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Remember this guy? He appeared before Congress in July, taking heat from Rand Paul and pleading the fifth, but did anything result from the Rand Paul Show? Or was it all just politics and spin?

There is no shortage of storylines arising out of the Fauci testimony. Paul has waged a years-long “public crusade” against Fauci and previously even expressed his personal desire to see Fauci behind bars. Public health has become an increasingly salient and contentious political issue, particularly given Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s controversial rejection of established scientific and medical wisdom. As Kennedy’s recent exchange with CNN’s Dana Bash made clear, Covid-era lockdowns and public health measures continue to drive politics and policy. And Fauci is, undeniably, the avatar for the conflict.

Being the “avatar for the conflict” over public health is where this week’s installment of decoding the psyops behind the cinema starts. Here’s an email, courtesy of PsyOp Cinema and the Decoding Culture Foundation, that highlights how the high and mighty Fauci was treated by the pro-Fauci “documentary” team:

While this nauseating stroking of Fauci’s ego is bad enough, it’s the description of the product’s “snappish” moment that really triggers my gag reflex because of how Mark Mannucci specifically says that this moment allows viewers to connect to Fauci “as a real person”. When you see the inner mechanisms of this audience manipulation being so casually discussed between the creator and the subject, who can honestly say this is an example of a genuine documentary and not just obvious propaganda?

Jumping back in time to 1995, the movie Outbreak would never be mistaken for a documentary. Starring Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, and Donald Sutherland, this movie did reflect what was happening at the time with Ebola, especially an outbreak that occurred in Virginia:

Ebola was hot in the mid-90s. That virus was everywhere in 1994, like copies of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil or John Grisham’s The Client. This was due in large part to Richard Preston’s 1992 New Yorker article and subsequent novel The Hot Zone, a dramatization of a real-life Ebola outbreak in Reston, Virginia, right outside of the nation’s capital. It makes sense – America was between wars at the time, so many of its citizens had to look for things to be worried about, and a nightmarish flesh-eating plague is the kind of thing that captures people’s imaginations in a grim, apocalyptic panic sort of way. Plans to adapt the story into a film began almost immediately, with filmmakers like Wolfgang Petersen and Michael Mann considered for the project before Ridley Scott was ultimately tapped to direct a feature starring Robert Redford and Jodie Foster. Obviously, this version of The Hot Zone never materialized, although Scott did eventually produce a miniseries adaptation for National Geographic in 2019. However, Petersen went on to direct the 1995 film Outbreak, about a strain of the virus that infects a small town in coastal California.

Despite having a faint connection to reality, Outbreak was seen, in hindsight, as being much less plausible when compared to Contagion from the vantage point of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Outbreak stars Dustin Hoffman as army virologist Colonel Sam Daniels who is tasked with investigating an outbreak of fatal fevers in Zaire. It’s so bad that some victims have their internal organs turned to liquid by the bug. Along with his colleagues Major Salt (Cuba Gooding Jr.) and Colonel Casey Schuler (Kevin Spacey), plus his ex-wife Dr. Robby Keough (Rene Russo) who works for the CDC, Daniels attempts to fight the spread of the virus, which inevitably hits the U.S. soil via a smuggled monkey.

The whole movie is so intensely melodramatic and unbelievable that watching it again during COVID-19 isolation actually made me feel better. Whether it’s the smarmy monkey smuggler named Jimbo played by a pre-Grey‘s Anatomy Patrick Dempsey, the wacky underlying government conspiracy, or the fact that they use a little girl to lure and capture the host monkey at the end — everything about Outbreak is utterly ridiculous. Here are five reasons that this movie is so bonkers it actually offers some levity during this pandemic.

Personally, I find NO levity in shitty movies like Outbreak because, what one normie viewer sees as a “wacky underlying conspiracy”, a more perceptive viewer can interpret as cognitive conditioning, like marveling at the UNTHINKABLE idea that America’s military could ever consider BOMBING AN AMERICAN TOWN.

Why does this idea seem so outlandish? The Boomer generation is collectively destroying MUCH MORE than a little town in California in order to keep their party going, and during the height of the pandemic, resistors like ME were told that refusing to jab my children would result in killing grandpa and grandma.

From my current vantage point of October 9th, 2026, I think it’s entirely possible that members of the grey tsunami would have NO PROBLEM bombing a town if it meant saving them from those scary things they cannot see and are asking their “friends” on Facebook if they should be worried about.

I don’t want to discriminate against JUST Democrat lovers, like Kevin Hunt, who believes “regime change starts at home” because die-hard Trump supporters have similar blindspots when it comes to how their dear leader ran Operation Warp Speed, which made Big Pharma LOTS OF MONEY.

For an example of THAT con-job, here’s some remarks from Trump celebrating Operation Warp Speed:

THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much. Please. (Applause).
Thank you very much. Appreciate it very much.

I’m honored to welcome doctors, scientists, industry executives, and state and local leaders to our historic Operation Warp Speed Vaccine Summit. It’s been some journey for all of us. It’s been an incredible success.

