* Reading Notes: One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb

Posted on August 18, 2026 by lillooetgazette

I’ve read it twice, so you don’t have to—though I would recommend you do. Webb is a brilliant researcher with encyclopedic knowledge of the historical development of global corruption and crimes, the players involved, and their connections to one another. All is not what it seems! Here are the Coles notes.

One Nation Under Blackmail Volume 1 ~ the Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Organized Crime That Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein by Whitney Webb

In order to understand Jeffery Epstein and his activities in their full context, one must understand his powerful contacts and the structures that protected him. Those structures and those networks did not begin with Jeffery Epstein and they also did not die with him. In revealing his broader milieu, and that of his past associates and clients, one is left not only with a damning indictment of Jeffery Epstein, but also a damning indictment of American institutions, particularly those involved in “national security” matters and law enforcement. We cannot properly address the crimes of Jeffery Epstein, nor prevent them being committed by others in the future, unless we grapple with the covert power structures that have long wielded blackmail, bribes and assassinations as their weapons of choice to corrupt and control public institutions while manipulating and looting the public. JE was not an anomaly and his activities represent just the tip of the veritable iceberg. (ix)

Former CIA officer and Iran-Contra whistleblower Bruce Hemmings, circa 1990: “If you let them, they will take over not only the CIA but the entire government and the world, cutting off dissent, free speech, a free media, and they will cut a deal with anyone, from the Mafia to Saddam Hussein, if it means more power and money. (x)

Operation Underworld [WWII, where the U.S. government decided to enlist organized crime members in their operations], which the government was forced to reluctantly acknowledge after decades of public denials, involved the recruitment of high-level organized crime figures for work with American intelligence services, justified by wartime necessity. (2)

The National Crime Syndicate might be best understand as a social network—a sprawling, faction-filled web of associations and organizations that either collaborated or competed, depending on the situation of the spoils. (4)

Lurking in the background of Operation Underworld, which has seen the ONI directly recruit [Lucky] Luciano, was the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the wartime forerunner to the CIA and America’s first robust national intelligence organization [WW2]. (5)

[China involved in big pharma right from the start.] The Green Gang [who rose of power after Beijing tried to squash their grassroots trading empire] financed its activities through the cultivation and sale of opium—an activity that was fully sanctioned by Chiang Kai-Shek and the Kuomintang (KMT). Prior to the KMTs rise to power, Chinese opium production was unorganized, distributed among many different warring figures. Under Chang, however, a “suppression” was carried out with the ostensible goal of wiping out the opium trade in the name of public health. Behind the scenes, however, the KMT was doing quite the opposite: the “suppression” of opium production was actually an integrated effort to centralize it, placing production, distribution and ultimately control of the substance in the hands of a joint KMT-Green Gang monopoly. (11)

Support for the KMT opium monopoly came from Western modernizers—including the Rockefeller Foundation, which had set up shop in China during the 1910s with the creation of the China Medical Board. At the same time, it was also part of a larger tendency among internationalists like the Rockefellers to seek regulation and control of the global drug trade. The overarching imperative of the League of Nations efforts for global drug regulation was to rationalize the production of opium and other precursors and to consolidate drug refining and distribution within a series of select major pharmaceutical corporations. Under Chiang’s leadership, China simultaneously kowtowed to the League’s initiatives while using the monopolization drive to cement itself at the center of drug production for both the criminal underworld and the “legitimate” overworld. A full-blown narco state was in the process of being formed, as opium cultivation came to be the central focus of the government’s revenue-raising programs. (11)

The Supermob. The global drug trade is a massive business, and the offshore banking system that enables it is even bigger. Although most imagine drug networks, their controllers and their users as existing on the fringes of society, in reality, the massive amounts of capital that result from the production and distribution of illicit drugs occupy a central place within the global economic system. Consider a statement made in 2009 by Antoinio Maria Costa, who was then head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime. According to Costa, proceeds from the drug trade were an important source of liquidity for cash-starved banks at the height of the 2008 economic crisis. The amounts absorbed by the banking system were enough to prevent some banks from collapsing. (22)

The UN Office of Drugs and Crime estimated that money laundering activities—encompassing the washing of illicit drug revenue and more—make up anywhere from 2 to 5% of global GDP, at around $800 billion to $2 trillion. This, again, is almost certainly a conservative estimate. (22)

What makes the “Supermob” unique is that it was a particularly stark and fairly unmasked example of how criminal networks, political power, and “legitimate” commercial activity mixed together in the period of explosive economic and cultural growth in the wake of WW2. (24)

William Mellon Hitchcock was one of the financial backers of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, the so-called “hippie mafia” that produced and distributed psychedelics on an international scale. (33) See Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties and Beyond by Lee & Schlain

Castle Bank was a melding of worlds. A blossoming of heroin traffic coming out of Southeast Asia and a complicated money laundering operation that silently moved the funds of powerful gangsters, politicians, businessmen, and intelligence services around the globe. (33)

Carefully removed from the official Watergate narrative is Woodward’s stint, immediately prior to his career as a journalist, in the military. After attending Yale, Woodward had gone into the Navy, where he spent “four years of sea duty as a communications officer”. He served under two superiors who would go on to land important positions at the Pentagon. In August 1969, Woodward, still an enterprising young naval officer, arrived in Washington, DC. (179)

Clearly, this emergent network was like an octopus, with far-reaching tentacles reaching out in all directions and intertwined with seemingly legitimate businesses. …a strange, darker underbelly… (211)

Saudi Arabia was lending its Egyptian allies large sums of money, which were then used to purchase French-produced weapons that soon flooded African conflict zones. (220)

At the end of the war [WW2], Donovan organized a committee to advise Hollywood on the production of spy-themed movies. The members of this special commission included Daved K.E. Bruce, J. Russell Forgan, Allen Dulles, and Shaheen. Their efforts successfully inserted a score of OSS veterans into the movie business, while also giving directors and producers a direct link to the inside world of wartime-intelligence operatives. Hollywood, as a result, became yet another milieu where the worlds of American intelligence intersected with organized crime. (250)

When Nixon had briefly returned to private law practice, Shaheen had been one of his clients. He was responsible for connecting Nixon with Joey Smallwood, the premier of the Canadian province of Newfoundland. Smallwood, meanwhile, was engaged in an effort to industrialize the remote province by courting European and American capital. Some of the firms he courted bore the unmistakable mark of organized crime—for example, the controversial John C. Doyle and his company, Canadian Javelin. (250)

Thus, BCCI supported the work of A.Q. Khan, a Pakistani nuclear physicist and engineer known as the father of Pakistan’s weapons program. This work had begun after India tested the “Smiling Buddha,” their own nuclear weapon, in 1974 and it was carried out under the auspices of Khan Research Laboratories. Pakistan and Iraq had an experimental weapon called a “Columbine head”. Columbine heads were allegedly a type of thermobaric bomb, better known as a “fuel air explosive,” as they suck in the surrounding air to create a powerful explosion. (271)

During the 1980s, Singlaub headed the US Council for World Freedom, the US branch of a global network of spies, criminals, Nazi exiles, fascist operators, and death squad leaders belonging to the World Anti-Communist League. By 1984, he was serving as the chairman of the league itself. The World Anti-Communist League and the US Council for World Freedom were interlaced with a host of like-minded pressure groups, dark-money fronts, private-intelligence apparatuses, and closed-door meeting places. These groups pressed for rolling back Cold War policies and boosting defense spending. More specifically, the pushed for the continuation and deepening of covert wars across the world; free trade policies, and other packages beneficial to multinational corporations; and the curtailing of civil and labor rights. Some of these, such as the American Security Council, appear to have participated in psychological operations aimed at the domestic population of the United States as well as abroad. (292)

A key aspect of the covert operations of the Reagan era that is frequently overlooked is that, with respect to the complex trafficking of arms to Iran, Oliver North and the Enterprise were dipping their toes into a much wider swamp of political and economic corruption, arms trafficking, and money laundering on a truly colossal scale. As the conflict between Iraq and Iran heated up, companies, banks, intelligence agents and smugglers poured arms and military materials into both sides of a bloody war. Despite laws barring such activities, the conflict in the Middle East was a boom time for many. (306)

Space Research Corporation is best remembered for the man behind the company: Gerald Bull, a Canadian-born engineer and artillery expert who, prior to his 1990 assassination in the doorway of his Brussels apartment, had designed weapons systems for the Iraqis and the Chinese. He had also brokered the sale of arms to South Africa. Yet, his most famous effort was Project Babylon. Commissioned by the Iraqi government, Project Babylon was intended to construct a series of space guns, based on Bull’s earlier designs for launching satellites into orbit. These guns would be used to fire projectiles high into the atmosphere or near-earth orbit in order to reach targets far beyond the range of normal artillery equipment. (318)

[A note on the exhaustive research Webb has brought to bear in this tome: one chapter, A Killer Enterprise, has 267 end notes! Each chapter is chock-a-block full of citations and documentation.)

[The book details the unbelievably byzantine labyrinth of a global toxic brotherhood]… “which paints a complicated picture of the unstable alliances and power competitions that raged beneath the surface of the this covert world”. (341)

One of the most brazen and successful operations ever conducted by Israeli intelligence on a global scale involved its sale of a bugged software program to governments, corporations, and major financial and scientific institutions around the world. That software program, known as the Prosecutor’s Information Management System or PROMIS, was originally created and marketed by Inslaw Inc., a company created by former NSA official Bill Hamilton and his wife Nancy. In 1982, Inslaw leased its revolutionary PROMIS software to the US Justice Department, then headed by Edwin Meese III, Ronald Reagan’s most trusted advisor, Attorney General and, later, an advisor to Donald Trump following the 2016 election. The success of the software, which allowed integration of separate databases and information analysis on a previously unimaginable scale, eventually caught the attention of Rafi Eitan, the notorious and legendary Israeli spymaster as well as the handler of the “most dangerous spy” in American history, Jonathan Pollard. The PROMIS software could track anything, specifically money and people…This agreement between Eitan and Brian eventually led to two different versions of bugged PROMIS software, one bugged by Israel for the main purpose of spying on the operations of foreign governments and intelligence services and one bugged by CIA-linked entities and individuals for the main purpose of engaging in financial espionage and money laundering. (384-5)

Through Degem and other Maxwell-owned companies based in Israel and elsewhere, Maxwell marketed PROMIS so successfully that Israel intelligence soon had access to the innermost workings of innumerable governments, intelligence services, and corporations around the world. Many of Maxwell’s biggest successes came in selling PROMIS to dictators in Eastern Europe, Africa, and Latin America. Following the sale, and after Maxwell collected a handsome pay check, PROMIS’ unparalleled ability to track and surveil anything—from cash flows to human movement—was used by these governments to commit financial crimes with greater finesse and also to hunt down and disappear dissidents. Israel intelligence, of course, watched it all play out in real time. (386)

In Latin America, for instance, Maxwell sold PROMIS to military dictatorships in Chile and Argentina. There, PROMIS was used to facilitate the mass murder that characterized Operation Condo, as the friends and families of dissidents and so-called subversives were easily identified using PROMIS. PROMIS was so effective for this purpose that, just days after Maxwell sold the software to Guatemala, its US-backed dictatorship rounded up 20,000 “subversives” who were never heard from again. Of course, thanks to their backdoor in PROMIS, Israeli intelligence knew the identities of Guatemala’s disappeared before the victims’ own families. Israel, along with the United States, was also intimately involved in the arming and training of many of the same Latin American dictatorships that had been sold the bugged PROMIS software. (387)

Per Seymour, Riconosciuto had been recruited by the CIA while at Stanford University and Riconoscuito “and Earl Brian had traveled to Iran in 1980 and had paid $40 million to Iranian officials to persuade them not to let the hostages go before the presidential election”, a scheme better known as the October Surprise. Riconoscuito later testified that the software “was stolen as a favor to software-company executive Earl Brian, a friend of Meese’s, for Brian’s help in persuading the Iranian government to hold on to the embassy hostages until the 1980 election was over. (390) [In order to make residing president Carter look bad to the voters and lose.]

