No wonder Freedom of Information laws have had to be created in the past decade or so. So many elected officials have been hiding so many underhanded dealings that once could be expected to be uncovered by real reporters. Sadly, they are now few and far between. They used to keep those officials thinking about their lower inclinations far more than today. Well, don’t expect all to come out sparkling clean and shiny, nope, check this one.

Per (PatriotWise.com) It appears Gary Gensler, chairman of the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) has been caught removing events from the public version of his calendar with any mention of his meetings with Hillary Clinton and George Soros, and the essential information about those encounters.

It took a lawsuit by Energy Policy Advocates, a watchdog group, which had detected some glitches in the published calendar for them to get the internal documents ( the rest of the story).

As readers may know, the SEC has been getting some pushback for trying to get a climate disclosure rule requiring publicly traded companies to share carbon emissions data – as if SEC needed more power. The only possible reason SEC would want or need this rule would be to enforce more restrictions on fossil fuels as per the Biden agenda, even while having no reasonable replacement for those fuels and driving prices even higher for them.

The aforementioned meetings detail coverups that appeared to be regarding this power grab attempt by SEC. Energy Policy Advocates lawyer Chris Horner said it is “astonishing” that Soros received advice from the SEC chairman Gensler days before Soros wrote an article in the Wall Street Journal supporting the rule and on the mega-call donors for more SEC power.

We can make a pretty good guess now why the details of these meetings were scrubbed from the public record. Another underhanded plan to push the climate control scam, shown by any number of articles here at the ‘Grok,C02 emissions has not affected climate temperatures one bit. So unless those green “experts” can explain why it’s still cold out after CO2 levels are up, we can feel safe denying any more power to the SEC.

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In a Concord Monitor Op-Ed published on July 5, 2021, I explained why the Democrats were likely to eschew New Hampshire’s First in the Nation (FITN) Primary due to identity politics.

It was an easy prediction.

Joe Biden finished fifth in the 2020 N.H. Primary balloting and left the Granite State for South Carolina while votes were still being cast. That wasn’t very generous to all of Biden’s New Hampshire supporters who worked so hard for him, only to see him bug out on them while it was still daylight on Primary Day.

And Kamala Harris received all of 129 votes that February 11th. So one wouldn’t really expect either Biden or Harris to advocate for our FITN status. And Biden clearly made a deal with South Carolina Rep. James Clyburn to pick an African* American woman as a running mate. It now appears that Biden also agreed to advocate for South Carolina to replace N.H. as the first primary state.

Nice.

The knock on New Hampshire is that it is too old and too white and doesn’t reflect America. But South Carolina’s Democrat electorate is around 60% black—which perhaps doesn’t quite reflect America either.

One might characterize the sordid saga as simply reflecting “identity politics,” which has sadly become a mainstay of Dem political calculus.

Biden’s virtue-signaling ruled out 95% of possible VP candidates due to race and gender. Ponder the egregiousness of it all. So now we have a failing and incoherent eighty-year-old president and an unpopular and incompetent vice-president. American adversaries must chortle and cheer.

However, due to state law, New Hampshire will still have the FITN—even though Democrats will supposedly stay away. But unencumbered by identity politics, Republican presidential aspirants will still campaign here, and Granite Staters will still benefit from the associated spending and media coverage. Thank you, GOP!

But what about the Dems?

Don’t be misled by Biden’s claim that he’s running for a second term. He has to say that, lest he be reduced to ineffective lame duck status before the 118th Congress even convenes. But most Dems don’t want him to run—and he won’t. By July Biden will announce his “retirement.”

It’s another easy prediction.

It’s only the latest in an endless litany of lies, exaggerations, embellishments, misstatements, and plagiarism from our craven Commander-in-Chief.

But will subsequent Dem candidates show up in New Hampshire?

Yes.

Initially, surrogates will thump tubs for Dem contenders. But the surrogate campaigns will eventually yield to the real deals visiting us.

Welcome, Gavin Newsom!

