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Cory Heidelberger and the Pope bear false witness against the free market for coveting

Cory Heidelberger uses the Pope to argue that against consumerism:

One fellow you won't be seeing at the mall on Black Friday: the Pope! Pope Francis I issues this hefty apostolic exhortation against consumerism and the idolatry of money:

The great danger in today’s world, pervaded as it is by consumerism, is the desolation and anguish born of a complacent yet covetous heart, the feverish pursuit of frivolous pleasures, and a blunted conscience. Whenever our interior life becomes caught up in its own interests and concerns, there is no longer room for others, no place for the poor. God’s voice is no longer heard, the quiet joy of his love is no longer felt, and the desire to do good fades. This is a very real danger for believers too. Many fall prey to it, and end up resentful, angry and listless. That is no way to live a dignified and fulfilled life; it is not God’s will for us, nor is it the life in the Spirit which has its source in the heart of the risen Christ [Pope Francis I, Evangelii Gaudium, 2013.11.24].

Think about that while you're standing outside in the cold at midnight on Friday hoping to get Legos or a new multispeed drill for 75% off.

Then Cory uses the Pope to attack free markets:

And when you sit down for turkey with your Republcian in-laws, toss this note from the Pope across the table:

In this context, some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world. This opinion, which has never been confirmed by the facts, expresses a crude and naïve trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system. Meanwhile, the excluded are still waiting. To sustain a lifestyle which excludes others, or to sustain enthusiasm for that selfish ideal, a globalization of indifference has developed. Almost without being aware of it, we end up being incapable of feeling compassion at the outcry of the poor, weeping for other people’s pain, and feeling a need to help them, as though all this were someone else’s responsibility and not our own. The culture of prosperity deadens us; we are thrilled if the market offers us something new to purchase; and in the meantime all those lives stunted for lack of opportunity seem a mere spectacle; they fail to move us [Pope Francis I, 2013.11.24].

Oh, how I'd like to be at certain Catholic tables this holiday season.

Number one, the Republican Establishment's capitalism is based on Public/Private partnerships, which is not a free market. Cory and his South Dakota Democrats jumped in bed with the SDGOP's economic development scam last legislative session. So both the Pope and Cory are quilty of bearing false witness against those who reject both fascism and socialism and favor instead a truly free market.

Second, the Pope expects others to take care of the poor. What about the Vatican itself:

The Vatican has large investments with the Rothschilds of Britain, France and America, with the Hambros Bank, with the Credit Suisse in London and Zurich. In the United States it has large investments with the Morgan Bank, the Chase-Manhattan Bank, the First National Bank of New York, the Bankers Trust Company, and others. The Vatican has billions of shares in the most powerful international corporations such as Gulf Oil, Shell, General Motors, Bethlehem Steel, General Electric, International Business Machines, T.W.A., etc. At a conservative estimate, these amount to more than 500 million dollars in the U.S.A. alone.

The Vatican’s treasure of solid gold has been estimated by the United Nations World Magazine to amount to several billion dollars. A large bulk of this is stored in gold ingots with the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank, while banks in England and Switzerland hold the rest. But this is just a small portion of the wealth of the Vatican, which in the U.S. alone, is greater than that of the five wealthiest giant corporations of the country. When to that is added all the real estate, property, stocks and shares abroad, then the staggering accumulation of the wealth of the Catholic church becomes so formidable as to defy any rational assessment.” source – Avro Manhattan

So the Pope himself is not practicing what he preaches, has a huge plank in his eye, and is quilty of coveting other people's property. The above proves the Pope is also a capitalist, and we also know Obama is also a crony capitalist.

So has the National Governors Association taken us to the land of techno-serfdom via the Common Core express?

Both Governor Daugaard and former Governor Mike Rounds have agressively implemented Common COre in South Dakota, along education as worldforce development. So I thing this fits them:

Common Core is the latest blueprint for a techno-serfdom, workers managed for the global economy. Student and teacher are transformed indeed—into utilitarian tools of global commerce: The student is a product, schools are processing plants, and teachers are information delivery agents.  The socialist “workforce management” scheme is the inverse of American principles where free persons find their own vocation and pursue it according to their talents. The “workforce” model believes that the state can anticipate the workforce needs of the economy, then train workers “cradle to career.”

