Local ABC affiliate WMUR reports that pasty white New Hampshire Democrat Colin Van Ostern is stepping up to run for Congress after Ann Kuster announced her retirement. Van  Ostern has been Kuster’s campaign manager, a former Executive Councilor, and one of Chris Sununu’s Dem challengers (he lost).

He is your typical NH Democratic candidate, Pale and White. It’s an interesting way to start the day after Kuster’s announcement: out with one white Democrat candidate, in with another.

Given how they prattle on about rights, equity, and social justice, you’d have expected someone with more melanin to announce first. Prompted perhaps by pasty white Ray Buckley.  Or perhaps that’s all just bullshit, or maybe they, like their ideological ancestors, are a bunch of racists. Dumb racists. Related: Can Democrats Overcome “Systemic Racial Inequality” When They Can’t Manage it in Their Own Primary?

The DNC revoked their First in the Nation Primary position because (drumroll) “people of color.” New Hampshire is too white, you see. We are not diverse enough. A problem for Democrats that I have long argued could have been averted had the proglodytes nominated someone of color in any federal race. You only needed one but it has never happened, but it’s not hard to do. Republicans have nominated blacks and Latinos to run in CD2 (for example) more often than not in the past decade-plus.

When NH CD-1 opened up, they nominated a pasty white guy named Chris Pappas. He’s perched in that position, Pelosi rubber stamp in one hand, chicken finger in the other, for two terms, and he looks whiter every year. Pasty white Kuster announces her departure, and the first face to pop up over the gated community fence is someone whiter than she is—a guy I like to call Colon Van Oscopy.

He’s in: @ColinVanOstern tells @WMUR9 in 1-on-1 interview he’s running for Congress in New Hampshire’s 2nd District https://t.co/gYVcEEE019 #NH02 #NHPolitics #WMUR pic.twitter.com/DwqyuYWFXy

— Adam Sexton (@AdamSextonWMUR) March 28, 2024

And now the Dems in New Hampshire have another problem. They like to discourage primaries, but it behooves them to find someone brown to run against Van Ostern. A “someone” who will likely lose the primary, once again proving they are a party that talks the talk but never walks the walk. Related: Why NH Democrats Should Be Proud to Lose Their Primary

If it matters, the Republican challenger is Lily Tang Williams, a woman from China who escaped Mao’s tyranny. Van Ostern, for the record, will work to duplicate that tyranny here in America.

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In a fast-moving story culminating in the shortest career ever at the NBC News Network, Ronna McDaniel is officially out as a political analyst at MSNBC. The inmates have taken over the asylum as the top echelon of the network has bent their knees, apologized to, and assuaged their celebrity talking heads who began their temper tantrums on air Sunday morning.

With each successive show, the former employees, now network executives, grew louder and bolder. Chuck Todd, Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, Jen Psaki, Joy Reid, and Rachel Maddow all took their shots at management, condemning them for their lousy decision to hire McDaniel without consulting the rank and file. In reversing their decision because of internal condemnation, the leadership of the NBC / MSNBC network has been transferred to the hired help. TV on-air personalities have inflated egos and elevated personal value, but the camera angles must be adjusted to fit their enlarged heads on the screen.

Here are some of the quotes from Tuesday evening’s shows.

Rachel Maddow, “You wouldn’t hire a made man, like a mobster, to work in the DA’s office (chuckle).”

Jen Psaki, “Our Democracy is in danger because of the lies from people like Ronna McDaniel has pushed on the country.”

Chuck Todd, “She already has a credibility issue she must work through before facing the public.”

Keep in mind that these quotes are from people who pushed the Russian Conspiracy Theory, the dossier, the Trump phone call to Ukraine, denied the existence of the Biden laptop, and that radical Trump supporters killed four Capital police officers on January 6. These people are not afraid of the truth. They have no conception of the truth. Their ambivalence towards McDaniel has little to do with the truth and more about their need for unfettered delivery of the White House and Joe Biden doctrine. They want no debate on the Peacock Network. They want only a continuation of the orchestrated gaslighting that has been the narrative of the Legacy Media, CNN, and MSNBC.

In the official statement from NBC Universal News Chairman, Cesar Conde:

“Our initial decision was made because of our deep commitment to presenting our audiences with a wide diverse set of viewpoints and experiences, particularly during these consequential times.”

It sounds impressive and a welcome change to NBC and MSNBC, which has been more of a Democrat mouthpiece than a news source. Unfortunately, retracting the position to Ronna McDaniel because of the internal grumbling of the staff shows this was an empty line meant to impress but not to be authentic. The lineup of political opinion analysts, there are no actual news shows on MSNBC, does not want diversity in their ranks unless you are talking about skin color or sexual proclivity.

To bring political diversity to NBC and MSNBC would expose their audience to a storyline that would be very foreign to them. It may also prompt people to view the network as a biased entity that has been gaslighting since its inception. That is something we have been trying to tell them for years.

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On the morning of March 26, the Francis Scott Key bridge across the Patapsco River in the upper Chesapeake Bay suffered critical damage after a cargo ship, the Singapore-owned Dali, crashed into one of its key support struts. This noteworthy incident has captured international headlines and dominated US political conversation since. The key question swirls: Who did it?

The answer is simple once you consider all of the potential culprits. First, establish what actually happened. A single review of the video footage makes it clear that the incident was a cyber attack. The ship lost power multiple times. During the power issues, it drastically changed course and veered directly into the strut. No ship captain onboard would make such a maneuver. It’s a career-ending mistake. Such a steering action could only be intentional and could only have been done by special operatives hijacking the ship or by remote control through a cyber-attack.

Whether it was a cyber attack or spec-ops is irrelevant because both point to the same conclusion– it was actors within the government of the United States of America itself who committed the attack.

Let’s do a quick review to confirm this by asking the simple question necessary in all geopolitical analysis: Cui bono? Who benefits?

Among all countries capable of remote cyberattack—the United States, the United Kingdom, Israel, France, Germany, Russia, China, and Japan—which would care about Baltimore Harbor? And which would care about an attack right now? What is the context of this attack?

Baltimore is in a state of decay. The city badly needs revival and direction. Nationally, in the US, Trump just received a windfall reduction in a key court case being waged against him for the 2024 presidential election. Another key candidate, RFK Jr, just announced his VP pick and it does not look like a good call for Team Biden. On the international scene, Israel ignored the Biden administration’s advice to delay or defer an attack on Rafah, the last part of Gaza that has yet to be cleaned out by its military operations following the October 7 events. Russia just suffered a humiliating and devastating terrorist attack on civilians in the Moscow suburbs. So, ask again, cui bono?

Of course, the Biden administration benefits from this attack. First, it distracts from the Trump and RFK campaign moves with a clickbait event– a negative event that forces Biden to act positively. Second, it provides a platform for Biden to make positive infrastructural promises for a solidly Blue area in Baltimore. Third, it provides Baltimore with a positive infrastructure project that will generate economic activity for the city. This economic activity is regionally a boon for the US economy as a whole– there will be more requests for permits in new locations due to rerouted transportation, other ports will receive boosts in shipping activity, and shipping routes will be longer so overland US shipping companies will see higher revenues. This is all in line with Biden’s general policy platform, which has favored corporations over citizens and sought consistently to boost government and corporate profits at the expense of citizens.

Ultimately, the FSK bridge is an inconsequential target, despite Lara Logan’s assertions otherwise, in the sense that the US transportation infrastructure in the Baltimore area is quite strong. There are many other routes for key overland shipping. There are also many other ports that can accept large freight cargo ships and transportation networks that can reroute deliveries. It does not pose a major problem. If anything, it protects Baltimore from the risks associated with an open shipping lane. It is defensive to shut shipping lanes there and effectively close Baltimore harbor.

And what about Israel? Netanyahu and Biden have sparred publicly on the international stage in the run-up to the Rafah ground offensive, which is starting this week. A large-scale international event like the FSK bridge attack provides cover in US domestic media and some international media channels for the Rafah offensive. Many people will focus on Baltimore and forget about Rafah, at least until it is too late and Israel has already achieved its objectives there in rooting out the last Hamas tunnel terrorist networks.

Finally, there is the Moscow theater terror attack. It seems that the FSK bridge attack could potentially be a response to the Moscow attack. The USA said that it was ISIS-K that conducted the attack, which means it was an organization with US links. The assailants fled towards Ukraine, which means they were likely Ukrainian or seeking NATO shelter. So, for Russia to strike back at the US seems like an expected occurrence. Yet, the twist is that for the Biden administration, in attacking Baltimore itself, it allows the US to remain in control of the conflict. Since the US is the assailant, others will not conduct attacks, thinking that the Moscow theater counterattack has already occurred. Russia might even think someone else has acted on their behalf.

This is a classic full spectrum dominance move, if it were the US. Not only does it provide a positive platform for Biden to act upon with strength, but it also allows the US to remain in control of the conflict, on its own terms. No other country has an interest in Baltimore bridges. Any such action from Russia, China, Israel, or another country, would have been aimed at a much more serious target and intended to do much more damage.

