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This document reveals quite the science fiction thriller playing out in the Pentagon’s back rooms. It’s like “The X-Files” with less Mulder and more bureaucratic red tape. According to the report, the U.S. government has been sitting on serious findings about unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs), tech of unknown origin, and what it calls “non-human intelligence” (NHI). And not only sitting on it—they’ve been keeping Congress, and therefore the public, in the dark about some pretty monumental discoveries.

In a nutshell, “IMMACULATE CONSTELLATION” is the name of a highly classified program under what’s called an Unacknowledged Special Access Program (USAP). This setup is ultra-secretive, operating without Congress’s oversight or knowledge. IMMACULATE CONSTELLATION supposedly collects top-tier imagery intelligence on UAPs and “reproduction vehicles” (ARVs/RVs) from a blend of advanced military and intelligence platforms. They’re tracking these objects in orbit, high-altitude, and even close to Earth, often keeping the sightings buried under a mountain of compartmentalized data. It’s organized to the point that even many in the intelligence community are left blissfully unaware of what’s going on.

This program is allegedly part of a larger web, with several subordinate projects feeding data up to it. Through IMMACULATE CONSTELLATION, the U.S. military and intelligence agencies not only gather information on UAPs and these elusive reproduction vehicles but also monitor any attempts by foreign states to recreate this mysterious tech. The compartmentalization is so extreme that the imagery and intelligence collected on these phenomena are flagged, isolated, and sometimes hidden from other military and intelligence community members who might otherwise have clearance.

In short, it seems the document suggests that we’re not alone, that the government has known for some time, and that it’s been building a fortress of secrecy around these revelations. Congress and the public are now catching whiffs of this because of whistleblowers who leaked this information via the 2023 UAP whistleblower mechanisms. If these findings are even close to accurate, it points to a pretty fundamental reshaping of our understanding of government transparency—and maybe even our place in the universe.

Watch: US Congressional Hearing on UFOs (11/13/2024)

Original: Immaculate Constellation Document

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Does anyone remember a website that was called something along the lines of “media crisis” that showed all of the examples of the media completely misrepresenting or lying about things, especially pertaining to Trump? I used to share it often but have lost it and can’t find it

Found: https://web.archive.org/web/20190918003737/http://mediacrisis.info/

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"Greetings apes. Hope everyone is well. Not going to waste too much time, so I'm just going to get straight into it.

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I have been hearing a lot of talk brewing about an Executive Order and how it can affect GME. This actually has my tits considerably jacked because I've been researching this topic for a while now, so it's promising to see more people are becoming aware of what is to come. Much of what I am about to talk about is pertaining to geopolitics, so I won't go deeply in depth, but you'll get the gist.

So what the hell am I talking about?....

EXECUTIVE ORDER 14032

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Well, what is Executive Order 14032?

In simplest terms, it's an executive order signed by Biden (Originally by Trump in Nov 2020, back then it was Executive Order 13959) that prohibits US entities from investing in military and surveillance related Chinese companies that support the Chinese military.

That's nice, but what's the big deal, Owt?

Well, funnily enough, many US asset managers like BlackRock, Vanguard, JP Morgan, and many others have SERIOUS exposure to the Chinese companies that are included in the EO. Those Chinese assets are being used as collateral by these US asset managers. in other words, once their billions of dollars in Chinese assets and collateral become worthless, an old friend of mine named Margy will be making a surprise appearance, and she will want her money.

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I get it Owt, MM's and other asset management entities are going to lose a lot of money in collateral, but how exactly does that affect GME?

Well, lets look back at November 2020.

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In November 2020, Trump signed the original EO titled:

Executive Order 13959 Addressing the Threat From Securities Investments That Finance Communist Chinese Military Companies

This EO basically did what the new amended EO 14032 does, however, at the time that it was implemented, there were far less companies on the sanctioned list.

https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/126/chinese_military_gl1.pdf

However, what's important to note is the date. The EO was to take effect on January 28, 2021.

What the hell happened on or around January 28, Owt?

Well.....

