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Yesterday, at a Congressional hearing on Missing and Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP), Montana’s Attorney General, Austin Knudsen, took the national stage for an opportunity to promote his leadership for his eventual run for Governor, which we all know is coming.

To bolster his leadership credentials, Knudsen claimed that authorities in Montana have found 99% of the people who went missing last year. If true, that’s an impressive number. Also, according to the official transcripts, Knudsen indicated how many missing people in Montana are NOT women.

I’ll start, today, by providing you with some statistics that helped me get a clear picture of the problem when I was first briefed on the issue as Attorney General. Some of what I say might surprise you. It was a surprise to me.

It’s a common misconception that only women are going missing. In 2025, 48 percent of all people reported missing in Montana were male and 52 percent were female. In the Indigenous community, the data starts to skew, but there is still a large percentage of males that are reported missing. Last year, 40 percent of the Indigenous persons that went missing were males. Our current messaging that it’s only a problem for women

Today, after trying to use the searchable Montana database of Missing Persons, I’m going to add a little context to how problematic Knudsen’s speech was, since he admitted something VERY important yesterday, which is this:

As Attorney General, my hands are tied. I have no jurisdiction on tribal land. The Montana Legislature can pass all the bills they want, but without action from Congress, we will never see meaningful change. You have the power to give tribes the authority they need by removing unnecessary and confusing jurisdictional red tape. You can also give states some authority to help.

If Austin Knudsen would like to make an improvement with how Montana provides information on missing people, then making the missing persons database actually functional is a good place to start. Instead, when I put in the name of someone who I know is on the list, Monte Swanson, this was the result:

In order to actually find Monte Swanson’s entry, I had to manually scroll through the list of 169 names until I came across it.

Last September, as reported by the New York Post, my conversation with Boston 25 news put Monte Swanson’s name out there again in connection to his potential killer, Kevin Lino, who caught new murder charges last fall in Massachusetts:

“I believe he is a very dangerous, dangerous individual. So, I think he is a serial killer for sure,” said Montana journalist Travis Mateer, who spent time with Lino as a homeless counselor in Missoula.

Mateer believes Lino is even responsible for the vanishing of another homeless man, Monte Swanson, who knew Lino in Missoula.

And prosecutors are also open to the idea that Lino might have more deaths on his hands.

“We continue to investigate that,” said Ryan. “We never give up on those cases. We don’t forget about them, and we stay open to other information.”

(note: I was the Homeless Outreach Coordinator, not a “counselor”, and my interactions with Lino’s gang was minimal)

Another case I’m familiar with–the disappearance of Heather Tifft in Hot Springs, Montana–is likely connected to drugs, so if anyone knows anything, they aren’t talking to local authorities.

Another case I think involves drugs is assumed to be a case of the “boyfriend did it”, at least that’s the impression left by Detective Guy Baker, who retired from being a Detective last year after failing to locate Jermaine Charlo.

Despite Baker’s failure, that didn’t stop him from going on TV to keep feeding the hope he’s got something brewing to break this case. We’re waiting, Guy.

After investigators concluded that all the evidence seemed to point toward DeFrance, police met with the county prosecutor, who promised to take a hard look at the case. 

At the episode’s end, Baker told Charlo’s family that he was “very confident” they’d get the resolution they hoped for in the “very near future.”

I know Baker has his heart set on blaming DeFrance, but if he had put together a stronger case, maybe prosecutors would have charged him, but Baker’s case was apparently NOT strong enough for those charges, so perhaps his theory is WRONG and Jermaine Charlo saw something related to a big drug deal that put her at risk.

At least, that’s what one of MY sources is telling me.

Two years ago I published a text exchange I had with Guy Baker around the same time I was hearing about Heather Tifft’s disappearance for the first time from a woman who was later shot in the stomach by her brother (yes, drugs were involved). Because of this context, seeing Guy Baker in the courtroom last May was a bit unnerving, but that didn’t stop me from calling him to the stand as a witness in my hearing and having the judge put him under oath so we could have a little “honest” chat about his new career as a Private Investigator investigating ME.

I don’t know what kind of advice, or recommendations, someone in Guy Baker’s position would give a supposedly “reasonable” individual who is allegedly so afraid of claimed conduct that an order of protection is necessary, but from my perspective (which is admittedly biased in this case), I would assume a Private Investigator would tell his terrified client to NOT go to a location where said person claimed he would be to raise money for the cost of court transcripts.

