Trading binary options can be a great way to earn in the stock market, but like any other form of investing, it is important to stay up-to-date with market trends. Knowing which stocks are going up or down and when is key to successful trading. Here are some tips for trend spotting in binary options trading to help you identify and ride market trends to become a pro trader.

Analyze market trends

Analyzing market trends is essential for success when it comes to binary options trading. To identify and ride market trends, traders must first understand the basics of technical analysis. Technical analysis involves studying past price movements to predict future price movements. This can be done by looking at charts and indicators such as moving averages, support and resistance levels, trend lines, and other chart patterns. Once a trader has identified a potential market trend, they should look for confirmation signals that the trend is likely to continue. These signals could include an increase in volume or a break of a critical support or resistance level. Once these signals are present, traders can enter into trades with confidence that the trend will continue in their favor. It’s important to remember that no matter how strong a trend may appear, there is always the possibility of it reversing direction at any time, so traders should always use risk management techniques when entering into trades based on market trends.

Use technical analysis tools

The technical analysis is the process of analyzing an asset’s price movements over time, utilizing charts and indicators to spot patterns that could be employed to predict future price movements. By comprehending how prices fluctuate, traders can make informed decisions about when to enter or exit a trade. The Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) indicator is one of the most commonly used technical analysis tools. This indicator employs two Exponential Moving Averages (EMAs) to measure momentum and detect potential trend reversals. The MACD line is calculated by subtracting the 26-day EMA from the 12-day EMA, while the signal line is calculated by taking a 9-day EMA of the MACD line. When these two lines intersect, it indicates a possible change in trend direction. Other popular technical analysis tools include support and resistance levels, Fibonacci retracements, Bollinger bands, and candlestick patterns.

Set stop losses

Stop losses are predetermined points at which you will exit a trade if it moves against your position. By setting stop losses, you can ensure that your potential losses will be limited no matter what happens in the market. Setting stop loss points can be done manually or automatically, depending on your trading platform. When setting manual stops, traders should consider factors such as volatility levels and recent price movements to determine where their stop loss point should be set. Automated stops allow traders to set predetermined levels at which they will exit a trade if the market reaches them without having to monitor their positions themselves constantly. No matter how they are set up, stop-loss orders are an essential tool for managing risk in binary options trading and should always be used when entering trades.

 

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Leaked intelligence documents show that pretty much everything the UniParty and the Regime-Media have been telling us about the war in Ukraine are LIES. From John Davidson at the Federalist:

… the war has not been an unbroken chain of brilliant underdog battlefield victories for Ukraine and crushing Russian defeats, as the corporate media and the Washington political establishment have led us to believe. It rather seems like chaotic and indecisive butchery on both sides, with weapons and cash pouring in not just from the U.S. but from all over the world to sustain a large-scale war of attrition with no end in sight.

And the only reason that a stalemate has been achieved is that the UniParty has poured a staggering $80 billion into Ukraine. To  give you an idea of the order of magnitude, aid to Israel was only $3.3 billion in 2020.

And what has the UniParty achieved? The needless deaths of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians and Russians (the West prevented a negotiated settlement from being reached after Russia invaded) …  … an anti-American coalition of nations led by China … the depletion of our weapons stockpiles … and more national debt.

The warmongers in both Parties should be ashamed.

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Stumbling, stuttering, mumblin’ Joe did his supporters proud the other day when he attempted to say the word young as part of a complete sentence, with the understanding that a complete sentence for Joe is not exactly the same as for you or me.

 

WATCH: President Biden delivers remarks in Ireland.

It appears our incredibly eloquent President had a teleprompter malfunction… pic.twitter.com/nVoXcTGNKg

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) April 12, 2023

The leader of the free world – who hates the free world, showering glory on the photocopiers that elected him – by repeating himself. Talk about a subtle shout-out. Th-Th-Th – that’s not all, folks? When Biden speaks, people listen and then go to the White House transcript to see what he was supposed to say. Or they make fun of him on Twitter.

 

Says it all pic.twitter.com/vYvHPNtpAb

— Jessica Chase (@Chase_2100) April 12, 2023

AOC as Dorothy is a nice touch.

 

HT | IJR

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CONCORD, NH (April 13, 2023) – The NH Senate today upheld the basic human dignity of its citizens by rejecting two bills, HB88 and HB224. Both votes were 14-10, with all Republicans voting to reject the bills, and all Democrats voting in support of the bills.

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HB224 would have effectively legalized abortion through birth.
HB88 would have said that certain people (preborn children) have no rights.

“By rejecting HB224 today, the Senate upheld our humanity by protecting mothers and their ready-to-be-born children from dangerous late term abortions. Overwhelmingly, NH citizens agree that a healthy baby at 8 months deserves a chance at life, even if mom needs to leave them at the hospital under the Safe Haven law.” said Jason Hennessey, President of NH Right to Life.

Additional info is available at: https://nhrtl.org/pr-senate-judiciarys-rejections-of-hb224-and-hb88-are-commendable/

NH’s Fetal Life Protection Act (the FLPA, RSA 329:43-50) protects viable, preborn babies at about 6 months (24 weeks), with exceptions for the life and health of the mother, as well as fatal fetal anomalies. Thus, the only abortions it prohibits are late-term elective abortions.

NH Right to Life is New Hampshire’s largest and oldest organization dedicated to the pro-life cause.

 

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Throwback to 1991 … one of the very few good things George H.W. Bush did was nominate Clarence Thomas to the United States Supreme Court. Thomas terrified … and continues to terrify the Democrat Party elite because … well you can hear him tell you why himself. Note the arrogance, the annoyance of the rich, White, liberals like Ted Chappaquiddick Kennedy and Joe Biden.

And the attitude of the Democrat Party elite has NOT changed one bit. Recall Andru Volinsky declaring it was “tokenism” when Eddie Edwards was nominated to the licensing board … the “you’re not really Black unless you think the way rich, White liberals tell you to” mindset.

