Government-run education, like everything else with that designation, wastes vast sums of money for negligible output. And cutting corners is a no-go if it means fewer union teachers, no matter what the cuts.

So, spending gets out of hand quickly and annually. If you dared ask for austerity on any front, the Left would say you wanted to end sports, chorus, band, or extracurricular activity. Given that the institution’s original purpose was to teach math, reading, and a bit of history, these are likely targets. Intangibles. But, “How dare you,” to borrow from not-so-muppet Greta Thunberg, take away the things that round out future generations.

And it works.

The budget is saved, as are the union jobs, as scholarly output continues to decline. But a School Director in Washington State has taken a different approach. It is looking to cut its budget, but one director has flipped the narrative. He has targeted a once-blessed music program for the cutting block because he says it could “inculcate and allow white supremacy culture to continue to be propagated and cause significant institutional violence.”

He does not mean violence by so-called under-represented minorities trapped in Democrat-Run cities rebelling at the advice of their progressive masters.

 

“We’re a school district that lives in … is entrenched in … is surrounded by white supremacy culture. And that’s a real thing,” Clifthorne told parents.

“There’s nothing about strings or wind instrumental music that is intrinsically white supremacist,” he said. “However, the ways in which it is and the ways in which all of our institutions, not just schools — local government, state government, churches or neighborhoods — inculcate and allow white supremacy culture to continue to be propagated and cause significant institutional violence are things that we have to think about carefully as a community.”

Put another way, when the mismanagement inherent in socialist systems becomes untenable, and you have no choice but to cut, label something as racist, and it would be racist to object to its excision.

 

“This is actually par for the course. The issue is we are having such a catastrophic budget crisis right now that they’re having to cut programs. And so what has happened is this program has been deemed ‘inequitable.’ And in a previous comment, the director of elementary education stated that not only is this program ‘inequitable,’ but when she heard the word ‘tradition of excellence,’ which was used to describe our music programs, she said that the word ‘tradition’ actually translated to her to mean systemic discrimination.”

 

Again, not new. With math and reading scores in decline, the solution from the ed experts is to label them as examples of discrimination or inequity. It is the high-minded white culture of European colonialists forced on students of color (for example). It has become the go-to excuse of those unable to do anything but waste other people’s money on the only thing they care about – indoctrination.

We see the example of this process in Democrat-Run cities crowded with minorities forced to do with less, surrounded by more crime, despite being shepherded for decades by Democrats committed to their welfare and safety.

Right is Left, Down is Up, forward is backward.

But don’t socialist societies need intellectually agile minds to do great things for the People’s Government? No worries. The children of wealthy or connected progressive party members continue to attend private schools, top-rated secondary schools, and institutions of higher learning. These elites of the future (the American aristocracy) will manage the dolts whose fate was decided by their forefathers to ensure a two-class communist society Democrat-socialism. Rulers and workers.

The children of elites learn math and how to read and write despite its white racist roots. They will participate in music and culture (regardless of the inequity and discrimination); travel in fuel-powered cars and jets and eat protein-rich meats (that are killing the planet); and accumulate and manage whatever is left of value even though being rich has always been the biggest sin of all.

Warm, housed, and protected by people with guns.

It is called Liberal Privilege, and as we descend Marx’s slippery slope, it will be invoked for everything we once had that only they can get. That is because the Middle Class the Left has long said it supports and protects is more white supremacy, and the truth behind the equity and inclusion movement will finally be realized. When they said we all deserved to be included and equal, they meant in misery, and they never meant to join us.

Fourth Graders losing out on music lessons might seem trivial, but it used to be a sacred cow. A few years along, and it’s systemic racism. Not because it is but because it needs to be. A label they will place on anything their system can no longer sustain, including transportation, clean water, electricity, clothing, and even food, EBT, affirmative action, and human rights.

The ruling apparatus and its infrastructure inevitably consume everything, and the government is the only thing worth saving.

 

HT | Daily Wire

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First, I am merely an “enlightened amateur”.  Please vet & check on your own.  Caveat emptor.  Consider these to be priming the pump for your own investigations.  I know this is a long post; I am attempting to put out a lot of information as a resource.  Read or skip sections depending on your interests.

Second, I fear spicy time is very close, but even a month of food, water, etc., puts you well ahead of most of the sheeple.  IMHO, set your minimum sights on a three-month period.

Third, two things will be critical for having the best chance of making it through:

1. Mentality: first and foremost in survival is having a flexible mentality and cultivating the ability to adapt. Vanity has no place in survival.
2. Develop a meatspace network of people that are likeminded: cultivate your community ties and build alliances with neighbors (note: don’t babble about the Jab or globalists or depopulation, or start pointing political fingers when doing this)… and remember, the first rule of PREP CLUB is that there is no prep club.

And please follow both me, Nitzakhon, on Gab… as well as my blog host Granite Grok and also on Telegram Tommy Robinson Official plus his Urban Scoop site.  And don’t forget posts sometimes get cloned on American Reveille as well, which is a good site to check out in general.

FYI, here’s a link to the last Survival Sunday.

 

NOTE: This one is not as “full” as I’d like.  Work demands.

 

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Mental Exercise…5 years into another GREAT DEPRESSION…What to stock…What will we be wanting?

 

 

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Top of the fold:

The ONE REASON America Can Have Another Civil War – Flopping Aces

Some good points, but… I disagree that The Potato won’t fight.  He – well more precisely his puppeteers – won’t fight America’s actual enemies, but instead they WILL fight red-state Americans on terms that would, from here, “make Genghis Khan blush.”

 

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Oddments – random thoughts on prepping:

The only thing I can think of in this last-minute dash to get this posted is this: I’ve found a couple dozen short pieces of steel rebar by the road and have been judiciously sprinkling them in the woods we own.

Have fun with the metal detector, Fedbois.

 

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Prepper Site URLS:

Most have daily articles; revisit daily.  Please recommend others in the comments.

Ask a Prepper, how to prepare, survive and thrive, latest news

Mother Earth News

The Organic Prepper Home – The Organic Prepper

SurvivalBlog.com – The Daily Web Log for Prepared Individuals Living in Uncertain Times.

SHTF Blog – Modern Survival

Survival World – Everything You Need To Know to Survive

Homestead Survival Site – How to Live Off The Grid in Comfort and Style

Urban Survival Site | How to Survive a Disaster in the City

Mind4Survival – Survival and Preparedness

Gray Wolf survival

Sustainable Living (sustainablelivingideas.com)

The Classic Survivalist – Surviving in a Modern World

Primal Survivor – Practical and sensible prepping advice

Em Off-grid – We & Our Off The Grid Life – Em OffGrid

Resource for Practical, Daily Prepping Skills for SHTF & Survival (geekprepper.com)

And three aggregate sites listing their top favorite sites & links too:

TOP 50 SURVIVAL & PREPPER BLOGS

The 50 Best Survival Blogs

Prepper Website – Preparedness • Survival • Alternative News

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Specific, one-up articles:

DIY EMP-Proof Truck – Ask a Prepper

I need more money, dammit!

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Related to Spicy Time:

 

 

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SOUTH AFRICA AT WAR WITH ITSELF – Lay Of The Land

Spicy time, achieved.  Coming sooner than you think to America:

Murder rates jump another 10% in the biggest US cities since 2021: Memphis crowned homicide capital | Daily Mail Online

More:

The disturbing reality of America’s future (grayzoneactivity.com)

The unsettling reality is that America in the not-too-distant future is going to have a lot in common with partial-collapse societies of Eastern Europe and Latin America where gangs have more power and influence than the government; where politicians pass the laws but gangs enforce the rules.

This is the Gray Zone America you should be preparing for — not quite collapsed, but not quite standing.

