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14-02 Winter Potpourri | Hot Topics of the Week, Election Integrity News and More

By Dr Mark | January 13, 2024 | Comments 0 Comment

Show 14-02 Summary: You probably missed the big election integrity news this last week. But that could be a little understandable because there was a lot of news this week. If the weather predictions hold true for some of our listening areas, it is definitely a good weekend to stay inside and listen to I Spy Radio. And as it happens, we have a former weatherman on this week. Fan favorite and regular guest, Chuck Wiese, joins us to talk through a huge news week — and one that was filled with stories in which he has expertise as a scientist, commercial airline pilot, and election integrity activist. We talk weather prediction, global warming, election fraud, airplane doors, and other hot topics from this and last week’s news.

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Original Air Dates: January 13th & 14th, 2024 | Guest: Chuck Wiese

This Week – Stories You Might Not have Heard

We welcome back fan favorite and regular gust, Chuck Wiese, to talk about some of the major news stories these last two weeks. And they all just happen line up well with Chuck’s expertise and experience. Chuck Wiese is an academically trained scientist with a degree in meteorology. (Which he obtained before the universities went woke and through science out in exchange for activism and big propaganda grants.) He spent years in the news business as a TV weatherman for a major Portland network before becoming a commercial airline pilot. After retiring from those, he has become a political activist — as we all should be —focusing especially on election integrity. And boy was there some election integrity news this week.

Tune in to hear a wide-ranging interview covering why weather predictions, especially here in the Pacific Northwest, are so difficult to be accurate more than 48 hours out. We talk developments in election integrity, including the Georgia prosecutor Fanni Willis going after President Trump only to expose herself as being corrupt. She paid over $650,000 to her boyfriend who has never been a prosecutor. And was dumb enough to charge his visits to the Biden White House to her office leaving a paper trail of corruption.

Election Integrity News – Did You Miss It?

Speaking of Fanni Willis, there was election integrity news you almost certainly missed. Especially if your main news source is the mainstream news. Trump released a devastating report: “Summary of Election Fraud in the 2020 Presidential Election in the Swing States.” (If you have not seen this, see the Links section below to download a copy.)

The true “big lie” from 2020 is from the media: there was no evidence of election interference or corruption. That’s the lie. The “big truth” is that there is massive amounts of election fraud. And we talk through just one county in one state: Fulton County, Georgia.

Now you know why Fanni Willis is desperate to attack Trump. Marxism/Leftism 101: accuse the other side of that which you yourself are guilty.

Dumb Things Dumb People Do

The push for green energy (it’s not green) is on a downward spiral. And if you’re in an area this weekend getting hit by all that cold and ice, you’re glad your only power is NOT solar or wind. But beyond the push for green energy (it’s not green), EVs have suddenly taken a dive. All across the U.S. and even in the green-energy-crazy (it’s not green) United Kingdom EVs are suddenly unpopular. Why?

And did you see the dumbest dumb thing thew globalists and global warmers have come up with now? Listen in and don’t miss it.

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Things We Did Discuss On Air

Download President Trump’s devastating election integrity report: “Summary of Election Fraud in the 2020 Presidential Election in the Swing States“ (PDF). Read it for yourself. So much for the media’s “big lie” of no evidence of voter fraud.
As climate lawsuits wind through the courts, concerns arise over the impartiality of the judges (Just the News, Jan 8, 2024)
Study finds problems with NOAA’s scientific integrity in reporting ‘billion dollar disasters’ (Just the News, Jan 9, 2024)
Boeing Faces Pressure as 2 Airlines Find Loose Parts (Epoch Times, Jan 9, 2024)
Airline safety is off to a bad start in 2024 thanks to Biden admin policies (LifeSite News, Jan 11, 2024)
- “Competency is no longer the primary requirement considered for employment in the airline and commercial aircraft manufacturing industries”
Uncontrolled Frequency: Why Intermittent Wind & Solar Are Wrecking Stable Power Grids (Stop These Things, Dec 9, 2023)*A fascinating article about why “renewables” like solar and wind are dangerous to our power grid. And can cause cascading outages when they fluctuate.
Boeing CEO David Calhoun takes responsibility (Daily Mail, Jan 10, 2024)
Coalition MPs call for 2035 targets to be scrapped (Sky News Australia, YT Channel, Jan. 9, 2024)
This Is What They Don’t Want You to Know About the Climate Agenda (Tucker Carlson, YT Channel, Jan 9, 2024)
How Weird Is People Using Fuels That Work? (Climate Discussion Nexus, YT Channel, Jan 4, 2024)
Carbon Tax is DONE. Saskatchewan fights Canada. Carbon is the solution, not pollution. (Arkopia, YT Channel, Jan 2, 2024)
- Saskatchewan rebelled against the Fed and eliminated the Carbon Tax on Jan 1, 2024, saving the average house $400 in plant-food extortion bills. A great start to 2024. Carbon is one of the most important elements on the planet (if not the most important), and is a solution, not a pollution.
German EV subsidies SLASHED after Court ruling (MGUY Australia, YT Channel, Dec 29, 2023)*UK EVs drying up. US EVs drying up.
How Weird Is A Cold Winter? (Climate Discussion Nexus, YT Channel, Jan 1, 2024)

You Might Also Like…

We ran out of time before getting to some other topics we know Chuck is passionate about. Like Ivermectin for one. And that little miracle drug just keeps giving and giving. No wonder Fauci and Big Pharma tried to ban it.

