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y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><strong>From Denials And Self Doubts</strong></p><p>It&#8217;s pure technology</p><p>Some would say supernatural</p><p>It&#8217;s all technology</p><p>Thank YOU, FATHER, for</p><p>The lessons</p><p>The teachings</p><p>The Blessings</p><p>To find out</p><p>It&#8217;s only technology</p><p>From denials because no one knew the truth</p><p>Self-doubts about my own being</p><p>Self-doubts instilled instead of problem solving</p><p>And the truth was at hand at all times!</p><p>I saw it but had no information to access it.</p><p>I saw so many access it was out of reach for me.</p><p>And I don&#8217;t take it for granite now &#8211;</p><p>I stay active in staying connected all day long</p><p>I get busy and get done and I thank YHVH and Yeshua Lord Jesus Christ</p><p>While tomorrow is another day and with the same actions come the same results ~&lt;+&gt;~</p><p>I know how to get up and think or mutter: &#8220;This is the day the Lord has made. Rejoice and Be Glad in it.&#8221; And &#8220;How can I be of service today for you Father and you Lord Jesus Christ.</p><p>All the suicides I&#8217;ve known</p><p>Had only self-doubts</p><p>Because they didn&#8217;t have</p><p>Problem solving skills.</p><p>Do they teach this in schools?</p><p>They at least should be teaching this at home.</p><p>The only way to learn</p><p>If problem solving skills</p><p>Weren&#8217;t taught to you</p><p>Is to get down and pray for them!</p><p>See, I know what GOD</p><p>Will do for me</p><p>And I have confidence</p><p>In that!</p><p>And that&#8217;s the Experiment. If you don&#8217;t test the promises of YHVH in the Holy Bible, why are you studying it?</p><p>It&#8217;s pure technology</p><p>Some would say supernatural</p><p>It&#8217;s all technology</p><p>It&#8217;s all learning problem solving skills</p><p>It&#8217;s all those with experience</p><p>Mentor the hungry and young</p><p>To learn your skills!</p><p><strong>Ezekiel 36:26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.</strong> (NIV)</p><p><strong>Ezekiel 36:26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.</strong> (KJV)</p><p>Stony heart means hard hearted sans the Holy Spirit and general love of mankind and love of the day &#8211; The heart of flesh, when we have a heart of flesh is the Spit of YHVH and Lord Jesus Christ through YHVH&#8217;S Holy Spirit that we can only connect to when we say to ourself and the world Lord Yeshua Messiah Jesus Christ is SON OF YHVH and my Savior and Messiah and LORD!</p><p><em><strong>I&#8217;m asking Gemini AI:</strong></em> Ezekiel 36:26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new</p><p>spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your</p><p>flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. (KJV) What does this Bible verse mean?</p><p>Publishing AI results is open information to the world so is therefore not copyrighted except for not citing the source.</p><p>AI is accurate but not precise and unable to mention the Formulas. Not that one day AI won&#8217;t be emitting the Formulas to do</p><p><strong>Key Themes &amp; Imagery</strong></p><ul><li><p><strong>The Stony Heart:</strong> Represents a human spirit that is hardened, stubborn, unfeeling, and unresponsive to God or morality. Stone cannot absorb water, yield to shaping, or feel.</p></li><li><p><strong>The Heart of Flesh:</strong> Represents a responsive, living, and tender heart. In Hebrew thought, the &#8220;heart&#8221; (lev) refers to the center of mind, will, and emotion. A heart of flesh is capable of repentance, empathy, and obedience.</p></li><li><p><strong>A New Spirit:</strong> Refers to an internal shift in desires and mindsets, enabling a person to align with God willingly rather than out of external compulsion.</p></li></ul><p><strong>Key Themes &amp; Breakdown</strong></p><ul><li><p><strong>The Stony Heart:</strong> Represents a mind and inner posture hardened by sin, pride, or indifference. Just as stone is cold, rigid, and impervious to impression, a &#8220;stony heart&#8221; cannot feel conviction or willingly align with God&#8217;s will.</p></li><li><p><strong>The Heart of Flesh:</strong> Refers to a responsive, tender, and impressionable nature. In biblical Hebrew thought, the heart encompasses the center of thoughts, choices, and desires. A heart of flesh is alive to spiritual promptings, capable of empathy, true repentance, and genuine obedience.</p></li><li><p><strong>A New Spirit:</strong> Signals the indwelling of God&#8217;s Holy Spirit within the believer (elaborated in verse 27), empowering people to follow God from an internal desire rather than external obligation or mere rule-following.</p></li><li><p><strong>Divine Initiative:</strong> The verse emphasizes that humans cannot manufacture this transformation on their own&#8212;it is God who promises, &#8220;I will give you&#8221; and &#8220;I will take away.&#8221;</p></li></ul><p>John 14:12 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. (KJV)</p><p>Has humanity done those greater things that what Yeshua Jesus Promised. What are those greater things? That&#8217;s why I feel AI did good job explaining the terms to use in the formulas, but cannot give the human example for folks to see, witness and know. Only a human can give a human example of the Formulas at work and working &#8211; It will take some longer than others to see it at work. It will take most a lifetime, while part of the experiment is to get the Formulas and Solutions to as many as possible and probable because of computing and the internet!</p><p>So Yes &#8230;. YHVH GOD ALMIGHTY FATHER GRANDFATHER CREATOR LORD HIS HOLY SPIRIT IN THE HOLY NAME OF LORD JESUS CHRIST YESHUA MESSIAH&#8217;s Holy Spirit anoints us to utilize computing and the internet to inform the world of the TRUTH REALITY OF THE EXISTENCE OF GOD AND JESUS AND EVERYTHING IN THE BIBLE ORIGINAL TEXTS are not totally in synch with even today&#8217;s KJV. But the ability to get to the original text and meaning exist ~&lt;+&gt;~ That therein is POWER!</p><p>If your foundation in THE WORD OF YHVH GOD ALMIGHTY AKA THE BIBLE is solid and powerful enough through your disciplines that you can read the Ethiopian Bible and it will be like atomic blasts going off inside of you! Your mind will be blown wide open. You will sense feel and see and you will see the current English translations, although as dearly precisely accurate as Divine Gifted Anointed Scholars and Special Born Folks can do with further translations coming. All you can do is read what you see and accept it and go on!</p><p>This way, if what you are reading in the English translated Ethiopian Bible does not instantly POW! give you images of the reality about us and from whence we came and the LEVELS of CREATION &#8211; Put the Ethiopian Bible on the shelf and one day, and that day is closer in coming, The Ethiopian Bible can give you hope where our 66 book Bible leaves out because 22 books were ultimately censored.</p><p>And the pysops is that those 22 books don&#8217;t matter&#8230;&#8230;</p><p>So I&#8217;m still working on the stony heart removal and replace with a Holy Spirit Flesh heart.</p><p>I would no longer be who I am now and what would I report? Hallelujah!!</p><p><em>From Denials And Self-Doubts (c)MSC Happy Hearts Productions 8-19-2026</em></p><p></p><p><span>In </span><strong><a href="https://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-26.htm"><span>Ezekiel 36:26</span></a></strong>, a "heart of flesh" (<em>lev basar</em> in Hebrew) originally means <strong><mark>a living, soft, and responsive inner self</mark></strong>. God uses it as a contrast to a "heart of stone," which represents stubbornness and rebellion against His guidance. It signifies a spiritual renewal where a person becomes sensitive, receptive, and obedient to God's moral law</p><p></p><p></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://trumanbutterfield.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://trumanbutterfield.substack.com/p/from-denials-and-self-doubts?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/p/from-denials-and-self-doubts?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://substack.com/@trumanbutterfield/note/p-212099294&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/substack.com/@trumanbutterfield/note/p-212099294"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[From Denials And Self Doubts ~ Part One]]></title><description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s All Problem Solving Skills]]></description><link>https://trumanbutterfield.substack.com/p/from-denials-and-self-doubts-part</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://trumanbutterfield.substack.com/p/from-denials-and-self-doubts-part</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Truman Butterfield]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 03:41:50 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hPIp!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff3b2c86b-bf68-430c-a3bb-0e1ffb2a73c0_1275x1650.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>From Denials And Self Doubts</strong></p><p>It&#8217;s pure technology</p><p>Some would say supernatural</p><p>It&#8217;s all technology</p><p>Thank YOU, FATHER, for</p><p>The lessons</p><p>The teachings</p><p>The Blessings</p><p>To find out</p><p>It&#8217;s only technology</p><p>From denials because no one knew the truth</p><p>Self-doubts about my own being</p><p>Self-doubts instilled instead of problem solving</p><p>And the truth was at hand at all times!</p><p>I saw it but had no information to access it.</p><p>I saw so many access it was out of reach for me.</p><p>And I don&#8217;t take it for granite now &#8211;</p><p>I stay active in staying connected all day long</p><p>I get busy and get done and I thank YHVH and Yeshua Lord Jesus Christ</p><p>While tomorrow is another day and with the same actions come the same results ~&lt;+&gt;~</p><p>I know how to get up and think or mutter: &#8220;This is the day the Lord has made. Rejoice and Be Glad in it.&#8221; And &#8220;How can I be of service today for you Father and you Lord Jesus Christ.</p><p>All the suicides I&#8217;ve known</p><p>Had only self-doubts</p><p>Because they didn&#8217;t have</p><p>Problem solving skills.</p><p>Do they teach this in schools?</p><p>They at least should be teaching this at home.</p><p>The only way to learn</p><p>If problem solving skills</p><p>Weren&#8217;t taught to you</p><p>Is to get down and pray for them!</p><p>See, I know what GOD</p><p>Will do for me</p><p>And I have confidence</p><p>In that!</p><p>And that&#8217;s the Experiment. If you don&#8217;t test the promises of YHVH in the Holy Bible, why are you studying it?</p><p>It&#8217;s pure technology</p><p>Some would say supernatural</p><p>It&#8217;s all technology</p><p>It&#8217;s all learning problem solving skills</p><p>It&#8217;s all those with experience</p><p>Mentor the hungry and young</p><p>To learn your skills!</p><p>From Denials And Self-Doubts (c)MSC Happy Hearts Productions 8-19-2026</p><p></p><p></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hPIp!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff3b2c86b-bf68-430c-a3bb-0e1ffb2a73c0_1275x1650.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hPIp!, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/w_424, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/c_limit, 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url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Mjla!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffc49c3bd-11ee-4ef3-a3a4-16f027b0520a_768x432.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Shit! Another one!</strong></p><p><em><strong>I don&#8217;t know! Is this another bio weapon being deployed like the covid 19 pLandemic?</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>It doesn&#8217;t matter what party you are, we must all stand against Bio Weapons Terrorisms</strong></em></p><p>This popped up on my laptop. My first reaction was: &#8220;Shit! Another one. Worse and more deadly and contaminating and communicable than the covid 19 pLandemic bio weapon that those that have the power told the vox populi, we can let out others more deadly and they will say this is naturally occurring in this part of the world. And to prove this, a whopping 2,000 ebola cases and climbing people intervening with them and their contacts, is not of the same machinations - Are they that damned serious with killing off human population that they think they can get away with it. While they are in the very act of doing it and will continue until we get to the source of the machinations and stop it and lock up the mass murderers! Now amount of human currency will stop the conviction and sentencing!</p><p>Now, if this is part of Creation, because of modern medicine more people are living and living longer in 3rd world places like DRC, India, etc. Cultural habits can wipe out a culture and the culture continues with said habits, their demise is certain. Including not having proper sewage and clean water. Aren&#8217;t we blessed to be sitting inside with our AC going in August on a computing device connected to the internet writing my response to something we, the People of Earth must wrap our minds around. The pLandemic was/is a Bio Weapon, It was built (gain of function) as a Bio Weapon. Unleashing it was Bio Terrorism! What was worse the pLandemic or the vaxx and boosters and what they KNOW ABOUT BOTH and we are definitely finding out. And no Pardon on Earth will protect those when this is proven to what we all suspect, Bio Terrorism from the git go! From the intention the gain of function - and strategically released and we still have to find out how these mass murderers strategically released and deployed the man made virus to the global vox populi.</p><p>Those of us who are living owe it to those who perished from the pLandemic or vaxx including, those mothers who miscarried because of the vaxx! </p><p>What happened to the advise Big Pharma TV commercials give when marketing a new drug they're depending on enough TV viewers to ask their doctors about that include: &#8220;If you are pregnant or plan on getting pregnant, don&#8217;t take or ask your doctor?&#8221;</p><p>Same is true with the pLandemic mRna vaxx, if you&#8217;re pregnant or plan to be pregnant.</p><p>If it was your job or your baby, that is a severe civil rights violation unless it&#8217;s like highly communicable. For real. </p><p>What killed more, the pLandemic or the vaxx?</p><p>Whereas the reverse is also true!</p><p>The problem with epidemic is the ease of human international travel.</p><p>If the deep state, those who use their wealth blessings as if they are God. </p><p>In the end which will be the beginning</p><p>One thing we all know for sure</p><p>Like it&#8217;s imprinted in the DNA </p><p>Of our Eternal Soul</p><p>That our Father Creator</p><p>G-D ALMIHGTY YHVH</p><p>Will have life HIS WAY</p><p>HIS WAY </p><p>Is where all the </p><p>Abundance, Blessings, Love, Guidance, etc. is.</p><p>As I found out </p><p>A while now</p><p>On my learning curves. </p><p>Who isn&#8217;t still on pins and needles from the last one. And it could have still been worse as evil and bad as it was! </p><p>How can the Earth&#8217;s vox populi which includes the leaders to quadrillionaires of the world ever trust that other bioweapons are not poised to be released?</p><p>Can Earth&#8217;s Humans have such police and law enforcement just for bio weapons from mass murdering terrorists be made and released? I don&#8217;t know. Because to the hitler last one of them, they will say it&#8217;s for warfare! </p><p>Humans have to either socially evolve to the next subsequent levels or we will annihilate our race. The Human Race. </p><p></p><h1><strong><a href="http://Deadly disease outbreak kills 2,000 as experts reveal what Americans should know">Deadly (EBOLA) disease outbreak kills 2,000 as experts reveal what Americans should know</a></strong></h1><p></p><h1><strong><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/general/deadly-disease-outbreak-kills-2-000-as-experts-reveal-what-americans-should-know/ar-AA29VleA?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&amp;cvid=6a7cd7753fdd4f0491480dc5463a9592&amp;ei=14">Deadly disease outbreak kills 2,000 as experts reveal what Americans should know</a> - </strong><span>Story by Khloe Quill</span></h1><p></p><p><em><strong>As the death toll from the latest <a href="https://foxnews.com/category/health/infectious-disease/ebola">Ebola outbreak</a> in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) surpasses 2,000 people, infectious disease experts say Americans should remain aware of the humanitarian crisis overseas while understanding the reality of domestic risk.</strong></em></p><p><strong><span data-color="#741b47" style="color: rgb(116, 27, 71);">The virus has spread rapidly across parts of eastern and northeastern DRC, with earlier cross-border cases in Uganda. Published government data shows a total of 4,381 confirmed cases.</span></strong></p><p>&#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of people who live there. So this is not breaking out in a town of 50, but in rural cities of hundreds of thousands,&#8221; David Wohl, MD, a professor of medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, told Fox News Digital.</p><p>&#8220;Compared to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/health/infectious-disease/outbreaks">previous outbreaks</a>, the pace at which this is moving is unprecedented,&#8221; he went on. &#8220;The slope is just so catastrophic, with more and more people getting infected at a very significant pace without much slowing down.&#8221;</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Mjla!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffc49c3bd-11ee-4ef3-a3a4-16f027b0520a_768x432.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Mjla!, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/w_424, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffc49c3bd-11ee-4ef3-a3a4-16f027b0520a_768x432.jpeg 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Mjla!, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/w_848, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffc49c3bd-11ee-4ef3-a3a4-16f027b0520a_768x432.jpeg 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Mjla!, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffc49c3bd-11ee-4ef3-a3a4-16f027b0520a_768x432.jpeg 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Mjla!, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffc49c3bd-11ee-4ef3-a3a4-16f027b0520a_768x432.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Mjla!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffc49c3bd-11ee-4ef3-a3a4-16f027b0520a_768x432.jpeg" width="768" height="432" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/fc49c3bd-11ee-4ef3-a3a4-16f027b0520a_768x432.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:432,&quot;width&quot;:768,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;A healthcare worker prepares a patient's blood sample for testing at Bunia General Hospital in Bunia, Congo, on June 11, 2026. AP Images&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;A healthcare worker prepares a patient's blood sample for testing at Bunia General Hospital in Bunia, Congo, on June 11, 2026. AP Images&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="A healthcare worker prepares a patient's blood sample for testing at Bunia General Hospital in Bunia, Congo, on June 11, 2026. AP Images" title="A healthcare worker prepares a patient's blood sample for testing at Bunia General Hospital in Bunia, Congo, on June 11, 2026. AP Images" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Mjla!, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/w_424, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffc49c3bd-11ee-4ef3-a3a4-16f027b0520a_768x432.jpeg 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Mjla!, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/w_848, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffc49c3bd-11ee-4ef3-a3a4-16f027b0520a_768x432.jpeg 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Mjla!, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffc49c3bd-11ee-4ef3-a3a4-16f027b0520a_768x432.jpeg 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Mjla!, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffc49c3bd-11ee-4ef3-a3a4-16f027b0520a_768x432.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><span>A healthcare worker prepares a patient&#8217;s blood sample for testing at Bunia General Hospital in Bunia, Congo, on June 11, 2026. AP Images&#169; AP Images</span></p><p>Controlling transmission has proven particularly difficult in the DRC due to what Wohl calls a &#8220;perfect storm&#8221; of adverse conditions.</p><p><strong><a href="https://foxnews.onelink.me/xLDS/7vlxc1pw">READ ON THE FOX NEWS APP</a></strong></p><p>Dense populations and limited access can complicate efforts to deliver <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/health/health-care">medical care</a>, track contacts and establish quarantine protocols, he noted.</p><p>&#8220;There&#8217;s conflict in and around these areas, which makes getting in and out of them &#8230; really tough,&#8221; Wohl said.</p><p>Despite the escalating death toll in Africa, health officials emphasize that the average American faces very little threat from Ebola.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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/__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe9090df1-5d3d-4faf-bb53-c2ad9db06322_768x432.jpeg 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AQvo!, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe9090df1-5d3d-4faf-bb53-c2ad9db06322_768x432.jpeg 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AQvo!, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe9090df1-5d3d-4faf-bb53-c2ad9db06322_768x432.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AQvo!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe9090df1-5d3d-4faf-bb53-c2ad9db06322_768x432.jpeg" width="768" height="432" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e9090df1-5d3d-4faf-bb53-c2ad9db06322_768x432.