Common Core: demotes American values, undermines American constitutional principles and detaches students from their families and faith

Here is what critics of Common Core Standards are afraid to say:

The education reform known as Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for grades K-12, adopted by forty plus states and more than half of the U.S. dioceses, is designed to produce a universal “work force ready” population prepared to self-identify as “global citizens.”  Many education professionals have been critical of CCSS. But even they may not know the philosophical reason why financiers like Bill Gates have bankrolled the Common Core system. The same sources of funding for Common Core in the United States are promoting similar methods and aligned texts world wide through the auspices of the United Nations.

In Crisis, readers learned that Common Core is financed with over $150 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The collaboration of the Gates Foundation and the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has been well publicized.  In addition, Gates, on behalf of his Microsoft Corporation, signed a 26-page Cooperation Agreement in 2004 between Microsoft and UNESCO to develop a “master curriculum” which included benchmarks and assessments.  The agreement stipulates that “UNESCO will explore how to facilitate content development.”

Some have decried Common Core as the nationalization of American education. Far more dangerous, however, is the globalism of Common Core that demotes American values, undermines American constitutional principles and detaches students from their families and faith. Common Core is simply the newest attempt in the decades-old battle (Outcome Based Education, Goals 2000) to impose a U.N. globalist worldview aimed at “peace,” sustainability and economic stability at the expense of freedom.

Briefly, the globalist philosophy calls for the establishment of a global culture based on a commitment to sustainable processes and humanistic ethics to ensure world peace and “fair” distribution of natural resources.  The U.N. serves as the hub for this globalist hope.  Adherents believe that some form of world congress and world citizenship is the end point of political evolution, and, therefore it is inevitable.  What is not certain, in their view, is the time of fulfillment.

Those who hold this philosophy are passionate—they fear that unless a form of world convergence of mind and political will arrives very soon, the planet may fail from wars, global warming and similar threats. Pick up popular magazines and you’ll find “world leaders,” celebrities and pundits who espouse some version of globalism. How would globalism work at ground level?

A nation is permitted to keep its surface culture, such as language, music, and cuisine. But patriotism, religion, and individualism are anathema, as each competes with the globalist vision of world harmony.

 

The Crony Capitalist nest includes Obama too

Cory Heidelberger won't cover this example of Obama's crony capitalism any better than Pat Powers is covering the crony capitalism of South Dakota's GOED:

Taxpayers are on the hook for a multi-million-dollar tab after a U.S. Department of Energy gamble on a green automaker went into the red.

The Obama administration announced Friday it will lose $139 million on a loan to struggling electric car maker Fisker Automotive Inc. after selling part of the loan to a private investor that immediately took the company into bankruptcy.

The transaction brings to an end another effort by the Obama administration to use public funds to stimulate green initiatives. Awarded a $529 million loan guarantee by the administration in 2009 to produce the Karma, a $103,000 luxury hybrid car, Fisker failed to meet DOE benchmarks, causing it to lose its loan guarantee two years later. The company drew down on $192 million before its federal funding was pulled, and the Obama administration seized $21 million from the company in April to help repay taxpayers. 

Hybrid Technology LLC, the California car marker's new owner, said it plans to keep Fisker operating after it emerges from bankruptcy.

So Hybrid Technology will be getting a discount via a bankruptcy as somebody will be getting a discount on the Aberdeen Beef Plan via its bankruptcy. Crony Capitalist control who are the winners and who are the losers. The South Dakota Demcorats should not be discussing how to fix the South Dakota GOED, they should be working with conservatives to eliminate the GOED. But they won't, because they too want big government to pick winners and losers. So what are the two parties willing fighting over? Power and control of the centralized wealth. What is forming is communitarianism:

While Communism established a dictatorship of the proletariat, Communitarianism is a dictatorship of the community. It is called the next step, the more advanced stage of human social evolution. As Vaclav Klaus, second President of the Czech Republic, noted, “It does not merely relegate individualism to a subordinate position, but is openly hostile to it. It is an ideology of ‘civic society’ which is nothing less than one version of post-Marxist collectivism.”

The theory being presented to advance Communitarianism is that Capitalism and Communism were two necessary, conflicting, temporary stages in human social development. From this clash, a fortunate synthesis is supposed to emerge when the whole world will descend into chaos and all the sides of every conflict will surrender to one single ideology. Communitarianism pretends to be that final synthesis in the Hegelian-Marxist dialectic.

Of course, there is no synthesis. This Communitarianism is really just a form of Communism, being offered with a different gravy in order to please modern tastes.