It’s been 3 months since I was arrested in the parking lot of the Great Burn Brewery on an arrest warrant and, for some weird reason, Deputy County Attorney, Mac Bloom, is REFUSING to produce the 911 call from that day, which puts me in a weird state of deja vu regarding the case of Rebekah Barsotti and the difficulty Rebekah’s mother had simply obtaining the 911 call from the “Oregon family” who saw folded up clothes and personal belongings on the side of the river and said themselves “Hey, let’s call those really competent law men in MINERAL COUNTY to come and investigate!” (not an actual quote)

The final missing person case I’d like to highlight involves a wife who may have come to Mineral County from the state of Washington with her husband, Earl, who, you know, tried REALLY HARD to find her before reporting her missing 9 days later.

The competency of our Sheriffs in western Montana is a BIG concern to me, and one I plan to keep reporting on. For example, under the leadership of Missoula’s previous Sheriff, T.J. McDermott, his deputies struggled to do basic math when Todd Keith Spence assaulted TWO workers for the Department of Transportation, but only caught ONE assault charge.

I’m pretty sure 1+1 is supposed to equal 2, but I majored in English at UM, so maybe I’m wrong.

In Mineral County the competency of the Sheriff, Ryan Funke, his lawyer, Lance Jasper, and resigned Commissioner, Shawn Smalley, is getting some local media attention, with more sure to come:

A Mineral County Board of Commissioners meeting became heated last week after the county sheriff refused to turn over requested documents for a purchase he made in 2025.

County Attorney Debra Jackson aired her frustrations with Sheriff Ryan Funke at the Sept. 10 meeting after he allegedly refused to complete a records request she sent him more than a month ago.  

The request is part of an investigation into missing patrol vehicles Funke ordered in 2025. The sheriff ordered six vehicles from ESU Pursuits, a Kansas-based government vehicle supplier, for $353,688, according to a figure he provided at a board meeting on May 15, 2025. The delivery remains unfulfilled, according to county officials. 

And finally, my most recent clue that Missoula’s Sheriff, Jeremiah Petersen, lacks basic skills, like using computers, arose with my simultaneous alarm that Judge Vanatta doesn’t understand the Constitution because, according to the sworn testimony of a public official, my updated address information wasn’t accessible to review for our County’s top Law Man.

Worried about our Sheriff’s computer skills, I immediately consulted the Sheriff’s civil branch, and they confirmed I’ve been served AT MY address because they do indeed, HAVE MY address in their computer system.

Hmmm…could the person making this claim have been LYING?

It’s sad to see someone struggle so hard with reality, but if readers want to experience reality with ME, I’ll be publicly sharing my 4-plex address for 24 hours, starting tomorrow, so you know where to come on Saturday to help me celebrate my birthday (and give me birthday money!).

I may even do a dramatic reading of my court transcripts, which my Daddy ended up paying for.

So, stay tuned, and thanks for reading!

What was so unsettling about approaching, by car, a Buddhist retreat center in the middle of western Montana?

Great question, but a definitive answer won’t be forthcoming in this post. Just images, public-facing narrative context, and local insights you have to be IN PERSON to hear directly, from locals, and I’m talking close enough in person to smell the aroma of urine wafting from a jovial town drunk.

It was around 4:30pm on a weekday last week that I arrived with a friend to the desolate valley cul-de-sac’ing in a horseshoe-shaped bowl of mountains where the Namchak center is located. Offering three-year stints to meditate and find enlightenment, this retreat center isn’t for your casual Buddhist.

I would expect nothing less from a seasoned JuBu like Linda Pritzker, the humble billionaire who is ultimately the figure (and money) at the heart of “establishing the Namchak lineage” into the cultural fabric of western Montana.

Whatever that means.

Surviving volcanoes, floods, bioweapons, zombies, wildfires, and other forms of world-transforming cataclysm means having food, so pictured above are the new greenhouses currently under construction at Namchak. There are also yummy looking steaks walking around on four legs for hearty protein when the need arises.

I wanted to go back in time to before the heavy machinery getting to work outside Hot Springs, Montana, to when the number of Buddhas in Arlee was still under 500.

Who was involved in establishing the Namchak lineage back then (2010)?

More than 430 Buddha statues have been completed at Ewam Montana in Arlee. Their goal is to have 1,000 finished and placed by the fall of 2011 for the opening of the garden. If all goes as planned His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama will attend the dedication ceremony

Visualize a 10-acre garden with a thousand Buddhas to inspire visitors of all faiths to reflect on peace and find compassion and happiness within themselves.