Why would the attack occur at 1:30 am? Well, to reduce casualties. That’s why this was a carefully calculated move of self-sabotage. A move meant by the US to protect its own interests, to provide cover, and to make it seem as if the country is under attack.

This is why the FBI came out almost immediately, saying the attack was not a terrorist incident. It’s why Biden says he doesn’t want insurance companies investigating and why he moved so quickly to announce the repair packages.

Such is the nature of geopolitical events.

Here’s the kicker and the giveaway that the Chinese-influenced Biden administration was behind this– the name of the container ship, Dali, means ‘big knife’ in Chinese. If any country other than the US did it, it was China and Biden’s Chinese connections.

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Maine politics is not dull in this new Liberal era for The Pine Tree State. Every week, we see a different Progressive attempt to outdo the previous outlandish piece of legislation. When you look at the range of laws passed, starting with the legalization of Marijuana in 2016.

This law did not take effect until 2020, when the way was cleared for recreational pot dispensaries. Maine has 218 licensed dispensaries. In comparison, there are only 159 Dunkin’ Donuts in Maine.

We have talked about some of the more controversial laws passed, such as:

• Expand online voter registration, which welcomes fraud.
• The most progressive abortion bill in the country allows abortion up to the time of birth.
• Established Maine as a sanctuary state for minors from more restrictive states seeking abortion or transgender services.

These are just a few examples, but they give you a good look at the trend line for the powers-to-be in Augusta. The trend line is straight down. There is no idea too Progressive for these elite Libs. The problem is they are not destroying themselves alone. They are dragging Conservatives down into their cesspool with them.

Maine House Speaker Rachel Talbot Ross (D-Portland) has introduced a bill to establish a state “social equity program” and advisory board to push affirmative action business development initiatives for disproportionately incarcerated populations. That is a typical word salad. Let’s reword. Ross is introducing a WOKE bill to give $12,000 to people who have been convicted of marijuana-related charges so they can set up a business for themselves in Maine’s marijuana environment. We will also set up a board to seek out and identify these lucky folks who law-abiding Mainers will fund their new business venture. So, it is not only a way to waste your tax dollars but sets up a new bureaucracy at the same time. Excellent job, Speaker. Is anyone in the family high on the list to get the $12,000 check? This thinking is tantamount to taking pedophiles with DWI convictions and making them school bus drivers.

So, in the epitome of Democrat philosophy, we are going to play identity politics. We are going to single out people who have already been convicted of crimes, and then we are going to single out minorities within those ranks. Then, we will take tax dollars from everyone outside the box to benefit the few. So, who is benefiting from this ridiculous bill?

We have over 300 illegal, Chinese-owned pot facilities in the state. Yes, the state and local police have been raiding these facilities, but none seem to be put out of commission. We also have an Attorney General in Merrick Garland and a nonresponsive Department of Justice that has ignored calls for help from members of Congress since last August. We have a State Justice Department that has produced a list of crimes that will no longer be recognized for arrest or prosecution. Rather than direct efforts and resources in a direction, the elected of Maine have opted for identity politics. Rather than help every Mainer by creating a state that is a positive environment for all business owners, we are singling out past offenders. This decision is beyond reason and comprehension. It is terrible pieces of legislation, such as the social equity program, that prompt the question of whether anyone who votes to put these WOKE liberal hacks into office ever makes themselves aware of the actions of these people. I would have to say no. There is no way a person can justify this stupidity unless they have a vested interest in the foolishness.

I asked the question in a previous article if we have passed the point of no return. People like Maine House Speaker Rachel Talbot Ross (D-Portland) are on a mission to ensure we have gotten to the edge of the cliff and are taking our turns to jump.

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Last September, we reported on a class action lawsuit filed by a handful of Democrat-run warzones (doing business as cities) that blamed rising car thefts on automakers whose vehicles are easier to steal. Isn’t that like saying it’s okay to punch someone because they look like they won’t punch back?

Violent thug: Did you see the look on that guy’s face? He was begging to get beat up.
Democrat DA: You’re right. Let’s sue his parents.

Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, and New York sued Kia/Hyundai for making cars people don’t want to steal but can’t help themselves. It’s just so darn easy, like blaming someone else for a problem created by decades of democratic rule and deliberate policy choices (like not prosecuting theft). However, prosecutors aren’t going to get jackpot justice from former Kia and Hyundai owners, so the Democrats are blaming the car maker.

Minnesota AG Keith Ellison wants in on this action.

“But we have to go upstream, and we got to make sure that the automobiles are not so easy to steal that they are a tempting, attractive nuisance for young people. Right now we are investigating two major automakers because their cars are dramatically too easy to steal for young people.”

What happens when you take that statement and replace “automobiles” with retail goods?

“But we have to go upstream, and we got to make sure that the retail goods are not so easy to steal that they are a tempting, attractive nuisance for young people. Right now we are investigating retailers because their inventory are dramatically too easy to steal for young people.”

Or personal property.

“But we have to go upstream, and we got to make sure that the personal property is not so easy to steal that they are a tempting, attractive nuisance for young people. Right now we are investigating homeowners because their belongings are dramatically too easy to steal for young people.”

Or, what the heck, election!

“But we have to go upstream, and we got to make sure that elections are not so easy to steal that they are a tempting, attractive nuisance for young people. Right now we are investigating local precincts because their votes are dramatically too easy to steal for young people.”

You can plug almost anything in there, and what you end up with is a so-called criminal justice system whose purpose is not to protect people from loss of property (or life). It is to distract victims while it profits from their misery.

Neither Ellison, his state, nor any of the municipal crime lords doing business as AGs or prosecutors will spend a dime of any settlement on improving public safety because they aren’t in that business.

Why do you think they want you disarmed? Yes, it is impossible to advance to actual tyranny in a land with armed citizens, but it is also true that if citizens were allowed to gun down criminals, it might have a deleterious impact on achieving that tyranny. Deliberate crime creates chaos, and the goal is to so unsettle the middle class that they demand the government take more freedoms for the promise of safety they never intend to deliver.

And that lawlessness and mayhem is always someone else’s fault, and that is a lesson that victims of Democrat rule can’t seem to learn. They have controlled everything for decades but are responsible for nothing.

You’d never tolerate that BS from a friend or family member, so why do politicians and bureaucrats get a pass?

 

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This is in response to Ann Marie Banfield’s Hudson” Alvirine High School Calls In Black Lives Matter to Meet with Students, which exposed that under the pretext of “diversity” and “inclusion,” Black Lives Matter would be indoctrinating high school students regarding “microaggressions” and “privilege.”

In other words, anti-white racism. But don’t worry … I know just what to do! I have a plan!

It’s really quite simple. We elect a Republican legislature and Governor, and then we ban DEI in public schools (including the university system) just like other States have. What’s that? Huh? You’re telling me that we already have a Republican legislature and Governor, and they passed a law banning “divisive concepts”? Really?

Well … your “divisive concepts” law OBVIOUSLY is sh*t since the unelected permanent government that actually runs the public schools had no problem bringing BLM to Hudson to spew anti-white racism. And OBVIOUSLY and UNDENIABLY, if you want to ban anti-white racism from New Hampshire’s public schools, you need to do just that … actually ban DEI, just as other States have.

Kudos to Ann Marie Banfield for being willing to battle the unelected permanent government that actually runs New Hampshire’s public schools, and winning that battle in this instance. But this whack-a-mole approach is unnecessary and nowhere near as efficacious as actually banning DEI, just as other States have.

But don’t hold your breath waiting for the supposedly “Republican” legislature to actually act like Republicans. They have far, far, far more important things to do … such as turning New Hampshire into an endless stream of apartment complexes. And the very “Republicans” whose priority is making New Hampshire look like Massachusetts are running around like chickens with their heads cut off, clucking, “Don’t Mass up New Hampshire,” “Don’t Mass up New Hampshire.” Like this clown:

New Hampshire Advantage! Slava Ukraine! Slava Ukraine! Mask up! Vax up! Workforce housing! Slava Ukraine! Cluck, cluck, cluck, cluck, cluck.

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I’m sure the grapevine has reached all corners of NH and cyberspace with Annie Kuster’s retirement announcement earlier today.  I was at the state house and wearing my “Chuck Morse’s voting record matters” shirt when I received the news just before the executive council was called to order.  Readers ought to be familiar with his 11/19/21 crime against NH.

However, I’m here to talk about what happened AFTER all the commotion in the LOB following that unfortunate roll call, and what fellow committee member and former Senator Giuda said as he addressed the unhappy crowd across the street behind the state house.  Chau Kelley took a video of him, but she was later unsurprisingly kicked off YouTube, and 15 years worth of citizen journalism disappeared as a result.  I reached out to her in hopes that a copy was available through another account, but I am not going to keep you waiting for that, nor will I keep you waiting for what I have to say about Senator Giuda’s words.

