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2022 Jul 6, 2:09pm   39,198 views  303 comments

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https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/2022/07/hawaii-senate-dem-majority-leader-gets-3-years-daniel-greenfield/


Hawaii Senate Dem Majority Leader Gets 3 Years in Prison for Bribery

Former Senate Majority Leader J. Kalani English, 55, pleaded guilty to honest services wire fraud in February, admitting he accepted bribes from a Hawaii business owner in exchange for shaping legislation that would benefit a company involved in publicly financed cesspool conversion projects...

English “peddled the power and influence of his position as a Hawaii State Senator and Majority Leader to enrich himself and betray the trust bestowed upon him by those he was elected to serve,” U.S. prosecutors said in a sentencing memo urging the judge to send him to prison for three-and-a-half years.

The sentence, a little more than three years, must send a “stern and lasting message” that corruption of elected officials will be punished, the memo said. ...

Choy is a prolific donor, as are his immediate family members and business associates. Choy, his family members, and his employees from various companies have donated more than $356,000 to political campaigns since 2014, according to campaign finance data. Of that, Choy has contributed more than $160,000 to the elections and reelections of numerous Democrats.

Choy himself has donated to 55 campaigns — including 29 sitting lawmakers — since 2014. Money has gone to former Gov. Neil Abercrombie and current Gov. David Ige. He has most recently contributed to former Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell’s campaign for governor, and to Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi’s campaign.


"Stern and lasting message" my ass. Only life in prison will do. Singapore is a much better country than the US in this way.



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169   Patrick   2023 Apr 25, 10:54am  

https://patriots.win/p/16b5q8jufC/stop-pretending-ratings-matter-t/


Why do you think pharma and defense industry are the primary ad buys? Do you think that a commercial for the new cholesterol drug makes any difference to sales for the pharmaceutical industry when it’s a doctor who has to prescribe it? Do you think Northrop Grumman makes any extra sales of weapon systems by putting ads on a news channel? No these are legal ways for the government to pass along money to news media with out it being “government funded”. Tucker pissed off the government so the government got rid of tucker.


Good point.
170   Patrick   2023 Apr 27, 9:40am  

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/breaking-the-mancubs-activism-as


Federal, state, and local governments provide $764.7 billion or $15,120 per pupil to fund K-12 public education.

this is in excess of $300,000 per class of 20. so, sorry, but no possible way this is an “insufficient funding” problem. the unions are skimming something like 10% of this right off the top for themselves and for kickbacks to politicians in the form of donation and PAC’s to maintain their monopoly on public funded ed. the rest is going to the sort of administrative bloat that replaces AP math with a third DEI obersturmführer with designs on proving that biology class is a form of patriarchy.
172   Patrick   2023 Apr 28, 8:35pm  

From an email list I'm on:


The Director of Women's Studies at CSUEB makes "Real Dr. Fauci" required reading, very interesting article:

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/lynn-comerford-the-real-anthony-fauci-required-reading-students-csueb/

"Comerford noted that as part of the $2 trillion federalCoronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/coronavirus/about-the-cares-act ,U.S. colleges and universities https://www.ncsl.org/state-legislatures-news/details/higher-education-provisions-in-cares-act were allocated billions of dollars on the precondition that they complied with COVID-19 mandates.

In another example, she said,Yale University https://naomiwolf.substack.com/p/my-day-at-yale received, in 2022 alone, $607 million from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), compared to $475 million in student tuition. Indeed, since 1998,Yale has received https://www.independent.org/news/article.asp?id=14367 $9 billion from HHS — $1 billion of which has been disbursed since 2020."
177   Patrick   2023 May 2, 12:29pm  

https://anntomokorosen.substack.com/p/when-colleges-accept-golden-handcuffs


When Colleges Accept Golden Handcuffs from the Medical Cartel...
Rutgers has been captured ...

If you’re wondering if universities like Rutgers are willing to bite the hand that feeds them, consider Rutgers’ efforts to drive COVID policy since that time:


Rutgers Doubles Down on “Obey To Play” COVID Policies Despite Science
Rutgers has decided to continue imposing indoor mask and vaccine mandates for the fall semester citing concerns about the continued spread of the BA.5 subvariant of Omicron…
8 months ago


... You can see a thread of headlines demonstrating all the ways the university has worked to push vaccines and fight vaccine hesitancy and “misinformation” here. ...