Buddhist teacher Gochen Tulku Sang-ngag Rinpoche of Tibet had such a vision many years ago.

There’s a difference between having a “vision” and building an off-grid fallout complex spread across an entire valley, so let’s see who else was involved in raising that number of Buddhas to 1,000:

Recently, the center announced that the Dalai Lama has agreed to personally consecrate the garden. Dr. Georgia Milan, coordinator for the visit, has scheduled the momentous event for late 2011, pending completion of the project.

“His Holiness is getting older — he’s 75 this year — [so] we wanted to make sure we took advantage of his incredible, kind and generous offer to come and consecrate our garden,” she said. “We’re going to work very hard.”

Did the Dalai Lama make an appearance? No, but an article from 2014 better places the date of the original vision…

In Arlee in 1993, Rinpoche visited a sheep farm that seemed the real life embodiment of a place he’d dreamed of as a child. He was forced to study Buddhism in secret after the Chinese invaded his Tibetan province when he was 7 years old. He spent nine years in prison.

“He recognized the land, and other signs pointed him that way. He had a belief he would come to America and a lot of teachers told him to spread it to the West,” said Deborah Hicks, Ewam spokeswoman. “A lot of Westerners try to learn meditation but don’t know who to go to. They’re wonderful for moving here and helping us.”

In the ensuing years, Rinpoche, along with students and volunteers, turned the sheep pasture into a tranquil garden.

…and the fact that Namchak’s Hot Springs location was already being planned in 2014:

The Buddhist community at the Ewan and a Buddhist community developing on a retreat center near Hot Springs have made themselves known to the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal Council, said Robert McDonald, communications director.

“They’ve self-identified as trying to do outreach,” he said.

Tribal members are outnumbered three-to-one on the reservation, McDonald said.

“Our main focus is on operating our crucial services for tribal members and going about our business,” he said.

Before we return to Dr. Georgia Milan and an organization called Hands On Global, I want to tell the local story I heard about an injured elk shot dead on the Namchak property–land clearly identified in this article as TRIBAL lands.

Before mercifully shooting the injured animal, did anyone at Namchak think to notify Tribal Police that an elk had to be put down? According to the town drunk’s friend telling me this story, no, but Tribal Police eventually found out, and it took a hefty “fine” (I was told) to remedy that little whoopsie.

Not very respectful of your indigenous neighbors, is it, Dr. Georgia?

By the time Namchak was being built, Dr. Georgia Milan was in Pocatello, Idaho, working at a free clinic. For context on her non-profit work with people from other cultures, here’s an excerpt about her refugee work around the world:

Another day had been a blur—a not-one-more-thing-I-can-do-no-more kind of day—at a medical clinic in a Ukrainian refugee camp near the Romanian border last spring.

“We were all so exhausted and still had to cross the border when a grandmother came just as we were about to close,” said Valerie Hellermann, a registered nurse and founder and executive director of Hands On Global, a nonprofit headquartered in Helena, Mont., that tends to the medical needs of the underserved in the United States and abroad.

She and her longtime friend and colleague, Dr. Georgia Milan, were among a team of volunteers on a 20-day medical mission during March and April. Dr. Milan welcomed the grandmother, her last patient of the day.

“If a person asks for care, Georgia cannot say no,” Hellermann said. “I’ve seen it so often wherever we’ve worked together in Ukraine, Greece, India, South America, or the medical tent at Standing Rock during the oil pipeline stand-down. It took more than an hour to treat the woman, yet Georgia was never impatient or made her feel rushed. She listens, giving her entire attention to the people she sees and makes them feel like they matter. That attitude is so important with refugees because they feel like they’re invisible and forgotten.”

If refugees feel “invisible” and “forgotten” then THANK GOD (or Buddha) that an empathic white woman from America is joining forces with OTHER women, like Valerie Hellermann, and the “Tibetan Children’s Education Foundation”:

For historical context, Hands On Global got its start in 2017 after Valerie Hellermann got inspired by traveling to India to work with the Tibetan Children’s Education Foundation which, when I checked the 990 form, is also based in Helena.

Hmmm.

Hands On Global began in 2017 after Valerie Hellermann traveled to Zanskar, India while working with the Tibetan Children’s Education Foundation. At the request of Geshe Yountan, a medical assessment team journeyed into the remote Himalayan region to serve Zanskari Tibetans.

