Restless Again
By
Cat West
December 8, 2025
Corruption Requires Both Noise & Silence
Correction sort of: I've been reporting that Isaac Hunt was the younger brother. Newspapers refer to him as the OLDER brother. Once again, my bad. Carry on.
(Note: Sorry I didn’t post the earlier political rant sooner. This one is about the Rez)
A couple of things people who live on the Rez and those who don’t may have noticed but thought nothing of because it’s so commonplace: Noise & Silence.
Bullies that control governments, at all levels, use a lot of noise to get your attention away from what the real issues are, and direct you to non-issues as if they are the most, the worst, and they pound that noise until you hear nothing else. Steve Bannon is an expert at this and he has a saying which he preached to his Fascist Followers: “Flood the Zone with shit.” And it worked.
It's still working. Low wages? Don’t blame the corporate billionaires who own the company and have bought politicians to keep wages low—blame immigrants, documented or undocumented. Blame other religions, other races. Just don’t look at the actual source of your discomfort.
And, you have to keep people stirred up. Time to go after the LBGTQ+, go after the non-white races, the not evangelical, and of course, the Democrats.
It’s a simple formula. It works on simple minds. The noise level is raised to frantic, shouting down truth tellers, attacking vulnerable targets, and ignoring the actual source of corruption and worse.
Those who benefit from it also are those who own 99% of ALL media—and they ae willing to pay billions to the man who extorts them, in order to keep it all from becoming visible for what it is.
Legacy Media has become the megaphone that floods the zone. Rare is the publication, broadcast or podcast that clearly defines the facts that help people to make informed decisions.
Twitter has become X and it is blatantly steered by Musk to serve fascists and fascism while silencing the voices of truth and reason.
Facebook, for all it does to connect people, steers by algorithm your attention to wild fascism, conspiracy theories and promotes the most dangerous idealogues and ideas. Read “Careless People” written by the woman who saw it up close and very personal.
Yes, you can find friends, and share relevant information in FB. Yes it can be helpful, but that is not the intention of that platform. Sort carefully as you stroll through. There are groups there that really don’t care about the truth and in fact, do all they can to protect the most evil in our midst.
Note: I am not on FB. I was on for about 2 months in 2014, but saw what it was doing and closed it. I stay in touch with friends by email and message. Anyone that says they have contacted me through FB is mistaken, misled or lying.
I know many of my readers are on FB and that’s fine. But don’t be misled. And FFS get yourself and your children vaccinated! Diseases we had under control or were considered cleared from our society, are making a comeback and people are dying.
Murdered & Missing
The searchers who were looking for and finding evidence of the murders of Jemini Posey and Isaac Hunt, were in fact being harassed constantly by a FB group that calls itself Ayapi or some such. They were and many still are, being threatened by people in that group, but nothing is being done about it. Doing nothing is how government is complicit and corporations make bank. Bad Guys know this. They use it. FB shrugs.
Remembering back to when I got back onto this blogging and was posting about the searchers and the evidence they found on Restin Hunt’s property that would prove that Jemini was murdered and disposed of, and that Restin’s younger son, Isaac was also murdered…you’d think the Tribal Council would take an interest in this kind of thing.
They did. But it wasn’t to aid in the search or encourage people to help find both of these young people. No. It was instead to stop the searching, discourage the searchers, and protect the person(s) who murdered them by using their official position to both raise funds (Government just needs a grant request that looks legit. They never audit or follow up on how the funds are used in Indian Country, and probably elsewhere for that matter.
Being family to elected Tribal Council really helps, duddnit? I received emails that were saying that the “Searchers” were the problem. The searchers did everything by the book. They got permissions, stayed within boundaries, had law enforcement accompany them… they weren’t out there willy-nilly thrashing through the bushes and breaking anything. They were actively following clues and evidence.
While doing this, the FB group “Yappers” My term, was harassing them, threatening them and accusing them of lying.
