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Should the global tech community continue investing in Malaysia? Given recent events, I raise this question respectfully for the consideration of Prime Minister Yang Amat Berhormat Dato’ Seri Anwar bin Ibrahim (Anwar Ibrahim), for the people of Malaysia, and for our friends in the Malaysian tech community. The answer will be of interest to anyone in global tech that’s considering building, investing, or expanding in Malaysia, including executives at Google, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft, founders of tech unicorns like Coinbase and Solana, and investors at the world’s largest venture capital funds like a16z and Polychain. As context, I am the former CTO of Coinbase and former General Partner at a16z. In October 2024, I opened a startup society called Network School in Malaysia, because I felt I’d been invited in by the government’s pro-tech policies. Specifically, the KL20 initiative set out Malaysia’s ambition of becoming a top 20 global tech hub. Their MDEC digital nomad visas and MM2H investor visas were created to facilitate an influx of global talent and capital. And the Johor-Singapore Special Economic Zone was announced to facilitate the flow of capital and talent between Malaysia and Singapore, where I live. When taken in combination with Malaysia’s datacenter buildout and its policy of welcoming visa-free visits for 98% of the world, it seemed like Malaysia might be a great place to build a global tech hub that was simultaneously inexpensive and easy to visit (especially for non-Westerners). And that’s what we did, by creating Network School. It’s an international tech community with its first node in Forest City, Malaysia. We picked Forest City because it had millions of square feet of empty space, because it was one hour from Singapore’s capital markets, and because it was within the Johor-Singapore Special Economic Zone. Then, within 18 months, without a single penny of government money, we built Network School into a global attraction that brought thousands of engineers, investors, and builders from 70+ countries to learn technology, burn calories, earn online, and have fun, integrating with the local Malaysian economy along the way. Indeed, in terms of quantifiable contribution to the Malaysian economy, we’ve already invested 100M+ MYR in our campus to make it startup-friendly. For perspective, that’s about 4% of the budget of Johor, the Malaysian state where Forest City is located. We employ dozens of Malaysians directly and indirectly at every level from executive to staff. We’ve backed Malaysian tech startups like Collektr, hosted events for local teams like Superteam Malaysia, and are major customers of many local businesses like barbers, laundromats, and restaurants. We’ve also revitalized the multibillion-dollar Forest City project, causing millions of MYR in real estate appreciation. And, as the video below describes, we were on the cusp of a 500M+ MYR expansion to grow our community, as well as a global merit scholarship with my friend Amjad Masad of Replit. However, that emerging multi-billion dollar success story — which should rightfully have been hailed as a huge victory for the pro-tech policies of the Malaysian government — is at risk of being derailed by a fake story spread by an anonymous account named MP4P. In short: on the day before the July 11 Johor elections, MP4P posted an Instagram post falsely accusing Network School of harboring illegal aliens. The sensational accusations caused a tizzy in Malaysia, until Malaysian authorities came to our campus on July 14 to investigate. (I should note that the officers were very polite and professional.) After checking hundreds of physical passports from 40 countries, including dual passport holders, the authorities confirmed to the press on July 15 that all travel documents were in order. During the process, we cooperated fully; in the thread below you can see a photo of the men, women, and children of Network School smiling and holding up their passports in the bright daylight. Our faces are shown and our names are known; we have nothing to hide. With that said, the process is the punishment. What MP4P did is very similar to the American crime of “swatting”, because MP4P created a hoax report of a serious threat, thereby forcing the Malaysian police to take time away from protecting the Malaysian people towards investigating a nonexistent issue. Moreover, this anonymous MP4P account has also called for Malaysia to boycott Apple, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft…a move that would cost ordinary Malaysians thousands of jobs…even while MP4P’s own Instagram collaborators promote their Apple and Google apps! I mean, we aren’t talking about a credible accuser, but just someone screaming inconsistently at the top of their lungs on social media for traffic, an all-too-common phenomenon these days. Anyway, at this point, all further investment we were planning to make in Malaysia is on hold until we get sufficient assurance that such issues won’t recur. So are the investment plans of many of our friends, including the execs and investors at global tech firms that we brought to Forest City. Because to put it very plainly: we have invested 100M+ MYR in Malaysia, while creating jobs for dozens of Malaysians, and our faces and names are known. Our Malaysian executives and employees deserve the benefit of the doubt over anonymous internet trolls. There are two paths forward. In the first case, if Malaysia still wants continued global tech investment, if it wants to be a top 20 tech hub, if it wants us to revitalize Forest City, then we request an audience with the Prime Minister’s office to discuss the terms of a memorandum of understanding between Network School and the Malaysian government, similar to the document recently signed between the Solana Foundation and the Kazakhstan government. Specifics can of course be discussed, but we would publicly commit to abiding by all Malaysian laws (we already do) and respecting Malaysia’s sovereignty (never in question). In return, they’d get to know our friendly community, and realize that we actually chose Malaysia because we thought it was a great place to build a tech hub where engineers from the global South, investors from the West, and builders from Malaysia itself could meet new people, build cool things, and perhaps create millions of dollars in economic growth in the fullness of time. That vision of peace and trade, internationalism and entrepreneurialism, is still on the table. We aren’t asking for any money — just a meeting, to help restore confidence in Malaysia as an investable jurisdiction. Alternatively, if you don’t want our investment, or those of our colleagues at billion dollar funds and trillion dollar companies, we will of course respect your wishes, and reallocate our capital to other countries instead. Either way, we will remain friends and abide by your decision. Please let us know.

Should the global tech community continue investing in Malaysia? Given recent events, I raise this question respectfully for the consideration of Prime Minister Yang Amat Berhormat Dato’ Seri Anwar bin Ibrahim (Anwar Ibrahim), for the people of Malaysia, and for our friends in the Malaysian tech community. The answer will be of interest to anyone in global tech that’s considering building, investing, or expanding in Malaysia, including executives at Google, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft, founders of tech unicorns like Coinbase and Solana, and investors at the world’s largest venture capital funds like a16z and Polychain. As context, I am the former CTO of Coinbase and former General Partner at a16z. In October 2024, I opened a startup society called Network School in Malaysia, because I felt I’d been invited in by the government’s pro-tech policies. Specifically, the KL20 initiative set out Malaysia’s ambition of becoming a top 20 global tech hub. Their MDEC digital nomad visas and MM2H investor visas were created to facilitate an influx of global talent and capital. And the Johor-Singapore Special Economic Zone was announced to facilitate the flow of capital and talent between Malaysia and Singapore, where I live. When taken in combination with Malaysia’s datacenter buildout and its policy of welcoming visa-free visits for 98% of the world, it seemed like Malaysia might be a great place to build a global tech hub that was simultaneously inexpensive and easy to visit (especially for non-Westerners). And that’s what we did, by creating Network School. It’s an international tech community with its first node in Forest City, Malaysia. We picked Forest City because it had millions of square feet of empty space, because it was one hour from Singapore’s capital markets, and because it was within the Johor-Singapore Special Economic Zone. Then, within 18 months, without a single penny of government money, we built Network School into a global attraction that brought thousands of engineers, investors, and builders from 70+ countries to learn technology, burn calories, earn online, and have fun, integrating with the local Malaysian economy along the way. Indeed, in terms of quantifiable contribution to the Malaysian economy, we’ve already invested 100M+ MYR in our campus to make it startup-friendly. For perspective, that’s about 4% of the budget of Johor, the Malaysian state where Forest City is located. We employ dozens of Malaysians directly and indirectly at every level from executive to staff. We’ve backed Malaysian tech startups like Collektr, hosted events for local teams like Superteam Malaysia, and are major customers of many local businesses like barbers, laundromats, and restaurants. We’ve also revitalized the multibillion-dollar Forest City project, causing millions of MYR in real estate appreciation. And, as the video below describes, we were on the cusp of a 500M+ MYR expansion to grow our community, as well as a global merit scholarship with my friend Amjad Masad of Replit. However, that emerging multi-billion dollar success story — which should rightfully have been hailed as a huge victory for the pro-tech policies of the Malaysian government — is at risk of being derailed by a fake story spread by an anonymous account named MP4P. In short: on the day before the July 11 Johor elections, MP4P posted an Instagram post falsely accusing Network School of harboring illegal aliens. The sensational accusations caused a tizzy in Malaysia, until Malaysian authorities came to our campus on July 14 to investigate. (I should note that the officers were very polite and professional.) After checking hundreds of physical passports from 40 countries, including dual passport holders, the authorities confirmed to the press on July 15 that all travel documents were in order. During the process, we cooperated fully; in the thread below you can see a photo of the men, women, and children of Network School smiling and holding up their passports in the bright daylight. Our faces are shown and our names are known; we have nothing to hide. With that said, the process is the punishment. What MP4P did is very similar to the American crime of “swatting”, because MP4P created a hoax report of a serious threat, thereby forcing the Malaysian police to take time away from protecting the Malaysian people towards investigating a nonexistent issue. Moreover, this anonymous MP4P account has also called for Malaysia to boycott Apple, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft…a move that would cost ordinary Malaysians thousands of jobs…even while MP4P’s own Instagram collaborators promote their Apple and Google apps! I mean, we aren’t talking about a credible accuser, but just someone screaming inconsistently at the top of their lungs on social media for traffic, an all-too-common phenomenon these days. Anyway, at this point, all further investment we were planning to make in Malaysia is on hold until we get sufficient assurance that such issues won’t recur. So are the investment plans of many of our friends, including the execs and investors at global tech firms that we brought to Forest City. Because to put it very plainly: we have invested 100M+ MYR in Malaysia, while creating jobs for dozens of Malaysians, and our faces and names are known. Our Malaysian executives and employees deserve the benefit of the doubt over anonymous internet trolls. There are two paths forward. In the first case, if Malaysia still wants continued global tech investment, if it wants to be a top 20 tech hub, if it wants us to revitalize Forest City, then we request an audience with the Prime Minister’s office to discuss the terms of a memorandum of understanding between Network School and the Malaysian government, similar to the document recently signed between the Solana Foundation and the Kazakhstan government. Specifics can of course be discussed, but we would publicly commit to abiding by all Malaysian laws (we already do) and respecting Malaysia’s sovereignty (never in question). In return, they’d get to know our friendly community, and realize that we actually chose Malaysia because we thought it was a great place to build a tech hub where engineers from the global South, investors from the West, and builders from Malaysia itself could meet new people, build cool things, and perhaps create millions of dollars in economic growth in the fullness of time. That vision of peace and trade, internationalism and entrepreneurialism, is still on the table. We aren’t asking for any money — just a meeting, to help restore confidence in Malaysia as an investable jurisdiction. Alternatively, if you don’t want our investment, or those of our colleagues at billion dollar funds and trillion dollar companies, we will of course respect your wishes, and reallocate our capital to other countries instead. Either way, we will remain friends and abide by your decision. Please let us know.

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"The threats we face are three hold first, the threat to the safety of the population. Almost 3,000 people have died from the effects of extreme heat this summer. And we know that older people and those with pre existing conditions are particularly at risk from these dangerous temperatures." "Those are the people who have been forced to stay at home for days on end, windows, curtains closed, trying to wait out the extreme heat. And these are the people who are most likely now to have grieving families whose bodies were under such intense strain and trying just to stay cool that their kidneys and their hearts could no longer cope." "Meanwhile, wildfires have seen hundreds evacuated from their homes, while many thousands more wait anxiously with Flames on the horizon and smoke in their lungs. We've seen across Europe how bad things can get." "Hundreds of thousands evacuated, half a million acres burned. The sheer scale of the devastation is hard to comprehend, but we need to look it in the face, because this is only a taster of what's to come if we don't act now." "Second, we face a threat to our food and water security. Farmers are now warning we could see food shortages after flooding followed by drought has decimated crops. And despite farmers working really hard through the nights to avoid the heat, food production is grinding to a halt and our food prices are set to rise." "Half of England is experiencing serious drought. And across the country, 8 of our water reservoirs are at risk of running dry. Privatised water companies they've failed to build a single new reservoir to since 1992, are, losing nearly 3 billion litres of water a day from leaky pipes." "That's five times more than a nationwide host pipe ban would even save. 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"It is an astonishing dereliction of duty from those whose very first responsibility is to keep all of us safe, and from the media. With some brilliant and notable exceptions, we have seen more clamouring for North Sea drilling in the last few weeks than actually raising the alarm on climate breakdown." "While our country has come together, people have offered shelter to those who have had to leave their homes due to wildfires. They've checked in with older neighbours to care for those who are sick because of the heat. But the government. The government have been far, far too quiet on what is an emergency." "So today you will hear from some of those on the front line of this crisis and Those with vital insights into how we face this threat. A doctor, a firefighter, someone who served this country in the armed forces, and someone who has dedicated his entire career to our precious nature and wildlife." 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"The threats we face are three hold first, the threat to the safety of the population. Almost 3,000 people have died from the effects of extreme heat this summer. And we know that older people and those with pre existing conditions are particularly at risk from these dangerous temperatures." "Those are the people who have been forced to stay at home for days on end, windows, curtains closed, trying to wait out the extreme heat. And these are the people who are most likely now to have grieving families whose bodies were under such intense strain and trying just to stay cool that their kidneys and their hearts could no longer cope." "Meanwhile, wildfires have seen hundreds evacuated from their homes, while many thousands more wait anxiously with Flames on the horizon and smoke in their lungs. We've seen across Europe how bad things can get." "Hundreds of thousands evacuated, half a million acres burned. 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The threat is so severe that the UK's National Risk Register warns that if we have three years of exceptionally dry weather like this, we could face water rationing." "These aren't distant possibilities, they're very real scenarios and they are coming straight at us down the track because finally, we face a threat to our very way of life. Parents unable to take their children to the playground because the slides are so hot it could burn, their skin off." "Temperatures so high they keep us inside for days for the sake of our health. Cities feeling like ghost towns, parks turned into deserts. We only have to look across the Channel to France and Spain to see what faces us in the years ahead." "Europe is heating at, twice the rate of the rest of the world. Wildfires, droughts, deadly floods. The scenes we have seen play out on our TV screens are, frankly apocalyptic. And yet the response from our government is to pretend none of this is happening." "It is an astonishing dereliction of duty from those whose very first responsibility is to keep all of us safe, and from the media. With some brilliant and notable exceptions, we have seen more clamouring for North Sea drilling in the last few weeks than actually raising the alarm on climate breakdown." "While our country has come together, people have offered shelter to those who have had to leave their homes due to wildfires. They've checked in with older neighbours to care for those who are sick because of the heat. But the government. The government have been far, far too quiet on what is an emergency." "So today you will hear from some of those on the front line of this crisis and Those with vital insights into how we face this threat. A doctor, a firefighter, someone who served this country in the armed forces, and someone who has dedicated his entire career to our precious nature and wildlife." 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If we are to secure a livable future for our children and for our grandchildren, there can be no new drilling for oil and gas." "On this, the, the science is crystal clear. As politicians, we have a moral responsibility to do what is right for the people we serve, even when it's not politically convenient. And I know that whatever our differences, we both care deeply about the people of this country and the future of our planet." "So when the time comes, I hope you will have the courage to be truthful, be brave and hold firm to your party's commitment to no new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea, including both Rosebank and, Jackdaw." "Now, some will say we can't afford to make these changes. These last few weeks are showing we can't afford not to. We are facing an existential threat. People are dying. People are scared." "It is time to act. And when we do, we won't just avoid the worst effects of climate breakdown. We will lower bills permanently, help our communities thrive, and give a grounded sense of hope for generations to come."

Farrukh

87,169 просмотров • 2 месяцев назад

The ZOOMED IN FOOTAGE shows it clearly. Cody Harper is halfway to his feet, still stumbling up from a beating, when an officer rushes him and pins him against the shutters. She never says she's police. He's in pure fight-or-flight, still thinking it's another attacker. So he swings to get free. That's it. That's the whole crime they're taking him to court for. He's at Birmingham Magistrates Court on JULY 23. That's a first hearing, not the trial. He enters his plea, and if he pleads not guilty, he can take it to a JURY. Twelve ordinary people, watching that same footage. Prison is unlikely for a first-timer. But that was never really the point. A conviction still leaves him with a criminal record, and depending on how it goes, that can trail him for years, turning up on the background checks employers run before they hand you a job. For a lad who was jumped in the street, that's the real cost here. Not a cell. A mark against his name he did nothing to earn. Now the bit that should stop you cold. Watch the SECOND officer. She walks straight up to the men who beat him, has a word, and lets them stroll off FREE. Then comes back and helps arrest the lad they attacked. Those attackers? Weeks on. Never even arrested. 1:30am, Broad Street. Cody, 20, is set on by a group. One floors him. Another swings at the back of his head. The police are right there. They don't chase the men doing it. They grab the VICTIM. Then the officer snarls at him, you're going to walk to the car, you f***ing dick. Try that in the street yourself and see how fast you're nicked. Then came their statement. No concerns over the officer. And please, stop sharing the footage. So X's own readers pinned a note under it. The footage disproves the police's account. Share it far and wide, to get justice for the man arrested. Fourteen million have seen it now. The police asked you to look away, and the public fact-checked them on their own post. This force is in special measures. Graded INADEQUATE on investigating crime and protecting the public. HALF the investigations inspectors checked had failed. They may have failed to log 46,000 uses of force. Their Chief Constable walked out in disgrace in January. Their crime-prediction tech gets it wrong 8 times out of 10. It’s not just Birmingham. Forces everywhere got flooded with green recruits in a hiring rush while the experienced ones walked. Training and vetting couldn't keep up. So now young officers with barely any life experience are making split-second calls they aren't ready for. Then there's the guidance. After Henry Nowak, the police are reviewing their own anti-racism policies, because officers are so busy second-guessing the optics of race, they miss the job right in front of them. Protect the victim. Arrest the attacker. Remember Nowak? Handcuffed as he lay dying, because his killer cried racism first and they believed the liar. Same instinct. Grab whoever looks like less trouble. Miss the actual crime. That's not one bad officer. That's a broken force, green recruits, and a rulebook with its priorities upside down. They found time to charge him. They still can't find the men who beat him. Nobody's had a trial. Cody's owed his day in court like anyone. Say that plainly. But watch that second officer let his attackers walk, read the note the public stapled to the police's own words, and ask yourself one thing. Who are the police actually protecting here. Because it isn't him.

The ZOOMED IN FOOTAGE shows it clearly. Cody Harper is halfway to his feet, still stumbling up from a beating, when an officer rushes him and pins him against the shutters. She never says she's police. He's in pure fight-or-flight, still thinking it's another attacker. So he swings to get free. That's it. That's the whole crime they're taking him to court for. He's at Birmingham Magistrates Court on JULY 23. That's a first hearing, not the trial. He enters his plea, and if he pleads not guilty, he can take it to a JURY. Twelve ordinary people, watching that same footage. Prison is unlikely for a first-timer. But that was never really the point. A conviction still leaves him with a criminal record, and depending on how it goes, that can trail him for years, turning up on the background checks employers run before they hand you a job. For a lad who was jumped in the street, that's the real cost here. Not a cell. A mark against his name he did nothing to earn. Now the bit that should stop you cold. Watch the SECOND officer. She walks straight up to the men who beat him, has a word, and lets them stroll off FREE. Then comes back and helps arrest the lad they attacked. Those attackers? Weeks on. Never even arrested. 1:30am, Broad Street. Cody, 20, is set on by a group. One floors him. Another swings at the back of his head. The police are right there. They don't chase the men doing it. They grab the VICTIM. Then the officer snarls at him, you're going to walk to the car, you f***ing dick. Try that in the street yourself and see how fast you're nicked. Then came their statement. No concerns over the officer. And please, stop sharing the footage. So X's own readers pinned a note under it. The footage disproves the police's account. Share it far and wide, to get justice for the man arrested. Fourteen million have seen it now. The police asked you to look away, and the public fact-checked them on their own post. This force is in special measures. Graded INADEQUATE on investigating crime and protecting the public. HALF the investigations inspectors checked had failed. They may have failed to log 46,000 uses of force. Their Chief Constable walked out in disgrace in January. Their crime-prediction tech gets it wrong 8 times out of 10. It’s not just Birmingham. Forces everywhere got flooded with green recruits in a hiring rush while the experienced ones walked. Training and vetting couldn't keep up. So now young officers with barely any life experience are making split-second calls they aren't ready for. Then there's the guidance. After Henry Nowak, the police are reviewing their own anti-racism policies, because officers are so busy second-guessing the optics of race, they miss the job right in front of them. Protect the victim. Arrest the attacker. Remember Nowak? Handcuffed as he lay dying, because his killer cried racism first and they believed the liar. Same instinct. Grab whoever looks like less trouble. Miss the actual crime. That's not one bad officer. That's a broken force, green recruits, and a rulebook with its priorities upside down. They found time to charge him. They still can't find the men who beat him. Nobody's had a trial. Cody's owed his day in court like anyone. Say that plainly. But watch that second officer let his attackers walk, read the note the public stapled to the police's own words, and ask yourself one thing. Who are the police actually protecting here. Because it isn't him.

BanksyCat

117,044 просмотров • 3 месяцев назад

Enough is Enough. When Will This Nightmare End? A 13-year-old girl. Trafficked by an e-rickshaw driver. Sold to hotel operators. Gang-raped by over 30 men across multiple hotels for five straight days. This is not a one-off horror story. This is India’s daily reality. Every single day, girls and women are hunted, abducted, violated, and discarded by these sexual predators who roam free like animals. How many more innocent children have to be destroyed before we wake up? Police have arrested some suspects. Bulldozers are now demolishing the implicated hotels. Good,tear down every last brick. But let’s be brutally honest: Bulldozing buildings is not justice. It’s theatre. These monsters laugh at it because they know the real system is broken. They get arrested, the courtroom drama begins, and then? Bail. Delays. Technicalities. Witnesses turn hostile. Cases drag for years. Many walk out freer and bolder than before. The law is so weak, so toothless, that predators operate with zero fear. Until capital punishment is imposed swiftly and without mercy on these rapists, traffickers, and child predators, NOTHING will change. No more rehabilitation. No more sympathy. No more endless appeals while victims’ lives are ruined forever. These are not humans, they are beasts who have forfeited their right to live among us. Hang them. Publicly if needed. Let the fear of certain, immediate death be the only language they understand. We keep lighting candles, trending hashtags, and protesting after every gut-wrenching case. Then we forget until the next one. The cycle repeats because we refuse to fix the root: a spineless justice system that protects criminals more than victims. This stops now. Demand the death penalty for child rape and gang rape. Demand fast-track courts that finish cases in months, not decades. Demand zero tolerance, no bail, no mercy. Our daughters are not safe. Our sisters are not safe. Our future is not safe. If we can’t protect our children, we don’t deserve to call ourselves a civilized society.

Enough is Enough. When Will This Nightmare End? A 13-year-old girl. Trafficked by an e-rickshaw driver. Sold to hotel operators. Gang-raped by over 30 men across multiple hotels for five straight days. This is not a one-off horror story. This is India’s daily reality. Every single day, girls and women are hunted, abducted, violated, and discarded by these sexual predators who roam free like animals. How many more innocent children have to be destroyed before we wake up? Police have arrested some suspects. Bulldozers are now demolishing the implicated hotels. Good,tear down every last brick. But let’s be brutally honest: Bulldozing buildings is not justice. It’s theatre. These monsters laugh at it because they know the real system is broken. They get arrested, the courtroom drama begins, and then? Bail. Delays. Technicalities. Witnesses turn hostile. Cases drag for years. Many walk out freer and bolder than before. The law is so weak, so toothless, that predators operate with zero fear. Until capital punishment is imposed swiftly and without mercy on these rapists, traffickers, and child predators, NOTHING will change. No more rehabilitation. No more sympathy. No more endless appeals while victims’ lives are ruined forever. These are not humans, they are beasts who have forfeited their right to live among us. Hang them. Publicly if needed. Let the fear of certain, immediate death be the only language they understand. We keep lighting candles, trending hashtags, and protesting after every gut-wrenching case. Then we forget until the next one. The cycle repeats because we refuse to fix the root: a spineless justice system that protects criminals more than victims. This stops now. Demand the death penalty for child rape and gang rape. Demand fast-track courts that finish cases in months, not decades. Demand zero tolerance, no bail, no mercy. Our daughters are not safe. Our sisters are not safe. Our future is not safe. If we can’t protect our children, we don’t deserve to call ourselves a civilized society.