The Democrat National Committee won’t sanction delegates from a “pirate” primary. But Dem candidates will still come, thumbing their noses at Biden and the DNC. They’ll want that all-important momentum (if not delegates) going into South Carolina and Nevada. Although not all will come. Afraid of “disrespecting” the South Carolina Dem electorate, some will stay away to pay homage to identity politics. It will be interesting—and fun—to see who comes and who doesn’t and how they all spin things.

Decades from now historians may look back at this era of American politics and wonder how our country detoured down so many dead-end roads marked by baffling signposts with jargon about identity politics, gender identification, climate emergencies, open borders, and more. Hopefully by then we’ll have put divisive and poisonous identity politics behind us. Perhaps by then we’ll be electing people to important positions based on their inherent merits and ethical qualities as opposed to their gender or ethnicity.

But in the shorter term, folks around here wonder if there will be a consequential New Hampshire Presidential Primary in 2024. I say, “Yes. There will be”

And that’s yet another easy prediction!

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A retired professor and former Marine Corps officer, State Rep. Mike Moffett of Loudon chairs the House Committee on State-Federal Relations.

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Classrooms are out of control in some of our schools in New Hampshire. So what happened? Why are so many parents in school districts like Keene (SAU29) talking about the lack of discipline in the schools? Some of these parents are asking why the restrooms are locked? Why can’t students use the restroom in their school?

Unfortunately education fads come and go. As an education researcher, I have seen failed fads come back years later only to fail again.

Restorative Justice may be a new fad that parents are hearing about. While this may work for some kids, it has created chaos in the classroom for many schools. It’s so bad in SAU29 that there is an Instagram account showing the fights between students that happen frequently.

Several months ago the district set up a school meeting with parents so they could share their concerns and frustrations. I watched the meeting, and felt parents believed that something would be done to address the problems. A few months later, parents are still frustrated by the chaos in the school.

What is going on?

There could be many reasons for this lack of discipline and consequences. In this video, you will hear a teacher describe how Restorative Justice has failed in his school. Is this the problem in SAU29? Maybe it’s time to start asking questions.

This new approach to bad behavior is negatively impacting the quality of education children are receiving in these schools. The teacher does go on to explain how this approach does have a positive side to it if implemented properly. Maybe there is some value within the program that can be extracted, but it makes you wonder how this is also failing in so many schools where it’s being implemented.

In this article, Restorative Circles are called out for being unethical, and have no place in a public school.

In the past decade, the role of the teacher in schools has slowly shifted from pedagogue to therapist. Perhaps the most glaring example of this shift is the practice called “circle conversations.” These circles are cousins of the non-punitive approach to discipline called restorative justice, and are intended to be community-building prophylactics.

I’ve touched on this shift of public schools into mental health clinics in the past. While school administrators sit in denial that they are treating, servicing and assessing the mental health of their students, many of us know exactly what is going on.

New Hampshire legislators have also stuck their nose in the discipline arena.  In 2020 I warned that pending legislation would create a problem in our schools. HB1558 was signed into law, and one has to now wonder, is this new law helping to also create chaos in the classroom?

There could be many factors that are contributing to what this teacher in the video is describing as chaos. Near the end he talks about how this fad seems to be puttering out. Going back to the old way of making sure there are consequences to bad behavior is making more sense.

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Americans have been buying more than a million firearms a year for the last few years. Latest estimates of firearms is over 400 million arms in our population.  So that’s a lot of homes that could conceivably house a weapon that could be used to defend its inhabitants.

And these three miscreants decided to play Russian Roulette. Reformatted, emphasis mine:

Three crooks enter home, and one fires at homeowner. But victim is armed, too — and shoots gunman dead as other two suspects flee.

Three individuals entered a southern Louisiana home Tuesday night, and one of the intruders fired a gun at the homeowner. But it turns out the homeowner was armed as well — and fatally shot the gunman as the other two suspects fled the Jeanerette residence.

The Iberia Parish Sheriff’s Office said the intruders entered the home in the 9000 block of Old Jeanerette Road around 10:30 p.m. One of the intruders had a gun and fired it at the homeowner — but the homeowner returned fire and fatally wounded the intruder, the sheriff’s office said. The two remaining suspects fled the home and were still at large Tuesday night.

