stock here: Supporting Rumble as they are attacked via the Russell Brand debacle.

stock here: I will try this. It’s odd, it is up on YouTube, but when I embedded, and tried twice, it says unavailable. So below I put it on Bitchute….depower the tyrant censors, go to Rumble or Bitchute.

stock here: I have made tinctures, using Olive Oil, or Vodka. good friends came by for a party and a garden walk, we I learned that Glycerine is an even better Tincture medium for many things. Here is the backgrounder for you.

I’ll be making some Feverfew in Glycerine, before winter comes. Feverfew is a huge plant, with massive, vigourous flowers that pollinators love. It really took over my raised bed medicinal garden, by sheer size, so I will want to make several pints that can be preserved for at least several years. I may plant it “wild” somewhere nearby.

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https://ask2.extension.org/kb/faq.php?id=714650

This is a good question. Whether or not something can be safely stored at room temperature depends on several factors – these can include the acid level (pH), available water (water activity), and quality changes due to light or oxidation. The type of packaging used, the presence of oxygen in the package, and many other things will also impact the quality of your product long term.

For your tincture, the primary component that could make your product shelf stable (able to be stored at room temperature) would be to control the available water.  This is accomplished with the glycerin. High levels of glycerin (greater than 55% of the total volume or higher) will keep the available water of your tincture low enough (water activity <0.75) that it will not mold. If the glycerin content is lower than 55%, then it would likely mold.  If the glycerin content is too low (less than 25%), then there is enough water available that some of the bad bacteria (pathogens) could grow in your tincture (and it would likely mold).

From a chemical perspective, some of the beneficial components in your tincture will breakdown with light exposure, at higher temperature (room temp versus refrigerator), and over time. Therefore, the quality of your tincture would be the highest if you stored the tincture in a dark container and in the refrigerator.

For more info on the benefits and harms of elderberries, you may want to take a look at this article: 0247X”>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S<personal data hidden>0247X

Hope this helps.Joy

Joy Waite-Cusic Replied August 25, 2020, 12:58 PM EDT

stock here: I will put the YouTube version to see when it gets censored. I’ll put it on Bitchute also. Seems like YouTube instantly censors any link to Bitchute, understandable, but also crappy.

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33682878

It’s Octoberfest in my neck of the woods, the big celebration is all this weekend. It’s primarily northern European in this area, although much of the entertainers are more “ethnic”. Noted that last year there were very few mask wearers in public, but the year before I would say 97% of the mask wearers were non-white. The theory is that many of these are immigrants who just never got fully a hold of the idea of freedom and lack of government control over areas they should have no control over. Just saying, it’s odd, I would think it to be the other way. It’s an observation, I see it in other venues also.

OK, back to the point of the article….Country Music. The rapid rise of Oliver Anthony (not his real name) is a sign that many people are tired of the bullshit forced upon us, and ready to get back to their roots.

stock here: it only took 6 weeks for this partial “mainstream” news source to question the Lahaina narratives. I tried putting the direct link to Bitchute in YouTube comments and it was censored within a minute both times. So then I put it here, so I could link via nukepro…and same thing. I have one more route to try and shall report back.

stock here: this story remains important, the intentional torching of Lahaina. At 2:15 the nearly impossible head movements reminded me exactly of the Oppenheimer video of the devil taking his soul.

stock here: I wasn’t going to publish on this issue, but this is even worse than I thought. Odd though, I can’t find the base data in the article, that is concerning. Pretty sure I have Kirsch’s email so will ask for it directly.

https://vigilantfox.substack.com/p/steve-kirsch-we-cant-find-an-autistic

“All these vaccines are causing harm to our kids. It’s not just the COVID vaccines,” attested

Steve Kirsch. “If you compare the results of kids whose moms didn’t get vaccinated, no [vitamin] K shot, and no vaccines, and if you compare the outcomes of those kids versus kids who got the CDC schedule, there is a dramatic difference,” he emphasized.

“It is a difference that nobody wants to talk about … The fully unvaccinated kids are always healthier.”

For those intrigued or new to this issue, here’s The Control Group Data, as presented by Dr. Paul Thomas.

The Control Group Data – Vaccinated / Unvaccinated:

• Chronic Conditions – 60% / 5.71%

• Arthritis – 16.67% / 0%

• Heart Disease – 48% / 0%

• Diabetes – 10% / 0%

• Asthma – 7.7% / 0%

• Autism – 2.5% / 0%

• ADHD – 9.4% / 0.47%

• Cancer – 6.0% / 0%

Someone in the comments disagrees with Steve Kirsch

Hmmmm….Looks like Item 1 is a Canard, and Item 2 is non-supported.

Anecdotal evidence is evidence based only on personal observation, collected in a casual or non-systematic manner.

And here is a bunch more stuff!!!

