Here is the draft agenda for tonight's call. If you are receiving it twice it is because it could not be delivered to our yahoo group for some reason. I didn't know if it would still get to those BCC'd so I decided to be safe and send it again. - Craig McKee
9/11 and Other Deep State Crimes Teleconference
Draft agenda for
December 30, 2020
8 p.m. (ET) / 5 p.m. (PT) teleconference dial-in #
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Greetings all,
We hope you’ll be joining us tomorrow night for the last teleconference of 2020.
Our first speaker will be Alison (“Sunny”) Maynard. She has been licensed as a lawyer in Colorado since 1987 and was the 2002 Green Party candidate for Colorado Attorney General. Often litigating against developers and governments she took many
cases pro bono to vindicate the public interest, uncovering criminal activity, including her
opponents’ collusion with judges. For exposing this misconduct she was targeted with a string of actions against her license to practice law by minions of the Colorado Supreme Court, without any client complaint, and was suspended three times. When illegally ordered to submit to a mental evaluation before she could be readmitted to practice, Sunny left Colorado.
In recent years she has, without compensation, assisted James Fetzer and Wolfgang Halbig in defending against lawsuits filed against them over their Sandy Hook research. As a result she has spent the last year defending against more bogus charges that she is “engaging in the unauthorized practice of law” brought by Fetzer’s litigation opponent Jake Zimmerman. In her talk, Sunny will assert that there has been a concerted, organized takeover and subversion of the judicial system in Colorado, and the U.S. generally.
Our second speaker is a long -time member of the teleconference, Paul Zarembka. Who will talk to us about Marxism and conspiracy theory — which is the subject of the final chapter of his new book, Key Elements of Social Theory Revolutionized by Marx with its last chapter entitled “Marxism, Machiavellianism, and Conspiracy Theory.” His prior books include The Hidden History of 9-11.
Paul earned his PhD from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and was at the University of California, Berkeley, before joining State University of New York at Buffalo where he is now professor of economics. His initial research and teaching were in the neoclassical economic theory and in econometrics. Re-thinking the basis of theory and with almost three years at the International Labor Office in Geneva, Switzerland, he came to realize that a class-based approach to society, rather than an individualistic one, is required. Concluding that Marx offered the foundation needing to be built upon, since 1977 he has edited Research in Political Economy, a hardback annual.
As always, we’ll have announcements.
So please join us.
Cheryl Curtiss
Craig McKee
DRAFT AGENDA for Wednesday September 30, 2020 teleconference
I Roll call/minutes approval (copied below)/agenda approval (5 min)
II Corruption of Courts [Alison Maynard] (20 min. + Q&A)
III Marx and conspiracy theory [Paul Zarembka] (20 min. + Q&A)
V Announcements
IV Updates on 9/11 topics (as needed)
· New articles, books, films, or recent news about 9/11 or other Deep State crimes
· 9/11 and the Deep State on the legal front, including current adjudicatory efforts by Lawyers for 9/11 Inquiry, JASTA, 28 pages, William Pepper’s efforts with AE911Truth against NIST and the Dept. of Commerce
· Censorship and cognitive infiltration: new examples of censorship or harassment of members of the Truth community; MSM treatment of 9/11 Truth
· Google (et al.) censorship
· 9/11 Truth political candidates
VII Adjournmen
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The federal civil rights lawsuit alleges that handcuffing a pregnant inmate violates jail policy as well as federal and state law.
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DEC 29, 2020 AT 10:59 AM
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DEC 28, 2020 AT 10:55 AMb
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By Marcia Coyle and Mike Scarcella | December 28, 2020 at 02:58 PM
Members of Congress Profited From COVID Bailout While Small Businesses Were Shut Out
As members of Congress pat themselves on the back for passing a new coronavirus relief package after a nine-month impasse, Americans can count on less money in the form of stimulus checks and unemployment insurance than they did in the spring, when Congress passed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act)—and took advantage of it themselves.
A Sludge analysis of COVID bailout data found that companies at which 28 members of Congress or their spouses hold positions received at least $27 million in loans likely to be forgiven under the CARES Act.
The revelation that so many members of Congress personally benefited from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDL) authorized by the CARES Act comes as Congress must consider how to address President Trump’s Tuesday night demand that all Americans be given $2,000 stimulus checks, after their Monday night bill cut in half unemployment insurance and stimulus checks for Americans compared to an earlier House proposal. President Trump criticized the bill but fell short of saying he’ll veto it; Congress appears to have enough votes to override a veto. On Thursday morning, House Republicans blocked Democrats’ attempt to increase stimulus check payments from $600 to $2,000.
Sludge found that 18 congressional Republicans and one Libertarian have received $21.7 million for 38 businesses with which they are associated. Nine Democrats received $6.1 million for 11 of their own businesses. An additional roughly $54 million went to nonprofits, think tanks and policy institutes, congressional caucuses, and higher education institutions tied to members of both parties.
While the majority of Democrats and Republicans voted to pass Monday’s COVID relief package, two Democrats and 57 Republicans voted against it. Among the Republicans who voted to not fund a second round of PPP, among other provisions, are 10 who received $15.3 million in PPP loans from the CARES Act. “The opportunities for corruption and scandal are particularly ripe when the business interests of members of Congress and other government officials go to the trough for public funds from programs they helped design,” said Craig Holman of Public Citizen, a non-partisan government watchdog. “Like the larger business that…reaped the greatest rewards from the PPP program, government officials themselves have inside knowledge of how the application process works and who to contact for the public assistance. Even if no deliberate favoritism is involved, the optics of potential self-dealing alone undermines public confidence in these programs.”