What began as a simple clinic in a mud hut became something much larger. The team witnessed profound medical needs in one of the world’s most isolated regions — a place His Holiness the Dalai Lama has described as among the last authentic Tibetan cultures. During that visit, the Dalai Lama encouraged the team to continue this humanitarian work.

How many tax-exempt organizations was I going to find? It was like an infinite lotus flower of never-ending non-profits blooming, and I just kept finding more petals, like the Feathered Pipe Ranch founded by hippies in the early 70’s.

This is getting tiring.

I went back to India and asked Baba what to do with the Ranch, and he said make a place to train leaders of the world.

In the summer of ‘73, Jeanette Herman, an astrologer, and Doug McKay, a graphic artist, wandered through, having heard about us. She and I became the seminar leaders. Janis Paulsen, William and I started the Holistic Life Foundation and we began to organize seminars. These were the summers of ‘73 and ‘74. I had nothing planned – it was a laid back, never-ending summer. William came back with students and we started to create what is now the Feathered Pipe Foundation. William had great creative energy and was able to put things together nicely, I had the heart energy and Janis had the administration skills. It was an amazing team.

By the end of the summer of ‘74 we were ready to start our mission. William and Janis went back to San Francisco, rented a large house on 10th Avenue and started the California Yoga Teacher’s Association under the auspices of the Holistic Life Foundation. They created the Yoga Journal with William as the first editor and Janis as assistant editor. They laid it out and published it from their bedrooms with an IBM Selectric – our own typesetting machine – Janis’ credit card (limit $500), and sheer will. I commuted between Montana, San Francisco and India for years running the Feathered Pipe Ranch piece of the Holistic Life Foundation.

I found this organization the way I found the others; scanning 990 forms and looking up names, which leads me to an important question I think we, as Americans, should consider asking ourselves:

Is it time to end the tax-exempt status for non-profits AND religious organizations?

I hope all the well-meaning seekers of enlightenment and helpers of global refugees in Namchak’s orbit, like Ewam, and Hands On Global, and the Tibetan Children’s Education Foundation, and Feathered Pipe Ranch, all appreciate the tax-exempt boost they got (and get) as they operate Big Sky country.

And, after yesterday’s post about Bill and Hillary’s use of “Asian money“, we definitely have a better idea regarding how much Democrats like suckling cash from “non-profits” that “help” marginalized populations.

You’re welcome, “Buddhists”.

Since I probably won’t be getting any of those JuBu dollars for my upcoming birthday on Saturday, readers of this humble blog can direct their online donations to my new GoFundMe page. Any little bit helps.

And stay tuned, I plan on ending this week with a VERY BIG post about the death of Sean Stevenson, so stay tuned…

And, as alwways, thanks for reading!

When I read yesterday that Harry, the Duke of Sussex, was already coming back to America for the Clinton Foundation shindig in New York later this month after just fleeing California with his wife, I took notice.

Prince Harry is heading back to the U.S. for another major appearance, just weeks after his family’s move back to Britain.

The Duke of Sussex, 41, is set to return to Bill and Hillary Clinton’s Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting in New York City on Sept. 22 and 23, marking his second appearance at the event after previously taking part in 2024. Harry will join a lineup that also includes Chrissy Teigen, Bill Nye and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman at the gathering, which is being held during United Nations General Assembly week.

The reason I found this relevant is because of the connection between Soft Landing in Missoula and the Archewell Foundation, which I covered here. Then I wrote about the Namchak Foundation and the connections between the Pritzker family and Jeffrey Epstein, which are numerous (more on Namchak coming tomorrow).

For today’s post I’d like to start with something WIRED wrote 13 years ago about Silicon Valley’s interest in eastern philosophy, especially Buddhism. Here’s how WIRED framed this philosophical perspective in 2013:

More than a thousand Googlers have been through Search Inside Yourself training. Another 400 or so are on the waiting list and in the meantime take classes like Neural Self-Hacking and Managing Your Energy. Then there is the company’s bimonthly series of “mindful lunches”, conducted in complete silence except for the ringing of prayer bells, which began after the Zen monk Thich Nhat Hanh visited in 2011. The search giant even recently built a labyrinth for walking meditations.

It’s not just Google that’s embracing Eastern traditions. Across the Valley, classes in meditation and mindfulness — paying close, non-judgmental attention — have become staples at many of the region’s most prominent companies. The cofounders of Twitter and Facebook have made contemplative practices key features of their new enterprises, and some 1,700 people showed up at a Wisdom 2.0 conference held in San Francisco last winter, with top executives from LinkedIn, Cisco and Ford among the headliners.