We’re grateful to be joined by Vice President Mike Pence, who has done an absolutely incredible job on the Coronavirus Task Force. Mike, thank you. Stand up, Mike. (Applause.) Great job.

We’re here to discuss a monumental national achievement. From the instant the coronavirus invaded our shores, we raced into action to develop a safe and effective vaccine at breakneck speed. It would normally take five years, six years, seven years, or even more. In order to achieve this goal, we harnessed the full power of government, the genius of American scientists, and the might of American industry to save millions and millions of lives all over the world. We’re just days away from authorization from the FDA, and we’re pushing them hard, at which point we will immediately begin mass distribution.

Before Operation Warp Speed, the typical timeframe for development and approval, as you know, could be infinity. And we were very, very happy that we were able to get things done at a level that nobody has ever seen before. The gold standard vaccine has been done in less than nine months.

On behalf of the entire nation, I want to thank everyone here today who has been involved in this extraordinary American initiative. I also want to recognize members of my administration who have worked tirelessly in this effort…

And here’s more, including Trump promoting the Big Pharma companies that made their billions, like Johnson and Johnson, which I referenced in yesterday’s post about Gianforte’s love of India:

As a result of this unprecedented investment, we are exceedingly proud that both Pfizer and Moderna have announced that their vaccines are approximately 95 percent effective, which is a number that nobody expected to be able to get to, far exceeding anything that really we — that anybody thought. We went out and we said, “What do you think a maximum would be?” And I think doctors — we all came up to the conclusion that something like that would be really incredible.

And we have other candidates looking right now. We have some big ones that we’re going to be announcing very soon. We have some companies — great, great companies out there you all know about: Johnson & Johnson and — and others. And they’re all coming in, and they’re coming in very quickly. We expect to have some news on that very shortly. And we have worked very well with the companies, but if for any reason we have any problems, we will be instituting the Defense Production Act, and we will make sure that we don’t have any problems for very long. We’ve instituted it before.

Two additional companies, AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson — as you know, the Johnson & Johnson is a one-dose, one-shot vaccine, so we’re going to see how that works. That would be very helpful if that all came out, and I think it probably will. Also, they’re showing tremendous — tremendous promise, all of them. Tremendous prob- —

We’re — we’re very hopeful that the FDA will authorize the Pfizer vaccine within days. We got to get it moving. And Moderna vaccine almost immediately thereafter. Large numbers of tests and samples have been done, so hopefully that’ll go very quickly.

If authorized, tens of millions of vaccine doses will be available this month. And we’ll get it distributed very quickly. We have that all set. And hundreds of millions more will quickly follow.

Every American who wants the vaccine will be able to get the vaccine. And we think by spring we’re going to be in a position that nobody would have believed possible just a few months ago. (Applause.) Yeah. Amazing. Really amazing. They say it’s — they say it’s somewhat of a miracle, and I think that’s true.

The amazing Big Pharma miracle being celebrated by Donald Trump included an interesting nod to Steve Daines and his victory in 2020, which got me thinking about why Montana is such an ideal place for the biomedical industry that supposedly led to so many AMAZING things to fight the “China virus” because, you know, China is definitely where Covid came from.

Since sharing is caring, and Republicans are known for their great capacity to care (at least for corporate entities), I hope every Republican in the Bitterroot is excited to see that Tonix Pharmaceuticals is coming to town after investing in a facility in Maryland, where Covid definitely DID NOT come from!

Clinical stage biopharma company Tonix Pharmaceuticals has officially moved into Maryland.

The company recently celebrated the grand opening for its newly acquired research and development center in Frederick. Located at 431 Aviation Way, the 48,000 square-foot R&D facility is fully-operational with a team of scientists and technicians on hand to further Tonix’s portfolio of infectious disease treatments.

Tonix is developing live vaccines and antiviral drugs to protect against COVID-19 and its variants, smallpox, and monkeypox; treatments for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD); medical countermeasures; and diagnostics for other diseases. In addition to its Maryland location, the company has operations in Massachusetts and soon to be Montana.

When the Ravalli County Economic Authority announced this Big Pharma news yesterday to the residents of the Bitterroot, the politicians who showed up included Republicans AND Democrats because nothing brings together America’s political parties like empowering some of the most evil corporations to ever exist.

I know people want this issue to be a partisan one so they can have their partisan feelings about it, like the extreme partisanship of the legislator I’m legally forbidden to name, which is why I have carefully cropped this image from an old post of her attempt to turn the pandemic into an opportunity to score political points six years ago:

Will this image earn me another threat of being charged with another looming felony from the Missoula County Attorney’s Office? I can’t say, that’s up to County Attorneys, like Matt Jennings and Mac Bloom, but what I CAN say is that someone suffering from PTSD, like I do, can now get excited for the Tonix solution to my PTSD-related need to publicly share as much information as possible because, for some crazy reason, I think exposing local corruption has put my life at risk.