If you go to the link you will see a picture of Obama with the book The Post American World that is written by a communitarian.

The Governor's foxes say only one fox like chickens

Bob Mercer is reporting on the SDGOP Establishment's investigation that they conducted on the SDGOP Establishment:

In summary, the Attorney General found evidence revealing three instances of double billing and double payment. The three instances of over-payment total $5,559.80. The Attorney General’s letter also discusses the redirection by Northern Beef Packers of $550,000 in Future Fund grant funds for a payment to South Dakota Regional Center for EB-5 loan monitoring in January of 2011, after Richard Benda had left state government and was an employee of SDRC. Because the EB-5 program is a federal program, federal authorities have primary authority to investigate, and theAttorney General continues to assist in that investigation. 

Members of my administration were briefed in late August about the progress of the Attorney General’s investigation. Based on what was learned from that limited briefing, GOED Commissioner Costello terminated, for cause, the state’s contract with SDRC to administer the federal EB-5 program. I also directed that an independent audit and review of GOED be conducted. As I have said, I have no reason to doubt the integrity of those who work at GOED and I believe this review will demonstrate that they are worthy of the public’s confidence. That review will be made public when it is completed. 

I was not able, earlier, to disclose that Richard Benda was the target of the investigation, or to discuss any specifics, because the ongoing investigation into his death was potentially intertwined with the investigation into his alleged misconduct. Now that the investigation into Mr. Benda’s death has been concluded, I believe I can now share these details with the public. 

This is a sad situation. Richard Benda’s death leaves questions that may never be answered.  A betrayal of the public trust can lead to a loss of that trust, and it is a tragedy if the bad actions of an individual lead us to lose confidence in the many public servants who work hard on behalf of their fellow citizens. As Governor, I am going to take this opportunity to make improvements at GOED and do what I can to ensure that it cannot happen again.

Sorry Governor, the system of public/private partnerships opens up methods for corruption. I did not have confidence in the GOED before this issue, and I certainly do not now. The foxes guarding the hen house claim only one fox liked chicken. I am not buying it. Instead of being an apoligist for the GOED, the only right thing for the Governor to do is to close the GOED down and return their slush funds to the taxpayers.

Disputed suicides and the city of Aberdeen

As most now know, the Richard Benda suicide  has been ruled a suicide. Bob Mercer adds his two cents:

One small fact that didn’t make news reports yesterday about Richard Benda’s death was the suicide note — actually, the absence of a suicide note. State Attorney General Marty Jackley said Thursday evening no suicide note was found. Unknown is whether other information exists that would suggest or offer some explanation for Benda’s Oct. 20 death. A 12-gauge shotgun was the only weapon found at the scene, Jackley’s extensive investigation included fingerprinting and DNA testing and the wound was to Benda’s abdomen.

The next shoe to drop is Jackley’s separate investigation, conducted at the request of Gov. Dennis Daugaard, into alleged misconduct at the Governor’s Office of Economic Development prior to when Daugaard’s administration took office at the start of 2011. Daugaard was lieutenant governor under previous Gov. Mike Rounds, and Benda was secretary of tourism and state development for Rounds from 2006 through 2010. GOED was part of Benda’s department.

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Daugaard reportedly first learned in April 2013 of the alleged misconduct in GOED. Under the SDRC contract, Bollen needed to get state government’s approval for each EB-5 project. Costello rejected an EB-5 project linked to Northern Beef Packers in May 2013 but approved SDRC’s request for a different EB-5 project in July. Something came to light between July and September that led to termination of the contract. So there are two potentially separate matters that could have been under investigation by the attorney general’s office. Earlier this week Jackley issued a statement that drew an interesting set of lines. He said Rounds wasn’t a target of the investigation and his office doesn’t have jurisdiction over federal immigration matters such as EB-5 investments.

Some friends of Richard Benda said Thursday evening they don’t believe he committed suicide.

In 2008, Ken Blanchard took Todd Epp to task for challenging what was deemed a suicide in regard to a shooting at Northern State University in Aberdeen:

My esteemed Keloland colleague and friend, Todd Epp, posts on the death of Morgan Lewis.  Lewis, a faculty member at NSU was found dead outside Seymour Hall on November 1st, 2004.  After a lengthy investigation, the Aberdeen police department concluded that his death was a suicide.  Now Todd posts a letter he received, from "APD Officer 264". 

