Just imagine where we’d be if Superintendents in New Hampshire were this focused on academic excellence in their public schools!!

Dear Superintendent Costa,

I was made aware of an incident that took place recently in the school district where one of the teachers sent a letter home to parents apologizing for what is now being described as a mistake. This mistake involved a spring concert where someone approved the theme “From the River to the Sea.” You were quoted in the Seacoast Online article saying it “was mistakenly chosen as the theme for Hampton Academy’s upcoming spring concert.”

Related: School District Has to ‘Retire’ Their DEIJ Director

Given the current events happening in the U.S. on college campuses, it’s shocking that the staff was not aware of this phrase, and no one else in the school caught it. You also mentioned that you took responsibility.

Maybe this was a mistake, but it does remind me of the time when you facilitated Hampton students meeting with BLM. You were gleeful on that first Zoom call when you helped BLM access Hampton students.

BLM has not hidden their vile statements, which also include the statement “From the River to the Sea.”

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According to the American Jewish Committee:
This is a rallying cry for terrorist groups and their sympathizers, from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) to Hamas, which called for Israel’s destruction in its original governing charter in 1988 and was responsible for the October 7, 2023 terror attack on Israeli civilians, murdering over 1,200 people in the single deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust. It is also a common call-to-arms for pro-Palestinian activists, especially student activists on college campuses. It calls for the establishment of a State of Palestine from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, erasing the State of Israel and its people. Another phrase “Globalize the Intifada,” which uses the Arabic word for “uprising” or “shaking off,” also calls for widespread violence against both Israelis and Jews across the globe (see “Globalize the Intifada”).

The position from BLM is very clear and is not one of neutrality where lives on both sides of this conflict are valued.

At Brooklyn pro-Palestine rally, calls to eliminate both Israel and US
At a pro-Palestinian, pro-Black Lives Matters demonstration in Brooklyn this week, participants called to eliminate the Jewish state as well as the United States, amid chants of “Death to Israel,” “Death to America” and “From Gaza to Minnesota, globalize the Intifada!”

Given your role in helping BLM access students in the Hampton district, I have to question what is going on under your leadership.

I have not seen any condemnation of this kind of hatred by anyone representing BLM. Why haven’t you addressed any of this with the community? By connecting students with BLM, you appear to be helping Hampton students learn this message of hate directed at Jews. I think it’s time to address what you have also done in this district.

Pursuant to the Right to Know Law (RSA, 91-1), I am requesting public access, within five business days, to the governmental records:

1) COPIES of ALL communication (emails, text messages, etc.) between SAU90 and Black Lives Matter representatives.

Per RSA 91-A:4IV(C) If you deny any portion of this request, please cite the specific exemption used to justify the denial to make each record, or part thereof, available for inspection along with a brief explanation of how the exemption applies to the information withheld.

—
Ann Marie Banfield
TRUST REQUIRES TRANSPARENCY

 

Editors Note: For the record, this is the actual SAU90 district logo.

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The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has stealthily insinuated itself into ever-more influential positions at the United Nations, three experienced attorneys testified at a recent congressional hearing. furthering Chinese economic hegemony while chiseling away at Western human rights protections. Titled “The Chinese Communist Party’s Malign Influence at the United Nations – It’s Getting Worse,” the hearing before the House Subcommittee on Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations featured bipartisan whistle-blowing against one-party China.

Bringing differing perspectives to the hearing, the witnesses shared common insights to demonstrate that China has shrewdly employed financial diplomacy to secure key UN leadership positions to further its national economic interests under its “Belt and Road” initiative while reshaping international human rights toward more autocratic principles. The unflattering portrait of steadily growing Chinese influence over UN policy was less subtle than President Xi Jinping’s artful CCP policies.

“Xiplomacy”

The crafty term “Xiplomacy” was coined in China as shorthand for the wily CCP shift to “Xi Jinping Thought on Diplomacy.” The rise of Jinping to party leadership brought a change from China’s erstwhile “snapping turtle” defensive diplomacy to “wolf warrior” foreign policy. Neither the wolf nor turtle is featured in the Sheng Xiao (Chinese zodiac), but the clear imagery well reflects the current strategy of the nation often called the Red Dragon, the Middle Kingdom, or (as coined by Napoleon) the “Sleeping Giant.”

Following the CCP’s disastrous Tiananmen Square incident in 1989, the Western world cringed. Then-CCP-leader Deng Xiaoping advised his party leadership to “hide your strength and bide your time.” In recent years, Jinping has departed from this stealthy path to an increasingly aggressive foreign posture. China has steadily secured economic and raw materials footholds around the globe in its nationalist “Belt and Road” initiatives while an overconfident and self-focused America has gradually become the giant that fell asleep and lost its strength. The UN has served as an important fulcrum to advance China’s ambitious hegemony at the expense of Western economic, political, and humanitarian preeminence.

The Wolf Warrior in Sheep’s Clothing

The wolf warrior mantra resembles a “Make China Great Again” kind of nationalism. Former US Ambassador to the UN in Geneva Andrew Bremberg testified that he witnessed this foreign policy transition firsthand, asserting that it “… actively bends international norms to fit Beijing’s malign interest, at times specifically challenging the Western international order established by the U.S. and our allies following World War II.” Bremberg highlighted China’s use of financial contributions to the UN to “place Chinese nationals in key positions within the UN system, including specialized agencies, to quietly change the status quo.” The conclusion was that China has employed its Machiavellian UN infiltration to shape discourse and international norms to shield its own human rights abuses from scrutiny, fortify its economic ambitions and power, continue its theft of intellectual property and forced technology transfers, and counter transparency.

Ambassador Bremberg further emphasized that “the COVID-19 pandemic showed the world firsthand the consequences of China’s influence at the UN. China clearly failed to live up to its obligations under the International Health Regulations (IHRs).” Bremberg has previously criticized the proposed Pandemic Treaty, alleging that the WHO bent to political pressure from China during the COVID-19 outbreak:

“Former Ambassador Andrew Bremberg, the U.S. representative to the WHO during the pandemic, said at the Feb. 5 event that not one of the proposed agreement’s provisions under consideration would deal with the No. 1 issue: China’s lack of transparency and accountability. In 2020, earlier epidemiological data could have helped the U.S. and other countries understand the nature and scope of the outbreak sooner – and thereby respond more effectively.

“Another key concern is Article 18, which calls for combating misinformation through international collaboration. Critics say that could exacerbate the suppression of dissenting viewpoints, which conservatives see as systematized censorship.”

The International Political Battlespace

Former Ambassador to the United Nations Economic and Social Council Kelley E. Currie questioned “to what degree is [the CCP] using these institutions to expand their power and influence at our expense,” and concluded that “the more influence China has at the UN, the less likely the UN system’s activities will redound to the benefit of our or the world’s security, freedom, and prosperity.” Attorney Currie warned the Subcommittee sharply:

“….Xi Jinping’s approach to foreign policy is rooted in his conviction that ensuring regime security at home requires a proactive strategy abroad. As a result, China’s efforts to reshape the international political battlespace have grown exponentially in scope, scale, and sophistication over the past ten years.

