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where residents of Swansea begging for clean water and clean government have engaged in a strategy to end the water crisis by being an online community taking action at the polls and by combatting the profiteering of town officials and sycophants

A reminder: The same people who told you the water was safe are responsible for the $20 million fraud, the lack of a wat...
04/06/2023

A reminder:
The same people who told you the water was safe are responsible for the $20 million fraud, the lack of a water supply and the countless people who lost their lives due to impacts of chemical reactions trying to mix contaminated water with chemicals and clean water to hide the fraud.
Not only has health been affected (brain damaged birth defects and high cancer rates) but due to the absolute waste of a town government oversight and offices overflowing with self serving parasites, the regular people are going to have to exist with a lower quality of life and have to spend millions in their funds again to react to the lies, fraud and dangers caused by the Desalination Plant that was not even built big enough to house the equipment a real plant would need.
It was never about your water. It was about their power to drunk your milkshake and laugh at you with foamy lips.
Of course you should already realize you have a bunch of facebook moderstors and pages dedicated to being the lips of the parasites while attacking the victims in town.
It takes a special kind of person to sell out your hometown and they run your facebool pages too.
The Bible says 1 in 12 is Judas but nowadays the Judas are mother Zuckers.
Meanwhile, the town has seen a police department become a crime scene, a police chief appointed to cover up the mess having already shot an unarmed man three towns over with no impacts ( congrats Swansea no other town is so backwards) and a district attorney who pockets municipal funds (including his office credit card payment) into his campaign chest (evidence of arrogance and unethical behavior for all to see that justice is a myth.)
Congrats Swansea, you are a beacon of corruption, dirty water and an example of town where no one in office anywhere cares about you except the honest ones left trying to clean up the mess of the past.

I want to thank the dozens and dozens of publicly silent  people who have emailed me info and encouraged me to tell the ...
04/12/2022

I want to thank the dozens and dozens of publicly silent people who have emailed me info and encouraged me to tell the truth no matter what.
As a journalist who began in a war zone with a pen surrounded by tanks, soldiers and helicopters, the knowledge that the pen protects the masses is the empowerment of a newsman.
As a journalist you know the only real friend is the truth as everyone will try to use you for their own use.
But the little people who care and are without a voice are the ones for whom the role journalists were created and protected in the constitution.
It is worth falsely being called a monster when you fight them and poke them with truth. Cheaters snd scumbags use power and threats.
But truth can't be smothered as it is its own light as long as someone hold the candle and the mirror of a town.
We are the only private profession in the constitution in order to protect the people, from corruption, themselves and to connect truths to form a more perfect union.
Amen.
That is why, despite a fatal and disabling disease, in 2019 I agreed to voluntarily look into why a totally ignored town spent $20 million and could not get good water.
I had no idea the layers of corruption I would find. I had no idea I would find the most evil and morally bankrupt people I would cover in a 30 year career.
And in the madness I would lose a lot but gain more truth about how low people can go to control the truth.
Some people who asked me to investigate the water problem soon abandoned me once the truth came out because the liars had created a new reason to accept lies based on hate and police militarization... The people in control of the town created and allowed a situation where telling the truth was bad... and people fighting for the truth allowed it...
Imagine a place where the only reporter, a veteran and expert on municipal law) is told not to tell the truth because the truth may hurt the quest for a town to tells its people the truth?
It is unreal and amazing.
The people took back a seat. But in a Town devoid of ethics and a newspaper or a reporter with experience, people can never stop watching those in office. In darkness breeds ego, power and thoughts of control.
In a town where the worst people redefine good people, only a vigilant population with an unending desire to take back control of truth, can have the quality of life all people deserve.
No one owns the truth and it can never be controlled..

Thanks to all who keep me going. I will not betray the truth for anyone.

"Treat the people like mushrooms. Keep them in the dark and feed them s**t."One more seat and the people have their town...
04/12/2022

"Treat the people like mushrooms. Keep them in the dark and feed them s**t."

One more seat and the people have their town back?