Prof. Fred NazarWrites Scientific Progress Jun 29·edited Jun 29Complete list of studies comparing vaxxed with unvaxxed:Mothers who don’t vaccinate their children are the most educated ones:Smith, P. J., Chu, S. Y., & Barker, L. E. (2004). Children who have received no vaccines: who are they and where do they live?. Pediatrics, 114(1), 187–195. https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.114.1.187 Why? Unlike pediatricians, those mothers actually READ the scientific literature comparing vaxxed v. unvaxxed children:https://www.thecontrolgroup.org/https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/the-data-is-clear-the-more-vaccines/—————-https://childrenshealthdefense.org/news/fully-vaccinated-vs-unvaccinated/ CDC’s Unpublished Verstraeten Study on HepB Showed Dramatic Increased Risk of Autism (7.6X), Sleep Disorders (5X), Speech Disorders (2.1X) and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (1.8X)Thomas M. Verstraeten, R. Davies, D. Gu, F DeStefano Increased risk of developmental neurologic impairment after high exposure to thimerosal-containing vaccine in first month of life. 1999 CDChttps://yale62.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Verstraeten-Thomas-M.D.-et-al-CDC-1999.pdf———DTP and Tetanus Vaccinations Increase the Odds of Allergies (1.63X) in ChildrenHurwitz, E. L., & Morgenstern, H. (2000). Effects of diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis or tetanus vaccination on allergies and allergy-related respiratory symptoms among children and adolescents in the United States. Journal of manipulative and physiological therapeutics, 23(2), 81–90. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10714532/———–Hepatitis B Vaccines Increase the Odds for Special Education by 8.63XGallagher CM, Goodman M. Hepatitis B triple series vaccine and developmental disability in US children aged 1–9 years. 13 Nov 2008 Toxicological & Environmental Chemistry Vol 90 Is 5 Ps 997-1008 https://doi.org/10.1080/02772240701806501———-Hepatitis B Vaccines in Male Newborns Increased the Odds of Autism 3XGallagher CM, Goodman MS. Hepatitis B Vaccination of Male Neonates and Autism Diagnosis, NHIS 1997–2002. 6 Nov 2010 Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Part A 73(24), 1665–1677. https://doi.org/10.1080/15287394.2010.519317 ———-Flu Shot Increases Rate of Non-Flu Infection 4.4XCowling, B. J., Fang, V. J., Nishiura, H., Chan, K. H., Ng, S., Ip, D. K., Chiu, S. S., Leung, G. M., & Peiris, J. S. (2012). Increased risk of noninfluenza respiratory virus infections associated with receipt of inactivated influenza vaccine. Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 54(12), 1778–1783. https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/cis307 ———-DTP Increases Mortality in Girls 10X, boys 5xMogensen, S. W., Andersen, A., Rodrigues, A., Benn, C. S., & Aaby, P. The Introduction of Diphtheria-Tetanus-Pertussis and Oral Polio Vaccine Among Young Infants in an Urban African Community: A Natural Experiment. 1 Feb 2017 EBioMedicine, 17, 192–198. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ebiom.2017.01.041 “DTP was associated with 5-fold higher mortality than being unvaccinated. No prospective study has shown beneficial survival effects of DTP. “”It should be of concern that the effect of routine vaccinations on all-cause mortality was not tested in randomized trials. All currently available evidence suggests that DTP vaccine may kill more children from other causes than it saves from diphtheria, tetanus or pertussis. Though a vaccine protects children against the target disease it may simultaneously increase susceptibility to unrelated infections.”———-Vaccination of Preemies Increased Odds of Neurodevelopmental Disorders 6.6XMawson AR, Bhuiyan AR, Jacob B, Ray BD. Preterm birth, vaccination and neurodevelopmental disorders: a cross-sectional study of 6- to 12-year-old vaccinated and unvaccinated children. Apr 2017 https://oatext.com/pdf/JTS-3-187.pdf ———-Vaccination Increases Risk of Allergic Rhinitis (30X), Allergy (3.1X), ADHD (4.2X), Autism (4.2X) Eczema (2.9X), Learning Disability (5.2X) and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (3.7X).Mawson AR, Ray BD, Bhuiyan AR, Jacob B. Pilot comparative study on the health of vaccinated and unvaccinated 6- to 12-year-old U.S. children.24 Apr 2017. Journal of Translational Science 3: https://doi.org/10.15761/JTS.1000186 https://archive.is/PwUrN————— Vaccinated children were more than three times as likely to be diagnosed on the Autism Spectrum than unvaccinated children Vaccinated children were 30-fold more likely to be diagnosed with allergic rhinitis (hay fever) than non-vaccinated children Vaccinated children were 22-fold more likely to require an allergy medication Vaccinated children had more than quadruple the risk of being diagnosed with a learning disability than unvaccinated children Vaccinated children were 300 percent more likely to be diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder than unvaccinated children Vaccinated children were 340 percent more likely to have been diagnosed with pneumonia than unvaccinated children Vaccinated children were 300 percent more likely to be diagnosed with an ear infection than unvaccinated children Vaccinated children were 700 percent more likely to have surgery to insert ear drainage tubes than unvaccinated children Vaccinated children were 2.5-fold more likely to be diagnosed with any chronic illness than unvaccinated childrenhttps://www.nvkp.nl/fileadmin/nvkp/pdf/VaccinatedUnvaccinated.pdfhttps://deeprootsathome.com/vaccinated-unvaccinated-healthier/ ——————–“higher ORs were observed within the vaccinated versus unvaccinated group for developmental delays, asthma and ear infections.”Hooker, B. S., & Miller, N. Z. (2020). Analysis of health outcomes in vaccinated and unvaccinated children: Developmental delays, asthma, ear infections and gastrointestinal disorders. SAGE open medicine, 8, 2050312120925344. https://doi.org/10.1177/2050312120925344 ——————–Lyons-Weiler, J., & Thomas, P. (2020). Relative Incidence of Office Visits and Cumulative Rates of Billed Diagnoses Along the Axis of Vaccination. International journal of environmental research and public health, 17(22), 8674. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17228674 (Retraction published Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Jul 22;18(15):)https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/unvaccinated-children-healthier-than-vaccinated-children/ If you’ve got more studies, please share: I’ll be soon publishing the complete list.In the meantime we need a law to force Government to release the data:16 laws we need to exit Extermination PlanetPolitics got us in, politics is the way out … after prayers!https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/laws-to-exit-planet-prison

stock here: Now there is no indication of how bad the “hazing” was. On second read, it was curious that both the men and women’s program were both suspended. How much of this is Woke-Ism? At Boston College, probably a lot.

Boston College Suspends Swimming, Diving Programs Due To Hazing Concerns

Most hazing is not violent or harmful – pretty lightweight……..wear a silly hat in the cafeteria……….

But if we are trying to raise yet another generation of delicate snowflakes, then let’s compete to see who can be the woke-ist, with safe spaces, micro-aggressions & weeping rooms..

But only one side of the debate will fall for such losing strategies……..

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My Statement

Yep the libs, so easily co-opted by the authoritarian left, are amazingly stupid when the left panders to their emotional pre-dispositions.

How true — and they don’t give a rip that we know.

Mr. Garland will face dozens of questions from Republicans and Democrats, some of them dovetailing with the impeachment inquiry that will be led by the Oversight and Accountability panel, which plans to hold its first hearing on Sept. 28.

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https://archive.ph/EZlSy#selection-2993.0-3121.182

Here are some of the toughest questions Mr. Garland should have to answer on Wednesday. 

1. What did he tell David Weiss about his authority as Delaware’s U.S. attorney to charge President Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, in the department’s investigation of his tax fraud and gun crimes? Was he aware of the sweetheart plea deal that would have provided him blanket immunity?

Mr. Garland told Senate lawmakers at a March hearing Mr. Weiss “has full authority” to bring cases against Hunter Biden in any jurisdiction.

It contradicts IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley’s notes from an Oct. 7, 2022 meeting with Mr. Weiss, in which he said Mr. Weiss told FBI and IRS officials “he is not the deciding person” on whether to charge the president’s son.

Justice Department officials offered Hunter Biden a series of plea deals to settle the case and at one point was negotiating a deal in which the president’s son would not be charged with anything at all. 

2. Should former President Trump be imprisoned if he is convicted of the charges he is facing in two federal criminal cases?

Special counsel Jack Smith has levied more than 40 criminal charges against Mr. Trump, 77, over his possession and handling of classified government materials and for his actions following the 2020 presidential election. The charges carry sentences that add up to 175 years in prison for Mr. Trump, who is the likely 2024 Republican presidential nominee.

3. What is the status of Special counsel Robert Hur’s investigation into President Biden’s possession of classified documents dating back to his vice presidency and time as a U.S. Senator from Delaware?

