Randall Richards Mountain Spirit Media

I'm a former "stringer" for United Press International, and was trained in photojournalism. I covered the US presidential campaigns that cycled through our state in the primaries and main elections. I also covered general interest and other news and worked as a local reporter. Since those days I have been a sports photographer, and content provider for our successful Mountain Spirit blog, a general interest platform that covers our broad mission statement. But I never really touched "the third rail" of conspiracy or deep state, although I've been well-versed in it since my childhood, listening to my 4-star career US army general uncle at family picnics. He worked with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in the Pentagon. He talked about the CFR, Tri-lateralists, back when these secret orgs were just starting up.. I thought he was a bit crazy, until I started making my own enquiries while working as a reporter.. Needless to say, worrying about what people think those days are over, long over. During the Wellington protests against Covid Mandates, I dusted off my skills as a news photojournalist, created a Telegram channel on Day-1 of the protest, and started interviewing people on the ground. I got some good stuff, and people were responding well to my style and content. Near the end of our stay there, somehow, all the content I had posted on my Telegram channel was removed. Within minutes before our departure from Parliament grounds, my phone somehow lost all its charge by dramatically losing battery life in a matter of minutes. None of my portable charger packs worked., Later in Christchurch I took the phone to a repair shop who "liked challenges", and said they'd have the phone back up in 24 hrs. When I checked in, they said, "We don't know what's wrong with it, sorry!". I asked if they could at least retrieve the data, interviews and images on the SD card. "Sure" they said, "Give us a couple of hours." When I called, they said all the data had been encrypted and the only way to decrypt it, was by using the phone on which it was created. I never encrypt my data. Fortunately our local tech guru here in Wanaka, NZ was able to revive my phone, decrypt and retrieve the data. Because others at the Wellington protest (and Melbourne) also had very strange things happen to their phones, I'm convinced the government has the capability to zero in on one's phone, and disrupt, encrypt data, and even kill phones. It's called "remote data wiping." I must have interviewed the wrong people. Now that I have all the interviews and images, I'll start posting it all here. I had interviews and stories from before the protest as well (convoy etc). And of course, I'm still interviewing people that were at Wellington to get eyewitness accounts of what really happened and following other leads on strange stories here in NZ. Family life back here at Mountain Spirit and on the farm near Wanaka, is also keeping my occupied, but I'm working getting that material on this channel. So stay tuned! Cheers, Randall