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Before coming to Missoula and taking the lead at United Way of Missoula County, Susan Hay Patrick was a deputy director at Feeding America, one of the “top” non-profits in America. When the compensation of top administrators at Feeding America came to light as the pandemic hit American food banks, I have to wonder–did Susan Hay Patrick take a pay cut when she moved from Washington DC to Montana?

In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, a record 44 million Americans lost their jobs and filed for unemployment. Many turned to their local non-profit, charitable food banks for hunger relief.

Based in Chicago, Feeding America is the largest food bank in the country with revenues of $2.9 billion (2019). Primarily a pass-through organization, it makes grants and donations to local food banks across the country.

Our auditors at OpenTheBooks.com reviewed Feeding America’s payroll disclosures and found Diana Aviv, CEO, made $1.1 million (2019). This amount included $347,209 from a previous employer and rolled into a new 457B plan which was distributed to her when she left the organization that year.

While big money to top people at a food bank conglomerate is something to take note of, a different line of criticism from 2014 got my attention because the article (New York Post) unpacks how a slick ad campaign claiming American children were starving was based on just one skewed study by the USDA, which Feeding America has a close relationship to.

The only basis for Feeding America’s claim comes from US Department of Agriculture surveys in which heads of households were asked if at any time during a calendar year their children were a) unable to eat what they wanted; b) unable to eat in whatever quantity they wanted; c) forced to eat cheaper brands, or d) afraid their food supply might run out on any single day.

Fully 85.5 percent said “no”; just 14.5 percent replied “yes.”

The Agriculture Department tendentiously labels the latter group “food insecure.” And it is from this number, and this number alone, that Feeding America gets its nonsensical claim that one in five kids is fighting starvation daily.

This style of reality tweaking, facilitated by Federal government language games, reminds me of the homeless “point-in-time” survey I used to help administer when I worked at Missoula’s homeless shelter, the Poverello Center. If you want an idea of how this game is played, read this 2019 post.

The controlling of narratives is something that Susan Hay Patrick seems to understand from multiple angles, since her resume includes being a “reporter” and a “corporate communication writer” before her tenure in Missoula began. Then there’s her “long-time” association with the Montana Ambassador program to consider.

What’s a Montana Ambassador? Here’s the definition and the associated goals that this “non-partisan” program (established in 1983) promotes for Governor Gianforte:

According to the definition provided at the website, members of this ambassador program can be “out-of-state” while still actively promoting Montana–people like Alina Alvarez, a Devener-based lawyer for the Oracle Corporation, the CIA-seeded tech company that made Greg Gianforte a very rich man.

Another name I found while clicking through each ambassador office is a name most people won’t recognize, since Paige Pavalone was just a communication cog for the Missoula County Sheriff’s Office a decade ago, but when she backed the wrong candidate running against the Democrat’s pick for Sheriff (T.J. McDermott) the Sheriff’s Office did her dirty, something that appeared to be part of a pattern of retaliation that McDermott and his cronies engaged in after the heated political showdown he “won” over his opponent, Josh Clark.

When I saw Paige Pavalone’s name for a business that does glorified janitor work next to Cushing Terrell gentrifiers (a quarter million in TIF?) and public/private incubators (Blackstone’s launching pad?), my educated guess is that this is an example of Susan Hay Patrick “helping” someone who could have made bigger problems for her and her Democrat schemers after they secured the Sheriff’s Office for Klaus and friends.

Is this image starting to make more sense now?

When Susan Hay Patrick helped Feeding America feed America bullshit, she had celebrities like Beyonce and corporations like Kelloggs helping her out, the same corporations feeding our children shit food while the celebrity class filled their heads with their toxic, predictive programming garbage.

To highlight this awkward reality, here’s another quote from the New York Post article with a quote from Adolf Hitler, which I find hilarious considering Susan Hay Patrick’s alleged “faith”.

Its corporate sponsors represent America’s largest agribusiness companies, food processors and retailers (Conagra, Food Lion, General Mills, Kelloggs, Kroger, Pepsico and Walmart).”

If you make or sell food, you want to inculcate brand loyalty at the youngest age possible. And to get the public thinking we’re still not spending enough on food — never mind that 35 percent of poor kids are obese.

But the damage from the Feeding America campaign is far more insidious. Above all else, it promotes the perception that our free-market system — which, lest we forget, enables America to be the most generous and socially conscious country in history — has barely progressed beyond the sweat-shop era.