Mr. Garland appointed Mr. Hur special counsel on Jan. 12 to investigate Mr. Biden’s handling of dozens of boxes of documents that included classified records found. The documents were found at his think tank in Washington and at his home in Wilmington, Delaware.

Mr. Biden recently said there are no plans for him to speak to Mr. Hur as part of the investigation and Mr. Hur has not signaled a timetable for completing the investigation. 

Mr. Hur’s probe is moving much slower than the Justice Department’s investigation of Mr. Trump’s classified documents. Mr. Garland appointed Jack Smith special counsel in November 2022 to investigate the Trump case. Mr. Smith concluded his investigation and indicted Mr. Trump in June. 

4. What steps is the Justice Department taking to alleviate a massive backlog in the immigration courts that has fueled the Biden administration’s catch-and-release policy?

Mr. Jordan, Ohio Republican, has been unable to obtain information from the Justice Department on how it has been running the immigration courts and the administration’s refusal to pursue immigration cases.

The Executive Office of Immigration Review, which is run by the Justice Department, had a backlog of nearly 2 million cases as of March, up from roughly 1.3 million cases at the end of 2020. The backlog coincides with a massive migrant surge from Mexico and has resulted in the release of many migrants, who have flooded not only Texas and Arizona, but also New York City and other municipalities, overwhelming schools and government services. 

5. What actions is the Justice Department taking to deal with the drastic crime surge in the nation’s capital?

Carjackings, robberies and murders have become so rampant that congressional staffers recently were warned to take precautions when using public transportation or walking city streets.

In a year-to-date comparison, there were 148 murders in the city in 2022 and 191 murders so far this year.

House Republicans blame the rising crime on U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Matthew Graves, who they say has engaged in a pattern of not prosecuting crimes and allowing dangerous criminals back onto the streets.

stock here–I don’t agree with this entirely, maybe not at all, she makes the point that once controlled opposition, always controlled opposition. A home security video came out of a pretty famous humorous Internet guy, who often had the story right. This is real….he was verbally abusing his very pregnant wife who just wanted to use the car, she needed supplies, and he was also denying her the car, just in case he might want to go (Mark Dice) somewhere later. He is on my shit list forever, I will never give him a eyeball again.

The writer says she knew him personally (Russell).

I propose that some controlled opposition, pushed into fame, can actually go rogue and step outside their Overton Window. What do you think? You know I am a sound bite kind of guy, say it in a minute, or you either don’t know the subject well enough, or you don’t know the subject, or know it wrongly. I accuse her of writing far too much to make a point. The book she mentions is of interest though!! Not sure I want to even read that…even though I know much of it to be true, I may not accept that it is ubiquitous. Moby Dick springs to mind, richly ambiguous.

Googling that phrase, it’s hilarious that Wikipedia pretends that the Overton Window only applies to Governmental discussions.

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=Overton+Window.&atb=v343-1&ia=web

https://miri.substack.com/p/the-re-branding-of-russell

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Russell Brand has the strange distinction in my life of being the subject matter of quite probably the oddest argument I have ever had. It was back in the early 2010s, some time before either he or myself had become a theoriser of conspiracies, and I was at the time flat-sharing in North London with a friend I will call Jake.

Jake and I had known each other for several years, my having inherited him from an old university friend of his, who was an old sixth-form friend of mine, and for the most part, we got along very well – even managing to pay all our bills and get to our respective work places on time, despite the fact we lived right in between two rather magnificent pubs (The Old Dairy and “that other one up the road”, for anyone who is familiar with the vicinity).

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One evening, we had nipped into the aforementioned hostelry for a quick drink, and the usually upbeat Jake was in a bad mood.

“What’s the matter?” I asked, as he sat there silently, sullenly sipping his pint.

“Hmph,” said Jake, scowling at me.

“What?!” I said, rather alarmed, wondering if I’d forgotten to pay the electricity bill or played music too loud or “borrowed” some of his food (the usual flatmate sins).

“I wish you’d all just admit it,” said Jake darkly.

“Who’s ‘you all’ and admit what?”

“Women!”Declared Jake with feeling, banging his now empty pint glass on the table. “And that you’re all in love with Russell Brand!”

“Erm… what?!”

“It’s true,” said Jake broodily. “This secret obsession with Russell Brand you all have.”

I knew very well who Russell Brand was (didn’t everyone at the time?) and did indeed have some feelings about him, but a secret obsession tantamount to love was not quite how I would describe them.

“Jake, listen to me very carefully,” I said. “I cannot stand Russell Brand. I think he’s slimy and awful and deeply unattractive in every possible respect. In fact, he reminds me of Rasputin.”

“Hm, yes, well,” muttered Jake. “I believe he was quite popular with the ladies too, wasn’t he?”

I failed to convince Jake that Russell Brand was not in fact the subject of the secret obsession of all women (although you will all be pleased to hear that Jake is now happily married to a woman definitely not obsessed with Russell Brand – she’s not English and had never heard of him – and yes, I checked), but as Brand’s star has continued to rise to ever more ridiculous levels of meteoric fame, that conversation stuck in my head.

It’s clear that the establishment went to great lengths to present Brand to us as a deeply desirable “sex God” that all women lusted after and all men wanted to be, a psy-op that had already become extremely successful nearly 15 years ago, to the extent that my own flatmate who I had known for years would not believe me when I stated I really did not find Brand attractive at all (and once you see the Rasputin thing, you really can’t unsee it) – because the social scripting stated that this was impossible. That Brand was just so oozing in appeal that he was every woman’s “guilty pleasure”, even if they wouldn’t admit it.

Jake obviously knew several women who fitted into this category, and it has since been confirmed to me by other men that, yes, female acquaintances of the time were always fawning over Brand and making comments like, “ooh, I wouldn’t mind bumping into him in a dark alley” (personally I can’t imagine anything more terrifying, other than perhaps him having his mate Harari with him).

Well, here is the point – the establishment does not propel someone to this utterly ridiculous level of engineered desirability unless that person has a very important role to play later on.

Russell Brand has been a constant fixture in the establishment media for years, perennially presented to us as a super-in-demand stud, the womaniser of the millennium, and so on and so forth, and so now here he is with the inevitable “sex scandal”.

Do I believe the allegations? Sure, probably – I mean, insofar as “do I believe he is guilty of doing very bad and possibly illegal things to women”, yes. I believe this because very few people are permitted to ascend to such a dizzying level of talking-head fame as Brand has achieved without being a deeply disreputable character with various perversions and addictions that the deep state uses to control them. And Brand has made no secret of his various vices. If that’s what he’s prepared to be open about, it strongly suggests the real story is even darker – because it generally is with the super-famous.

