We were a few months into the COVID chaos – well past the two weeks or fifteen days or whatever the narrative had shifted to to flatten the curve. Masks were not just a mandate but a political statement, and social distancing dots had appeared on floors across the land—six feet, they said, which made no sense.

We went looking and uncovered a source on all things social distancing.

No one can prove it works or does not. There are no clinical trials. In fact, the basis for the theory comes from a 14-years old’s high school science project back in 2006. A computer model developed with the help of her dad, who has no medical training or experience.

Much like medical or cloth masks and quarantining healthy people, none of which had any basis in science, the Machine Media took up the call. Fearmongering pied pipers spread the message across the land, stealing the lives of children in their wake as schools stayed locked down and those that opened months later mandated masks and, yes …distancing.

Last week, one of the founding fathers of COVID-era medical fraud, Tony ‘Little Shoes’ Fauci, admitted under oath that “guidelines to keep six feet of separation — ostensibly to limit the spread of COVID-19 — “sort of just appeared” without scientific input.”

Did someone make it up? They did. It started with then-14-year-old Laura M. Glass, who has long since distanced herself from her “work.” But back then,

Laura, with some guidance from her dad, devised a computer simulation that showed how people – family members, co-workers, students in schools, people in social situations – interact. What she discovered was that school kids come in contact with about 140 people a day, more than any other group. Based on that finding, her program showed that in a hypothetical town of 10,000 people, 5,000 would be infected during a pandemic if no measures were taken, but only 500 would be infected if the schools were closed.

That experiment later became the basis for a paper by Laura’s dad, Robert, “a complex-systems analyst with Sandia National Laboratories. He had no medical training, much less an expertise in immunology or epidemiology.” Robert was the lead author of Targeted Social Distancing Designs for Pandemic Influenza (his daughters also get credit), and, again – he had zero medical training or public health experience, which invited a scathing refutation by some actual medical professionals.

There are no historical observations or scientific studies that support the confinement by quarantine of groups of possibly infected people for extended periods in order to slow the spread of influenza. … It is difficult to identify circumstances in the past half-century when large-scale quarantine has been effectively used in the control of any disease. The negative consequences of large-scale quarantine are so extreme (forced confinement of sick people with the well; complete restriction of movement of large populations; difficulty in getting critical supplies, medicines, and food to people inside the quarantine zone) that this mitigation measure should be eliminated from serious consideration…

One of the authors of that refutation was D.A. Henderson, who is credited with eradicating smallpox, so when the time came to ask whether lockdowns and distancing were sound, the “experts” chose the paper by the systems analyst and his teenage daughter and not the world of a real scientist with practical global experience.

Three years later, Fauci forgets the backstory and goes with, yeah, we don’t know, and no one checked. So, drunken-brainstorming at the CDC or NIH. That would explain a lot about how the situation was mishandled and one of the legitimate digs on the Trump presidency. He let Fauci run the show for too long, and while he openly commented on things with which he disagreed – death percentages were too high, defending the efficacy of HCQ and Ivermectin, it wasn’t enough to protect us from Fauci and his microphone-addicted, attention whores whose guidance on more than just distancing just appeared and – in some cases – contradicted existing scientific input.

“It is clear that dissenting opinions were often not considered or suppressed completely. Should a future pandemic arise, America’s response must be guided by scientific facts and conclusive data.”

That sounds like a mea culpa, but he is also reported to have said: “that the policies and mandates he promoted may, unfortunately, increase vaccine hesitancy for years to come.”

I’m guessing Facui still has a vested financial interest in vaccine uptake, so that statement, to my mind, is less about public health and more about Fauci’s financial legacy.

 

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Custom keyrings are multipurpose items with many advantages for businesses. These advantages include creating a memorable brand presence, marketing that is affordable, customised branding, increased client loyalty, and word-of-mouth advertising.

Furthermore, they function as useful and practical advertising items that are exceptionally effective. Businesses must place a high priority on having a superior keyring design if they want to take advantage of all these benefits. In this article, we will explore effective design tips for custom keyrings that guarantee the fullest possible utilisation of their advantages and create a lasting impact on everyone who sees them.

Effective Custom Keyrings: Design Tips for Optimal Impact

To get the maximum benefits of custom keyrings for businesses, these useful design tips must be included in every design strategy. 

Integrate your brand story

A brand story is a narrative that conveys the core principles, goals, and distinctive character of a brand. To fully reap the benefits of these indispensable promotional objects, you must incorporate your business’s story into the design of your custom keyrings as a fundamental practice. Your brand’s mission and values, logo and visual identity, unique selling proposition, personality, cultural influences, interactive elements, and future vision are all components of your brand story. These strategies improve customer engagement, word-of-mouth marketing, memorability, differentiation, brand consistency, and long-lasting impression. They also foster an emotional connection between your brand and the consumer.

Maintain a minimal design for effective custom keyrings

For promotional items to advance clarity of message, timeless appeal, versatility, improved brand recognition, ease of integration of promotional tactics, lower production costs, ease of use, and user-friendliness, their design must be minimalistic. Practices like simplifying shapes, incorporating a simple colour scheme, concentrating on essential components of your brand or message, incorporating clean topography, utilising whitespace, adhering to a consistent design language, maximising scale and proportion, emphasising a single focal point in the design, and streamlining logo elements are some ways to keep the custom keyrings’ design simple.