These companies are doing more than just seizing on Buddhist practices. Entrepreneurs and engineers are taking millennia-old traditions and reshaping them to fit the Valley’s goal-oriented, data-driven, largely atheistic culture. Forget past lives; never mind nirvana. Northern California’s technology community wants return on its investment in meditation. “All the woo-woo mystical stuff, that’s really retrograde,” says Kenneth Folk, an influential meditation teacher in San Francisco. “This is training the brain and stirring up the chemical soup inside.”

When did Bill Clinton and Reid Hoffman find Jesus–I mean, Buddha?

For CIA Bill Clinton, it was around the time of Barack Obama’s second term that he found a need to bring Buddhism into his life:

Buddhism made a bleep in the news early this month when the Times of India, and other news outlets, citing an unnamed source, reported that Bill Clinton, has turned to Buddhism for mental and physical well-being. The former president went so far as hiring a Buddhist monk to teach him the arts of meditation.

This may come as a surprise to some but to many others it’s only a natural course of how things transpire in the globalized world. In the last half of the 20th Century, America cunningly exported itself overseas, marketing its images, ideologies, products and religions with ingenuity and zeal, but what it has not been able to fully assess or prepare for are the effects in reverse. For if Americanization is a large part of globalization, the Easternization of the West, too, is the other side of the phenomenon.

For Reid Hoffman, a self-professed student of philosophy, Buddhism has been in his life for much longer.

Reid Hoffman may be best known in Silicon Valley as a cofounder of LinkedIn, a partner at the venture firm Greylock, a member of the PayPal Mafia, and, until last month, a board member of OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT. But behind his various tech accolades is a philosophy student.

“It’s two concepts from Buddha that form a big part of my perspective,” he said. “‘The world is what you make it’ and ‘This too shall pass.'”

Yes, Reid, the world is what you make it, and YOU helped make the world a little safer for your pal, Jeffrey Epstein, as he used his influence and connections to make the world hospitable for child-fucking psychopaths.

Can someone remind me while these people are still using oxygen?

Reid Hoffman will be in New York next week rubbing elbows with Bill Clinton and Bill Nye, the science guy, because why not? It’s not like Trump has actually done anything to make it less safe for the Epstein class to continue operating, right?

Back during the Clinton era, when Epstein had free range to rape minors and snack on jerky, a scandal revolving around “Asian money” emerged after Bill Clinton got reelected in 1996.

Before we get to the Asian money scandal, let’s recall what kind of money we’re talking about when we discuss the “Clinton Foundation”, and how this money often goes to United Ways and homeless charities–always for “early childhood learning” or the more broad “education”, of course.

With this context in mind, let’s time-travel back to the late 90’s, starting with this article explaining the context behind the phrase “It was a temple, you idiot!”:

Just as the 1992 Clinton victory produced its definitive shorthand marching order — “It’s the economy, stupid!” — so has the 1996 Clinton victory now produced an explanation in the same ringing meter for its forced retreat from some questionable political fund raising:

“It was a temple, you idiot!” screams the fine print on page 637 of the Democratic National Committee’s newly released documents explaining some of the hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign donations that had to be returned as suspicions of abuse surfaced.

Anonymous himself could not have penned the pain and chagrin any better under the box listing “reason” for giving back $5,000 10 days after the election to a donor whose name was offered simply as “Buddhist Temple” in the box where a person or corporate donor is supposed to be listed.

“It was a temple, you idiot!” is listed near the bottom of a page that otherwise tends to list such unsensationally gray reasons as “determined to be inappropriate” for rebuffing various generous supporters who, in retrospect, turned out to be noncitizens or, in two cases, a suspected drug trafficker ($20,000) and someone accused of being an income-tax deadbeat ($450,000).

Next, here’s another article on this Clinton problem with “Asian money”:

To bring Suma Ching Hai into focus, imagine Martha Stewart as the Dalai Lama. The Supreme Master, 46, is an elegant hostess–and clever merchandiser. At a vegetarian dinner with a TIME correspondent last week in Alhambra, California, she wore a bright yellow dress that she designed herself–embroidered with the Supreme Master monogram (SM) and available to followers by catalog. When she gestured with her hands, she flashed gold and diamond rings with the SM design, part of her Celestial Jewelry collection–available by catalog as well. (Also for sale: Celestial purses, hats, gold dinnerware, chopsticks, inspirational videos, floor lamps.) A petite woman with long, dark brown hair that cascades past her shoulders, the Supreme Master is passionate, earthy (she says she needs a husband) and more fun than the average saint. “Of course I’m divine,” she says, laughing. “But so are you.”