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I was on an X spaces earlier this week where I got to see, in real time, how the Montana Republican ability to get distracted by their stupid emotions will guarantee wasted time and opportunity in Helena next year during the legislative session, so let me do my best to help those Republicans connect some dots so they waste LESS time and money next year being retarded.

First, let me say that researchers of the occult make for the most interesting Christians, like Nick Hinton, and it’s because of his esoteric understanding of the spiritual grift that he inspired me to buy this book written by Serphim Rose:

Seraphim Rose (born Eugene Dennis Rose; August 13, 1934 – September 2, 1982), also known as Seraphim of Platina, was an American priest and hieromonk of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia who co-founded the Saint Herman of Alaska Monastery in Platina, California. He translated Eastern Orthodox Christian texts and authored several works. His writings have been credited with helping to spread Eastern Orthodox Christianity throughout the West; his popularity equally extended to Russia itself, where his works were secretly reproduced and distributed by samizdat during the Communist era, remaining popular today.

Picking up this book and doing some reading last week gave me the best term for what EVERYONE is trapped by, and that term is prelest. Here’s what it means, according to Wikipedia:

Prelest, also known as spiritual delusion, spiritual deception, or spiritual illusion, is an Eastern Orthodox Christian term for a spiritual state of false holiness or deluded self-righteousness, believing in one’s own spiritual superiority.

Prelest should not be confused with mental illness, but is a spiritual illness caused by vainglory, pride, and demonic suggestion. It is said to be cured by humility and the Holy Sacraments under the guidance of one’s spiritual father. In a broad interpretation, prelest afflicts everyone, as everyone has wrong thoughts, without fully understanding the meaning of life and the gravity of their sins. In a narrow sense, it refers to a person initially on the path of a pious Christian life, instead becomes proud and conceited about his or her own sanctity and triumph over sin.

In Eastern Orthodox thought, the closer people are to God, the more they see their failings, and all true saints see the foulest sins not in others, but in their own hearts and actions. The opposite state to prelest is spiritual sobriety; its opposite virtue is spiritual discernment.

Using my own spiritual discernment, I’ve traced the roots of the future New Age religion to the year 1893 and the religious showdown between Christianity and eastern spirituality featured at the Chicago World Fair. Here’s a brief description of this moment where the “Interfaith Movement” was supposedly birthed:

Held as part of the World Columbian Exposition on the shores of Lake Michigan, the 1893 World’s Parliament of Religions marks the first formal gathering of representatives of Eastern and Western spiritual traditions. Today, the 1893 Parliament is recognized as the birthplace of the worldwide interfaith movement.

The World’s Parliament of Religions was the centerpiece and the most remarkable of the many congresses that were held as part of the Exposition. To prepare for the event, a steering committee was composed of sixteen Christian and Jewish leaders throughout the world. The Parliament brought together some four hundred men and women representing forty-one denominations and religious traditions. It lasted for seventeen days in September of 1893. Of all the congresses, the Parliament of Religions was by far the most popular with the public and the press. Audiences of four thousand or more attended each of the daily sessions.

The 1893 World’s Parliament of Religions was inaugurated on September 11 at the Permanent Memorial Art Palace, now known as the Art Institute of Chicago.

Without going too deep down this rabbit hole, since I cover this time period in my book, The Great JuBu Karma Con: How A Judaic/Buddhist Death Pact Took Hold In Big Sky Country, I want to emphasize how the “Jewish” element referenced in the above quote was more aligned with Theosophy and weird occultists than it was with traditional Judaism. For some additional context, here’s a bit of background on Henry Steel Olcott and the origins of the Theosophical Society:

DESCENDED FROM Puritans, Henry Steel Olcott was born in 1832 into a pious Presbyterian household in Orange, New Jersey. After a short stint at what is now New York University, Olcott went west toward the frontier in search of youthful adventures. In Ohio, at the age of twenty, he became a convert to spiritualism. Soon he was championing a host of other causes, including antislavery, agricultural reform, women s rights, cremation, and temperance. He worked for a time as an experimental fanner, served a stint in the Army, and even worked as an investigator on the special commission charged with scrutinizing President Lincoln’s assassination. But he eventually returned to New York City, where he supported himself as a journalist and insurance lawyer. In 1874, while covering reports of spirits materializing at a farmhouse in Chittenden, Vermont, he struck up a friendship with Russian occultist Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. One year later, he and Blavatsky co-founded the Theosophical Society, an organization that would soon play a major role in introducing Americans to the ancient wisdom of the East.

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Shortly after this reception, on May 25, at the Wijananda Monastery in Galle, Olcott and Blavatsky each knelt before a huge image of the Buddha and “took pansil ” by reciting in broken Pali the Three Refuges and the Five Precepts of Theravada Buddhism, thus becoming the first European-Americans to publicly and formally become lay Buddhists.

With this history in mind, let’s return to the present moment where a Christian Indian educated by Jesuits calls Montanans WHITE NATIONALISTS for being critical of Governor Gianforte’s India junket.