Clarence Thomas “high tech” lynching speech to Senate Judiciary Committee after Democrats tried to smear him with bogus allegations. Just as true today as it was in 1991. By more than 2-1 margin, men and women believed Clarence Thomas. From film Created Equal pic.twitter.com/VlfJC9XBZ7

— Mark Paoletta (@MarkPaoletta) April 12, 2023

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It is time to formalize the previously informal series on behalf of NH Governor Chris Sununu to keep himself from making a total fool of himself, and yes, he can drive further down that road – plenty of asphalt in front of him. Remember, it’s not deliberate sarcasm on my part.

I just want to keep reminding him that HE set the bar for who should and who should not run for the Republican nomination in this Presidential election cycle.

After all, he’s a man of his word, right?

Hangover: An “Evergreen” statement by Sununu himself on low-rated wannabes:

Mr. Sununu also warned minor candidates not to carve up the field.

“I think there’s a lot of hope and opportunity for good candidates to get in, drive the message where it needs to be,” he said. “But the discipline is getting out, too. The discipline and saying, ‘Look, you’re only polling at 5%, you got to get out.’ We don’t want a crowded field here.”

So I’ve been following his status since he first set that benchmark “for the field,” so he can follow his own words, yes?

Thus, I’ll help remind him as I know that even if HE doesn’t read GraniteGrok, someone in his office or his friends do (and I know his political enemies read the ‘Grok). And while there are a lot of polling websites, I’m going to stick with RealClearPolitics‘s aggregate polling average:

 

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Even Vivek Ramaswamy has a higher average, 0.9, than Sununu: 0.5 (his column is 2nd from the right).

Vivek just arrived on the political scene – Sununu and his family have been an NH dynasty over the decades.

Scoring a pathetic 0.5% over nine national polls isn’t good.

 

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Where are the Absentee Voter Affidavits required by New Hampshire Law, codified in statute RSA 659:30? The current N.H. voting statute RSA 659:30 establishes that affidavits required by election statutes must be sworn before any person authorized by law to administer an oath.

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Every absentee ballot must be accompanied by an affidavit sworn before an official authorized by law to administer an oath, which currently does not happen. The witness signature line for a public official to certify the election law requirements has been removed. Why?

The current N.H. voting law NH RSA 659:50 I. (b) requires that the moderator may only remove an absentee ballot from its envelope if there is a lawfully executed affidavit. An absentee ballot void of a supporting affidavit, must be declared defective for failure to execute a lawful affidavit. The state can call an absentee return envelope an affidavit all it wants, but an envelope signed by a person claiming to be voter without the certification of public official authorized by law to do so, is not lawful. Why is this happening?

Part II, article 32 of the Constitution of New Hampshire requires that the moderator …shall, in said meetings, in presence of the said selectmen, and of the town or city clerk sort and count the said votes, and make a public declaration thereof.

Failure of the moderator to declare an absentee ballot envelope defective for lack of a lawfully executed affidavit is malfeasance of office, as the law requires that it must be put aside as defective. The moderators of every town in this state, in the last 3 elections removed the absentee ballots from their envelopes, and put them into unconstitutional voting machines, why did they do this in direct violation of our election laws.

New Hampshire Election Law, RSA 666:2, defines malfeasance under section: I. A moderator, supervisor of the checklist, selectman or town clerk shall be guilty of a misdemeanor if at any election: He shall knowingly receive an illegal ballot void of an affidavit required by law. And, the moderators committed another crime by putting an illegal absentee ballots into the voting machine and mixing it with the legal votes cast, which violates NH RSA 666:2

VI: “He shall knowingly add any illegal vote to the number of legal votes cast;” Also, the moderator, the selectman or town clerk in the state are in violation of NH RSA 666:2 VI. If, He shall fraudulently declare the state of the vote in the election of any officer. And,

The cover up. Once an absentee ballot is separated from an application for an absentee ballot, the return envelope provided by the town or the Secretary of State, and then inserted into the voting machine becomes impossible to challenge the absentee ballots, nor can they be reconciled with the original absentee ballot envelope upon challenge, as the absentee ballot is now mixed with all the other ballots, making it impossible to verify the legality of any absentee ballot. As of today, all absentee ballots return envelopes used since the 2020 elections where illegal as there is no proof of a lawful execution an affidavit, as there is no signature line on them, therefore, no signature of any official authorized by law to do so.

According to former Secretary of State William Gardner the 2020 elections saw an increase in absentee votes from the previous elections of 2014, 2016, and 2018, which averaged 4%. The legislature passed HB 1266 in 2020, during the covid-19 lockdown, and the Governor signed it into law, which increased absentee voter turnout to 30.4%. How do we, the people, hold these public servants accountable? Here is the remedy provided by law.

The Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places require an Oath and a Bond, Title III, Chapter 37: Before entering upon the duties of his office, the town manager shall be sworn to the faithful and impartial performance thereof, and a certificate to that effect shall be filed with the town clerk; and he shall execute a bond in favor of the town for the faithful performance of his duties in such sum and with such surety or sureties as may be approved by the selectmen.

42:1 Oath Required. – Every town officer shall make and subscribe the Oath or declaration as prescribed by part 2, article 84 of the constitution of New Hampshire and any such person who violates said Oath after taking the same shall be forthwith dismissed from the office involved.

42:1-a Manner of Dismissal… –
I. The manner of dismissing a town officer who violates the OATH as set forth in RSA 42:1 shall be by petition to the superior court for the county in which the town is located.

666:3 Official Misconduct. –
I. (a) Any public officer upon whom a duty relating to elections is imposed who shall knowingly fail to perform such duty or who shall knowingly perform it in such a way as to hinder the objects thereof shall be guilty of a misdemeanor if no other penalty is provided by law.

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Booster uptake has plummeted worldwide, but the public health mountebanks continue to hawk their COVID wares, aided by flamboyant charlatans in the media. The push to inject is still on, despite the lack of evidence any flu vaccine ever worked.

Dr. Sherry Tenpenney dug into the history of flu vaccines and unearthed some eye-opening data, like how it’s been known for about 60 years that flu vaccines don’t prevent flu.

 

“There is little evidence that recent vaccines have significantly prevented clinical illness, as well as equally little evidence to evaluate effects on mortality.” – The U.S. Public Health Service 1964

“flu shots are ineffective and possibly even harmful in the most highly targeted group, the elderly.” – NYT 2005

“The runaway 100 percent effectiveness that’s touted by proponents [of the flu shot] was nowhere to be seen,” said Dr. Thomas Jefferson – Lancet 2005

 

A review of recent data confirms the old consensus (outside the money-making halls of big pharma and those to whom they donate) that the ordinary flu vaccine is, at best, a placebo and, at worst chemical roulette.