“His comprehensive national security concept (总体国家安全观 zongti guojia anquan guan) does not 2 functionally distinguish between internal and external security. Rather, according to CCP sources, it encompasses “political, military, homeland security, economic, cultural, social, technological, cyberspace, ecological, resource, nuclear, overseas interests, outer space, deep sea, polar, and biological security issues, among others.” This everything, everywhere, all at once approach is deemed necessary because Xi and his colleagues believe the CCP party-state is under perpetual threat from hostile foreign forces whose true aim is to weaken China and derail the “Chinese Dream” (中国梦 Zhōngguó Mèng) of the “great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.”

“As CCP head, Xi Jinping has reinvigorated the Chinese Communist Party’s state security architecture and consolidated personal control over it to a degree unprecedented since Mao,” Currie alleged. She charged that Xi’s various global initiatives “represent an ambitious effort to reshape the normative and ideological underpinnings of the post-World War II global architecture to make the world more accommodating of CCP authoritarianism” wrapped up in an ideological bow as “China’s ‘gift to the world’ of novel solutions to the global challenges of economic development and international peace and security.”

Currie averred that the shift from turtle to wolf is an alarming threat to the world order, that leading members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) have partnered with China in this effort, and that Chinese diplomats have sought to insert “community of shared future” globalist propaganda language into UN resolutions. She boldly charged that “Today, the party-state is aggressively promoting its funhouse mirror vision of human rights as superior to the ‘Western’ model.”

China Battling for the UN’s Soul

Equally strident warnings came from Suzanne Nossel, a magna cum laude graduate of both Harvard College and Harvard Law School who worked in the Obama and Clinton administrations and served as Chief Operating Officer of Human Rights Watch and Executive Director of Amnesty International USA. If Currie was cautionary, Nossel was a modern-day UN Jeremiah:

“….Beijing is using its sway within the world body to blunt criticism, shut out and stigmatize Taiwan, plug its Belt and Road Initiative, and dilute norms that might be used to hold it accountable.

“The UN has become an arena for contestation between democracy and autocracy. It is a realm that Beijing is taking seriously in its quest for mounting global dominion. …China is determined to reshape the UN in its image––one that downplays individual rights and emphasizes national sovereignty and noninterference in internal affairs.

“The UN has become a key testing ground for Beijing’s global leadership ambitions—and is not a stage China will surrender lightly. Rather than ceding ground as a consequence of ambivalence or political divisions at home over the role and credibility of the UN, the US should meet China at full strength on this global proving ground….”

Under the heading “Battling for the UN’s Soul,” Nossel concluded her powerful presentation with a list of proposed tactics the US must employ to counter the emerging Chinese wolf warrior. She counseled keeping current on UN dues, recommitting to the alliance, supporting US staff in advancement within UN ranks, and taking advantage of America’s position as host country, largest contributor, and “the driving force behind many of its most important initiatives and resolutions.” Her counsel to America was not stealthy, but straightforward: “China recognizes the latent power of the UN as a force multiplier for its interests across the world; we must do so as well…. The US should seize the initiative in shaping the UN for the future.

 

John Klar is an Attorney, farmer, and author. Mostly farmer… And Regular Contributor to GraniteGrok and VermontGrok.

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Last night, I had dinner with an old friend, Nurse Michele, who had the same employer as Nurse Terese at the time she was launched into fame.  Because yesterday was May 6, I wished her a happy Nurses DAY and she corrected me that it’s Nurses WEEK.

I think somewhere along the timeline in history, the same thing happened with motorcycles in Laconia on a Father’s Day weekend.

Much can be said about the institution of nursing and appreciation for nurses, but that’s left to a nurse to take charge of.  I am NOT a nurse, and neither is Mrs Howard Pearl, an LNA formerly known as Heather Birch.  Did you know that the Damn Emperor nominated her to the Board of Nursing, and she was rubber-stamped in by the executive council?

Political favor?  You tell me.

It wasn’t the first time I consulted Meagan, the amazing EC secretary, to get some intel, and she delivered. I was told that the Board has a seat for LNAs. Fair enough, at least as it stands now in its current framework.  I knew she was a massage therapist and a good one, but I didn’t know she was a LNA.

I also learned (from someone other than Meagan) that she wants to go to nursing school. I wish her all the best, but I want to recognize some current nurses.  Please let it be known that the list is certainly not exhaustive, so hopefully no nurse’s feelings are hurt by not being mentioned.  It’s not a list based on professional excellence because I am not qualified to evaluate such things.  This is my own personal “naughty and nice” list of nurses that have a minimum level of name recognition in NH.  What makes them naughty or nice doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with their job performance AS A NURSE but their good or bad activism, dereliction of duty as a legislator, evil decisions as a bureaucrat, or other qualifying behavior.  Let’s wait no further and recognize them.

NICE:
Terese Bastarache, RN, nurse, arrested for saying “amen”
Rep Leah Cushman RN, removed by the Speaker for administering oaths.
Rep Katy Peternel RN, House Education committee member who flushed out RINO Brodie Deshaies in a Wolfeboro primary
Lynn L’Heureux RN, former school candidate and fighter against Mask Madness
Larisa Trexler RN, founder of Health Freedom NH
Candidate Hollie Noveletsky (nurse practitioner hoping to unseat the PappASS)
Hon Linda Camarota RN, nursing teacher and stolen 9/7/21 Bedford special election victim and future constituent of “Councilor Bastarache.”

NAUGHTY:
Lori Shibinette
Peggy Gilmour
Paige Beauchemin
Bobbie Bagley
Rep Sofikitis
Ruth Ward (nurse practitioner and senate sheeple)

And many lobbyists and bureaucrats that I asked Terese to name, but I’m not waiting for her response.

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As the world looks on, the 2024 Presidential Race will not be the pinnacle of democracy. Americans want to believe we are still a superpower, not just militarily, but as an example of what a great country can be.

Many of us want America to be that beacon on the hill, while others want us to be a magnet for every illegal migrant who can find their way to our wide open borders. Instead of two quality individuals capable of being the leader of the free world, we have a current President who cannot remember when he was a Senator or how he became President and a former President who the current President is using his Justice Department to put behind bars. We have one candidate spending nearly every day in a courtroom and another trying to buy every vote he can. The Right and Left are locked in and immovable in their commitment to their candidate. And we have the middle of America, either ignorant of the issues or incapable of caring about them. In this upside-down world, this middle America will decide the 2024 election.

Unlike Presidential elections over the last seven decades, we have two men who have been President, and have records to compare and nobody can debate they are very different records and visions of America. Trump was bringing America back from the malaise of the Obama/Biden Presidency when the Pandemic hit. The economy was racing, IRAs were growing, inflation was low, jobs were plenty, we were energy independent, and the border was secure. He was able to put the Supreme Court in a position to overturn Roe v. Wade and put abortion back in the states. We were in a good place until COVID.

Biden used the COVID situation, and convinced the country that Trump was chaotic. The Democrats used Impeachment to perfection and with Biden secure in his Delaware basement, he managed a record 81 million votes to win the White House. Common sense will tell you that the vote total is bogus, but saying so will get you canceled quicker than a bad sitcom.