Ivermectin

6 Secrets of Ivermectin: The Medication That Keeps on Giving (Vigilant News Network, November 22, 2023). Some highlights:
- It inhibits flu and RSV viral replication
- Ivermectin reduces inflammation throughout the body
- Improves the gastrointestinal microbiome by boosting levels of the probiotic Bifidobacterium
- May help with athletic and sports performance by boosting cellular energy output in the heart
- And here’s the big one: Ivermectin has profound anti-cancer properties
Ivermectin is (or was originally) and an anti-parasitic drug. This class of drug seems to have strong anti-cancer effects as well. Check this out: “The Overlooked Miracle Drug for Cancer? Why Big Pharma Fears Fenbendazole” (Vigilant News Network, Nov 7, 2023)

Oregon and Economics

Oregon #3 poorest state for real after-tax income (Oregon Catalyst, January 8, 2024)
National Study Shows Oregon’s Tax System More Progressive Than Most but Still Favors High Earners (Willamette Week, Jan 9, 2024)
US consumer debt soared to new heights in the run-up to the holiday season (CNN, Jan 8, 2024)
- U.S. consumer debt tops $5 trillion for first time. Yikes!

13-31 Communists Among Us | Lessons from a Former Communist Activist

By Dr Mark | August 5, 2023 | Comments 0 Comment

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Show 13-31 Summary: Farehlee Nilsson is a former communist activist. She returns to I Spy Radio to give us a deeper peek behind the curtain. She talks about what the Far Left really thinks of America, do they really infiltrate conservative organizations, and all that money from the government. And how conservatives can and need to fight back. Hint: unify!

Original Air Dates: August 5th and 6th, 2023 | Guest: Farehlee Nilsson

This Week – Former Communist Activist Exposes the Left

We are pleased to welcome back a former communist activist. Farehlee Nilsson joined us a couple months ago to give us an introductory glimpse behind the communist curtain. And to talk about what conservative Oregonians needs to do to win, based on her years of experience and training as an activist.

Farehlee started out as a member of the ecoterrorist group, Earth First, which led to careers at the Norwegian Development Fund, Amnesty International, and World Wildlife Fund before ending up as a lobbyist for Greenpeace. But she had a spiritual awakening and now she’s a conservative Christian working to unite the right. And to use the tactics she learned to help defeat the Left. We take a deeper look behind the curtain, including asking her about something we all hear on social media: have organizations on the right been infiltrated? Or is it just overblown hyperbole?

Vaccine Injuries, Justice for Victims of Covid Mandates

One of the most successful things socialists and Marxists do is sue. They sue the government to force new regulations or enforce old ones. They sue companies. As a former communist activist, Farehlee knows it’s time to use that same tactic against big government. And to hold it accountable.

There is no doubt our healthcare system was misused by our government under covid. She is now seeking justice for those harmed by our government’s mandates. People who suffered vaccine injuries. Those who lost jobs for refusing to take the covid vaccines. People who lost loved ones when they were hospitalized and killed after being forced on remdesivir.

If you or someone you know were injured by the vaccines, or lost a job because of mandates, or lost someone due to medical malfeasance or remdesivir, then you need to contact Farehlee.

We will be having Farehlee Nilsson back on later this summer. If you have questions you’d like to ask a former communist—drop us a line! See our contact page.

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Vaccine injured? Lost a job or your business was shut down because of the mandates? Did you lose a loved one because of remdesivir? Then you need to contact Farehlee Nilsson and Unify Oregon. You can email her at unify-oregon@proton.me. And her websites are Unify Oregon and Next Generation Restoration.
$9 Billion Spent on Salmon Recovery in Oregon has Produced “Few Discernable Results (Zero Hedge, Aug 2, 2023)
Oregon salmon populations improving, but study finds little direct connection to billions spent on recovery (KGW, July 31, 2023)
- Despite roughly $9 billion in taxpayer money spent over four decades, the study’s author said he could “not find evidence of an increase in wild fish.”
Portland Hospital Denies Woman Cancer Treatment After She Sent a Message Criticizing (Gateway Pundit, Aug 2, 2023)
Woman Denied Cancer Treatment in Portland After Criticizing Transgenderism (Red State, Aug 2, 2023)
‘It’s Murder’: Remdesivir Victims Decry FDA’s Shocking New Move (American Thinker, July 28, 2023)

13-30 An Unbelievable Number | Oregon’s Healthcare Transformation

By Dr Mark | July 29, 2023 | Comments 0 Comment

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Show 13-30 Summary: Lisa Lettenmaier, a former accountant and current insurance expert, has been tracking Oregon’s healthcare system for decades. We take a deep dive with her into Oregon’s healthcare system and the completely unsustainable path its on — unless you want to eventually spend every penny on “free” healthcare.

Original Air Dates: July 29th & 30th, 2023 | Guest: Lisa Lettenmaier

This Week – Oregon’s Healthcare is Unsustainable

This week, we’re looking into Oregon’s health care system. And, in particular, the tidal wave of spending, endless spending, we’re dumping into what Oregon thinks is a “free” system. Or that’s the goal. It will just take a few hundred billion to get there — and another few hundred billion to keep up the illusion of “free.”

Oh, and doctors are looking to form a union. Because that always makes government expenditures go down, right? Yikes.

We talk with Lisa Lettenmaier, our go-to expert on insurance as well as the inner workings and financial health of the healthcare system.

Diagnosis: the patient is sick.

Oregon’s Healthcare Transformation

There’s a saying I’m sure you know: “Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.” Along those lines, “Those who do not learn from Oregon are doomed to repeat its mistakes.”

Oregon’s forest management polices often lead to more forest fires. Which is stupid because all we need to do is to do something. Like the most obvious: open the forests up and let timber companies harvest — especially in areas prone to fires. Plus the government makes money. Twice. They get a payment from the sales of timber and they get all those taxes from good-paying jobs and companies making profits.

But the government would rather not do that (logging sounds like hard work) so they would rather spend money on putting out forest fires than make money doing things that would prevent the problem.

Oregon is pretty much setting its health care system on fire. And, once again, it’s a problem they caused — and then they set it on fire.

Tune in to find out just how bad it all is. Yes, the state of Oregon’s healthcare system will make you sick.