Deputies responded to a call about the home invasion and found the deceased male inside the home, the sheriff’s office said. The deceased male’s name was being withheld pending an investigation and notification of family, authorities added.

Yet another case of when you want to take something that belongs to someone else, think it over a few times as you may find out that your life may be taken instead. The only downside is that his companions received no consequence at all. Hope they did get caught later on.

Those commenting on the post about the home invasion and fatal shooting seemed pleased about the outcome:

(H/T: The Blaze)

 

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What we all witnessed in Washington was bizarre. None of it good, nor in the interest of this nation or its people. The day began with yet another boondoggle being foisted upon the taxpayers of this country.

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A 1.7 TRILLION DOLLAR “Omnibus Bill.”

Omnibus means it’s stuffed with anything and everything the vested interests want to fund with public money. This latest grift comprises 4000 pages, and of course, it is too large and involved for anyone to read it and understand the scope of the spending. But it must be passed now!

As the Speaker of the House admonished the nation years ago, promoting a different scam, “We need to pass the bill to find out what’s in it.” It worked, then why not now? After all, the ruling Uniparty in DC thinks the American electorate is stupid and completely controllable.

This “Omnibus” contains something for everyone except for the people it should preserve, promote and protect- American citizens. There’s money in there to assist foreign countries in securing their borders, but nothing for the US to secure its own with Mexico.

It also contains another 45 BILLION DOLLARS for our latest and favoritest client state, Ukraine. The same country that cannot or will not account for the billions of dollars already gifted to them by the American people, who increasingly do not support the extent of United States involvement in this horrible foreign adventure precipitated by the Biden Administration.

The day ended with that evil little dictator from Ukraine doing his song and dance, demanding more money from America and anyone else that might be listening. Unshaven and wearing a sweatshirt in the well of the House of Representatives, the former comedian said everything he was told to say while the bought & paid-for Congresscritters lapped it all up. Must see TV!

Then the media and talking heads went to work, trying to equate his address to Churchill’s speech in the same venue at the end of 1941. There are no valid parallels between World War II and the current Eastern European hostilities, and that midget macquereau is no Churchill.  Far from it- he’s an autocrat who rules Ukraine with an iron fist, shutting down all dissent as well as the media and religious organizations who don’t toe the line. All while he’s lining his pockets, and everyone else’s connected with the foreign and military aid grift.

As bad as the Ukrainian-Russian Conflict is, it did not initially constitute a clear and present danger to the United States and was certainly not an existential threat to our country or people. This war may well be an existential threat to our corrupt President and Uniparty fellow travelers, but that is a very different thing.

It seems that the number of Americans understanding this important difference is growing, and growing at a faster clip than the Beltway ruling class can handle- that’s a good thing. Perhaps our rulers will once again fear their constituency more than their donors. That would also be a good thing. It’s beyond time that we all wake up and speak up.

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To all those who are sending in memes, thank you!  Keep them coming please, as it helps me gather weaponry to fight the Left.  Please do share this post, and if you share an individual meme, consider mentioning you saw it on the Grok!

Speaking of, from this week, Monday Memes and Meme Overflow.  Also don’t forget my Survival Sunday feature, now in two parts:  PREP edition and SITREP edition.

 

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

 

Depending on, my next MEME post may be Wednesday given that Sunday is Christmas.  So – once more – Merry Christmas!!  I will get a Survival Sunday PREP Edition out though… it might be short but it’ll be there.  Tempus fugit.

 

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The sheer hubris of this.  And does this not completely parallel the sneering dismissals of… continental drift:

“Utter, damned rot!” said the president of the prestigious American Philosophical Society.

“If we are to believe [this] hypothesis, we must forget everything we have learned in the last 70 years and start all over again,” said another American scientist.

Anyone who “valued his reputation for scientific sanity” would never dare support such a theory, said a British geologist.

There’s an axiom: “You cannot make a man see something when his paycheck depends on him not seeing it”.  In this, the above, and disrupters throughout history, one sees sneering dismissal.  For example, consider the discovery that puerperal fever was spread by the unwashed hands of doctors helping women give birth.  In one account that I read in high school, doctors utterly dismissed this idea that the hands of a “caring, educated, and ‘gentlemanly’ physician” could carry disease.  Countless women died needlessly because of this hubris.