 

I analyzed the data from the 1997/98 flu season up through the 2015/16 flu seasons. Here’s the table I created, showing that in any given flu season, only 15.34% of illness was caused by influenza viruses. That means the flu shot was worthless almost 85% of the time in preventing the flu; it’s even MORE worthless if the viruses in the positive samples don’t match the serotypes that are in that year’s flu shot!

 

I’ve shared my experience. The few times I’ve had a flu shot – not for many years now, thank you – I got the flu. The years I skipped it, no sign of or a very mild and brief head cold. When the COVID shot came along, the decision was not difficult. I skipped it.

Professor Angus Dalgleish, Professor of Oncology at St Georges Hospital Medical School London, says you should skip it as well or – skip the boosters. It’s no news to us, but he says they worsen matters for you.

 

[T]he side effect profile is getting worse and broadening and I and many oncologists from around the world have been alarmed at the sudden increase in cancer relapses and new cancer growths, which only have a recent Covid booster vaccine in common.  …

Giving a booster vaccine for Covid is associated with T-cell suppression and a change in the type of antibody induced which, taken together, explains why the immune system is no longer able to control the cancers it was previously doing very well.

 

The data confirming these truths continue to pile up, which is inevitable when your human test trial encompasses 70% of the global population. That extensive survey will produce outcomes nearly impossible to ignore though not for lack of trying. The misinformation folks continue to rely on bumper-sticker slogans like anti-vaxxer to label science they can’t explain or won’t. But their zealotry over COVID “vaccine” uptake has led to revelations about previous flu seasons, what the Public Health Industrial Complex calls cures or prophylactics, and their lack of efficacy.

The COVID-19 Panic over-reached, and while a majority of the injected population may not yet have discovered that governments and health experts or bureaucrats do not have their best interests at heart, the long shadow of the campaign to get a needle in every arm continues to accumulate casualties that will be harder to ignore.

The COVID apology tour wasn’t the breakthrough we expected. Still, it is evidence that there is a growing uneasiness among the literati as what they’ve labeled sudden adult death syndrome comes for people they know or love.

As I wrote in November of 2021, as part of an updated look at athletes dropping dead, who has to die? To which we add, and what are you prepared to do about it? Public Health has become little more than a revenue silo for the Pharma Oligarchy, and if that doesn’t change, you’ve no reason to believe anything they or your doctor tell you.

You can ask why, but you might not like the answer. The institution has been taken over by people who would rather you were dead but will happily make money from that on the way.

 

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Forewarned is forearmed.  Thus, this is intended to be a compilation of articles, with my commentary, to try and get like-minded people to grasp what’s coming.  Even merely being aware of events in the world will make you better prepared than the hordes of sheeple.  Note that these compilations are catch-as-catch can, and presented as is.  I make no guarantee of accuracy or complete coverage of the world.

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.

For prep materials, please see:

Survival Sunday – PREP Edition – Granite Grok

 

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“It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of the New England Journal of Medicine.”

 

― Marcia Angell

 

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Top of the fold:

BOOM BOOM BOOM-ERANG INBOUND (bitchute.com)

Ted Cruz on the indictment.

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Youqin Wang, Chronicler of China’s Cultural Revolution | National Review

Those who do not learn from history…

 

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NUMBER ONE WITH A BULLET

 

 

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Deep State / Coming Tyranny / WEF / Globalists (broad):

A World of Restrictions – In the Name of Climate Change (substack.com)

An Israeli journalist on the planned tyranny.

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Finally, Europeans May Be Rejecting The EV Kool-Aid | ZeroHedge

For all the good the populace can do.  Remember the hundreds of thousands protesting the Covid mandates?  How much good did that do?

 

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Protecting Children:

Report: School District In Maryland Makes LGBTQ Books Mandatory Reading – Summit News

Your kids WILL be taught it.

 

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National Security (specifically):

US has real UFO problem and it’s not Chinese spy balloons, says former Navy fighter pilot – Blazing Cat Fur

I again recommend the book IN PLAIN SIGHT.

 

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On The Jab (and Covid)

 

 

https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/110/016/751/playable/ebb09267cb901359.mp4

 

Any other medical product would have been RECALLED at around 50 deaths, but the COVID vaccines are now CONSERVATIVELY at *40,000 deaths and rising exponentially by the day.”

 

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Inflation:

While Everyone’s Distracted, the Dollar Is Dying (theorganicprepper.com)

The only question is when it dies.

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March report shows ‘inflation is far from dead,’ whatever Biden says: Economist (wnd.com)

And it’ll get worse…

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Financial expert ANSWERS: Should you pay off your debt NOW?

 

 

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Tucker: They can’t keep this secret forever

 

 

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Enemedia:

Greenwald: Nashville Shooting Has Been Erased From Memory Due To Inconvenient Narrative – Summit News

Peoples’ attention spans are becoming very short.  That’s a feature, not a bug, for the Left.

 

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Pro-life:

I Did Hundreds of Abortions, But Now I’m a Pro-Life Doctor – LifeNews.com

Turnaround.  I’ve never seen a pro-life person, at least not in my experience, suddenly switch to being pro-abortion.

 

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Know your Leftist / Globalist & Islamic enemy:

Global Elite Picked Obama 171 (americanfreepress.net)

Anecdotal and after the fact.  Still, worrying.

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They really do hate you this much.

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The Democrats’ (Alleged) Ginormous Money Laundering Scam – PJ Media

Understand something with crystal clarity.  We face an international Leftist enemy with no honor or decency or morality.  They consider it their missionary purpose to convert the earth to a one-world, depopulated, Socialist government.  This is a religious war, not purely an economic or political one.

 

 

 

 

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Immigration / Migration:

What you’re missing by watching Trump – Washington Times

That means about the same number of people that make up a division of the People’s Liberation Army could be squirreling away here in America, ready to take orders from their communist masters who seek global dominance.

Don’t forget that, FOR YEARS, we have been finding Islamic texts and even prayer rugs at crossing places.