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Research, Links Mentioned & Additional Info

Lisa Lettenmaier’s company is Health Source NW. You’re going to pay the same rates whether you buy directly or through Lisa, so why not get the expertise you need to find the plan you want?
Main article discussed: New public health care for 100,000 Oregonians would raise private insurance costs (OPB, July 10, 2023), can’t go unanswered.
Realities Health and Ins Co are dealing with: Planned Parenthood Billboard Portrays Virginity as ‘Outdated’ and ‘Patriarchal’ (Epoch Times, July 21, 2023)
America’s STD explosion laid bare (Daily Mail, July 23, 2023)
Carbon Footprint’ of Treating Patients Is Too Big (Slay, July 22, 2023)
Oregon Doctors seek to form a union (Oregon Catalyst, July 17, 2023)
WA hospitals facing ‘unsustainable’ financial losses, in danger of cutting services (Seattle Times, July 21, 2022)
Left’s Latest Health Care Scheme Will Worsen Inflation, The Deficit, And Your Insurance (The Federalist, July 25, 2022)
Alarming: “Ed Dowd Drops Bombshell Data: Hematological (Blood-Related) Claims Up 522% Above Trend in 2022” (Gateway Pundit, July 24, 2023)
- If these data are any indication of where society’s health is headed, this is deeply worrisome as millions of people will become disabled

13-23 The Truth about the Oregon Republican Senator Walkout | HB2002

By Dr Mark | June 10, 2023 | Comments 2 comments

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Show 13-23 Summary: Unsurprisingly, the Oregon democrats and their media have been spinning a lot of lies about the Republican Senators walkout. They’re saying Republicans are refusing to come to work. A dereliction of duty. A vacation on the taxpayers’ dime. Weird. What do democrats call not showing up for work when public unions do it? Could it be a “strike”? But the democrats are also lying about why the republican senators walked out. HB2002. The democrats are claiming this is an important, emergency abortion rights bill, given the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision. But they’re lying about that too. HB2002 is perhaps the most extreme, Far Left bill ever passed in Oregon. Tune in and keep reading to find out why.

Original Air Dates: June 10th & 11th, 2023 | Guest: Senator Dennis Linthicum

This Week – The Truth about Oregon Senate Republicans’ Walkout

Oregon Republican Senators walked out of the legislature in early May 2023. Doing so denied the democrats the needed legislative quorum to pass any bills at all. The reason is simple. The democrats, who lost seats in both the Oregon house and the Oregon senate but still act like they have a super majority, refused to compromise the extreme far left bill, HB 2002. (Sometimes also called HB2002B.) And while HB 2002 alone would have been enough to make any sane person walk out it wasn’t just HB2002. It was also to stop other far-left bills such as HB2005, an anti-Second-Amendment gun grab bill. And bills that would steal Oregonians’ kicker refund. Not just this year but forever.

But make no mistake. The real reason the Republican senators walked out was to stop HB2002.

The Reason for the Walkout: HB2002

HB2002 is perhaps the most extreme far-left ideology bill of all times to come out of Oregon.

Long-time listeners of I Spy Radio already know that under Oregon’s “healthcare transformation,” much of what HB2002 proposes is already in place. Thanks to Oregon’s Healthcare Authority (there’s that Nazi-esque name again), underage girls can already get abortions without their parents’ knowledge or consent. Why and how? Because the OHA changed the insurance rules covering children from FERPA to HIPPA.

Remember when you couldn’t get aspirin from the school nurse without your parents’ consent? That’s because the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (or FERPA), acknowledged that parents have the ultimate say about their child’s health. And the raising of them. But the OHA changed the guidelines from FERPA to HIPPA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act). You might know about HIPPA. Because that’s the health care privacy that guides adult insurance policies.

In other words, the OHA now treats all children as if they are adults. Allowing them to make adult decisions about their own healthcare, including mental health. And parents have no rights to know or to “interfere”. The only right parents have is the right to pay for whatever their child wants.

What Oregon democrats want to do with HB2002 is to codify this extreme, anti-parent, far-left ideology into law. Why? Because laws are much harder to undo.

And let’s not forget. The democrats nearly lost the governor’s office in 2022. This is why the democrats are so willing to sell everything to try to get HB2002 through.

So what’s in HB 2002? Read on.

The Truth about Oregon’s HB2002

The Oregon democrats are desperate to confuse people about HB2002 and what it does. What they say it does is guarantee abortion rights and access. It’s an emergency! Women have to have access now that the Dobbs decision overturned Roe v. Wade. Well. To use one of Biden’s favorite terms, that’s malarkey.

Women already have access to abortion in Oregon. Hell. Women and children can come here from other states and get abortions. For free if they claim they can’t afford it. Those are already in Oregon law. And absolutely nothing about Dobbs or the overturning of Roe v. Wade changed any of that.

If that’s the case, why are the democrats claiming that’s all there is about HB2002 as if guaranteeing “access” to abortion is the sole and only purpose of HB2002. Well, probably they don’t want people to know what’s really in the bill.

What’s in HB2002

So here’s what’s really in the bill. HB2002 would…

Lower the age girls could get an abortion without parental consent to, effectively, zero. Girls can already do this as young as 10. HB2002 makes it age 8 but technically could be lower.
Allow children from other states to come here and get abortions. Yes, HB2002 is a great boon for human trafficking. If girls as young 12 or 10 or 8 are getting pregnant a crime has occurred. HB2002 hides the evidence from police and from parents.
Allow children to get life-altering puberty blockers. without parental knowledge or consent.
It would allow children to get permanent “gender affirming” surgeries. On their own. Without parental consent or knowledge.
Allow teachers to indoctrinate children about gay, lesbian, transgender, and all the rest. Without parental knowledge or consent.
Punish those who oppose any of the above far-left ideologies.
- If health care providers refuse or attempt to refuse to provide mental health care that affirms a child’s confusion, they can lose their license.
- Health care providers who refuse to perform permanent, irreversible surgeries on children, they can be fined and/or lose their license.
- If you interfere with the operation of an abortion clinic, you can be fined or jailed. “Interfere” is open for interpretation. Does that include simple protesting outside a clinic? Or posting critical social media posts about abortion or clinics?