At the moment, Suma Ching Hai is more than divine: she is controversial. Late last year, officials of Bill Clinton’s legal-defense fund rather shamefacedly disclosed that they had returned a donation of more than $600,000 from the followers of the Taiwan-based mystic, adding to the President’s “Asian money” scandal. Nevertheless, the Supreme Master remains a fervent Clintonite. “The poor man,” she says, erupting in his defense. “You must respect his office. How can he solve America’s problems if he is distracted? He’s in debt. He’s a suspect. This is terrible.” She knows what it feels like to be investigated: the Taiwan government is looking into alleged “fund-raising improprieties” by her sect, including the transfer of $2 million out of the country.

Scandal-plagued politicians are not the only objects of Suma Ching Hai’s charity. Whenever there is a natural disaster, she is there–with money. She says she has given hundreds of thousands of dollars to victims of the 1993 Mississippi River floods and to survivors of the Oklahoma City bombing. “Before we enter the spiritual world, we are in the mundane world,” she says. “If the Buddha isn’t a helpful Buddha, he is a boring Buddha. He is a useless Buddha.”

(Oklahoma City bombing? That’s not sus at all)

Instead of a “helpful” Buddha, or a “boring” Buddha, America seems to have gotten a seriously corrupt and perverted Buddha, one who fat fucks, like Reid Hoffman, want to use to train AI.

I wish I was kidding.

What would happen if we put artificial intelligence on a path to enlightenment?

LinkedIn founder and Microsoft board member Reid Hoffman shared a number of thoughts on the future of artificial intelligence research during the annual State of Technology Luncheon Friday in Seattle, as part of a wide-ranging discussion hosted by the Tech Alliance.

Hoffman bypassed the more near-term concerns of how artificial intelligence and machine learning will be implemented in today’s technology to think about how this headlong plunge into AI research will affect society.

This article is from 2017–which seems like an eon ago–but it’s fascinating now, looking back, to see how a nerd with an obvious caloric-intake problem was talking about training AI for a wide array of societal applications, like BIOLOGY.

He went on to explain that one’s level of anxiety about artificial intelligence research probably depends on how soon you think it will arrive, Hoffman said. If you think we’re 10 years away from developing computers with human-level intelligence, “you’re absolutely totally frenetic about it, probably a little crazy.” If you don’t think this will arrive for another 50 years or longer, you’re probably a little more blase about the whole thing.

But in the grand scheme of things, “do you know how short 50 to 100 years is on the human timeframe?” he said. If there’s even a 20 percent chance human-level artificial intelligence arrives by that point, we need to start thinking now about the impact it will have on society and the ethics that govern that research.

After all, computers only do what they are trained to do. “If you could train an AI to be a Buddhist, it would probably be pretty good,” Hoffman said.

Or, you could go in a different direction. Hoffman said he is particularly interested in what happens as artificial intelligence research starts to intersect with biology.

To wrap up today’s post, here’s another Epstein communication highlighting how spiritual creeps, like Deepak Chopra, were “riding the Tiger” and chumming around with the Dalai Lama who, according to Deepak, doesn’t actually know much about Tibetan Buddhism.

Hmmm.

Is Deepak Chopra still using oxygen? Of course he is, and he’s also still hijacking spirituality, as reported in 2025 in this article:

Last month, more than 20,000 pages from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate were released by the House Oversight Committee. The name of Deepak Chopra, the wellness guru with multiple bestselling books, appeared repeatedly. Emails showed Chopra recalling an evening with Epstein as “a blast. Ended 1 AM.” Chopra later expresses relief when one of Epstein’s accusers dropped her lawsuit. Between 2016 and 2019, continuing well after Epstein’s 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution from a minor, Chopra has at least a dozen documented meetings with him.

Last Friday (Nov. 28), Chopra launched something that says more about modern American spirituality than his Epstein connections: an AI companion to his entire body of work. Ninety-five books, thousands of videos, decades of talks have been fed into a proprietary model designed to answer your existential questions. For 50 cents per 30-minute session, or $10 a month, readers can now ask Digital Deepak about their purpose, their fears, their path forward.

Reading about all this technology entangling itself with spirituality has me better appreciating the work of this guy (if you know, you know):

If you appreciate MY work, which is only rhetorically explosive, then please consider donating to my new GoFundMe page so I can consider covering the cost of my own technological harassment.

Thanks for reading!