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EXCLUSIVE shocking footage of UN-funded mass migration camp in Panama… (rumble.com)

Video.  This is an invasion.  No question.

 

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Economy at large:

Washington State Democrats Plan to Confiscate Your Money if They Think You’re Making Too Much – PJ Media

An economy grows and thrives on disposable income.

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Here’s How We’ll Have Labor Shortages And High Unemployment At The Same Time | ZeroHedge

An interesting explanation of the contradiction.

 

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Political War

CONFIRMED: The FBI Has Spies in Catholic Churches to Hunt for ‘Domestic Terrorism’ – PJ Media

Stasi.

 

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US Stability (broad catch-all):

Eric Trump Called It! Joe Biden Knew Everything – The Regime Worked with the FBI Prior to the Raid of President Trump’s Home (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft

Of course.

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Justice Perverted: We Need A New Magna Carta | ZeroHedge

An interesting argument.

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90 Miles From Tyranny : Democrats decide that a little bit of insurrection is good sometimes (ninetymilesfromtyranny.blogspot.com)

If Leftists didn’t have double standards, they wouldn’t have any.

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Dems Inexplicably Pick A War Zone For The 2024 DNC…

I’m going to cynically opine that they know there isn’t going to be a 2024 election.  So, they announce it for here.

 

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World Stability (broad catch-all):

Russia Using Space Weapons In Ukraine: US General | ZeroHedge

If GPS is taken out, I pity all the people who have zero clue how to read maps.  Or those who, knowing they have GPS, don’t bother learning routes and their own neighborhoods.

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BREAKING: LEAKED US DEFENSE DOCUMENTS SHOWS WESTERN FORCES ON THE GROUND IN UKRAINE! …And Countries ARE NAMED in Leaked Document! | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft

Let’s assume – somehow – that these are genuine.  Closer and closer to the edge we get.

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WHO Confirms ‘Staggering’ One in Six People Have Fertility Issues (thenationalpulse.com)

Double plus ungood.  Related:

‘SPERMAGEDDON’: Humanity May be Functionality Infertile by 2050, New Study Warns. (thenationalpulse.com)

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The System is Down! – Contemplations on the Tree of Woe (substack.com)

Things are going to fall apart… slowly, then catastrophically quickly.  And we who have been warning about this for years and years – and who have been dismissed, derided, and mocked by our intellectual and moral superiors, will be turned on with a white-hot hatred because we – those unwashed deplorable hicks and foil-hat conspiracy theorists – saw that which their uber-suuuuupergenius selves did not.

 

 

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JPMorgan Chase CEO Suggests Government Seize Private Property To Quicken Climate Initiatives

 

 

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Specific to energy:

European Natural Gas Futures Signal Concern About Next Winter | ZeroHedge

Short term this sounds good, but the future?  Germany’s insane:

Germany to switch off last remaining nuclear plants – Insider Paper

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You Won’t Be Able To Sleep After Learning How Vulnerable We Are In ‘Grid Down, Power Up’ | The Daily Caller

VERY vulnerable.

 

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Big Tech in general:

AI could go ‘Terminator,’ gain upper hand over humans in Darwinian rules of evolution, report warns | Fox News

The Matrix and other such movies were fiction… right?  Right?  Related:

NYPD Robot Dog Added to Force — and More Cool Tech – NBC New York

 

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Catch-all miscellaneous:

LED lights can irreversibly damage the eyes, French health authority warns   | Daily Mail Online

Yet another example of doing something where the long-term effects aren’t studied.

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It’s Not Over – Vox Popoli (voxday.net)

We’re long past arguing with retards who still, despite all of the available evidence, insist that vaccines are safe or effective. If people prefer to reduce their life expectancies and render their children infertile rather than doubt the Narrative, so be it. The future belongs to those who show up for it.

The Jab is a religion.  And The Jab is their Rite of Passage.

 

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Concluding thoughts if I’m moved to comment:

TINVOWOOT.  That is all.

 

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The Distractions are AMPING Up!

 

 

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Palate cleansers:

 

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Please check out my MEME collection.  Here’s the last one.

 

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It was very upsetting to read about Mayor Donchess being bullish on Nashua’s future. In reality, the Mayor is shoveling bull to the Nashua taxpayers.

Mayor Donchess’ attack on the Executive Council for halting plans to expand passenger rail to the Gate City was typical for a man who shoulders no responsibility. I, for one, thank Mr. Dave Wheeler for putting the brakes on this project. Mayor Donchess simply cannot understand that at $792 million to construct and another $17.27 million as operating and maintenance costs for the rail project are something that Nashua taxpayers cannot afford.

This Mayor is “project happy,” supporting every expensive project that rolls in.

It is even harder to understand that Mayor Donchess does not understand NH laws because if he did, he would stop blaming the “state-mandated, state-regulated and state-supervised” revaluation. If citizens check the City minutes, the Mayor, through his legal counsel, requested the DRA  conduct the full measure and List in 2022. Now that he is running for re-election, it is time to play the blame game. If the city did as the law required, this full revaluation would have been done years ago. The City of Nashua last did its last full revaluation back in the 1990s.

Mayor Donchess, put on your big boy pants, broaden your shoulders, and act like an adult. The position of Mayor requires leadership skills; try to develop some, please.

For Mayor Donchess to say, “Unfortunately, this revaluation pushed up property taxes for our homeowners,” and then say the revaluation does not collect more taxes. Instead, it reallocates taxes among property owners.”  Well, Mr. Mayor, the budget increased by over 5%, so more taxes were needed. When you have lied your whole life, it is challenging to speak the truth. It does not come naturally, does it? It seems that the Mayor has forgotten that he keeps increasing the budget, and therefore the taxpayers need to pay more every year.  The city had the following tax bills generated:

2020 – $231,355,273.

2021 – $236,156,163

2022 – $248,421,992

Maybe Mayor Donchess does not think an extra $12,265,829 in taxes is significant. However, that is not how the Nashua taxpayers feel. I did not see Mayor Donchess telling Nashua residents that the State of New Hampshire rates the 3 rd highest property taxes paid within the United States. However, the City of Nashua is #1 with the highest property taxes collected within the State of New Hampshire.  Residents know how the Mayor likes the City to be #1. Nashua property owners, buckle your wallets because Mayor Donchess will be going for the #1 spot as the highest property taxes in the United States.