What you can do about HB2002

Speak up! Don’t be silent!

HB2002 has already been voted out of Oregon House but there’s no reason to not contact your representative and let them know what you think about this horrendous bill. Perhaps they didn’t know the details about it. (How many times have we seen politicians vote for bills they didn’t reads personally and merely did what their caucus told them do?) Let them know what you think by using the link below.
Contact your senator right now using the link below to let them know you oppose this bill. Ask them why they want to take away parental rights. Ask them why are they helping child traffickers. And ask them why do they think children should have adult rights.
- Ask your democrat senator if they realize removing parental rights to raise their own children was exactly what the Nazis did. Are they trying to be Nazis? Seriously?
- Tell your republican senator how much you appreciate their bravery and that you support their walkout.

How to do all that? Easy! Just go to this Oregon legislative map, enter your address, and there you go. The link will conveniently give you their contact info, including phone numbers and emails. Start writing, stop being silent. This only stops when enough people raise their voices.

When contacting your representative and senator, remember: be firm. But be polite.

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Research, Links Mentioned & Additional Info

Why we’re denying quorum in Oregon’s Senate (Washington Examiner, May 29, 2023)
Read the June 2023 ORP Legislative Update (PDF), which discusses HB2002 and other horrible bills worth walking out over
Dennis Linthicum Newsletter: Irreversible Harm (May 29, 2023)
From Senator Bonham: Protesting the Unconstitutional Actions of the Majority Party (May 9, 2023)
Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek hasn’t convinced Republicans to return to Salem as walkout continues (OPB, May 23, 2023)
- “ Senate Minority Leader Tim Knopp, R-Bend, pledged his members would return on June 25 — the day the session is scheduled to adjourn under constitutional deadlines — in order to pass ‘lawful, substantially bipartisan budgets and bills’.”
Cutting Early Kicker Checks part of negotiations with Boycott Republican Senators (KATU, May 30, 2023)
Kicker theft SJR 26 would be blow to charities (Taxpayer Assoc of OR, June 1, 2023)
- “…the May revenue forecast predicted the 2024 kicker rebate would grow to a record $5 point 5 billion dollars. But some [democrat] lawmakers want to ask voters to end the annual taxpayer payout.”
Boycotting Oregon senators believe loophole will allow them to win another term (OPB, May 30, 2023)
Paychecks, perks continue for absent senators amid GOP-led walkout (Oregon Capital Chronicle, May 30, 2023)
Federal Subpoenas Issued to State Agencies (Willamette Week, June 7, 2023)

Democrats' socialist plans for Oregon - All your money are belong to us

13-12 The Democrats’ Socialist Plans for Oregon – Legislative Update

By Dr Mark | March 25, 2023 | Comments 0 Comment

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Show 13-12 Summary: When it comes to the democrats’ socialist plans for Oregon, they can be summed up by borrowing (pun intended) from an old video game: “All your money are belong to us.” We check in with Senator Dennis Linthicum about their plans for socialized medicine, the tools Republicans have to stop bad bills, and whatever happened to that $5,200 kicker for Oregon families?

Original Air Dates: March 25th & 26th, 2023 | Guest: Senator Dennis Linthicum

This Week – The Democrats’ Socialist Plans for Oregon

This week, it’s our monthly check in with Senator Dennis Linthicum to talk about what’s happening in the capital. The democrats’ socialist plans for Oregon are legion.

To sum up the democrats’ socialist plans, your money doesn’t belong to you. And we’re not taxing you enough to give away all this free stuff. And Oregon continues its lurch toward socialized medicine with SB704 which would create single-payer health care. Because it’s worked so well in other countries. Like Canada. Where it’s worked so well that people are dying to escape it. Literally. Canada is now actively encouraging the elderly and people with long-term health problems to kill themselves. Not kidding. And they’re not even hiding it. They want people to kill themselves because their care is expensive. And killing themselves will save the system money.

Please, democrats. By all means. You go first.

And that’s just one among other disasters.

Fighting Back against the Democrats’ Socialist Plans

We welcome back Senator Dennis Linthicum (Klamath-28) to give insights into the democrats’ socialist plans. In case you missed it, last year’s democrats spawned a ballot initiative, Measure 111, to make health care a “fundamental right.” It’s not. Anymore than if they had pushed out a ballot measure that made owning unicorns a fundamental right. But now Oregon has it in its state constitution.

Catch Sen. Dennis Linthicum’s previous legislative updates: 13-04 (Have Democrats Learned the Lesson?) and 13-08 (The Mad, Mad Spending)

Now, democrats are using that ballot initiative to make socialized, single-payer, universal healthcare the law of the land. Except while the legislative initiative that created Measure 111 may have urged socialized medicine, that’s not what the ballot measure actually said. It just required “universal access” and cost-effective. We already have “universal access.” Sick and show up in the emergency room with no money? Guess what, you get treated. As for cost-effective, how is $54 billion for “free” healthcare cost effective? So why are democrats determined to lurch down the road to socialized medicine?

Because, as usual, it is about bringing more money and more control under the government’s sway. Now, not only will your money not belong to you. But neither will your own health.

Oh, and what’s the deal with the kicker? All that and more but there may be some solutions to at least some of it.

Get Involved! Don’t be Silent.

We are in this mess because too many sane people stay silent. While the insane shriek their weird opinions at the capitol. Did you know that it is now easier than ever to submit testimony against bad bills and for good bills. Don’t let “testimony” scare you. It just means your opinion.

All you really need is the bill’s number. And if you don’t know the bill number, you can still find it on the site (see steps below). Or use your favorite search engine.

