In the world of international diplomacy, secrets have a way of unraveling. Leaked emails and reports have recently unveiled a clandestine Iranian operation known as the Iran Experts Initiative (IEI). This covert endeavor, designed to cultivate support for Iran’s nuclear program, has sent shockwaves through the corridors of power.

But that’s just the beginning.

Within this revelation, another thread has emerged – the involvement of key figures from the Biden administration with the IEI. This revelation raises profound questions about foreign influence and its implications on U.S. policy.

The IEI, previously shrouded in secrecy, has now been exposed for what it is – a covert Iranian operation. Its primary objective? To garner international support for Iran’s nuclear ambitions. This revelation adds a new layer of complexity to the ongoing global discussions about Iran’s nuclear program.

The involvement of Biden administration aides with the IEI is a central theme. These individuals, working within the highest echelons of the U.S. government, had ties to the IEI. The nature of these links and their implications on U.S. policy decisions remain under scrutiny.

The IEI was not limited to a single sphere of influence. It infiltrated academia, leveraging the credibility of scholars to propagate its agenda. Meanwhile, sympathetic journalists played their part, shaping public perception subtly. Think tanks, known for their role in policymaking, were strategically targeted. Case studies vividly illustrate the IEI’s success in influencing policy decisions. And it didn’t stop there; former government officials transitioning into advocacy roles created conflicts and ethical dilemmas that continue to raise eyebrows.

The Biden administration’s approach to Iran stands in stark contrast to previous administrations. It is marked by a commitment to re-engage with the Islamic Republic of Iran, a notable departure from the aggressive stance of the past. This shift in policy has not only raised eyebrows. Still, it has caused genuine concern among policymakers and the public, who worry about potential risks and the implications of this new direction, making it a central point of debate in the broader context of U.S. foreign policy.

Amidst these revelations, the potential for undue influence on U.S. policy looms large. The need to mitigate foreign impact is paramount, echoing concerns about the integrity of policymaking. It’s a complex issue with no easy answers.

Ariane Tabatabai’s Controversy

As this international intrigue unfolds, Ariane Tabatabai, a former Georgetown University security studies professor and current senior adviser to the U.S. Department of Defense, finds herself at the center of a heated controversy. Genuine concern has arisen regarding her purported ties to Iranian regime influence networks and her security clearance.

The acquisition of her security clearance remains a shadowy enigma, with scant details emerging. Yet, one report suggests that her connections to the Islamic Republic networks managed to evade detection during the clearance process.

The security clearance saga erupted in April 2021 when a group of U.S. lawmakers demanded the revocation of Tabatabai’s clearance, citing her involvement in an “Iranian influence network” that they believed endangered national security.

Fast forward to September 2023, and Republican lawmakers intensify the call. They demand an investigation into Islamic Republic-backed influence operations on U.S. soil, advocating the suspension of clearances for officials, including Tabatabai, potentially swayed by these networks.

In response, Tabatabai can only refute these allegations. She tries to label them “baseless and unfounded,” portraying them as part of a “smear campaign” orchestrated by lawmakers seeking to undermine the Biden administration’s diplomacy with Iran’s regime, yet providing no clear explanations for the accusations.

And yet, despite the ongoing furor, Tabatabai’s security clearance endures as of September 2023, and surprisingly, she remains a senior adviser within the U.S. Department of Defense.

It’s not just her alleged ties to Iran’s regime influence networks that have been scrutinized. The accusations against her are part of a broader discourse surrounding U.S. policy towards the Islamic Republic of Iran. Some U.S. officials and lawmakers contend that the Biden administration’s stance is overly lenient, failing to adequately support the Iranian people’s battle for democracy and human rights. Conversely, others advocate for diplomatic engagement and peaceful resolution in the U.S.-Iran relationship.

This exposure of the Iran Experts Initiative raises critical questions about foreign influence on U.S. policy. Whether through academia, media, think tanks, or former officials, vigilance is imperative to maintain the integrity of U.S. policymaking in a complex and interconnected world.

As for Ariane Tabatabai’s security clearance acquisition remains opaque, while her ties to the Islamic Republic of Iran influence networks kindle a political storm. Lawmakers’ calls for revocation have yet to bear fruit, and she continues her work at the U.S. Department of Defense. This controversy also mirrors broader debates on U.S. policy towards Iran, illustrating today’s complexity of international diplomacy.

 

Amil Imani is the author of the newly released book The United States Constitution for Kids.

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So, you may have seen/heard about the mob of illegals who attacked a cop in New York. The illegals were released immediately by some Regime “judge,” and then at least one of them flipped the bird to America.

We are witnessing the destruction of America by the Biden-Regime, and the Senate GOP response is to legalize the invasion and tell GOP voters, whom Mitch and his ilk detest and believe are stupid, that their amnesty bill will reduce illegal immigration. And, if you have been paying attention as opposed to mindlessly seal-clapping every time Nikki Haley praises forever wars, you know that illegal immigration is just one of the many ways the Biden-Regime is destroying America.

Now contrast the special treatment of the criminal illegal with the treatment of the former marine who in the past would have been treated as a hero but, in today’s faux-America, is the criminal:

One of these people is in our county illegally, beat up cops, and was released without bail.

The other is a former Marine who protected riders on a subway from a violent psycho, is facing criminal charges, and was released on a $100,000 bail.

Democrats’ soft-on-violent crime… pic.twitter.com/LRePREGtrD

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 1, 2024

But just keep on pretending that none of this is happening, keep pretending that the vital issues of our day are eviscerating local zoning laws (so we can have more and more and more apartment complexes, which somehow is not “massing up” New Hampshire), and cutting business taxes (while local property taxes spiral out of control), and some minor increase in funding in school choice (while public schools continue DEI indoctrination).

America is no more. Our rolling over to COVID-tyranny and then reelecting the COVID-tyrants showed that. Our acceptance of the rigging of the 2020 election showed that. Our pretending that the Biden-Regime’s pathologies are mere incompetence shows that.

 

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Chuck Schumer has found his latest cause to give the American people the impression that he is looking out for their safety. Schumer has gone on the record, with the required number of Democrats nodding heads surrounding him, that he is declaring war on nicotine pouches. The Senate Majority Leader singled out ZYN pouches, but he included all brands of the pouches in his sortie.

Schumer showed by his actions and comments that he is poorly prepared to talk about this nicotine product that is regulated for adult use. With the resources available for members of Congress, you would think nobody should ever embarrass themselves with unfounded comments or crusades, especially the Senate Leader, but you would be wrong.

Before I get into Chuck’s misinformation, can we look at the other issues facing Americans that were pushed aside so Schumer could focus on nicotine pouches and addictions? How about the Border crisis? Schumer has been sitting on HR2, which is a border and immigration bill passed by the House in 2023. Chuck will not bring the bill to the floor for debate. But the Democrats, including the compulsive liar Karine Jeanne-Pierre, continue to say the Republicans have no solution for the border crisis. How about the Fentanyl crisis? We are still losing 100,000 prime-age Americans annually, but all the Dems are doing is asking China to scale back on production. How about sealing the Border so we stop the flow of illegal Fentanyl from Mexico? These issues must be too difficult for the feeble Senator from New York. So, he will put his energy into nicotine pouches and restrict the freedoms of adults who use and enjoy this product. This control of our lives is what Democrats crave. They do not preserve our freedoms and liberties but rather find ways to restrict or regulate them.

What are nicotine pouches? They are not a tobacco product and are not a carcinogen. These pouches are predominantly a mixture of salt and a dose of nicotine. The pouches are usually available in either 4 or 8mg concentrations of nicotine and are available in various flavors. Most states use age restrictions for tobacco as a guideline for nicotine sales, making the nicotine pouches unavailable to minors. That is not enough for Schumer, who wants the sale of nicotine pouches prohibited for everyone, period. He has unleashed a battle from the millions of users who are of age and enjoy this product.

Nicotine is one of the most addictive drugs known. Just ask anyone who has tried to quit smoking. Nicotine is the ingredient that makes cigarettes so addictive to smokers. There are no tobacco ingredients in Nicotine pouches. Nicotine pouches can raise heart rates and cause a rise in blood pressure, but they also can cause an increase in attention span and mental acuity. Adult users are aware of the issues and, as adults, want to decide whether to use or not. They do not want the government, and certainly not Chuck Schumer, making that decision for them.