Let me tell you from actually working on the case that it leaves very little doubt that this was in fact a murder. even the Coroner ruled it a homicide. A suspect had a motive and knew facts of the case that were never relased to the public. I read the report. I worked on the case. I dealt with the suspect. I like many other officers still feel that it was murder, not suicide. But 2 murders on NSU would look bad in the press and enrollment would drop. A suicide and an accicental death look a lot better to prospective college students than 2 murders with no arrests.

Todd acknowledges that he has no idea whether this letter is from "a real cop in Aberdeen or someone yanking our chains," but he does not hesitate to add: "it does seem have a ring of truth to it."

Since Cory Heidelberger has been frequently putting together conspiracy theories, maybe this will get  him going yet again:

Bollen, who began at the South Dakota International  Business Institute in 1994, when it first started, had been asked by the state in 2000 to expand the SDIBI's responsibilities to include work on foreign investments.

South Dakota International  Business Institute is at Northern State. But before Cory goes off on  another conspiarcy theory, perhaps he can use this to create another conspiracy theory:

Morgan Lewis, a gay, Native American university professor, died of gun wounds November 1, 2004. He was 46 years old.  Morgan Lewis was an assistant professor of languages at Northern State University, located in Aberdeen, South Dakota.  According to the Northern State University web site, Morgan Lewis taught German.  He had undergraduate degrees from the University of California and got has master's and doctorate degrees from the University of Southern California.  One of Morgan Lewis' academic interests was xenophobia, the unwarrented fear or contempt of those who are thought to be different. He lived in Aberdeen, South Dakota only a few months before his death.  One of Lewis' students describes him as a nice and helpful person.

While Richard and Morgan may be resting in peace, the rest of us continue to be at war. So there is some more ammunition for Cory.

Can we depend on the South Dakota Democrats to hold the GOED accountable on the EB-5 issue?

Cory Heidelberger is going after Republican Ryan Maher for saying:

Executive Board chairman Sen. Ryan Maher, R-Isabel, said the board already had a full agenda for its Monday and Tuesday sessions. He said legislators would not be able to get any answers while the EB-5 remains the subject of a state investigation by U.S. Attorney Brendan Johnson and South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley.

Well Cory, Democratic House Minority Leader Bernie Hunhoff says the same thing Maher said:

House Minority Leader Bernie Hunhoff says he's just hearing about it, too.

"It's really in the hands of the investigators and we shouldn't be meddling in that," Hunhoff said Thursday.

That report was made on October 31. And this is what I reported In March in regard to SB235:

South Dakota House Minority Leader Bernie Hunhoff and a few of hsi fellow Democratic legislators voted in favor of tHe SDGOP's latest example of crony capitalism:

It was a “love fest” Monday for a bipartisan economic development package that passed unanimously out of the House State Affairs Committee.

Around 20 different groups and individuals testified in favor of the “Building South Dakota” plan, including businesses, economic development officials, legislators, local governments and education groups.

The complex proposal includes tax incentive for large business projects, grants for local infrastructure and affordable housing, and millions of dollars for education.

The bill had no content when it passed the Senate, and it was not until the House hearing that the language was made public. Section 23 states:

"Person," any individual, firm, copartnership, joint venture, association, cooperative, nonprofit development corporation, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, corporation, estate, trust, business trust, receiver, or any group or combination acting as a unit;

So are Democrats coming around to the capitalist belief that a corporation has the same rights as a person, or did they not read the bill before voting? More analysis coming.

And here is the additional analysis:

What is really sad is the media ignoring the most important argument from Stace Nelson regarding SB235...it is unconstitutional because it contains more than one issue. It includes education funding increases and welfare housing increases that was used to buy off Democrats so they ended up supporting the SDGOP crony capitalism that they whine about continiously. THey even accepted the idea that a corporation is a "person".

Mercer points to the 12 true conservative Republicans who voted against SB235 and the one Democrat who could not be bought off by the SDGOP Crony Capitalist RINOS:

The vote in the House today was 56-13. Twelve of the “no” votes came from Republicans: Blaine Campbell of Rapid City, Scott Craig of Rapid City, Brock Greenfield of Clark, Stace Nelson of Fulton, Lance Russell of Hot Springs, Dan Kaiser of Aberdeen, Don Kopp of Rapid City, Jim Stalzer of Sioux Falls, Jenna Haggar of Sioux Falls, Isaac Latterell of Tea, Elizabeth May of Kyle and Betty Olson of Prairie City. The one Democrat to vote no was Marc Feinstein of Sioux Falls.