When I called 911 to report an 8 year old girl reluctantly selling flowers for her “Dad” a few years ago, the 911 dispatcher decided to argue with me instead of doing her job and taking my report. By the time a patrol car slowly cruised by, the dad/daughter were gone down an alley. Upon review of my call, I got an apology from the shift supervisor a few days later for how my concern was handled.

When a woman called 911 last Saturday to report a man chopping at a tree and posing a threat to children at the Clark Fork market, a total of 5 cops were mobilized to assess the threat. Her speculation, later communicated to the alleged threat during said assessment, was that “in this current political climate” she was afraid he was on the verge of entering the market and attacking people.

The current political climate? Was she talking about this?

Brandon Bryant wasn’t about to enter the busy Clark Fork market to harm ANYONE, let alone children, but he DID recall possibly harming a leaf on the nearby tree as he practiced swinging around his wooden staff like he does on many Saturday mornings.

It’s kind of like what these people do:

On Friday, September 11th, I was with Brandon Bryant during the anti-war protest that’s been going on for years near the Higgins bridge when a cop appeared. Someone had been yelling from a studio window at us, but, regardless of having NOT done anything, we were both suddenly in fight-or-flight mode at the possibility that WE could be the ones who got arrested, since the local authorities have made it VERY CLEAR how targeted we both are.

Targeting the lone person of color for not acquiescing to the self-declared expertise of the estrogen collective did a number on Gayle King’s brain. Viewers got to see, in real time, how the disclosure of the juror’s color entered the gears of King’s head and the result was an amazing example of cognitive short-circuiting.

Closer to home, family members of a dead baby are really offended that a plea deal would keep the MAN responsible for the baby’s death in prison for a measly ten years after this MAN agreed to watch the baby, got drunk, then accidentally smothered the baby.

A Lake County District Court judge decided not to follow a binding plea agreement when sentencing a man Friday for the negligent homicide of 14-month-old Aniyah Star Charlo.

Star Charlo died in 2021 while in the care of family member Estevan Orozco-Charlo.

“I don’t just miss Aniyah,” Lorelie Couture, Aniyah’s mother, said. “I miss who she was going to be. I miss the daughter I was supposed to raise.”

Did Lorelie have any inkling that Estevan had a drinking problem? If she did, then I would argue that mom has some culpability in her child’s death.

Instead of trying to move on with their lives, though, family members implored the judge to ignore the plea agreement for a harsher sentence, despite the “binding” nature of said plea deal:

During Orozco-Charlo’s sentencing, statements from family urged the court to pursue a lengthier sentence than the plea agreement, which was 10 years with five suspended.

“From the beginning, we have stressed to the state that we did not want any plea deal,” Tammy Couture, Aniyah’s grandmother, said. “Please help us get justice for Aniyah.”

…

“She deserved to grow up. We deserved to watch her grow and blossom into the woman that we knew that she would be,” Samantha McNair, Aniyah’s aunt, said.

If Estevan Orozco-Charlo is an alcoholic, and alcoholism is a mental illness, then why did the judge ignore this “binding” plea agreement to impose a harsher sentence?

Ultimately, Orozco-Charlo was sentenced to 15 years with seven suspended, a 5-year parole restriction, and nearly $10,000 in restitution.

For some weird reason, the KPAX article omits the name of the judge who ignored the plea agreement to give this poor bastard more time in prison, so I had to find another article to get a better sense of who this judge might be.

Seeing this woman’s smirking face “Gayle-King’d” my brain. Of course this is the judge who ignored a plea offer to give a man a stiffer sentence for not protecting an innocent child like all those noble mothers out there.

Good job, “Kim”.

For those who don’t know what kind of judge Deborah Kim Christopher is, here’s the controversy that ensued when she referred to a mom as “you bitch” after taking her kid from her.

A judge the Montana Supreme Court removed from one case last month referred to a mom in her courtroom as “you bitch” in a remark to colleagues after a child custody hearing, and she described the grandmother as “poison.”

The exchanges were recorded in a video of the Sept. 11 hearing with Judge Deborah Kim Christopher before the Montana Supreme Court removed her from the case last month for a decision it deemed a “gross injustice.”

In that case, the judge of Lake and Sanders counties abruptly ordered a child removed from his mother who had raised him, and placed in custody with his father, who only had spent a few days a year with him.

To emphasize how seemingly incompetent this judge was deemed to be by her own colleagues, here’s more about how she conducted herself in another case:

Additionally, the Department of Public Health and Human Services filed a request to disqualify her from a different case last month. Last week, the Supreme Court requested additional information prior to issuing a decision in that case.