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Martha’s Vineyard is a remarkable place—a quaint little island of elites where the median home price is around 1.5 million. Barry Obama has a massive estate there, as do many well-heeled elites (despite the alleged risk of rising sea levels). And now they are eligible for subsidies (your money, not theirs) to add EV charging infrastructure.

The Biden administration is classifying some of the country’s most elite and exclusive locales as “low-income” areas, making them eligible for electric vehicle (EV) charger subsidy programs.

The administration’s EV charger tax credit program — made possible by the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), President Joe Biden’s signature climate bill — is specifically designed to route subsidies to “low-income” or “non-urban” areas of the country. The “low-income” emphasis for eligibility aligns in spirit with the Biden administration’s wider pursuit of so-called “environmental justice,” which is effectively the combination of social justice ideology and green policy.

The handouts reduce the cost of EV charging infrastructure (public or private) in low-income or non-urban areas by about a third, including the Vineyard and Nantucket – where median home prices are a hair over 2 million). And doesn’t that make good sense?

Elite enclaves are where the EVs would be. Few others can afford them or have the disposable income to embrace their impracticality. Martha’s Vineyard isn’t large so a full charge could last long enough to virtue signal to all the neighbors. Many of its more well-heeled inhabitants are elsewhere during the colder months when EVs lose range, not that these aren’t much more than yard sculptures for many. Parked out front (putting them in the garage is dangerous) to be observed by guests holding half-filled glasses of chardonnay and a small plate of whatever was on the last charcuterie board they passed.

A Mercedes EQE or the BMW i7. Rarer, perhaps, if the ferry has stopped allowing EVs on the boat because of the liability costs (I didn’t look).

And sure, the average denizen of Martha’s Vineyard could easily afford to pay for the charging equipment if they wanted it or pool some resources for public chargers, but why waste the funds appropriated by Congress for chargers if no one in low-income areas can afford an EV aor where EV owners would not be caught dead?

Some animals, or so the saying goes.

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I want to get the word out in the public square right now, fresh off the heels of that horrible HB 1002 House roll call, because time has a habit of making people forget things, and candidacy filing time is not for another four months.

Every intelligent person knows that the muzzled Baby Shamu must NOT be allowed to stay in Gary Daniels’s seat, but what are her constituents going to do about it? My preference, as an outsider, is to convince Gary that his services are desperately needed. There has to be a variety of ways to do that, and people close to him should have that conversation.

However, in the event that he opts to remain a private citizen, something people approaching 70 are known to do after a resume rich in public service, a Plan B is needed. I had a conversation with a suitable potential candidate outside of Merrimack last summer, but this person was not interested and cited some practical reasons not to be the one. There’s Milford Rep Vanessa Sheehan, a nice lady that I met at Fulchino Vineyard for a Lily Tang Williams event. There’s also Merrimack Rep Jeanine Notter, someone well-liked by her peers with lots of name recognition. One might even look to private citizens from Amherst, possibly Lynn “Just Jocelyn” Briggs or Linda Kaiser. Who NOT to promote is Bill Boyd, and here are some reasons why:

Bill has proven himself anti-RTK with his vote in favor of the “RTK records tax” yesterday, as did 2 of his local peers.

One of them was Rep Maureen Mooney, a LAWYER, mind you. And the other was Rep Healey. Rep Healey and Nashua City Clerk Healey might share the same anti-RTK DNA. Someone should file a bill to fund a “23 and Me” study on that.

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Bill Boyd also voted NO on HB 1131 2 years ago. This was the school mask bill that the Damn Emperor vetoed. The House roll call occurred sometime in April 2022 because I remember confronting Bill about his rogue vote at the May 1 Merrimack GOP soiree outside the Exit 11 Mexican joint. I started the unpleasant conversation with Melissa Blasek present, and she stepped in to finish it. It was good to have her handy as another Merrimack rep to talk to him as his equal.

Shortly after Bill Boyd won his April 13, 2021, special election to fill the seat vacated by the untimely death of Speaker Hinch, he voted the wrong way on an election-related matter. See this link.

Like a rap sheet, um, I mean “resume,” his misdeeds are listed in chronological order. The last one I’ll mention took place before he was elected. Chris Buda sent up the GOP “bat signal,” kind of like what firemen would call “mutual aid,” in the late winter of 2021. He announced the upcoming Merrimack special election and out-of-town help was being sought. I signed up to lend a hand and participated in a Saturday morning dump sign wave. I met Melissa and many other at-the-time Merrimack reps.

Bill arrived and graciously greeted me and said thanks for the help. As it’s common for governors to endorse special election candidates, the Damn Emperor endorsed Bill. I casually mentioned that, but I said something like, “Ooo, an endorsement from the Tyrant himself.” Bill defended His Excellency with a sheepish “he’s not a tyrant” rebuttal. I told him I knew he had to be on his best behavior in order to get elected and gestured with a wink and a nod. Instead of a wink and a nod back, he looked at me funny as though he was seriously in denial of what a POS Baby Huey really is.

And I’ll finish by saying it again. Bill Boyd does NOT belong in the Senate. He will always do Jeb’s bidding, and he has enough water carriers already.

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Be it noted that Deputy AG Geoffrey Ward deleted the files of 28+ police officer files relating to the Laurie List. This occurred after a letter I had written to John Scippa of police standards and training regarding concerns about Concord Police Detective Julie Curtin which he told me he was forwarding to to the AG’s office.

Assistant AG Jane Young replied to me, stating that Geoffrey Ward would respond, but he did not. Rep. Susan Homola followed up as well with his office using the pretext that Assistant AG Jane Young had assured me that there would be a response. She received no reply either, and then Geoffrey Ward deleted the files of 28 police officers, and Julie Curtin left Concord Police Department after 15+ years with no explanation.

Geoffrey Ward is now a federal prosecutor, and Jane Young is now US Attorney for New Hampshire. New Hampshire’s Supreme Court Chief Justice is former AG Gordon MacDonald who argued that the Laurie list should not be made public in August 2018 when Julie Curtin and James F McLaughlin were working for him and Jane Young on the Grand Jury Criminal Investigation into St Pauls School – paid for by the public. Gordon MacDonald knew that James F McLaughlin’s name was on the Laurie list in August 2018 but he hid it.

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He knew that Julie Curtin had obtained student files without a warrant at his office’s direction from St Paul’s School and he knew that her sworn affidavit used to obtain records for NH v Owen Labrie contained a lie which was corrected by the SANE nurse, under oath, in the criminal trial. Despite all of this, the State still uses Detective Julie Curtin as a witness in State trials, and the State continues to hide the records of Police Detective James F McLaughlin.

My research concludes that public officials are covering up nefarious activities in which they have profited using public funds and that the reason for hiding these records is due to their desire to prevent the public from discovering this. They are public officials, paid for by the public and they have NO right to hide their activities from the public or their financial dealings – kick backs, secret deals, for profit enterprises hiding behind non-profit fronts.

The state is also hiding )or playing dumb about) evidence regarding witness tampering in the trial of NH v Owen Labrie by former AG Michael Delaney with state witnesses who were then allowed to provide testimony after Prosecutor Catherine Ruffle was informed by Concord Councilwoman Amanda Grady Sexton of the tampering. The records of this sit with the US Senate Judiciary Committee and are corroborated by a conversation Prosecutor Ruffle had with Judge Larry Smukler which was unsealed several months after the trial. At the moment of their unsealing, Ruffle claimed she had misspoken and retracted her comments. She is now a clerk for Merrimack County Superior Court. But the fact that there was witness tampering has been supported by at least two other documents from both the state witness’s family and the defense’s counsel.

The State of New Hampshire and its public officials are complicit in the abuse of public funds to deceive the public to cover up a racketeering enterprise that is the result of collusion between Concord Council members, Concord Police, Merrimack County prosecutors and court personnel, the AG’s office, the NHCADSV, UNH PIRC, Franklin Pierce Law School, the judiciary committee and law firms Shaheen & Gordon, McLane Middleton, Nixon Peabody and others.

Why should the public pay for publicly elected officials to racketeer and then collude to hide their actions that have interfered with the criminal and civil justice system and abused federal grants?

The state has ignored millions of complaints by members of the public. Why should the public have to pay to gain access to the state’s deliberate failures and cover ups – eg the FRM Ponzi Scheme, the Diocese of Manchester/Police/ YDC abuse cover ups or instructions to the DCYF to delete files re YDC, Phillips Exeter Academy or elsewhere?