Consider your target audience when creating custom keyrings

How your brand’s audience will feel about the custom keyrings will have a major impact on their success as marketing tools. Cultural sensitivity, perceived exclusivity, usefulness and practicality, brand connection, relevance and appeal, aesthetic preferences, perceived quality, and word-of-mouth impact should all be evaluated. This is necessary to create custom keyrings that fulfil their intended purpose and leave a lasting impression. Because of this, take your target demographic into consideration when you design the keyrings. Give top priority to elements like user interaction, trends and fashion, colour psychology, cultural sensitivity, functional demands, lifestyle, preferences, and demography. Ensure you perform due diligence when considering your target audience in order to get accurate information about them.

Conclusion 

We have discussed three proactive custom keyring design tips that ought to be included in your design plans. Any business may fully realise the benefits of custom keyrings and get a competitive edge by implementing the tips covered in this article.

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In the category of you can’t make this stuff up. Maine … you know the State where some unelected, unaccountable former ACLU lunatic recently threw Trump off the ballot … is building luxury apartments for illegals. But just keep pretending that the Great Replacement is a “right-wing, conspiracy theory,” as you are being replaced in front of your very eyes.

Maine is now an apartheid state. Illegals have more privileges and rights than actual citizens. Maine, like New Hampshire, is a lost cause. Real Republicans should get the hell out of Maine (and New Hampshire) as fast as possible, and migrate to a State that is not “transforming” America into a socialism-based-on-woke hell-hole.

5 new luxury buildings are going up in Brunswick, Maine to host illegals.

2 years of rent will be paid off by the taxpayers for jobless illegals.

Maine is also supplying them with $100k for legal support to help them with asylum and work authorization.

Woke residents gathered… pic.twitter.com/qGs4PATOdb

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) January 13, 2024

Maine taxpayers are footing the bill for new apartments built specifically for illegal immigrants. They have *two years worth of rent paid for by state taxpayers.
pic.twitter.com/IAPkCK3uoF

— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) January 12, 2024

 

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Our bill to end town mask mandates forever has made a surprising reappearance in the Senate thanks to Rep. Juliet Harvey-Bolia and Senator James Gray. The vote will be on the 18th, and we need everyone to call Senator Ricciardi and Senator Avard and urge them to support the floor amendment to SB63.

Let’s kindly persuade them.

 

Tuesday, January 16th, N.H. Senate
Eduacation
LOB, Room 101

9:00 a.m. – OPPOSE –SB343 

Currently contracted, school-based health care clinics do occur, yet apparently there is no current legal authority for this, only for school nurses and physicians to perform various procedures and exams. Parental consent is already required via law. This bill seeks to give legal authority for contracted school health care clinics using money from a federal grant, accepted by the Executive Council. This is part of a larger agenda to create government dependency from cradle to grave, is potentially harmful (2 children last year were vaccinated “accidentally” in schools), and provides no further protections for parental consent.

Schools are for learning reading, writing, and arithmetic and are not meant to become mini health clinics.

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Wednesday, January 17th, N.H. House
Education
LOB, Room 205-207

1:00 p.m. – SUPPORT – HB1677
This bill makes Education Freedom Accounts available for all students in failing districts (less than 49% proficiency)
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Thursday, January 18th, N.H. House
Criminal Justice
LOB, Room 202-204

10:00 a.m. – SUPPORT – HB1012
This bill would ensure parents cannot be found guilty of child endangerment for making a parenting decision that is not otherwise illegal and presents no more than a hypothetical risk of harm. Protect parents’ rights and the ability of children to grow into independence.
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As a courtesy to the folks who don’t feel like jogging digitally to our home page ten times a day, we share content on a handful of platforms throughout the day. Minds, Telegram, MeWe, Gettr, Truth Social, and X. I am pleased to announce that we have added a few more.

I’ve dropped the occasional ‘Grok post on my LinkedIn feed for a few weeks. If you’d like to connect with me on that platform, you can do that here, and then the joy of joys, watch the ‘Grok news, opinion, and the odd bit of bombastic twig-snapping and snowflake-melting outrage present itself for your consideration. There is no team building or marketing, just “professional outreach” from a stable of authors and op-ed writers “regarding” local, national, and global politics.

The ‘Grok has also started adding content to our Signal channel. We’ve had it for years but never utilized it—new plan. I’ve invited the folks I was already connected to, but that list was short because I was not very active there. Now that I am using it for other aspects of my new business model, ‘Grok content will appear 8-10 times daily on Signal.

We’ve also got a very active Telegram chat you can join here.

I aim to reach more readers and make it easier for readers to reach the ‘Grok. We want to increase engagement through debate and hope you’ll find us on those platforms and click through at least a few times daily.

One more. While I can’t share everything, and the censorious bastards are still choking our reach, we are (again) sharing content on the ‘Grok Facebook page. We’d welcome you there as well, though – admittedly – a less inviting and tolerant space than any others. Don’t expect Facebook to feed it to you, however. As I said, we’re still mired in their ideological mud, and they’ve no inclination to let us out.

