Tuesday • December 3 • 2024
Vol.XVI • No.XLIX
Manchester, N.H.
before standing up? Yeah, it’s not a fan, and you won’t be a fan of it any longer. Or, as this YouTube video puts it: “Shining a light on what comes up when you flush.” Yep, sometimes our attention needs to be on the mundane and icky parts of life – and this is one of them.
But what a techie setup they contrived in order gross us out:
You’ve probably heard it before – if you don’t put the lid down on the toilet, droplets of filth will fly out when you flush it. Scientists have now visualized that process for the first time, in hopes of reducing it with better toilet designs. For at least 60 years now, it has been known that if you flush a toilet with its lid up, a plume of aerosolized toilet-water droplets will rise up out of the bowl. Those airborne droplets can then drift onto other surfaces in the bathroom, potentially spreading pathogens such as E. coli bacteria.
Two green lasers were then aimed on and above the toilet. One shone continuously, in order to show where in three-dimensional space the droplets were located, while the other laser rapidly pulsated, to measure the speed and direction of their movements. Two cameras recorded HD stills and video while the toilet was flushed – and the result was much more dramatic than anticipated.
“We had expected these aerosol particles would just sort of float up, but they came out like a rocket,” said Crimaldi.
For the most part, the droplet plume moved upward and back towards the lab’s rear wall. That said, much of it also rose straight up until it was blocked by the ceiling, at which point it spread forward into the room.
Gives new meaning to “PUT THE SEAT/LID DOWN!!!”. Yep, high tech bathroom humor…
Most studies have been done on the opposite direction – how to ensure that the “payload” that is supposed to go downward actually goes down and not stuck. Now they are quantifying what goes UP! SCIENCE!
Now, how are they going to do the same thing with the various “odors” to make better ventilation systems?
(H/T: New Atlas)
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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.
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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Victoria is rolling out the WEF ‘20 minute city’ initiative.
All so easy and accessible that in the future you won’t need a car and if a climate emergency should arise you can easily stay within your zone.
It’s already being proposed in the UK!! pic.twitter.com/gN2YuSvjaC
— Kat A (@SaiKate108) December 7, 2022
All this is in line with the “line city” concept that’s actually being started in Saudi Arabia. It has “five minute” neighborhoods (not 15), but the plan is basically the same.
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Top of the fold:
Digital Currency: The Fed Moves Toward Monetary Totalitarianism | ZeroHedge
China Reveals CBDC With Expiry Date So People Are Forced To Spend and Not Allowed to Save – News Punch
Nigeria bans ATM cash withdrawals over $225 a week to force use of CBDC (cointelegraph.com)
So what we have here, if it is imposed, is a system that tracks every dime you spend, and potentially forces you into a use-it-or-lose-it scenario with expiring money. And, as seen in Israel and doubtless other places considering it, total government transparency into your accounts:
Tax Authority director: We will demand customer accounts info from banks – The Jerusalem Post (jpost.com)
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The World Health Organization, Johns Hopkins, and Bill Gates Just Conducted Another Pandemic Simulation — This Time The Virus Is Deadlier And Targets Children (thegatewaypundit.com)
Do not ever forget they are willing to kill billions to achieve their goals. Lo and behold:
Urgent warning over ‘camel flu’ as World Cup fans return to England after cases in Qatar | The Sun
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Deep State / Coming Tyranny / WEF / Globalists (broad):
Cashless: Now India Is Testing Retail Central Bank Digital Currency (technocracy.news)
We Are About To Witness A Major Move Toward A Cashless Society | ZeroHedge
“Convenience” and “security” will be the death knell words of freedom. And here’s what they’re aiming at:
China in Five Tweets – 2nd Smartest Guy in the World
Not for nothing are they Jonesing at what China is doing now. And:
‘SMART Cities’ worldwide being converted into ‘open concentration camps,’ says ex-Silicon Valley engineer turned whistleblower – LeoHohmann.com
The Elite’s Plan For A No-Car Society — Guest Post by Otto Moibul – William M. Briggs (wmbriggs.com)
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‘Ethics’ app at Clemson allows students to instantaneously report on each other with texts, videos | The College Fix
Stasi. And it brings to mind this Huxley quote:
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Jane Fonda returning to DC to ‘demand’ Biden declare a ‘climate emergency’ – ‘When he does that, all kinds of mechanisms become available to him’ | Climate Depot
They’re EAGER to be tyrants.
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Biden’s 401(k) Heist (townhall.com)
Diverting 401k money to ESG funds. By executive order.
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REPORT: Forcht Bank in Kentucky Restricts Costumers From Buying Firearms (thegatewaypundit.com)
Programmable e-currency.
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CHARLEBOIS: COP15’s absurd proposed planetary diet – Blazing Cat Fur
Buuuuuugs! And doubtless sustainable algae cakes.
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International Pandemic Treaty: WHO Meets to Impose Censorship of “Misinformation” – Global ResearchGlobal Research – Centre for Research on Globalization
Those who control the information flow control the people. More:
Elon Musk Reacts After “America First Legal” Uncovers Damning Evidence Revealing a Secret Twitter’s “Partner Support Portal” Used by Government to Censor Dissenting COVID-19 Viewpoints (thegatewaypundit.com)
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Irish Gov’t Begins Jailing People Who Refuse To Use ‘Gender-Neutral Pronouns’ – News Punch
FFS.
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Protecting Children:
GROOMER ALERT: Underage Students At High School Forced to Perform In Drag For Eager Adult Faculty Members (thegatewaypundit.com)
The school took great pains to ensure no parents, uninvited students, or other adults could attend.
Wood chipper therapy. Stat. More:
Drag Queen Biden Invited to White House Previously Tweeted, “Kids Are Out to Sing and Suck D!” – Summit News
Approved at the highest level. You think this person wasn’t vetted and examined? They knew, and invited him anyway. Related:
Transgender Teen Charged With Violently Assaulting Two Female Students in Oklahoma High School Bathroom (thegatewaypundit.com)
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Video: Dem Rep. Says Term ‘Pedophile’ Is Discriminatory – Summit News
More wood chipper therapy. Stat. Here too:
A drag queen teaches a child to twerk while shaking his near-naked butt in front of children at a recent “all-ages” drag show in NYC pic.twitter.com/pKdFHmk2Ee
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) December 12, 2022
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No Title Could Possibly Suffice – Liberty’s Torch (libertystorch.info)
Letting kids decide to kill themselves. SMH.
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National Security (specifically):
How to break China’s stranglehold on production of critical minerals (wnd.com)
Essential to do. Related:
4 Startling Ways China Is Challenging The U.S.
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He Called America Racist, Now He’s in Charge of Our Nukes – Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish articles
How can you fight for a country you hate?
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Shortages (broadly):
“80 times that of CO2”
This will be another excuse to attack beef production.
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Bird flu prompts slaughter of 1.8M chickens in Nebraska (phys.org)
I do not trust this. At all.
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On The Jab (and Covid)
Confidential Pfizer Documents & New Study Confirm COVID ‘Vaccine Shedding’ Has Been Occurring with Shocking & Dangerous Consequences (infowars.com)
We foil-hat nut jobs are up HOW MANY now?
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https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/122/605/050/playable/ee938e530ad75de1.mp4
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COVID Forever: Health “Experts” Say It’s Time To Wear A Mask Again
Meanwhile:
Not Even N95 Masks Work To Stop Covid ⋆ Brownstone Institute
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EXCLUSIVE: Rebel News questions Senior Pfizer executive about Vaccine mandates and failure to check for jabs transmission rates. – Rebel News
In their own words.
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My bible on the C-19 mass vaccination experiment. Nobody can conceal a scourge that Nature is now desperate to unveil
Critical background on the Jab experiment.
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Inflation:
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The View from Lady Lake: Yaeah – tell me again how inflation is only 8.2%. I’ll wait here…
Not possible it’s only that. Related:
U.S. Vegetable Prices Increased By A Whopping 38 Percent In November, But They Say Inflation Is “Under Control” – enVolve (en-volve.com)
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How Obama’s Big Economic Lie Caused Our Inflation Crisis – Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish articles
Understand the root causes.
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Hedge-fund giant Elliott warns looming hyperinflation could lead to ‘global societal collapse’ – MarketWatch
For the Globalists this is a feature, not a bug.
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From the source article:
I think most Americans are still of the mindset that they can vote their way out of this mess, even though they have been slapped in the face with blatant stolen elections in 2020 and 2022. They are expecting Trump or DeSantis to be their savior. That way they can stay on the couch and continue with their fantasy football.