Ok, Dinesh, let’s take a look at you’re Bombay heritage, Jesuit education, and the Daddy who got you out of India on the paychecks from a pharmaceutical company:

Dinesh Joseph D’Souza was born on 25 April 1961 into a middle-class Goan Catholic family, in Bombay, India, where his father was an executive with Johnson & Johnson and his mother was a housewife. D’Souza attended the St. Stanislaus High School, a Jesuit school in Bandra.

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Between 1987 and 1988, D’Souza was a policy adviser in the administration of President Ronald Reagan. He has been affiliated with the American Enterprise Institute and the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.

In 1991, D’Souza naturalized as a U.S. citizen. He renounced Indian citizenship, as India’s nationality law does not recognize dual citizenship.

If you don’t understand how an Indian Christian who got in trouble for fucking a woman who wasn’t his wife continues to be a conservative influencer calling Montanans WHITE NATIONALISTS, well, maybe it’s YOU who doesn’t know your history and how easy it is to see that people like Dinesh are pieces of shit who we should never have let into this country as a naturalized citizen in the first place.

While at Dartmouth, D’Souza wrote for The Dartmouth Review, an independent, student-edited, alumni- and Collegiate Network-subsidized publication. D’Souza faced criticism during his time at The Review for authoring an article publicly outing homosexual members of the school’s Gay–Straight Alliance student organization. He also oversaw The Review’s publication of “a light-hearted interview” with a former leader of the Ku Klux Klan over a staged photograph of a black person hanged from a tree, as well as a piece mocking affirmative action in higher education written from the point of view of a black student and phrased in Ebonics.

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From 2010 to 2012, he was president of The King’s College, a Christian school in New York City, until he resigned after a scandal when he checked into a hotel with a woman he referred to as his fiancée; both were married, but had separated from their respective spouses.

Before returning to the teachings of Seraphim Rose, it’s important to note that Dinesh D’Souza represents the right’s pathetic attempt at trying to counter the narrative control power of the ostensible “left” when it comes to making propaganda, which the left is better at depicting to their respective propaganda targets as “art”.

Also, notice how deftly Wikipedia suggests D’Souza’s films are “conspiracist”:

In 2012, D’Souza released the conspiracist political film 2016: Obama’s America, an anti-Barack Obama polemic based on his 2010 book The Roots of Obama’s Rage. He has since released seven other conspiracist films: America: Imagine the World Without Her (2014), Hillary’s America (2016), Death of a Nation (2018), Trump Card (2020), 2000 Mules (2022), Police State (2023) and Vindicating Trump (2024). D’Souza’s films and commentary have generated considerable controversy due to their promotion of conspiracy theories and falsehoods, as well as for their incendiary nature.

In 2014, D’Souza pleaded guilty in federal court to one felony charge of using a “straw donor” to make illegal campaign contributions. In 2018, D’Souza was issued a pardon by President Donald Trump.

Since Trump pardoned this piece of shit, conservatives will have to just deal with him and the fact that an entire County in Montana can shut down your anti-ICE film production, despite getting all the right permits, and it will only be allowed to continue at the pleasure of the County Commissioners:

After public comment at a nearly seven-hour Livingston City Commission meeting Monday night on whether a polarizing film could continue shooting in city limits, vice chair James Willich rifled through his notebook.

“24 pages of notes,” he muttered. “That’s a new record!”

By the end of the night, commissioners voted unanimously to allow the Daily Wire-affiliated movie about an ICE agent doing battle with Antifa protesters and MS-13 gang members to continue. The decision came two days after the commission temporarily paused operations on set, and served as an added plot point in a weeks-long drama over the film’s production in the southwest Montana town since filming began in late September.

Tomorrow, in my second post brought you by PsyOp Cinema and the Decoding Culture Foundation, I’ll be highlighting an email from Anthony Fauci (link is to 2020 Truthout article) about the propaganda made to coverup for this piece of mass-murdering shit who is more worthy of the firing-squad fate President Trump is exploiting with Nidal Hasan than Hasan is. I will also include a look at the movie Outbreak after covering the movie Contagion last week.

This initial focus on the “entertainment” of pandemic movies is happening just as word is spreading (like a virus?) about a death from a literal plague exposure that resulted, we are being told, from a lab accident in Siberia.

Using my spiritual discernment, I’m giving more weight to the X-post of an occult researcher and aspiring Eastern Orthodox monk because I find his perspective to be MORE RELEVANT than anything I will get from more conventional sources of information, and that’s because I haven’t forgotten what I learned six years ago about the terrifying scope and power of narrative control when it comes to the psychopath class.

Nick Hinton is the dude who turned me on to Seraphim Rose, so it’s appropriate to have his perspective on this sorcery preface our return to the wisdom of what Rose saw coming over 50 years ago, which wasn’t just about Hindus and the demons they love having spiritual experiences with.