This is not “rot” – but hard data:

 

 

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Voluntarily.  Like a woman with a knife at her throat “voluntarily” accedes to a romantic interlude in an alley.  There’s one image I recall of a man, getting the Jab, holding a sign that said “Under Duress”.

 

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This, right here, is a beautiful meme.  Simple, and damned hard hitting.  More on Socialism:

 

 

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“I’ve said this before, people would ask me, ‘Knowing what you know now, do you wish you had a third term?’ And I used to say, ‘You know what, if I could make an arrangement where I had a stand-in, a front-man or a front-woman and they had an ear piece in and I was just in my basement with my sweats looking through the stuff and I could sort of deliver the lines, but somebody else was doing all the talking and ceremony, I would be fine with that.’ Because I found the work fascinating. I mean, I write about the — even on my worst days, I found puzzling out, you know, these big, complicated, difficult issues, especially if you were working with some great people, to be professionally really satisfying. But I do not miss having to wear a tie every day.”

Barack Obama

December, 2020

 

What’s different about this musing by Barackus and the clear reality under President Potato?

 

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The more I learn, the more I see it’s lies, illusions, and gaslighting all the way down.

A close second:

 

 

When phones had cords, people were free.  I admit the convenience, but… so many now are complete slaves to their phones – to the detriment of real life.  A repeat image, and one heartbreakingly sad:

 

 

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A concluding word from the sage Thomas Sowell about Jew-hatred and their being “middle men minorities” – from an entire chapter in his book Black Rednecks and White Liberals:

 

 

And from the same book is this chapter – read aloud – about slavery:

 

 

 

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Coda: A post I did on Gab made it to WRSA:

 

 

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How often have we said it? Whatever the Political Left claims, the opposite is always the truth. From Women’s rights to Crime Prevention to Poverty to Lowering Health Care Costs. The end result is always the opposite, and that includes CO2 emissions.

 

“In 2022, high natural gas prices led to significant fuel switching to coal in electricity generation in Europe, although both gas and coal generation increased as the growth of wind and solar was insufficient to fully offset lower hydro and nuclear power output.”

Coal power generation will rise to a new record in 2022, surpassing its 2021 levels. This is driven by robust coal power growth in India and the European Union (EU) and by small increases in China – and it comes despite a decline in the United States.”

 

The progs attacked clean or cleaner energy in the name of lowering emissions. The result is more coal used to fill the gaps.

I guess the rest of the world isn’t as interested in returning to the 17th century as American Dems.

And so we’re clear, nothing about the green-energy transition is green or has a damn thing to do with emissions. We’ve beaten that drum for years. But this International Energy Administration report is just embarrassing.

 

In simple English, … the left’s mindless war on the production of natural gas — one the cleanest and cheapest forms of electric power generation — the price of natural gas surged in 2022 in almost all parts of the world.

In other words, despite spending hundreds of billions of dollars subsidizing fringe energy sources like wind and solar power, the world is nevertheless burning record amounts of coal.

 

When or if coal becomes a problem they’ll burn more wood. If the wood becomes scarce, they’ll burn whatever burns, none of which is better for the environment than Natural Gas.

Policy aimed at lowering emissions has and will continue to result in more emissions including those from the production use and decommission of the alternatives that cannot (ironically) be made without coal.

Democrats are idiots.

People need to stop voting for them before their voting rights policies reach their natural conclusion – no more voting.

 

 

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Maine is on the New England grid, so they’re as screwed as the rest of us. Like the rest of us, their so-called leaders believe sending someone a few hundred dollars to pay a bill solves a problem they or their ideological ancestors created.

Related: New England’s Shortsightedness on Energy Isn’t Just Bad for You, It is Bad for The Green Agenda

As noted here,

 

 The New England energy dearth has been an ongoing concern for years. As reliable energy is decommissioned from the grid, nothing reliable has been proposed to replace it. All while heating oil or gas infrastructure has been delayed, sidetracked, or blocked by environmentalist politicians and their green boots on the ground.