MAGA Republicans want Trump back to finish the job he started. Democrats do not want Biden, but they have no other choice. With these two camps secure, the battle is for everyone between these two groups. Trump’s numbers are increasing every week, and the court cases against him are backfiring. Biden and Harris are experiencing the worst approval numbers in history. Worse for Biden is the support he is hemorrhaging in usual Democrat strongholds. Blacks, Browns, Millennials, Gen-Z, and even women are losing faith in the aging lifetime politician. People are hurting in many areas, and you will have to search hard for anyone who claims they are in a better place under Biden than Trump.

States like Michigan, Wisconsin, and Virginia are showing signs of flipping Red. If true, this could be a Reaganessque-type election. There is still the possibility of Biden being replaced at the convention in Chicago. With the campus unrest still simmering, abortion and immigration pushed as Democrat strong points, and anti-semitism on the rise, Chicago may be a mess for Biden and the Left. The msm is being forced to cover events they have shied away from for three years, which will impact Independents. If the numbers can be trusted, Biden/Harris will not finish the destruction of America. Please God, let the numbers be true.

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In keeping with my taxing things theme, this might be a good time to remind everyone, especially Republicans in the NH Legislature, that those among them who supported HB1002 (The public documents tax) can no longer argue for government transparency or accountability. They voted that right away.

And should it become law, you can no longer say, “When you tax something, you get less of it,” because that is true.

When the government attaches burdens in the form of fines, fees, or costs (a tax), you will get less of it. HB1002 allows municipalities to charge citizens for access to public documents. Citizen access to public documents is a legislative check on local executive power. The people are the legislature, and the select board, council, town manager, or mayor are the executive.

Given the power, The Executive will charge for access. In some cases, they will make sure there is a charge. In many cases, it will be prohibitive. In all cases, you will get less transparency and accountability.

You taxed it and will get less of it. If this were physics, it would be an immutable law, like how people most inclined to abuse power are drawn to it – the way pedophiles look for ways to be near children.

You can hide behind the notion that this was a necessary change to address the costs of complying with the right-to-know law, but what it does is make the entire process more complicated and labor intensive, and in the end, citizens looking to hold the government accountable will pay, either through their wallets or the decreases in accountability.

 

 

 

 

 

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The most important takeaway from the “campus protests”? That colleges are radicalizing, versus educating, young adults? NO, NO, NO. Anybody paying the slightest bit of attention already knew that colleges have been indoctrinating Woke-Communism for, not years, but decades. That’s yesterday’s news as in last century’s news.

No, the most important takeaway is how organized the Left is and how fractured and disorganized the supposed “Right” is in America versus the Left. The “Right’s” idea of “organizing” is setting up a Facebook page that consists mostly of complaining and “woe is us.” The Left, in contrast, in the blink of an eye can manifest “protests” throughout America.

And this lack of organization on the “Right” has devastating consequences. It is unarguable that the 2020 election was stolen … and stolen as in not just from Trump, but more importantly from the voters who voted for Trump. The steal succeeded because the “Right” was caught completely flatfooted whereas the Left was not.

The “Left”, with the unwitting or perhaps witting help of UniParty-GOP-quislings, had a plan to normalize the rigging of the 2020 election and carried it out flawlessly. Pointing out obvious problems with the way the 2020 election was conducted (as but one example, the many last-minute unlawful changes to voting practices in swing-States) made you an “election denier”; any protesting made you an “insurrectionist,”  etc., etc., etc..

The “campus protests” are just a small taste of what is in store not if, but when, the 2024 election is also stolen. The Left will burn America to the ground to keep power … in the blink-of-an-eye BLM, Antifa, the “college protesters,” etc., etc., etc. will be unleashed on any legitimate organic protests of the sham election. And the resulting mayhem and chaos and destruction will, of course, be blamed by the Regime-media on Trump and his supporters, on the rationale that they caused it by refusing to accept that Biden won the election, justifying intervention by the FBI and other “law enforcement” against any legitimate organic protests of the sham election.

That, my dear bitter-clingers, is the most important takeaway from the campus protests. So while you may not like … indeed may despise … the message/goals of the “campus protests,” you need to admire and respect the Left’s ability to manifest them.

 

 

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As promised in Monday Memes, I have an overflow. My meme cup runneth over.  And yes there will be a Friday edition too.

Also, please do check out my post highlighting a Bill Whittle video that I re-watch regularly:

Bill Whittle: A Defense of Civilizations – Granite Grok

Let the mayhem, mockery, and ridicule resume:

 

*** Warning, a few possibly off-color ones, in case tender eyes are about ***

 

 

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In the Arab world, white women are considered especially valuable sex slave captives.  I read, IIRC by Raymond Ibrahim, how the promises of taking blonde Byzantine women as captives was used as a selling point for the ongoing recruitment of warriors to attack Constantinople.

 

 

 

 

 

I remember a great meme from years ago.  “I don’t have a soul.  I am a soul.  I have a body”.

 

 

 

 

 

Excellent point.  And not just at one campus, but all the campuses.  All uniform.

 

 

 

 

 

What about now, hit man?

 

 

 

 

 

I try to not crack “bad” jokes in general, at least not racial, etc.  Unless it’s a Jewish joke.  Then, I think, I am allowed.

 

 

 

 

 

As I understand it from the trial, yesterday, she was describing in lurid detail the *ahem* relations she had with Trump.  But this is the second letter in which she definitively said she didn’t do anything with him in that way.  I sure hope that Trump’s lawyer is on this like white on rice.

 

 

 

 

 

People opposed said either “Hail Cloward-Piven” or “No comprende” (to be fair, many other languages t00).

 

 

 

 

 

 

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PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA

 

What we’re fighting against.

 

 

 

Objective truth can be damaging to the ego.

 

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Links (some from me, some from my Jarhead friend):

Note – a lot here between me and him.  This seem to be spiraling IMHO.

 

Hakeem Jeffries just confirmed that he controls Speaker Johnson and the House. “The Republicans in the House are a majority in name only.” This is why nothing has changed for the better in America over the last three years. The Uniparty is to blame. – Whatfinger News Summary

Hakeem Jeffries just confirmed that he controls Speaker Johnson and the House.

“The Republicans in the House are a majority in name only.”

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(2) Megan Basham on X: “Google has reportedly taken down this very effective Trump ad for an unspecified “policy violation.” What policy could this possibly violate @Google?? https://t.co/XZ64tADPgM” / X (twitter.com)

Yes, very effective.  Which is why, of course, it’s been taken down.  Can’t have the proles waking up to what the Left has done to this country.  As is this one (from here):

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/trump-ad-illegals.mp4

 

 

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WARREN BUFFETT COMPARES AI TO NUKES AFTER SEEING DEEPFAKE DOPPELGANGER Buffet: “I mean, scamming has always been part of the American scene, but this would make me… – Whatfinger News Summary

Been saying for a while now, “public” AI is getting to the point where it takes a very sharp eye to see that it’s fake.  Imagine, for a moment, just how good the AI is that we don’t know about.