Systematics has had close ties to the NSA and CIA ever since its founding, sources say, as a money-shuffler for covert operations. It is no secret that there were billions of dollars moving around in “black” accounts—from buying and selling arms to the Contras, Iran, Iraq, Angola and other countries paying CIA operatives and laundering money from clandestine CIA drug dealing. Having taken over the complete computer rooms in scores of small U.S. banks as an “outsource” supplier of data processing, Systematics was in a unique position to manage that covert money flow. Sources say the money was moved at the end of every day disguised as a routine bank-to-bank balancing transaction. (396, footnote 67, James Normal articled called Fostergate)

This focus on obtaining a secret window into the in and out-flows of the global banking system enabled not only the covert tracking of funds, but presumably allowed funds to be covertly hidden and financial crimes to be effectively covered up or rendered invisible.

As previously mentioned, prior to Casolaro’s death [he was murdered], those close to the journalist had seen documents involving money transfers involving the World Bank to people involved in these scandals, such as Earl Brian and Adnan Khashoggi. In addition, it was reported by economist and author J. Orlin Grabbe that his particular version of PROMIS in use by the World Bank was being used to track wire transfers “in connection with a money-laundering operation that went from BCCI [Bank of Credit and Commerce International] London through the World Bank into Caribbean institutions. The role of the World Bank in the PROMIS scandal has been largely unexplored. (406-7)

One of the men who developed Neva alongside Maxwell, Ognian Doninov, president of the Bulgarian Chamber for Industry and Trade from 1980 to 1984 and Bulgaria’s Vice Premier from 1984-1986, claimed that Bulgarian intelligence agents involved in Neva had been covertly working “in Silicon Valley and other key technology sectors” in the United States, as well as in Britain and other Western countries. There, they would steal “technology blueprints, actual software, even computers. According to Gordon Thomas, Robert Maxwell created an umbrella of companies for use in Neva within six months. Thanks to Maxwell, Thomas writes, “The country had become […] the center of a thriving economy based upon whole-sale theft and money laundering.” This growing business empire, Thomas asserts would later “grown into one of the most powerful crime syndicates in the world, embracing the Russian mafia, the crime families of Bulgaria and, far away across the Atlantic, those in New York and, on the other side of the world, the crime families of Japan and Hong Kong. (412-3)

John Patrick O’Neill, FBI executive agent-in-charge in New York until 2001, would later say the following about Maxwell and Multi-Group: in many ways Maxwell was at the heart of the global criminal network. Beginning with his Bulgarian connection he showed how to structure a network that grew into financially powerful criminal corporations whose power would extend to the South American drug cartels, the Tongs and the Triads, the Russian Mafia and the Japanese Yakuza. They were all there before. But the way Robert Maxwell set things up, they would all come together in Multi-Group in its early years. His last contribution was not that he just robbed his pension funds. It was that he was the man who set in motion a true coalition of global criminals. (413)

[Reagan era schemes] Some have explained these specific scandals away, painting them as blights of the Reagan-Bush administrations and treating these intelligence-organized crime rackets as isolated incidents. However, instead, it appears that these intelligence-organized crime networks were so central to the national power structure by the time Reagan took office that the more well-known scandals of the era can be seen as “business as usual” for the period. Yet, lurking beneath Iran-Contra and other scandals that rocked the Reagan administration, there were darker and more nefarious activities that reached the highest levels of power during the same period, but received considerably less media attention. These other, lesser known scandals and crimes of the era show that, during the reigns of Reagan and Bush Sr., the rot reached all the way to the White House. Key power brokers in this sordid milieu included individuals intimately involved in the world of sex blackmail, who often bragged about their ability to “fix” and “manipulate” any politician or powerful individual they sought to influence, for the benefit of intelligence agencies, organized crime, as well as their own personal gain. (434)

[Stay tuned for notes on Volume 2, when I’m done reading it.]

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* Reading Notes ~ Wilful Blindness by Sam Cooper

Posted on August 11, 2026 by lillooetgazette

All things wacko in the state of Canada, by one of our very best investigative journalists ~ written with style and integrity. Of the many things you’ll learn reading this book is that many of the Chinese whales who came to Canada own, or owned, mines in China. Some of them sold the mines in order to turn swaths of Chinese land into real estate which was so expensive it was too difficult for the Chinese to buy. They caused tremendous harms, uprooted communities and rendered many people homeless and destitute. Some of those whales brought their lust for more real estate scams; some of them became ranking members of the Communist Party; some are deeply embedded in Triads and all things illegal, including fentanyl, which is decimating Canadian communities.

Wilful Blindness ~ How a Network of Narcos, Tycoons and CCP Agents Infiltrated the West by Sam Cooper

Teng Biao, Professor and human rights scholar, in his forward to the book: An open society must not be exploited by dictatorial regimes to monitor the diaspora communities and to spread its anti-democracy propaganda.

Regarding the detention and cruel treatment of Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig by the CCP, “as an obvious retaliation for the detention of Meng Wanzhou. If Canadians have been shocked by the judicial blackmail, it is a wonderful opportunity to deepen their understanding of the characteristics of the regime..”

After the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989, with the help of Western engagement, money, and technology, the CCP has established increasingly powerful and brutal totalitarianism domestically and has become more and more aggressive on the international stage and a threat to global freedom. Its extraterritorial laws and long arm of enforcement overstretch in many different ways. For example, its control of Chinese immigrants, its economic coercion, and its abduction of refugees overseas, including dissidents, booksellers, Uyghurs, and businessmen. It’s theft, bribery, and propaganda are institutionalized through the Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), One Belt One Road (BRI), South China Sea aggression, international cyber attacks and espionage, manipulation of the UN human rights mechanisms, and the “Thousand Talents Program”.”

Calvin Chrustie: “It is a complex issue, but as stated yesterday [during a money laundering commission inquiry] while the flight of capital issue is a key concern, we know China’s financial elite have close ties to organized crime. And we also know the cartels are close to Chinese networks.”

Regarding underground banking, Cooper has extensively researched Silver International, located in Richmond, BC. “It was a stunning and terrible operation, laundering more than $1 billion each year in Vancouver for Chinese, Mexican and Iranian crime cartels. To my mind, Silver took on the shape of a financial weapon, a toxic creation that systemically eroded Canada’s economic foundations and the rule of law, while fulfilling the needs of transnational narcos and CCP oligarchs in elegantly balanced, symbiotic transactions—effortlessly shifting narco-dollars worldwide by leveraging massive reserves of corruption money seeking underground channels out of mainland China.

There is no dispute among criminologists about the cartel’s profound influence in Vancouver’s conversion into a hub for transnational crime. A 2015 report prepared by Canada’s anti-money laundering agency Fintrac says: “Vancouver is a critical money-laundering hub for: international drug money; dirty money from China (drugs, corruption, tax evasion). Transnational criminal organizations and local drug money.” The report says Vancouver is especially vulnerable to money-laundering because of its proximity to China and the U.S., its hot real estate market, and its busy marine port, which has been stripped of regulation by provincial and federal government funding cuts. (32)

“But if you focus on 1988, you have to zoon further back, all the way to China’s bloody Cultural Revolution and the year 1967, when overly aggressive members of Chairman Mao’s paratrooper Red Guards were purged and detained in Guangzhou.

“It was in these internment camps that the Red paratroopers formed a new Triad-like society, the Big Circle Gang, and the prisoners eventually escaped to Hong Kong, where they made a violent impression on the original Triads that had already fled to Hong Kong and Macau in the 1950s and 1960s, after losing bloody battles with Mao and the Communists. (50)

In Canadian federal court records regarding Triad infiltration of Canada’s immigration system, the Hong Kong police force’s leading Triad expert, Stanley Ip, is cited explaining the ancient roots of these secret societies. According to Ip, governments in China have, to various degrees, confronted the Triads since 1674—when leaders from China’s Han ethnic groups formed sects to buck the authority of the Manchurian Qing dynasty. The Triads functioned like shadow governments, evolving into powerful criminal societies controlling underground channels of finance and trade, and enforcing contracts through guanxi (relationships) and violence.

In the 1900s, secretive relations between national leaders and criminal leaders continued, Ip says, until Mao and the Communists firmly gained the upper hand and vanquished the Triads. But in the early 1980s, as negotiations progressed between the United Kingdom and China for the handover of Hong Kong, the pragmatic paramount leader Deng Xiaopeng had a new arrangement in mind. [China style capitalism] (50)

Sidewinder [1997 CSIS report] concluded that Canada faced a growing national security threat of economic infiltration driven by a network of allies from the Chinese Community Party. Triads and Hong Kong tycoons—all working together with Chinese intelligence services. And there was a shocking thesis: ahead of the conversion of Hong Kong from British rule, the CCP had forged a truce with the Triads in order to secure Hong Kong’s stability. [In 1982] Deng Xiaopeng “asked for cooperation and business advice from the Hong Kong tycoons. He wanted to smoothly adjust China’s economy to capitalism. In return, Beijing would give the tycoons privileged access to China’s markets. Two years later, Deng publicly stated that “not all Triads are bad, and many of the secret societies are patriotic.” (67)

Sidewinder said that throughout the 1980s, Western intelligence agencies recognized increasing activity in Hong Kong from one of China’s foreign intelligence arms, the United Front Work Department. United Front agents were responsible for fostering business ties between CCP and Triads. Bonds were forged with United Front shell companies that enabled Triads to run businesses in Mainland China with elite military and revolutionary families. (68)

“As early as 1992, Western intelligence services knew that Wong Man Fong, formerly head of the New China News Agency, was instructed to inform the Triad bosses that if they agreed not to jeopardize the transition process and the normal business in Hong Kong, Beijing would assure them that they will be allowed to pursue their illegal activities without interference,” Sidewinder said. For example, they set up a nightclub in Beijing with Deng’s Public Security Bureau chief Tao Siju, and also ran a number of similar clubs in Shanghai in partnership with People’s Liberation Army officers.