Bring in the plunger,When your toilet is backed up and the smelly stuff is overflowing onto the floor and contaminating ...
04/10/2022

Bring in the plunger,
When your toilet is backed up and the smelly stuff is overflowing onto the floor and contaminating the residence, you can do nothing or do something fast
The first try is the plunger… That is where Swnsea residents find themselves this election year.
The selectboard has been so full of it these past so many years that it has overflowed into other departments including the police, the treasurer's office, conservation and of course the backup at the Water Department pipes brought it all to light.
On Monday, April 9th, the residents will go to polls and either stick the human plunger into the bowl and let it unclog what has been stinking up the town in the region for years, or just sit on it a little white longer until it pops even wider. Consider the pure clean facts.
Selectmen allowed for residents to be inundated with dirty water, health questions and property damage due to some of them doing business with former water department board members. Fact, the Selectman had options but they are too politically tied to do anything except defend the SWD against the residents whom they did not defend ( see village idiots” email obtained through FOIA) .
Selectmen have used the position to benefit their own interests or interests of those they associate with. No one else in town can get a 65 foot curb cut without a permit unless you are a selectman. Do you want justice and fair play ? Sorry you got “just ice” which Selectman Carreiro will see you on route 103.
Selectman ignored town employees using town time to defend the Desalination Project (See treasurer's office) while town employees regularly called down victims of dirty water and denied the obvious contaminations and dangers to the river and environment. Selectmen refused to investigate the cluster of Chiari Malformation brain damage birth defects around the area serviced by Well 7. Well 7, a heavily contaminated well, was used to cover the fact that the desalination plant was not working and able to fill the needs to the the town for water as promised. Well 7 has been deemed responsible for much fo the contaminated water which was mixed with cleaner water to make more. Selectmen have never recognized the health dangers to resident while downplaying their roles,
State and CPA reports and we ll as engineering reports state that the Desalination PLant never worked as stated and will never work as stated which was known from the beginning and covered up by board members and the town which included Selectmen at SWD.
Residents begged selectmen to help and were ignored while selectmen worked with SWD board members to develop real estate in town.
Town treasurer was the book keeper at SWD which was found to be without any revenue controls and any ability to audit the cash receipts versus cash deposits and no transparency. It was a swansea s**t show! (see audit report and be proud)
Selectmen have refused to investigate real estate deals involving treasurers' family and town bids.
Selectman have protected a planning board member currently charged with intimidating a witness after being seen driving on a resident’s lawn with his car to destroy political signs of a candidate now running for Selectman.

Quality of Life issues: Residents have no playground in the Ocean Grove area where most of the people live. Selectmen have no enforced water access routes like in Somerset so that the public can enjoy the waterways of the community rather than connected abutters. The town is constantly limited by projects which place financial interests over community interests or by the incompetence of those overseeing them. The Swansea Baseball field lights project is a perfect example of patheticness.
After the “I drink it( dirty water) everyday” Town Administrator passed due to health issues, the Selectmen did a nationwide search (wink winker) and brought in his associate from the next town over. Sounds legit.
Several town projects out to bid have somehow not had all bids considered. Sounds legit.
Qualified people asking to be placed on boards concerning town projects are ignored with applications disappearing (sounds legit)
Selectmen did a nationwide search for a police chief and ended up promoting from within. The candidate had been part of a famous police corruption case in 1998 when rogue Swansea police chased a black man going 79 miles an hour, through Somerset, Fall River and into Westport where upon raising his hands, was shot at more than 40 times. The case, cracked by this reporter in 1998, followed a false press release by Swansea Police Department about the very same incident. State Police, however, told the truth, not the blueth. Three Swansea officers resigned. The town paid a hefty settlement. The fourth cop, a rookie, (who may or may not have been the one who State Police said wet his pants that night) somehow kept his job. He was named chief by Selectman after a felony at the police department.
THe FELONY: Swansea Police released a sealed juvenile report to a man who had been convicted and served time for manslaughter, Noah Vincellete of Fall River. He had been identified to Fall RIver police in 2016 as a this reporter’s stalker due to the fact that this reporter was the only one to report on his vehicular homicide case which occurred in Attleboro. Swansea police had access to this information and a juvenile report was provided to Mr. Vincellete in order to discredit this reporter whom had just gotten out of 3 years of Family Court - two months prior - after a judge ruled numerous issues were baseless and that perjury had been admitted on the stand. Juvenile reports are never public to protect everyone involved, especially those with documented health issues. Police had already harassed reporter for reporting (see video). Swansea police and town officials had already been reported to the District Attorney for threats. When that didn't work, the reporter went to FBI. Children in town, who are the sons and daughters of enemies of the town thuggery must now worry the police department will ignore any clear fiction to inflict political harm using children to get at parents.

