No, the person promoting GIANT METEOR for the 2024 election is not the type of person or entity I’m thinking of when I ask WHO is promoting national annihilation. This person might be trying to signal that a cynical political evolution is at work behind closed doors, but that cynicism is still shelling out the imaginary paper that is quickly turning into a digital control grid.
While the idiots who think they’re smart promote a SPECIES annihilation, the kind of person I’m currently disgusted by is this handsome man, Mr. Alex Garland. Why? Because of his piece of shit movie, Civil War.
I am VERY tired of Hollywood and the propaganda tantrums these fuckers are throwing because they think Trump is an existential threat. To have Nick Offerman play a president who is obviously meant to be Trump, then to have Offerman’s representation of the president get executed at the end of the movie, well, what do they expect?
If you don’t think there’s a culture war going on, watching a movie about some photo-journalists making their way from New York to Washington DC to document the “Western Forces” as they are about to overthrow a third-term president should drive home the reality that our Hollywood culture creators are doing EVERYTHING they can propagandize the American public in order to influence the outcome of the election.
Before Offerman is executed by a black female soldier, a Secret Service woman tries to negotiate his safe passage out of the White House. When this woman says her name before getting shot, I raised BOTH eyebrows. Why? Because the name JOY BUTLER combines both the location where Trump’s FIRST assassination attempt occurred, and the emotion many would have felt were Trump to have died in Butler, Pennsylvania, just four months after this movie was released.
Maybe you think this name isn’t significant, that it’s just a silly coincidence. I don’t, but I won’t bother you with all the reasons why I think something very strange is afoot for this election. I’m saving that for the series of zines I’ve been working on since July.
There are only 35 days left until the election, and October is just around the corner. What’s going to happen? I don’t know, but I suggest continuing to check in here, at Zoom Chron, because my stance that BOTH political parties are shit is really the only stance that seems to make sense in this non-sensical cartoon clown world we seem to be inhabiting.
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I’m not going to explain this image because its explanation exists in a zine, and this series of zines is an exclusive offering only a select few have seen. If you want to obtain some BATSHIT for yourself, get in touch with me.
I’m watching a movie the writer and director didn’t intend to be a comedy, but I think CIVIL WAR is pretty hilarious. How stupid do they think we are? And, more importantly, are they right?
Many things annoy the shit out of me these days, like common phrases I hear to explain complicated situations. One of those phrases is used by well-meaning people, but that doesn’t make the HURT PEOPLE HURT PEOPLE phrase any less annoying.
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Before we get to the story about Montana’s Attorney General, Austin Knudsen, using fear of the cartel to hide information about local law enforcement, let’s take a look at HOW this story came to be because The Pulp apparently couldn’t do this story on their own. Nope, it took help from something called the Invisible Institute to get this story written.
Here’s a little context about the media assistance organization The Pulp used:
The Invisible Institute arose out of the work of executive director Jamie Kalven during the final chapter of high-rise public housing in Chicago. From 1994 until the final demolition in 2007, Kalven’s base of operations was the Stateway Gardens public housing development, said on the basis of the 1990 census to be the single poorest community in the nation. Kalven had several roles there. He established a program of “grassroots public works” aimed at creating alternatives for ex-offenders and members of street gangs. He served as advisor to the resident council, participating in negotiations with the Chicago Housing Authority, Department of Housing and Urban Development, and private developers. And he practiced a form of human rights documentation that Studs Terkel once characterized as “guerrilla journalism.”
Is this organization really doing “guerrilla journalism”? No, absolutely not, and I say this confidently because it’s simply not in the nature of “guerrilla journalism” to be supported by a big collection of foundations.
With this foundation-powered support for The Pulp’s reporting, what did our upstart media company find out about our Attorney General and his fear of the cartel? Not much because the article is all about what the media NO LONGER GETS from the shifting political winds in Montana.
In 2022, Montana’s policing regulators at the Public Safety Officers Standards and Training Council, or POST, received a request for basic information that the board had released before: the names of the law enforcement officers that POST certifies to work in Montana, and their public employers.
It’s simple data that most states around the country release. Montana, up until that point, counted itself among them, having provided the data to journalists at least twice before: In 2017 to a reporter with the Scripps News Washington Bureau, and in 2019 to Invisible Institute, a Chicago-based journalism nonprofit.
However, this new request, from a reporter with the Associated Press, was different. Not because the content or context of the request were significantly different, but because the political environment at POST had undergone seismic shifts.
Further down in the article we find out how many media organizations are getting the sads because they can’t better track what they call “wandering officers” (emphasis mine):
In addition to the AP, in recent years Montana’s data have been sought by a reporter for The Seattle Times, a law professor and criminologist with Duke University, and a coalition of news organizations convened by Big Local News, a program of Stanford University’s Journalism and Democracy Initiative, and including Invisible Institute.