Garima𝕏

15,413 просмотров • 3 месяцев назад

The Deep State’s Blood Sacrifice: Rudy Giuliani Battles For Life While Parasitic Leftist Ghouls Celebrate Their Lethal Lawfare The radical left has blood on its hands. They tried to break the man who broke the mafia. Now he fights for his life in a Florida hospital. The deep state witch hunts have finally taken their physical toll on a true American lion. Rudy Giuliani is in critical but stable condition and every patriot in this country needs to stop what they are doing and pray for this warrior. The communist filth in the media are already celebrating. They are ghouls who hate greatness. Before the democrat bottom-feeders tried to jail him, Rudy was the gold standard of American justice. As U.S. attorney in the 1980s he racked up 4,152 convictions with only 25 reversals. He took down the five families. He crushed the mafia bosses who ran New York with an iron fist. You pathetic liberals worship criminals today but Rudy put them in cages where they belonged. His record is an unsurpassed monument to law and order. Remember what New York was before Rudy. It was a crime-ridden hellhole until he took the reins. As mayor from 1994 to 2001 he cut overall crime by 56% and murders by 66%. He turned the crime capital of America into the safest large city in the nation. He appointed Bill Bratton and utilized broken-windows policing to clean up the filth you democrats love to protect. FBI stats prove he was the most effective mayor in modern history. Rudy Giuliani fixed crime and destroyed the parasitic welfare state. He slashed welfare rolls by 640,000 people. That is a 60% reduction. He turned stagnant welfare offices into dynamic job centers. This was the largest and most successful welfare-to-work program in u.s. history. He gave people dignity through work while you leftist lunatics prefer to keep people chained to the government dole for votes. When the towers fell on 9/11, the entire world saw the strength of a real leader. While you cowardly democrats hid in bunkers, Rudy walked the ash-covered streets of lower Manhattan. He gave calm press conferences while the world burned. He led the recovery at ground zero. He became the face of American resilience. Time magazine person of the year. Knighted by the queen. Reagan freedom award winner. He is "Rudy the Rock" and you cannot erase his legacy. The left’s reward for his service was total persecution. Because he stood by President Trump and exposed the 2020 election steal, they unleashed every weapon in their arsenal. They stripped his law license. They hit him with a sham $148 million judgment in Georgia. They forced an American hero into bankruptcy. This is pure communist lawfare designed to kill the opposition. You radical leftists are domestic enemies of the constitution. Even under this massive pressure, Rudy never stopped fighting. He was on the air hosting "America’s Mayor Live" just Friday night from Palm Beach. He worked until his body gave out. He sacrificed everything to expose the corruption of the Biden crime family and the rigged system. He was right about the laptop. He was right about the election interference. He was right about everything and that is why you hate him. President Trump has issued the command: “Our fabulous Rudy Giuliani, a True Warrior, and the Best Mayor in the History of New York City, BY FAR, has been hospitalized, and is in critical condition.” Trump knows loyalty. Trump knows a fighter. The bond between these two giants is what scares the deep state to their rotten cores. They want Rudy silenced because he is the man who knows where all the bodies are buried in the corrupt swamp. To the liberal trash mocking his condition, you are sub-human scum. Your ideology is a cancer that destroys everything it touches. You hate Rudy because he represents an America that worked. An America where criminals went to jail and workers were rewarded. You prefer the chaos and decay of the current regime. You are intellectual midgets who could not accomplish in ten lifetimes what Rudy did in one afternoon in 1985. This is a call to action for every MAGA patriot. Repost this thread to every corner of the internet. Tag every Trump ally. Flood the airwaves with his accomplishments. We will not let the media rewrite history while he lies in that hospital bed. Stand with the man who stood for us. We are fighting for the soul of this nation and Rudy Giuliani is the ultimate casualty of this political war. Raise your voices. We demand justice for Rudy. We demand an end to the lawfare. We demand recognition for the man who saved New York and inspired the world. The left wants you to be afraid but we are only getting louder. The spirit of 9/11 is still alive in every heart that bleeds red white and blue. We are the silent majority no longer. We are the army of truth. Pray for Rudy Giuliani. Pray for his family. Pray for President Trump. Repost this now if you still believe in America First. We will never back down. We will never forget. God bless the greatest mayor in history. Stay strong warrior. The entire nation is behind you.

The Deep State’s Blood Sacrifice: Rudy Giuliani Battles For Life While Parasitic Leftist Ghouls Celebrate Their Lethal Lawfare The radical left has blood on its hands. They tried to break the man who broke the mafia. Now he fights for his life in a Florida hospital. The deep state witch hunts have finally taken their physical toll on a true American lion. Rudy Giuliani is in critical but stable condition and every patriot in this country needs to stop what they are doing and pray for this warrior. The communist filth in the media are already celebrating. They are ghouls who hate greatness. Before the democrat bottom-feeders tried to jail him, Rudy was the gold standard of American justice. As U.S. attorney in the 1980s he racked up 4,152 convictions with only 25 reversals. He took down the five families. He crushed the mafia bosses who ran New York with an iron fist. You pathetic liberals worship criminals today but Rudy put them in cages where they belonged. His record is an unsurpassed monument to law and order. Remember what New York was before Rudy. It was a crime-ridden hellhole until he took the reins. As mayor from 1994 to 2001 he cut overall crime by 56% and murders by 66%. He turned the crime capital of America into the safest large city in the nation. He appointed Bill Bratton and utilized broken-windows policing to clean up the filth you democrats love to protect. FBI stats prove he was the most effective mayor in modern history. Rudy Giuliani fixed crime and destroyed the parasitic welfare state. He slashed welfare rolls by 640,000 people. That is a 60% reduction. He turned stagnant welfare offices into dynamic job centers. This was the largest and most successful welfare-to-work program in u.s. history. He gave people dignity through work while you leftist lunatics prefer to keep people chained to the government dole for votes. When the towers fell on 9/11, the entire world saw the strength of a real leader. While you cowardly democrats hid in bunkers, Rudy walked the ash-covered streets of lower Manhattan. He gave calm press conferences while the world burned. He led the recovery at ground zero. He became the face of American resilience. Time magazine person of the year. Knighted by the queen. Reagan freedom award winner. He is "Rudy the Rock" and you cannot erase his legacy. The left’s reward for his service was total persecution. Because he stood by President Trump and exposed the 2020 election steal, they unleashed every weapon in their arsenal. They stripped his law license. They hit him with a sham $148 million judgment in Georgia. They forced an American hero into bankruptcy. This is pure communist lawfare designed to kill the opposition. You radical leftists are domestic enemies of the constitution. Even under this massive pressure, Rudy never stopped fighting. He was on the air hosting "America’s Mayor Live" just Friday night from Palm Beach. He worked until his body gave out. He sacrificed everything to expose the corruption of the Biden crime family and the rigged system. He was right about the laptop. He was right about the election interference. He was right about everything and that is why you hate him. President Trump has issued the command: “Our fabulous Rudy Giuliani, a True Warrior, and the Best Mayor in the History of New York City, BY FAR, has been hospitalized, and is in critical condition.” Trump knows loyalty. Trump knows a fighter. The bond between these two giants is what scares the deep state to their rotten cores. They want Rudy silenced because he is the man who knows where all the bodies are buried in the corrupt swamp. To the liberal trash mocking his condition, you are sub-human scum. Your ideology is a cancer that destroys everything it touches. You hate Rudy because he represents an America that worked. An America where criminals went to jail and workers were rewarded. You prefer the chaos and decay of the current regime. You are intellectual midgets who could not accomplish in ten lifetimes what Rudy did in one afternoon in 1985. This is a call to action for every MAGA patriot. Repost this thread to every corner of the internet. Tag every Trump ally. Flood the airwaves with his accomplishments. We will not let the media rewrite history while he lies in that hospital bed. Stand with the man who stood for us. We are fighting for the soul of this nation and Rudy Giuliani is the ultimate casualty of this political war. Raise your voices. We demand justice for Rudy. We demand an end to the lawfare. We demand recognition for the man who saved New York and inspired the world. The left wants you to be afraid but we are only getting louder. The spirit of 9/11 is still alive in every heart that bleeds red white and blue. We are the silent majority no longer. We are the army of truth. Pray for Rudy Giuliani. Pray for his family. Pray for President Trump. Repost this now if you still believe in America First. We will never back down. We will never forget. God bless the greatest mayor in history. Stay strong warrior. The entire nation is behind you.

Saggezza Eterna

21,019 просмотров • 5 месяцев назад

Gavin Newsom destroyed California. Here be the ruins of what once was the Palisades.… My heart goes out to the families of Los Angeles. I drove from San Francisco to Los Angeles to look upon the destruction with my own eyes… California families have literally lost everything… What have these Democrats done? Our Golden State become nothing more than a fire pit under Governor Gavin Newsom. While the flames devoured countless families, homes and millions of acres, Newsom was too busy virtue signaling for press conferences and blaming climate change instead of owning up to years of neglected forest management, water mismanagement and botched utility oversight. Gavin Newsom doesn’t have the balls to take accountability for his actions because that would actually require him stepping down and resigning from office. This piece of shit poured billions into high speed rail to nowhere while fire prevention budgets got the short end of the stick, letting overgrown tinderboxes ignite like clockwork every summer. The disconnect between Sacramento and California families has never been more apparent. I share this video with the intention of raising awareness so as to never forget what these California Democrats, who for years have proclaimed to be the guardians of the environment, who have proven to be the absolute worst stewards Mother Nature could ask for, have done to the great beautiful California. How dare they pretend to be champions of the environment while turning eco policies into a clown show of hypocrisy and failure. The corruption and incompetence of the far left is rampant and widespread as well as connected to billions of dollars in fraud. People are dying. Democrats pushed for green mandates that have served no real purpose other than skyrocketing energy costs and crippled industries, all while allowing urban sprawl to gobble up wildlands, invasive species to thrive unchecked and fresh water to be polluted. The only path forward is a return to real steward of the land work which means actually getting our hands dirty to clean up our waterways and plant new trees. Yosemite, Redwoods, Lake Tahoe and The Great California Delta are all dying. From poisoned rivers to dying deltas, leftist virtue signaling has done more to destroy California than any corporate polluter ever dreamed of, leaving behind a legacy of droughts, blackouts and biodiversity collapse. We are running out of time to save California. If irony had a face, it'd be a Gavin Newsom lecturing the world about Mother Nature while California burns to the ground. California can not afford to vote Democrat again. We The People will lose everything we know and love if we have not yet already. P.S. America will not survive a Newsom Presidency.

Gavin Newsom destroyed California. Here be the ruins of what once was the Palisades.… My heart goes out to the families of Los Angeles. I drove from San Francisco to Los Angeles to look upon the destruction with my own eyes… California families have literally lost everything… What have these Democrats done? Our Golden State become nothing more than a fire pit under Governor Gavin Newsom. While the flames devoured countless families, homes and millions of acres, Newsom was too busy virtue signaling for press conferences and blaming climate change instead of owning up to years of neglected forest management, water mismanagement and botched utility oversight. Gavin Newsom doesn’t have the balls to take accountability for his actions because that would actually require him stepping down and resigning from office. This piece of shit poured billions into high speed rail to nowhere while fire prevention budgets got the short end of the stick, letting overgrown tinderboxes ignite like clockwork every summer. The disconnect between Sacramento and California families has never been more apparent. I share this video with the intention of raising awareness so as to never forget what these California Democrats, who for years have proclaimed to be the guardians of the environment, who have proven to be the absolute worst stewards Mother Nature could ask for, have done to the great beautiful California. How dare they pretend to be champions of the environment while turning eco policies into a clown show of hypocrisy and failure. The corruption and incompetence of the far left is rampant and widespread as well as connected to billions of dollars in fraud. People are dying. Democrats pushed for green mandates that have served no real purpose other than skyrocketing energy costs and crippled industries, all while allowing urban sprawl to gobble up wildlands, invasive species to thrive unchecked and fresh water to be polluted. The only path forward is a return to real steward of the land work which means actually getting our hands dirty to clean up our waterways and plant new trees. Yosemite, Redwoods, Lake Tahoe and The Great California Delta are all dying. From poisoned rivers to dying deltas, leftist virtue signaling has done more to destroy California than any corporate polluter ever dreamed of, leaving behind a legacy of droughts, blackouts and biodiversity collapse. We are running out of time to save California. If irony had a face, it'd be a Gavin Newsom lecturing the world about Mother Nature while California burns to the ground. California can not afford to vote Democrat again. We The People will lose everything we know and love if we have not yet already. P.S. America will not survive a Newsom Presidency.

Darren Stallcup - World Peace Movement

42,665 просмотров • 8 месяцев назад

They competed against the world's best defense giants. And won. 🇮🇳🥇 Why the Indian Army chose a Mumbai startup over global tech to guard the LAC 15,000 feet. -30°C. Thin air. 🏔️❄️ Most drones simply fall out of the sky in the Himalayas. The air is too thin to generate lift. When the Indian Army needed a tactical scout for the LAC, the world assumed we would buy Israeli or American. Instead, a Mumbai-based startup beat them all. Here is why ideaForge is the new standard for High-Altitude Warfare. ⚡️ The "Rancho" Connection: Remember the quadcopter scene in 3 Idiots? That wasn't just a prop. It was an early prototype built by the founders of ideaForge at IIT Bombay. What started as a college project by Ankit Mehta and his team has now evolved into the backbone of India’s tactical surveillance. The "Death Valley" Test: In 2020, during the standoff with China, the Indian Army issued a challenge: A drone that could launch from a cramped mountain bunker, fly for hours, and withstand gale-force winds. Global defense giants competed. But ideaForge’s SWITCH UAV was the only one that met every single parameter during the grueling trials in Ladakh. Why "SWITCH" is a Tactical Masterpiece: -->It’s a Hybrid VTOL (Vertical Take-off and Landing). -->Its fixed-wing drones need runways (impossible on a mountain peak). Quadcopters have terrible battery life (useless for long patrols). -->The SWITCH takes off vertically like a helicopter, then "switches" mode to fly like a plane. -->It has 15km range, 120-minute endurance, day/night thermal optics. It creates a 24/7 digital perimeter around our forward posts. The Arsenal: They aren't a one-trick pony. Their portfolio is purpose-built for Indian conditions: -->SWITCH 1.0/V2: High-altitude, long-endurance, VTOL (Vertical Take-off & Landing). -->NETRA Series: The workhorse for police and counter-insurgency. -->NINJA: Lightweight, stealthy micro-UAV for tactical squads. -->ZOLT (New!): Just secured a major ₹75 Cr order for this next-gen tactical UAV. The "Reverse Tech" Flow 🇺🇸 Usually, India imports tech from the West. ideaForge is flipping the script. Through their subsidiary, they are now targeting the US Security Market. They are building drones in India that meet the strict "Green UAS" compliance standards of the US Government—something even Chinese giant DJI is struggling with. Emergency Response Leap: -->Strategic MoU with C-DAC (Dec 2025) to integrate FLYGHT Drone-as-a-Service platform with India's nationwide ERSS (Dial 112) system. --> Goal is to slash average 20-minute emergency response time by sending drones first for real-time situational awareness (fire, police, medical). -->Also exploring VEGA processor integration + AI swarm research. Pure Atmanirbhar Bharat energy. ideaForge isn't just a "Make in India" success story; it is a "Make for the World" blueprint. They didn't win because of government protectionism; they won because, at 15,000 feet, their tech was simply better. The Watchman on the Wall is now Indigenous. 🇮🇳 Ankit Mehta ideaForge Technology Limited Col AJ🇮🇳 Aadi Achint 🇮🇳 Major Sammer Pal Toorr (Infantry Combat Veteran) TheGlobalDecoder #ideaForge #Ladakh #IndianArmy #UAV #atmanirbharbharat

They competed against the world's best defense giants. And won. 🇮🇳🥇 Why the Indian Army chose a Mumbai startup over global tech to guard the LAC 15,000 feet. -30°C. Thin air. 🏔️❄️ Most drones simply fall out of the sky in the Himalayas. The air is too thin to generate lift. When the Indian Army needed a tactical scout for the LAC, the world assumed we would buy Israeli or American. Instead, a Mumbai-based startup beat them all. Here is why ideaForge is the new standard for High-Altitude Warfare. ⚡️ The "Rancho" Connection: Remember the quadcopter scene in 3 Idiots? That wasn't just a prop. It was an early prototype built by the founders of ideaForge at IIT Bombay. What started as a college project by Ankit Mehta and his team has now evolved into the backbone of India’s tactical surveillance. The "Death Valley" Test: In 2020, during the standoff with China, the Indian Army issued a challenge: A drone that could launch from a cramped mountain bunker, fly for hours, and withstand gale-force winds. Global defense giants competed. But ideaForge’s SWITCH UAV was the only one that met every single parameter during the grueling trials in Ladakh. Why "SWITCH" is a Tactical Masterpiece: -->It’s a Hybrid VTOL (Vertical Take-off and Landing). -->Its fixed-wing drones need runways (impossible on a mountain peak). Quadcopters have terrible battery life (useless for long patrols). -->The SWITCH takes off vertically like a helicopter, then "switches" mode to fly like a plane. -->It has 15km range, 120-minute endurance, day/night thermal optics. It creates a 24/7 digital perimeter around our forward posts. The Arsenal: They aren't a one-trick pony. Their portfolio is purpose-built for Indian conditions: -->SWITCH 1.0/V2: High-altitude, long-endurance, VTOL (Vertical Take-off & Landing). -->NETRA Series: The workhorse for police and counter-insurgency. -->NINJA: Lightweight, stealthy micro-UAV for tactical squads. -->ZOLT (New!): Just secured a major ₹75 Cr order for this next-gen tactical UAV. The "Reverse Tech" Flow 🇺🇸 Usually, India imports tech from the West. ideaForge is flipping the script. Through their subsidiary, they are now targeting the US Security Market. They are building drones in India that meet the strict "Green UAS" compliance standards of the US Government—something even Chinese giant DJI is struggling with. Emergency Response Leap: -->Strategic MoU with C-DAC (Dec 2025) to integrate FLYGHT Drone-as-a-Service platform with India's nationwide ERSS (Dial 112) system. --> Goal is to slash average 20-minute emergency response time by sending drones first for real-time situational awareness (fire, police, medical). -->Also exploring VEGA processor integration + AI swarm research. Pure Atmanirbhar Bharat energy. ideaForge isn't just a "Make in India" success story; it is a "Make for the World" blueprint. They didn't win because of government protectionism; they won because, at 15,000 feet, their tech was simply better. The Watchman on the Wall is now Indigenous. 🇮🇳 Ankit Mehta ideaForge Technology Limited Col AJ🇮🇳 Aadi Achint 🇮🇳 Major Sammer Pal Toorr (Infantry Combat Veteran) TheGlobalDecoder #ideaForge #Ladakh #IndianArmy #UAV #atmanirbharbharat

The Sacred Scroll

29,061 просмотров • 9 месяцев назад

Ottawa— Folks, buckle up, because what we witnessed in INDU Meeting No. 137 last Thursday was a textbook example of the Liberal government dodging accountability while taxpayer money is thrown around like confetti at a parade. At the center of this debacle is François-Philippe Champagne, Canada's Minister of Innovation, Science, and Industry, who got absolutely grilled by the Conservative opposition—and rightly so. Let’s break down the highlights. Champagne Touts Corporate Investments While Canadians Foot the Bill—and Trump Could Blow It All Up Minister François-Philippe Champagne, in his opening remarks at INDU Meeting No. 137, tried to sell Canadians on his so-called economic "success story" by boasting about massive corporate investments like Honda's $19 billion in Canada's electric vehicle (EV) sector. He made it sound like international companies were flocking to Canada because of our leadership in green energy and innovation. But what he conveniently left out is that taxpayers are footing the bill for these investments with up to $5 billion in subsidies to Honda alone. Champagne is spinning this as if these corporations just came knocking at our door out of love for Canada. Reality check: they were bought off with your money. And then there’s Telesat, the satellite company Champagne hyped up, claiming it’s vital for rural connectivity and national security. What he didn’t mention? $1.4 billion in taxpayer money was handed over to Telesat with zero interest for five years, and not a single satellite has been deployed yet! That's right, a company that’s supposed to be launching satellites to connect rural areas hasn’t even gotten anything into orbit—and meanwhile, 63% of the company is foreign-owned. Canadians are essentially funding a foreign venture that hasn’t delivered on its promises. But here’s the kicker—all of these investments are at serious risk if Donald Trump wins the 2024 U.S. election. Trump has vowed to roll back green energy policies and bring back fossil fuel dominance, which would completely undercut the EV market and leave Canada’s taxpayer-funded green investments in serious jeopardy. If the U.S. shifts back to oil and gas, the EV and green tech industries in Canada will lose their biggest market, leaving Canadians holding the bag for billions in wasted investments. And that’s when Conservative MP Rick Perkins stepped in to call out Champagne on his BS. Rick Perkins Comes in Hot Right out of the gate, Conservative MP Rick Perkins wasn't there to play nice. He dug deep into the $1.4 billion taxpayer-funded loan to Telesat, demanding specifics about how much money had been repaid. Sounds like a straightforward question, right? Well, not for Champagne, who responded with a word salad about national security and rural connectivity instead of giving a straight answer. Perkins wasn’t having any of it. He interrupted Champagne's well-rehearsed talking points, demanding the facts: “I didn’t ask for a speech on Telesat, I asked how much of the loan has been repaid!” Boom! That right there was pure gold. Perkins exposed Champagne’s slippery evasions and highlighted what this is really about: $1.4 billion of your money with no clear accountability on where it's going or when it’ll be repaid. Champagne, flustered, had nothing. No numbers, no concrete answers. Just more smoke. Michelle Rempel Garner: The No-Nonsense Conservative Then came Michelle Rempel Garner, another Conservative MP who took Champagne to the woodshed. She cut right through the fluff and zeroed in on the core issue—how can Canadian taxpayers benefit when foreign-owned companies like Telesat are getting the lion’s share of the pie? She asked point-blank: “How is this helping Canadian workers when the company isn’t even fully Canadian-owned?” Champagne had no choice but to admit what we already know—63% of Telesat is owned by foreign investors, mostly Americans. So, let’s get this straight: Canadian taxpayers are subsidizing a company that isn't even Canadian? It’s a globalist's dream and a taxpayer's nightmare. Garner’s relentless grilling forced Champagne to reveal there are no clear safeguards in place to ensure that Canada reaps the long-term rewards from these massive investments. This wasn’t just a good moment for Rempel Garner, it was a reality check for all Canadians. The Trudeau government loves to talk about “green jobs” and “innovation,” but when you pull back the curtain, it's the foreign investors who are laughing all the way to the bank. Rick Perkins: The Sequel In the later part of the hearing, Rick Perkins came back for another round and, boy, did he keep the pressure on. This time, he focused on the financial oversight of these projects, pointing out that the Trudeau government was taking enormous risks with taxpayer money, especially when foreign-owned companies are involved. Perkins didn’t let Champagne dodge the tough questions. He demanded guarantees—actual, concrete protections for Canadian taxpayers—in case these projects fail to deliver. Of course, Champagne, doing what he does best, gave more vague promises about future benefits but nothing solid about how the government plans to protect taxpayers if these green ventures flop. This exchange was critical because it highlighted just how reckless the Liberals are with public money. Perkins showed that this isn’t just about “leading the world” in innovation—it’s about fiscal irresponsibility. Ryan Turnbull’s Fluffy Defense of Liberal Policies Then we had Liberal MP Ryan Turnbull swooping in with the expected protectionist puff-piece. Turnbull’s questions were more like soft lobs for Champagne to knock out of the park. He spent his time talking about how green energy and EV supply chains will secure Canada’s place as a global leader. But let’s cut through the BS, folks. This was nothing more than an attempt to distract from the massive financial risks Canadians are being forced to bear. Turnbull went on about “innovation” and “sustainability,” sprinkling in the usual Liberal buzzwords that make it sound like everything’s going great. But here's the truth he conveniently ignored: these investments are a gamble. They rely heavily on the U.S. market, and if Donald Trump wins in 2024 and rolls back green energy policies, Canada's taxpayer-funded projects are in serious trouble. Trump has vowed to dismantle Biden's green energy incentives and go all-in on fossil fuels. If that happens, demand for green tech and EVs in the U.S. will plummet, leaving Canada holding the bag on investments that might not pan out. While Turnbull painted a rosy picture, he didn’t acknowledge the geopolitical risks. Trump’s election could leave Canada’s green investments in serious jeopardy. And Champagne? He didn’t offer any solutions either—just more vague reassurances. But without the U.S. as a stable market, these taxpayer-funded projects are at risk of becoming costly failures. Honorable Mentions: Bloc and NDP Bring Their Own Fire Let's not forget the solid moments from both Bloc MP Jean-Denis Garon and NDP MP Brian Masse. Garon focused on transparency and the question of foreign ownership, once again hammering home the fact that Canadian taxpayers are footing the bill for projects that benefit foreign entities. Meanwhile, Masse brought up a crucial point: affordability. He grilled Champagne on whether these green projects would actually lower costs for rural Canadians or just create more monopolization in the telecom sector. The Bottom Line Folks, this is exactly what’s wrong with the Liberal government—they are more interested in looking good on the world stage than actually delivering for Canadians. Champagne was grilled for dodging accountability, and for good reason. Billions of taxpayer dollars are being handed over to foreign corporations with no clear benefit to the Canadian people. If you’re wondering where your hard-earned money is going, just look at Telesat—a foreign-controlled company that hasn’t paid a dime back on a $1.4 billion loan. And with the possibility of Donald Trump winning in 2024 and rolling back green energy subsidies in the U.S., these investments are looking shakier by the day. If the U.S. abandons green energy, where does that leave Canada? I’ll tell you where—holding the bag for investments that might never pay off. Once again, folks, we’re seeing the Liberal government in action—reckless, unaccountable, and leaving Canadians behind. Stay tuned. It’s going to be a bumpy ride.