In his chapter, titled “The Power Of The Pagan Gods”, Rose unpacks the allure of eastern spirituality and describes the risk he perceives in the seductive power of things that really do “work”:

Here we are, back at at the idea of spiritual delusion, which is where EVERYONE needs to spend some time asking themselves some tough questions, since NO ONE escapes this state of being (if they’re honest).

If they’re NOT honest, even a woman who claims to be an empathetic woman of the Christian faith, with a deep love for the homeless, may find herself abusing the courts to destroy a man she used to target her own Christian brethren. Hopefully God delivers this unwell person from the prelest she is so obviously suffering from.

It’s pretty clear to me now why women like Rebekah Barsotti, Eva Prather, and Leah Hartley will continue dying in and around Missoula under very suspicious circumstances without any real investigations looking into their deaths, and the reason is this community doesn’t actually support someone seeking truth if they’re like me and not polite in asking questions.

While I prepare to get charged with a felony next week after I turn down a hilarious plea offer, I hope everyone focused on politics can take a moment to reflect on all the things they could lose if they actually had the courage of their convictions, then go vote like it matters. I’ll pray that one day you good people wake up from your delusions because the future New Age religion is going to use eastern concepts, like karma, to convince the global peasants they deserve what they’re going to get.

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When I added the question about the Mineral County Courthouse being bugged in this post, which asks several questions of former Mineral County Attorney, Ellen Donohue, it was because I had come to the realization that it’s common knowledge among those who work inside this courthouse that something is facilitating remote listening, and that something very well could be the cameras themselves.

Before I get to the excerpts of a Missoulian article about Verkada cameras, I will note that my background sources on this story include a former County employee involved in cyber security for a County facility, a lawyer put into an awkward situation by another lawyer, and a citizen who has helped me understand dynamics of the County next door, in Mineral.

Because of these background sources, and because of my own legal constraints, I will be very cautious with how I explain the reasoning behind sending this email inquiry to the Missoula County Sheriff’s Office, and why the unsolicited response from County Commissioner, Dave Strohmaier, has me scratching my head.

Dave Strohmaier should know that the types of circumstances he’s referencing are the type of circumstances that first put the law firm, Reep, Bell & Jasper, on my radar, so the fact it’s a different law firm now and, from my experience, MUCH LESS PROFESSIONAL, should make a politician like Dave, named in my OWN legal restrictions, very cautious about how HE should be proceeding.

IF the Mineral County Sheriff’s Office, under Ryan Funke, has audio-capable cameras in the Mineral County Courthouse, then I believe it’s VERY possible that both Lance Jasper and Paul Leisher have access to what is recorded by those audio-capable VERKADA cameras, which have apparently been in use around MISSOULA County for some time:

The spokesperson for the Mayor’s office, Ginny Merriam, is later quoted in this article specifically claiming that AUDIO is not being taken by these cameras. But that doesn’t mean other jurisdictions aren’t as savvy about the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution as it appears Ginny Merriam is:

While Ginny Merriam seems to understand that recording should be video-only and restricted to being reviewed by security personnel (if they can be trusted), another jurisdiction found this capacity a part of the court proceeding (PDF):

I don’t live in Indiana, I live in Montana, but ALL states should have respect for the guiding documents of our nation, like the Constitution, because, if we don’t, then we don’t have a country capable of dispensing anything close to justice for its citizens, and that makes citizens VERY unsatisfied with their local democracy.

Returning to the Missoulian article, what organization is referenced by our paper of record as representative of the “resistance” to this latest example of the police-state-creep into our lives?

Sorry, but if “Missoula Resists” is any indication of where the “non-partisan” opposition is coming from, then regular citizens are FUCKED!

Um, no, I won’t be joining a SIGNAL group because some of us are too busy fighting for our literal freedom with only a handful of diligent and MUCH APPRECIATED supporters to help us out behind the scenes.

Before I wrap up today’s post, there’s one more article I’d like to highlight, and that’s some additional reporting by Hannah Shields on the case of the missing Sheriff vehicles:

A Kansas-based company that has yet to deliver three patrol vehicles to Mineral County is facing allegations of business fraud in multiple states.

ESU Pursuits, LLC, a government vehicle supplier, is the target of at least two lawsuits filed this year in Kansas and Missouri for claims of unfulfilled orders and unpaid invoices for vendor services, according to court documents.

Mineral County Attorney Debra Jackson launched her own investigation this summer after the company failed to deliver three of six patrol vehicles ordered by Mineral County Sheriff Ryan Funke on June 5, 2025.

The article goes into more detail about the background of this case without, of course, mentioning the bizarre behavior of Lance Jasper (that’s my job!), but it’s where the remaining money will be going that I think is relevant to today’s post about the courthouse:

Commissioners voted May 22, 2025, to authorize Funke spending $353,688 to purchase six fully outfitted Dodge Durangos from ESU Pursuits. Funke said several vehicles in the fleet were nearing 100,000 miles, and that the dealer from ESU Pursuits gave him until June 8, 2025, to decide.