Claire Best Hawley
Moultonborough
Concerned Citizen

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If you think Jeanne Dietsch and her ilk are amusing/comical/funny/etc., then you have no idea … none at all … of the true nature of the Left. The Jeanne Dietsches of New Hampshire and of America are the current incarnation of the Schutzstaffel, the NKVD, Mao’s cultural revolutionaries, and Pol Pot’s followers.

They are the “true believers,” eager and willing to carry out whatever crusade their “leaders” set them on.

“It can’t happen here!” “It can’t happen here!” If you believe that, either you have been living in a cave or are willfully delusional. Every day that passes, this country becomes more and more like East Germany, Kampuchea, the Soviet Union, etc., etc…

Don’t laugh at Jeanne Dietsch and her ilk … be terrified of them. They are the ones the Regime’s security apparatus will use to identify the “insurrectionists,” “extremists,” etc. They are the ones who will be running the Regime’s equivalents of the gulags, concentration camps, and killing fields. They aren’t in the least funny unless you find gulags, concentration camps, and killing fields funny.

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Earlier this week, Representative Leah Cushman introduced HB 1010 “relative to expanding maternity options and midwifery access.” Fortunately, representatives of the “we know what’s best for you” crowd were there to explain why patient choice is a very, very bad thing.

Here’s a choice snippet from the testimony of Dr. Cathy Chung Hwa Yi, an OBGYN based in Concord, NH:

This bill allows patients or consumers to decide what is the best option for them. In my opinion, I think the government and the regulatory board and the licensure committees exist to protect the public and allow the lay public to make good decisions. By allowing the public to decide now to where to choose care, I think it endangers the consumer. …

So my position is that this bill poses the choice of seeking care to the lay public and I think the government and its agencies should exist to protect the public from making good choices and good options, and by deregulating or allowing the patients to have more choice in this particular situation it is reckless endangerment, I guess, of the public.

 

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WARNING: This post has links to possibly risqué and other disturbing content.  Be advised.

 

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The strength or weakness of a society depends more on the level of its spiritual life than on its level of industrialization. Neither a market economy nor even general abundance constitutes the crowning achievement of human life. If a nation’s spiritual energies have been exhausted, it will not be saved from collapse by the most perfect government structure or by any industrial development. A tree with a rotten core cannot stand.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

 

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In the movie Mission: Impossible with Tom Cruise – the first one – has a magnificently-delivered line as they prepare to break into CIA headquarters.  “It’s much worse than you think.”  Well, we’ve been seeing article after article about “books” in school libraries, drag queen story hour, etc.  Here on the grok, all over the Conservative part of the blogosphere, MassResistance is a great group.

A book author and his books, plus two recent videos, came to my attention, so let me dig in a little. And so, leading in… it’s much worse than you think.  Much, much worse.

 

BIG BLACK HAWK

Do not play the below youtube if you have little ones around.  This has no bad language, but… note the double entendres and other symbolism.  These could get very uncomfortable having to explain why you’re snarling at the screen.

My Big Black Hawk Funny Books Humour #comedy (youtube.com)

Also – this is not his only such book.  He has others.

Link 1.

Link 2.

Link 3.

Lots of others.  And as we’ve seen, from schools and other places, this and similar materials are metastasizing into kids’ hands.

Onward, there’s a point building.

 

IT’S OK TO PASS AWAY

Again, content alert:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/its-ok-to-pass-away-1.mp4

 

Calling for our children – our children – to think that dying young is perfectly acceptable.  Not just acceptable but implicitly something to be welcomed.  And someone made a video and posted it.  Now, I understand the initial video has been pulled off YouTube.  Good.  But that doesn’t change the fundamental thing – someone made it.  Again, point building.

 

CALLING GOOD EVIL, AND EVIL GOOD

So now this video hits my field of view.  It’s a woman commenter who watches a minute or two of a lead-in to what is, apparently, a new Amazon cartoon (series?) depicting… wait for it… Satan as the misunderstood good guy.

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/amazon-pro-satan-cartoon.mp4

 

Now, interestingly, perhaps a year ago, both my kids started asking me a question with the simultaneous timing being suspicious: What if God is the bad guy, and Satan’s the good guy?  Now, I’ve always encouraged my kids to think “outside the box,” and even if the questions are uncomfortable for me to have to deal with, I’d rather they had a wide-ranging curiosity and sense of inquiry rather than an ossified “Because someone told you.”  But the fact that both had similar questions at roughly the same time made me inquisitive; I looked for and didn’t see anything that I thought could have triggered this. Agitprop aimed at kids specifically?  I don’t know.

But watch the above video again.  In watching this repeatedly, I noticed several things:

First, it describes Heaven as being ruled by beings of pure light who worshipped good.  Ruled by beings… not a singular G-d, but plural beings.  And worshiped good, not G-d.  It’s curious in the notable absence of the one central figure here.

Second, Lucifer – wearing a top hat and with the cartoon presentation – comes across as a hip-hot-happening young guy.  Perfect for attracting attention from younger viewers who would, IMHO, very likely find him as a sympathetic dreamer with fantastical ideas for all creation character.

Third, Lucifer is described as someone being disapproved of by the “elders of heaven.”  Again, notice Someone missing?

Fourth, Adam and Lilith.  About Lilith (links in original, bolding added):

In Genesis Rabbah, we encounter a brief midrash that claims that Adam had a first wife before Eve. This interpretation arises from the two creation stories of Genesis: In Genesis 1, man and woman are created at the same time, while in Genesis 2 Adam precedes Eve. The rabbinic tale suggests that the first creation story is a different creation, in which Adam has a wife made, like him, from the earth. For some reason this marriage doesn’t work out, and so God makes Adam a second wife, Eve.

So this cartoon builds off Lilith apparently – by some writings at least – being Adam’s first wife.

The Lilith of this story confronts both Adam and God: she defies patriarchy, refuses a submissive sexual posture, and in the end refuses marriage altogether, preferring to become a demon rather than live under Adam’s authority.

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Perhaps the best-known of the new Lilith tales is “The Coming of Lilith,” by Judith Plaskow. In this feminist midrash, Lilith flees the garden because she is an “uppity woman” who doesn’t want to be pushed around by Adam or God.

No wonder she’s become, seemingly, a feminist icon.  She defies the Patriarchy, etc.

Once a source of fear, Lilith has been transformed into an icon of freedom. While some disapprove of this widespread embrace of a former demon, Lilith’s rehabilitation makes sense. The frightening character of Lilith grew, in part, out of repression: repression of sexuality, repression of the free impulse in women, repression of the question “what if I left it all behind?”

Isn’t that feminism in a nutshell?  And I do recall, from many years ago, a vague memory of this.  And apparently one of Adam’s complains was that Lilith wouldn’t obey him so G-d made him a new wife, Eve.

Lilith and Lucifer… rebellious dreamers.  The Lilith mythos of an independent woman who needs Adam like a fish needs a bicycle, a Lilith free to wantonly express her sexuality?  No, nothing appealing to young, hormone-addled female minds in that phrase, no.  And inferential, at least to me, is the attractiveness of such a “liberated” putting-out woman to equally hormone-addled male minds.

Fifth, in this take on things the Apple was not the Original Sin (per my understanding of Catholic teaching at least) but rather being the two well-intentioned lovebirds who merely wished to share the gift of free will with Eve.  How noble.  How selfless and generous.  How appealing to young minds yet again.  And again, no mention of His command to both Adam and Eve to not do so; this was mentioned as an “act of disobedience” – disobeying who precisely?  Not mentioned.

Sixth, as those two love-birds are cast from Heaven, the narrator discussed how one of the punishments was to never see the good that comes from mankind.  Such an unjust punishment for someone who just wants good in the universe, no?

And parenthetically, I love the outrage in the viewer’s voice as she exclaims, at the end, “So Satan’s the victim now”!?  (IMHO she’s a great face to watch to study body language.)  Again fitting in with the Woke idea of oppressors and oppressed.  Now that Satan is a victim, he’s become protected:

Man Who Destroyed Satanic Shrine In Iowa Capitol Charged With ‘Hate Crime’ – modernity

Meanwhile, what’s happened to those who tear down statues like Lincoln or Columbus or General Lee… ?