He called money the “mother’s milk” and emphasized the importance of donating directly to the candidate rather than a middle entity, such as the NHGOP or an activist group.  I’m going to pick on 10 Water Street for a moment.  I use the address because it has a “10 DOWNING Street sound” to it; I just need to get Grokster Di Lothrop to say it out loud.

When I returned from Concord, I found a 1:31 pm email from info@nhgop.org in my inbox announcing Annie’s retirement, which also had its routine request for donations.  I want to remind everyone that regardless of their current thoughts about General Bolduc, he announced his 2022 candidacy shortly after losing to Corky in 2020.  Corky, as most people know, was “the chosen one” despite being a bought-and-sold carpetbagger.  In the next election, General Bolduc was essentially ignored as Chuck Morse and a handful of others appeared shortly prior to filing time.

Do NOT allow Chris Ager and the 10 Water Street influencers to do to Lily Tang Williams what they did to General Bolduc!  You can help by following Senator Giuda’s advice and donating to her directly.

No donation is too small.  In fact, what’s not stated enough is how important it is to have a hearty number of donors from NH, so please, even if it’s just a dollar, do it.  If you visit her link, you will find a variety of ways to get your donation to her campaign and choose the method that best suits you.

I’ll also add that when Elise invited Karoline and seven other women running for Congress to a Newsmax panel, I noticed Lily’s absence. While I was happy for Karoline, I emailed Elise’s office, politely, of course. I pointed out that we are the 50% and we had one woman running for Congress and requested that she show her some love. Of course, my email was ignored, which was no surprise.

I later mentioned that to Lily because I previously remember Steve Negron being snubbed in a variety of ways that the darling Mowers didn’t experience.  Lily pointed out that she had not met the fundraising requirements to be considered by Elise.  Fair enough, I’ve been educated.

I will close with a final talking point: Lily deserves access to the opportunities that (dare I say Dr Chan’s favorite word)ROBUST fundraising provides. So again, if you could pitch in even just a dollar(or more), it would be very helpful, and now, right on the heels of a current event, is a good time. Don’t wait.

 

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Congressman Ken Buck (Republican-CO 4th), when resigning early from Congress, has let the cat out of the bag. There is the Demolitioncrat/Uniparty plan for your children and grandchildren.

Buck claims that three more Republican Representatives (now Mike Gallager of Wisconsin has resigned) will soon exit the House of Representatives. That would flip the House majority to Democrats, and Hakeem Jeffries would become Speaker of the House.

That would flip all the Chairpersons of House Committees to Demolitioncrats, who would shut down all House investigations into the Biden bribery scandals. Why would I suspect that former Speaker McCarthy is sabotaging Republican control of the House?

If living in 2024 has taught anyone to pay attention to anything, it is that conspiracies are real and, as Steve Bannon of “War Room” fame says, there are no coincidences!

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Buck’s resignation has also forced an election to replace him in Colorado 4th at the same time as Republican Lauren Boebert is running in a primary for that seat in the House. Boebert would have to resign her current seat in Colorado 3rd to run in the election to replace the traitor Buck in Colorado 4th. To her credit, Boebert refuses to resign because of the current slim majority in the House. Does anyone smell an odor of McCarthy sabotage?

As for the Electoral College, the invasion of 15 million illegal aliens added to the Census will likely result in an additional thirteen Demolitioncrat seats in the House of Representatives. Recent polls show that 57% of Demolitioncrats would support the House refusing to confirm Trump’s 2024 election. Demolitioncrat strategist Marc Elias’ plan is to retain control of the House and refuse to confirm Trump’s election as the 47th POTUS.

Psychics tell us Demolitioncrats, helped by Mitch McConnell RINOS, who promulgated the J6 2021 insurrection lie, will cause the same on J6 2025.

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Neutering children is all the rage in Western democracies, or it was. A few weeks ago, the UK banned the public health service from allowing gender transition drugs (and therefore surgeries) on minors, following a four-year study that showed the practice had no mental health benefit or made matters worse.

This announcement came on the heels of an undercover report featuring internal communications from doctors who prescribed hormone blockers and who mutilate children for money, admitting the drugs are dangerous, leading to cancer or death. In other words, they are neither safe nor effective, an opinion shared by regulators in France, who “want to ban gender transition treatments for under-18s, after a report described sex reassignment in minors as potentially “one of the greatest ethical scandals in the history of medicine.”

Thus the title.

The report, commissioned by the opposition centre-Right Les Republicains (LR) party, documents various practices by health professionals, which it claims are indoctrinated by a “trans-affirmative” ideology under the sway of experienced trans-activist associations.

The report, which cites a “tense scientific and medical debate”, accuses such associations of encouraging gender transition in minors via intense propaganda campaigns on social media.

Jacqueline Eustache-Brinio, an LR senator who led the working group behind the report, concluded that “fashion plays a big role” in the rise of gender reassignment treatments.

The French Senate report warns that diagnosing children with “gender dysphoria” results in the premature medicalization of their anxiety

— “The diagnosis of ‘gender dysphoria,’ as shaped by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), seems to accelerate the… pic.twitter.com/1Y7O9djBvq

— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) March 24, 2024

European nations are taking a serious look at the benefit-to-harm ratio as well as the bullying from gender warriors.

The French report explicitly points to the militant ideology promoting gender reassignment surgeries.

The report, which is detailed and well-argued, points to a number of abuses by health professionals, indoctrinated by a “trans-affirmative” ideology and subject to the influence of experienced trans activist associations. The report’s authors accuse these associations of unreasonably encouraging gender transition in minors via an intense propaganda campaign on social media.

The scandal has been brewing for several months, thanks to the mobilisation of psychologists, psychiatrists, educators, and parents, who have denounced the ravages of this militant ideology among fragile and suffering young people, to whom gender transition is proposed as a miracle solution to the psychological problems they may be experiencing.

Someone call Dartmouth Medical. The French are revolting against the preferred ideology.

Do not expect the American gender mills to go quietly into that goodnight. There is money, power, and influence in the gender-transition laundromat, much like abortion (which is also knee-deep in this scam). Almost no one thinks on earth it is reasonable to end a pregnancy after 24 weeks, even in extenuating circumstances, except the American left. Most of Europe and the world prohibit the sort of thing Democrats demand – conception to live-birth abortion.

Gender transition strikes me as a little different, and that door has been open long enough for them to realize the benefits of their agenda: indoctrination, sterilization, depopulation, and the medical industrial complex to campaign coffers laundromat. Europe’s position on abortion is in line with a supermajority of Republicans and independents, so it’s wrong, so their opinions about hormone therapy and surgery on minors won’t (likely) move the needle either.

You and I will need to do that with help from the UK, France, and a growing number of countries across Europe.

 

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I was forwarded the below statement on Rep. Annie Kuster’s “retirement” by a journalist who had been investigating the framing of Justin Fairfax, who was “MeToo’d” in Virginia.

At the same time, it is now becoming apparent that Charlotte Bennett, one of former NY Andrew Cuomo’s accusers, is also a fraud who has a history as “Sally Smith,” a false accuser at Hamilton College who got successfully sued by a John Doe that was framed by her and other mean girls.

Rep. Annie Kuster spent a fair amount of the last 12 years pretending to be pro-women, standing up for “survivors,” claiming to be a “survivor” herself. It was always a lie.  Political propaganda always relies on short-term memories. Before Kuster announced she was not going to run for re-election, someone spent a fair amount of time disabling inconvenient links to articles on her Wikipedia Page. Among these were articles about her work as a lobbyist for Rohypnol and statements she had made after women begged for it to be made into a class-A drug because they had been gang-raped under its influence.  She discredited their testimony because she was trying to keep the contracts and revenue for the drug maker which was paying her handsomely for her lobby efforts.

Another article that had its link disabled was one about Rep. Annie Kuster as an “Angel” lawyer in adoption cases.  Kids in New Hampshire end up being adopted after being put in foster care. They end up in foster care after DCYF removes them from their parents without due process – something that has come to light in the most recent hearings held by a committee convened as a result of the decades of failures by DCYF.

There are records and testimonies of parents who have had their children taken from them, never to see them again. Parents who have paid into child support only to find out that the State never gave the child support to the other parent to look after the children because the State didn’t bother to go looking for the children.  Rep. Annie Kuster had a nice business between pharmaceutical lobbying and adoption law.  Let’s not forget that New Hampshire is one of the worst states in the nation for drugging kids in care with opioids and similar.

For all the money Kuster made in private practice as a lawyer, she couldn’t find the time or resources to pay her property taxes on time. Had she not run for Congress in 2012, one wonders if she would have gotten away with it for longer.

It wasn’t until 2014 that Rep. Annie Kuster decided she was going to stand up for campus sexual assault survivors. Why? Because there was a ton of money to be had under the Violence Against Women Act and Susan Carbon, who’d been on Governor John Lynch’s Domestic Violence Commission, had been appointed by Obama to oversee a handout from the Department of Justice Office of Violence Against Women. Hundreds of millions of dollars were there on offer. All you had to do was create an excuse to get them. Create “survivors”.