This has worked since 2016 when convicted Fall River Mayor Jasiel Correia used police to try and intimidate politicians(city councilors) and reporters in Fall River. The DA, does nothing about it and has still not not acted on the Swansea Police felony and it was his office which never charged the rogue Swansea cops in 1998. S**t often floats.
16. The Jasiel Connection. From a ma*****na deal investigated by the FEDS in Swansea to Selectman Christopher Carreiro being Jasiels Snow Owl attorney, do you think it is a coincidence that the morning, Sept. 6, 2019, Jasiel got first popped by the FBI, the reporter who first reported on his being in FBI eyes, got a knock at the door that afternoon by Swansea Police? Really? Who believes in coincidences like that? I mean not everyone can be as slow as the DA! So let’s get this straight. The same reporter who exposed Jasiel is saying that your Selectman Carreiro was his brain and they are pretty much the same. Except, Jasiel has more ethics in that I don’t think he would ever allow people to potentially poison Fall Riverites to open up more real estate? I think more of Jasiel than that!

The Real Swansea facebook Page. It is bad enough that Gannett owns the Herald News which only know enough about news to cover Swansea sports, but like Jasiel discovered in Fal River, if your thugs control facebook, you control the message. Imagine if the town page was not a political mouthpiece for the politicians. From the “Swansea News” to the pickleman, residents are constantly being punished to accept a lower standard of living and to expect the same. Victims fo dirty water were humiliated and made fun on this page constantly. Even this weekend, residents can find a chorus of people stating that the s**tshow of the books at the SWD is no big deal… Putin should recruit from them. It is so bad that when one of the moderators family members flipped their car over in a drive thru,people were not allowed to post it. They have allowed people to call others rapists with no evidence for truth or concern for any victims if they were real. It is a dirtiest neighborhood in town where bullies and the worst of Swansea control much of swansea's freedom. It takes a special kind of person to betray your friends, fellow residents ad while protect the few as they take from the many. You have to give credit to the old boy network of Swansea. They knew and know how to find the worst people to cover up the worst things you could ever do to your open town.
Vote on Monday for the many instead of those who are about parasitizing the whole for themselves.
Or you can just let that bowl overspill all over yourselves and complain about the media not caring,

04/07/2022

Umagine lying to your neighbors, attacking them for the truth and pulling together your corrupt circle to profit and pickle up on power while in the process making it the most corrupt municipality in the state.

04/06/2022

Tonight's meeting: the audit found a mess...

Hmmm. Audit report for 2017. Not the big one as in the Desal Plant but as we know, the mushrooms have been kept in the d...
04/03/2022

Hmmm. Audit report for 2017. Not the big one as in the Desal Plant but as we know, the mushrooms have been kept in the dark and fed manure for decades... wonder what happens with some light?