I received emails, probably from either member(s) of that group or just fans, saying that the searchers were wrecking things, harassing the poor Restin Family (well-known in the area for their criminal activities), and that Jemini just willingly walked away from her infant daughter and quit contacting her loved ones. Also, that Isaac wasn’t missing, he was ‘away’, and traveling because he suddenly got the bug to wander? All the time telling me I shouldn’t be supporting the searchers who were looking for Murdered and Missing members of the tribe. (Government, btw, funds MMIW causes in Indian Country, also unaudited).
Evidence came from the searches that proved neither of those two young people left of their own free will. One reader/writer sent me a carefully worded email saying that I was focusing too much on Jemini, and not enough on Isaac, and that his family misses him too.
Really? Yes. Hand to God.
When I wrote back explaining my 30 years involved in researching Indian Country, that Rez specifically, and how I know Law Enforcement buries more shit than they ever uncover, and that’s by design, I then asked that if they had anything they wanted to add about Isaac that would generate interest in finding him or his body--- they went silent. They merely wanted to scold me for writing about Jemini.
So, a little exposure in this blog, a lot more exposure in media, and the killer of Jemini and Isaac, Isaac’s older brother, D’Angelo (almost employee of the year at UPS?) who is a deranged tweaker, heavy into meth, began to crack.
I was sent a video of him in a supermarket, being arrested, rolling on the floor and screaming (which apparently he had been doing prior to the police being called?) (way to draw attention to yourself, tweaker!) and a cop telling him “Don’t do it!”…
Prior to this I received a video from one of the searcher where she is in her car, yelling at D’Angelo who is standing at the entrance to his g’ma’s apartment building, ringing to get in, “Where’s Jemini’s Body? What did you do with her body?” to which G’Ma came running out, arms waving, screeching: “She’s six feet under, somewhere!”… so yeah, G’Ma knew. The whole family knew…
So, publicly, information was seeping out and people were becoming aware that Jemini and Isaac were missing and probably murdered, and the family staged a fake search of their own property with a reporter from local media on hand, to make it appear as if they really knew nothing. They thrashed a few bushes, called their names (Sure, they’re camping for 8 months?), wandered around and juuuuuust happened to stumble on one of the burn pits that the searchers had found previously, and there was a skull. It was Isaac.
Not sure what this dog and pony show was supposed to accomplish. The searchers were right, but had been stopped from searching. Local police ignored reports by locals and the searchers. So, the family who’s G’Ma declared her dead and buried knew all along she was dead and she most likely knew Isaac was dead… and the search ‘show’ climaxed at just the right point to make it interesting: Behold! The Skull of Isaac!
Which means the story being told by Restin Hunt and his tweaker son, D’Angelo, was bullshit all along. D’Angelo has been arrested for the murder of his brother, but not for the murder of Jemini. No one is allowed to search for Jemini, despite evidence of her being murdered on that property.
What is the yapping FB group doing? Glad you asked! They are campaigning to harass the searchers, and to get them ‘floated’ off the rez. Yes, dare to actually find the body or the evidence, and that group will do it’s best to get rid of you, silence you, harass you.
This is what FB does best. Hurts people who are helping.
In the past, these groups harassed, threatened a woman who was bringing light to the child trafficking that was (and still is) happening on the rez. They ruined her life. They got her restricted and banned from the rez. She and her husband had their property firebombed, her daughter’s horse was gut shot, suffered and died, they were slandered… all because they wanted children to not be trafficked to rapists, abusers, and have their funds stolen from their government accounts.
They got their wish. You never hear of nor see her again. They silenced her. Those in Federaal government that we thought were caring about these kids, with the exception of one man, Thomas Sullivan, were lying.
They became part of the plot to discredit her. A team was brought into the rez to shred every document about every child who ever went through the social services system. They were shredding documents full-time, in shifts, for weeks.
Sullivan, one of the most qualified, certified, dedicated public servants ever to hold position in the agency intended to protect children and families, was harassed and run out of his job. HE was making a real difference, and that is the premise but not the practice of Federal Government in Indian Country.
