Monday • November 25 • 2024
Vol.XVI • No.XLVIII
Manchester, N.H.
Most of us have at least a rudimentary familiarity with yoga, either as a practitioner or someone who knows one. You can confirm that lots of poses are named after animals. To all Granite State yogis and yoginis, I present the “Hilliard Position.” Stay with me here.
In the recent Ortolano vs. City of Nashua et al. RTK case, Attorney Hilliard was the legal big gun hired by Attorney Bolton at nearly $1/2M to do his own job. Hilliard played “first chair,” and the “Hilliard Position” does indeed involve a chair, but specifically a wooden armchair. It is the posture that I observed him engaging in for cumulatively countless hours and minutes, laying in wait to say “objection” as many times per minute as a football ref blows the whistle. He could now probably benefit from an appointment with Tom Lanzara’s father or one of his siblings in their family of Chiropractors, but just humor me with the picture in your mind. Hilliard has both hands grasping the front ends of the armrests with his elbows pointing at the ceiling and his tush behind a few inches off the seat, and his spine at about a 45-degree angle from the floor.
With that image in mind, I can picture Attorney Lehmann already doing it now because of what I did and the first of two action items I am proposing. Again, stay with me on this. The Senate Judiciary Committee essentially “gave the Live Free or Die state the finger” in giving the RTK tax (HB 1002) their unanimous OTP blessing. Shame on them! My disappointment in Senators Gannon and Abbas and Committee Chair Carson is heartbreaking. Because of what Attorney Lehmann said on 3/13/24, 91A only applies to government bodies and quorums of them, I emailed him with a new RTK request. It’s for emails to the Senate Judiciary (and quorums of it) and the whole Senate (and quorums of it) from the following list of senders:
NH Municipal Association, including anyone doing its bidding
City of Nashua, including all current and former staff*
Lobbyists and lobbying groups working for the City of Nashua
Nashua’s 27 state reps plus Rosenwald
All House Judiciary members
Karen Karwocki and Jennifer Foor, both House Judiciary staffers
All sponsors of HB 1002
Governor Sununu and his staff*
AG Formella and his staff*
*Staff includes all elected, appointed and hired positions.
If you, the reader, live in a community “in RTK distress,” please model your own email to Attorney Lehmann after mine, but customized appropriately. RTK distress would include communities that have reps that voted the wrong way on HB 1002, such as Windham and Rochester. Yeah, Senator Gray and Regina need to hear from YOU!
While Gannon, Abbas, and “Commander Sharon” need to be shamed and primaried, a separate discussion is in order, but let’s move on to the other action item, which is an all-hands-on-deck one.
It’s to email YOUR senator and get people you know outside of the Grok Faithful to email theirs, no matter who it is. If it’s one of the Naughty Three mentioned here or Tim Lang (a supporter of this awful bill), politely ask them to change their minds. If it’s one of the ten members of the enemy camp, remind them that they work for you, especially if it’s Attorney Twitley, who’s now seeking higher office (still wanting to WORK FOR YOU). That leaves ten other Rs out of the 24. Be polite and use one or more of the many talking points on why HB 1002 is a bad bill. Refer to personal experience, if applicable. If you need help with that, it’s available in the form of many resources, including, but not limited to, older articles, testimonies in committee hearings on January 17 (House Judiciary) and April 9 (Senate Judiciary), or RTK guru Laurie Ortolano’s page.
Laurie was a recent guest on Lumberjack Logic and Speaking with the Senator.
And yes, Kevin is one of the ten other Rs that I referenced, and I’m aware that he is listed as a cosponsor, which he addresses in his show with Laurie. While I don’t agree with his philosophy on cosponsorship, it is what it is and I’ll leave it at that.
I will finish by providing some more tools for encouraging people outside the echo chamber to use them. The word “spoonfeeding” has a derogatory sound to it, so let’s call it a “job aid” at NH dot gov. If people in your sphere of influence don’t know who their senator is, they are to go to NH dot gov and hover over the word GOVERNMENT and click on “who is my legislator?” A map of NH will appear, and they can follow the directions. If you know where they live, just bookmark this link from the Senate homepage.
A drop-down menu with every town and city will appear, and you can look it up yourself, tell them who it is, and provide their email addresses. If you’re using a phone, you can figure out how to do it that way. I give your intelligence the benefit of the doubt. You are, after all, still reading this.
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On April 17, I testified to the NH Senate HHS Committee in favor of Rep. Jim Kofalt’s bill HB1660 which would ban using Medicaid to pay for gender reassignment surgery for kids. Rep. Kofalt and I were the only two to testify in favor of the bill. Not forcing taxpayers to fund irreversible surgeries for gender-confused kids is the least the NH legislature can do to protect children.
Related: NH Trans Rights Activists are Desperately Fighting to Stop the Tidal Wave of Bills to Protect Women and Children
Here is my testimony.
I am a grandmother from Nashua and I am testifying in support of HB1660 to help protect gender-confused teens from irreversible gender reassignment surgery.
I support this bill because as it says in HB619, “Adolescent genital gender reassignment surgery generally lacks both adequate information for informed consent and involves a high risk of coercion for parental consent when parents believe that they are faced with a choice between their child committing suicide or consenting to their child’s genital gender reassignment surgeries.”
It’s natural for teenagers to want to individuate and make a new path separate from their families and they want to stand out from their peers. Those of us who are neurodiverse have a much tougher time. We have trouble fitting in. We are painfully aware that we aren’t living up to our potential. We are bullied and we are excluded from so much. The LGBTQ groups invite neurodiverse kids in and love-bomb them and make them feel special. Identifying as transgender helps them explain why they are struggling.
Before their parents realize what is happening, their child is asking for medical transition and threatening to commit suicide if the parents don’t allow it. Parents feel backed into a corner. They don’t want to lose their child so under great duress they may agree to hormones and surgery.
We know so many parents and kids that have gone through this and in hindsight they realize it was the wrong decision. New Hampshire taxpayers should not be paying for these irreversible procedures. We should be doing everything we can to prevent it and help gender-confused kids and teens get the care they need for their mental health without medical transition.
Please vote OTP on HB1660 to protect gender-confused kids.
After I testified, Sen. Kevin Avard asked about the bullying I had received from the Trans Rights Activists in the NH State House. Sen. Becky Whitley asked what I thought of reports that bills like this are correlated with increased hate crimes in other states.
Watch my testimony and my exchange with Senators Avard and Whitley.
“Parents feel backed into a corner. They don’t want to lose their child, so under great duress they agree to hormones and surgery.” @BethRS62 testifies for SB1660, which would ban using Medicaid for pediatric sex trait modification surgery. #NHPolitics pic.twitter.com/W94tQbEKuV
— Sidewalk Steve (@Sidewalk_Steve) April 17, 2024
Linds Jakow of 603 Equality, who identifies as “non-binary,” testified that she was glad she had her breasts amputated in her 20s.
“As a young teen, I watched these mini-documentaries where trans men got top surgery, and felt extremely jealous.” Child transing lobbyist Linds Jakows testifies against HB1660, which would ban using Medicaid for gender reassignment surgeries for minors. #NHPolitics pic.twitter.com/XFV8ERf68F
— Sidewalk Steve (@Sidewalk_Steve) April 18, 2024
Dartmouth Health had an unexpected response to the bill.
Undramatic testimony. Last year @DartmouthHealth claimed that child-transing laws would cause suicides. This year media relations head Courtney Tanner is concerned about hypospadias repair. Why tone it down? The lawsuit? The Cass Review? HB1660 would stop Medicaid from paying… pic.twitter.com/X32R3tF7Kd
— Sidewalk Steve (@Sidewalk_Steve) April 19, 2024
The Senate HHS Committee is still accepting testimony on HB1660. Email your testimony in support of the bill to Regina.Birdsell@leg.state.nh.us, Kevin.Avard@leg.state.nh.us, Jeb.Bradley@leg.state.nh.us, Becky.Whitley@leg.state.nh.us, Suzanne.Prentiss@leg.state.nh.us, cameron.lapine@leg.state.nh.us
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First, credit where credit is due. Excellent piece in NH-NeverTrump Journal exposing how broadly and deeply the Left has implanted DEI … that lovely euphemism for anti-white racism that the NHGOP is afraid to call anti-white racism … into public education.
For example, Manchester employs a Tina Philbotte as the Manchester School District’s “Chief Equity Officer” at $120,000/year, TWICE the average salary of a teacher. And to do what? As you can see below, to indoctrinate students in Manchester public schools with anti-white racism:
Perhaps Manchester Mayor Ruais could explain to us what, for example, an “abolitionist educator” is and does? If he knows. According to Wikipedia:
And while you are at it, Mayor Ruais perhaps you could share your thoughts on “microaggressions,” or more generally on Ms. Philibotte NOT treating people as individuals, but instead categorizing them according to their skin-color:
The NH-NeverTrump Journal piece contains other examples of individuals like Tina Philibotte being paid massive salaries to indoctrinate children with CRT, DEI, BLM and whatever other wonderful euphemisms exist for anti-white racism. For example, the Oyster River School District’s analogue to Tina Philibotte:
Blansett’s “academic interests” include “challenging anti-Blackness and colonization ideology and theorizing/implementing accessible and liberatory practices.”
Rachael Blansett
And even before she came to New Hampshire, Blansett was speaking out for what she sees as racial justice. During a school board meeting in 2022, first reported by Granite Grok, it was revealed she recorded podcasts and posted comments on social media featuring messages like, “White people are not OK,” and “White people don’t wash their legs, and can’t dance.”
Why has not the NHGOP, which supposedly controls all three branches of State government, not prohibited anti-white racism … whether categorized as DEI, abolitionism, etc., … from being taught in New Hampshire’s public schools? And don’t tell me: LOCAL CONTROL. Jason Osborne and the other imposter-Republican “leaders” in the House are working feverishly to outlaw single family zoning, so they obviously do NOT really believe in local control.
And it is not just local school districts where taxpayers are being forced to subsidize “abolitionist teaching,” etc., etc., etc. … it’s UNH too:
UNH recently underwent a punishing round of layoffs and cuts to save $14 million in the budget. While the university’s art museum and journalism program, which has produced Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters, were affected, there appear to be no cuts to the university’s DEI programs. UNH pays at least $1 million a year in salaries for the DEI program staffers.
Why is the NHGOP funding anti-white racism at UNH, in addition to allowing local school districts to push anti-white racism? Here is why. Its “leaders” either don’t think it is a priority issue or they are afraid to take on the diversity-is-our-strength grifters or, worse, they actually buy into the “diversity-is-our-strength” canard. One such “leader,” Big Jo(k)e Sweeney:
A parental bill-of-rights is not going to get anti-white racism out of public schools … a law prohibiting DEI directors, equity officers, etc., etc., etc. is what is needed. But, apparently, Jo(k)e Sweeney … that self-proclaimed fiscal conservative … either supports or doesn’t have the nuts to take on the exceedingly well compensated “DEI”-bureaucracy.
The post The NHGOP Is Enabling And Funding DEI (That Lovely Euphemism For Anti-White Racism) … WHY? appeared first on Granite Grok.
If you are running for the NH House (or even just thinking about it) and you want help on everything from signs to the mechanics of campaigning in NH, fundraising, door-knocking, what to expect, issues support, and more, you need to sign up for the Free Training offered by The 603 Alliance.
It’s free. It’s one day. They feed you. You learn from people who have run campaigns for the NH House (and won). And there are three opportunities over the next few months to sign up for this immersive one-day class.