The allegations are shocking. But several media and academic reports have corroborated the secret deals between Beijing and Triad bosses.

And in his 2010 study “Beyond Social Capital,” Hong Kong criminologist T. Wing Lo reiterated Sidewinder’s findings on business ties between CCP and Hong Kong Triads. (68)

The Ye’s are one of the most powerful Red Army princeling clans, controlling vast military and industrial conglomerates. And they are known to be backers of Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

…Chinese criminals were taking over in western Canada. They had mastered drug importation and distribution. They had connections and routes worldwide. In B.C., they worked with the Vietnamese, the Persians, the Hells Angels and the new multi-cultural dial-a-doper gangs, the United Nations and Red Scorpions. Some of the bikers were still doing well. But they didn’t run Vancouver anymore. (78)

[Over the years, Chinese gangsters] got “better at moving narcotics around the world. Sending it out of Canada in stolen car exports, layering it into casino and hotel developments [Trumps?] in Vietnam and Cambodia, building towers in Mainland China, selling real estate across Asia, wiring funds back into Canada through import-export companies, mixing it into casino chips and homes in Vancouver and Richmond and Burnaby. (78)

[A police wiretap revealed that] It was no problem for the Chinese cartel to look into Canadian driving licence records. The Big Circle Boys were able to peer into Canadian residents’ lives and travel schedules and track them down if they wanted to. (82) It was something that citizens in the U.S. and Canada just couldn’t grasp. China’s government was directing the gangs. (82)

“And again, I have to hammer this point. Assessments from the Sidewinder report that were scorned in Ottawa power circles are supported by Canadian police wiretaps. China’s government is in fact controlling drug cartels.” (87)

Cooper tracks and explains “China’s so-called white gloves system and the Chinese Communist Party’s leveraging of criminal to gather intelligence.” (125) Lai [a Triad gangster] was allowed to monopolize China’s oil trade with his access to the country’s military vessels and ports. He robbed China’s economy and paid the dividends to himself and its leaders. But corruption of this scale can’t occur unless extremely powerful leaders pull the string. This is the white gloves system.” (125)

“In order to conceal their ownership of privatized state assets, Red Princelings use the ‘white gloves’ of People’s Liberation Army figures like Lai. In fact, after Lai fled to Canada, a young Fujian man named Ye Jianming who is believed to have Chinese intelligence connections, “bought” Lai’s oil assets at auction and built a transnational oil conglomerate worth about US$40 billion. That was before Ye was disappeared in March, 2018…

…”organized crime, espionage and corruption converge in China’s system”.

Dr. James Mulvenon, a Chinese military and espionage expert who has testified before a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee: “There is widespread reports of rampant smuggling by the military of crude oil, petrochemical products, plastics, telecommunications equipment, guns, ammunition, chemical raw materials, steel, computers, cars, semiconductors, counterfeit money, drugs, cigarettes, electronics, and food.” (126)

[Some of their money found its way into U.S. politics] “The $300,000 was ultimately forwarded to Chinese agents and Macau casino bosses involved in fundraising for President Bill Clinton in the 1996 Clinton-Gore re-election effort.” (126)

In 2011 an elite cyberwar team operated from the PLA General Staff Department in Shanghai was monitored by U.S. investigators while mounting persistent attacks on corporate and national security assets in the United States and Canada. The team, called Unit 61398, is directed by the CCPs most elite leaders. It hacked into U.S. nuclear assets, United Nations computers, Canadian and U.S. government offices, and critical telecommunications infrastructure. (127)

Unit 61398 also hacked into Canadian Immigration and Refugee Board adjudicator’s computer. This was the adjudicator handling Lai’s case. The impact of the hack is unknown. Obviously, though, the hack was important for China. Unit 61398’s other famous target in Canada was Nortel, the world’s dominant Internet technology provider, until it collapsed in 2009 and China’s 5G champion Huawei rose in its place. (127)

In the 2004 Texas court case, Avramovic also alleged that casino staff were coached on how not to report loan sharking. Avramovic pointed directly to a former BC Gaming Policy Enforcement Branch (GPEB) employee who took a job with Great Canadian Gaming. “He’s been explaining how to avoid to report everything to the authorities.” His reward for blowing the whistle in 2004, according to Avramovic, was that the minister responsible for BC Lottery casinos, Solicitor-General Rich Coleman, harshly discredited him. (148)

BC’s Senator-General Rich Coleman oversaw both arms, the casino administrator and the regulator. He was a hulking man, about 6’4” and built like an NFL lineman. He was a former RCMP officer turned real estate developer turned politician. And people who have disagreed with him say he has little time for disagreements. (149)

It was insane when you turned it over in your mind. RCMPs special gambling enforcement unit was barred from entering government casinos. But big loan sharks were not. (150)

Pinnock believed he had accomplished something impossible in a supposed country of law like Canada. For having the temerity to suggest the RCMP should target organized crime in BC Lottery Corp. casinos, he’d become the whipping boy of BCs justice establishment.

There were at least seven major loan-sharking rings operating in Metro Vancouver casinos—about 50 known loan sharks—and they perpetrated horrific violence. (158)

Days later, a gambler walked into River Rock Casino with $460,000 in $20 bills and bought chips. The casino reported the large cash transaction, but stated “none of [the man’s] actions are suspicious.” (168)

“We’re suspicious that it’s dirty money,” Baxter said. “The casino industry, in general, was targeted during that time period for what may well be some sophisticated money-laundering activities by organized crime.” But Baxter’s highly public comments made BC’s solicitor-general Rich Coleman livid. “Yeah, I know what he said, and I don’t agree with him, and neither do all the superiors of his in the RCMP,” Coleman told the CBC. This was not true. Baxter’s superiors were aware of his comments, and they were approved. Baxter had seen videos of VIPs bringing stacks of cash into private casino cash cages. The GPEB investigators had trailed these VIPs from the casinos to nearby restaurants, luxury vehicles, and parking lots where they took delivery of bags of cash. (169)

The Chinese underground banking networks actually had taken over the so-called black market peso exchange from Columbian and Mexican money launderers. Jin and his gang were one piece of an incredibly complex shadow banking system that leveraged drug cash and international trade to launder Latin American cartel money from BC to China and back to Mexico and beyond. They were moving almost all of the cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and fentanyl proceeds on the west coast of North America.

And as far-fetched as the premise of the joke—BC actually welcomes drug cash—GPEB and BCLC investigators had heard senior officials express similar thoughts. It was selective reasoning. The thinking was: crime and money-laundering will happen whether the government is running legal casinos or organized crime is running underground casinos. All societies have crime. You can’t stop people from gambling. So, the officials argued, the government should crack down on illegal casinos, and divert criminals into legal casinos, and vacuum up the dirty money, just like the tax. With the criminal proceeds reclaimed by government casinos, ‘profits’ could be used to pay for schools, hospitals and social programs. In other words, government casinos would become the ultimate money-laundering machine. In a banana republic narco state economy. It was insane. (177)

“The crime groups in Southeast Asia and the Far East operate with seamless efficiency,” Reuters quotes one police officer familiar with Sam Gor. “They function like a global corporation.” (196) And my network investigations showed his ‘global corporation’ could always be traced back to the gambling, real estate and construction businesses in Macau and Hong Kong and the casino gangsters in Vancouver and Toronto. (197)

Police were finding street labs producing illicit fentanyl, and it wasn’t just going to heroin addicts. Gangs were mixing it into drugs like ecstasy and methamphetamine. Unsuspecting teens were ingesting potentially deadly party pills. (206)

Kendall told me in 2012, there had been only 20 fentanyl deaths in BC. But in the first four months of 2013, there already 23 deaths. The fentanyl death rate started rising exponentially. And a BC public health emergency was declared in 2016. From 2016 through 2018 over 3600 people overdosed in BC, mostly in the Downtown Eastside. (207) how many today?

Adam Ross—author of a 2016 study for Transparency International Canada that showed about 50 percent of Vancouver’s luxury homes are owned through opaque legal structures—told me Canadian lawyers had failed at “self-policing.” (238) “The law societies claim to have rules in place to prevent money-laundering, but they are weak, non-transparent and almost never enforced,” Ross said. “Unless the law societies demand more of their members and start enforcing those rules, billions of dollars will continue to be washed through lawyers’ trust accounts without any consequences.” (239)

These were the business giants who owned mines and skyscrapers and ships and forests and highways in China. Men well-connected to China’s state and military and judicial elite. Men with access to ports in Qingdao, Harbin, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Hong Kong. To put it another way, an intelligence source told me, a sort of power shift was playing out in Canada. The southern, Cantonese-speaking cartels may have had more autonomy in the early days of the Vancouver Model. But after 2008, the state-sponsored heavyweights of northern China appeared to gain influence over their networks in Vancouver and Toronto. (256)

Business relationships in Canada were formed in playgrounds of vice, Chinese community and RCMP intelligence sources explained to me. It was powerful guanxi. You want to come to my spa in Richmond and play with some girls? No problem. Want to play baccarat in government casinos—even better, lay bets in our own private VIP lounges and cash out winnings at Richmond currency exchange shops? How about a guided safari to kill some black bears? We have “special” relations with some Canadian officials, so don’t worry, it’s all taken care of. We can even ship polar bear mounts and hunting guns back to you in China. You’d like to develop some Vancouver real estate? Easy. Mingle with elite Canadian politicians in our China-Canada friendship association fundraisers? Done! (257)

According to my documents and a Mandarin speaker in Richmond who knew Paul Jin and saw him in action—Jin had found his true calling in life. A broker of vice for powerful men. [Sound familiar? Yet another Epstein] And a facilitator for their Chinese state activity in Canada. (257)

It was a simple equation. If betting limits for baccarat in Vancouver and Richmond could compete with Macau, BC government casinos would become attractive to the transnational whales. And so, limits were raised exponentially in British Columbia from the late 1990s to 2014. Baccarat bets starting at $25 per hand before 2000, despite many money-laundering warnings, peaked at a devastating $100,000 per hand in 2014. Of course, suspicious cash transactions rose exponentially too. (258)

In late 2017, two years after RCMP tactical units raided Silver [Silver International, the underground bank], in a Vancouver conference room Insp. Bruce Ward briefed a private audience. The crowd included U.S. Secret Service agents, financial professionals and Canadian police. This was information important to the Five Eyes intelligence allies, especially Australia, the U.S. and Canada. And I obtained a secret audio recording of Ward’s presentation. (259)

This is not an organized structure with comman and control,” Ward said, “It is more about business relationships. Because it operates very much parallel to the normal business community.” And as I learned about these networks, I honed my techniques for following the actors. Pictures can be a very important advertisement of guanxi between gangsters, politicians and professionals. And these network actors loved to post pictures of themselves raising glasses of red wine at galas attended by Chinese consulate officials and Canadian politicians. The political element would be something I delved into after understanding the narco element. (260)