Somebody was making a lot of money off of the trafficking of children and the corruption. There are huge corporations that benefit off of Federal Lands and they need for there to be endless chaos, poverty and suffering in Indian Country. The corrupt are put into leadership, and the decent, the dedicated, are run off.
That pattern still holds.
Will things be different this time around? I’m not holding my breath. But neither am I holding my tongue. I will not be silent. There are the best, the bravest, the most courageous and decent people living under the oppression system in Indian Country.
There are huge corporations that profit from their despair. The resource extraction corporations and their boards of directors know who to buy in government: Have lunch, dinner, drugs, child rape, gambling, pornography, every addiction, every taboo --- it’s all yours if you let us keep what we are stealing. We know how to keep the corrupt in positions of power and authority. We know how to run off anyone that would threaten to expose our operations or our blatant failings.
Now, I ask you again: What did that family searching their own property tell you about both their knowledge of the crime before, during or after? And what does it say about law enforcement that failed to act on tips and reports?
The Good, The Ugly, The Hopeful
I laugh every time Law Enforcement makes a PR speech, takes credit for the work of others, and says, with a very straight face: IF YOU SEE SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING. Which they will either ignore or funnel your identity to the very criminals they are supposedly hunting. Who are they protecting, really?
Yes, Law Enforcement is flawed at the core. It’s where bad training leads to abuse of authority, testalying under oath with no consequences, false convictions, and ongoing criminal activity that is out in the open but which they pretend to not see.
There are some who think I hate police. I don’t. I despise corruption. I despise hypocrisy in law enforcement. There are good men & women who join to make a difference in their community. They have integrity, courage and skillsets. They do not rise in the ranks. In fact, if they dare to point out or investigate criminal activity among their own, they can get killed (nice funeral you have there) and will be run off the force.
If they investigate the wrong corrupt officials or social pillars, same outcome.
One Thing, Two Sides
If you read your local papers in ND or SD, you read about all these crooked cops being busted for rapes, burglaries, murders… and you wonder how they ever got on the force. The problem is at the top. No one at the top, regardless of how many beneath them are themselves arrested, ever loses a dime or rank.
But the other side of this ongoing saga is that bad cops are being busted. Is there a shift in the rift? Are there force at work to root out the evil, the abusive and the incompetent among their ranks? Is it media doing their job or police cleaning their own houses? Both?
Oh, that would be soooo nice!
Now, if only this trend would both continue and go up the ranks of government.
Present Day
Sadly, presently the top tiers of government are blatantly corrupt, costing us billions, kidnapping and terrorizing entire neighborhoods (but not in high crime areas in Red States, just the Blue States with cities that have lower crime rates but particularly if they have non-white mayors… it’s what bullies do), and that makes a lot of noise.
That floods the zone. That distracts from the other crimes and ongoing corruption, so we are kept very busy trying to keep up while paying more for everything and not being able to afford the healthcare we need to stay alive.
The good news is, we are not being silent. We are being silenced in that there is minimal coverage of our efforts to right this sinking, burning ship, as legacy media works overtime to minimize the damage being done to our nation economically, and by reputation, and the plagues to come that will take our unvaccinated children to an early grave.
But the work continues. We are all Indians now. We are all subjected to the same corrupt power tiers we allowed to take root in Indian Country, and for the same reasons: To exploit our resources, break our will, and keeps us in chaos.
Take a lesson from The Good People in Indian Country: They are not broken. The stories that are told about them by those who want to break them, are untrue. We need to save ourselves. We need to stand together with everyone the fascists are trying to divide and conquer with tactics of fear, ignorance and lies.
The Good People are still standing. The truth about History is still waiting to be learned. Once we learn the truth, we will know who we are and we too, can and will survive.
Don’t be afraid to look. Don’t be afraid to learn that the history we were taught was all a lie. We are all better than that. We all must live up to it to save ourselves and the generations that come after us.
There is real power in Truth. Consume all of it, fearlessly. Support the Seekers and the Searchers. Ignore the Yappers.
You know where to find me.