Yes the Democrats are crony capitalists too, as it is a form of socialism. When you have increases in funding education (actually indoctrination into creating a worldwide socialist federation that Bill Gates of Microsoft and other corporations provide service too), welfare housing (so construction corporations receive corporate welfare to build the housing), and economic development centered on Obama's Agenda 21 green energy (most of the big projects that SB235 will benefit is wind energy), while excluding oil pipelines...all various things that SB235 does. Stace Nelson was correct to challenge this issue on fhte House floor. The argument is also supported by the variety of special interest proponents to SB235 who testified on a bill that the rest of us taxpayers had no idea what the content was when it hit House State Affairs committee (Red for GOP special interest, blue for Democratic, black for both):

        Bob Sahr, East River Electric         David Owen, SD Chamber of Commerce and Industry         Dick Tieszen, Technical Institutes         Bob O'Connell, Sioux Falls Area Chamber of Commerce         Wade Pogany, Associated School Boards of SD         Kitty Kinsman, Rapid City Area Chamber of Commerce (Handout: #1)         Robert Monson, School Administrators of South Dakota         Darla Pollman Rogers, SD Rural Electric Association         Sandra Waltman, SD Education Association         Mitch Richter, SD United Schools Association         Steve Willard, SD Electric Utilities         Deb Mortenson, Associated General Contractors of SD         Brett Koenecke, Iberdrola Renewables, Inc         Bill Van Camp, Nextera Energy Resources         Shawn Lyons, SD Retailers Association         Matt Krogman, Brookings Economic Development, Corporation         Bob Riter, SD Manufactured Housing Association                Dick Howard, SD Association of  Towns and Townships         Julie Johnson, Absolutely Aberdeen

How did all these special interest know enough about the bill to testify in support, while the rest of us had not been given the bill's content. When you have the collectivist agenda of both the fascist GOP and the socialist Democrats coming together in a multi-faceted bill, the individual normally takes the hit. Specically, the individual does not get to participate in the benefits of the funding as found in Section 15 of SB235:

Section 15. Any for-profit entity, nonprofit entity, Native American tribe, housing authority, a political subdivision of this state or its agencies, or any agency of this state is eligible to apply for funding from the fund. No individual may apply for funding directly from the fund.

Then in Section 4, you find the collectivist forcing counties to raise taxes if our local government is to obtain some of the funds:

No county is eligible for a grant for infrastructure improvements, unless the county imposes the maximum wheel tax pursuant to chapter 32-5A or supplements road funds with general funds or other funds in an amount equal to or greater than what may be generated from a wheel tax increase.

So much for local control. Sadly I can't take these criticisms to a committee hearing as the content of this bill was not made available until after both chamber's committees approved SB235. And the Majority Leader of the House stated that SB235 is an example of how the legislative process should work. I beg to differ. Even Mercer points to the unfinished nature of SB235 (which has passed both chambers technically) as it maybe heading to conference that will consist of only a handful of legislators:

Because the bill began in the Senate, all the Senate can do now is either agree to the House version or send the bill to conference for further negotiation. We know there are several amendments still being sought by various parties.

How many of those "various parties" are simply looking for more pork that is being feed by SB235. And we can expect the governor's staff to be highly involved behind the scenes. This is an example that demonstrates how the South Dakota legislature is no longer representing the people, but instead has become as a rubber stamp to implement the agenda of a shadow government run by the corporatists. With the media being part of the corporate world, don't expect them to tell the people what is really going on in Pierre. And for those of us who learn and become out spoken, the corporatists will look for ways to retaliate. For the mainstream media, that means your advertising revenues will take a hit.

The legislative Democrats jumped into bed with the SDGOP's GOED during the last legislative session. They cannot be depended on to hold those GOED foxes accountable. Cory Heidelberger is just playing politics. If my memory is correct, Cory Heidelberger was not at all upset when the details of SB235 showed education getting some bones out of the deals that were cut in secret.

The Governor's foxes says nobody in the SDRC hen house but us

Looks like we will never get to the bottom of where did all the EB-5 money go:

Tony Venhuizen, Daugaard’s spokesman, said SDRC is a private company that had a contract with the state, and the contract did not give the Governor’s Office of Economic Development the authority to audit all of SDRC records.