Gmail

Google Mail blocks ‘Grok’s newsletter. We sent that from our server, so we asked the vendor about what Google had suggested, and they sent us some code. We’re just waiting for the Webmistress to add it as directed. It has been alleged that within 72 hours after the update, there is a chance Gmail users will begin getting our newsletter again, as would other readers using other mail providers who’ve indicated a similar issue.

We will update you when that is done and the grace period has passed.

 

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According to the two bookends who provided testimony to legislators about the best juridical interests of state judges this week, the legislators can just kick back and skip a resolution to return to Constitutionally defined voting processes in state elections.

Go home and take a pass was the message.

Is it time to abandon judicial political policy-making as court-favored witnesses testified? Should the legislature take a break from their duty, role, and work of establishing public policy and instead allow judges to handle election challenges that define voting process in state elections? De facto, that advice establishes judges as the best determiners of public policy.

Legislators, give yourselves a break. You should let go & go home because the judges got this, was the smiling message delivered with a wink and nod to House Committee members.

Yesterday, two high-level politicos bookended the house hearing and advised legislators to ignore House Resolution No. 25 – designed to thwart the new voting practice allowing anyone to show up on election day to cast a vote without identification, preregistration, or proof of any kind.

This ‘alternative’ to Constitutionally mandated procedures that pre-qualify voters to avoid election fraud is one of many questionable political expansion maneuvers that have been challenged in state and national courts over the last four years. Cynical voters have watched with dismay at the variety of slanted political alterations to states’ voting process and then they sued election officials. (Largely (57 cases nationally) they then lose and are tossed out of court for lack of standing. In New Hampshire, in response to election officials’ alterations of the voting process, a legislative resolution was filed calling for a return to the rules specifically printed in the state constitution. Ergo, this legislative hearing followed on adopting that resolution as a formal statement of public policy as a matter of legislative law/process. (2nd Branch rule.)

Two political advisors (the bookends) argued that legislators (2nd Branch) should skip all the work and disregard voting on a public policy statement. Just let the judges (3rd Branch) handle election voting issues. After all, they said, there are multiple state and federal cases in court concerning election law reform

So why bother yourselves with establishing a public policy resolution that has no clout? No teeth? said first speaker (the Parliamentarian) waving around his old outdated Mason’s Manual as defining authority. Skip it, he advised. Take a pass, he told the resolution committee.

Committee legislators then heard a citizen explanation of a recent U.S. Supreme Court case of Moore v. Harper, (June 2023) which reversed and clarified State duties and clearly defined the duty of states to act and not reject outright claims and complaints of Constitutional fundamental rights regarding election voting rights. The Moore case, taken together with a pair

of earlier Supreme Court 2nd Amendment rights cases, explained Daniel Richard, a Constitutional scholar, to the committee; it establishes a state duty to protect citizens’ fundamental constitutional rights including fundamental election and voter rights to a fair election process The state neglected that duty regarding constitutional questions, he said, and this resolution would recognize it.

The 2nd bookend testimony to the committee was private attorney Bryan Gould, who argued that the courts were the place to handle public policy of this sort (not the legislature) and that Richard’s opinions about the 2nd Amendment cases was “too aggressive” in interpretation — and Richard’s “opinion about a Constitutional duty to protect fundamental rights was in error.” He called the U.S. decision about 2nd Amendment cases “inconsequential” to the election-rights resolution, because the newly clarified Moore v. Harper duty-to-protect was applicable only to 2nd Amendment cases, and not to all fundamental Constitutional challenge cases (1st, 2nd,.5th).

Here, the resolution is about government manipulation of the voting process in violation of the Constitution. It falls into the Heller & Bruen case rulings that STATES bear the burden of proof at trial (not citizens) so an election-process resolution would also be protected by the umbrella of similar Constitutional rights. Gould was wrong when he advised the Committee that “[Richard’s] his opinion is in error” because unlike constitutionally protected gun rights, voting and fair election rights are not required to be fundamentally protected by state law, he said.

With a broad wink, Attorney Gould launched into the narrative of his earlier experiences as the state political fix-it guy for election law cases, bemoaning a federal court LOSS of an earlier voting case on residency and domicile. Gould told the committee that “the greatest legal minds in the state” had “carefully crafted the legislation (of SB 3)” attempting to clarify voter qualifications. (And circumvent the constitution.) They proposed a fancy-schmancy state legislative act to instill a different process for qualifying voters than that process provided in the state constitution. And the federal court struck it down.

What he did not say however was that Mr. Political Fix-It-Man (for the SOS, the State AG, and the State GOP) lost that case that attempted to redefine who was qualified to vote in New Hampshire. [All the while billing the state for valuable attorney time.]

I was so disappointed we lost, he moaned to the committee. [Note: Lesson missed. Try again. More billable hours.]

“Too aggressive,” he said, referring to the prior speaker’s explanation that this resolution fit the Heller & Bruen legal criteria and therefore should be adopted as a statement of public policy. Instead, his message was: ‘State voters seeking fundamental fairness in the election-vote process should leave the issue to the courts, not pass a toothless public policy resolution in the legislature.’ That message was delivered to legislators with a smile, followed by a wink.

Hours before the legislative hearing on Resolution 25, a federal judge tossed out the Testerman election process case. Her challenge of alterations to the GOP political voter registration process

avoided the Constitutional election process. That Constitutional process is a due process mandate.