If you are a Republican who is running or thinking about running, you should take advantage of any training, but you definitely do not want to miss this one. The 603 Alliance has been training candidates for the NH House for years, many of whom get elected and a few of whom have even joined our Board.
You are not going to get a better grasp of what is needed and expected and how to win your primary (if you have one) and your election in November.
Pick one of these three dates.
Saturday, April 27th, in Manchester, 8:30 AM to 5 PM
Saturday, May 18th, in Concord, 8:30 AM to 5 PM
Saturday, June 22nd, in Concord, 8:30 AM to 5 PM
Email the 603 Alliance and let them know which training you’d like to attend. We still have some space for the April 27th training if that works best for you.
Note: The 603 Alliance is your primary source for candidate campaign training in NH in 2024 (the NHGOP will be offering training for Poll Watchers on May 2).
But Wait—there’s More. Your path to the state house doesn’t end there. You can also attend the Issues Briefing Summit, an evening event (with food) that will help you grasp the things voters are likely to ask you when you engage them and what you’re likely to see coming up in Concord when you win.
Class candidates can also get access to campaign resources and past instruction, as well as invitations to future Zoom calls throughout the campaign season to help with questions and issues or connect you with resources.
You register for the one-day training and get access to experienced candidates and activists all the way to election day.
Email today, and you can still get into the April 27th training in Manchester. Or sign up for a later date.
We look forward to seeing you there and sworn into office for the coming legislative session.
Note: Please share this in your in-person and online local groups and local town committees
Disclosure: I am a long-time member of the board of directors of The 603 Alliance.
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Listening to the experts analyze the Israeli attack on Iran on Friday morning, you could hear one common thread, and it was not complimentary of the Biden Administration. The assessment is that Biden has no military or diplomatic acumen, which is also true for his team. Biden has America involved in two wars involving our allies.
There has been no wavering on Ukraine as Biden cannot be more supportive. He has gone back to the well many times for funding for Ukraine, and many will say with conviction that he has a vested interest in Ukraine funding as a percentage is kicked back to him and the Democrats. There is no end in sight for the Ukraine/Russia conflict, nor a quest for more funding.
Israel is a different story for Biden. He initially declared unconditional support for Netanyahu and Israel after the October 7 attack by Hamas. Still, things changed quickly as the political climate in America shifted support to Hamas and Palestine and a break in our longtime support for Israel. The protests on college campuses in support of Hamas and Palestine and against Biden’s support of Israel have forced Biden to make the political shift rather than show a spine and continue support of Israel. Biden would rather turn his back on Israel in exchange for the vote of the young protesters and their supporters.
Israel’s actions this week speak volumes about how they view Joe Biden. Biden has been calling for restraint and no retaliation by Israel against Iran, which attacked Israel last weekend. Netanyahu would make no comment saying he would yield to the American wishes. The Israel attack on Iran Friday was a message to both Iran and America. Israel will defend itself, as she should. The Israel attack was small and strategic. They sent drones into Iran’s nuclear region, telling Iran we can hit you where and when we want. Israel did not notify Biden before the attack.
Biden has announced a new round of sanctions on Iran because of their direct attack on Israel. This is not Iran’s first attack against Israel, as they have been attacking using their proxies, but this attack was the first to emanate from Iranian soil. These sanctions are insignificant and do not negate the favorable actions that Biden took on Day 1 to reverse stringent sanctions placed on Iran by Donald Trump. Trump had put a stranglehold on Iran by freezing Iranian money in American banks and preventing Iran from selling oil to Russia, China, or Iraq. These actions cut off significant sources of cash needed by Iran for its nuclear program and to support terrorism.
Biden restored all of these primarily because they were Trump’s decisions. Biden and Blinken both claim that Trump facilitated Iran’s nuclear program by voiding the Iran Nuclear Agreement. That is an outright lie. Trump shut off the funds and the agreement, which was condoning Iran achieving a nuclear warhead. Biden negated both of those. He has freed billions in a combination of relaxed sanctions and oil income from our adversaries. Biden and Blinken are playing a game of projection and gaslighting. Now, those are two games this administration is proficient.
Sanctions is a powerful but complex word. A political hack like Biden uses it to make an impact, as most people perceive sanctions to cripple a country and its economy. There are many levels of sanctions, and those used by Biden on Iran are minor and will have little impact on the biggest sponsor of terrorism in the world.
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Around ~250 supporters turned out for Ian’s sentencing hearing between day 1 & 2 with some overlap
Ian Freeman, Minister of the Shire Free Church, Free Talk Live Co-host, libertarian activist, and major activist for peace and spreading cryptocurrency was arrested in 2021 during the Crypto6 incident where various libertarian and cryptocurrency activists were wrongly arrested and fraudulently defamed by the federal government. His arrest eventually led to a trial after refusing to accept a plea deal for crimes not actually committed. Since then the district court has slandered his name and repeated lies. That is to say just about every other word if not more from federal authorities and prosecutors mouths has been a lie. Evidence presented didn’t align with the story told and for the most part if properly understood proved Ian’s innocence. The court seemed to agree to one degree or another with convictions on only ~8 of ~27 counts, one charge dropped entirely for lack of evidence, and a sentence that is less than half the minimum allowed. That is despite the crimes Ian was convicted of he’s been sentenced to a ‘mere’ ~8 years. Of course this is ~8 years too many given the fraudulent claims of the federal government, but none-the-less. Ian will likely serve 4 1/2 years with various good time credits.
While the trial is over the appeals are not and in the mean time the authorities have decided to move Ian from a jail in New Hampshire to a prison in Massachusetts. That is he is no longer at the Merrimack County Spiritual Retreat. He is now at the Devens Spiritual Retreat. Ian is in the low security part of the prison, so he’s got a room and cell mate. This is one up from the camp where Aria is housed. He can’t just walk away as might be possible if he was in the camp (not that he would).
So here is what we’re going to do. We’re going to write Ian Freeman at every opportunity. Send him print outs of things you find interesting that he can read. Send him letters about what is happening around New Hampshire. Let him know what the media is saying about him. Let him know what we’re doing and how we are doing. Have you been pushing for New Hampshire independence? Has there been progress in that arena? Let Ian know! It’s not likely he’ll be able to read about this stuff in the mainstream media.
To write to Ian Freeman address your envelope as follows:
Ian Freeman
Register # 34755509 Unit JA
Federal medical center, Devens
PO Box 879
Ayer, MA
01432
I don’t know if color is allowed, but at the prior jail writing in crayon could lead to rejected mail. I would suggest sticking to printed pages or pages written in ink. Mark each page like so: title (letter 1), your name (John Smith), and page # out of x pages (page 1 of 3). This way Ian can tell whether or not he got all his mail and if the pages get out of order he can reassemble them. You should avoid staples and inclusion of other materials as this might lead to the mail being rejected.
As always, assume that everything is going to be read by the prison authorities, not all your mail may get received, and any response may not get returned to you.
And one last thing… Ian is not actually the only caged activist in prison right now over the sale of Bitcoin. We shouldn’t forget that Aria is also serving an 18 month sentence for selling Bitcoin as well. She is another of the Crypto6. You can find out how to write to her at https://www.ariadimezzo.com/ (Aria has been released to a halfway house as of May 9th, 2024).
On Thursday, May 9th, the Hillsborough County DEI Committee will host a professional development workshop, “Unwrapping Implicit Bias,” featuring facilitator Allyson Ryder, from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at the UNH Cooperative Extension/Hillsborough County, 329 Mast Road, Goffstown, NH.
Unwrapping Implicit Bias (002) (1)
Allyson Ryder currently serves as the Executive Director for NH Civics:
At NH Civics, we envision a New Hampshire that is first in the nation in citizen preparation, and a national leader in civics education. We envision an informed, engaged, civil citizenry that participates in the democratic process, serves New Hampshire’s communities and lives up to our responsibility to vet future leaders of our nation.
A representative from NH Civics is also currently serving on a commission to develop a Civics textbook for New Hampshire Children. But what kind of expertise will they provide for students who need a quality Civics education in our public schools? Given the radicalized political position we see from NH Civics, one has to wonder.
For instance, on NH Civics website, they explain their support for anti-racism which is a different form of racism:
ScreenshotFrom Newsweek “Antiracism is Racist On Its Own Terms”
So-called “antiracism” is at the core of the Wokeism that has overtaken much of the federal government, our corporate boardrooms and our schools. Antiracists suggest that one can judge a policy as antiracist by whether such policy contributes to achieving “equity”—and a person as antiracist by whether he actively supports such policy. Get with the Woke program, in other words, or you are “Jim Eagle.” In some ways, then, antiracism might be thought of more as a tactic to bully people into submission to racialist progressivism than it is a true philosophy or worldview.
Now that NH Civics has taken this radicalized political position, they are branching out to host professional development workshops so that you can work on your implicit bias. What will this mean for NH Civics as they continue to try to influence how Civics will be taught in our public school classrooms? That’s a good question.
How will they influence the Civics textbook that is currently being developed for our public schools? That’s another good question.
SEE MORE HERE:
NH Civics Hires Diversity and Equity Community Organizer as Executive Director
NH Civics is at it Again…Now They Want to Promote Group Therapy for Children in Public Schools
NH Civics? A Front for Radical Leftism in the New Hampshire Classrooms?
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This is an attempt to “break out” memes, links, and my commentary about the situation in Israel / the Middle East so as to not overload the standard meme posts that I do. My last “normal” meme post. In these Israel-related posts I don’t just have memes such, but lots of informative links as well as hopefully-insightful commentary.
MAY EVERYONE BE HOME SOON. CHAG PESAKH SAMEAKH!
This Passover has ‘bitter taste,’ says Los Angeles-based author, as Hamas hostage crisis continues | Fox News
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Note that this is not meant to be a day-by-day update about what’s going on. Rather, to highlight uncomfortable truths about the actual nature of the conflict, deep-history background, and so on, as well as to show the at-present immutable nature of Islamic hatred of Jews and why that matters to today’s events.
Also note that these posts generally do not repeat information (e.g., specific links or memes) – so there is a lot of stuff in prior posts. Please do check them out too if this is a topic of interest to you. In reverse chronological order:
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Still More Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: More Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Even More Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: More Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Memes and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Memes and Commentary – Granite Grok
With some Israel-related materials here:
Meme Overflow – Granite Grok
Don’t forget my special report on the *cough cough* hardships of pre-Oct 7 “Concentration Camp Gaza”:
Pre-War “Concentration Camp” Gaza – Granite Grok
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Young girl dances on a Persian subway
First, they have all-women trains / cars? Imagine the feminist outrage if that happened in any Western country.
Second, watch the body language, smiles, even a couple of women join in subtly – and a couple do openly. These people want freedom.
Iran Cracks Down on Hijab Law; Police Filmed Attacking Women in the Street – Israel News – Haaretz.com
VIDEO: Iran Police Attacking, Arresting Women Who Resist Hijab Law (legalinsurrection.com)
And our political class lost opportunity after opportunity to help them.
“You don’t speak for us!” (barenakedislam.com)
See the concluding remarks too. And related to Iran – and critical:
Khamenei’s mythical “nuclear fatwa”, revisited ~ Elder Of Ziyon – Israel News
Iran lies, all the time. And they know that the world will continue to believe the lies.
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There are some serious concerns about why there was an apparent stand-down.