Thus, Kuster stood up on the house floor in September 2016 to declare Chessy Prout “a survivor”. She took her to Capitol Hill in January 2017. Chessy Prout showed her a documentary about sexual assault in school called “Audrie & Daisy,” which aired on Netflix and was sponsored by PAVE, for which Chessy was an “ambassador.”

She took Chessy Prout to UNH in April 2017. She wrote the introduction to Chessy’s book in March 2018 and that book was promoted by Dan Hill – A Government Affairs PR representative whose company boasts the use of stealth and special ops tactics to secure Government Contracts.  The book compared Owen Labrie, a scholarship student at St Paul’s School who should have gone to Harvard on a full ride, to an “Al Qaeda terrorist” and “Donald Trump.”  It was all sensationalist and absurd political propaganda.

Kuster was nearly caught out in July 2019 by ABC/GMA who interviewed Owen Labrie. He was finally going to have the chance to speak for himself on national TV with Amy Robach, who flew with a team to Burlington, Vermont, to interview him on July 15, 2019.  A copy of the program was sent to the Prout family representatives for comment. The program never aired because Dem Caucus Rep Amanda Grady Sexton and the NHCADSV launched a social media campaign called #SurvivorsOverRatings to block it, and her pal Rep. Annie Kuster had her office contact ABC/GMA to block it from airing.

What was at stake, apart from the exposure of corruption in which Rep. Annie Kuster had been complicit? $14 million to be sucked out of Dartmouth College, of which $2.865 million was on the line to go to the NHCADSV to pour into new lobbies to support the Every Voice Matters coalition, which is part of Its On Us and thus part of Civic Nation.

Yes, the Rapuano & Does v Dartmouth suit (filed by the same attorneys who sued St. Paul’s School in the wake of NH v Owen Labrie) was in mediation when the ABC/GMA interview would have aired. Kuster had come out swinging to support Rapuano & Does against Dartmouth.  Times Up had put up the PR money for the plaintiffs. The Concord Monitor had covered it in favor of the plaintiffs and the settlement. Who didn’t cover the suicide of Professor David Bucci, who’d been smeared in the suit but denied the right to speak for himself? The Concord Monitor. The same paper that seems to be looking after Congresswoman Ann Kuster and Councilwoman Amanda Grady Sexton by disabling or deleting links that are now inconvenient to them on these matters.

DCCC Chair Statement on the Retirement of Rep. Annie Kuster

Today, DCCC Chair Suzan DelBene released the following statement upon the announcement that Congresswoman Annie Kuster (NH-02) will not seek re-election:

“Annie Kuster has been a tireless champion for the people of New Hampshire. During her time in Congress and as chair of the New Democrat Coalition, she’s been a beacon for common-sense solutions to create good jobs, fight the opioid epidemic, and expand access to mental health care. She’s a leading voice in Congress for survivors of sexual assault – fighting for legislation to support them and ensure that collectively our nation continues to have the important conversations that center the fight for the safety and wellbeing of survivors. 

“Her record of public service and delivering for New Hampshire is unmatched. I am constantly in awe of and inspired by her courage and will miss her as a colleague and friend. With her help, I’m confident that this seat will remain in Democratic hands so that Granite Staters can continue having a fighter for them in Congress.” 

For Immediate Release: March 27, 2024
CONTACT: Viet Shelton | (206) 719-8598
PAID FOR BY DCCC. DCCC.ORG. NOT AUTHORIZED BY ANY CANDIDATE OR CANDIDATE’S COMMITTEE.  

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Usually, when you hire someone to do something, and they don’t or can’t do it, you do not then give them more responsibility or reward them with additional revenue. But let’s say you do, and they fail again and again. At what point do you stop rewarding failure?

In my town of Merrimack, the school system is swirling the drain. Proficiency scores are not great and, in some cases, not even good. The message here is simple. No matter how much money we spend, they cannot teach the kids to read. The other subjects aren’t doing any better, so what does the school do? It asks for more money to play therapist to your kids.

Social-emotional Learning is public school head-shrinking as an on-ramp to full-blown in-house mental health services.

This is a school with teachers who, after decades of practice and an exponential increase in fiscal resources, are less able to teach all the kids to read to grade level than they did with more students and less money. In what world does that justify more funding for anything, especially an expansion into mental health-related surveys, sessions, or actual one-on-one engagement?

None, and asking for it is looking in the wrong direction. Public Schools that don’t cherish teaching kids to read, write, add, and subtract have failed not just the children but also the parents and taxpayers funding them.

You can decide when academics stopped being a priority or even a function of public education, but the idea wasn’t born yesterday, and neither, I hope, were you.

Do not reward schools that can’t teach kids with new things they are even less capable of doing, especially when the odds are high that the only reason a child might need such services is because the school that wants to offer them screwed up your kid’s head in the first place.

 

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As promised in Monday Memes, I have an overflow. My meme cup runneth over.  And yes there will be a Friday edition too.

Let the mayhem, mockery, and ridicule resume:

 

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

 

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Waste of the Day: Debt Held By The Public Will Be “Unsustainable” By 2050 | The Gateway Pundit | by Guest Contributor

IMHO this is an overly-optimistic appraisal of the situation.  We’re already at $100 trillion added every 100 days, and that’s a death spiral that can’t be stopped.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is REAL privilege.

 

 

And yet, amazingly, there are people who just TRUST BLINDLY.  I had my own piece about that:

A Crisis of Trust – Urban Scoop

 

 

This is the cost of loose sex women (and men as well, let’s be fair).  It used to be that to gain access to sex – almost always through marriage – a man had to court a woman and demonstrate his suitability as a mate.  Now, it’s “swipe right” and off you go to date, with the deed almost expected on the first date, and practically mandatory by the third or fourth date.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

While I wish I had bought Bitcoin when it was less than a dollar, and envy those who did, I’m still skeptical.  First, it’s late in the game.  Second, to alter Arthur C. Clark’s rule, “Any technology, sufficiently advanced, is indistinguishable from a brick when the power’s off”.  All those bitcoins are useless if we’ve been EMPed or otherwise had the grid go down.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Are you f*cking kidding me?  PAIN BIAS?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I make a “spirited attempt” to keep kosher, so no pork for me and the family.  That doesn’t, alas, prevent my Covidian (not Jewish) wife from occasionally sneaking to let the kids buy something with bacon in it at a fast food place.

 

 

 

 

 

 

IIRC it was a SCOTUS ruling that, because someone’s homegrown tomatoes could potentially impact interstate commerce, even in a marginal way, that the government gained power to regulate home gardens, etc.

 

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PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA

 

Project 2025 and Republican Domination (aknextphase.com)

I don’t normally link to liberal bloggers, but this post rises to the very quote attributed to Nazi propaganda minister Goering: “Accuse others of that which you do”.

Understand that a good 30-40 percent STILL BELIEVE The Potato in Thief is doing a good job.  Like Covidians vis a vis The Jab, like Warmists about the dangers of CO2, you can shower them – a la Yuri Bezmenov – with information and facts and statistics and logic, and they’ll slam their mental gates shut.  (See my newly-coined quotation at the end of this post too.)

Cue my three essays “Teflon Intellects” from my old blog:

 

E Teflon Intellects 1

 

 

E Teflon Intellects 2

 

 

E Teflon Intellects 3

 

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Links (some from me, some from my Jarhead friend):

 

Google and Meta Function as Extensions of the US Intelligence Community – Geller Report

Duh.

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Mike Benz: Deep State – Foreign Policy Establishment Could Go Full Authoritarian – “I Believe They Already Have” (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft

James, Engoron Turning U.S. into ‘3rd World’ Nation, Commentary Warns | The Gateway Pundit | by Guest Contributor

Turning into?  No, IS.

Dirty Obama Judge Amy Berman Jackson Upholds DC Law That Allows Non-Citizens – AND ILLEGAL ALIENS – to Vote in Municipal Elections | The Gateway Pundit | by Cristina Laila

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Enemies of the People | Power Line (powerlineblog.com)

There’s a reason I call them the ENEMEDIA.  And an absolute majority agree with me.

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The Era of Informed Consent is Over ⋆ Brownstone Institute

For what the government considers “negligible risk” trials, there’s no need to inform the lab animals trial participants.  More:

FDA is trying to legalize its illegal approvals of COVID vaccines without human trials. Now one animal trial will do the trick to “prove” efficacy? (substack.com)

More FDA stuff:

LUPRON: dangers of this drug yet it persists! Lupron is linked to large increase in fatal heart attacks & diabetes & is even worse IMO than Statins; Lupron as a PUBERTY BLOCKER? IVF? GENDER CHANGE? (substack.com)

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War Correspondent Michael Yon Warns Russian Style Terror Attacks Coming to America (infowars.com)

Without a doubt.  I have hated going to local malls for years because of this possibility.

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Corrupt Chicago Democrats Suddenly Pull 10,000 Mail-In Ballots Out of Thin Air in DA Race – Clever Journeys

OMG.  Of course.  Not surprised.  The only thing that’s surprising is that anyone’s actually surprised.  And you really think you’re going to vote your way out of this?