In other words, the campaign doesn’t just serve the interests of Big (Agri)Business, it boosts Big Government.

“Propaganda skillfully employed will convince people living in paradise they are living in hell, and people living in hell they are living in paradise”: That’s how Adolf Hitler once put it.

For six months last year writing this post was illegal for me, which means hitting the publish button on content like this would have risked violating my plea agreement where it was specifically stipulated by Missoula County Attorneys, and upheld by District Court bathroom judge, Shane Vannatta, that I was FORBIDDEN to write about United Way of Missoula County.

Because of my experiences and the resulting poverty from years of lawfare against me, with only the weak veneer of “public defender” support the Constitution guarantees that someone gets while being ass-rammed by the dildo of justice, any claim that “Democrats” or “Republicans” make about actually wanting to defend the principles this country supposedly stands on appears, at least to me, to be nothing more than performative bullshit.

As I’ve already documented, Susan Hay Patrick was integral in the political rise of Ellie Boldman, but until today I haven’t explicitly shown that BOTH women have curious ties to the State Department. Let’s start with Ellie’s State Department connection, something that stretched from her youthful travels all the way up to helping South African teenage girls get STEM educated, which is what Ellie was doing when the pandemic hit:

A team of Montanans – high on solving the lack of science and math in South African schools – has won the first-ever Citizen Diplomacy Action Fund award.

The group will teach vital STEM curricula to girls in sub-Saharan Africa early in 2020. The $10,000 grant will cover the faculty’s work in March.

Comprised of Missoula lawyer Ellie Hill Smith, University of Montana chemistry graduate Tyler Smith, plus two Great Falls retired math professors, the team’s plan is one of 25 winning projects selected.

Using a different collection surnames back then, Ellie got this award because of her previous work traveling around the world for Uncle Sam. Hmmm.

The team’s mission is to boost the U.S. government’s investment in international exchanges – and support public service projects behind the expertise, skills and knowledge of “citizen alumni” who previously traveled abroad on government-funded exchange programs.

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Previously, Hill visited Egypt, Jordan and the Middle East as an alumni of the bipartisan American Council of Young Political Leaders.

Around the same time Ellie was “helping” poor South African girls, Susan was ALSO getting recognized by the US State Department. Coincidence?

The chief executive of the United Way of Missoula County on Wednesday was named the U.S. State Department’s national winner of its Professional Fellows impact award.

The award places Susan Hay Patrick on the global stage and recognizes her “exceptional contribution” to civic engagement and service.

“I was very honored and humbled and grateful to the Mansfield Center for giving me the opportunity to be part of the Professional Fellows Program,” she told the Missoula Current. “We need more citizen diplomacy in our world, and the Professional Fellows Program is a great example of building bridges between our country and developing countries.”

If the Mansfield Center sounds familiar, maybe that’s because I just wrote about Montana’s Governor giving some well-timed kudos to Ghandi as World War III enters its second week.

If it sounded hyperbolic when I made the bold assertion last year that the CIA owns Montanan, I’m hoping my continued effort to contextualize how power REALLY functions in Big Sky Country gets some better traction now that I’m more fully able to write about the insidious “non-profit” birthing canal that makes PPPs (public/private partnerships) the new abomination of scheming to keep a careful eye on.

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I saw a few conservative eyebrows raise recently when the Governor of Montana, Greg Gianforte, did some curious political lifting for India by unveiling a bust of Ghandi in Missoula. Here’s how the Consulate General of India reported this momentous occasion on its Facebook page:

Hon’ble Governor Gianforte unveils the first Bust of Mahatma Gandhi in Montana!

Governor, along with Consul General, unveiled the first bust of Mahatma Gandhi in Montana at the prestigious Mike Mansfield Center at University of Montana in Missoula today.

Presented as a gift from the Government of India, the bust stands as a tribute to Gandhi Ji’s timeless ideals of peace and non-violence, and reflects the growing engagement between India and the State of Montana.

In his remarks, Governor Gianforte stated “Gandhi’s life reminds us that leadership starts with character. The inscription on the bust features a quote attributed to Gandhi that good ideas mean nothing without action. That message resonates here in Montana.”

The ceremony was also attended by the First Lady of Montana Susan Gianforte, along with leading Montana state officials, faculty and students of the University of Montana, and members of the Montana World Affairs Council.