GME ATH $483

ATER ATH $48

AMC $20

In short, meme stocks ran HARD. However, they plummeted a few days later.

How come?

Well, Biden extended the EO and gave the fucks more time to gather themselves from getting obliterated (RIP Melvin Capital).

Biden ended up extending the EO a few days later to May 27th, 2021.

https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/126/ccmc_gl1a_01272021_1.pdf

Pretty nice of him right? So What happened when May 27th came around?

lol....

GME $344

ATER $21

AMC ATH $72

Memes did what memes do when marge calls. However, Biden once again EXTENDED the EO a few days later.

Now look, coincidences happen, I won't deny that. However, for some reason, these sanctions love forcing meme stock runs and fucking shorts.

GME apes vs Shorts

Now, what's next?

As I stated above, we now have EO 14032 coming up.

When?...

June 3rd, 2022 baby https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/126/14032.pdf

With EO 14032, there are 70+ companies that have been added to list of sanctioned companies, larger than the amount that were sanctioned in EO 13959.

Now, why don't I think he will extend it again?

Taiwan is an ally of ours. Furthermore, they are the world's largest exporter of semiconductor chips. China wants to eventually invade Taiwan the way Russia wants to take back Ukraine. By allowing American institutions to continue to invest in companies with ties to the Chinese military, we are directly funding the efforts to invade Taiwan and speeding up China's efforts in reaching that goal. With the geopolitical unrest currently ensuing in Europe, Biden will most certainly be hesitant to extend this executive order especially considering the economic advantage successfully taking over Taiwan could bring to China.

THIS IS NFA

However, I have strong conviction that this thing is about to moon to glory in the next month and a half."

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It's been noted by the superstonk apes how 3 tweets of his not long ago all end with the emojis 🩳🏴‍☠️💀 (shorts are dead, referencing the short sellers), using skull and crossbones to depict his message.

I can't say this all isn't a coincidence, and I'm sure all of you who have been following the whole GME side of things will definitely get excited by this.

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Side note: if you think research here has been slow since Voat, I think it’s because many brilliant minds have migrated to devoting their time to MOASS instead.

This following post was found in 2004 and explains what is going on, and what was happening to GME before DFV caught on and bought up all the fake shares:

Sunday, 03/07/04 07:56:25 PM

"Cellar Boxing"

There’s a form of the securities fraud known as naked short selling that is becoming very popular and lucrative to the market makers that practice it. It is known as “CELLAR BOXING” and it has to do with the fact that the NASD and the SEC had to arbitrarily set a minimum level at which a stock can trade. This level was set at $.0001 or one-one hundredth of a penny.

This level is appropriately referred to as “the CELLAR”. This $.0001 level can be used as a "backstop" for all kinds of market maker and naked short selling manipulations.

“CELLAR BOXING” has been one of the security frauds du jour since 1999 when the market went to a “decimalization” basis. In the pre-decimalization days the minimum market spread for most stocks was set at 1/8th of a dollar and the market makers were guaranteed a healthy “spread”.

Since decimalization came into effect, those one-eighth of a dollar spreads now are often only a penny as you can see in Microsoft’s quote throughout the day. Where did the unscrupulous MMs go to make up for all of this lost income?

They headed "south" to the OTCBB and Pink Sheets where the protective effects from naked short selling like Rule 10-a, and NASD Rules 3350, 3360, and 3370 are nonexistent.

The unique aspect of needing an arbitrary “CELLAR” level is that the lowest possible incremental gain above this CELLAR level represents a 100% spread available to MMs making a market in these securities.

When compared to the typical spread in Microsoft of perhaps four-tenths of 1%, this is pretty tempting territory. In fact, when the market is no bid to $.0001 offer there is theoretically an infinite spread.

In order to participate in “CELLAR BOXING”, the MMs first need to pummel the price per share down to these levels. The lower they can force the share price, the larger are the percentage spreads to feed off of.

This is easily done via garden variety naked short selling. In fact if the MM is large enough and has enough visibility of buy and sell orders as well as order flow, he can simultaneously be acting as the conduit for the sale of nonexistent shares through Canadian co-conspiring broker/dealers and their associates with his right hand at the same time that his left hand is naked short selling into every buy order that appears through its own proprietary accounts.