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TOP OF THE FOLD
Campus Reform | As American colleges begin cracking down on anti-Semitic events, some California schools let violence go unchecked
”One group of ppl we have easy access to in the US is all these zionist journalists who spread propaganda & misinformation [sic],” Decristo wrote on X. “they have houses w addresses, kids in school.”
”they can fear their bosses, but they should fear us more ”
This will escalate. And escalate. And as they get more and more frustrated, their willingness to use violence will grow as well. More:
Campus Reform | Pro-Palestine students disrupt dinner at home of UC Berkeley law school dean: ‘This is my house!’
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Tell me, please… what nation, what people intent on “genocide” repairs a water line that goes to their supposed victims?
WAR & WHEN WILL IT END?
If Israel Remains Undeterred by American Pressure | Frontpage Mag
Israel’s National Security Matters More Than Its ‘Reputation’ (thefederalist.com)
If the foreign policy blob is allergic to anything, it’s victory; it has steadfastly refused to do what it takes to prosecute a conflict to a successful end over and over again. From Afghanistan and Iraq to Libya and Syria, these leftist elites have been unable to stomach the reputational costs of winning and have failed to achieve any sort of lasting security objective. They would rather sacrifice national interests than fail to gain the plaudits of the international community, a position that is being ostentatiously rejected by Jerusalem. Israel is fighting for its very existence as a nation. Without that basic security, what does “reputation” matter?
I think there are some enormous insights in the above attitude to be found here:
Regurgitating the Apple: How Modern Liberals “Think” | The Heritage Foundation
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No, There Are No True Moderates In The West Bank Or Gaza (thefederalist.com)
The only path forward is for Israel to dismantle the terrorist group, relentlessly pursuing the remaining Hamas terrorists — and let the critics say whatever they want.
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Is Hamas winning? | Power Line (powerlineblog.com)
The PR war, certainly. On that:
Hamas has a secret weapon no one talks about: Western stupidity | Casey Babb | The Blogs (timesofisrael.com)
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Who the Arabs cheered for in Jerusalem:
Palestinians rally in solidarity with Iran outside of Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.
This tells you who the Palestinian terrorists ally with.
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/palestinians-cheered-iran.mp4
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F around and find out.
ISLAM: PRACTICES, HISTORY, AND MENTALITY
From here:
WATCH: A 1994 video trends on social media of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh’s son expressing joy over Israeli deaths and his desire to commit Jihad.
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/joy-over-israeli-deaths.mp4
Another video about his father:
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/three-kids-dead.mp4
I’ve posted video after video of Muslims themselves saying that they yearn for death in jihad. Remember that, for a Muslim, dying in jihad for Allah is THE HIGHEST HONOR. So these parents are happy – HAPPY! – that their kids (and at least one grandkid IIRC) were killed by the Israelis. They’re in paradise.
Understand, to your core, the mentality of the enemy. The only way to combat it is to show them that their dead will be denied paradise.
How American Soldiers Used Pig’s Blood and Corpses to Fight Muslim Terrorism | Frontpage Mag
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Robert Spencer video about “moderate Muslims”
He’s forgotten more about Islam than most ever knew. See his book:
The History of Jihad: From Muhammad to ISIS
Just one of many he’s written. All worth it.
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https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/history-of-palestinians.mp4
Now, all of this is absolutely true. But here’s the kicker – that identity exists now. You will not convince a single Arab to abandon an identity they’ve had inculcated into their culture for generations. I’m not trying to be a downer, but I’m trying to point out the nature of the battle we face.
ATROCITIES
New Video Shows Israeli Hostage Yarden Bibas Being Brutally Beaten by Gazan “Civilians” on October 7 (legalinsurrection.com)
More and more, reasonable people can – and I am – concluding that there are precious few actually-innocent Gazans. And more on Oct. 7 celebrations and abuse of Israelis. And more:
So-called “innocent” Palestinian civilians involved in the Hamas October 7th massacre.
The truth must be told.
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/so-called-innocent-civilians.mp4
Another example of “innocent Gazans”:
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Remember_when_the_Gaza_civilians_attacked_the_Jewish_hostages_being-2.mp4Never forget. Never forgive.
The October 7 Rape Denialists – The Atlantic
(Paywall)
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Glazov Gang: Missing Israeli Hostages – The True Horror of What Hamas Did (jihadwatch.org)
Video. And another video – gory, be warned. Note the guy moving, and they shoot him.
ON INTERSECTIONALITY / LEFTIST SUPPORT
From here:
Chris Helali, International Secretary of the Party of Communists USA: After a Century Under the Banner of Lenin, I Believe that the Next Century Will Be Under the Banner of Fighting Imperialism and Supporting Palestine.
(MEMRI)
PALLYWOOD & MEDIA DISTORTIONS/LIES IN GENERAL
From here:
The bustling market in Rafah, Gaza, just a few hours ago.
The international media one day will have to pay the price for the mass psychosis they created around the world through the absolutely fake fatality numbers and the false impression that there is hunger in Gaza.
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/rafa-market.mp4
Related, from here:
The world sends hundreds of free aid trucks daily to Gaza, but Hamas hoards and sells the supplies at extreme prices.
They even throw away food while fabricating drama for sympathy. They have enough; they don’t care about the people’s suffering!
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/throwing-away-food.mp4
Another related, from here:
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/pitas-in-northern-gaza.mp4This one bakery in northern Gaza produces about 650,000 pita breads each day. Gaza has more than 23 bakeries producing over 3 million pita breads daily.
I dunno guys. Could it be that the people who report “imminent starvation” are the same people who make up the casualty count figures?
My one question – proof this is happening now? A date stamp that I don’t see? I’m not doubting it at all, but for the skeptic and for transparency, that’s important.
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5 Media Misquotes That Tarnished Israel’s Image During the War | HonestReporting
Understand – no matter how much you hate the media, you don’t hate them enough.
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From here – about the bombing of the Iranian “embassy”:
Let’s dispense with a few lies you will likely hear in the coming days:
Lie #1: “Israel started this with its airstrike in Damascus.”
False. Iran has been maintaining a constant assault on Israel for decades via its proxies in the region – chief among them Hezbollah, which is wholly funded, armed, and controlled by the Iranian regime. That assault has only intensified since October 7. Hezbollah has fired rockets and missiles into northern Israel on a near-daily basis for more than six months, causing the depopulation of much of northern Israel. Tens of thousands of Israelis have not seen their homes in half a year due to this Iranian-directed assault; many of their homes no longer exist, having been destroyed by Hezbollah’s rockets. The Houthis, another Iranian proxy group based in Yemen, have also fired numerous missiles at southern Israel. Finally, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad have been funded, armed, and trained by Iran for years and the Iranian regime views the Palestinian terror groups as part of its offensive efforts against Israel. There has not been a single day in the past six months in which Iran, via its various proxies in the region, has not attacked Israel. The airstrike in Damascus targeted individuals directly responsible for Iran’s ongoing assault on the Jewish state.
Lie #2: “The target of Israel’s airstrike in Damascus was a diplomatic facility.”
False. The notion that the target of the Damascus airstrike was a mere “Iranian consulate” is laughable. The building was a local headquarters of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a branch of the Iranian military that has been designated as a terrorist organization by the United States and multiple other countries. Those killed were senior figures in the IRGC, including Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a senior commander in the IRGC’s foreign operations unit who was responsible for liaising with Hezbollah, and his deputy, General Mohammad Hadi Hajriahim. Five other IRGC officers were killed in the airstrike, as were five Iranian-affiliated militiamen, one Hezbollah operative, one Iranian military advisor, and two apparent civilians. The airstrike was aimed at military figures in a military facility and the targets were directly involved in orchestrating attacks on Israel. The fact that the building was adjacent to the Iranian embassy does not change its military character.
Lie #3: “Israel carried out the Damascus airstrike in order to provoke a wider war.”
False. For months, Israel has limited its military response to the ongoing assault by Iranian proxy groups to tit-for-tat airstrikes and artillery fire directly targeting the sources of the attacks. The reality, however, is that large swaths of northern Israel have been uninhabitable due to the ongoing Hezbollah attacks, which are being directed by the group’s patron, Iran. The only way to force Hezbollah to stop its assault on northern Israel and restore calm is to target the Iranian military officials behind the attacks. That is what the Damascus airstrike was intended to do: to end the impunity enjoyed by Iranian military officials as they oversee ongoing attacks targeting the people of Israel.
Lie #4: “Any Israeli response will cause the situation to escalate further.”
False. The unprecedented Iranian assault on Israel, which involved hundreds of missiles and drones, was the escalation. It has been roundly condemned around the world. Israel will respond to this unparalleled act of aggression as any sovereign country would, not least in order to deter the Iranian regime from carrying out further attacks against Israeli territory and send the message that Israel will not tolerate massive attacks on its sovereign territory by a foreign state.
Lie #5: “The relatively limited damage from the Iranian attack means it’s no big deal and Israel should let it go.”
False. The Iranian assault was absolutely unprecedented in its scope and severity.
More, from here:
On April 1st, 2024, Israel targeted the building adjacent to the #Iranian Embassy in Syria, which was being used by top commanders of the Iranian regime’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a US-designated terror organization responsible for death and destruction across the Middle East and the world.
The Iranian regime misrepresented this counterterrorism event, and used it as an excuse to unleash their first direct attack towards the Jewish State and its people.
Let us be crystal clear:
Iran’s attack on Israel was NOT self-defense. It was an act of terror in which they fired over 300 rockets, ballistic missiles and drones towards the #Jewish state.
This was a declaration of war by the Iranian regime. #Israel has the right and duty to defend itself from the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism: the Iranian regime.
Douglas Murray: A holy war with Iran is looming | SpectatorTV
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From here – Pallywood babies:
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/pallywood-babies.mp4
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Taqqiya from Iran:
On the left: Iranian state media claiming this is footage from an Iranian missile which hit Israel.
On the right: the same footage from a fire in Chile in February.
???????????????????????????????? ???????? ???????????? ???????????????????????????? ????????????????????????: our defense systems intercepted 99% of their missiles.
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Take a look at the “Open Air Prison” that is Gaza (barenakedislam.com)
That’s some genocide! More on this – video at this link, showing beach events.
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Hamas conceals casualties casualties, blames Israel for failed launches – The Jerusalem Post (jpost.com)
Remember, lying to fool the enemy is a real thing:
Taqiyya: Deception and Lying in Islam (thereligionofpeace.com)
Flaws. Uh huh.
Hamas-Run Gaza Health Ministry Admits to Flaws in Casualty Data (fdd.org)
TERROR COMING HERE? TO THE WEST?
Brigitte Gabriel on what’s coming to America:
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/brigitte-on-whats-coming-to-america.mp4
Reprising – you must read her book:
Because They Hate: A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America
And also recall this about her youth and the Islamic takeover of Lebanon:
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Brigitte-gabriel.mp4
And a new one – that America and the West better learn fast.
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/brigitte-west-better-learn-fast.mp4
Because DEATH TO AMERICA! is here. Now:
DISGUSTING! Pro-Hamas Muslim thugs burn American flag in midtown Manhattan (barenakedislam.com)
The West must wake. If you tolerate this then your children will be next.
Again, the West is in deep, deep trouble:
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/sharia-patrols-in-sweden.mp4
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Majority of young Muslims in UK want Islamic law | World Israel News
As I understand it, a lot in America do too.
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Imagine, in WWII, someone waving a Nazi flag.
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/hezbollah-fan-in-nyc.mp4
Or called for DEATH TO AMERICA!