“So this networking is what facilitated the business for Silver International,” Ward said. “Because they were able to start a profession of money-laundering for their friends in drug dealing, who needed the service of converting cash into bankable instruments.” But Silver first had to collect the cash. A number of businesses clustered into a few downtown Richmond blocks were seen by RCMP intelligence as the geographical supernode of drug-trafficking circuits in North America. (261)

And that is where the genius of Silver came into play. In Mainland China each citizen is barred from exporting more than $50,000 per year. There is incredible pent up supply in China’s banking system seeking to break that financial wall. And Paul King Jin, Silver International, and some Chinese industrialists had a solution, and a business model called Macau. (261)

The glittering city on the western shore of the Pearl River delta is called the Las Vegas of China for obvious reasons. Macau has been the hub of international transactions for centuries, a former colony of Portugal, transformed into an outlet valve for vices banned in China. It is a special administrative region for the Chinese Communist Party where casinos are legalized, the majority of GDP is derived from casinos, and the opulent gambling palaces have eclipsed Las Vegas in profitability, producing from $30 to $40 billion USD each year in revenue [much higher now, years after this book was published], at least three times more than the casinos in Nevada. This is where China’s 1 percent, elite state figures and Red princelings come to gamble and shop. (262)

In China, it is widely reported that corrupt officials have colluded with Hong Kong and Macau Triads to transfer state funds in and out of Macau through underground gambling junkets. And the scandals have reached all the way into China’s Politburo—the handful of CCP bosses who run the world’s second-largest economy—as illustrated by the cases of China’s former national security chief, Zhou Yongkang, and Bo Zilai, a north China governor so popular that he was considered a rival to Xi Jinping. Both leaders were linked in reports to Macau gangs and organized crime junket operators before each was convicted on corruption charges. In the case of Zhou Yongkang, who had control of China’s police and security forces, investigators linked his family to the flamboyant real estate and mining tycoon named Liu Han. (262)

Li Han had amassed a fortune of $6.4 billion and operated mines in Australia and the United States before he was tried and executed in 2015 on allegations that he had risen from “petty thug to billionaire”. His mistake had been his brashness and violence; with his fleet of luxury vehicles and mink coats, the facade of an industrialist was easy to see through. And before his death, the public learned he ran a cartel operating illegal casinos in China and laundering money through legal casinos in Macau, as well as trafficking weapons and providing contract-killing services. (263)

Zhou Yongkang, Liu Han and Bo Xilai were all taken down in sweeping corruption probes launched by China’s president, Xi Jinping.

In 2015, Macau’s GDP fell by 26 percent as fear of Xi’s corruption probes expanded. But even Xi’s family has been linked to the vices of corruption, offshore wealth, and foreign casinos. A joint investigation in 2019 by Australian media revealed that Xi’s cousin, an official named Ming Chai, was identified as a VIP gambler in Australian casinos, with links to prominent organized crime junket boss. And these junkets were connected to Chinese foreign influence and espionage networks. So this is the demographic of VIP gamblers that have helped build Macau’s wealth for decades by skimming funds from China’s underclass and making alliances with narcos and loan sharks and spies abroad. (263)

Me: A big RCMP raid of a Richmond underground casino failed; when they arrived at the $10 million mansion, it was abandoned and the date on a wall calendar was circled] (272)

Ward: “So this is a typical request. A direction from Silver International to move money from their own account to a drug dealer’s account. And we saw evidence of over 600 accounts in China that were controlled or fed by Silver International. So they would do that on your behalf. They would open up an account in China. You give them $100,000 cash in Richmond, and they wire transfer you $95,000 in China. [$5K is their fee]. In Vancouver, drug dealers with fentanyl precursor suppliers in Wuhan or Guangzhou could have Silver wire transfer funds to cartel accounts in China. These funds would result in more fentanyl arriving in Vancouver. Drugs would be sold, cash collected, funds wired to China, and the cycle repeated. And if the dealers had cocaine suppliers in Mexico or Peru, they could have Canadian banks wire transfer funds to drug dealer accounts in Latin America. (275)

July 2019. Canada’s Public Health Agency had put out brutal new statistics. Opioid overdoses had killed 10,300 Canadians from January 2016 to September 2018. There were almost 4,000 deaths in 2018 alone. Most of the fentanyl overdoses were in BC, Alberta and Ontario.

[Alderson] gave me the key to exposing the Vancouver Model. I took the 36 Jin VIP names and ran their I.D.s through BC land title and BC Supreme Court databases. I was looking for land ownership patterns, civil forfeiture cases, and disputes between investors. When flags came back connecting whale gamblers to various shell corporations, I could identify company directors and lending arrangements. I could tie in luxury auto leases, criminal record searches, associations with real estate lawyers, and the structure of land assembly and condo development deals. (296)

RCMP researchers cross-referenced these property documents with databases of criminal records and confidential police intelligence regarding ongoing investigations and networks of suspected criminals. And the results that came back were a blistering indictment of BCs economy. (302)

As the drug kingpins have raked in profits and the city’s real estate prices have surged, the fentanyl crisis has spread from its epicenter among addicts in Vancouver’s impoverished Downtown Eastside to communities across the country, leaving behind a devastating body count.” (308)

Since 2008 DEA had been running undercover agents into Hezbollah narco-launderers’ cells in Medellin, Dubai, Panama City. Agents discovered a web of businessmen just like Mehdizdeh collecting drug cash for Iranian state-sponsored criminals in cities worldwide.

In September 2019, when CSIS agents scoured the Ottawa condo of Cameron Ortis, a civilian RCMP intelligence official, they found dozens of encrypted computers. They also found evidence that Ortis was planning to leak Five Eyes operations plans to Altaf Khanani’s network (Iranian bros).

In basic terms, the United Front is “political warfare”, Manthorpe said. He said that Beijing had installed United Front agents in all Chinese consulates and embassies worldwide. These agents take orders from Beijing and control United Front Groups in cities worldwide. In Canada, United Front agents attempt to infiltrate all levels of government by influencing elected officials, sponsoring candidates for elections, and persuading business and academic elites to adopt the Chinese Communist Party’s foreign policy. Equally concerning, Manthorpe said, was the CCPs ideological usage of the United Front efforts to demand racial loyalty from all Chinese immigrants worldwide. (340)

…the United Front’s harassment in the Chinese diaspora aims to do. Silence dissent against the CCP and create a false image of unanimous support for Beijing’s policies. (350)

I have learned more about the outbreak in Wuhan. The evidence dovetails with an increasing number of statements from U.S. intelligence disease control officials, asserting that a disease matching the nature of the coronavirus was found to be spreading in Wuhan as early as October 2019. About 10,000 soldiers were at the World Military Games in Wuhan in October. And I learned from soldiers at the games that about one-quarter of Canada’s team became severely sick in late October, and they flew back to Canada under quarantine. These are extremely fit people. For such a large number of athletes to become sick at once is odd, to say the least. And there are open-source records and accounts from my military and intelligence sources indicating that Wuhan was significantly depopulated during the Military Games, and the Chinese state was engaged in strange behaviours. (359)

Empty highways, no construction workers, 1000s of empty high-rise apartments. All empty, the Canadian soldier wrote to me. Yes, there were a few people you would see, but this was a rarity. The explanation given by the staff at the World Military Games was that the CCP ordered everyone to leave the city to ‘make room for the athletes’. (359)

Underground banking and trade-based money-laundering run by transnational gangs connected to the Chinese state is the Canada Model, not the Vancouver Model. And opioid cartels from across Mainland China have merged into super cartels run out of Canada. These cartels have support from the Chinese Communist Party. They are key tools in Xi Jinping’s magic weapon. What I’m suggesting is that this information warrants a national inquiry in Ottawa. (382)

Sidewinder said that tycoons with connections to heroin Triads and the Chinese Communist Party and United Front were gaining a major foothold in Canadian real estate and hotels. And Ottawa’s response essentially was to shoot the messengers and ignore their warning. (383)

David Mulroney, Canada’s former ambassador to Beijing: “The Party is not squeamish about using any tool. If they catch someone doing something illegal, they will trade off a vicious sentence, perhaps a death sentence, in exchange for the criminal’s compliance. They hold this over the heads of people they are trying to co-opt. There is a very tight, incestuous relationship between organized crime in China and within diaspora communities, and the United Front. Co-opting criminal networks is one of the Party’s preferred tools for the infiltration of target organizations and communities and for foreign interference.” (384)

…China intends to not only profit from fentanyl production but to weaponize it, too. But what the sources are ultimately saying is the Chinese regime is purposefully using fentanyl against other states. And they are saying Canadians need to recognize the ruthlessness of Beijing’s compact with opioid cartels. Who are these sources? Some are RCMP criminal intelligence. Some are current and former CSIS agents. Some are from the DEA. Some are from the U.S. national security community. (385)

Australian federal police can get approvals to wiretap transnational narcos in several days. US police can “go up” on narco phone lines within a week. But after seven months in Canada, the RCMP could not get court approvals to tap the Sinaloa Cartel’s communications in Vancouver. This is why Vancouver has become one of the world’s most infiltrated narco, money-laundering and foreign intelligence hubs, and why Canada’s political and financial institutions are at grave risk of corruption. (387)

Powerful people decided the public should be kept in the dark. And so, in this book, I have tried to shine a light on this roiling pit of vipers. I have tried to show the public what police in Canada know, but can’t say. Canada lacks thee legal framework to cast a net over state-sponsored crime. Federal prosecutors need to start making big international cases like their counterparts in other Five Eyes countries. Australia is leading by example and facing harsh backlash from Beijing. Ottawa needs to start carrying its weight. But this will be very heavy lifting, sources say. Because Xi Jinping’s United Front has penetrated Canada deeply. (388)

“The tentacles of this thing. We are not talking about an emerging crime problem,” a source said. “This is 30 years of a crime trend that has entrenched itself into our upper levels of Canadian society. It’s frightening. The connectivity onto our business elites and corridors of power in Ottawa. It will take a long time to turn the tide.” (388)

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* Paper Newsletter on Hiatus

Posted on May 5, 2026 by lillooetgazette

I’ve been asked why the Lillooet Gazette newsletter, in paper format, is on hiatus. The easy answer is after 18 months I need a break and some time to refocus and recharge. Each one-page issue costs nearly $700 (printing and Canada Post charges) and though money has been offered I don’t accept donations since that could compromise my ability to speak freely and/or exert expectations/influence over editorial choices.

The complicated answer to the question is that it’s lonely out on the edge. As other citizen journalists will tell you, most of the time you’re going blind, which requires endless internal motivation, not unlike faith. When you’re working online you can see your stats, how many views and visits, how many followers, how many comments, etc. But paper format is different. You gather information that you know is important, you publish and distribute it as best you can, then pray it makes a difference.

A screenshot of one issue.