The key here is to be a dominant enough of a MM to have visibility of these buy orders. This is referred to as "broker/dealer internalization" or naked short selling via "desking" which refers to the market makers trading desk.

While the right hand is busy flooding the victim company's market with "counterfeit" shares that can be sold at any instant in time the left hand is nullifying any upward pressure in share price by neutralizing the demand for the securities. The net effect becomes no demonstrable demand for shares and a huge oversupply of shares which induces a downward spiral in share price.

In fact, until the "beefed up" version of Rule 3370 (Affirmative determination in writing of "borrowability" by settlement date) becomes effective, U.S. MMs have been "legally" processing naked short sale orders out of Canada and other offshore locations even though they and the clearing firms involved knew by history that these shares were in no way going to be delivered.

The question that then begs to be asked is how "the system" can allow these obviously bogus sell orders to clear and settle.

To find the answer to this one need look no further than to Addendum "C" to the Rules and Regulations of the NSCC subdivision of the DTCC. This gaping loophole allows the DTCC, which is basically the 11,000 b/ds and banks that we refer to as "Wall Street”, to borrow shares from those investors naive enough to hold these shares in "street name" at their brokerage firm.

This amounts to about 95% of us. Theoretically, this “borrow” was designed to allow trades to clear and settle that involved LEGITIMATE 1 OR 2 DAY delays in delivery.

This "borrow" is done unbeknownst to the investor that purchased the shares in question and amounts to probably the largest "conflict of interest" known to mankind. The question becomes would these investors knowingly loan, without compensation, their shares to those whose intent is to bankrupt their investment if they knew that the loan process was the key mechanism needed for the naked short sellers to effect their goal?

Another question that arises is should the investor's b/d who just earned a commission and therefore owes its client a fiduciary duty of care, be acting as the intermediary in this loan process keeping in mind that this b/d is being paid the cash value of the shares being loaned as a means of collateralizing the loan, all unbeknownst to his client the purchaser.

An interesting phenomenon occurs at these "CELLAR" levels. Since NASD Rule 3370 allows MMs to legally naked short sell into markets characterized by a plethora of buy orders at a time when few sell orders are in existence, a MM can theoretically "legally" sit at the $.0001 level and sell nonexistent shares all day long because at no bid and $.0001 ask there is obviously a huge disparity between buy orders and sell orders.

What tends to happen is that every time the share price tries to get off of the CELLAR floor and onto the first step of the stairway at $.0001 there is somebody there to step on the hands of the victim corporation's market.

Once a given micro cap corporation is “boxed in the CELLAR” it doesn’t have a whole lot of options to climb its way out of the CELLAR. One obvious option would be for it to reverse split its way out of the CELLAR but history has shown that these are counter-productive as the market capitalization typically gets hammered and the post split share price level starts heading back to its original pre-split level.

Another option would be to organize a sustained buying effort and muscle your way out of the CELLAR but typically there will, as if by magic, be a naked short sell order there to meet each and every buy order. Sometimes the shareholder base can muster up enough buying pressure to put the market at $.0001 bid and $.0002 offer for a limited amount of time.

Later the market makers will typically pound the $.0001 bids with a blitzkrieg of selling to wipe out all of the bids and the market goes back to no bid and $.0001 offer. When the weak-kneed shareholders see this a few times they usually make up their mind to sell their shares the next time that a $.0001 bid appears and to get the heck out of Dodge.

This phenomenon is referred to as “shaking the tree” for weak-kneed investors and it is very effective.

At times the market will go to $.0001 bid and $.0003 offer. This sets up a juicy 200% spread for the MMs and tends to dissuade any buyers from reaching up to the "lofty" level of $.0003. If a $.0002 bid should appear from a MM not "playing ball" with the unscrupulous MMs, it will be hit so quickly that Level 2 will never reveal the existence of the bid.

