Posted originally on the conservative tree house on February 4, 2021 by Sundance

An interesting compare-&-contrast arises amid reports out today of Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, getting a book deal to publish his memoir “Beautiful Things”.

The controversial life of Hunter Biden includes abusive relationships, sex scandals, drug use and retaining a position of affluence by trading on his father’s position in government.  Everything surrounding Hunter Biden is not only sketchy, it is the life of a very troubled, manipulative, opportunistic and creepy person… e.v.e.r.y.t.h.i.n.g.

(Via AP) […] The book is called “Beautiful Things” and will center on the younger Biden’s well publicized struggles with substance abuse, according to Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. Acquired in the fall of 2019, “Beautiful Things” was kept under wraps even as Biden’s business dealings became a fixation of then-President Donald Trump and others during the election and his finances a matter of investigation by the Justice Department.  (read more)

As many people are aware, book deals are a way for politicians and their allies to launder payments for influence either by the publisher or by those who purchase bulk quantities in order to direct funds without legal restrictions to politicians and their family members.

Additionally….

The same publisher, Simon and Schuster, recently made another decision regarding a politician:

JANUARY 7, 2021 – The publisher Simon & Schuster announced Thursday that is cancelling plans to publish Sen. Josh Hawley’s (R-Mo.) book, “The Tyranny of Big Tech,” because of the storming of the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob, for which some Republicans have blamed Hawley.

“After witnessing the disturbing, deadly insurrection that took place on Wednesday in Washington, DC, Simon & Schuster has decided to cancel the publication of Sen. Josh Hawley’s forthcoming book,” Simon & Schuster announced in a statement. (READ MORE)

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Posted originally on the Conservative tree house on February 3, 2021 by Sundance

According to Fox Business Parler CEO John Matze has been removed by the small group of owners of Parler.  Rebekah Mercer (financial aspects) and Dan Bongino (public face) are pushing back against the reasoning that Matze is sharing with the public.

At the 30,000 ft level the outline of the problems are clear.  Both elements within the ownership group have issues.

It was not surprising to see the trouble they encountered with re-platforming the social media network.

First, here’s the report:

EXCLUSIVE – Parler has terminated CEO John Matze, according to a memo Matze sent to staffers that has been obtained by Fox News.

“On January 29, 2021, the Parler board controlled by Rebekah Mercer decided to immediately terminate my position as CEO of Parler. I did not participate in this decision,” Matze wrote. “I understand that those who now control the company have made some communications to employees and other third parties that have unfortunately created confusion and prompted me to make this public statement.”

Matze wrote that over the past few months he has been met with “constant resistance” to his original vision for the social media platform following Amazon Web Services’ decision to shut Parler down for failure to moderate “egregious content” related to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

“Over the past few months, I’ve met constant resistance to my product vision, my strong belief in free speech and my view of how the Parler site should be managed. For example, I advocated for more product stability and what I believe is a more effective approach to content moderation,” Matze wrote.

Parler did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

“I have worked endless hours and fought constant battles to get the Parler site running but at this point, the future of Parler is no longer in my hands,” he continued. “I want to thank the Parler employees, the people on Parler and Parler supporters for their tireless work and devotion to the company. They are an amazing group of diverse, hardworking and talented individuals and I have the utmost respect for them. Many of them have become my second family.”  (read more)

First, Matze should have been fired -and the ownership group eviscerated- for allowing the vulnerability of their host server system to exist on Amazon.  That was perhaps the stupidest decision of a “conservative” platform ever.

Second, it seems apparent from Matze statements he wanted a heavily moderated and highly controlled moderation system in the platform.   Inevitably that can be problematic because humans have to make the decisions on where the line is… it is not easy to support free speech while knowing that some speech can lead to your removal for extremist content.  Moderation is a key component, but a balance is needed… the location of the balance bubble seemed to be the issue.

Third, Dan Bongino takes exception to the way Matze frames his support for free speech.

Bottom line is…. from my perspective… the front end of Parler was not the priority.  If it was, the decision to make Amazon the server host would never have been made.  Instead it was the backside operation, the user data, that held the value from the Mercer perspective.