To be clear, a person could become “legitimately” famous at something where you have no political influence – such as being a sports star – without having these kind of character deficits, as sports stars are generally (not exclusively but generally) only famous for their sporting ability, and not because of their personalities or opinions e.g., I do not believe that the snooker star Steve Davies is a secret sex fiend with a well-established heroin habit that the deep state uses to control him, because Steve Davies has never volunteered any controversial opinions on the world stage, nor tried to wield any wider social influence. He just plays snooker. But when someone is propelled to fame on the basis of their character, becoming well-known for their views and opinions, meaning they are clearly meant to have significant influence on shaping the national narrative – then they are highly likely to be under the control of shady higher-ups.

It’s always been this way and always will be. You don’t achieve colossal international household-name levels of fame (to the extent men genuinely believe “all women are secretly in love with you”) unless “they” own and control you, and the way “they” own and control you is through threats and blackmail over your vices. So, for everyone playing a prominent role on the world stage in terms of wielding very significant political/social influence, their handlers most likely have incriminating footage of them involving sex or drugs or both (or worse), and the ever-present threat of that footage being leaked and their careers destroyed is how they’re kept in line.

For more on that (and if you’ve got a strong stomach), please read the book ‘The Abuse of Power‘, which is a non-“conspiratorial” tome, written by a now elderly man who, in his early twenties and desperate for cash, got sucked into the seedy underbelly of London’s “elite” sex trade – where his main clients were high-flying members of the country’s political and social elite. The kind of things he described witnessing are horrific (and exactly in line with all the “conspiracy theories” about what the ruling classes get up to in private) and he names names.

He’s never been sued for what he’s written, and there is no reason not to believe what he says, so I do. He explains this is how it is for all very powerful men – to achieve and maintain power, wealth, status, and influence, they have to be deeply compromised so they can be controlled. If they do not agree to participate in the kind of activities that would make them compromised, their career progression abruptly grinds to a halt and they never achieve the kind of fame where millions of people around the world know who they are. Anyone who makes it to that level will have “dirt” on them, otherwise they’re too much of a potential liability. A “clean” person with worldwide fame could change the world for the better, so that will never be allowed – only “dirty” people who can be controlled through fear of exposure are allowed to become very visible and influential in a way that shapes global political/social narratives.

So, the overwhelming balance of probability is that anyone who is permitted to become super-famous has deeply incriminating dirt on them, and that it’s far worse than the grey-area “his word against hers” stuff that is being thrown at Russell Brand as part of the current media pantomime. It’s the kind of stuff that would put someone’s life in imminent and immediate danger from vigilante mobs, and for someone as visible and recognisable as Brand, they probably wouldn’t last the week .

Yet now we are told, in response to these vague unsubstantiated allegations that could easily be false and that at least half of people don’t believe, that “the media is trying to destroy Russell Brand because he speaks the truth!!”- to which I laugh, and say, right, so he’s headline news in EVERY newspaper, he’s the leading story on EVERY television news broadcast, almost every person in the country is talking about him (scroll social media and his name comes up every other post), and he’s being “destroyed”?

Come on, have we learned nothing?!

He’s not being “destroyed” any more than Andrew Tate was when the legacy media conspired to make him an international household name by giving him blanket news coverage every minute of every day.

“But they were saying mean things about him!! That proves he’s on our side!!”

Of course they were saying mean things, because someone can’t be presented as an “anti-establishment hero” to the masses if the establishment purports to be nice about them, can they?

The media engages in theatre, Punch ‘n’ Judy politics, by presenting heroes and villains for you to boo and hiss at, or rally and cheer for, depending on your particular political preferences.

If you are a “normie” who is reacting to the Brand story by condemning him as a crazy conpiraloon predator who needs to be locked up – you are reacting exactly as the media wants you to.

If you are a “conspiracy theorist” who is reacting by defending Brand and declaring he is a truth-telling hero who “the media is trying to destroy because he speaks the truth!” – you’re reacting exactly as the media wants you to.

Punch ‘n’ Judy. Bread and circuses. Play both sides (the media always does).

The truth is that Brand (just like Musk and Tate – who have immediately leapt to his defence, what a surprise!) is just another actor and establishment-intelligence asset being used to manage the opposition. He was propelled to super-human levels of fame, just like Musk and Tate have been too, to get everyone invested in him and talking about him so their strings can be pulled in the desired way every time he is seen to do something.

This whole “sex scandal” thing is just staged theatre – which is, as I say, not to say he’s not guilty of significant sexual crimes, he very probably is, but what you’re seeing him accused of on television may very well not be true. However, even if it is true, it certainly hasn’t “destroyed” him – it’s made him more famous than ever and that is the point.

This psy-op seems to serve various functions, the first one being (as a lot of the other big name CO accounts are so keen to tell us):

“This is a warning. If they’ve come for Russell, they’ll come for you too. None of us is safe!”

To which I say (pardon my Francais, but) bullshit. I’ve been speaking out publicly for years, have written directly to multiple government officials accusing them of maiming and murdering the populace, and so on and so forth, and know what has happened to me?

Nothing. Quite literally, nothing – as in, they totally ignore me and conspire to ensure everyone else does too, by endlessly censoring and shadow-banning me and booting me off platforms to keep my reach very low. They don’t do that to “heroes” like Brand, Bridgen, and Tate now, do they? Those guys have massive social media followings – audiences they are not shadow-banned from reaching – and are always in the mainstream press.

Just to be clear, Russell Brand. has over eleven million followers on Twitter. That’s (significantly) more than the UK Prime Minister. He has over six million on YouTube, when any legit content creator will tell you YouTube is one of the most censorious platforms in the world and very quick to ban even small accounts (I only have 1k followers and they’ve already removed two of my videos – once a third is taken down, I’ll be banned).

If Brand wasn’t 100% controlled, he would never have been permitted to achieve such a phenomenal degree of influence – he has the Twitter following of a small country and is better known than many high-ranking politicians. It is simply not possible to rise to that level of visibility without the full collaboration of the establishment, but if – as some claim – “well, he started out controlled but now he’s not” – if that was so, he would just be de-platformed and censored to remove his influence. He would be taken off the big social media platforms and the mainstream media wouldn’t give him coverage.

Because that’s how you destroy someone or something from having any significance or power. You ignore it. You starve it of the one thing any person or cause needs to stay “relevant” – publicity. And it really is true that there’s no such thing as bad publicity, so when you want to “destroy” someone, you don’t make them international front page news and give them their own documentary on Channel 4.

I mean, come on, really? If that’s the establishment “destroying” someone, I sure wish they would try and “destroy” me, as I’m sure all us small-fish, perennially censored, shadow-banned and struggling content creators do, too. (And no – eye-roll emoji, face-palm emoji – I am not “jealous of all the attention” Brand or whoever gets, I’m pointing out that the establishment only ever gives significant, sustained attention to its own. Everyone else, it suppresses and ignores.)