Related:

What happens when enough people lose all trust in the cops and the system?

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Biden Provoking A Nuclear War With China And Russia (allnewspipeline.com)

My reply to this post on Gab:

What better way to hide the looming “died suddenly” tsunami (and birth dearth) than to mask it with a nuclear war? When radiation is flying, society has collapsed with smoldering cities, and plague, hunger, and death stalk the land… who will notice the death spirals and people who don’t wake up?

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The First Thing You Need To Do During Civil War – Ask a Prepper

When it happens, it’ll be slowly… and then all of a sudden.

 

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DENIAL will make YOU a VICTIM

 

 

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Short of years and untold wealth, you cannot possibly be fully prepared for everything (I have to keep reminding myself of that).  But even some preparations, ideally at least 90 days of food, water / water purification, etc., puts you head and shoulders in front of the vast majority of the sheeple who will be in jaw-gaping astonishment when the SHTF.  The only relevant questions are:

1. When does it start?
2. How bad will it get?
3. How long will it last?
4. What will the aftermath look like?

 

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What Would Happen In A Nuclear Exchange? (My Assessment & Interactive Map)

 

 

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I have a FORAGING group on Gab.  I will check 2-3 times a week to see if people have asked to join.

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Foraging: One-up articles

Nothing this week.  Time!

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Foraging (permanent feature):

Foraging (practicalselfreliance.com)

Wild Harvests (arcadianabe.blogspot.com)

Southern Appalachian Herbs

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Books (permanent feature):

Feasting Free on Wild Edibles (old but good)

The Lost Ways (much more than just foraging)

The Forager’s Guide to Wild Foods

THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO EDIBLE WILD PLANTS FOR BEGINNERS

 

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Shortages (broadly):

JB Hunt: Trucking is in a ‘freight recession’ | Transport Dive

Volumes plummet.

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Bidenconomy: A Return To Pandemic Hunger Levels – Pirate’s Cove » Pirate’s Cove (thepiratescove.us)

Get used to the idea of double-plus-un-plenty.

 

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Gardening, Food Storage, Animals, Food Preservation, Health, and Related:

 

Let’s Mound The Potatoes Growing In A Cardboard Box

 

 

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Related:

 

https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/136/477/993/original/f1d473eff2606d84.mp4

 

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Soaking chicken feed to cut costs, enhance biosecurity and ensure all birds get fed.

 

 

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Growing Beans Indoors – Can You Keep An Indoor Bean Plant (gardeningknowhow.com)

Beans, beans, the magical fruit

The more you eat the more you toot

And the more you toot, the more you help global warming!  Bonus!  (Occasionally I’ll let one rip with the wife around – accidentally – and then will beam and say “Just doing my part to help global warming”!)

From the same site:

GKH’s Complete Guide To Growing Vegetables (gardeningknowhow.com)

Plant Incompatibility – What Plants Should Not Be Planted Together (gardeningknowhow.com)

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Links on old-time food storage (permanent feature):

Thanks to the Canning and Preserving group on Gab, I now have these links:

Preserving foods by drying | How to dry foods safely (uada.edu)

USDA-Complete-Guide-to-Home-Canning-2015-revision.pdf (healthycanning.com)

Canning | SDSU Extension (sdstate.edu)

Food Preservation– Canning | Consumer Food Safety | Washington State University (wsu.edu)

Canning Timer & Checklist App | OSU Extension Catalog | Oregon State University

National Center for Home Food Preservation (uga.edu)

Canning Recipes | Ball® Mason Jars (ballmasonjars.com)

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Topical Books (also permanent):

Charcuterie: The Craft of Salting, Smoking & Curing

Salumi: The Craft of Italian Dry Curing

A Guide to Canning, Freezing, Curing & Smoking Meat, Fish & Game

The Prepper’s Canning Guide

Pickled Pantry

Fermented Vegetables

Hydroponics and Greenhouse Gardening: 3-in-1 Gardening Book to Grow Vegetables, Herbs, and Fruit All-Year-Round

Hydroponics for Beginners: The Complete Guide to Hydroponic Gardening, Designing and Building Inexpensive DIY Hydroponic Systems…

The Aquaponics Guidebook: Combining Aquaculture and Hydroponics Combining Aquaculture and Hydroponics

 

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Self-defense (broad):

 

 

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The Left’s Claim that ‘More Guns Means More Deaths’ Not Proved by Statistics – The Lid (lidblog.com)

Data.  Like a cross to a vampire.

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Stand Your Ground Law: 5 Things Every Prepper Should Know – Ask a Prepper

Know your laws.  And get a lawyer’s number just in case.

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Shooter Kills 5 To Get Guns Banned, Dems Are Happy To Oblige (thefederalist.com)

Just how f*cked up in the head do you have to be to go out and murder people to justify a push for gun control?  From the same source:

No, Gun Violence Isn’t The Leading Cause Of Death Among Children

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Gabby Giffords says the quiet part out loud – Bearing Arms

No matter what they say… they want them all.

 

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Hunting & fishing:

Nothing this week.

 

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Concluding thoughts if I’m moved to comment:

Pandemic Report: Has Ageism Become the New Eugenics? – Everything Zoomer

A society has two orientations, to wit either the Individual is supreme, or the Collective (State).  America is founded on the former.  That’s being pushed towards the latter.  Remember (worth reading in its own right):

However, a disease that specifically targets old and sick people is a useful tool for a socialist country that has a surfeit of old and sick people burdening the medical and welfare systems. We already know that countries such as England routinely deny treatment to the very old or the very sick. They do this because they’re no longer contributing to the system. For that reason, they’re viewed as deadweight, and not worth saving.

Remember, in socialist societies, an individual’s worth is measured, not by being a unique person made in the image of God, but by that person’s utility to the state. If you’re no longer useful and, worse, if are an economic drain on society, you’ve got to go.

And more on this:

Pandemic Report: Has Ageism Become the New Eugenics? – Everything Zoomer

The Journal itself recently published a guide to rationing health care during COVID-19, and age factors into it. While the paper recommends ventilators should go first to those most likely to survive – regardless of age – it notes the decision should be based not just on saving a life but saving “the most life years,” meaning younger people with a longer life expectancy would have an advantage.

It’s society that matters, not the individual, to these people:

Dyck sees no malicious intent behind the agonizing triage decisions that loom, only that eugenic-like arguments are at work in deciding who is most valuable to society.

It was Ezekiel Emanuel who talked about only those productive being worth saving – the very young still need years of education and care are not, nor are the very old are on their way out anyway.

Life unworthy of life.  Somehow it sounds better in the original German.

 

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Delta Airlines recently introduced a special half-fare rate for wives accompanying their husbands on business trips.

Anticipating some valuable testimonials, the publicity department of the airline sent out letters to all the wives of businessmen who had used the special rates, asking how they enjoyed their trip.

Responses are still pouring in asking, “What trip?”

 

Followed, no doubt, by a boom in divorce attorney business.

 

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Palate cleansers:

 

 

It took me a minute, but OMG.

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What did the fish say when it swam into a wall?

Dam.

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What do you call an apology written in dots and dashes?

Re-morse code.

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What happened when the clam went to the gym?

He pulled a mussel.

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If you’re American when you go into the bathroom and American when you come out of the bathroom, what are you when you are in the bathroom?

European.

 

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Please check out my MEMES collections; last one here.  Mockery, ridicule, and the wrapping of uncomfortable truths inside humor can penetrate the cognitive shields of normies far more effectively – IMHO – than dry facts and figures.

 

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They want you to believe that 2016 was not an inflection point. That everything is as it always was. That Fox News is on your side. That the politician with an R is good and the one with the D is bad … yeah! yeah! go team go!

