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Posted on 03/31/2025 9:00:02 PM PDT by ransomnote
Many come here to read dispatches from the War between Good and Evil, to red-pill and encourage.....and to pray and give thanks to the God who fights for us.
Q has reminded us repeatedly that together, we are strong. As the false "narrative" is destroyed and the divisive machinery put in place by the Deep State fails, the fact that patriotism has no skin color or political party is exposed for all to see.
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Q !!mG7VJxZNCI ID: 4fe510 No. 5643022>Decide for yourself (be free from outside opinion).
>Decide for yourself (be objective in your conclusions).
>Decide for yourself (be true in your own beliefs).
>Decide for yourself (be open to following the facts).
>Decide for yourself (be strong in defending your beliefs).
>Decide for yourself (be resistant to blindly accepting fact-less statements).
>Decide for yourself (be free)
Those who attack you.
Those who mock you.
Those who cull you.
Those who control you.
Those who label you.
Do they represent you?
Or, do they represent themselves (in some form)?
Mental Enslavement.
The Great Awakening ('Freedom of Thought’), was designed and created not only as a backchannel to the public (away from the longstanding ‘mind’ control of the corrupt & heavily biased media) to endure future events through transparency and regeneration of individual thought (breaking the chains of ‘group-think’), but, more importantly, aid in the construction of a vehicle (a ‘ship’) that provides the scattered (‘free thinkers’) with a ‘starter’ new social-networking platform which allows for freedom of thought, expression, and patriotism or national pride (the feeling of love, devotion and sense of attachment to a homeland and alliance with other citizens who share the same sentiment).
When ‘non-dogmatic’ information becomes FREE & TRANSPARENT it becomes a threat to those who attempt to control the narrative and/or the stable.
When you are awake, you stand on the outside of the stable (‘group-think’ collective), and have ‘free thought’.
"Free thought" is a philosophical viewpoint which holds that positions regarding truth should be formed on the basis of logic, reason, and empiricism, rather than authority, tradition, revelation, or dogma.
When you are awake, you are able to clearly see.
The choice is yours, and yours alone.
Trust and put faith in yourself.
You are not alone and you are not in the minority.
Difficult truths will soon see the light of day.
WWG1WGA!!!Q
In the battle between those who strip us our constitutional rights, we can't afford to let false divisions separate us any longer. We, and our country, will be forever made stronger by diligently seeking the truth, independence and freedom of thought.
Where We Go 1, We Go All
Touche!
How’d you do that, so fast?
Donald J. Trump
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MarQ
Tens of them there, if not single digits.
I’m amazed at how stupid supposedly wizened by age people are regarding “their Social Security”...
Saw some in Oakland early this afternoon, Broadway and 30th, headed downtown. Also saw a few in Rockridge. They had manufactured signs.
Interesting organ slide - So JFF looked up why a Model B-3 has that designation.
So there are also tone-wheel organs A and C models, along with the B and letter stands for cabinet type. B is more pedestrian-style cab and A,C more “churchy” I guess.
The number evolved with added effects: B-1 added vibrato, B-2 model introduced control of separate (2) manual vibrato. B-3 added the nifty percussion effect.
B-3, C-3 and A-100 all have the same guts, different cabinets.
You are right Fender RHODES piano. Great sounds from all that old gear. I need to watch the Doors movie again.
IF the Media says protests were organic or grass roots we can be assured they are bought and paid for.
Funny, everything they say is the opposite.
Private Jets, Ferraris, and False Claims: Inside An Obscure Federal Program Rife With Fraud
Meet the Universal Service Fund, which doles out billions on behalf of the FCC
Excerpt:
On March 26, 2017, Jeffrey Ansted herded his family into a private plane bound for the Cayman Islands. The owner of an Ohio-based telecommunications company, Ansted had purchased the Cessna 525C jet one year earlier for $8 million. It had since become his go-to method of commuting to Florida, where he owned a condo and belonged to yacht and country clubs, as well as to his son’s lacrosse games in Towson, Maryland. For local travel, he drove a $250,000 Ferrari.
The trip to the Caymans was the last junket Ansted took before he was busted for fraud in 2018 by the Federal Communications Commission, which found that he had paid for his lavish lifestyle, including the jet and Ferrari, by embezzling millions from the agency’s Universal Service Fund (USF), a little-known program that subsidizes phone and internet access for low-income customers.
Ansted had signed up dead people for service and even fabricated social security numbers in order to obtain subsidies from the program. Then he’d transferred those subsidies from his company, American Broadband, into a personal account, according to a public notice from the FCC.