 

 

 

THE POINT REVEALED

None of the above examples… none of the child grooming books in schools… none of this – NONE OF ANY OF THIS – spontaneously appeared out of the ether in finished form.  The ideas for each of these came from a human mind.

That human mind had to express the idea to other human minds, who fed back that this seemed like a good idea.  Someone had to then put together a presentation, pitch it to companies / funders / superiors, who then had to agree to fund it.  Artists, animators, writers, etc., had to be hired; surely they knew what was being put out there.  For that OK to pass away video, there had to be camera and set crews who watched as it was rehearsed and then filmed without, one assumes, saying anything; the kids had to have parents who, even if desirous of their children being actors, had to have read the material and still OKed it (like the infamous Little Cuties on Netflix).  And then comes the advertising once the materials are done.  School librarians had to see such books and ask for and get funding for those books, etc., with school boards defending it.  And so on.  Layers and layers and layers of people involved in bringing the final forms to being.

For each example this is a cast of a dozen or more… scores… possibly hundreds.  All on board.  Doubtless those who say WAIT ONE MINUTE are ignored or even punished.  So the rot goes deep.  Very deep.  For every example you see… understand how many are involved behind it.

Added: And how many just go along.  Consider this piece of filth:

School Board Member Sworn In On Stack Of Gay Porn Instead Of Bible | The Daily Wire

And the guy administering the oath just goes along with it.  Look, I can understand, say, a Jew not wanting to put their hand on the New Testament.  A Muslim not wanting to swear on a Bible.  And so on.  Someone shows up to take an oath on a stack of porn and graphic content school books?  And people didn’t turn him away?  Didn’t turn away from him?  So yes, it’s much worse than you think.

Two quotes come to mind to wrap up:

Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

Isaiah 5:20,Ezekiel 9:9

And this notable thought from John Adams:

 

 

Much, much worse than you think.  So, one more quote, from Thomas Jefferson:

‘I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.’

 

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HB1002, as passed by the New Hampshire House, would allow unprincipled municipalities to turn requests for public documents into a revenue stream. It passed the NH House yesterday, after which (at least) two things happened.

Rep. Lisa Smart, having voted in favor, requested a reconsideration of the vote. The House will have to vote again.

On February 1, 2024 at 5:45 p.m., Representative Lisa Smart, having voted with the prevailing side, served notice of reconsideration on the motion of Ought to Pass with Amendment on HB 1002, which the House passed on a roll call vote of 193-179.

— NH House Clerk (@nhhouseclerk) February 1, 2024

It is not uncommon for someone to vote yes on a bill they know they can’t stop today in hopes of getting a motion to reconsider that could produce the necessary pressure to get a different outcome. HB1002 will be reheard and another vote taken.

The second thing from yesterday was a response by Rep. Travis O’Hara to an email scolding him for his yes vote on HB1002.

 

You read it right. One hundred more times, but I felt like some context was needed. GraniteGrok did not file any right-to-know requests. David Murphy (Skip) did. But let’s pretend it was GraniteGrok and that this is about costing taxpayers “thousands” (x100) because Travis is closer to the truth than he realizes.

Skip, who made said request(s), upon reading the above response, replied,

“Yet the former Gunstock Commissioner used $100K of taxpayer money as a slush fund against conservatives. I RTK’d the invoice. No one would have known the amount if I hadn’t done so. Just one example.”

Gunstock is a public subdivision of the state and Belknap County, but the commission that runs it acts like it is their private company. It is not. They are subject to state law as a government body. When irregularities arose, and both Skip and the Belknap County Delegation began to ask questions, Gunstock (in this case) Gary Kiedaisch, along with Tom Day, spent over $100,000.00 on lawyers and lawsuits to entangle those who had oversight and responsibility for uncovering any irregular or illegal activity – including misuse of funds (like donating tax dollars to Gov. Chris Sununu’s campaign) or hiring lawyers to go after state reps investigating Gunstock.

Add to that the cost to the delegation to defend itself from the lawsuit (another 40K), all because the power behind Gunstock didn’t want to be audited, examined, or scrutinized.

If you are not clear on the size and scope of the pile of shit into which Travis O’Hara may have just stepped, Gunstock (the public entity) used public money not just for private or personal interest but to avoid being investigated by people elected to hold them accountable.

The very reason we need the Right to Know Law in the first place.

O’Hara may or may not have been a beneficiary of the effort to smear the Republicans who dared to question how the Gunstock Commission was constituted, run or on what they spent your money (we’ll save that for another day), but had Skip not “filed” that right-to-know request or been unable due to increasingly prohibitive costs favored by Travis (I will gladly vote 100 more times for HB1002) O’Hara, these facts (including the abuse of Belknap County resources) might never have come to light.

So, is 100,000+ dollars more or less than “thousands of dollars”?

GraniteGrok’s reporting, by the way, did not cost taxpayers a dime, but O’Hara’s proclamation is literally why we need to make public documents more accessible (not less) and why Republicans should oppose HB1002 when it comes up for reconsideration next week.

That and, as Skip noted, there are more examples, and we’d like to thank Travis for inviting us to share them when we otherwise might not have.

 

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To all those who are sending in memes, thank you!  Keep them coming!  Please do share this post, and if you share an individual meme, consider mentioning you saw it on the Grok!

Speaking of, from this week, Monday Edition and Wednesday Edition.  Also check out my latest Israel-focused meme & commentary post if this is a subject of interest to you.

 

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This is absolutely unsustainable.  Add to that the state and local burdens, higher crime, etc…. easily a trillion a year IMHO.  The national economy cannot sustain this, which is the point.

 

 

 

 

True… but you know damned well that every female with even the possibility of conceiving and carrying a kid is… “engaged” to get gravid and spurt out an anchor baby ASAP.

 

 

 

HOW does this woman keep getting re-elected?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Do I hope for some “good solution”?  Of course.  But find your inner steel – I fear we will all need it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA

 

 

For when the next “respiratory virus pandemic” arrives.  I’ve started to use it in a nose spray when I start feeling like I have a cold brewing.  It does seem to help, YMMV.

 

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Now do New Hampshire.

 

 

 

 

Can we globally coordinate other things?  Like throwing you criminals in jail?

 

 

 

Orwell’s Ministry of Truth as applied to science.

 

 

 

 

 

Don’t forget my cartoon on that:

 

 

 

 

 

 

If I handed you a bowl of M&Ms, and said that you could choose the percentage that were poisoned, what percent would you name and still grab a handful?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This one’s pretty good!

 

 

 

 

 

“Almost”.

 

 

 

There is a balance that must be struck here between rightfully conserving and resolving to hold onto principles, and being so ossified and inflexible that you become fragile in the face of change.

 

 

 

At this point this would not surprise me at all.

 

 

 

That poor child.

 

 

To take a stand opposite the herd is something quite difficult.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Link section:

 

mRNA Technology Is the Culprit Behind Faulty Immune Response That Prolonged the Pandemic, IgG4 Study Shows (igor-chudov.com)

I mentioned IgG4 antibodies from repeated mRNA Jabs here:

Depopulation Speculations

The shocking testimony of the Covid-19 nurses – The Conservative Woman

Article about nurses on the front lines of Covid-19, and the abuses they saw, many which caused patients to die (and most of those deaths were probably preventable).  We can NEVER forget that the government, the media, and the medical profession CAUSED these deaths.  Ethical doctors & nurses who questioned or stood up against these policies were forced out, fired, and vilified.  Even parents – my pediatrician was practically reading me the riot act at the kids’ last checkup because of my refusal to give more “scheduled” childhood vaccines.

And lo & behold, more supporting evidence.

Dr Vernon Coleman’s latest video “This is the End” (bitchute.com)

30 minutes give or take.

The more Jabs you got, the greater the danger… hand in hand with:

Video: Eco Loon Tells Brits “There Is A Moral Issue” With Having Children – modernity

 

 

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Bayou Renaissance Man: “The greatest miscarriage of justice in modern American history”

All of this has just two purposes:

First, to remove Trump from the field.  BAMN.

Second, to send a stark lesson to anyone who would run to reprise Trump’s policies / actions.

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8 Ways to Protect Yourself From Bank Failures – Ask a Prepper

MHO?  Following the joke… canned goods, guns, ammo, and other barter fodder.

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Who is his boss? Who does Joe Biden actually work for? | In the MIDDLE of the RIGHT

Good central question.  Because it sure isn’t America.