If you want to know how the establishment deals with one of its own who they genuinely want to destroy, who they genuinely want to prevent from having significance or influence, look at the case of Milo Yiannopoulous. Milo was an absolute superstar six years ago, everyone knew his name (even if they couldn’t pronounce it) and everyone was talking about him.

Yet now, can you remember the last time you saw a headline – or even a brief snippet on page 37 – about him?

Nope. Because his career really was destroyed – by the establishment refusing to pay him any more attention, so everyone forgot about him. (Milo was removed because he went severely off-script and started making allegations about protected industry big names in a misjudged attempt to save his own skin – it backfired and they’re still protected and powerful whilst his career has collapsed.)

If they wanted to destroy Brand, they’d do that to him, too. Boot him off all social media and stop saying anything about him at all in the mainstream press. He would be largely forgotten in a matter of months, just as happened to Milo.

So that’s not what they’re doing. Instead, they’re making him even more famous to increase his influence sphere even further, and they have a variety of goals in mind with this. The first is to scare you out of speaking out as we hurtle into the next act of the pantomime plague (“they’ll come for you too”, say the big name accounts ominously, coded warning, so you’d better shut up).

There are very likely to be other agendas, too, and one possibility we have to consider is that the allegations will be “proven false”, just as appears to have happened with the Tates. That the accusers will recant, or they will be cross-examined and found to be lying, or whatever the scriptwriters come up with, to ultimately exonerate Brand.

What would be the takeaway message there? That women lie and that their testimonies can’t be trusted in a court of law as much as a man’s can – just as sharia law, which Andrew Tate is a vigorous proponent of, says – and as would be in line with the ultra-conservative revolution it seems our society is heading for.

Note how sensationally quickly Elon Musk, Andrew Tate, and my old friend Laurence “Lizzo” Fox leapt to Brand’s defence, when – if we were to take this whole scenario at face value – they couldn’t possibly have had the time to source enough information to so publicly stake their reputations on his being innocent. They’re going to look incredibly daft if he’s found guilty, lose all credibility – and their handlers and managers would be unlikely to permit them to take such a potentially brand-wrecking risk unless they had some kind of insider intel assuring them this was a wise public move to make.

Alternatively, the whole thing is being staged intentionally to undermine the credibility of “conspiracy theorists”, as all the big “conspiracy” names have instantly jumped on the Brand bandwagon, so if it is confirmed he’s an evil sex predator, their reputations (and by association, their political beliefs) will be trashed, too. They’ve just been far too quick and coordinated in their endeavours to defend him (when coming to a genuine view takes consideration and time), so they’ve obviously been ordered to, and for what ultimate goal, it remains to be seen.

Whatever the endgame is with this, it’s all ultimately just another tedious bit of media theatre designed to manage the masses and increase the influence of another controlled opposition “hero” – who is now either “being unfairly persecuted, just like Andrew Tate!” – or “an obvious wrong ‘un with his loony views now getting his just deserts”, depending on which media-managed camp you fall into.

In reality, he’s neither. He’s an actor playing a part, just as – in the sphere of politics and talking heads – every single household name in the world is. Because if they’re not, they’re not permitted to become household names (and if they go seriously off-script, they’re “Milo’d”). They want you infatuated with these “heroes” they control so you feel appeased that “something’s being done!” and you don’t get active on the grass roots level and do something yourself. So no, it’s not that “everyone’s controlled opposition” – it’s that every super-famous person promoted by the mainstream media (about 0.0001% of the general population) is. Your local friends, neighbours and colleagues aren’t – but they’re not famous and relentlessly plastered across the front pages of the press. Anyone who is, is suspect.

In closing, I have to say this is probably the most time I’ve dedicated to thinking about Russell Brand in my entire life, so I’ll have to drop my old flatmate Jake a line and let him know my “secret obsession” has finally – thirteen years later – revealed itself… and it was such a secret that I didn’t even know about it myself until just now…

Seriously though: I feel like I need a bath after writing that… I’ve never been able to stand Russell Brand because the energy he gives off is sinister and awful and I hate listening to him speak (regardless of whether he claims to support any of my own ‘pet causes’). From the minute he claimed to become a “truther”, I never bothered to comment on him as it seemed so blatantly obvious he was classic controlled opposition. I only comment on him now as the extraordinary level of international infamy he has achieved over the last few days – becoming the hot talking point of some of the most renowned cultural figures in the world at the current time – means he is destined to become even more sinister in his influence than ever.

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Saw the comment below the line at the off-guardian, which to me looks like the Old Zero Hedge before they were bought by the Brits and now run totally as Controlled Opposition.

I said — Nicely played, there was a video that started out as purporting to be describing a malevolent man abuses his girl…..then at the end, it switches to…..that is exactly what they did to us during the COVID story and the lockdowns. That video was deplatformed and could not be found, because it was so spot on. I searched again today, because it was so powerful. It would trick a normie into drawing the obvious conclusion, and then when it was spun to reveal exactly what they did to us under COVID….it could be an “aha moment”, and the powers that be just hate the thought of a significant amount of people waking up.

————————————————————- This regards a UK on Controlling or Coercive Behaviour…the entire statue is below the next line, for conciseness I am just putting the bullet items here — Compare then to how we were treated under COVID.

– The behaviour has had a serious effect on the victim;
– The behaviour takes place repeatedly or continuously; and
– The perpetrator must have known that their behaviour would have a serious effect on the victim, or the behaviour must have been such that he or she “ought to have known” it would have had that effect.

Examples of a serious effect on the victim may include, but are not limited to:
– Stopping or changing the way someone socialises
– Physical or mental health deterioration
– A change in routine at home including those associated with mealtimes or household work
– Putting in place measures at home to safeguard themselves or their children
– Changes to work patterns, employment status or routes to work
– Being monitored by and needing to report back to the perpetrator
– Having their financial independence restricted e.g. the perpetrator denying access to money, preventing the victim from working, sabotaging employment or welfare benefits, denying access to joint bank accounts, or coerced debt
– Being deprived access to medication, phone and internet usage
– Feeling unable to have family or friends visit
– Feeling unable to take part in activities which they previously enjoyed
– Becoming socially isolated
– Being told what they can and cannot wear
– Emotional and psychological harms including anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder
– Being punished or having to follow rules
– Living in fear of punishment of any kind

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason_Greenwood
In January 2022, Greenwood was arrested on suspicion of raping and assaulting a woman, and a few days later on suspicion of sexual assault and threats to kill. Since then, Greenwood has not trained with or appeared for United or England. He was charged in October 2022 for attempted rape, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, and controlling and coercive behaviour. In February 2023, all charges against him were dropped.
—

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/controlling-or-coercive-behaviour-statutory-guidance-framework/controlling-or-coercive-behaviour-statutory-guidance-framework-accessible
Statutory guidance
Controlling or coercive behaviour: statutory guidance framework (accessible)
Updated 27 July 2023

Executive Summary
This statutory guidance is issued under section 77 of the Serious Crime Act 2015 (the 2015 Act). Any persons or agency investigating offences in relation to controlling or coercive behaviour under section 76 of the 2015 Act must have regard to it. This guidance is primarily aimed at statutory and non-statutory bodies working with victims, perpetrators and commissioning services, including the police, criminal justice agencies and other agencies.