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/pro-hamas-crowd-burns-american-flag.mp4
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/hate-at-columbia.mp4
“We are Hamas” shout Jew-hating students at Columbia University (barenakedislam.com)
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/subway-chants.mp4
TREADING ON THE POLITICAL
Israel: Standing Alone Against Multifaceted Threats, Thanks to the Biden Administration :: Gatestone Institute
The Obama and Biden Administrations’ Betrayal of America’s Closest Ally in the Middle East: Israel :: Gatestone Institute
Israel Under Attack – U.S. Administration Abandoning Its Ally? :: Gatestone Institute
US “ironclad” support for Israel means “we won’t let you fight back.” ~ Elder Of Ziyon – Israel News
Under Biden Administration, Iran’s Mullahs Enjoying Green Light to Go Nuclear :: Gatestone Institute
I don’t trust his assurances America stands with Israel. And IMHO – and others too – this is why:
Joe Biden Is Now Chasing The ‘Death To America’ Voter (thefederalist.com)
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Why the left united around hatred of Israel – JNS.org
RTWT. Related:
Democrat Senator Van Hollen’s Tirade Against Israel | Frontpage Mag
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Screenshot
And The Potato’s administration gives a warm welcome to Iran’s Foreign Minister:
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/kisses-for-iran-reps.mp4
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From here:
Meet America’s Senior Director of Intelligence Programs and Special Assistant to President Biden – Maher Bitar.
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/bitar.mp4
What’s that expression? Birds of a feather flock together?
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Reform rabbi warns Democrats not to take Jewish vote for granted | World Israel News
Too many have TDS, but he might wake up a few.
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MISCELLANEOUS
Intercepting Iranian missiles cost Israel over a billion dollars | World Israel News
It’s an economic thing too. War is not just munitions flying. That’s one of the reasons the Arabs light forest fires in Israel. Fighting large fires is not just damaging to the land, it’s enormously expensive to fight.
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Aid Worker Security Database | Aid Worker Security Database
Being an aid worker is, IMHO, a noble thing – but it’s a dangerous thing too. Why only Israel criticized? Oh, wait… Israeli double-standard time.
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Report: Hamas May Have Baited IDF Into Striking WCK Convoy in Error (ampproject.org)
Hamas cannot win militarily. It can only win through public pressure on Israel.
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Mohamed Hadid is a refugee.
At least, per UNRWA standards. Remember, this guy is a multimillionaire. A “refugee” like his supermodel, jet-set daughters. And take a look at who else is anti-Israel:
UPS exec’s daughter, other millionaires’ kids busted in Columbia anti-Israel protest (nypost.com)
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Questions for the Most Important Pro-Israel Blogger You Likely Never Heard Of – The Jewish Link
Very good guy. Here’s his main site:
Elder Of Ziyon – Israel News
GIVING SUPPORT TO ISRAEL
You can’t go wrong with a donation here:
Connections Israel
And please share this post far and wide. There’s a lot of info here that many people don’t know. Post it, email it, share widely.
Also, if you’re willing:
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A CONCLUDING THOUGHT FOR THIS POST
Grave danger if Israel attacks (and apparently there was something that happened – I’m still trying to sort out what). But also grave danger if it doesn’t. Because as long as the Mullahs rule, as long as the IRGC rules, there can never be peace but only constant fear of a massive and likely nuclear attack… plus continued sponsorship of terror and proxy attacks.
I spoke with a good friend in Israel yesterday; he said that Israel is between a rock and a hard place on this. But with great danger and risk, potentially comes great rewards. From here:
A day after the Iranian attack and the streets of Iran are filled with graffiti of opponents of the regime with clear messages: “Israel, attack them!” “You will start and we will continue in the streets” and also “bomb the leader’s office”…
Both in Israel and Iran are waiting in anticipation to land a painful blow on the murderous terrorist regime in Iran!A day after the Iranian attack on Israel the streets of Iran are filled with graffiti by the civilian opponents of the regime with clear messages: “Israel, attack them!” “You will start and we will continue in the streets” and also “bomb the leader’s office”…
Both in Israel and Iran people are waiting in anticipation to land a painful blow on the murderous Islamist terrorist regime in Iran!
On that note:
‘Israel, free us from the Islamic regime’ – Iranians back the IDF | World Israel News
And from here:
AMAZING: In Paris , following an attack on Israel, Iranians alongside Israeli and Jewish women and men unite in support, chanting ‘Women-Life-Freedom’. Beautiful solidarity!
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/israelis-and-persians-in-paris.mp4
So the question is not just what damage Israel could do to Iran, how easily they could defend against any further counter, but… whether or not there is a sufficient internal force in Iran to potentially act once an Israeli attack took place. And while this is funny:
Never, ever, ever underestimate your enemy. Print this out. Email it to anyone in Israel, especially active duty soldiers and officers:
SUCCESS BREEDS CONFIDENCE
CONFIDENCE BREEDS ARROGANCE
ARROGANCE BREEDS COMPLACENCY
COMPLACENCY BREEDS DISTRACTION
AND DISTRACTION MAKES YOU VULNERABLE
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And to close on a lighter note – this is funny!
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One of the local podcasts we’re thinking of sharing is A. J. Kierstead’s The New England Take. It has decent production values and good sound and offers a lot of local and Concord-centric content, with and without guests.
I’m also looking to add LibertyBlock’s Conservatarian Exchange Podcast and Allison Dyer’s Rumble updates (elections have consequences).
If you’ve got a shareable cable access show or podcast and you’d like us to make it more readily available to this audience, let me know. Platforms other than YouTube are preferable, but that is not a deal breaker.
This is AJs most recent. Stop Masking for no reason. And yes, it is a coincidence that GraniteGrok is cited. It’s just good timing on my part, I guess.
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The names and faces may change, but the NHGOP always remains a corrupt, inept, out-of-touch political country club that does NOT represent GOP voters, AND indeed actually loathes and despises actual GOP voters. This is just the latest example.
The NHGOP gagging the Morse campaign: you will NOT talk about Ayotte supporting AMNESTY for ILLEGALS as a U.S. Senator; you will NOT talk about Ayotte voting like a mini-me Jeannie SHAHEENIE during her last year as a U.S. Senator.
The question now becomes whether Morse has an empty nut-sack or there are actually nuts in the nut-sack. The pathetic-pretentious-puppets supposedly running the NHGOP … Ager, etc., etc., etc. … have handed Morse a path to victory: RUN AS THE ANTI-ESTABLISHMENT CANDIDATE. The question is whether the Morse campaign has the brains and the balls to go boldly down that path.
To be clear, I consider both Ayotte and Morse RINOs. This post is a middle-finger to the NHGOP Establishment, the “insiders,” the “consultants,” etc., etc., etc., who couldn’t find their way out of a box-canyon. BUT it is also sound advice to Morse. Embrace the role, Chucky my boy.
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I’ll start with a quick review of 30 years ago when Ms. Faulkner disgraced ALL women (real adult females), veterans, and civilians alike by litigating her way into the Citadel and then dropping out. Look it up if you want to learn more, but I’ll get back to her later.
While sitting in the bleachers for Laurie Ortolano’s trial structuring hearing for her New Market Tax Credit misuse case, scheduled for 8/28-8/30, I thought of the court camera footage I noted in my earlier article.
I also thought about Part 1, Article 8, of the NH Constitution, addressing RTK matters, how House Judiciary member Louise Andrus read it aloud to her peers on 2/1/24 in dissent of the committee recommendation favoring the RTK tax (HB 1002), and my desire to write a follow-up piece on Courtroom 3’s camera footage’s inaccessibility being repugnant.
When I got home, I grabbed my copy of the NH Constitution with the intention of copying Part 1, Article 8, word for word, but my copy is from 2019 when the state house was dominated by scum, and I ran into some pictures that I also find repugnant. Among them were the Damn Emperor, Pignatelli, Cryans, Volinsky, Prescott (who wanted to raise the tolls), Gatsas (though he’s the least repugnant), Shurtleff, Donna Soucy and… (drum roll) …Judge Lynn! I gasped, had to put the book down, and concentrated on avoiding becoming a patient of Dr Sherman. I also found Part 1, Article 8 is rather lengthy to copy here, so I leave it to the readers to consult it on their own and will offer my own thoughts.
I am a Granite Stater, a Nashua taxpayer, and a member of the public and, therefore, should be entitled to access to court camera footage upon reasonable request. It’s not unreasonable as it is not family court involving the privacy of minor children or battered women. I’m even willing to work with the keepers of that video regarding the best way to fetch the file during office hours and bring my own thumbnail or CD, whatever suits holding the file best. Judge Temple’s permission to have access to it should not be required.
Suppose for a moment that I did seek access via litigation and won. I would then watch the approximately 5 hours of Attorney Bolton’s legal Dream Team facing Attorney Leonard on the stand. The quality of such footage is not guaranteed nor is there any guarantee that I find any behavior of interest. If I did, whether Judge Temple overlooked it or ignored it would be another matter. Then, it would become another issue, which would require reporting lawyers and/or Judge Temple to the appropriate bodies for ethics complaints. I’ve been told that such entities designed to receive such complaints are as much of a joke as a fox guarding a hen house. As a nonlawyer and an ordinary commoner, I suspect that all efforts would be in vain, and the result would be one big nothingburger.
So, back to Shannon Faulkner’s answer, the question is, “Why am I doing nothing more on this?” The words Attorney Gens was observed saying to Frank Staples, “Don’t poke the bear,” also come to mind regarding any possible subjective influence on the outcome of Laurie Ortolano’s cases.
If I set out to pursue the acquisition of the footage I rightfully deserve access to, I would be poking the bear, some might argue, thus landing me on another watchlist.
And on a related note to all readers, HB 1002 was unfortunately given a unanimous OTP in committee and is awaiting its day in the senate chamber.
Please email your senator to say it’s a bad bill that needs to die.
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Prior to the Trojan Horse event that we politely refer to as the COVID era, vaccine hesitancy was a fringe issue. Citizens who objected to the forced vaccination of children were kooks or extremists, and even those demanding more informed consent got the side-eye from even more liberty-minded Americans. The mRNA injections changed that.
I doubt that was the goal, but an increasing number of people, including those who lined up for at least one shot or booster, have been exposed to a level of public health tyranny on a scale that seemed impossible to imagine. People are just friends, family, and jobs, all in the wake of a propaganda and domestic terror campaign to jab everyone regardless of legitimate objections.
I’m not saying they were red-pilled because there are still plenty of jabbed Republicans and independents who treat the topic like they would abortion. It’s something you avoid like a real plague. The cross-section of the curious has, however, grown significantly. Once reliable demographics were disenfranchised by the mandate experience either as a rights issue or because of personal health complications or similar issues in their near orbit (not safe). Or they had more difficult or more frequent incidents of infection or spread despite the passport mandate rhetoric (not effective).
Ongoing admissions and revelations have compounded all of that as the anti-vaxxers, deniers, and others accused of misinformation for asking questions or sharing alternative news or opinions are proved right about almost everything. It has inculcated a growing number of Americans, including parents, with a curiosity they lacked pre-Covid. It has opened them up to the possibility that neither the government nor pharma is interested in public health and safety. That, along with evidence they would have never considered in the past, suggests that many of the issues with kids, from autism to allergies, that we never had in the past are a product of the ramped-up vaccine regime that precedes their rise and frequency.