Do we really want to trust the minds of the future to these institutions?
178   Patrick   2023 May 2, 3:02pm  

https://notthebee.com/article/the-twitter-community-outed-two-gen-z-shills-paid-to-promote-old-man-biden-and-it-was-beautiful-to-behold-my-friends


The Twitter community outed two Gen-Z shills paid to promote old-man Biden and it was beautiful to behold, my friends!

... In late 2022, Biden's campaign team connected with young social media influencers, including Harry Sisson, to draw in voters ages 18-29.

https://nypost.com/
https://www.axios.com/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/
Sisson recently signed with Palette management. Palette received more than 200k from the DNC in the last 8 months.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/harry-sisson
https://www.fec.gov/

In the past, paid actors could get away with the grift because the fAcT-cHecKers and social media were there to prop up the Democratic Party.

That doesn't work in free-speech land, where you get to be objectively analyzed by everyone under a microscope!
179   Patrick   2023 May 6, 1:08pm  

I've been listening to a podcast about ancient Greek ideas for reducing corruption.

One idea is that children should be taught virtue and to be opposed to corruption starting from an early age.

Another idea is that people with political power should be obligated to give up all their wealth in order to hold office. They would be supported by the state alone, so would have no use for bribery, as they would not be allowed to have their own money.

In a different place (Aristotle's "Politics") I read that corruption is reduced when the community all knows each other and eats together.
180   PeopleUnited   2023 May 6, 7:01pm  

Patrick says

In a different place (Aristotle's "Politics") I read that corruption is reduced when the community all knows each other and eats together.

This is very effective. It is much more desirable to lie and screw over strangers than to lie and cheat your neighbors and friends.
181   PeopleUnited   2023 May 6, 7:02pm  

Patrick says

In a different place (Aristotle's "Politics") I read that corruption is reduced when the community all knows each other and eats together.

This is very effective. It is much more desirable to lie and screw over strangers than to lie and cheat your neighbors and friends.Patrick says

One idea is that children should be taught virtue and to be opposed to corruption starting from an early age.

10 commandments anyone?
182   Patrick   2023 May 10, 9:56am  

https://nypost.com/2023/05/10/comer-shows-bidens-got-1m-from-convicted-romanian-businessman/


The House Oversight Committee revealed Wednesday that more than $1 million flowed from a corrupt Romanian businessman to the Biden family while then-Vice President Joe Biden paid lip service to cleaning up corruption in the Eastern European nation.

“While Vice President Biden was lecturing Romania on anti-corruption policy, in reality he was a walking billboard for his son and family to collect money,” committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) said at a morning press conference.
188   Patrick   2023 May 30, 6:59pm  

https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/how-ron-desantis-can-win


By fall 2021, I no longer recognized New York.

It had vaccine passes and mask mandates and a crazy-eyed governor telling unvaccinated people they weren’t “listening to God and what God wants.” (Apparently God wanted New York to pay $600 million for Covid tests to one of the governor’s biggest donors, too.)
190   Patrick   2023 Jun 6, 9:30am  

https://bailiwicknews.substack.com/p/repost-federal-judge-in-brook-jacksons


Federal judge in Brook Jackson’s case covered up DoD’s Dec. 2020 knowledge of Pfizer’s clinical trial fraud, to fabricate a false timeline, to better immunize DoD from prosecution. ...

Like their historic counterparts in Hitler’s Germany, Mussolini’s Italy, Stalin’s Russia and many other mass murdering police-states, American federal judges have played a key role in maintaining and expanding the supranational covert biowarfare program run through the Trump/Azar-Biden/Becerra police-state apparatus since January 2020.
192   Patrick   2023 Jun 8, 8:39pm  

https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/what-if-your-body-produced-its-own


Imagine, just for a moment, for the sake of argument, that early in the COVIDcrisis it became clear that the major route of infection and transmission of SARS-CoV-2 was intranasal (but also oral and ocular infection), and that a simple nose wash (nasal lavage) with a dilute solution of stabilized Hypochlorous acid could drastically reduce the risk of disease and transmission associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Clinical endpoints which the much touted, highly promoted, and frequently mandated genetic Spike-based COVID vaccines never were able to achieve.