Here’s what you do:

Head to olis.oregonlegislature.gov.
Select the bills icon at the top right of the page
Type the bill number in the popup. Select it the correct one. (If you don’t know the bill’s number try a word search in the “bill text” tab.)
At the top of the bill’s page you’ll see a “submit testimony” tab. That brings up a form.
Enter your name, your city, your comments in the text window, select whether you oppose or support and – boom you’re done.

See how easy that is? You don’t need to be elegant (although do be polite) or have a thousand unassailable facts. (Hey. The democrats just have feelings.) Just be heard. It’s your opinion. No excuse to be silent.

Remember: silence has never changed anything. Don’t be silent.

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Research, Links Mentioned & Additional Info

Get involved. Head to olis.oregonlegislature.gov. to submit your testimony — you opinion — about bills. Good or bad. See the steps above for a walk-through.
Measure 111, passed in 2022, via Ballotpedia
$200M homeless package heads to governor’s desk (Statesman, Mar 21, 2023)
- 7 Republican Senators voted against the pkg, Linthicum was one of them
Where did the $400M Oregon allocated last year for homelessness go? (Statesman, Mar 19, 2023)
- “At least 14,600 people are experiencing homelessness across Oregon”
- Julie Fahey (D): “That $400M was a ‘catalyst” for the larger set of goals we have.”
Cascade Policy Institute Research Finds School Choice programs Can Boost Public School Performance (Cascade Policy Institute, 2023)

Just a few dangerous bills

SB 85 – Dennis Linthicum mentioned this dangerous bill during the show.
- Senator David Brock-Smith says, “This bill deals with CAFO’s and has democrats attacking our dairies, chicken and cattle farms and ranches. As they do, the bill itself is just a “study” but the amendment goes far beyond that and will shut down current farming operations.” Under this bill, the State Department of Agriculture would not issue or renew a license or permit to allow the construction or operation of: “(a) A new industrial confined animal feeding operation; “(b) An addition to, or expansion of, an existing industrial confined animal feeding operation; or “(c) An addition to, or expansion of, an existing livestock farm if the addition or expansion would cause the livestock farm to become an industrial confined animal feeding operation.”
HB 2004 – Establishes ranked choice voting as voting method for selecting offices of statewide races: the President, U.S. Senators and Representatives, Governor, Secretary of State, State Treasurer and Attorney General and Commissioner of Bureau of Labor and Industries.
HB 3509 – Establishes ranked choice voting for selecting winner of nomination for and election to nonpartisan state offices and county and city offices except where home rule charter applies.
Oregon lawmakers consider new gun legislation (Oregon Insider, Mar 21, 2023). The three bills are:
- House Bill 2005 bans the sale, manufacture and importation of so-called ghost guns with homemade parts that are untraceable;
- HB 2006 raises the age of legal purchase and possession of firearms from 18 to 21, but allows exceptions for hunting and shooting; and
- HB 2007 extends to cities, counties and special districts the authority that the 2021 Legislature had granted to public schools, community colleges, and universities regulating or barring firearms from their buildings and grounds, including people with concealed-carry licenses.

13-09 Insane Government Spending – 2023 Essential Policy Solutions

By Dr Mark | March 4, 2023 | Comments 0 Comment

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Show 13-09 Summary: This week, it’s all about insanity. Meaning, our governments’ insane spending that shows no signs of letting up. And that there’s just always more money on the national credit card. So when the inmates are running the asylum, what can we do about government spending? We talk with Jonathan Williams of the American Legislative Exchange Council. ALEC has just released its 2023 Essential Policy Solutions, which should be required reading for every legislator out there. Listen in for policies, economic and otherwise, that make sense in an insane world.

Original Air Dates: March 4th & 5th, 2023 | Guest: Jonathan Williams

This Week – Government Spending. It’s Insane.

The American Legislative Exchange Council (or ALEC), is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. If you don’t know, they work with state legislatures — the 50 test tubes of democracy — to pass legislation that upholds principles of limited government, free markets and federalism You don’t last 50 years if you’re not having successes. And ALEC has had tremendous success stories. Including encouraging states to lower taxes. Even adopting a flat tax.

This week, we talk with Jonathan Williams, ALEC’s Executive VP of Policy and their chief economist, about the insane government spending. After blowing through $1.9 trillion in the “American Rescue Plan” and another $2 trillion with Build Back Better, and still trillions more — in just 2 years — we’re facing a looming showdown over the federal debt ceiling. Addicted to government spending, Biden and the democrats don’t want any spending cuts. Of course not.

Maybe it’s because they just spent $360 billion on “global warming” and climate change in the most recent $1 trillion “inflation reduction act.” None of that money is going to conservatives or conservative organizations. So of course the democrats don’t want any cuts to government spending. That would be cutting off cash to their political cronies.

Government Spending: 2023 Essential Policy Solutions

Fortunately, to tackle this insane government spending ALEC has just released its 2023 Essential Policy Solutions. This essential guide is definitely essential for every state legislator.

Jonathan Williams walks us through some of the more exciting solutions. Not just for government spending but also price transparency for hospitals and health care but also some model legislation for school choice.