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Tennessee lawmakers look to ban geoengineering; Critics argue bill ‘based on conspiracy theories’ (wkrn.com)

The measure was opposed by Nashville Rep. Justin Jones, who said a lot of the purported evidence for Fritts’ bill was “based on conspiracy theories.”

So if there’s no actual cost to the state to pass the bill, and no evidence that the threat actually exists, then where’s the problem with passing it, hmmm?

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While you were distracted by the “Where’s Princess Kate Conspiracy”, Deagel’s Depopulation Forecast was confirmed by Heavily Censored Pfizer Documents – The Expose (expose-news.com)

For the vast majority of Jabbed people in my circle, I’ll mourn.  For some few, I’ll celebrate, and for a selected subset of the latter, the sooner the better!

 

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The Potato is Barackus’ third term.  Anyone with three brain cells that talk with each other understands this.

 

 

 

 

“She”.

 

 

 

In every polling station.  As a condition of getting a ballot.  In addition to an ID of course.

 

 

NOTHING says “Trust the science” like a 148 page report with, literally, every word blanked out.

 

 

OOH, I’m sure he could use the support.  OTOH, is this a trap to ID people inclined to support him?

 

 

 

 

MHO, they’d start WWIII, globally, to prevent this.  AND to hide the accumulation of Jab effects.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Boycotts are appropriate.  But you need to let them know WHY.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Funny how research results often seem to align with the desires of who is paying for it.

 

 

I make beautiful, healthy hamburgers for the kids.  I make delicious air-fried, crispy breaded organic chicken for the kids.  I have all sorts of wonderful and healthy recipes… and what do they want?  Wendy’s, McDonalds, KFC, etc.  ARGH!  About my only consolation, at least for the boy, is that he’s bought hook, line, and sinker my telling him that adding greens like spinach is essential to the homemade meat sauce.  That, and the grated carrots add a dimension of flavor.

So far neither of them are aware I add “super-mushroom” powder to a number of the dishes I make for them.

 

 

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Pick of the Post:

 

Shot…

 

 

And chaser…

 

 

Say, Barackus has a house on Martha’s Vineyard.  What’s that maximum elevation?  311 feet.  That passes Tyson’s test.  Barackus paid almost $12 million for his house.  How high above sea level?

Sea Level Rise Dooms Obama’s New Martha’s Vineyard Mansion – Watts Up With That?

Eyeballing the contour map, it’s about 13 feet above sea level.  To quote Instapundit:

I’ll believe it’s a crisis when those who say it’s a crisis act like it’s a crisis.

Leave us not forget eco-loon Leonardo DiCaprio’s real estate portfolio:

Leonardo DiCaprio Builds an Eco-Resort – The New York Times (nytimes.com)

Blackadore Caye – while I can’t find an elevation on it, the pictures here are revealing as to its elevation above sea level.

Leonardo DiCaprio’s Luxury Eco-Resort Blackadore Caye Proves an Impossible Dream – autoevolution

 

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Palate cleansers:

 

 

Assuming I’m feeling snarky, my favorite comeback to being told that I’m talking with myself is “Yes, and when I finally find someone intelligent to talk with, you butt in”.

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If you didn’t have the song pop into your head…

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One of many demotivational posters available at

Home of Demotivators® – The World’s Best Demotivational Posters (despair.com)

 

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Come back on Friday for more memes.  Same meme time.  Same meme channel.

 

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I’m going to “mine” my old essays for some of the (hopefully worthwhile) quips and quotes I’ve coined.  And, currently, here’s a new one for you:

 

I would much prefer talking to a brick wall than the typical sheeple.  At least a brick wall doesn’t put on a preening air of intellectual, educational, and/or moral superiority as they ignore the evidence and logic I present them.

(c) 2024, NITZAKHON

 

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Congresswoman Ann Kuster has announced that she will not seek a seventh term in New Hampshire Congressional District Two (NH CD2).

WMUR

The six-term incumbent says she will leave Capitol Hill early next year at the end of the 118th Congress.

“This work has been many things — rewarding, frustrating, inspiring, and challenging. But, more than anything, it has been an honor,” Kuster said in a statement provided to WMUR. “I will continue serving the people of New Hampshire until the end of my term in January 2025. In the months ahead, I will use my time to help Congress build on the progress we have made and finish the job for the American people.”

Kuster said she will also continue to lead the New Democrat Coalition, a centrist, pro-business caucus that has played an increasingly pivotal role in a narrowly divided Congress.

Centrist?

There’s nothing centrist about Ann Kuster unless by the middle, you mean middle left, so this is obviously about money. The New Democrat Coalition is a group of 100 democrats pretending to be centrists to move Overton’s window further left.

I’m also not convinced this is not surprising to the NH Dems or that it is of much concern. An open congressional seat suggests the promise of change, which even Democrats in the district have been demanding for years. They were tired of Annie a long while back, but any Democrat will do, and we’ll get one or more in short order. Let’s see if they can manage a Democrat of color after the fallout from the 2024 Democrat Presidential primary debacle. Not just a primary candidate but the nominee. That would be a change.

What else might change is that Lily Williams, the only Republican running in CD2, should expect National Republicans to start looking to add another one. I love Lily, but the political machine and class have yet to show much interest in supporting her efforts, and an open seat in a swing state is not something they’ll ignore.

We’ll get a primary on the Republican side.

As for Kuster, I wish her well, but I won’t miss her.

My full statement to the people of New Hampshire’s Second Congressional District pic.twitter.com/HLQKyrs70J

— Ann McLane Kuster (@RepAnnieKuster) March 27, 2024

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I feel like a broken record in saying that criticism for one is not necessarily an endorsement for the other when discussing Chuck Morse and Kelly Ayotte, but keep in mind that the latter is a lawyer, after all.

Plus, I’ve come to think of it as a signature line, similar to when local treasure Allison Dyer finishes up her amazing video montages, which I encourage everyone to watch, with her famous parting comment, “And as always, my friends, elections have consequences.”

I’m putting Chuck on the hot seat again for something partly related to his 11/19/21 crime against NH. This crime was preventable if the executive council had stuck with their original 10/13/21 4-1 vote against taking the money and not quietly flipping it two weeks later.

Chuck posted on Facebook about his attendance at a law enforcement appreciation event in Keene yesterday and made another post about it today.

While it’s common, if not very popular, for candidates on our side to say “I back the blue,” both Chuck and Kelly need to go on record in answering the question “will you ever weaponize the green?”  Most local police wear blue uniforms, but the Gestapo, um I mean “state police,” wear green as do the game wardens.

In case you didn’t already know, the Damn Emperor ordered the unlawful arrests of his peaceful critics on 10/13/21, and I don’t know why it took me this long to think of it as an important post-stumping question.  Granite Staters deserve answers and assurance that another tyrant won’t occupy the Corner Office.  I still plan to ask Chuck about his 11/19/21 vote, but the next person to encounter him, preferably in front of recording devices or a large audience of witnesses, please ask him if he will pledge to never do what His Excellency did.  Don’t ask just for me; ask for the nine people arrested by officers who were “just following orders” at the police academy on 10/13/21.

The victims were tormented with 20 months of lawfare following that day until the charges were quietly dropped.

The Damn Emperor wants that shameful part of history banished to the dustbin of irrelevance as he rides off into his personal sunset.  Don’t let it happen.  And don’t ever think that what happened to the NH 9 can’t happen to you!

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While I defended Tucker Carlson after his interview with Vladamir Putin, some of the other “Russia” coverage didn’t sit well. The trip to the supermarket reeked of propagandist posturing. It stank of Western elites and their love affair with Stalin’s Russia. Putin is a bad man. Look, groceries!

I think the interview was necessary, perhaps groundbreaking, and a great get for any journalist, especially for the ones who whined like babies because it wasn’t them. Many have interviewed strong men with violent reputations to the jealous applause of their peers, never working so hard to push them off a cliff afterward as they did Tucker Carlson.

He’s got the bigger audience, so that (no doubt) wrankles as well. An audience that lays claim to a sense of awareness about truth and media that others allegedly lack (but then don’t they all). And did they buy the supermarket schtick, or were they savvy enough to get it? Putin was never going to let Carlson report on post-Soviet-era living, poverty, police-state militarism, or any reality outside the one that would paint the best picture. This is Russia. Those vignettes were probably part of the deal. You will supplement the interview with reports from places the Russian government selected. You do this then we let you go home.

I’m sure many were savvy enough to see through it, including Tucker, though we never heard him say that (unless I missed it).

It is also safe to assume many were not savvy enough. To be fair, we’ve all tripped over or fallen for something. Wow, that is exactly what I wanted to hear: the affirmation, confirmation bias, and even edification—the desire to see reality align with one’s feelings or at least suspicions. Who doesn’t want that? It makes you smile a little at a time when cheer seems to be in short supply.

The corollary to that might be this hurts my political enemy, so it is my friend, the enemy being a person, project, party, idea, nation, or which way the toilet paper should scroll off the roll. Anyone who disagrees is trapped in an echo chamber.

