels of oxygen (areas known as hypoxic regions) are associated with poor prognosis and treatment response.
Dr. Paolo Michieli and colleagues, at the University of Turin Medical School, Italy found that tumors rely on hypoxia to promote their own expansion. Hypoxia is a key factor driving tumor progression.
This is a hallmark of malignant tumors and has been suggested to promote tumor progression.(4)
Researchers in the US have already found out that simply regulating the voltage of tumorous cells could be enough to stop them spreading out of control but when combined with,
…we have a cancer approach that is worth consideration.
Using voltage testing and voltage for treatment is a relatively new way of dealing with cancer.
“There’s been a little bit of disbelief, because it’s a whole different ball game,” says Dr. Mustafa Djamgoz, a cancer biologist at Imperial College in London.
“It has opened up a whole new set of opportunities.”
Oncologists know that having a strong immune system is important in fighting cancer.
“The immune system needs voltage, iodine and ozone to kill bugs. Tumors cannot grow if the oxygen levels are normal, and oxygen levels are controlled by voltage,” says Dr. Jerry Tennant.
He could have said oxygen levels are controlled by pH or oxygen levels control voltage because if there is too little oxygen then the mitochondria cannot create enough ATP to keep cellular energy high.
Do Not Forget the Body Temperature
It is important to notice in the above chart about the oxygen disassociation curve that temperature is important.
Dr. Aleksandr Samuilovich Presman in his 1970 book Electromagnetic Fields and Life identified several significant effects of the interaction of electromagnetic fields with living organisms.
Electromagnetic fields:
have information and communication roles in that they are employed by living organisms as information conveyors from the environment to the organism, within the organism and among organisms
are involved in life’s vital processes in that they facilitate pattern formation, organization and growth control within the organism
Dr. Haltiwanger says,
“Normal cells possess the ability to communicate information inside themselves and between other cells.
The coordination of information by the cells of the body is involved in the regulation and integration of cellular functions and cell growth. It takes energy to communicate it takes voltage. When cancer arises cancer cells are no longer regulated by the normal control mechanisms.
Communication breaks down because there is not enough voltage for anything but destruction.”
All biological process and in particular the metabolism of every single cell are based on their voltage and electromagnetic frequency.
Only an organism which is sufficiently supplied with energy is able to control the self-regulating mechanisms and has the powers of regeneration and healing.
“Deprive a cell of 35% of its oxygen for 48 hours and it may become cancerous,” said Dr. Otto Warburg.
Deprived of air we die, but our cells have a bastardly trick up their sleeves where they can survive low-oxygen conditions.
We call this condition cancer, the slow starvation of healthy cells while cancer cells thrive.
Cancer Environment
Cancer involves an interaction between rogue cells and surrounding tissue. This is the clear message of Dr. Mina Bissell.
Cancer cells routinely form in most people’s bodies in areas of low voltage, low oxygen and acidic pH. What this means is that the health or sickness of surrounding cells and the surrounding extracellular matrix interact to shape cancer cell behaviors such as polarity, migration and proliferation.
In the New York Times, we see Dr. Susan Love, a breast cancer surgeon saying,
“What it means, if all this environmental stuff is right, is that we should be able to reverse cancer without having to kill cells. This could open up a whole new way of thinking about cancer that would be much less assaultive.”
Cancer geneticist Dr. Bert Vogelstein, director of the Ludwig Center for Cancer Genetics and Therapeutics at John Hopkins said,
“One cannot fully understand that disease unless one understands the tumor’s environment.”
Though not the only way, micro-current is the easiest and most direct way of altering local environments that surround cancer tumors.
Electrocution of Cancer Cells
Some medical scientists discovered that zapping cells with extremely brief, high-voltage electric pulses that they could trigger the self-destruct mechanism in the cells’ biochemical machinery.