I may have some interesting geopolitical war context that could shed some light on why it’s beneficial for America to be kissing India’s ass right now, and that’s because America may have exploited a pre-planned naval exercise with dozens of countries to setup an Iranian frigate to get torpedoed.

This theory comes from Jeremy Scahill and the appearance he made recently on Tim Dillon. I found a transcript of the conversation online and will paste it below:

Yeah, this is a dark one. And India is actually roiled by this right now because it implicates them. So the Indians, they love to project that they have hegemony in the Indian Ocean. They’re the ones that are going to, their Navy is going to keep the Indian Ocean safe. And so toward that end, they host this biannual kind of a little festival of ships.

Yeah. You know, I think 70 countries, including Iran and the United States, sent ships to these two separate but related events. And they did a live fire drill. And when did they do this? They did it from, I think, February 17th to the 26th.

Gotcha. So it wrapped up 48 hours before, maybe 36 hours before the war started. They paraded on land that the U.S. pulled out of one of the two of these little festivals, but did participate in the other one with the Iranians. So, like, we’re there, like, with them. As part of the kind of peace protocol for these events, you’re only supposed to bring enough ammunition to, like, you know, fire off, you know, during. during your little events. You’re not supposed to come all, you know, kit’d up in a way that could cause, you know, serious problems. Because also, you’re out there doing these complex coordinated drills. You know, you don’t want something to go wrong.

Right. And so they try to keep it as safe as possible. And so then, you know, it starts to head back to Iran. And this is where we need more investigation. It appears that it was then held at a port for something like 11 hours near Sri Lanka. Yeah. Or a Sri Lankan port, which now people are suspicious was allowing kind of this nuclear sub to catch up to it.

There’s also the question of like, how did they find the exact location? There’s some, in India, they are speculating that the U.S. exploited its kind of joint intelligence network that it has built with India to get into the Indian system. And then because the Indians and the Iranians were, you know, they invited the Iranian ship and then they said goodbye to the Iranian ships, they knew exactly where it was.

So then the nuclear sub, you know, finds a ship and torpedoes it. And the laws of war, the Geneva Convention, say that if it doesn’t put your own ship at risk, you are obligated under international law to try to save drowning sailors. But you have to do the bare minimum. Also, under the kind of common sense of humanity, like you see somebody, drowning. It’s like a meme. You see somebody drowning, like, throw them a rope.

Right. That’s what we do. We prosecuted a Nazi at Nuremberg for not doing that. Right. But often, the Nazis did do it, which is like, we’re below them at this point. So Sri Lanka’s Navy had to come out and get there as fast as they could, and they managed to save, I think, 32 people from drowning. More than 80 Iranians died in the attack. And we posted the video as a, with the caption, something like this Iranian ship thought it was safe. Suckers, you know, you’re not.

And so now the Indian, so this is interesting, too, the Indian government is under enormous pressure because this is, you know, a slap in the face to them. If you noticed yesterday, Trump lifted sanctions on Russia when it came to selling oil to India. Remember a few months ago, the biggest thing that Trump was worked up about was that India was buying oil from Russia. He’s like, I’m going to do 25% sanctions. Or tariffs, I’m going to do 50% tariffs. You stop buying oil from Russia. Now it’s all fine. India can buy oil from Russia and we’re lifting the sanctions on Russian oil.

That to me feels like kind of blowback from this, like, that Modi is like, I need something here. You’re killing me at home. You got to give me something. How do you just… Now Putin will get billions out of this. What do you think China and Russia? What is the lens through which they’re viewing the current Iran conflict? You know, there was this really interesting argument being made by a guy for Barry Weiss’s news outlet, Havi Rettigiegur.

Meanwhile, Iran used Legos to recently troll its war “operation” adversaries and may be preparing to unleash hypersonic missiles after having its oil infrastructure heavily targeted over the weekend.

Ouch.

Tomorrow, make sure to check back here where I will expand on another important person Montana’s Governor might be inclined to visit with when he stops by Missoula, and I’m sure her tiny hat faith has nothing to do with it.

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I’m almost done watching the documentary based on the “citizen detective” work that Michelle McNamara killed herself doing, and it definitely has me appreciating what I’ve avoided doing in my own unpaid obsession to put context around the ability of a local Sheriff’s Office to euthanize someone on life support in a private hospital room without first getting input from his family.

The main thing I’ve avoided doing (which killed McNamara) is to ride a chemical rollercoaster of uppers and opiates on the path to writing a book about a psychopathic killer–one that, to her credit, this citizen detective helped catch after her death at the age of 46.