Which brings up this must-read piece:
Diogenes’ Middle Finger: Or Maybe They’re Just Paranoid and Wrong About It All. (diogenesmiddlefinger.com)
The permanent (actual) ruling authoritarians allow the appearance of opposition solely to let the masses think they have a say, to out potentially dangerous opponents, and to direct opposition energies into harmless activity that does not really interfere with the rulers.
The GOP presidential wins in the last 40 years have occasionally been bothersome but never a mortal threat to the rulers’ goals. The growth of government, the vision of technocratic rule, and the ideal of an unaccountable elite move forward regardless of electoral outcomes.
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Enemedia:
Our Lying Idiot Media Really Is That Dumb | Frontpage Mag
Well, duh.
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Report: NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, and MSNBC Have Spent Just 14 MINUTES Combined Covering The ‘Twitter Files’ – Summit News
Control the information flow, control what people believe. They won’t change. Even as their betrayals are exposed, they’ll never change. They’re bought and paid for:
We don’t have a free press
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Mass Migration:
If they were truly refugees, they would apply for asylum in the first safe country they arrived in…preferably a Muslim country, NOT Belgium
Excellent point. And where are their women?
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Freedom or Foreigners – Vox Popoli (voxday.net)
Interesting history of Sparta. In general, I concur: no nation can withstand a mass influx of outsiders, particularly outsiders who are there just for the money and benefits, or to outright conquer.
Related, Accountability: A Conundrum – Liberty’s Torch (libertystorch.info):
Europeans, Asians, South Americans, and Africans have no rights as Americans understand the term. To them, a “right” is a permission granted by the State, with all sorts of procedures, fees, and restrictions layered onto it. As it is granted by the State, the State may retract it, or change the qualifications pertinent to it, at any time and for any reason. Nor does the process necessarily require parliamentary enactment. In lands other than ours, arbitrary decisions by nameless and faceless persons often determine the availability and scope of a “right.”
A right “given” by government is not a right, it is a privilege that government can take away. The problem is that so many who are coming in have precisely this attitude – that governments grant rights, not G-d. Related:
Coming to America (freebeacon.com)
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Man-Made Disaster: Illegals Are Flooding the Open Border Now That Title 42 Is Expiring Under Joe Biden – Migrants From 17 Countries Represented in Last 24 Hours (thegatewaypundit.com)
I remember reading about illegals… from the f*cking CONGO, with rolls of $100 bills. Someone’s (*cough Soros cough*) bankrolling this. More:
El Paso Reels Under Migrant Wave (cis.org)
Report: Deportation Of Criminal Illegal Immigrants Down 71% Under Biden…
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UK Government Arrests Just 0.3 Per Cent of Illegal Boat Migrants – Summit News
They’re not serious about stopping this. They’re planning this:
Dutch investors launch new marketing programme for NL: Tristate City – DutchNews.nl
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Bummer: PRC Governor Newsom Worried About State Being Overrun With Illegals If Title 42 Ends
Schadenboner! And IMHO positioning himself for 2024 to contrast with the Potato.
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14,000 a day?!!
This is an upcoming INVASION!
And we are already being invaded every single day.
The Biden admin completely created it.
Impeach Biden!!!https://t.co/JDI8mi0JNL
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) December 14, 2022
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Know your Leftist / Globalist & Islamic enemy:
Time Magazine Explains Why You Can’t Call Dems Election Deniers (townhall.com)
They have no morals. They have no honor, no decency, no love of country. They want power. Period.
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Hey Antifa, Who Are the Real Fascists? | Frontpage Mag
More:
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Economy at large:
Small businesses are getting hammered
Yes they are, and it’s deliberate.
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How Debt Policies Are Provoking an Unavoidable Crash – American Thinker
I disagree. We are OUT of options. The crash is coming. It’s only a matter of time, and how bad it will be. Related:
357 Magnum: Math Is Hard, But It Is NOT This Hard (wheelgunr.blogspot.com)
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Bayou Renaissance Man: Two forecasts for 2023
In a nutshell: double-plus ungood.
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IT’S GONNA GET WORSE
I am a project manager/estimator for a medium sized construction company, I would average 5 to 10 quotes for subdivisions and multi unit developments every week non stop during this period.
This fall I have bid on one subdivision….ONE.
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US Stability (broad catch-all):
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MASSIVE Machine Failures And Voter Disenfranchisement In Red Districts Of Maricopa County “Could Not Arise Absent INTENTIONAL MISCONDUCT” Says IT and Elections Expert (thegatewaypundit.com)
Shocking Discrepancy Found in Maricopa Vote Count, and It Was Exactly What Hobbs Needed to Win – Lawsuit (westernjournal.com)
TINVOWOOT. And awareness is spreading that the entire voting system – IMHO globally – is corrupt. Consider that if Katie Hobbs is installed as governor despite an in-your-face violation of state law…
DeSantis 2024 Is a Trap › American Greatness (amgreatness.com)
If we don’t address voter fraud, it doesn’t matter who the candidate is because democracy in America won’t exist, and your vote won’t matter—just as it hasn’t mattered for two years.
Exactly. Consider this, more broadly:
BREAKING: Judge Aileen Cannon Dismisses Trump’s Case Challenging FBI Raid and Mar-a-Lago Document Seizure (thegatewaypundit.com)
When people – a majority of people – finally grasp that the entire system is corrupt to the core, nations collapse. Which, as I’ve repeatedly said, is the Globalists’ goal. Related, at least in my mind:
There Goes Hunter’s and Weiner’s Laptops…
How… convenient. And also related:
Something Smells Really “Fishy” With this Sam Bankman-Fried Arrest, Folks… (waynedupree.com)
This line struck me (bolding added):
As a criminal defense attorney, my reaction to the arrest last night remains unchanged: this is the first time that I can recall where prosecutors moved aggressively to stop a defendant from making self-incriminating statements. His testimony would have been entirely admissible and likely devastating at trial.
PROSECUTORS – who are normally bloodthirsty sharks looking for any slip to use to nail someone – stopped a defendant from speaking and likely making their case kindergarten-easy?
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Our Parasitic Generation › American Greatness (amgreatness.com)
Long, and very sad – we are definitely about at the end IMHO. Related, to me:
Labeling The Founding Documents ‘Offensive’ Is Just The Beginning (thefederalist.com)
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Why The Redefinition Of The Word ‘Woman’ Matters
Words mean things. That was the whole purpose of Orwell’s 1984 Newspeak: to redefine the language to make real communication impossible. And it brings to mind this quote:
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The Credibility Crisis of America’s Institutions – Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish articles
When people no longer trust the government to this degree… things fall apart.
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World Stability (broad catch-all):
Listen to this (rumble.com)
Video about BRICs getting off the US dollar. About nine minutes.
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The Prospect of Nuclear War Is Getting too Close for Comfort | (paulcraigroberts.org)
Biden Regime Secretary of State Blinken has blocked negotiations between Russia and Ukraine by declaring it is US policy to drive Russia out of the reincorporated territories, including Crimea.
Biden’s announcement that the US will use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear threats, and the knowledge that US nuclear weapons are deployed close to Russia are forcing Putin to abandon his no first use of nuclear weapons pledge.
In other words, unlike the 20th century Cold War, today there is a hair-trigger on nuclear war. People who say nuclear war is impossible because there are no winners are out to lunch. Wars are the product of humans, and humans are emotional and stupid. They make mistakes hand over fist. Error is the human way.
Related:
NATO Chief ‘Fears’ A Full Blown War Between The West & Russia This Winter
Dead Hand’s nuclear revenge: What would happen if the West launched an attack on Russia? — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union
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India Blames Chinese Troop Encroachment After Fresh Border Clash | ZeroHedge
The world is littered with piles of tinder. They’re all connected, IMHO, and people are playing with matches and accelerants. Sooner or later one’s going to ignite… and how many more will soon after?
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‘The Regime Will Lose Control’: Interview with an Iranian Revolutionary :: Middle East Forum (meforum.org)
The question is not whether the Mullahs fall is good – of course it is. The question is what comes after?
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Specific to energy:
The attacks on transformers in North Carolina reveal a major danger
Been discussed for years and years. See this comment – plus the others and original post:
Comment on Raconteur Report: Warning Shot
Who Is Purposely Sabotaging Power Plants All Over America? | ZeroHedge
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Fusion energy’s false dawn – The Spectator World (archive.vn)
All for it… but let’s be pragmatic. Not going to happen soon (if ever).
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"The world's largest solar PV farm uses 200,000 litres of water each day to keep the panels clean. Yet some people think that we are soon going to source all our electricity from solar farms in deserts."#cop26 #cop26 #climate #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis pic.twitter.com/TIhdmFW12k
— Henry K. B. (@HenryK_B_) February 19, 2022
Good point about solar farms.