~Cat
December 2, 2025
Good vs Evil: Pick A Side, Clyde
Political Carnage
For what it’s worth, ever since something with limbs crawled out of the primordial ooze, there’s been a war between Good and Evil.
There are no perfect Human Beings, and our leaders always have flaws, so we are forced by circumstances to pick the lesser of, and we get someone with whom we agree at the outset and then agree to disagree as time goes on.
Essentially, we accept the flawed human because their intentions or work, benefits society as a whole.
However, this ‘better outcome’ is only possible if we pay close attention and take our responsibility as members of society, seriously. We know in advance what we are getting. Right?
Y’all went to those rallies where the crowd was riled up to shout, spit at, threaten and menace the press that was covering it… And you enjoyed that, right? You know who I’m talking to. Hit dogs holler so if you’re clearly on the side of good and the dignity of your fellow citizens and don’t need a scapegoat to vent your anger at because you are too lazy to look at the real picture, sit down and watch the show. Christmas is coming and you may have some relatives at the table who can’t look you in the eye.
F47 (truly, I say his real name as little as possible) gave all the greedy but lazy yahoos all the targets to aim their misdirected anger so they wouldn’t have to look at the source of their discomfort, and boy did they buy in! Blame the immigrants, refugees, LBGTQ (the whole alphabet if you want!), the women who need healthcare to save their lives (make abortion illegal so more women die—that’ll teach ‘em! Yeah!)…
He promised you nothing you could use to make your life better. He promised you the pain he would inflict on others, and y’all jumped for that like trained seals for a dead fish tossed out in your direction. How many times did he say: “I am your Retribution”? 100? Oh wow! He’s gonna go after immigrants, gays, women, Black People, Brown People! It’s all mine! – but tell me, how did hurting other people, people who were not to blame for any of your discomforts, people who were in fact the glue that had kept this rag tag democracy running by harvesting our food in weather we could not survive; who worked in our meat packing plants doing the dirtiest jobs, the riskiest jobs, working on farms, and in construction, landscapers, nannies, medical staff … all of them hunted down by masked men with no identification who didn’t care if they were legally working or not--how did that help you?
Rounding up people indiscriminately, ignoring legal papers, ignoring citizenship, and then renditioning them to countries where they were imprisoned, tortured, brutalized, and had committed no crimes—how’s that making the price of eggs better for you?
Your wages are low because employers – especially billionaire corporate employers, bought the government and declared that if people made a living wage, they would lose profits. Boo—f’g—hoo.
But now you can say the “N” word! Wow! You can tell other human beings they can’t use bathrooms. Men who say they want to protect women and girls are literally barging into bathrooms and forcing young girls to prove they are girls… Yeah, “Protection”. And no one is arresting them for sexual assault. Well, we can see one class of citizens who are really happy about the changes staining our formerly respected society. Men who can force young girls to show their genitals, and get away with it. By the way, when the distraught young girl complained, the restaurant threw her and her family out, and let the pedophile enjoy his dining experience. How’s that for ‘retribution’?
Oh, the party hasn’t stopped yet. He wants to strip citizenship from those born here and from those who became citizens… Ooooh! The Power! Delicous!
And to prove he’s destroying the country, he has literally taken a wrecking ball to the White House itself. A symbol we grew up with for generations that represented the best in governments, the most decent in nations, and he wants to replace it with a “ballroom” the size of a stadium because what better defines a palace than a ballroom of marble, dripping in gold, expensive chandeliers… now that’s something the dictators of the world that he admires so much, would envy, right?
Hundreds of billions of dollars, no permits, no permission. He has claimed the government and the country and all it’s resources, his personal property to do with as he pleases. He doesn’t even have to ask permission to destroy it. Any of it. All of it.
Legacy media immediately went docile, begging for belly rubs, smoothing over his criminality to appease him lest he sue them personally for billions, as he did universities, CBS, NBC, ABC, etc. Money that goes into his pockets, not the government’s. And they caved… all of them, because they are owned by billionaires who want to have more billions, and really don’t care about the nation or information and are too gutless to fight back, even though they would win, easily and much less expensively.