One 47 second clip I recorded from the documentary about early efforts in California to identify GSK is worth watching (link) because it shows how and why some counties and towns, like Montecito in Santa Barbara County, had Sheriffs that chose to ignore what was right in front of them–can’t threaten those property values!

In Western Montana it was a citizen who shot and killed our famous serial killer, Wayne Nance, and for a more modern perspective on serial killing I wrote this post a little over a year ago highlighting current speculation from our community that a serial killer might be operating in a series of deaths that local law enforcement have never publicly connected.

When my own co-worker became one of the dead bodies briefly investigated as a possible homicide in the same neighborhood where gunshots rang out earlier this morning, additional targeting came MY way for continuing to notice the pattern that no one else in authority wants to publicly talk about.

Two days before gunshots kicked off Friday in Midtown, four bail bondsmen rolled into Missoula and gunned someone down at Town Pump off Reserve Street. If the Sheriff’s Office still shared mugshots with the public we’d know what this dude looks like instead of imaging DOG, the Bountyhunter.

Will legislating harder next legislative session help stop this dumb shit from happening with regards to the specific threat of bondsmen going cowboy at a gas station? Because, back in 2022, Troy Downing apparently understood the threat after a lethal incident in Butte.

A bill designed to curb reckless and dangerous bounty-hunting tactics in Montana has advanced to the state Senate and backers say it’s likely to pass in the coming days.

It passed the House on an 83-17 vote in late January, was endorsed by the Senate Business, Labor and Economic Affairs on Thursday and the full Senate is expected to vote on it soon. Its sponsor in that chamber is Butte Democrat Ryan Lynch.

A few changes have been made so if approved by the Senate, the bill must return to the House for another vote. But its biggest proponent, Montana Auditor and Insurance Commissioner Troy Downing, is confident it will win final approval and be signed by Gov. Greg Gianforte.

Downing, a Republican, proposed the legislation in response to a botched bounty hunt in Butte that turned fatal and other violent incidents.

My hunch is that legislating harder will NOT stop what’s happening because what’s happening is a cyclical ride on the “4th Turning“, and when you know that maybe the details of societal collapse will be a little bit easier to process.

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Yesterday marked a wild 72 hours in Montana politics with TWO Senators making headlines. Tim Sheehy inverted the concept of “deescalation” by ganging up on a fellow Veteran protesting war and breaking his arm, while Steve Daines waited until the very last minute (literally) to announce his retirement so that Kurt Alme, a US Attorney, could slide in unopposed, regardless of what the Hatch Act might have to say about it.

What a day.

Earlier in the week, after Ryan Zinke pulled the same move Steven Daines pulled and quit, conservative talk show host, Aaron Flint, threw his hat into the ring with every top endorsement you could think of quickly rolling in, including from President Trump.

When video footage emerged yesterday of his fellow Republican candidate, Tim Sheehy, using violence against another Veteran for suggesting Americans aren’t SUPER EXCITED to die for Israel, this was Aaron Flint’s online response:

Since Flint has made his career in the media, his use of a Hulk Hogan GIF is pretty ironic if you know the story of how Peter Thiel used Hulk Hogan to take out Gawker. Is Aaron Flint signaling to the Tech-Bros who love Big Sky Country that we will be their loyal little lapdog if elected?

Peter Thiel, the billionaire co-founder of PayPal, has admitted that he is the secret funder of Hulk Hogan’s lawsuit against online news site Gawker.

Hogan, whose real name is Terry Bollea, sued for invasion of privacy after Gawker published an excerpt of a leaked sex tape in 2012. In March this year, a Florida jury awarded Bollea $140m (£95.1m) in damages against the media organisation.

Unknown to the jury or public, Thiel had secretly bankrolled Bollea’s legal case to the tune of about $10m. In 2007 Gawker had published a story revealing Thiel was gay. Publicly confirming his funding of the Bollea case after a report by Forbes, Thiel told the New York Times “it’s less about revenge and more about specific deterrence”.

Turning media personalities and US Attorneys into political candidates for Montana is a bit odd, but BOTH professions have experience doing something very important, and that’s CONTROLLING NARRATIVES. With a war being fought for the psychopath class, it’s going to be very important that Americans on BOTH sides of the political divide stay corralled like stupid cattle in their respective political pens.

