Election Conspiracist, Tina Peters, Guilty
The lengthy Tina Peters’ soap opera is coming to an end. A Mesa County jury found Peters guilty on 7 out of 10 charges related to her willful breach of election security in a tinfoil-hat attempt to prove election fraud as part of the election denial movement after the 2020 election. Tina’s defense was largely paid for by Mike Lindell, the MyPillow guy, reportedly to the tune of $800,000. The lengthy trial has seen many far-right personalities flock to Grand Junction to bask in the crazy. Peters will be sentenced on October 3 and could face prison time.
US Media Biden Admin Complicit in US Coup Attempt in Venezuela
The July 28 reelection of Venezuelan president Nicholas Maduro was challenged by the United States before the polls were even closed. 900 international election observers from 95 countries found that the election was free and fair, yet the opposite narrative is being pushed by the U.S. State Department and U.S. media. They hinge most of this false narrative on exit polling (which is illegal in Venezuela, so conducted outside of the law) by Edison Research, which is part of the U.S. State Department-owned propaganda media outlets, like Radio Free Europe and Voice of America. U.S.-backed coup attempts in Venezuela in 2002, 2007, 2019, and 2020 are absent from the corporate media narratives. The Real News Network has done some excellent factual reporting. The only U.S. based election observers, with the National Lawyers Guild, found the election to be free and fair in their report: “Election Monitoring Delegation to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.”
Trump Shot, Biden Resigns, Things Get ‘Weird’
This election has taken some historic twists and turns. The attempted assassination of Donald Trump has almost totally dropped out of the public mind. Similarly, Biden’s withdrawal from the race and Kamala Harris’s subsequent campaign launch feels more like a season of “House of Cards” than a real timeline. The surreal nature of the contest is embodied by the new embrace of name-calling by the Democrats. It’s all very weird.
Boeing Strands Two in Space
Boeing can’t seem to do anything right. After a year of their planes losing doors and falling out of the sky and whistleblowers meeting suspicious deaths, Boeing now has stranded two astronauts at the International Space Station. Butch Willmore and Sunita Williams arrived via Boeing’s new Starliner capsule, but safety concerns have forced NASA to delay a return launch to retrieve the astronauts. They will have to wait till February for a ride home.
City of GJ Continues to Avoid the Housing Crisis
Grand Junction plans on spending zero dollars out of almost a half a million dollars of Housing and Urban Development monies on housing, according to a draft 2024 Annual Action Plan. The plan “does not address goals associated with affordable housing.” But the report accidentally gets right the reason why we can’t make any progress on the local housing crisis: “The City of Grand Junction does not maintain any public housing units.” They usually don’t say it that clearly.
Montrose Awarded State Housing Funds to Develop Non-Affordable Housing
Funds approved by voters via Proposition 123 have been awarded. $8 million out of $39.39 million was earmarked for the Black Canyon Flats project in Montrose. The project will include 60 units for tenants earning 80 to 100% of the Average Median Income (AMI).
$20 Billion Worth of Weapons for Israel
In a move that surprised nobody, the Biden administration and congress have approved a $20 billion dollar weapons sale to the rouge settler colonial state despite 10 months of slaughter in Gaza. Fighter jets, air to air missiles, artillery shells, and more. Of course it’s not a sale of arms, Israel doesn’t have that kind of funds just lying around. They will ‘buy’ the arms ultimately with the funds we give them in foreign aid every year.
Protesters in Chicago Left Out
Some 30,000 people participated in protests in the streets of Chicago during the DNC. Uncommitted delegates and office holding Democrats of Palestinian extraction, negotiated to speak from the convention stage, and ultimately were shut out of the convention. Not the expected repeat of 1968, clashes were limited. 74 protestors were arrested.
July 4th Hate Crime in Montrose Still Unsolved
Sources inside the City of Montrose have told the Rev that they had the license plate numbers of the suspects. We are still waiting!
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