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Research, Links Mentioned & Additional Info

Essential Policy Solutions for 2023 – (American Legislative Exchange Council, March, 2023). Free PDF! Download it and email it to your legislators!
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US stocks enter ‘death zone’ (Daily Mail, Feb 2023)
- Morgan Stanley issues dire warning to investors who ‘followed prices to dizzying heights’ amid fears S&P 500 could plummet 26% within months.
American Rescue Plan (Biden’s $1.9 Trillion Stimulus Package (Investopedia, updated Sept 21, 2022)

Additional Related Research, Not Specifically Mentioned

Oregon property tax breaks go largely to Big Tech (OregonLive, Jan 26, 2023)
Business: Jobs attracting Oregon’s nonresident workers (Lincoln City News Guard, Feb 25, 2023)
Report: Oregon losing its competitiveness (Oregon Business Report, Feb 28, 2023)
White House Waters Down Plan to Restrict U.S. Investment in China (New American, March 1, 2023)
Holiday sales edged higher in 2022 — but there’s more to the numbers (Modern Retail, Jan 5, 2023)
Biden Hasn’t Helped the Economy. He’s Made it Worse. (Washington Post, Oct 24, 2022)
CBO Confirms Biden’s Agenda Will Worsen Economic Crisis Caused by Democrats’ Failed Policies (Budget House Republicans, Sept 13, 2022)
Manchin joins Republican efforts to thwart federal ESG investing (Just the News, Feb 28, 2023)
Vanguard’s break with ESG investing (Just the News, Feb 28, 2023)
Worst-ever economic crash coming – Nouriel Roubini, the great stagflationary debt crisis will hit markets this year, the famed economist warns (RT, Mar 3, 2023)

13-02 Freedom Warriors Want Answers

By Dr Mark | January 14, 2023 | Comments 0 Comment

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Show 13-02 Summary: We often say that the fight for freedom is an everyday fight. Because it is. Especially so because those fighting against freedom are so well funded. By you, the taxpayer. We talk to two freedom warriors on the front lines. Kevin Jenkins is fighting for medical freedom, especially with so many young athletes who have “died suddenly.” And we talk with Donna Jackson about the fight against Biden’s war on affordable energy.

Original Air Dates: January 14th & 15th, 2023 | Guest: Kevin Jenkins & Donna Jackson

This Week – Freedom Warriors Want Answers

This week, it’s all about the fight for freedom. We interview two diehard freedom warriors who are fighting to keep government off our shoulders. And out of our pocket books.

Kevin Jenkins shares his fight for our medical freedom. Including this epidemic of otherwise healthy people — especially young athletes — who have “died suddenly.” What is going on? And as they demand answers, what would accountability look like?

Then we interview Donna Jackson with Project 21 about her testimony to Congress this week. She spoke to the House of Representatives’ Energy and Commerce Committee about the Biden administration’s war on affordable energy. And the harm the pursuit of “green” energy (it’s not) is doing to everyday people but especially low- and middle-income families.

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Research, Links Mentioned & Additional Info

Kevin’s organizations America’s Frontline Doctors and the Zelenko Freedom Foundation
Donna’s organization is Project 21, a project of the National Center for Public Policy Research

Kevin Jenkins Segments

Watch the America’s Frontline Doctors’ press conference demanding answers about the two Nevada students who “died suddenly” (AFLDS via Rumble, January 10, 2023)
17 percent of teenagers had heart symptoms after their second Pfizer mRNA jab (Unreported Truths, Jan 11, 2023)
Jim Jordan EXPOSES 7 Facts Fauci HID While Democrats Sit in Silence (Blaze TV, YouTube Channel, Jan 10, 2023)

Donna Jackson Segments

Black Leadership Network Gives Congressional Testimony on Energy and Race – The National Center (National Center, January 10, 2023)
House hears Grim news on energy policies (Just the News, Jan 11, 2023)

Additional Research

Kennedy and advocacy group sue legacy media over covid censorship (Just the News, Jan 10, 2023)
Chances of Reenlistment Unclear for Discharged Troops (Epoch Times, Jan 11, 2023)
Project Veritas Strikes Again (Revolver, Jan 10, 2023)
Medical Apartheid with Kevin Jenkins (Robert Kennedy Podcasts with Kevin Jenkins)
Kevin Jenkins, Champion for Human Rights (Marc Thielman for Oregon Video).
Senator Questions CDC on Why It Expected Hundreds of Safety Signals (Epoch Times, Jan 11, 2023)
Biden Caught: China, Cash and Classified Documents: FISC/FISA, the Usual Suspects and the Problematic Penn Biden Center (Political Moonshine, January 14, 2023)

socialism - how it's marketed, how it is

12-42 Teeing up the Election: That Tick on America’s Back

By Dr Mark | October 15, 2022 | Comments 0 Comment

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Show Summary: Socialism is a parasite that only survives because it lives off the blood of capitalism. It does not create wealth, it creates ruin. It has tried and failed. Oregon has been seeing its effects for decades. But this election, it could all change.

Original Air Dates: October 15th & 16th, 2022 | Guest: Sen. Dennis Linthicum

This Week – Socialism: The Prosperity Parasite

When you think about it, socialism is a parasite that only survives because it lives off the blood of capitalism. Socialism does not create wealth, it creates ruin. It has tried and failed in many countries, leaving destruction in its wake. But those pushing it here in America and especially in Oregon, are only able to promote it because those pushing it are funded by the profits (and taxes) generated from capitalism.

Oregon has been seeing socialism’s effects for decades. But this election, it could all change.

By the way. We used to call Oregon the Petri Dish of Leftist politics. Now it’s the Wuhan Lab of Leftist politics.

Senator Dennis Linthicum on Socialism in Oregon

We welcome back Senator, Dennis Linthicum (SD-28, Klamath Falls) to talk about socialism and its effects in Oregon. As a state senator in Oregon, he sees the policies pushed by the democrats, many of whom are socialists or wannabes. They just haven’t come out of the closet yet. But once Oregon is full socialist, they’ll drop the mask.

During the interview, we focus on four broad policy issues: society (education, crime, attacks on the family, etc.); economics (we’re living it under Biden); environment (spotted owl, the Klamath area has been under assault for decades, timber); and healthcare. On health care, Oregon just got a billion dollars to experiment with Medicaid, expanding it to virtually everything because, you guessed it, global warming.

And, Measure 111, is on the ballot this year. It would make universal health care permanent in Oregon by making it a constitutional right.

Remember. Environmental laws are how they control businesses. Healthcare is how they control people.