The lack of transparency in police employment data prevents the public, press, and researchers from being able to monitor the state’s oversight of “wandering officers”: those who leave one police department after committing misconduct and easily find work at another.
Does this collaborative media effort give you an actual example of what a “wandering officer” looks like? Nope, but I will, because I’m practicing REAL guerrilla journalism.
One of the basic needs I have as a citizen journalist is getting local officials to respond to my inquiries, but that ability was suddenly halted last month when Becky, from Parks and Rec, included me in an email thread ABOUT me. Here’s the email:
If I can no longer expect responses from local officials to my inquiries then my content will be negatively impacted. Because of this politically motivated move by our local cabal, I’ve decided to stop the one paying writing gig I’ve maintained since entering into my own period of homelessness on June 1st. This wasn’t an easy decision, but I can’t offer what I want to offer if getting basic response from local officials is no longer available to me.
Getting back to the subject of THIS post, here’s how our Attorney General is framing the political pullback from allowing POST disclosures to media outlets about publicly-paid badges (emphasis mine):
AG Knudsen first registered his discontent through a March 31, 2022 email addressed to Eric Gilbertson, a Lewis & Clark County sheriff’s deputy who was serving as the POST bureau chief at the time.
“The Montana Department of Justice DOES NOT recommend releasing the names of every law enforcement officer in the state to the AP,” Knudsen wrote. “It is reasonable for law enforcement officers to expect privacy until there is evidence they have violated” the public trust.
He quoted David Ortley, a deputy attorney general: “This is a one-time event; once all names have been released the bell cannot be un-rung.” Both men failed to note, however, that the POST council would be merely re-ringing a bell it had already rung twice before.
Ortley also cited an “informal survey of officers” at the Montana Law Enforcement Academy, where he served as legal counsel and is still an instructor. The survey resulted in officers rejecting the idea of releasing their employment information.
“Those who have come from out-of-state feel even stronger based on the unwarranted attacks in populated areas,” he noted.
Knudsen claimed that releasing data showing the name and employment history of Montana police officers would easily result in the officers’ photos and residences being exposed. “Montana is seeing a large increase in Mexican drug cartel activity,” he wrote. “I simply don’t think it wise to prospectively provide the cartels with photographic facial recognition and home address intelligence on Montana’s law enforcement professionals.”
I’m glad our Attorney General used the C word because it’s not something I ever hear locally when our retarded cabal lectures local citizens about urban camping. It’s just too bad the context is his own political cowardice and misdirected obsession over SOUTHERN borders when it’s Sheriff Funke and Mineral County he should be paying closer attention to.
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When I watched my first Coroner’s Inquest–or, what I like to call the state-sanctioned execution of Johnny Lee Perry–Justin White was the law man who devised the strategy that led to Johnny being shot in the back and bleeding out in the woods south of town. I know this because I watched the body-cam footage that featured White explaining his fear that tweakers with guns COULD BE waiting to ambush law enforcement inside one of the tweaker trailers, so if Johnny made a move toward one of those trailers, the men with badges and guns were told by White that they could use lethal rounds, which they did.
Before we get to another person shot dead by law enforcement (this time by Justin White directly) I’d like to remind readers how much our Missoula County Sheriff’s Office enjoys playing cop for the cameras. This is one reason I pondered whether or not Montana Republicans should be considered the party of reality tv.
There’s Justin White, on the right, and I suspect he’s grinning because he knows no badge in Montana WILL EVER be held accountable for unnecessarily killing someone. I say that because I’ve watched multiple Coroner’s Inquests now and the ENTIRE PROCESS is a joke, including the impossibly high standard prosecutors must meet in order to do what will never be done, and that’s find a member of law enforcement guilty of criminal intent.
All law enforcement has to do is say they were AFRAID and POOF, a questionable “officer-involved shooting” becomes justified. For Justin White, the fear appears to be the possibility of ambush. He said that on the stand in the Johnny Lee Perry case, and he said it recently, as reported by the Missoulian (emphasis mine):
After a day-long coroner’s inquest, a jury found that Sgt. Justin White, with the Missoula County Sheriff’s Office, was justified in shooting and killing Couts during a brief but intense nighttime standoff. Body camera footage showed White firing a single shot that struck Couts in the head while Couts was laying in a truck bed several feet away.
“I’m stuck in this constant hope that he’s going to drop the gun,” White testified. “We can hope all we want, it doesn’t mean it’s going to happen.”
White, an assistant SWAT team leader with 12 years at the sheriff’s office, testified that he believed Couts was preparing to “ambush” officers in order to escape. He and other officers said Couts refused to drop the gun, although the available body camera footage didn’t appear to clearly show whether he was still holding it.