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ICYMI: World’s Largest Floating Solar Power Plant Wrecked by Storm Just Before Grand Launch (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hᴏft

OOH, I don’t want to see this.  OTOH, I have to admit having a Schadenboner at this.

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“crooked Joe” would lead us into World War III? * 100PercentFedUp.com * by Noah

I remember one co-worker, leading up to November 2016, who was terrified Trump would start WW3.  Wonder what she’s thinking now?

As an aside, this prompted some research.  Dem predictions of WW3 were rife with virtually every Republican candidate for multiple election cycles.

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Special Counsel Admits KEY Evidence Tampering in Trump Case; Trump Calls For His Arrest * 100PercentFedUp.com * by M Winger

Special Counsel Jack Smith’s crew is dropping a bombshell!

They’re admitting that crucial evidence in Trump’s classified documents case got tampered with after the FBI grabbed it.

And get this—prosecutors kept quiet about it for a while, which, according to legal experts, is a big no-no.

This revelation could seriously trip up the prosecutors.

Related:

‘Federal Agency Had ‘Pallets’ Of Documents Sent To Mar-A-Lago One Year Before DOJ Raid’; so did these bastards set Trump up? Did the GSA in collusion with Obama & Biden INC. do this? Did 45 know? 45 (substack.com)

I would, absolutely, bet on a set-up.

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Gov. Healey Pours Over $400 Million From Savings To Shelter Illegal Immigrants | WLT Report

Illegals over citizens and legal residents.  Priorities.  Related:

Biden plans to import the Death to America voting block – Flopping Aces

More on migration:

$3.5 Billion Slipped Into Ukraine-Israel Aid Bill To ‘Supercharge Mass Migration From The Middle East’ | ZeroHedge

Why, it’s almost as though importing millions of people who would, by definition, be hostile to us is intentional.

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US slams ‘irresponsible rhetoric’ as Russia orders nuclear drills – Insider Paper

I will keep saying this until I’m either blue in the face, or flash-fried, that this is a grim echo of the lead-up to WWI.  Every country taking every logical step in the face of what potential adversaries were doing… until the shooting became inevitable.

Russia issues military ultimatum to UK — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union

Russia can / will only issue so many OR ELSE statements… and then they’ll be forced to follow through.  Or lose credibility.  And this is how it begins…

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Bayou Renaissance Man: When helping others may be hazardous to your freedom

Don’t forget the old adage: “No good deed goes unpunished”.

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Kid, you don’t even KNOW from violence (coldfury.com)

These people have stability privilege.  They have NO IDEA what the world is capable of when civilization falls:

 

 

These Leftards TRULY BELIEVE that, if America falls, all will be rainbows and light and one big global happy family.  Lennon’s IMAGINE writ large.

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Green Blob Tells Government to Spend £30 Billion on Machine to Remove CO2 From the Air – Watts Up With That?

Take away plant food.  What could go wrong?  Related to the climate change cult:

Newly Discovered 90,000-Year-Old Human Footprints Reveal How Much Higher Sea Levels Used To Be (notrickszone.com)

Nature Publication: Researchers Find Arctic Region 10,000 Years Ago Warmer Than Today (notrickszone.com)

Water Vapor Absorbs 84 Times More Radiation Than CO2 … Clouds Drove 89% Of 1982-2018 Warming (notrickszone.com)

Water vapor?  Warmer?  Why, what might have caused that?

What NASA and the European Space Agency are admitting but the media are failing to report about our current heat wave (bumped) – American Thinker

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Today’s NYT scratches the surface – Nurse Claire Says

MHO: there is a growing admission in the “beautiful people” circles that the Jab did widespread damage.  I think, I hope, we are on the edge of an awakening.  I just pray Carl Sagan’s warning about bamboozlement gets a drubbing this time.

 

 

More:

John Campbell on the new NYT article back peddling the vaxx – Vlad Tepes (vladtepesblog.com)

In other words, this NYT article starts to look like a fire-escape down from the gallows where these characters are beginning to look like they belong.

What Happened to their Babies? – by Karen Kingston (substack.com)

Pfizer’s FDA submitted data documented that the some of the babies and toddlers experienced fevers of greater than 104 degrees Fahrenheit, seizures (with eye rolling), convulsions, and seizures lasting more than 5 minutes and multiple seizures a day -sometimes a dozen or more, brain damage confirmed by an EEG, hypotonia (limp ‘lifeless-like’ baby), and lissencephaly (“genetically-induced” brain malformation characterized by the absence of convolutions/folds) in babies and toddlers injected with mRNA nanoparticles.

There are no words in any human language sufficient to capture how much I hate pharma for this.  And their pets in government.  But even more so for the people – nurses, doctors, and even parents – who saw this happening and stayed silent.  From here:

Most of us know someone who was injured or killed by the vaccine.

Don’t let them gaslight you into believing that these stories are fake or made up.

Millions injured. Hundreds of thousands dead- and that’s only with a 1% reporting rate on the VAERS database.

This is the reality of the destruction they have caused.
@SoundOfFreedomChannel

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/jab-injured.mp4

 

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Items I Stockpile Because I Don’t Trust the Government – Ask a Prepper

Short of having a yuuuuuge disposable income and years of time, plus a completely-supportive family supporting a prepper life, you’ll never be truly prepared.  Even then it’s iffy.  But even SOMETHING puts you ahead of the average sheeple.

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Democrats Biggest Fear Just Happened by Kevin Jackson (theblacksphere.net)

The Potato is damned if he does, and damned if he doesn’t.  But he’s counting on the refinement and amplification of the vote fraud machine that got him there.  Related:

Sorry, neo-Nazis: The antisemitic progressive Left is the real threat to US Jews – Michael Freund (jewishworldreview.com)

The fact is that the loudest and most virulent voices of antisemitism are coming straight from the self-proclaimed progressives, who hurl the modern-day equivalent of medieval blood libels against Israel and harass and intimidate Jewish college students.

And that recognition is getting to American Jews.  Finally:

The Jewish vote is up for grabs, and it may decide the election – Caroline Glick (jewishworldreview.com)

Let’s be real.  Most Jews are urban and live in blue hives where blue victories are, essentially a given.

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Warren Buffet Warns That You’re Going to Get a Tax Hike – PJ Media

But… but… but The Potato promised it’d only be THE RICH!  What amazes me is how, time and time and time again the ads say “The RICH will be asked to pay… a little but more” – but it always ends up hitting the middle class.  And yet, people never learn from it.

Paging this Bill Whittle video:

EAT THE RICH! (youtube.com)

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Government mandates that your car ‘monitor’ your behavior – American Thinker

“Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.”

― William Pitt the Younger

Drivers face having ‘mandatory’ speed limiter installed in car from July – Birmingham Live (birminghammail.co.uk)

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Raconteur Report: Oopsie: Confirmation Bias Is Hard On Your Wedding Tackle

Never be diverted from the truth by what you want to believe.  Confirmation bias is a real thing.

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Biden’s description of Japan as xenophobic is ‘unfortunate’: Tokyo – Insider Paper

But… but… but the grown ups are in charge now, right?