NONE of these “green” energy things are anywhere near as clean as they’re advertised. Now in some cases, they can work – mostly small scale locations. But one cannot power an industrial civilization off them.
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Big Tech in general:
How To Stay Safe & Protect Your Data On The Internet (askaprepper.com)
If it’s connected, it’s vulnerable. Period.
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Face biometrics coming to vehicles will allow keyless access and more | Biometric Update
Has to be something NEW. And, of course, this will be less reliable and more subject to hacking. Doubtless, soon, also a built-in breathalyzer.
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Catch-all miscellaneous:
They’re cheating…..Where is the SEC?
I find the timing… awfully convenient.
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Did the Fourteenth Amendment Alter the Meaning of the Second Amendment? (reason.com)
Great pro-gun rights author.
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Concluding thoughts if I’m moved to comment:
Video: Climate Hypocrite Kerry Says It Would Be “Great” If Americans Paid Carbon Reparations – Summit News
I can hear it how. HYPOCRITE!!!!!
When will people on our side understand that they don’t care about any accusation we make? To people on the Left, the only opinions that matter are those from their fellow travelers. Our opinions are null and void.
Now it’s important to note their hypocrisy. But don’t get the idea they care. You could scream it at their face and it would bounce off.
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Palate cleansers:
Editors Note: Nitzakhon delivered it on time. It’s my fault this did not publish yesterday as planned.
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Our Governor never misses a chance to violate President Reagan’s 11th Commandment. Sununu was interviewed on lefty Chris Ryan’s show, New Hampshire Today, on Wednesday.
We want to thank Pam Brown, Ph.D. for this Op-Ed. Please submit it to Editor@GraniteGrok.com.
This was a 13-minute interview.
What does our “GOP” Governor do with this air time? He spent the ENTIRE INTERVIEW — bashing Republicans.
The Governor used the full 13 minutes to deliver a series of nasty remarks about House Speaker Packard, Rep. Weyler, our GOP majority House (which he termed “wacky”), and various GOP Presidential hopefuls (the exception being Pence).
Did Sununu attempt to pivot away from Ryan’s “Republicans suck” narrative and explore the major successes of our GOP House and Senate? No. Did he use his airtime to attack Biden’s policies? No. Did he spend most of the time warning listeners of the severe difficulties we now face due to Democrat policies – or exploring recent scandals of Dems and the NHDP’s election misconduct? No.
Sununu spent ZERO SECONDS discussing the negatives — of Democrats.
Chris Ryan and Sununu embraced and wept together about the horrible GOP, its officials, and their problems. I listened so you don’t have to, but – listen to the interview:
Is Sununu a Republican?
He shows no loyalty to his own Party and its enduring track record of success. He evidences zero interest in promoting the GOP’s virtues and its country-saving policies. He dismisses his colleagues and speaks of GOP officials as if they are children and he’s “the adult”. He happily giggles and babbles his way through these interviews as if no one is listening – sniping at his own Party while completely ignoring the insanity and destruction the Democrat Party is pursuing.
Well, we’re listening.
Sununu, the self-absorbed GOP wrecking ball should perhaps join Kyrsten Sinema and change his party affiliation. Or start his own Solipsist Party, a party of one.
Pamela J. Brown, Ph.D.
Kingston, NH
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As with other elections, I dealt with a number of inquiries on the 2014 Speakers election. This included several inaccurate representations of the race that took place that year. This also includes former and current House Representatives working for advocacy groups.
They are consistently giving me biased scores on their voter lists.
This letter will hopefully set the record straight!
Before the 2014 Speaker vote, Representative Jasper approached me and said he wanted to challenge Representative Obrien on the House floor to be Speaker. He told me he would do it if Bill Obrien didn’t prevail on the first vote. As in any election, a majority of the votes are required. He also told me I was on a list of three people to be the Majority Leader.
Because of a potential challenge, Bill Obrien supporters wanted a roll call vote. This differed from the traditional secret ballot. This caused the vote to take on a different outcome. Republican members that were less than supportive of Representative O’Brien felt that Speaker O’Brien’s handling of the NH House hadn’t changed since his previous election. The roll call vote failed, and the first vote was the traditional ballot vote. Bill O’Brien didn’t win on the first ballot vote, even though I voted for him.
Representative Jasper’s name was added as a candidate for Speaker. After several subsequent votes, some I didn’t vote on, Shawn Jasper was voted in as Speaker of the NH House of Representatives. Yes, mathematically, with both Democratic and Republican support.
After the vote, Speaker-elect Jasper approached me and told me I was his choice for Majority Leader. Although it wasn’t what he wanted to hear at the time, I asked him for time to consider his offer. He gave me a day! After consulting with friends, I accepted the position.
In conclusion, Bill O’Brien would have been Speaker for a second time if there weren’t a push for a roll call vote. Additionally, despite a divided caucus, we obtained a number of conservative policy changes that improved the state of New Hampshire. Finally, on a negative note, some friendships I established early on were not the same going forward. To that, I am sorry, Seth, Dan, and Fred.
These FACTS will hopefully end the confusion and falsehoods associated with the 2014 Speakers race.
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NHJournal has a piece this week titled “NH Trump supporters largely silent as his poll numbers slide.” Someone sent me the link because GraniteGrok was mentioned in the report, so I took one for the team and went there to read it.
NHJournal contacted a dozen Granite State Republicans who have either actively supported Trump or voted for him in the past. The vast majority were unwilling to defend Trump on the record or express optimism about the current state of Trump’s campaign. The volume of pro-Trump advocacy on social media has also dropped, despite the Elon Musk era arriving at Twitter. And as of late Tuesday night, the far-right, pro-Trump website Granite Grok did not have a single headline mentioning Trump in its top 10 pages of posts.
For the record, ten pages of posts are 7-8 days of content at the alleged “far-right, pro-Trump,” website, so I guess we’re supposed to talk about Trump every week, or it’s a sign of something. As another “for the record,” it has been a lot longer since we mentioned Mr. Trump in a headline. Aside from his “I’m running” announcement in mid-November, there hasn’t been anything for regular folks to discuss.
Unlike journalists, we’re not obsessed with him because we’re not here for President Trump, Governor Sununu, or even the Republican party. They are here for us. We’re Constitutional Conservatives. That means we want to conserve the limitations placed on government by the Constitution. If a pol lines up to defend those rights, we might applaud that if it catches our eye. If they attack or undermine those principles, they might get a trip to the rhetorical woodshed.
Mr. Trump was good on the border and national security, the economy, keeping our enemies on their toes and advancing Middle East Peace. He encouraged policies that created jobs in America and helped wages and incomes rise. He favored fewer federal regulations, and under his leadership, fuel and energy prices went down, and with that, a lot of other things. He got snookered on the pandemic/vaccine thing, was lousy on federal spending, and got taken by the swamp he said he’d clean out.
They cleaned him out instead, and plenty of Republicans helped, as did NHJournal (read Ed Mosca).
And did you know that NHJournal (Inside Sources) is based/owned out of Virginia – I believe that’s still true. They have three sites, DCJournal (US Capitol), DVJournal (Delaware), and NHJournal. And I’m not positive, but I don’t think Michael Graham lives or works in New Hampshire.
Maybe none of that matters, but it’s been a while since we brought it up, in case anyone is keeping track.
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Most parents think their kids are pretty safe at school. They know the teachers, and they know their motives are genuine. But there are a few ways that outside sources can get to your kids at school. You might be surprised at what is exempted and what information is collected about you and your children.
We want to thank Betsy Harrington for this Op-Ed. Please submit it to Editor@GraniteGrok.com.
One way they can access your kids is through an online library and another is through surveys you aren’t informed of. Also, if your children join groups, that may create access to additional outside sources. Alt-gender secrecy has been known to give unknown groups access to your children. Know your school’s policy on what is kept secret from parents.
“Curriculum” and “library content” are not the sameWhat would be illegal as “curriculum” is generally exempted from library rules. Online sources take advantage of that. Sexually explicit materials and critical race theory are illegal to TEACH in New Hampshire, but they can be advertised to your child as award-winning reading through their online reading library. “Sora” is a popular student library that is a perfect example of an online library exploiting kids.
Sora is mostly free content so no one can complain. It makes its money off your children. It hyperlinks them to outside sources like adult dating sites after teaching them how to engage in explicit sex. It hyperlinks them to all sorts of unwanted and unknown sources. It then uses an algorithm to show them more of the same content once they have looked. It’s collecting data the entire time. Eventually, they are advertising specifically to your children to change their attitudes.