“DPHHS alleges that Judge Christopher should be disqualified from this matter because Judge Christopher has failed to timely rule on motions, issued an order with biased comments, twice attempted to contact a represented party ex parte and without counsel present, and also spoke with (the defendant), via videoconference, without his counsel or opposing counsel present, and advised him as to her anticipated ruling on a pending motion,” said the order from the Supreme Court in its summary of the allegations.

For Brandon Bryant, the “justice of the peace” in his case is the same justice of the peace who signed MY arrest warrant in June, Landee Holloway.

To be a “justice of the peace” you don’t have to have a law degree or really know much about anything, which is how Bill Burt was able to be a candidate.

For Landee, here’s how her experience and perspective was framed earlier this year:

Holloway spent 21 years in various roles at the Department of Corrections, including working at the Missoula Pre-Release Center and working as a probation and parole officer. In her role as justice of the peace, she’s been reelected three times and started Missoula’s ROAD Court, which offers treatment and support for DUI offenders.

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Justice court handles misdemeanors and citations, usually those that happen outside of city limits, as well as civil matters below $15,000. The court also often handles initial appearances and bail conditions for felony cases.

Holloway explained that her judicial policy is a balance of holding people accountable, helping them move forward, and keeping the community safe.

“I think that jail is useful,” Holloway said. “Is it good in every situation? No. Should it be the first response? No.”

In Brandon Bryant’s case, the physical beat-down he took from a gang of cops outside Charlie’s turned into ANOTHER criminal charge of intimidation after Bryant made one of the cops allegedly terrified of the WORDS he wrote on Facebook.

When cops get scared, like the female cop who’s fear justified killing Ross Robertson, citizens better WATCH OUT because protecting the people with the qualified immunity to kill you is definitely one of the most important things a community can do to stay safe.

So good job, Landee! Hopefully no one ever asks you about probation and parole during the time period that Epstein researchers might be curious about, because that would be awkward, right?

Sultans servicing the Epstein class don’t have to worry about the indignities of jumping through probationary hoops and the paper trail it leaves, which can later be followed if you start acting like an uppity black having a hard time getting off the fact a mother viciously murdered her children.

To understand what I’m talking about, here’s what’s now being reported in order to figuratively lynch the black man:

The holdout juror who caused Lindsay Clancy’s mistrial has a history of alleged domestic violence such as grabbing his wife by the throat and punching his nephew, according to a report.

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The juror’s own mom repeatedly screamed, “You’re evil!” as he was cuffed during the incident, the report said.

Will more come out to further incite emotions on all sides of this gender war that can’t be won? Considering this fault line is one of the most effective ones to amplify in the divide & conquer approach to population control, the answer is most assuredly yes.

And when it does, will I be smart enough to ignore it?

I’ll finish today’s post with a story about a Veteran who was taken advantage of by his nurse until he died. This evil Nurse Ratched even STOLE HIS HOUSE!

A Baltimore woman says a caregiver abused her father, stole tens of thousands of dollars, forced him to sign over his home and failed to tell her when he died.

Nora Rowland told WJZ that her father retired to South Carolina in 2013 and began using home care services in 2021 after suffering a traumatic brain injury and being diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease.

When men sacrifice their physical and mental health to serve in a theater of war, like Brandon Bryant and Nora’s father did, the hope is that we, as a society, step up to take care of them. But, if women are no longer accountable for literal acts of premeditated murder, while someone like Brandon Bryant is fully prosecuted for WORDS, then there’s no reason to keep pretending that women deserve this LARP of equality.

It’s time to reassert reality: women and men are NOT equal, and they never will be.

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While I continue to beat my metaphorical dead horse over at Substack, I had an opportunity this past week to pitch my assertion that Missoula is a CIA town with an Epstein problem in a two hour interview with Johnny Vedmore, which you can check out here.

Part of my intent in posting at Substack is to show how popular culture clues are readily available to find and piece together for researchers like me, and they often exist in these amazing things called BOOKS, which I have quite a few of.

Like this one:

The anecdote I found in the pages of this memoir immediately brought to mind the possible real-life “Switters” hiding in plain sight here in Missoula, who I wrote about here.

With that post in mind, I had to ask myself…is that YOU, Abe?

This coming week I’ll be headed back north for another report on Namchak and the ties that bind fellow travelers to exotic places, like Tibet.

And Valhalla?

God only knows.

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