And I’m not saying there was no value in inoculation campaigns like those for smallpox. It is about going from a handful of preventatives to dozens of injections and the change in safety and accountability.
The mRNA program exposed many more people to the man doing all the scaremongering behind the public health curtain. His greedy indifference to safety and efficacy suggests a similar position regarding kids and the amped-up vaccine schedule.
They are right to be concerned, and it has had an impact. Childhood vaccination is down. Given that I don’t trust the government much, I have to wonder if that wasn’t the point. The depopulation cult might like the idea of unvaccinated children rubbing elbows with hordes of imported third-world populations carrying diseases we’ve not seen on our shores for generations.
In other words, the problem is not vaccines; it is the unnecessary number of them, their declining quality, and the suspicion that most are no longer administered to prevent the spread of disease but to facilitate it. On those terms, it is unsurprising to hear from groups like the World Council for Health, whose research suggests the current regime is doing more harm than good.
In the current circumstances, the World Council for Health urges parents to consider childhood vaccination very carefully and adopt a common-sense, “Safer to Wait” approach to the vaccination of your boys and girls.
For the sake of all children and a healthy society it is time that we question our blind faith in vaccines, the corporations that produce them, and the regulatory bodies and supranational organisations that enable and profit directly or indirectly through their authorisation.
Some of the bullets they cite include,
You can see the entire release here, and here is Dr. Peter McCullough speaking briefly on the topic.
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Dear, Ms. Fenton,
Please see the two attached files that were provided to me through a 91-a sent to the Windham Superintendent on April 4, 2024.
Students in the district participated in Challenge Day. You can access information on Challenge Day in the file attached to this email.
After a casual conversation with some Windham parents whose children attended Challenge Day, I was surprised to find out that even though the parents signed a permission slip, they were not aware of the personal questions that would be asked of their children. It appears the questions asked of the students were not provided to the district by the vendor, and then were not available to the parents to read.
I am unable to access the questions that were asked of the students during Challenge Day. When I inquired about the questions asked of students, I was told that this information was included in their response. (See attached screenshot) I did not see any of these personal questions asked of students included in the files provided by Windham.
For example, Windham parents were told that students had to “Cross the Line” if:
– they have a family member or friend who wanted to or committed suicide
– they ran away from home or felt like they didn’t belong
– have a family member who was made fun of because they are LBTQ
-if they had ever been abused
-if they had ever felt poor, been poor or been homeless
These questions were not provided to me in the reply from my 91-a request.
This is the kind of example that was presented to the House and Senate Education Committee by those who testified in support of the Non-Academic Survey Law. Legislators listened to testimony from parents who said their children were asked these kinds of questions in a class in front of their peers. This is exactly why this law was passed–to make sure parents understood what would be asked of their children so they could refuse their participation. According to testimony, some of these students were required to move forward or backward based on their answer. The teacher then took photos of the students in the class based on where they stood after they answered these questions.
RSA 186:11 IX-D requires:
––school districts to adopt a policy governing the administration of nonacademic surveys or questionnaires to students. The policy shall require school districts to notify a parent or legal guardian of a non-academic survey or questionnaire and its purpose. The policy shall provide that no student shall be required to volunteer for or submit to a non-academic survey or questionnaire, as defined in this paragraph, without written consent of a parent or legal guardian unless the student is an adult or an emancipated minor. The policy shall include an exception from the consent requirement for the youth risk behavior survey developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The policy shall also allow a parent or legal guardian to opt-out of the youth risk behavior survey developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The school district shall make such surveys or questionnaires available at the school and on the school or school district’s website for review by a student’s parent or legal guardian at least 10 days prior to distribution to students. In this paragraph, “non-academic survey or questionnaire” means surveys, questionnaires, or other documents designed to elicit information about a student’s social behavior, family life, religion, politics, sexual orientation, sexual activity, drug use, or any other information not related to a student’s academics.
It is my understanding that parents have not seen the questions asked of their children when they participated in “Cross the Line.” The district has also not provided me with these questions after filing the 91-a.
In addition to answering personal and deeply emotional questions about themselves, this activity appears to bring mental health treatment directly to students whose parents never consented to this kind of group therapy in school.
When districts participate in surveying students about their personal lives or provide this kind of group mental health therapy in school, the law should be followed. In addition to the state law governing non-academic surveys, the federal law PPRA also spells out parental rights governing the administration of a survey, analysis, or evaluation of students in the eight protected areas.
As you know, Every Student Succeeds Act requires parents to consent to mental health assessments or services.
In the discussion with the parents, I was also told that some of the students were in tears during this group therapy session. Looking at the list of individuals who were present, it’s important to note that no Phd level Child Psychologists were present. If children were experiencing any trauma or reliving trauma through this exercise, it does not appear that anyone present has the education or clinical training to deal with those situations.
This kind of group therapy in school has already been criticized by those in the mental health field. SEE Death Education Columbine High School featured on 20/20: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbiY6Fz6Few (pay close attention to 6:00 to 10:28)
The Vendor also made sure to relieve themselves of any liability. A licensed Child Psychologist would be accountable through the licensing board if they were treating a child in their private practice. What if a student re-lives trauma during this mental health exercise and begins to self-harm or, worse, takes their own life? This is exactly why these laws were put in place–to give parents the information they need to make an informed decision for their children. Children who may relive trauma, abuse, or suffering during one of these group therapy sessions need the best professional care.
The Vendor also states that :
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TRUST REQUIRES TRANSPARENCY
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Of the 62 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 1 and opposition of 5 with 5 being of interest.
Of the 57 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 5 and opposition of 4 with 6 being of interest.
| Position | Bill | Title | Committee | Day | Time | Room | State Analysis |
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| Of Interest | SB417 | relative to out-of-home placements for children. | Children and Family Law | Tue 4/23 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill revises criteria for out-of-home placement of children under the child protection act and other juvenile statutes and establishes an order of preference based on placement with the child’s siblings, when possible, and proximity to the child’s community of origin. The bill also makes appropriations to the department of health and human services and the judicial branch to support implementation of the act. |
| Of Interest | HB1559 | repealing the chapter relative to cash dispensing machines. | Commerce | Tue 4/23 | 10:20 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill repeals RSA 399-F relative to cash dispensing machines. This is a request by the banking department. |
| Of Interest | HB1241 | (New Title) relative to the regulation of money transmitters and relative to license applications and renewals for certain consumer credit entities. | Commerce | Tue 4/23 | 10:30 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill adopts the model money transmission modernization act. This bill also adjusts renewal procedures for certain consumer credit entities to align with those in the model money transmission. |
| Oppose | HB1178 | relative to an employee’s unused earned time. | Commerce | Tue 4/23 | 11:00 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill requires an employer to pay an employee for unused earned time. |
| Of Interest | SB173 | relative to surprise medical bills. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Tue 4/23 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill enacts, at the state level, the same requirements and prohibitions as exist under the federal No Surprises Act (NSA) regarding payments to, and billing by, out-of-network providers of emergency medical services and out-of-network providers of any health care service rendered at an in-network facility. As under the NSA, this bill requires health carriers to cover out-of-network emergency services and services provided at an in-network facility by out-of-network providers in the same manner as if the services were provided by an in-network provider or facility. It requires the health carrier to pay the out-of-network provider or facility a rate that is determined either through open negotiation between the parties or through a fair value independent review process made available by the insurance commissioner using the same fair value standards as are established in the NSA and the same independent dispute resolution (IDR) entities as are certified under the federal IDR process. Under this bill, upo |
| Support | HB1288 | relative to establishing certain due process rights for students, student organizations, and faculty members facing disciplinary actions by state institutions of higher learning. | Education | Tue 4/23 | 9:00 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill establishes certain due process rights for students, student organizations, and faculty members facing disciplinary actions by state institutions of higher learning. |
| Oppose | HB1103 | relative to revising the penalties of the shoreland protection act. | Energy and Natural Resources | Tue 4/23 | 9:30 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill revises the penalties of the shoreland protection act. |
| Oppose | HB1649 | relative to prohibiting certain products with intentionally added PFAS. | Energy and Natural Resources | Tue 4/23 | 9:50 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill restricts the use of per and polyfluoroalkyl substances in certain consumer products sold in New Hampshire. The bill also makes appropriations to the department of environmental services to fund an additional position and to fund the PFAS products control program. |
| Of Interest | SB406 | (New Title) making an appropriation to the department of health and human services to increase rates for shelter programs. | Finance | Tue 4/23 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 210-211 | This bill makes an appropriation to the department of health and human services to increase rates for shelter programs. |
| Oppose | HB1678 | establishing a New Hampshire farm to school local food incentive pilot program. | Finance | Tue 4/23 | 1:30 PM | SH Room 103 | This bill establishes a New Hampshire farm to school local food incentive pilot program. |
| Of Interest | HB1573 | (New Title) making an appropriation to the department of health and human services to enhance oversight of children in residential placements. | Judiciary | Tue 4/23 | 1:30 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill makes an appropriation to the department of health and human services to enhance oversight of children in court-ordered, residential placements. The bill also directs the department of health and human services to submit a quarterly report to the legislature and the office of the child advocate regarding implementation of the act and state oversight of children in residential placements. |
| Of Interest | HB1339 | (New Title) relative to background checks during motions to return firearms and ammunition. | Judiciary | Tue 4/23 | 2:15 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill provides a procedure for conducting a discretionary background check prior to the return of firearms and/or ammunition in a court proceeding. |
| Oppose | SB538 | relative to zoning procedures concerning residential housing. | Municipal and County Government | Tue 4/23 | 9:30 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill establishes a tax relief program for office conversion to residences; enables municipalities to allow its governing body to adopt certain zoning ordinance changes; and adds additional authority in zoning powers for parking requirements and lot size requirements related to sewer infrastructure. |
| Of Interest | SB471 | relative to adding a speed limit of 45 miles per hour on rural highways. | Transportation | Tue 4/23 | 10:40 AM | LOB Room 203 | This bill adds a speed limit of 45 miles per hour on rural highways. |
| Oppose | SB365 | relative to the sale or use of lithium-ion batteries for electric bicycles, scooters, or personal electric mobility devices. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Wed 4/24 | 1:45 PM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill prohibits sales of lithium-ion batteries and electric bicycles or electric scooters that have not been certified by a nationally recognized testing laboratory. |
| Oppose | SB334 | relative to providing for the issuance of bonds and other obligations by the business finance authority of the state of New Hampshire to finance student loans. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Wed 4/24 | 2:15 PM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill includes the business finance authority of the state of New Hampshire as an entity authorized to issue bonds and other obligations to finance student loans. |
| Of Interest | SB373 | relative to the state building code. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 4/24 | 11:30 AM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill updates the state building code definition. |
| Support | HB1283 | relative to end of life options. | Health and Human Services | Wed 4/24 | 10:00 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill establishes a procedure for an individual with terminal illness to receive medical assistance in dying through the self administration of medication. The bill establishes criteria for the prescription of such medication and establishes reporting requirements and penalties for misuse or noncompliance. |
| Of Interest | HB318 | (Second New Title) relative to magistrates, bail commissioners, the standards applicable to and the administration of bail, and making appropriations. | Judiciary | Wed 4/24 | 1:00 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill: I. Establishes magistrates and provides them duties and requirements. II. Makes various amendments governing the standards applicable to and the administration of bail. III. Establishes an electronic monitoring program for certain criminal defendants and provides various appropriations to allow for the development and implementation of such a program. IV. Makes amendments to the amount of the bail commissioner’s fee and makes other amendments to the duties and educational requirements for bail commissioners. V. Establishes a judicial training coordinator and establishes training requirements for judges and certain judicial employees. VI. Makes additional appropriations to the judicial branch. |
| Support | HB1151 | (New Title) relative to the carrying of alcoholic beverages on hotel premises and monthly deposits from the liquor commission to the general fund. | Ways and Means | Wed 4/24 | 9:30 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill allows a guest of a hotel to purchase a drink at a hotel bar or restaurant and carry it back to the guest’s room. This bill also requires the liquor commission to make a monthly deposit to the general fund. |
| Oppose | SB352 | establishing an early detection cancer screening pilot program for active and retired firefighters. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Thu 4/25 | 9:30 AM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill establishes an early detection cancer screening pilot program in the department of safety, division of fire standards and training and emergency medical services, for retired and full-time active firefighters New Hampshire. |
| Support | SB402 | (New Title) relative to allowing pharmacists to administer influenza, COVID-19, and other FDA licensed vaccines without explicit approval from the general court. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Thu 4/25 | 1:45 PM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill allows pharmacists to administer influenza, COVID-19, and other FDA licensed vaccines without explicit approval from the general court. |
| Oppose | SB559 | (New Title) relative to the New Hampshire vaccine association. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Thu 4/25 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill defines biological products for purposes of the assessment determination by the New Hampshire vaccine association. |
| Support | HB1350 | relative to therapeutic cannabis possession limits. | Judiciary | Thu 4/25 | 1:15 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill increases qualifying patients’ limit on possession of therapeutic cannabis from 2 to 4 ounces, and increases the amount they may obtain in a 10-day period from 2 to 4 ounces. |
| Support | HB1539 | relative to annulling, resentencing, or discontinuing prosecution of certain cannabis offenses. | Judiciary | Thu 4/25 | 1:30 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill allows for additional annulments, resentencings, or discontinuations of prosecutions for certain cannabis offenses. |
| Of Interest | HB1633 | relative to the legalization and regulation of cannabis and making appropriations therefor. | Judiciary | Thu 4/25 | 1:45 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill establishes procedures for the legalization, regulation, and taxation of cannabis; the licensing and regulation of cannabis establishments; and makes appropriations therefor. |
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Ten states – and counting – have passed a bill called the “2nd Amendment Financial Privacy Act,” to nullify a gun control surveillance scheme in practice and effect. More on that good news in a moment. First, some background. Would you be surprised to learn that this gun control program has its roots in the IRS?