In Sora, kids can’t discern what books contain explicit content before they read. The book may have an award on the front yet be grossly explicit beyond a child’s comfort level. Many parents want rating levels for books like the Motion Picture Association of America. Some states (Utah) already have laws using such ratings. Booklooks.org is an excellent resource for book ratings.
In New Hampshire, books are not rated and are exempt from state obscenity laws. Federal laws might be challenged throughout New Hampshire. This analysis of the law is helpful to read.
Recently, parents are seeing inappropriate content and contacting their local representatives, their school boards, and the Board of Education in New Hampshire. Parents want to know their kids aren’t being exploited through their school-sponsored library or through unknown surveys. Surveys that ask things like how often your child is sexually assaulted and about parents’ criminal activities.
The Youth Risk Survey is incredibly intrusive and triggering to anyone who has been victimized and provides no support after doing so. “Exploit and discard” is how it feels to parents. Read the hundred or so questions as they go further and further past parents’ boundaries. It’s NOT OK to ask children these questions without parents permission. Yet this year, they are able to do so. Parents need to opt-out ahead of time. They won’t be asking for permission.
So what can parents do?Start by looking. Find out if your school uses an online library. Ask if you can challenge existing books you find inappropriate and exploitative. You can opt your child out of all online libraries and non-educational surveys. Stop the exploitation of your kids before it happens. Make sure the school knows where you stand.
For instance, two examples of sex dating sites “instructions”:
And:
And because Sora is online, you may never know what your kids are access all under the rubric that your School District is a “member”.
Betsy Harrington, MSW
mother of 2 at SAU34 (Hillsboro-Deering)
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As you may know, I put in an RSA 91-A demand, ironically enough, about the Office of the Right To Know Ombudsman.
Not only is this story a good bit of “how long does it take to screw in hire a light bulb” (six months after Baby Huey signed HB481 establishing the Office that SHOULD make it easier for citizens to get their Right To Know demands handled faster/easier than having to take their Government to Superior Court) but also a story about Government officials “stringing citizens along” and making them wait longer than necessary.
If you are short of time, just go to the bottom area of this post to see the “short circuit” supplied by an NH House Representative who reads GraniteGrok and found the answer (MANY THANKS!).
To recap once again:
HB481 authorized a new Right To Know Ombudsman Office to be located in the NH Department of State once it has been staffed. As of last week, no such position has been filled. No news items have covered such an appointment or activation of that office. HB481 was enacted into State Statute on June 24, 2022, being duly passed by the General Court, with Governor Sununu’s signature.
This demand is for any and all communications (emails, voice mails) and other documents (e.g., position postings, resumes, evaluation documents, meeting notices, meeting notes, background checks, et al) pertaining to the hiring and appointment process concerning any and all respondents looking to be the first Ombudsman for the Office of the Right To Know.
Legal Counsel to the Office of the Governor, James Scully, had responded that the Governor’s Office didn’t HAVE to honor an RSA 91-A due to Constitutional conflicts…
…please be advised that it is the long-standing position of the New Hampshire Department of Justice that RSA 91-A does not apply to the Governor’s Office.
…but did say that I’d have the Responding Records within 30 days. So I asked WHAT that position was, and he did respond to the question:
From: “Scully, James” <James.F.Scully@nh.gov>
To: “Skip” <Skip@granitegrok.com>
Sent: 12/13/2022 12:58:12 PM
Subject: RE: RSA 91-A Right To Know demand – Status and materials concerning the Office of the Right to Know OmbudsmanMr. Murphy,
The Governor’s office is subject to the constitutional requirement for public access to government records in Part I, Article 8.
RSA 91-A is adopted by the legislature and governs non-constitutional agencies and how they comply with Part I, Article 8. Because of the constitutional separation of powers, RSA 91-A does not govern how constitutional offices, such as the Governor, Judicial Branch, or Legislative Branch meet the constitutional requirement for open government.
Best,
James
Now, I haven’t seen anything in RSA 91-A:5 that gives an exemption to “Constitutional Offices” and I did remind Counselor Scully that a Governor (in his Constitutional capacity) signed the legislation creating RSA 91-A and all amendments to it and I let Counselor Scully know of that collusion of two of the Constitutional Offices in making this law. I also asked, under Part 1, Article 8, for a contact within the NH DOJ so as to get the supporting documentation from them to support his assertion. After all, while it may SEEM like a little matter, it actually DOES matter – a lot. So, he quoted his “Rule Book” – I want him to live up to it.
—— Original Message ——
From: “Skip” <Skip@granitegrok.com>
To: “Scully, James” <James.F.Scully@nh.gov>
Sent: 12/15/2022 9:17:04 AM
Subject: Re[2]: RSA 91-A Right To Know demand – Status and materials concerning the Office of the Right to Know OmbudsmanGood morning this day before a winter storm bringing (hopefully) a White Christmas!
I read your explanation and I do understand the separation of Powers. While the Legislature, a Constitutional body in our bicameral system, drafted and passed all of the legislation that created and amended it, didn’t that OTHER Constitutional body have to join with the Legislature to make it law – the Office of the Governor?
So the two are complicit in this Law, correct? Otherwise, why wouldn’t previous Governors have refused to sign it? Or, if you are using that line of reasoning, why didn’t the present one, before signing HB481 into Law, demand that such an exemption be codified into the Law instead of being a part of “penumbras formed by emanations” of unstated Powers (as Government has Powers, Individuals have Rights)?
And yes, I have put in RSA 91-A demands against the NH House, for example, and they have been honored. No, they did not complain that even as they are also a “Constitutional body”, they did not exempt themselves therein So, I ask again – might you have a contact within the Dept of Justice to back up your assertion? Under Part 1, Article 8, as you assert?
So again, the request of a contact is requested.
Thanks – and be careful of your back tomorrow shoveling snow. The “Weather Guys” are saying it will be a rather heavy type of snow!
-Skip
However – time for the short circuit. Out of the blue, Steve received an email from someone that I don’t believe I’ve ever met before – with the answer for which I am searching (emphasis mine). And she reads GraniteGrok!
——- Forwarded Message ——-
From: DA Elword
Date: On Wednesday, December 14th, 2022 at 8:11 AM
Subject: RTK OMBUDSMAN
To: Steve@granitegrok.com <Steve@granitegrok.com>Steve, please forward to Skip.
After reading your RTK requests re: RTK Ombudsman, I made an in-person inquiry at Sec. State office yesterday and was informed that the nominee for the position is Attorney Thomas Kehr, and that there will be a meeting of the Exec. Council on Dec. 21st to address the position.
Appears Kehr was the ‘policy and procedures administrator’ for SOS
https://sos.nh.gov/media/woxhklnw/kehr-thomas.pdf
All the best,
Representative Deborah Aylward
And I did respond and thanked her (emphasis mine):
—— Original Message ——
From: “Skip” <Skip@granitegrok.com>
To: “NHSteve” <nh.steve@protonmail.com>
Cc: “DA Elword”
Sent: 12/14/2022 4:07:13 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: RTK OMBUDSMANGood news. And thanks Deborah! Very MUCH appreciate your “constituent” service (even if I’m not a direct constituent!).
I do have to wonder why James Scully just didn’t say that in his email? There, partial delivery with the first response!
<reacted>
I already have a bunch of RTKs (dealing with School Districts that won’t honor my card catalog RTKs) to keep him busy!
-Skip
Simple question. Simple answer. One day. Engaged reader and responsive elected Representative WHO DIDN’T HAVE TO DO A THING as I’m not one of her voters. Much appreciated.
And we are continuing to have a conversation about RSA 91-A…to be continued. But now I know the answer and hopefully, this will turn out to be a GOOD movement going forward.
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December 15 marks the 231st anniversary of the ratification of the first 10 Amendments of the U.S. Constitution, known as The Bill of Rights. Sadly, most Americans have little or no knowledge of these amendments, which is the main reason they are “on the ropes.”
In the mid-1980s, a survey discovered that only one in a thousand could name the five rights protected in the 1st Amendment.
However, thanks to some recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions made this year, including “Shurtleff v Boston,” “Kennedy v. Bremerton School District,” “New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, INC., et al. v. Bruen,” and the repeal of “Roe v Wade,” the Bill of Rights has made a comeback.
But we still have at least two years of The Biden Administration which has, with the complicity and support of the corporate media, made violating the Bill of Rights a priority. It has weaponized the Department of Justice and its Federal Bureau of Investigation. Let us cite just a few examples:
Last fall, we learned that parents who dare speak out against the racial hatred and moral depravity being taught to students in government schools are being targeted. The National School Boards Association demanded that the Biden Administration go after parents who speak out at school board meetings, and Attorney General Merrick Garland sent a memo to the FBI warning about violence against school board members.