I really appreciate the fact that Mayor Donchess keeps reminding residents that “Nashua is the 4th Best Run City In America”.  WalletHub states, “compared the operating efficiency of 150 of the largest U.S. cities.”  Please explain to me how Nashua, NH, with our 90,000 residents, compares to Los Angeles, CA, with 3,849,297 residents. Under the Safety tab, WalletHub states, “Our data set ranges from the percentage of residents who are fully vaccinated and assaults per capita to the unemployment rate and road quality. Does Nashua belong in this group? We all know the Mayor can buy his way into any survey.

The mayor finished up his speech by saying a lot of projects were finishing up. In fact, there are a lot of projects the Mayor is starting. Mayor Donchess forgot to tell the taxpayers how many more millions and millions of dollars these projects will cost the taxpayers and how much more the taxes are going up.

Hope you all love surprises as much as the Mayor does.

 

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“We believe that low taxes are the result of low spending; that government has a moral obligation to the people to be as cost-effective as possible, to always limit spending and growth of government, and to cut spending and cost of government at every possible turn.”

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Applauding, even strong-arming, a nearly 20% increase in spending (more than a billion dollars)…when the last budget was allegedly more than we could spend (launder)?  I attend the Executive Council meetings and watch $47k for electronic ticketing at Cannon Mountain ski area change to be $1.4 million with no rationale or discussion?  We see the corruption! Now you are facilitating more of it?

Why?

You owe every Republican voter an apology for your blatant deception. This is NOT why people vote Republican down ballot.

Don’t tell me you’re playing “chess” to gloss over it, thinking we are too dumb and busy to call you out….this is a complete dumpster dive game of “Sorry.”

Politicians have to go, gang.

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Pfizer’s ‘Got COVID Paxlovid‘ ad campaign has drifted away alongside traditional flu season, which seems odd. Thanks to Pfizer’s COVID Jab, Flu season can be all year round, but Paxlovid can’t help, and it says that on the package insert.

 

• PAXLOVID is not authorized for use as pre-exposure or post-exposure prophylaxis for prevention of COVID-19 …
• PAXLOVID is not approved for any use, including for use for the treatment of COVID-19.

 

It sounds a bit dishonest to suggest the best treatment for a COVID infection is Paxlovid when it has not been approved for that use. You can’t take it to prevent COVID. You can’t take it after you get COVID. And it is not approved for any use, including the treatment of COVID. But the Biden Administration pre-purchased billions of doses from Pfizer and leveraged their buy to get the FDA to issue a EUA, after which we discovered what Paxlovid could do. It could suppress symptoms but not clear the virus turning you into a COVID-Trojan Horse.

Paxlovid always became synonymous with COVID-rebound, which is a nice way of saying once you can no longer legally take it (The EUA restricts use to five days), your symptoms can return (rebound). You may even end up sicker than before you took it.

Billions of doses, no refund, and not many folks have lined up to get their free, not approved treatment. As in, not authorized. As in, emergency use, but what emergency and to what end?

 

Last year, the U.K. Daily Mail reported on a study that found Paxlovid can increase the risk of blood clots when taken with blood thinners and irregular heartbeat when taken with heart pain medications. Researchers also found it can cause liver toxicity when taken with statins. Do you really believe every doctor has made sure to take his patients off statins before prescribing this drug?

Remember, this drug is being dispensed in pharmacies without a doctor’s prescription as if it’s candy. Do we even know all its potential safety concerns? No, but we do know it’s contraindicated with many drugs. Also, keep in mind that technically Paxlovid was only accorded EUA status for high-risk patients – the very sorts of people who will largely be dependent upon drugs with such contraindications.

 

Paxlovid doesn’t work or play well with the very people for whom it was meant. And this, we are told, is the best medical science can manage, reinforcing our public health progression from ‘do no harm’ to “harm is good if it pays.”

 

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“Murder isn’t a nationwide problem. It’s a problem in a small set of urban areas …”

As it turns out, DEMOCRAT areas. Urban areas. Democrat cities. The ones with the harshest gun control laws.

How’s that working out for them?

That image above is correct – if you look at the summary numbers only.  But Dr. John Lott is a researcher and looks at the breakdown statistics.  If you do what he did, that 189th number is absolutely correct.  Despite how the media, in their roles of being Democrat Party ancillary mouthpieces and partisans (who generally don’t know the difference between a firing pin and a bobby pin), trumpets almost everything as a tragedy that can only be solved by More And Bigger Government, yammer constantly that our Right to Keep And Bear Arms must be demoted to mere cap guns.

Abstracted:

• Over 3,000 counties exist in the US
• Majority of US counties had ZERO murders (52%)
• WORST 1% of US counties (31) had 42% of all murders
• WORST 2% of US counties (62) had 56% of all murders

Firearm Ownership – inverse relationship to the rate of gun ownership and gun violence crime/murder

• Rural area gun ownership is 79% > than in urban areas
• Suburban areas gun ownership is 37.9% > urban areas
• Urban areas => lower gun ownership has higher run murder rates

“Correlation between politics and crime?” – The five U.S. cities with the highest per capita murder rates are:

• St. Louis (69.4 per 100,000 population)
• Baltimore (51.1)
• New Orleans (40.6)
• Detroit (39.7)
• Cleveland (33.7)

In the 2020 presidential election, Joe Biden (Democrat) got:

• 82 percent of the vote in St. Louis
• 87 percent in Baltimore
• 83 percent in New Orleans
• 94 percent in Detroit
• 80 percent in Cleveland.

In other words, the most dangerous cities in America are all Democratic Party strongholds.

It isn’t about the inanimate object – a gun. It isn’t about “violence” – it’s about crime. Who or what commits crimes?

People. Just not all people, just some. Actually, a very small number of people. In Democrat cities. Why those people, then?

Policies and culture.  Democrat-spawned policies that are never reviewed for inconsistencies and corrected when they are wrong. Policies that stem from ideological/racial bias and must be adhered to no matter what.