The $.0001 bid at $.0003 offer market sets up a "stalemate" wherein market makers can leisurely enjoy the huge spreads while the victim company slowly dilutes itself to death by paying the monthly bills with "real" shares sold at incredibly low levels. Since all of these development-stage corporations have to pay their monthly bills, time becomes on the side of the naked short sellers.

At times it almost seems that the unscrupulous market makers are not actively trying to kill the victim corporation but instead want to milk the situation for as long of a period of time as possible and let the corporation die a slow death by dilution.

The reality is that it is extremely easy to strip away 99% of a victim company’s share price or market cap and to keep the victim corporation “boxed“ in the CELLAR, but it really is difficult to kill a corporation especially after management and the shareholder base have figured out the game that is being played at their expense.

As the weeks and months go by the market makers make a fortune with these huge percentage spreads but the net aggregate naked short positions become astronomical from all of this activity. This leads to some apprehension amongst the co-conspiring MMs.

The predicament they find themselves in is that they can’t even stop naked short selling into every buy order that appears because if they do the share price will gap and this will put tremendous pressures on net capital reserves for the MMs and margin maintenance requirements for the co-conspiring hedge funds and others operating out of the more than 13,000 naked short selling margin accounts set up in Canada.

And of course covering the naked short position is out of the question since they can’t even stop the day-to-day naked short selling in the first place and you can't be covering at the same time you continue to naked short sell.

What typically happens in these situations is that the victim company has to massively dilute its share structure from the constant paying of the monthly burn rate with money received from the selling of “real” shares at artificially low levels.

Then the goal of the naked short sellers is to point out to the investors, usually via paid “Internet bashers”, that with the, let’s say, 50 billion shares currently issued and outstanding, that this lousy company is not worth the $5 million market cap it is trading at, especially if it is just a shell company whose primary business plan was wiped out by the naked short sellers’ tortuous interference earlier on.

The truth of the matter is that the single biggest asset of these victim companies often becomes the astronomically large aggregate naked short position that has accumulated throughout the initial “bear raid” and also during the “CELLAR BOXING” phase.

The goal of the victim company now becomes to avoid the 3 main goals of the naked short sellers, namely: bankruptcy, a reverse split, or the forced signing of a death spiral convertible debenture out of desperation.

As long as the victim company can continue to pay the monthly burn rate, then the game plan becomes to make some of the strategic moves that hundreds of victim companies have been forced into doing which includes name changes, CUSIP # changes, cancel/reissue procedures, dividend distributions, amending of by-laws and Articles of Corporation, etc.

Nevada domiciled companies usually cancel all of their shares in the system, both real and fake, and force shareholders and their b/ds to PROVE the ownership of the old “real” shares before they get a new “real” share. Many also file their civil suits at this time also.

This indirect forcing of hundreds of U.S. micro cap corporations to go through all of these extraneous hoops and hurdles as a means to survive, whether it be due to regulatory apathy or lack of resources, is probably one of the biggest black eyes the U.S. financial systems have ever sustained.

In a perfect world it would be the regulators that periodically audit the “C” and “D” sub-accounts at the DTCC, the proprietary accounts of the MMs, clearing firms, and Canadian b/ds, and force the buy-in of counterfeit shares, many of which are hiding behind altered CUSIP #s, that are detected above the Rule 11830 guidelines for allowable “failed deliveries” of one half of 1% of the shares issued. U.S. micro cap corporations should not have to periodically “purge” their share structure of counterfeit electronic book entries but if the regulators will not do it then management has a fiduciary duty to do it.

A lot of management teams become overwhelmed with grief and guilt in regards to the huge increase in the number of shares issued and outstanding that have accumulated during their “watch”. The truth however is that as long as management made the proper corporate governance moves throughout this ordeal then a huge number of resultant shares issued and outstanding is unavoidable and often indicative of an astronomically high naked short position and is nothing to be ashamed of.

These massive naked short positions need to be looked upon as huge assets that need to be developed. Hopefully the regulators will come to grips with the reality of naked short selling and tactics like "CELLAR BOXING" and quickly address this fraud that has decimated thousands of U.S. micro cap corporations and the tens of millions of U.S. investors therein.