Same. We weren’t either.
Back in 2004, the IRS launched the use of something called a “Merchant Category Code” or an MCC, as a way to classify different types of businesses and identify the types of goods or services that a company sells.
Companies that accept payments by credit card are categorized with an MCC for their business type.
It was, of course, sold as an improvement for better tax reporting and is still touted, as CNBC put it, as a tool to help “prevent things ranging from fraud to human trafficking.”
But never forget. When the government and its supporters tell you, “It’s for your safety,” they usually mean, “so we can control you.”
Soon, gun-grabbers figured out that a special MCC could be created for a business selling firearms, thus – another de-facto gun registry that the government could easily access. Some of the worst proposals call for using these codes to flat-out ban purchases.
As NRA-ILA points out, the people promoting this are gun control advocates, so we shouldn’t be surprised at how they’ll end up using it in the future:
Those promoting this scheme are proponents of firearm and gun owner registration and advocate against firearm owners’ privacy. Therefore, it should be assumed that the goal of this program is to share all collected firearm retailer MCC data with government authorities and potentially private third parties that may include gun control organizations and anti-gun researchers.
After efforts to create a firearm-related MCC failed in recent years, a number of high-profile politicians sent a high-pressure letter to the major credit card companies in September 2022. Just one week later, the International Organization for Standardization (IOS) approved the creation of a new firearms-based Merchant Category Code.
Unsurprisingly, Everytown was thrilled, “Today’s announcement is a critical first step towards giving banks and credit card companies the tools they need to recognize dangerous firearm purchasing trends.”
First step.
They definitely have more steps planned – and we know some of them. As NRA-ILA writes:
Amalgamated Bank said they intend to create a software algorithm that will use the MCC “to report suspicious activity and illegal gun sales to authorities.”
The New York Times explained how this firearms-specific MCC could interface directly with the federal government:
“Banks could then either allow [the flagged] transactions, or block them and file suspicious activity reports with the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, which would ideally also create a system to quickly forward that information to local law enforcement and the F.B.I.”
To the gun control supporters, of course, all firearms purchasing trends are dangerous, so we know where this is leading. And while people can still use cash for in-person purchases – or better yet, real money like gold and silver in some situations – neither of these are valid options for online retailers.
An article by Free Range American summed up the danger:
Watchdogs are concerned the banking industry has been recruited by the feds to use the coded transactions to create and maintain a database of gun owners that can then be accessed by the government. Indeed, it has been publicly stated that the purpose of the new code is to track “suspicious activity” related to firearms and mass shootings.
Within months of the new MCC being announced, a handful of states started considering a bill called the “2nd Amendment Financial Privacy Act,” to ban the use of these merchant codes in a way that distinguishes a firearms retailer from general merchandise retailers or sporting goods retailers.
In other words, these states were seeking to ban the use of the newly-authorized code.
After just a handful of states started moving the legislation forward, the major credit card companies started backing down, one by one. Amex, Visa, MC, and Discover all announced they were putting a “pause” on implementation just because a handful of states were considering and potentially moving forward with a Second Amendment Financial Privacy Act.
A MasterCard spokesman confirmed that the state legislation is the reason for putting this on hold:
“There are bills advancing in several states related to the use of this new code. If passed, the result will be an inconsistency in how this ISO standard could be applied by merchants, issuers, acquirers and networks. It’s for that reason that we have decided to pause work on the implementation of the firearms-specific MCC.”
The 2nd Amendment Financial Privacy Act was signed into law in six states in 2023: Mississippi, Idaho, North Dakota, Montana, Texas, and Florida.
In 2024, even more states have been getting on board – with four more 2nd Amendment Financial Privacy Acts going into effect in the coming months: Utah, Kentucky, Wyoming, Indiana.
That’s ten on the books – with more likely on the way soon.
This is clearly an early win for the states. Rather than waiting for the entire scheme to get implemented first and then trying to stop it with a lawsuit or legislation later, they found a path forward that creates problems for implementation and put a stop to it, at least for now.
But let’s not overstate the win. This is on PAUSE; they want us to let our guard down so they can regroup and push again. But that should be a huge green light for 15-20 more states to get on board and ban this practice now so it never gets off the ground.
As Samuel Adams so wisely put it,
“Instead of sitting down satisfied with the efforts we have already made, which is the wish of our enemies, the necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude and perseverance.”
| Michael Boldin
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Columbia is famous for its coffee, and Brazil is renowned for its censorship. At least it is now. And while censorship in some form is not uncommon anywhere in the world, recent events in Brazil, led by Superior Electoral Court (TSE) Justice Alexandre de Moraes, have opened a whole new door.
de Moraes, a self-proclaimed arbiter of truth online, is at war with free speech, targeting everything from social media to reporters and journalists accused of misinformation – on a scale that must have petty despots in the United States jealous of Brazil’s openness and success. Or is that misrepresented pride? According to Michael Shellenberger, there is evidence that Brazil’s Censorhsip Industrial Complex is tan offspring of US and UK collusion.
In many ways, Brazil’s sweeping censorship system is unique to Brazil. Brazil’s Censorship Industrial Complex is located in the judiciary rather than in the executive branch, as it is in Europe, in the European Commission, and the U.S., in the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, National Science Foundation, and other agencies. However, in other ways, Brazil’s censorship simply reflects the most advanced form of the Censorship Industrial Complex vision created by US and UK government officials, particularly ones working for the military and intelligence agencies.
Our work revealed that current and former agents from the US Department of Defense, the CIA, the Department of Homeland Security, and the British Ministry of Defense all developed comprehensive censorship programs. The Department of Defense and the National Science Foundation have been caught funding the creation of censorship tools, including AI-based ones, for Facebook, Twitter, and other social media platforms to engage in mass censorship. Beginning in early 2017, several military and intelligence agencies and agents from the US and UK governments developed similar censorship tactics that Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court (TSE) was caught using.
Shellenbeger explains in this excerpt how their investigation has uncovered connections between the US and UK governments and third parties funded by both governments that consulted or assisted Brazil on its war with open debate and free speech.
The evidence points to research, AI, and tools used in the US since 2017 and exposed in various reports, such as the Twitter Files.
Brazil doesn’t have a First Amendment to protect its citizens from this very real censorship (as opposed to the fake school library variety echoed by the same liberal monkeys). Still, as I’ve written elsewhere, that isn’t stopping them from trying, and we should accept that Brazil could be another beta test by Western Censorship Assets in preparation for their plans here.
Here’s Michael Schellenberger.
Years Of US-UK Military And Intelligence Planning Behind Sweeping Brazil Censorship, Evidence Suggests
_Secret evidence, specialized spy units, and permanent bans on populists were key tactics developed by government operatives_
Late last night, the Judiciary Committee of the… pic.twitter.com/dWRJpwTs6b
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) April 18, 2024
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President Joe Biden advertised himself as a uniter of Americans but instead seems to have embarked on a crusade to unite government with industry. His disregard for the rule of law parallels an equally dangerous abandonment of fundamental free market principles via government fiat. The latest example is displayed in the administration’s emissions mandates for EV cars and trucks.
EV FiascoBiden’s newly proposed EV regulations are just one more straw on the camel’s back of economic reality. Electric vehicles resemble the Biden administration more and more: They do not deliver as advertised, cannot compete without being propped up, take money from the poor to give to the rich, divide the nation, and are used to sabotage the economy. If this sounds extreme, please read on.
The EPA’s long-awaited tailpipe emissions standards are a bureaucrat’s dream and a nightmare for taxpayers and car manufacturers. The 1,184-page rule does not mandate the manufacture of EV cars and trucks; it merely makes compliance with its strictures impossible without doing so.
Like Captain Ahab, Biden doesn’t care if every sailor (or auto worker) is forced to jump ship in his pursuit of the Great White Climate Utopia. Auto emission laws have historically set targets for individual vehicles, leaving manufacturers free to allocate resources to produce models desired by free consumers. The new EPA rules instead set limits on manufacturers’ total fleet emissions, essentially commanding Ford and Chevrolet to produce vehicles that meet stringent diktats, regardless of consumer demand, corporate profitability, or union job security.
Ford Motor Company has cut back plans to ramp up EV production after losing an estimated $64,731 per vehicle in 2023, despite massive state and federal subsidies. Losses would be far greater if not for profitable gas-powered vehicle sales. It seems taxpayers are not being price-gouged by corporations so much as by a government enacting state control of entire industries by regulatory fiat. Dictating what car dealers may offer as inventory may not jibe with consumer desires, and there is no indemnification clause by the EPA to purchase unsold goods.
EV trucks are a particularly bad sell for consumers concerned about range anxiety, failure to function in cold weather, lack of adequate charging stations, and staggering repair bills. Commercial buyers are uninterested in fleets of EV trucks that necessitate work crews taking multiple trips to transport a load that a single gas-powered pickup could handle. Ford is reportedly already cutting back its workforce in Dearborn, MI, due to declining sales of its Lightning EV, powered by dual “in-board” electric motors.