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Another reason NOT to have all our healthcare data on the internet:

https://borepatch.blogspot.com/2024/05/kaiser-permanente-shares-user-data-with.html

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Astra-Zenica has finally admitted (publicly) that their Covid-19 vaccines can cause strokes:

https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/vaccine-manufacturer-finally-admits-to-stroke-side-effect-facts-matter-5640630

And the CDC covered up deaths in the Covid trials, and gave us the “safe and effective” hogwash anyway:

https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/exclusive-cdc-found-evidence-covid-19-vaccines-caused-deaths-5632265

We need Nuremburg II, and ASAP!

 

 

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This is for my Jewish friends:  You need to get serious about learning self-defense, because the world is a dangerous place, and when something happens, generally YOU are the ONLY person who can offer a defense against violence directed at you (or your family):

How to End the Craziness on College Campuses – PJ Media

Comments on the above:

Instapundit » Blog Archive » RABBI MICHAEL BARCLAY: How to End the Craziness on College Campuses. “Let’s be clear: I am not rec

And things are getting worse:

https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/columbia-students-take-over-building-on-campus-as-deadline-to-seize-protesting-passes-5640235

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If you have a “Ring” doorbell, you may be getting some cash back (at the cost of your privacy, of course):

Borepatch: Ring doorbell company fined millions of dollars for privacy violations

Speaking of privacy, the scammers are now using artificial intelligence (AI) to create “deep fakes” of voice, video, even signatures, and then using them to scam you (or others in your family) to send them money.  This is why I do NOT allow my picture to be taken randomly (only by my wife, with a non-web connected camera), and I don’t do any type of social media:

How scammers use AI | Allstate Identity Protection

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The Great Replacement is the GOAL, not just a conspiracy theory anymore.  Here is a 12 minute video given at the CPAC gathering in Hungry by Eva Vlaardingerbroek of the Netherlands talking about it.  NOTE:  Many EU countries are trying to ban this video, because she NAILS it:

Worth the Time to Watch | NC Renegades

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Jeffery Tucker opines on how the CIA is the power that is REALLY running the country:

Does the CIA Run America? | The Epoch Times

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Canada introduces blood-curdling new ‘thought police’ law that would make even Stalin blush… – Revolver News

Relentlessly advancing.  And you think you’ll VOTE your way out of this?

 

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Not to say that I’m eager for SHTF, “Spicy Time”, or whatever you want to call it.  Nor am I eager, with a few notable exceptions, for the Jab-pocalypse to start taking large numbers of people – I pray for those in my life that I value who are Jabbed daily.  Still, cue this famous line from the movie Caddyshack:

Caddyshack – Well? We’re Waiting (youtube.com)

 

 

 

 

 

I say this is deliberate.  Individual minds can only take so much before they start to shut down.

 

 

 

 

More than one Globalist has admitted that GREEN is really a way to push the world to become RED.

Watermelons: The Green Movement’s True Colors

From the blurb:

At its very roots, argues Delingpole, climate change is an ideological battle, not a scientific one. Green on the outside, red on the inside, the liberty-loathing, humanity-hating “watermelons” of the modern environmental movement do not want to save the world. They want to rule it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is an opportunity to create another NITZAKHON QUOTABLE:

 

When you have to build a wall – whether physical or otherwise – to keep people in your “people’s paradise”, then it’s not paradise, but a prison.

— Nitzakhon, 2024

 

And brings up one of my better quotes from times past:

 

 

 

 

 

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Pick of the Post:

 

 

Peg out the RIDICULE-O-METER!  Brilliant!

 

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Palate cleansers:

 

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Been nailed by this more than once.

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Come back on Friday for more memes.  Same meme time.  Same meme channel.

 

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Israel is preparing to take their battle to obliterate Hamas to Rafa, and this does not sit well with Joe Biden. Even though an aid package for Israel has been approved by Congress and signed by Biden, the President is withholding military equipment from our number one ally in the Middle East.

Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the campaign into Raffa today and sent a subliminal message to Joe Biden. Without mentioning the decision by Biden, Netanyahu told the world that they will continue their mission even if they have to do it alone. Joe Biden is destroying our relationship with Israel, and it is inexcusable but explainable. Joe Biden is more concerned with votes in Michigan than the safety and sovereignty of Israel. Joe Biden should be impeached for abandoning Israel, and where is Chuck Schumer, the highest-ranking Jewish member of Congress, with a condemnation of Biden’s actions?

Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken have been trying to micromanage Israel’s retaliation against Hamas. As I have written previously, neither of these men is in any position to tell any country how they should handle their military strategy. Biden has political pressure to get Israel to cease this conflict as soon as possible. That is not what Israel needs or wants. They want Hamas gone, just like we wished to have Al-Qaeda gone after 9-11. If any country had attempted to restrict our efforts, we would have told them precisely what Israel is telling us. Thanks, but we have this. Now, get out of our way.

Joe Biden has Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) looking over his shoulder, and he is petrified of her power base in Michigan. Biden already experienced Tlaib’s influence with the Michigan Primary. Tlaib got over 100,000 Democrats to vote for “Anyone except Biden.” If Biden does not appease Tlaib and she pulls the same trick out of her bag for the Presidential election, Biden could very well lose Michigan to Trump.

Tlaib and her followers support Palestinians and want an end to this conflict. They are not concerned with the Hamas invasion of October 7 or the attacks of Hamas and Hezbollah against Israel. Monday was Holocaust Remembrance Day, which recognizes the end of the genocide of Jews by Hitler. At that time, the world pledged, “Never again.” According to Benjamin Netanyahu, “Never again is now.” With this declaration, Netanyahu is committing to all Israelis that Israel is intent on destroying any future threat from Hamas.

Some of Biden’s most lucrative sponsors also fund these illegal encampments and college protests nationwide. Biden is between a rock and a hard place, or to be more specific, he is between votes/money and the best interests of Israel and America. Biden has no spine and concentrates on retaining power and office. He has to get these situations under control before the DNC Convention in Chicago this summer. If not, the optics will harm him badly. When he finally spoke out on the campus unrest last week, he condemned antisemitism but also anti-Islamic words or actions. There has been no anti-Islamic activity in these campus actions, and he was covering all bases. What it showed was weakness.

Biden has to make a decision. He is either going to shut down these college actions and support Israel or satisfy his critics. Even considering a choice is not presidential, and that is why he should not be given a second term.

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Some of you voted, and we’ve got another comment of the week winner!

Congratulations to notoriousBLOG.

Here is that winning comment.

Post: Night Cap: TWENTY (20) Percent Of Mail-In-Votes in 2020 Were Fraudulent
Author: notoriousBLOG

Comment: Three and a half years later and the “truth” that most on the right already knew is being told. What are we to do when Washington is so corrupted that this type of activity is actually orchestrated from the White House and the ABC agencies? The bigger question is will there even be an election this November? What do the powers that be have in store for us this go-round? Will it be another plandemic? Will it be martial law declared to cancel the elections? Or will the puppets find a way to lock up or otherwise eliminate Trump? This is going to be the year that determines the fate of our entire existence as a sovereign nation.

If notoriousBLOG would like to collect a prize for this honor, they can email me at steve@granitegrok.com and provide a shipping address where I can send it!