The Biden Administration created a “Disinformation Agency” to be led by far-leftist Nina Jankowicz. Public outcry from this blatant attempt to form this Orwellian “Ministry of Truth” forced the Biden Admin to put its agency on hold. Ms. Janowitz is now a foreign agent working for England’s Ministry of Truth.
The U.S. Justice Department is still holding some of those arrested in the wake of the January 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot without charging them with a crime. We are getting reports of ill-treatment of these prisoners, including beatings and denial of medical treatment. So much for speedy trials guaranteed in the Sixth Amendment.
In the early morning hours, the FBI raided the Tennessee home of Paul Vaughn, his wife, and eleven children. His crime? Praying and singing hymns in front of an abortion mill. He had a shoving incident in early 2021 where no changes were filed by local police. He is facing the possibility of eleven years in prison. The FBI arrested many other Pro-lifers, including an 87-year-old woman.
The Biden Administration raided the Mar o Lago home of Donald Trump, and the homes of a number of Trump associates including Rudy Giuliani, Roger Stone, and Peter Navarro. Mr. Navarro, who is 73 years old, was arrested at the airport, and placed in leg irons. He lives across the street from the FBI’s D.C Headquarters. An agent could have simply walked across the street and served a warrant. The FBI raided Stone in the middle of the night with CNN cameras standing by.
And, thanks to Elon Musk, we learned that the FBI worked with social media outlets to suppress information from Hunter Biden’s laptop with information that may have made an impact on the 2020 election.
Background to the Bill of Rights:
On September 25, 1789, Congress sent twelve proposed amendments to the states for ratification. Two of the amendments were rejected. One of them concerning congressional pay raise was ratified in 1992, making it the 27th Amendment. On December 15, 1791, Virginia became the ninth state to ratify, making them part of the U.S. Constitution. The reason for the Bill of Rights are spelled out in the little-known Preamble to the Bill of Rights:
Congress of the United States
begun and held at the City of New York, on Wednesday, March 4, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine.
THE Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will best ensure the beneficent ends of its institution.
RESOLVED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, two thirds of both Houses concurring, that the following Articles be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States, as amendments to the Constitution of the United States, all, or any of which Articles, when ratified by three fourths of the said Legislatures, to be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of the said Constitution; viz.
ARTICLES in addition to, and Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America, proposed by Congress, and ratified by the Legislatures of the several States, pursuant to the fifth Article of the original Constitution.
Here are the five rights protected in the 1st Amendment:
1, Free Exercise of Religion
2, Freedom of Speech
3, Freedom of the Press
4, Freedom to Peaceably Assemble
5, Freedom to Petition the Government for a redress of grievances
Since Camp Constitution’s inception in 2009, we have distributed over 20,000 pocket copies of the U.S. Constitution, and hosted numerous classes, presentations, and outreach events about the U.S. Constitution. Many of those classes and presentations have been videotaped and made available on our YouTube and Rumble channels. Our instructors include Pastor David Whitney, Mrs. Kris Anne, Hall, Luke Boyce— “Kid Constitution,” Actress Janine Turner of Constituting America, Tom DeWeese of the American Policy Center, Catherine White of the Constitution Decoded, Pastor Garrett Lear, and yours truly.
Since I have been writing this column, I have offered readers free pocket copies of the U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence. While the offer still stands, let me offer extra copies to educators and local civic organizations. If interested, e-mail me your mailing address campconstitution1@aol.com. You may also swing by the Gilman Library in Alton to pick up a copy.
The Bill of Rights has survived a civil war, two world wars, and abuses by all three branches of the U.S. government. I believe that it will survive this current administration. Happy Birthday Bill of Rights.
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As loyal readers know, I have been sending out Right To Know demands to various School Districts around the State for the card catalog for their Schools’ libraries. I considered this small effort to be a “test case” to see how the targeted districts would respond.
What I found was there are three general categories of responses:
I had been working “full steam ahead” on this project, but then the elections came up as well as the “Douglas Lambert Incident” that took my eye off the ball. But the elections are over, Lambert seems to be using the court system to keep his victim from getting her Restraining/Stalking Order, and I am slowly starting to catch up.
So I have the card catalogs from the following Districts – in alphabetical order:
And Julie delivered the Dover School District (SAU 141) porno books (in addition to those in the Dover Public Library) aimed at underaged children as well.
Sidenote: I dryly note their home page Mission Statement: Working collaboratively to empower all learners to become dynamic global citizens.
How about AMERICAN citizens for a change? I remember catching one of the Laconia schools, Woodland Heights, having a poster for exactly that a few years ago. Posted it here. Next time it was gone. But I digress.
So just using a short list of “available porno titles” (will post that up later), here’s my current list of what each District has in its Public School Libraries to excite and titillate our young “learners” (as the educrats now call students):
NH Public School District Library Card Catalog abridged porno booksThere will be updates to this list as more RTKs get sent AND honored. And that will happen as our lawyers are now going to “reach out” to the other Districts that have, to put it nicely,” sitting on their hands trying to wait me out.
Heh!
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I’m not proud to say this, but I’ve had a front-row seat to the decline and fall of a once-great state. Vermont, the home of Calvin Coolidge – my favorite president – has fallen on hard times. Rights are no longer natural but given and taken by men with partisan interests.
Related: Democrat Rule Will Do that: Vermont Has Its Highest Homicide Rate in Three Decades
It started in cities like Burlington. A hippie enclave that grew up but kept the sour scent and unwashed politics of the Left. It has embraced most, if not all, of the characteristics that lead to Democrat-run urban decline, but given the sliver of a place that Vermont is, where Burlington goes, the rest will follow.
Crime is up, and policing is down. Non-citizens with little reason to protect American Exceptionalism or Vermont’s roots are allowed to vote in Burlington’s municipal elections. It is illegal to prosecute sex crimes there, so prostitution and human trafficking can’t help but grow out of control. And then there’s the second amendment.
Despite its hippie enclave history, Vermont clung to its embrace of constitutional carry as a right from birth well into the 21st century, but now it is an excuse. Progressive policies that exacerbate criminality are blamed on firearms, and with that comes legislation to restrict your natural rights.
The latest attack is coming from the new anti-gun Democrat majority legislature.
Since 1988 Burlington and Montpelier voters have proposed to create their own gun control ordinances. Because of the Dillon Rule, city charter changes have to be approved by the General Assembly. All attempts to bypass the law proscribing local gun control measures have been pigeonholed.
The renewed interest in enacting local gun control measures has shifted from getting city charter exemptions to town by town action, notably in Woodstock. Michael Bloomberg-funded Gun Sense Vermont is launching a campaign to repeal the Sportsmen’s Bill of Rights in the name of local implementation of “meaningful steps to prevent gun violence.” Perhaps by licensing or prohibiting all guns in the town?
A town-by-town patchwork of gun restrictions could have a significant effect on tourism. Anyone who carries, including hunters, might skip Vermont to avoid reckless prosecution in one of the dozens of towns where an otherwise law-abiding citizen might travel. And that’s the point. The goal is a statewide ban, but to get there from here, the Democrats presume a municipal right before a personal one until the ensuing chaos creates a call for broader intervention.
You get the densely populated liberal-controlled cities to embrace their anything but “common sense” gun laws and then, either by referendum or public pressure, expand it statewide a few years later. And at no point will the rising crime in these Liberal Ghettoes be attributed to restricting the right to self-defense.
The poster child for this is Chicago. It has more anti-gun laws and more gun crime. Common Sense Chicago has had over 4700 shootings in 2022, of which 638 ended in death. The Windy City is on pace to hit 725 gun deaths in 2022. Add the property crime, assaults, carjackings, and other criminal acts, and Burlington and the progs running the Vermont General Assembly can see where their gun-grabbing leads.
This decline is echoed in every Democrat-Run Urban area.
While Vermont will never have that level of criminality, neither will it enjoy the peace and security that has dominated its history. And guess what, if we’re not careful, New Hampshire is next.
HT | True North Reports
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Joe Biden is trying to make significant changes to the Democrat Primary process in time to be ready for 2024. He is trying to change the sequence of the primaries to insert South Carolina into the number one position bumping the Iowa Caucus and the traditional First in the Nation Primary, New Hampshire. This action is not going to happen, it is a futile effort, and he should no better than to try. Let me tell you why.