The judge wrote that Testerman and others had no standing to sue. In other words, the NH SOS can unilaterally extend primary election dates (although specific dates are explicit in the State Constitution) in a way that enables non-party voting (against Trump in 2024) in the GOP primary. [This is a quiet tactical voting scheme of the NH SOS and GOP Party chairman designed and implemented to disrupt 2024 election results.]

Gould was wrong about the law that he advised to the committee — not once, but repeatedly. But he is not stupid. He simply is a tool of a top-tier political agenda, urging and confusing the Committee to leave public policy to the Courts to handle. With flawed case interpretation and his earlier election cases already lost (flawed thinking), this advice to committee members was offered to protect the political “schema” that averts qualified votes into a barrel of monkey results. (The quiet plan was to alter registration deadlines, attached to a campaign for a significant number of Democrats to change to undeclared party status, then to use/ask for a Republican ballot on Primary Day to keep Donald Trump’s name off the fall election ballot. Then to use their undeclared status to vote in the general election, where they are not prevented from voting.

The tactical voting scheme goes much deeper than that. It is also a challenge of power about which branch of government should decide public policy – the legislature or court?

The process of extending and encouraging non-party voting in a party primary is called “a tactile voting process interruption.”

By design, it renders election-day voting a politically manipulated outcome. It violates State Constitutional mandates for election registration and process. It is also alleged to be an act of RICO.

The area of Election Day voting abuse by public officials has been drastically reshaped by court decisions across the country –designed in law theory and practice to deny injured parties “standing to sue” with no other relief available. Injury without relief. Judges have callously advanced a no-recourse solution as ‘take your problem to the voters’ because judges systematically disallow (reject) election challenge lawsuits. This is not the first time in our nation’s history that the court has expanded political power to take over the role of the legislature.

Can courts convert state election policy and constitutionally mandated voting practices by avoiding hearing these cases? What if the effect is –to politically “expand voting rights to anyone” by using court rulings (or denial of standing) for all election-challenge cases? Can they control the outcome of the election?

This take-over of function encroaches on the legislature’s role in creating public policy, and it circumvents the American Constitutional system. The result is to neuter or ‘amend’ the Constitution by judges’ practices, but not by operation of law. 1925 to 1930 saw multiple jurists and legal scholars work to reinterpret the Constitution using “a crude version of Marxism to reinterpret the Court’s decisions…” (see Gustavus Myers’ book, History of the Supreme Court of the United States, and James Smith’s book, The Growth and Decadence of Constitutional Government).

Court-packing and judicial activism are considered blatant political aggressions viewed through the different lense of political scientists. The difference is political scientists are more likely to regard judicial activism as “a perversion of the democratic process” and not a legal operation under the Constitution and rule of law. [See Wallace Mendelson’s book, Justice Black and Frankfurter: Conflict on the Court.]

By systematically avoiding legal challenges and as in the present situation–by politically encouraging legislators to skip the bother of a frivolous election-rights resolution [because judges have election challenge cases in hand]—it sidesteps the underlying agenda to defeat democratic rule. ‘

The judges have got this, you don’t have to’ is the message. It’s the same “Trust us” message Clerk of Court Howard Zibel told legislators mere days before the NH House Subcommittee voted for a full impeachment investigation about decades-old court cronyism and corruption. You can trust the judges. This historic refrain echoed yet again in the state legislative committee room this week.

Submitted by Caroline Douglas, J.D.
Former New Hampshire legislative bill drafter
Former NH attorney
Legal Analyst and Author of The Dark Side, a law treatise on judging National whistleblower and skeptic
Contact: nssri@pm.me

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Check out the recent clips of Joe Biden “campaigning.” Biden, OBVIOUSLY, cannot even dress himself. Yet the people who control the information continue the charade that Biden is running the executive branch of the federal government.

THIS is why “they” … the system, the UniParty, whatever you want to call it … HATE Elon Musk and X so much. Essentially, Musk and X allow those who are interested in and willing to see it to see the Matrix that our “democracy” actually is.

But count on “traditional Republicans” to keep telling us that the most important issues we face are cutting business taxes, billionaire taxes, and eviscerating local zoning laws. “Traditional Republicans” … Nikki Haley, Chris Sununu, Mitch McConnell … are every bit as invested in perpetuating the Matrix as their frenemies on the Left.

NEW: Bike store owner talks to President Joe Biden like a nursing home patient and has to put his hand in front of him to stop him from walking.

Meanwhile, Democrats think this man has another 5 years in the tank.

During the same outing, Biden told a group of people that he… pic.twitter.com/bFqssb2fgd

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) January 12, 2024

A lost and confused Grandpa Joe has to be spoken to like a five-year-old.

This is the same person making unilateral decisions to wage war.pic.twitter.com/wNrCeSvAoo

— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) January 12, 2024

WATCH: Joe Biden makes teenage girl visibly uncomfortable as she squirms away from him when he starts creepily whispering in her ear pic.twitter.com/WZ3840WDUP

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) January 12, 2024

Joe Biden visits a coffee shop and doesn't remember where he is or that he's the President.

"My name's Joe Biden. I work for the government in the Senate."