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This might be a great Town Hall forum question for Democratic candidates. “Is there any problem you can’t fix with a new or higher tax?” I want a list, please, but I sense it would look like that redacted FDA document—a bunch of blank pages. While true, Dems do believe this; they don’t want to admit it publicly.

The government spent a lot of taxdollars to ‘cure’ COVID, and that cure was worse than doing nothing. There ought to be a lesson in that, but no one seems to have learned it, at least not in Massachusetts (Taxachusetts, Massghanistan). They keep electing candidates who think every problem can be solved with another tax.

Governor Maura Healey’s $4 billion housing bond bill, the state’s biggest-ever investment in its residential stock, includes a provision allowing cities to impose a transfer fee of 0.5% to 2% on property sales exceeding $1 million. The revenue generated would go toward affordable housing projects.

Bloomberg’s headline uses the term Mansion Tax. Have they been to Massachusetts? Peabody, MA, has an excellent multifamily rental for sale for $1.25 mil. A four-bedroom, three-bath, 2300-square-foot home can cost more than a million.

In some towns, you can’t get a three-bedroom two, two-bath ranch for less. Mansions? Seriously?

Supporters, including Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and leaders of more than 15 other municipalities, see the transfer fee as a critical tool to address a growing shortage of affordable housing. State Housing Secretary Edward Augustus says Massachusetts needs 200,000 more homes to keep pace with population growth.

“This policy is a win for local governments, but most importantly it is a win for renters and homeowners who have otherwise been priced out,” Augustus said in an e-mailed statement.

Democrats are also convinced that the tax will produce something other than well-fed camp followers once collected. It also makes Mass less desirable, a place to live and invest for people who can barely afford that 2300 square foot home.

Critics argue that the additional tax would burden commercial property developers already facing high vacancy rates, particularly in office buildings, and could lead to a decrease in overall real-estate tax revenue. Vacancy rates for office space are on the rise in Boston, Cambridge and surrounding suburbs as remote work trends persist. According to Colliers’ first-quarter market analysis, occupancy in Boston’s office market has hit its lowest point since 2010.

Oh, look – a solution!

COVID killed office space leasing, which Bidenomics made worse. Massachusetts’s State-of-emergency Alien Invasion problem is at the heart of the affordable housing rants (or is it the million-dollar 2300 sqft housing problem)? Taxpayers are already paying to put the invaders up in whatever space the state can find (it has even asked residents to house Biden’s invading army in their own homes.

If Developers are unhappy, they should convince the state to use the Mansion tax to rent out the empty office space or, here’s an idea: put them on planes and send them to a country that speaks their language and honors their customs. That would cost a lot less, reduce chaos, and you wouldn’t need a new tax.

But we wouldn’t want any of that, would we?

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A non-wordy, non-meme post.  Somewhat linky.  This is a one-hour, 44 minute video by Bill Whittle; wide ranging.  Essential.  Each time I watch it I have a deeper understanding of what he’s saying and the grave danger we’re in as a country and civilization.  But before you watch it, consider this:

Biden plans to import the Death to America voting block – Flopping Aces

Biden’s Hope to Bring Gazans to the USA | Frontpage Mag

And Barackus’ open border policy in general.  (OOPSIE, did I say that out loud?)

What is Biden’s endgame in bringing in terrorists? – American Thinker

And then pay attention to Bill’s comment about “Silk Robed Sons-of-Bitches”…

 

Bill Whittle The Assault On Civilizational Structures

 

 

And one other thing to pay attention to – our youth being under the asymptote.  Wanting a little suicide for excitement.  You need to re-ponder the “Death to America” chants on many campuses.

GWU Anti-Israel Protesters Call to ‘Liberate’ World from ‘Colonialism, White Supremacy’ as U.S. Flag Replaced with Palestinian One (breitbart.com)

And cue up my three-part series on what I see as the biological roots of civilizational collapse as a weighty conclusion:

Civilizational Collapse and Biology (Part 1) – Urban Scoop

Civilizational Collapse and Biology (Part 2) – Urban Scoop

Civilizational Collapse and Biology (Part 3) – Urban Scoop

In your copious free time, of course.

 

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Many people don’t understand what mining is and what the principle of mining is, especially now that most people no longer use traditional mining (using mining machines), but enter cloud computing mining. Especially newcomers who have just started know little about mining.

Are there still opportunities for blockchain cloud mining?

The main form of obtaining digital currency on the blockchain is through mining nodes, which continuously consume their own computing power, which means continuous mining, in exchange for Bitcoins, which is what we usually hear through hash operation collisions. Obtain accounting rights and rewards; because the Bitcoin system is completely open source, in the Bitcoin system, the mining difficulty of the entire network node can be dynamically adjusted through its own algorithm, ensuring that every 10 minutes or so, in the Bitcoin network, There will be a node that successfully mines; once someone mines successfully, the Bitcoin system will reward that person with a certain number of Bitcoins. This amount is also controlled by the algorithm. From the beginning, each person who successfully mines will get 25 Bitcoins. The reward will be reduced by half every four years; that is, the reward for successful mining in the next four years will be 12.5, the reward for the next four years will be 6.25, and so on.

The best choice for newbies who believe in the charm of cloud mining

For investment novices who want to get involved in cryptocurrency assets, it is recommended to carefully study the basic knowledge of blockchain and crypto assets before officially starting. You are not required to understand all concepts, but at least establish a superficial knowledge of this industry. After all, investment must first be based on a correct understanding of the investment target.

If you are an investor who believes in the concept of value investing, investing in Bitcoin is still a good thing from a dynamic perspective.

For newcomers to Bitcoin investment, perhaps new energy cloud computing power mining is also a good choice! The easiest way to do this is to get the cleanest Bitcoin. As an investor for more than ten years, I recommend choosing a large platform with strength and credibility. For example: A large platform like BluestoneMining has 6.5 million users, more than 75 mining farms, and 100,000 mining equipment. Use new energy to generate electricity. Through wind energy, solar energy and other green recyclable electricity, there is no energy consumption, and excess electricity can be sold to the grid, thus generating ultra-high profits.

How to start cloud mining?

Keen to try cloud mining? Here are the basic steps to follow before getting started.

Step 1: Choose a Cloud Mining Provider

BluestoneMining is a popular and powerful cryptocurrency mining platform and an excellent resource for earning passive cryptocurrency income. The platform is one of the world’s leading mining companies and your trusted partner. To take it to the next level, BluestoneMining has launched a free Bitcoin mining plan that allows you to passively earn Bitcoins. They promise to open Bitcoin mining to everyone, regardless of technical knowledge or financial resources, with no strings attached. Once you have mined 100USDT worth of cryptocurrency, you can transfer it to your account and trade it. Any profits you make are yours and you can withdraw them to your personal wallet.

Platform advantages:

Sign up and get an instant $10 bonus.

High profitability levels and daily payouts.

There are no other service or administrative fees.

Users can generate more than 6 other currencies using the platform.

The company’s affiliate program allows you to refer friends and earn up to $3,000 in referral bonuses.

