Another Church-owned property could be sold to settle sex abuse lawsuits

Religion is a mental illness and the Roman Church is a criminal enterprise whose catechism is based on lies. 

The leader of the Church is slowly cleaning house of pederastic predators but is taking heat from Republicans for his stance on curbing human-induced climate change and from progressives for his intent to canonize a colonizer accused of raping children. Ireland and Australia are leading calls to prosecute the cult's leaders and as lawsuits and the US Department of Justice swamp the Church of the Holy Roman Kiddie Diddlers the future of the religionist syndicate isn't looking very rosy.

The Wyoming attorney general has decided against charging retired bishop Joseph Hart, effectively ending law enforcement and victims’ efforts to hold accountable a top Catholic cleric facing decades of sexual abuse allegations. A spokeswoman for the Cheyenne Police Department, which launched the sexual abuse investigation into Joseph Hart in April 2018, said in an email that Attorney General Bridget Hill would not be pursuing charges. Cheyenne Police brought the case to Hill’s office in July, after prosecutors elsewhere in Wyoming also declined to charge the retired bishop. Police had interviewed several alleged victims or their family members. The attorney general’s prospective role has not previously been revealed. [Wyoming attorney general won't charge retired bishop accused of abuse]

Like at least a dozen other US Roman churches have done the Helena, Montana chapter of the sect faced 362 claims of sexual abuse and filed for bankruptcy. New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas has also been investigating predator priests and the Archdiocese of Santa Fe was forced to file for bankruptcy because of the high number of lawsuits.

“Given the unfortunate circumstances with the church overall, that’s an incredible asset. If they are forced to do away with the campus there, it’ll be because the property value is high,” said St. Pius alum and University of New Mexico Political Science Professor Gabe Sanchez. [St. Pius X High School might move from west side location]

Image lifted from the Santa Fe Reporter.

Rounds caves on Trump, joins Thune in GOP establishment wilderness

The “Primary John Thune in 2022” Faceberg page has gone over 3000 members. They’re serious but not serious enough to run an unaffiliated big name candidate against him in the general election because nobody can match his $13 million war chest. 

One of them, Bruce W. Whalen, said Thune’s refusal to support Trump’s claims of fraud has fueled interest. “We can’t understand as South Dakotans why Thune, (Sen. Mike) Rounds and (Rep. Dusty) Johnson can’t see what we see,” he said. [Trump loyalists in South Dakota turn on home state senator]

Rounds is meeting with President Joe Biden today at the White House to hash out a Covid relief bill. 

Gordon Howie and others in the extreme white wing of the Republican Party are saying Thune and Reich Mike Rounds are "out of touch with South Dakota” and should be replaced. One of the least effective members of Congress, Rounds bragged he could build a $9 million war chest in 2013 but has less than $2 million in the bank today. Former Governor Rounds was elected to the US Senate with cash from the Kochs’ National Federation of Independent Business. The so-called “Americans for Prosperity” is a Koch-soaked dark money group with an agent in Sioux Falls. South Dakota's GOP legislators and candidates enjoy millions in lobbyist benefits from the Kochs and their American Legislative Exchange Council or ALEC. 

In her bid to drive Rounds onto the ash heap of history upstart Republican 2018 primary contender Scyller Borglum appeared with Governor Kristi Noem to raise awareness of youth art in South Dakota. 

Recall Bill Janklow banked his campaign winnings even after killing Randy Scott. Thune is no less greedy, that’s for sure.

There is a mass exodus underway from the SDGOP and the news is now just surfacing in the South Dakota media. These developments put Zionist mob boss and South Dakota Republican Party Chair Dan Lederman in a box. Does he use up some of the cash they have in abundance to buy off the Trump wing or will Lederman step aside for someone from the extreme white wing?

Photo: Rounds poses with morbidly obese Brookings-based blogger Pat Powers.

Meth, bikers, video lootery likely driving Rapid City's violent crime surge

Most, if not all, meth in South Dakota is trafficked by white Trump-worshiping motorcycle gangs. These hordes are essentially domestic terrorists operating with the blessings of the prison/industrial complex where the tribal nations trapped in South Dakota are among the victims and meth is just another tool of genocide. 

But, a red moocher state like South Dakota is powered by sin: video lootery and a too-big-to-jail banking racket fill in the gaps created by lobbyists who enjoy the protection of single-party tyranny. Desperate to pay off those who benefit the entrenched Republican establishment criminals can expect to have champions sitting as governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general. So packs of armed men with mental illnesses and addictions to meth power their way into western South Dakota every year; and, an accepted outlaw biker culture routinely trafficks illicit behaviors that would otherwise be subject to legal interdiction. 