Ottawa— Folks, buckle up, because what we witnessed in INDU Meeting No. 137 last Thursday was a textbook example of the Liberal government dodging accountability while taxpayer money is thrown around like confetti at a parade. At the center of this debacle is François-Philippe Champagne, Canada's Minister of Innovation, Science, and Industry, who got absolutely grilled by the Conservative opposition—and rightly so. Let’s break down the highlights. Champagne Touts Corporate Investments While Canadians Foot the Bill—and Trump Could Blow It All Up Minister François-Philippe Champagne, in his opening remarks at INDU Meeting No. 137, tried to sell Canadians on his so-called economic "success story" by boasting about massive corporate investments like Honda's $19 billion in Canada's electric vehicle (EV) sector. He made it sound like international companies were flocking to Canada because of our leadership in green energy and innovation. But what he conveniently left out is that taxpayers are footing the bill for these investments with up to $5 billion in subsidies to Honda alone. Champagne is spinning this as if these corporations just came knocking at our door out of love for Canada. Reality check: they were bought off with your money. And then there’s Telesat, the satellite company Champagne hyped up, claiming it’s vital for rural connectivity and national security. What he didn’t mention? $1.4 billion in taxpayer money was handed over to Telesat with zero interest for five years, and not a single satellite has been deployed yet! That's right, a company that’s supposed to be launching satellites to connect rural areas hasn’t even gotten anything into orbit—and meanwhile, 63% of the company is foreign-owned. Canadians are essentially funding a foreign venture that hasn’t delivered on its promises. But here’s the kicker—all of these investments are at serious risk if Donald Trump wins the 2024 U.S. election. Trump has vowed to roll back green energy policies and bring back fossil fuel dominance, which would completely undercut the EV market and leave Canada’s taxpayer-funded green investments in serious jeopardy. If the U.S. shifts back to oil and gas, the EV and green tech industries in Canada will lose their biggest market, leaving Canadians holding the bag for billions in wasted investments. And that’s when Conservative MP Rick Perkins stepped in to call out Champagne on his BS. Rick Perkins Comes in Hot Right out of the gate, Conservative MP Rick Perkins wasn't there to play nice. He dug deep into the $1.4 billion taxpayer-funded loan to Telesat, demanding specifics about how much money had been repaid. Sounds like a straightforward question, right? Well, not for Champagne, who responded with a word salad about national security and rural connectivity instead of giving a straight answer. Perkins wasn’t having any of it. He interrupted Champagne's well-rehearsed talking points, demanding the facts: “I didn’t ask for a speech on Telesat, I asked how much of the loan has been repaid!” Boom! That right there was pure gold. Perkins exposed Champagne’s slippery evasions and highlighted what this is really about: $1.4 billion of your money with no clear accountability on where it's going or when it’ll be repaid. Champagne, flustered, had nothing. No numbers, no concrete answers. Just more smoke. Michelle Rempel Garner: The No-Nonsense Conservative Then came Michelle Rempel Garner, another Conservative MP who took Champagne to the woodshed. She cut right through the fluff and zeroed in on the core issue—how can Canadian taxpayers benefit when foreign-owned companies like Telesat are getting the lion’s share of the pie? She asked point-blank: “How is this helping Canadian workers when the company isn’t even fully Canadian-owned?” Champagne had no choice but to admit what we already know—63% of Telesat is owned by foreign investors, mostly Americans. So, let’s get this straight: Canadian taxpayers are subsidizing a company that isn't even Canadian? It’s a globalist's dream and a taxpayer's nightmare. Garner’s relentless grilling forced Champagne to reveal there are no clear safeguards in place to ensure that Canada reaps the long-term rewards from these massive investments. This wasn’t just a good moment for Rempel Garner, it was a reality check for all Canadians. The Trudeau government loves to talk about “green jobs” and “innovation,” but when you pull back the curtain, it's the foreign investors who are laughing all the way to the bank. Rick Perkins: The Sequel In the later part of the hearing, Rick Perkins came back for another round and, boy, did he keep the pressure on. This time, he focused on the financial oversight of these projects, pointing out that the Trudeau government was taking enormous risks with taxpayer money, especially when foreign-owned companies are involved. Perkins didn’t let Champagne dodge the tough questions. He demanded guarantees—actual, concrete protections for Canadian taxpayers—in case these projects fail to deliver. Of course, Champagne, doing what he does best, gave more vague promises about future benefits but nothing solid about how the government plans to protect taxpayers if these green ventures flop. This exchange was critical because it highlighted just how reckless the Liberals are with public money. Perkins showed that this isn’t just about “leading the world” in innovation—it’s about fiscal irresponsibility. Ryan Turnbull’s Fluffy Defense of Liberal Policies Then we had Liberal MP Ryan Turnbull swooping in with the expected protectionist puff-piece. Turnbull’s questions were more like soft lobs for Champagne to knock out of the park. He spent his time talking about how green energy and EV supply chains will secure Canada’s place as a global leader. But let’s cut through the BS, folks. This was nothing more than an attempt to distract from the massive financial risks Canadians are being forced to bear. Turnbull went on about “innovation” and “sustainability,” sprinkling in the usual Liberal buzzwords that make it sound like everything’s going great. But here's the truth he conveniently ignored: these investments are a gamble. They rely heavily on the U.S. market, and if Donald Trump wins in 2024 and rolls back green energy policies, Canada's taxpayer-funded projects are in serious trouble. Trump has vowed to dismantle Biden's green energy incentives and go all-in on fossil fuels. If that happens, demand for green tech and EVs in the U.S. will plummet, leaving Canada holding the bag on investments that might not pan out. While Turnbull painted a rosy picture, he didn’t acknowledge the geopolitical risks. Trump’s election could leave Canada’s green investments in serious jeopardy. And Champagne? He didn’t offer any solutions either—just more vague reassurances. But without the U.S. as a stable market, these taxpayer-funded projects are at risk of becoming costly failures. Honorable Mentions: Bloc and NDP Bring Their Own Fire Let's not forget the solid moments from both Bloc MP Jean-Denis Garon and NDP MP Brian Masse. Garon focused on transparency and the question of foreign ownership, once again hammering home the fact that Canadian taxpayers are footing the bill for projects that benefit foreign entities. Meanwhile, Masse brought up a crucial point: affordability. He grilled Champagne on whether these green projects would actually lower costs for rural Canadians or just create more monopolization in the telecom sector. The Bottom Line Folks, this is exactly what’s wrong with the Liberal government—they are more interested in looking good on the world stage than actually delivering for Canadians. Champagne was grilled for dodging accountability, and for good reason. Billions of taxpayer dollars are being handed over to foreign corporations with no clear benefit to the Canadian people. If you’re wondering where your hard-earned money is going, just look at Telesat—a foreign-controlled company that hasn’t paid a dime back on a $1.4 billion loan. And with the possibility of Donald Trump winning in 2024 and rolling back green energy subsidies in the U.S., these investments are looking shakier by the day. If the U.S. abandons green energy, where does that leave Canada? I’ll tell you where—holding the bag for investments that might never pay off. Once again, folks, we’re seeing the Liberal government in action—reckless, unaccountable, and leaving Canadians behind. Stay tuned. It’s going to be a bumpy ride.

Dan Knight

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I am leaving San Francisco. My heart is broken... Thank You Gavin Newsom, London Breed, Scott Wiener, Connie Chan, Jennifer Friedenbach, Aaron Peskin, Dean Preston, Hillary Ronen, Myrna Melgar and all the other leftist anti-American politicians who destroyed one of the greatest cities in history. San Francisco used be to the most beautiful city in the world... Now how can I build a life for myself in this city, let alone start a family, with all this chaos, corruption, incompetence and lawlessness that plagues our community? I gave this city everything I had. Years of my life, my safety, my money, my energy. I fought for it. I poured out my blood, sweat and tears for it. I stayed when almost everyone else left. And now in order to save my own life, I must make the painful decision to leave. I don't want to go but I have to... Our government is corrupt to its core... leftist reptilians in suits who keep the chaos alive because it keeps their donors and “nonprofits” flush with cash. Our streets look like a third world country... open air fentanyl markets, tents everywhere, human feces, needles, trash piles and bodies on sidewalks. It’s not “progressive.” It’s a collapse. My family and friends? Most of them are gone either they left or they died here. None of my family and friends want to visit me and that's because traveling to San Francisco has become risky. Nobody wants to jeopardize their car or see the humanitarian crisis happening on the sidewalks. The cost of living is skyrocketing. Our wages stagnate and jobs are disappearing to robots and immigrants. You can’t afford to exist in San Francisco unless you’re already rich. I don't want to live paycheck to paycheck. I deserve to enjoy the fruit of my labor. I am paying the highest rates in the country for the least representation as our infrastructure falls apart... aging pipes, crumbling roads, power outages and the constant threat of The Big Earthquake. Our economy has hit terminal velocity. Businesses are fleeing, stores are closing and the tech bros who once promised utopia have replaced themselves with AI and automation. Now they’re laying their own people off while the executives hide behind private security. Illegal immigrants are prioritized over American citizens... luxury hotels, gift cards, free services, while our veterans sleep in the rain and our own homeless get ignored. Every single night my car is either ticketed, towed, broken into, or all three. These people openly prefer socialism and communism over conservatism. They say it with pride. And if you’re straight, white, male, or Christian? They hate you on sight. They treat you like you’re the enemy. No subtlety, no shame. The women here are in constant fight-or-flight mode. They only feel safe dating millionaires. The dating scene is a nightmare. I’m a good looking guy who knows how to talk to women, I do better than most guys and even I can’t get a real date without some woman asking how much money I make. How about, "How's the weather"??? The nightlife is dead. All my favorite bars, clubs, and restaurants have shut down. The few that are left charge $20 just to walk in, then another small fortune for drinks that taste like regret. The local newspapers are pure far left propaganda. If you’re a good guy who votes red and risks your life to stop a restaurant robbery... and actually thwarts the robber... they’ll still paint you as the villain. I’ve seen it happen to me and others. The coroner’s office can’t even keep up with all the goddamn bodies. They mix up the names of dead people with living ones, misidentified remains and dumped corpses in the bay because there’s just simply no room left anywhere else. Fentanyl is showing up on playgrounds and in schools. Public schools are indoctrination factories that teach kids to hate their own country while test scores plummet and parents pull their children out in record numbers. Scott Wiener wants kids who don't even know their ABCs and 123s to change genders and hide secrets from Mom and Dad. Leftist educators are predators. And algebra has become illegal. The public library has become a daytime drug den and homeless shelter, where you can’t even use the bathroom without stepping over people shooting up. Our parks and beaches are littered with human waste, stolen bikes, and abandoned tents... places that used to be beautiful are now no go zones. I need to escape the containment zone. The city’s budget is billions in the red and yet for some reason they keep spending on “equity” programs and luxury accommodations for non citizens while basic services like street cleaning and pothole repair are neglected. Mental health services are a joke... people in crisis are left to wander the streets screaming and the only “help” they get is a tent and a government-issued crack pipe. Yeah that'll help them. Crime statistics are deliberately underreported or reclassified so politicians can claim “declining crime” while residents live in fear. The city’s water supply is contaminated with everything from lead to fentanyl runoff, people are calling themselves "chemical babies" and they still charge premium rates for this water. San Francisco’s “progressive” housing policies have made it impossible to build affordable homes, leaving thousands sleeping in cars or on sidewalks while empty luxury units sit vacant. The transit system is a rolling mobile open air asylum disaster... buses and trains are filthy, unreliable, and unsafe, with assaults and thefts happening daily. I don't even want to talk about the things I have expirienced on the san francisco train. I have seen drug addicts fornicating, homeless people overdose, criminals fleeing the law, people using fentanyl, people pooping and peeing, families being attacked by violent lunatics, yeah, that San Francisco train is giving New York City's subway a run for their money. Animal control is nonexistent. Where is PETA when you actually need them? All these abused stray dogs, raccoons and abandoned pit bulls roam free while people get attacked in broad daylight. Roving packs of cayotes in San Francisco abandoned downtown financial district. Empty Skyscrapers and packs of Cayotes and we still vote Democrat. The city’s fire department is chronically understaffed and underfunded, yet they prioritize “climate justice” training over basic firefighting readiness. Streetlights are burned out for months at a time, leaving entire blocks in darkness while car break ins and assaults spike. The city refuses to enforce basic but will ticket you for the wrong color license plate frame. San Francisco’s “sanctuary city” policies have turned it into a magnet for international criminal , while local police have their hands tied by progressive DAs who refuse to prosecute. Even if they do, the judge just releases them the next day, The air quality is toxic from wildfires, encampment fires and unchecked drug use, yet they lecture residents about carbon footprints. The city’s recycling and composting programs are a farce... I used to work at the landfill... most of it ends up all mixed together in the landfills anyway, while residents are fined for using the wrong bin. Public restrooms have all been closed down because of the homelessness and fentanyl crisis in our community. Most bathrooms are permanently locked or destroyed, forcing people to defecate in alleys and doorways because the city won’t maintain them. Our local leaders fly private jets to climate conferences while telling citizens to stop driving gasoline powered cars. The city’s permitting process is so slow and expensive that small businesses die waiting for approval, while big developers get fast tracked. San Francisco’s “defund the police” experiment left the department gutted, morale crushed, and response times so slow that people just stop calling 911. When my front door got kicked in by burglars, I had to fight them off with my two hands because I didn't have a gun. When I called 911, I got a voicemail and told to leave a message at the beep. The city’s “equity” hiring practices have filled critical departments with unqualified people who prioritize ideology over competence. Not being white shouldn't be the only qualification somebody needs to get hired. Rat infestations are so bad that they’re now considered “wildlife” and protected, while residents wake up to rodents in their kitchens. The city’s homeless “outreach” teams hand out tents and needles but refuse to enforce any rules, turning public spaces into permanent encampments. Emergency rooms are overwhelmed with overdoses and psychiatric cases, forcing regular patients to wait hours or leave untreated. The city’s tourism board still markets San Francisco as a “world class destination” while tourists get robbed in broad daylight and leave traumatized. This isn’t the San Francisco I grew up loving. The city council spends more time debating pronoun policies and symbolic resolutions than fixing the actual problems residents face every day. Public art grants go to waste on virtue signaling artists instead of actual talented artists, while classic statues and monuments are removed or defaced for being too white". Street vendors operate illegally without permits, selling stolen goods and counterfeit items while legitimate businesses are crushed by regulations. Often times the fence guys are standing next to the fentanyl dealers. Fent is $3 a gram, cheaper than a loaf of bread, a gallon of milk and a gallon of gasoline. San Francisco’s “climate emergency” declarations come with more regulations and fees, yet the city does nothing to help Mother Nature. Look at The Great California Delta. It is dying. The public health department pushes endless vaccine mandates while ignoring the overdose epidemic killing thousands every year. All the while Gavin Newsom eats at the french laundry without a mask. The city’s “zero waste” goals are a joke... trash piles up faster than ever while residents are lectured about single use plastics. The board of supervisors routinely votes to protect drug dealers from prosecution while residents are left to deal with the consequences of their leniency on international criminals. Makes you wonder if they are being bribed or blackmailed? Our city’s “sanctuary” policies extend to protecting violent criminals, as long as they claim asylum or fear deportation. The SFPD has been reduced to a skeleton crew, and when they do respond, they’re often told to stand down to avoid “escalation.” The city’s homeless czars make six figures while sleeping in a luxury apartment, yet can’t explain why tent encampments keep growing. They are disconnected from the people they are supposed to help. Women disappear from the streets for days or weeks at a time, or sometimes never to return, only to turn up dead or never turn up at all, yet the city barely investigates missing persons cases anymore. Walking around downtown San Francisco, there are new missing women flyers every week. It is very disturbing. I might be silenced for discussing this one topic. Homeless women and children are left vulnerable in encampments with no protection, while predators move freely among the tents and no one intervenes. I shouldn't be seeing family units living on the streets but I am and across the street are billionaire tech offices. Theft is so normalized that people openly smash windows in broad daylight, grab packages off doorsteps and walk away with bikes while residents watch helplessly. No house or apartment is ever really safer. Shoplifting gangs hit stores multiple times a day, loading up carts and walking out without consequence, leaving retailers to eat the losses. Shelves are empty. You would think people are preparing for the apocalypse. Nope. THEY ARE SELLING THE STOLEN ITEMS TO BUY FENTANYL. Theft of catalytic converters, car batteries, and even entire vehicles has become so common that insurance companies are dropping coverage for entire neighborhoods. Good luck getting car or home insurance in California. I’m not abandoning San Francisco. I fought every day for years to save the city. Now I'm choosing to live. I’m moving somewhere I can breathe, build, create and follow my American Dream. Hope you understand. I can't keep living like this in this modern Sodom and Gomorrah.

I am leaving San Francisco. My heart is broken... Thank You Gavin Newsom, London Breed, Scott Wiener, Connie Chan, Jennifer Friedenbach, Aaron Peskin, Dean Preston, Hillary Ronen, Myrna Melgar and all the other leftist anti-American politicians who destroyed one of the greatest cities in history. San Francisco used be to the most beautiful city in the world... Now how can I build a life for myself in this city, let alone start a family, with all this chaos, corruption, incompetence and lawlessness that plagues our community? I gave this city everything I had. Years of my life, my safety, my money, my energy. I fought for it. I poured out my blood, sweat and tears for it. I stayed when almost everyone else left. And now in order to save my own life, I must make the painful decision to leave. I don't want to go but I have to... Our government is corrupt to its core... leftist reptilians in suits who keep the chaos alive because it keeps their donors and “nonprofits” flush with cash. Our streets look like a third world country... open air fentanyl markets, tents everywhere, human feces, needles, trash piles and bodies on sidewalks. It’s not “progressive.” It’s a collapse. My family and friends? Most of them are gone either they left or they died here. None of my family and friends want to visit me and that's because traveling to San Francisco has become risky. Nobody wants to jeopardize their car or see the humanitarian crisis happening on the sidewalks. The cost of living is skyrocketing. Our wages stagnate and jobs are disappearing to robots and immigrants. You can’t afford to exist in San Francisco unless you’re already rich. I don't want to live paycheck to paycheck. I deserve to enjoy the fruit of my labor. I am paying the highest rates in the country for the least representation as our infrastructure falls apart... aging pipes, crumbling roads, power outages and the constant threat of The Big Earthquake. Our economy has hit terminal velocity. Businesses are fleeing, stores are closing and the tech bros who once promised utopia have replaced themselves with AI and automation. Now they’re laying their own people off while the executives hide behind private security. Illegal immigrants are prioritized over American citizens... luxury hotels, gift cards, free services, while our veterans sleep in the rain and our own homeless get ignored. Every single night my car is either ticketed, towed, broken into, or all three. These people openly prefer socialism and communism over conservatism. They say it with pride. And if you’re straight, white, male, or Christian? They hate you on sight. They treat you like you’re the enemy. No subtlety, no shame. The women here are in constant fight-or-flight mode. They only feel safe dating millionaires. The dating scene is a nightmare. I’m a good looking guy who knows how to talk to women, I do better than most guys and even I can’t get a real date without some woman asking how much money I make. How about, "How's the weather"??? The nightlife is dead. All my favorite bars, clubs, and restaurants have shut down. The few that are left charge $20 just to walk in, then another small fortune for drinks that taste like regret. The local newspapers are pure far left propaganda. If you’re a good guy who votes red and risks your life to stop a restaurant robbery... and actually thwarts the robber... they’ll still paint you as the villain. I’ve seen it happen to me and others. The coroner’s office can’t even keep up with all the goddamn bodies. They mix up the names of dead people with living ones, misidentified remains and dumped corpses in the bay because there’s just simply no room left anywhere else. Fentanyl is showing up on playgrounds and in schools. Public schools are indoctrination factories that teach kids to hate their own country while test scores plummet and parents pull their children out in record numbers. Scott Wiener wants kids who don't even know their ABCs and 123s to change genders and hide secrets from Mom and Dad. Leftist educators are predators. And algebra has become illegal. The public library has become a daytime drug den and homeless shelter, where you can’t even use the bathroom without stepping over people shooting up. Our parks and beaches are littered with human waste, stolen bikes, and abandoned tents... places that used to be beautiful are now no go zones. I need to escape the containment zone. The city’s budget is billions in the red and yet for some reason they keep spending on “equity” programs and luxury accommodations for non citizens while basic services like street cleaning and pothole repair are neglected. Mental health services are a joke... people in crisis are left to wander the streets screaming and the only “help” they get is a tent and a government-issued crack pipe. Yeah that'll help them. Crime statistics are deliberately underreported or reclassified so politicians can claim “declining crime” while residents live in fear. The city’s water supply is contaminated with everything from lead to fentanyl runoff, people are calling themselves "chemical babies" and they still charge premium rates for this water. San Francisco’s “progressive” housing policies have made it impossible to build affordable homes, leaving thousands sleeping in cars or on sidewalks while empty luxury units sit vacant. The transit system is a rolling mobile open air asylum disaster... buses and trains are filthy, unreliable, and unsafe, with assaults and thefts happening daily. I don't even want to talk about the things I have expirienced on the san francisco train. I have seen drug addicts fornicating, homeless people overdose, criminals fleeing the law, people using fentanyl, people pooping and peeing, families being attacked by violent lunatics, yeah, that San Francisco train is giving New York City's subway a run for their money. Animal control is nonexistent. Where is PETA when you actually need them? All these abused stray dogs, raccoons and abandoned pit bulls roam free while people get attacked in broad daylight. Roving packs of cayotes in San Francisco abandoned downtown financial district. Empty Skyscrapers and packs of Cayotes and we still vote Democrat. The city’s fire department is chronically understaffed and underfunded, yet they prioritize “climate justice” training over basic firefighting readiness. Streetlights are burned out for months at a time, leaving entire blocks in darkness while car break ins and assaults spike. The city refuses to enforce basic but will ticket you for the wrong color license plate frame. San Francisco’s “sanctuary city” policies have turned it into a magnet for international criminal , while local police have their hands tied by progressive DAs who refuse to prosecute. Even if they do, the judge just releases them the next day, The air quality is toxic from wildfires, encampment fires and unchecked drug use, yet they lecture residents about carbon footprints. The city’s recycling and composting programs are a farce... I used to work at the landfill... most of it ends up all mixed together in the landfills anyway, while residents are fined for using the wrong bin. Public restrooms have all been closed down because of the homelessness and fentanyl crisis in our community. Most bathrooms are permanently locked or destroyed, forcing people to defecate in alleys and doorways because the city won’t maintain them. Our local leaders fly private jets to climate conferences while telling citizens to stop driving gasoline powered cars. The city’s permitting process is so slow and expensive that small businesses die waiting for approval, while big developers get fast tracked. San Francisco’s “defund the police” experiment left the department gutted, morale crushed, and response times so slow that people just stop calling 911. When my front door got kicked in by burglars, I had to fight them off with my two hands because I didn't have a gun. When I called 911, I got a voicemail and told to leave a message at the beep. The city’s “equity” hiring practices have filled critical departments with unqualified people who prioritize ideology over competence. Not being white shouldn't be the only qualification somebody needs to get hired. Rat infestations are so bad that they’re now considered “wildlife” and protected, while residents wake up to rodents in their kitchens. The city’s homeless “outreach” teams hand out tents and needles but refuse to enforce any rules, turning public spaces into permanent encampments. Emergency rooms are overwhelmed with overdoses and psychiatric cases, forcing regular patients to wait hours or leave untreated. The city’s tourism board still markets San Francisco as a “world class destination” while tourists get robbed in broad daylight and leave traumatized. This isn’t the San Francisco I grew up loving. The city council spends more time debating pronoun policies and symbolic resolutions than fixing the actual problems residents face every day. Public art grants go to waste on virtue signaling artists instead of actual talented artists, while classic statues and monuments are removed or defaced for being too white". Street vendors operate illegally without permits, selling stolen goods and counterfeit items while legitimate businesses are crushed by regulations. Often times the fence guys are standing next to the fentanyl dealers. Fent is $3 a gram, cheaper than a loaf of bread, a gallon of milk and a gallon of gasoline. San Francisco’s “climate emergency” declarations come with more regulations and fees, yet the city does nothing to help Mother Nature. Look at The Great California Delta. It is dying. The public health department pushes endless vaccine mandates while ignoring the overdose epidemic killing thousands every year. All the while Gavin Newsom eats at the french laundry without a mask. The city’s “zero waste” goals are a joke... trash piles up faster than ever while residents are lectured about single use plastics. The board of supervisors routinely votes to protect drug dealers from prosecution while residents are left to deal with the consequences of their leniency on international criminals. Makes you wonder if they are being bribed or blackmailed? Our city’s “sanctuary” policies extend to protecting violent criminals, as long as they claim asylum or fear deportation. The SFPD has been reduced to a skeleton crew, and when they do respond, they’re often told to stand down to avoid “escalation.” The city’s homeless czars make six figures while sleeping in a luxury apartment, yet can’t explain why tent encampments keep growing. They are disconnected from the people they are supposed to help. Women disappear from the streets for days or weeks at a time, or sometimes never to return, only to turn up dead or never turn up at all, yet the city barely investigates missing persons cases anymore. Walking around downtown San Francisco, there are new missing women flyers every week. It is very disturbing. I might be silenced for discussing this one topic. Homeless women and children are left vulnerable in encampments with no protection, while predators move freely among the tents and no one intervenes. I shouldn't be seeing family units living on the streets but I am and across the street are billionaire tech offices. Theft is so normalized that people openly smash windows in broad daylight, grab packages off doorsteps and walk away with bikes while residents watch helplessly. No house or apartment is ever really safer. Shoplifting gangs hit stores multiple times a day, loading up carts and walking out without consequence, leaving retailers to eat the losses. Shelves are empty. You would think people are preparing for the apocalypse. Nope. THEY ARE SELLING THE STOLEN ITEMS TO BUY FENTANYL. Theft of catalytic converters, car batteries, and even entire vehicles has become so common that insurance companies are dropping coverage for entire neighborhoods. Good luck getting car or home insurance in California. I’m not abandoning San Francisco. I fought every day for years to save the city. Now I'm choosing to live. I’m moving somewhere I can breathe, build, create and follow my American Dream. Hope you understand. I can't keep living like this in this modern Sodom and Gomorrah.