He said the office in 2012 required SDRC to sign a deposit control agreement to give the state access to SDRC’s accounts, but the agreement “does not authorize or provide a vehicle for GOED to conduct a complete audit of SDRC’s books.”

Venhuizen said GOED is initiating a thorough audit and review, at the governor’s request.

So nobody is suppose to go in because the SDRC is private. But the GOED is still "initiating a thorough audit"? Talking about speaking out of both sides of the mouth 

So how does that position square with this:

State officials refused to allow another round of EB-5 immigrant investor loans for Northern Beef Packers last spring, just as the Aberdeen processing plant faced financial collapse.

The rejection came in a series of telephone calls on or about May 21 rather than a letter, governor’s spokesman Tony Venhuizen said Wednesday.

On one end was Joop Bollen, of Aberdeen. Bollen was president for South Dakota Regional Center, the company he had formed to administer EB-5 loan projects in South Dakota as a contractor for state government.

On the other end were Pat Costello, the governor’s commissioner for economic development, and his deputy, Nathan Lukkes.

Two months later, Northern Beef shut down.

Under his contract, Bollen needed Costello’s approval for a new EB-5 loan fund called NBP IV.

Technically, it was for a company called Dakota Farm Raised High Quality Beef Limited Partnership that was incorporated May 14 by Karl Wagner, of Aberdeen.

Two other EB-5 loan funds totaling $60 million previously had been arranged by Bollen for the Northern Beef project.

After years of construction delays and financial strain, the processing plant opened in mid-October of 2012. But 108 production workers were laid off in mid-April of this year.

In late July, the company filed for bankruptcy protection and laid off its remaining 260 production workers.

The company had $25 million in state government loans waiting since 2010 but never met the conditions to receive the money.

After the April layoffs, the plant continued to operate while more money was sought, such as through another round of EB-5 loans.

So how private was SDRC with the state required to approve EB-5 loans. A lot of things do not smell right here with all the secrecy and contradictions. Perhaps it is time to say no more public private partnerships and shutdown the GOED and return all the money they have in their coffers to the taxpayers. Here is why:

“GOED did not approve the request because there were significant concerns about the viability of the project and additional project details were needed,” Venhuizen said.

The plant was not a viable project from the beginning, that is why they looked to the government for money. So why stop now? Perhaps enough of the right people got bailed out so now is the time to let someone get a sweet heart deal in the December 5th auction? All question that will go unanswered because the foxes are the ones guarding the hen house.

Madville Times producing conspiracy theories regarding secret societies without any help from me

One of the reasons Cory prohibits by analysis on his blog is that he thinks they are just conspiracy theories . A Jenny (who?) placed this comment on a thread were Cory is smacking Pat Powers around:

Is Pat Powers the one that does the Anonymous and then the Anon quick reply on his blog?  That is like clockwork.  Is he just so indebted to Mike Rounds and company b/c they gave him that state job that he won't voice anything on the EB5 story?  Is it like Skull and Bones where you're just sworn to secrecy when you're in the ol' boys club of Pierre?

Well here is some history on the Skull and Bones:

Charlotte Iserbyt breaks down the history of this secret order and reveals just how big this elite club at Yale really is and how much political power they have wielded over the past 180 years! Charlotte Thompson Iserbyt served as the head of policy at the Department of Education during the first administration of Ronald Reagan. While working there she discovered a long term strategic plan by the tax exempt foundations to transform America from a nation of rugged individualists and problem solvers to a country of servile, brainwashed minions who simply regurgitate whatever they're told. Her father and grandfather were Yale University graduates and members of the Skull and Bones secret society.

Through her father Charlotte Iserbyt was able to gain possession of the complete listings of the members, living and dead, of the Yale University Skull and Bones secret society, fashioned into a three-volume set: living members, deceased members, and complete listing of both. She cooperated in the writing of Dr. Antony C. Sutton's book America's Secret Establishment - The Order of Skull & Bones by providing the list of members obtained from her father.

Iserbyt believes that the Bavarian Illuminati hid inside the Freemasons, and that the Skull and Bones Secret Society is derived from these Illuminati-degree Freemasons from Bavaria whose goals were documented in an original edition 1798 book Proofs of Conspiracy by John Robison. Among the goals of the Order of the Illuminati were to destroy religions, and governments from within, merge the destroyed countries, and to bring about a one world government, a new world order, in their secret control.