Just be careful when talking about other people’s echo chambers that the sound you make is not coming from your own. There’s no avoiding this, by the way, but you can assure yourself if you are willing to admit it. On the opposite side, you don’t want to live your life trusting nothing and no one. That’s a tough row to hoe. It can make you bitter and resentful. Angry. It is best to be a happy warrior with a honed sense of skepticism about everything, including what you think you believe.

Did you buy the Russian Supermarket thing? Did you want to? Did you think there were hundreds of these sprawled across what passes for the once-oppressed Soviet landscape? Does it matter? You know there’s no democracy there. No Republic. Putin won the way Saddam Hussein did, and Ukraine is a lot like that now (or again), and regardless of the landscape, post-peace may stay that way.

Russia at least has fake elections; Ukraine doesn’t have any.

Is that a win for Putin or NATO? Was any of it? That depends on who you believe about the what, why, when, where, and how. The Ukrainian people didn’t win, though they might walk away, those that can still walk, with less territory but security concessions (and fewer secret CIA bases and Biolabs).

And maybe some Democracy, not that democracy is all that and a bag of chips. It’s a part of something better, but mob rule describes Russia and more than a few other places where freedom doesn’t exist as we understand it.

In the US, many of the same people whose meddling is responsible for the mess in Ukraine would like to get rid of Democracy here. They talk about it so much that you know they hate it. Democracy used to be about one person, one vote. These days, Democracy is about counting however many votes it takes to protect uniparty institutions and elevating them above the people so that when these same institutions have destroyed faith in Democracy, the people will look to them for some semblance of security and give up freedoms in the bargain. That’s a popular narrative in my echo chamber.

The urge to discard rights (usually someone else’s) in the interest of the appearance of stability is strong. Russia works that way. They have not shuffled off the totalitarian coil. So, Tucker’s sojourn looks like San Francisco before and after Xi came to town. A shithole spit-shined for a moment in time. Proof that the state can pretend to get things done for appearances but has no interest in it other than as a hobby. Tidying up for guests. It’s an illusion we can make into reality if we want to believe it badly enough.

Or is it a truth we refuse to believe? That’s the fun part—working out the difference while saddled with the likelihood that our stereotypes or echo chambers are filtering all of it to the detriment of further inquiry. And is that prejudice or discrimination? No, they are not the same thing.

 

Authors Note: When I started this, I had a different idea about where it was meant to go. It landed somewhere else, and not necessarily well, but I stopped trying to fix it. My apologies if I’ve left you wondering what my point was. There is some value in what’s here, just not the one I thought I was looking for, which, in the end, might be a better thing. 

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I previously posted about Manchester DemocratWoke-Communist Rep Damond Ford’s problem (and “problem” may understate) with Israel: State Rep Damond Ford … You CANNOT Be Progressive And Pro-Israel and about how the “honest history” he wants taught in schools is actually a Woke-Communist rewrite of history: State Rep Damond Ford Doesn’t Know Much About History.

My apologies to the NHGOP bitter-clingers who believe Woke-Communists like Damond Ford are their “colleagues,” but there is more.

Woke-Communism, like all manifestations of collectivism/socialism … e.g., Nazism, Stalinism, Maoism … is a religion. Adherents to Woke-Communism, like Damond Ford, are religious zealots. The Christian heaven, per Damond Ford, is really hell and vice-versa. Hence Ford would rather spend the afterlife in hell.

But, bitter-clingers, keep deluding yourselves about your “colleagues” like Damond Ford, Becky Whitley, Cinde Warmington, etc.. Keep telling yourselves that they are “good people … we just disagree on some issues.” Evil is right in front of your eyes, and you refuse to see it.

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Let’s focus on the Money money-grubbing medical Industry prescribing Antidepressants, Stimulants, and SSRIs with little or no supervision. The majority of school shootings are done by ‘children’ with Mental issues, and most were being “treated,” as best as I can tell from the lack of information due to HIPAA.

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If you read as much as you can on these incidents, 1+1=2. The biggest reason to hold the Medical industry and parents responsible is that these medications have warnings, finally showing Suicidal Tendencies and also Psychotic episodes.

Allowing these children to take these drugs without supervising them should be considered criminal, as with the mother found guilty of Involuntary Manslaughter in the Michigan school shooting, and now the father is being charged and should also be found guilty.

Although this student showed mental issues, the parents never went for help, so it is possible a Good doctor could have avoided this, but as a rule of thumb, most likely would have changed nothing.

One statement certainly leads to the possibility one parent may have medicated him “but said he was given pills and told to “suck it up.”

Here are some warning labels for the common drugs prescribed to children:

PROZAC (fluoxetine delayed-release capsules) for oral use Initial U.S. Approval: 1987

And

Zoloft: WARNING: SUICIDAL THOUGHTS AND BEHAVIORS

*Antidepressants increased the risk of suicidal thoughts and behaviors in pediatric and young adult patients

*Closely monitor for clinical worsening and emergence of suicidal thoughts and behaviors.

LUVOX CR® (Fluvoxamine Maleate) Extended-Release Capsules for oral administration Initial U.S. Approval: 2008

And

FLUVOXAMINE MALEATE Tablets for oral administration Initial U.S. Approval: 1994 WARNING: SUICIDALITY and ANTIDEPRESSANTS

*Increased risk of suicidal thinking and behavior in children, adolescents, and young adults taking antidepressants for major depressive disorder and other psychiatric disorders

 

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In the contest for NH Governor, my vote will go to Chuck Morse. Chuck Morris has been an excellent senator for over twenty years. His voting record and Senate leadership represent NH Values.

Kelly Ayotte was appointed by her sponsor, Governor Benson, and both have had only one term experience in NH. Ayotte had experience in the Washington Swamp following her single term in New Hampshire. What did Kelly accomplish as Attorney General of NH? Governor Benson became wealthier as an excellent entrepreneur in multiple fields.

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NH was a stepping stone for Ayotte to improve her wealth and exposure to the Washington Swamp.

Chuck Morris has built an excellent reputation in his 20 years following the NH constitution as an excellent member and president of the NH Senate. Who can list the accomplishments of Ayotte in her two years in NH.

Chuck Morris has many accomplishments, leading the NH Senate well for many years following the NH constitution. I will support Chuck Morris for Governor.

 

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$100 million + of public funds plus resources of multiple state agencies are at stake. I urge you to consider the following and act accordingly to prevent further abuse of public trust and funds:

The attached article regarding the YDC child sex abuse claims and the parties involved contains statements regarding a “Janus-faced position”.

I note:
“Meehan’s attorneys asked Judge Andrew Schulman in January to prohibit the state from undermining Meehan’s credibility and trustworthiness through cross-examination based on a legal doctrine that prevents a party from taking a position in one legal proceeding that contradicts a position it took in another.

“The State cannot be allowed to take a Janus-faced position — wholeheartedly proffering David’s allegations of abuse on the State’s criminal proceedings while disavowing or discrediting those same allegations in David’s civil action,” they wrote.”

The State has held this Janus-faced position several times before. But so have have attorneys suing the State (particularly David Vicinanzo, Chuck Douglas) and the NGOs they engage with from SNAP to NHCADSV.  

They are collectively playing a game with public funds, public trust, children’s and families lives; defrauding the citizens to enrich themselves. This is abhorrent.