Darren Stallcup - World Peace Movement

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A tree stood in that backyard for probably 40 years. Nobody who walked past it, sat under it, leaned a bike against it, ever knew what was living inside the trunk. Then someone cut into it. And what came out shouldn't be possible. Not sap. Not resin. Water. Gallons of it. Pouring out of solid wood like someone left a hose running inside a living organism. If your first reaction is "that's fake" — I understand. I had the same reaction the first time I saw footage like this. Trees are supposed to be dry on the inside. Bark, wood, rings, maybe some sticky sap if you're unlucky enough to touch a pine. Nobody grows up learning that a tree can be a pressurized tank. But here's the thing nobody tells you in school: some trees are. There's a real, documented, scientifically studied phenomenon behind this, and once you understand it, you will never look at a tree the same way again. I'm going to walk you through exactly what's happening inside these trees, why it happens, which species are famous for it, the wild historical accounts of people discovering it by accident (sometimes violently), and why arborists still get caught off guard by it after decades on the job. Stick with me. This gets stranger the deeper you go. — FIRST: the phenomenon has a name. Arborists and plant pathologists call it "wetwood," and in its more advanced, foul-smelling form, "slime flux." It's not folklore. It's not an urban legend some guy made up on a forum. It's in forestry textbooks, USDA plant pathology bulletins, and arborist training manuals. Here's the mechanism, stripped down to plain English: Trees have a core of heartwood — the dead, structural center of the trunk that no longer transports nutrients. It's basically the tree's skeleton. In most trees, that heartwood is just dry, solid wood. But in certain species, under certain conditions, bacteria colonize that heartwood core. Anaerobic bacteria — the kind that thrive without oxygen — move in and start fermenting the wood tissue from the inside. That fermentation process does two things. First, it draws in and traps enormous amounts of water inside the wood, way beyond what healthy wood would ever hold. Second, it produces gas as a byproduct — methane, carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulfide — and that gas has nowhere to go. It's sealed inside solid wood, inside bark, inside a living, growing tree. So you end up with a chamber, sometimes several feet long, sitting inside the trunk, completely pressurized, completely hidden, holding a mixture of bacteria-laden water and trapped gas — sometimes under enough pressure that when the seal finally breaks, it doesn't drip. It sprays. It gushes. It pours out like the tree itself is bleeding. Now imagine you're an arborist. You've cut down thousands of trees. You know the drill: bark, sapwood, heartwood, done. And then one day your saw breaks through into a hidden pocket you had no way of detecting from the outside, and suddenly you're standing in a puddle that came from inside a tree trunk. That moment is what you're about to see. — Let me give you some numbers, because the scale of this is what makes people stop scrolling. Documented cases of wetwood trees have released water measured in the dozens of gallons from a single cut. Some large elms and cottonwoods have been recorded discharging water continuously for hours after being wounded, with foresters describing "streams" running from the trunk down to the base of the tree and pooling on the ground like a slow leak from a cracked pipe. Certain species are repeat offenders. Elm. Poplar. Cottonwood. Mulberry. Certain oaks. These trees, especially older ones with some history of trunk injury (a old pruning wound, storm damage, a lightning strike, construction damage to the roots), are far more likely to develop internal wetwood pockets, because any breach in the bark is an open door for the bacteria that start this whole process. That's the part that should sit with you for a second. It usually starts with something small. A branch snapped off in a storm. A lawnmower nick at the base. A woodpecker hole. Something that looks like nothing. And over years — sometimes decades — that tiny wound becomes the entry point for a slow-motion transformation happening entirely out of sight, turning part of the tree's interior into a sealed reservoir. You could have one in your own yard right now. You'd have no way of knowing. That's not a scare tactic, that's just how wetwood works — it's invisible from the outside until the tree is cut, cored, drilled, or storm-damaged enough to expose the pocket. — There's an older, uglier cousin of wetwood, and it's called "slime flux," and I promise you the name undersells it. When the pressure inside a wetwood pocket gets high enough, it doesn't wait for someone with a chainsaw. It finds its own way out — through cracks in the bark, through old wounds, through the base of branches. And when that fluid meets open air, the bacteria and yeast in it start reacting with oxygen, and the whole thing turns into a foul, fermenting slurry running down the bark. Old-time foresters called this "flux disease," and some described the smell as somewhere between rotten cabbage and spoiled beer. Insects love it. Certain flies and beetles are specifically drawn to fluxing trees, and some entomologists have documented entire miniature ecosystems living in the wet, fermented bark of a heavily infected wetwood tree. So the version you're about to watch — a clean cut suddenly releasing a rush of water — is actually the tamer version of this phenomenon. It's what happens when the pressure is released fast and deliberately, in a controlled way, instead of slowly seeping and fermenting on the bark for months. It's dramatic, but it's not even the strangest form this condition takes. — Here's where it gets almost unbelievable if you didn't grow up around old-growth forests or work in forestry: this isn't new, and it isn't rare enough to be dismissed as a one-off. Loggers in the 19th and early 20th centuries wrote about "water trees" and "spring trees" — trunks that, when felled or split, would release surprising volumes of water, sometimes described as clean and cold enough that thirsty travelers would drink straight from a freshly cut trunk. Some of these accounts read almost like myth: a felled tree in a dry stretch of forest becoming an impromptu water source for a work crew that had run out of canteens. Indigenous and folk traditions across multiple continents have stories about trees that "cry" or "bleed" water, long before anyone had a bacteriological explanation for it. In parts of the American South, old-timers used to warn newcomers about certain elms and cottonwoods being "wet-hearted," a term passed down generation to generation with no formal science behind it — just observation. They knew, decades before plant pathologists gave it a Latin name, that some trees were different on the inside. There's something almost humbling about that. A phenomenon that sounds like it belongs in a fantasy novel — a tree holding a hidden reservoir inside its trunk — turns out to be something people quietly knew about for centuries, passed down as folk wisdom, and modern science eventually caught up and explained the mechanism. — Let's talk about pressure, because this is the part that turns a "huh, neat" fact into something genuinely dramatic to witness. Wetwood pockets aren't just wet. They're pressurized. Researchers who have studied this by drilling into infected trees and measuring the internal gas pressure have recorded readings significantly above normal atmospheric pressure — high enough that when a probe finally punctures the pocket, gas and liquid don't just seep out, they can audibly hiss, spray, or in some documented cases, forcefully eject material several feet from the trunk. Think about what that means physically. You have a living tree. Roots pulling water up. Leaves doing their thing. Bark looking completely normal, maybe a little bit of old staining near a wound if you know exactly what to look for. And inside, invisible to anyone walking by, there's a sealed chamber behaving less like "wood" and more like a bottle of soda that's been shaken and capped for years. Cut into that with the wrong angle, at the wrong depth, and you are opening something that has been building pressure since before some of you reading this were born. That is not an exaggeration. Some of these wetwood pockets, in old trees with a long history of minor trunk injuries, have been forming and sealing and re-sealing for twenty, thirty, forty years before anyone finally exposes them. — I want to address the skeptics directly, because there's always a version of this that goes semi-viral and the replies fill up with "CGI," "staged," "fake," before anyone bothers to check. This is genuinely, boringly, documented science. Forestry extension offices at multiple universities have publications specifically on wetwood and slime flux — the kind of dry, unglamorous PDF nobody reads unless they're an arborist student cramming for an exam. Plant pathology courses cover it. It's in the same category as things like "trees can produce enough root pressure to push water dozens of feet upward with no pump" — real, measurable, and honestly stranger than most fiction, which is exactly why it keeps going viral every time footage surfaces. The wild part isn't that it's fake. The wild part is that it's real, it's been known for over a century, and most people are hearing about it for the first time through a random video instead of a biology class. — Here's a question worth sitting with: how many trees around you, right now, could be holding something like this? You're not going to know by looking. That's the unsettling part. Wetwood doesn't announce itself from the outside in any reliable way most people would recognize. Sometimes there's a dark wet-looking stain running down the bark from an old wound — that's actually one of the only visible clues, and most people who see it assume it's just water damage or normal bark discoloration, not a sign of a pressurized internal reservoir. Arborists who specialize in tree risk assessment actually have to factor this into their evaluations, because a wetwood pocket can also be a structural weak point — the internal decay associated with it can compromise a tree's strength in ways that aren't visible from a standard visual inspection. So this isn't purely a "huh, cool fact" situation. For professionals, it's something they're trained to watch for, because it changes how a tree behaves, how it should be pruned, and in some cases whether it's even safe to keep standing near a structure. — Let's go species by species for a second, because the "which trees do this" question comes up every single time this kind of footage circulates. Elms are probably the most famous offenders — American elm and Siberian elm both show up repeatedly in wetwood and slime flux case studies. Cottonwoods and poplars are right behind them, especially older specimens with a history of storm damage or pruning wounds. Mulberry trees have a documented tendency toward it as well. Certain oaks can develop it, though it's less common and usually tied to a specific injury history. Willows, with their notoriously soft and moisture-loving wood, are also frequent candidates. What connects almost all of these species isn't some exotic trait — it's actually pretty mundane. They tend to be fast-growing, softer-wooded trees that are more prone to storm damage, cracking, and wound formation over their lifespan, which means more entry points for the bacteria that kick off the entire process. Slower-growing, denser hardwoods are comparatively less prone, though not immune. So if you've got an old elm, cottonwood, poplar, willow, or mulberry anywhere near you — especially one that's taken some damage over the decades, a lost limb, a lightning strike, an old chainsaw wound from a previous trim — there's a real, non-zero chance that tree is sitting on its own hidden reservoir right now, quietly pressurizing, waiting for the day someone finally cuts into the wrong spot. — There's a specific kind of moment that happens on video like this, and if you've watched enough tree-work content you already know it: the split second between the cut going in and the reaction on the face of whoever's holding the saw. That reaction is real. You cannot fake genuine, immediate confusion. Professionals who have done this job for years, who have felled hundreds or thousands of trees, who think they've seen every possible thing a tree trunk can do — and then something happens that their entire career didn't prepare them for. That's the part that makes this kind of footage so different from staged "reaction" content you see everywhere else online. Nobody scripts confusion that specific. Nobody fakes the half-second delay where someone's brain is visibly trying to process what their eyes are showing them. — I'll leave you with this. Every single day, all over the world, people are cutting down trees for completely mundane reasons — storm cleanup, construction, disease removal, firewood, somebody's yard finally getting redone. Thousands of trees. Every day. Most of the time it's exactly as boring as it sounds: cut, drop, haul, done. And then every so often, completely without warning, one of those ordinary trees turns out to be something else entirely. A tree that's been quietly filling itself with water for years, maybe decades, completely undetectable from the outside, sealed shut under bark that looks exactly like every other tree on the block. Nobody plans for that. Nobody sees it coming. That's exactly what makes it worth watching when it happens to be caught on camera. You already scrolled past the video once. Go back and actually watch what happens the second that bar breaks through. You will not believe how much comes out. And once you know why, you'll start looking at every old tree in your neighborhood a little differently. — Let's talk about the pressure numbers again, because I glossed over just how absurd they get in the most extreme documented cases. Standard atmospheric pressure at sea level is about 14.7 pounds per square inch. Some measured wetwood pockets have registered internal gas pressures multiple times higher than that — enough that when researchers insert a hollow probe to sample the gas, it doesn't calmly bubble out, it forces its way through with an audible hiss, sometimes strong enough to make a sound loud enough to hear from several feet away. Now picture that same pressure, except instead of a thin research probe, it's a chainsaw bar plowing straight through the wall of the pocket in one continuous motion. There's no controlled release valve. There's no slow bleed-off. The seal just fails all at once, and whatever's inside — water, gas, fermented bacterial slurry — takes the fastest path out, which is usually straight toward whoever is standing closest. That's not drama for the sake of drama. That's just fluid dynamics doing what fluid dynamics does when a pressurized container gets breached in one violent motion instead of a slow leak. — People love comparing this to other "trees doing things they shouldn't" phenomena, so let's run through a few, because it puts wetwood in context. Root pressure is a real, separately documented thing — some trees, particularly certain maples and grapevines, can generate enough internal pressure through osmosis alone to push water dozens of feet upward through their trunk with zero mechanical pump involved, which is part of why maple syrup tapping works in early spring: cut a hole, and sap doesn't just sit there, it actively flows out under real pressure. Bamboo, meanwhile, has hollow internal chambers between each node that can fill with water and, when punctured, release a surprising rush for something that looks like solid stalk from the outside. Certain cacti and succulents store such enormous internal water reserves that a single barrel cactus can hold multiple gallons, enough that desert survival guides have long described (with real caveats about bitterness and toxicity in some species) cutting into one as an emergency water source. None of those are the exact same mechanism as bacterial wetwood. But they all share the same core surprise: the outside of a plant tells you almost nothing about what's happening on the inside. Trees and plants in general are far better at hiding internal reservoirs, chambers, and pressure systems than most people ever consider, because we're trained from childhood to think of "wood" as uniformly solid and dry. — Here's a question I want you to actually think about instead of just scrolling past: why does this footage hit people so hard emotionally, when it's "just" water? I think it's because it breaks a category we didn't know we had. Somewhere in your brain, without ever being taught it explicitly, you built a rule: solid things don't have hidden liquid interiors. Rocks are solid. Wood is solid. A tree trunk, no matter how big, is filed under "solid object" right next to a brick or a fence post. So when a tree trunk suddenly behaves like a punctured water balloon, it's not just surprising — it's a small, harmless violation of a rule you didn't know you were relying on. That's the exact same psychological mechanism behind why people can't look away from videos of hidden compartments, false walls, geodes cracked open to reveal crystal interiors, or ice cores pulled from glaciers showing air bubbles thousands of years old. The object looked like one thing on the outside and turned out to be something completely different on the inside. Our brains are wired to lock onto that specific kind of surprise and replay it. — I want to walk through what's actually happening at a microscopic level too, because the bacteria part is honestly the wildest piece of this whole story and it usually gets skipped over. The bacteria responsible for wetwood are largely anaerobic — meaning they thrive specifically in environments with no oxygen, which describes the sealed interior of a heartwood pocket perfectly. Species commonly implicated include various strains that also show up in other low-oxygen fermentation processes elsewhere in nature. These bacteria essentially treat the interior of the tree the way yeast treats a sealed fermentation vessel: they break down wood sugars and cellulose components, and as a byproduct of that metabolic process, they release gas. Methane. Carbon dioxide. Sometimes hydrogen sulfide, which is the compound responsible for the "rotten egg" smell associated with some of the worst slime flux cases. Here's the part that should genuinely unsettle you a little: this process can continue, essentially undisturbed, for years. The bacteria don't need light. They don't need a food source refill from outside — the wood itself is the food source. They don't need anything from us at all. They just sit there, fermenting slowly, generation after generation, quietly filling an internal chamber with liquid and gas, completely indifferent to whatever's happening in the world outside the bark. Somebody could mow the lawn around that tree every single week for fifteen years and never once suspect that a private, self-sustaining microbial ecosystem is operating a few inches away, sealed inside solid wood. — Foresters have their own folklore around this too, separate from the old "wet-hearted tree" naming I mentioned earlier, and some of it is genuinely unsettling if you sit with it. There are accounts — some documented in forestry incident reports, some passed around as workplace stories among tree crews — of wetwood pockets releasing enough pressurized gas and liquid on impact to knock a chainsaw sideways out of the operator's hands, or to spray fluid several feet, catching a nearby coworker completely off guard. Tree removal is already one of the more dangerous manual trades that exists — statistically it's consistently ranked among the more hazardous occupations — and wetwood is one of those factors that experienced crews specifically train new hires to be aware of, precisely because it's invisible until the exact moment it isn't. Some crews have a rule: if you see that telltale dark wet staining running down bark from an old wound, you treat the cut differently. Different angle. Different bracing. A moment of hesitation most people watching a video would never think to expect from someone who cuts trees for a living every single day. That hesitation, when you see it, is not caution for no reason. It's caution earned from someone else's story about the day their trunk sprayed back. — Let's zoom out for a second and talk about why nature keeps doing this to us — hiding things in plain sight that overturn assumptions we didn't even know we were making. Geodes look like plain gray rocks from the outside and crack open into crystal cathedrals. Certain seemingly solid ice formations conceal air pockets and liquid water inside glacial ice that's been sealed for centuries. Some seeds remain dormant and viable inside dry-looking husks for years, sometimes decades, before conditions trigger germination. Nature is, on some fundamental level, extremely good at packaging surprising internal states inside boring, unremarkable exteriors, because there's rarely an evolutionary or physical reason for the outside of something to accurately advertise what's happening on the inside. A tree trunk covered in bark has absolutely no obligation to tell you what's going on underneath. And most of the time, honestly, there's nothing dramatic going on under there — it really is just solid wood, rings, sapwood doing its normal job. But every so often, under the right combination of an old wound, the right bacteria finding their way in, and years of undisturbed fermentation, you get this. A tree that's secretly been operating as a sealed, pressurized reservoir the entire time, waiting for someone with a saw to finally find out. — A few quick things people always ask once they learn about this, so let's knock them out here. Is the water safe to drink? Historically, some accounts describe it as drinkable in a pinch, but modern guidance is far more cautious — wetwood fluid is loaded with bacteria and fermentation byproducts, and depending on the tree and how advanced the infection is, it can range from relatively clean-tasting to genuinely foul and bacterially loaded. Not something to treat as a reliable water source by modern standards, whatever old logging stories might say. Does it kill the tree? Not necessarily, and that's part of what makes it so strange. Trees can live with wetwood for years, even decades, functioning normally from the outside — leafing out every spring, growing new rings — while quietly carrying an internal pocket the entire time. It's more of a chronic condition than an acute one in most cases, though severe cases can weaken the tree structurally and contribute to internal decay. Can you tell from the outside before cutting? Sometimes, if you know exactly what to look for — that dark staining running from an old wound is the main visible tell. But plenty of wetwood trees show no obvious external sign at all until the moment someone cuts into the wrong spot. — If you made it this far, you now know something about trees that the overwhelming majority of people who scroll past videos like this never bother to learn. You know the name of the phenomenon. You know the bacterial mechanism behind it. You know which species are most prone to it, why old wounds matter, how much pressure can actually build up inside, and why experienced tree crews still treat certain trunks with real caution. That's a strange amount of knowledge to walk away with from what looks, at first glance, like just another oddly satisfying clip. But that's usually how it goes with the genuinely wild stuff nature does — it looks small on the surface, and then you pull one thread and end up somewhere you didn't expect. Go watch it again with all of that in your head this time. Watch the exact frame where the bar breaks through. Watch what the water does the instant it has somewhere to go. Watch the reaction on the person holding the saw — that's not performance, that's genuine surprise from someone who has almost certainly done this exact job a thousand times before and never seen a tree do this. Some trees really are just wood, top to bottom, nothing hiding inside. And then there are the ones that have been quietly running their own private reservoir for twenty or thirty years, sealed under ordinary-looking bark, waiting for exactly one cut to finally let it out. You just watched what that looks like the moment it happens.

A tree stood in that backyard for probably 40 years. Nobody who walked past it, sat under it, leaned a bike against it, ever knew what was living inside the trunk. Then someone cut into it. And what came out shouldn't be possible. Not sap. Not resin. Water. Gallons of it. Pouring out of solid wood like someone left a hose running inside a living organism. If your first reaction is "that's fake" — I understand. I had the same reaction the first time I saw footage like this. Trees are supposed to be dry on the inside. Bark, wood, rings, maybe some sticky sap if you're unlucky enough to touch a pine. Nobody grows up learning that a tree can be a pressurized tank. But here's the thing nobody tells you in school: some trees are. There's a real, documented, scientifically studied phenomenon behind this, and once you understand it, you will never look at a tree the same way again. I'm going to walk you through exactly what's happening inside these trees, why it happens, which species are famous for it, the wild historical accounts of people discovering it by accident (sometimes violently), and why arborists still get caught off guard by it after decades on the job. Stick with me. This gets stranger the deeper you go. — FIRST: the phenomenon has a name. Arborists and plant pathologists call it "wetwood," and in its more advanced, foul-smelling form, "slime flux." It's not folklore. It's not an urban legend some guy made up on a forum. It's in forestry textbooks, USDA plant pathology bulletins, and arborist training manuals. Here's the mechanism, stripped down to plain English: Trees have a core of heartwood — the dead, structural center of the trunk that no longer transports nutrients. It's basically the tree's skeleton. In most trees, that heartwood is just dry, solid wood. But in certain species, under certain conditions, bacteria colonize that heartwood core. Anaerobic bacteria — the kind that thrive without oxygen — move in and start fermenting the wood tissue from the inside. That fermentation process does two things. First, it draws in and traps enormous amounts of water inside the wood, way beyond what healthy wood would ever hold. Second, it produces gas as a byproduct — methane, carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulfide — and that gas has nowhere to go. It's sealed inside solid wood, inside bark, inside a living, growing tree. So you end up with a chamber, sometimes several feet long, sitting inside the trunk, completely pressurized, completely hidden, holding a mixture of bacteria-laden water and trapped gas — sometimes under enough pressure that when the seal finally breaks, it doesn't drip. It sprays. It gushes. It pours out like the tree itself is bleeding. Now imagine you're an arborist. You've cut down thousands of trees. You know the drill: bark, sapwood, heartwood, done. And then one day your saw breaks through into a hidden pocket you had no way of detecting from the outside, and suddenly you're standing in a puddle that came from inside a tree trunk. That moment is what you're about to see. — Let me give you some numbers, because the scale of this is what makes people stop scrolling. Documented cases of wetwood trees have released water measured in the dozens of gallons from a single cut. Some large elms and cottonwoods have been recorded discharging water continuously for hours after being wounded, with foresters describing "streams" running from the trunk down to the base of the tree and pooling on the ground like a slow leak from a cracked pipe. Certain species are repeat offenders. Elm. Poplar. Cottonwood. Mulberry. Certain oaks. These trees, especially older ones with some history of trunk injury (a old pruning wound, storm damage, a lightning strike, construction damage to the roots), are far more likely to develop internal wetwood pockets, because any breach in the bark is an open door for the bacteria that start this whole process. That's the part that should sit with you for a second. It usually starts with something small. A branch snapped off in a storm. A lawnmower nick at the base. A woodpecker hole. Something that looks like nothing. And over years — sometimes decades — that tiny wound becomes the entry point for a slow-motion transformation happening entirely out of sight, turning part of the tree's interior into a sealed reservoir. You could have one in your own yard right now. You'd have no way of knowing. That's not a scare tactic, that's just how wetwood works — it's invisible from the outside until the tree is cut, cored, drilled, or storm-damaged enough to expose the pocket. — There's an older, uglier cousin of wetwood, and it's called "slime flux," and I promise you the name undersells it. When the pressure inside a wetwood pocket gets high enough, it doesn't wait for someone with a chainsaw. It finds its own way out — through cracks in the bark, through old wounds, through the base of branches. And when that fluid meets open air, the bacteria and yeast in it start reacting with oxygen, and the whole thing turns into a foul, fermenting slurry running down the bark. Old-time foresters called this "flux disease," and some described the smell as somewhere between rotten cabbage and spoiled beer. Insects love it. Certain flies and beetles are specifically drawn to fluxing trees, and some entomologists have documented entire miniature ecosystems living in the wet, fermented bark of a heavily infected wetwood tree. So the version you're about to watch — a clean cut suddenly releasing a rush of water — is actually the tamer version of this phenomenon. It's what happens when the pressure is released fast and deliberately, in a controlled way, instead of slowly seeping and fermenting on the bark for months. It's dramatic, but it's not even the strangest form this condition takes. — Here's where it gets almost unbelievable if you didn't grow up around old-growth forests or work in forestry: this isn't new, and it isn't rare enough to be dismissed as a one-off. Loggers in the 19th and early 20th centuries wrote about "water trees" and "spring trees" — trunks that, when felled or split, would release surprising volumes of water, sometimes described as clean and cold enough that thirsty travelers would drink straight from a freshly cut trunk. Some of these accounts read almost like myth: a felled tree in a dry stretch of forest becoming an impromptu water source for a work crew that had run out of canteens. Indigenous and folk traditions across multiple continents have stories about trees that "cry" or "bleed" water, long before anyone had a bacteriological explanation for it. In parts of the American South, old-timers used to warn newcomers about certain elms and cottonwoods being "wet-hearted," a term passed down generation to generation with no formal science behind it — just observation. They knew, decades before plant pathologists gave it a Latin name, that some trees were different on the inside. There's something almost humbling about that. A phenomenon that sounds like it belongs in a fantasy novel — a tree holding a hidden reservoir inside its trunk — turns out to be something people quietly knew about for centuries, passed down as folk wisdom, and modern science eventually caught up and explained the mechanism. — Let's talk about pressure, because this is the part that turns a "huh, neat" fact into something genuinely dramatic to witness. Wetwood pockets aren't just wet. They're pressurized. Researchers who have studied this by drilling into infected trees and measuring the internal gas pressure have recorded readings significantly above normal atmospheric pressure — high enough that when a probe finally punctures the pocket, gas and liquid don't just seep out, they can audibly hiss, spray, or in some documented cases, forcefully eject material several feet from the trunk. Think about what that means physically. You have a living tree. Roots pulling water up. Leaves doing their thing. Bark looking completely normal, maybe a little bit of old staining near a wound if you know exactly what to look for. And inside, invisible to anyone walking by, there's a sealed chamber behaving less like "wood" and more like a bottle of soda that's been shaken and capped for years. Cut into that with the wrong angle, at the wrong depth, and you are opening something that has been building pressure since before some of you reading this were born. That is not an exaggeration. Some of these wetwood pockets, in old trees with a long history of minor trunk injuries, have been forming and sealing and re-sealing for twenty, thirty, forty years before anyone finally exposes them. — I want to address the skeptics directly, because there's always a version of this that goes semi-viral and the replies fill up with "CGI," "staged," "fake," before anyone bothers to check. This is genuinely, boringly, documented science. Forestry extension offices at multiple universities have publications specifically on wetwood and slime flux — the kind of dry, unglamorous PDF nobody reads unless they're an arborist student cramming for an exam. Plant pathology courses cover it. It's in the same category as things like "trees can produce enough root pressure to push water dozens of feet upward with no pump" — real, measurable, and honestly stranger than most fiction, which is exactly why it keeps going viral every time footage surfaces. The wild part isn't that it's fake. The wild part is that it's real, it's been known for over a century, and most people are hearing about it for the first time through a random video instead of a biology class. — Here's a question worth sitting with: how many trees around you, right now, could be holding something like this? You're not going to know by looking. That's the unsettling part. Wetwood doesn't announce itself from the outside in any reliable way most people would recognize. Sometimes there's a dark wet-looking stain running down the bark from an old wound — that's actually one of the only visible clues, and most people who see it assume it's just water damage or normal bark discoloration, not a sign of a pressurized internal reservoir. Arborists who specialize in tree risk assessment actually have to factor this into their evaluations, because a wetwood pocket can also be a structural weak point — the internal decay associated with it can compromise a tree's strength in ways that aren't visible from a standard visual inspection. So this isn't purely a "huh, cool fact" situation. For professionals, it's something they're trained to watch for, because it changes how a tree behaves, how it should be pruned, and in some cases whether it's even safe to keep standing near a structure. — Let's go species by species for a second, because the "which trees do this" question comes up every single time this kind of footage circulates. Elms are probably the most famous offenders — American elm and Siberian elm both show up repeatedly in wetwood and slime flux case studies. Cottonwoods and poplars are right behind them, especially older specimens with a history of storm damage or pruning wounds. Mulberry trees have a documented tendency toward it as well. Certain oaks can develop it, though it's less common and usually tied to a specific injury history. Willows, with their notoriously soft and moisture-loving wood, are also frequent candidates. What connects almost all of these species isn't some exotic trait — it's actually pretty mundane. They tend to be fast-growing, softer-wooded trees that are more prone to storm damage, cracking, and wound formation over their lifespan, which means more entry points for the bacteria that kick off the entire process. Slower-growing, denser hardwoods are comparatively less prone, though not immune. So if you've got an old elm, cottonwood, poplar, willow, or mulberry anywhere near you — especially one that's taken some damage over the decades, a lost limb, a lightning strike, an old chainsaw wound from a previous trim — there's a real, non-zero chance that tree is sitting on its own hidden reservoir right now, quietly pressurizing, waiting for the day someone finally cuts into the wrong spot. — There's a specific kind of moment that happens on video like this, and if you've watched enough tree-work content you already know it: the split second between the cut going in and the reaction on the face of whoever's holding the saw. That reaction is real. You cannot fake genuine, immediate confusion. Professionals who have done this job for years, who have felled hundreds or thousands of trees, who think they've seen every possible thing a tree trunk can do — and then something happens that their entire career didn't prepare them for. That's the part that makes this kind of footage so different from staged "reaction" content you see everywhere else online. Nobody scripts confusion that specific. Nobody fakes the half-second delay where someone's brain is visibly trying to process what their eyes are showing them. — I'll leave you with this. Every single day, all over the world, people are cutting down trees for completely mundane reasons — storm cleanup, construction, disease removal, firewood, somebody's yard finally getting redone. Thousands of trees. Every day. Most of the time it's exactly as boring as it sounds: cut, drop, haul, done. And then every so often, completely without warning, one of those ordinary trees turns out to be something else entirely. A tree that's been quietly filling itself with water for years, maybe decades, completely undetectable from the outside, sealed shut under bark that looks exactly like every other tree on the block. Nobody plans for that. Nobody sees it coming. That's exactly what makes it worth watching when it happens to be caught on camera. You already scrolled past the video once. Go back and actually watch what happens the second that bar breaks through. You will not believe how much comes out. And once you know why, you'll start looking at every old tree in your neighborhood a little differently. — Let's talk about the pressure numbers again, because I glossed over just how absurd they get in the most extreme documented cases. Standard atmospheric pressure at sea level is about 14.7 pounds per square inch. Some measured wetwood pockets have registered internal gas pressures multiple times higher than that — enough that when researchers insert a hollow probe to sample the gas, it doesn't calmly bubble out, it forces its way through with an audible hiss, sometimes strong enough to make a sound loud enough to hear from several feet away. Now picture that same pressure, except instead of a thin research probe, it's a chainsaw bar plowing straight through the wall of the pocket in one continuous motion. There's no controlled release valve. There's no slow bleed-off. The seal just fails all at once, and whatever's inside — water, gas, fermented bacterial slurry — takes the fastest path out, which is usually straight toward whoever is standing closest. That's not drama for the sake of drama. That's just fluid dynamics doing what fluid dynamics does when a pressurized container gets breached in one violent motion instead of a slow leak. — People love comparing this to other "trees doing things they shouldn't" phenomena, so let's run through a few, because it puts wetwood in context. Root pressure is a real, separately documented thing — some trees, particularly certain maples and grapevines, can generate enough internal pressure through osmosis alone to push water dozens of feet upward through their trunk with zero mechanical pump involved, which is part of why maple syrup tapping works in early spring: cut a hole, and sap doesn't just sit there, it actively flows out under real pressure. Bamboo, meanwhile, has hollow internal chambers between each node that can fill with water and, when punctured, release a surprising rush for something that looks like solid stalk from the outside. Certain cacti and succulents store such enormous internal water reserves that a single barrel cactus can hold multiple gallons, enough that desert survival guides have long described (with real caveats about bitterness and toxicity in some species) cutting into one as an emergency water source. None of those are the exact same mechanism as bacterial wetwood. But they all share the same core surprise: the outside of a plant tells you almost nothing about what's happening on the inside. Trees and plants in general are far better at hiding internal reservoirs, chambers, and pressure systems than most people ever consider, because we're trained from childhood to think of "wood" as uniformly solid and dry. — Here's a question I want you to actually think about instead of just scrolling past: why does this footage hit people so hard emotionally, when it's "just" water? I think it's because it breaks a category we didn't know we had. Somewhere in your brain, without ever being taught it explicitly, you built a rule: solid things don't have hidden liquid interiors. Rocks are solid. Wood is solid. A tree trunk, no matter how big, is filed under "solid object" right next to a brick or a fence post. So when a tree trunk suddenly behaves like a punctured water balloon, it's not just surprising — it's a small, harmless violation of a rule you didn't know you were relying on. That's the exact same psychological mechanism behind why people can't look away from videos of hidden compartments, false walls, geodes cracked open to reveal crystal interiors, or ice cores pulled from glaciers showing air bubbles thousands of years old. The object looked like one thing on the outside and turned out to be something completely different on the inside. Our brains are wired to lock onto that specific kind of surprise and replay it. — I want to walk through what's actually happening at a microscopic level too, because the bacteria part is honestly the wildest piece of this whole story and it usually gets skipped over. The bacteria responsible for wetwood are largely anaerobic — meaning they thrive specifically in environments with no oxygen, which describes the sealed interior of a heartwood pocket perfectly. Species commonly implicated include various strains that also show up in other low-oxygen fermentation processes elsewhere in nature. These bacteria essentially treat the interior of the tree the way yeast treats a sealed fermentation vessel: they break down wood sugars and cellulose components, and as a byproduct of that metabolic process, they release gas. Methane. Carbon dioxide. Sometimes hydrogen sulfide, which is the compound responsible for the "rotten egg" smell associated with some of the worst slime flux cases. Here's the part that should genuinely unsettle you a little: this process can continue, essentially undisturbed, for years. The bacteria don't need light. They don't need a food source refill from outside — the wood itself is the food source. They don't need anything from us at all. They just sit there, fermenting slowly, generation after generation, quietly filling an internal chamber with liquid and gas, completely indifferent to whatever's happening in the world outside the bark. Somebody could mow the lawn around that tree every single week for fifteen years and never once suspect that a private, self-sustaining microbial ecosystem is operating a few inches away, sealed inside solid wood. — Foresters have their own folklore around this too, separate from the old "wet-hearted tree" naming I mentioned earlier, and some of it is genuinely unsettling if you sit with it. There are accounts — some documented in forestry incident reports, some passed around as workplace stories among tree crews — of wetwood pockets releasing enough pressurized gas and liquid on impact to knock a chainsaw sideways out of the operator's hands, or to spray fluid several feet, catching a nearby coworker completely off guard. Tree removal is already one of the more dangerous manual trades that exists — statistically it's consistently ranked among the more hazardous occupations — and wetwood is one of those factors that experienced crews specifically train new hires to be aware of, precisely because it's invisible until the exact moment it isn't. Some crews have a rule: if you see that telltale dark wet staining running down bark from an old wound, you treat the cut differently. Different angle. Different bracing. A moment of hesitation most people watching a video would never think to expect from someone who cuts trees for a living every single day. That hesitation, when you see it, is not caution for no reason. It's caution earned from someone else's story about the day their trunk sprayed back. — Let's zoom out for a second and talk about why nature keeps doing this to us — hiding things in plain sight that overturn assumptions we didn't even know we were making. Geodes look like plain gray rocks from the outside and crack open into crystal cathedrals. Certain seemingly solid ice formations conceal air pockets and liquid water inside glacial ice that's been sealed for centuries. Some seeds remain dormant and viable inside dry-looking husks for years, sometimes decades, before conditions trigger germination. Nature is, on some fundamental level, extremely good at packaging surprising internal states inside boring, unremarkable exteriors, because there's rarely an evolutionary or physical reason for the outside of something to accurately advertise what's happening on the inside. A tree trunk covered in bark has absolutely no obligation to tell you what's going on underneath. And most of the time, honestly, there's nothing dramatic going on under there — it really is just solid wood, rings, sapwood doing its normal job. But every so often, under the right combination of an old wound, the right bacteria finding their way in, and years of undisturbed fermentation, you get this. A tree that's secretly been operating as a sealed, pressurized reservoir the entire time, waiting for someone with a saw to finally find out. — A few quick things people always ask once they learn about this, so let's knock them out here. Is the water safe to drink? Historically, some accounts describe it as drinkable in a pinch, but modern guidance is far more cautious — wetwood fluid is loaded with bacteria and fermentation byproducts, and depending on the tree and how advanced the infection is, it can range from relatively clean-tasting to genuinely foul and bacterially loaded. Not something to treat as a reliable water source by modern standards, whatever old logging stories might say. Does it kill the tree? Not necessarily, and that's part of what makes it so strange. Trees can live with wetwood for years, even decades, functioning normally from the outside — leafing out every spring, growing new rings — while quietly carrying an internal pocket the entire time. It's more of a chronic condition than an acute one in most cases, though severe cases can weaken the tree structurally and contribute to internal decay. Can you tell from the outside before cutting? Sometimes, if you know exactly what to look for — that dark staining running from an old wound is the main visible tell. But plenty of wetwood trees show no obvious external sign at all until the moment someone cuts into the wrong spot. — If you made it this far, you now know something about trees that the overwhelming majority of people who scroll past videos like this never bother to learn. You know the name of the phenomenon. You know the bacterial mechanism behind it. You know which species are most prone to it, why old wounds matter, how much pressure can actually build up inside, and why experienced tree crews still treat certain trunks with real caution. That's a strange amount of knowledge to walk away with from what looks, at first glance, like just another oddly satisfying clip. But that's usually how it goes with the genuinely wild stuff nature does — it looks small on the surface, and then you pull one thread and end up somewhere you didn't expect. Go watch it again with all of that in your head this time. Watch the exact frame where the bar breaks through. Watch what the water does the instant it has somewhere to go. Watch the reaction on the person holding the saw — that's not performance, that's genuine surprise from someone who has almost certainly done this exact job a thousand times before and never seen a tree do this. Some trees really are just wood, top to bottom, nothing hiding inside. And then there are the ones that have been quietly running their own private reservoir for twenty or thirty years, sealed under ordinary-looking bark, waiting for exactly one cut to finally let it out. You just watched what that looks like the moment it happens.