Lie after lie after lie after lie. America is a corrupt Police-State. All of the major media are regime-mouthpieces. The election in 2024 will be rigged every bit as much … if not worse … than the 2020 election. And Establishment-mouthpieces like Mikey Graham will keep shilling and gaslighting … no evidence! no evidence! anti-vaxxer! election-denier, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Nothing to see here. Just ABC censoring a Presidential candidate. That’s just the American way … the post-2016 America, that is. Can’t risk another 2016 …. that would be too, too, too, … “undemocratic”.

NEW – ABC News Censors Robert F. Kennedy Jr During His Primetime Interview, Citing 'False Claims' About Vaccines

"During our conversation Kennedy made false claims about the COVID-19 vaccines…We've used our editorial judgement and not included extended portions of that… pic.twitter.com/6cxCZV8QBk

— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) April 28, 2023

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Fox canceled Tucker Carlson’s show without notice. Since then, things have been looking good for Tucker – though, last I checked, he was still under contract with Fox News. As for Fox News, things are not as chipper over there in the wake of that change.

And Newsmax would like you to know about that.

 

After Tucker Carlson’s departure this week from Fox News, Fox’s ratings have tanked.

In fact, Fox’s ratings in the key 8pm ET hour have fallen by 59% as of this past Wednesday, according to Nielsen.

Meanwhile, Newsmax’s ratings are way up.

Please take a look at the massive increases below, with our 8pm slot with “Eric Bolling The Balance” up 261%!

Newsmax is on the rise, on TV,  on digital, on emails – everything.

 

 

 

As you may know, I have not watched TV news for years. Most of it is nonsense pretending to be entertainment, and for as long as “news” is a revenue stream first and something pretending to be accountability much further down the list, I’m not interested in the product, even when it attempts to be something else first.

Sharing clips to bracket a story on these pages is about as close as I got to watching even Tucker, so no, I’m not watching Newsmax or trying to promote their product. But this is not the first time Newsmax has benefitted from major media stumbles.

As for Tucker, his future is not in doubt. Wherever he goes, much of his audience will follow, assuming he can negotiate his way out of his contract with Fox News. Until then, his hands are tied, and that appears to be the point of this exercise. Keep him sidelined in the run-up to the 2024 Elections.

 



 

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December 2022 was my 45th anniversary since I made it to this blessed land, America. A land that I fell in love with.  Like many of my fellow Iranian compatriots, I never imagined extending my stay in the US beyond four years at the university. Let me remind you that Iranians are not beggars. We don’t ask for charity.

We are extremely proud people. Most of us never expect anything from the host country or demand any special privileges. Most of us have assimilated nicely. A major reason for the Iranian assimilation and success in the U.S. is the U.S. itself which provides an ambiance conducive to self-advancement, be it in science, business, or any other field of endeavor. Another reason is that Iranians inherently share and cherish the same values that America’s founding fathers enshrined in this nation’s charter of life.

Although the Islamic Revolution forced the removal of the Shah of Iran and the war with Iraq was imposed on our motherland, I was still determined to go back home. What deterred me from returning was my family.

Mother kept telling me that this is not the same Iran you left. This is a different Iran. She also warned me if I went back, the Islamic regime would immediately recruit me and send me to the front lines – the same war zone that took the lives of many of my high school friends. It was a terrifying feeling. The adrenalin was rushing through my veins, and fighting an enemy was all I could think of. I said, Mom, my friends lost their lives to defend their country. I find it my duty to come home and do the same. Please say no more. To no avail, she kept begging me not to come back and wait until the war ended. She continued Khomeini’s regime doesn’t care about Iran or the lives of Iranians. In fact, he despises Iran. She convinced me that I could do more for Iran in a free US than in a war zone where I would most likely not survive. I listened to her motherly advice and stayed while continuing with my higher education.

Fast Forward

Forty-four years have passed, and the Islamic Republic is still doing what it did forty-four years ago. Iran has been under the rule of Islam since 1979. The Iranian people have attempted numerous times to end the rule of the backward Islamic regime, but each time they were faced with the ruthless regime’s apparatus, and many of them were slaughtered while the world watched and did nothing.

In four decades of its existence, the Islamic Republic has managed, notably, to produce more hunger, anger, frustration, prostitution at a record pace, drug addiction beyond control, child executions without any regard for international human rights, and much more. There are many reports regarding cases of child sexual abuse and molestation reaching epidemic proportions.

Prosecution and imprisonment of the innocent and the systematic and illegal abuse of detainees, and hundreds of gruesome acts of torture and rape in the prisons have skyrocketed. Meanwhile, the United Nations did not even blink while European countries continued to expand their businesses with the Islamic regime.

On Sep 16, 2022, Mahsa Jina Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish girl, was taken into custody and killed by “morality” police for her “unacceptable” hijab.”  This was a spark that led to massive nationwide protests across Iran. Iran’s protests may well be the first time in history that women have been both the spark and engine for an attempted counter-revolution.  Anne O’Donnell, a Russia historian at New York University, said: Iran’s protests have been unique because, she said, “this is not just an upheaval involving women, it is an upheaval about women and women’s freedom, and that makes it very special.”

Although Mahsa Amini’s death sparked massive and widespread protests, these protests did not transpire spontaneously. They are a symptom of deep-seated and festering dissent. The list of grievances is sorely long.

The current movement – led and inspired by women – has united Iranians across generations in what is shaping up to be the biggest threat the regime has faced to date. As for the international community, it is now a crucially important time to show support to the brave Iranian protesters. Simultaneously, they need to recognize and support Prince Reza Pahlavi as the only alternative who is able to secure the people’s confidence to establish calm and peace during the transition.

Support for Pahlavi isn’t limited to Iranians living abroad. Videos published on social media show Iranians in cities, such as Tehran and Izeh in southwestern Iran, shouting slogans like “Pahlavi, you are our representative” and “Pahlavi is our choice, the leader of our revolution.”

The brave Iranian women not stopping, nor will they any time soon. They are taking to the streets to cut their hair and burn their hijabs, indicating to the Islamic government that they will not stand for this totalitarian regime anymore. Mullahs must pack and leave. It is a do-or-die scenario. Nothing less than a subversion of this regime and recapture of Iran will stop these warriors.

 

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Steve Bannon thinks Kari Lake would make a great Vice Presidential Candidate, and he’s right. She’d be a blast on a national campaign, but the battle for Arizona continues as are musing she’d be up for a run at the US Senate. Given that possibility, Bannon brought up another idea.

 

Bannon noted that during his Q&A he said, “Somebody asked about Robert F. Kennedy and the great speech at Hillsdale, his opening speech, and what did I think about his prospects.”

And I said, “Look, I’m a Kari Lake person, but if Kari Lake becomes governor, as she should if this court case, or if not, she runs for the Senate. If she’s not available to be Trump’s VP that Bobby Kennedy would be, I think, be an excellent choice for President Trump to consider. There was a standing ovation and this was a very hardcore MAGA war room posse crowd,” Bannon explained.

 

Given the political divide, whoever wins the Republican nomination needs a massive lead that even the Democrats won’t have time to find enough ballots. Stop scoffing, they’ve been doing that for a lot longer than a few years, and given the challenge, you need more moderate Dems to vote for the GOP ticket. You could get some mileage out of a Tulsi Gabbard, but she left The Left, at least on paper. Kennedy is a Democrat, and while his stance on the Public Health Industrial Complex is anathem to progs, he’d bring his concerns to a national audience and…attract Democrats.