Board of Water Commissioners meeting agenda - April 6, 2022

Members of the Expect Swansea group have filed an FCC complaint alleging that radio station WSAR 1480  is misusing its b...
02/22/2022

Members of the Expect Swansea group have filed an FCC complaint alleging that radio station WSAR 1480 is misusing its broadcast license and causing harm to the town of Swansea in the process.
This is the latest saga in a town where political corruption has dirtied the water and even faith in local justice.
Members say that in recent weeks and years, the newspaper and the radio have omitted crucial news that exposes corruption: from a questionable ice machine project by the Selectman Chairman Chris Carreiro to questions over bids for numerous projects. There is also the glaring decades of corruption at the former water board where officials said a desalination plant was running at capacity but it never ran even at 30 percent and never worked as stated.
The members of the Expect Better Swansea movement has had no support from local radio or newspaper and in fact has had both work against them in favor of local politicians, say group members. This is what led the group in 2019 to ask a disabled and recovering investigative reporter/news executive to figure out how a $20 Million Desalination Plant was built but failed to solve the water problem and in fact made it worse.
When the reporter uncovered a major corruption ring in town, the local media ignored it - despite the groups repeated pleas for local coverage from the newspaper and radio station. When the reporter uncovered that police have been used as a militarized political arm, the local media did nothing. When the police harassed and threatened the reporter as captured on video, The local media did nothing. The reporter had to turn to the ACLU but even that did not stop the crooked from trying to coverup the fraud of the plant and the real estate and power ring in town. While the group lost its in-house reporter (who had to move due to police harassment), the group became stronger. One of the co-founders won the first of 3 elections in a row to remove the water board. No official Expect Better Swansea candidate has lost an election as armed with facts and stunning truth, the people are taking back their town. Due to the fact that the local Herald News and WSAR are too close to the power structure to get out the relevant facts or even truth, the people have created their own system. You see in town even the pages are controlled by the power structure. On these pages, you will read smears about Expect Better Swansea members committing r**e and all kinds of dehumanizing and libelous evil without any repercussions. The politics in town on these pages are a swamp of immorality - filled with thugs, bullies and those parasitizing off of the corruption. They are the reason so many will not run in town due to the abuse and immaturity of the powers that be. Attacks of those in town who exposed the truth and cleaned the water department are a common part of the page. They also telegraph what is about to happen in the town as they have become a form of Zuckerberg "state media" with a "Swansea News" page which is part of the ring. Ohhh that ice machine is great!!!!! It was in fact this controlled facebook culture along with media ineptness that sustained the dirty water residents dealt with for more than a decade. From dirty sheets to sludge in pipes and hot water tanks to over chemicalized water in septic systems, victims became bigger victims on facebook as they were constantly attacked. This of course was the model for how convicted Fall River Mayor Jasiel Correia , Carreiro's Snow Owl client, used a facebook army to destroy institutions in the city and suck on its infrastructure. Up until Expect Better Swansea exposed the facebook and media links to the power, the people had no manner to address their concerns as state and local officials were always dissuaded by other Swansea office holders, holding down the lies ( From Conservation to Collector and Clerk and subsequent Town managers). You see Swansea is a town where bids are ignored, where town officials are in business together on properties and the police chief should be behind bars as he has allowed the department to be a political glove. Actually, you see he should not even be a cop. In 1998, this "Reporter," discovered then Officer Haslam was part of a Swansea Police coverup of the shooting of a unarmed black man in Westport. They shot at him more than 40 times. They tried to cover it up but State Police tipped off this reporter who was at the time working at the Standard Times. The Herald News ran the coverup story the next morning. The Standard Times ran the truth. This fact was left out by the Herald News when they wrote about Chief Haslam being named months after a manufactured juvenile police report ended up on.....faceboook. .... How can a newspaper cover this up in today's age if it is not done to keep a false narrative alive??? At the very least it says a lot about the lack of news judgement at the Herald News and Gannett. The towns people do not trust them any more. Want more, they so called newspaper also left out the ACLU complaint, the release of juvenile reports to facebook and the continuing charging of people who the political office holders don’t like.
So the towns people have created their own information portals in private chats and neighborhood groups. Already, sitting Selectman Dereck Heim, (who was one of the 3 who hired and protected the police and lied to this reporter over and over) took out papers but backed down once an Expect Better Swansea candidate announced. You won't find that Expect Better Swansea announcement on the fixed pages or in the local media. After all voters already know how to clean the town and it has nothing to do with WSAR or GANNETT.

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When the people know the truth but whats left of the media won't  tell the truth...
02/22/2022

When the people know the truth but whats left of the media won't tell the truth...

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