“It would be hard to describe a more brazen or textbook example of fraud, particularly when the entire purpose of the … program is to benefit low-income individuals,” then-FCC commissioner Brendan Carr, who is now the chairman, said in a statement at the time. American Broadband was fined more than $63 million, the largest such penalty in agency history.
For a government that loses hundreds of billions each year to fraud, according to some estimates, Ansted’s caper, funded by a program most Americans have never heard of, was just a drop in the bucket. But it was also a symptom of what critics say is a structural defect at the heart of USF, which has for decades faced allegations of fraud and mismanagement from the Government Accountability Office (GAO).
Created in 1996 as part of the Telecommunications Act, the program is funded through a surcharge on consumers’ telephone bills. But the size of that charge isn’t set by the FCC itself.
Instead, the agency uses the calculations of a private corporation, the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC), which is run by representatives of the very companies that receive subsidies from the program. The companies estimate how much money they will need to expand service to high-cost areas and in nearly all cases, the FCC has miraculously set the surcharge equal to that amount, creating a system in which the beneficiaries of a government program decide how much the taxpayer spends on it.
That conflict of interest, critics say, is one reason why the surcharge has skyrocketed since the program’s inception, from just 5.7 percent in 2000 to 36.6 percent in the second quarter of 2025.
As the program has grown, so have the cases of reported fraud. And the body charged with preventing that fraud just so happens to be USAC—the same consortium of insiders that relies on the program for easy money.
The perverse incentives were noted by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals last year, when it ruled that the FCC’s funding structure was unconstitutional.
“The entity most responsible for snuffing out wasteful or fraudulent disbursements—USAC—is run almost entirely by stakeholders who stand to benefit financially when universal service subsidies grow,” Judge Andrew Oldham wrote for a nine-judge panel.
That structure is mandated by FCC regulations, which require nearly all of USAC’s directors to be recipients of USF funds. “FCC mandates that nine of USAC’s nineteen directors represent companies in the telecommunications industry who are compensated by the very same USF funds they raise,” Oldham wrote. “It mandates that another seven represent the schools, libraries, health care providers, and low-income consumers who are direct recipients of USF funds.”
The challenge to the program’s constitutionality has made it all the way to the Supreme Court, which will decide whether the FCC violated the so-called nondelegation doctrine—that is, the principle that Congress cannot delegate legislative power to private entities—by giving USAC so much control over USF. At issue is whether the surcharge on phone bills is really a tax and whether the FCC has put enough limits on USAC’s ability to set that fee.
.....In 2017 alone, a part of USF that focuses on low-income consumers known as the Lifeline Program made more than $330 million in improper payments, according to an inspector general report. A GAO audit released that year found that more than a third of customers signed up for the Lifeline Program were not eligible for it, with $1.2 million a year going to fictitious or dead individuals.
.....In theory, it is Congress that collects taxes and the executive branch that disburses the revenue. But by letting USAC set the surcharge, critics say the FCC has put both powers in the hands of private companies, insulating the program from democratic oversight.
“They set their own budget for spending, then adjust taxes to cover what they’re spending,” said Chris DeMuth, a legal scholar at the Heritage Foundation and the former president of the American Enterprise Institute. “The Ways and Means Committee doesn’t have that kind of power.”
A member of the election group I am in sent this snap shot showing the Dem. governor communicating with folks about the election. Nefarious to say the least.
Cherry Blossom Festival, Kasumiga Castle, Nihonmatsu City, Japan
For Sunday:
Muslim Woman Gives Her Life to JESUS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8720RhChBN0
It’s long but uplifting.
Link to article:
ThankQ LJ for the links!
Pingout!
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4308054/posts?page=891#891
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4308054/posts?page=892#892
Just remembered more reasons for lower testosterone:
Over use of plastics for food containers, especially if microwaved or heated.
Many animals raised for slaughter are given female hormones to fatten them up and there are residues in meat.
Women taking birth control pills pee has hormones in it, and water treatment plants don’t necessarily remove this.
Use of marijuana is feminizing for men especially if use is habitual and started at a young age.
These are all things I have read, don’t have sources right now.
You cannot love a fellow creature fully
till you love God.
C.S.Lewis
Sobieski at Kahlenberg Mtn. wrote:
” A member of the election group I am in sent this snap shot showing the Dem. governor communicating with folks about the election. Nefarious to say the least.
“
And there are those who claim that election fraud and vote fraud don’t happen.
Even if you showed them that screenshot, they’d claim it was fake.
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