In the 1950’s, a Swedish radiologist and surgeon, Dr. Björn Nordenström demonstrated that when micro-current was passed through needles implanted into cancerous tumors it blocked cancer pain and in many cases caused the tumors to regress or disappear.
He theorized that this treatment set up a form of electro-osmosis that dehydrated the tumor and blocked production of pain-producing substances such as histamine.
Dr Haltiwanger said that Nordenström’s technique was to place the positive electrode into the tumor and the negative electrode outside of the tumor.
“This resulted in an increased flow of electrons into the tumor, a change in the electrical field around a tumor and activation of membrane receptors and ion channels.
If tumor cells are in fact electron deficient this increased flow of electrons, membrane receptor effects and movement of ions through ion channels will have definite effects on cellular metabolic processes.”
Using needle electrodes, they zapped tumors with a series of electric pulses 300 nanoseconds long and 60 kilovolts per centimeter in magnitude. They found that treated tumors grew only 50 to 60 percent as big as the untreated tumor, with many cells dying by apoptosis.
Delivering such high voltage in just a few billionths of a second is akin to accelerating a car from 0 to 100 kilometers per hour and then decelerating it back to 0, all within 1 second.
This is not what we are recommending.
PEMF Therapy
Low-level electromagnetic fields are known and used to halt cancer cell growth. Voltage is synonymous with electromagnetic fields. (5)
Pulsed electromagnetic field therapy (PEMFT) is FDA approved to promote the healing of non-healing bone unions and has been used in Europe for over 20 years with individuals with,
low-frequency pulses create a brief, intense voltage around each cell. The mitochondria within the cell grab some of this energy. This, in turn, makes the cell more efficient at producing ATP and delivering oxygen throughout the body.
Using micro-current is a more direct way of bathing cells with voltage boosting ATP production even higher than PEMFT techniques though the two can and should be used together.
Conclusion
The spread or metastases of cancer is inversely proportional to the amount of oxygen and the acidity around the cancer cells.
The more oxygen, the slower the cancer spreads. The less oxygen and the higher the acidity the faster the cancer spreads. If cancer cells get enough oxygen, they will die (cancer cells are anaerobic).
If you deprive a group of cells of vital oxygen (their primary source of energy), some will die, but others will manage to alter their genetic software program and mutate and be able to live without oxygen.
When the oxygen level drops below 60%, the respiration process of making energy changes into fermentation in a cancer cell. Normal cells turn cancerous. Normal body cells need oxygen and are aerobic whereas cancer cells do not need oxygen and are anaerobic.
Healthy cells metabolize, burn oxygen and glucose to produce ATP.
Bottom line, orthodox cancer treatments DO NOT treat cancer for they not only do not address oxygen, pH and voltage levels, they make the situation worse by lowering oxygen levels further, turn the body more acid and thus health and voltage levels suffer.
What else should one expect from toxic chemicals found in chemotherapy and highly toxic nuclear radiation that is also used in orthodox cancer treatments and tests.
Sometimes these dangerous treatments do kill cancer before it kills the host.
No matter what anyone says cancer survival statistics still imply that present orthodox cancer treatments are not doing the job they should be doing, which is to from the first moment of diagnosis, to raise body oxygen levels along with pH levels as well as increase overall body voltage through a host of means.
Floods are becoming more common around the world. What was once a 100-year phenomenon is now a seasonal trend that homeowners must deal with.
And the main solution deployed to fight these rising water is sandbags – 1000’s upon 1000’s of sandbags made from burlap or polypropylene. But is this the most effective method?
As product designers, we began thinking about the challenges of floods and exploring other product solutions already on the market. See what we found below:
1) Water Gate: Rapid Response Flood Control System
Water gateis a clever PVC device that uses the pressure of oncoming water to stabilize itself. While more expensive than sandbags, it has been proven to be a highly effective means of containing flood damage. A single person can deploy the product in a few hours to protect a home, or larger devices can be purchased to protect entire areas and unrolled trucks.