He's got the Epstein Files and videos and pictures, and all he has to do is threaten to expose them and they pay him tens of billions… but like Columbia University found out, it doesn’t stop if you pay him. Their top guy got exposed anyway and he had to resign… with a big fat pension.
He’s using our military to murder people in small boats out on the high seas. No proof that any of the killings were remotely justified. He claims they were narco traffickers. Typically, and legally, you have to have proof. And my guess is that none of these 88 people he’s had slaughtered were anything but fishermen. They had tiny boats with outboard motors --- they can’t go more than 100 miles in any direction and they were more thana 1000-1500 miles from our shores. They were murdered without any evidence of who they were, much less of what they were doing.
He just pardoned one of the biggest drug lords ever in history: The ex-president of Honduras who it was proven in court, had delivered over 500 tons of cocaine into the USA. But he’s into crypto and so is f47 and his adenoidal family members, so, yeah, he was making billions and if there’s anything f47 admires, it’s biiiiig criminals. They are pals now. But the fishermen from Trinidad? Blow them out of the water.
Legacy Media is gently suggesting this might be hypocritical. And leaving it there.
Price of eggs? Wait until you see the cost of health insurance. Remember last time? 2016-2020? He again had maga piggies trying to take that away more than 55x. Remember how they labled the ACA “ObamaCare” as a slur? People literally voted for people who promised to end it and then and now, are shocked that Republicans are killing it and it’s costing 300- 1300% more to insure your family, and get less coverage.
Don’t worry, just like in 2016, they are going to reveal their plan for health care and it’s going to be waaay better than ObamaCare… in two weeks. It’s been 10 years now and that plan is still super secret. We were told two weeks ago (two weeks, two weeks, two weeks) it was going to be revealed last week… and… *crickets*… but that’s ok, they’re strangling ObamaCare, so that’s the important thing, right? Retribution! Yea! More Retribution!
I laugh when these pathetic maga asshats go to the foodbanks now, and they don’t wear their red hats. I wonder why?
Hey, buddies, immigrants didn’t do this to you. LBGTQ didn’t do this to you. Black People, Brown People, Muslims, Hindus, Asians didn’t do this to you. But the people who did this to you? They are richer than ever now. Republicans are too weak to fight for you and too greedy to care. If you listen to them, they will tell you how they are victims of (name a minority) and that they will fight for you. They will be your RETRIBUTION.
Some of you are still eating from that same outhouse. Too mad at what you’ve brought down upon your own head (hoping to hurt others tends to have that result), and too star struck by celebrity to see what’s behind the curtain, and afraid to look and see the smoke machine that had both delighted and blinded you for so long.
You got here because you wanted to blame someone else. You’re still here because you aren’t willing to take personal responsibility for buying into the obvious lies, racism, misogyny and mindless hate of your fellow human beings. You’re still angry and still a victim because you are a coward. Grow up. Redeem yourself. Quit trying to make lies the truth and truth the lies. Quit blaming and hating the wrong people. Stop blaming the powerless for the damage done by the powerful.
That’s kinda my way of saying “fuck off”, but more polite.
The USA has been destroyed by racism, ignorance and misogyny. It’s up to us to rebuild it and to find our place in a world where we use to be respected for our decency, dignity and compassion.
The damage is done, but we aren’t. Be cautious of converts seeking your protection. Contrition is often temporary, until the next opportunity to bully and abuse the vulnerable.
We must all be much more aware.
What took centuries to build has been destroyed in mere decades of erosion where the wrong, the evil was allowed and accepted because it was profitable. What we have now are the smoking, dusty ruins of our once great nation. Vote for dignity, compassion, truth, courage and decency. If your candidate lacks any of those qualifications, find another.
If you vote for hate, hurt, and false gods, the ashes will cool and we will, as a nation, be buried in history. Rise up. Stand up. Speak up.
You with the Red Hats—Shut up.
You know where to find me.
~Cat
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You know where to find me.
~Cat