In the secret societies interview she states that virtually all of the Carnegie Foundation agreements with the Russian education system were still in place, as well as the U.S. Department of Education programs that Iserbyt claims brought about the downfall of American prosperity since the turn of the century, especially post World War II.

And it is not just a Republican capitalist white male only club:

Yesterday, John Kerry embarked on his first trip abroad as secretary of state. The foreign dignitaries he meets will be aware of many of his accomplishments -- from his service in the Vietnam War to his ascent to chairman of the Senate's powerful Foreign Relations Committee -- but they may not know of a peculiar honor that was bestowed upon him during his junior year at Yale: membership in one of America's oldest secret societies, Skull and Bones.

Whatever else is secret about Yale's famed -- or notorious -- society, the reach of its network is not. Presidents William Howard Taft, George H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush were all members. So were Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, Time magazine founder Henry Luce, and an assortment of CIA officials, Fortune 500 CEOs, and politicians who, like Kerry, have had the president's proverbial ear.

For generations, the organization's alumni corps has granted a coterie of white, privileged, predominately heterosexual men easier entry into the upper echelons of American society.

But that was then. More recently, the organization has become the antithesis of what it was when Kerry joined in 1966: Racist, sexist and elitist practices have been jettisoned in a rush towards more egalitarian standards. Yale's famous old boys' club has become a mélange of minorities, genders, and sexual identities that's less dynastic and more dynamic than ever.

Fifteen Yale seniors are tapped annually to join the ranks of Skull and Bones, their names published in the Yale tabloid Rumpus at the end of every school year. The class of 2010 included more ethnic minorities than Caucasians; 2011's delegation included two gay students, plus one bisexual and one transgender. Last year, women and men were equally split, according to Yalies familiar with the members.

So Cory is allowing conspiracy theories about the Skull and Bones that are now false. Now even Cory Heidelberger can probably get in. After all, he does promote their crony capitalist agenda when it suits him. Just look at his position on wind energy and the Obamacare handouts to Big Insurance and the Corporate Medical Establishment, and his defense of the Educrat's role in bringing about this new world order with the "New Age" theocracy:

The New Age Movement is an occult socio-political movement that is attempting to bring about the biblically-predicted world order ruled by Satan. It is a total revolution against Christian civilization. Its occult spirituality and seditious politics are introduced into the educational system through mind-control techniques and occult practices that are turning classrooms into training grounds for the New World Order citizens. Global education has resulted from a shift in educational philosophy that began at the end of the nineteenth century, but which has been implemented so gradually that most people are still not aware of it.

In the nineteenth century, three Yale graduates, members of Yale's Illuminati-connected Skull and Bones secret society, went to the University of Berlin.

One of those was John Dewey. And yes, Cory Heidelberger is helping out, but doesn't have enough discernment to know it. And when somebody like me tries to tell him the truth, he just goes off. And Steve Hickey, with his so-called "Christian" mysticism, has the same problem. More on that later. 

Most don't understand that the mix of GOP fascism, with the Democratic liberal New Age education, and the New Age Emergent Church religious movement is happening right here in South Dakota. And it is not a conspiracy theory, it is a broad based movement. I plan to cover the research that supports that premise in future posts, God willing.

 

And now we have Harvey Jewett, another Aberdeen crony capitalist, enter the EB-5 saga as the diet changes from beef to turkey

First, let us change our diet from beef to turkey for a second in regard to the EB-5 issue:

A Texas lawyer said this week he gave information to the FBI and to a U.S. senator that triggered investigations of several South Dakota meatpacking projects that received money from immigrant investors seeking U.S. visas under the federal EB-5 program.  

Kirby Roberts, whose office is at Port Aransas, Texas, says he has been involved in representing one side of a leadership split in the Hutterite Church since 1993 that has put him on the opposite side of dozens of colonies in the region.

Roberts said he became familiar with the Dakota Provisions turkey processing operation at Huron, which is owned by Hutterite colonies. Roberts said he in turn became knowledgeable about aspects of the Northern Beef Packers plant at Aberdeen.

Roberts said he met with FBI agents in Minneapolis in November 2011 regarding those projects and the EB-5 investments in them.

Now enters another player from Aberdeen:

Aberdeen attorney Jeffrey Sveen is chairman of the board for the Dakota Turkey Growers business, and is one of two managers for Dakota Gobblers, according to documents from the state. The two businesses are part of the turkey processing operation. He was also involved in some financial matters involving the Aberdeen beef plant, according to records at the Brown County Clerk of Courts office.