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Are You Ready for the Upcoming Food Crisis? – Ask a Prepper

Starvation incoming.

The Left Wants Your Food…..And They Want it Now! – The DaleyGator

 “Growing your own vegetables is bad for the planet” – OffGuardian (off-guardian.org)

Remember last year when the US Dept. of Agriculture wanted everyone to “register” their personal gardens?  Well now we know why:  Seems the globalists are now claiming that personal gardens create 5-6 times the carbon output of “conventional” farming.  Enjoy your non-GMO produce from the garden while you can.

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WOAH: Bill Gates invested MILLIONS in BioNTech JUST BEFORE covid (substack.com)

I question the timing.

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China’s Gene-Targeting of Americans | The Epoch Times

China is actively working to develop “bespoke” viruses that can target a group of people, or even a single individual.  Once they have that, they could literally kill or disable anyone on the planet without firing a shot.  Gee, it’s a shame that your leader died.  Bummer that those who oppose us just seem to die.  The CCP (and many of the Chinese people tool) are VERY racist and believe that only the Han Chinese should rule the world.  If they get this off the ground, that may happen.

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The U.S. just sold its helium stockpile. Here’s why the medical world is worried. (nbcnews.com)

For some reason, the US Government is trying to sell off our helium supply.  It’s almost like they WANT us to fail.  And don’t forget the calamitous drop in our strategic petroleum reserve.

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FDA’s New Rule Allows For Medical Research Without Informed Consent | ZeroHedge

The FDA just changed the rules so they don’t need “informed consent” to perform medical experiments on people (only in certain cases now, but what’s to stop them from “broadening” the definition of what’s “acceptable”?).  As I understand it, rumor-style, all vaccines are considered “low risk” to them.

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I’ve said before and wish I still had the original link, but I remember some years ago reading that a NASA scientist had proposed altering the actual measurement data to comport better with the models.  I was outraged.  That was betrayal trauma for me that someone, a scientist, could propose such.

I wonder if it’s this guy.  And assuming it is, note how open he is – he offered his data set and analysis for others to examine:

All datasets are available to the public at any time. The studies by Prof. Ewert may be requested by e-mail: ewert.fk (at) t-online.de.

Remember what I said here about data openness being a foundational element of the scientific process – and how, for me at least, the “brick on the jeweler’s scale” as I examined and re-evaluated my climate alarmism was the fact that the climate people hid their data and analysis?

 

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Palate Cleansers:

 

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As the number of attacks on our military installations and personnel in the Middle East by Iran proxy groups, many, including me, have asked where is the retaliation by the Biden Administration. The number of attacks reached 165 when three of our service people were killed in their barracks at a post called Tower 22. This post is located at the spot where Iraq, Jordan, and Syria meet.

There were also as many as 50 who suffered injuries from this drone attack. This drone, which may have come from within Syria, may have escaped detection because it arrived at Tower 22 while the post expected a U.S. drone to return.

This string of attacks since October 7 is but another in a series of missteps by the Biden Administration that includes the debacle exit of our troops from Afghanistan, the billions of dollars given to Ukraine without accountability, and the mixed signals given to our number one ally in the Middle East, Israel. These miscues, which is a kind descriptive, have led to a very low confidence level in our military by Americans.

It is this confidence level that makes me rethink my stance on retaliation. If I thought that this Administration could plan and execute a significant attack on Iran or its proxy nations and be prepared for counterattacks, then I would continue to push for those attacks. I do not think the Biden Administration and our current leadership at the Pentagon can carry out this mission. In the meantime, attacks by Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis will continue, and so will the count.

One of the primary functions of the Federal Government is the safety of its people. We are not safe with Joe Biden in the White House. Whether it is destroying our Southern Border, allowing a Chinese spy balloon to traverse our country while it acquires data on our domestic military bases, or poor policies in the Middle East and Europe, we do not have a President who has our safety as a priority. President Biden and Secretary Lloyd Austin are failing Americans by their incompetence.

The facts get old because they do not change. Biden does nothing to bring about change. He claimed for ten days in January that he was in daily contact with Secretary Austin when the Secretary was AWOL. He was hospitalized but neglected to tell anyone, including the President, where he was, yet Biden claimed to have secure meetings with him every day. Who was the President meeting with daily? One leader is missing, and the other is lying, and we are supposed to have confidence in these men planning an assault on an adversary who has now killed three of our brave soldiers. I now hope that Biden does nothing.

Biden is our Commander in Chief. There should be no question as to whether he called the families of these lost heroes or would be on the tarmac as their flag-draped coffins are returned to their families, but the questions were asked. They were because this President does not always accept the responsibilities of his office. It is newsworthy this week that the President may visit East Palestine, Ohio, more than one year after the train tragedy that changed the town and people forever. Mr. Biden, your words will be hollow, and the people impacted by your performance as President do not need to hear them. They have been hurt enough.

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Vermont passed a Constitutional Right to personal “reproductive liberty.” Advocates called it a right to abortion, but it still doesn’t say that, and it has yet to confront any sort of legal challenge, but New Hampshire Dems wanted one for themselves. They just didn’t have the votes.

Grok author and state Rep. Judy Aron documented yesterday’s failure. “CACR 23, which sought to enshrine the right to an abortion in our state constitution, failed to get the necessary 3/5ths votes to pass. The roll called OTP motion failed 193-184.” Prior to the vote, a Democrat rep from the People’s Republic of Keene named Amanda Toll carried her newborn down to the Well to speak to the chamber in favor of the proposed Amendment.

I’m sure someone is snipping the video as I type this, and we’ll add it if that’s the case (but Rep Aron was there and is a credible witness), so how weird is that? Look at this beautiful new life – how about we enshrine killing them before birth in a document we otherwise find tedious and restrictive and ignore unless it suits our effort to undermine it?

On that point, props are prohibited when speaking before the body, including babies, but Rep. Toll is reported to have done it anyway, and rules are for everyone else, I guess. But on-demand, conception-to-birth abortion holds a special place in the dark hearts of its advocates.

Despite New Hampshire law being more liberal than most of the free world, that’s not enough. And disagreeing despite similar or more restrictive laws in 149 countries (where abortion on demand is illegal) makes you the extremist.

Not so much. But if you’d like to promote your own extremism, by all means, bring a newborn to work to help make your opponent’s case.

They needed a two-thirds majority vote to advance the amendment. They barely broke 50% but did it with the help of seven Republicans.

• Bickford, David(R) Straf. 3
• Bordes, Mike(R) Belk. 5
• Mason, James(R) Merr. 3
• Phinney, Brandon(R) Straf. 9
• Proulx, Mark(R) Hills. 15
• Vandecasteele, Susan(R) Rock. 25
• Wolf, Dan(R) Merr. 7

No Democrats voted against the proposed Amendment.

And if any women from Vermont are reading this, and they lost a baby they wanted to keep after being rail-roaded into getting the COVID vaccine, your constitutional right was likely violated.

Just sayin’.

 

Edited after publication. I grabbed the wrong Rep. It has been corrected.

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We learned that this was the first day we began tackling our 2024 bills. Before we did that, though, we welcomed our two newest members of the House, Rep. Sean Durkin (R- Coos Dist1) and Rep. Mike Murphy (R-Gorham). We also took some time to remember the Hon. Suzanne Smith (D-Grafton 8), who passed away in early January 2024.

Suzanne served in the New Hampshire legislature from 2008 until her retirement in 2022. She had many interests, including dancing, hiking, reading, and singing, and she was involved in a myriad of activities serving her community. She will be missed.

We learned that a bill that passed on January 4th was brought back for reconsideration after Rep Michael Cahill (D-Newmarket) filed a motion for reconsideration before noon on January 5th after voting on the prevailing side (and probably being chastised for it by his caucus for doing so). This was HB396, which allows for the state to recognize biological sex, such that it permits classification based on biological sex in lavatory facilities, locker rooms, sporting competitions, and detention facilities. The vote for reconsideration failed with 190 NO to 187 YES. So the bill now continues on its way to the next locker room… umm, I mean committee.

We also learned that the House wants police vehicles to be clearly marked. The motion to ITL HB1237 was defeated 213-162, and then a floor amendment was adopted (2024-0345h) by a voice vote, followed by another voice vote to pass the resulting bill. The bill establishes a requirement that any police vehicle purchased after Jan. 1, 2025, must be clearly marked and labeled as a police vehicle in order for it to be used in traffic law enforcement. Proponents of the bill claim that higher police visibility reduces crime. That remains to be seen (literally).