That outlook makes the most sense.

As they did with Breitbart, the Mercers were in the business of assembling the identities of users that could be leveraged as a commodity for engaged political influence.  This is what the Mercers did with the 18 month Breitbart poll of 2016 GOP republican candidates.  They built a file of site users for their candidate, Ted Cruz, to use.

It looks to me like the emphasis on Parler 2020 was the same as the emphasis in the Breitbart purchase in 2014.  User data providing contact information of conservative minded Americans was the priority; that’s why the ridiculously obvious front-end vulnerability was permitted… it simply was less important than the backside value of the data.

One thing CTH is 100% committed to is to never compromise user privacy for any data exploit; even if that means forgoing bells and whistles that people want.  User privacy is the #1 priority…. When you start there, you are forced, by your mission statement, to focus on front-end security and stability.  Every decision related to user privacy is what makes a website anti-fragile because it eliminates the intrusion of Big Tech.

Parler joined with Big Tech and launched with Big Tech… and they suffered the consequences of not having emphasis on the front-end of their creation where stewardship on behalf of the user is the #1 priority.   To me, that’s the bottom line.

Protect the front-end users from exploitation by locking down the privacy issues and everything else will fall into place.  Allow the front-end users to be exploited, and/or assemble data on those users that might be exploited by others; and/or allow vendors who are not under the same privacy rules; and the site stability will always be vulnerable.

Posted originally on the conservative tree house on February 3, 2021 by Sundance

Comrade Rebels, there is a considerable disparity amid the Republic when it comes to authoritarian dictates and various State Ministries of Covid Compliance. The California Ministry of COVID compliance has some of the most restrictive regulations in the nation; however, their Coronavirus cases have not abated.

Additionally, Comrade Newsom has previously claimed the virus is triggered by rebellious activity at certain times of the evening; and in specific locales.

However, there is no scientific data to validate the assumptions to support many municipalities having curfews and hours of operation to avoid the greater Rona threat later in the evening.

All of these issues. and the false-pretenses behind the regulations, have now created a backlash against the governor of the California.

WASHINGTON EXAMINER – A new poll conducted by the University of California at Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies found that Gov. Gavin Newsom’s job approval rating plummeted by 18 percentage points in three months. In October, he had a 49% approval rating; in January it dropped to 31%.

Also, 36% of respondents said they support the recall effort against Newsom, which has gained popularity among Democrats.

Roughly 31% of those polled said Newsom has done an excellent or good job in handling the coronavirus, down from 49% in September. (read more)

Re-Posted from GrrrGraphics.com FEB 3, 2021 AT 10:10 AM

Here we go again…

Paper covers rock. Scissors cut paper. Rock crushes scissors.

In the case of silver, big banker paper also crushes scissors. It can crush anything. In fact, paper seems to win every time. It can’t lose. After all, the paper is issued from dominant globalist billionaires who own the banks that own the Federal Reserve. They own a money printing press and they’ve used it to their advantage. They never lose.

Earlier this week the group known as WallStreetBets discovered this, even though I was rooting for them—the underdog. How can you win against an entity that has a monopoly on money? Mega billionaire oligarchs aren’t about to be put in their place by a rabble from Reddit. The ‘diamond handed’ buyers of GameStop were sorely tested as we saw their stock plummet from nearly $400 to well under $100 in a mere two days. Will it bounce back? I doubt it. The mega-billionaires easily bend the rules to their favor. Buyers were limited to 1 share of GameStop per day. The stock was halted many times to slow its momentum. The corporate media went dutifully silent. The market makers used dirty tricks such as ‘spoofing’ (fake ask walls) all the way down. Game over, GameStop.

Now WallStreetBets think they can repeat their flash of success with silver. This is a vast ambition compared to running up a heavily shorted small cap stock.

Buying physical silver will not deter the big bankers who control the price of silver.

They can print up unlimited paper silver contracts and sell them on the commodity exchanges. They don’t need to have the silver they are dumping. It often does not exist. They know that few buyers want to take actual delivery of a heavy metal that’s expensive to track, store, and guard. Instead they offer buyers a cash equivalent if the price goes up. Take it or leave it.