Here is a reply in the same thread to this post, and describes a good idea of what may happen next:

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First of all we have to say that this number is usually used as a symbol of victory and it means that God managed to overcome his enemies. Actually, it is known that God was able to overcome the sins of humans when he decided to destroy the earth by flooding it. It was known as the Great Flood that started on the 17th of the 2nd month in the Hebrew calendar that was used in that time. It is also known that the ark of Noah and 8 passengers who were with him made a rest on the Ararat mountains exactly on the 17th of the 7th month.

According to the religious calendar, this day was actually the same day as the 17th of Nisan. Nisan was considered to be the the first month in the religious calendar. This day was also the day of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who defeated death this way.

Actually, on the 17th of Nisan, he rose from his grave and it was a big day of his resurrection. Before that Jesus was in the grave for 3 days and nights.

According to the Book of Daniel, his beasts had 7 heads and 10 horns, so we have that 7 + 10 gives 17. It is also said in the Bible that the end-time system of devil will have 7 heads and 10 horns

Much more interesting read at link. The Bible is littered with numerology.

https://angelnumber.org/what-does-the-number-17-mean-in-the-bible/

Also, credit to Kent Hovind for this find, but God having "longsuffering" is mentioned exactly 17 times in the Bible among 17 different verses. This quality and the context has to do with God's toleration of evil.

Easier for an algorithm to pick up sensitive topics, to flag for shills to give attention to, to otherwise easily gain information on the spread of content?

Maybe we should make it harder and be tactfully vague but descriptive enough of post titles?

Archive offline, don't rely on a search engine.

You'll waste your time just as much looking through content with perfect descriptors in the title. A descriptive title has absolutely nothing to do with the quality of the content.

I find all the arguments for "descriptive titles" illogical and suspect.

Stay vigilant, stay focused.

This push feels sudden, inorganic, and hostile, it doesn't sit right with me at all.

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Tests happen for a reason, to see whether the EMS is going out to the intended targets or not. If not everyone is receiving them, does that mean the EMS system is not properly functioning?

I imagine something must and will be done to correct this for when the EMS needs to really be used.

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Archive the linked media for yourself:

COVID-19 Coronavirus Data Dashboard

CDC, FDA Faked 'Covid' Testing Protocol by Using Human Cells Mixed With Common Cold Virus Fragments

It's all planned. It's fake.

VAERS COVID Vaccine Data

Inventor of MRNA technology warns for catastrophic events if ADE because of the vaccine campaigns

PCR inventor Kary Mullis on Fauci

The tables have turned, good luck my fellow jabbers we warned you

It has just been discovered that the Facebook Covid vaccine Fat-Checkers are funded by vaccine companies

Recent top posts removed on r/CovidVaccinated

Vaccine definition changed since October 2019

PCR test withdrawn. "CDC encourages laboratories to consider adoption of a multiplexed method that can facilitate detection and differentiation of SARS-CoV-2 and influenza viruses." Says "another FDA-authorized COVID-19 test" in the previous sentence. Implication difference between "another" and "a" is strong.

French hospital workers refusing to give out the vaccine

Idolizing Scandinavia no longer: Zero deaths in Sweden

Hospital workers protesting mandatory vaccines

Gibraltar's COVID cases increase by more than 2,500% since reaching over 99% vaccination

CDC refuses to publish research behind new policy

MASKS KILL Infographic sourced with Faucci's 1918 bacterial pneumonia paper

Study: Microbial Contamination on Used Surgical Masks among Hospital Personnel and Microbial Air Quality in their Working Wards. "High bacterial contamination on outside area of the used masks was demonstrated, and it showed a significant correlation with microbial air quality of working wards."