Surely this must be an imaginary parallel universe. There is no way that the US FDA would have blocked rather than expedited the availability of such lifesaving treatment using an inexpensive agent which is less toxic than povidone–iodine!

I am very sorry to tell you that what I am describing is not some parallel, dysfunctional universe in which the FDA has been transformed into a bootlicking sycophantic captured promoter of the commercial interests of the patented pharmaceutical industry, or yet another sordid example of the US Federal Imperial Administrative State making arbitrary and capricious decisions which have indirectly led to a large unnecessary loss of life. Unfortunately, as is often the case, both scenarios are clearly true in THIS universe.
194   Patrick   2023 Jun 11, 2:08pm  

https://johnwaters.substack.com/p/video-on-uk-column-money-for-bads


Video (On UK Column): Money for Bad’s sake
An epidemic of fake money is just about the worst thing that can happen to a society, because it embraces the possibility of just about every other bad thing you can imagine.

JOHN WATERS
JUN 11, 2023

... ‘Money is not what it used to seem to be’ is the opening line in John Waters’ most recent article, ‘Fake Money as Cluster Bomb'. He argues that money has ceased, in a sense, to be real, and has become instead a chimera. It is, in effect, a strange sort of weapon used to coerce our societies to morph into the form chosen not by the people but by bureaucrats in think tanks and international institutions.

When governments used to say, ‘There is no money, we cannot do that,’ money remained real. Now, all reality is gone and the impossible becomes possible. Political will is no longer restrained. This has a profoundly corrupting effect. ...

Waters writes that ‘smirking scoundrels’ rule over us only because of the falsity of what has replaced real money. As a result, we have a society of lies where morals are inverted. Evil has become good and black has become white. The destruction of our civilisation has become a profitable business.

John Waters concludes that there are indeed links between these three things: money, perverted desire and evil.


The Federal Reserve must be completely eliminated and we must return to physical metal silver coins by weight alone, not by "dollars" or other such fictions.
195   Patrick   2023 Jun 11, 2:11pm  

https://tobyrogers.substack.com/p/words-and-definitions-for-understanding


We live in an era where mainstream society does violence to language. Mainstream society assaults language to the point where words no longer have any meaning. Then they proceed to do violence to people because if words have no meaning then it becomes impossible to hold anyone to account. Examples include toxic injections described as “safe & effective”, riots described as “mostly peaceful”, and surgical castration of autistic children referred to as “gender affirming care”.

One can generally spot the captured words because they look, feel, and sound Orwellian and are usually the result of extensive market research and focus group testing by Pharma (and other corporate) public relations firms.

If we are to survive, we absolutely must take language back from the postmodernists in the mainstream media, in the three letter agencies (CDC, FDA, NIH), and in academia.


The use of these fraudulent phrases must end with us. We must refuse to ever utter them because they are lies. We must always speak the blunt truth instead:

dangerous and ineffective
violent BLM riots
sexual mutilation surgery
197   Patrick   2023 Jun 17, 7:27pm  

https://www.thefp.com/p/us-public-health-agencies-arent-following


“It's like a horror movie I'm being forced to watch and I can't close my eyes,” one senior FDA official lamented. “People are getting bad advice and we can’t say anything.”

By Marty Makary M.D., M.P.H. and Tracy Beth Høeg, MD, PhD

July 14, 2022

That particular FDA doctor was referring to two recent developments inside the agency. First, how, with no solid clinical data, the agency authorized Covid vaccines for infants and toddlers, including those who already had Covid. And second, the fact that just months before, the FDA bypassed their external experts to authorize booster shots for young children.

That doctor is hardly alone.

At the NIH, doctors and scientists complain to us about low morale and lower staffing: The NIH’s Vaccine Research Center has had many of its senior scientists leave over the last year, including the director, deputy director and chief medical officer. “They have no leadership right now. Suddenly there’s an enormous number of jobs opening up at the highest level positions,” one NIH scientist told us. (The people who spoke to us would only agree to be quoted anonymously, citing fear of professional repercussions.)

The CDC has experienced a similar exodus. “There’s been a large amount of turnover. Morale is low,” one high level official at the CDC told us. “Things have become so political, so what are we there for?” Another CDC scientist told us: “I used to be proud to tell people I work at the CDC. Now I’m embarrassed.”

Why are they embarrassed? In short, bad science.