Sveen also represents dozens of Hutterite colonies in the region on the opposite side of the dispute from attorney Roberts.

The Dakota Provisions turkey processing plant at Huron is owned by 44 grower-owners, most of them Hutterite colony farms, according to the company’s web site.

Breukelman said the FBI also was interested in the change of ownership of the Aberdeen beef plant from one of its founders, Dennis Hellwig of Aberdeen, to Oshik Song, an EB-5 investor from South Korea who relocated to the Minneapolis area.

Roberts said in an interview Wednesday that he contacted the office of U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, in late 2012 with the same information he had given to the FBI.

Now more on how the Hutterites are important to the EB-5 saga:

The involvement of Roberts means the investigation’s roots may reach back to the Hutterville dispute and to the original schism in the Hutterite Church.

The two sides in the Hutterville fight each claims its leader is the true religious leader for the colony.

Lawyer Sveen represents the Johnny Wipf faction at Hutterville, while Roberts has been associated with the George Waldner side.

The dispute is part of a broad schism in the Hutterite Church in the U.S. and Canada.

Besides representing more than 60 colonies, Sveen has been involved in the Dakota Provisions turkey processing plant at Huron.

Two packages of EB-5 investments – the first for $50 million and the second for $10 million – have been used to finance Dakota Provisions during the past five years.

Sveen went to China in spring 2008 with Joop Bollen of Aberdeen, who ran the South Dakota Regional EB-5 center there for the state, and with James Park, a Los Angeles-area lawyer who works for the Hanul law firm that is based in Seoul, South Korea.

That resulted in EB-5 investments in Dakota Provisions, according to Sveen.

Not long after that, the Hutterville fight was taken to state circuit court, and later to federal district court, but nothing was settled.

Now enters Norg Sanderson's fellow Aberdeen student loan crony capitalist Harvey Jewett:

Circuit Judge Jack Von Wald had ordered appointment of a receiver to collect all the colony’s assets and distribute the property among the members, but the circuit court also needed to decide which members were eligible.

The receiver was Harvey Jewett, an Aberdeen lawyer from the same firm of Siegel Barnett and Schutz where Sveen works.

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The legal fight moved to a different arena. On April 19, 2012, lawyer Steven Sandven on behalf of Hutterian interests filed a civil suit in federal court. Sandven claimed racketeering by attorneys Sveen, Rodrick Tobin, Jewett and the Siegel, Barnett and Schutz law firm where they work.

On May 18, 2012, attorneys for Sveen, Tobin, Jewett and the law firm filed their motion to dismiss the federal suit.

Picking up on the state Supreme Court’s theme, the defense lawyers argued the situation was a matter of religious freedom and therefore outside the bounds of the court under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

U.S. District Lawrence Piersol dismissed the federal civil case against Sveen, Tobin, Jewett and their law firm on Aug. 29, 2012. Sandven began the appeals process.

Wow, what a mess economic development via public/private partnerships in a global planned economy can make. We have the state government using a federal program to bring in foreign money for economic development purposes. As we are finding out, this makes for a system that is ripe for corruption as government officials pick winners and losers. We are also finding out how hard it is to follow all the money flows.

Another point I would like to make is on how the Democratic socialist agenda fits well with the GOP's capitalist agenda. I own some land next to a colony, and take it from me; socialist operations cause the same kind of problems big corporate capitalist ones do. The colony's huge hog confinement and hog manure lagoon has made for some unpleasant evenings while trying to enjoy a quiet country outing on my land. A neighbor complained to me about how they have to run air filters in their home when the wind is in the wrong direction. And Cory Heidelberger should be interested to know that the socialist's hog manure lagoon is right next to the James River.

And like big corporate ag operations, the colonies are creating a monopolistic economic environment in rural South Dakota that has raised the price of land to the level where very few can afford to start up a small family farm. And due to their religious tax-exempt status, just how many tax breaks do these colonies enjoy, thus giving them a competitive edge over those who have to pay off their loans with after tax dollars? And this report shows how both the socialist colony got the same EB-5 advantage the large crony capitalists got.

Perhaps it is time for independent minded public sevants, who refuse to play politics, be given rein over the state government in Pierre. But how does one over come the influence of big money?