Covid crisis actors

Dr. Charles Hoffe issues Vaccine warning… Deep dive on endothelial damage to blood vessels…

French scientists show vaccinated blood has new graphene components never seen before

Vast majority of Covid-19 cluster in Cape Cod were vaccinated

Dr. Milo claims vaccinated have at most 10 years to live

Vast majority hospitalized are vaccinated

Fully Vaccinated People Are 65% More Likely to be Hospitalized & 1,540% More Likely to Die – Public Health England

Skipped animal trials discussed at Texas State Senate

Chris Whitty gave the order to give alleged Covid-19 patients lethal doses of Hydroxychloroquine to both kill them and sabotage trials

Report positive Covid results on vaccinated only if extremely sick

People who received placebo vaccine are considered fully vaccinated in UK

Minnesota Woman Loses Both Legs and Both Hands Following Second Pfizer COVID-19 Shot - but husband never tested positive despite prolonged contact

COVID Vaccines Producing Symptoms of Parkinson’s, Other Neurodegenerative Disorders

Biden: "you're not gonna get COVID if you have these vaccinations"

Majority of physicians decline Covid shots

Majority of patients admitted to hospital suffering from different organ inflammation due to vaccine - nurses instructed to keep quiet

c19vaxreactions.com

62% of patients vaccinated for vaccine have micro clotting in the capillaries which damages tissue that cannot be regenerated

Swine flu shots were halted after a mere 3 deaths in 1976

Court filing containing sworn statement of computer programmer that says there are at least 45,000 actual VAERS Covid 19 vaccine deaths

The newest Israeli data indicate complete vaccine failure on every level

Vaccinated individuals are at greater risk of contracting delta variant than unvaccinated

Dr. David Martin goes through various patents that prove the virus is not novel and that everything has been manufactured

Death rate from variant COVID virus six times higher for vaccinated than unvaccinated, UK health data show

Ultimate Proof: Covid-19 Was Planned to Usher in the New World Order

Fox Whistleblower Releases Damning Tape Of Boss Ordering Censorship Of Hydroxychloroquine Stories

Chinese Defector Confirms COVID-19 Was Manmade in a Laboratory

Study claims Chinese scientists created COVID 19 in a lab

Dr. Fauci Previously Argued For Risky Viral Experiments – Even if The Work Could Lead to a Deadly Pandemic

Fauci Admits COVID May Have Been Man-Made

COVID-19 vaccine efficacy and effectiveness

nojabforme.info

PDF on various vaccine info

PDF Update

All chickens must be vaccinated or they have a 100% chance of dying from Marek's disease, which used to be far less lethal, because of leaky vaccines. Leaky vaccines are vaccines which treat symptoms but not the spread, like the purported COVID-19 vaccine

Ivermectin Meta Data

Peer reviewed Ivermectin for COVID-19 Study #1

Peer reviewed Ivermectin for COVID-19 Study #2

Will keep list updated. Updates may not be listed at bottom if they can be placed next to other relevant links.

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"Trust Dan."

"Trust and believe in yourself."

"Trust your President!"

"TRUST GRASSLEY."

"Trust the plan."

"TRUST SESSIONS.

TRUST WRAY.

TRUST KANSAS.

TRUST HOROWITZ.

TRUST HUBER."

"TRUST Adm R."

"TRUST THE MISSION."

Do you notice how "Trust your President!" is the only one Q ended in exclamation?

Why did Q not specify President Trump and why did Q exclaim this statement?

Does he want us to trust President Biden too?

Do CAPS matter?

Do you notice who is missing?

Pence, Barr, Durham, Flynn, Giuliani, and Powell just to name a few notable.

Q has other things to say on trust:

"DO NOT TRUST THE FAKE NEWS MEDIA."

"DO NOT TRUST WHAT YOU READ."

"This movement challenges people to not simply TRUST what is being reported."

"Your trust & faith in us is enough.

You elected us to do the heavy lifting.

Enjoy the show."

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They are atheist and evolutionists despite all the contradictions they are confronted with.

Life is all just a big damn coincidence to them. You can't snap them out of it.

They worship humankind as a legacy that has risen to the top out of chaos on our own.

To believe the grand conspiracy, which involves great deception from our "great" leaders and idols, completely twisting history and even science and medicine, all the way back to ancient Babylon or further, is as blasphemy to their religion.

Human history is used by them to worship themselves for where we are at as being the top of evolution.