 

New Hampshire fast-tracked and rubber-stamped a heating assistance bill. You can get a check to help pay for rising heating oil, natural gas/propane, or residential electric bills if eligible. It does nothing to address why these prices have risen and, in some cases, doubled.

Maine tripped over itself to do something similar. Governor Mills’ winter heating assistance plan spends a lot of money because policymakers had their heads up the ass of the green lobby for two decades, and winter has come calling. To be fair some had their heads up their own ass, but the result is similar. It is a dollar-store band-aid that’s going to fall off, but they are pretending this gets them over some hump.

 

Kirsten Figueroa, the governor’s Commissioner of the Department Appropriations and Financial Affairs, reviewed the provisions, funding sources, and reasons for the $474 million heating aid plan.

More than half of the funds would come from the projected $283 million revenue surplus for the coming year.

Figueroa told the committee, “This bill takes these one-time funding sources to address a hopefully one-time emergency issue to make sure main people have the financial resources to keep them safe, secure, warm and housed this winter.”

 

Maybe Kirsten thinks Global warming will arrive in time to save them all next fall, but that’s just another lie, like the idea that this is a one-time emergency. Rising fuel and electricity prices are the deliberate result of mostly progressive policy decisions. This is what you wanted.

There is no solution, fake-green or otherwise, that will arise before next winter to pull your fair-trade soy-boy bacon out of this fire (assuming there’s anything with which to start one).

Related: Northeast ‘Energy Policy’ – How About Freezing to Death My Pretties….

And make note of the “projected” 283 million revenue surplus. Democrats are running Maine and were before the midterms. Rule one is to overestimate revenues so those numbers will pay for the planned spending. When the estimates come up short, you deflect the blame to the vagaries of the economy and then make sure everyone knows which vulnerable classes will be harmed if you object to new taxes or hikes in old ones.

The class to which they refer is actually themselves, lobbyists, unions, and grant-grubbing bottom-feeders, but that’s the quiet part no one says out loud. Just keep overestimating so you can raise taxes. It’s how we got New Jersey, New York, California, Massachusetts, etcetera.

Unaffordable budgets, like unaffordable electric rates, all have the same endgame. More government. If a few Mainers need to freeze to death to get there from here, well, they’re sorry the check wasn’t enough. Maybe you should have asked for small bills so you could burn those instead.

 

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It took a while for people to realize that Karoline Leavitt was mature enough to send her to Washington to represent New Hampshire’s First Congressional District. She was a young unknown, and though she worked hard to garner support, she did not get ample coverage from the media. She was also at a substantial disadvantage on the money side. Pappas had over $5 Million in his chest, while Leavitt had $3.6 Million in hers. It was a good amount for Leavitt, but she also had a primary to endure.

The scheduling of the NH Primary favors the incumbent. Pappas and Senator Maggie Hassan were in the media a full year before the midterms. They did not have a Primary to contend with, so they spent time and money gaslighting New Hampshire on how incredible they were for the state. With the Primary in September, Leavitt and Don Bolduc had little time to raise funds and formulate a solid midterm plan. I hope the state will push the Primary up in the future. The primary winner needs more time to go head-to-head with the incumbent.

Karoline made no major mistakes and was a solid debater. Her ability to think on the fly showed her grasp of the issues and how well she had prepared. The problem with debates is they are not viewed by many. The one thing we have learned is that elections today are determined by the independents. You will not swing the Democrats and should have the support of the Republicans. But the number of people who define themselves as undeclared is a growing voter block. In my small town, more registered voters are undeclared than Democrats and Republicans combined.

I do not understand why people choose not to declare. These folks used to be called independent, but over the last twenty years, there has been no middle ground in politics. This division makes it extremely difficult to understand the makeup of government in New Hampshire. We have a Republican controlled state government and four Democrats representing us in Washington. It makes no sense.

The next two years are going to be very difficult for Democrat incumbents. If the Border situation remains unchecked, the Fentanyl epidemic a non-issue, and the economy in malaise, those Democrats up for election may find themselves on the outside looking back in. Karoline will be well positioned to take another run at Chris Pappas. She can shed that just-left-college stigma, and people may see her as the vibrant, intelligent woman she is. Hopefully, the Party and the RNC will get behind her and get her the funds she will need to compete on a level field with Pappas.