We learned that HB1372 sought to make torture illegal, even though it is already illegal in the US. Proponents felt that a state law would supplement already existing federal law. The bill was ITL’d 319-58. I now wonder if this federal law can be applied to having to sit through some of the floor speeches we heard today.

We learned that the OTP motion for HB1520 was defeated 193-184 and then subsequently killed on a voice vote. This bill would have established a program to purchase, refurbish, and transfer ownership of used vehicles to recipients of Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF). Proponents felt that giving used vehicles to TANF recipients would put them on the road to employment and self-sufficiency. However, opponents felt this would be better achieved through private charity rather than through the state and its taxpayers. Additionally, there’s no stopping the recipients from selling the car, nor were there measures to prevent fraud. Plus, if they are needy, then how can they afford costly future repairs, insurance, etc? This bill was what I call “the Oprah bill”… you get a car, and you get a car, and you get a car….

We learned that we had a bill before us today for which Rep. Lucy Weber (D-Walpole) pleaded with us to pass it “For the Children” (yes, she literally said that). It was HB1068, which would require blood level lead testing for kids entering daycare and public schools. The House killed it 190-189, with the Speaker voting to break the tie in a roll-called vote. This is the same bill that was passed last year by the legislature (HB342) and then vetoed by the Governor with his message, “This bill raises the threshold for children who enroll in New Hampshire’s public schools and is an unnecessary barrier to entry.” I think that with all the talk about abortion going on that perhaps our liberal friends should change their mantra to “It’s for the children that we haven’t aborted.”

Speaking of abortion, we learned that CACR 23, which sought to enshrine the right to an abortion in our state constitution, failed to get the necessary 3/5ths votes to pass. The roll called OTP motion failed 193-184. Rep. Amanda Toll (D-Keene) took her week-old baby daughter with her to give her floor speech in favor of this constitutional amendment (even though we are not allowed to use props while speaking at “the well”). Following her was Rep. Marjorie Smith (D-Durham), who also supports unfettered abortion despite it being “a long time since she has been in the reproductive business” (her words, not mine). It’s also “for the children” – you know, “so they have a choice.” Interestingly enough, there were a lot of problems with the wording of this amendment, but besides that, NH already has the most lenient and reasonable abortion law in the country and provides that a woman can get an abortion for any reason up to 24 weeks (that’s six months) and any time thereafter if there are fetal anomalies or the mother has a health issue. It’s sad that our liberal friends are so hell-bent on having third-trimester abortions for any reason up until the time of birth of a viable, healthy human… as if six months is not enough time to decide. Yet they claim they don’t have a choice.

We learned that HB1002 passed 193-179. This bill allows public bodies to charge fees for documents requested under the Right to Know law if it takes over 10 hours to gather said documents. You have a right to know, but now it can cost you up to $25 an hour for your right to know.  Word has it that on February 1, 2024 at 5:45 p.m., Rep. Lisa Smart (R-Meredith), having voted with the prevailing side, served notice of reconsideration on the motion of Ought to Pass with Amendment on HB1002, which the House passed on a roll call vote of 193-179.  So this will be coming back next week.

We learned that HB1230 was killed 240-133. This bill would have established a committee to examine weatherization initiatives for homes in NH. As if we already don’t have several long term existing programs that deal with home weatherization. In his floor speech laying out reasons why this bill was a waste of taxpayer money and legislative time, Rep. Harrington (R-Strafford) specifically told the Speaker, “Mr. Speaker, if this bill passes, please don’t put me on this committee”. His fears were put to rest after the bill was ITL’d.

Additionally, we learned that another constitutional amendment was brought to the House. This one was CACR 13, relating to slavery and involuntary servitude. While the State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs Committee recommended unanimously to pass this bill, there were some problems with the language, and a floor amendment was offered to clear up some vague language; language that actually could be used to interpret that carrying a baby during pregnancy could be considered involuntary servitude, as could some other endeavors. To clean that up, the floor amendment (2024-0385h) took the exact wording from our US Constitution 13th amendment (replacing the words US with NH) and sought to use that version in this bill instead. That amendment, unfortunately, died 201-168 on a roll call the vote. The underlying bill was then passed by the House 366-5 (roll called). Interesting to note that on this same date in 1865, the same issue was debated in the US Congress.

We also learned that an attempt to abolish/nullify the military draft in NH failed 266-101 for HB1338.

Then, we learned that HR21 also failed 226-138. This would have been a House resolution to affirm the NH militia as outlined in articles 24 and 25 of our state constitution as well as the US Constitution’s 2nd Amendment. The members who wished to ITL this bill believe that although they recognize the constitutional right to organize a state militia independent of Washington DC, the NH National Guard already operates in that capacity for our state, and this bill was not necessary.

We also learned that HB1391 passed 241-123, which would allow vehicles purchased in the model year or before to be inspected in the second year after purchase. 241 members thought that you shouldn’t need an inspection sooner than two years if you purchase a brand new vehicle, especially since there are warranties and service checks involved with the purchase. Now we’ll see if the next committee will kick the tires on this one and take it for a spin.

We learned that CACR 20 was pulled off consent (ITL’d 20-0 in committee). The bill would have NH secede from the US if the national debt reached $40 trillion. NH would then declare independence and proceed as a sovereign nation. A motion to Indefinitely Postpone this bill passed 341-24, so it cannot be brought forth again until the 2025-26 legislative biennium.

Finally, we learned that HR 20, reaffirming the friendship between Taiwan and NH, passed 354-6 in a roll-called vote. This was another bill pulled off consent. NH does about a quarter billion dollars worth of business with Taiwan. This resolution reaffirms this important relationship.

There’s more to come next week as committees are furiously trying to get through their mountain of bills! Stay tuned! And remember… It’s for the Children!

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Another February is here, as is another February Fundraiser. How is this different from all the other fundraising we do – non-stop, all year? It rolls off the tongue better than most other months – and this year, we have a different goal.

We’d love to add at least one hundred new subscribers, giving at least 10.00 each month.

Yes, we’d love to see one hundred $25.00 subscribers or even one hundred $50.00 a month subscribers, and if that’s you, we appreciate it. We have a 100.00 a month donor for whom we are very grateful, but we need to find a few more. So, here we are, rolling with another February Fundraiser, hoping to beat last year’s numbers via subscribers.

We raised 5k in February of 2023

One hundred new subscribers would help us make this year’s goal, but it would be fair to ask, what do you get for that 10, 25, 50, or 100-dollar monthly gift?

A media outlet that offers news and opinion without the Machine Media filters. We are not beholden to anything but principles. We share divergent pro-liberty opinions so readers and commenters can debate the merits. We allow whistleblowers anonymous bylines. We don’t censor debate or comments, but for a few rare exceptions – and fewer now than ever.

We cover stories no one else touches and share public opinion pieces other media won’t publish – every day, 365 days a year, with no days off. Holidays, sick days, birthdays, even “vacation days. We provide new original content every single day.

And we are working on keeping the promise of a site refresh, an ad-free subscription option, and a better mobile experience. We have expanded into Vermont and are reaching into Maine because tyranny has taken hold, and liberty needs a stronger voice.

We will accept donations of any size, but we could also use a  few large-dollar sponsors who can step forward each year with the understanding that the donation does not buy them more than what we’ve outlined – Independent media committed to defending Conservatarian Constitutional principles without regard to person or party.

That will be worth something different to every person, but I hope it’s worth enough to support it here.

Gratefully and with much thanks.

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Camp Constitution Ladies’ Fourth Annual “Spring Fling” will be held at the Alton Bay Christian Conference Center, Alton Bay, NH https://altonbay.org/ from Friday, April 12 to Sunday, April 14, 2024

Our guest speaker will be Dr. Felecia Nace. Dr. Nace is the author of several books, including the book: Top Down Confusion: Is Gray the New Pink in Education? Her presentation explores mixed messages in education that filter down from the government, which leaves educators. Dr. Nace is a former language arts teacher of the Montclair Public School District, NJ. She was also employed as an Education Specialist for 13 years at the New Jersey Department of Education, worked for five years as an adjunct professor at Mercer County Community College, English Department, and is currently the Executive Director of Partners 4 Educational Change, an education consulting firm.