How much difference it makes is debatable. The reality is, many people (too many) are chained to mainstream “news” and are oblivious to what’s happening. They just want to believe that those in power are good and carry on living their lives. I don’t blame them; acquiring knowledge takes its toll, there’s a sacrifice involved. I know because I’m living it. Six years ago I sat in front of the TV news and believed every word they said. Then, one auspicious day, it was like I had a bag ripped off my head and I realized I had to stop trusting. Gradually, with lots of research, I learned that they were betraying us, either unwittingly or by design. And by “they” I mean, the so-called elites and all the institutions they own and control, including the dinosaur media. The extent of lies and corruption is breathtaking and stinks something fierce. Learning how the world really works is hard on the soul. And very destabilizing.

But knowledge gradually brings inner growth and strength. It’s crucial to be able to see clearly and not be numb and dumbed down. They’re adept at keeping us brainwashed, confused, exhausted and obedient. The only way out—and a great way to regain your mental health—is to yank our attention away from mainstream media. We have the internet, it’s still easy to find high quality sources of information from the people with integrity who have our backs. Many of them are highlighted here in this blog.

I’ll continue working and posting articles and I’ll continue to carefully watch what’s going on in Council and what the town’s administration is doing. As we all know, sunlight is the best disinfectant; without public oversight or media spotlight the people who manage things can lose perspective. The demise of the historic Bridge River Lillooet News (83 years!) started by the infamous, irascible, truth-loving Margaret (Ma) Murray came as quite a shock. And it’s a dangerous time to be without a newspaper.

For those of us trying to raise awareness and doing the hard work on behalf of everyone else, it’s best to remember the wise words of anthropologist, Margaret Mead: Never doubt that a small group of committed and thoughtful citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.

* The Toxic Brotherhood

Posted on April 24, 2026 by lillooetgazette

Throughout history there’s always been the so-called “elite” who wield power and are spectacularly wealthy. Our survival often depends on them, but we’re at an impasse: our survival is now threatened by them. Colossal decisions are being made about our future, mostly without our knowledge and definitely without our consent.

Comprehension requires us to recognize the existence of a global toxic brotherhood but many people are reluctant to do so. Perhaps the participation of a scant few females inhibits perception; yes, there are women within toxic brotherhoods (who get no pass for being there) but they’re a micro-minority playing by the rules. Without a doubt the world is run by men—bad men, mostly, who behave in predictable ways.

To be clear, this article is not about misandry. Most men are caring, loving, protective, non-violent, benign, benevolent, honourable, wise. But their power and influence has devolved, is being driven to the periphery, even underground. Earth and humanity are being overwhelmed by a transnational mob of sociopaths, psychopaths and violent alpha males who are not seen by anybody, not loyal to anybody and not held accountable by anybody.

Let’s briefly sketch their primary behaviours, which interact for mutual advantage inside a closed matrix.These five elements define a toxic brotherhood who are deeply embedded in all social, political and economic systems.

Paranoia. Intelligence agencies and, in America, their over 52,000 contractors. CIA, FBI, spies, deceit, espionage. Subterfuge and suspicion. They always have enemies; their enemies are always making something bad and/or planning something bad so we’d better be doing it, too. Their enemies are supposed to be our enemies.

Secrecy. Classified information, privileged access, invisible partnerships. Devious long-term planning, racketeering, quietly trying to put authoritarian laws on the books like Bills C-8 and C-9. Inventing fiscal laws that protect a black, or covert, economy. Legitimizing theft of taxpayer money—U.S. $21 trillion according to Catherine Fitts, an economist in the Bush Jr. White House whose integrity got her kicked out of the club. The capture of global health organizations, owning “the science” from molecule to market. Information blackouts and media collusion. Wargame conferences brainstorming the militarization of vaccinology and subversion of democracy. Robert F Kennedy Jr from The Real Anthony Fauci : “Dark Winter, Atlantic Storm, and Global Mercury were only three of over a dozen Germ Games staged by military, medical, and intelligence planners leading up to COVID-19. Each of the Kafkaesque exercises became uncanny predictors of a dystopian age that pandemic planners dubbed the ‘New Normal’.”

Competition. It produces some fine results for humanity but we’re talking about the toxic kind: becoming the richest and most feared. Conquest. Carving up the world. Too much is never enough. Willfully ignoring harmful downstream effects of their inventions and activities; denying culpability, deploying teams of lawyers to make their responsibility disappear. Social costs, loss of family/community, loss of livelihoods, not their problems to fix. Rigging elections, locking people out of home ownership, hiding wealth, money laundering, assisting global drug cartels, perverting justice, trampling human rights, assaulting earth’s atmosphere, destroying ecosystems, not their problems to fix. Winning is their addiction and obsession.

Domination: Subtle or brute force. Manufacturing truth. Silencing opponents, squashing alternate visions. A culture of bald-faced lying. Manipulating the masses with dark psychology we never agreed to, nudging for desired results, brainwashing and propaganda. Strict management of all information flows through corporate-owned and government-funded “news”. The worshipping of violence. Bringing the hammer down on dissent. In its extreme form, domination is the capture, torture, and/or killing of anyone who threatens them, hence the lack of intervention by the good guys.

Warring: Forever wars. Youth are cannibalized, inculcated with patriotic fervor, and sacrificed to trumped-up enemies. They (we) are not fighting enemy Russians, enemy Ukrainians, enemy Iranians, enemy Iraqis, enemy Israelis, enemy Tutsis, enemy Communists, enemy Viet Cong, enemy whomevers! Since warring is such bloody good business you can never have enough enemies. The war machine is essentially a global franchise of toxic brotherhoods.

The wrong guys are in charge, the worst guys are designing the future and COVID revealed their true intentions: the militarization of everything. Physician and biological warfare expert, Meryl Nass, MD: “Coercion should be the last strategy to consider in a pandemic. If you have a remedy that works, people will flock to it. It’s troubling that the first and only option was creating a police state.”

Stronger language from respected journalist, Sasha Latypova, at Due Diligence and Art on Substack: “Covid operation was not a public health event, although it was presented as such to the world’s population. It was a global operation, coordinated through public-private intelligence and military alliances and invoking laws designed for CBRN (chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear) weapons attacks.”

Indie reporter Laura Dodsworth nailed it. Author of A State of Fear ~ How the UK Government Weaponised Fear During the COVID-19 Pandemic: “The ‘war on terror’ bridged an arc of exploitable fears between the Cold War and COVID. The weapon we find ourselves at war with has reduced in size from nuclear bomb behemoth, to weapons concealed on the body, to the body itself. The enemy shifted from a foreign government, to foreign terrorists, to every single one of us. In 2020, we became the enemy.”

We became the enemy.

Mainstream media journalists don’t get this. And the few who’ve identified the existence of the toxic brotherhood have partisan blind spots. For example, Pulitzer prize winning journalist, Anne Applebaum, who calls them ‘Autocracy, Inc.’. In her article for the Atlantic, The Bad Guys are Winning, she writes:

“Nowadays, autocracies are run not by one bad guy, but by sophisticated networks composed of kleptocratic financial structures, security services (military, police, paramilitary groups, surveillance) and professional propagandists. The members of these networks are connected not only within a given country, but among many countries. The corrupt, state-controlled companies in one dictatorship do business with corrupt, state-controlled companies in another. The police in one country can arm, equip, and train the police in another. The propagandists share resources—the troll farms that promote one dictator’s propaganda can also be used to promote the propaganda of another—and themes, pounding home the same messages about the weakness of democracy and the evil of America.”

Applebaum concludes that America’s network of bad guys are all in the Trump camp; the Democrats are essentially still good, she claims, but must be on guard because that goodness is eroding. Laughable, really, if it wasn’t so delusional. She does not believe that “the new autocratic alliance have a unifying ideology” so she cannot see their unifying motivations. The Panama Papers, the Epstein files and many other scandals make it plain that greed and depravity are thriving everywhere, including America. Political loyalty is performance; ideology is irrelevant; toxic brotherhoods join hands and lean into their skillsets. They do what works and they do it with impunity.

Since many people have had enough of their insanity, the toxic brotherhood are rapidly building the tyrannical infrastructure required for their safety. The confluence of global digital ID, central bank digital currency, and artificial (fake) intelligence could herald the end of human freedom. AI is the theft of all human knowledge repackaged and sold as Official Truth; AI’s long play is China-style cognitive capture. Ai Wei Wei, Chinese artist and author of 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows, lives in exile due to lifelong persecution: “When authority determines meaning, independent thought does not exist, and everything is an extension of the discourse of power. Young people in China today have no knowledge at all of the student protests in Tiananmen Square in 1989, and if they knew they might not even care, for they learn submission before they have developed the ability to raise doubts and challenge assumptions.”

Cognitive capture might be difficult to assess, but not so with institutional rot. So much money has migrated into biotechnology and bio-warfare that the institutions we’ve relied upon for hundreds of years are languishing. How much more inattention and entropy before they fail? We’re seeing chronic malfunction, incompetence and corruption in healthcare, medicine, food production, supply chains, education, science, environmentalism, community policing, communications, media reportage, banking, etc. Experts in their fields are in performance mode—pretending normalcy, prevaricating and obfuscating. They’re happy to deceive us, and themselves, as long as they keep benefitting.

Buckle up, a center this weak cannot hold. On the upside, we can reasonably predict that a One World Government will not transpire. Their strengths are also their weaknesses: paranoia, secrecy, competition, dominance and warring means they’re incapable of getting along. And without a redeeming vision for humanity, they’re likely to fail. But in the meantime, as they fumble toward power-sharing, our logical conclusion must be that they’re going to make some colossal mistakes.

Advice from the intrepid Whitney Webb: “If you’re aware of where they’re trying to take us, you can plan things to not have to comply. For example, plan to be as independent as possible so that nobody can wreck your sovereignty the way they started doing in COVID. Set up your life to be independent of controls. Reading is important. We’re in a cognitive war. Critical thinking, think for yourself, the more we outsource our thinking to AI, [the worse it gets]. People need to not be so easily influenced. Avoid the rage bait. The more upset and irrational people become, the closer we are to becoming slaves. What to do? Networks of local resistance, off grid living, lean into family and community.”

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* Coming Clean

Posted on March 24, 2026 by lillooetgazette

by Catherine Fitts of Solari.com

For those who don’t yet know about Catherine Fitts, it’s time! She’s a tour de force and super-positive change agent.

Catherine is the publisher of The Solari Report, and managing member of Solari Investment Advisory Services, LLC and Sea Lane Advisory, LLC. Catherine served as managing director and member of the board of directors of the Wall Street investment bank Dillon, Read & Co. Inc. and as Assistant Secretary of Housing and Federal Housing Commissioner at the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development in the first Bush Administration.

You can click on the link above to get to the Coming Clean PDF or read some of it below.

“As we manage increasing levels of complexity in our lives due to new technology and globalization, we are also dealing with rising levels of political and economic uncertainty and an ongoing effort to build a digital control grid with digital IDs, digital money that can be programmed with a social credit system, and an expensive AI, data center, and telecommunications infrastructure. In this environment, thinking strategically about what we need to know, how to access and acquire that knowledge, and how to build collaborative networks to help us do so can provide a steady flow of new energy. There is a reason why nations have intelligence agencies and why companies have lifelong learning programs and investigative firms. When we look back through history, how did our ancestors deal with periods of high spiritual and financial stress? What worked? Surely, nothing that we are dealing with today is tougher than what Native Americans, slaves, or immigrants and settlers dealt with during the past 300 years. Some cultures have evolved a high degree of knowledge as well as protocols for surviving great levels of stress. We can identify and learn from those who have this knowledge.”