That’s not to say any GOP ticket wouldn’t. In 2020 Trump was sweeping them up at the polls, just not after hours. No one was blocking out windows, lying about the plumbing, or pulling suitcases full of “ballots” out from under tables for Trump. That’s going to happen again. You’ll need a strategy. And I get that Trump wants the GOP to ballot harvest everywhere it’s legal. Do unto the Dems as they do unto you. But it’s sketchy, and you have to plan for them to be better at it. So does Trump-Kennedy or DeSantis-Kennedy get it done?

We thought so. Four weeks ago, we shared an Op-Ed that suggested precisely that.

 

I’ve read recently that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has expressed an interest in running for President.

In my opinion, you should reach out to him and engage him as your Vice Presidential running mate, make it public, and let James O’Keefe make the announcement.

This will explode a lot of heads and invigorate your base and instantly pull in the democrats that don’t like how far left Biden has taken their party and destroyed the country. These folks are in shock, and Kennedy will bring them to MAGA.

 

Is it a good idea, bad idea, or great idea, and not just because one of our readers thought of it or Steve Bannon suggested it? Kennedy has come around a bit, but he is still a Democrat. And he would be one heartbeat away, as they say. And before you answer, check out these clips from his Hillsdale speech, if you’ve not seen them or it.

Is he still a no?

 

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The most profound advice on the purpose of life is from the most unlikely source as well! pic.twitter.com/eeTCpLzRhf — Market Sentiment (@mkt_sentiment) February 11, 2023 Tom Bowler

The Great Reset: How They Plan to Take Your House: The Agenda 2030 Wealth Transfer - Part of Agenda 2030 is to get rid of private ownership. Upgrade your house for the environment, or be forced to sell. - Born... Tom Bowler

The Democrats hate him with a passion that is an order magnitude hotter than the surface of the Sun. They hated him when Joe Biden chaired the US Senate Judiciary Committee at the time and the heat has never stopped.

Now US Senator Angus King (I-ME but caucuses with Democrats) and Lisa Murkowski (Extreme RINO – AK) decided on an attempt to keep the political attacks going with a bill demanding that the Supreme Court institute a Code of Ethics:

Two U.S. senators will introduce a bipartisan bill on Wednesday requiring the Supreme Court to create a code of conduct for its justices following recent media questions concerning the full disclosure of some financial activities, the Wall Street Journal reported.

The bill being introduced by Angus King and Lisa Murkowski, called the Supreme Court Code of Conduct Act, would require the court to name an official in charge of reviewing any possible violations of the code or federal laws by Supreme Court justices, the newspaper said.

And as always, I have thoughts:



And WHERE does the US Senate have the Constitution Power to do this to a co-equal Branch of Government?  Nowhere!  Only in Article 1, Section 8:

To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court;

meaning lower level court systems (appellate, circuit, district) and, of course, approve Presidential nominations to SCOTUS. However, there is nothing in the US Constitution itself that grants the Congress the Power to determine anything else concerning SCOTUS. However, with the Federal Judiciary Act (1789), Congress gave itself the Power to regulate, among other things, the number of Justices that would sit on the Court. However, there is nothing in that Act, nor in the 1866, 1869 ones changing the number of Justices, that gives Congress the ability to enforce a Code of Ethics.

As I have written before, been there, done that when then Town Administrator Evans Juris and Financial Director Debra Shackett tried to put a Code of Ethics in place that ALL elected Budget Committee would be forced to sign – it’s purpose was to shut me up as I aired the town’s dirty laundry which the CoE was meant to shut me up.  While I now know that they didn’t have the Power to do so, that effort was shut down when I discovered that, contra to their self-promotion of all their hard work on it, they had plagiarized it from the City of Sunnyvale, CA. That effort then disappeared in a heartbeat.

This effort by by King and Murkowski is no different in that it isn’t about “better government”, it is a Democrat political cudgel meant to further destroy Thomas.

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In what can be nothing if not proof that global warming causes cooling causes wildfires, the American West is on high alert as winter gives way to spring and summer, and all that moisture creates a bounty of flammable grasses.

 

The western U.S. has a Mediterranean climate, with winter precipitation and dry summers (yes, this includes Washington State).   Precipitation during the winter encourages seasonal grass growth and is followed by a summer warm/dry period, resulting in substantial flammable fuels by mid-summer.  All that is needed is an ignition source and strong winds, which result in rapid fire spread. …

Interestingly, western grasslands and rangeland have become much more flammable over time, as explosively flammable, non-native grasses such as cheatgrass have spread around the West.  This is NOT due to global warming.  And there are far more sources of ignition these days, including huge increases in electrical infrastructure and population at the urban/wildland interface.

 

Grass grows, dries, and burns resulting in wildfires that spread into nearby forests. In California, where the environmentalists have ensured destruction by objecting to sensible forestry practices, the results can be deadly. Deadwood trapped in or below trees acts as a fuel multiplier making fires hotter. The result is … stories in the media about how irresponsible Western lifestyles have resulted in warming and drought.

Funny thing about that. Out west, they’ve had dry conditions for a lot longer than they’ve had anything like modernity. And dry conditions are prone to wildfires. But wet conditions are also a leading cause of wildfires.

 

A wonderful USDA website called fuelcast.net uses precipitation and other data, manipulated using machine learning, to predict the dead fuel load (mainly dead grasses) later this summer (see below).   As noted by grassland/range expert, Dr. Matt Reeves, when the standing dead fuel load gets to about 800 pounds per acre, the wildfire threat is substantial.

 

Given the amount of precipitation over this past winter, the West is looking at ideal growing conditions for wild grass: more water, more grass, greater risk of fire. All thanks to global cooling is global warming is it doesn’t matter. None of this has anything to do with the planet, but at least if we are prepared for the incoming BS, we can defend against it.

 

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The Left continues its Long March through our institutions, taking over values, norms, and standards, and turning them upside down and inside out.  And they are relentless and I’m betting that they are even more enthused as they see their endgame coming into sight. Normal Americans have been under fire and beset 360 degrees by those factors trying to finish off what we have taken for granted.

And now, they are well into the process of completely upending our sexual mores by making sex with children legal and normal. And can you guess what attributes of the person who put this in?  Oh, heck, the post title gives it away and I’m betting that you’re not surprised at all. However, the chutzpah is just extraordinary (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Trans Democrat’s bill may allow Minnesota to treat pedophiles as a protected class

Degenerates sexually attracted to children may soon enjoy special treatment as a protected class in the state of Minnesota on account of a new Democratic bill.

The Human Rights Act is the state law prohibiting discrimination in “employment, housing, public accommodations, public services, education, credit and business” and is enforced by the Minnesota Department of Human Rights.

And it has a stopper against pedophilia (as that’s what we’re talking about):

The act presently makes it clear in Subdivision 44 under “363A.03 Definitions” that “‘Sexual orientation’ does not include a physical or sexual attachment to children by an adult.”

Full stop. Don’t go there. But that dude is – he wants to neuter that last bit. What is it with these people?  Is there nothing too low to stoop to? Oh, I know – selfishness. *I* must have what I want when I want it – including minors.

Transvestic state Rep. Leigh Finke (D-St. Paul), named “Woman of the Year” for Minnesota by USA Today,

Sidenote: “Woman of the Year“? Yeah, the US mainstream media is all in on the trans stuff.  We should start calling them misogynists at every turn because that is what the trans movement is doing to Normal women (prime example: Dylan Mulvaney and his prancing over his “365 Days of Womanhood”).

…has introduced HF 1655, dubbed the “Take Pride Act,” which was reportedly incorporated into the Judiciary Policy omnibus bill.

The stated purpose of the bill is to amend the Human Rights Act, thereby “creating a separate definition for gender identity[,] removing certain sections in the human rights act that allow for discrimination based on sexual orientation,” and making a variety of other changes to existing law. Finke’s bill specifically targets Subdivision 44 and would remove the clarification that “sexual orientation” — a protected class under the law — excludes pedophiles.