And culture. IMHO, while policies (like catch and release, no consequences applied to fit the crimes) determine much, it’s the culture. If life doesn’t matter, that crime doesn’t matter, that the tribalism exhibited by gangs and their turf wars over street corners and actions (various forms of vice and violent crimes). And tribalism yields crimes against the other tribes gangs in protecting their turf. The politicians keep the police from doing their jobs and we’ve seen that Democrat judicial system is just a rotating door – in you come and out you go.

And this is why the urban and national Democrats hate the more rural areas – we ARE better, with our culture, than they are.

(Image H/T: Powerline, H/T: American Spectator via Instapundit)

 

Wake me up when you want to talk about what kind of society you've created, where young people want to kill children. And don't know what gender is.

The last 70 years. Inexorable leftward cultural shift. And this is where we are.

— BullshitSquared (blue check) (@xenophonrocks) April 11, 2023

 

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I get it, old news. So, old the internet has almost moved on, except it can’t get out of its’ own way. Sure, Robert Kennedy Jr. filing to challenge Slow Joe Biden is a thing, but there’s another thing: the media framing of Robert Kennedy Jr.

AP’s headline reads: “Anti-vaccine activist RFK Jr. challenging Biden in 2024.”

Robert Kennedy Jr. is an anti-vaccine activist. That’s like saying Jeanne Shaheen is an anti-tax activist for opposing the SCOUTS decision that opened the floodgates for states to milk out-of-state residents for sales taxes. Shaheen never met a tax she didn’t like. And she loves the idea of taxing people who buy things in New Hampshire. But the anti-sales-tax culture in the Granite State forces her to act as if she opposes them.

But anyone who signs off on tripling the federal debt during her tenure in Congress is not anti-tax. They are triple-double-dog-down on taxing people who have not yet been born. She is enslaving future generations who manage to get past her abortion-on-demand gatekeepers.

And Robert Kennedy Jr. is not an anti-vaxxer. He is, however, suspicious of the mRNA injections, the approval process, the lack of transparency, recalibrated messaging (retooling the lies if you prefer), and the mountain of evidence this vaccine is a greater health risk than the flu infection it cannot even prevent.

Search Robert F. Kennedy Jr, and you get swamped with the AP headline or versions of it. ‘Anti-Vaccine Activist.’Vaccine denier. These are outrageous lies told by infantile media whores peddling a political pimp narrative.

And yes, Kennedy has been suspicious of “vaccines” for a while and more so of mandates – but the AP piece is breathless in its attempt to frame him as a patriarch of right-wing conspiracies, which, as we’ve discovered, is just another way of saying truths the media refuses to tell -preferring to peddle the crib notes fed to them by the Biden Administration donor class.

A class that, while Trump was president, was as virulently anti-vaccine as you could be. And here we have a Democrat who distrusts the public health industrial complex and the Medical Corporatism of his fellow libs. Is he a threat to Biden? Not as much of a threat as Biden is to Biden, but unlike stumbling mumbling Joe, Robert Kennedy Jr. has no left-wing backup.

Joe, who has about as much influence in his own administration as a cardboard cut-out with a tape recorder taped to the back, just has to not die and avoid saying something his handlers can’t walk back, and they’ve got the media industrial complex to help them. But Democrat primary voters are not in love with another four years of whoever is running the Biden Administration. They overwhelming want someone else. Robert Kennedy Jr. is someone else, and he’s broken the seventh seal. It is open season for challenging Joe Biden, and you can bet someone else’s property there are Democrats waiting to join that circus. TO be that other “guy.”

So, at the very least, thank you for that.

 

FYI – Robert Kennedy Jr will be in Hanover, NH, on April 26th to offer remarks on the Pandemic response. He has been added as s special guest to the “College Covid-19 Vaccine Mandates – Scientific, Ethical, and Legal Considerations: A Roundtable Discussion and Dinner Event.”

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Out of tragedy comes a voice of leadership and, more important, reason. The senseless killing spree of teenagers in Ocklawaha, Florida, for three days, has ended thanks to law enforcement’s swift action.

The bodies of three 16 and 17-year-old teens were found between Thursday, March 30, and Saturday, April 1. Marion County Sheriff Bill Woods held a press conference on Monday to announce the arrest of two male teens, believed to be the killers of the three innocent young people.

Sheriff Woods took to the microphone and delivered a fact-filled speech that evolved into a fiery message that was not what the gun control crowd wanted to hear. Many, including President Joe Biden, always go to banning guns for all as the solution to senseless acts of killing. Whether an accidental shooting of a director on a movie set or a mass killing in a school, these people always want to ignore the killer and convict the gun. These folks did not want to hear what Sheriff Billy Woods had to say on Monday.

Woods showed confidence and strength when he spoke directly to the reporters in the room and the people listening everywhere. He first broke a golden rule by displaying the pictures of the two minors arrested for the killings. Often, the people who commit the crime are protected by authorities, but not this time. Woods pointed to the two large images on the monitor to his left. The photos of the 12 and 17-year-old boys arrested in this case were there for all to see. There is still one more suspect at large, and he is a 16-year-old.

Sherrif Woods is a breath of fresh air in his approach to this press conference. He was not in the mood to take foolish questions and was clear in his response to the guns used by the two juveniles.

“There are individuals out there viewing, and includes some of you media, that want to blame the one thing that has no ability or the capacity to commit the crime itself, and that’s the gun. These individuals committed the crime,” Marion County Sheriff Billy Woods said.

He said that with all of the gun laws we have, criminals will still get guns. No gun laws we add will change that fact. Politicians that look to gun control as a solution are looking in the wrong direction.

“Now, although we had out there and it was gang-related, we have nothing specific to say that it was any rivalry or anything to such that cause. But, however, each and every one of them in some shape or form is associated with a gang,” he said.

Woods was very clear in his opinion that the breakdown in the family unit is at the core of gang violence and growth. He also pointed the finger at our failing educational system that is not preparing students intellectually but not holding them accountable for their actions.

I will not be surprised when Sheriff Billy Woods is in front of Congress to testify about his beliefs, and the Republicans will be delinquent if they miss the opportunity to use this voice of clarity.

 

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The 1948 Administrative Powers Act gave the Executive Branch, 75 years down the line, the Powers to be its own Government. I hate Congress for passing it and, in doing so, making itself irrelevant. Congress can’t even do their primary jobs anymore.