Rep. Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.) was one of the members who voted nay on Monday night. He also benefited from PPP funding when his family’s business received $4.3 million in loans that most likely will not have to be repaid.
Along with many other Republicans, Guthrie had decried stimulus spending aimed at ordinary workers and individuals who do not earn six digit salaries. In July, Guthrie, PPP recipient Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) and 33 other GOP representatives wrote to President Trump and implored him to stop extended unemployment benefits from reaching jobless Americans in the spring and summer. Extending the additional $600 in weekly unemployment checks would “only slow our economic recovery,” the lawmakers wrote.
It is not illegal or against House and Senate ethics rules for members to hold positions outside their duties in Congress—and many do, while simultaneously crafting legislation that will help those companies, Sludge found in July.
While the loans to lawmakers certainly are helpful for their businesses, some of the biggest financial assistance from the CARES Act likely comes in the form of tax relief for so-called “pass through” business entities, such as LLCs. It is common for members of Congress to be affiliated with or invested in such companies, Sludge’s analysis shows. Provisions in the CARES Act allow for such companies to receive an immediate refund on losses from prior years and other lucrative tax deductions that amount to a windfall. The biggest winners will be “the roughly 43,000 taxpayers with $1 million or more in annual income [that] will reap 82 percent of the benefits and get an average tax cut of more than $1.6 million,” according to tax expert Steve Rosenthal.
Congress could have targeted relief to the small businesses who need it most rather than millionaires and large businesses, Rosenthal argued. Of all the private companies members of Congress are associated with, the majority—205 of 347—are LLCs, according to Sludge’s analysis.
Texas Democrat Henry Cuellar is often called "Big Oil's favorite Democrat" because he votes with the GOP on bills that help oil companies drill more with fewer environmental regulations. He faced a competitive primary this year from a Justice Democrats-endorsed, Green New Deal-backing progressive, Jessica Cisneros, and just barely won. Sludge uncovered the funder of a dark money group that boosted him in the final weeks of his primary. That and more below...
Mysterious Dark Money Group That Backed ‘Big Oil’s Favorite Democrat’ Was Funded by Big Oil
In the final weeks before voters in Texas’ Twenty-Eighth Congressional District went to the polls in the Democratic primary between incumbent Rep. Henry Cuellar, one of the most conservative House Democrats, and progressive challenger Jessica Cisneros, a brand-new “dark money” group dropped hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of ads to boost Cuellar.
The shadowy group, calling itself American Workers for Progress, spent more than $720,000 on television ads and mailers promoting Cuellar’s work on health care issues. The group’s ads, in both Spanish and English, don’t specifically advocate for Cuellar’s re-election but instead tell voters to call him to say thank you, a move that allowed it to avoid reporting information about its activities to the Federal Election Commission. Its website contains no information besides a generic-sounding statement about “addressing economic challenges.”
Despite its name, American Workers for Progress is not affiliated with labor groups, and despite the content of its ads it does not have ties to health care advocates. According to tax documents reviewed by Sludge, it is heavily funded by the oil and gas industry, having received $1.3 million from the American Petroleum Institute in 2019.
Read more→
Koch-Funded Group Seeks to Overturn Voter-Approved Tax on Arizona’s Wealthiest 1%
Arizona is one of 26 states where citizens can initiate legislation through a ballot initiative, and in 2018, residents launched a ballot campaign to bolster resources for public education. The state’s education funding had seen over $1 billion in cuts over the previous decade. According to the National Education Association, Arizona had the eighth-lowest average teacher salary of states, at $47,403.
Supporters of increased education funding undertook a ballot measure that would have raised $690 million more per year for schools through a tax increase on the state’s wealthiest 1% of taxpayers. But while the measure gathered enough qualifying signatures, it did not make it to the ballot that year—the Arizona Chamber of Commerce brought a technical challenge to its wording, after corporations kicked in over $1 million to its campaign opposing the measure. The Arizona Supreme Court ruled 5-2 in August 2018 that a public pamphlet should have used the words “percentage points” rather than the percent symbol, among other issues.
Behind the Arizona Supreme Court’s ruling, reporters Scott Zimmerman and David Armiak found at Exposed by CMD, was a 2017 bill passed by Republicans that required a “strict compliance” legal standard for ballot initiatives. That law signed by Gov. Doug Ducey, in turn, had been supported by the right-wing Barry Goldwater Institute for Public Policy Research, an advocacy group that has received funding from the Koch network, the Bradley Foundation, and other major conservative funders.
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Richard Neal Got a Surprise Billing Deal for His Private Equity Donors
After House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal (D-Mass.) blew up a bipartisan deal to fix surprise medical billing last year that his private equity industry donors opposed, congressional leaders have endorsed a new proposal, and Neal is on board.
The backroom deal was announced Friday night between four congressional committees: the House Energy and Commerce Committee, House Education and Workforce Committee, the House Ways and Means Committee, and the Republican-led Senate Health, Education and Labor Committee. Their plan, which has the blessing of Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, is to circumvent the legislative process and attach it to the year-end omnibus that must be passed to keep much of the federal government functioning.
The proposal will eliminate most of the expensive bills that get sprung on people when they are unknowingly treated by an out-of-network anesthesiologist, emergency room physician, or other health care provider at an in-network hospital. But Neal got some concessions that will help medical staffing companies, including those owned by private equity firms like Blackstone Group and KKR, maintain many of the profits they have been making by springing giant bills on unsuspecting patients. The cost of the savings Neal secured for the staffing firms will be absorbed by the health insurance companies, which will almost certainly respond by jacking up premiums a bit for everyone.
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