And who says that Democrats aren’t the Party of Groomers??? This is a perfect example of it. Pedophilia is nothing but grooming kids. But to be this brazen about it?  There seemingly is no limit to the debauchery that the Democrats and the transgender movement is willing to go – by their own words and deeds.  Don’t like it? just redefine it! After all, isn’t that what Democrats have done since the late 1800s? Democrats to Progressives to Liberals back to Progressives and now to Democrat Socialists; a change every time that they “burn out” its use and trying to present themselves as a new “Bright and Shiny New Object” to mislead the public.

So, pedophilia becomes MAP – Minor Attracted Person.  Innocuous, right? And he’s blatant about it:

“Nothing in the bill changes or weakens any crimes against children, or the state’s ability to prosecute those who break the law,” said Finke. “Of course, pedophilia is not a sexual orientation. The language never should have been included in the statutory definition in the first place. Crimes against children are located in Minnesota’s criminal statutes, and again, they remain unchanged.”

Then what IS a pedophile if children are “removed” from their “sexual orientation”? Oh yeah – celibate. And here he is trying to deep six it. Of course, he goes all “I’M A VICTIM!!” for being taken to task at the outrage:

Finke suggested on Twitter Wednesday that the backlash over his measure was undeserved and that he is “left hurt, and scared.”

Scared – really?? What did you THINK was going to happen when you made this public?  Are you that stupid to believe that because you’re a Democrat in a Democrat State AND a Trans you could get away with this without creating a hubbub? Then what IS a pedophile if children are “removed” from their “sexual orientation”? Oh yeah – celebate. And here he is trying to deep six it.

I agree with the “degenerates” description above – these people are horribly driven by their sexual urges and NO regular societal norm is going to stop them. They care about themselves but NOT what their actions, if carried out against little children, will do TO that child. Doesn’t matter to them. They are driven by their gonads and that urge must be satisfied.

And now they want to go from a status that is disgusting at best (re: the stats in prison as to how long they stay alive). Even other criminals believe they are the scum of the scummiest and have no problem “protecting the children” in taking those pedophiles out of circulation completely. Yet, there is an academic movement to make it legal. Given, also, the rise of the Transgender Movement that allows almost “anything goes” between consenting adults, these folks are trying to piggyback on the transgender movement like the trans movement did to the gay movement.

But Normal people created a big pushback:

Minnesota bill normalizing pedophilia dropped after backlash

I’m not quite sure whether the bill is totally dead or not, because nothing is until the legislature adjourns. We do know that the GOP managed to get the language normalizing pedophilia stripped out of the bill in a vote yesterday.

Whether the language comes back or not, it is clear is that the pressure is on and the Chief Author of the bill is feeling the heat and the Republicans in the Minnesota House, who apparently hadn’t noted the change to the definition of “sexual orientation” to remove the exclusion for pedophilia, have grown a backbone.

…The bill explicitly strikes the provision in current law that states: “Sexual orientation” does not include a physical or sexual attachment to children by adults.” This, in plain language, means that if this amendment to the law passes then “Sexual orientation” may include a physical or sexual attachment to children by adults…This means pedophilia will now be considered a sexual orientation that is protected.

As the second post points out, the sex act with a child would be illegal but no one could discriminate against a pedophile. Which means that a pedo could join any child oriented group or club and “mingle” with children.

And make no mistake, Finke has proven himself to be a groomer:

Leigh Finke has supported grooming children, specifically kids in churches, with both critical queer and critical gender theory since at least 2020

Listen to his interview with a pastor from June of 2020

Disgusting and infuriating pic.twitter.com/Thi5DbCBp8

— AK Kamara (@realakkamara) April 27, 2023

 

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The idea of sex and gender are toxic. Progressives, public schools, and pedophiles all think they know what is best for your kids. And if Moms and Dads are not to be held responsible as caregivers, why do we need Mother’s Day and Father’s Day? Maybe just opt out.

And we don’t mean not sending a card or a gift. How about just never mind?

 

In a viral thread posted Sunday, Twitter account Arizona Informer posted more than a dozen screenshots from businesses sending Mother’s Day opt-out offers, noting the similar language used in the emails and equating the trend with anti-family activism.

“Something very strange is happening with Big Corporations,” Arizona Informer captioned the thread. “Out of nowhere, [Kroger]-owned [Fry’s Food Store], [Kay Jewelers], [Hallmark], and now [DoorDash] have all sent ‘Opt out of #MothersDay‘ emails to their customer base.”

“This is not organic,” the account charged. “This reeks of anti-family activists.”

If you are sensitive to terms like mother and father, you can’t possibly have any reason to celebrate those people. And they can’t just delete the junk or spam or whatever it is solicited or otherwise. How about we offer you an opportunity to opt out of reality – wait, you already did that.

Moving forward, marketers and card companies have an opportunity. Happy Birthing Parent’s Day! Or, better yet, since this is where it is all leading. Thank the Government Day – which we could celebrate on April 15th!

The IRS could add a check box at the end of the return next to the “Would you like to donate 3$” that says, “Send a gift on Thank The Government Day.” As if doing your patriotic duty with the Department of Internal Revenue is not enough of a thank you for another year of non-stop fear, intimidation, waste fraud, and abuse.

This will, of course, be incredibly ineffective. Most of the people who would thank the government are on welfare, food stamps, expanded Medicaid/medicare, and all of that. If they do file, it’s paper pushing to keep the peeps on the rails and a way to launder more money into this more-government constituency. Who, it seems likely, will not be parting with anything they have left, so no thank you on the thank you.

Voting for more free stuff will have to be enough.

 

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See if you can hear when “Gandalf” is used – an inside joke (heh!).

Thursday was when the NH Supreme Court held the oral hearing in the Manchester School District case in which a mother caught the District lying (by omission) to her by not informing her that the District was aiding and abetting her daughter in “social transitioning” to be a male – something that is a huge life event (in addition to trying to be something she can never be). It was discovered when a teacher, in trying to update the Mom over the phone on something else, inadvertently let slip the daughter’s “male” name. She brought a case to Manchester Superior Court where a Maggie Hassan appointed judge ruled that the Mom had no rights to her child when in school.  She appealed.

Here is the Court recording (low resolution):

The audio is much better than what I could get; it is a large room with a lot of hard surfaces resulting in a lot of echo. Unfortunately, while the court gallery does have a “multbox” (which allows a direct audio feed from the Court’s PA system), it only had one “tap” and NHPR had already “taken possession” of it. However, the video is much darker than mine.

My recording:



Bonus!

I have to say that the security folks were quite helpful – as in “we ARE here to serve you!”.  They got me set up with the Clerk of the Court so that I could register to video record the hearing (Media has to register with the Court system for audio / video recording purposes). The NH Supreme Court Clerk of Court is Timothy A. Gudas, Esq. and he was nice enough to escort me into the chambers that you see above (something that he didn’t have to do).

Quite a bit of the gallery was taken up by students and he started to speak with them in a tutelage as to how cases are handled by the NH Supreme Court while I was setting up. Apologies for not catching the beginning but I still thought it was an interesting enough tutelage to record as much as possible. Please note that while the student questions aren’t the best audio quality, I did not have permission to record them so I didn’t point my camera at them (“the better part of valor” as well as “I don’t want to end up here as part of a case instead of covering a case” as well was applied).



I have thoughts about the hearing itself and so did fellow Grokster Ann-Marie Banfield who was also present (she tipped me off about the time of the hearing). We talked for quite some time as she headed home towards the seacoast and I going northward. We’re going to try to do another test of the Riverside.fm podcasting software, that Steve and I did earlier this week, over the weekend.