The jury was shown body camera footage from two officers present at the shooting. White’s body camera was not turned on, he said, because it is activated by his patrol vehicle dash cam, which was in the shop. Another officer said he had turned off his body camera when he thought the chase had ended.
Does it seem a little suspicious that Justin White didn’t have his body camera turned on? Yeah, I think it is, but that’s just because I’ve been tracking the Missoula County Sheriff’s Office FOR YEARS, questioning their tactics and the lethal results.
Above are the two men who deserve the most credit for a Sheriff’s Office that sucks at investigating murders, and sucks and not killing individuals who make them SO SCARED they have to put a bullet in the head of a man claiming to be suicidal.
Or was he suicidal? Justin White didn’t think so, he said from the stand.
Before he was shot, Couts could be heard on the two officers’ body camera recordings saying “I’m suicidal,” after White yelled repeatedly, “Put the gun down now or you will be shot.”
“Suicidal people don’t run and hide from the cops with a gun,” White testified. “Suicidal people I’ve dealt with are emotional. They’re screaming, they’re yelling, they’re upset. He was able to have a completely clear conversation.”
White and several other officers called to the stand stated they believed their lives and the lives of people in the densely populated neighborhood were at risk.
“At that point, I knew I had to act instead of react,” he told the jury.
Is Justin White a mental health professional? No, I don’t think he is, but it doesn’t matter. The Missoula County Attorney’s Office knows this entire process is merely performative, so they just go through the motions. I’ve seen how this particular sausage is made, and it’s fucking disgusting.
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I’m excited at the idea of teaching refugees and immigrants in Missoula a new word because this word is an important concept for the psychopath class, and they discovered this concept through the weaponization of anthropology. Some of this will be a rehashing of what I wrote 3 years ago, but since modern attention spans are so short, I think a refresher is due.
I recently wrote about the terrible situation of an immigrant who experienced BAD WORDS used by a BAD AMERICAN, and the resulting lecture by our Harvard-trained Mayor reminded me of the term SCHISMOGENESIS.
Schismogenesis is a term in anthropology that describes the formation of social divisions and differentiation. Literally meaning “creation of division”, the term derives from the Greek words σχίσμα skhisma “cleft” (borrowed into English as schism, “division into opposing factions”), and γένεσις genesis “generation, creation” (deriving in turn from gignesthai “be born or produced, creation, a coming into being”). The term was introduced by anthropologist Gregory Bateson and has been applied to various fields.
How is this applied in a conflict environment like the one global psychos are escalating around the world? Try this on for size, dim-witted Missoula:
There is documented usage of schismogenesis techniques by the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (OSS, an institutional precursor to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)), against Japanese-held territories in the Pacific during World War II. U.S. military academics have identified how China and Russia have pursued social-media strategies of schismogenesis against the U.S. and other Western liberal democracies in an attempt to polarize civil society across the political spectrum to damage policy-making processes and to weaken state/military power. Similarly, scholars in Ukraine have documented how Russia has relied on a strategy of schismogenesis to undermine Ukrainian identity and values as a way of promoting pro-Russian territories that can be used against Kyiv, to include forming their own militias which operate alongside Russian special operation forces.
I like how this excerpt makes it sound like America’s use of this strategy stopped at the OSS, while other countries have more modern examples, like Russia and Ukraine. Is this true? Or perhaps those who use this strategy are too stupid and brainwashed to understand what they are doing. Is that YOU, Mary Poole? (emphasis mine):
“Folks coming here as refugees and immigrants are incredibly visible, and the more that political rhetoric increases, the bolder people get,” Poole said. “It does get felt. It’s felt by kids in the school system, it’s felt by people on the bus. Montana is kind of one of those battleground states around this, too. A lot of money is going into local, state and federal elections and immigration is a topic on both sides of the aisle. There’s not a lot of people going to bat for refugees and immigrants right now. It’s felt on a personal level for families living in our community.”
Poole said she encourages people to have conversations with people they may have preconceptions about.
“What’s so fun about hearing directly from people that have had an experience that’s so different from you, is that you’re gonna hear so many similarities to your own life,” she said.
I think what Mary Poole is saying is true, and one of those similarities a conversation with refugees and immigrants might expose is how CORRUPTION undermines good people and destroys organizations and institutions ALL OVER THE WORLD.
This week I’ll be continuing to mock the Missoula County Sheriff’s Office for their community role in euthanizing and executing two black men in Missoula. Specifically I’ll be writing about the Coroner’s Inquest process and why the dude standing next to Bill Burt was recently cleared of his lethal shooting.
It’s cool, we’re all just storytellers here, and the stories I tell are the kind of stories that our local narrative controllers DO NOT WANT me to tell, but I do it anyway because I don’t think it’s ok to euthanize and execute black men. Do you?
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