I am a victim of witness intimidation by some of the parties involved. I wrote to Russ Rilee (who brought the David Meehan et al. class action suit on YDC abuse) about my research and beliefs about what was going on.  I asserted that there was a “Kids for Cash” scheme, and I named names. Many of those are involved in the YDC cases, and they include members of NH Bar, Law Enforcement, and Public Agencies. My letter was forwarded to the NHCADSV, who then hired Timothy McLaughlin of Shaheen & Gordon to threaten me with a defamation suit if I did not recuse my statements regarding the NHCADSV’s and Amanda Grady Sexton’s involvement in a “Kids for Cash” Scheme. It’s unlawful to intimidate witnesses. It is even more unlawful when the law firm intimidating the witness is tied to a Senator for the State of New Hampshire who was Governor in the 1990s under whose governorship YDC abuse was taking place. Senator Jeanne Shaheen appointed AG Phil McLaughlin (her mentor, she says), whose son – Timothy McLaughlin – is the attorney at Shaheen & Gordon who threatened me on behalf of Amanda Grady Sexton, who happens to be on Senator Jeanne Shaheen’s re-election campaign committee, on the City of Concord Council, married to the political director of WMUR and Director of Public Affairs for the NHCADSV.  The AG’s office under Phil McLaughlin and others before and after him disregarded complaints about YDC while licking their lips with extortion of the Diocese of Manchester over priest sex abuse claims, which were quickly filed by Chuck Douglas and quickly settled by Gordon MacDonald and David Vicinanzo with former Monsignor Edward Arsenault who went to jail for defrauding the Diocese. The Diocese and Children’s Catholic Charities are indivisible from each other and from DCYF, which has deleted files of child sex abuse or ordered others to do so. New Hampshire Law Enforcement, Court officials, Civil Attorneys, NGOs, and DCYF have been involved together in this decades-long “Kids for Cash” scheme. It is a model that dates back to the 1980s to Sylvia Gale of DCYF, the Diocese of Manchester, Laurie List Police officer James F McLaughlin, and Peter Heed Esq, who would be referred kids as clients when he was in private practice by James F McLaughlin. Peter Heed was rewarded by becoming DA for Cheshire County and then AG for New Hampshire until he was accused of sexual assault by social workers at a publicly funded state conference on sexual violence. The pattern for “Kids for Cash” was so lucrative that it has flourished until now. But it was all paid for using public funds. The money they all made has been hidden in shell companies, real estate, and non-profits hiding as charitable foundations. Primary Bank and Merrimack County Savings Bank appear to be two of the financial institutions most likely involved.  Coincidentally, two members of Nixon Peabody (law firm for the Diocese) are on the board of Primary Bank along with former Governor John Lynch, under whose tenure as Governor the FRM Ponzi Scheme was exposed.  Shaheen & Gordon have represented directors of Primary Bank, and David Vicinanzo has been appointed as special prosecutor for Shahen & Gordon. I believe that Glenn Perlow of NH Trusts is also involved as well as the Secretary of State, Department of Revenue and Banking Commission. Perhaps this is why lawyers from the Banking Commission have been involved in the declamatory hearings for the John Doe v City of Keene Police et al. (James F McLaughlin’s case to be excused from exposure on the Laurie List). Case 213-2021-cv-00185 Several local journalists appear to have been engaged with these parties to leverage their position for whichever side of the door they need to be on. The Boston Globe, WMUR, Concord Monitor, AP have all been involved. Amanda Grady Sexton of the NHCADSV states in this document and on her bio that the organization works to shape and control media for police, prosecutors and civil attorneys, working with journalists. https://law.lclark.edu/live/files/25195-ncvli-newsletter—pretrial-publicityfriend-and The State and these parties are involved in it again with the YDC cases from which they will receive a large percentage of public money set aside to handle the complaints/trials/settlements.  These parties have already made significant amounts of money through this coordinated racket. The public has paid for it. The public has not received one cent of the benefit, but the parties involved have made millions.

There have been no plans put in place to prevent this from happening again. What guarantee is there that ten or twenty years ago there will be more cover ups of child sex abuse by state employees discovered and another sign off on $100 million to deal with those?

The public cannot have confidence in the courts because the State of New Hampshire has worked with NGOs and civil attorneys and media to manipulate judicial outcome for their own self-serving, unconstitutional and financial ulterior motives and now they are about to do it again. There is already in-fighting between David Vicinanzo and Chuck Douglas over legal fees for plaintiffs. I understand that David Vicinanzo also argued with Russ Rilee about fees for book deal rights for YDC victims. As a film and TV agent who deals with book deal rights on occasion, I am quite horrified that these attorneys are putting self-enriching book deals ahead of their client’s interests. In my profession, we are not supposed to put our own interests ahead of those of our clients. We would lose our talent licenses.  I believe that professional codes of conduct for New Hampshire attorneys stipulate the same. Why are these not enforced? https://www.courts.nh.gov/new-hampshire-rules-professional-conduct/rule-17-conflicts-interest As you can see – this is a cash cow payday for them. 

So how does this Kids for Cash deal work. I will lay it out here from the case I investigated which led me to this discovery:
In 2015, State prosecutors (Catherine Ruffle, Joseph Cherniske under Merrimack County DA Scott Murray) stated in the criminal trial of NH v Owen Labrie, that St.Paul’s School (a private school with large endowment) was not on trial.

The State’s witnesses which it called to argue its charges against Owen Labrie included present, former students, and faculty of St Paul’s School. The school and its board of trustees were represented by former NH AG Michael Delaney. (Michael Delaney was AG when the FRM Ponzi Scheme implicated his office. Michael Delaney defended Judge Judy Introcaso when she pled guilty of fraud. She’d magically divorced with a back date on the documents overseen by Susan Carbon, who oversees $400 million from the DOJ OVW, for which New Hampshire’s Law Enforcement, NGOs, and AG’s office are beneficiaries).

According to records from NH v Owen Labrie (including a statement to the US Senate Judiciary Committee from the State’s primary witness/complainant: Chessy Prout) the prosecutor/s (Catherine Ruffle, Joseph Cherniske) allowed state witnesses tampered with by former AG Michael Delaney, to testify. Amanda Grady Sexton of the NHCADSV informed Prosecutor Catherine Ruffle of the tampering. Present in the witness holding room when the alleged tampering happened was Sandra Mathieson – from the Office of Victims Advocate. Nevertheless, not one of these said anything despite the fact that they were ALL paid for by the public. Why not? Because it wasn’t in their personal and political financial interests to do so. But it was in the public’s interest because the public was paying for the investigation and the trial. The prosecutors prevented a line of questioning to one of these witnesses (Andrew Thomson) and then told the judge (Larry Smukler) that a deal had been made with this witness by the school (represented by former AG Michael Delaney – the attorney who has been accused of tampering with the witness group this particular witness was a part of). Andrew Thomson’s mother was legal counsel to then-Governor Maggie Hassan and on the board of trustees of St Paul’s School. She had avoided deposition by being out of the country. She has also worked in the AG’s office, and she works at UNH: Lucy Hodder Esq. She was also an endorser and close friend of Congresswoman Ann Kuster, who used the trial for her political campaigning, writing the introduction to the book ihavetherighttobook.com, which Government Affairs PR rep Dan Hill promoted. He claims he worked alone with Chessy Prout, whom he met in 2015, but the evidence strongly indicates that he worked with the NHCADSV, Amanda Grady Sexton, Steven J Kelly Esq, Chuck Douglas Esq, Steven D Silverman Esq, Congresswoman Ann Kuster and SurvJustice/the White House “Not Alone” task force tied to UNH.  In other words – not alone.  The NHCADSV and Congresswoman Ann Kuster promoted the “memoir” ihavetherighttobook.com. It compares Owen Labrie to Donald Trump and an “Al Qaeda terrorist.”  NHCADSV is supposed to be a non-partisan organization for its non-profit status. It is not. It was a front for Kuster, Shaheen, and Hassan’s political campaigns using DV & SA. According to Amanda Grady Sexton’s bio: “In 2016 Politico named Amanda one of “the most plugged–in activists and elected officials” inNH, and the Boston Globe called her one of NH’s “most desirable endorsements for candidatesseeking the Presidency.” The prosecutors sealed the admission of their knowledge of a deal having been made for State “tampered” witness Andrew Thomson. The New Hampshire Supreme Court ordered that information to be unsealed eight months later, long after the jury verdict and sentencing.  When it was unsealed, prosecutor Catherine Ruffle retracted the admission that a deal had been made, and so did St Paul’s School (via its counsel: Michael Delaney, who was endorsed by Sandra Mathieson, introduced by Maggie Hassan for consideration for the First Circuit Court of Appeals). Public records also indicate that Jim Rosenberg of Shaheen & Gordon, who was the counsel for Andrew Thomson, met the prosecutors during the trial and organized for his name not to be included in the Prout/Doe v St Paul’s School suit filed by Chuck Douglas, Steven J Kelly, Steven D Silverman.  Had it been included, discovery would have backfired on the prosecutors since Andrew Thomson had sent the State’s primary witness – Chessy Prout –  an invitation to a “secret snuggle” and a “lap dance” – documented in Chessy Prout’s memoir. The discovery in the civil suit would have undermined the entire premise of the criminal trial, and all indications are that there was an agreement in place between the police, prosecutors, and civil attorneys to prevent that from happening. They worked in sync. All of this information is in public records. The Concord Monitor published an article on May 10, 2016 about Andrew Thomson which has recently been disabled. I suspect at the request of those parties who are involved in the YDC cases hoping that the public doesn’t remember. We do.
Although the prosecutors stated that St. Paul’s School was not on trial in August 2015 and used witnesses from the school to argue their case against Owen Labrie, their statements in sentencing (October 2015) contradicted this position. Instead of focusing on the defendant, they spent most of their sentencing statements portraying St Paul’s School as a den of rape culture. But the school was not on trial. The State took a Janus-Faced position. When they wanted witnesses from St Paul’s School to work with them to convict Owen Labrie, they said the school wasn’t on trial. When they were done with those witnesses and got to sentencing, they changed their minds because they saw a windfall coming down with civil suits. The lawyers for those civil suits sat in the criminal trial and trained Chessy Prout, the State’s primary witness and prosecutors. These civil attorneys had been introduced via Laura L Dunn Esq, who’d been recommended to the Prout family by Concord Police Detective Julie Curtin sometime between 5 and 15 months before the criminal trial. These attorneys also worked with Amanda Grady Sexton of the NHCADSV who was controlling the media.  In return, her organization, the NHCADSV, gets kickbacks from the civil settlements. The NHCADSV (as they are in the YDC cases) worked both sides: for the State and for the civil attorneys. They were financial beneficiaries via federal grants, kickbacks from civil suits, and settlement agreements with the School, which they lobbied the AG for. They lobbied the AG for a Grand Jury Criminal Investigation into St Paul’s School, but they have not done so for YDC even though AG Gordon MacDonald referred complainants of YDC to them. The number of YDC complainants stretch into the thousands unlike St Paul’s School where there were a handful at the most.  A grand jury investigation into YDC would implicate DCYF and that would implicate NHCADSV and UNH. They don’t want a grand jury criminal investigation because they don’t want to jeopardize the federal grants they have received for decades. Greed and desire to protect the reputation of the NHCADSV, civil attorneys and public officials is what is at the center of the YDC conflicts of interest and inability to address them transparently.  