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:432,&quot;width&quot;:768,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;The current outbreak involves the Bundibugyo ebolavirus strain, which is genetically distinct from the 2014 Zaire strain and renders standard past treatments and vaccines less effective, the doctor said. iStock&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;The current outbreak involves the Bundibugyo ebolavirus strain, which is genetically distinct from the 2014 Zaire strain and renders standard past treatments and vaccines less effective, the doctor said. iStock&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="The current outbreak involves the Bundibugyo ebolavirus strain, which is genetically distinct from the 2014 Zaire strain and renders standard past treatments and vaccines less effective, the doctor said. iStock" title="The current outbreak involves the Bundibugyo ebolavirus strain, which is genetically distinct from the 2014 Zaire strain and renders standard past treatments and vaccines less effective, the doctor said. iStock" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AQvo!, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/w_424, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AQvo!, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe9090df1-5d3d-4faf-bb53-c2ad9db06322_768x432.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><span>The current outbreak involves the Bundibugyo ebolavirus strain, which is genetically distinct from the 2014 Zaire strain and renders standard past treatments and vaccines less effective, the doctor said. iStock&#169; iStock</span></p><p>&#8220;This is not something that I think the average person has to worry about acquiring here in the United States,&#8221; Wohl said, noting that transmission requires close <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/health/infectious-disease">physical contact</a> with bodily fluids from a severely ill or deceased individual.</p><p>&#8220;It doesn&#8217;t travel across the air and across a room,&#8221; he added.</p><p><strong><span data-color="#0000ff" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">Even during the massive 2014 West Africa outbreak, which Wohl said infected more than 28,000 people,</span> <span data-color="#ff0000" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">only four Ebola cases were diagnosed in the U.S. Two were imported cases, and two nurses contracted the virus while caring for an infected patient in Dallas, according to the CDC.</span></strong></p><p>Several other Ebola patients who had been infected and diagnosed overseas were medically evacuated to the U.S. for treatment.</p><p>&#8220;We just have so much better <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/health">public health</a>, healthcare systems, hygiene, access,&#8221; Wohl said. &#8220;It&#8217;s a very different environment.&#8221;</p><p><a href="https://foxnews.com/category/science/wild-nature/viruses">Viruses</a> like measles, influenza, RSV and SARS-CoV-2 pose more immediate public health concerns for Americans, he added.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zFta!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbdb8e3a8-6bbb-446d-bac9-1bfd64d5c291_768x432.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zFta!, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/w_424, 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AP Images&#169; AP Images</span></p><p>&#8220;The average person who <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/health/pain-management/headaches-and-migraines">gets a headache</a> or a fever does not need to worry about Ebola,&#8221; the doctor said.</p><p><em><strong><span data-color="#ff0000" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">For the U.S., potential concerns include the risk to healthcare providers traveling to Africa to assist with containment efforts and the possibility of further instability in the region.</span></strong></em></p><p><strong><a href="https://foxnews.com/category/health/medical-research"><span data-color="#b45f06" style="color: rgb(180, 95, 6);">Medical researchers</span></a><span data-color="#b45f06" style="color: rgb(180, 95, 6);"> are also navigating challenges with virus variants,</span></strong> according to Wohl.</p><p>While treatments and vaccines were successfully deployed against the Zaire strain during the 2014 crisis, the doctor said the Bundibugyo virus circulating in parts of the DRC is genetically different.</p><p>As a result, approved Ebola therapeutics are not approved for Bundibugyo-related disease, and their effectiveness against it has not been established.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DUoi!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5833608f-d665-46cd-9fcd-b1da5d74bfb3_768x432.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DUoi!, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/w_424, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5833608f-d665-46cd-9fcd-b1da5d74bfb3_768x432.jpeg 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DUoi!, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/w_848, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5833608f-d665-46cd-9fcd-b1da5d74bfb3_768x432.jpeg 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DUoi!, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5833608f-d665-46cd-9fcd-b1da5d74bfb3_768x432.jpeg 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data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/5833608f-d665-46cd-9fcd-b1da5d74bfb3_768x432.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:432,&quot;width&quot;:768,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;The average American faces virtually no threat of catching Ebola domestically because transmission requires direct contact with bodily fluids and the U.S. maintains robust public health systems, the doctor said. iStock&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;The average American faces virtually no threat of catching Ebola domestically because transmission requires direct contact with bodily fluids and the U.S. maintains robust public health systems, the doctor said. 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8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><span>The average American faces virtually no threat of catching Ebola domestically because transmission requires direct contact with bodily fluids and the U.S. maintains robust public health systems, the doctor said. iStock&#169; iStock</span></p><p>Researchers are actively evaluating new treatments and vaccine candidates for <em><strong><a href="/__u/www.google.com/search?q=Bundibugyo+virus&amp;rlz=1C1JSBI_enUS1089US1089&amp;oq=Bundibugyo+virus&amp;gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQLhiABDIHCAIQABiABDIHCAMQABiABDIHCAQQABiABDIHCAUQABiABDIHCAYQABiABDIHCAcQABiABDIHCAgQABiABDIHCAkQABiABNIBCTQwMzlqMGoxNagCCLACAfEFOdG21hEg328&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;source=chrome.rb&amp;ie=UTF-8">Bundibugyo virus</a></strong></em>, Wohl said.</p><p>Emerging technologies, <strong>including mRNA platforms</strong>, could potentially help researchers more rapidly develop <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/health/infectious-disease/vaccines">vaccines</a> against specific viral threats, according to the doctor. (<em><strong>Yeah. Well test it on lab rats not on humans like they did with the pLandemic mRNA vaxx.</strong></em>)</p><p>Global agencies, including the World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, continue to monitor the region closely. Wohl emphasized that international support and resource deployment remain critical to stopping the surge.</p><p><strong><a href="https://foxnews.onelink.me/xLDS?pid=AppArticleLink&amp;af_dp=foxnewsaf%3A%2F%2F&amp;af_web_dp=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fapps-products">CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP</a></strong></p><p><em><strong>&#8220;This is a fire that&#8217;s raging that continues to be out of control,&#8221; Wohl said. &#8220;There&#8217;s lots of people suffering ... and I think more can be done.&#8221;</strong></em></p><p><em>Original article source:</em> <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/health/deadly-disease-outbreak-kills-2000-experts-reveal-what-americans-should-know">Deadly disease outbreak kills 2,000 as experts reveal what Americans should know</a></p><p></p><p></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://trumanbutterfield.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://trumanbutterfield.substack.com/p/deadly-ebola-disease-outbreak-kills?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/p/deadly-ebola-disease-outbreak-kills?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://substack.com/@trumanbutterfield/note/p-210953007&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/substack.com/@trumanbutterfield/note/p-210953007"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><p></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Violent Anti-ICE Protesters Are Sentenced, Convicted]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mostly Peaceful Protests The Media Spins]]></description><link>https://trumanbutterfield.substack.com/p/violent-anti-ice-protesters-are-sentenced</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://trumanbutterfield.substack.com/p/violent-anti-ice-protesters-are-sentenced</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Truman Butterfield]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 21:36:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CULK!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fab4adcad-78fb-475b-8163-6be0c64e6c92_736x491.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><em><strong>Mostly peaceful protests the media spins and those ostrich parasitic mental denial syndrome with severe TDS  has apparently run it&#8217;s course. One can only hope but remain vigilant and in training. </strong></em></p><h1><strong><a href="https://freebeacon.com/crime/violent-anti-ice-protesters-are-sentenced-convicted/">Violent Anti-ICE Protesters Are Sentenced, Convicted</a></strong></h1><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CULK!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fab4adcad-78fb-475b-8163-6be0c64e6c92_736x491.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CULK!, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/w_424, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">An anti-ICE rioter stands on a burned car holding a Mexican flag at Atlantic Ave on June 7, 2025 in Paramount, California. (Apu Gomes/Getty Images)</figcaption></figure></div><p><a href="https://freebeacon.com/author/ira-stoll/">Ira Stoll</a></p><p>August 10, 2026</p><p>One man threw chunks of cinderblock at a border patrol agent. Another poured two bottles of lighter fluid on a police car. Another threw a large rock that hit an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in the head, then used a stop sign as a battering ram against the door of an ICE building. Another attempted to murder a police officer at an immigration detention center.</p><p>Recent sentencings and convictions in a series of criminal cases in a variety of jurisdictions nationwide provide details of what federal officials describe as a violent attempt to undermine the rule of law. It&#8217;s one thing to have a different view of immigration enforcement or policy than the Trump administration; that&#8217;s what elections and peaceful advocacy are all about. It&#8217;s another thing to try to obstruct the enforcement by using violence against government employees.</p><p>Among the recent criminal sentencings and convictions:</p><p>&#8212; Jacob Daniel Terrazas, 31, of Paramount, Calif., was sentenced July 22 to ten months in federal prison &#8220;for throwing chunks of cinderblock at Border Patrol agents and injuring one of them during a protest that turned violent,&#8221; according to a Justice Department <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/paramount-man-sentenced-federal-prison-throwing-cinderblock-border-patrol-agent-during">press release</a>. Terrazas pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor count of simple assault on a federal officer.</p><p>&#8212; Yachua Mauricio Flores, 23, a Mexican illegal immigrant living in Los Angeles, was sentenced August 3 to 37 months in federal prison &#8220;for pouring two bottles of lighter fluid onto a burning California Highway Patrol (CHP) vehicle and throwing an electric scooter over a freeway overpass near officers during an anti&#8209;immigration law enforcement riot in a downtown Los Angeles,&#8221; according to a Justice Department <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/la-man-sentenced-more-3-years-federal-prison-pouring-lighter-fluid-burning-chp-vehicle">press release</a>.</p><p>&#8212; Ismael Vega, 42, from Los Angeles, was sentenced July 27 to 37 months in federal prison &#8220;for throwing rocks and ignited debris at California Highway Patrol (CHP) officers trapped underneath a downtown Los Angeles freeway overpass &#8230; during a violent anti-immigration law enforcement protest last year,&#8221; according to a Justice Department <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/westlake-man-sentenced-more-3-years-prison-throwing-rocks-and-lighted-debris-chp">press release</a>. Vega pleaded guilty to one count of obstructing, impeding, and interfering with law enforcement during a civil disorder.</p><p>&#8212; On June 23 in Texas, eight defendants were sentenced to a combined 450 years in prison for an attack on the Prairieland Detention Center in North Texas. The leader of the group, Benjamin Hanil Song, who was convicted of the attempted murder of a law enforcement officer, was sentenced to 100 years in prison, according to a Justice Department <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/leader-antifa-cell-members-north-texas-sentenced-100-years-prison-terrorist-attack-ice">press release</a>.</p><p>&#8212; On June 11, a Portland, Oregon man, Robert Jacob Hoopes, 25, was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and three years of supervised release &#8220;after striking an officer in the head with a large rock at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office in South Portland,&#8221; according to a Justice Department <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-or/pr/portland-man-sentenced-federal-prison-aggravated-assault">press release</a>. &#8220;Later that same day, he and two other individuals were seen using an upended stop sign as a makeshift battering ram, which resulted in significant damage to the main entry door to the ICE building,&#8221; the release said, noting that &#8220;Hoopes pleaded guilty to aggravated assault on a federal employee with a dangerous weapon.&#8221;</p><p>&#8212; In May, a jury in Spokane, Washington convicted Jac Archer, Justice Forral, and Bajun Mavalwalla II of violating federal law by conspiring to impede law enforcement officers or injure property used in the execution of their duties. According to a Justice Department <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-edwa/pr/eastern-washington-jury-convicts-three-defendants-conspiring-impede-federal-officers">press release</a>, &#8220;The charges arose from an event at an ICE facility in Spokane in June 2025. That day, defendants and others prevented law enforcement officers from engaging in their official duties of transporting individuals from a detention facility in Spokane to a detention facility and the immigration court near Tacoma.&#8221;</p><p>Federal law enforcement officials say the sentences send an important message. Announcing the Flores lighter-fluid conviction earlier this month, a federal prosecutor in Los Angeles, Bill Essayli, said, &#8220;Violent attacks on law enforcement will result in federal prison time &#8230; Today&#8217;s sentence reflects our commitment to protecting the men and women sworn to keep our communities safe.&#8221;</p><p>In the Portland case, U.S. Attorney Scott E. Bradford said, &#8220;Today&#8217;s message is clear &#8211; violence is not a protest. When you cross the line and assault a federal officer, you will be prosecuted.&#8221; The FBI special agent in charge in Portland, Matt Torres, said, &#8220;The FBI will not stand idly by and allow federal officers to be assaulted by rioters &#8230; We will investigate any perpetrator using violence to express their views and hold them accountable.&#8221;</p><p>When the North Texas sentences were announced, the acting attorney general, Todd Blanche, said &#8220;The sentences handed down today make clear that Antifa terrorists who attack law enforcement and federal facilities will face swift and uncompromising justice &#8230; Their violent extremism has no place in our country, and the Department of Justice will continue to aggressively investigate, disrupt, and prosecute those who threaten law enforcement officers or undermine the rule of law.&#8221;</p><p>The press has largely downplayed the convictions and sentencings, covering them as isolated instances rather than as a nationwide pattern of violent interference with immigration enforcement. A <em>New York Times</em> news <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/us/politics/antifa-ice-protesters-sentencing.html">article</a> on the North Texas sentencings reported, &#8220;The remarkably stiff penalties, issued by Judge Mark T. Pittman and Judge Reed O&#8217;Connor, were significantly longer than the lengthiest sentence handed down to any of the more than 1,500 rioters who were prosecuted &#8212; and then given clemency &#8212; for joining in the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.&#8221;</p><p>To the extent that the clashes between the government and anti-immigration protesters have gotten press attention, the press&#8217;s preferred narrative has been that what is underway is as the subheadline over a <em>Wall Street Journal</em> &#8220;<a href="https://www.wsj.com/us-news/immigration-protests-noem-minneapolis-0b8bd496">investigation</a>&#8220; earlier this year put it, &#8220;an aggressive government campaign to detain and demonize dissenters.&#8221;</p><p>That&#8217;s one way to put it, I suppose, if your definition of &#8220;dissent&#8221; is pouring lighter fluid on a police car or throwing a rock at a federal employee&#8217;s head. Another way to look at it, though, is that there&#8217;s an illegal anti-government campaign underway to attack immigration officials and violently obstruct enforcement. Immigration enforcement was one of Trump&#8217;s signature campaign promises, and he won the election, so it amounts, in effect, to using violence to try to overturn an election result. Where&#8217;s the &#8220;democracy is in danger&#8221; crowd now?</p><p>Published under: <strong><a href="https://freebeacon.com/tag/anti-ice/"><span>anti-ICE</span></a><span> </span></strong>, <strong><a href="https://freebeacon.com/tag/justice-department/"><span>Justice Department</span></a><span> </span></strong>, <strong><a href="https://freebeacon.com/tag/violent-crime/"><span>Violent Crime</span></a></strong></p><p></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://trumanbutterfield.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://trumanbutterfield.substack.com/p/violent-anti-ice-protesters-are-sentenced?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/p/violent-anti-ice-protesters-are-sentenced?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://substack.com/@trumanbutterfield/note/p-210669901&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/substack.com/@trumanbutterfield/note/p-210669901"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[It Was Once Called A Freak Of Nature. ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Someone Replied To Me Regarding Hermaphrodites]]></description><link>https://trumanbutterfield.substack.com/p/it-was-once-called-a-freak-of-nature</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://trumanbutterfield.substack.com/p/it-was-once-called-a-freak-of-nature</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Truman Butterfield]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 23:18:20 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Z1BH!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F10244174-d40f-474f-a16b-e3520fc74ce0_767x708.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>It Was Once Called A Freak Of Nature.</strong></p><p><strong>Someone Replied To Me Regarding Hermaphrodites</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p>What was called a freak of nature? I&#8217;m assuming you mean hermaphrodite?</p><p>As much as being born without a limb or something is a freak of nature, I just googled: &#8220;what are the odds of being born hermaphrodite&#8221; -</p><p>In humans, the term &#8220;hermaphrodite&#8221; is medically referred to as <strong>true ovotesticular syndrome</strong> (having both ovarian and testicular tissue). True hermaphroditism is extremely rare, with an estimated incidence of <strong>less than 1 in 20,000 to 1 in 100,000 births</strong> (approx. 0.001% to 0.005%).</p><p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-</p><p>It is not a groomed psyops or self imagined psyops dysphoria as we see trans. Along with the culturally grooming psyops of slicing genders into a kaleidoscope of frankly, satanic nonsense!</p><p>================================</p><p>S<strong>o-to fall in love with a hermaphrodite is not a freak of nature because pleasure and sexual pleasure between consenting adults is more empowering to empower them through their day and is private.</strong></p><p><strong>Those who judge do not have this and they do not have LOVE to empower them through their day. They are only partially empowered if they have a constant companion. Human wise.</strong></p><p><strong>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-</strong></p><p><strong>India, 1982 - Bombay - As it was called then. The husband of a young couple I met invited me to stay with them overnight and the next morning the man was taking me on a rail stop expedition into the jungles around Bombay. That night I had a dream with a hermaphrodite and the next day waiting for the train, the depot looked just as it looked in the dream and I had an encounter with a group of hermaphrodites and one specifically who walked toward me. The last Sunday before departing India, I picked up the English version of the Bombay Times that had on front page &#8220;Hermaphrodite Convention To Be Held In Bombay&#8221;</strong></p><p><strong>The article said the hermaphrodites are outcast from their families and community. They travel together for support and protection and do mostly domestic and farm work.</strong></p><p><strong>I always wondered why did I have that dream that came true the next day?</strong></p><p><strong>Was GOD giving me the dream for later use?</strong></p><p><strong>And are the times we are in, with the sudden seeming explosion of gender dysphoria and kaleidoscope of terms for each vain imagined gender the reason I had the dream, some 44 years later?