I have lived in the Granite State for nearly as many years as Joe Biden has been in Washington, D.C. We in New Hampshire have been proud of our First in the Nation status for over 100 years. The first time we were number one was in 1916. Some say it is too much status for such a small state, but that may be the best reason to keep it so.
New Hampshire is perfect for old-fashioned shake-your-hand-and-look-in-my-eye politicking, where every candidate gets to hit diners, restaurants, and town halls or just walk the streets to meet and try to make supporters out of New Hampshire’s voters. It is a spectacle every four years, and the media and country look forward to it. This schedule is tradition; more importantly, it serves a purpose and works. It gives candidates more time to present their platforms and people all over the country more time to size them up. Iowa and New Hampshire are at a different pace than the primaries to follow in South Carolina and the other Southeast states.
The motivations are clear as to why Joe Biden wants these changes:
Every action in Washington has to be done to pay back someone, and Joe Biden knows this better than anyone.
Biden’s plan will not happen because New Hampshire signed an insurance policy into law many years ago that protects its number one position. In 1975, the New Hampshire state legislature passed a bill allowing the Granite State secretary of state to set the presidential primary date earlier than any other similar contest by seven days if necessary. The law has permitted the Secretary of State to fight off challenges to New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation status from other states. If Biden were successful in moving the South Carolina primary, New Hampshire and Iowa would move ahead of them on the calendar.
This exercise is an amateur move by Joe Biden, who has enough experience to know it will not happen. Then again, it may all be for show. He is showing South Carolina he is trying to reward them, and sometimes a plan does not have to work to be successful. It just has to be made public. It is tantamount to the Student Loan Forgiveness Act. Joe knew he had no legal right to present that plan, but it worked. The promise helped put him in the White House. And that is how we got to what we have in this country today.
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On December 7, 2022, Fred Teeboom, a former alderman and self-represented, took the City of Nashua to NH Superior Court for violating Nashua’s spending cap. I had the pleasure of attending part of the hearing.
The City brought an entourage from the legal office and finance office. Attorney Bolton presented for the City.
Mr. Teeboom articulately presented Nashua’s spending cap history. Currently, Nashua has not a single alderman who fully comprehends the budget and can respond to citizens’ questions about the spending cap in a clear and precise manner. This failure of our elected officials, coupled with the demise of the local daily newspaper, opened, for Mayor Donchess and CFO Griffin, the opportunity to misrepresent the calculation of the spending cap.
Bringing a pro se case against the city is difficult and stressful. It was apparent Mr. Teeboom put a lot of time and effort, and experience into his presentation and exhibits.
Soon after taking office in 2016, Mayor Donchess attempted to bypass the city’s spending cap by claiming all “mandated” funding was exempt from the cap. In 2017 the city removed wastewater expenditures from the cap, leading to a court challenge by Mr. Teeboom and then-alderman Dan Moriarty. In 2022, under a new financial creation by CFO Griffin titled “gross budgeting,” the city added grant funding and the full value of authorized but unsold bonds to the spending cap calculation.
The mayor presented the 2023 budget, astonishingly, at $113 million dollars under the cap. This financial manipulation was created by allowing the $348 million budget introduced in FY2022 to rise to $506 million by adding a combination of grant funding and unsold bonds to the budget, thereby producing a calculation that presented the FY2023 budget to be $113 million under the cap when in fact it was $8.5 million above the cap.
Incredibly, the aldermen accepted this deception without question, without examining past practice for calculating the cap, and without examining SB52 adopted into state law in 2021, which intended to further regulate and clarify the tax and spending caps that had been adopted in 2011. The budget committee chairman even refused to consider the spending cap, stating this was of no concern to the committee.
Citizens who believe their tax bills are too high should be justifiably concerned. This city has free reign to spend hundreds of millions of dollars without concern for the constraint on spending imposed by the spending cap ordained in the city’s charter…..until Mr. Teeboom filed his lawsuit.
The aldermen frequently state that the government “has needs” without concern for “the needs” of taxpayers who pay the bills. The mayor has promoted a group-think government that ostracizes and attacks individuals expressing viewpoints that differ from the appointed and elected body.
Mr. Teeboom should have a Court order in early March 2023. Thank you, Mr. Teeboom, for your efforts in addressing this important financial issue that affects all taxpayers.
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Insurance Companies rely on accurate information about the dead. Their business depends on it. And their reporting is one of the ways we knew young and healthy people were dropping dead following the “safe and effective” intravenous COVID preventative campaigns.
Related: Insurance Company Refuses to Pay Claim, Says Death by Experimental COVID Vaccine is the Same as Suicide
The numbers are off the charts. We saw it coming when athletes started dropping dead. Members of the military began dropping dead. Performers on stage. Airline pilots. People Dropping Dead. As the numbers got out of control, the Medical Industrial Complex, with help from politicians and the media, tried to blame the unvaccinated, but that didn’t work so they concocted Sudden Adult Death Syndrome (SADS). It was a mystery. What could be causing people to shuffle off their mortal coil abruptly?
How about a global mass injection campaign of an emergency use pharmaceutical with known but dismissed or suppressed side effects that could lead to complications, including sudden death?
Ding!
While they are still in denial, the latest bad news, pictured above, comes from Germany and the “National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (KBV), which insures 72 million lives.”
Just after the rollout of COVID-19 injections, there was a sharp, unprecedented spike in unexpected deaths, a 1,000% increase. The KBV denies a causal relationship to vaccination. The cause for the deaths is unknown, but it is not COVID-19. Authorities have not yet done appropriate studies to investigate a possible vaccine connection. Mainstream media did not attend a press event where data analyst Tom Lausen presented the figures, which he calls a “risk signal.”
Risk signal. Do you think?
And it’s not just Germany. This is evident everywhere mass injection was promoted as safe and effective. Sure, if culling the population is the goal.
From CDC data, equity investment advisor Edward Dowd calculates that Millennials, age 25 to 40, experienced an 84% excess mortality in the fall of 2021, coinciding with vaccine mandates and boosters—a Vietnam War-size event.
That’s a trend in every country that went all in on the EUA Vaccine* but daring to make the connection is branded as a conspiracy theory … by the murderers pushing the injections.
Nothing to see here. Just move along.
HT | American Association of Physicians and Surgeons
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Cameron Kegan’s article “Why Any Federal Law Defining Marriage Is Unconstitutional” was published at GraniteGrok.com on December 13, the very day Biden signed the new federal law “Respect for Marriage Act.”
I agree that this RFMA is unconstitutional, although I am four square in favor of the right of gay people to marry. Allow me to sort through some confusing facts. And then to analyze the conservative position on — wait for it — sex.
I’ll start with my sense of the hierarchy of constitutional principles (which federal law must bow to, of course, of course.):
Article I, sec 8 grants power to Congress to legislate in the 18 enumerated areas. For example, Congress can enact a law to establish a Navy, to establish federal courts inferior to the Supreme Court, to coin money, etc. If marriage ain’t on the list, and it ain’t, Congress should not touch it.
(They do, though, every day; they outrageously pass laws ultra vires, they did so with RFMA, which Biden signed today, Dec 13, 2022. And they’ve gotten away with it regarding Education.)
But each state can legislate on topics not given over to Congress in the aforementioned Grants bit. (Art I, sec 8.) NH can pass a health bill such as “Masks, everybody, masks.” Or it can add to the rights in the Bill o’ Rights by saying, for example, “No doctor in this state can abort a 15-week-old fetus, as that baby has a right to live.” Per Amendment 9: “The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.”
In short, legislatures have particular powers under the US Constitution to pass certain bills and not others. But even where they have a proper power to indulge in a certain area, someone may take the matter to court and say that it offends some other item in the parchment. I myself went to court in 2020 and said, “Excu-use me. You can’t order an injection that deprives me of my Fourth Amendment Rights.”
(The court should have said, “Oh, Mary dear, you are so right. We’ll make sure that the offending EO, or whatever it was, gets deep-sixed.” As usual, tho, they said, “Mary, go home and shut up. You lack standing.”)
Clearly, Congress has no power to enact a law about marriage. But if a state does so (and yes, it can), a person could still take it to court, claiming that the content of the law offends his/her Constitutional rights. If the racial purity laws of TX prohibited Black Susan from marrying White Joseph, Susan may win her right by the US Supreme Court’s opining that the TX law is invalid.
Could the state of Maine pass a law entitled Respect for Marriage, or just Marriage Equality, giving two females the right to marry? Yes. And if the new couple then moved to Nebraska, Nebraska would be forced to accept that the two females are married, thanks to Article IV: “Full faith and credit shall be given in each state to the public acts and judicial proceedings of every other state.” Plain as day. Good old Founding Fathers they had a knack.