“Build a high-integrity network of trusted people who are willing to “conspire” and watch each other’s back.”

A NEW UNITY IS PERCOLATING by Catherine Fitts

In her 2002 article “Solari and the Rise of the Rule of Law” (solari.com/hibt), Catherine told the story of one of her partners, an entrepreneur who grew up on a small island. He once explained why small islands produce a much higher percentage of people who are good at starting and building successful businesses. Someone who grows up on a small island sees how everything is connected, so it is much easier for that person to learn how to take responsibility for the whole — to see how all time and energy is precious and to never waste anything. People who grow up on small islands, he said, understand that “a penny saved is a penny earned.”

He had been taught from the time he was a small child to connect the behavior of individual people with how everything worked around him. He said that he had learned to adjust his behavior so that it contributed to the system working in the way he hoped it would. His family, his school, and his church all encouraged him to take responsibility for the whole in practical, concrete ways. People who grow up on small islands understand that “what goes around comes around.” He said that America is just a very big island, but most Americans do not know this — nor do they understand that the planet is also just an even bigger island. They cannot connect how the system works — particularly the aspects of the system they do not like — with their own choices and actions. They do not have even simple maps of how things connect. They do not understand their own power to vote with their prayers, their thoughts, their choice of friends and spouse, their actions, and how they spend their money every day. In contrast, people who grow up on small islands “see the world whole.”

The point of this story is that many of us look at our situation only from our own point of view. From every degree of the circle, there is a different definition of what ails us, of why our system isn’t working, and what the solutions are. Often, what we perceive as our own individual problems are really just the symptoms that each person experiences of the deeper problems that we all share. Many times, we think that the solution is to blame or attack someone, or to propose that more government or private capital be spent in a (futile) attempt to keep the wolf from the door.

Without a simple map of where we are, of the tapeworm that we are feeding, and of how to withdraw and shift our energy, we forget that what we do counts and that, at the simplest level, you simply can’t eat what you don’t grow. Our society has encouraged and participated in tremendous speculative financial activity at the expense of the concrete productive sector of our economy. The impact on our economic productivity has been predictable. The deterioration of our living equity — our neighborhoods, infrastructure, and environmental resources — can be seen in every place — north, south, east, west — and it touches everyone, rich and poor alike. The dumbing down of the workforce grows as daily television and social media consumption reach frightening levels and teach counterproductive behavior. What is happening in our neighborhoods parallels what is happening around the world.

The people who feel that their biggest problem is their financial equity — falling yields on their investment portfolios — have yet to see that they cannot enjoy capital gains unless they preserve their living equity. That is, our neighborhoods and children need to be kept safe, and we need to understand that the very things that will contribute to their safety — an increase in real human productivity, honest feedback systems, and a restoration of personal accountability — will also lead to huge increases in collective investment capital in the economy. The people who feel that their greatest problem is living equity — that they and their children are not safe and that our environment is being destroyed, or that we are committing genocide in other parts of the world (or down the block) — also have yet to see what the real issue is. We cannot achieve personal safety when yields for both retail and institutional investors are dependent on profits from organized crime, trickery of the investing public, and government guarantees that promote unproductive investment and personal behavior. Only when we achieve real economic growth based on concrete increases in productivity, accounted for and disclosed on an honest basis, can we be both safe and wealthy.

Coming clean is about reconciling these different points of view and creating a new energizing unity of people, places, and money. Coming clean begins one person at a time. As the lotus blossom opens out of the mud, coming clean begins with you and me — from the inside out. As we come clean, we find that we can live more joyously and profitably, even amid spiritual and economic warfare. As we withdraw the energy that we give each day to the people and organizations destroying our world, we discover that we have new energy to give to each other and to the people and organizations leading the creation of the new world that is percolating. As each of us comes clean, the world we envision emerges.

Our existing leadership believes that the only way to change is to institute a digital control grid — in essence, a 21st-century slavery system. We reject this vision of total central control by the few. It is a hypermaterialist vision and contradictory to how life and intelligence work in the universe. We are confident that an economic model is possible that aligns with life as it is; such a model can bring explosive wealth-building capacity while also addressing necessary risk management. A free world is possible — indeed, it is the only world we wish to create and live in.

Coming clean — we invite you to join us on a journey in support of a world committed to freedom and a human future.

*Epstein: Tip of the Viceberg

Posted on March 7, 2026 by lillooetgazette

‘Viceberg’ since it’s likely these cretans are going to sink civilization. Or let’s Imagine a pyramid upside-down, the top now at the bottom. Epstein is at the bottom, above him is a vast network comprised of the so-called “elites”, most of them male, some of them absolute evil monsters. Their financial networks intertwine with military and intelligence networks, political and social networks. Their names are mostly unknown to us and rarely make the news because they own all news outlets and carefully protect their invisibility; we’re told only what they want us to know and that information usually takes a form of propaganda and brainwashing. They are not bound by ethics, morals, or the social codes we live by, which is the polite way of saying they’re a bunch of self-interested fukkers who don’t care about the planet, human society, or the well-being of women and children.

They’re ultra rich, powerful and protected from laws; they move in rarified circles which never intersect with ours. Here’s one article describing them. They could care less about right wing/left wing politics, Democrats or Republicans; those are manufactured categories used to keep us distracted and divided; they care about politics only to the extent that it does not impinge upon their wealth and power.

Three of six million pages in the Epstein file have been released. Thick-skinned researchers are diving into them and gradually revealing what they find. I’ve listened to podcasts and watched videos (listed at the bottom of this post) but done so judiciously. Some of it is so dark it wounds my soul. But I’ll mention a few things and if you’re sensitive you can scan past the next paragraph to the rest of the article.

UGLY EVIL. From emails to/from Epstein there are comments like “love that torture one” and “a baby will suck harder if it hears the sound of its mother’s voice”. Very young girls and boys are regularly trafficked among men. One man, a famous American senator, bought himself a sex slave, a girl of 13, and brought her to his home where she lived as if one of the family. There is so much more but I cannot bring myself to write it down here. They are Psychopaths, Pedovores, Sociopaths, Scum. James Corbett calls them the Pathocracy–government by psychopaths, for psychopaths and by psychopaths.

Some of Epstein’s club of monsters will surprise you, like Deepak Chopra, ersatz spiritual guru who wears diamond studded glasses, who writes in an email to Epstein: “God is a construct, cute girls are real.”

Elon Musk in a Christmas day email to Epstein: “What day/night will be the wildest party on our island?”

We, the people, have no presence in that upside-down pyramid—at our peril. We keep them in place through our willingness to be their subjects and through our ignorance of their activities, let alone their existence. The world is a sick mess and when you learn about some of these guys you realize why that is. Among that pyramid are lesser men (yes, there are plenty of women involved, too) who are infected with anti-human, soul-dead ideas.

Many have to be on a sociopath-psychopath spectrum. Curtis Yarvin, popular in some right wing circles, believes in a “humane alternative to genocide”. Yuval Noah Harari, who advises many powerful people, predicts that rapid advances in computing technology will “make humans redundant”. Harari claims that “humans are now hackable animals”. Technology will create a “massive class of useless people” who will need to be kept happy with “drugs and computer games”. He tells TED talk audiences, “We just don’t need the vast majority of this population in today’s world.” And human rights are “just like heaven, and like God, just a fictional story. The whole idea that humans have this soul or spirit and nobody knows what’s happening inside them, and they have free will, that’s over…”

Or how about Klaus Schwab, founder of WEF (World Economic Forum) and now notorious for his edict, “you will own nothing and you will be happy”. Like all would-be despots, his ideas about a total human surveillance state are grotesque and grandiose: “In this new world we must accept transparency. Everything is going to be transparent and you have to get used to it, you have to behave accordingly. It becomes, how should I put it, integrated into your personality but if you have nothing to hide you shouldn’t be afraid.”

Schwab is the father of Davos, the annual schmoozefest where the so-called “elites” gather each year to discuss the world’s future. Author Peter S. Goodman, author of ‘Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World’ writes, “I saw billionaires engage in simulations of the Syrian refugee experience—led around in the dark while blindfolded as angry officials demanded their papers—before savouring truffles at dinners thrown by global banks. Outside conference rooms featuring discussions on human trafficking, I watched venture capitalists fist-bumping over having scored invites to the bacchanal thrown by a Russian oligarch who flew in prostitutes from Moscow. Davos Man has pillaged the global economy, exploiting workers, plundering housing and health care, and dismantling government programs while transferring the bounty to his personal bank accounts tucked in jurisdictions beyond the reach of any pain-in-the-ass tax collector.”

To read more about these modern-day Gollums, see my article ‘Club of Sociopaths’, published in Druthers.

The release of these 3 million Epstein files has generated some optimism among the commentariat that the public outrage generated by the release means that significant change is coming, there will be jail time for criminals and justice for victims. I say, unfortunately, don’t hold your breath. Which part of what we’ve been seeing (for decades) indicates an interest, desire, or even ability, to successfully create a better world for all? They have no other tools in their toolbox. What we’re seeing is what will continue—the world getting more degraded and unstable by the month and the corporate-owned media telling only what the pathocracy wants us to know and react to. The best predictor of future behaviour is past behaviour.

Pam Bondi, U.S. Attorney General: “If we prosecute everybody, the system will collapse.”

It’s so damned rotten, their system should collapse.

A few podcasters who have covered the Epstein pyramid:

James Corbett on Corbett Report

Whitney Webb in interview with Redacted

Elizabeth Nickson on Absurdistan on Substack

Some research resources if your skin is thick and you’re inclined to dig into the 3 million files.

U.S. Department of Justice

Jmail

EpsteinSecrets.com

*Teens are Talking About Epstein

Posted on February 21, 2026 by lillooetgazette

Here’s the first few paragraphs of a well-written piece about the effect of the Epstein revelations, by a parent whose child informs him that the kids at school are all talking about what it means.

The Thinning ~ Notes from Inside the Veneer

by Joshua Stylman (full article on his Substack page here)

My kid came home from school the other day and told me the Epstein files are lunchroom conversation. Not among teachers (at least that they’re aware of), but among students in the hallways, between classes.

What a crazy thing for a child to be talking about. I mean think about that – children casually discussing whether the people who run the world have been raping and trafficking other children.

My son was telling me this the way he’d tell me about the all-star game and I’m standing in my kitchen trying to figure out what to even say. Because the weight of that – what it means that it’s entered the consciousness of our children – is so heavy. The gap between the world we thought we lived in and the one that actually exists has become so thin that even teenagers can now see through it. And yet, that’s where we are.