</strong></p><p><em><strong>(You&#8217;re lucky I happen to be home chilling at the moment)</strong></em></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Z1BH!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F10244174-d40f-474f-a16b-e3520fc74ce0_767x708.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!P_fo!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc4b065cd-d7e3-44d1-b70d-e437045fcafb_480x480.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Who Has Heard Of These Papers? </strong></p><p><em><strong>There is so much going on in this world. So many onions to peel. </strong></em></p><p><em><strong>The systems are in play and no human will or can stop it. Your job is to find out of the Panama Papers, Paradise Papers, and Pandora Papers are good or nefarious or nefarious and good?</strong></em></p><p><em><strong><a href="/__u/www.google.com/search?q=panama+papers+paradise+papers+pandora+papers&amp;rlz=1C1JSBI_enUS1089US1089&amp;oq=panama+papers%2C+pandora+papers%2C+&amp;gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqCAgDEAAYFhgeMgYIABBFGDkyCAgBEAAYFhgeMggIAhAAGBYYHjIICAMQABgWGB4yCAgEEAAYFhgeMggIBRAAGBYYHjIICAYQABgWGB4yCAgHEAAYFhgeMggICBAAGBYYHjINCAkQABiGAxiABBiKBdIBCjI1ODY0ajBqMTWoAgiwAgHxBSSv80acLyIh&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;source=chrome.rb&amp;ie=UTF-8"><span data-color="#ff0000" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">The Panama Papers, Paradise Papers, and Pandora Papers</span></a></strong></em></p><p></p><p><span>The Panama Papers, Paradise Papers, and Pandora Papers are </span><strong><mark>massive investigative leaks coordinated by the <span>International Consortium of Investigative Journalists</span></mark></strong><span> - ICIJ</span> that exposed how political elites, billionaires, and criminals use offshore shell companies and tax havens to hide wealth and avoid taxes globally. [<a href="https://www.icij.org/investigations/pandora-papers/">1</a>, <a href="https://www.icij.org/investigations/pandora-papers/about-pandora-papers-investigation/">2</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwN97HyxL7A">3</a>]</p><p>Users on <strong><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/q6rdvz/we_are_the_journalists_behind_the_biggest/"><span>Reddit r/IAmA</span></a></strong> agree that while these investigations revealed massive hidden fortunes, they still only represent a small fraction of the trillions moving through the global offshore economy. You can explore the searchable records directly through the <strong><a href="https://offshoreleaks.icij.org/"><span>ICIJ Offshore Leaks Database</span></a></strong>. [<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/q6rdvz/we_are_the_journalists_behind_the_biggest/">1</a>, <a href="https://offshoreleaks.icij.org/">2</a>]</p><p><strong>Comparison of Leaks</strong></p><ul><li><p><strong><span>Panama Papers (2016):</span></strong></p><ul><li><p><strong><span>Source:</span></strong><span> 2.6 terabytes from Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca.</span></p></li><li><p><strong><span>Focus:</span></strong><span> Exposed 214,000 offshore entities tied to world leaders, officials, and celebrities across 200 countries.</span> [<a href="https://www.icij.org/investigations/pandora-papers/frequently-asked-questions-about-the-pandora-papers-and-icij/">1</a>, <a href="https://www.icij.org/investigations/panama-papers/">2</a>, <a href="https://www.taxfairness.ca/en/resources/explainers/explainer-what-are-pandora-papers">3</a>]</p></li></ul></li><li><p><strong><span>Paradise Papers (2017):</span></strong></p><ul><li><p><strong><span>Source:</span></strong><span> 1.4 terabytes primarily from Appleby, an offshore law firm in Bermuda, and corporate registries.</span></p></li><li><p><strong><span>Focus:</span></strong><span> Highlighted complex tax-planning structures used by multinational corporations and ultra-wealthy individuals.</span> [<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3owpyBDcoI&amp;t=347">1</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Papers">2</a>, <a href="https://www.icij.org/investigations/pandora-papers/frequently-asked-questions-about-the-pandora-papers-and-icij/">3</a>, <a href="https://www.taxfairness.ca/en/resources/explainers/explainer-what-are-pandora-papers">4</a>]</p></li></ul></li><li><p><strong><span>Pandora Papers (2021):</span></strong></p><ul><li><p><strong><span>Source:</span></strong><span> 2.94 terabytes (11.9 million files) sourced from 14 different offshore service providers.</span></p></li><li><p><strong><span>Focus:</span></strong><span> The largest data volume, revealing secret real estate purchases, trusts, and shadow assets of over 330 politicians.</span> [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora_Papers">1</a>, <a href="https://www.icij.org/investigations/pandora-papers/about-pandora-papers-leak-dataset/">2</a>, <a href="https://www.icij.org/investigations/pandora-papers/frequently-asked-questions-about-the-pandora-papers-and-icij/">3</a>, <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/q6rdvz/we_are_the_journalists_behind_the_biggest/">4</a>]</p></li></ul></li></ul><p><strong>Key Impacts and Resources</strong></p><ul><li><p><strong><span>Global Inquiries:</span></strong><span> Triggered government audits and asset recoveries worldwide.</span></p></li><li><p><span>You can read more about the technical background on </span><strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora_Papers"><span>Wikipedia&#8217;s Pandora Papers entry</span></a></strong><span> and </span><strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Papers"><span>Wikipedia&#8217;s Paradise Papers entry</span></a></strong><span>.</span></p></li><li><p><span>For detailed context on legal structures, see the </span><strong><a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-05/offshore-companies-trusts-tax-and-secrecy-explained/100514250"><span>ABC News Offshore structures and tax explained guide</span></a></strong><span>.</span></p></li><li><p><span>An official statement regarding policy and tax avoidance is available via the </span><strong><a href="https://www.europarl.europa.eu/cmsdata/243014/Will%20Fitzgibbon%20Statement.pdf"><span>European Parliament PDF Statement</span></a></strong><span>.</span> [<a href="https://www.icij.org/investigations/panama-papers/hundreds-of-millions-more-dollars-recouped-by-governments-after-icij-investigations/">1</a>, <a href="https://www.icij.org/investigations/pandora-papers/pakistan-and-india-probe-hundreds-of-pandora-papers-names/">2</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora_Papers">3</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Papers">4</a>]</p></li></ul><p>If you&#8217;d like, I can provide more details on:</p><ul><li><p><strong><span>Specific world leaders or public figures</span></strong><span> named in the leaks</span></p></li><li><p><strong><span>How shell companies and trusts work</span></strong><span> legally versus illegally</span></p></li><li><p><strong><span>The political or legal fallout</span></strong><span> in a specific country</span></p></li></ul><h3><a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-05/offshore-companies-trusts-tax-and-secrecy-explained/100514250"><span>Pandora, Paradise and Panama Papers</span></a></h3><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EkXp!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F00c4eaf5-b87b-4276-ab4b-0f6f041165bb_28x27.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div 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/__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F00c4eaf5-b87b-4276-ab4b-0f6f041165bb_28x27.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EkXp!, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/w_848, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F00c4eaf5-b87b-4276-ab4b-0f6f041165bb_28x27.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EkXp!, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F00c4eaf5-b87b-4276-ab4b-0f6f041165bb_28x27.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EkXp!, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F00c4eaf5-b87b-4276-ab4b-0f6f041165bb_28x27.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-05/offshore-companies-trusts-tax-and-secrecy-explained/100514250"><span>ABC News &amp; Headlines &#8211; Australian Broadcasting Corporation</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-05/offshore-companies-trusts-tax-and-secrecy-explained/100514250"><span>https://www.abc.net.au &#8250; news &#8250; offshore-companies-tr...</span></a></p><p><span>Oct 5, 2021 &#8212; </span>The <em><strong>Pandora Papers</strong></em> leak of nearly 12 million documents has shed further light on the secretive, mysterious world of offshore companies and ...<a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-05/offshore-companies-trusts-tax-and-secrecy-explained/100514250#:~:text=The%20Pandora%20Papers%20leak%20of,of%20offshore%20companies%20and%20trusts.">Read more</a></p><h3><a href="https://www.niceactimize.com/blog/aml-panama-paradise-pandora-leaks-expose-financial-risks"><span>Panama, Paradise, Pandora Leaks Expose Financial Risks</span></a></h3><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zZO1!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fab6f62e2-155f-4e4b-b819-92022a228300_28x28.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zZO1!, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/w_424, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fab6f62e2-155f-4e4b-b819-92022a228300_28x28.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zZO1!, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/w_848, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fab6f62e2-155f-4e4b-b819-92022a228300_28x28.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zZO1!, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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/__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fab6f62e2-155f-4e4b-b819-92022a228300_28x28.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zZO1!, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/w_848, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fab6f62e2-155f-4e4b-b819-92022a228300_28x28.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zZO1!, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fab6f62e2-155f-4e4b-b819-92022a228300_28x28.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zZO1!, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fab6f62e2-155f-4e4b-b819-92022a228300_28x28.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><a href="https://www.niceactimize.com/blog/aml-panama-paradise-pandora-leaks-expose-financial-risks"><span>NICE Actimize</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.niceactimize.com/blog/aml-panama-paradise-pandora-leaks-expose-financial-risks"><span>https://www.niceactimize.com &#8250; blog &#8250; aml-panama-par...</span></a></p><p><span>Oct 13, 2021 &#8212; </span>The <em><strong>Panama Papers</strong></em> exposed a network of more than 215,000 offshore entities involving people and entities from 200 different nations. Financial</p><p></p><p></p><p><span>Are Pandora Papers and Panama Papers the same?</span></p><p><strong>AI Overview</strong></p><p><span>The Panama Papers (2016) and the Pandora Papers (2021) are both massive financial leaks</span> investigated by the <span>International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ)</span> that exposed how the ultra-wealthy use offshore tax havens.</p><p></p><p><strong>Scope and Source Size</strong></p><ul><li><p><strong><span>Panama Papers:</span></strong><span> Came from a single source&#8212;the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca. It contained 11.5 million files (2.6 terabytes) detailing roughly 214,000 offshore entities.</span></p></li></ul><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RBxX!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F49046f4a-771f-4b36-a13f-a35ee9af22fe_128x128.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RBxX!, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/w_424, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F49046f4a-771f-4b36-a13f-a35ee9af22fe_128x128.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RBxX!, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/w_848, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F49046f4a-771f-4b36-a13f-a35ee9af22fe_128x128.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RBxX!, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F49046f4a-771f-4b36-a13f-a35ee9af22fe_128x128.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RBxX!, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F49046f4a-771f-4b36-a13f-a35ee9af22fe_128x128.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RBxX!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F49046f4a-771f-4b36-a13f-a35ee9af22fe_128x128.png" width="128" height="128" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/49046f4a-771f-4b36-a13f-a35ee9af22fe_128x128.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:128,&quot;width&quot;:128,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RBxX!, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/w_424, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F49046f4a-771f-4b36-a13f-a35ee9af22fe_128x128.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RBxX!, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/w_848, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F49046f4a-771f-4b36-a13f-a35ee9af22fe_128x128.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RBxX!, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F49046f4a-771f-4b36-a13f-a35ee9af22fe_128x128.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RBxX!, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F49046f4a-771f-4b36-a13f-a35ee9af22fe_128x128.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><ul><li><p><strong><span>International Consortium of Investigative Journalists - ICIJ +2</span></strong></p></li><li><p><strong><span>Pandora Papers:</span></strong><span> Came from 14 different offshore service providers located across multiple jurisdictions. It was larger, containing roughly 11.9 to 12 million records (2.9 terabytes) and implicating twice as many ultimate beneficial owners and public officials.</span></p></li></ul><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RBxX!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F49046f4a-771f-4b36-a13f-a35ee9af22fe_128x128.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RBxX!, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/w_424, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F49046f4a-771f-4b36-a13f-a35ee9af22fe_128x128.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RBxX!, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/w_848, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F49046f4a-771f-4b36-a13f-a35ee9af22fe_128x128.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RBxX!, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F49046f4a-771f-4b36-a13f-a35ee9af22fe_128x128.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RBxX!, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F49046f4a-771f-4b36-a13f-a35ee9af22fe_128x128.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RBxX!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F49046f4a-771f-4b36-a13f-a35ee9af22fe_128x128.png" width="128" height="128" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/49046f4a-771f-4b36-a13f-a35ee9af22fe_128x128.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:128,&quot;width&quot;:128,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RBxX!, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/w_424, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F49046f4a-771f-4b36-a13f-a35ee9af22fe_128x128.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RBxX!, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/w_848, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F49046f4a-771f-4b36-a13f-a35ee9af22fe_128x128.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RBxX!, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F49046f4a-771f-4b36-a13f-a35ee9af22fe_128x128.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RBxX!, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F49046f4a-771f-4b36-a13f-a35ee9af22fe_128x128.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><ul><li><p><strong><span>International Consortium of Investigative Journalists - ICIJ +2</span></strong></p></li></ul><p><strong>Geographic and Systemic Reach</strong></p><ul><li><p><strong><span>Panama Papers:</span></strong><span> Focused heavily on operations connected directly to Mossack Fonseca&#8217;s-centric framework in Panama and traditional offshore hubs.</span></p><p></p></li></ul><ul><li><p><strong><span>YouTube&#183;DW News +1</span></strong></p></li><li><p><strong><span>Pandora Papers:</span></strong><span> Expanded the scope significantly by exposing how major developed nations&#8212;including the United States (such as trusts in South Dakota)&#8212;function as prominent financial secrecy and tax havens</span></p></li></ul><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://trumanbutterfield.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://trumanbutterfield.substack.com/p/the-panama-papers-paradise-papers?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/p/the-panama-papers-paradise-papers?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://substack.com/@trumanbutterfield/note/p-210311179&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/substack.com/@trumanbutterfield/note/p-210311179"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[What’s in a name? A lot, if it’s ‘Zionism’]]></title><description><![CDATA[A cactus by any other name will be just as much a prick or make the world population fall in love.]]></description><link>https://trumanbutterfield.substack.com/p/whats-in-a-name-a-lot-if-its-zionism</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://trumanbutterfield.substack.com/p/whats-in-a-name-a-lot-if-its-zionism</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Truman Butterfield]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 17:51:01 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Dch0!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77b9bf7c-6cde-45c5-9efb-ee868967040f_1275x1650.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span>As a 100% Semitic/Hebrew/Jewish DNA man who was blessed to be born in USA because of the genocide against my ancestors from every corner of the world except Asia, I never heard the word Zionism growing up. When I first heard the word Zionism it sounded weird and freaky and it took me decades to understand Zionism and I must agree I am 100% MAGA and 100% Zionist. <br>&#65279;There is something in the tone of the word Zionism that freaks people out. So change it to a 100% Hebrew word and y'know what? They will find out the meaning of that Hebrew word that replaced Zionism and be railing against that word. <br>&#65279;There is a Christian "preacher" who has YouTube channel and he rails against Zionism. Comments are allowed in his broadcast. I type in Zionism is antisemitism. And anti-zionist is lipstick on the pig of antisemitism. <br>&#65279;Therefore, no matter what word is used to replace Zionism, the vile satanic antisemites will be railing against that replacement word once they find out what it means. <br>I tell people who are claim they are Christians and antisemitic is that they are telling Lord Jesus Christ: "I hate you, Jesus, because YOU are  Semitic/Hebrew/Jewish." Now just a smidge of critical thinking common sense logic says, how is that going to work for them? How is being anti-Zionist or antisemitic going to wash when they are facing their Lord and Savior and failed at the test of embracing the  Semitic/Hebrew/Jewish to whom Christ Messiah came through? <br>&#65279;Yes, Biblical ignorance from the pulpit added with cultural and generational conditioning in the home and one's cultural surroundings shapes our brains in youth. But come on now, from middle aged to senior citizen if you have not learned to be objective about racism, what have you learned and what positive have you contributed to society? <br>&#65279;Of course to change the word Zionism to some Hebrew name, well, that has to be broadcast over the internet and media and those racist antisemites will quickly learn that and taunt "cowardly Jews" who think changing the name from Zionism to something else, show we are getting to them and then those satanic possessed will be anti whatever that word is.<br>&#65279; Semitic/Hebrew/Jewish is a race. A separate race created on the 8th day of creation in Genesis. A race created with a pure blood line that the Messiah Savior Son of YHVH would come through. The Old Testament is the saga of that lineage that ends up in Israel where the Messiah Savior is born. After the birth of Yeshua Jesus, that saga ends. And Christ Messiah takes over. And that's the end of the Old and New Testament. <br>&#65279; Semitic/Hebrew/Jewish, we are a race of people. <br>&#65279;I am not religious, I am scientific and I found proof positive of the reality existence of YHVH and Yeshua Messiah Lord Jesus Christ.<br>&#65279;Yeshua Jesus appeared to me with multiple messages 32 years ago. It took 30 years for me to understand the event and 31 years to quantify how THEY do it.<br>&#65279;The entire Bible we commonly use with the Old and New Testaments was censored with books removed. Books of absolute power and relief from stress and worry and if those books were not removed there would not be so much bloodlust, anger, stress and despair. <br>&#65279;We would all know who we are and the power we have as humans.<br>&#65279;That was too much power for those distilling the WORD of YHVH for the vox populi.<br>&#65279;Those books were preserved by Ethiopian monks and transcribed by hand for well over a millennium. Those original texts are now being translated into English as the Ethiopian Bible.  And let me tell you, if you read those books just on the surface level with no prejudice, it is like atomic bombs going off inside of you!<br>&#65279;You feel the power of which I speak. <br>&#65279;Don't be a scallywag. Don't be a gully washer. <br>&#65279;YHVH has our back. <br>&#65279;Now if y'all are going to change the name from Zionism, pick a name with iambic pentameter that is harmonious to the soul. Shoot, ask Paul McCartney to compose a song and the name will come out that when said will strike the soul and mind with lillies in the field, ocean waves crashing, a still body of water, hopping bunnies, lovers holding hands and running through those fields and swimming naked in that still body of water. <br>&#65279;We have enough psychological knowledge with tones that MOSSAD and the CIA scientists could come up with such a psyops name to replace Zionism, that when said will ping the heart and sooth the soul and even the most satanic nazzi jihad machinations will be softened and ooze sensuousness and want to love and make love to the first  Semitic/Hebrew/Jewish person they see or whom they perceive to be  Semitic/Hebrew/Jewish.