Despite lies from the South Dakota Republican Party video lootery, suicide, domestic violence and homelessness are inextricably linked putting children at risk to more catastrophic consequences far more often than has happened in states that have legalized or lessened penalties for casual use of cannabis. 

In 2018 it was determined that the annual criminal costs of video lootery in South Dakota have soared to $42 million and the social costs an estimated $62 million. $9 million were lost because state and local sales taxes weren’t collected. When video lootery began in 1986 104 charges were filed for robbery, grand theft and aggravated theft. There were 1,037 cases in 1990 and in 2017 they went past 4,000 yet South Dakota continues to raise revenues off those least able to pay. 

The reasoning is hardly mysterious: it's all about the money prostitution, the Sturgis Rally, policing for profit, sex trafficking, hunting and subsidized grazing bring to the SDGOP destroying lives, depleting watersheds and smothering habitat under single-party rule. 

Labeling video [lootery] a scourge on South Dakota that has led to increased social ills, District 30 Rep. Tim Goodwin also said state government had grown addicted to the revenue. [Rapid City Journal]

The Rapid City Police Department reports that 2020 was marked again by overwhelming challenges to the law enforcement industry and an overall increase in what it calls "crimes of opportunity." 

Homicide – 100% increase

Robbery – 48.6% increase

Motor Vehicle Theft – 43.6% increase

Burglary – 39.1% increase

Aggravated Assault – 29.5% increase

While it’s difficult to pinpoint a specific cause for the dramatic increase in homicides, it’s important to know that in all cases from 2020 in which the suspect has been arrested, there was an existing relationship between the suspect and the victim. In the vast majority of these murder cases, police have identified a nexus with illegal drug use. [RCPD releases 2020 annual crime statistics]

Veteran South Dakota reporter Tom Lawrence wonders what Joe Boever's killer has to Hyde

Republican South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg is an incel and serial lawbreaker having been cited eight times for breaking speed limit laws in five South Dakota counties and in two Iowa counties. In September he struck and killed Joe Boever in a distracted driving incident just west of Highmore then with help from the Hyde Country sheriff who should have arrested Ravnsborg the next day for potential felonies he left the scene.  

Even Republican South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem is frustrated with the slow pace of charges. 

The Sept. 12 fatal crash that left Highmore resident Joe Boever dead has not resulted in any criminal charges. The stunning reality is, Sheriff Mike Volek was called to the scene of the crash, but was somehow unable to locate Boever’s body, despite the fact that it was right next to the westbound lane of Highway 14. I have been to the location. I knelt down where Boever’s body was discovered the next morning by the man who killed him, South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg. There was dried blood evident on the road surface. Ravnsborg’s 2011 red Ford Taurus skidded to a stop about 100 feet or less from where the body lay.

Read it all here.

Proposed rare earth strip mine in Belle Fourche watershed taps DoE

Missouri Buttes and Mahto Tipila at sunset 

A strip mine intended to remove Bull Hill from the headwaters of the Beaver Creek drainage near Mahto Tipila (Devils Tower) in the Bearlodge Ranger District then replace it with a pile of waste rock could pollute the Belle Fourche and Cheyenne Rivers even worse than they are now. 

In January of 2016, the US Forest Service suspended the Draft Environmental Impact Study for a Wyoming Black Hills mountaintop-removal mine that would extract minerals containing elements like neodymium and praseodymium from the Belle Fourche watershed. 

In 2017 Rare Element Resources said its mine just upstream of the South Dakota border announced financial backing from General Atomics and applied for enough water for the mineral separation process despite widespread contamination in Crook County wells. Acid mine drainage can kill or cause birth defects in the birds and mammals that happen into contaminated standing water on these sites. 

Wyoming Senator John Barrasso and the other Earth raping Republicans are working overtime to defund environmental protection, especially on public lands. The US is beginning to get religion on existing rare earth stocks and we have more buried in landfills than all other developed countries combined. Japan recovers most of her needs from the waste stream. 

A demonstration-scale separation and processing plant is expected to cost $35-40 million and a site in Upton, Wyoming near the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway (BNSF) is a prime candidate but the Biden Administration could reverse that funding.

An announcement from the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) has increased the likelihood that Crook County will one day host its own rare earth mine in the Bearlodge Mountains. Rare Element Resources has been awarded half the funding needed to construct the demonstration-scale plant that represents the next step forward in developing the project. A formal proposal was submitted to the DoE in mid-2020 to secure funding for a separation and processing plant that uses RER’s proprietary technology to produce commercial-grade products. [Sundance (Wyoming) Times]

Earlier this month the South Dakota Board of Water and Natural Resources gave formal support for a US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) grant to continue the $4.3 million ninth phase of the Belle Fourche River watershed implementation project. It's designed to mitigate agricultural and livestock damage in sensitive riparian zones even as Republican Governor Kristi Noem ends environmental protection in the red moocher state.