Anyone close to me knows that I’ve been railing about our fake reality for the last few years. That the politicians, the entertainers, the captains of industry, the media, and the philanthropists – some of them, most of them (all of them?) – have been looting and pillaging the place. Literally. And now our kids are learning it too.

* COVID WAS A PLANDEMIC

Posted on January 22, 2026 by lillooetgazette

Did you know that tabletop wargaming has been going on for decades? Or that sociopathic so-called ‘scientists’ are busy beavering away in military-funded labs around the world, including Wuhan, China, making bioweapons because ‘their enemies’ might do it first? And did you know that over the decades the pharmaceutical industry has been captured by militaristic paranoia? If your answers are ‘No’ then it’s time to do some research.

You could start here with Whitney Webb’s timely article providing background and context.

TWO MONTHS BEFORE COVID WAS ANNOUNCED, key players gathered for Event 201 to make plans to manage a global pandemic. Two months later, like magic, a “deadly” virus arrives, coordinated global lockdowns roll out smoothly, and world’s people were terrorized into compliance. We had to take an experimental jab filled with ‘new technology’ junk they sold as “safe and effective”.

The following are excerpts from ‘The Real Anthony Fauci’ by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Exhaustively researched and annotated, scrupulous attention to facts and documentation, it’s the kind of revelatory book that only comes along once in a century. I read the 450+ page book TWICE so you don’t have to.

“Participants included a group of high-ranking kahunas from the World Bank, the World Economic Forum, Bloomberg/Johns Hopkins University, the CDC, various media powerhouses, the Chinese government, a former CIA/NSA director, vaccine maker Johnson & Johnson, the globe’s largest pharmaceutical company; finance and biosecurity industry chieftains, and the president of Edelman, the world’s largest PR firm.

“War games became instruments for imposing obedience. Dark Winter, Atlantic Storm, and Global Mercury were only three of over a dozen Germ Games staged by military, medical, and intelligence planners leading up to COVID-19. Each of the Kafkaesque exercises became uncanny predictors of a dystopian age that pandemic planners dubbed the ‘New Normal’.”

“The consistent feature is an affinity for militarizing medicine and introducing centralized autocratic governance. Each rehearsal ends with the same grim punchline: the global pandemic is an excuse to justify the imposition of tyranny and coerced vaccination.

“The panelists role-played strategies for co-opting the world’s most influential political institutions, subverting democratic governance, and positioning themselves as unelected rulers of the emerging authoritarian regime. They practised techniques for ruthlessly controlling dissent, expression and movement, and degrading civil rights, autonomy, and sovereignty. The Gates simulation focused on deploying the usual psyops retinue of propaganda, surveillance, censorship, isolation, and political and social control to manage the pandemic. The official eighty-nine page summary is a miracle of fortune-telling—an uncannily precise month-by-month prediction of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic.”

“After 9/11, “the War on Terror triggered a tectonic shift in global security priorities and elephantine ripples in defense spending patterns across the globe as open democracies began shifting to a security state footing. The revival in US government interest in germ warfare opened new opportunities. The US bio-defense budget went from $137 million in 1997 to $14.5 billion for 2001-2004. Between 2001 and 2014, the US spent around $80 billion on bio-defense. Since germ weaponry was still illegal, vaccines became a critical euphemism for the revival of the multi-billion dollar bioweapons industry.”

“The Pentagon could not get into compliance with the Biological Weapons Convention which limited the Pentagon’s freedom to undertake new research programs, particularly those referred to as “the leading edge of bio-defense”. So then-VP Dick Cheney transferred the Pentagon’s research to the National Institutes of Health, specifically to NIAID. By 2004, the transfer was complete and NIAID was transformed into an arm of the defense sector. This made NIAID Director Anthony Fauci a major player in biodefense and germ warfare.”

[During his first term] Trump’s Health officials complained “that they found themselves marginalized as Operation Warp Speed devolved into a partnership between the military and the pharmaceutical industry.” Physician and biological warfare expert, Meryl Nass, MD.: “Coercion should be the last strategy to consider in a pandemic. If you have a remedy that works, people will flock to it. It’s troubling that the first and only option was creating a police state.”

* Mother’s Testimony on the Death of her Newborn

Posted on December 10, 2025 by lillooetgazette

[It’s rare to see a testimonial like this. Fair warning: it can be painful to read. But it’s an important document from the early 1980s before big pharma convinced President Reagan in 1986 to give them legal immunity for their products: they were being successfully sued by heart-broken parents. We should all know, without a doubt, that having legal immunity paved the way for the vaccine industrial complex to become riddled with scientific fraud, greed and sociopathic disregard for public health and safety over the decades. When this testimonial was written, a baby’s first shot was at two months of age; those two months gave mothers the opportunity to see their baby’s neurological development, to observe their baby’s natural behaviours and body functions. Shortly after pharma was given legal immunity, they made it mandatory that a newborn was vaccinated on day one of life.]

“It was January 12, 1983, and I was getting ready to take my two-month-old son, Richie, to the pediatrician for his checkup,” Janet recalled. “My sister-in-law called and asked me if I had watched the Phil Donahue Show on the side effects of vaccines that morning. I told her I hadn’t had time to watch it, but that I’d call her later to learn more.”

In two months, Richie’s weight had climbed to eleven pounds, nine ounces from his six-pound, six-ounce birth weight. He frequently had loose stools the first eight days after he came home from the hospital. His formula was changed to plain Simulac without iron and the loose stools stopped. He was a good eater and very even-tempered, despite a nagging problem with gas that had prompted Janet’s pediatrician to put him on the antiflatulent Mylicon. An alert and active baby, he was awake more than most newborns during the day and wanted to eat several times a night.

“Well, I can’t find anything wrong with this baby,” Janet’s pediatrician said, after checking Richie over. He proceeded to give Richie is first DPT shot and oral polio vaccine and told Janet to “give him half a baby aspirin or children’s Tylenol in four hours.”

“I knew the DPT shots produced a lot of discomfort,” Janet admitted, “because my five-year-old son, Ryan, had terrible problems with all this DPT shots. After Ryan’s first DPT shot, his leg got red and hot and swollen from the hip to the knee. It was so swollen, I was worried about the circulation in his leg. His temperature always zoomed to over 103 degrees and he screamed uncontrollably. Nothing could stop his screaming. He also had diarrhea and vomiting. All this lasted for about forty-eight hours after each shot. When I phoned my pediatrician to report on Ryan’s condition and asked what I should do, he always told me it was a normal reaction to the DPT shot and not to worry.”

A licensed practical nurse, Janet works on the orthopedic-neurology floor of a community hospital. While she has received an education in nursing and has practiced for five years, she says she was never informed about adverse reactions or contraindications to vaccines in nursing school.

“We were never taught about reactions to vaccines, and I had asked my friends who are RN’s if they were taught about vaccine reactions or which children should not receive the vaccines, and they all said no. Some of them have advanced degrees. From what I know now about the pertussis vaccine, my pediatrician should have reviewed our family history, which includes epilepsy, deafness, and blindness caused by unexplained neurologic damage, Bell’s Palsy, rheumatic heart disease, diabetes, and allergies including milk intolerance, and migraine headaches before he gave either of my sons the pertussis vaccine. He never discussed with me.”

Janet trusted her pediatrician when he said that Ryan’s violent reactions to his DPT shots were normal. She had no reason to suspect they were not.

Janet remembers taking Richie home, hoping his reaction to his first DPT shot would not be as bad as his older brother’s had been. By that evening, however, Richie’s hip had started to swell just like Ryan’s had after his shots. But Richie’s hip then turned from red to dark purple, and later the purple started to spread out from the site of the injection in round patches. Richie did not have a fever and drank from his bottle, but he cried if Janet touched his leg.

“He woke up about one-thirty in the middle of the night crying,” Janet said. “After a couple of sucks on the bottle he went back to sleep until six that morning. When he woke up, he started screaming off and on. He sounded like a cat in pain. His scream was high and forceful and then he would fall asleep. I put a soft blanket underneath him because I figured his hip was bothering him.”

By seven-thirty in the morning, he was crying again. Janet picked him up and he was limp. His cry was weak now, and he seemed unable to hold his head up. “I fed him a little cereal, and he took a whole bottle of formula and fell back to sleep. I thought it was strange because he usually was awake at this time in the morning. But I put it down to the shot and didn’t worry.”

About eight-thirty, Janet was drinking coffee, and she heard Richie give out a tremendous explosion of gas into his diapers. “I knew he was having diarrhea, but I wondered why he didn’t wake up because he hated to have anything in his diapers. I woke him up and changed him. His diapers were full of light brownish diarrhea with a lot of mucus. He fell asleep again for about two hours and woke up crying. When I picked him up, he was completely soaked through two receiving blankets. I have never seen a baby soaked like that. The odor was musty and pungent, a smell I will never forget.”

Janet gave Richie a bath to wash him off. “He was limp and he just stared at me with dark eyes as if he was mad at me. I noticed his little hands were ice-cold from the wrists down. It was winter, and I thought his hands were cold from the bath I was giving him or maybe I had the heat turned too low.”

Janet got Richie dressed and put socks on his hands to keep them warm. She gave him eight ounces of warm water, which he drank more slowly than usual. In the afternoon, Janet changed three more diapers, all of them containing yellow diarrhea. In each diaper, however, the amount of diarrhea was less. Richie’s leg still seemed to hurt him, and his fingers twitched a little while he slept.

“I did not call the doctor,” Janet explained, “because Richie had the exact same symptoms as Ryan earlier had had with his shots—strange crying alternating with unusual amounts of sleeping, diarrhea, and a red, swollen leg. The only difference was that Richie slept more and did not have a fever, and I was thankful for that because I know a high fever can produce febrile convulsions. In fact, he was on the cool side, and I made sure I kept him dressed warmly after I noticed his hands were cold. The whole day I kept giving Richie his bottle. I just didn’t realize what was happening to him.”

At four o’clock that afternoon, Richie vomited a little. He had gagged on the nipple of the bottle, and so Janet spoon-fed him water to keep fluids in his body. “I tickled his lips with my finger, and he didn’t smile at me like he usually did. He just kept staring at me with dark eyes like he was mad at me.”

At eight o’clock that evening, Richie still did not have a fever and his hands were still cold. Janet’s husband, Anthony, changed another diaper with a small amount of diarrhea in it while Janet was at the drugstore buying Pedialyte for Richie. At ten forty-five, she woke her baby up and started to give him a bottle.

“He took two sucks. His eyes were open. All of a sudden he stopped sucking. I shook his shoulder, and called his name. He didn’t respond to me. I put my lips to his forehead, and he was ice cold and clammy. Then he started sighing. With each breath, he made a sighing sound.”

With Richie in her arms, Janet ran and told her husband there was something wrong with their baby. Anthony held Richie while Janet called her doctor’s answering service and explained to the pediatrician on call that Richie had had his first DPT shot the day before. She told him all the symptoms Richie had shown since then.