<br>&#65279; To paraphrase Shakespeare: A cactus by any other name will be as much prickly. <br>&#65279;A cactus by any other name will be just as much a prick or make the world population fall in love.<br>&#65279;And that antisemitism that became so fashionable, hip and vogue after 10-7-2023 may just soften and go away.</span></p><p></p><h1><strong><a href="https://ejewishphilanthropy.com/whats-in-a-name-a-lot-if-its-zionism/?utm_source=cio">What&#8217;s in a name? A lot, if it&#8217;s &#8216;Zionism&#8217;</a></strong></h1><p></p><p>There is a saying that every driver in Israel is familiar with: You can be right, or you can be smart.</p><p>That choice &#8212; between standing on principle and adapting to an unfair reality (that car forcibly merging despite my having the right of way) &#8212; is increasingly playing out in American Jewish communal organizations over the use of the term &#8220;Zionism.&#8221; This week, that fraught debate claimed a &#8220;victim,&#8221; as a communications consultant for Jewish Federations of North America had his contract ended abruptly in light of blowback over a presentation that advocated avoiding the word &#8220;Zionism&#8221; in favor of less misunderstood terms. <em>More on this below.</em></p><p>At its simplest, Zionism means belief in the right to Jewish self-determination. Overwhelmingly, it is understood to specifically mean belief in the right to Jewish self-determination <em>in the Land of Israel</em>, though Zionist leaders did at one time consider the establishment of a Jewish state in what was then Uganda (and is now part of Kenya).</p><p>Belief in the right of Jewish self-determination in the Land of Israel is nearly ubiquitous among Jews, and it is common among non-Jews as well. A Jewish Federations of North America study from earlier this year found that 88% of American Jewish respondents support the existence of a Jewish, democratic State of Israel. And a recent study by the British anti-polarization group More in Common found that 53% of British citizens &#8212; who tend to be less supportive of Israel than Americans &#8212; say that they &#8220;support the right of Jewish people to have a nation in Israel,&#8221; while only 9% said that they didn&#8217;t. (The rest said they weren&#8217;t sure.)</p><p>But while the concept of Zionism has broad support, the term itself does not. That same JFNA study found that 37% of respondents actively identified as Zionists. The British poll found that 9% of respondents said they considered themselves to be Zionists. The JFNA poll offers an explanation for the disparity: Most respondents believe that Zionism means more than just support for Jewish self-determination in Israel.</p><p>&#8220;Many believe the term also means supporting the policies, decisions, and actions of the Israeli government, including actions they strongly disagree with. Others believe it entails claiming exclusive Jewish rights to the West Bank and/or Gaza, endorsing inequality between Jews and Palestinians, or embracing specific political ideologies,&#8221; Mimi Kravetz, JFNA&#8217;s chief impact officer, <a href="https://www.jta.org/2026/02/04/ideas/the-zionism-gap-what-data-really-shows-about-jews-israel-and-zionism-today">wrote</a> in an opinion piece in the <em>Jewish Telegraphic Agency</em> in February about the poll.</p><p>This &#8220;definition creep&#8221; &#8212; as Kravetz referred to it &#8212; can be attributed, in part, to Jewish and Israeli leaders misusing the term, but turning &#8220;Zionism&#8221; into a toxic brand has been a steady project of Israel&#8217;s enemies for decades, seen most clearly in a 1975 U.N. resolution (repealed 16 years later) declaring that &#8220;Zionism is racism,&#8221; which was first spearheaded by the Soviet bloc, Arab League and the Non-Aligned Movement. In a paper published last year for Tel Aviv&#8217;s Institute for National Security Studies think tank, Batsheva Neuer, a historian of contemporary antisemitism, <a href="https://www.inss.org.il/publication/3379-zionism/">tracked</a> how the idea of &#8220;Zionism is racism&#8221; developed from a Soviet-backed conspiracy to a widely held belief around the world.</p><p>In a recent Substack post, Jonah Platt discussed the growing toxicity and ignorance around Zionism. &#8220;A large swath of the global population has been carefully taught &#8212; by social media, by elementary and middle and high school teachers, by their friends who learned it from their teachers or social media, and by tenured college professors &#8212; that Zionism means Israelis want to kill all Palestinians on Earth simply because of who they are: their skin color, their not-Jewness,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;[They] have been taught that Zionism is an evil on par with other racially motivated murder cults like Nazism or the KKK.&#8221;</p><p>For some in the Jewish world, the fact that the word Zionism has taken on this negative connotation as a result of a coordinated, persistent campaign is a sufficient reason to fight for the term. It is, after all, the <em>right</em> word to describe Jewish self-determination. For them, the term &#8220;Zionism&#8221; should be used loudly, proudly and widely. Words carry symbolic meaning and allowing enemies to take the term away is a slippery slope to abandoning the idea it represents. Zionism should be reclaimed and used to educate both Jews and the wider world about the concept and its history as a liberation ideology. Zionist academic and columnist Gil Troy, for instance, has been a major proponent of this view.</p><p>To others, the word &#8220;Zionism&#8221; is just a word, and Jewish communal focus should be on the idea that it represents, even if that means strategically &#8212; in their minds, <em>smartly</em> &#8212; forfeiting the term in some cases. (To others still, &#8220;Zionism&#8221; has become hopelessly loaded with decades of baggage and <a href="https://momentmag.com/the-word-zionism-is-dead/?srsltid=AfmBOorI5YjFHg1kzU4XBAI1ywcxlFMuoJ4QDBg20-BxfAXUsiwgbaDf">needs to be discarded</a> in favor of clearly defined terms.)</p><p>JFNA &#8212; one of the American Jewish community&#8217;s largest bodies &#8212; appeared to adopt the view that the term &#8220;Zionism&#8221; had come to be widely misunderstood and needlessly divisive, even as the organization stressed that it remained a Zionist institution with unwavering commitment to the State of Israel. Earlier this year, in light of its survey, the group adopted a messaging strategy that advocated the use of alternative terms to Zionism &#8220;that have broader appeal among Jewish audiences,&#8221; but which reflect the same meaning as &#8220;Zionism.&#8221;</p><p>Yet facing online backlash after a slide from a presentation on this strategy was leaked to the <em>Jerusalem News Syndicate</em>, JFNA cut its contract with one of the lead authors of that strategy, revealing &#8212; among other things &#8212; the depth of the sensitivities about the use of the term &#8220;Zionism&#8221; at a time when the Jewish community broadly feels under attack.</p><p>However Jewish communal organizations proceed &#8212; doing what is right or what is smart &#8212; they should do so confidently, clearly and consistently.</p><p></p><p></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!P_fo!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc4b065cd-d7e3-44d1-b70d-e437045fcafb_480x480.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><span>Everyone should read this article as it affects each and everyone of us and everyone we know and in our family throughout the USA and the world!</span></strong></p><p><strong><span>This article was originally published:</span></strong></p><p><strong><span>03/13/2022 by Fed Up Texas Chick</span></strong></p><p>&#8220;Kirsten Andersen actually became known to many Americans when his January 2020 emails to Fauci were disclosed after the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests by newspaper outlets. In those emails, Andersen urged Fauci to consider the lab leak theory, saying that his team had unanimously concluded that <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/fauci-emails-experts-covid-could-look-engineered-1596738%E2%80%9D">Fauci Emails Show Experts Had Concern COVID Virus Could &#8216;Look Engineered&#8217;</a> This means it wasn&#8217;t found in nature.&#8221;</p><h2><a href="https://www.newsweek.com/fauci-emails-experts-covid-could-look-engineered-1596738%E2%80%9D">Fauci Emails Show Experts Had Concern COVID Virus Could &#8216;Look Engineered&#8217;</a></h2><p><a href="https://www.newsweek.com/fauci-emails-experts-covid-could-look-engineered-1596738%E2%80%9D">The experts later concluded that it was unlikely that the virus was engineered in a laboratory.</a></p><p><em><strong>WELL, WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR, READ THE ARTICLE!</strong></em></p><h1><em><strong><a href="https://vaxxter.com/faucis-foursome-awarded-with-50-million-in-grants/">Fauci&#8217;s Foursome Awarded With $50 Million In Grants</a></strong></em></h1><h2><em><strong><a href="https://vaxxter.com/faucis-foursome-awarded-with-50-million-in-grants/">Fauci&#8217;s Foursome Awarded With $50 Million In Grants - The Tenpenny Report</a></strong></em></h2><p><em><strong><a href="https://vaxxter.com/faucis-foursome-awarded-with-50-million-in-grants/">by Fed Up Texas Chick As new information comes to light about Dr. Anthony Fauci, we see that he continues to be ...</a></strong></em></p><p><em><span>Posted By: </span><a href="https://vaxxter.com/author/jacquelineh/"><span>Fed Up Texas Chick</span></a> <span>03/13/2022</span></em></p><p><em>by Fed Up Texas Chick</em></p><p><em>As new information comes to light about Dr. Anthony Fauci, we see that he continues to be linked to very disturbing trends and events.</em></p><p><em>Remember when the <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Health/scientists-strong-evidence-coronavirus-originated-naturally/story?id=70207409"><span>mainstream media</span></a><span> </span>was shoving the &#8220;natural origin of COVID-19 theory&#8221; down our throats? At that time, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID), firmly took the reins of the pandemic, stepping up to the podium on a daily basis throughout 2020 and 2021 to assure us that his agency had it all under control.</em></p><p><em>As it turns out, <strong>Fauci appears to be the architect and the cover-up of the COVID-19 pandemic.</strong> As the director of NIAID for nearly 40 years, an organization with an <a href="https://www.niaid.nih.gov/about/director"><span>annual budget of $6 billion</span></a>, he wields great power in the federal agency and across many branches of government. It seems he also enlisted the help of four prominent scientists to do his bidding.</em></p><p><em>What is interesting is that these <strong>four scientists clearly supported his theory that the virus was leaked from the Wuhan lab in China, only to later do a complete turnaround and heavily push the theory of natural origin.</strong></em></p><h3><em><span>Who are they?</span></em></h3><p><em>On <strong>February 1, 2020, Fauci held a secret teleconference with four scientists: Kristian Anderson, Robert Garry, Michael Farzan, and Peter Daszak</strong>. This emergency call occurred after the discovery that NIAID and the Wuhan Institute of Virology had funding ties. <strong>During that call, three of the four scientists said they were fairly certain the virus had been leaked from a lab.</strong> Two days later, on February 3, a paper was released entitled <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7095063/"><span>The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2</span></a><span> </span><strong>purporting a natural theory, meaning, the virus had evolved on its own in nature.</strong> In that paper, Kristian Andersen and Robert Garry proposed two scenarios to explain the origin of the SARS-CoV2 virus. Both were <strong>natural origin theories, meaning a human needed to come into close contact with, or consume, an infected animal for genetic modification of the virus to occur. This became known as &#8216;the wet market bat soup theory.&#8217;</strong></em></p><p><em>Since the February teleconference call, these scientists have collectively received <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/scientists-who-were-instrumental-to-covid-19-natural-origins-narrative-received-over-50-million-in-niaid-funding-in-2020-2021_4220769.html">over $50 million in NIAID funding</a> a substantial increase in academic funding over many previous years.</em></p><p><em>Fauci set up an $82 million special grant initiative within NIAID called Centers for Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases (CREID). This global network involves multidisciplinary investigations into how and where viruses and other pathogens can emerge from wildlife and spillover to cause disease in people. Research is led by 10 Centers and one Coordinating Center and will involve collaborations with peer institutions in the United States and 28 other countries.</em></p><p><em>Of the 11 grants provided through CREID, three of four scientists received a large portion of the funding.</em></p><h3><em><span>Andersen</span></em></h3><p><em><span>Kirsten Andersen actually became known to many Americans when his January 2020 emails to Fauci were disclosed after the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests by newspaper outlets. </span>In those emails, Andersen urged Fauci to consider the lab leak theory, saying that his team had unanimously concluded that <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/fauci-emails-experts-covid-could-look-engineered-1596738">&#8220;the genome is inconsistent with expectations from evolutionary theory. </a>&#8221; This means it wasn&#8217;t found in nature.</em></p><h2><em><a href="https://www.newsweek.com/fauci-emails-experts-covid-could-look-engineered-1596738">Fauci Emails Show Experts Had Concern COVID Virus Could &#8216;Look Engineered&#8217;</a></em></h2><p><em><a href="https://www.newsweek.com/fauci-emails-experts-covid-could-look-engineered-1596738">The experts later concluded that it was unlikely that the virus was engineered in a laboratory.</a></em></p><p><em><span>However, </span><strong>Andersen gave himself an out by saying that he had to look at it more closely with further analysis, so his opinion &#8220;could change.&#8221; And that&#8217;s exactly what happened! The day before the Feb 1 teleconference, Andersen told Fauci privately that the virus appeared <span>engineered</span>. The day after the telecon, Andersen appeared to have drastically switched opinions to favor the<span> natural appearance </span>opinion.</strong> Despite having absolutely no experience whatsoever in studying coronaviruses, Anderson served as lead author of the natural origin paper mentioned above. Coincidentally, Andersen also received $7.4 million in 2020, a 60% increase over his 2019 funding of $4.5 million. In 2021, Andersen&#8217;s total grant funding increased to $9 million.</em></p><h3><em><span>Garry</span></em></h3><p><em><strong>On the teleconference, Robert Garry too was a lab leak theorist, actually stating openly on the call that he could see no plausible natural origin scenario from bat to human for COVID-19.</strong> He stated that a lab-origin theory was easily explained, and <strong>even debunked natural origin by explaining that all of the sequences of genetic mutations that would have had to take place for this transition to happen naturally were simply improbable: </strong>&#8220;I just can&#8217;t figure out how this gets accomplished in nature.&#8221;</em></p><p><em><strong>However, like Andersen, Garry had a change of heart, also becoming an author on the natural origin paper. </strong>Coincidentally, his grant funding increased from $5.7 to $7 million in 2020 and he also received $6.6 million in 2021. <strong>Garry even made <a href="https://ganm.nursing.jhu.edu/dr-robert-garry-and-the-origins-of-covid-19-dr-robert-garry-y-los-origenes-de-covid-19/">videos like this one</a> purporting the natural origin theory.</strong> Garry later seemed to crack under the pressure, admitting that the teleconference leaders had pressured him not to discuss the lab origin theory.</em></p><h3><em><span>Farzan</span></em></h3><p><em><span>A third scientist, Michael Farzan, received acknowledgments for contributing significant discussions in the creation of the article. Farzan is a colleague of Andersen&#8217;s at Scripps University and is part of the university&#8217;s </span><a href="https://globalhealth.scripps.edu/portfolio/michael-farzan/"><span>Global Health Initiative</span></a><span>. In the same emails acquired by FOIA, Farzan was noted as agreeing with Garry that the virus had properties that pointed to gain-of-function enhanced transmissibility, e.g. a human-engineered virus. Farzan even told colleagues that he was confident in his lab-leak theory. Farzan knows of what he speaks. </span>He is a renowned immunologist who discovered the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) virus receptor in 2005. <strong>Yet, just like the other two, Farzan did a rapid flip to the natural origin theory.</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>Was it a coincidence that Farzan received nearly $20 million in Fauci funding in 2020 ($9.9 million) and 2021 ($7.9 million)?</strong> He received nearly an additional million dollars at the beginning of 2022. The funds appear to have come from NIAID but not from CREID. By comparison, Farzad only received $3.8 million from NIAID grants in 2019. That&#8217;s quite an increase for any scientist of any caliber.</em></p><h3><em><span>Daszak</span></em></h3><p><em>Saving the best for last, <strong>Peter Daszak is Fauci&#8217;s fourth scientist and partner in crime. </strong>Notably, <strong>Daszak published a 2018 paper discussing the creation of a virus in a lab &#8211; one very similar to SARS-CoV-2 in fact</strong>. Daszak was actually in China when he participated in Fauci&#8217;s February 1 secret teleconference. As a member of the World Health Organization (WHO) team, Daszak traveled as part of the team going to Wuhan to investigate the virus&#8217;s origins. Daszak emanated a &#8220;<a href="https://world.kbs.co.kr/service/news_view.htm?Seq_Code=159494">nothing to see here</a>&#8221; narrative, and while in China, gave <a href="https://vaxxter.com/faucis-foursome-awarded-with-50-million-in-grants/Peter%20Daszak%20--%20The%20China%20Apologist%20Has%20Some%20Explaining%20to%20Do%20%7C%20National%20Review">interviews to state-run media</a> to back up his claim. <strong>He even purported a theory that the virus was imported from Japan or Thailand into Wuhan. Now that&#8217;s a theory!</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>Daszak was the mastermind behind silencing the engineered virus narrative. How did he do it? He solicited 27 scientists to write a statement condemning the lab-leak theory and published it in the very influential medical journal</strong> <a href="https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30418-9/fulltext">The Lancet.</a> Daszak &#8220;forgot&#8221; to disclose his conflicts of interest to the journal, which included his personal involvement in Wuhan research.</em></p><p><em>Daszak is president of the EcoHealth Alliance. The organization has now been proven to have <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/05/25/fauci-admits-nih-funding-of-wuhan-lab-denies-gain-of-function/">sent $600,000</a> in US taxpayer money to the Wuhan lab. Daszak&#8217;s role at EcoHealth involved repackaging government grants and sending them to research institutes, which included the Wuhan Institute of Virology. For instance, Wuhan scientist Shi Zhengli received over $1.2 million in grant support from the US government.</em></p><p><em><span>Daszak is a regular recipient of NIAID funds. In 2014, the US placed a moratorium on gain-of-function research, but several months prior, EcoHealth received a </span><a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/the-lab-leak-theory-inside-the-fight-to-uncover-covid-19s-origins"><span>$3.7 million NIAID grant</span></a><span> for (you guessed it) gain-of-function research.</span></em></p><h2><em><a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/the-lab-leak-theory-inside-the-fight-to-uncover-covid-19s-origins">The Lab-Leak Theory: Inside the Fight to Uncover COVID-19&#8217;s Origins</a></em></h2><p><em><a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/the-lab-leak-theory-inside-the-fight-to-uncover-covid-19s-origins">Katherine Eban</a></em></p><p><em><a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/the-lab-leak-theory-inside-the-fight-to-uncover-covid-19s-origins">Throughout 2020, the notion that the novel coronavirus leaked from a lab was off-limits. Those who dared to push...</a></em></p><p><em>Part of the grant involved collecting bat samples to see which animal viruses could jump to humans when enhanced. Daszak&#8217;s grant was not initially halted under the moratorium but was later canceled by President Trump. An additional Fauci grant to Daszak was remarkably timely, occurring right after Trump&#8217;s cancellation.<span> By 2018, EcoHealth was pulling in $15 million per year from a variety of federal agencies including the Department of Defense.</span></em></p><p><em>Like the other teleconference scientists, Daszak also received money from Fauci&#8217;s CREID program ($1.5 million in 2020 and again in 2021), more than doubling his 2019 allocation of $660,000. The Agency for International Development (USAID) also awarded Daszak <a href="https://amgreatness.com/2022/02/08/usaid-gave-4-67-million-grant-to-wuhan-lab-collaborator-ecohealth-alliance-last-fall/">nearly $5 million</a> in late 2021.</em></p><h3><em><span>A Massive Shift in Thinking</span></em></h3><p><em>What prompted the scientists to push a narrative they once did not believe? Did they find more evidence and change their minds, or were they motivated in some other way? Was the lab leak theory really that far-fetched? After all, we are all told there are only three labs in the world that conduct this kind of research: Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Galveston, Texas; and the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China. Furthermore, the Wuhan Institute of Virology was funded by the US to engineer a bat virus to infect human cells, and then that same virus breaks out in the same city that houses the level 4 containment lab, one of three in the entire world.