SexEvery human is born with a SEX — the person is male, female, or, rather rarely, is a hermaphrodite, having some combination of male and female. Basically, each person is stuck with the genitals and hormones God gave him or her. It’s not a social construct. It is anatomical.
As a separate matter, every person is born — or later acquires — a SEXUAL ORIENTATION, which determines whether they will develop a longing for a male partner or a female partner. You are hetero or homo. If homo, you may be pressured to keep your sexual orientation a secret.
Additionally, and this is something we did not know till recently, each person has a GENDER IDENTITY that is not necessarily identical to that person’s sex. Because of its oddity, this gives rise to jokes. Then the jokes make us believe that the topic is not a serious one. But it is.
By “gender identity” is meant the sense a person has of being in this world as a male or female. Since you know that my name is Mary, you can assume that I experience my role as that of woman. But you could be wrong. I might have a genuine self-identity as a man.
The fact is, I do identify as a woman, but the place in my brain that controls that gender-identity is not the same place that runs the decision as to whether I be hetero or homo. Some doctor specializing in the brain may be able to tweak the situation, and behold, I start to think I am a man.
My family will feel confused and maybe send me to a psychiatrist. I’ll probably experience “gender dysphoria.” My driver’s license reminds me that I’m female, but I now am uncomfortable as a female. I’m dysphoric. It will please me to dress masculine, and I’ll be delighted if someone calls me “Sir.”
I might even inquire about transitioning, e.g., having a sex-change operation. Or I might load up on testosterone which will make me grow a beard, and my voice will get lower. I’ll probably change my name from Mary to, say, Gregory. After a while, I can apply to the passport office to change my sex legally. Still, the whole thing is expensive and laborious and may result in the loss of many friendships. I think no one would choose to do it for kicks.
Note: I personally am vehemently opposed to encouraging transgenderism in children, but we’ll save that discussion for another day.
The Right To Choose One’s Sexual Orientation and One’s Gender IdentityAs adumbrated above, folks don’t usually make a choice about their sexual orientation — gay or straight — they discover it, probably in adolescence. Who could thus say that a human being lacks the right to be gay? We don’t claim that anyone lacks a right to end up tall or short, do we? Your height develops outside of your control.
If a person’s gayness is given to them, like their height, it would be wicked to condemn them, or to ostracize them. Granted, there are societies today that do condemn or even kill a man for being homosexual or for “performing homosexual acts.” Lesbians do not get such a strong punishment, but they are often made to feel unwelcome and inferior. “They don’t fit the ideal of femininity.” Gee, is that so bad?
The culture of the United States made a change about 50 years ago whereby gayness became largely OK’d. The LGBT community, so-called, first demanded rights such as the right not to be refused a job or housing. This was easily tied into the civil rights laws of 1964 that protect everyone from discrimination.
Similarly, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 — the ADA — extends equality to any person regardless of blindness, muscle paralysis, mental retardation, or whatever. The disabled are now entitled to “access.” Parking lots have places for the cars of the disabled; hotels have bedrooms and bathrooms that can be navigated by wheelchair-bound persons; schools are required to pay a teacher with sign-language fluency for deaf kids, etc.
Is It Constitutional To Legislate, Federally, for the Disabled?You could call me a relentless or even an extreme advocate of states’ rights. Sure, I know that people move around a lot and so think of themselves more as a citizen of the nation than of their state. I know that some people want the US government to crack down on a given state for such-and-such naughty behavior. And I know that it’s more convenient for there to be One Law on a particular subject and not 50 separate laws. But there is good reason to maintain the separation of powers. Much depends on a state guarding its prerogatives, its turf, jealousy.
This article started out examining Congress’s new Respect for Marriage Act, which I think is blatantly unconstitutional. However, it may be easier to discuss the Americans with Disabilities Act. Ask: Is it constitutional? The first place to go to answer that is Article I, sec 8. There is nothing there to make us permit any federal legislation on the topic of disability.
Three parts of the ADA that no doubt have raised the dignity of disabled people are Title I’s requirement that any employer with 15 or more employees not discriminate against a disabled person when hiring, Title II’s requirement that all transportation be helpful to persons in wheelchairs (even to the point of offering paratransit, such as vans, where the regular bus is not able to host a wheelchair), and Title IV’s provision for special communications such as sign language translations of TV news.
Have a squiz at Article I, sec 8’s enumerated powers. Clause 3 says, “The Congress shall have Power to regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States and with the Indian Tribes.” This is known as the Commerce Clause, and federal legislators have used it to their heart’s content to tell states what to do.
Conservatives like myself object to stretching the word “commerce” to mean any aspect of business. The Framers intended it to mean the flow of goods across state borders. They wisely appointed the federal government as referee if one state was harming another in regard to commerce. Otherwise, one state may mistreat another. Fine, but that doesn’t mean Congress can legislate as to how much you should pay for a shirt at Walmart.
I believe Congresspersons have no right to make laws about labor. But they do so all the time. And the US president puts a Secretary of Labor into his Cabinet. Sorry, this is a state power. Each state can make rules for a 40-hour week, a minimum hourly wage of $8, or whatever. If a majority of people in a state want something different (say, a 35-hour week or a $4 minimum hourly wage), they should be able to get their state legislators to cooperate. If not, as a last resort, they can hitch a ride to another state.
Here is a way the feds could be helpful and yet not breach the Constitution’s separation of powers. It could offer model laws. I am used to this in Australia. For example, “Canberra” passed a Commonwealth (i.e., federal) Criminal Code to cover crimes within federal law and made it available to states. Three of Australia’s six states copied it: Tasmania, Western Australia, and Queensland. So the nation has three “Code” states and three “common law” states: New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia.
To summarize thus far, regarding the ADA, I think its Title I requirement about hiring the disabled is not supported by the Commerce Clause because I think labor is not part of the interstate flow of goods. Yet I think the ADA’s Tile II mandate that wheelchairs be accommodated on buses is well within the Commerce Clause, as the transportation industry is largely concerned with the flow of goods across borders. (By the way, do you know that you can’t say “F!!k” on a Greyhound bus from NY to Boston? Or anywhere else. Congress did have the right to legislate that imposition of decency because buses are within its jurisdiction.
As for Title IV of the ADA, which tries to help the blind and the deaf in regard to communication, I recognize that the Founding Fathers did not foresee electronic communication and so did not add a 19th clause to sec 8. I think they would have done so just as they arranged other things that have a naturally national scope, such as the coining of money and the building of post roads. But it’s not there, so the ADA should not pretend it is.
Don’t forget, however, that the Framers gave us the means to update the parchment via Amendment. And don’t forget the Australian technique as a stop-gap. The feds can pass a law that simply offers a model law for any of the 50 states that choose to adopt it. This would respect states’ rights. I claim that we should insist on no overstepping by Congress.
Can the Feds Protect Rights As Such?To have lived during the 1960s was thrilling. Improper authority got thrown over. It must have been like that in the 1500s when Luther posted his 95 theses on the door of Wittenberg Cathedral, complaining of abuse of power within the Church. Congress helped America (and the world) by cleaning out some of the bad practices of the US Government and turning that government into the backer of human rights. Note: in regard to outlawing the racist Jim Crow laws of the South, Congress was acting against state’s rights.
Congress Defining, or Defending MarriageSorry, at this juncture, I can’t hold forth on the constitutionality of Congress’s products, such as the Civil Rights Law of 1964, as I do not know if the feds can legislate to protect rights. Clearly, it’s not one of their specifically enumerated grants of power in Art I, sec 8.
Possibly Clause 18 could do it: “The Congress shall have Power to make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing [seventeen] Powers and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.” But I don’t know if “all other powers vested by this Constitution” includes the power to protect rights.
And since I’m thus unable to preach on the scope of Clause 18, I do not know if it is in Congress’s bailiwick to protect gay persons by stating their right to marry legally in every state.
I don’t even know if gays need this since the US Supreme Court ruled in the 2015 case of Obergefell v Hodges that all 50 states must refrain from forbidding a same-sex couple permit to obtain a marriage license.
Obergefell was based on the Fourteenth Amendment. That’s the post-Civil War amendment that says: “Nor shall any state… deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” For example, you can’t prevent a slave’s descendant from voting.
As far as defining marriage, I think that job belongs to culture. I take marriage to be a wonderful commitment of two persons to each other and their potential progeny. Homo sapiens is a pair-bonding species, as any zoologist or anthropologist can attest. Some societies approve of polygamy (more than one wife per man). Some approve of the marriage of children (I am referring to an arranged marriage that could begin almost at birth but does not take effect till maturity.) Some approve of same-sex unions. It looks to me that the USA does not approve of polygamy but does approve of gay marriage. “That’s how it is.” The fact then defines marriage.