Unconstitutional OverreachState-owned and state-run entities have a bad track record. The latest EV rules are just one more layer of regulatory “taking” of profits (and restrictions on capital allocation) implemented using dubious if not blatantly unconstitutional Biden edicts.
Biden used the Centers for Disease Control to impose a national moratorium on the eviction of renters, though he later recognized that any new order to extend it would be unconstitutional. The Supreme Court struck down his effort to mandate vaccines and testing for employees of large businesses. A federal district judge found that Biden’s race-based policies through the Minority Business Development Agency “flagrantly violated” the Equal Protection Clause. His student loan “forgiveness plan” was held to have abridged Congress’ legislative authority and was “an unconstitutional exercise of Congress’s legislative power and must be vacated.”
A US District Judge ruled that the $1.7 million Inflation Reduction Act was unconstitutionally enacted without the required congressional quorum; another ruled that Biden’s use of the Federal Highway Administration to set climate targets for vehicles “lacked a statutory basis and was invalid.” EPA rules impacting farmers, SEC rules burdening businesses with environmental reporting, and the allegedly illegal cancellation of Alaskan oil leases have all attracted similar criticisms. So much for supporting the rule of law.
Economics MatterTimes have changed under Biden. Social justice “theories” have eclipsed business management with fantasy policies of “universal equity” that threaten universal downfall. Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez burdened that once-prosperous nation with massive social spending “to finance educational, health, food, and housing programs,” which, along with economic mismanagement and corruption, sparked hyperinflation. Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe crippled a well-diversified economy with galloping inflation and bankruptcy through mismanaged state-owned enterprises and debt incurred for education and social services.
The president’s recent EPA rules for tailpipe emissions constitute yet more “preferential access to public procurement and government guidance of investment” through regulatory overreach. Dreams are nice, but somebody has to pay the bills. Rights are dandy, but someone has to take responsibility. The Biden administration chisels away at constitutional safeguards like Woody Woodpecker, imposing impossible dreams on businesses and taxpayers, leaving an economic, environmental, and constitutional disaster zone that America’s grandchildren will be repairing long after Biden has left office.
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Monkey Pox is back in the news, just in time for the parade of international Pride Festivals that helped spread it to over 100 countries in 2022. It is also not just Monkey Pox (And yes, we should be surprised they even called it that). It is a mutant strain with pandemic potential.
As if previous strains were not?
The virus is a descendent of the deadlier clade 1 mpox strain, but has evolved to become even more infectious and better at evading tests than its predecessor. The concerning discovery was made in Kamituga – a poor, densely populated gold mining town that is feared to be ripe for an explosive outbreak.
Researchers who detailed the virus in a pre-print have called for ‘urgent measures’ to contain the virus and avoid a global outbreak.
‘Without intervention, this localised Kamituga outbreak harbors the potential to spread nationally and internationally,’ the authors wrote.
Part of the problem then was that health authorities and their media marketing teams were reluctant to identify the super spreaders: nearly every case (except for those few popping up in children) was a gay man (you do the math). The 2022 epidemic was traced to massive weeklong Pride festivals around Africa and Europe whose participants carried it to over 100 countries.
They didn’t want to say it too loudly, but the nexus was those massive international Pride gatherings, and it is difficult in that culture to be proud, celebrate, and celibate. The CDC tried to help, sort of, when it said your safest sex partner is… Yourself.
We noted (before public health officials, go figure) that gay men would probably need to add abstinence to their party vocabulary to flatten the curve. It’s a sort of LGBTQ Pride Lent. Forgive me, for I must abstain.
The WHO eventually came around to the idea of telling gay men to take a break from each other in 2022 (until this, too, had passed), so I find the timing of this announcement and this hedging … amusing.
Mpox caused an international epidemic in 2022 when it spread to more than 100 countries and killed hundreds of people – including 58 Americans. That outbreak was caused by the more mild clade 2 strain, which is rarely fatal.
The outbreak that worried health officials then was primarily concentrated within the gay and bisexual male community. It is not yet clear whether the genesis of the outbreak in the DRC was driven by sexual contact.
It’s not clear. Pishaw! Your report states, “The researchers are concerned that the ‘highly mobile’ population of Kamituga could be the perfect breeding ground for the new virus. Miners and sex workers frequently travel to and from the town for work from neighboring countries like Rwanda and Burundi.”
Sexual transmission continues to be the catalyst for pandemic success, but there’s another that hasn’t come up, and I’m not even sure if we’ve mentioned it. Neither MPOX nor sex-fueled Pride festivals were new in 2022, yet there’d been no heavily reported “outbreaks” of Monkey Pox in any community, let alone that of gay men. What changed? At least two things.
Booster uptake has declined precipitously, so I’d be surprised if the Pharma stormtroopers aren’t pouring Mpox marketing dollars into LGBT spaces pushing those Jabs in preparation for Party Season, but that doesn’t help children in the Congo who get if from more common forms of close contact and are more likely to die from the disease.
The latest outbreak centers around a gold mine and the local community. You’d think Pfizer et al. would be all over that.
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Psychologist Helmet Kentler gained the support of the German government to place unaccompanied minors with known pedophiles; the experiment, for obvious reasons, failed.
The experiment began in the 1960s and reached its peak during the 1970s. The German government trusted psychologist Kentler. Germany has apologized, sort of.
The United States will eventually apologize for an experiment that has attracted Pedophiles and Psychos to work at U.S. Youth Detention Centers. It began in the 1950s, peaked in the 1970s, and has never stopped.
With thousands of Youth Detention Center victims coming forward, I revisited a theory I had in 1999 that led me to write an article. Dan Quayle read my article prompting him to invite me to a dinner he hosted. The invite was revoked when he realized I was only 17 years old. My theory then and now is that U.S. children are used in experiments.
I am a product of child abuse by my family and nonfamily; they are my abusers. I survived because I watched everyone and everything around me. I stuck to facts because abusers avoided facts. My abusers tried to control my reality.
The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 replaced The Juvenile Delinquency Prevention and Control Act of 1968. However, with the Act of 1974- mandatory state participation and $350million in Federal Funding. Landmark legislation, or so they thought. This was the first federally supported “comprehensive” approach designed to develop a system for juvenile justice and delinquency prevention. The “expertise” of American psychiatrists and psychologists began to appear around the United States.
The National Advisory Committee on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals was formed by the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA) in the spring of 1975. Governor Brendan T. Byrne of New Jersey was appointed Chairman of the Committee. This makes the current scandal in New Jersey Youth Detention Centers shameful.
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In 1975, the Governor’s Commission on Crime and Delinquency in New Hampshire approved funding to the New Hampshire Youth Development Center for its first Community Residential Center, the Friendship House Project. The grant award was $69,952 in Federal Funds and $7,772 in Crime Commission funds. Total $77,724. This number increased in the years to follow. New Hampshire called this division of YDC, cottage, project, house, 6-II-E-1264 FOI, 76-II-A-1264 F02. Whatever you wish to call it, It was an experiment. The current scandal unfolding with New Hampshire’s Youth Detention Centers is not shocking.
Entering uncharted waters by the force of the federal government, New Hampshire, with many other states, began to implement treatment programs for juvenile delinquents.
In 1976, John R. Clark, the former Evaluation Specialist for the New Hampshire Governor’s Commission on Crime and Delinquency, stated that before boys were accepted into Friendship House in 1975, they were put through “a battery of tests and psychological interviews.”
Other records mention “dead days” at Friendship House.
For a boy to be eligible for admission into the Friendship House they had to be between twelve and seventeen, the boys had to meet all four of these criteria.
1. A feeling of uneasiness, unhappiness, or discontent with himself or his life, and some concern about doing something to change it;
2. A recognition and acceptance that one does or can control what happens to him;
3. A willingness to examine things about himself with others;
4. A belief that he, other residents, and the program itself will benefit from his participation.
Friendship House in New Hampshire implemented a “treatment program” including,
Guided Group Interaction, Reality Therapy, and Positive Peer Pressure.
These three treatment programs were in their infancy stages of being used on children. The experiment was on New Hampshire’s most vulnerable population, unaccompanied minors, in this particular experiment, boys. I assure you, unlike the belief the boys were taught, these boys did not have control over what was about to happen.
Friendship House Treatment Program,Group Therapy began with Doctor Joseph M Pratt, a pioneer in physiology, well before it was introduced at Friendship House. Pratt was a Harvard Medical School alumni who disagreed with the theories of Freud. What Pratt first designed as Group Therapy for medically sick patients was morphed by the U.S. military at Fort Knox, Kentucky, during the 1940s. The current scandal unfolding in Kentucky Youth Detention Centers looks suspicious.
Guided Group Therapy becomes Guided Group Interactions at Fort Knox. The exact year the military first used the therapy is unclear. If you look at the core ideas of Guided Group Interaction, the concept closely resembles Fort Knox’s, Universal Military Training Experimental Unit. America’s first attempt at Universal Military Training.
Guided Group Interaction is widely documented as being used on detained and confined soldiers at Fort Knox by the Fifth Service Command Rehabilitation Center, aka disciplinary barracks. This is where delinquent soldiers were sent, detained, and analyzed. One of the first times the term Guided Group Interactions appeared outside the U.S. military was when it was introduced at the New Jersey Department of Corrections. One of the first times Guided Group Interactions was implemented on juvenile delinquents was at Friendship House in New Hampshire in 1975.
In 1972, The National Council on Crime and Delinquency in New Jersey, whose mission was to protect children from abuse, published a report, Guided Group Interactions Used with Juvenile Offenders. A summary of the report states,
“THIS METHOD WAS FOUND TO BE NO MORE SUCCESSFUL THAN OTHER CONVENTIONAL METHODS OF DEALING WITH INSTITUTIONALIZED YOUTHS. YOUTHS WHO HAVE PSYCHIATRIC HISTORIES OR WHO APPEAR DEPRESSED OR OVERLY ANXIOUS SHOULD NOT BE EXPOSED TO GUIDED GROUP INTERACTION.”
New Hampshire ignored the 1972 report from The National Council on Crime and Delinquency. New Hampshire did the exact opposite. Criteria number one for admission into New Hampshire’s Friendship House was,
1.)A feeling of uneasiness, unhappiness, or discontent with himself or his life, …
New Hampshire sought out the exact population of boys that the National Council on Crime and Delinquency said should NOT be exposed to Guided Group Interactions.
The boys at YDC Friendship House were being subject to a controversial military therapy.
Again, The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974, replaced The Juvenile Delinquency Prevention and Control Act of 1968. The federal government dropped the word control and replaced it with Justice. Marketing matters when a new product is coming, the federal government wants no association with the Control Theory, which is about to take over the United States.
Friendship House Treatment Program,Note: Details and Timelines via the facts and dates around Reality Therapy are murky at best. By design is my conclusion. Terms around Reality Therapy change so much that your head will spin. By design is my conclusion.
The Reality Therapy Institute was established in 1967 by California psychiatrist William Glasser. 1967–1968 The Governor of California Ronald Reagan tackles California’s mental health.
Before the Institute, William Glasser had been fired from a VA Hospital in California. Rewind even further and William Glasser was experimenting with chemicals, working at Dugway Proving Ground, and depending on who you speak with was a scientist with direct or indirect links to MKultra. However, he does in fact, become the staff psychiatrist for juvenile delinquent girls at the Ventura School for Girls, a reform school in Ventura linked to the California Youth Authority. Some sources say this is where William Glasser began to develop Reality Therapy.