</em></p><p><em>But the virus emerged in a wet market. Right?</em></p><p><em><span>Also interesting is that Dr. Fauci just happened to write a paper in 2012 stating that the benefits of gain-of-function research outweighed any </span><a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/fauci-impossible-to-guarantee-u-s-didnt-fund-gain-of-function-research-at-wuhan-lab/"><span>risk of a lab-leaked pandemic</span></a><span>. </span>Yet Fauci and his four compatriots have abandoned all plausible theory that the origins of COVID-19 were anything but natural.</em></p><h2><em><strong><a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/fauci-impossible-to-guarantee-u-s-didnt-fund-gain-of-function-research-at-wuhan-lab/">Fauci: Impossible to &#8216;Guarantee&#8217; U.S. Didn&#8217;t Fund Gain-of-Function Resea...</a></strong></em></h2><p><em><strong><a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/fauci-impossible-to-guarantee-u-s-didnt-fund-gain-of-function-research-at-wuhan-lab/">Virologists have disputed Fauci&#8217;s claim that the NIH did not fund gain-of-function research in Wuhan.</a></strong></em></p><p></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://trumanbutterfield.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://trumanbutterfield.substack.com/p/faucis-foursome-awarded-with-50-million?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/p/faucis-foursome-awarded-with-50-million?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://substack.com/@trumanbutterfield/note/p-209425305&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/substack.com/@trumanbutterfield/note/p-209425305"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA['My Family Doesn't Have Any Money': Hunter Biden Says He's Too Broke To Own a Car or Phone in Deposition Over Unpaid Legal Fees]]></title><description><![CDATA[Call it like it is - Bad Karma for corrupt criminal money laundering grifters]]></description><link>https://trumanbutterfield.substack.com/p/my-family-doesnt-have-any-money-hunter</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://trumanbutterfield.substack.com/p/my-family-doesnt-have-any-money-hunter</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Truman Butterfield]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 20:11:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hguX!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd4fa76d4-f20d-44eb-9113-c394cc9e5ad4_736x521.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I suppose Bwaaa Haaaa Haaaa Ha is in order for these damned corrupt seditious and treasonous criminals, grifters and money launderers. </p><p><strong>Call it like it is - Bad Karma for corrupt criminal money laundering grifters.</strong></p><p><strong>I can&#8217;t help but to think you reap what you sew. </strong></p><p><strong>The Biden&#8217;s are broke. Ha Ha Ha </strong></p><p><strong>The DuNCe party is in the hole for billions of dollars - Which is what you get when you put up dufus satanic whores with no intention of governing only doing what their deep state puppet masters say.</strong></p><p><strong>Biden was never President. He was a demented dipship in diapers with dementia. </strong></p><p><strong>He talked shit and the election was rigged and stolen in a vile satanic coup d&#8217;e&#8217;tat that damn near destroyed USA in 4 years as was the plan and intention of the coup d&#8217;e&#8217;tat.</strong></p><p><strong>This tale is reminiscent of what happened to kingdoms and invaders of Israel and YHVH&#8217;S 8th Day Creation in the Old testament. </strong></p><p><strong>When we turn our backs on YHVH G-D ALMIHGTY that&#8217;s one thing and that is on us, but when people try to thwart YHVH G-D ALMIHGTY&#8217;s Plans for HIS Creation-well, now you&#8217;re talking getting what you deserve.</strong></p><p><strong>The Bidens are sewer scum. Crac head trailer trash!</strong></p><p><strong>The White House was defiled for four years and the Constitution pissed on by the cabal who pulled the puppet strings for Biden and used the autopen because old dementia Joe never had the where-with-all to be even a half way decent POTUS and was no smarter than a trained dog who gets a treat when he performs.</strong></p><p><strong>Hunter Biden a complete ass-wipe dufus bum garners no sympathy for being an addict. </strong></p><p><strong>Who has sympathy for an addict except a recovery center saying so for an addicts last hope. And that&#8217;s big bucks.</strong></p><p><strong>So why a addiction treatment center would hire Hunter Biden, to do what? Be a spokesman? Be the lawyer? Manage the center? I mean if I had a choice between a recovery center with Hunter Biden as an employee I&#8217;d go back on the streets and smoke that fentanyl laced crac pipe. </strong></p><p><strong>Of course, like the rest of us sinners, they can repent and confess their crimes and accept punishment for their crimes which are High Crimes Seditious Treason.</strong></p><p><strong>They will then feel a release like they never had and they will be free from the burden of the heavy guilt that is weighing them down and crushing them alive!</strong></p><p><strong>if that POS Joe Briben dies from his stage 4 cancer, he better not lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda. One of those lined up to walk around the casket will no doubt piss on it and that will be a fitting send off for old crooked pathological lying Joe Biden.</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p><strong><a href="https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/">Biden Administration</a></strong></p><h1><strong><a href="https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/my-family-doesnt-have-any-money-hunter-biden-says-hes-too-broke-to-own-a-car-or-phone-in-deposition-over-unpaid-legal-fees/">&#8216;My Family Doesn&#8217;t Have Any Money&#8217;: Hunter Biden Says He&#8217;s Too Broke To Own a Car or Phone in Deposition Over Unpaid Legal Fees</a></strong></h1><h2>Biden&#8217;s former lawyer, Abbe Lowell, speculated that his former firm is suing Biden to get in good graces with the Trump administration</h2><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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class="image-caption">Hunter Biden (Tom Brenner/Getty Images)</figcaption></figure></div><p><a href="https://freebeacon.com/author/chuck-ross/">Chuck Ross</a></p><p>Call it pleading the thrift.</p><p>Hunter Biden claimed under oath earlier this year that he&#8217;s so broke he doesn&#8217;t even own a car or a cellphone, and said his family is too strapped for cash to help him pay off millions in unpaid legal bills.</p><p>The former first son painted a bleak picture of his own and of Biden family finances during a Feb. 9 deposition in his legal battle with powerhouse law firm Winston Taylor, which sued Biden in June 2025 for allegedly stiffing the firm out of $17 million accrued from representing Biden in federal criminal cases, congressional investigations, and defamation lawsuits Biden brought against his enemies.</p><p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t have any assets. I don&#8217;t own a car. I don&#8217;t own a phone,&#8221; Biden said in the deposition, according to a transcript released this week.</p><p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t own anything of any value other than&#8212;and I don&#8217;t know the value of it&#8212;my paintings which I painted myself,&#8221; Biden testified. &#8220;So that&#8217;s it. And I don&#8217;t even have any other assets at all, stocks, bonds, anything like that, savings accounts.&#8221;</p><p>Biden, who recently landed a job at a luxury Los Angeles addiction treatment center, also claimed his father and other relatives are unable to bail him out.</p><p>&#8220;My family doesn&#8217;t have any money, and it&#8217;s not their debt anyway,&#8221; he said.</p><p>It&#8217;s a stunning fall from grace for a Yale-trained attorney who made millions of dollars a year trading off the Biden name when his father was vice president. Biden famously blew the money on a raging crack cocaine and alcohol addiction, luxury hotels for days-long sex and drug sessions with prostitutes, and jewels for his then-girlfriend, the widow of his late brother Beau.</p><p>Biden&#8217;s deposition also raises questions about the status of his extended family&#8217;s finances.</p><p>Former president Joe Biden reportedly received a $10 million advance for a book scheduled for release in November, and former first lady Jill Biden likely got a hefty book advance from her memoir, published in June. The book peaked at #1 on the <em>New York Times</em> best-seller list, though juiced by &#8220;bulk&#8221; sales.</p><p>But Biden family observers say the book advance&#8212;whittled away by taxes and agents&#8217; fees and paid out in chunks over several years&#8212;may be the last big check the Bidens will ever see. Joe Biden, who has stage IV cancer, has struggled to pull in large speaking fees&#8212;usually a font of easy money for ex-presidents&#8212;and has also struggled to raise money for his presidential library. The Joe Biden gravy train&#8212;which provided income opportunities for Hunter Biden and his uncle and aunt&#8212;has dried up. The larger brood of Biden grandchildren have racked up enormous tuition bills at private boarding schools and the University of Pennsylvania.</p><p>Hunter Biden&#8217;s current lawyers released his deposition and that of his former attorney, Abbe Lowell, as part of a rebuttal to Winston Taylor&#8217;s request that Biden turn over emails and encrypted text messages as part of the discovery portion of the lawsuit. Biden has fought the discovery request, saying he has turned over all relevant documents related to the lawsuit.</p><p>While Biden does not dispute that Winston Taylor is still owed millions of dollars on paper, he claims the firm knew when it agreed to represent him in late 2022 that he would be unable to pay all of his bills.</p><p>Biden says that Lowell, the D.C. superlawyer who left Winston &amp; Strawn (as Winston Taylor was formerly known) last year, told him not to worry about paying his legal bills.</p><p>According to Biden, Lowell, who represents multiple Democratic figures in legal battles with the Trump administration, approached him after the 2022 midterm elections about providing legal representation.</p><p>&#8220;Abbe had reached out to one of my other lawyers offering his help,&#8221; said Biden. And, according to Biden, Lowell downplayed concerns about paying legal bills.</p><p>&#8220;He absolutely at the beginning said, &#8216;Don&#8217;t worry, we&#8217;ll work it out, we&#8217;ll work something out,&#8217;&#8221; Biden testified.</p><p>And according to Biden, it was Lowell&#8217;s idea to sue IRS whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler, both of whom revealed information that led to Biden&#8217;s federal indictment on tax evasion charges. Lowell also proposed litigation against former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani and former Trump White House aide Garrett Ziegler (no relation to Joseph Ziegler), both of whom led the charge to publish information from Biden&#8217;s abandoned laptop.</p><p>&#8220;It was all part of a whole strategy that was instituted by Abbe, Winston,&#8221; said Biden.</p><p>Lowell, who was also deposed for the lawsuit, said he tried to help the younger Biden raise money through third-party donors and within the &#8220;Democratic ecosystem&#8221; to cover his legal bills. Lowell said he had discussions with Bob Bauer, a former Obama White House counsel and a personal attorney to Joe Biden, about raising money for Hunter Biden and about setting up a legal defense fund and a 501(c)(4) political nonprofit to help cover the costs.</p><p>Lowell said in the deposition that his friends were confused and &#8220;bewildered&#8221; why Winston Taylor would sue Biden for money they knew he didn&#8217;t have. Asked if he thought his former firm was suing in order to get in good standing with the Trump administration, Lowell replied that &#8220;I don&#8217;t have any evidence, but I can say that it is something that people have raised the question about.&#8221;</p><p>In addition to scoring the job with the rehab firm, Biden also won a $1.7 million default defamation judgment earlier this month from former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne regarding accusations Byrne made about Biden and Iran. Winston Taylor immediately sought to place a lien on the judgment, which Byrne, who is believed to be overseas, may never pay anyway.</p><p>Biden is also facing legal action from former stripper Lunden Roberts, the mother of his daughter Navy, who claims Biden is a deadbeat dad and is not meeting his child support obligations.</p><p>Biden&#8217;s lawyers have described him as &#8220;impecunious&#8221; and living abroad, though Biden&#8217;s regular appearances in various U.S. podcast studios in recent months suggest he is living in the United States. On Thursday he appeared on the Barstool Sports <em>Macrodosing</em> podcast, which was taped at its Chicago studios.</p><p></p><p></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://trumanbutterfield.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://trumanbutterfield.substack.com/p/my-family-doesnt-have-any-money-hunter?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/p/my-family-doesnt-have-any-money-hunter?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://substack.com/@trumanbutterfield/note/p-209415152&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/substack.com/@trumanbutterfield/note/p-209415152"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's A Powerful Thing To Break Out Of The Psyops]]></title><description><![CDATA[What Elon Musk sees we must prepare for.]]></description><link>https://trumanbutterfield.substack.com/p/its-a-powerful-thing-to-break-out</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://trumanbutterfield.substack.com/p/its-a-powerful-thing-to-break-out</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Truman Butterfield]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:31:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/youtube/w_728,c_limit/rzK1kzRp3FQ" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What Elon Musk sees we must prepare for. Elon is one of the Good Guys! Then there is the spiritual preparation where Ai and robotics won&#8217;t matter or it will be all Ai because YHVH G-D AL MIGHTY is not destroying the Earth. Only this Earth Age to rid both sides of life of evil and evil influences and those who did evil falling from Heaven or in their human life.</p><p>The Earth will be here and the machines we have built even the machines in space and the colonizations on Mars.</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/rzK1kzRp3FQ?si=1TsagQ6N_Rcb_UIt">You Won&#8217;t Be Able to Unsee Elon&#8217;s Master Plan</a></p><div id="youtube2-rzK1kzRp3FQ" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;rzK1kzRp3FQ&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/rzK1kzRp3FQ?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><h2><a href="https://youtu.be/rzK1kzRp3FQ?si=1TsagQ6N_Rcb_UIt">You Won&#8217;t Be Able to Unsee Elon&#8217;s Master Plan</a></h2><p>Now you can see it and hear it from Elon Musk himself. And you will not be able to unsee Elon&#8217;s Master Plan. And I was in the right position at the right time to take advantage of SPCX IPO. Value investing. Not a flip.</p><p>The interviewer asks Elon what about your investors when Elon says in 10 - 30 years we won&#8217;t need money.</p><p>Don&#8217;t melt. Elon is brining his thoughts from the amorphous to reality. Elon is relaxed enough to speak freely as he&#8217;s done what no human has done and will do and Elon has enabled the future of humanity.</p><p>So in the Old Testament days we had prophets.</p><p>I these days of the so-called final days aka last days as the popular Bible teachings we have President Trump and Elon Musk who are slingshotting us into the future.</p><p>Why, President Trump is lassoing the USA and the world to YHVH G-D ALMIGHTY&#8217;S Perfect Plan as is Elon Musk.</p><p>President Trump is like Moses. They are both YHVH&#8217;S Man(s). I do believe Elon is like one of those Old Testament prophets who had supernatural things manifest into reality that we have with us today.</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/XuoqKYxDHVc?is=CEz4dLzoddvGObIN">The full-length interview with Elon Musk | The Economist</a></p><div id="youtube2-XuoqKYxDHVc" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;XuoqKYxDHVc&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/XuoqKYxDHVc?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><h2><a href="https://youtu.be/XuoqKYxDHVc?is=CEz4dLzoddvGObIN">The full-length interview with Elon Musk | The Economist</a></h2><div id="youtube2-XuoqKYxDHVc" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;XuoqKYxDHVc&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/XuoqKYxDHVc?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>Aging is a Paradigm Unto Itself.</p><p><span>Wisdom: 90% of the frets in youth are unnecessary and psyopsed! If the psyopsing wasn&#8217;t there, 99% of life would be fret free.</span></p><p><span>1. We could feel connected to our Creator and all of life.</span></p><p><span>2. We would know how to be sensitive to Guidance,</span></p><p><span>3. We would know how to be sensitive to Love.</span></p><p><span>4. It would be easy to get along with our fellow humans knowing that we are all part of the same &lt;Fabric of Life&gt; with our own &lt;PATTERNS&gt; and we say that is cool and high five all right!</span></p><p><span>5. We&#8217;d mentor each other directly and by example. :-)</span></p><p><span>(Lemme tell y&#8217;all - there&#8217;d be no scores of homeless Americans in USA. Nary a one. Because they would not have let them self stay psyopsed when they saw the path their &lt;MINDSETS&gt; were taking them. And this is the First Test to seeing the discipline and training is the motivation to keep the discipline and training and the results will be like nothing but only a very few imagined who developed these discipline where the results are the motivation to continue the discipline and always stay in training in this here 2nd Earth Age.</span></p><p><span>The Ancient Masters left their writings.Those are the keys to open the doors.)</span></p><p><span>Yeah, I met and worked with Tony Robbins back in the 1980&#8217;s and met Arnold Schwarzenegger in a Santa Monica City College class in 1972. Arnold drove a beautiful BMW Bavaria I would walk the long way to the class to look at that beautiful car.</span></p><p><span>What shaped my vision is it&#8217;s apparently the path I would have been on if I didn&#8217;t get psyopsed. But, I was a kid. Not my fault, but became my responsibility.</span></p><p><span>I was like the stainless steel ball in a pin ball machine - yeah - before video games.</span></p><p>I did not see the Devine things happening to me and around me because I was still psyopsed.</p><p>It&#8217;s a powerful thing to break out of the psyops!</p><p><span>Oh like Bob Dylan sang long ago, they&#8217;ll stone ya.</span></p><h2><a href="https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/rainy-day-women-12-35/#:~:text=They'll%20stone%20ya%20when%20you're,Everybody%20must%20get%20stoned">Rainy Day Women #12 &amp; 35</a></h2><h2><a href="https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/rainy-day-women-12-35/#:~:text=They'll%20stone%20ya%20when%20you're,Everybody%20must%20get%20stoned">Rainy Day Women #12 &amp; 35 | The Official Bob Dylan Site</a></h2><p><strong>Written by: Bob Dylan</strong></p><p>Well, they&#8217;ll stone ya when you&#8217;re trying to be so good<br>They&#8217;ll stone ya just a-like they said they would<br>They&#8217;ll stone ya when you&#8217;re tryin&#8217; to go home<br>Then they&#8217;ll stone ya when you&#8217;re there all alone<br>But I would not feel so all alone<br>Everybody must get stoned<br><br>Well, they&#8217;ll stone ya when you&#8217;re walkin&#8217; &#8217;long the street<br>They&#8217;ll stone ya when you&#8217;re tryin&#8217; to keep your seat<br>They&#8217;ll stone ya when you&#8217;re walkin&#8217; on the floor<br>They&#8217;ll stone ya when you&#8217;re walkin&#8217; to the door<br>But I would not feel so all alone<br>Everybody must get stoned<br><br>They&#8217;ll stone ya when you&#8217;re at the breakfast table<br>They&#8217;ll stone ya when you are young and able<br>They&#8217;ll stone ya when you&#8217;re tryin&#8217; to make a buck<br>They&#8217;ll stone ya and then they&#8217;ll say, &#8220;good luck&#8221;<br>Tell ya what, I would not feel so all alone<br>Everybody must get stoned<br><br>Well, they&#8217;ll stone you and say that it&#8217;s the end<br>Then they&#8217;ll stone you and then they&#8217;ll come back again<br>They&#8217;ll stone you when you&#8217;re riding in your car<br>They&#8217;ll stone you when you&#8217;re playing your guitar<br>Yes, but I would not feel so all alone<br>Everybody must get stoned<br><br>Well, they&#8217;ll stone you when you walk all alone<br>They&#8217;ll stone you when you are walking home<br>They&#8217;ll stone you and then say you are brave<br>They&#8217;ll stone you when you are set down in your grave<br>But I would not feel so all alone<br>Everybody must get stoned</p><p>Copyright &#169; 1966 by Dwarf Music; renewed 1994 by Dwarf Music</p><p>Who is not psyopsed?</p><p>President Trump 45 &amp; 47</p><p>Elon Musk</p><p>Me</p><p></p><p></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://trumanbutterfield.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://trumanbutterfield.substack.com/p/its-a-powerful-thing-to-break-out?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/p/its-a-powerful-thing-to-break-out?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://substack.com/@trumanbutterfield/note/p-209154165&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/substack.com/@trumanbutterfield/note/p-209154165"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[BLM Reboot Rallies for Knife-Wielding Thug w/40 Priors Who Attacked Cop]]></title><description><![CDATA[Race riots for the midterms?]]