The product is lighter than sandbags, reusable and doesn’t require filler material that will be contaminated after use.
2) WIPP: Water Inflated Property Protector
The “Water Inflated Property Barrier” WIPP is a systemmade from a long (up to 150 ft.), extremely durable, vinyl-coated polyester. The idea is to fight water with water, and WIPP does just that; essentially a long tube with an internal support structure, the system can be inflated with any nearby water source, acting as a heavy barrier against oncoming waters.
Like other systems, WIPP can be easily and quickly deployed, repaired and packed away compactly when not in use.
3) Quick Dam: Flood Barrier Socks
Quick Dams – water barrier socks are the fastest growing flood protection device in North America. Over the past year Quick Dam’s distribution has grown to include all major home renovation retailers (ie. Home Depot, Lowes, Rona) as well as a large Amazon store stocked with product variations.
The Quick Dam flood barriers are available in 5ft, 10ft and 17ft long pieces, suitable for all types of environments. And based on reviews so far, the product is doing a good job of keep homeowners property dry in the wake of rising flood waters.
4) Floodblock: Modular Flood Prevention Solution
FloodBlockis another Lego-like invention that can be interlocked, stacked and positioned to protect homes and commercial spaces from flooding. The device is a self-filling crate with foam padding on the bottom creating a seal which prevents water seeping from underneath. The stacking feature ensures a minimal footprint when stored away. The simplicity of the system and its light weight means that no special training is required to assemble – and it’s a high quality, affordable solution that’s more effective than sandbags.
5) Aquobex: Heritage Floodguard system
Aquobex is a global leader in fighting flood waters and offers a variety of flood devices to help both homeowners and cities deal with rising water. There Hertiage Floodguard is one of their most popular devices and the often the first line of defense to prevent entering doors and windows.
The lightweight reusable barrier provides the same protection as a permanent barrier and has helped 1000’s of homeowners stop water in in it’s tracks.
WEST JORDAN — A judge has ordered a South Jordan woman to spend at least one year in prison after she admitted to sexually abusing one of her child’s friends.
Stacey Colleen McQueen, 37, admitted in July that she touched the genitals of a child on Dec. 8, 2016, causing “substantial emotional or bodily pain,” court documents show. On Thursday, 3rd District Judge Katie Bernards-Goodman sentenced McQueen to at least one and up to 15 years in prison.
In exchange for McQueen’s guilty plea over the summer to a single count of sexual abuse of a child, a second-degree felony, prosecutors dropped seven other felony charges against her, including sodomy on a child, five other child sexual abuse counts and lewdness.
McQueen originally faced eight felony charges after police said she supplied at least two of her child’s friends with alcohol and inappropriately touched them.
In a previous case, McQueen pleaded no contest to assault, a class B misdemeanor, in South Jordan Justice Court in June 2016. She paid a $1,000 fine, court records show.
The judge on Thursday ordered her prison sentence to begin immediately.
Last week, Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, asked me to come and see a project he has been working on almost as long as the web itself. It’s a crisp autumn day in Boston, where Berners-Lee works out of an office above a boxing gym.
After politely offering me a cup of coffee, he leads us into a sparse conference room. At one end of a long table is a battered laptop covered with stickers. Here, on this computer, he is working on a plan to radically alter how all of us live and work on the web.
“The intent is world domination,” Berners-Lee says with a wry smile. The British-born scientist is known for his dry sense of humor. But in this case, he is not joking.
This week, Berners-Lee will launch Inrupt, a startup that he has been building, in stealth mode, for the past nine months. Backed by Glasswing Ventures, its mission is to turbocharge a broader movement afoot, among developers around the world, to decentralize the web and take back power from the forces that have profited from centralizing it. In other words, it’s game on for Facebook, Google, Amazon. For years now, Berners-Lee and other internet activists have been dreaming of a digital utopia where individuals control their own data and the internet remains free and open. But for Berners-Lee, the time for dreaming is over.