“I told him everything that had happened to Richie since he got his shot the day before,” Janet said. “He didn’t sound worried and agreed that it was probably a DPT reaction. While I was talking to him, Anthony came into the room and held Richie under the kitchen light, and I noticed Richie’s pupils were not responding to the light. I told the doctor that, too. He told me that if I wanted to, I could take him to the hospital and have him checked over. I said yes, I would, and asked him if he was going to meet us there. He said, no, it wasn’t necessary, that someone else would check Richie and call him back with the results.

“He didn’t tell me to call an ambulance and rush him to the nearest hospital. He just wasn’t that concerned about the symptoms I described,” Janet recalled. She hung up with a feeling of foreboding that she could not shake.

Anthony and Janet decided they had better get Richie to the hospital immediately. Anthony hurriedly dressed and left to warm up the car while Janet rushed into Ryan’s bedroom and woke him up. Then she ran into her bedroom and laid Richie on the bed so she could get dressed to go to the hospital. Five-year-old Ryan came into Janet’s bedroom and watched his baby brother, who was lying on the bed staring at the ceiling and sighing.

“I picked Richie up, and he stopped breathing. I screamed for Anthony and breathed into Richie’s mouth but there was no response. I ran down to the dining room and started to perform CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) on him while Anthony called the ambulance. I kept doing CPR, and all of a sudden vomit started to fly out of his mouth. I turned him over and clapped him on the back to clear his breathing passages. Then I continued with the CPR. The ambulance came and the paramedics continued the CPR. I knew my baby was gone. I kept screaming he was dead. When he had stopped breathing in my arms, all of a sudden, the whole day came together like one big nightmare. He had been dying all day, and I didn’t even know it.”

Richie had died thirty-three hours after he received his first DPT shot. When the emergency-room doctor pronounced Richie dead, Janet told the nurses to call her pediatrician.

[Dear Reader, unfortunately one page is missing from this document. I downloaded it and must have made an error and when I tried to find it again on the Wayback Machine, I couldn’t, it wasn’t there. Was the document disappeared? In this current atmosphere of dire corruption and evil, perhaps so. In any case, here’s the rest of the testimony.]

…lungs and brain. Janet and Anthony then set up a meeting with the coroner to discuss the autopsy report.

When they entered the coroner’s office, a nurse handed Janet an article entitled “The Pathologist and the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)” and told her to read it. Janet refused. Then the coroner started reading out loud to her from the article. She interrupted him. “My son did not die a SIDS death,” she said. “Now let me tell you what happened in the thirty-three hours following Richie’s first DPT shot.” She told him, and he listened. He then wrote down on the death certificate, “death due to irreversible shock”. When Janet asked him what caused the shock, he said the best he could do was to write down that the shock was due to a “possible DPT reaction”.

Janet asked the coroner why he could not state point-blank that Richie’s death was due to a DPT shot reaction, when it was obvious that was the case. She produced the Physician’s Desk Reference (PDR) and read him the portion pertaining to pertussis vaccine reactions. The PDR was one of the many medical references and scientific articles Janet had read since Richie’s death.

“He said he couldn’t write down on the death certificate that Richie had died from a DPT reaction because ‘the state’s standing on immunizations would be in an uproar’. Besides, he said, it would be unscientific because the autopsy report was not specific enough about the cause of death. At that point, we discussed the specific, scientific definition of SIDS. Finally, he admitted that my son had died from ‘irreversible shock’ due to ‘probable reaction to DPT’”.

The coroner gave Janet and Anthony a note exempting any future children they might have from receiving the pertussis vaccine. Three weeks later he gave them a signed “query of death” stating the official cause of death, which was that Richie died from “irreversible shock” due to a “probable reaction to DPT”. About two and a half months later, they discovered that Richie’s official death certificate had not yet been filed by the coroner at the town clerk’s office.

“We kept waiting for the state to send us an official death certificate and when we didn’t get one, we called the town clerk’s office and discovered that the official cause of death had never been filed by the coroner with the registrar. After we gave the registrar the signed ‘query of death’ given to us by the coroner more than two months before, listing the cause of Richie’s death, we received an official death certificate the next day.”

Janet recently spoke with her county health commissioner and asked if the county was aware of the coroner’s report and the official cause of Richie’s death. “The commissioner told that she was not aware of the official cause of death, although she had heard that my son died soon after a DPT shot. She admitted that there is no follow-up on reports of adverse reactions or deaths immediately following immunization by state or county health officials.”

“You see, at the time of Richie’s death, my husband and I were very concerned that Richie might have reacted to a bad lot of DPT vaccine. We wanted the vaccine preserved for analysis to find out if there was something wrong with it, but to our knowledge nothing was done. We were concerned that other children might receive the same vaccine, and we felt it should be investigated.”

The commissioner also told Janet that it costs the state and private pediatricians a great deal of money to spend office time to educate parents about adverse reactions to vaccines. “She told me that it costs the state health clinics fifty-five dollars [early 1980s] per child to explain to the mothers about reactions and have them sign the consent forms that are required by law in public health clinics. But it costs a private pediatrician only twenty-five dollars to give the same vaccine to a child, because private doctors are not federally required to inform parents about reactions and have them sign a consent form. She said, ‘Doctors are not paid to educate parents. They are paid to give vaccinations. Besides, most parents do not want to know about adverse reactions because it puts the responsibility in their laps and they don’t want to have to deal with it.’”

Janet was in a state of shock for weeks after Richie’s death. She could not drive a car or make the simplest decision without help. Anxiety attacks made it difficult for her to leave the house. A person who had always prided itself [sic] on her strength and steadfastness, she was completely lost for the first time in her life.

Five-year-old Ryan was also in a state of shock. He had seen this baby brother die in his mother’s arms and had experienced the anguish and terror which that night had brought to his family. In the days following Richie’s death, Ryan started exploding with hysterical fits; he refused to eat unless Janet first tested his food for “poison”.

“Ryan did not understand why the baby died. Everything I had taught him over the years—like not putting anything in your mouth except food—became blown out of proportion. If he touched a plant leaf, he would scream that he was going to die. He thought everything was going to kill him, and he would make me eat each bit of his food first—even ice cream—before he would eat it.”

In the middle of making funeral arrangements for Richie, Janet stopped and took Ryan aside. She held him close and talked softly to him.

“’Ryan,’ I said, ‘we are a special family now. We have a baby angel to watch over us. Richie is a baby angel now and he has magic. His magic will make us love each other more.’ Ryan became calmer, but he still wanted to know why Richie died. So it told him, ‘When babies are born, they get shots to make them strong. The shots didn’t work for Richie. They didn’t make him strong.’ And he seemed to understand.”

One morning later that winter, Ryan and Janet were looking out the window at the falling snow. Janet remembers it was a bright day and sunlight was hitting the snow just right. “It looked as if the sky was raining little diamonds that were fluttering down all around, covering the trees and grass with sparkles. Ryan said, ‘Mommy, what is it?’ We used to call that angel dust when I was a child, so I said, ‘That is angel dust.’ He looked at me with big eyes and said, ‘Mommy, is Richie doing that?’ I thought, well, what’s the harm and said, ‘Yes, Richie is doing that for you.’ Well, he ran around the house so excited for about two hours. When it stopped, he said, ‘Mommy, I think Richie got tired of throwing it down.’”

They laughed together. It was then that Janet knew Ryan had finally accepted Richie’s death. “Ryan knows the shot didn’t work for Richie, but he doesn’t know the DPT shot killed him. Someday he will know. I am keeping all the records for him so he will know why his brother died.”

Here’s a clip from 1985 and the Phil Donohue show about vaccine injuries. Again, this was just prior to then President Reagan giving legal immunity to pharmaceutical companies.

Some memes to illustrate the precarious and degraded nature of ‘public health’ today.

* CANADA CANNOT STOP THE DRUG CARTELS??

Posted on October 10, 2025 by lillooetgazette

The drug crisis is everywhere; it’s so severe St’at’imc Chiefs recently called local states of emergency. The cause of this tragedy is the federal government’s failure to prevent international drug cartels from taking hold, reports indie journalist and drug crimes expert, Sam Cooper.

“Two Supreme Court rulings—Stinchcomb and Jordan—have gutted the capacity to prosecute complex crime,” Cooper says. Stinchcomb Law requires all incriminating evidence be turned over to the defense before trial. This gives criminals a heads up, allowing them to change the parts that have been exposed. Jordan Law helps lawyers shield their clients; after being charged with an offence, defendants must be tried within a reasonable time frame (18 months, sometimes 30) but transnational crime networks are “incredibly complex and legal cases can’t be rushed”. Canadian law enforcement is hobbled.

“Trump hates drugs,” Cooper states. When he closed America’s southern border, international drug syndicates quickly shifted to Canada. Cooper has documented that western Canada is now the epicenter of the global drug trade! Super labs are operating in Langley and Surrey and many other locations. Vancouver has become the world’s biggest exporter of meth. East Indian crime networks have taken over the long haul trucking industry, which facilitates the drug supply chain. Dirty drug money is laundered by real estate. “It’s been known for a long time,” Cooper says.

Cooper: Trump’s tariffs are an iteration of America’s hammer coming down on Canada for this country’s complete failure to go after drug production. Americans are completely fed up with the dysfunction, trickery and lies from Ottawa. It’s not about who’s currently in Washington,” Cooper says, “it’s about this dangerous moment in history and whether or not Canada is going to survive it. Canadians would be shocked and fearful if they knew that we cannot stop these networks.”

Why don’t the media report any of this? CBC’s senior administration are tethered to Ottawa, which pays the CBC so it can exert editorial controls. Corporations owned by the 1% own all TV stations. CBCs “your world this hour” mantra is laughable. The “news” is 100% distraction tactics.

What to do? Urge MP Caputo to get on this. Frank.caputo@parl.gc.ca or 250-851-4991

(Full story and more at TheBureau.news OpEd: The Strong Borders Act Missed the Mark)

Who is Sam Cooper?

Author of Willful Blindness: How a Network of Narcos, Tycoons and CCP Agents Infiltrated the West

Reporter for two decades at the Province and Sun newspapers and Global TV. He left Global and created TheBureau.News which produces quality journalism and tells the truth. He’s highly respected and now advises international crime experts and members of the U.S. government. If that offends anyone, his eyes well up with tears when he talks about his love for Canada; like so many frustrated Canadians, he wants the political failures, incompetence and corruption to stop.

This article quoted heavily from Cooper’s recent interview with Jason James on Brave New Normal podcast.

Here’s more discussion about the drug cartels, this time using a big, big macro lens, from the articulate, feisty, intelligent Elizabeth Nickson.

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* Reading Notes: One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb

* Reading Notes ~ Wilful Blindness by Sam Cooper

* Paper Newsletter on Hiatus

* The Toxic Brotherhood

* Coming Clean

*Epstein: Tip of the Viceberg

*Teens are Talking About Epstein

* COVID WAS A PLANDEMIC

* Mother’s Testimony on the Death of her Newborn

* CANADA CANNOT STOP THE DRUG CARTELS??

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