The importance of achieving and maintaining narrative control can’t be understated, which is why the biggest news story happening right now (besides WWIII) is the one story NOT being widely discussed, and that’s the massive media consolidation deal that appears to be moving forward. Here’s how Forbes is framing this historic media merger:

If regulators clear it, one of the largest mergers in history will hand billionaire Larry Ellison and his son David unprecedented sway over American media—CBS and CNN under one roof, HBO Max and Paramount+ fused, Warner Bros. and Paramount Pictures sharing a parent. That’s on top of the tech and real estate empire the elder Ellison—Oracle’s chief technology officer, President Donald Trump’s new neighbor and the world’s sixth-richest person—already controls.

It’s going to be interesting to see how top-tier Republican candidates exploit the naiveté of Christian conservatives in Montana to ensure their REAL base of gay billionaire tech-bros and tiny-hat string pullers feel secure enough to keep donating to these puppets.

To help make the case of high-level, bipartisan collusion between “left” and “right” when it comes to the real power in Montana, and now it operates, next week I’ll be adding to my body of work on Governor Gianforte and his relationship with Susan Hay Patrick, the long-time director of Missoula County’s United Way, so stay tuned.

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While the role of the media has traditionally been to REPORT on political candidates, these two Montanans have BECOME political candidates, leveraging their positions of exerting narrative control into seeking electoral validation in the political arena. Will it work?

Reilly Neill’s interest in telling media stories seems to have followed the same track as Martin Kidston’s political media LARP, the Missoula Current. She even named her little media outlet the Livingston Current. What an original idea!

Neill served briefly as the interim executive director of the Park County Environmental Council in Livingston, Montana in 2015. Neill founded and published Livingston Current, a weekly newspaper that covered the arts, entertainment, and culture of Park County, Montana. from 2003 until 2012. She also published The Montana Press, a statewide arts and entertainment journal, from 2019 until 2021, which won numerous Society of Professional Journalism awards.

Reilly Neill is running to unseat Senator Steve Daines, an effort that Seth Bodnar’s “Independent” political run has essentially destroyed. Here’s Neill acting like a whiny little bitch on X:

No, I don’t expect this liberal white woman will be quiet about ANYTHING because that’s what this annoying breed of human tends to do, and I suspect regular voters are VERY TIRED of this shrill political misandry.

Moving on to Aaron Flint’s candidacy, the rollout of endorsements for his Congressional run (including President Trump) shows that he’s clearly the favorite to replace Ryan Zinke after the strange retreat that Zinke pulled by NOT filing for reelection, citing health issues. Well, I’m going to “cite health issues” as well when I explain why it will never be a wise political move to go after kids like the TPUSA operation is planning on doing here in Montana.

Before Flint announced his candidacy he direct messaged me on February 10th about my claims I’ve been politically targeted in Missoula, and who is behind it. I gave him some very specific information, but that’s because of his MEDIA platform, not his political aspirations and pimping of a “Christian” organization just one degree away from an avowed Satanist.

I feel sorry for the people who invest their faith in creatures like Erika Kirk, but that’s their choice. That said, when Montana’s Governor starts pushing to have TPUSA in every high school in Montana, MY choice as a parent who doesn’t want a political organization LARPing as a Christian one to influence my kids during publicly-funded school time is taken away from me, and that’s not something I will just accept without a fight.

Christians who lack the discernment to see the Satanist-adjacent figures within their own organizations are dangerously ignorant people, and I’m hoping Aaron’s Flint wife, Jessica Flint, who got an interesting political appointment from Montana’s Governor last August:

Power players in the state’s Republican Party and Montana’s congressional delegates are among those who have signed a letter in support of Jessica Flint, a controversial appointee to the Criminal Justice Oversight Council.

The gubernatorial appointment, which deals with civil rights for incarcerated prisoners, has drawn the ire of progressives in the state for removing representatives from the American Civil Liberties Union, who previously sat on the council.

Flint works for Alliance Defending Freedom, a Christian legal advocacy organization.

When I visited the website for the “Alliance Defending Freedom” I read some nice sounding words that make it seem like these people give a shit about the “sanctity of life”, but I have the receipts that show if you’re the wrong kind of homeless black man, no one will care about your family’s history of military service and Christian faith.

In summary, all I see from Montana’s political drama is a wide range of horseshit that makes me want to rhetorically carpet-bomb the whole field. With candidates like Aaron Flint and Reilly Neill merging their media ambitions with their political ones, I don’t see my cynicism softening any time soon.

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