></description><link>https://trumanbutterfield.substack.com/p/blm-reboot-rallies-for-knife-wielding</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://trumanbutterfield.substack.com/p/blm-reboot-rallies-for-knife-wielding</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Truman Butterfield]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 17:21:19 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/youtube/w_728,c_limit/895GYtwUMMw" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>BLM backs career criminals. This brings the lunatic fringe to the streets and the lunatic fringe becomes unhinged from crowd frenzy fomented by media and paid and trained psychological taunters that ring up the Manchurian Candidate in these fomented lunatics. And the lunatic left libertards from the media to the vox populi parasitic minds say &#8220;It&#8217;s mostly peaceful protests&#8221; with cars and buildings burning in the background and things broken all over the city streets. </p><p>They got away with this crap for 4 years under the lunatic career grifter and money laundering criminal demented crooked dementia Joe Briben where he stayed in bed most of the day and the autopen ran by others did the decisions and lawless lawfare and they got their in criminal ways by rigging and stealing the 2020 election in a seditious and treasonous coup d&#8217;etat that had enough left over after the 2020 election to rig and steal the 2022 election in Arizona. </p><p></p><h1><strong><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/blm-reboot-rallies-for-knife-wielding-thug-w-40-priors-who-attacked-cop/#comment-347526">BLM Reboot Rallies for Knife-Wielding Thug w/40 Priors Who Attacked Cop</a></strong></h1><h3><strong><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/blm-reboot-rallies-for-knife-wielding-thug-w-40-priors-who-attacked-cop/#comment-347526">Race riots for the midterms?</a></strong></h3><p>One important point I remind everyone of is that the BLM protests and eventually riots were concentrated around election years.</p><p>And we&#8217;re in an election year now.</p><p>We&#8217;ve seen in past years how impotent and irrelevant the BLM movement was without larger backing. Its figureheads were petty crooks cashing in. Without the force of the larger leftist movement behind them, all they could do was gather a dozen people to stream a rally watched by 40 other people.</p><p>But now there&#8217;s signs that the Left is looking to reboot BLM.</p><p>The latest comes out of Madison, Wisconsin, where Corey Ruiz, was shot after reportedly attacking a police officer with a knife. Ruiz had 40 prior arrests, including on robbery charges, but not only BLM types, but leftists are starting to blow this story up.</p><p>Think of it as a trial balloon for relaunching BLM.</p><p>The media is pushing the story. There are rallies. If there&#8217;s enough interest, then come the bigger rallies and then the riots.</p><p>Dems have to do the math over whether race riots would help or hurt them. In the midterms they may boost black turnout and black turnout tends to be weak in the midterms. That&#8217;s why Obama boosted the original BLM protests.</p><p>Now we may be bound for another turn of the wheel. Hopefully this time the Trump administration cracks down good and hard.</p><p></p><h1><strong><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/vdh-video-newsom-under-investigation/#comment-347523">VDH Video: Newsom Under Investigation</a></strong></h1><h3><strong><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/vdh-video-newsom-under-investigation/#comment-347523">Will the DOJ finally act?</a></strong></h3><p></p><p><strong><a href="https://youtu.be/895GYtwUMMw?sihttps://youtu.be/895GYtwUMMw?si=_hT-PlIKwO68eZWj=_hT-PlIKwO68eZWj">In the short video below, historian and pundit Victor Davis Hanson analyzes the active Department of Justice investigation into Gavin Newsom&#8217;s family finances, exposing the half-billion-dollar progressive NGO network that shielded him for years. Hanson addresses the critical question of whether this investigation will lead to genuine accountability or simply dissolve into institutional theater.</a></strong></p><p><strong><a href="https://youtu.be/895GYtwUMMw?sihttps://youtu.be/895GYtwUMMw?si=_hT-PlIKwO68eZWj=_hT-PlIKwO68eZWj">Newsom Under Investigation: Will the DOJ Finally Act? | Victor Davis Hanson</a></strong></p><p></p><div id="youtube2-895GYtwUMMw" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;895GYtwUMMw&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/895GYtwUMMw?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p><span>This is not lawless lawfare that the autopen Biden regime that got in by a seditious and treasonous act of coup d&#8217;etat of rigged and stolen 2020 election when the tsunami of lawless lawfare hit political enemies.</span><br><span>Gruesome NewScam and his wife have to serve time, which means they are indicted and convicted and sentenced for their crimes.</span></p><p></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://trumanbutterfield.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://trumanbutterfield.substack.com/p/blm-reboot-rallies-for-knife-wielding?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/p/blm-reboot-rallies-for-knife-wielding?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://substack.com/@trumanbutterfield/note/p-208581901&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/substack.com/@trumanbutterfield/note/p-208581901"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Criminal Trespasser Property Squatters ]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Criminal Mind Is Behind These People]]></description><link>https://trumanbutterfield.substack.com/p/criminal-trespasser-property-squatters</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://trumanbutterfield.substack.com/p/criminal-trespasser-property-squatters</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Truman Butterfield]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 22:50:40 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/youtube/w_728,c_limit/SwNN2Z2hPjQ" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Who knew a lucrative and much in demand business startup could be helping owners and landlords to remove criminal trespassing squatters from their properties? </p><p>https://squattersquad.co/  </p><p>Squatter Squad YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@SquatterSquad</p><p></p><h1><strong>Property owner warns others to fight back after squatter takeover</strong></h1><p><strong>Click on Watch on YouTube to view video.</strong></p><div id="youtube2-SwNN2Z2hPjQ" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;SwNN2Z2hPjQ&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/SwNN2Z2hPjQ?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p><strong> </strong></p><p>https://squattersquad.co/</p><p></p><p>https://www.youtube.com/@SquatterSquad</p><p>Who knew a lucrative and much in demand business startup could be helping owners and landlords to remove criminal trespassing squatters from their properties? Why if I was a young person of either two genders including hermaphrodite of the 3rd gender bender by birth not by pharmaceuticals and a surgeon&#8217;s knife, I would look into franchising from the Squatter Squad or build your own, </p><p>This could be a second job, but good luck, it looks full time to do it right.</p><p>It&#8217;s safer than a bounty hunter and repo guy, although you may very well be contracting bounty hunters time to time in your Squatter Squad career. </p><p>You will be using the courts and local law enforcement. </p><p>Law enforcement may help with getting warrants from courts better than non-law enforcement for removing criminal trespass squatters.</p><p>Criminal trespassing squatters do have criminal mindsets. These are not so petty crimes when they have a litinay history of squatting. These criminal&#8217;s mindsets are at a place where they crossed the line of no such thing as a little bit of larceny long ago. They think they got away with it, so they continue on this path into bigger and more harmful crimes to their victims. </p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://trumanbutterfield.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://trumanbutterfield.substack.com/p/criminal-trespasser-property-squatters?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/p/criminal-trespasser-property-squatters?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://trumanbutterfield.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share Truman Butterfield&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share Truman Butterfield</span></a></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[League of Women Voters Declares War on Women]]></title><description><![CDATA[&#8220;Feminism that is focused on the needs of white women is something we must constantly battle.&#8221;]]></description><link>https://trumanbutterfield.substack.com/p/league-of-women-voters-declares-war</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://trumanbutterfield.substack.com/p/league-of-women-voters-declares-war</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Truman Butterfield]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:27:13 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!P_fo!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc4b065cd-d7e3-44d1-b70d-e437045fcafb_480x480.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Look, WNBA is becoming more popular and more lucrative or it will always stay a B professional sports along with Destruction Derby that I watched streamed live on Amazon this past weekend. Why not transgender sports where then the women who were psyopsed they are dudes and the dudes that are psyopsed they are women can compete.</p><p>What, that&#8217;s not fair because it&#8217;s still biological men vs biological women? Fine. Then the trans sports can have the trans dude section which is all women claiming they are duded and trans women section that is all men who claim they are women.</p><p>Makes sense? No. But it&#8217;s still a Barnum Bunkum Entrepreneurial Opportunity!</p><p>I do think destruction derby is my favorite sport since I was a boy. </p><p></p><h1><strong><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/league-of-women-voters-declares-war-on-women/#comment-346584">League of Women Voters Declares War on Women</a></strong></h1><h3><strong><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/league-of-women-voters-declares-war-on-women/#comment-346584">&#8220;Feminism that is focused on the needs of white women is something we must constantly battle.&#8221;</a></strong></h3><p></p><p>In 2020, <a href="https://x.com/hecheateddotorg/status/2013033676871815320">Bryce &#8216;Lindsay&#8217; Hecox</a>, who is a man, sued Idaho over the Fairness in Women&#8217;s Sports Act, demanding to be allowed to compete against women playing for the Boise State cross-country team. After graduating high school, Mr. Hecox, who had a mediocre high school track record as a man, decided he was really a woman and sued to play on the women&#8217;s team. His lawsuit contended that playing against other men &#8220;would be inconsistent&#8221; with his gender identity, while playing against women was part of his &#8220;treatment plan for gender dysphoria.&#8221;</p><p>Speaking in defense of women&#8217;s sports were over 100 female athletes and coaches, dozens of female Olympic athletes, Women&#8217;s Declaration International, the International Consortium on Female Sport, the Independent Council on Women&#8217;s Sports, and the Women&#8217;s Liberation Front while arguing against the existence of women&#8217;s sports was the League of Women Voters.</p><p>&#8220;Transgender and intersex persons will be harmed by the enforcement of this law,&#8221; a League official complained. What about women? The League of Women Voters was however far more interested in its new demographic of transgender male voters claiming to be women voters.</p><p>The League of Women Voters claimed that keeping men who claim to be women out of women&#8217;s sports was &#8220;an egregious example of sex discrimination.&#8221; Deborah Turner, the League&#8217;s black former president, argued that keeping men out was racist and &#8220;will disproportionately target women and girls of color&#8221; even though Mr. Hecox was a white man and the most notorious men competing against women, like Lia Thomas, have been white men.</p><p>This senseless argument paralleled the descent of the League of Women Voters from its 1890s suffrage roots into a bland and interchangeable Democratic operation and then, by way of struggle sessions over BLM in 2020, into a generic leftist pressure group fighting over illegal aliens, global warming, gun ownership, DEI, and whatever leftist issue is trending right now.</p><p>And with little to show that it was founded to campaign for women and much to show that it isn&#8217;t.</p><p>The League of Women Voters denounces the existence of women and their resistance to letting men also be women. The LWV had accused Trump of waging a &#8220;war on women,&#8221; but he League of Women Voters are the ones who are actually waging a war on women.</p><p>Last month, the League of Women Voters, which, despite its name, has taken to erasing women in favor of &#8220;people who can become pregnant&#8221; defended its erasure of women. In an article titled &#8220;All Women&#8217;s Rights Depend on Transgender Rights,&#8221; the LWV contended that women&#8217;s rights really &#8220;encompasses infinite experiences and identities, like income, race, gender, sexuality, and more.&#8221; This is not a description of women&#8217;s rights, but of Marxist intersectionality which defines all the discrimination that it recognizes as part of a system of societal oppression.</p><p>The League of Women Voters, which had been created by white feminists, declared that it has a new enemy: &#8220;white feminism, or feminism that is focused on the needs of white women, is something we must constantly battle&#8221; and bragged that &#8220;we&#8217;re equipped to take on that battle.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;There are many parallels between the exclusion of black people and the transgender and nonbinary communities within certain branches of the women&#8217;s rights movement,&#8221; the article argued, and further warned that banning men from the ladies room through &#8220;laws that dictate which bathrooms you can use based on our genitalia&#8221; somehow also threatened women, despite the attacks on women and girls linked to the elimination of safe spaces in restrooms.</p><p>&#8220;Evolving to become more inclusive is an ongoing, essential part of the women&#8217;s rights movement,&#8221; the LWV stated, declaring that &#8220;there is no true democracy without trans rights&#8221; and that &#8220;there are no women&#8217;s rights without trans rights&#8221;. But, as the League of Women Voters has shown, there&#8217;s actually no such thing as women&#8217;s rights if trans rights are imposed on women.</p><p>For women to have rights, they have to exist as a particular defined group, not &#8220;infinite identities.&#8221;</p><p>Rather than listening to the women and girls complaining about discrimination, the League of Women Voters not only doubled down on taking away their Title IX rights to women&#8217;s sports, once a hardfought project of the activists whom the LWV now dismisses as hateful &#8216;white feminists,&#8217; but also dismisses all women who don&#8217;t want mixed restrooms or sports as bigots.</p><p>Fighting those women has become a central mission of the League of Women Voters.</p><p>Poll after poll has shown that not only majorities of Americans, but majorities of women oppose men playing against women in women&#8217;s sports under the guise of &#8216;transgender&#8217; ideology.</p><p>The League of Women Voters is fighting against the majority of women in America whom it has bizarrely claimed are part of an &#8220;anti-gender movement&#8221;, when the LWV are the ones subscribing to a movement that denies the existence of the sexes, accuses them of crimes such as &#8220;white feminism&#8221; and &#8216;Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminism&#8217; for believing that women exist.</p><p>A previous CEO had complained that &#8220;gender non-binary and trans women are often excluded from the conversation&#8221; in feminism and vowed that the LWV would spend more time listening to these &#8216;transgender&#8217; men than to the women in the organization&#8217;s own name.</p><p>Rather than campaigning on anything relevant to women, the LWV has taken to fighting against Voter ID, another policy supported by the majority of Americans, on behalf of men who claim to be women by arguing that &#8220;Voter ID laws suppress transgender voters&#8221;. After the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, the League of Women Voters bemoaned the impact that had on &#8220;women and people who may become pregnant&#8221; as if anyone who isn&#8217;t a biological woman can become pregnant.</p><p>The League of Women Voters complained that transgender men are worse off than &#8220;straight women,&#8221; of whom only 35% experience domestic violence, while &#8220;44% of lesbian and 61% of bisexual women&#8221; and more than half of transgender people suffer from domestic violence.</p><p>Women in abusive relationships were expected to check their domestic abuse privilege.</p><p>The League of Women Voters even highlighted the story of &#8220;Anna Kellar, a nonbinary trans athlete who has returned to skating to compete in amateur adult-level competition,&#8221; and who is &#8220;fighting for equality on the ice&#8221; against the &#8220;restrictive gender norms&#8221; in figure skating.</p><p>Kellar recently appealed for &#8220;support for trans figure skaters &#8211; and trans women especially &#8211; and oppose the discriminatory policies that keep them from competing.&#8221;</p><p>Kellar was also the longtime executive director of the League of Women Voters of Maine.</p><p></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://trumanbutterfield.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://trumanbutterfield.substack.com/p/league-of-women-voters-declares-war?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/p/league-of-women-voters-declares-war?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://substack.com/@trumanbutterfield/note/p-207798773&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/substack.com/@trumanbutterfield/note/p-207798773"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Signs Of The Era We Dwell ]]></title><description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s no reason to be uptight if you&#8217;re truly working with YHVH and Yeshua Messiah Lord Jesus Christ]]></description><link>https://trumanbutterfield.substack.com/p/signs-of-the-era-we-dwell</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://trumanbutterfield.substack.com/p/signs-of-the-era-we-dwell</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Truman Butterfield]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 20:30:13 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rwcw!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3c5c75ee-2741-436a-ac84-086ebbc1b50a_1275x1650.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<h1><strong><span data-color="#9900ff" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 255);">Signs Of The Era We Dwell </span></strong></h1><p></p><p><strong>See The Signs Of The Era We Dwell </strong></p><p><strong>Understand what it is you are looking at and from whence it comes.</strong></p><p><strong>Above all, don&#8217;t get uptight - stay trained and go into action if needed and for many it&#8217;s when needed. Stay in the when needed training status. </strong></p><p><strong>This is not for all. Only those who are supposed to see it will understand or search for it&#8217;s meaning. </strong></p><p><strong>Cowardly to satanic trolls cowering around a cyber veil taking pot shots from their demonic influenced and confused life. Trolls do not get why they impulsively get triggered by GOD, Jesus, USA, Israel and TDS up their kazoo. Why it drives them up the wall. It&#8217;s all GOD dummies. It&#8217;s the devil you let in you that railing against YHVH and Yeshua Jesus! There is only one way to get those demons out. And that is with Jesus Christ Yeshua Messiah. </strong></p><p><em><strong>There is only one way to battle these satanic demonic possessed trolls, and that is with YHVH and Jesus Yeshua&#8217;s name only. The power in HIS name to battle demonic forces who&#8217;s intent is revealed in their cowardly troll potshots that they get a thrill for a moment and are let down after click-send and then are really pissed and dig themselves deeper in a hole of their own making.  Proverbs 26:27 Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him. Proverbs 26:27 is pertaining to the troll, to the backstabber to terrorists who conspire and the ones who have blood on their hands, they blew it and  if still in their human body are in a different realm and category then I will ever experience in human life and if their human life was eliminated, their soul is in a place I will also never experience in my eternal journey, so I can have an eternal journey! </strong></em></p><p><em><strong>This will become irrefutable facts to all who pass through creation.</strong></em></p><p></p><p>I have never been a religious man even as a boy. No doubt the example of my parents. I was a 2nd and 3rd generation of immigrant refugees in an otherwise tricky life of survival. Now I know, appealing to G-D is the key to prosperity, health, success, prowess from a child in elementary school to athlete and entrepreneur.</p><p>Life experience has shown me that if we are not raised or amongst ethnocentric people and culture, by age 45 we start becoming more ethnocentric in our personal life. I have no idea how people of mixed DNA race handle this. I imagine they must include their entire gorgeous kaleidoscope of DNA. I find many of mixed DNA or race to be sensuous in appearance.</p><p>That Saturday of October 7, 2023 was the last day of a two day real estate investors conference in a field I&#8217;m heavily involved in held in Tucson about 25 miles north of where I live.</p><p>I had my morning jo&#8217; . I looked at the computer as I do with my morning cup and something to eat to take my morning senior meds and I saw the news. It was like a spear was thrust in me right to my soul. I was stunned. I didn&#8217;t know what to do. Should I go to the last day of the conference or should I deal with this, process this somehow? I am a disciplined man who knows showing up is 95% of progress. This was different than 9/11/2001 where my nation was under attack. This was holocaust redux, where my people were attacked. I felt it in my DNA! I went to the final day of the conference, but my head was swooning and spinning and I forced myself from a disciplined life, to block out what I can do nothing about at this time and tune into the business at hand.