“We have to do it now,” he says, displaying an intensity and urgency that is uncharacteristic for this soft-spoken academic. “It’s a historical moment.” Ever since revelations emerged that Facebook had allowed people’s data to be misused by political operatives, Berners-Lee has felt an imperative to get this digital idyll into the real world. In a post published this weekend, Berners-Lee explains that he is taking a sabbatical from MIT to work full time on Inrupt. The company will be the first major commercial venture built off of Solid, a decentralized web platform he and others at MIT have spent years building.
A Netscape for today’s internet
If all goes as planned, Inrupt will be to Solid what Netscape once was for many first-time users of the web: an easy way in. And like with Netscape, Berners-Lee hopes Inrupt will be just the first of many companies to emerge from Solid.
“I have been imagining this for a very long time,” says Berners-Lee. He opens up his laptop and starts tapping at his keyboard. Watching the inventor of the web work at his computer feels like what it might have been like to watch Beethoven compose a symphony: It’s riveting but hard to fully grasp. “We are in the Solid world now,” he says, his eyes lit up with excitement. He pushes the laptop toward me so I too can see.
On his screen, there is a simple-looking web page with tabs across the top: Tim’s to-do list, his calendar, chats, address book. He built this app–one of the first on Solid–for his personal use. It is simple, spare. In fact, it’s so plain that, at first glance, it’s hard to see its significance. But to Berners-Lee, this is where the revolution begins. The app, using Solid’s decentralized technology, allows Berners-Lee to access all of his data seamlessly–his calendar, his music library, videos, chat, research. It’s like a mashup of Google Drive, Microsoft Outlook, Slack, Spotify, and WhatsApp.
The difference here is that, on Solid, all the information is under his control. Every bit of data he creates or adds on Solid exists within a Solid pod–which is an acronym for personal online data store. These pods are what give Solid users control over their applications and information on the web. Anyone using the platform will get a Solid identity and Solid pod. This is how people, Berners-Lee says, will take back the power of the web from corporations.
[Image courtesy of Tim Berners-Lee]
For example, one idea Berners-Lee is currently working on is a way to create a decentralized version of Alexa, Amazon’s increasingly ubiquitous digital assistant. He calls it Charlie. Unlike with Alexa, on Charlie people would own all their data. That means they could trust Charlie with, for example, health records, children’s school events, or financial records. That is the kind of machine Berners-Lee hopes will spring up all over Solid to flip the power dynamics of the web from corporation to individuals.
A new revolution for developers?
Berners-Lee believes Solid will resonate with the global community of developers, hackers, and internet activists who bristle over corporate and government control of the web. “Developers have always had a certain amount of revolutionary spirit,” he observes. Circumventing government spies or corporate overlords may be the initial lure of Solid, but the bigger draw will be something even more appealing to hackers: freedom. In the centralized web, data is kept in silos–controlled by the companies that build them, like Facebook and Google. In the decentralized web, there are no silos.
Starting this week, developers around the world will be able to start building their own decentralized apps with tools through the Inrupt site. Berners-Lee will spend this fall crisscrossing the globe, giving tutorials and presentations to developers about Solid and Inrupt. (There will be a Solid tutorial at our Fast Company Innovation Festival on October 23.)
“What’s great about having a startup versus a research group is things get done,” he says. These days, instead of heading into his lab at MIT, Berners-Lee comes to the Inrupt offices, which are currently based out of Janeiro Digital, a company he has contracted to help work on Inrupt. For now, the company consists of Berners-Lee; his partner John Bruce, who built Resilient, a security platform bought by IBM; a handful of on-staff developers contracted to work on the project; and a community of volunteer coders.
Later this fall, Berners-Lee plans to start looking for more venture funding and grow his team. The aim, for now, is not to make billions of dollars. The man who gave the web away for free has never been motivated by money. Still, his plans could impact billion-dollar business models that profit off of control over data. It’s not likely that the big powers of the web will give up control without a fight.
