If Cameras Inside The Mineral County Courthouse Have Ears, Who, Besides Sheriff Funke, Could Be Listening? – by Travis Mateer

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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After Ty Baze Was Cleared Of Possessing Child Porn, Who Will Investigate The Investigators? – by Travis Mateer

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.

Thanks for reading!

It’s Not A “Syndrome” If You’re An Actual Imposter – by Travis Mateer

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.

If you appreciate the perspective of a genuinely non-partisan political commentator like myself, please consider donating to my new GoFundMe page. Any little bit helps as I fight the ceaseless lawfare one experiences when they ACTUALLY expose the tentacles of the Epstein Network in Big Sky Country.

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Earth Horse Beats Fire Horse Dead, Dead, Dead…Chapter 5

Today, chapter 5 of Earth Horse Beats Fire Horse Dead, Dead, Dead, titled Fire Horse Froth, is up at my Substack, so check it out.

I started this week with a post about the malicious prosecution of Brandon Bryant, but, at the time of that post, his trial had yet to occur, so today I’m happy to provide the update that Mr. Bryant was found NOT GUILTY of knowingly making loud, unusual noises by a jury of 7 citizens who took about 5 minutes to arrive at their decision, which brings me to an important question about this case:

HOW MUCH MONEY DID THE CITY OF MISSOULA SPEND PROSECUTING THIS BULLSHIT?

The criminal case I’m facing is still moving forward and, thanks to new evidence, so is the investigation into the theft of my personal property–a Lego sign–which was stolen soon after my arrest in the parking lot of this struggling beer business:

I took an image of my stolen Lego sign and made ANOTHER sign, which I had with me yesterday at the homecoming parade when a woman approached me and asked if I was still missing, smiling and pointing at my mugshot. I explained the context and, when I disclosed the identity of the legislator behind the black duct-taped X, she started laughing.

I won’t retell the anecdote given to me by this woman because, legally, I’m forbidden to write about this public official for 10 years, thanks to the anti-Constitutional ruling by judge Vannatta. Needless to say, that ruling WILL be challenged in the Montana Supreme Court.

Getting my opening brief to court may be more challenging than I anticipated, though, after a strange change in the rules was communicated to me by my pre-trial supervisor, Misty.

Here’s the portion of the email describing a new policy that even the judge in my case hadn’t heard about:

Why do I need to go to the courthouse? Because, I am obligated to send a copy of my opening brief to the opposing side’s counsel, and the civil services of the Sheriff’s Office is how I’ve been meeting this obligation, but if I can’t go to the courthouse, I can’t use their services.

Another big problem is that the exclusion zone around the capitol building in Helena prevents me from going to the clerk’s office of the Montana Supreme Court to file my brief in person, which is an additional barrier adding days AND cost to my dwindling timeline for appeal.

My appeal will be happening in an actual court, which is where the Cornell 7 case should be getting tried, but we all know that it’s the COURT OF PUBLIC OPINION that really matters, and THAT court is influenced by the media, like Gwen Florio, who is getting herself psyched over being relevant again.

For Gwen Florio, a female victim is MUCH MORE IMPORTANT than dead niggers, which, of course, is a word a liberal woman would NEVER USE, even if they unintentionally treat them like niggers in their attempt to promote their own work and the work of Missoulian reporters, which I captured in May of 2020, just 4 months after Sean Stevenson was removed from life support BY the Missoula County Sheriff’s Coroner.

It may have taken me 6 years, but my September 2st post, titled “What Does Missoula’s Police Chief, Mike Colyer, Know About The Death Of Sean Stevenson“, is my best effort to date to explain WHY I believe Sean Stevenson was assaulted, then killed by local authorities, and why the nature of Sean’s death is STILL being covered up today.

One of the reasons it has taken me so long to understand the conditions of Sean Stevenson’s death is the side-quest I allowed myself to get pulled into when I published this letter on January 1st, 2023, from someone with a vendetta I didn’t fully understand at the time, since I had recently separated from my wife and was in no shape to white-knight with a professional victim who I discovered was willing to be very manipulative to get results when authorities refused to bring criminal charges, like she was demanding at the time.

Female victims are once again in the national spotlight thanks to national media platforms amplifying CORNEL 7 talking points in a pretty obvious attempt to rally liberal vaginas during the final critical weeks of the midterm elections, invoking that toddler-murdering energy Democrats love–hashtag IAMJANEDOE!!!

Tomorrow, when I write about Alani Bankhead being an actual imposter, it’s not because I want you to vote for Seth Bodnar or Kurt Alme, and it’s not because I’m a misogynist, despite claims to the contrary. It’s because I want EVERYONE reading my words, regardless of their genitalia, to be LESS RETARDED, and I want this because I believe, quite strongly, that a less retarded community will be an incrementally better place for my kids.

While staying focused on local stuff will continue to be my intent, the Cornel 7 “case” does revive Missoula’s role as stand-in for college “rape culture”, as evidenced by our very own Wikipedia page!

So yeah, I think it’s going to be another busy week in Missoula, Montana, but I’m ready and more optimistic than ever that accountability comes for EVERYONE on a long enough timeline when your cause is true.

Thanks for reading!