Earth Unveiled

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It’s about time any remaining adults out there face facts. This is the beginning of a well-planned military hybrid warfare operation against American civilians. The goal is a physical occupation of the United States by Armed Forces. I’m currently in Los Angeles, unaffected by current events, except for the disconcertingly frequent sound of Blackhawks. It may seem like a small thing but you might be surprised at how a sound you mainly associate with Mogadishu very effectively creates a sense of hyper-vigilance. The reality is that Trump knows if the 2026 elections take place freely and fairly, he will be the lamest duck in the history of lame duck presidents, so he and the people around him, are trying to ensure that doesn’t happen. Since the campaign, Trump, Musk and the caravan of psychopaths they put in charge of America have systematically drained society of oxygen by deliberately crossing every conceivable line and destroying everything that actually binds us—empathy, decency, morality, logic, science, history, true love of country. In KGB terms, demoralization. In this way they have effectively turned America into a bone-dry forest, where every leaf and twig is thirsty, burnt out, and ready for a spark. Into this environment, the regime has deliberately, with malice aforethought, set a brush fire, in the most vulnerable part of the second largest city in America—which is famously Democratic. Anonymous, masked, heavily armed stormtroopers performed a military assault on the fashion district, elementary and middle schools, graduations, car washes, Home Depot’s and 7-11’s, to grab random people with no warrant, due process, or suspicion beyond their location and skin color. This wasn’t just a provocation, it was a full frontal attack. When peaceful protests naturally arose, ICE agents escalated and terrorized the protesters, intentionally angering them and giving the bad elements you find in every crowd an excuse to vandalize and throw rocks. This was wildly exaggerated and mischaracterized, and the firehose of falsehoods cranked up. Through a series of pure lies, told over a constant blanket of images of burning Waymo’s and Mexican flags, Trump weaved an alternate reality to create a transparent, flimsy excuse to land nearly 5.000 armed troops into Los Angeles, including a battalion of Marines. There has not been any violence at the protests since Sunday, and even that was wildly, ridiculously overwrought. Nevertheless four days later Marines are fanning out and don’t plan to leave any time soon. Ask yourself why. Trump’s ICE thugs are now fanning out to every large Democratic-run city and state in America to run the same exact play there. Chicago, New York City, DC, Detroit, San Antonio. In red states, here is what they’re telling people what to do in protests… [DeSantis authorizing vehicular homicide] I’m old enough to remember when MAGA said the idea of Trump sending the military into American cities was just a scary story told by liberal conspiracy theorists. Now the same MAGA is cheering it on while it happens. Does anyone think all the military equipment Trump send into DC for his birthday is just going straight back where it came from? Does anyone really think it’s a coincidence this military occupation of Los Angeles is happening right before it? Trump is maneuvering equipment, breaking down our nation’s laws, and warping the public’s perception to cover for it. He is making a move before the 2026 elections. Someone needs to say it. This is war on the United States by the Commander-In-Chief using our own Armed Forces. Where are the military generals to push back on this treason? Where are the political generals to rally the people? Where are the adults in the room? Anyone?

It’s about time any remaining adults out there face facts. This is the beginning of a well-planned military hybrid warfare operation against American civilians. The goal is a physical occupation of the United States by Armed Forces. I’m currently in Los Angeles, unaffected by current events, except for the disconcertingly frequent sound of Blackhawks. It may seem like a small thing but you might be surprised at how a sound you mainly associate with Mogadishu very effectively creates a sense of hyper-vigilance. The reality is that Trump knows if the 2026 elections take place freely and fairly, he will be the lamest duck in the history of lame duck presidents, so he and the people around him, are trying to ensure that doesn’t happen. Since the campaign, Trump, Musk and the caravan of psychopaths they put in charge of America have systematically drained society of oxygen by deliberately crossing every conceivable line and destroying everything that actually binds us—empathy, decency, morality, logic, science, history, true love of country. In KGB terms, demoralization. In this way they have effectively turned America into a bone-dry forest, where every leaf and twig is thirsty, burnt out, and ready for a spark. Into this environment, the regime has deliberately, with malice aforethought, set a brush fire, in the most vulnerable part of the second largest city in America—which is famously Democratic. Anonymous, masked, heavily armed stormtroopers performed a military assault on the fashion district, elementary and middle schools, graduations, car washes, Home Depot’s and 7-11’s, to grab random people with no warrant, due process, or suspicion beyond their location and skin color. This wasn’t just a provocation, it was a full frontal attack. When peaceful protests naturally arose, ICE agents escalated and terrorized the protesters, intentionally angering them and giving the bad elements you find in every crowd an excuse to vandalize and throw rocks. This was wildly exaggerated and mischaracterized, and the firehose of falsehoods cranked up. Through a series of pure lies, told over a constant blanket of images of burning Waymo’s and Mexican flags, Trump weaved an alternate reality to create a transparent, flimsy excuse to land nearly 5.000 armed troops into Los Angeles, including a battalion of Marines. There has not been any violence at the protests since Sunday, and even that was wildly, ridiculously overwrought. Nevertheless four days later Marines are fanning out and don’t plan to leave any time soon. Ask yourself why. Trump’s ICE thugs are now fanning out to every large Democratic-run city and state in America to run the same exact play there. Chicago, New York City, DC, Detroit, San Antonio. In red states, here is what they’re telling people what to do in protests… [DeSantis authorizing vehicular homicide] I’m old enough to remember when MAGA said the idea of Trump sending the military into American cities was just a scary story told by liberal conspiracy theorists. Now the same MAGA is cheering it on while it happens. Does anyone think all the military equipment Trump send into DC for his birthday is just going straight back where it came from? Does anyone really think it’s a coincidence this military occupation of Los Angeles is happening right before it? Trump is maneuvering equipment, breaking down our nation’s laws, and warping the public’s perception to cover for it. He is making a move before the 2026 elections. Someone needs to say it. This is war on the United States by the Commander-In-Chief using our own Armed Forces. Where are the military generals to push back on this treason? Where are the political generals to rally the people? Where are the adults in the room? Anyone?

Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸

329,319 просмотров • 1 год назад

🇨🇳☀️ The Truth About China’s Wumeng Mountain Solar Farms: Not the Lies Which Are Going Viral A video is spreading claiming “countless habitats were bulldozed for 40,000 acres of solar panels in Wumeng Mountain, China.” It’s dramatic… but it’s also completely wrong. If you want to learn something, read on... Here’s what’s actually happening 👇 1. Where is Wumeng Mountain? The Wumeng range stretches across Guizhou, Yunnan and Sichuan, one of China’s historically poorest, most degraded regions. Think: • Barren slopes • Karst terrain (thin rocky soil, hard for plants to grow) • Severe soil erosion • Thin, non-arable land • Over-mined, over-farmed areas It is NOT rainforest. It is NOT an untouched wildlife paradise. It has been one of China’s most ecologically fragile regions for decades. 2. What China built there? China is installing large-scale mountain solar farms on land that: • Can’t grow crops • Can’t support dense forest (for reforestation) • Has low ecological value • Was already stripped or degraded The projects follow the terrain. Nothing is “flattened.” No forests bulldozed. And many sites are dual-use agrivoltaic farms, goats and sheep graze under the panels and native vegetation returns because the land is no longer being over-farmed. 3. “Destroyed habitats”? Not even close Every major renewables project in China requires an Environmental Impact Assessment and since 2020, solar/wind cannot be built in: ❌ Protected forests ❌ National parks ❌ Primary ecosystems ❌ Wildlife reserves The chosen sites were already degraded hillside scrubland. Studies from Guizhou & Yunnan show: • Soil erosion drops sharply under solar arrays • Moisture increases • Native plants recover • Insects return and birds return Solar farms here are actually restoring the land, the opposite of the fear-mongering claims. 4. Environmental outcome: massively positive A 40,000-acre mountain solar farm delivers 6–8 GW of power. That’s enough to replace: 🔥 6 coal plants 🔥 30–40 million tonnes of CO₂ per year It uses zero water, releases zero pollution and allows vegetation to regrow. Meanwhile, Guizhou/Yunnan’s old coal basins produced decades of pollution and ecological damage. This is what cleaning up looks like. 5. Why the viral video is misleading? ⚠️ The narrative relies on: • A dramatic aerial shot • Zero local context • Ignoring land-type and terrain • Pretending this was untouched wilderness • Ignoring China’s laws protecting high-value ecosystems • Ignoring rural poverty alleviation • Ignoring the CO₂ reductions • Ignoring that mountain solar is built on non-arable, pre-degraded land If this exact project was built in Europe, it would be hailed as “green innovation.” But because it’s China, the West suddenly cries “environmental disaster.” The hypocrisy is insane. Absolutely INSANE! 6. What the Wumeng solar project actually represents ✔ Restoring degraded land ✔ Ending small coal mines ✔ Stabilising mountain soils ✔ Providing clean energy ✔ Raising local rural income ✔ Helping communities escape poverty ✔ Lowering global emissions (massively) ✔ Proving China’s renewables leadership, again China builds more solar each year than the entire rest of the world combined. This is what that looks like at ground level. Here is the truth: - There is no “eco-wasteland.” - No mass habitat destruction. - Just Western social media doing what it always does, misrepresenting China to score political points. The Wumeng solar rollout is one of the most successful examples of turning damaged land into clean energy and it is lifting entire regions out of poverty while cutting emissions on a global scale. China is the world’s largest reforestation nation, adding over 70 million hectares of new forests since the 1990s, more than any other country on Earth. From the Three-North Shelterbelt to the Grain-for-Green program, China is repairing past damage at a scale no Western nation has even attempted. Stop spreading lies about “destroyed habitats” when China is literally leading the world in restoring them. The real story is far more impressive than the propaganda being pushed online.

🇨🇳☀️ The Truth About China’s Wumeng Mountain Solar Farms: Not the Lies Which Are Going Viral A video is spreading claiming “countless habitats were bulldozed for 40,000 acres of solar panels in Wumeng Mountain, China.” It’s dramatic… but it’s also completely wrong. If you want to learn something, read on... Here’s what’s actually happening 👇 1. Where is Wumeng Mountain? The Wumeng range stretches across Guizhou, Yunnan and Sichuan, one of China’s historically poorest, most degraded regions. Think: • Barren slopes • Karst terrain (thin rocky soil, hard for plants to grow) • Severe soil erosion • Thin, non-arable land • Over-mined, over-farmed areas It is NOT rainforest. It is NOT an untouched wildlife paradise. It has been one of China’s most ecologically fragile regions for decades. 2. What China built there? China is installing large-scale mountain solar farms on land that: • Can’t grow crops • Can’t support dense forest (for reforestation) • Has low ecological value • Was already stripped or degraded The projects follow the terrain. Nothing is “flattened.” No forests bulldozed. And many sites are dual-use agrivoltaic farms, goats and sheep graze under the panels and native vegetation returns because the land is no longer being over-farmed. 3. “Destroyed habitats”? Not even close Every major renewables project in China requires an Environmental Impact Assessment and since 2020, solar/wind cannot be built in: ❌ Protected forests ❌ National parks ❌ Primary ecosystems ❌ Wildlife reserves The chosen sites were already degraded hillside scrubland. Studies from Guizhou & Yunnan show: • Soil erosion drops sharply under solar arrays • Moisture increases • Native plants recover • Insects return and birds return Solar farms here are actually restoring the land, the opposite of the fear-mongering claims. 4. Environmental outcome: massively positive A 40,000-acre mountain solar farm delivers 6–8 GW of power. That’s enough to replace: 🔥 6 coal plants 🔥 30–40 million tonnes of CO₂ per year It uses zero water, releases zero pollution and allows vegetation to regrow. Meanwhile, Guizhou/Yunnan’s old coal basins produced decades of pollution and ecological damage. This is what cleaning up looks like. 5. Why the viral video is misleading? ⚠️ The narrative relies on: • A dramatic aerial shot • Zero local context • Ignoring land-type and terrain • Pretending this was untouched wilderness • Ignoring China’s laws protecting high-value ecosystems • Ignoring rural poverty alleviation • Ignoring the CO₂ reductions • Ignoring that mountain solar is built on non-arable, pre-degraded land If this exact project was built in Europe, it would be hailed as “green innovation.” But because it’s China, the West suddenly cries “environmental disaster.” The hypocrisy is insane. Absolutely INSANE! 6. What the Wumeng solar project actually represents ✔ Restoring degraded land ✔ Ending small coal mines ✔ Stabilising mountain soils ✔ Providing clean energy ✔ Raising local rural income ✔ Helping communities escape poverty ✔ Lowering global emissions (massively) ✔ Proving China’s renewables leadership, again China builds more solar each year than the entire rest of the world combined. This is what that looks like at ground level. Here is the truth: - There is no “eco-wasteland.” - No mass habitat destruction. - Just Western social media doing what it always does, misrepresenting China to score political points. The Wumeng solar rollout is one of the most successful examples of turning damaged land into clean energy and it is lifting entire regions out of poverty while cutting emissions on a global scale. China is the world’s largest reforestation nation, adding over 70 million hectares of new forests since the 1990s, more than any other country on Earth. From the Three-North Shelterbelt to the Grain-for-Green program, China is repairing past damage at a scale no Western nation has even attempted. Stop spreading lies about “destroyed habitats” when China is literally leading the world in restoring them. The real story is far more impressive than the propaganda being pushed online.