This is terrifying. pic.twitter.com/nCNqx83ww3

— Grand Old Patriots (@GrandOlPatriots) January 12, 2024

Media: Joe Biden does not make children physically uncomfortable

Joe Biden: pic.twitter.com/arqET32ayP

— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) January 12, 2024

 

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You’ve heard these words many times in the past year — the 2024 presidential race is “the most important election in our lifetime.” Is it really? Yes! Here’s one way to describe the environment surrounding this year’s election:

• On the one hand (the left hand, of course), we have the “forces of darkness” — those seeking to complete once and for all the take-over known as the “great reset” or the “fundamental transformation of America.” These Marxist-Socialist big government tyrannical elite are working to make permanent the unelected “deep state” bureaucratic ruling class.
• On the other (the right) hand, we have the “forces of the light” — those representing us who are hoping against hope for a return to conservative, constitutionally limited, representational government.

Ronald Reagan has been famously quoted saying:

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream, it must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same….”

People, WE are that “one generation!”

You might ask what happened to our country such that today we find ourselves up against a “woke” Democrat-Socialist “army” that has “captured” each and every major institution. Seemingly overnight?

Actually, “overnight” took over a hundred years — starting in the Progressive era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries continuing all the way up to Whoever is Running the Biden Administration today in the 21st.

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Like so many changes, the takeover was slow at first and then quite rapid.

And we allowed it to happen!

According to documentary producer and Palladium Pictures CEO Michael Pack appearing on Newt Gingrich’s podcast, it’s like two armies were at war:

• One (let’s call it the “blue”army) had lots of money, a detailed strategic plan for the “long march,” highly effective tactics, powerful weapons and a “win at all costs”
• The other (the “red” army) relied only on short-term plans and tactics, since they were devoted to spending most of their time and energy with family and career… but on weekends they did write powerful articles in all the influential journals pointing out the terrible things the “blue” army was doing.

We are only now beginning to realize that the consequences of this war are serious. To win it, we’ve got to get serious!

As Kevin Roberts of The Heritage Foundation says, “To save America, we MUST GO ON OFFENSE!”

If we don’t, starting now, our fate will likely be as Reagan described in the rest of his famous quote: “(… or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in a United States where men were free.”

The primary season starts in January, but it is only the beginning.

The Democrat “army” is ready for battle! Are YOU? Republicans will not win without each and every one of you.

We all need to support our favorite candidate in your primary — Door knocking, phone banking, letters to the editor, talking to neighbors, and of course, VOTING.

The Republican Convention is July 15-18 in Milwaukee, at which the Republican nominee for President will be confirmed.

Then, we need to do it again, all of it, all of us, ACTIVELY supporting that candidate against whoever the Democrats throw up against us (and it may well not be Biden).

And don’t expect that they will fight fairly — remember, they are the “win at all costs” army.

But only by getting serious will we have a chance to begin slowing down the forces of darkness. Only by continuing to be serious in turning back the takeover by the left will our Republic be sustained.

 

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I recently posted about illegals being able to vote in Arizona. Turns out that the “law” that allows illegals to vote in Arizona allows illegals to vote everywhere. Stephen Miller explains on X.

But just keep pretending that we have a democracy … as our votes are negated by people who have no right to be in America, never mind vote in American elections. And count on “traditional Republicans,” to borrow Grifter-Mikey Graham’s euphemism for the GOP grifter-class, to keep telling us that there is no evidence … none whatsoever … that our elections are RIGGED.

Surely you cannot be this obtuse. I hope your ignorance is feigned and not sincere.

In all 50 states in America — as a result of preposterous judicial rulings — illegal aliens and millions of other ineligible noncitizens — can register to vote merely by checking a box on a…

— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) January 12, 2024

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The annual Ruling Class Klan Bake is upon us with its jet-setting cadre of elites gathering in Davos, Switzerland, to decide what to do about the peasants. But this year’s theme will be a bit different. A growing number of peasants don’t trust them.

Against this backdrop and to instil a measure of collective agency, it is necessary to start restoring trust at three fundamental levels: into the future, within societies and among nations. Therefore, the 54th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum will convene under the theme Rebuilding Trust to provide the crucial space to step back and focus on the fundamental principles driving trust, including transparency, consistency and accountability.

I’m sure they’ll discuss all sorts of solutions, including the one they’d like to pursue above all others. If they can concretize the global censorship apparatus -especially among those pesky Americans and the damn First Amendment, they could silence dissent. When no one is allowed to question their words, rulings, and edicts (summarized in one word: lies) they, they can say and do whatever they please and not have to worry about public relations or marketing to restore trust.

It would save a good deal of time, and it’s something they have to have, but is it too late for that?

Who can forget World Economic Forum gems like “You’ll own nothing and be happy”, WEF promotion of Greta Thunberg, back when she was politically useful, and of course the many PR blunders of members of their board of trustees like Al Gore and Lagarde? … A global tax cartel, coordinating spending on the green agenda, and taking inspiration from the Covid-19 response, presumably including Covid-19 era threats to the livelihoods of anyone who didn’t comply with government diktats, and brutal treatment of those who outright refused to comply.