It’s true that in 2011 JP Morgan almost got caught when silver ran up to nearly $50 per ounce. They were rescued by their collusive traders who used illegal means to drive it back down to $13. But JP Morgan apparently learned their lesson and they scooped up a lot of the shiny metal on the lows. They are said to own around $100 million ounces now. That might be enough to help bail out their banker colleagues in an emergency, but will it be enough? Meanwhile, the COMEX silver futures trading continues to determine the price and banker controllers can drive it down to whatever price they want regardless of demand. It’s not a free market, but the CFTC and regulatory agencies don’t care.

This means the silver stackers have to pay ridiculous premiums during increased market demand. Various silver bulls tell them to simply buy and be patient, which means they could be holding their stacks for decades on the losing side of their buying. All those people who just snapped up silver last weekend could be in for a tough lesson. Even though those online dealers said much of their stock had sold out by Monday….by Tuesday the silver price was slammed DOWN by those who own a money printing press. Supply and demand be damned. Silver is rigged. Many silver buyers end up realizing that silver, though pretty to look at, is a lousy investment. It was never supposed to be an investment. It’s supposed to be a store of value because it’s real money.

That’s why the Goliath bankers want silver controlled. They do not want constitutional money threatening their debt dollar! If silver hadn’t been controlled it might have made a Bitcoin-like run and exposed their immoral system of debt dollar slavery.

I realize the GameStop trading event as well as the subsequent silver pile on was never about the company’s value or the value of the shiny metal. It was about us debt slaves sending a BIG MESSAGE to the big Wall Street hedge funds. It’s a form of rebellion. The hedge funds have now answered back with their own message: ‘It’s a rigged game and we’ll change the rules midstream in order to CRUSH you. You’ll own nothing and you’ll be happy!”

The mega-banker oligarchy doesn’t worry about regulatory agencies. They own the regulatory agencies. They own a money printing press which has enabled them to buy the politicians, the courts, the media, and the education system. Nobody is going to take down the top one tenth of the 1 percent until we can destroy the Federal Reserve and they won’t let that happen. They’ll drone strike activists first. They’ll assassinate any president or politician who tries. They see us as their slaves and that’s the end of it. We did little to stop them from setting up the Federal Reserve and the IRS. The American public has always been easily brainwashed and led about by means of fear and propaganda. Now we’re seeing the end game—we’re becoming slaves to the oligarchs and their Chinese-style socialist government.

Those oligarch elitists control the horizontal and the vertical, and the market dances to their tune. Many will say I’m too cynical or negative, but we also saw them steal an election, shut down a pipeline, destroy jobs, as well as forcing us to wear useless masks. Not to mention they now want us to get jabbed by their deadly vaccines. They control the media—social and otherwise—and now they control the vote. Yes, the controllers are firmly in control. As long as silver remains tied to the debt dollar, buying silver will do nothing to stop their agenda.

Can they be stopped? I think it’s too late. All we can do now is protect ourselves and our families through buying buying guns, ammo, and storable food. We need to concentrate on our communities, our grass root sheriffs, and politicians and then resist the top of the pyramid. For example, we can stop wearing their masks of submission. It’s time to face reality, no matter how grim. Nobody is going to save us. Patriots are not in charge back in Washington D.C. Traitors are in charge. Stop counting on others to dave us. We have to save ourselves.

—Ben Garrison

Hang in there Ben- it’s not over by a long run!

Posted originally on the conservative tree house on February 2, 2021 by Sundance

The framework of Liz Cheney’s DeceptiCon perspective is actually turning out to be a valuable asset.  By watching who steps out to defend Ms. Cheney we get a more clarified picture of who the DeceptiCons are.  Liz Cheney is a walking ‘TOUCHSTONE“, a test or criteria for determining the genuine ideology of corrupt political alignment.

Last night Mitch McConnell stood up on Cheney’s behalf.  Today Lindsey Graham does the same.  These republican names reflect politicians who are aligned with Globalism, Wall Street, and the leftist agenda of Big Government; these are the DeceptiCons.