James Wood 武杰士

140,352 просмотров • 10 месяцев назад

My fellow Kenyans, Many of you have seen my recent posts about the deadly cancer that is corruption in our country. In my last post, I tried to paint a picture of the disconnect between our potential as a country and the economic circumstances we find ourselves in today, and the connection between corruption and the incalculable pain and suffering and cruelty that is meted out every single day to the most vulnerable among us by thieves operating out of public office. And after covering the goings-on in Mandera County, I told you that in my honest opinion, our governments exist to cater for the filthy-rich lifestyles of the vilest and most corrupt among us, at the expense of everyone else. I received tremendous support from all of you, for speaking on behalf of so many struggling Kenyans who don’t have a voice, or the audience necessary to spark the much-needed discussion about where we are heading as a country. But even with all that support, I have received messages asking me to be careful. One compatriot told me: “prepare to be relentlessly pursued, threatened, enticed, guilt-tripped, and gas-lit”. This is from a someone who knows how our government operates, and how it uses violence and its monopoly on power to silence those who question why politicians are stealing so much. I am not naive about the dangers of speaking up and calling out thieves who control state machinery, and who possess the ability to shut me up in a few seconds. But I will tell you why we CAN NOT and MUST NOT keep quiet. In November of 2023, I stumbled upon the story of a young man from Turkana, Calvin Esekon Esewit , who, despite scoring an A-, and getting an acceptance into medical school, spent two years not knowing whether his dreams of becoming a doctor would ever come true. I was moved by that story in a way that I can never adequately explain. I could not understand how it is possible that, in our country, a young man who appears to be every parent’s dream child can spend two years in limbo while we as a country possess the ability to invest in our best and brightest. And so, I spent weeks trying to chase down Calvin to see how I could help him attend college. After a lot of searching, I finally found Calvin, and by this time he had managed to get some help and is now in college. While this story has a great ending, it did not to be this way. And we know that the number of cases that end like this, with some success, are a small fraction of those ones which end tragically, with broken dreams. This is what happens when corruption consumes anything and everything in a country. It destroys lives. See attached video to learn about Calvin's story. I tell you all this story because it provides context to today's topic. For one story like this one that you see on the news, there are millions that never make the news. But they are real situations, nonetheless. There are millions of your compatriots who are devastated by this killer cancer of corruption that is perpetuated by people that you and I have put into public office ostensibly to improve our lives. They go into these offices and abuse the trust you bestowed upon them and deny you and everyone else a decent opportunity in life. You see, Calvin and millions of other victims of this shameless level of corruption and plunder have no voice, and no real ability to look the thieves that are destroying lives and generations of Kenyans in eye and tell them to stop this unbearable pain and the cruelty. This is the reason I embarked on this journey to attempt to expose this shameful situation. Watch the attached video of Calvin’s situation, and I am sure that you will agree that the millions of Calvins in our country need a voice, NO MATTER THE RISK. The thieves that are destroying the futures of millions of children just so they can have beachside homes in Miami, Dubai and other places count on the idea that most people will fear for their lives, and therefore not speak up. They count on the growing apathy in the Kenyan psyche. But we cannot give in to that. We cannot cower to thieves. We must look them straight in the eye and tell them that they MUST STOP. If we don't, our children and their children are guaranteed the same level of cruelty. And so with that, today I want to talk about the utterly insane crime scene that is Turkana County. I don’t know any other way to describe it, other than, it is a “shit-show”. Just follow along, and let me know if you disagree. As I did in my previous commentary, I will ask you to indulge me a little bit, and allow me to use a couple of pictures, because pictures speak louder than a thousand words. The first picture shows the state-of-the art County Government offices, that the County Government of Turkana decided to invest an ungodly amount of money on. Close to a billion shillings. The second picture is a classroom in session. In Turkana County. These two realities are occurring in parallel in the same county, at the same time. Ladies and gentlemen, let me just tell you that I do not go out of my way to find bad news. I want stories that would help re-affirm our belief in the fundamental decency of human beings. When I find good news as I review these Counties’ decisions and how they behave with our resources, I will be the first one to report it to you. But I don’t have any good news today. I have bad news. If you read my commentary yesterday and were offended by what you saw, I am afraid you might not make it to the end of this article, because what you will hear will be quite shocking. The cancer of corruption, particularly at the County Government level, is worse than your wildest imagination. And so, as I like to do, I like to start off by putting some numbers on the table for us to use as reference points. Bear in my that all the information I put in this article is publicly available. Nothing came to me through a whistle blower. The first number is KSH 100 Billion. With a B. In the last decade or so, you and I, through the National Government, has sent over KSH 100 billion to Turkana County. To support recurrent expenditure, and development. For example, in the 2022-2023 fiscal year, we sent KSH 12.6 billion. In the 2021-2022 fiscal year, we sent KSH 11.4 billion. And on and on and on. The second number is 1 million. This is the population of Turkana County. The third number is KSH 18.4 billion. This was Turkana County’s budget for the 2022-2023 fiscal year. The fourth number is KSH 190 million. This was the amount of money that Turkana County was able to generate on its own accord within the county, from all its investments and other activities in the period in question. This number is an important proxy, in my view, for the value of the county’s economic prospects for the foreseeable future, and to people that are not driven by greed and corruption, would be an important consideration when they are thinking about how and where to deploy your money as taxpayers. If you are doing the math, Turkana County, for the 2022-2023 fiscal year, was only able to raise 1% of the funds needed to keep the lights on. 99% came from you and I, and a tiny amount from grants. The next number is KSH 129, 040. This is the average ANNUAL [emphasis added] income of a resident of Turkana County ( Keep that number in mind when we are discussing the massive theft of public funds by Turkana County leaders. The next number is 80%. 80% of the residents of Turkana County live below the poverty line. They have a really difficult time putting food on the table. ( The next number is KSH 12 Million. This is the basic salary of the Governor of Turkana County before other benefits that, as I explained yesterday, can often double the salary. Remember the “housing allowance”, the “hardship allowance”, the “commuter allowance”, the “risk allowance”, the “extraneous allowance”, etc.? Remember that? I still cannot figure out, for the life of me, what “extraneous” means in the context of County business, but we don’t time to dwell on this. The next number is 93. The Governor of Turkana County makes 93 times the average Turkana County resident’s annual income. 93 times! The next number is 82%. This was the percentage of people that were illiterate in Turkana County in 2013 ( Could not read or write. A point to note about the above literacy figure. Ten years later, and despite over KSH 100 billion is spent in Turkana County, including many billions for education, that literacy rate HAS NOT CHANGED ONE BIT. Only 20% of the population can read or write today. ( KSH 829 million. This is how much it cost to build the County Government offices. Yes, the ones shown in the first picture. KSH 120 million. The County Government decided that it was prudent to pay a contractor KSH 120 million to construct the Governor’s personal residence. Get this, even after this payment, no construction took place. The money was stolen. All of it. KSH 90 Million. This is the amount that the County Government paid to another contractor, to build the Governor a mansion, having previously lost KSH 120 million. So, the tally for the Governor’s residence now stands at KSH 210 million. Never mind that the limit allowed by law is KSH 45 million. KSH 5 billion. In the last days of his term in office, an outgoing Governor of Turkana, Koli Nanok, EGH. , sought to inflate pending bills by adding KSH 5 billion so that it can be paid to his criminal cartel. KSH 5 billion. We have our key numbers, ladies and gentlemen, so let us discuss. So, we have a county that is dead last in literacy, and in the top 2 of the poorest counties in the republic. Only 20% of the population can read. The Governor earns 92 times the average citizen. The Governor lives in a house that cost over KSH 200 million. When he leaves his house in the morning, he goes to his office that cost KSH 829 million. And this is all happening when 80% of the County residents struggle to put food on the table. Those are the facts, and they are not in dispute. During the same time, the County Government geniuses decide to build the Speaker of the County Assembly a house. And a home office, and a garage. The house was initially estimated to cost KSH 75 million. But due to circumstances that not a soul in the government could explain to auditors, the contract expired before the house was completed, and the County Government found a new contractor to complete the job for an additional KSH 29 million. But this palace in the jungle worth apparently worth over KSH 100 million in Turkana County was not enough. The County proceeded to build the Speaker a guest house for another KSH 19 million, and a few other amenities, and so the whole cost went to KSH 276 million! The legal limit for a Speaker’s house is KSH 35 million, and they spent close to KSH 130 million just for one residence. By this time, I am sure you are getting tired of these obscene numbers. You and I work, and pay taxes. Nobody pays you 92 times the income your average neighbor is making. And for sure nobody will drop KSH 100 million to build you a house. These are the perks of working in government in a poor country. Go figure. And so, as a country, we need to answer for ourselves the question I posed yesterday, which is, what is the point of government? What is its role in our lives. If this level of criminality and pillaging can occur in our country in the midst of so much poverty, questioning the need for government is a totally valid question. I said in my last post that, when the average citizen looks at the thug on the street and the government, and is unable to discern any meaningful difference between them, that society from that point on is on its journey to becoming a failed state. A journey to anarchy. Over the last two months or so, Kenyans have been shouting at the top of their lungs, begging for their government to listen. To hear them out. Kenyans have asked that their government stop this unbelievable level of plunder. Dozens of Kenyans have died, thousands injured, and many more are missing today. To this day, the people that govern us continue to use the power of the gun to subdue Kenyans, until they can take everything in their sight. And so, as a society, we all have to ask whether today there is any difference between the thug on the street and our governments. Every Kenyan will have to answer this question for themselves. And before answering this question, everyone needs to remember the many Calvins in our society. Smart, upright children whose only crime is to be born in an unforgiving, lawless, and corrupt purgatory that is Kenya today. For myself, I have concluded that there is no difference between the thug on the street and our governments, county and national alike. If you can see any meaningful difference, let me know. I am willing to listen. So despite over KSH 100 billion in money sent to Turkana County, there is almost no measurable improvement in people’s life today. None. And it makes sense, when you look at how that money is spent. I want you to forget for a second the obscene obsession by the County Government with spending ungodly amounts of money on themselves. The houses, etc. If you step back and look at how the government is actually spending the hard-earned money on other things, you will be depressed. I am telling you that I wept three times in the middle of the night trying to make sense of this crazy situation in Turkana County. Three times. I have never imagined that human beings can be so greedy and cold-blooded. Think about this: In the couple of years I reviewed, the County spent around KSH 400 million annually in “tourism” initiatives, including marketing, and apparently upgrading certain facilities. KSH 400 million for tourism. In Turkana County. In 1 year. KSH 400 million per year in marketing and other money pits. The government’s own website says that the county gets around 3000 visitors per month. Around 36,000 per year. That’s them saying that, on their website. Are you curious to know the return on that KSH 400 million investment? I have an answer for you. Remember that I told you that the County has never raised more than KSH 200 million in a year within the county, despite its KSH 18.4 billion budget? Let me walk you through the breakdown of the absolutely embarrassing shit-show that is the County Government’s “own source revenue” operations. In 2022-2023, the County Government collected KSH 190 million locally against their KSH 18.4 billion budget. 1% of the budget. Remember, there is absolutely no requirement on the County to cut costs, or achieve certain local revenue targets today. So they raised KSH 45 million in single business permits, KSH 72 million in CESS, KSH 8 million in market fee, KSH 9 million in “slaughter fees”. And then finally, there is the return on the tourism investment that you were looking for. A whopping KSH 209, 000 in “park fees”. KSH 209,000 in fees, after investing KSH 400 million. And so, take this as an example and extrapolate it across the entire budget, and you can see how one can spend KSH 100 billion and get NOTHING in return. You don’t need to be a genius to see the absurdity of this situation. Let me explain using an example that should illustrate the utter dimwittedness of this situation. Remember the KSH 100 billion sent to Turkana by you and me? Part of this amount is supposed to be for “service delivery”, or “recurrent expenditure”. Usually about 70% of the budget. The balance, 30%, is designed to go to development projects. With that in mind, from KSH 100 billion, the County apparently has made KSH 30 billion worth of investments, right? 30% of the KSH 100 billion. Now, if you employed someone to run a business for you, and they asked you to invest KSH 30 billion, which is no small fortune, at some point you would have to start seeing returns, right? That’s common sense, isn’t it? So, when we look at the revenues streams that make up this paltry sum of KSH 190 million, and see things like “slaughter fees’ and “market fees”, what does it tell you? It tells me there is no real “development” happening in that county. Trust me, if you had real development totaling KSH 30 billion, you would have corporate taxes in the hundreds of millions or billions, a booming real estate market, rising wages and standards of living, etc., low unemployment, etc. You would not have 80% of the people living hand-to mouth, and a County Government that can not afford to support itself for 5 days out of the year that has 365 days! We do not have enough time, trust me, to deal with the shit-show that is Turkana County. Dealing with that mess would require a forensic team. I will just highlight a few of other “in your-face” type of theft of public funds, and then conclude my submission. A government that has a budget of KSH 18.4 billion annually, and which has never raised more than 1% of its budget had the wisdom to do the following with your money: · Spend KSH 222 million on a project building something that NOBODY uses. You got that right. They spent KSH 222 million on a facility that NOBODY uses. KSH 222 million gone to waste, in a county that is dead last in pretty much all measures of human progress. · Remember the County Government offices that cost KSH 829 million? The County spent KSH 82 million on “air-conditioning” for that building. · Despite the County Spending hundreds of millions for the top three officers of the County, the Governor and his Deputy, in the 2022-2023 year, illegally charged the county (you and I) KSH 2.2 million in housing allowance! · Built two facilities for KSH 16 million, that were completed, but NOBODY uses them. · Entered into a contract for the construction of a plastic use facility for KSH 13 million in 2021. The contractor gets paid KSH 4.9 million, and has never been seen since. · Paid out KSH 62 million in salaries that were not supportable in just one year. They could not point to anybody and say, that is who we paid. · Paid out KSH 27 million in legal fees that nobody could say what they related to. And the County’s Legal Advisor, who, in 2022-2023, had a budget of KSH 123 million, apparently did not know anything about it! · Had an outstanding bill at Kenya Revenue Authority in the amount of KSH 486 million, that did not show up on the County Government’s financial statements. Think about that. KSH 486 million owned to the Kenya Revenue Authority, and that liability is not on the financial statements! This only means that someone took those funds for themselves, which is why the liability would be missing from the county’s books. · Could not account for KSH 367 million in expenditures for 2022-2023. KSH 367 million, in unexplained expenses. · Awarded a contract worth over KSH 200 million to a bidder with no bank statement, against the law. This contract was entered into and approved before the statutory time after the bidding process lapsed. Someone was in a hurry to get paid. KSH 200 million, illegally awarded to a bidder who did not have a 6-month bank statement. · Apparently purchased KSH 1.5 billion in assets in 2022-2023, but kept no records of the said assets. For this reason, NOBODY can verify where these assets are located. KSH 1.5 billion. Let me just say this. In my last article, the most common critique was that it was too long. Too many words. I did not intend to make another long article. Trust me when I tell you this, we do not have the time to detail half of the problems in Turkana County. For just 1 year! We do not. Now, you recall my point about how societies descend to madness and anarchy. In our country today, our leaders are accusing those of us who are agitating for honest and transparent governance of being traitors to the country. They call us anarchists, criminals, and merchants of chaos. They are questioning our patriotism. You have all seen the government and its horde of propagandists threatening the Ford Foundation and others because they may have helped civil society keep the lights on, and investigative journalists to have the capacity to continue to do the Lord’s work of investigating criminality in government. As though citizens are so dumb and ignorant, that they cannot see what is going on. The reason why millions of Calvins in this country will never graduate from college and earn a decent living is not because of the Ford Foundation. No. It is because of the thieves we have in office today, like the ones in Turkana County. In this post, I copy our leaders, the President and his deputy. I copy them because I want them to help Kenyans understand the following conundrum, about crime and criminals. There is nothing so special or peculiar about criminals or where they pop up. There are criminals in the US, Canada, France, and other places. Just like we have criminals in Kenya. The difference between banana republics and failed states, and civilized societies, is WHAT we do to and about criminals. In civilized societies, criminals are prosecuted and punished heavily. They are shunned. In some places, those charged with serious crimes such as corruption are executed. These are societies that are committed to sending the message that corruption, which robs citizens of their rights, is not acceptable. And they demonstrate this commitment by heavily punishing those who steal from the most vulnerable in society. In Kenya, we see the opposite. Criminals are exalted. They are promoted and embraced in government. It was just last week that the president unveiled his nominees for his Cabinet. Among them, are the likes of Hassan Ali Joho, EGH. , @GovWOparanya , and Davis Chirchir, ALL people who have been accused or charged with massive corruption against Kenyans. And am sure you remember that I mentioned Koli Nanok, EGH. , the man who tried to steal KSH 5 billion in his last days in office. Would you believe it if I told you that he works in government, at State House? He plunded billions of your money, got no measurable improvement in the lives of his subjects, and now has a government job in State House. Let that sink in. And so, the question is, how is it that in a country of 55 million people, with thousands of highly qualified people who have never ever stolen from Kenyans, he ends up with the criminals and thieves in the government, despite the fact that their crimes are in the public domain? How is this possible? Is it possible that these thieves possess a certain unique ability to run government, save Kenyans billions, and solve problems in a way that the president performs a cost-benefit analysis, and the benefits outweigh the costs of their theft? If not, what message does it send to Kenyans, when their own president puts into office known thieves? I think that is a fair question, don’t you? Dr. Ekuru Aukot Rigathi Gachagua William Samoei Ruto, PhD Okiya Omtatah Okoiti Citizen TV Kenya Nation Breaking News TI-Kenya CNN County Government of Turkana

My fellow Kenyans, Many of you have seen my recent posts about the deadly cancer that is corruption in our country. In my last post, I tried to paint a picture of the disconnect between our potential as a country and the economic circumstances we find ourselves in today, and the connection between corruption and the incalculable pain and suffering and cruelty that is meted out every single day to the most vulnerable among us by thieves operating out of public office. And after covering the goings-on in Mandera County, I told you that in my honest opinion, our governments exist to cater for the filthy-rich lifestyles of the vilest and most corrupt among us, at the expense of everyone else. I received tremendous support from all of you, for speaking on behalf of so many struggling Kenyans who don’t have a voice, or the audience necessary to spark the much-needed discussion about where we are heading as a country. But even with all that support, I have received messages asking me to be careful. One compatriot told me: “prepare to be relentlessly pursued, threatened, enticed, guilt-tripped, and gas-lit”. This is from a someone who knows how our government operates, and how it uses violence and its monopoly on power to silence those who question why politicians are stealing so much. I am not naive about the dangers of speaking up and calling out thieves who control state machinery, and who possess the ability to shut me up in a few seconds. But I will tell you why we CAN NOT and MUST NOT keep quiet. In November of 2023, I stumbled upon the story of a young man from Turkana, Calvin Esekon Esewit , who, despite scoring an A-, and getting an acceptance into medical school, spent two years not knowing whether his dreams of becoming a doctor would ever come true. I was moved by that story in a way that I can never adequately explain. I could not understand how it is possible that, in our country, a young man who appears to be every parent’s dream child can spend two years in limbo while we as a country possess the ability to invest in our best and brightest. And so, I spent weeks trying to chase down Calvin to see how I could help him attend college. After a lot of searching, I finally found Calvin, and by this time he had managed to get some help and is now in college. While this story has a great ending, it did not to be this way. And we know that the number of cases that end like this, with some success, are a small fraction of those ones which end tragically, with broken dreams. This is what happens when corruption consumes anything and everything in a country. It destroys lives. See attached video to learn about Calvin's story. I tell you all this story because it provides context to today's topic. For one story like this one that you see on the news, there are millions that never make the news. But they are real situations, nonetheless. There are millions of your compatriots who are devastated by this killer cancer of corruption that is perpetuated by people that you and I have put into public office ostensibly to improve our lives. They go into these offices and abuse the trust you bestowed upon them and deny you and everyone else a decent opportunity in life. You see, Calvin and millions of other victims of this shameless level of corruption and plunder have no voice, and no real ability to look the thieves that are destroying lives and generations of Kenyans in eye and tell them to stop this unbearable pain and the cruelty. This is the reason I embarked on this journey to attempt to expose this shameful situation. Watch the attached video of Calvin’s situation, and I am sure that you will agree that the millions of Calvins in our country need a voice, NO MATTER THE RISK. The thieves that are destroying the futures of millions of children just so they can have beachside homes in Miami, Dubai and other places count on the idea that most people will fear for their lives, and therefore not speak up. They count on the growing apathy in the Kenyan psyche. But we cannot give in to that. We cannot cower to thieves. We must look them straight in the eye and tell them that they MUST STOP. If we don't, our children and their children are guaranteed the same level of cruelty. And so with that, today I want to talk about the utterly insane crime scene that is Turkana County. I don’t know any other way to describe it, other than, it is a “shit-show”. Just follow along, and let me know if you disagree. As I did in my previous commentary, I will ask you to indulge me a little bit, and allow me to use a couple of pictures, because pictures speak louder than a thousand words. The first picture shows the state-of-the art County Government offices, that the County Government of Turkana decided to invest an ungodly amount of money on. Close to a billion shillings. The second picture is a classroom in session. In Turkana County. These two realities are occurring in parallel in the same county, at the same time. Ladies and gentlemen, let me just tell you that I do not go out of my way to find bad news. I want stories that would help re-affirm our belief in the fundamental decency of human beings. When I find good news as I review these Counties’ decisions and how they behave with our resources, I will be the first one to report it to you. But I don’t have any good news today. I have bad news. If you read my commentary yesterday and were offended by what you saw, I am afraid you might not make it to the end of this article, because what you will hear will be quite shocking. The cancer of corruption, particularly at the County Government level, is worse than your wildest imagination. And so, as I like to do, I like to start off by putting some numbers on the table for us to use as reference points. Bear in my that all the information I put in this article is publicly available. Nothing came to me through a whistle blower. The first number is KSH 100 Billion. With a B. In the last decade or so, you and I, through the National Government, has sent over KSH 100 billion to Turkana County. To support recurrent expenditure, and development. For example, in the 2022-2023 fiscal year, we sent KSH 12.6 billion. In the 2021-2022 fiscal year, we sent KSH 11.4 billion. And on and on and on. The second number is 1 million. This is the population of Turkana County. The third number is KSH 18.4 billion. This was Turkana County’s budget for the 2022-2023 fiscal year. The fourth number is KSH 190 million. This was the amount of money that Turkana County was able to generate on its own accord within the county, from all its investments and other activities in the period in question. This number is an important proxy, in my view, for the value of the county’s economic prospects for the foreseeable future, and to people that are not driven by greed and corruption, would be an important consideration when they are thinking about how and where to deploy your money as taxpayers. If you are doing the math, Turkana County, for the 2022-2023 fiscal year, was only able to raise 1% of the funds needed to keep the lights on. 99% came from you and I, and a tiny amount from grants. The next number is KSH 129, 040. This is the average ANNUAL [emphasis added] income of a resident of Turkana County ( Keep that number in mind when we are discussing the massive theft of public funds by Turkana County leaders. The next number is 80%. 80% of the residents of Turkana County live below the poverty line. They have a really difficult time putting food on the table. ( The next number is KSH 12 Million. This is the basic salary of the Governor of Turkana County before other benefits that, as I explained yesterday, can often double the salary. Remember the “housing allowance”, the “hardship allowance”, the “commuter allowance”, the “risk allowance”, the “extraneous allowance”, etc.? Remember that? I still cannot figure out, for the life of me, what “extraneous” means in the context of County business, but we don’t time to dwell on this. The next number is 93. The Governor of Turkana County makes 93 times the average Turkana County resident’s annual income. 93 times! The next number is 82%. This was the percentage of people that were illiterate in Turkana County in 2013 ( Could not read or write. A point to note about the above literacy figure. Ten years later, and despite over KSH 100 billion is spent in Turkana County, including many billions for education, that literacy rate HAS NOT CHANGED ONE BIT. Only 20% of the population can read or write today. ( KSH 829 million. This is how much it cost to build the County Government offices. Yes, the ones shown in the first picture. KSH 120 million. The County Government decided that it was prudent to pay a contractor KSH 120 million to construct the Governor’s personal residence. Get this, even after this payment, no construction took place. The money was stolen. All of it. KSH 90 Million. This is the amount that the County Government paid to another contractor, to build the Governor a mansion, having previously lost KSH 120 million. So, the tally for the Governor’s residence now stands at KSH 210 million. Never mind that the limit allowed by law is KSH 45 million. KSH 5 billion. In the last days of his term in office, an outgoing Governor of Turkana, Koli Nanok, EGH. , sought to inflate pending bills by adding KSH 5 billion so that it can be paid to his criminal cartel. KSH 5 billion. We have our key numbers, ladies and gentlemen, so let us discuss. So, we have a county that is dead last in literacy, and in the top 2 of the poorest counties in the republic. Only 20% of the population can read. The Governor earns 92 times the average citizen. The Governor lives in a house that cost over KSH 200 million. When he leaves his house in the morning, he goes to his office that cost KSH 829 million. And this is all happening when 80% of the County residents struggle to put food on the table. Those are the facts, and they are not in dispute. During the same time, the County Government geniuses decide to build the Speaker of the County Assembly a house. And a home office, and a garage. The house was initially estimated to cost KSH 75 million. But due to circumstances that not a soul in the government could explain to auditors, the contract expired before the house was completed, and the County Government found a new contractor to complete the job for an additional KSH 29 million. But this palace in the jungle worth apparently worth over KSH 100 million in Turkana County was not enough. The County proceeded to build the Speaker a guest house for another KSH 19 million, and a few other amenities, and so the whole cost went to KSH 276 million! The legal limit for a Speaker’s house is KSH 35 million, and they spent close to KSH 130 million just for one residence. By this time, I am sure you are getting tired of these obscene numbers. You and I work, and pay taxes. Nobody pays you 92 times the income your average neighbor is making. And for sure nobody will drop KSH 100 million to build you a house. These are the perks of working in government in a poor country. Go figure. And so, as a country, we need to answer for ourselves the question I posed yesterday, which is, what is the point of government? What is its role in our lives. If this level of criminality and pillaging can occur in our country in the midst of so much poverty, questioning the need for government is a totally valid question. I said in my last post that, when the average citizen looks at the thug on the street and the government, and is unable to discern any meaningful difference between them, that society from that point on is on its journey to becoming a failed state. A journey to anarchy. Over the last two months or so, Kenyans have been shouting at the top of their lungs, begging for their government to listen. To hear them out. Kenyans have asked that their government stop this unbelievable level of plunder. Dozens of Kenyans have died, thousands injured, and many more are missing today. To this day, the people that govern us continue to use the power of the gun to subdue Kenyans, until they can take everything in their sight. And so, as a society, we all have to ask whether today there is any difference between the thug on the street and our governments. Every Kenyan will have to answer this question for themselves. And before answering this question, everyone needs to remember the many Calvins in our society. Smart, upright children whose only crime is to be born in an unforgiving, lawless, and corrupt purgatory that is Kenya today. For myself, I have concluded that there is no difference between the thug on the street and our governments, county and national alike. If you can see any meaningful difference, let me know. I am willing to listen. So despite over KSH 100 billion in money sent to Turkana County, there is almost no measurable improvement in people’s life today. None. And it makes sense, when you look at how that money is spent. I want you to forget for a second the obscene obsession by the County Government with spending ungodly amounts of money on themselves. The houses, etc. If you step back and look at how the government is actually spending the hard-earned money on other things, you will be depressed. I am telling you that I wept three times in the middle of the night trying to make sense of this crazy situation in Turkana County. Three times. I have never imagined that human beings can be so greedy and cold-blooded. Think about this: In the couple of years I reviewed, the County spent around KSH 400 million annually in “tourism” initiatives, including marketing, and apparently upgrading certain facilities. KSH 400 million for tourism. In Turkana County. In 1 year. KSH 400 million per year in marketing and other money pits. The government’s own website says that the county gets around 3000 visitors per month. Around 36,000 per year. That’s them saying that, on their website. Are you curious to know the return on that KSH 400 million investment? I have an answer for you. Remember that I told you that the County has never raised more than KSH 200 million in a year within the county, despite its KSH 18.4 billion budget? Let me walk you through the breakdown of the absolutely embarrassing shit-show that is the County Government’s “own source revenue” operations. In 2022-2023, the County Government collected KSH 190 million locally against their KSH 18.4 billion budget. 1% of the budget. Remember, there is absolutely no requirement on the County to cut costs, or achieve certain local revenue targets today. So they raised KSH 45 million in single business permits, KSH 72 million in CESS, KSH 8 million in market fee, KSH 9 million in “slaughter fees”. And then finally, there is the return on the tourism investment that you were looking for. A whopping KSH 209, 000 in “park fees”. KSH 209,000 in fees, after investing KSH 400 million. And so, take this as an example and extrapolate it across the entire budget, and you can see how one can spend KSH 100 billion and get NOTHING in return. You don’t need to be a genius to see the absurdity of this situation. Let me explain using an example that should illustrate the utter dimwittedness of this situation. Remember the KSH 100 billion sent to Turkana by you and me? Part of this amount is supposed to be for “service delivery”, or “recurrent expenditure”. Usually about 70% of the budget. The balance, 30%, is designed to go to development projects. With that in mind, from KSH 100 billion, the County apparently has made KSH 30 billion worth of investments, right? 30% of the KSH 100 billion. Now, if you employed someone to run a business for you, and they asked you to invest KSH 30 billion, which is no small fortune, at some point you would have to start seeing returns, right? That’s common sense, isn’t it? So, when we look at the revenues streams that make up this paltry sum of KSH 190 million, and see things like “slaughter fees’ and “market fees”, what does it tell you? It tells me there is no real “development” happening in that county. Trust me, if you had real development totaling KSH 30 billion, you would have corporate taxes in the hundreds of millions or billions, a booming real estate market, rising wages and standards of living, etc., low unemployment, etc. You would not have 80% of the people living hand-to mouth, and a County Government that can not afford to support itself for 5 days out of the year that has 365 days! We do not have enough time, trust me, to deal with the shit-show that is Turkana County. Dealing with that mess would require a forensic team. I will just highlight a few of other “in your-face” type of theft of public funds, and then conclude my submission. A government that has a budget of KSH 18.4 billion annually, and which has never raised more than 1% of its budget had the wisdom to do the following with your money: · Spend KSH 222 million on a project building something that NOBODY uses. You got that right. They spent KSH 222 million on a facility that NOBODY uses. KSH 222 million gone to waste, in a county that is dead last in pretty much all measures of human progress. · Remember the County Government offices that cost KSH 829 million? The County spent KSH 82 million on “air-conditioning” for that building. · Despite the County Spending hundreds of millions for the top three officers of the County, the Governor and his Deputy, in the 2022-2023 year, illegally charged the county (you and I) KSH 2.2 million in housing allowance! · Built two facilities for KSH 16 million, that were completed, but NOBODY uses them. · Entered into a contract for the construction of a plastic use facility for KSH 13 million in 2021. The contractor gets paid KSH 4.9 million, and has never been seen since. · Paid out KSH 62 million in salaries that were not supportable in just one year. They could not point to anybody and say, that is who we paid. · Paid out KSH 27 million in legal fees that nobody could say what they related to. And the County’s Legal Advisor, who, in 2022-2023, had a budget of KSH 123 million, apparently did not know anything about it! · Had an outstanding bill at Kenya Revenue Authority in the amount of KSH 486 million, that did not show up on the County Government’s financial statements. Think about that. KSH 486 million owned to the Kenya Revenue Authority, and that liability is not on the financial statements! This only means that someone took those funds for themselves, which is why the liability would be missing from the county’s books. · Could not account for KSH 367 million in expenditures for 2022-2023. KSH 367 million, in unexplained expenses. · Awarded a contract worth over KSH 200 million to a bidder with no bank statement, against the law. This contract was entered into and approved before the statutory time after the bidding process lapsed. Someone was in a hurry to get paid. KSH 200 million, illegally awarded to a bidder who did not have a 6-month bank statement. · Apparently purchased KSH 1.5 billion in assets in 2022-2023, but kept no records of the said assets. For this reason, NOBODY can verify where these assets are located. KSH 1.5 billion. Let me just say this. In my last article, the most common critique was that it was too long. Too many words. I did not intend to make another long article. Trust me when I tell you this, we do not have the time to detail half of the problems in Turkana County. For just 1 year! We do not. Now, you recall my point about how societies descend to madness and anarchy. In our country today, our leaders are accusing those of us who are agitating for honest and transparent governance of being traitors to the country. They call us anarchists, criminals, and merchants of chaos. They are questioning our patriotism. You have all seen the government and its horde of propagandists threatening the Ford Foundation and others because they may have helped civil society keep the lights on, and investigative journalists to have the capacity to continue to do the Lord’s work of investigating criminality in government. As though citizens are so dumb and ignorant, that they cannot see what is going on. The reason why millions of Calvins in this country will never graduate from college and earn a decent living is not because of the Ford Foundation. No. It is because of the thieves we have in office today, like the ones in Turkana County. In this post, I copy our leaders, the President and his deputy. I copy them because I want them to help Kenyans understand the following conundrum, about crime and criminals. There is nothing so special or peculiar about criminals or where they pop up. There are criminals in the US, Canada, France, and other places. Just like we have criminals in Kenya. The difference between banana republics and failed states, and civilized societies, is WHAT we do to and about criminals. In civilized societies, criminals are prosecuted and punished heavily. They are shunned. In some places, those charged with serious crimes such as corruption are executed. These are societies that are committed to sending the message that corruption, which robs citizens of their rights, is not acceptable. And they demonstrate this commitment by heavily punishing those who steal from the most vulnerable in society. In Kenya, we see the opposite. Criminals are exalted. They are promoted and embraced in government. It was just last week that the president unveiled his nominees for his Cabinet. Among them, are the likes of Hassan Ali Joho, EGH. , @GovWOparanya , and Davis Chirchir, ALL people who have been accused or charged with massive corruption against Kenyans. And am sure you remember that I mentioned Koli Nanok, EGH. , the man who tried to steal KSH 5 billion in his last days in office. Would you believe it if I told you that he works in government, at State House? He plunded billions of your money, got no measurable improvement in the lives of his subjects, and now has a government job in State House. Let that sink in. And so, the question is, how is it that in a country of 55 million people, with thousands of highly qualified people who have never ever stolen from Kenyans, he ends up with the criminals and thieves in the government, despite the fact that their crimes are in the public domain? How is this possible? Is it possible that these thieves possess a certain unique ability to run government, save Kenyans billions, and solve problems in a way that the president performs a cost-benefit analysis, and the benefits outweigh the costs of their theft? If not, what message does it send to Kenyans, when their own president puts into office known thieves? I think that is a fair question, don’t you? Dr. Ekuru Aukot Rigathi Gachagua William Samoei Ruto, PhD Okiya Omtatah Okoiti Citizen TV Kenya Nation Breaking News TI-Kenya CNN County Government of Turkana