Please Submit Group communications or Press Releases to steve@granitegrok.com.
Submission is not a guarantee of publication – Publication is not an endorsement.

Activities include arts and crafts, Bible studies, optional marksmanship training, and an evening campfire. The cost for the weekend, which includes two nights of lodging, five meals, and materials, will be $200. per person. Payments can be made via our PayPal account accessed from our website’s homepage http://www.campconstitution.net or by check payable to Camp Constitution and mailed C/O Hal Shurtleff146 Powder Mill Rd. Alton, NH 03809. To get an application, bring list, or have any questions, please E-mail or call Hal Shurtleff at campconstitution1@gmail.com Tel (857) 498-1309

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You probably are aware that America’s military, under the Biden-Regime, has had serious retaining and recruiting problem. It’s a case of the proverbial chickens coming home to roost. More specifically, white non-progressive males … those not-into-preferred-pronouns, safe-spaces, staying-woke, and who don’t want to hear any more of the psycho-babble about whites have oppressor-genes that make them bad, etc., etc., etc. … are not reenlisting and not signing up.

Perhaps this is exactly what the Biden-Regime wants? Perhaps the Biden-Regime does not view the military as a shield to protect America from foreign enemies, but rather as a sword to be used against those Americans who don’t share their insidious ideology … such as the white warriors who aren’t staying and aren’t signing up?

In 2018, 44,000 whites joined the Army.

By 2023, that number had plummeted to 25,000, a 43% reduction in just 5 years.

New recruits dropped from 56% white to 44%.

Military official: “There's a level of prestige in parts of conservative America with service that has degraded” pic.twitter.com/QnG149YZF9

— Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania) January 14, 2024

 

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I’ve been drinking coffee since I was six years old. I still drink it every day. Several cups. Nothing fancy. Regular coffee with a bit of French Vanilla creamer, but I can do regular cream, sugar, milk, iced. And yes, I like coffee ice cream. Stories about coffee tend to attract my attention.

This story is about a rich white guy who wants to deprive (mostly) brown people of their livelihood by linking coffee “farming” to his false notions about carbon dioxide and its effects on the earth and its atmosphere.

“Swiss banker and World Economic Forum “agenda contributor”, Hubert Keller: “The coffee that we all drink emits between 15 and 20 tonnes of CO2 per tonne of coffee… Every time we drink coffee, we are basically putting CO2 into the atmosphere.”

Now they’re coming for your coffee.

Swiss banker and World Economic Forum “agenda contributor”, Hubert Keller: “The coffee that we all drink emits between 15 and 20 tonnes of CO2 per tonne of coffee… Every time we drink coffee, we are basically putting CO2 into the… pic.twitter.com/4tRj2fXJaw

— Wide Awake Media (@wideawake_media) January 22, 2024

As with all nutty-faux-professor presentations, Hubert isn’t interested in any of the other variables or benefits or – reality, if that’s not too bold a thing to say.  Millions of low-skilled workers, many of them in thoroughly labeled and activated victim classes, rely on coffee for their livelihood. At least a few of them live in second or third-world conditions (and not just in the second or third-world) and are unlikely to give a shit what Swiss banker thinks about anything, especially plantation work.

And they’re not alone. As an agricultural business, these workers have more in common with the farmers in Canada, the UK, Australia, India, Germany, Denmark, and the dozen other places where farmers are protesting the war on food (and now coffee).

Add to that the businesses that own and thrive on the commodity, those who invest and profit from its success, and, of course, the people who drink it.

Only one of the top ten nations for coffee consumption per person is in North America, and it’s not America.

1. Finland — 12 kg/26 lbs — Finland is the world’s biggest consumer of coffee on a per-person basis. The average Finn drinks nearly four cups a day. Coffee is so popular in Finland that two 10-minute coffee breaks are legally mandated for Finnish workers.

2. Norway — 9.9 kg/22 lbs — Norwegians drink more than three cups of coffee a day. Coffee houses are popular in Norway, and unlike in the United States, they are primarily places to socialize, not to work or to carry a drink out.

3. Iceland — 9 kg/20 lbs — Beer was illegal in Iceland until 1987, and wine is costly, so coffee has long been the most essential social drink in the country. It is customary in Iceland to offer any visitor a cup of coffee, and Icelanders have a stock reply, tíu dropar, or “ten drops,” to indicate that they just want a small cup.

4. Denmark — 8.7 kg/19 lbs — In Denmark, the word kaffeslabberas means an informal social gathering where coffee and cake is offered, often after dinner. At weddings, people will often be explicitly invited for the bryllupskaffe or wedding coffee reception.

5. Netherlands — 8.4 kg/19 lbs — Dutch merchants first introduced coffee to the West, shipping entire coffee plants from the Yemeni port of Mocha to India and Indonesia, where they were grown on plantations to supply beans to Europe.

6. Sweden — 8.2 kg/18 lbs — Swedes have a word, Fika, to describe an extended coffee break from work where you socialize with friends. Swedes spend on average 9.5 days per year having a fikarast.

7. Switzerland — 7.9 kg/17 lbs — The Swiss combined coffee and wine to create a popular drink, Luzerner Kafi, which is red wine added to thin coffee with sugar. The Swiss also created Nespresso, one of the most popular coffee brands in the world.

8. Belgium — 6.8 kg/15 lbs — The Belgian cities of Brussels and Antwerp have thousands of coffee houses, including Wittamer’s, which serves brûlot, an espresso drink of sugar, cinnamon, cloves, shredded lemon peel, and warm cognac set alight.

9. (tie) Luxembourg — 6.5 kg/14 lbs — Despite being one of the world’s smallest countries, Luxembourg has thousands of coffee houses, from elegant houses with white linen table cloths to small, stand-up coffee bars.

10. (tie) Canada — 6.5 kg/14 lbs — The only top ten consumer not located in Europe, Canada spawned one of the world’s first coffee chains, Tim Horton’s, which makes three out of every four cups of coffee sold in Canada.

Those numbers are a few years old, and Americans do consume more coffee in aggregate, followed by Germany, Japan, France, Italy, and Russia. There are more of us to do it, and we’re only half a cup or so away from climbing the top ten and perhaps already have if that’s a goal worth pursuing.

In contrast, how much carbon do Swiss bankers emit annually and not just travel to Davos with just a hop, skip, and a jump for them but everywhere else – a haul for the rest of the planet? A literal army of private jets and the debauchery of a globalist lifestyle that we are meant to ignore because we feel it is necessary for some greater good.

That good would be as self-interested as that of those who live and work in the coffee industry, except that they are not trying to destroy your livelihood. In fact, what they do helps make you more money – and enjoy the odd cup of coffee, not that your program will prevent either of those things from continuing to happen.

That’s what makes you more dangerous. None of this has anything to do with the planet, it’s all about centralizing the global economy.

In Switzerland, perhaps?

 

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This is an attempt to “break out” memes, links, and my commentary about the situation in Israel / the Middle East so as to not overload the standard meme posts that I do.  My last “normal” meme post.  In these Israel-related posts I don’t just have memes such, but lots of informative links as well as hopefully-insightful commentary.

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Special announcement

 

From now until Purim (March 23), I will have this:

Connections Israel – mentioned every post at the bottom – is formally kicking off its drive to collect funds for Purim baskets for IDF soldiers.  They are also doing barbecues and other morale events, as well as purchasing needed equipment and other items.  I’ve contributed to them for about two decades now.  Great group!

PURIM | connectionsisrael

If you can and are willing, please give at least one basket.  If there’s a comment, tell them NITZAKHON sent you!   If you can, please also let other people who might also be inclined know about this effort.

Note: I give to support at least one unit of 30 soldiers every year.

 

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Note that this is not meant to be a day-by-day update about what’s going on.  Rather, to highlight uncomfortable truths about the actual nature of the conflict, deep-history background, and so on, as well as to show the at-present immutable nature of Islamic hatred of Jews and why that matters to today’s events.

Note that these posts do not repeat information – so there is a lot of stuff in prior posts.  Please do check them out too if this is a topic of interest to you.  In reverse chronological order:

Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Still More Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Ongoing Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Ongoing Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: More Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Even More Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: More Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Memes and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Memes and Commentary – Granite Grok

With some Israel-related materials here:

Meme Overflow – Granite Grok

 

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https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/shawarma-after-100-days.mp4

 

100 days in.  The hospitals and enemedia and residents say there is no food.  That sure likes like hardship-level starvation to me!