It looks like a challenge ahead for the Davos crew. Perhaps they should focus on pissing off farmers, creating food and energy scarcity during the next pandemic. We know that’s what they are after. Or, are they increasingly afraid that the global insurrection they have been trying to foment will look more like a planet-wide French Revolution? An end to the Davos Klan Bake as the majority of its participants have been relieved of their lives and livelihood.

I’m not suggesting it or even condoning it, but these same elites who think we are too stupid to know how to run our own lives or what is best for us and our families must know what this same level of consciousness is capable of when pushed into a corner.

If they make things go sideways again, the odds are not in their favor.

 

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• These are the most liberty-critical hearings for the week
• Click on the bill number to read the bill.
• Click on the committee name to email the committee your thoughts.

Of the 139 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 24 and opposition of 25 with 8 being of interest.
Of the 50 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 5 and opposition of 13 with 1 being of interest.

Position	Bill	Title	Committee	Day	Time	Room	State Analysis
Of Interest	HB1667	relative to establishing a department for children, youth, and families.	Children and Family Law	Tue 1/16	9:45 AM	LOB Room 206-208	This bill establishes the department for children, youth and families as a separate state agency responsible for the general supervision and enforcement of all programs and services for children and youths. The bill also transfers all former powers, duties and responsibilities of the department of health and human services, division for children, youth and families and the division of juvenile justice services to the newly established department.
Oppose	SB328	relative to deceptive ticket sale practices.	Commerce	Tue 1/16	9:00 AM	SH Room 100	This bill makes the resale of event tickets by a person who is not the venue or an authorized agent of the venue unlawful if it does not meet certain criteria.
Oppose	SB519	relative to evictions based on the owner’s intent to renovate the property.	Commerce	Tue 1/16	9:15 AM	SH Room 100	This bill adds evidentiary requirements to evictions based upon renovation and permits a discretionary stay of eviction for up to 6 months.
Oppose	SB518	relative to incentivizing landlords to accept housing choice vouchers.	Commerce	Tue 1/16	9:30 AM	SH Room 100	This bill establishes a landlord housing incentive program and fund. This bill makes an appropriation to implement the fund.
Oppose	SB366	relative to restricting the purchase of real property on or around military installations.	Commerce	Tue 1/16	9:45 AM	SH Room 100	This bill prohibits the purchase of real property by the People’s Republic of China on or within 10 miles of any military installations or critical infrastructure facilities.
Oppose	SB343	relative to school based health services.	Education	Tue 1/16	9:00 AM	LOB Room 101	This bill allows school districts to contract with a health care provider, health system, or community partner to establish a school based health center for the purpose of providing services to students beyond the scope of school nursing services.
Support	SB374	relative to the licensing of part-time teachers.	Education	Tue 1/16	9:15 AM	LOB Room 101	This bill defines “part-time teacher.”
Support	HB1402	establishing a procedure for a high school proficiency exam waiver of mandatory school attendance.	Education	Tue 1/16	10:00 AM	LOB Room 205-207	This bill allows for a student to take and pass a high school proficiency exam so that the student shall no longer be bound by the mandatory school attendance requirements.
Oppose	HB1212	relative to eligibility for free school meals.	Education	Tue 1/16	10:45 AM	LOB Room 205-207	This bill increases the eligibility for free school meals to household incomes up to 350 percent of federal poverty guidelines, and provides funding from the education trust fund for the additional costs.
Oppose	HB1153	relative to mandatory and elective public school curricula.	Education	Tue 1/16	1:45 PM	LOB Room 205-207	This bill requires mandatory “anti-communist” curricula and establishes elective curricula for public schools.
Oppose	SB380	relative to moving the state primary date.	Election Law and Municipal Affairs	Tue 1/16	9:15 AM	LOB Room 103	This bill moves the state primary date to June.
Oppose	SB445	establishing a voter-owned elections fund for eligible candidates to executive councilor and making an appropriation to the fund.	Election Law and Municipal Affairs	Tue 1/16	9:45 AM	LOB Room 103	This bill establishes a voter owned election fund for eligible candidates to executive councilor and makes an appropriation to the fund.
Support	SB446	allowing voters to vote for multiple candidates for an office.	Election Law and Municipal Affairs	Tue 1/16	10:00 AM	LOB Room 103	This bill allows voters to vote for multiple candidates for an office.
Of Interest	SB387	relative to a state parks pass pilot program for recovery centers and community health centers.	Energy and Natural Resources	Tue 1/16	9:30 AM	SH Room 103	This bill requires the establishment of a 3-year pilot program for state parks passes for recovery centers and community health centers registered with the department of health and human services.
Oppose	HB1184	relative to making an appropriation to the organic certification program.	Environment and Agriculture	Tue 1/16	10:00 AM	LOB Room 301-303	This bill makes an appropriation to the department of agriculture, markets and food for the staffing and funding of the organic certification program.
Oppose	HB1618	mandating a cooperative agreement with USDA for “organic” certification.	Environment and Agriculture	Tue 1/16	11:00 AM	LOB Room 301-303	This bill requires the commissioner to hire inspectors and enter into a USDA cooperative agreement.