</p><p>I don&#8217;t know what I would be or where I would be if I took the time to process. Maybe farther ahead, maybe crazy. It&#8217;s the crazy part that scared me, I had to get out to a crowd. Of course no one in that conference mentioned it. I didn&#8217;t mention it. And I felt at times like in a movie where a character is shown isolated when the camera pans back and out.</p><p>I was not surprised by the antisemitic cheering in the streets of the world, but I was surprised and then realized how much of the world seethes with ignorant antisemitism as it does with ignorant racism. Antisemitism is racism. Because Adam and Eve are of the 8th day creation in the Bible. All the races did not come from the special DNA lineage of Adam through Eve. The 8th day creation humans are the lineage that Christ Messiah would come through and the Old Testament is the saga of that lineage to deliver to the world our Savior.</p><p>Therefore, Semitic/Hebrew/Jewish people are a separate race. Hence, antisemitism is racism!</p><p>And for self proclaimed Christians who call Jesus their Lord and Savior, if these folks are antisemitic even in undisclosed closeted seething against the</p><p>Semitic/Hebrew/Jewish people, they are telling their very Lord and Savior Jesus, I hate you because you are Semitic/Hebrew/Jewish.</p><p>A little critical logic common sense tells us this.</p><p>Post 10/7/2023 tsunami of antisemitism that became fashionable, hip and vogue is telling to me where we are in Biblical history.</p><p>32 years ago Christ Messiah came to me with multiple messages. It took me 30 years to comprehend the messages and admit it and talk about my event with Yeshua Jesus. And 31 years to quantify how THEY do it which I titled Heavenly Holograms.</p><p>I illustrated this event as best I could to recall it. I seek a computer animator because there was movement in the dream.</p><p>Maybe I will upload the illustration to Gemini or Grok with instructions what movements.</p><p>Later the few photos from when Mother Mary visited Egypt in 1968 I realized are also Heavenly Holograms. Yep. Right through the dimensions!</p><p>Psalms uses the word selah. Means to pause and reflect. Breathe.</p><p>Some other passages of the Old and New Testaments should end with <strong>FAFO</strong>.</p><p><em><strong><span>There&#8217;s no reason to be uptight if you&#8217;re truly working with YHVH and Yeshua Messiah Lord Jesus Christ</span></strong></em></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rwcw!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3c5c75ee-2741-436a-ac84-086ebbc1b50a_1275x1650.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rwcw!, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/w_424, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images</p><p><em>Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA), ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee, during a hearing on May 14, 2026.</em></p><p></p><p><em><strong>Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA), the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, indicated he voted to cut off military aid to Israel in part because of sustained personal threats against his family and his staff, part of what he described as a violent and relentless campaign of intimidation by far-left anti-Israel activists.</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>Smith voted on Wednesday to support an amendment introduced by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) to strip $3.3 billion in U.S. aid to Israel from the 2027 State Department appropriations bill &#8212; a major reversal by the hawkish Democrat after he previously <a href="https://jewishinsider.com/2026/06/top-house-democrats-oppose-massie-amendment-cut-israel-aid/">told</a> Jewish Insider he planned to oppose the measure.</strong></em></p><p>In a <a href="https://x.com/RepAdamSmith/status/2077741622813470898">statement</a> explaining his vote in favor, the high-ranking defense lawmaker said it was a &#8220;very close vote.&#8221; He said that despite voting to cut off U.S. aid, he was<em><strong> &#8220;deeply concerned&#8221; about the tactics used by far left activists to pressure him to support such a measure.</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>&#8220;To date, my family and I have had our home vandalized, a fire has been set in my driveway, my neighbors&#8217; lives have been disrupted by demonstrations in the middle of the night, town halls meant to be forums for dialogue have been shut down, and a staff member has been physically assaulted,&#8221; Smith said in a statement on X.</strong></em></p><p><strong>Smith, who is facing Aug. 4 primary challenges from two anti-Israel activists</strong>, said that those who &#8220;engage in this type of behavior model a dangerous form of corrosive politics that seeks to intimidate those who disagree with them.&#8221; He argued that the moment instead calls for &#8220;civil discourse&#8221; and &#8220;respectful engagement&#8221; in order to solve difficult problems.</p><p>&#8220;I also recognize that many of those who want the U.S. to completely abandon Israel do not support Israel&#8217;s right to exist and are willfully blind to the dangerous, violent, extremist beliefs of Hamas and others who threaten Israel,&#8221; he said.</p><p>Smith, who has been a vocal critic of the actions of the Israeli government, also said his vote was an effort to &#8220;get the attention of the Netanyahu government&#8221; in hopes they may &#8220;change their actions.&#8221; The Washington lawmaker noted in his statement that he disagreed with Israel&#8217;s approach to the war in Gaza, as well as its actions in the West Bank and Lebanon.</p><p>&#8220;I still support Israel. I recognize the threats they face. But after nearly two years of me raising these concerns with the Israeli government and U.S. supporters of Israel, nothing has changed,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Many express sympathy for my views and assure me things will change, but that has not happened. I take this vote to try once more to get the attention of the Israeli government.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;I understand that Israel has to confront threats to their existence and cannot let them go unchecked,&#8221; Smith wrote. &#8220;But Israel does not have to fight the way they have chosen to do so &#8212; a way that has caused enormous suffering and led to endless war.&#8221;</p><p></p><p></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://trumanbutterfield.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://trumanbutterfield.substack.com/p/smith-says-he-was-pressured-to-vote?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/p/smith-says-he-was-pressured-to-vote?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://substack.com/@trumanbutterfield/note/p-207354071&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/substack.com/@trumanbutterfield/note/p-207354071"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Med School Dean: “The Vast Majority of Pregnancies Are in Women”]]></title><description><![CDATA[If we are not already living in a sci-fi fantasy already. What more will they make up bowing to Bael who is none other that a neuropathway to lucifer-satan <lzrfr-ztn>?]]></description><link>https://trumanbutterfield.substack.com/p/med-school-dean-the-vast-majority</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://trumanbutterfield.substack.com/p/med-school-dean-the-vast-majority</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Truman Butterfield]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:27:46 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7PBV!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F__ss-rehost__tw-video-preview-13_2077095376008429568.jpg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><strong>Dateline India 1982</strong></em></p><p><strong>1982, Bombay, India. I was staying overnight with a young couple (husband/man and wife/woman - sheesh) because the husband was taking me on a rail trip to the jungles outside of Bombay. I had a dream that night involving hermaphrodites at a railway depot. The next day, we were at a railway depot that looked like the one in the dream.</strong></p><p><strong>I saw a group of women in house saris, sitting separately from the rest of the crowd awaiting the train. One of these women got up and walked toward the bathroom on the elevated train depot. As she walked towards me I saw the woman had a 19 year old young man&#8217;s face and smiled at me. Just as in the dream the night before. The dude I was with told me they are hermaphrodites, he-shes. I told him I knew what a hermaphrodite is. My last Sunday in India, I bought the Bombay Times with an article: &#8220;Hermaphrodite Convention to be held in Bombay.&#8221; The article explained they are outcasts from their families and villages and do mostly domestic and field work and formed an organization to protect and support each other. </strong></p><p><strong>I wondered for decades why I had such a dream that came to pass the next morning?</strong></p><p><strong>I do believe it was for the times or era we are living in with gender dysphoria attempting to psyops us and it&#8217;s not working as all the devil&#8217;s tricks and machinations are doomed to failure!</strong></p><p><strong>A woman who believes she is a man and doctors and big pharma that goes along with the luxury and comfort we live in USA, will get insurance companies to pay for prescriptions and plastic mutilating surgeries that those individuals later regret and remain suicidal for their choices that were groomed by teachers, doctors and society given over to reprobate minds. So a woman who gets her tits cut off and male hormone pharmaceuticals can get pregnant because she is a woman! </strong></p><p><strong>And modern medicine will have to wake up. Thank GOD HHS Sec RFK, Jr is on the job that is working to disincentivize physicians to push big pharma that they should know will cause harm. Not that big pharma is all bad. I have been saved and cured by incredible prescriptions that my insurance picked up the tab for with little or no co-pay.   </strong></p><p></p><p><em><strong>Click on article link for the incredible unbelievable statements and answers Dr. <br>Sam Hawgood, a pediatrician and the chancellor of UC San Francisco gives to Congress this week:</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>On X Dr. Harwood response to Rep. Mary Miller who is a woman: </strong></em></p><div class="twitter-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://x.com/RepMaryMiller/status/2077095974472683869?s=20&quot;,&quot;full_text&quot;:&quot;It should concern every American that one of the nation's leading medical schools asserts that biological men can get pregnant.\n\nWatch Dr. Sam Hawgood, Chancellor of the University of California San Francisco, try to justify that nonsense: &quot;,&quot;username&quot;:&quot;RepMaryMiller&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Rep. Mary Miller&quot;,&quot;profile_image_url&quot;:&quot;https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1345761002089017352/RkkvBkgp_normal.jpg&quot;,&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-07-14T18:20:45.000Z&quot;,&quot;photos&quot;:[{&quot;img_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7PBV!,w_1028,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best,fl_progressive:steep/l_play_button_usfui2,w_88,e_colorize:0/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F__ss-rehost__tw-video-preview-13_2077095376008429568.jpg&quot;,&quot;link_url&quot;:&quot;https://t.co/RWNld1V0Tb&quot;}],&quot;quoted_tweet&quot;:{},&quot;reply_count&quot;:257,&quot;retweet_count&quot;:1081,&quot;like_count&quot;:3424,&quot;impression_count&quot;:45969,&quot;expanded_url&quot;:null,&quot;video_url&quot;:&quot;https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2077095376008429568/vid/avc1/720x720/mt55SBgY9URhkOl4.mp4&quot;,&quot;video_preview_media_key&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM"></div><p><br><br></p><p><em><strong>On X Dr. Harwood response to Rep. Randy Fine who is a man. A kippa wearing lonsman to boot: </strong></em><br><br></p><div class="twitter-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://x.com/RepFine/status/2077089308201160892?s=20&quot;,&quot;full_text&quot;:&quot;Today in Congress I asked a simple question: Who else gets pregnant besides women?\n\nThe witness said &#8220;transgender men.&#8221;\n\nI told him that&#8217;s insane &#8212; because it is.\n\nMen CANNOT and will NEVER be able to get pregnant. &quot;,&quot;username&quot;:&quot;RepFine&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Congressman Randy Fine&quot;,&quot;profile_image_url&quot;:&quot;https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/2063310399559151616/Y4QesMyV_normal.jpg&quot;,&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-07-14T17:54:16.000Z&quot;,&quot;photos&quot;:[{&quot;img_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OSSy!,w_1028,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best,fl_progressive:steep/l_play_button_usfui2,w_88,e_colorize:0/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F__ss-rehost__tw-video-preview-13_2077089234838585344.jpg&quot;,&quot;link_url&quot;:&quot;https://t.co/DNbYrAPflz&quot;}],&quot;quoted_tweet&quot;:{},&quot;reply_count&quot;:291,&quot;retweet_count&quot;:1926,&quot;like_count&quot;:9540,&quot;impression_count&quot;:86992,&quot;expanded_url&quot;:null,&quot;video_url&quot;:&quot;https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2077089234838585344/vid/avc1/720x720/PqywyBMPtGMUBtIr.mp4&quot;,&quot;video_preview_media_key&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM"></div><p><em><strong><span>My thoughts on the article about the astonishing head shaking answers Dr. </span>Sam Hawgood, a pediatrician and the chancellor of UC San Francisco, who entered med school at 17, specialized in neonatology, was dean of the medical school and vice chancellor for medical affair has <span>the nothing to do with gays to butch dykes and fems of both genders. I love them all!  They are all YHVH&#8217;S Children as well. </span></strong></em></p><p><em><strong><br><span>We know it&#8217;s gender dysphoria promoted by fake to satanic science.</span><br><span>Suicidal and we now found out the hard way that homicidal results happen as the gender, dysphoria youth that is satanically, encouraged and embedded with medication and surgery, and then thrown out into the world where they are overwhelmingly seen as a freak once the majority with family values.</span><br><span>These people and especially when their children need love and support mentoring and guidance.</span></strong></em></p><p><em><strong>Frankly, I cannot believe Dr. Sam Hawgood, especially from the era of his medical schooling to early professional practice is saying this other than to keep his job!</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>And at night, Dr. Sam Hawgood, gets on his knees and prays to GOD asking for forgiveness to his sell out of pure medical science to satanic machinations and the good doctor does not feel dirty and waving away demons all day long. Demons that have found their place in Dr. Sam Hawgood, and those in his position and teaching medical school who give up truth to keep their job diverting from scientific path.</strong></em></p><p><br><br></p><p><br><br></p><p><br><br><br></p><h1><strong><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/med-school-dean-the-vast-majority-of-pregnancies-are-in-women/#comment-345884">Med School Dean: &#8220;The Vast Majority of Pregnancies Are in Women&#8221;</a></strong></h1><h3><strong><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/med-school-dean-the-vast-majority-of-pregnancies-are-in-women/#comment-345884">Incredible discovery.</a></strong></h3><p></p><p>There have been lots of exciting discoveries in medical science like penicillin and DNA, but Sam Hawgood, a pediatrician and the chancellor of UC San Francisco, who entered med school at 17, specialized in neonatology, was dean of the medical school and vice chancellor for medical affairs, has made an even more exciting discovery.</p><p>In a congressional hearing on DEI at med schools, Hawgood claimed that &#8220;the vast majority of pregnancies are in women.&#8221;</p><p>Asked by Rep. Mary Miller if a non-biological woman ever had a baby, the Australian gentleman, who presumably learned basic biology along the way, stammered something about &#8216;transgender&#8217;.</p><p>Rep. Randy Fine then took up the questioning only for Hawgood to offendedly exclaim that the women getting pregnant don&#8217;t recognize themselves as women.</p><p>Is this really a man who is deeply indoctrinated or one who knows that he has to recite humiliating nonsense like this as the price for not being purged by an insane political class?</p><p></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://trumanbutterfield.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://trumanbutterfield.substack.com/p/med-school-dean-the-vast-majority?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/p/med-school-dean-the-vast-majority?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://substack.com/@trumanbutterfield/note/p-207191259&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/substack.com/@trumanbutterfield/note/p-207191259"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><p></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://substack.com/@trumanbutterfield/note/p-207191259&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/substack.com/@trumanbutterfield/note/p-207191259"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><p></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not In My Own Life]]></title><description><![CDATA[Earlier Comment]]></description><link>https://trumanbutterfield.substack.com/p/not-in-my-own-life</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://trumanbutterfield.substack.com/p/not-in-my-own-life</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Truman Butterfield]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 17:30:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Nt7-!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F66ce8c43-865d-4a89-88f4-8480176a4b3f_1200x785.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Not in my own life&#8221; -starting out my earlier comment - means that satanic demented machinations do not happen in my life - anymore - But I see demented satanic machinations that are affecting whole nations!</p><p>USA has Civil War Deux going in ways less barbaric than the 1860&#8217;s civil war with equally undesirable outcome if we do not make whoever is elected accountable, but also make elections Too Big To Rig. </p><p>The one saving grace with the amorphous deep state deadheading to the antichrist and Hell bent on destroying USA&#8217;s Constitutional Republic as we know it is Capitalism. </p><p>They don&#8217;t want to get rid of the stock market and they know without the USD $ being the benchmark of global currency more hell will  break loose than what they want to maintain control. </p><p>This is the power and glory of our USA Constitution. It&#8217;s We the People  of this Republic who have the legal, legitimate power. And we must not let those globalists with satanic machinations take this power away from We, the People. </p><p>Look at the UK - but they are not a Capitalist Democratic Republic like USA!</p><p>The only nation on Earth like USA in all of human history and We, the People, must preserve it!</p><p>Happy 250th USA! USA! USA! USA! </p><p><strong>Earlier Comment: </strong></p><p><span>Not in my own life, but starting my day with coffee and dates and my daily pills and FPM.org. the only sense I can make out of this satanic madness is: So this is how the Biblical end time prophesies are unfolding.</span><br><span>It is is totally satanic. They are totally possessed. They are totally blinded by lies from the devil going back generations over millennia to get where we are today.</span><br><span>The Old Testament prophesy: Genesis 16:12 And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man&#8217;s hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren. (KJV)</span><br><span>Yet there is no mention of what us 8th Day Creation race will endure for millennia. Which includes having the Savior Messiah Son of YHVH be born into the 8th Day Creation race and being crucified to punch a hole through the two realms so we can be in connection with our Creator YHVH.</span><br><span>Happy 250th USA!!!</span></p><p></p><p></p><h1><strong><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/journalist-committee-votes-to-classify-terrorists-as-journalists/#comment-344108">Journalist Committee Votes to Classify Terrorists as Journalists</a></strong></h1><h3><strong><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/journalist-committee-votes-to-classify-terrorists-as-journalists/#comment-344108">Does this mean journalists are also terrorists?</a></strong></h3><p></p><p>Forget &#8216;what is a woman&#8217;. That test has already been failed. The next one is &#8216;what is a journalist&#8217;. In theory, it&#8217;s someone reporting the news while being in the business of reporting the news without working on behalf of any state or terrorist organization. So that leaves out Al Jazeera on both counts.</p><p>Al Jazeera is an arm of Qatar, a state sponsor of Islamic terrorism, and Al Jazeera people not only engaged in terrorist propaganda, they&#8217;re intertwined with Islamic terrorists so closely that they&#8217;re members of terrorist organizations. That&#8217;s why we ended up bombing them in Afghanistan. And it&#8217;s why they keep dying in Israel&#8217;s campaign against Hamas and other Islamic terrorist organizations.</p><p>Every time this happens, media organizations set off a hue and cry about how Israel is &#8220;killing journalists&#8221;. Israel responds by documenting the fact that the &#8216;journalists&#8217; were members of terrorist organizations. And, in response, the Committee to Protect Journalists voted that <a href="https://freebeacon.com/media/committee-to-protect-journalists-in-turmoil-after-17-1-vote-upholding-tangled-definition-of-journalist-for-gaza-list-fox-news-is-sole-no-vote/">terrorists are journalists</a>.</p><blockquote><p>The CPJ&#8217;s influential list of &#8220;Journalist Casualties in the Israel-Gaza War,&#8221; which has been used by news organizations to discredit Israel&#8217;s war effort, contains dozens of names of military operatives for Hamas and other terror groups.