Karoline has been teasing this week that an announcement is forthcoming on her next move, and obviously, she has to be fully committed if she runs. There are rumors that she may land a contributor position on FOX. That would be a positive should she still have another political run in her system. The exposure would be like free ad spots; she will be treated well with all the Conservatives on the FOX staff. I hope she does return. With her age, energy, and solid Conservative thinking, she can have a long career representing the good people of New Hampshire.

 

 

 

 

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While New Hampshire may be lacking in major professional sports teams, there’s no shortage of stars rising through the college ranks. Over at New Hampshire University, one of the standout soccer players right now is Moise Bombito.

Bombito is a young Canadian defender with a bright future. Named among a select bunch of players in the new Generation Adidas class, he’s also won awards after a breakthrough year.

Bombito’s Progression

As 2022 comes to a close, Moise Bombito is starting to hit the headlines. News of that Generation Adidas acknowledgment came through earlier in December, before it was announced that the young Canadian had won the ECAC defensive player of the year award.

Hailing from Montreal, but very much a product of New Hampshire, Bombito has also been selected in the ECAC All Star team. It’s been an exceptional season and there are many that feel he can go all the way. His national team is young and developing and it’s almost certain that Canadian scouts see Moise Bombito as a name for the future.

All Eyes on Canada

If Moise Bombito continues to focus on his soccer career, the target must be the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Canada, along with Mexico and the United States, will be co-hosting the tournament and have already pre-qualified on that basis.

The current Canadian side made it through to the 2022 tournament via the regular qualification route. It was the first time since 1986 that the country had progressed to the finals, but they were predictably eliminated at the group stage.

With a young and talented roster that includes top class players such as Alphonso Davies, Jonathan David and Liam Millar, there is hope that Canada will fare better in 2026.

Format Shake Up

Canada may also benefit from an expanded 2026 World Cup that will welcome 48 teams for the first time. While the exact format has yet to be determined, that expansion may help the country progress from beyond the groups.

For now, the Canadians remain among the outsiders to progress. Early betting markets have already started to emerge for 2026 and Canada are firmly among the underdogs. Progress of those odds can be tracked at sbo.net where over 275 sportsbooks are connected.

As 2026 draws closer, the markets will start to fill up. Visitors to the site can monitor any updates while taking in sports news and opinion articles. There are comprehensive sportsbook reviews for all of the operators on the list. With almost 300 to choose from, it’s also possible to get directly involved.

Each bookmaker affiliated to SBO can welcome eligible new customers. After completing a secure registration form, new account holders may also be able to look forward to a generous opening promotion.

Help with adding deposits can be found via a plethora of funding providers while customer services are on hand when needed. Those who play regularly may find a loyalty program, while there will almost certainly be a mobile app and other sports to bet on.

It’s one of the most useful sites for the betting community and Moise Bombito may well have a part to play at the 2026 World Cup.

Moise Bombito’s Career Path

From University, the traditional route for college students is to join the professional ranks. Major League Soccer doesn’t have the same draft system as the NFL or NBA, but there will definitely be teams monitoring Moise Bombito.

There are currently three Canadian franchises in MLS. Toronto FC, CF Montreal and the Vancouver Whitecaps may all be potential destinations. That would offer a good starting point in pro soccer but, if Bombito is as good as some media outlets are suggesting, he may be a target for some of the big clubs around Europe.

The scouting system reaches far and wide these days and those top sides have already captured the best Canadian players. Alphonso Davies is with Bayern Munich while Jonathan David is at Lille and Liam Millar at Basel.

If he wants to stay closer to his current base in New Hampshire, Moise Bombito’s options may be limited. The chances are that he will be making a significant move, but New Hampshire University can be proud of the role that they have played in Bombito’s development.

 

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On December 21st New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu banned TikTok from all state government devices. His reasoning? The potential for spying, data harvesting, and even espionage. Meanwhile, UNH just renewed a contract with China’s Confucius Institute.