The longer answer: that the heads of their agencies are using weak or flawed data to make critically important public health decisions. That such decisions are being driven by what’s politically palatable to people in Washington or to the Biden administration. And that they have a myopic focus on one virus instead of overall health.

Nowhere has this problem been clearer—or the stakes higher—than on official public health policy regarding children and Covid.

First, they demanded that young children be masked in schools. On this score, the agencies were wrong. Compelling studies later found schools that masked children had no different rates of transmission. And for social and linguistic development, children need to see the faces of others.

Next came school closures. The agencies were wrong—and catastrophically so. Poor and minority children suffered learning loss with an 11-point drop in math scores alone and a 20% drop in math pass rates. There are dozens of statistics of this kind.

Then they ignored natural immunity. Wrong again. The vast majority of children have already had Covid, but this has made no difference in the blanket mandates for childhood vaccines. And now, by mandating vaccines and boosters for young healthy people, with no strong supporting data, these agencies are only further eroding public trust.

One CDC scientist told us about her shame and frustration about what happened to American children during the pandemic: “CDC failed to balance the risks of Covid with other risks that come from closing schools,” she said. “Learning loss, mental health exacerbations were obvious early on and those worsened as the guidance insisted on keeping schools virtual. CDC guidance worsened racial equity for generations to come. It failed this generation of children.”

An official at the FDA put it this way: “I can’t tell you how many people at the FDA have told me, ‘I don't like any of this, but I just need to make it to my retirement.’” ...

“It seems criminal that we put out the recommendation to give mRNA Covid vaccines to babies without good data. We really don’t know what the risks are yet. So why push it so hard?” a CDC physician added. A high-level FDA official felt the same way: “The public has no idea how bad this data really is. It would not pass muster for any other authorization.”
199   Ceffer   2023 Jun 18, 11:13am  

The parallel insight is the FDA 'testing' is probably for shit, either, because they are a captured lapdog of Pharma, or Pharma bribes the peer review apparatus for the results they want. We don't know what we are taking any more.

They put standard warning screeds in small print in their bottles (print is cheap), and pass along medicaments that are 1. intentionally harmful, requiring more medication 2. coincidentally harmful 3. ineffective or partially effective but compromised etc. etc. so that doctors don't know what the fuck they are prescribing or care and consumers don't know what the fuck they are taking, but are beguiled by Hollywood models cavorting in sunlit fields or engaging wonderful hobbies or activities, euphorically living twenty million dollar lifestyles, free of their medical afflictions.

Doctors used to be the gateways, there was no direct to TV Pharma advertising, but then somehow they legislated so Pharma could flog their shit through direct advertising and make the patients hector their doctors for the nostrums.
200   HeadSet   2023 Jun 18, 1:32pm  

Ceffer says

they legislated so Pharma could flog their shit through direct advertising and make the patients hector their doctors for the nostrums.

Worse, Pharma has become a large enough share of advertising the networks dare not have any news stories that do not push what Pharma is selling.
201   richwicks   2023 Jun 19, 12:38am  

Patrick says







Good. I've been trying to get people to recognize the media lies for 30 years. The more blatantly they lie, they better. Makes my mission a lot easier.

Don't complain when your enemy, the enemy of the people, makes a mistake. Encourage more "mistakes".
207   Patrick   2023 Jun 21, 1:26pm  

https://slaynews.com/news/biden-pumps-taxpayer-money-anti-conservative-group/


Democrat President Joe Biden’s administration has pumped hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayer money into an organization that targets conservatives.

Biden gave the huge “anti-extremism” grant to the British think tank Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD).

However, the London-based organization is under congressional scrutiny for pressuring social media companies to censor conservatives.

The ISD has called on social media companies to censor conservative commentators such as Ben Shapiro for “misgendering” transgenders.

However, despite the concerns, the foreign organization will now use American tax dollars to help the State Department and Defense Department track “extremism” and “disinformation.”

The State Department gave a $249,993 grant to the Institute for Strategic Dialogue in April, according to the Washington Free Beacon.

Meanwhile, the Pentagon awarded $80,000 to it last month, according to a federal spending database.

The grants, which have not been previously reported, were given to the institute to convene an anti-extremism workshop for the U.S. embassy in Germany, and to study extremism in the military as part of an Air Force research project.


Lol, by "extremism" in the military they no doubt mean servicemen who take their commitment to the Constitution seriously.

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