“He said he can build six cars in six days,” Funke said at the meeting.

The money was loaned from a $2.9 million federal grant, called the Local Assistance and Tribal Consistency Fund, that the county received during the pandemic. The fund has about $2.5 million remaining, according to Mineral County Clerk and Recorder Kelann McLees.

These funds are intended to help reconstruct the 106-year-old Mineral County Courthouse, including replacing the detention center’s roof and HVAC system and renovating the courthouse’s entryway.

There’s nothing left to say that a Captain Picard meme can’t say better.

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Before becoming the new leader of MISSOULA’S Salvation Army, Ty Baze was finishing up his tenure in California with a false arrest for possessing child porn. That arrest happened in April and, by July, Ty Baze and his partner were getting settled in Missoula.

Hmmm.

A man who worked for the Santa Monica Salvation Army as a captain has been arrested for the possession of child sexual abuse material, the Santa Monica Police Department told NBC4 Investigates exclusively.

Ty Michael Baze, 54, of Santa Monica was taken into custody on April 10 without an incident, police said.

Baze faced felony charges, including the possession of obscene matter depicting a minor in sexual acts.

Jail records showed Baze’s profession was noted as a pastor.

He was held on $250,000 bail as of Thursday afternoon.

The Salvation Army told NBC4 Investigations that as soon as it learned about Baze’s arrest, he was placed on leave pending the outcome of the investigation.

NBC Los Angeles reached out to Baze but did not hear back.

When no criminal charges from this arrest materialized, Baze kept quiet at first, but eventually spoke with MISSOULA’S local media, who did him a solid by calling into question his arrest and tepidly asking a simple question: what happened?

Ok, so what’s the name of the investigator? And the investigator’s boss? And the jurisdiction and/or task force involved? Because that would be helpful to know if any effort to investigate the investigators were to happen, since these investigators have the power to destroy someone’s life with a false accusation and should be held accountable when they fuck up this bad.

Since Ty Baze is in Missoula now, helping the homeless, the Missoulian is helping him clean up his reputation by sort of investigating the investigators or, at least, asking some critical questions:

While the Missoulian reporter, David Erickson, does some helpful reputation-repair for Ty so the shadow of his arrest doesn’t influence his new job in Missoula, I’m still curious about the kind of entities in California that are tasked with investigating and arresting child abusers:

I’m not a lawyer, so maybe I’m just being dumb on the logistics of getting arrested, but don’t authorities have to have an arrest warrant articulating probable cause to take someone into custody? Why, then, did no charges materialize?

If you think that local media in Santa Monica would be interested in a story like this, think again.

Since the court of public opinion, run by the media, doesn’t seem to care if a man has his reputation destroyed and loses income for months based on false accusations, what other options might Ty Baze have? If Ty has MONEY and wants to spend LOTS OF IT on a lawyer, like Greg Peacock, then I’m sure Greg Peacock will EAGERLY take that money to roll the dice on civil litigation.

If you don’t have the budget to spend thousands of dollars pursuing “justice” then you’re relegated to begging for narrative scraps, like Ty Baze did, because he wasn’t the type of victim who warranted the kind of pro-bono help now offered by the ADL to victims of the tiny hat faith:

The ADL and powerhouse law firm Gibson Dunn have launched a nationwide network of attorneys to provide free legal aid to Jewish Americans facing antisemitic harassment, vandalism, and violence — with organizers citing a record surge in anti-Jewish hate across the country.

The new ADL Legal Action Network, announced Wednesday, brings together more than 40 of the nation’s top law firms — including Cooley, Covington & Burling, Morgan Lewis, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer and Lieff Cabraser — to offer pro bono legal services to victims of antisemitism.

Together, the participating firms represent some 39,000 attorneys across 35 states.

For a more visceral description of this capacity, here’s a clip from Broken Simulation that put this legal behemoth on my radar (audio levels might be a bit harsh, apologies):

While I can’t offer a network of lawyers willing to provide free legal attacks against the First Amendment, what I can and do offer is sticking with local stories to the best of my un-paid ability, like talking directly with someone I initially judged a bit too harshly after watching the local effort to shop this incident of police brutality around for larger impact.

After speaking with Taylor I think NOT filing a POST complaint was the right thing to do because, without stronger local support, there is a significant cost/benefit analysis one must weigh individually before doing something that will make you a larger target for people with more power than you, and I don’t think Missoula currently has that kind of support for a target like Taylor.

Prove me wrong, Amy Roeber from #406revolution!

If people in MONTANA want to be effective advocates for MONTANANS, like the people behind 406Revolutionized claim…

What began as a personal search for answers quickly evolved into a statewide advocacy effort focused on helping families navigate Montana’s criminal legal system, access reliable information, and find community during some of the most difficult moments of their lives.

…then stay focused on what’s happening in MONTANA, like Great Falls law enforcement barely being able to handle a tough weekend while their community enables Janicki Industries to build a massive new facility with a little help from Tax Increment Financing.