McAfee® security. Cloudflare® Security. Backed by a 100% uptime guarantee and outstanding 24/7 technical support.

Step 1: Sign up for an account

In this example, we choose BluestoneMining as our cloud mining provider. Go to the provider of your choice and sign up to create a new account. BluestoneMining offers a simple registration process, all required to participate is to enter your email address and create an account. After signing up, users can start mining Bitcoin immediately.

Step 2: Purchase a mining contract

Currently, BluestoneMining also offers various mining contract options, such as $100, $500, and $1,000 packages. Each has a unique ROI and specific contract period.

You will earn more passive income when participating in the following contracts:

Earn income the day after purchasing a contract. When your earnings reach $100, you can choose to withdraw to your crypto wallet or continue purchasing other contracts

Affiliate Program

Now, BluestoneMining has also launched an affiliate program, a platform that allows you to earn money by recommending the website to others. You can start making money even if you don’t invest. After inviting a certain number of positive referrals, you’ll receive a one-time flat bonus of up to $3,000. With unlimited referrals, your earning potential is also unlimited!

in short

If you are looking for ways to increase your passive income, cloud mining is a great way to do it. If used correctly, these opportunities can help you grow your cryptocurrency wealth on “autopilot” mode with minimal time investment. At the very least, they should take less time than any kind of active transaction. Passive income is the goal of every investor and trader, and with BluestoneMining you can maximize your passive income potential easier than ever.

If you want to know more about the BluestoneMining machine, please visit its official website:https://BluestoneMining.com/

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s famous words, “The line between good and evil runs through the human heart,” should haunt the minds of leftwing American voters; citizens proud of their hatred for our Second Amendment.

Their disdain for our right to bear arms is exactly the same as the United Nations and all other communist blood brothers throughout history. As history once again repeats itself, they demonstrate the same evil strategy that flows through the veins of all dictators. Mao Tse-tung voiced it with utmost clarity: “All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns; that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party.” Inverting reality, evil in man’s heart pulls the trigger. Gun control is people control.

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Ever since America has been a member of the UN, this inversion of reality has been the determined policy of the United States government. Gun owners, especially, should take note of this root cause behind controlling all firearms. Consider President John F. Kennedy’s speech before the UN General Assembly, surrendering the command of guns to the UN, called: “Freedom From War: The United States Program for General and Complete Disarmament in a Peaceful World.” Passionate gun owners should know its content: “I … propose on the basis of this Plan, that disarmament negotiations resume promptly, and continue without interruptions until an entire program for general and complete disarmament has not only been agreed upon but has actually been achieved.” Included were disbanding all armed forces except for internal order, the UN peace force, and elimination of national arsenals – weapons of mass destruction and means of delivery.

The John Birch Society was wise to State Department Document 7277- Disarmament in A Peaceful World. Birchers fervently questioned Washington congressional delegations. Asking, why an American president would promote submission to the UN Charter above the Constitution with which he had sworn an oath? Why would he participate in implementing a global program to surrender all firearm ownership of the individual and completely disarm our military power? Shortly thereafter, their requests for Document 7277 was answered: “out of print.” The JBS responded by publishing 7277 themselves. Copies are available at ShopJBSj.org.

We cannot ignore the UN’s historical prejudice against firearms that is portrayed in a sculpture of a pistol with a knotted gun barrel in front of UN headquarters. Guns insure liberty. Senator Mike Lee and Rep. Chip Roy have introduced S. 3428 and H.R 6645, The Defund Act to withdraw U.S. from United Nations and all its agencies. Don’t let The UN trojan horse keep their gun in the back of American liberty. Check out this four minute video on UN absolute power that can only happen when they have all weapons!

https:jbs.org/video/activate/the-danger-of-absolete-power-activate-america/

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Those of us who have committed ourselves to living in the sausage factory of politics are keenly aware of the dynamics, so we know we need good people in elected office we can support. We need them now.

And while General John Stark may not be rolling over in his grave about what we’ve done with the liberty for which his men fought and died, he would want us to do whatever we could to defend what is left and (certainly) work to improve on it. He would want you to step up and fight for freedom.

To live free or die (rhetorically, in this case).

It is a battle worth fighting because the Democrats will not waste time raising taxes, grooming kids, taking freedoms, and adding strings to DC if they take the majority. They will undermine health freedom, go after our Second Amendment rights, and try to undermine free speech further. Energy will get more expensive, and illegals will get more rights than actual citizens. They will also destroy the economy.

We can’t leave seats uncontested. We need to fight to hold the seats we have and peel a few away (a few dozen would be better), or the slim pickings worth of improvement made in recent years could be gone in one session or less.

We want You! to run for state rep, and you don’t have to do it alone. Email the 603 Alliance and let them know you want to attend the upcoming May 18th Candidate Training. You can also attend the Issues Briefing Summit, a free evening event (with food) that will help you grasp the things voters are likely to ask you when you engage them and what you’re likely to see coming up in Concord when you win.

Class candidates can also get access to campaign resources and past instruction, as well as invitations to future Zoom calls throughout the campaign season to help with questions and issues or connect you with resources.

The 603 Alliance is your primary source for candidate campaign training in NH in 2024 (the NHGOP will be offering training for Poll Watchers on May 2).

When you register for the one-day training, you will have access to experienced candidates and activists all the way to election day.

We need you to run. If you are thinking about it or know someone who is, share this message or Email today and ask to register for the May 18th training in Concord.

 

 

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Last Week, the coordinated media made noise about accelerated sea level rise. That’s nothing new. They do it all the time, though, not as often as the hottest thing ever. Both lack evidence and rigor, neither of which are required to snap coastal elites like a twig.

Related: Sea Level Rise Blamed for Increasing Coastal Property Values Instead of Depressing Them

Hotter than when? Higher than when? The earth has been both hotter and the sea level higher in the absence of humans or any anthropogenic influence. In my geologic neighborhood, the East Coast is sinking. Paying three times as much for heat and twice as much for gas won’t stop the land moving. And how are EVs, which weigh a lot more than traditional transportation, supposed to do anything but make that worse? Isostatic change is never in the press releases, but fears of accelerated rise are, despite past predictions failing to produce the scaremongered result.

But why give up on a good thing?

 At Grand Isle, Louisiana, the big red arrow in the Gulf of Mexico, the relative sea level is rising at 9.2 mm per year … while only a short distance away, the green arrow to the right of Grand Isle shows that Pensacola, Florida has a relative sea level rise less than a third of that, 2.7 mm per year.

Why different sea level rise rates? Again, it has nothing to do with the ocean. It’s because Grand Isle is a silty barrier island in the Mississippi Delta, and like all such islands, it’s slowly sinking into the briny blue.

You find differences all over the map. Some locations are seeing seas recede. Do they get to keep their money and drive combustion-engine vehicles without the climate cultists’ side-eye? How do you explain the differences in variables from storms to temperature to sea level while still arguing the problem is global? They can’t explain any of it except to say they believe without a doubt (faith) that we all must repent (whether we believe or not), and their expensive, half-baked penance will fix everything.