When asked about this, Berners-Lee says flatly: “We are not talking to Facebook and Google about whether or not to introduce a complete change where all their business models are completely upended overnight. We are not asking their permission.”
Thought has created this 3-dimensional experience on Earth since its inception. The currency of creation in 3 dimensions are thoughts.
Thinking, logic, theory, intellect, philosophy, rationalizing, assessing, evaluating, reasoning, conjuring and judging, are all products of thought. Thought is the conduit for absolutely everything that comprises the 3-dimensional reality.
It has now been proven beyond any doubt that matter is empty space and does not exist. Matter arises out of light, a frequency that we harmonize with, in order to materialize what it is we believe to be real.
If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then ‘real’ is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain. — Morpheus, The Matrix
Now let’s go deeper into what this light is, and why it is that we harmonize with a programmed matrix reality?
This reality is held intact by the collective unconscious that all agreeing upon, through their continual perpetual thoughts, which can be likened to the codes that program this world that we experience and live in, correspondingly.
The key question is: are we responsible for these thoughts, though, or have we been fooled to identify with a false god, of which we’ve had no previous knowledge?
This mass thought-form, egregore, creates even more illusion and deceit through us, within a 3-dimensional reality that originated from thought itself.
You see, once we mistake ourselves for being our thoughts, then we start running the Luciferian egregore algorithm on our own volition. A thought set in motion is the same as energy set in motion.
All thoughts are implanted by the perpetual motions set into play since the beginning of this conjured up reality. We are told that energy never dies, only perpetuates and transmutes.
Energy simply never dies when thoughts never die, and when thoughts do stop, which will soon take place, then the light/ vibration given off by those that create the third dimensional existence, will fade into the abyss.
A THOUGHT is a WORD. A word is a SOUND. Sound VIBRATES. Vibration is ENERGY. Energy GLOWS. Glowing is LIGHT. Therefore, THOUGHTS are LIGHT. – Bryan Kemila, Illuminatimatrix
Our very existence was set in motion by a thought/ word/ vibration/ light and is fueled by this continuous flow of energy, or shall I say, overthinking.
“Everything you see is formed by thought. The very nature of light is to corrupt. This thought process called thinking has created a corruptible 3-dimensional realm.”
In Genesis, Lucifer is called the Lightbringer/ bearer.
In the beginning there was light.
And the rest is this perpetual 3-dimensional lightshow as we know it!
With this light we are all, in fact, suns that spray realities into existence with our power that has been hijacked by the mass egregore Luciferian mindset — thought-form — that exists through our thinking.
We are unknowingly using this light that creates on this plane for agendas implanted into our liquid crystal prisms, in our brains, every single day.
We are actually keeping this very plane in existence by not reclaiming our eternal state of NO THING — Above thought.
Reclaiming Sanity
Always remember, there is no single thought that you have ever been responsible for thinking. Thinking only arises outside of the all knowing wisdom state, inside of the ignorant state.
You are everything, pure knowingness and wisdom. Thought is only ignorance, the result of not knowing through manipulation.
You have been fooled to believe that you are the thinker, by thinking yourself into a box! It is nigh impossible to think “outside the box” when thinking IS the box.
At first, it may be very hard to imagine that thought is not a product of our creation, and has not ever originated from us.
Everything in this reality that has arisen out of thought can only be false and a lie, as thought is the origin of a 3rd dimensional experience that is not real.
So, from that inception, all thoughts perpetuated after that only serve the Luciferian mindset that needs thought to materialize a matrix.
Any kind of thought would do for the Luciferian egregore group that wants to simply keep the illusion alive with our collective thoughts.
That is why our mindsets have been steered and fashioned by the Illuminati industries. They have manipulated us and our incredible power to create a world that they want and not us.
Anything we can think of, can exist in an instant. In order for that thought to come into physical existence, all it needs is worship and more validation/energy from more batteries (i.e people).