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After sitting through the Supreme Court hearing on 4/27/2023, where the Manchester School District Attorney argued against parental rights for families who send their children to the Manchester public schools; you got the feeling that school officials have no intention of problem-solving this legal dispute.

Instead, they want to slam the door in the faces of parents who want to parent their own children. I think even the Union Leader reporter might have been stunned by this admission in court:

 

 

Whatever happened to finding ways to solve problems? Administrators say they want students to learn problem-solving strategies, but shouldn’t they set the example too?

The Manchester JBAB policy states that: School personnel should not disclose information that may reveal a student’s transgender status or gender nonconforming presentation to others unless legally required to do so or unless the student has authorized such disclosure.

There is nothing in the policy about due process. This attack on parents applies to loving and caring parents who simply want to be a part of their child’s life. In this case, that’s exactly what they had, parents who are loving and caring; not the abusive monsters that all parents are now portrayed to be by those who advocate for lying to parents.

Teachers are afforded due process. Why not parents? Shouldn’t a policy like this only apply to a parent that has been shown to be a danger their child? Why are loving and caring parents treated like they are abusive monsters? That’s what this policy says to all parents in Manchester, even if you are loving and caring, you will be treated as if you are an abusive monster.

If you don’t like it, parents, go somewhere else.

How does this policy respect the diversity of the families in Manchester? How is this inclusive language? Why is no one looking to problem solve, and come up with a policy that serves all families in Manchester?

We know that The New Hampshire School Boards Association withdrew JBAB from their recommended list of polices.
JBAB Manual 2022-3-1

We know that this policy applies to all families without due process. We know that many schools in New Hampshire do NOT have this policy in their school district.

Teachers do not want to be put in the position of lying to parents. Several teachers spoke up at the parental rights hearing (SB272) and testified before the legislators that they don’t like being put in a position where they have to lie to parents. I suppose you can find some teachers who are a bit more radicalized in their worldview, and have no problem coming between a parent and child–but many teachers do not want to work in a district where they are instructed to lie to parents.

So where are the problem solvers? How much money is being spent on attorneys to fight against parental rights in Manchester?

What is wrong with the people running the Manchester school district? Namely the school board and administrators who go along with this?  Are they that determined to drive good families out of the public schools? That’s exactly what we heard during the hearings on SB272. Parents warned that if public school policies required staff to lie to parents, they were going to remove their children from the public schools. Don’t believe me? Listen yourself:
RPReplay_Final1681863893

It’s as if the Manchester administrators and board members are so stubborn on this issue that they are going to drive more families out of the school district.  None of these people know how to compromise to find a solution that works for all parents? Then they need to stop complaining when families utilize the school choice options that are available to them.

One thing’s for sure, school choice proponents will be sitting back and watching this unfold. Manchester attorneys, administrators, and board members are priming these families to remove their children from the district. This is a great way to get new supporters of school choice initiatives in New Hampshire.

 

 

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Yes, there was a COVID-19 disinformation campaign. Your government and Big Pharma paid for it. They spread it from Hospitals to Politicians, COVID “bailouts,” political parties, unions, your Nieghbor ‘Karen,’ and ad campaigns; hundreds of billions not only promoted a lie, it actively suppressed the truth.

It was a bigger contagion, spread faster, and was far more dangerous than SARS-CoV2. And tens of thousands of pages about the COVID injections in the possession of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), written by Pfizer/Moderna and other experts pre and post-launch, prove the fraud was deliberate.

Your trusted media outlets have yet to cover that.

They have not reported on how groups that promoted vaccines, passports, and mandates got money from Pfizer (also here). They have not dared admit their disinterest, admitted to any pro-covid policy prompting or pro-vaccine ad money they received, or how much of the reporting they featured was not just wrong but tragically. And even if they didn’t get paid off, how can they claim with a straight face they exist to be anything but mouthpieces for state-approved narratives?

Pfizer making large donations to groups who just happened to publicly promote the idea that vaccine mandates (that enrich Pfizer) are good for “the community” is certainly an issue, but it is hardly the biggest.

The FDA tried to hide what we’ll call the Pfizer docs—tens of thousands of pages of data, research, evidence, and commentary about the COVID-19 injections before and after deployment. Neither Big Pharma nor Big Public Health wanted anyone to see what should have been defacto evidence in support of their claims of safety and efficacy.

The desire to obscure the truth could be a Pulitzer-prize-worthy story if Pulitzers were handed out for actual journalism.

A judge forced their release; the contents did not affirm the advocate’s claims. The people they’d labeled vaccine deniers were right. Another potentially Pulitzer Prize-worthy expose that no one in journalism seems interested in telling because nothing about these injections was safe or effective.

They couldn’t prevent COVID infection or spread, and the public health apparatus tasked as watchdogs knew it. The inmates were correct; their keepers were not just corrupt but pre-meditated mass murderers, and still, the credentialed media can’t or won’t touch the story.

If they did, everyone downstream could claim they were following orders, but that’s not true – certainly not for so-called journalists. Opposing testimony from credentialed experts has been widely available for years; these speakers were sullied, besmirched, despoiled, and canceled by the press. Evidence of alternative treatments resulted in deliberate fear campaigns against the treatments and their advocates.

All of that contributed to not just the spread of COVID but to vaccine harms, including death. It can be ignored, but it cannot be denied. The Pfizer docs have been available for almost 18 months now and are unequivocal.

The mass has been sifted, and the results are in (emphasis mine).

3,500 recruited experts were divided into six working groups with committees at the head of them to analyze the documents and create reports that would be accessible, and understandable, to the general public.

And regarding these dozens of reports, Wolf apologized in advance for having to share that these Pfizer documents “contain evidence of the greatest crime against humanity in the history of our species.”

 

Aaron Warner wrote about some of the latest revelations on our pages last week. Since then, another report resurfaced from the same speech, a list of the top 11 revelations demonstrating Pfizer’s crimes against humanity – to which I would add the complicity of politicians, public health, and especially local and national media.

These are facts based on docs created by or in the keeping of Pfizer and the FDA. I have excerpted key bits, but there is more worth your attention.

 

#1: Pfizer knew their gene-based injections had negative efficacy as early as November 2020.

“Pfizer knew this was the case with regard to their own product in November 2020 before being broadly introduced and marketed as a remedy for COVID-19.”

#2: Shortly after release of the COVID injections on the market, Pfizer moved to hire 2,400 full-time employees to process the paperwork of the injured.

“within a month or two [of vaccine rollout], Pfizer was getting so many reports of adverse events [AEs] – meaning bad things happening to people who had been injected – that they understood they needed to hire 2,400 full-time staffers in order simply to process the paperwork” of these injuries.

#3: Pfizer and the FDA withheld information that the shots cause heart damage in youth for four months while an aggressive propaganda campaign drove many thousands to get injected.

“”Pfizer knew in May of 2021 that the vaccines had caused heart damage in 35 minors within a week after the injection,”

#4: Pfizer knew the shot’s dangerous lipid nanoparticles quickly distribute throughout the body. And there is no evidence they ever leave.

These materials ‘biodistribute’ – this is Pfizer’s language – throughout your body in 48 hours!” Wolf exclaimed.

#5: ‘I don’t say it lightly, but it’s mass murder’: Side effects in Pfizer documents far more severe than CDC and doctors told patients

While the CDC has often typically said recipients will have fatigue, chills and perhaps swelling at the injection site, “that’s not what’s in the Pfizer documents.”

Rather, “there’s industrial scale strokes, hemorrhages, blood clots, lung clots, leg clots, neurological disorders, dementia-type disorders. Guillain-Barré, Bell’s Palsy [and more].”