Things are changing quickly in Great Falls and one thing is clear: as we continue to grow, so will the need for public safety. Over the weekend our officers were stretched thin while responding to two separate incidents.

“Both incidents stretched response capabilities causing GFPD to prioritize an ’emergency only’ response for the remainder of the night,” Great Falls Police Department said on their Facebook.

How do we fix shitty investigators, incurious media, and social media advocates as more and more people get economically squeezed? How about…

FUNDING ANOTHER STUDY!!!

Commissioners on Thursday approved spending up to $55,000 to hire a consultant to conduct a study on the workings of tax increment and how it impacts other taxing jurisdictions.

“We have heard concerns regarding the impact of TIF on taxing jurisdictions that have boundaries that overlap our districts,” said Flanna McLarty. “We have learned that we lack a shared understanding of how the process works from start to finish.”

Ok, I’m done.

Until tomorrow, that is, when I write about the likelihood of the Mineral County Courthouse being bugged.

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What’s “Imposter Syndrome”? Is it made up psychobabble created to allow ACTUAL imposters to charge money to peddle “God” and other forms of fixing made up bullshit?

Because that’s kinda what it sounds like.

Impostor syndrome, also known as impostor phenomenon, impostorism, or impostor thoughts, is a psychological experience in which a person suffers from feelings of intellectual and/or professional fraudulence. One source defines it as “the subjective experience of perceived self-doubt in one’s abilities and accomplishments compared with others, despite evidence to suggest the contrary”.

Those who suffer from impostor syndrome often doubt their skills, talents, or accomplishments. They may have a persistent internalized fear of being exposed as frauds.

If Alani Bankhead is an imposter, which I think she is, would she be the kind of imposter who is AFRAID of being exposed? Or, more likely, would she be the kind of imposter who is confident that simply being a woman is enough to keep any critical scrutiny at arm’s length for her mission to split the vote and get Kurt Alme elected to the Senate?

I don’t know, God, what do YOU think?

If you believe Alani Bankhead, God sent her to war in order to annihilate her own self-doubt about being an imposter so she could move to Montana and tell OTHER people how NOT be imposters in their own lives.

To better understand how God helped Alani Bankhead find paid consulting work with the conservative Gianforte administration, here are several more screenshots from Bankhead’s website, including how much it costs to have this Godly woman fix your broken and anxious identity:

Maybe it’s my stubborn man-brain at work here, but does ANYTHING about these screenshots give off DEMOCRAT energy? So why are so many WOMEN supporting Alani Bankhead? Is it their innate misandry, or hatred of men, driving them to support this God-thumping “Democrat” who can’t seem to get her story right with Planned Parenthood?

For context on the competing narratives over Alani Bankhead’s “Planned Parenthood” outreach, here’s a local article that Montana women who love the D can readily ignore:

The back-and-forth between Planned Parenthood and Democratic US Senate candidate Alani Bankhead continued this week after both groups offered differing accounts over the endorsement process.

Last week, NonStop Local reported through multiple sources that Bankhead did not complete the endorsement process with Planned Parenthood Action Fund.

The Bankhead campaign retorted initially that they did engage with Planned Parenthood but later clarified saying they only received phone calls that were aimed at forcing the candidate to drop out of the US Senate race.

This issue with Planned Parenthood gets even more concerning for D-loving women in Montana when you realize Bankhead lied misspoke about filling out and turning in the Planned Parenthood questionnaire:

In a video circulating online, Bankhead said she completed the questionnaire and sent it back to PPAF. Jeri Bucy, the Bankhead campaign’s strategic communications director, said in a follow-up that Bankhead misspoke.

Planned Parenthood and the Planned Parenthood Action Fund are separate organizations under the same umbrella. One is a healthcare provider, the other is a political action arm.

“Planned Parenthood Action Fund made multiple good faith efforts to get in touch with Montana’s Senate candidates so they could participate in the Action Fund’s endorsement process,” Nora Walsh-DeVries, Vice President, Political and Legislative Affairs, Planned Parenthood Action Fund said to NonStop Local via email. “ Not everyone responded, but Seth Bodnar did. Seth proved himself to be the reproductive healthcare champion Montanans deserve, which is why Planned Parenthood Action Fund is proud to endorse his candidacy for Senate.”

Bankhead’s team has disputed NonStop Local’s reporting and is adamant that they were never sent a questionnaire.

Maybe THIS is a more accurate representation of Alani Bankhead’s approach to terminating pregnancies as a woman of faith who loves God:

The national political commentariat has definitely taken notice of Bankhead’s refusal to play nice with the strategy other Democrat candidates folded to earlier this cycle, as reported by Vox:

In Nebraska, South Dakota, and Idaho, the candidate who won the Democratic primary has since quit the race — often with some “urging” from the party establishment — to pave the way for a two-way matchup between a Republican incumbent and an independent. (Democrats tried to similarly clear the way for an independent in Montana, but the party’s nominee refused to quit the race.)