This guidance provides information on controlling or coercive behaviour, to assist in identifying, evidencing, charging, prosecuting and convicting the offence. This guidance also provides information on: reducing the risk of harm to and supporting the victim and their family, including how other agencies and support services can assist; and managing the perpetrator.

This guidance is intended to be read alongside . . .

15. The controlling or coercive behaviour offence is only applicable where:
– The victim and perpetrator are personally connected at the time the behaviour takes place;
– The behaviour has had a serious effect on the victim;
– The behaviour takes place repeatedly or continuously; and
– The perpetrator must have known that their behaviour would have a serious effect on the victim, or the behaviour must have been such that he or she “ought to have known” it would have had that effect.

Examples of a serious effect on the victim may include, but are not limited to:
– Stopping or changing the way someone socialises
– Physical or mental health deterioration
– A change in routine at home including those associated with mealtimes or household work
– Putting in place measures at home to safeguard themselves or their children
– Changes to work patterns, employment status or routes to work
– Being monitored by and needing to report back to the perpetrator
– Having their financial independence restricted e.g. the perpetrator denying access to money, preventing the victim from working, sabotaging employment or welfare benefits, denying access to joint bank accounts, or coerced debt
– Being deprived access to medication, phone and internet usage
– Feeling unable to have family or friends visit
– Feeling unable to take part in activities which they previously enjoyed
– Becoming socially isolated
– Being told what they can and cannot wear
– Emotional and psychological harms including anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder
– Being punished or having to follow rules
– Living in fear of punishment of any kind
—

Notice any parallels?

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Nicely played, there was a video that started out as purporting to be describing a malevolent man abuses his girl…..then at the end, it switches to…..that is exactly what they did to us during the COVID story and the lockdowns.

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stock here: I was surprised at the number of Patents on Vibrational Metal Processing……

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=patent+for+vibrational+welding&atb=v343-1&ia=web

And here is high frequency welding….

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=patent+for+frequency+welding&t=ffab&atb=v343-1&ia=web

And here is a focus on “Wave Form”

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=patent+for+frequency+%22wave+form%22+welding&t=ffab&atb=v343-1&ia=web

stock here: I guess, similar to Tucker Carlson, I assume Brand was a stealthy controlled opposition. But sometimes the controlled opposition gets put beyond the level of their own conscience. I don’t follow Brand enough to know what part of the Overton Window he stepped outside of.

I have never spent time at “Off Guardian” but it looks interesting, seems like many quality comments, like Zero Hedge used to be

DISCUSS: The Russell Brand “Investigation”

But when “The Hill” calls out YouTube for deplatforming Brand, you know it is bad.

And Thankfully, Glenn Grenwald, devoted a presentation to this. Watch this for the Censorship and Hypocrisy of the leftists who control the liberal narrative.

I saw this story on the New York Post, which normally has commenting on ALL it’s article, but surprisingly does not on this article. I wonder if they have been bought, or someone has serious dirt on some editors and this time they played the card. Don’t know!

Isn’t it funny that all the sudden, 4 women who have said nothing for 15 years, all suddenly figure “this is the time”. No it’s not funny, it’s criminal, and in my view it goes beyond defamation. The statue of limitations is long gone, so the point is? Destruction of Brand’s brand.

https://nypost.com/2023/09/18/russell-brand-accuser-says-bbc-car-brought-her-to-actors-home-as-teen/?lctg=63fea7b6dc3bd84b030f8749

Remind me of Brett Kavanaugh……hmmm, the left is shameless and therefore shameful.

Russell Brand, a person I consider a friend, has been accused of rape, sexual assault, and abuse between 2006 to 2013 in a supposed "exposé" from the Sunday Times in the U.K.. I didn't know Russell during that time, but the media did. They knew that Russell Brand was not only… pic.twitter.com/4zqSpJzaBP

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) September 18, 2023

stock here — Was it this appearance on Bill Maher that set off the Brand Takedown?

Russell Brand dropped some facts on Bill Maher’s show about big pharma, the military industrial complex, and the banking industry. Was this when they decided he needed to be taken down?

Russell Brand dropped some facts on Bill Maher’s show about big pharma, the military industrial complex, and the banking industry. Was this when they decided he needed to be taken down? pic.twitter.com/QsovCc4T0c

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) September 17, 2023

stock here: looks like a good website.

https://www.vaccines.news/2021-12-04-top-8-most-common-serious-adverse-reactions-covid-vaccines.html

stock here: Interesting read, funny that it goes back to Tesla days too.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334074508_Scalar_Wave_Energy_as_Weapon

I wish I had his video editing skills!!!!

stock here: this was an entertaining video. Amazing science in a big warehouse.

Some of the insane things about Joe Robinette Biden

Additional facts about Joe Biden: – He took showers with her daughter Ashley right until she was at least 10 which she stated was “probably not appropriate”, and credited for her sex and drug addictions; she also said he “hyper-sexualized” her while she was a toddler (she didn’t elaborate, thank God). She wrote this in her diary which she later abandoned in a halfway house after leaving rehab.

The FBI later raided the homes of reporters who acquired the diary and tried to cover the story claiming it had been stolen (apparently stealing a diary is a federal crime) while she spoke to them and admitted it was hers before threatening them with involving the Secret Service. – He said his dead wife and daughters (who were killed in a car accident) were killed by a drunk driver; this is not true at all

-He claimed to have worked as a coal miner which never happened

-He claimed to have worked as an 18-wheeler truck driver which never happened

-He claimed he held 3 college degrees, that he attended college on a full scholarship and that he was admitted to West Point (he did enroll in ROTC and got an F there); none of that is true

-A White House intern named Vail Kohnert-Yount who worked for him while he was Vice President also accused him of attempted rape during his tenure, stating he touched her and kissed her without her permission while complimenting her on her beauty –

His current wife “Doctor” Jill was originally his daughter’s babysitter and they were having an affair while he was married to his first wife and she was also married;

in fact, they were in bed together when he was informed his first wife and daughter died – Ever since at least the 2020 presidential Democratic primaries, he has been forced fed anti-dementia medications before each public appearance by his wife Jill in order to render him coherent;

an eyewitness (former aide) said anonymously that before taking the pills he was “like a small child” and “unable to speak” -He claimed that he once traveled to Iraq to personally pin a medal on a war hero and that he was warned it could be dangerous but that he bravely brushed off the concerns by saying “we can lose a Vice President, we can’t lose many more of these kids”,

he then added that as he entered Iraq he was shot at 3 times; it turned out, he was never even in Iraq and had to retract his story and apologize –