Support	HB1578	relative to organic food certification and labeling.	Environment and Agriculture	Tue 1/16	11:30 AM	LOB Room 301-303	This bill repeals the certification program and the organic processors-handlers certification fund.
Oppose	HB1680	relative to prohibiting the sale of dogs and cats by retail pet shops.	Environment and Agriculture	Tue 1/16	2:00 PM	LOB Room 301-303	This bill prohibits the sale of dogs and cats by retail pet shops except in certain cases.
Oppose	SB348	relative to emergency crop relief.	Finance	Tue 1/16	1:00 PM	SH Room 103	This bill makes an appropriation to the department of agriculture, markets, and food to distribute emergency relief to farmers who suffered crop damage in the unseasonable cold and floods.
Oppose	SB494	relative to establishing a farmer assistance fund.	Finance	Tue 1/16	1:10 PM	SH Room 103	This bill establishes the farmer assistance for natural disasters fund and makes an appropriation therefor.
Support	HB1127	relative to the revocation and suspension of drivers’ licenses.	Transportation	Tue 1/16	11:20 AM	LOB Room 203	This bill allows individuals with suspended licenses to mow their lawns without penalty and eliminates the requirement that drivers with suspended licenses surrender their licenses to the department of motor vehicles.
Of Interest	HB1118	relative to the issuance of drivers’ licenses for aliens temporarily residing in New Hampshire.	Transportation	Tue 1/16	1:20 PM	LOB Room 203	This bill allows the director of motor vehicles to require nonresident aliens to submit various certifications for drivers license issuance.
Support	SB510	relative to sale of a vehicle to a Massachusetts resident.	Transportation	Tue 1/16	2:15 PM	LOB Room 101	This bill eliminates the requirement that a retail motor vehicle dealer submit a form notifying the New Hampshire department of motor vehicles of a sale of a vehicle to a Massachusetts resident.
Support	HB1422	relative to the rates of the business profits tax, business enterprise tax, communications service tax, and meals and rooms tax.	Ways and Means	Tue 1/16	10:00 AM	LOB Room 202-204	This bill reduces the rates of the business profits tax, business enterprise tax, and meals and rooms tax. It also reduces and subsequently repeals the communications services tax.
Oppose	HB1492	relative to the rate and exemptions of the interest and dividends tax.	Ways and Means	Tue 1/16	10:30 AM	LOB Room 202-204	This bill reimplements the interest and dividends tax.
Support	HB1533	relative to the safe harbor compensation amount under the business profits tax.	Ways and Means	Tue 1/16	11:30 AM	LOB Room 202-204	This bill increases the amount of the safe harbor provision for compensation under the business profits tax and provides for a biennial increase in future years based on the percentage change in the Consumer Price Index.
Support	HB1536	relative to increasing the amount of the expense deduction allowed against the business profits tax.	Ways and Means	Tue 1/16	12:00 PM	LOB Room 202-204	This bill increases the amount of the section 179 expense deduction permitted against the business profits tax.
Of Interest	HB1241	relative to regulation of money transmitters.	Commerce and Consumer Affairs	Wed 1/17	10:00 AM	LOB Room 302-304	This bill revises the regulation and licensure of money transmitters by the banking department. This bill is a request of the banking department.
Of Interest	HB1559	repealing the chapter relative to cash dispensing machines.	Commerce and Consumer Affairs	Wed 1/17	10:30 AM	LOB Room 302-304	This bill repeals RSA 399-F relative to cash dispensing machines. This is a request by the banking department.
Oppose	HB1538	relative to credit card late fees and interest.	Commerce and Consumer Affairs	Wed 1/17	1:45 PM	LOB Room 302-304	This bill requires that the total of interest and other charges in a consumer credit transaction shall not exceed the consumer’s total original balance from the credit card sale or loan.
Support	HB1633	relative to the legalization and regulation of cannabis and making appropriations therefor.	Commerce and Consumer Affairs	Wed 1/17	2:45 PM	LOB Room 302-304	This bill establishes procedures for the legalization, regulation, and taxation of cannabis; the licensing and regulation of cannabis establishments; and makes appropriations therefor.
Oppose	HB1678	establishing a New Hampshire farm to school local food incentive pilot program.	Education	Wed 1/17	10:00 AM	LOB Room 205-207	This bill establishes a New Hampshire farm to school local food incentive pilot program.
Support	HB1634	relative to universal eligibility for the education freedom account program.	Education	Wed 1/17	10:45 AM	LOB Room 205-207	This bill removes the household income criteria from eligibility requirements for the education freedom account program.
Support	HB1677	relative to participation in education freedom accounts based on school or school district proficiency scores.	Education	Wed 1/17	1:00 PM	LOB Room 205-207	This bill extends eligibility for the education freedom account program to students who participated in the program in the preceeding year, students whose enrollment transfer requests were denied, and to students in school districts which performed at 49 percent or below in statewide assessments.
Support	HB1665	relative to student eligibility for the education freedom accounts program.	Education	Wed 1/17	2:30 PM	LOB Room 205-207	This bill changes the annual household income limit to qualify for the education freedom account program.
Oppose	HB1112	relative to establishing a continuing education requirement regarding human trafficking for individuals licensed by the office of professional licensure and certification.	Executive Departments and Administration	Wed 1/17	10:45 AM	LOB Room 306-308	This bill requires the office of professional licensure and certification to audit compliance by licensees of continuing education requirements and further provides that all boards regulating health professionals shall require each licensee to complete continuing education in human trafficking each renewal cycle.