The Executive Branch is laughing itself all the way to the Federal Register (where our Freedoms and Liberties go to die by the cut of a million rules, regulations, guidance, and “Dear Colleague” letters.

They came for our showerheads. They came for our lightbulbs (incandescent bulbs can no longer be sold on Aug 1st). They came for our energy sources. They came for our gas stoves (and our fridges, dishwashers, clothes washers & dryers, biological sex, now for our air conditioners…oh, and gas generators just now). The makeup of our local communities (Federal overriding local community zoning). And now, the Biden Administration is going to fulfill Obama’s “radically transform the United States” by taking away our gas-powered cars. Literally, anything that uses energy types that they don’t like.

And yes, I STILL want to blame the guy that ruined gas cans for all of us. I spill more on the ground and let more vapors into the air than I ever have before.

Wasn’t “W. Virginia vs. EPA” enough to shock the EPA bureaucrats back into sensibilities? No, they didn’t care then, and they don’t care. They are proving that the vaunted Progressive “Administrative State,” the ultimate goal since the early 1900s, was to destroy/make irrelevant the Constitution and our democratic voting processes.

WHERE DOES THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH HAVE THE POWER TO DO THIS???  To obsolete yet another industry just because they think they “know what’s best for us”?

‘Complete Transformation’: New Biden Rule Would Force Automakers to Ditch Gas, Sell Electric Vehicles

The Biden administration is set to unveil new environmental regulations that would force U.S. automakers to sell electric vehicles over their gas-powered counterparts, a move experts say will kill jobs and bring major supply chain issues.

President Joe Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency will announce on Wednesday a proposed rule to limit tailpipe emissions. That rule, according to the New York Times, will impose a strict emissions limit on vehicles sold—so strict that it will force automakers to ensure that two-thirds of the vehicles they sell are electric by 2032. “This is a massive undertaking,” said Alliance for Automotive Innovation president John Bozzella, who represents U.S. automakers. “It is nothing short of a complete transformation of the automotive industrial base and the automotive market.”

Again, WHO GIVES THEM THIS POWER?  This is nothing short of Sovietizing our transportation system.  For all the times that the Left calls the Right “fascists,” the Democrat/Progressives in the EPA (you know, the “Party of Government” in both meanings of the phrase) are proving that the spirit of Mussolini is alive and well. They are proving that they don’t have to OWN the means of production to CONTROL the means of production.

Free Market sensibilities are over if this is allowed to continue. The problem is that Obamacare did the same thing to healthcare – and the Party we expected to stop it went along with it.

We rebelled against the British King for a similar mindset of “We tell you, and you WILL obey us.” Yet, we accept this from people who believe that receiving a government paycheck THAT WE PAY FOR gives them this kind of Power?

This isn’t about gas vs. electric – it’s about control. Price them out of the budget of ordinary households? You’ve taken them away. Remove the gas to power them? You’ve taken them away.  Ditto for EVs.   Now what can you do? If they can turn off your internet-connected furnace or air conditioners, they can do it to your EV.

They will be, with no uncertainty about it, smiling. They have no sense of “limited government” because they are becoming intoxicated with telling us how we will live. We’re becoming modern-day serfs…

You know what’s needed? A modification kit for our gas vehicles – cut another hole on the other side of our vehicles from the gas one that would allow any EV charger to be inserted into it and tie up that charger. You know, like Saul Alinsky did to O’Hare airport (had his activists take up every toilet seat/urinal when jumbo jets started their unloading of “very full” passengers).

Mark Tapscott (at Instapundit, where I first saw this story) has this ending comment:

But what if two-thirds of the people buying new vehicles prefer an internal combustion engine under their shiny new hoods? The results of a recent survey for AP, NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, and the Energy Policy Institute show less than one in five Americans say they intend to buy an EV.

Apparently, EPA officials haven’t read this, which explains why America will never go EV.

They don’t care. The government has reached the point that they will reach for ANYTHING as long as they think they can get away with it. Remember Biden and his Eviction Moratorium?  He knew it was unconstitutional at the time but did it anyways. It was ruled unconstitutional and voided.  What was his reaction?

Issued it again.  Daring SCOTUS to rule against him again, thinking that it would take so long to rise to SCOTUS that it wouldn’t matter.  They ruled against him the next week. Even today, you see Democrats, like AOC and Senator Ron Wyden (D-Oregon), telling Biden to ignore the Federal judge that ruled against mifepristone (the abortion pill).

Not mad enough?

• The Institutionalized Minds Of Most Americans
• Machiavelli & The Globalists: Why The Elites Despise Independent Thought

I’ve oft said that The State has pushed true charities out of Civil Society. Now we are seeing our Freedom and Agency suffering the same fate.

 

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Paying your taxes is patriotic. I think I’ve heard that somewhere. But Democrat Kary Jencks, who just squeaked out a win in a selectman’s race in New Boston, isn’t. Their last property tax bill is three-plus months late and now includes interest due and a late fee.

We have the address but have redacted it.

 

It appears to be a business and residence,  so – maybe the check is in the mail? It might be, but this does not appear to be the first time. The Dec 2019 entry indicates the amount due was transferred to a tax lien.

 

 

Congrats on the win, by the way, and might I add the increased value of the property? And that’s the assessed value, not the market value. Forest for the Tree Business, right?

And will you be working to lower property taxes in town so you can afford them or blaming the state and Chris Sununu or some other Republicans?

Did you run on that? I hear you only won by 19 votes, and it seems that passing the buck and the bill might have cost you the race if that was public knowledge.

And no, avoiding taxes does not disqualify you from elected office. It may (in fact!) be precisely the sort of person for a gig that impacts the tax rate. But Jencks is a Democrat, and I’ve never met a Dem that didn’t increase spending and, therefore, taxes to pay for it, which is kind of the point here.

I also think we all know that if you want to lower property taxes in an NH town, the School Board is the place to do that. Wait! Jencks is not just a school board member. She is the board chairman.

You better get those property taxes paid before some poor child misses out on whatever passes for quality education in New Boston. Think of it as your patriotic duty.