Related: While Scaremongering CO2 NOAA (Unintentionally) Admits No Correlation to Sea Level Rise … or Fossil Fuels

There is net-zero evidence that any of that is true, but it is difficult to convince a zealot of anything, especially when it affects their paycheck.

But there’s nothing any of us can do about Sea level rise (or fall). Much like the atmosphere, there are more variables than are accounted for because to consider them would end the scam, and what then?

Some additional reading, if it interests you.
14,600 Years Ago Prehistoric SUV’s Melted Ice Sheets Causing 60 Feet of Sea Level Rise<
Another Atoll Endangered by Sea Level Rise Has More Land Mass than it Had in 1943
And another 720 more …

 

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This is interesting news.  A New Hampshire State Supreme Court Justice has disqualified themself from deciding matters regarding Daniel Richard v. Gov. Chris Sununu.

This just in:

THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE SUPREME COURT

In Case No. 2023-0097, Daniel Richard v. Governor, State of New Hampshire & a., the clerk of court on May 7, 2024, issued the following order:

This order is being issued to notify the parties that Justice Anna Barbara Hantz Marconi has disqualified herself from this case

That’s one of the four appointed by Sununu.

And no, I’m not yet clear on why she recused herself, but if we learn more, we’ll update.

Catch up on Daniel Richard v. Gov. Chris Sununu here.

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Last year, “Republicans” in Concord did a victory lap when they budgeted $18 million in state general fund capital for the maintenance of the Cannon Mountain Tramway. Was that enough?  Nope!

They now want $33 million for a redundant, low-capacity lift that only runs a few days a week and for only a couple of months per ski season.  A lift that was closed for the better part of two years during the Covid scare.

But wait, there’s more!

The state’s new general manager announced an “urgent need for substantial capital” beyond the tramway replacement.

Where does this money come from? Take a look in the mirror. Despite endless claims that Cannon is a “self-funded, self-managed, state-owned success story,” it has required millions in subsidies from other state parks and the general fund. Even with all of these millions of dollars in subsidies, Cannon has not been able to maintain its existing infrastructure.

The swells in Franconia will execute their tried and true strategy to take more of our money. Float a trial balloon in the friendly press, get someone in Concord to throw it into a bill, and then fill a hearing room with trust fund skiers crying about how we need to protect this state treasure. Rinse and repeat.

Taxpayers are already facing unprecedented pressure in New Hampshire.  Now is not the time to be spending tens of millions of dollars to upgrade the life of leisure for the beautiful people in Franconia.

Tell your legislators that you don’t want any more money going to Cannon Mountain.

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I still remember George W. Bush being called a fascist, etc. by the Left when he was President. Now it is so different. He is one of the “good ones.” What changed? Not W.

What changed is that someone named Donald Trump came along and exposed the Republican Party as controlled opposition … that most of the “Republicans” holding elected office represented the UniParty, not Republican voters.

Donald Trump represented and represents an existential threat to America’s post World War II pseudo-democracy. As much of a threat to traditional (i.e. controlled opposition) Republicans as to the Democrats. That’s why the Left no longer calls W and his ilk, fascists … there is a real enemy to be dealt with: Trump.

Excellent post by Western Lensmen. W was a make-believe threat that Obama, Inc. used to mobilize legions of shallow-thinking Commy-bots. Of course, there were and are differences within the UniParty, but those differences are minor compared to the differences between Trump … who represents real, not pseudo-democracy … and the UniParty.

In 2008, Barack Obama cast George W. Bush as a uniquely radical, ideological leader who had “kidnapped” the “sensible” Republican party.

Sound familiar?

“…if I can describe it as the Republican party kidnapped by an incompetent, highly ideological subset of the Republican… pic.twitter.com/I22qOQIjgQ

— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) April 29, 2024

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Julie Smith wrote on Sunday a retrospective on Jeb Bradley’s career in the New Hampshire Senate — essentially, a place where “good House bills go to die.” It’s also a place where legislators go to retire. (So too Digital Equipment Corporation in its latter years.) Boston’s Howie Carr often quips that anyone who has been in a State House for six years has proven his uselessness.

These accumulate in the Senate. What Senators actually prove is that they have self-selected for acting as a herd versus speaking bluntly or analyzing the likely effects of a bill that the herd favors — or supporting a bill that the herd opposes. For evidence of this, peruse the annual rankings of roll calls by the New Hampshire Liberty Alliance. While every Republican is rated higher than any Democrat, the Republicans bunch up around the C+ grade, essentially a coin flip on questions of individual liberty.

The Democrats have flaming Marxists, but the Republicans have no brilliant Constitutionalists, emphatically including Jeb.

Well, what shall we do about that?

New Hampshire’s founders patterned our General Court after the federal Congress that arose after the Connecticut Compromise. The lower house was apportioned by population; the Senate was apportioned roughly by land area. As with Congress and the Electoral College, the explicit point was thereby to inhibit government action unless it was acceptable to both urban and rural Granite Staters. There is nothing wrong with that.

The Supreme Court broke that in 1964 with Reynolds v. Sims, which ruled that both houses of state legislatures had to be proportional to population. Earl Warren wrote that “legislators represent people, not trees or acres.” Of course, rural and urban interests are different. This was a pioneering decision of Substantive Due Process; that is, someone is being denied Due Process unless my opinion prevails.

The Warren Court was wrong. Legislators representing numerical majorities don’t need the power to enact law; they need the power to block enactments — which they have if either house is proportional to population. (No Supreme Court has taken Reynolds to its logical conclusion — that the Constitution contradicts itself, and the only “just” solution is 100 interstate U.S. Senate districts, each with an equal population. But the Democratic Party is moving in this direction on several fronts apart from its dream of court-packing.)

But, fine. We’re stuck with Reynolds. That doesn’t mean the Senate has to be a miniature carbon copy of the House, with a membership that is older and drained of spark. The Senate should either be gotten rid of (as Nebraska has) or constituted differently from the House.

One method, which is still proportional to population, is Party List voting, as is used in several other countries, including partly in Mexico’s lower house. People vote for a political party, and based on the result, the party executives pick some number of Senators. (I acknowledge the risk of having any political party’s executives make any important decision.)

My town has one State Rep, plus a “floterial” Rep for a group of three adjacent towns. They defend any unique needs we might have based on our location in the state. In the other house, why don’t we vote by ideology rather than again by geography? Assuming they invite the adults back in, I would vote Libertarian for Senate — the name of the Senator not on the ballot. We might only get one Senator appointed by the State Committee, but joining with 55,000 Granite Staters based on philosophy beats joining with 55,000 residents based on living nearby, which we already do in the House. And the Senate would instantly have more diversity of thought.

No, this idea is not going anywhere. You don’t get major reform without a groundswell. Moreover, this certainly requires amending the state constitution, which takes a supermajority of voters, and Granite Staters are far too suspicious of their government even to repeal the office of Register of Probate, even after all its functions have been repealed. A far more pressing amendment is to repeal the first half of Part 2, Article 83 (on the attitude of future legislators) — the platitude our mischievous Judiciary has used for decades to dictate that we are constitutionally required to throw ever more loot at the welfare schools.

So, I’ll leave the idea of Senate by Party List here to perhaps plant a small seed.

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