#6: Prior to it being legal, more than 1,000 children were injected, and Pfizer’s documents indicate a high rate of serious injury

In early 2021, before any Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for children, Wolf reported that Pfizer injected “62 kids, some of them as young as two months old,” with their gene-based product, 28 of whom there were no records of the results available. “We don’t know if they survived,” she said.

“Among the 34 whose records are still in the Pfizer documents, there’s a seven-year-old British girl who sustained a stroke, and there’s a two-month-old baby with liver damage,” she lamented.

#7: Pfizer documents reveal a ‘Mengele-type experiment… on how to disrupt and impair human reproduction.’ Available records of study participants who conceived children show 80% lost their babies

“in the Pfizer documents, women study participants were told not to get pregnant, which is interesting,” she observed. “It’s a respiratory disease. Why would you tell women not to get pregnant?” Nevertheless, 270 women did conceive children of whom Pfizer reportedly “lost the records” of 234, which Wolf said is a violation of the law. “Of the 36 [remaining] women whose pregnancies came to term, over 80 percent of them lost their babies [by] spontaneous abortion or miscarriage,” she reported.

#8: Pfizer knew there was a danger to fertility. Lipid Nanoparticles damage the placenta during pregnancy, causing early deliveries. Lots of chromosomal abnormalities as well

Pfizer documents indicate that “shedding is real,” Wolf reported. “Pfizer defines exposure to the vaccine as skin contact, inhalation and sexual intercourse, especially [at the time of] conception.”

Since Pfizer also warned male trial participants against having sexual intercourse with childbearing-aged women and to use two forms of birth control if they did, “there was clearly something about conceiving with a vaccinated male that Pfizer was guarding against,” she said.

#9: Pfizer docs show that lipid nanoparticles also enter breast milk, stunting, injuring and sometimes killing babies

“nursing babies, in the Pfizer [trial] documents, sustained seizures and one baby died in the E.R. after nursing from a vaccinated mother, from multi-organ system failure,” she said. “Four of the moms, who were lactating… had breast milk that turned blue green.”

#10… Pfizer docs show 3 to 1 of AEs sustained by women, 16% ‘reproductive disorders.’ ‘What kind of monsters look at 16% reproductive disorders and keep going?’ Results: ‘13% to 20% drop in live births’

In examining the thrust of the Pfizer documents, …Her team “found that of the adverse events, 72 percent of them were sustained by women. And this is constant throughout. It’s a constant 3 to 1 [ratio]” she said while also acknowledging the real harms done to men (Report 38).

“And of the 72 percent of adverse events” in women, Pfizer defines 16% of them as, “[in] their words, ‘reproductive disorders,'” while men also suffer a terrible rate but far less at 0.49 percent.

#11: LNPs degraded the basic factories of masculinity in boys’ testes in utero when their mother had been injected. ‘So, these are monsters, and there’s no way to avoid concluding that they’re focused on disrupting human reproduction.’

“…the Pfizer documents reveal that LNPs “degrade baby boys in utero” by traversing “the testes of fetal baby boys” and damaging “the Sertoli cells and the Leydig cells, which are basically the factories of masculinity.”

These cells “are responsible for the male hormonal balance that create things like deep voices, hair on their bodies, broad shoulders, all of the things that we associate with normal masculinity. And that is being degraded.”

 

This is the tip of a very large iceberg that most, if not all, credentialed media experts continue to ignore or, if they even bother, try to dismiss, furthering their complicity in these crimes against humanity. It’s a distinction they could easily fix.

All they have to do is commit an act of journalism.

 

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Zooey Zephyr is an American politician and university administrator representing Missoula in the 100th district in the Montana House of Representatives. Zooey found herself in the spotlight this week when she organized a disruption of Montana House proceedings to protest a bill banning gender-affirming care for transgender youth in Montana.

On April 18, Rep Zephyr registered her opposition to a proposed bill banning gender-affirming care for transgender youth in Montana. 

“I hope the next time there’s an invocation, when you bow your heads in prayer, you see the blood on your hands,” Rep Zephyr said about the high rates of suicide risk among transgender youth and adults.

She sparked a backlash last week when she said lawmakers would have “blood on their hands” if they restricted medical care for transgender youth. 

Ahead of Wednesday’s vote, she vowed to “do what I have always done: I will rise in support of my community.” Republicans accused her of stoking violence and violating the chamber’s decorum with her comment.

The Montana House voted on Wednesday to censure Zephyr and was successful with a 68-32 party-line vote. Zephyr, now barred from participating on the House floor, said she would continue to stand behind her beliefs after the censure.

“As I left the House chambers, I pressed my light to speak—a reminder that this legislature is removing 11,000 Montanans from discussion on every bill going forward,” Zephyr tweeted. “I will always stand on behalf of my constituents, my community, and democracy itself.”

It seems that I forgot an essential element of this story. Zephyr was born Zachary Raasch in Billings, MT, and grew up in Montana and Washington State, where he was a champion high school wrestler. Zephyr decided to run for the Montana House because she saw a void in Trans Rights representation. She barely won the primary in 2022 but won her seat in the general election with a resounding 79% of the votes. 54% of Montana’s 100th District cast votes in the general.

My concern with Zephyr, or any trans or gay person in state or federal politics, is their narrow focus on LGBTQ+ issues. I find this true of Chris Pappas, who represents my district, NH District 1. When I receive his email recaps each week, the majority of the time, it is an LGBTQ+ issue he highlights that drew his attention. Does he not have equal concern for the problems of the other 98% of his constituents? I fear not.

According to the Pew Research Center, these are their findings regarding the Trans population in America:

Adults under 30 are more likely than older adults to be trans or nonbinary. Some 5.1% of adults younger than 30 are trans or nonbinary, including 2.0% who are a trans man or trans woman and 3.0% who are nonbinary – that is, they are neither a man nor a woman or aren’t strictly one or the other. This compares with 1.6% of 30- to 49-year-olds and 0.3% of those 50 and older who are trans or nonbinary.

The members of the Trans community have the right to equal representation but not more, and that is what is afforded them by their representatives.

I wrote today’s title with tongue in cheek because I believe Biden will seize the opportunity to show his support for the LGBTQ+ community by bringing Zephyr to the Oval as he did the Nashville 3. When he meets with Zephyr, the folks of East Palestine, Ohio, will again get bumped from the President’s schedule. After all, we all have priorities, and a bunch of Republicans from Ohio are not one of Biden’s.

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Upon hearing Fox News Network was “parting ways” with Tucker Carlson, the shock was sudden but the surprise was short-lived.  We are living in a day and time when virtually every sacred cow in America and the institutions they represent are being thoroughly savaged. 

From the founding of the country (1776 or 1619), to the fathers themselves (they were all racists including Lincoln apparently), to the very fabric of the scientific method used to catapult us to the front of the world superpowers, we are seeing a deliberate undoing of all things American, and by those who told us they were our fellow countrymen and women.

Tucker Carlson’s firing is emblematic of the most recent of the pillars in society we’ve long held as inviolable to what makes America so special.  We have long been a nation so revered refugees and immigrants will brave life and limb and even violate laws to join us.  That reverence largely comes axiomatically thanks to our stance on the freedom of speech.  It is, as the founders well knew, the very essence of a free people and a free country.  Why?