Decoding The PsyOps Behind The Cinema: Contagion – by Travis Mateer

Today’s post is the first in a recurring series I’ll be featuring on Fridays in support of the Decoding Culture Foundation, run by the PsyOp Cinema guys. With permission I’ll be using a screenshot of a document each week from their archives to highlight the kind of cooperation happening between America’s government and our entertainment industry on films like the one I’ll be discussing today, Contagion.

Not only will today’s post put the REAL people providing their expertise for this film into context, I’ll also be showing how principal advisors, like Ian Lipkin, are explicitly tied to the Epstein network.

Let’s begin.

This email from the Epstein files shows that the social connection between Ian Lipkin and Jeffrey Epstein was a guy named Ellis Rubinstein, but before we get to Rubinstein, let’s see how Ian Lipkin helped Hollywood develop their 2011 pandemic movie, Contagion:

Burns consulted with Larry Brilliant, renowned for his work in eradicating smallpox, to develop an accurate perception of a pandemic event. He had seen one of Brilliant’s TED presentations, which he was fascinated by, and realized that “the point of view of people within that field isn’t ‘If this is going to happen’, it’s ‘When is this going to happen?'” Brilliant introduced Burns to epidemiologist W. Ian Lipkin. With the aid of these physicians, the producers were able to obtain additional perspectives from representatives of the World Health Organization. Burns also met with the author of The Coming Plague, Laurie Garrett. Her 1995 book helped Burns consider a variety of potential plots for the film. He wanted to feature an official from the CDC, and ultimately decided to use an epidemiologist, since that role requires interacting with people while tracking the disease.

Another person we should get a better introduction to before meeting Rubinstein is Dr. Rima Khabazz, who the first document in this post is addressed to. For context, here’s an article where Dr. Khabazz helps bolster the credentials of the CDC’s Dr. Anne Schuchat, described as a 52 year old “Jewish woman” who became the public face of fighting pandemics in 2009:

Wearing her crisp uniform, Dr. Anne Schuchat presents a quiet, unadorned image in her office at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta one cool spring morning. Director of immunization and respiratory diseases for CDC, she is also the assistant surgeon general for the United States Public Health Service.

Career stature aside, this 5-foot-4, 52-year-old Jewish woman with salt-and-pepper hair and green eyes seems anything but intimidating. In fact, colleagues describe her as kind, calm and humble. Which is not to be confused with meek: Dr. Schuchat confidently steps into the limelight when need be. That is ironic for someone who grew up thinking she wanted to become a small-town doctor.

…

Dr. Schuchat’s supervisor, Dr. Rima Khabbaz, CDC’s deputy director for infectious diseases, calls her a great leader. During the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, Dr. Khabbaz says, “She was the face of public health at CDC. She was on the screen in all of our living rooms, reassuring people. She was calm and credible.”

Dr. Schuchat will have an influence on the screen again—this time the silver screen. In Contagion, an action-thriller due out soon, Kate Winslet plays a disease detective battling a global outbreak of a deadly viral illness. While researching her role last winter, the Oscar-winning actor interviewed Dr. Schuchat.

And, of course, we can’t talk about a pandemic movie with mentioning Montana and our Rocky Mountain Laboratory–a NOT well secured facility in the Bitterroot valley, which I wrote about recently.

Here’s portions of the interview from the link above where Montana is referenced:

The characters in the movie are based on real people, the laboratory is modeled after real facilities that exist in places like Montana, but the incubation cycle was unrealistically shortened in order to maximize the “fictional” fear being depicted on screen.

Does this make the emotional manipulation more convincing?

Ellis Rubinstein, the President Emeritus at the New York Academy of Sciences, is an interesting figure, so let’s take some time now to get to know this dude:

Wow, Ellis, you sound AMAZING, almost more like a god than a mere mortal. If billionaires terrified of death want beat that pesky mortality problem, I bet you’re the kind of super-human who will help them achieve it, so see MORE of that AMAZING resume:

It’s really hard for me to understand how the world can be SO FUCKED UP when amazing people with names like RUBINSTEIN are clearly geniuses who work with ONLY the best people.

Like Jeffrey Epstein?

Ok, so this is a bit worrisome, but what else about Ellis Rubinstein’s resume might raise red flags? How about China, AIDS, WEF, and Iran Contra?

Damn, Ellis! Spook vibes for sure!

To wrap up today’s inaugural Decoding Cinema blog post, I gotta give props to Contagion for having a CONSPIRACY BLOGGER try to screw shit up for the noble and heroic scientists with his lies and greed when deceptively suggesting a–GASP!–a homeopathic alternative could work better than the selfless science solution, which NEVER has a profit motive (or worse).

We don’t hate Hollywood enough.

Blogger Alan Krumwiede is quick to pounce on a business venture. That he is dishonest is lamentable. His ruse of having an antidote persuaded many people to skip taking the actual vaccine. Alan’s blog and videos reach a growing audience. Fear fuels a distrust of authorities on the part of the public. As time goes by and the number of deaths escalates, fears erupt into violence. With visions of dollar signs floating inside his head, Alan pretends to have been sick and magically “cured” by something he called Forsythia. You can bet everyone wants to get their hands on it and, so, the money rolls in. Widespread panic is often good for business and this situation was no different.

This blurb was written by Wanda Teays, the “Acting Director of the Bioethics Certificate Program” at Mount Saint Mary’s University, in Los Angeles, and it’s a good example of how cooked we are.

Unless, of course, people WAKE THE FUCK UP and stop believing everything they see on their infernal screens.

Thanks for reading!