In May 2016, DA Scott Murray stated that police and prosecutors had done a thorough investigation into St. Pauls School and found no other prosecutable misconduct apart from the alleged activities of Owen Labrie. Thus contradicting the statements made by the prosecutors to the judge, which were unsealed eight months after the trial.  The entire goal of the trial was so that the NHCADSV could get inside St. Paul’s School and extort it with an in-house “compliance officer” spy who spends his afternoons hanging out at their office downtown Concord. I know this because I have been contacted by several who have been targets of this enterprise. AG Gordon MacDonald’s office was involved with it. So were Concord Police. So was UNH. So were civil attorneys Chuck Douglas (Chair of the NH Judicial Selection Committee), David Vicinanzo, Shaheen & Gordon (Jim Rosenberg, Timothy McLaughlin), Michael Delaney/McLane Middleton.  Coincidentally, Timothy McLaughlin is the son of former AG Phil McLaughlin, who ordered the Grand Jury Criminal Investigation into the Diocese of Manchester in 2002 and celebrated the “creative” solutions at his retirement party in 2015. 

In June 2016, Chuck Douglas Esq, Steven D Silverman Esq, and Steven J Kelly Esq filed a lawsuit against St. Pauls School, which benefited from being leaked to the Concord Monitor, NBC Today Show, and Vice Media before the school (Michael Delaney) was aware such a suit existed. I believe that a public official for the City of Concord, Amanda Grady Sexton, was responsible for the leak. She had called the criminal trial an opportunity and she had managed to restrict access by media to the trial. Her husband’s news channel, WMUR, was granted exclusive TV access. Preference was given to Susan Zalkind of Vice Media over Paige Sutherland Of NHPR, whose tweets were used in an exhibit to petition to restrict media access. Amanda Grady Sexton had been the informant to the prosecutor about witness tampering by Michael Delaney. Amanda Grady Sexton’s organization- the NHCADSV- were beneficiaries of the verdict and sentencing since they receive grants for Sex Offender Registration Management and from the Office of Violence Against Women.  

In July 2017, AG Gordon MacDonald (who dismissed YDC child abuse as “victim negligence”), ordered a Grand Jury Criminal Investigation into St Paul’s School. He cited discovery from the investigation into Owen Labrie to substantiate the necessity.  The NHCADSV had lobbied him for the investigation, suggesting that the NHCADSV – a lobbyist- had access to the discovery.  The NHCADSV’s attorney, David Vicinanzo, represented members of St Paul’s faculty during the investigation. The NHCADSV’s and Amanda Grady Sexton’s other attorneys, Shaheen & Gordon, represented the witness who had been allegedly tampered with by former AG Michael Delaney in the trial. The order for the Grand Jury Criminal Investigation and reasons for it contradicted statements made by Merrimack County DA Scott Murray regarding the police and prosecutors’ thorough investigation and being presented with no prosecutable misconduct.  It also flew in the face of the State prosecutors’ trial statements that St Paul’s School was not on trial. In September 2018, on the same day that Owen Labrie’s first appeal was heard, Gordon MacDonald announced a settlement agreement with St Paul’s School, which materially benefited the NHCADSV, who had lobbied for the investigation in order to get a contract for themselves.

State prosecutors, the NHCADSV, Concord PD, civil attorneys at Shaheen & Gordon (Jim Rosenberg, Timothy McLaughlin), Nixon Peabody (David Vicinanzo), McLane Middleton (Michael Delaney), Douglas & Leonard (Chuck Douglas) and the AG’s office (Gordon MacDonald, Jane Young, Geoffrey Ward) have been involved in playing all sides to their advantage from criminal trial to civil suit to Grand Jury Criminal Investigation and Settlement.  This is straightup racketeering and profiteering that is extremely well documented in public records. 

I believe it is imperative for public disclosure of the arrangements between the above mentioned parties- including correspondence and financial disclosures- before the YDC criminal and civil trials commence.  The arrangements in the St Pauls and Owen Labrie cases seem to reflect similar arrangements in the Diocese of Manchester cases in 2002. Indeed, on the website of State Witness/Complainant Chessy Prout’s non-profit ihavetherightto.org there is a statement from September 15,2018 which draws the link between the Diocese Grand Jury Criminal Investigation and settlement agreement and the St Paul’s one. This proves that Chessy Prout’s non-profit and statements made by it were done in collusion with public officials, non-profits and attorneys in New Hampshire who had knowledge of that agreement which was made when Chessy Prout was 4 or 5 years old.  https://ihavetherightto.org/newsroom/n-h-attorney-generals-settlement-agreement-with-st-pauls-unprecedented/ “The school’s primary focus was protecting its reputation, protecting itself, rather than protecting the children entrusted to its care, and that is a summary of the evidence we saw during the course of the investigation,” MacDonald said. “I Have The Right To” was registered in 2017 with Steven J Kelly Esq as the agent.  The above statement from the non-profit’s site is a clear indication that there was collusion and conspiracy involving public officials and the Attorney General. McDonald’s statement can now be replaced with: “The State’s primary focus is protecting its reputation, protecting itself, rather than protecting the children entrusted to its care, and that is a summary of the evidence we have seen during the course of the last several decades of complaints, deletion of files, cover ups and fake investigations”. 

Gordon MacDonald dismissed YDC complainants for “victim negligence”.  Any criminal case concerning YDC could end up appealed by the NH Supreme Court where he presides as Supreme Court Chief Justice. Gordon MacDonald (David Vicinanzo’s ex partner from Nixon Peabody) referred complainants of YDC abuse to the NHCADSV. The NHCADSV’s counsel “pro bono” is David Vicinanzo. Nixon Peabody is handling hundreds of the complaints. David Vicinanzo/Nixon Peabody will receive 30-40% of each settlement. The NHCADSV I believe will also be financial beneficiaries. Chuck Douglas will have a say in the judges since he is Chair of the NH Judicial Selection Committee. Who are they all out to protect? Themselves and their accounts. We shouldn’t forget that Chuck Douglas authored the guide to “Family Law” and it is the family courts and their procedures that resulted in many children being taken from their parents and ending up in foster care or at YDC.  We should also not forget that Chuck Douglas was accused of tax evasion by Caroline Douglas and that he had a timeshare in Aruba, of all places. Aruba is best known for the Paradise Papers – offshore tax-free hidden accounts. He was the New Hampshire Supreme Court Chief Justice. The NHCADSV have not petitioned for a Grand Jury Criminal Investigation into YDC as they did for St Paul’s School. They wouldn’t because they are aware of their own intertwining with the DCYF, which deleted files for David Vicinanzo’s client, Phillips Exeter Academy, when Governor Maggie Hassan’s husband was principal. It was her legal counsel’s son who, per state prosecutors, had a deal made for him with St Paul’s School. Information prosecutors decided should be sealed from the jury. Information that Amanda Grady Sexton, acting as go between for witnesses and prosecutors, civil attorneys and media I believe was aware of. Gordon MacDonald promised the Grand Jury Criminal Investigation into St. Paul’s School.

In November 2019, I met S. Daniel Carter, who was an advisor to the White House “Not Alone” task force, which was officially partnered with UNH Prevention Innovation Research Center. This center is partnered with the NHCADSV.  He informed me that the real interest in NH v Owen Labrie (and why his partner Laura L Dun attended the trial with Steven J Kelly Esq) was in St Paul’s School as opposed to Owen Labrie himself. Statements made by State prosecutors and UNH Law Professors, as well as the NHCADSV, corroborate this.  

The State, Concord Police, the NHCADSV, and Civil Attorneys were interested in Government control of St Paul’s School and an extortion enterprise to drain St Paul’s School of its funds. This would have come out on July 18, 2019, on ABC/GMA, except that public official Amanda Grady Sexton stepped in to get ABC to block it from airing. 

The State, NHCADSV, Civil Attorneys are interested in money, not justice in the YDC cases.  Just as they were with St Paul’s School, Phillips Exeter Academy, the Diocese of Manchester and Dartmouth College.

There must be a transparent (ideally) federal investigation of the parties involved who benefited from the Diocese of Manchester investigation, the St Paul’s School investigation, the Phillips Exeter Academy investigation, the Dartmouth College Rapuano & Does settlement before their further participation in the YDC Civil and Criminal trials proceeds.  Original email published with minor edits.

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