When he did go to Iraq for real he said “he was shot at” but it later turned out to have been a mortar that exploded a mile away from his hotel and happened only once; in this instance his own aides and advisers begged him to stop telling the story because it could easily be confirmed or debunked with a few Google searches but he flat-out refused and kept telling it until he was caught –

He claimed he went to Afghanistan and that al-Qaeda and the Taliban teamed up to shoot down his helicopter which was forced to land while he was riding it with “three-star general and three United States senators”, it later turned out the helicopter was never attacked and landed perfectly due to a coming snowstorm located 10 hours away;

the other claims were also false. -Plagiarized speeches by Robert Kennedy, Jack Layton and Neil Kinnock (after he was caught stealing Kinnock’s speech he withdrew from the 1988 presidential primaries in disgrace,

this was particularly notable because the speech narrated Kinnock’s childhood and talked about his family, which means he stole another man’s entire life story word-by-word; furthermore, during ‘his’ speech he explicitly claimed he had just made the speech up by himself on the spot) -He plagiarized his thesis –

He claimed he finished in the top tier of his class at law school when in fact he finished in place 79th out of 85 (he earned only Cs and Ds during the first 3 semesters; he also repeated 3rd grade in elementary school) –

In college he flunked at least one course (that we know of) because of persistent plagiarizing in his assignments and papers. –

The PhD thesis of his wife, “Dr.” Jill Biden, has at least 3 grammatical errors and at least 3 errors in basic math in its first page alone and was written with triple paragraph spacing in order to write as little content as possible using as much space as possible,

and she only got her degree because Joke Biden forced the community college to accept it. –

Claimed that he visited and personally met Nelson Mandela in South Africa while he was imprisoned by the Apartheid government and that he was himself arrested by the South African police when he insisted in meeting him and publicly supported him despite being warned by police not to;

his staff members warned him none of this was true and asked him not to repeat these lies and he replied he already knew all of that and dismissed these concerns and kept repeating it – He stole a “climate change plan” from several NGOs and presented it as his own – Claimed to had been an important figure in the civil rights movements of the 1960s in the United States; among other things, he claimed to have personally participated in sit-ins, to have marched along with Black activists and to have been arrested for these activities;

none of this was true and at the start of his legislative career he was noted for openly sympathizing and negotiating with segregationist lawmakers to the point that he even supported segregation and the Jim Crow system:

he once expressed concerns about desegregation by wondering if his grandchildren would have to grow in what he called “a racial jungle” –

The day after he became Vice President his deadbeat brother Jim Biden showed up to his job acting arrogantly and wearing cufflinks with the presidential seal and insulting his partners while openly boasting about being the Vice President’s brother. –

He was also accused of rape and sexual harassment by one of his Congressional aides, Tara Reade, curiously, when she went public with the accusation she sought assistance from Time’s Up, an NGO formed in response to the #MeToo movement to provide free legal assistance to female victims of sexual abuse and harassment;

strangely, the organization refused to help Reade arguing that Biden was a presidential candidate at the time and thus they’d be effectively interfering with the electoral process but none of this stopped them regarding Trump when he ran for President in 2016;

furthermore, it was proven that Reade had already went public with her claim in the past when her mom talked about the incident on an episode of the Larry King show;

less than 24 hrs after this became public this episode disappeared from the Google online video store and no reason was ever given while Facebook started to ban its users from sharing links to a website that documented Biden’s sexual misconduct accusations

(JoeBiden dot info); Reade’s former neighbor, her mother and her husband at the time would later confirm her accusations and this incident was mentioned in Reade’s divorce proceedings which meant they were in the publicly-available court records;

even more, and Reade once claimed she filed a formal complaint in Congress and asked Biden to release his Congressional papers which are held in a university in Delaware,

he of course refused; the Left-leaning Liberally-biased ‘news’ outlets such as The New York Times, MSNBC (MSDNC), CNN or the Washington Post, didn’t cover Reade’s accusations even though they had been so concerned about victims of sexual abuse and were quick to condemn Justice Kavanaugh solely on the testimony of the greedy fame-seeking Christine Blasey Ford who couldn’t present a shred of evidence besides her dubious testimony after which the witnesses she brought to testify in her behalf refused to back her claims,

after which a friend of hers who happened to be a friend of Ford who was FBI agent threatened one of Ford’s friends so that she would publicly back her claims up which she refused to do,

but even so, Ford would receive the undeserved attention she sought, many awards and medals from Leftie Liberal NGOs and would sign a very lucrative book deal plus making a lot of money giving lectures while Justice Kavanaugh was slandered, smeared and humiliated;

Reade didn’t receive these same privileges as Ford. –

He forced his deadbeat crackhead son Hunter to give him 50% of his salaries on all the siencire “jobs” he held and of every bribe he received for being Briben’s son. –

In 2010 when he met Senator Scott Brown and his wife in public he started grabbing her ass and kissing her neck; he only stopped after the Senator physically separated them and threatened him telling him “I’ll kick the shit out of you”.

-He claimed his father was a “gentleman, decent man” who never got to go college “who worked at coal until the whole industry died”. In reality, his dad went to Johns Hopkins for over a year until he dropped out because his nepotistic father got him a high paying job as a salesman for a coal company but he lost everything because of his alcoholism, and he’s documented as having cheated on Joe Biden’s mom at least once when he and his cousin (also married) went on a yacht for several days with two unmarried women, all on their own (surely there’s an innocent explanation there, the alcoholism must’ve help his moral integrity). –

More recently, he claimed after the 2023 Maui wildfires that he knew how the victims felt because his house had once almost burned down, claiming a firefighter almost died while he had to brave the flames to rescue his wife and dog; it turned out it was a small kitchen fire that was put down by a couple or firefighters in less than 20 minutes; nobody was hurt or at risk of getting hurt. And he again threw in his 1967 Corvette Convertible….saying he almost lost it in the fire.

stock here: I wonder how much of that figure these criminals are planning to skim off for themselves?

Hawaii State Attorney General to Decide on What Information to Release Publicly Regarding Maui Wildfire to “Protect the Integrity” of the Investigation (VIDEO)

Hawaii State Attorney General Anne E. Lopez has decided to withhold initial findings from the public regarding the massive Maui wildfires that took place on Aug. 8.

This move is purportedly to “protect the integrity” of the ongoing investigation, according to a statement from the Department of the Attorney General. The decision has raised concerns about the transparency of the investigation, as local residents question whether this “independent investigation” will indeed remain impartial.