The history of Ventura Girls School looks more like a torture chamber than a school. During its early years pre-Glasser, an investigation was launched. Witnesses described a building known as the “no privilege cottage” where the “water cure” was used. The method consisted of a fire hose aimed at semi-unclothed girls while immersing them in an iced bath. A school nurse testified that girls were given apomorphine shots as a measure of discipline to induce vomiting.
Glasser has self-proclaimed that he turned the girls’ school around. I question his success given that post-Glasser the California State Inspector General issued a report describing the California Youth Authority as a,
“system in chaos that provided ineffective services in a poorly managed and highly punitive prison-like environment.” (What a treat.)
In 1973 Behavior the Control of Perception was published by William Powers. Powers developed Perceptual Control Theory and was a medical physicist. He studied experimental and theoretical psychology and attended Northwestern University. He also is linked to UFO research.
In 1974 William Glasser sold millions of books worldwide on Reality Therapy, based on his theories and data gathered while working with juvenile delinquent girls.
I will remind you again, in 1974 The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act replaced the Juvenile Delinquency Prevention and Control Act of 1968. The Federal Government dropped the word control and replaced it with justice. Mind control is now the official subject of William Glasser.
In 1975–1978 William Glasser wrote and produced the play Beehive. Have you seen Three’s Company which aired in 1977? Looks a lot like the play. Oddly, in 1973, the film Spirit of the Beehive, was released. The film is a deep look into a child’s mind and the role that fantasy and reality play in a child’s mind… William Glasser meets with William Powers. William Glasser begins to write and develop Control Theory.
In 1981–1986 The William Glasser Institute began publishing The International Journal of Reality Therapy sponsored in part by Northeastern University. The publication shares data collected from the experiments at Youth Detention Centers. “Friendship” and “Community” are widely used in all Glasser publications, journals, and teachings. The International Journal of Reality Therapy had revenue via memberships, advertising, and sponsorship. During all this President Ronald Reagan published The Nation at Risk-The Imperative For Educational Reform. Fear is born.
1986- William Glasser closes his private practice office in California. Reality Therapy has collected enough data and has been tuned for mass consumption. William Glasser publishes Control Theory in the Classroom. A Reality Therapy Certification for instructors and teachers is/or has been developed, but murky facts on this. Glasser begins touring the United States.
Ronald and Nancy Reagan had a plethora of California psychologists and psychiatrists in their circle.
Friendship House Treatment Program,The furloughs and release process for the boys at Friendship House sounds archaic at best. When a boy personally feels he is ready to leave or perhaps begs to leave, he first needs the approval of his counselor. If he was given approval he moved onto the gauntlet. To get out the boy was,
“required to confront the entire house with his request. At least 75% must vote in favor of the request before it will be considered any further.”
Allow me to remind you that Friendship House had residents as young as twelve. YDC was letting children decide the fate of children via its third and final method of “treatment” Positive Peer Pressure. This is insane. Sounds like a cult for kids.
My Reality?- What attracted pedophiles and psychos to work at U.S. Youth Detention Centers?A culture created by the U.S. Military, Federal Government, Ronald Reagan, and William Glasser via experiments such as New Hampshire’s YDC project Friendship House.
Group treatment sessions at Friendship House were unscheduled. A New Hampshire report states,
“frequently circumstances mandate several sessions daily. The sessions are not limited to any particular length of time. Residents are encouraged to call a session when necessary and continue it until the problems have been resolved.” Sounds exhausting for a 12-year-old boy. Controlling would be an understatement.
John R. Clark, Evaluation Specialist at New Hampshire Governor’s Commission on Crime and Delinquency, signs off his report on Friendship House by stating in 1976,
“This writer did encounter some difficulty in collecting resident data about this program. There is no system currently utilized to reflect the flow of residents within the program and other pertinent data. It is therefore strongly recommended that the attached form be maintained daily by project staff and retained at the Friendship House facility.”
If you read my first Medium post entitled “Stop. We have to go off of tape. The New Hampshire lawyer no priest shall name…” you may find it ironic that In 1976, John R. Clark, Evaluation Specialist at New Hampshire Governor’s Commission on Crime and Delinquency, STRONGLY SUGGESTED that records should be kept on children. In 1984, New Hampshire courts had no problem that records were not being kept when a prominent lawyer was accused of abusing a boy at an orphanage. The New Hampshire court case of State v. Boire in 1984 directly contradicts the 1976 report issued by John R. Clark, Evaluation Specialist at New Hampshire Governor’s Commission on Crime and Delinquency, who STRONGLY SUGGESTED records should be kept.
The State of New Hampshire via YDC in 1975 was not tracking data on who the boys were at Friendship House because who they were did NOT matter. They were documenting the data from the experiments to show success and to prepare New Hampshire for mass consumption of the ideology of William Glasser. The expert was needed for the dip into Federal Funds. Seeing as brownies were laced with laxatives at Friendship House, I suspect New Hampshire knew the experiments were failing decades ago.
My data, aka my theory.The United States passed the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 and states implemented William Glasser’s theories into Youth Detention Centers around the United States. In 2024, The U.S. Senate Human Rights Subcommittee Chairman Jon Ossoff launched an inquiry with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) into alleged abuse of youth in juvenile detention facilities in Georgia and nationwide. He has requested the GAO review the state of federal oversight. It has taken 50 years for the experiment’s failure to be questioned at the federal level, but has it stopped?
The experiments were certainly tweaked, but in 1989, William Glasser began working with Apollo High School, an alternative school in Simi Valley, California. Brad Greene, Apollo High School Principal, became one of Glasser Institute’s first educators.
Glasser’s theories are now implemented in hundreds of schools worldwide. Ireland has recently launched Glasser Quality Schools via its Catholic Schools. Might be a good fit given the history of the Catholic Church.
If my data is correct, my theory is that a U.S. senator will request a federal investigation into the abuse in U.S. schools nationwide in 2039. Glasser’s theories seem to fail at the 50-year mark.
The culture adults create for children, attracts the adults that will surround the children.
In 1989, Apollo High School Principal and Glasser Institute Instructor, Brad Greene was accused of sexual harassment. A lawsuit was settled. Brad Greene later resigned.
Glasser died with millions. Glasser Institutes are worldwide, but the corp filings for Glasser hit a little tax issue in recent years. Not my story to tell…
What I will tell you is Glasser and his theories are considered a smashing success and they have infiltrated Schools worldwide. The victims from the U.S. Youth Detention Centers, where Glasser and states first tested Glasser’s theories, are coming forward by the thousands. Victims are saying they were raped and tortured. Is this considered success?
We all might want to hit pause or eject on Glasser’s theories in our current schools. Experts can be wrong, yes, even psychologists and psychiatrists make mistakes.
No matter what my abusers said, my world or state of things as they actually existed always opposed what they wanted me to believe. Therefore I survived.
Part I
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The Climate Cult echo chamber is full voice after the BBC published a misleading bit of global terrorism this week titled “Coral bleaching: Fourth global mass stress episode underway – US scientists.”
Coral around the world is turning white and even dying as recent record ocean heat takes a devastating toll. It has triggered the fourth global mass coral bleaching event, according to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Bleaching happens when coral gets stressed and turns white because the water it lives in is too hot. …
Scientists in the US, Australia, Kenya and Brazil told BBC News about feeling dismay and even anger as they watched the coral they love threatened or killed by warm oceans.
The timing couldn’t be better. NOAA has been pimping its warm Atlantic beware of this year’s hurricane season narrative for weeks. Can you imagine if there was a series of stories linking catastrophic events (real or imagined) to warming oceans? Think of all the money you could launder into the pockets of researchers who wash, rinse, and repeat in that allegedly over warm water.
And the control! Think about how it can sway underinformed peasants to let their governments manage their lives. Someone somewhere is having a climate narrative orgasm.
Forget that NOAA is hardly an unbiased source, but would you be willing to bet on them if a renowned expert on Coral dared to contradict their hyperbolic claims? You would with other people’s money, and they will, but for those interested in another view, Dr. Peter Ridd says there’s nothing to see here. That “bleaching” is merely part of a natural process, when coral expels algae in order to switch to a different type which is more suitable adapted to new conditions.”
According to Ridd, coral cover on the Great Barrier Reef last year reached record levels, despite four supposedly catastrophic bleaching events in the six years prior to 2022. Neither has there been any significant change in corals worldwide.
So what. Who the heck is this Ridd person, anyway?
Peter Ridd is a physicist. He has researched the Great Barrier Reef since 1984, and has published over 100 scientific publications. A former head of the Marine Geophysical Laboratory at James Cook University, Townsville, Australia, he was fired in 2018 for pointing out quality assurance deficiencies in reef-science institutions. He presently works, without payment, on science quality assurance issues. He is an adjunct fellow of the Institute of Public Affairs and a member of the Academic Advisory Council of the Global Warming Policy Foundation.
So, a nobody, except that he did write the 2023 analysis of global coral for The Global Warming Policy Foundation, in which we find this (reformatted, footnotes removed, see original).
For example, the discovery that the GBR had the highest coral cover on record in 2022 was immediately downplayed by reef science and management institutions, and the media too. It was claimed that only the fast-growing corals53 had recovered. However, since these were also the corals most susceptible to bleaching (and also to hurricanes and crown-of-thorns starfish), it was also claimed that this left the reef more vulnerable. However, since these corals were also the most susceptible to bleaching, hurricanes, and crown-of-thorns starfish, they were also the most threatened.
The argument is unsustainable, however, because these fast-growing (and vulnerable) corals were the ones that were alleged to have been killed by the four bleaching events in the last six years. While they can indeed regrow extremely rapidly (within a year) from a small section that is left alive (the so-called ‘phoenix effect’), if they are killed, recruitment of larvae and regrowth takes 5–10 years.56 They cannot regenerate within a few months.
The rapid recovery of the reef cover therefore shows that they were bleached, but not killed. In other words, the past few years’ data has proven that very little coral was killed by the bleaching events – even the fast- growing coral that is most susceptible. Coral reefs can double or even quadruple their coral in a decade. The loss of a few percent from bleaching is a minor disturbance. When the reef cover crashes, it is almost always the fast-growing coral that declines, so it is hardly surprising, and certainly not concerning, when the fast-growing coral comes back.
Read the report (pages 17 – 24) for more embarrassing realities you won’t find from the BBC or anyone who echos its climate alarmism. Trigger warning: Science! Like this,
The records show that there were 26 records of coral bleaching events in the world before 1982; bleaching was observed on the first scientific expedition to the GBR, from England, in 1929. Possibly the earliest representation of bleaching is a remarkable lithograph (Figure 15) by von Ransonnet, published in 1862. There can be no doubt that bleaching is not a ‘novel’ phenomenon.
There is also the matter of eyeballs. Prior to 1990, there were very few scientists regularly observing reefs with any consistency, if at all. “If a major bleaching event had occurred in, say, 1925, who would have noticed?
And finally, at lest for this post, bleaching happens when the zooxanthellae, with whom coral have a symbiotic relationship, are ejected “as a survival strategy.
Corals bleach because the zooxanthellae within them have become ‘poisonous’, or at least disadvantageous, to the polyp and must be expelled.”
There are a lot of reasons for this from too warm or too cool water, sunlight, fresh water dilution of seawater, and so on. All of this occurred long before someone discovered the potential for attention, wealth, and power to those who embrace scientism to advance political policy that has nothing to do with protecting the planet or those on it.
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