The theory is that the Democratic brand is so toxic to so many voters in these states that it’s impossible for a Democrat to win there nowadays — but that there’s no great love for the Republican establishment either, and dissatisfaction with the political status quo more generally. So perhaps a fresh-faced independent could capture essentially all of a red state’s Democratic voters and peel away enough Republicans and independents to win.

Could this strategy have been successful in Montana? Considering the Republican in-fighting in Montana was pretty vicious during the primary, highlighted by Steve Daines pulling his last minute retirement trick out of his hat so the establishment could anoint their chosen candidate, I think Bodnar likely would have been competitive, but that was before Alani Bankhead went to the University of Montana campus in June to resurrect the divisive ME TOO attack that helped validate why Seth Bodnar turned his back on Montana Democrats in the first place.

Was it worth it, ladies?

For a little more evidence that Alani Bankhead is NOT who she claims to be, I took a closer look at the “International Justice Mission” Bankhead was involved with and was pretty surprised at what I found.

With “gross” receipts totalling $136,065,911 dollars, the International Justice Mission really is one of the world’s “largest anti-slavery NGOs”, but that doesn’t mean they don’t have a few whoopsies from time to time, as reported by the BBC:

A little after midnight on 6 September, 2022, Musah Mustafa emerged from his thatched-roof hut to relieve himself and saw four cars speeding towards his tiny village.

Mogyigna was barely a village. With just a handful of family homes and two dozen people in total, it was more like a dot in the middle of an expanse of farmland in northern Ghana. Cars were a rare sight during the day, let alone at night. Musah hid behind a tree and watched. When he saw armed men from the cars approach the two homes, he shouted in an attempt to wake the other residents.

But before anyone could act, the men entered the huts and forcibly removed four children, carrying an 11-year-old girl called Fatima by her arms and legs from the room where she had been sleeping with her grandparents.

A gun pointed at her neck, Fatima’s grandmother Sana pleaded with the men. She did not understand why the children were being taken away. Two of the children’s uncles were also taken. Sana feared she would never see her relatives again.

In the eyes of Mogyigna’s villagers, a violent kidnapping had taken place.

No, silly villagers, this was NOT a kidnapping, it was the kind of AMAZING work that Alani Bankhead was directly involved with, so let’s read more:

But this was not a kidnapping.

Officially, it was a rescue operation carried out by Ghanaian police officers, under Ghana’s Human Trafficking Act. The children were transferred into the care of social services.

The operation was instigated by IJM.

With around $100m (£78m) in funding annually over the past two years, IJM is one of the world’s leading anti-trafficking organisations.

In the UK, IJM says it can count on the support of nearly 300 churches, and more than £220,000 ($280,000) was raised last year from churches and other donors by IJM UK to support activities in Ghana.

But according to our investigation, IJM has removed some children from their families in cases where there was scarce-to-no evidence of trafficking and this aggressive approach may have been fuelled by a target-driven culture inside IJM.

We found two documented cases of rescue operations in which children were forcibly, traumatically and unjustly removed and the children’s relatives prosecuted as child traffickers. One of the cases was Fatima’s.

Want even more about how Bankhead’s former employer saves children? Ok, here’s more:

“I was terrified and I started crying,” the 11-year-old said about the night of Operation Hilltop. “I thought they were taking us away to kill us. We didn’t know where they were taking us.”

While in the shelter she thought her “grandmother, grandfather, uncles had died”.

“When I was taken away, I cried a lot while thinking about my family,” she added.

Fatima’s uncles, Nantogma Abukari and Sayibu Alhassan, were arrested during the operation.

They were prosecuted on charges of child trafficking and child labour and spent all their savings to attend court and bail hearings. Every return trip to court cost them more than 1,500 Ghana cedis ($132; £104) in travel – the equivalent of almost two months’ work.

Prosecutions are an essential part of IJM’s anti-slavery model, as the charity argues they serve as a deterrent. Court documents show that an IJM lawyer stood in for the state prosecutor in one of the court hearings.

The uncles’ case was eventually dropped and their names cleared, but it continues to dog them. Some members of their family no longer speak to them, they said, driven by a suspicion that they had “colluded” in some way “with the people who took the children away”.

With just a handful of weeks left before the midterm election, the Cornel 7 case is a red-hot engine of outrage to harness for attention, so of course Bankhead is jumping on the bandwagon with a bizarre mashup of campus rape culture and the Epstein network.

Huh?

Later this week, perhaps tomorrow, I’ll be asking about accountability after reading how Ty Baze–the man of faith running Missoula’s Salvation Army–was falsely accused of possessing child sexual abuse material back in April. How did this happen? Did an investigator, like what Alani Bankhead was doing for the IJM, screw up? And, if so, what is Blaze’s recourse for the time he spent in jail and the damage to his reputation?

Genuine people don’t run from accountability, grifters do, and Alani Bankhead has all the markings of a political grifter who is banking (pun intended) on the mindless tribalism of the misandrist vagina to keep Montana from being competitive for Democrats.

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