That’s how they seized such broad control during covid.

Don’t miss this in-depth examination of socialism and it’s impact on Oregon. We have this year to stop it. And, for once, things are looking good.

Be sure to check out the Featured Reading section in the links section for five great articles describing socialism.

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Research, Links Mentioned & Additional Info

See the Cato Institute’s Report Card on America’s governors. Notice how the entire Left Coast gets an “F”: “Fiscal Policy Report Card on America’s Governors 2022” (Cato Institute, Oct 12, 2022)
[Canada’s healthcare hellscape is now offering assisted suicide to wounded veterans] Veterans Affairs says worker ‘inappropriately’ discussed medically assisted death with veteran (Global News Canada, August 17, 2022)
‘Abandoning People’: Canada’s Broadening Assisted Suicide Law Dangerous for the Vulnerable, Critics Say (The Epoch Times, August 24, 2022)
NHS Waiting List Tops 7 Million for First Time Leaving 1 in 8 People in England Waiting for NHS Treatment (The Daily Skeptic, Oct 13, 2022)*Wait up to 8 hours for an ambulance
Canada is Euthanizing the Poor (via VK.com, Aug 16, 2022)
Euthanasia is Now a Leading Cause of Death in Canada, And Ethicists Are Freaking Out (Daily Caller, Aug 12, 2022)
- “[Canada’s] broad eligibility has led to more than 10,000 Canadians being euthanized in the most recent year for which data is available, making it the sixth leading cause of death in the country, the AP reported.*Matthew Yglesias: “Canadian institutions seem to be using euthanasia legalization to avoid the expense of caring for the disabled.”
Disturbing: Experts troubled by Canada’ euthanasia laws (AP News, Aug 11, 2022)
Euthanasia in Belgium and the Netherlands: On a Slippery Slope? (Research Gate, JAMA Internal Medicine, Aug 2015)
Dr Pierre Kory on Disillusionment (drtrozzi.org, Oct 12, 2022)
- “I did not understand we were striking at the very heart of the pharmaceutical industry”
How surrogacy is transforming medicine (UnHerd, Oct 6, 2022)

Grand jury needed to investigate covid data lies. Because when the government is the criminal, it can’t investigate itself

12-37 The Biggest Crime in Human History: Why a Grand Jury is Necessary

By Dr Mark | September 10, 2022 | Comments 0 Comment

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Show Summary: This week, it’s about holding government accountable — especially when they lied. And evidence of those lies are surfacing every week. We talk with state senator Dennis Linthicum about his team’s efforts to impanel a grand jury to investigate the data fraud committed by the CDC, FDA, NIH, and others on covid. We also speak to Kelly Mordecai, an expert on the Grand Jury system and how it can be used to bring a corrupt, runaway government under control again. And you can take action. See below!

Original Air Dates: Sept. 10th & 11th, 2022 | Guests: Sen. Dennis Linthicum & Kelly Mordecai

This Week – Grand Jury Investigation

Nearly a year ago, we brought you the story of the covid grand jury, which two senators, Dennis Linthicum and Kim Thatcher, and Dr. Henry Ealy were trying to impanel. The goal was to hold Fauci and others responsible for using knowingly falsified evidence to grab power, misspend trillions, and trample our basic rights.

When it’s the biggest crime in human history, a grand jury is necessary. Because a corrupt government cannot and will not hold itself accountable. They’re the criminal.

That case is getting closer to resolution. But, naturally, there have been twists and turns (odd ones!) and hills yet to climb.

The Dog Ate my Deposition

It’s a given. The last thing the government wants is to investigate its own abuse of power. Or its own malfeasance. Its misuse of $3.5 trillion in taxpayer funds—which included the theft of hundreds of billions.

Investigate you with 87,000 new IRS agents for not keeping a receipt? Oh yeah. They are happy to look into that. Not so its own crimes.

Tune in this week to hear some of the oddest things as the government tries to weasel out from under citizen’s rightful watchful eye. Like a prosecutor suddenly declaring he was going to work for the defense. Who then suddenly got reassigned to the hinterlands. And the old second-grade excuse by the government: the dog ate my homework. Not quite. But also not kidding.

Grand Juries – What, Why, and How

In addition to talking with Sen. Linthicum, we talk with Kelly Mordecai, who wrote the book on grand juries: The Hidden 4th Branch: A Corrupt Government’s Worst Nightmare. As an engineer, he took a systemic look at grand juries as the most effective, remaining tool we have to hold government accountable. He helps us understand the process and walks us through the ups and downs of the case.

Think of it. Misspending $3.5 trillion of public monies, millions of businesses impacted or ruined, the trampling of so many of our rights, and millions of lives lost and tens of millions more impacted certainly qualifies as the biggest crime ever.

And this effort to impanel a grand jury is immensely important. With more and more coming out every day about the vaccines’ adverse effects and the government admitting they were wrong, now is the time. Not jut to hold people accountable for the biggest crime in human history. But to make sure it can’t happen again.

Because if they get away with it. We know they’ll try again.