Bonnie Mwangi, CPA, LLM, MBA

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Ladies and gentlemen, if you wanted to see Trudeau’s house of cards start to collapse, yesterdays Question Period was it. What we saw was Liberal arrogance in full bloom, completely detached from the struggles of everyday Canadians. This government, led by Justin Trudeau, is hanging on by a thread, propped up by the NDP and their delusional belief that taxing people into poverty will somehow save the planet. Let’s walk through the insanity that unfolded today. Carbon Tax Insanity: Trudeau’s Cronies Keep Selling the Same Lie First, we had Ben Carr, MP for Winnipeg South Centre, grinning like a man who thinks you’re too stupid to realize what’s happening. He was bragging about Manitobans getting $300 rebates on October 15th, thanks to the Canada Carbon Rebate. And then there’s Jaime Battiste, the Liberal MP for Sydney–Victoria, boasting that Nova Scotians will get $206. Isn’t that great? A few hundred bucks to cover the massive hole the carbon tax is blowing in your wallet. But here’s what they won’t tell you—and what the Conservatives were quick to point out: the Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) has exposed their game. Sure, they give you a couple of crumbs, but by the time Trudeau's carbon tax has fully ramped up, families in Saskatchewan will be $2,000 poorer every year. They want you to focus on a small rebate while they reach into your pocket and take thousands. It’s like robbing you blind and tossing you a handful of change as a consolation prize. And the man leading this con? Steven Guilbeault, Trudeau’s Minister of Environment. He had the nerve to selectively quote the PBO report, claiming Canadians will come out ahead. He forgot to mention that, by 2030, you’ll be getting crushed under the weight of this tax, and big polluters—the ones he claims to be targeting—are getting sweetheart deals. This is the Liberal lie at its core: "We’re saving the planet," they say, while making your life unbearable. Conservatives Hammer the Government on Corruption If that wasn’t enough, Conservative MPs took aim at the NDP-Liberal swamp propping up Trudeau’s latest scandal—this time involving a $400 million slush fund for Liberal insiders. Bob Zimmer, MP for Prince George–Peace River–Northern Rockies, went after Steven Guilbeault again, accusing him of obstructing justice by refusing to turn over documents related to the Sustainable Development Technology Canada fiasco. This is classic Liberal corruption—they take your tax dollars and funnel it straight into their cronies’ pockets, while ordinary Canadians are left wondering how they’ll pay for their heating bills this winter. Andrew Scheer Takes on the Justice Minister: Liberals Soft on Terrorism At the 20-minute mark, things got even more heated. Andrew Scheer, the MP for Regina—Qu'Appelle, sparred with Justice Minister Arif Virani over the Trudeau government’s failure to act quickly on listing terrorist organizations like the Houthi rebels. Scheer slammed the Liberals for their sluggishness, pointing out that the Houthi group has been responsible for attacks on civilian ships and openly supports violence. Virani fumbled through his response, offering some weak excuse about an "expedited review" process. But Scheer wasn't having it, hammering the government for its typical pattern of inaction. Pro-Houthi protests in Vancouver have already involved chants of "Death to Canada," but still, Trudeau’s government is dragging its feet . This was yet another example of the Liberals’ soft-on-national-security approach, leaving Canadians vulnerable while radicals are allowed to operate freely. Farmers Under Siege: Trudeau’s Tax is Destroying Agriculture But the most jaw-dropping part of the day? That was when John Barlow, MP for Foothills, exposed how Trudeau’s carbon tax is crushing Canadian farmers. He laid it all out: Farmers are already dealing with floods, droughts, and rising costs, and now the carbon tax is driving up fuel prices, making it impossible to survive. Canadian agriculture is on the verge of collapse, but all Guilbeault and Trudeau can do is prattle on about how “climate change” is the real enemy. Here’s the truth, folks: Trudeau’s carbon tax does nothing to reduce emissions, but it devastates farmers and makes your food even more expensive. But Steven Guilbeault? He’s too busy appeasing his eco-radical pals to care. Mental Health Day: Liberals Make It Worse with Free Drug Policies We also had Peter Julian, MP for New Westminster–Burnaby, talking about World Mental Health Day, acknowledging the struggles of public safety employees. Now, don’t get me wrong, mental health is important—especially for public safety workers—but let’s talk about the mental health crisis Trudeau’s government is creating with its policies. When people can’t afford their bills, when they’re watching their paychecks get devoured by inflation, and when they see no future because of policies like the carbon tax, it’s no wonder mental health is deteriorating across the board. Yet, the Liberals don’t seem to care—especially when it comes to the disaster in British Columbia, led by David Eby, the NDP Premier. His “safe supply” policy—handing out free drugs to people struggling with addiction—is making things worse, not better. We’re seeing it right now: homelessness is skyrocketing, overdose rates are out of control, and instead of helping people get clean, they’re pushing them deeper into addiction. The Trudeau Liberals support this madness, and guess what? They’re ready to spread this destructive policy nationwide. The Trudeau Agenda: A Slow, Steady Destruction of Canada Let’s not mince words: Trudeau’s government is a train wreck. They distract you with token rebates, sell you on climate propaganda, and line their pockets while Canada burns. Today’s Question Period showed us how far the rot has gone. The Liberals want you to believe they’re looking out for you while they steal your money, destroy your jobs, and fuel addiction in your communities. And they do it all with a smile, thinking you’ll be too distracted by their virtue-signaling to notice the carnage. Bottom Line: The Trudeau Liberals are playing a dangerous game with Canada’s future. Steven Guilbeault and his carbon tax will bankrupt this country if they get their way. David Eby’s free drug policies will create a nation of addicts. And the NDP-Liberal cartel will keep propping up Trudeau because they know they can’t survive an election where Canadians finally get to have their say. It’s time to take back Canada from these corrupt elites before they’ve destroyed it beyond repair.

Ladies and gentlemen, if you wanted to see Trudeau’s house of cards start to collapse, yesterdays Question Period was it. What we saw was Liberal arrogance in full bloom, completely detached from the struggles of everyday Canadians. This government, led by Justin Trudeau, is hanging on by a thread, propped up by the NDP and their delusional belief that taxing people into poverty will somehow save the planet. Let’s walk through the insanity that unfolded today. Carbon Tax Insanity: Trudeau’s Cronies Keep Selling the Same Lie First, we had Ben Carr, MP for Winnipeg South Centre, grinning like a man who thinks you’re too stupid to realize what’s happening. He was bragging about Manitobans getting $300 rebates on October 15th, thanks to the Canada Carbon Rebate. And then there’s Jaime Battiste, the Liberal MP for Sydney–Victoria, boasting that Nova Scotians will get $206. Isn’t that great? A few hundred bucks to cover the massive hole the carbon tax is blowing in your wallet. But here’s what they won’t tell you—and what the Conservatives were quick to point out: the Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) has exposed their game. Sure, they give you a couple of crumbs, but by the time Trudeau's carbon tax has fully ramped up, families in Saskatchewan will be $2,000 poorer every year. They want you to focus on a small rebate while they reach into your pocket and take thousands. It’s like robbing you blind and tossing you a handful of change as a consolation prize. And the man leading this con? Steven Guilbeault, Trudeau’s Minister of Environment. He had the nerve to selectively quote the PBO report, claiming Canadians will come out ahead. He forgot to mention that, by 2030, you’ll be getting crushed under the weight of this tax, and big polluters—the ones he claims to be targeting—are getting sweetheart deals. This is the Liberal lie at its core: "We’re saving the planet," they say, while making your life unbearable. Conservatives Hammer the Government on Corruption If that wasn’t enough, Conservative MPs took aim at the NDP-Liberal swamp propping up Trudeau’s latest scandal—this time involving a $400 million slush fund for Liberal insiders. Bob Zimmer, MP for Prince George–Peace River–Northern Rockies, went after Steven Guilbeault again, accusing him of obstructing justice by refusing to turn over documents related to the Sustainable Development Technology Canada fiasco. This is classic Liberal corruption—they take your tax dollars and funnel it straight into their cronies’ pockets, while ordinary Canadians are left wondering how they’ll pay for their heating bills this winter. Andrew Scheer Takes on the Justice Minister: Liberals Soft on Terrorism At the 20-minute mark, things got even more heated. Andrew Scheer, the MP for Regina—Qu'Appelle, sparred with Justice Minister Arif Virani over the Trudeau government’s failure to act quickly on listing terrorist organizations like the Houthi rebels. Scheer slammed the Liberals for their sluggishness, pointing out that the Houthi group has been responsible for attacks on civilian ships and openly supports violence. Virani fumbled through his response, offering some weak excuse about an "expedited review" process. But Scheer wasn't having it, hammering the government for its typical pattern of inaction. Pro-Houthi protests in Vancouver have already involved chants of "Death to Canada," but still, Trudeau’s government is dragging its feet . This was yet another example of the Liberals’ soft-on-national-security approach, leaving Canadians vulnerable while radicals are allowed to operate freely. Farmers Under Siege: Trudeau’s Tax is Destroying Agriculture But the most jaw-dropping part of the day? That was when John Barlow, MP for Foothills, exposed how Trudeau’s carbon tax is crushing Canadian farmers. He laid it all out: Farmers are already dealing with floods, droughts, and rising costs, and now the carbon tax is driving up fuel prices, making it impossible to survive. Canadian agriculture is on the verge of collapse, but all Guilbeault and Trudeau can do is prattle on about how “climate change” is the real enemy. Here’s the truth, folks: Trudeau’s carbon tax does nothing to reduce emissions, but it devastates farmers and makes your food even more expensive. But Steven Guilbeault? He’s too busy appeasing his eco-radical pals to care. Mental Health Day: Liberals Make It Worse with Free Drug Policies We also had Peter Julian, MP for New Westminster–Burnaby, talking about World Mental Health Day, acknowledging the struggles of public safety employees. Now, don’t get me wrong, mental health is important—especially for public safety workers—but let’s talk about the mental health crisis Trudeau’s government is creating with its policies. When people can’t afford their bills, when they’re watching their paychecks get devoured by inflation, and when they see no future because of policies like the carbon tax, it’s no wonder mental health is deteriorating across the board. Yet, the Liberals don’t seem to care—especially when it comes to the disaster in British Columbia, led by David Eby, the NDP Premier. His “safe supply” policy—handing out free drugs to people struggling with addiction—is making things worse, not better. We’re seeing it right now: homelessness is skyrocketing, overdose rates are out of control, and instead of helping people get clean, they’re pushing them deeper into addiction. The Trudeau Liberals support this madness, and guess what? They’re ready to spread this destructive policy nationwide. The Trudeau Agenda: A Slow, Steady Destruction of Canada Let’s not mince words: Trudeau’s government is a train wreck. They distract you with token rebates, sell you on climate propaganda, and line their pockets while Canada burns. Today’s Question Period showed us how far the rot has gone. The Liberals want you to believe they’re looking out for you while they steal your money, destroy your jobs, and fuel addiction in your communities. And they do it all with a smile, thinking you’ll be too distracted by their virtue-signaling to notice the carnage. Bottom Line: The Trudeau Liberals are playing a dangerous game with Canada’s future. Steven Guilbeault and his carbon tax will bankrupt this country if they get their way. David Eby’s free drug policies will create a nation of addicts. And the NDP-Liberal cartel will keep propping up Trudeau because they know they can’t survive an election where Canadians finally get to have their say. It’s time to take back Canada from these corrupt elites before they’ve destroyed it beyond repair.

Dan Knight

101,041 просмотров • 2 лет назад

Dumbing Down II "By Faith, this is the last rent I am paying as a single lady. If you support me to pay this rent, by the grace of God, this time next year, I will be in my husband's house." is back begging for support to pay another rent. Not because God didn't bring eligible suitors her way, but because her PASTOR has replaced the Holy Spirit in her life. Pastors ruin a lot of destinies when they insist on playing God instead of their primary role as destiny guides. Many members have submitted their free will to their pastors, giving their pastors the power that God himself didn't take from us from the dawn of creation. When you take the ability of the individual to act as a free agent in the name of religion, you reduce him or her to a puppet and yourself to a puppeteer. You want to pull the strings of the lives of thousands of born-again Christians at the same time while rendering them useless to follow their paths in Christ and grow into mature sons. I was at a Church in Anthony village about three years ago to minister, and I met this young man who was schooled at a very prestigious university in the USA. He was the in-house IT consultant of the church, and the pastor placed him on a monthly stipend while he was working for God. It was the Pastor who introduced the young man to me while boasting that God had given him the most capable hands to help him in ministry. I asked him if he had any Python, Java, cloud engineering, data management, digital marketing, coding, or similar tasks available for the young man in the church. He said no. I said, "You are giving this young man the job that any young school leaver who is proficient in computer appreciation can do, and you don't see it as limiting his capabilities and rendering his skills obsolete?" You would rather boast that you are ruining a destiny to build up your own profile rather than set this young man on the path of excellence? Did God call him into ministry as a preacher? Is he understudying you in preparation for his own ministry? The pastor said, "No, I plan that as the church expands, he will head our digital infrastructure and position us for the future." I said, "He can do that as a consultant or even as a member, he shouldn't be doing that while you are paying him 100,000 Naira a month. He should be out there, flying with his peers and earning in dollars! The only exception is if the Lord has called him to be a preacher and he is understudying you as your personal assistant, as led by the Lord as part of his season of preparation. Anything other than that is injurious to his destiny!" The pastor had never seen it that way When I was done ministering in the church, the young man hugged me and thanked me profusely. He said his mother sent him to the pastor when he returned from the USA and the pastor immediately told him that God had need of him in the ministry or he would die without fulfilling his purpose. Why do pastors do this? I have another case from the Northern part of Nigeria. A young lady reached out to me seeking clarity regarding her future She said her Apostle told her she has been raised by God to sing in his church choir, but she is a medical doctor by training and desires to further her studies abroad Every time she raised the issue with the Apostle, he shut her down and told her she was struggling with the will of God "Why can't you just submit to God and serve in the choir and watch as God will take your voice all over the world as this ministry grows?" The young lady said she knows she has a good voice and sings very well as one who is full of the Holy Spirit, but she does not want to be "Sinach", she wants to fulfil her dream of practising as a Pediatrician. She was wary of incurring the wrath and curse of the Apostle, however, and did not know how to extricate herself from the situation. The apostle did not see anything wrong with his actions because he was a user of people who believed that in order to fulfill his own desire to become a big ministry, others could not thrive and grow in their visions and ministries as ordained by God. This is witchcraft. It is not of God. Jesus didn't lead his disciples this way. Insecurity is the undoing of many African so-called Pastors and Spiritual leaders, and they hide behind the illusion of divinity to put others in bondage. I experienced this firsthand as a young graduate, so I understand how a pastor trying to build his ministry could see the potential in a young man or woman and try very hard to turn such a person into servants and house helps in the name of discipling them or training them for kingdom relevance You graduate from the University and join the labour force, you apply for many jobs, and at a point, you tell yourself it is important to seek supernatural guidance in your quest to fulfil destiny Somebody somewhere tells you about a church or a ministry, you join, and you are convinced the church is good. You also tell your friends, and they join. But you are all fresh graduates who are heading into the future one way or the other, but this pastor wants you to be his flock. To him, his church of ten members had suddenly become a church of 30 members because of you guys, and he wants to keep the numbers growing, so he begins to give you prophesies that were not of God but with the aim of keeping you in the fold for as long as possible. He told young graduates who ought to go for NYSC that God is telling him they should give it up for service to God in the vineyard. The mother of two of the ladies in the fellowship, whose daughters told that the pastor told them not to go for NYSC, quickly removed them from the fellowship before the seed of corruption being planted by this pastor would bear fruit The others also left as soon as they could gather their wit People who you ought to guide on their path in sincerity ran as far as they could from you based on how you chose to manipulate rather than nurture them. A married woman whose husband worked abroad was a trained secretary, and while her husband was abroad, catering to the needs of the family, he begged her to stop working so that she could focus on raising the children. She was raising five children all by herself, and combining this with a job seemed a bit too much at the time. One of the vital institutions for raising godly children was the church This woman attended church regularly with her children and even volunteered to spend any free time she had typing the pastor's sermons, Sunday School pamphlets, handouts, books, journals, and other church reports and documents She was not officially employed to do the work; she just saw that she could take some of the secretarial duties on during her downtime, and she did so with all sincerity. The church enjoyed her free services for five years until the pastor forgot completely that she was doing the church a favour One day, the woman came to church to tell the pastor that her husband would be returning home to visit the family, and she would not be available for a few days because she had to pick her husband up from the airport and ensure that he settled in properly. Unfortunately, that weekend was the weekend of the church's anniversary, and the pastor had a lot of secretarial work to do. He told the woman God said she should pick one. Heaven or marriage. He said if she goes to pick her husband from the airport, she has chosen the world and forsaken the Lord. The woman wept all the way home, It was not the thank you, thou faithful servant report she had worked day and night for many years to get that she received. She went to pick her husband from the airport and distanced herself from any church founded by any individual after that experience. She said the ambition of church founders requires that they use people to build, even though they lacked the resources to pay or compensate such people, so they resort to blackmail, coercion, lies, fake prophesies, promises, and manipulations to get things done while keeping their followers on a leash. Followers are also enablers as they refuse to read the Bible for themselves and walk in the light of the word of God. No one should be able to take you captive in the name of God, Jesus, all the angels, or any form of miracle if you know the word of God. The word of God is profitable to make one wise, and therefore, anyone who knows the word of God cannot fall victim to any false doctrine, teaching, spiritual manipulations, or lies. All the false teachings of someone being a covering for someone else came from these manipulative narratives, and believers should be wise to them. I have seen a pastor declare that his church is the only church in Africa that is licensed by God to take people to heaven, and some members believed him. The day he said that, all his members ought to laugh, pick up their Bibles, and leave without looking back. Self-aggrandisement has become the order of the day in some churches, the pastor sells himself as the be-all and end-all of the member's spiritual enlightenment, and the members sheepishly surrender their eyes of their understanding to him or her. He or she must determine where they work, whom they marry, who they associate with, whose music they must listen to, and whose sermons they must hear. If they want to travel, he must see if the road is clear on their behalf, if they want to build a house, he must approve, if he does not dedicate their baby, the baby is illegitimate. This is not the faith Christ or the Apostles died for. Jesus died that you might be free of religion. Christianity is not a religion, it is the opposite. It is individualistic and determined by the faith and belief system of the one rather than the many. Salvation, therefore, is a personal affair, and the baptism of the Holy Spirit is also a personal affair Religion is the opium of the masses, and Christianity is the salvation of the individual and his or her walk with God. When we fellowship together, we do so not so we can get brainwashed by one "super Christian" but so that we can minister to the Lord and minister to one another in the presence of God. Every believer must hold this truth to be self-evident. PS: Someone sent me the video of a pastor condemning a song recently released by a fellow believer, which is making a global impact The Pastor represents an old school of Christians who are unfit to be custodians of the gospel due to their rigidity and limited understanding of the finished work of Christ. Disciples of the gospel of Works and Performance lack creativity and discernment but are good stewards of rigidity and religious doctrines. In other words, a Pharisee must act like one, and Jesus must act like Jesus. We are all just being true to our nature. "I can never go back o No...No It's already too late o No...No Where Am I going to... No...No" If you read to this point, when I was in Spain, I asked a very important question about a meal. If you know the answer, I'm inside the comment section. -GSW-

Gbenga Samuel-Wemimo

28,735 просмотров • 1 год назад

🚨ALERT: TROJAN HORSE IN MORMON UTAH - GREAT REPLACEMENT! Somali Muslim Aden Batar Runs “Catholic” Refugee Machine Funded by LDS Tithing - Producing DSA Candidate Liban Mohamed A 27-year-old Democratic Socialist - the son of Somali immigrants who came to America, and a proud Muslim - just announced his run for Congress in what was supposed to be one of America’s reddest districts. His name is Liban Mohamed, and he is the political face of Utah’s rapidly expanding Somali Bantu Muslim community. 🚨That community did not grow by accident. 🔥 Meet Aden Batar - Somali Muslim refugee turned Director of Migration & Refugee Services at Catholic Community Services of Utah. In a 2017 video, Batar brags that he arrived as part of a huge family of 16, among the very first Somali refugees to set foot in Utah in 1994. At the airport, they were greeted by a handful of Somali students already here, plus Catholic Community Services staff rolling out the red carpet. Strangers welcomed them with open arms. Fast-forward to 2026, over 30 years later, and Batar now runs the entire program. With his deputy Khalid Al Hachami (another Muslim), he is flooding Utah with even more Muslim refugees under a Catholic label. The same welcoming system that brought his family of 16 has been turned into a pipeline that has helped grow Utah’s Somali Bantu population to roughly 10,000 strong. ⚠️But listen to Batar himself in that same talk: “As a Muslim and also working for [the Catholic] organization… every single bed that they sleep with comes from the LDS Church… As a Muslim when 9/11 happened… the first person that reached to us at our mosque was the leadership from the LDS Church… ‘We are here with you… if one religion is attacked, all religions [are] attacked.’ It gives me a lot of comfort to live in this community… I’ve never felt that I’m in the minority here.” 🚨He openly admits: ⚠️He’s a Muslim running a “Catholic” refugee machine. Every single bed for the hundreds of refugees they import comes from the LDS (Mormon) Church. ⚠️He feels completely at home in Utah because Christians bend over backward with “interfaith” support, even right after 9/11, when America was still bleeding from radical Islamic terror. Notice the sick twist: While the country reeled from 9/11, Batar paints Muslims as the real victims who needed protecting. Meanwhile, he and his network keep the doors wide open. Meanwhile, Batar also leads the Islamic Society of Greater Salt Lake. When an American/Israeli flag showed up at a local mosque last year, he issued a statement, in his official capacity at Catholic Community Services, calling it a “hate crime.” This is the Red-Green Axis in action - radical leftists and Islam working together to destroy America from within. We keep welcoming people and entire families who quickly make it their mission to import their own country, erode our culture, and remake our nation in their image. The same pattern repeated with Muslim Brotherhood-linked leaders across America whose parents first arrived on student visas and simply stayed - to destroy us from within (They now operate their main hubs out of Florida and Texas) This is the very same refugee resettlement system that welcomed Batar’s family and helped build Utah’s Somali community - the system that enabled families like Liban Mohamed’s to put down roots and now produces the next generation of DSA political candidates. Aden Batar can now sit back and celebrate the radical his life’s work has created. Utah’s famous Mormon generosity is being weaponized against the very culture that built it. Christian compassion and taxpayer dollars → imported by Muslims → run by Muslims → for more Muslims. All while the crucifix stays on the sign for cover. This isn’t charity. This is demographic conquest disguised as compassion and it’s turning the Mormon State into the next target of the Red-Green invasion. Utahns - wake up. What are we doing? And when the hell does it stop?