I realize that some conservatives have a personal distaste for gay people. Lately, they express their objection to gay culture as its being an onslaught on the traditional family. I don’t agree that gay marriage harms the more popular type of marriage between a man and a woman. I think it’s other forces in society, some of which are sinister and well-planned, that aim to cause a breakdown of family life.
If anything, a happy marriage of two men or two women adds to the strength of families. Although I’m as conservative as you can get, I don’t think a conservative argument against same-sex marriage has a leg to stand on. Some conservatives may say, “God does not want this,” but what God wants is not a criterion that the Framers invoked. They created a power structure that would give us maximal protection against tyranny. No comment on sexual mores.
To repeat, I think the RFMA and parts of the ADA are unconstitutional. Sure, I like their results — my wheelchair friends get to travel, and my lesbian friends get to marry — but any unconstitutional law is a threat to our survival. We can do better. Also, we can do better than cultivate divisiveness. Social harmony is at a premium now. Let’s get together and support the USA.
And let’s get sex indoctrination out of the schools immediately. I attribute sinister motives, not rights-based motives, to anyone who is trying to influence a kid’s sexual orientation or gender identity. No doubt it’s a crime to do that. Arrest the criminals!
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If you wanted to find a busy-body-positive social justice gender warrior and had no interest in joining Instagram or TikTok, a school board might be the first place to look for her. Moth to a flame that.
And if you’d like to see such an individual discriminate in the name of non-discrimination (oft referred to as Inclusion, Equity, or Diversity), allow them to speak (as if you could stop them).
If you want accountability for those contradictions, instances are rare, but even a blind squirrel, as they say.
To borrow from Skip, here’s the shot:
“I believe that Mr. D’Elia would make an excellent president,” [Jennifer Solot] said. “However, I feel that electing the only cis White male on this board, president of this district, sends the wrong message to our community: a message that is contrary to what we as a board have been trying to accomplish.”
Mr. Greg D’Elia is white (a race) and heterosexual (a gender choice), but if they picked him, despite his qualifications, that wouldn’t be non-discriminatory even though he serves on a board whose majority appears, to my untrained eye, present as human females (77.77%).
[Note that had he announced he was a woman before vying for the top job on this board, whether he was or not, he would be a shoo-in (this is Pennsylvania)]
Speaking of Diversity, have you seen much of that at the public school? Women predominantly fill the positions. Finding an (identifies as) male school teacher is not as rare as locating a busy-body-positive social justice gender warrior who is held to account for her hypocrisy, but it’s close.
A heterosexual man teaching in a grammar school is almost unheard of; they are so rare. Endangered would be the term if we were talking about wildlife in a habitat. But no one is gluing themselves to the Cafetorium stage in outrage or concern (except perhaps over the food, but let’s not get distracted). Instead, we get “sends the wrong message to our community.” A community that’s mostly white, by the way.
So (chaser), what message did Ms. Solot send?
“As a result of this incident, Ms. Solot has decided to resign from the board effective January 2, 2023,” Elliott said. “She wishes to apologize for her poorly chosen words and does not want to be a distraction from the great things happening in our schools on a daily basis. The district thanks Ms. Solot for her five years of service to the Upper Moreland community as a board member.”
And how odd is that? If we’re being honest, her remarks – on the spectrum of hypocritical exhortations – were almost polite. He’d make an excellent president who supports diversity (who doesn’t), except he can’t because he has a penis and is unwilling to share it with other men.
By the way, they have a woman of color and a man of color (cis-status unknown) on the board, but no one voted for them. Relax. It’s not racist. They didn’t want the job, which is the exact reason why many occupations lack an abundance of women or people of color.
Like Professional Hockey, to name one. Not to be confused with how school boards with women like Jen Solot treat parents and taxpayers (generalizing), though not Jen so much anymore, seeing as she’s retired herself for conduct unbecoming. But is it, unbecoming, I mean?
The busy-body-positive social justice gender warriors can’t help themselves even if she meant it in the nicest way possible. You are capable and qualified, but I have to vote for someone else because you’re a white man.
That’s racism and sexism in the same breath; pretending it’s not doesn’t change this fact. It is also liberal privilege, and that always jumps the queue.
But this time, it cost someone their ability to use that privilege to influence a school board. Very rare, indeed.
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The only thing more embarrassing about being American than Joe Biden is Kamala Harris. She’s actually a bigger train wreck than the ‘Big Guy,’ and that’s saying something. Biden is a fool and a joke which, in my opinion, is the only reason they let Kamala out of the box every now and again.
She makes Joe look better and that’s a very low bar. So here we go.
I’d like to tell you that this is time well spent, but I can’t. In fact, it may feel like 40 seconds of your life you wish you had back. But then, perhaps not. This is so absurdly written and badly delivered that it might just make you feel good about not being a Democrat (as if you need help with that).
It’s so bad it’s funny, by which I mean sad. Yes, sad. Maybe tragic. It’s like she dialed it in – her robot double could have done it better.
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There is an update on the Voting Lawsuit I filed back in September. The State’s Motion to Dismiss was granted by the Court in citing a lack of “standing” and a failure to state a claim by which relief could be granted. The following is my motion to reconsider the Court’s ruling:
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Memorandum of Law
Facts of the Case1. The Plaintiff’s petition for an emergency hearing was granted, but the Court erred in ignoring the emergency and the Plaintiff’s due-process rights to present his expert witness to validate the emergency, viz: ignoring the state’s violation in both state and federal regulatory laws concerning the safety and efficacy of electronic devices exposed to election workers and the general public at-large, specifically, RSA: 659:42. OSHA regulatory law 29 CFR, section 1910.7, 1910.303(b)(2), and the expert report submitted in this case.
a) The Plaintiff’s expert witness testimony was denied, leaving the Court with no safety expert witness, nor was there any hearing of any experts for this Court to make a fair judgment of the Plaintiff’s claim.
b) Plaintiff’s claim was not permitted to be appropriately examined or validated by any experts for this Court to make a fair judgment regarding the safety and efficacy of the public.2. The Court order cites in error; that “some of the devices have been altered such that they…
The entire pleading to have the Judge reverse his ruling is here.
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We have been blessed as a nation with the “gold standard” of government. Unlike other nations that grant rights and take them away, the basic premise of our Constitutional Republic is: “We are endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights.”.
It is the function of government “to secure these rights.” Without these truths, our liberty is on the brink.
The “gold standard” of economic systems is a free enterprise based on morality. The system has been lost because the electorate lacks a moral foundation of biblical morality. Our Founders knew the foundation of money for free people must be anchored to “thou shall not steal.” The result therein is private property, an essential foundation of liberty.
In The Economic Consequences of the Peace, John Maynard Keynes states, “the best way to destroy the capitalist system [is] to debauch the currency,” a quote said to be traced back to Vladimir Lenin. Birthed in 1913, the Federal Reserve (FED) has usurped our liberties using Keynesian economics. A mechanism by which the government inflation machine increases the dollars in circulation while citizens are blind to who initiates their dollars being worth less. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method, they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily; and while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some.
Americans need accountability from the FED. The national debt was only 1 billion in 1913, jumping to 8 billion by 1918, 1980 achieving a trillion, today 30 plus trillion, and tomorrow? The sky is the limit.
Did you know that the FED became the embodiment of the fifth step that Karl Marx advocated in the Communist Manifesto needed to enslave a nation? Marx said, “centralization of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly” What it amounts to is pre-meditated well planned generational robbery. Do you appreciate your elected officials ignoring this theft of your hard-earned money?
To combat the theft, we need citizen support for HR 9157: The Gold Standard Restoration Act. The bill sponsored by U.S. Rep. Alex Mooney from W. Virginia puts control of the money supply with the free market instead of with the Federal Reserve. He informs us of the reality of how deep the hidden tax of inflation has been. He contends that the U.S. dollar has lost 97% value since 1913. That is a rate of stealing half the value of the American people’s wealth measured in dollars every 35 years. This is nothing more than the “euthanasia of capitalism”.
Congress plays the game of buying party support with your money. They please the bankers while simultaneously hiding big spending. The time is now to take back your wealth. Go to JBS.ORG for consequential legislative action. Demand your legislator support HR 9157. This is the solution to get the worlds greatest pickpockets out of our pockets.
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I LOVE explosions. Especially of Big Things. This clip has 10 of those things – Bridges!
I really like the second one shown (their #9) as you can see the det-cord lighting up as the explosion goes right to left in the frame.
Enjoy!
(H/T: Linkiest)
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