Words have tremendous power.  Words can motivate men and women to do incredible things.  Even God Himself chose to communicate to mankind from His word, likewise identifying Himself as “the Word”.  The same word that brought the universe into being, who made us in His image and likeness, knows full well the way to communicate His perfect will is not through pictures but through words.  Conversely, the greatest arbiters of evil understand the same thing.  Hitler’s rise was born out of the written word (Mein Kampf) and the passionately delivered orations of his spoken words.  As was Mao’s, or Lenin, both drawing socializing strength from the written words of Karl Marx, and passing the legacy on to Derek Bell, Kimberle Crenshaw, Judith Butler, Ibram X. Kinde and Robyn DeAngelo.

Tucker Carlson is perhaps one of the finest on air wordsmiths of his generation.  There are few people who can pull you into rapt attention as Tucker, drawing nightly interest, the most in cable news history,  from a throng of 3.5 million fans and many who understood him as the biggest threat in Word War III – the ideological battle undergirding the current unrest in our country and throughout the world.

Tucker’s popularity grew steadily over the past few years, thanks not only to his witty turns of phrases and keen insights into all aspects of American political life, but more by his choice of words and the integrity necessary to generate the type of power he commanded.  He acquired this power, found in the massive audience who looked to him for journalistic insights, by steadily choosing his words carefully, although not as one concerned with political correctness.  Tucker understands words have power beyond meaning, including the ability to frame a situation or person in the proper light.

Across the airwaves, Tucker’s ideological opponents understand words in the same way. However, they have chosen to join the side that uses words as weapons of war against America.  Joy Reid, Anna Navarro, Don Lemon, Chris Cuomo, Chris Hayes, and the like all showed themselves adherents to the new ideology that hides behind such monikers as “woke” or the equally vague “liberal,” which in reality is communism.

Communists are smart enough to hide behind words because they know the truth is not on their side.  In fact, truth is as much a hindrance to them as are words that convey it, which is why they incessantly quibble over words and attempt to control what we say.  Pronoun pleading and policing are the epitome of this attempt.  Not only do the pronouns they choose not fit within the truths of the English language (no one can be a they/them, no matter how many personalities or demons you’re entertaining inside of you), but they’ve also become a tool by which to control your speech.  You will be told which pronouns to use or else.

Tucker, a student of history, also saw quickly through the ideological left’s use of double-speak.  Words such as “diversity,” “equity,” and “inclusion” all have dictionary definitions yet have completely opposite uses for political purposes.  These terms sound like people of diverse backgrounds, thoughts, and opinions will be included into the public discourse and halls of influence so that equality will be realized, embodying the American dream.  However, the same word merchants tell us America is evil, its founders fatally flawed, and the documents they wrote enshrine systemic racism.  Understanding this, Tucker reminds us we would be insane to think their words have anything remotely to do with American values.  No.  The type of diversity they are after is skin deep.  Inclusion is merely to hold a place for another communist to assume political power.  Equity can perhaps best be seen in any of the thousands of stolen items the left will have you believe are “reparations” when in reality, it’s theft that is leading to the closing of hundreds of retail stores across America.  Just ask Whole Foods shoppers in San Francisco or Walmart and REI hopefuls in Portland, Oregon.

Just days before his firing, Carlson delivered a speech at the Heritage Foundation wherein he cautioned his listeners to quit being fooled into thinking what is going on in our country is in any way politics as usual.  Harkening back to the 80s and 90s when politics was about achieving desired outcomes that were for the best and extending grace to ideas maybe not your own for the sake of seeing what works, Carlson dispels that delusion. Rather than suppose our differences are politically right vs. left, he explains:

“What you’re watching is not a political movement. It’s evil.”

He then defines the characteristic differences between good and evil.

“Good is characterized by order, …peace, lack of conflict, cleanliness.  Cleanliness is next to Godliness. And evil is characterized by their opposites: violence, hate, disorder, division, disorganization, and filth…if you’re advocating for the latter, what you’re calling for is evil.”

Leave it to Tucker to cut through the morass and clarify the terminology.

Much like Naomi Wolf and others who are, rather than becoming woke, awakening to the reality we are facing is evil masquerading as good, Tucker concludes his speech by reminding us where true goodness comes from – asking for more of it from its true source.  With his uniquely confident yet self-effacing wit, Tucker says, “even I, an Episcopalian, the Samaritans of our time” (Samaritans were considered as the lowly step-cousins to the Jews), “I am coming to you, not as an evangelist, but from the most humble and lowly theological position you can…that maybe you can take ten minutes out of your busy day and say a prayer for our future.”

Thanks for the reminder, Tuck.  Not only is there power in our words, there is tremendous power in our prayers when we assume the posture of a modern-day Samaritan.

“My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart you, God, will not despise.” (Psalm 51:17)

(Reminder: The National Day of Prayer will be held Thursday May, 4th of this year with a gathering in Massachusetts)

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The American Legion Henry J Sweeney Post #2 in Manchester, NH, has a surprise for Veterans and family members of all ages. They are the location for “the newest show in New Hampshire drag entertainment!”

 

This rotating cast will include entertainers from around the country, in addition to bringing your many of your New Hampshire favorites back to a stage near you! Every show will also raise money to be donated to the American Legion of Merrimack NH for their gracious contribution in bringing you fabulous entertainers. So sit back, relax, and enjoy the show, as Ivy League Entertainment presents Legion of Glam!

– All Legion of Glam shows are available for all ages, though it should be stated that the content experienced during these shows are of a mature nature. Course language, sexual innuendo, and adult themes will be present.

If you’d like to learn about the entertainment, go here. And if you are the adventurous sort, here.

Age Appropriate

Drag shows are for adults, and if that’s your thing – for like the millionth time – have at it. Be you, unless that means bringing kids. Don’t be that person. This product is not suitable. And maybe ask why or how this is “The American Legion?” I went to Legion.org, ‘cuz why not, to check out what they say they do. There’s a lot of good stuff there, including this mission statement.

 

To enhance the well-being of America’s veterans, their families, our military, and our communities by our devotion to mutual helpfulness. The American Legion’s vision statement is “The American Legion: Veterans Strengthening America.” The American Legion’s value principles are as follows:

A VETERAN IS A VETERAN – which means The American Legion embraces all current and former members of the military and endeavors to help them transition into their communities.

SELFLESS SERVICE – which means The American Legion celebrates all who contribute to something larger than themselves and inspires others to serve and strengthen America.

AMERICAN VALUES AND PATRIOTISM – which means The American Legion advocates for upholding and defending the United States Constitution, equal justice and opportunity for everyone and discrimination against no one, youth education, responsible citizenship and honoring military service by observing and participating in memorial events.

FAMILY AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT – which means The American Legion meets the unique needs of local communities.

ADVANCING THE VISION – which means The American Legion educates, mentors and leads new generations of Americans.

HONOR THOSE WHO CAME BEFORE US – which means The American Legion pays perpetual respect for all past military sacrifices to ensure they are never forgotten by new generations.

The American Legion’s motto is “Veterans Strengthening America.”

 

No mention of drag queens, Legion of Glam, or anything that even begins to comport with the cultural mission of normalizing men dressed as absurd, comic-like caricatures of slutty women. But I’m not a Veteran. I’m not a member of The American Legion, but I know a lot of vets. My dad was a Veteran of WWII; my grandfather served in WWI. This isn’t the best look for The American Legion, based on my experience.

But they do use the word transition and point out “AMERICAN VALUES AND PATRIOTISM – which means The American Legion advocates for upholding and defending the United States Constitution, equal justice and opportunity for everyone, and discrimination against no one, youth education, responsible citizenship and honoring military service by observing and participating in memorial events.”

So, if the man’s sized high heel fits – but is it “youth education” or “responsible citizenship” to allow kids to attend?

Not my call, but it might be yours if you are a member.

 

Note: Legion of Glam is not to be confused with the VFW Meat Raffle.

This event is scheduled for July 8th and does appear on the Sweeney Post Calendar.

 

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