</p></blockquote><p>So the SPJ voted 17-1 (with the exception of FOX News, the execrable Trey Yingst presumably wasn&#8217;t casting the vote) to, in its own words, affirm its &#8220;longstanding policy&#8221; to &#8220;include journalists working for state-backed media and those working with media organizations affiliated with militant groups provided they are not engaging in combat or inciting violence in a manner likely to have imminent effect.&#8221;</p><p>Mind you, multiple of the Hamas/Al Jazeera people were engaged in combat operations, like operating surveillance drones in combat areas, but that matters less than defining members of terrorist groups, working on behalf of terrorist groups, as &#8216;journalists&#8217; as long as they&#8217;re not shooting at someone right now or demanding someone&#8217;s murder&#8230; right now.</p><p>This really opens up options for the next Russian or Chinese invasion. All they have to do is classify all their soldiers as &#8216;journalists&#8217; and up until the point where they switch to combat mode, they&#8217;re immune from air strikes.</p><p>CPJ board Chair Jacob Weisberg, who for some reason didn&#8217;t visit Gaza or Beirut to make this statement in person and be beheaded by &#8216;local journalists&#8217;, declared that &#8220;the board stands fully with the staff of CPJ, whose difficult daily work of documenting attacks on journalists is today more important than ever, and with all journalists wrongly smeared and maligned for doing their jobs.&#8221;</p><p>Their job being working for Islamic terrorist organizations.</p><p>Helpfully, CPJ noted that, &#8220;an Arabic translation of this statement can be accessed here.&#8221;</p><p>But if terrorists are journalists, it does raise the question of whether journalists are also terrorists.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" 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url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zKWj!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2314dd90-cfe1-42f8-85a7-88832e69326f_1275x1650.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Seeking the whereabouts of Brother Roscoe Turner (Los Angeles to Long Beach)</strong></p><p><strong>Who in the 1990&#8217;s heard &#8220;Counseling With A Purpose&#8221; over 1390 AM wherever you were in USA? Broadcast from 1390 AM Long  Beach G-D&#8217;S Holy Spirit would carry the signal to Florida and states between. Seemed where  people needed to hear the show, Holy Spirit and Angel Spirits of the electrical waves - through the Holy Spirit realm such miracles as having a radio station come in clear that&#8217;s not syndicated across the nation.</strong></p><p><strong>I&#8217;d hear people call the 800 number from Florida and Midwest States.</strong></p><p><strong>&#8221;Counseling With A Purpose&#8221; was a Divine Show </strong></p><p><strong>I haven&#8217;t heard such a divine show before or since.</strong></p><p><strong>I&#8217;d love to start one up in Brother Roscoe Turner and Brother Harold style.</strong></p><p><strong>Broadcast simultaneously as a podcast = </strong></p><p><strong>&#8220;Counseling With A Purpose&#8221; was the most lovingly beautiful moments</strong></p><p><strong>Listening at home, with light off at night, </strong></p><p><strong>I felt the Holy Spirit in me ~</strong></p><p><strong>It would take decades to harnas </strong></p><p><strong>YHVH&#8217;S Holy Spirit </strong></p><p><strong>And utilize it in my daily life</strong></p><p><strong>Life&#8217;s planning </strong></p><p><strong>While staying in touch </strong></p><p><strong>With Holy Spirit </strong></p><p><strong>We never know who is trying to inspire us</strong></p><p><strong>From the beyond -</strong></p><p><strong>I sometimes wonder </strong></p><p><strong>And if so, just in case</strong></p><p><strong>I tell them Thank You. </strong></p><p><strong>===================================================</strong></p><p><strong>Brother Roscoe came to mind tonight in my kitchen</strong></p><p><strong>I talked to Roscoe assuming he has gone on.</strong></p><p><strong>Then I decided to verify. Post in Craigslist. </strong></p><p><strong>Here is the posting.</strong></p><p>https://www.craigslist.org/view/d/long-beach-seeking-the-whereabouts-of/mhAoBBCA5yEudgK659KyNH</p><p><strong><a href="https://www.craigslist.org/view/d/long-beach-seeking-the-whereabouts-of/mhAoBBCA5yEudgK659KyNH">Seeking the whereabouts of Brother Roscoe Turner (Los Angeles to Long Beach)</a></strong></p><p><span>Hello Brothers and Sisters in CHRIST. I feel that my old friend Brother Roscoe Turner went on to be with Our LORD.</span><br><span>Perhaps someone would know.</span><br><span>Brother Roscoe was an ordained minister.</span><br><span>Roscoe also shared the microphone with Brother Harold in a radio station in Long Beach, Ca. Their weekly show aired from 11PM to 1:30AM. The show was called: "Counseling With A Purpose" -</span><br><span>It was 1992 when I first heard "Counseling With A Purpose" 1390AM Long Beach. I know when I get to Heaven and meet up with Brother Roscoe I will also know it was YHVH'S Holy Spirit who guided me to tune into "Counseling With A Purpose" one night between 11PM and 1:30AM.</span><br><span>I was still in my struggling years with my walk with God and Jesus. "Counseling With A Purpose" kept me going. Talking to Brother Harold who told me to contact Brother Roscoe saved my life. The devil was driving me to a suicide solution. Which I understood some years ago, but could not see at the time.</span><br><span>I never heard such beautiful worship and praise music than what Roscoe always played! Music that took my spirit to Heaven. I know that GOD'S Holy Spirit guided me to Brother Roscoe to learn from him. Brother Roscoe blew my mind with the gifts from God's Holy Spirit that he had.</span><br><span>I saw Brother Roscoe witness to a homeless addict and a well dressed man getting out of a Rolls Royce with almost no difference except what the Holy Spirit guided Roscoe to say the right words to the right person. He sure did with me!</span><br><span>I just had a moment right now that made me think of Brother Roscoe in my kitchen. I was talking to Brother Roscoe knowing whether he is on this side of life or the Heavenly side of eternal life, Roscoe will hear or know. I am humbled that GOD ALMIGHTY allowed me know and be taught by Brother Roscoe Turner!</span></p><p><span>July 4th was Roscoe&#8217;s Birthday.</span></p><p></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zKWj!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2314dd90-cfe1-42f8-85a7-88832e69326f_1275x1650.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zKWj!, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/w_424, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2314dd90-cfe1-42f8-85a7-88832e69326f_1275x1650.jpeg 424w, 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You]]></title><description><![CDATA[And WHOM...]]></description><link>https://trumanbutterfield.substack.com/p/youll-never-know-what-comes-to-you</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://trumanbutterfield.substack.com/p/youll-never-know-what-comes-to-you</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Truman Butterfield]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 01:08:49 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ANoy!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8b4f91cd-574e-4a36-90ea-221c93fda83f_1275x1650.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The following came<br>Out of me<br>Like when Christ<br>Focused my mind and focus<br>Only in HIM!<br>Listening to Mozart violin Concerto No. 3<br>Under the ceiling fan<br>Of my Arizona room front porch<br><br>Must be true what they say about Moz?<br>If you&#8217;re studying have Mozart<br>Low in the background<br>And you&#8217;ll never know what<br>Will come to you<br>Or WHOM?<br><br>And this is what is ahead for all<br>So get in now to discipline<br>Your focus on YESHUA JESUS<br>And hopefully YHVH<br><br>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212; ~&lt;+&gt;~ &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;</p><p>See, what I&#8217;m doing with these things <br>When I found out they exist <br>Is pure science <br>No lab coat and Petrie dishes required <br>But as they pulled E=MC2 <br>Into atomic energy <br>This is quantification <br>And demonstration<br>When the combination <br>Is to open the eye <br>From channeling <br>The brain <br>To see <br>What human society <br>Can see <br>It&#8217;s high time <br>For humans to get trained <br>And teach and mentor the young <br>Mentor by the way President Trump <br>Mentors by examples. <br>To Lord Jesus Christ <br>YESHUA MESSIAH <br>Taught and mentored <br>By example <br>As documented <br>By HIS Apostles <br>Who wrote what CHRIST <br>Taught and mentored <br>By proving what HE was claiming. <br>There should have 4 more <br>To scribe The MAN<br>And how HE looked <br>When proving <br>These incredible things <br>Some may still say <br>Supernatural.<br>Those 4 more Apostles <br>Would be 2 men <br>And 2 women <br>Chosen by YHVH <br>Via HIS HOLY SPIRIT <br>&#8212;&#8212;-</p><p>The one quantification</p><p>I have for mathematicians</p><p>And physicists</p><p>To exam Heavenly Holograms</p><p>As I describe</p><p>And others like me</p><p>But they&#8217;re on the others like me</p><p>And that&#8217;s a hoot</p><p>When I think of it.</p><p>I&#8217;m having a good time</p><p>In my retirement years</p><p>I am enjoying it</p><p>Enjoying the blessings</p><p>That come from only Almighty God</p><p></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!P_fo!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc4b065cd-d7e3-44d1-b70d-e437045fcafb_480x480.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was still living and working for LA County in 2014 when the 8x10 glossy lady reading a teleprompter and picking up a W-2 check said on the 4:30PM TV news: &#8220;Racism is increasing in USA&#8221;. My reaction was: &#8220;Whhhhaaaaattt???&#8221; </p><p>I lived through the civil rights hot bed of the 1960s. People in my generation were coming together. Back then over a hookah or a joint, but we saw eye to eye that we all want the same thing, And that same thing is only legally guaranteed in USA by our Constitution and amendments therein. &#8220;Racism increasing in USA&#8221; I knew was a message to foment to the isolated and ignorant. Foment they did. Those were the Obummer years. A pimp who was hell bent on destroying USA while enjoying the absolute pinnacle of where one can be in the USA, as POTUS!</p><p>Today those mindsets are is Civil War Deux. A war of violence on one side, mayhem and disrupting lives of ordinary people who they just piss off further and deeper. Right now law enforcement, especially with Kash Patel in Trump 47&#8217;s FBI and other federal law enforcement and DOJ under President Trump 47 is increasingly getting a better handle on these domestic terrorists and anarchists who have no idea of what they are rioting about. They are rioting against USA&#8217;s most perfect freedoms and opportunities. They same amount of energy they waste rioting and creatine mayhem can be used to enjoy USA&#8217;s unique freedoms and opportunities. USA is so free, they get to assemble and carry signs. And that is where their brains stop. Oh. If we can do this and see those high rises and expensive vehicles going down the boulevard, than critically thinking common sense, USA must be OK. So, I am going to put down these signs, go home, take a shower, clean up, spruce up, look presentable and get into that competition. </p><p>Bible prophesy talks about end times people being given over to reprobate minds, this is sure one facet of the reprobate mindsets and actions Bible prophesies mention.</p><p>Obummer is deadheading to the antichrist with the rest of the deep staters. </p><p>Those famous names Daniel mentioned my first thought are the culprits  of the Rue Morgue. They are dead to GOD and appealing to the entire spectrum of audience shares. </p><p>They don&#8217;t care? They say FU to MAGA? Well, FAFO commie stooges and whatever else you are.</p><p>You will rue the day and we will rejoice on that day to come!</p><p></p><h1><strong><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/domestic-terrorists-were-obamas-special-guests-at-center-opening/#comment-342293">Domestic Terrorists Were Obama&#8217;s Special Guests at Center Opening</a></strong></h1><h3><strong><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/domestic-terrorists-were-obamas-special-guests-at-center-opening/#comment-342293">&#8220;Bring the revolution home, kill your parents.&#8221;</a></strong></h3><p></p><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a front-row seat to history, no matter where you are,&#8221; the Obamas promised everyone coming to the opening of their grim towering $850 million Obama Presidential Center.</p><p>But much like Barack Obama&#8217;s famously cynical slogan, &#8220;we are the ones we have been waiting for&#8221;, some had actual front row seats to the Obama post-history while others were out back.</p><p>Most of the three thousand or so people who flocked to serve as human props for the official opening of the massively ugly addition to the Chicago skyline were forced to squat in camp chairs on the dying grass of what remained of a once beloved neighborhood park, burning in the hot sun, while their betters, politicians and celebrities, watched the spectacle up close.</p><p>Media reporting spent a good deal of time spotting celebrities in the VIP section. There was a sprightly Tom Hanks in sunglasses, there was Oprah, on her fortieth diet, and girlfriend Gayle King, and there was Stephen Colbert, both of whose tenures at CBS had crashed and burned, and there was LA Mayor Karen Bass who had to return home after Los Angeles burned down again which seems to happen every time the politician with a 31% approval rating leaves town.</p><p>And then again there were the people who actually mattered, who had made Obama and the era of radicalism he brought into national politics, which has only intensified since, happen.</p><p>&#8220;Dig it!&#8221; the old woman in the third row of the Obama Presidential Center, had once gloated over the <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/bernardine-dohrn/">brutal murder of </a>Sharon Tate by the Manson Family. &#8220;First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them. They even shoved a fork into the victim&#8217;s stomach! Wild!&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;Kill all the rich people,&#8221; the old man wearing the Communist &#8216;red star&#8217; had defined his radical movement. &#8220;Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home,<a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/bill-ayers/"> Kill your parents</a>.&#8221;</p><p>Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn (pictured above from 2009), the former terrorist leaders of the Weathermen and the Chicago power couple who spotted Obama and moved him up the political ladder getting third row seats to the opening of the Obama Presidential Center spoke more eloquently about what Obama represented than any of the hollow political speeches and media press releases.</p><p>&#8220;We want to find a way to turn toward each other again,&#8221; Barack Obama claimed, insisting that he stood for the traditional American values of ,&#8220;fairness and common sense and mutual respect.&#8221;</p><p>But what he actually stood for was sitting in the third row and wearing the Communist star. The same media that could see Nazi symbols at every conservative event (but somehow can&#8217;t process a Nazi SS tattoo when it&#8217;s worn by their senate nominee in Maine) didn&#8217;t even believe that Obama&#8217;s mentor getting a front row seat to the opening of his presidential center while wearing the symbol of a movement responsible for the mass murder of millions mattered.</p><p>Bill Ayers <a href="https://www.axios.com/local/chicago/2026/06/22/bill-ayers-bernardine-dohrn-obama-presidential-center-weather-underground">was pretty clear</a> about what Obama represented. Far more than Obama will ever be.</p><p>&#8220;The people who tried to say that Obama palled around with terrorists, that he had Palestinian friends, that he had a black nationalist minister, none of that s___ worked,&#8221; Ayers told the one reporter who stopped him to chat. And it&#8217;s true.</p><p>Obama didn&#8217;t represent American values, but the destruction of American values.</p><p>Without Obama, Congress wouldn&#8217;t include a Somali mass murderer&#8217;s daughter and an open apologist for Islamic terrorism, and the next Congress wouldn&#8217;t likely include an associate of the World Trade Center bombing&#8217;s religious leader, <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/he-testified-for-the-wtc-terror-sheikh-now-hes-running-for-congress/">Hisham &#8216;Adam&#8217; Hamawy</a>, or a woman who celebrated Oct 7, co-founded an organization <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/mamdani-backed-congressional-ny-candidates-group-called-for-death-to-america/">that tweeted &#8216;Death to America&#8217;</a> and who bragged about wiping her hands on the American flag (courtesy of her political backer, Zohran Mamdani.)</p><p>None of this is about turning &#8220;towards each other again&#8221;, but Obama&#8217;s reconciliation shtick has always been phony. The same man who claimed, &#8220;There is not a black America and a white America and Latino America and Asian America; there&#8217;s the United States of America&#8221; once in power, built his political machine around racial grievance, urging minorities to &#8220;punish our enemies.&#8221;</p><p>In an ironic note, Barack Obama referenced that line again in his speech, decrying Republicans for supposedly seeing &#8220;some groups and some people as more equal than others and see government as nothing more than a way to divvy up the spoils and punish enemies.&#8221;</p><p>It&#8217;s always been the Obamas who are out to punish enemies, making a point of not inviting President Trump to the opening of their center, and then launching attacks at him anyway.</p><p>The resentment was never far from the surface. In her remarks, Michelle Obama ranting to her husband about conservatives who questioned &#8220;your birthright and your faith and your patriotism.&#8221; How could anyone possibly question the patriotism of a man who not only invited domestic terrorists to the inauguration of his presidential center, but gave them front row seats.</p><p>It wasn&#8217;t the suckers in the camp chairs on the lawn still pining for the vanished Obama charm in between &#8216;No Kings&#8217; rallies and New York Times op-eds and Wordle puzzles who had the &#8216;front row seat to history&#8217; promised by the Obama Presidential Center, but Ayers, whose alum had served two terms in the White House and whose other alum was the LA mayor.</p><p>Ayers <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/bill-ayers/">had bragged about</a> sending members of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) to Cuba with the Venceremos Brigade. Former Rep. Karen Bass had gone to Cuba with the Venceremos Brigade. That Castroite connection had reportedly caused the Biden team to turn her down for the VP slot that eventually went to Kamala, but she still took over Los Angeles.</p><p>And now showed up to party with the Obamas and watch her city burn from a distance.</p><p>None of this is the story that was told by the Obamas, their political allies or the media. But that political narrative in which the Obamas represented the best of America, bringing us together before Trump tore us apart, is just more propaganda wallpaper slapped over bloody walls.</p><p>The Weathermen were a murderous Marxist terrorist organization dedicated to bringing down the United States. After they realized that planting bombs wouldn&#8217;t work, they turned to politics.</p><p>And the Left accomplished with politics what it never managed to do with explosives.</p><p>&#8220;We are a guerrilla organization. We are communist women and men,&#8221; Prairie Fire, a book co-authored by Ayers, Dohrn and other radicals declared. &#8220;Revolutionary war will be complicated and protracted. It includes mass struggle and clandestine struggle, peaceful and violent, political and economic, cultural and military, where all forms are developed in harmony with the armed struggle.&#8221;</p><p>The political struggle represented by Barack Obama, Bass and so many of the other radicals is just one element of a campaign to bring down America, carried out &#8220;in harmony&#8221; with terrorism.</p><p>Barack Obama may have seated his two terrorist mentors in the front rows, but he made no direct reference to them, except for having &#8220;found my community here, friendships that would last a lifetime.&#8221; Those friendships and that community are still aimed at the same mission.</p><p>The Obama Presidential Center opening with the grim post-modernist prison block of a tower, the celebrities and radical elites, is deliberately meant to contrast with the upcoming traditional celebrations of America for the 250th anniversary of its bid for freedom. America has a choice between the radical vision of national destruction and the foundational one of national liberation.</p><p>It&#8217;s a choice between two revolutions, between &#8220;all men are created equal&#8221; and &#8220;kill your parents&#8221;. No matter how much Obama pretends that he represents the former, by placing the Weathermen up front, he made it clear that all these years later, he still represents the latter.</p><p>&#8220;Happy Birthday, Ho Chi Minh!!&#8221; Ayers had posted a month earlier. &#8220;Happy Birthday Cathy Boudin!! LIVE LIKE THEM! We love, love, love you!!!!&#8221;</p><p>Kathy Boudin had been a member of the Weathermen who, along with the May 19th Communist Organization, had distracted two police officers while her associates murdered them. No word on whether Boudin, now, like Ayers, an academic, was at the Obama Presidential Center opening, but like Ho Chi Minh, she was there in spirit.</p><p></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://trumanbutterfield.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://trumanbutterfield.substack.com/p/domestic-terrorists-were-obamas-special?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/trumanbutterfield.substack.com/p/domestic-terrorists-were-obamas-special?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://substack.com/@trumanbutterfield/note/p-203289103&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/substack.com/@trumanbutterfield/note/p-203289103"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>