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Research, Links Mentioned & Additional Info

The government lied about ivermectin — Ivermectin lies. (Click for full size)

Join the fight! Demand a grand jury investigate the CDC for criminal fraud & willful misconduct. Visit Beyond the Con or text “CDC data” to 52886
Kelly Mordecai’s book is The Hidden 4th Branch: A Corrupt Government’s Worst Nightmare.
Government admits they got it all wrong: “CDC Announces Overhaul After Botching Pandemic” (ZeroHedge, Aug 17, 2022)
Read the horrifying article from Steve Kirsch. “Exclusive: Proof that Israel found serious safety problems with the COVID vaccines then deliberately covered it up” (Substack, Steve Kirsch, September 2, 2022)
And read the Twitter thread from the journalist who exposed the Israeli Ministry of Health’s crimes: Yaffa Shir-Raz, Twitterr, Sept 1, 2022
- This is the really damning part: “4/Nevertheless, the IMOH withheld the findings for 2 months, even from their own expert committee which decided 3 weeks later to clear the vaccine for infants.”
- They knew the vaccines caused harm. Hid it. And then pushed it on kids!
They lied. How many millions died because the government refused early treatments to push their vaccines? “Ivermectin reduces covid death risk by 92%, peer-reviewed study finds” (The Blaze, Sept 3, 2022)
Get some background on the covid grand jury petition. Oregon Senators File Grand Jury Petition Alleging CDC, FDA Violated Federal Law by Inflating COVID Death Data (Children’s Defense Fund, Sept 17, 2021)
Feds reeling from new vax study, lawsuits on social media censorship and COVID stat manipulation (Just the News, September 7, 2022): New research estimates COVID vax causes at least 18 “serious adverse events” in young adults for every hospitalization prevented. NIH observational study finds “variety of neuropathic symptoms” post-vaccination.
They used Facebook to censor. And to spread their disinformation. “CDC Gave Facebook Misinformation About COVID-19 Vaccines, Emails Show” (Epoch Times, Sept 6, 2022)

The Truth is Coming Out about the Vaccines

Morticians finding unexplained things in vaccinated bodies (click for full size)

Dr Naomi Wolf’s findings – “Massacre: Nearly half of pregnant women in Pfizer trial miscarried” (Sign of the Times, Aug 16, 2022)
- Half!
Steve Kirsch’s list of over 50 leading indicators that the momentum is moving in our favor—the narrative is unraveling quickly in the UK: “The ‘safe and effective’ narrative is falling apart” (Substack, Steve Kirsch, July 7, 2022)
“COVID Vaccine Injury Data: 143,233 Percent Increase in Cancer” (Epoch Times, August 30, 2022)
More truth: FOI reveals Pfizer and Medicine Regulators hid the dangers of Covid-19 Vaccination during Pregnancy because Study found it increases risk of Birth Defects & Infertility (The Expose, May 5, 2022)
More truth. “Science” no longer trustworthy: BMJ op-ed suggests all health research should be considered fraudulent until proven otherwise (Citizens News, August 23, 2022)
Still more truth. Attorney: Pfizer Vaccine Whistleblower False Claims Suit Payout could Reach $3.3 trillion “It would be enough to bankrupt Pfizer” (Health Impact News, August 28, 2022)

What to do about our many healthcare crises. It is just one healthcare crisis after another.

Our Many Healthcare Crises, Part 2 | The Root Cause of Many of Them

By Dr Mark | August 6, 2022 | Comments 0 Comment

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Show Summary: When Obamacare was passed (rammed through without a single Republican vote), it was supposed to fix health care and lower costs. All those savings, remember? What happened? But there are more problems and more spending than ever. This week, we continue our talk with healthcare-system expert, Lisa Lettenmaier, but zero in on the two root causes of many of, if not all of, our many healthcare crises.

Original Air Dates: August 6th & 7th, 2022 | Guest: Lisa Lettenmaier

This Week – Our Many Healthcare Crises

We continue our deep dive into the problems plaguing our health care system—the many healthcare crises and the ever-growing expense. How is it that we are spending more than ever — by far! — on healthcare and yet it’s just one crisis after another?

But this week, we zero in on the two main problems. And they should be no surprise, really, for anyone who has followed I Spy Radio’s many shows on healthcare or for anyone who has a lick of common sense. The two root causes are money and government. Particularly, government interference.

Healthcare crises in the UK: "My cousin had to deliver his child because the ambulance said they’d take 4 and a half hours to come for his wife. What is the UK coming to? He had to watch a YouTube tutorial on how to deliver a baby." — Healthcare crises in the UK. *THIS* is what they want to emulate?

We bring back our healthcare system expert, Lisa Lettenmaier. Lisa is currently an insurance agent and owns Health Source NW. But her background is in accounting, overseeing budgets and forecasting for major companies. So when she looks at the healthcare crises, she is viewing it not just from an insurance standpoint but from a systemic-analyst’s viewpoint.

The Root Cause of So Many Healthcare Crises

This week, you’ll also hear an extended opener from I Spy Radio host, Mark Anderson, on the government’s interference — sabotage, really — of the normal free-market forces that would normally lower cost and improve care. Mark walks you through what a free market system would look like. Hint: we don’t have one now (remember Obama et al. when they were pushing Obamacare: “the free market failed”?), not in health care. And he walks you through the government interfering with the free market, much of which can be traced back to a 1943 IRS ruling.

If you didn’t already think “they” are destroying things on purpose, you’ll believe it after this show. No one, no government, makes this many “mistakes” on purpose.

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Research, Links Mentioned & Additional Info

Even Without Covid Surge, Oregon Hospitals Nearly Full (Lund Report, July 30, 2022)
Nursing homes are suing friends and family to collect on patients’ bills (NPR, July 28, 2022)
Rising prescription drug prices (OregonLive, July 20, 2022)
Oregon agency sets virtual public hearings on 2023 health insurance preliminary rate decisions (KTVZ, July 23, 2022)
Healthcare and ambulance services deal with capacity crisis (KGW, July 22, 2022)
Profits of the pandemic: Moderna gives Boston’s property market a shot (Daily Mail, July 23, 2022)
WA hospitals facing ‘unsustainable’ financial losses, in danger of cutting services (Seattle Times, July 21, 2022)
Left’s Latest Health Care Scheme Will Worsen Inflation, The Deficit, And Your Insurance (The Federalist, July 25, 2022)
Difficulty Paying Bills Tops Pandemic High in US Census Survey (Yahoo News, July 25, 2022)
Covid Relief Spending by the Federal Government (via USASpending.gov, retrieved July 28, 2022)
Albany’s Faithful pick up the mantle for Universal Health Care (Democrat Herald, July 30, 2022)