 

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TOP OF THE FOLD

Oct. 7 Was Worse Than a Terror Attack. It Was a Pogrom. – Tablet Magazine

Not everyone, however, was surprised by the involvement of Gazan civilians. “I don’t differentiate between them and Hamas,” Nir Shani told me. “Let me know of one Palestinian in Gaza who tried to save a Jew and maybe I’ll change my mind.” Shani’s teenaged son Amit was taken hostage and later released as part of a prisoner exchange at the end of November. Shani is from Be’eri, also home to lifelong peace activists, including Vivian Silver, the founder of Women Wage Peace, and Yocheved and Oded Lifshitz. Silver was murdered and the Lifshitzes were taken hostage. Yocheved was later released but Oded remains in Gaza. “They are people of peace who were always supporting Palestine,” the couple’s grandson Daniel said of them. He recounted how bystanders in Gaza spat on his grandmother, who was thrown over the back of a motorcycle after being pummeled in the ribs by her captors.

Overall, they hate Jews.  They hate Israel.  And they view anyone who wants actual peace and actual coexistence as traitors.  And no wonder – look at their kids shows: https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/child-wants-her-brother-to-be-a-martyr.mp4 —

Scenes from the Dier Al-Balah market, central Gaza Strip, today (Jan. 31.)

 

 

 

Some “genocide”.  See the shawarma video, above, too.

 

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Watch Host’s Face as Thomas Sowell Exposes the Real Origin of Jew Hatred

 

 

Yes and no.  Certainly I will not contradict Sowell’s depth of knowledge, but… as I’ve mentioned previously… a lot of Jews are very heavily involved in mass migration, which is winning us NO FRIENDS among many of the nations we’re “diversifying”.  Of course it’s not just us… but we’re insufferably glad and noble-sounding about it.

An Open Letter to Pro-Migration / SJW Jews – Urban Scoop

 

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WAR & WHEN WILL IT END?

Children in Gaza beg Hamas to release Israeli hostages | World Israel News

Not that this will end the war – the leaders don’t care – but hopefully, in seeing their children ignored, it might continue to change some hearts.

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Hamas denies atrocities, claims October 7th massacre was ‘legitimate resistance’ | World Israel News

Hamas justified its targeting of civilians by claiming that Israelis who will, are or who have served in the IDF aren’t really civilians.

Remember – in Islamic jihad, if you aren’t a Muslim then by definition you are a soldier against them.

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US and Europe ‘calling for Israel to destroy itself,’ say military experts | World Israel News

Without any doubt many in the US and Europe would like to feed Israel to the Arabs for perceived peace.

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‘Innocent’ Gazans ARE Hamas | Frontpage Mag

Understand who we’re dealing with.  Hamas is, in general, not an aberration but supported widely.  How do you make peace with a population whose vast majority wants you dead?  Related:

THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS: Virtually every school and mosque in Gaza has weapons around

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Israeli Arabs and Druze Fighting For Israel (jihadwatch.org)

Good.

 

 

ISLAM: PRACTICES, HISTORY, AND MENTALITY

 

 

Just like Mohammed himself who shared loot to incentivize his followers.

 

 

ATROCITIES

From here:

Hamas took this picture minutes after they killed his mother, Adi Kaplon. How can anyone defend this evil?

 

 

 

 

ON INTERSECTIONALITY / LEFTIST SUPPORT

WATCH: What Hamas’ arsenal looks like | World Israel News

I can imagine all the anti-gun people, who would have the vapors at seeing even a fraction of this in the US, cheering this.

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Why Does Islam Abuse Women? — It’s the Doctrine, Stupid! | Gates of Vienna

And yet women seek to support these abusers in droves.  I simply do not get it.

 

 

PALLYWOOD & MEDIA IN GENERAL

WATCH: Pro-Palestinian protesters don’t know what they’re fighting for | World Israel News

They have no clue.  It’s just the “new thing” for them.  Look at this video with the bearded guy on the Left.  I doubt he has any idea what he’s chanting or calling for.

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/crowd-chanting-with-no-clue.mp4

 

Gazan propagandists rely on their leftist supporters’ ignorance – American Thinker

Another example.

 

 

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Ethnic Cleansing and Crimes Against Humanity | Frontpage Mag

Putting things into scale.

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NBC News Responds to FrontPage Story by Pushing ‘Anti-Palestinian’ Hate Crime Hoax Again | Frontpage Mag

And the media would rather push the lies, myths and smears than finally tell the truth.

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In English and Arabic, Two Versions of the Death of Tawfic Abdel-Jabbar (jihadwatch.org)

Gullible is not in the dictionary for the enemedia.

 

 

TERROR COMING HERE?  TO THE WEST?

‘Long live the intifada,’ Columbia students chant in NYC | World Israel News

They’re here already.

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Sweden: Three Muslim Migrants Rape Underage Girl | Frontpage Mag

This is how a country commits suicide. The ruling political elite in Sweden, afraid to publicly recognize the menace within that it has helped create by allowing in large numbers of Muslim economic migrants, wants to put off the day of reckoning when the public finally is made aware of the scope of the Muslim problem. But despite their machinations, including attempts to punish such intrepid researchers as Khoshnood and Sundquist, that day is coming. It can’t come fast enough.

Cease Verbal Violence Against Us Say Italy’s Jews

And abuse in Washington DC – two Jewish mourners are harassed as they leave a service:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/gaza-supporters-harass-funeral-attendees.mp4

 

 

TREADING ON THE POLITICAL

49 of 51 Senate Democrats sign bill for Palestinian state | World Israel News

Completely ignoring the multiple times they’ve been offered a state.  Related:

Biden leveraging weapons sales to force Israel to scale down Gaza war – report | World Israel News

Yet another reason why, after this is done, Israel needs to voluntarily wean itself from American support.

 

 

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Biden to Israel: Forget your existential concerns; I’ve got an election to win! – American Thinker

With the 2024 election heating up, and younger people plus the growing Muslim “D” demographic, The Potato is going to be under enormous pressure… and will pressure Israel in turn.

 

 

‘I Am an Antisemite’ | Frontpage Mag

In France too – pandering to the rising demographic.

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The U.S. Campaign to Oust Netanyahu – CarolineGlick.com

As far as my appreciation of Bibi has fallen, I’ll give him this: he’s not kissing the US’ ring.  And overall, long-term, confirms my thought that Israel needs to be weaned from US support.

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Did Biden’s State Department really freeze funding to UNRWA? The answer is a big NOPE and here’s why… – The Right Scoop

The article points out that Trump suspended all funding to UNRWA in 2018 but Biden reversed that decision and has given the terrorists 1 billion since 2021. Now it appears we’re going to continue funding current projects and who knows how much of our tax dollars are still going to be given to these terrorists.

Wordplay can hide a lot of misdeeds.

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American women swoon for Houthi hot-boy (rumble.com)

LEFTIST American women… swooning over a dreamboat guy.

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Palestinians are obfuscating history – American Thinker

Which party is doing this again?  AOC is a… what now?  Related:

AOC, Bernie Sanders call US decision to halt UNRWA funding ‘unacceptable’ | World Israel News

Squad Members Rashida Tlaib and Cori Bush Are Only Congressmen to Vote Against Bill Banning Hamas Terrorists Who Took Part in October 7 Terror Attack From U.S. | The Gateway Pundit | by Kristinn Taylor

What party are these two in again?

 

 

 

MISCELLANEOUS

Hamas TERRORISTS dressed as civilians are firing RPG on Israeli army.

Hamas terrorist in civilian clothes carrying an RPG (rumble.com)

And if the guy is killed they claim he was a civilian because of his clothes.  Another example (a little graphic but IMHO not too gory):

RPG holder gets splatted by IDF sniper

Note the civilian clothes again.

 

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A CONCLUDING THOUGHT FOR THIS POST

Elie Wiesel, the noted Holocaust survivor, once noted “When someone says they want to kill you, believe them”.

Yet for too many in the West, they are simply unable to take people who match word with deed at their word.  Hamas, specifically, and Islam, generally, openly call for the genocide of Jews and the conquest of the whole planet.  This is ignored, as other events and calamities have been pre-announced and ignored.

If we learn one thing from history, it’s that we fail to learn from it.

 

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