Some thought-forms, obviously, need more energy than others to come into fruition, such as governmental and global agendas.
From Nothing to Something
Our original paradise state where only peace resides is called “nothingness”, which is a state of consciousness beyond time and space, that does not include any emotional attachment to a 3-dimensional thing.
Do not confuse nothing with darkness, as nothing does not have darkness nor light. It is NO THING at all. Darkness and light are only products of the 3D prison.
Logic cannot truly comprehend this, as any thought is automatically a negation of the actuality. Only wisdom knows of the still awareness within nothing.
This nothingness state is what we were before a mass group-thought-form (i.e. Luciferian mindset egregore) took that nothing and created something from a thought.
The spirit, just an attachment to your unique 3D experience
The uniqueness that you feel on this plane and that you pin down to your soul is just the illusion of all the thoughts you have conjured up out of all your experience in 3D since your inception.
The inception is said to be in the beginning, yet your true inception is outside of time and eternal, so, your spirit is just another construct of your own making via thought.
You are everything.
We are only one here on Earth in actuality, all others are self parading around in ignorance, hence why anger may overwhelm you at first when you realize how many other parts of yourself are trapped in a trance. The thought possessiveness is what is keeping them in obliviousness to the universal oneness.
One here is just split up into many and each person in just another version of self that experiences self uniquely through the algorithm bestowed to employ from the egregores. Beyond the code lies a common unification between all, and a familiarity of the oneness, a recognition. From inequality to equality.
We all have somehow become trapped and entranced inside this lightshow by attachment to the whole illusion itself! The attachment binds you to the illusion and causes you to become trapped. Reincarnation occurs due to a mere attachment one has to the illusion.
Why Come Here?
Why would you come here to become sold to an illusion and become trapped in it?
The only answer I can find within me at the moment is that the deception within the illusion has such a large number of veils that it makes this experience an extremely difficult one to remain humble in and to carry on questioning everything no matter how far you may “think” you have progressed spiritually.
There is always more truth awaiting as your frequency rises. Pride can end ones progress prematurely here, hence why it is one of the seven deadly sins that stops spiritual evolution dead.
As I have also mentioned, there is no such thing as a soul deciding whether or not to come.
We are divided awareness from the eternal one that has been manipulated to create an individualized thought form! This thought-form builds on itself and simply remains in 3D forever until the attachment is broken and all the data released!
Those at the top of the pyramid that fulfil the luciferian agenda have no idea what is truly going on as they are being controlled by thought permanently where consciousness does not exist – truth a remnant. The blame game is a losing struggle, the elite do NOT KNOW what the hell is truly going on.
From the Inside Out
Thought creates and preserves a template of experience and this experience we then project through the five senses from the inside out! Not from the outside in as we are taught to believe through indoctrination!
The implanting occurs within and the projection has its source from there. Once you become conscious of this, you begin to reverse the process and start to project that which you favour instead of that what the egregore favours!
Think in terms of a hypnotist that implants thoughts into his/her subject’s mind, for instance, making the subject perceive things that do not exist for anybody else in the audience.The hypnotist is hacking the projection from within. The outside world has absolutely no affect on the perception!
The suggested reality for the subject is completely real, yet for the audience is not at all. Who is beholding the truth?
The answer is both, as what is perceived is real for both by the validating thoughts within, yet the paradox is that neither is seeing the truth, as all are just witnessing manipulated light from thought conjuring up an illusion.
This reality is the ultimate paradox! When the time comes for us to turn the tables completely there will literally be no limit to what we choose to experience in this reality of light that is so easily corruptible.
For now I think, many would choose to be playful and enjoy the illusion until the time comes to return back to the eternal nothingness where paradise awaits. The game is over.
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Jonathan Greenblatt, National Director and CEO of the Anti-Defamation League since 2015. Credit: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0
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The strike on the Pentagon as depicted in the cartoon by Avi Arad and Stan Lee
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