 

 

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Gavin Newsom is making it quite clear that he wants to be President sooner than later. There are two problems with his plans. One, he would have to primary against sitting President Joe Biden. And the second, he would have to run on his horrendous record as Mayor of San Francisco and Governor of California. Gavin Newsom is clearly one of the most narcissistic individuals in politics and is maybe rivaled by a fellow resident of San Francisco, Nancy Pelosi. The other thing these two have in common is they were both caught on video violating their own mandates during COVID. They both see themselves above the law and the ordinary people.

Newsome is seen in the picture below with his rolled-up sleeves walking through the Rose Garden and entering the Oval Office. The problem with this is that the President was not in the White House at the time. It seems disrespectful to enter one’s office when it is unoccupied. But Newsom accomplished his goal of getting some video of himself looking cool and Presidential entering the White House. His supporters lapped it up while his dissenters saw through the photo op.

Newsom has survived his political career in California with charisma, tons of money, and the support of the party and media. That may work in the Golden State, but when he gets on the debate stage in the primary or general, he will be exposed by his record as leader of his city and state.

Under his watch as governor, California has lost nearly 400,000 tax-paying residents. These people were replaced by over two million undocumented, illegal aliens. The Reparations Task Force has been meeting throughout California to help state officials examine how slavery and systemic racism have harmed African Americans and how the state should respond. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the 2020 law creating the task force, which is tasked to develop reparations proposals for the Legislature by July.

Newsom sees the Presidency as the next logical step in his political journey. Obviously, his many supporters who are bankrolling his venture have bought into the aura that is Gavin Newsom, if not the reality of his record. Joe Biden and his administration have shown us that a record and accomplishments are not necessary to win the game of politics-it is money and the media.

Newsom has produced a video called Fight for Democracy, and according to ABC10 Reporter Morgan Rynor, Newsome used $10 Million left over from his gubernatorial campaign to fund the project. He may not have announced his candidacy for the Oval Office, but his checkbook has.

The national media declared Newsom the Democrat candidate in 2024, should Joe Biden not run or the President’s corruption issues prevent him from running. Newsom may just be caught up in himself so much that he will take on Biden, and it will be interesting to see how the party accepts him or how badly it divides those on the Left. Newsom may force Biden to commit to running, an announcement the President seems content to put off as long as possible.

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We read stories about China, Iran, Brazil, and others doing more business in their native currencies as if it were the end and people are wondering what to do about the collapse of the US Dollar as the world’s trading currency of choice.

There would be economic upheavals and no one is saying this is the breeze that portends a coming storm, but the process is (apparently) not as simple as that.

 

[S]ecurities analyst Ed Dowd tells Flyover Conservatives here that, counter to a lot of the catastrophism emanating from the Alternative News and perhaps counterintuitively, the smart money is now moving into cash to buy bargains in the future.

He says, “Cash is not a bad place to be and a lot of the smartest people I know are starting to go into cash and just waiting for the storm to pass and then do what JP Morgan of old would do and buy while there’s ‘blood in the streets.’”

As another financial guy personally told me yesterday, the US dollar is still the world’s reserve currency. While 100% of global trade used to be conducted in the dollar, with the recent exodus, it’s now “only” 97%.

 

It’s a dicey topic that gets at least as much breathing room as the Feds seizing your 401K (or what’s left of it). Government spending is out of control, and you can only print more fiat currency for so long. At some point, the Feds have to cut spending, or they need to rob everyone else to pay for their addiction. The latter is preferred, any reason will do, and the history of progressives pursuing utopia tells us it is inevitable.

They will run out of other people’s money.

I can’t speak to the non-advice advice, but safe havens for cash are never a bad idea in the short term with the understanding that if we don’t get the politics right, it won’t matter. They will come for it in all its forms, and they won’t ask nicely.

 

 

 

 

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CONCORD, NH (April 11, 2023) – NH’s Senate Judiciary Committee voted today to recommend rejecting two bills: HB224 (which would repeal the penalties for NH’s moderate, 6-month abortion ban) and HB88 (introduce a right to abortion in the law).

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Jason Hennessey, President of NH Right to Life, said: “The Senate Judiciary Committee today responded to the overwhelming weight of testimony in support of protecting mothers and preborn babies with the Fetal Life Protection Act by rejecting HB224 and HB88. Rather than offering real help to mothers in need, these bills offered only death.”

On HB224, Jason Hennessey said:

“HB224 tried to trick the legislature into legalizing risky late-term abortions for any reason by claiming that the FLPA’s penalties would worsen NH’s “maternity deserts” where mothers cannot obtain healthcare. Once you dig a little, this doesn’t make sense. The facts are: 1) NH is one of the few states with no current maternity deserts, 2) only a very small percentage of obstetricians do any elective abortions, and 3) almost all states ban the abortion of viable children. On top of that, elective abortion through birth is not only extreme to a super-majority of Granite Staters, but is only allowed in 7 countries in the world, including N. Korea and China.

The FLPA only stops the killing of healthy children who could be delivered immediately and left at the hospital under our Safe Haven law.

The Senate Judiciary members rejecting HB224 should be commended for seeing it for the extreme legislation that it is: legalized elective abortion through birth.”

Sources for the quote above include:

1) https://www.marchofdimes.org/maternity-care-deserts-report

2) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010782417305218

3) https://www.guttmacher.org/state-policy/explore/state-policies-later-abortions

Super-majority of Granite Staters agree with some abortion restrictions: https://www.anselm.edu/sites/default/files/Documents/NHIOP/Polls/SACSC_NHSW_0822_Book1.pdf

NH Right to Life’s testimony on HB224 goes much deeper into this, and is available upon request.

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On HB88, Jason Hennessey said:

“HB88 would codify injustice into our laws by saying that some people do not deserve the rights that others have. The bill is also legally questionable, in that it attempts to bind future legislatures without being part of the constitution.”

Some have suggested that HB88’s imprecise wording could be interpreted to allow anyone to end anyone else’s pregnancy.

NH’s Fetal Life Protection Act (the FLPA, RSA 329:43-50 ) protects viable, preborn babies at about 6 months (24 weeks), with exceptions for the life and health of the mother, as well as fatal fetal anomalies. Thus, the only abortions it prohibits are late-term elective abortions.

Links:

HB88: https://gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/billinfo.aspx?id=35

HB224: https://gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/billinfo.aspx?id=369&inflect=2

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