The Confucius Institutes are a recognized front for Chinese influence peddling and are considered an espionage risk by the CIA.

 

The CIA has issued a classified report detailing China’s far-reaching foreign influence operations campaign in the United States, which imparts financial incentives as leverage to permeate American institutions.

 

We’ve published a few pieces on the relationship over the years.

 

• Has the University of New Hampshire Been ‘Colluding’ With the Chinese Government?
• UNH is Still Associated with a Communist Chinese Foreign Influence Operation.
• Good Time to Remind Everyone that UNH Runs a Propaganda arm of the Chinese Government?
• Heads up, UNH – Congress is Investigating Chinese Infiltration of US Campuses.

 

But back in August of 2022, NHPR Reported that, despite concerns, UNH had just renewed its contract with the Confucius Institute.

 

The University of New Hampshire is renewing a long-term contract with a China-based group that’s raised concerns among U.S. intelligence agencies. Confucius Institutes, which partner with colleges and universities around the globe, have been accused of serving as propaganda outlets of the Chinese government.

Supporters, however, say the Institutes provide students in the U.S. with classes and programs they couldn’t otherwise access.

 

Irony alert. The Confucius Institute provides China with resources it couldn’t otherwise access in America.

None of those Chinese Language professors is here without the permission of the Chinese Government and a mandate. While in America, they will engage in espionage, influence peddling, and propaganda. They don’t have a choice.

China will threaten their families if they refuse or fail to provide updates. This applies to almost every Chinese National deployed to the United States with their Government’s permission. And you can’t come without permission.

That’s not to say everyone from China is a spy. Many have escaped, sought asylum, or escaped from under the influence of the CCP. We know a few who are better Americans than a lot of Americans. But if the potential or risk for spying and espionage is a concern on state devices using a popular video app, why isn’t the UNH Campus and system – to which these professors have access- a problem?

UNH clearly expressed some concern before renewing the new five-year contract.

The better question might be, since China allegedly pays the freight for the UNH Confucius Institute, what other Chinese money has found its way into the pockets of UNH and those who operate it to get them to ignore their concerns?

 

 

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Emhasis mine:

Since the French Revolution, leftwing politics, as distinct from the liberal sort, have been essentially about revenge, including in Great Britain with the founding of the Labour Party in 1900, an event recently characterized by the Daily Telegraph as an act of vengeance. Then, leftist vengeance meant class vengeance. While it remains so to some degree, it has lately been greatly expanded, complicated and fortified by identity politics, in which class resentments are compounded and confused by innumerable others hitherto unimagined — and some, indeed, almost unimaginable. Most began as aspects of what was called “grievance” politics, which over the past decade or so has matured as revenge politics: the politics of a bitter, irrational, infantile, implacable, wholly gratifying and fulfilling rage. As the Democratic Party has moved rapidly and resolutely leftward over the past six or seven years, the Donkeys’ political agenda has been narrowed and reduced to one of programmatic revenge: “Let a thousand flowers bloom.”

Since the 1960s, the American left (inspired and aided by the agents of leftism abroad, in Europe, South America, the Soviet Union and in China) had been searching for a fundamental, essential constitutional weakness in American society and the American polity that they could develop as a fatal flaw by exaggerating and exploiting it. What remained of the Old Left thought it was capitalist economics. The New Left agreed, but added what it saw as authoritarian capitalist culture. The inventors of the 1619 Project thought they had discovered it in slavery. In recent years Democrats had a brainstorm and decided it was repressive identity politics. As they were also the institutional propagandists on behalf of multiculturalism and mass global immigration, destructive inspiration came naturally to them here. Americans loved capitalism. Slavery had been abolished a century and a half before, and relations between blacks and whites in the United States were improving drastically — obviously so. Many other countries had histories of economic inequality and slavery, including European and American ones; neither was unique to the United States. …

-Chilton Williamson, Jr (The grievance games of the Left aim for one thing:: revenge)

 

I can summarize this easily – they blame everything that is wrong on everyone else but themselves, using any obscure “wrongness” as a weapon against everyone else.

(H/T: Hot Air)

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