🚨ALERT: TROJAN HORSE IN MORMON UTAH - GREAT REPLACEMENT! Somali Muslim Aden Batar Runs “Catholic” Refugee Machine Funded by LDS Tithing - Producing DSA Candidate Liban Mohamed A 27-year-old Democratic Socialist - the son of Somali immigrants who came to America, and a proud Muslim - just announced his run for Congress in what was supposed to be one of America’s reddest districts. His name is Liban Mohamed, and he is the political face of Utah’s rapidly expanding Somali Bantu Muslim community. 🚨That community did not grow by accident. 🔥 Meet Aden Batar - Somali Muslim refugee turned Director of Migration & Refugee Services at Catholic Community Services of Utah. In a 2017 video, Batar brags that he arrived as part of a huge family of 16, among the very first Somali refugees to set foot in Utah in 1994. At the airport, they were greeted by a handful of Somali students already here, plus Catholic Community Services staff rolling out the red carpet. Strangers welcomed them with open arms. Fast-forward to 2026, over 30 years later, and Batar now runs the entire program. With his deputy Khalid Al Hachami (another Muslim), he is flooding Utah with even more Muslim refugees under a Catholic label. The same welcoming system that brought his family of 16 has been turned into a pipeline that has helped grow Utah’s Somali Bantu population to roughly 10,000 strong. ⚠️But listen to Batar himself in that same talk: “As a Muslim and also working for [the Catholic] organization… every single bed that they sleep with comes from the LDS Church… As a Muslim when 9/11 happened… the first person that reached to us at our mosque was the leadership from the LDS Church… ‘We are here with you… if one religion is attacked, all religions [are] attacked.’ It gives me a lot of comfort to live in this community… I’ve never felt that I’m in the minority here.” 🚨He openly admits: ⚠️He’s a Muslim running a “Catholic” refugee machine. Every single bed for the hundreds of refugees they import comes from the LDS (Mormon) Church. ⚠️He feels completely at home in Utah because Christians bend over backward with “interfaith” support, even right after 9/11, when America was still bleeding from radical Islamic terror. Notice the sick twist: While the country reeled from 9/11, Batar paints Muslims as the real victims who needed protecting. Meanwhile, he and his network keep the doors wide open. Meanwhile, Batar also leads the Islamic Society of Greater Salt Lake. When an American/Israeli flag showed up at a local mosque last year, he issued a statement, in his official capacity at Catholic Community Services, calling it a “hate crime.” This is the Red-Green Axis in action - radical leftists and Islam working together to destroy America from within. We keep welcoming people and entire families who quickly make it their mission to import their own country, erode our culture, and remake our nation in their image. The same pattern repeated with Muslim Brotherhood-linked leaders across America whose parents first arrived on student visas and simply stayed - to destroy us from within (They now operate their main hubs out of Florida and Texas) This is the very same refugee resettlement system that welcomed Batar’s family and helped build Utah’s Somali community - the system that enabled families like Liban Mohamed’s to put down roots and now produces the next generation of DSA political candidates. Aden Batar can now sit back and celebrate the radical his life’s work has created. Utah’s famous Mormon generosity is being weaponized against the very culture that built it. Christian compassion and taxpayer dollars → imported by Muslims → run by Muslims → for more Muslims. All while the crucifix stays on the sign for cover. This isn’t charity. This is demographic conquest disguised as compassion and it’s turning the Mormon State into the next target of the Red-Green invasion. Utahns - wake up. What are we doing? And when the hell does it stop?

Amy Mek

35,496 просмотров • 5 месяцев назад

🚨EXPOSED: How Tyler Bowyer is ALLEGEDLY Using TPUSA Donor Money to SEIZE the Utility that Stole His FAMILY'S Land. Listen to us very closely. While the media has you distracted by Washington D.C., the self-proclaimed COO of Turning Point Action Tyler Bowyer is quietly attempting to hijack an infrastructure empire in the American Southwest. This isn't a grassroots movement. This is Tyler Bowyer weaponizing Turning Point Action's donor treasury to execute a 20-year-old family vendetta with the SRP (Salt River Project) and capture the gatekeeping authority for billions of dollars in state and federal contracts. He is using your donor money to buy a boardroom. Myself and MIA have been pulling countless court documents, obituaries, federal Senate testimonies, and corporate filings. We are going to lay out exactly how Tyler Bowyer’s operation works. To protect ourselves from the legal hitmen these organizations employ, we are going to be crystal clear about what is DOCUMENTED FACT and what is INVESTIGATIVE SPECULATION. Read it, save it, and decide for yourselves. Here is the complete anatomy of the Salt River Project (SRP) Syndicate. 📉🕵️‍♂️ PART 1: THE FRONT AND THE LIE [THE FACTS]:On April 7, 2026, the Salt River Project (SRP) is holding a board election. SRP is a quasi-governmental powerhouse that controls five hydroelectric plants, a nuclear generating station, coal-fired plants, 1,200 miles of canals, and the water/power supply for over 2 million people. Tyler Bowyer, as the COO of Turning Point Action, is pouring massive amounts of Turning Point USA donor money into this obscure, low-turnout race. Bowyer explicitly told Axios that Turning Point "hasn't endorsed anyone," claiming the PAC is just there to register voters and stop "Green New Deal policies". He also publicly allied with Arizonans for Responsible Growth, a PAC run by Jimmy Lindblom—a heavy-construction company executive. However, despite Bowyer claiming no endorsements to the press, he and TPAction distributed official promotional graphics explicitly stating: "TURNING POINT ACTION ENDORSED" featuring a specific slate of candidates: Chris Dobson, Barry Paceley, Rusty Kennedy, and Kelly Cooper. [THE SPECULATION]:Why is the COO of a national youth conservative organization teaming up with a commercial construction executive to win a utility board? Because this isn't about the "Green New Deal." It’s about Tyler Bowyer using PAC money to decide who gets to act as the gatekeeper for billions of dollars in federal and state infrastructure contracts. 🚨 THE BIGGEST POLITICAL HEIST IN AMERICA IS BEING RUN BY ONE MAN, AND NOBODY IS TALKING ABOUT IT. 🚨 Listen to us very closely. While the media has you distracted by Washington D.C., the self-proclaimed COO of a massive conservative PAC is quietly attempting to hijack an infrastructure empire in the American Southwest. This isn't a grassroots movement. This is Tyler Bowyer weaponizing the Turning Point PAC (Turning Point Action) donor treasury to execute a 20-year-old family vendetta, potentially orchestrate a massive real estate payday for his own family, and capture the gatekeeping authority for billions of dollars in state and federal contracts. He is using your donor money to buy a boardroom. And he is trampling on the memory of the movement's founder to do it. We have spent weeks pulling court documents, obituaries, federal Senate testimonies, and photographs. We are going to lay out exactly how Tyler Bowyer’s operation works. To protect ourselves from the legal hitmen these organizations employ, we are going to be crystal clear about what is DOCUMENTED FACT and what is INVESTIGATIVE SPECULATION. Read it, save it, and decide for yourselves. Here is the complete anatomy of the Salt River Project (SRP) Syndicate. 📉🕵️‍♂️ PART 1: THE FRONT AND THE LIE [THE FACTS]:On April 7, 2026, the Salt River Project (SRP) is holding a board election. SRP is a quasi-governmental powerhouse that controls five hydroelectric plants, a nuclear generating station, coal-fired plants, 1,200 miles of canals, and the water/power supply for over 2 million people. Tyler Bowyer, as the COO of Turning Point Action, is pouring massive amounts of PAC donor money into this obscure, low-turnout race. Bowyer explicitly told Axios that Turning Point "hasn't endorsed anyone," claiming the PAC is just there to register voters and stop "Green New Deal policies". He also publicly allied with Arizonans for Responsible Growth, a PAC run by Jimmy Lindblom—a heavy-construction company executive. However, despite Bowyer claiming no endorsements to the press, he and TPAction distributed official promotional graphics explicitly stating: "TURNING POINT ACTION ENDORSED" featuring a specific slate of candidates: Chris Dobson, Barry Paceley, Rusty Kennedy, and Kelly Cooper. [THE SPECULATION]:Why is the COO of a national youth conservative organization teaming up with a commercial construction executive to win a utility board? Because this isn't about the "Green New Deal." It’s about Tyler Bowyer using PAC money to decide who gets to act as the gatekeeper for billions of dollars in federal and state infrastructure contracts. PART 2: THE 20-YEAR VENDETTA & THE "EASEMENT" PAYOFF [THE FACTS]:Tyler Bowyer omitted a massive, damning conflict of interest from the press and his donors. His grandfather, Ray Leonard Bowyer, worked for SRP for 25 years in the Water Operations Division. But it gets much darker. We pulled Maricopa County Superior Court minute entries and legal notices (Case No. CV2005-003419). In 2005, SRP filed an Eminent Domain lawsuit against Ray L. Bowyer, acting as the Trustee of his family’s trust. SRP forcefully condemned and seized Parcel No. 304-64-010B from the Bowyer family. U.S. Home Corp (a massive developer) was a co-defendant. The court minute entries reveal a legal slaughter: SRP aggressively changed judges right out of the gate. At the final hearing, SRP brought their top Senior Engineer, Freddie Dobbins Jr., to testify to the "necessity" of taking the land. The Bowyer family didn't even show up. They were unrepresented and steamrolled by the utility's legal machine. Crucially, the court records we have obtained thus far do not specify whether SRP used eminent domain to seize the full property outright, or if they only took a portion of it by forcing an "easement" across the land. [THE SPECULATION]:SRP didn't just take a piece of dirt; they destroyed a multi-million dollar family real estate deal. If SRP only forced an easement, the Bowyer family trust is still legally and financially tethered to that land. We theorize that Tyler Bowyer is weaponizing millions in unsuspecting PAC donor money to execute a hostile takeover of the utility that humiliated his family. If his slate wins, his family will be sitting across the negotiating table from people he put in power. That board can authorize massive payouts to buy the rest of the land, renegotiate the easement terms, or route new infrastructure through it. Tyler Bowyer's family could come out with a huge, undisclosed real estate payday funded by the very utility he is taking over. PART 3: THE TROJAN HORSE [THE FACTS]:Look at the top of the ticket that Bowyer's PAC endorsed. He is pushing Chris Dobson for SRP President. Chris Dobson is not a grassroots outsider—he is the current Vice President of the Salt River Project. [THE SPECULATION]:This is a corporate inside job. Bowyer isn't fighting the establishment; he is buying the boardroom. He is laundering political influence through his PAC to elevate the ultimate company insider, turning a public-private utility into a captive asset. PART 4: THE ULTIMATE DISRESPECT (THE MEMORIAL EXPLOITATION) [THE FACTS]:On September 21, 2025, a memorial was held in Glendale for Charlie Kirk. Photographs from the event show that Turning Point Action set up voter registration booths right at the memorial. The booths featured massive banners reading "CHARLIE WANTS YOU TO REGISTER TO VOTE" and were actively used to register attendees for the obscure SRP board elections. [THE SPECULATION]:This is where the moral bankruptcy of this syndicate is fully exposed. It is wrong on so many levels. While everyday conservatives and loved ones were mourning the tragic loss of a movement leader, Tyler Bowyer and TPAction were exploiting the crowd. Instead of worrying about memorializing Charlie with the respect he deserved, they were concerned with selling merch and using a funeral as a voter-harvesting event for their corporate utility takeover. They hijacked a tragedy to fund a family vendetta. PART 5: THE DOUBLE PAYOFF (THE SLUSH FUNDS) If Bowyer successfully uses Turning Point Donor money to win this board, he doesn't just get revenge—he unlocks two massive, multi-million dollar slush funds for his allies. PAYOUT 1: THE GRID [THE FACTS]: Erika Kirk (CEO of TPUSA) has a mother named Lori Frantzve. Lori Frantzve is the CEO of AZ Tech International and G-TEK Industries. Her specialty? EMP (Electromagnetic Pulse) protection and grid hardening. She has formally pitched the Arizona State Legislature on this exact need. [THE SPECULATION]: The newly installed, Bowyer-controlled board could turn around and award massive, multi-million dollar "Grid Hardening" contracts directly to the mother of TPUSA’s CEO. PAYOUT 2: THE 20-YEAR FORESTRY EMPIRE [THE FACTS]: We pulled a 2019 U.S. Senate Committee Statement regarding SRP. SRP doesn't just manage water; they heavily influence the management of a 13,000 square-mile watershed spanning five national forests. The document reveals that SRP signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) ensuring they get to "participate in the development... and review the selected contractors" for massive 20-year federal forest thinning projects. Just clearing the tiny Cragin watershed alone is estimated at $27 million. Furthermore, SRP lobbies for contracts to be paid out based on "avoided costs" (hypothetical prevented disaster savings) rather than the actual value of timber removed. [THE SPECULATION]: Whoever controls the SRP board controls the gatekeeping for 20-year federal forestry contracts. This is the ultimate untraceable government payout. Tyler Bowyer's syndicate can funnel tens of millions in federal land management contracts to allied construction and clearing firms using these "cost avoidance" metrics. PART 6: THE CORPORATE ARCHITECTURE & THE MORMON MAFIA [THE FACTS]:The Farnsworth family is a deeply entrenched network in Mesa, Arizona, and they provide the connective tissue for this entire operation: Jessica A. Farnsworth is currently a Process Analyst inside SRP. Chase Farnsworth is a Project Development Executive at Mortenson (a massive commercial construction firm), publicly monitoring and praising SRP's water releases. Dwayne Farnsworth is a corporate agent located right on Dobson Road. [THE SPECULATION]:To execute a takeover this large and route billions in grid hardening and federal forestry contracts, you need insiders, corporate builders, and legislative muscle. The Farnsworth network provides the architecture for Bowyer to move the money once the board is captured. THE BOTTOM LINE Conservative donors thought they were funding a grassroots PAC to save America. Instead, the evidence suggests their money is being used by Tyler Bowyer as a personal slush fund to execute a 20-year-old real estate revenge plot, launder political power for utility insiders, and capture the gatekeeping authority for billions of dollars in federal forestry and grid resilience contracts. And they are willing to step over Charlie's memorial to do it. The movement has been hijacked by one man running a corporate syndicate. It's time to follow the money, audit the grid contracts, and subpoena the watershed MOAs. 🇺🇸⚓️ Huge shoutout to the AMAZING MIA Who who teamed uop with me on this MASSIVE story. She's one of the best researchers out there and everyone should be FOLLOWING her!

🚨EXPOSED: How Tyler Bowyer is ALLEGEDLY Using TPUSA Donor Money to SEIZE the Utility that Stole His FAMILY'S Land. Listen to us very closely. While the media has you distracted by Washington D.C., the self-proclaimed COO of Turning Point Action Tyler Bowyer is quietly attempting to hijack an infrastructure empire in the American Southwest. This isn't a grassroots movement. This is Tyler Bowyer weaponizing Turning Point Action's donor treasury to execute a 20-year-old family vendetta with the SRP (Salt River Project) and capture the gatekeeping authority for billions of dollars in state and federal contracts. He is using your donor money to buy a boardroom. Myself and MIA have been pulling countless court documents, obituaries, federal Senate testimonies, and corporate filings. We are going to lay out exactly how Tyler Bowyer’s operation works. To protect ourselves from the legal hitmen these organizations employ, we are going to be crystal clear about what is DOCUMENTED FACT and what is INVESTIGATIVE SPECULATION. Read it, save it, and decide for yourselves. Here is the complete anatomy of the Salt River Project (SRP) Syndicate. 📉🕵️‍♂️ PART 1: THE FRONT AND THE LIE [THE FACTS]:On April 7, 2026, the Salt River Project (SRP) is holding a board election. SRP is a quasi-governmental powerhouse that controls five hydroelectric plants, a nuclear generating station, coal-fired plants, 1,200 miles of canals, and the water/power supply for over 2 million people. Tyler Bowyer, as the COO of Turning Point Action, is pouring massive amounts of Turning Point USA donor money into this obscure, low-turnout race. Bowyer explicitly told Axios that Turning Point "hasn't endorsed anyone," claiming the PAC is just there to register voters and stop "Green New Deal policies". He also publicly allied with Arizonans for Responsible Growth, a PAC run by Jimmy Lindblom—a heavy-construction company executive. However, despite Bowyer claiming no endorsements to the press, he and TPAction distributed official promotional graphics explicitly stating: "TURNING POINT ACTION ENDORSED" featuring a specific slate of candidates: Chris Dobson, Barry Paceley, Rusty Kennedy, and Kelly Cooper. [THE SPECULATION]:Why is the COO of a national youth conservative organization teaming up with a commercial construction executive to win a utility board? Because this isn't about the "Green New Deal." It’s about Tyler Bowyer using PAC money to decide who gets to act as the gatekeeper for billions of dollars in federal and state infrastructure contracts. 🚨 THE BIGGEST POLITICAL HEIST IN AMERICA IS BEING RUN BY ONE MAN, AND NOBODY IS TALKING ABOUT IT. 🚨 Listen to us very closely. While the media has you distracted by Washington D.C., the self-proclaimed COO of a massive conservative PAC is quietly attempting to hijack an infrastructure empire in the American Southwest. This isn't a grassroots movement. This is Tyler Bowyer weaponizing the Turning Point PAC (Turning Point Action) donor treasury to execute a 20-year-old family vendetta, potentially orchestrate a massive real estate payday for his own family, and capture the gatekeeping authority for billions of dollars in state and federal contracts. He is using your donor money to buy a boardroom. And he is trampling on the memory of the movement's founder to do it. We have spent weeks pulling court documents, obituaries, federal Senate testimonies, and photographs. We are going to lay out exactly how Tyler Bowyer’s operation works. To protect ourselves from the legal hitmen these organizations employ, we are going to be crystal clear about what is DOCUMENTED FACT and what is INVESTIGATIVE SPECULATION. Read it, save it, and decide for yourselves. Here is the complete anatomy of the Salt River Project (SRP) Syndicate. 📉🕵️‍♂️ PART 1: THE FRONT AND THE LIE [THE FACTS]:On April 7, 2026, the Salt River Project (SRP) is holding a board election. SRP is a quasi-governmental powerhouse that controls five hydroelectric plants, a nuclear generating station, coal-fired plants, 1,200 miles of canals, and the water/power supply for over 2 million people. Tyler Bowyer, as the COO of Turning Point Action, is pouring massive amounts of PAC donor money into this obscure, low-turnout race. Bowyer explicitly told Axios that Turning Point "hasn't endorsed anyone," claiming the PAC is just there to register voters and stop "Green New Deal policies". He also publicly allied with Arizonans for Responsible Growth, a PAC run by Jimmy Lindblom—a heavy-construction company executive. However, despite Bowyer claiming no endorsements to the press, he and TPAction distributed official promotional graphics explicitly stating: "TURNING POINT ACTION ENDORSED" featuring a specific slate of candidates: Chris Dobson, Barry Paceley, Rusty Kennedy, and Kelly Cooper. [THE SPECULATION]:Why is the COO of a national youth conservative organization teaming up with a commercial construction executive to win a utility board? Because this isn't about the "Green New Deal." It’s about Tyler Bowyer using PAC money to decide who gets to act as the gatekeeper for billions of dollars in federal and state infrastructure contracts. PART 2: THE 20-YEAR VENDETTA & THE "EASEMENT" PAYOFF [THE FACTS]:Tyler Bowyer omitted a massive, damning conflict of interest from the press and his donors. His grandfather, Ray Leonard Bowyer, worked for SRP for 25 years in the Water Operations Division. But it gets much darker. We pulled Maricopa County Superior Court minute entries and legal notices (Case No. CV2005-003419). In 2005, SRP filed an Eminent Domain lawsuit against Ray L. Bowyer, acting as the Trustee of his family’s trust. SRP forcefully condemned and seized Parcel No. 304-64-010B from the Bowyer family. U.S. Home Corp (a massive developer) was a co-defendant. The court minute entries reveal a legal slaughter: SRP aggressively changed judges right out of the gate. At the final hearing, SRP brought their top Senior Engineer, Freddie Dobbins Jr., to testify to the "necessity" of taking the land. The Bowyer family didn't even show up. They were unrepresented and steamrolled by the utility's legal machine. Crucially, the court records we have obtained thus far do not specify whether SRP used eminent domain to seize the full property outright, or if they only took a portion of it by forcing an "easement" across the land. [THE SPECULATION]:SRP didn't just take a piece of dirt; they destroyed a multi-million dollar family real estate deal. If SRP only forced an easement, the Bowyer family trust is still legally and financially tethered to that land. We theorize that Tyler Bowyer is weaponizing millions in unsuspecting PAC donor money to execute a hostile takeover of the utility that humiliated his family. If his slate wins, his family will be sitting across the negotiating table from people he put in power. That board can authorize massive payouts to buy the rest of the land, renegotiate the easement terms, or route new infrastructure through it. Tyler Bowyer's family could come out with a huge, undisclosed real estate payday funded by the very utility he is taking over. PART 3: THE TROJAN HORSE [THE FACTS]:Look at the top of the ticket that Bowyer's PAC endorsed. He is pushing Chris Dobson for SRP President. Chris Dobson is not a grassroots outsider—he is the current Vice President of the Salt River Project. [THE SPECULATION]:This is a corporate inside job. Bowyer isn't fighting the establishment; he is buying the boardroom. He is laundering political influence through his PAC to elevate the ultimate company insider, turning a public-private utility into a captive asset. PART 4: THE ULTIMATE DISRESPECT (THE MEMORIAL EXPLOITATION) [THE FACTS]:On September 21, 2025, a memorial was held in Glendale for Charlie Kirk. Photographs from the event show that Turning Point Action set up voter registration booths right at the memorial. The booths featured massive banners reading "CHARLIE WANTS YOU TO REGISTER TO VOTE" and were actively used to register attendees for the obscure SRP board elections. [THE SPECULATION]:This is where the moral bankruptcy of this syndicate is fully exposed. It is wrong on so many levels. While everyday conservatives and loved ones were mourning the tragic loss of a movement leader, Tyler Bowyer and TPAction were exploiting the crowd. Instead of worrying about memorializing Charlie with the respect he deserved, they were concerned with selling merch and using a funeral as a voter-harvesting event for their corporate utility takeover. They hijacked a tragedy to fund a family vendetta. PART 5: THE DOUBLE PAYOFF (THE SLUSH FUNDS) If Bowyer successfully uses Turning Point Donor money to win this board, he doesn't just get revenge—he unlocks two massive, multi-million dollar slush funds for his allies. PAYOUT 1: THE GRID [THE FACTS]: Erika Kirk (CEO of TPUSA) has a mother named Lori Frantzve. Lori Frantzve is the CEO of AZ Tech International and G-TEK Industries. Her specialty? EMP (Electromagnetic Pulse) protection and grid hardening. She has formally pitched the Arizona State Legislature on this exact need. [THE SPECULATION]: The newly installed, Bowyer-controlled board could turn around and award massive, multi-million dollar "Grid Hardening" contracts directly to the mother of TPUSA’s CEO. PAYOUT 2: THE 20-YEAR FORESTRY EMPIRE [THE FACTS]: We pulled a 2019 U.S. Senate Committee Statement regarding SRP. SRP doesn't just manage water; they heavily influence the management of a 13,000 square-mile watershed spanning five national forests. The document reveals that SRP signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) ensuring they get to "participate in the development... and review the selected contractors" for massive 20-year federal forest thinning projects. Just clearing the tiny Cragin watershed alone is estimated at $27 million. Furthermore, SRP lobbies for contracts to be paid out based on "avoided costs" (hypothetical prevented disaster savings) rather than the actual value of timber removed. [THE SPECULATION]: Whoever controls the SRP board controls the gatekeeping for 20-year federal forestry contracts. This is the ultimate untraceable government payout. Tyler Bowyer's syndicate can funnel tens of millions in federal land management contracts to allied construction and clearing firms using these "cost avoidance" metrics. PART 6: THE CORPORATE ARCHITECTURE & THE MORMON MAFIA [THE FACTS]:The Farnsworth family is a deeply entrenched network in Mesa, Arizona, and they provide the connective tissue for this entire operation: Jessica A. Farnsworth is currently a Process Analyst inside SRP. Chase Farnsworth is a Project Development Executive at Mortenson (a massive commercial construction firm), publicly monitoring and praising SRP's water releases. Dwayne Farnsworth is a corporate agent located right on Dobson Road. [THE SPECULATION]:To execute a takeover this large and route billions in grid hardening and federal forestry contracts, you need insiders, corporate builders, and legislative muscle. The Farnsworth network provides the architecture for Bowyer to move the money once the board is captured. THE BOTTOM LINE Conservative donors thought they were funding a grassroots PAC to save America. Instead, the evidence suggests their money is being used by Tyler Bowyer as a personal slush fund to execute a 20-year-old real estate revenge plot, launder political power for utility insiders, and capture the gatekeeping authority for billions of dollars in federal forestry and grid resilience contracts. And they are willing to step over Charlie's memorial to do it. The movement has been hijacked by one man running a corporate syndicate. It's time to follow the money, audit the grid contracts, and subpoena the watershed MOAs. 🇺🇸⚓️ Huge shoutout to the AMAZING MIA Who who teamed uop with me on this MASSIVE story. She's one of the best researchers out there and everyone should be FOLLOWING her!

Project Constitution

129,996 просмотров • 6 месяцев назад