Attorney General Anne E. Lopez announced the hiring of the Fire Safety Research Institute (FSRI), a nonprofit organization, as an independent third-party to conduct the investigation. FSRI, which is contracted with Underwriters Laboratories Inc., has been granted subpoena power under HRS 28-2.5, The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported.

The team of investigators includes former firefighters, fire scientists, and incident commanders. They are tasked to assess how state and county agencies prepared and responded to the devastating wildfire.

“I am committed to an independent, unbiased, and transparent investigation into government actions during the fires. This type of investigation is a hallmark of a healthy democratic society and will lead to improved responsiveness and resilience in the future, ” Lopez told the Honolulu Star-Advertiser.

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“All state and county agencies answer to the people of Hawaii, and I fully expect that they all will voluntarily give interviews and provide documents relevant to the investigation.”

According to news outlet, “FSRI’s team of former firefighters, including inspectors, fire scientists and incident commanders, started work on Maui on Aug. 24 and are updating Lopez and her team every two weeks, with the first update coming last week.”

While the state Attorney General has promised transparency, questions about impartiality remain, given that Lopez’s office will have the final say on what information to release publicly—at least initially.

Per Hawaii News Now, the state attorney issued a statement:

The Attorney General is committed to a full, comprehensive, and transparent investigation, with the reports of that investigation shared with the public. While we will not speculate as to future hypothetical circumstances, we note that in any investigation, publicly revealing some information prematurely could compromise other aspects of the investigation that remain ongoing. In any investigation, information may be withheld temporarily to protect the integrity of the investigatory process.

Local residents and critics express concern that this investigation might not be as independent as it’s being made out to be. One Maui resident who lost her home in the fire questioned the investigation’s legitimacy, stating, “There have been many broken promises. How do the people of Lahaina really trust that?”

WATCH: (Courtesy of Hawaii News Now)

The Gateway Pundit previously reported that a high-stakes blame game is unfolding in Hawaii as Hawaiian Electric vehemently denies causing the recent fires that engulfed parts of Maui. The company released a comprehensive statement after Maui County officials accused it of failing to properly manage electrical equipment during a National Weather Service Red Flag Warning, leading to catastrophic fires.

Maui officials had earlier put the blame squarely on Hawaiian Electric, citing downed power lines as the source of the fire that has now engulfed thousands of acres and led to evacuations across the island.

Maui County has officially filed a lawsuit against Hawaiian Electric Company (HECO) and its subsidiaries, claiming negligence on the part of the utility.

Maui County released the following statement regarding the lawsuit:

The County of Maui filed a lawsuit against Maui Electric Company, Limited, Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc., Hawaiʻi Electric Light Company, Inc., and Hawaiian Electric Industries, Inc. for civil damages caused to the County’s public property and resources caused by recent Maui fires, including fires in Lāhainā and in Kula. The lawsuit was filed in the Second Circuit Court and the case number is 2CCV-23-0000238.

The lawsuit alleges that the Defendants acted negligently by failing to power down their electrical equipment despite a National Weather Service Red Flag Warning on August 7^th. The lawsuit further alleges HECO’s energized and downed power lines ignited dry fuel such as grass and brush, causing the fires. The lawsuit also alleges failure to maintain the system and power grid, which caused the systemic failures starting three different fires on August 8^th.

Maui County stands alongside the people and communities of Lāhainā and Kula to recover public resource damages and rebuild after these devastating utility-caused fires. These damages include losses to public infrastructure, fire response costs, losses to revenues, increased costs, environmental damages, and losses of historical or cultural landmarks.

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HECO is a for-profit, investor-owned utility that trades publicly on the New York Stock Exchange serving 95% of the Hawai’i customer base.

The fires in Lāhainā and Kula burned over 3,000 acres and destroyed more than 2,200 structures, causing an estimated $5.5 billion in damage or more.

The County is represented by Corporation Counsel Victoria J. Takayesu, Deputy Corporation Counsel Thomas Kolbe, and by outside counsel John Fiske of Baron & Budd, P.C., Ed Diab of Diab Chambers, LLP, and L. Richard Fried of Cronin, Fried, Sekiya, Kekina & Fairbanks. Baron & Budd and Diab Chambers have been selected by public entities 95 times to recover civil damages in wildfire cases.

In a detailed rebuttal, Shelee Kimura, President and CEO of Hawaiian Electric, said, “We were surprised and disappointed that the County of Maui rushed to court even before completing its own investigation. We believe the complaint is factually and legally irresponsible.”

“It is inconsistent with the path that we believe we should pursue as a resilient community committed and accountable to each other as well as to Hawaii’s future. We continue to stand ready to work to that end with our communities and others. Unfortunately, the county’s lawsuit may leave us no choice in the legal system but to show its responsibility for what happened that day,” Kimura added.

The company outlined key events, stating:

• A fire at 6:30 a.m. (the “Morning Fire”) appears to have been caused by power lines that fell in high winds.
• The Maui County Fire Department responded to this fire, reported it was “100% contained,” left the scene and later declared it had been “extinguished.”
• At about 3 p.m., a time when all of Hawaiian Electric’s power lines in West Maui had been de-energized for more than six hours, a second fire (the “Afternoon Fire”) began in the same area.
• The cause of the devastating Afternoon Fire has not been determined.

Additional details are outlined below, according to the news release:

• The records conclusively establish that Hawaiian Electric power lines to Lahaina were not energized when the Afternoon Fire broke out shortly before 3 p.m. on Aug. 8, in a field near Lahaina Intermediate School. Power had been out for more than six hours by that time. There was no electricity flowing through the wires in the area or anywhere else on the West Maui coast. Hawaiian Electric has informed ATF investigators of the availability of records that demonstrate these facts.
• The small Morning Fire, seen in videos taken by local residents, began more than eight hours earlier. Those videos show that power lines had fallen to the ground in high winds near the intersection of Lahainaluna Road and Hookahua Street at approximately 6:30 a.m. A small fire that can be seen by the downed lines spread into the field across the street from the Intermediate School.
• The Maui County Fire Department responded promptly to the Morning Fire. According to the Department’s public statement that morning, by 9 a.m. the Morning Fire was “100% contained.” The Maui County fire chief subsequently reported that the Fire Department had determined that the Morning Fire was “extinguished,” and the Fire Department left the scene by 2 p.m.
• Once the fire was out, Hawaiian Electric emergency crews arrived at Lahainaluna Road in the afternoon of Aug. 8 to make repairs; they saw no fire or smoke or embers. All lines to Lahaina remained de-energized and all power in the area remained off.
• Shortly before 3 p.m., while the power remained off, our crew members saw a small fire about 75 yards away from Lahainaluna Road in the field near the Intermediate School. They immediately called 911 and reported that fire.
• By the time the Maui County Fire Department arrived back on the scene, it was not able to contain the Afternoon Fire and it spread out of control toward Lahaina.