Every small red pill is rejected by them because they know where they would lead to if they were accepted.

Breaking this illusion is like proselytizing them from their religion.

Whether they admit it or not, their belief system is still based off of faith, faith of their leaders and idols.

And their faith in the lies told to them by their idols is great.

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It’s widely assumed in much of the media commentary I’ve seen in the past few months that neither the Durham special counsel’s office nor the federal investigation into Hunter Biden’s tax affairs are real.

Pundits and commentators make it clear in their pronouncements that they believe neither investigation is credible or, if they ever were, they were subsumed by politics long ago.

If it’s true that both always were or soon became bogus investigations, this brings up a relevant question: Since President Joe Biden is now safely installed in the White House, and there’s no longer any reason to keep up the pretense that anything is happening, why are both investigations continuing? Why haven’t they been ended yet?

Counter to most of the media pontifications about this ongoing federal investigation, I’m convinced they are quite real.

While a federal probe of a presidential candidate’s family during an election is a very politically sensitive endeavor—especially if that candidate happens to win the election and assume office as the president of the United States—the agents and officials handling the Hunter Biden investigation have thus far been completely professional about it.

They haven’t leaked anything to the media about their investigation and even during the intense media scrutiny that followed the publication of The New York Post’s laptop story in October 2020, they refused to leak anything.

Even though the media has known about the Hunter Biden investigation since the laptop story broke, not one media outlet has been able to crack the FBI’s wall of silence in the past four months.

Why do you suppose that is?

Now, let’s look at the other investigation that’s claimed to not be real or to have become a moot exercise.

A special counsel’s office (SCO) makes and unseals its own indictments. It can investigate and prosecute cases with its own prosecutors completely apart from the Department of Justice (DOJ). I’m quite frankly surprised at the number of media reporters and pundits who don’t seem to understand this.

The popular—and wrong—understanding of how an SCO functions is that while it can do its own independent investigations and can build cases against targets, if the SCO wants to proceed with criminal indictments, suddenly the attorney general and the DOJ take over at that point and begin approving or rejecting the charging decisions of the special counsel.

That is flatly false.

You would have a major political scandal of epic proportions if an SCO assigned to investigate former top DOJ officials for criminal conduct wanted to bring charges against one or more of the former officials, but the attorney general forbid them from doing it.

Such a scandal would directly lead to calls for that attorney general to be impeached for obstruction of justice.

Nobody seems to remember how the Mueller special counsel investigation ended with one of the most unusual developments ever.

Special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe ended with his unwillingness to decide whether then-President Donald Trump should be charged with obstruction of justice. Instead of coming to a resolution about that, Mueller handed that decision to the DOJ, Attorney General William Barr, and Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein.

Both Barr and Rosenstein publicly expressed surprise and disappointment that Mueller and his team of independent prosecutors declined to make their own charging decision.

Reluctantly, Barr and Rosenstein then did Mueller’s job for him and made the decision to dismiss the charge rather than make the indictment.

And yet, here we are just two years later after these very high-profile public events at the end of Mueller’s probe and everybody in the media seems to be suffering from some strange kind of collective amnesia.

I’m sure Durham was informing Barr, and now Merrick Garland, of the progress of his work. But giving someone updates on your progress and asking them for permission to do your job are two different things, and it would be great if the media stopped confusing the two.

This idea that Durham must run each of his charging decisions by Garland for an official thumbs-up or thumbs-down before he can proceed to file his own independent indictment is absurd.

Yet that’s what many people have been led to believe.

And it’s not true.

By all indications, Durham isn’t Mueller 2.0, and I don’t think he has any plans to punt any of his charging decisions to the DOJ so Garland can make them for him.

And as with the Biden investigation, ever since the Durham SCO was formally announced last November, and while it was expanding its number of prosecutors, not one journalist has had any success getting any leaks out of that office.

I find the silence compelling. While this silence seems to tell many media observers that the Durham investigation isn’t real, that same silence tells me the opposite.

Not only is it real, Durham is still coming.

(Copy-pasted from Epoch Times by Brian Cates since the article is behind a subscription wall)

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