Support	HB1410	relative to certain professional licenses.	Executive Departments and Administration	Wed 1/17	11:30 AM	LOB Room 306-308	This bill repeals the chapter on the board of registration of medical technicians as well as the chapter on medical imaging and radiation therapy. This bill further makes changes to the nurse practice act, including amending the licensure of licensed nursing assistants to a registration process and making changes to the board of nursing.
Oppose	HB1394	relative to licensure and regulation of music therapists and making an appropriation therefor.	Executive Departments and Administration	Wed 1/17	2:00 PM	LOB Room 306-308	This bill establishes the licensure and regulation of music therapists under the office of professional licensure and certification. This bill further establishes a new program assistant II position at the office of professional licensure and certification and makes an appropriation to the office of professional licensure and certification.
Oppose	SB352	establishing an early detection cancer screening pilot program for active and retired firefighters.	Health and Human Services	Wed 1/17	9:00 AM	LOB Room 101	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.
Oppose	SB495	relative to certification of alcohol and other drug use treatment facilities.	Health and Human Services	Wed 1/17	9:15 AM	LOB Room 101	This bill provides for certification of substance use treatment programs by the department of health and human services and establishes an office of the behavioral health ombudsman in the department.
Oppose	SB500	establishing a primary care provider loan repayment program, and making an appropriation therefor.	Health and Human Services	Wed 1/17	9:45 AM	LOB Room 101	This bill establishes a primary care provider loan repayment program and fund in the department of health and human services and makes an appropriation to the department for this purpose.
Oppose	SB558	relative to insurance coverage for infertility treatments, protection from discrimination during IVF treatments, parental leave, and adoption.	Health and Human Services	Wed 1/17	10:00 AM	LOB Room 101	This bill provides insurance coverage for infertility treatments, protection from discrimination during IVF treatments, parental leave, and adoption.
Oppose	HB1002	relative to fees for records under the right-to-know law.	Judiciary	Wed 1/17	9:00 AM	LOB Room 206-208	This bill establishes parameters for when a public body may charge a fee for records provided under RSA 91-A.
Support	HB1105	relative to application of a local tax cap.	Municipal and County Government	Wed 1/17	10:00 AM	LOB Room 301-303	This bill provides clarification that all recommended appropriations in the warrant are included when determining the estimated amount of local taxes to be raised for the fiscal year under the local tax cap.
Oppose	HB1544	relative to indemnification for municipalities adopting policies to address homelessness.	Municipal and County Government	Wed 1/17	11:10 AM	LOB Room 301-303	This bill allows public property to be used to aid and shelter the homeless and indemnifies the government units in charge.
Oppose	HB1641	relating to requiring large parking lots to have a solar power canopy.	Municipal and County Government	Wed 1/17	11:50 AM	LOB Room 301-303	This bill requires that large parking facilities, whether existing or new, utilize photovoltaic solar canopies over at least 50 percent of the open asphalt surface.
Of Interest	HB1124	relative to limiting conflicts of interest and excessive concentration of power for municipal board and committee members.	Municipal and County Government	Wed 1/17	1:30 PM	LOB Room 301-303	This bill limits conflicts of interest and excessive concentration of power for municipal board and committee members.
Support	HB1396	relative to prohibiting municipal inspections of owner-occupied units of multi-unit housing.	Municipal and County Government	Wed 1/17	3:15 PM	LOB Room 301-303	This bill prohibits municipal inspections of owner-occupied units within residential structures of 4 units or less.
Of Interest	HB1049	relative to the prohibition on overnight mooring of houseboats.	Resources, Recreation and Development	Wed 1/17	10:00 AM	LOB Room 305	This bill repeals a general prohibition for the overnight mooring of houseboats otherwise permitted under RSA 270-A.
Oppose	HB1103	relative to revising the penalties of the shoreland protection act.	Resources, Recreation and Development	Wed 1/17	1:00 PM	LOB Room 305	This bill revises the penalties of the shoreland protection act.
Oppose	HB1113	relative to shoreland septic systems.	Resources, Recreation and Development	Wed 1/17	2:00 PM	LOB Room 305	This bill modifies requirements for site assessment studies of shoreland septic systems.
Support	HB1121	relative to creating certain wetlands permit exemptions after a natural disaster or flooding event.	Resources, Recreation and Development	Wed 1/17	3:00 PM	LOB Room 305	This bill exempts certain land owners from requiring wetlands permits after a natural disaster or flooding event.
Support	SB514	relative to the timber tax.	Ways and Means	Wed 1/17	9:45 AM	SH Room 100	This bill increases the amount of wood or wood chips a landowner can use for personal use or for land conservation purposes without being subject to the timber tax.
Of Interest	HB1563	relative to the education property tax and the authority of political subdivisions.	Ways and Means	Wed 1/17	10:00 AM	LOB Room 202-204	This bill replaces the statewide education property tax with a property tax contribution from political subdivisions based on the state education property tax warrant issued for the tax year beginning April 1, 2024. The bill also restores statutory authority for the determination of education grants for municipalities that tuition students to other institutions.
Of Interest	HB1551	relative to distinguishing between C corporations and S corporations for purposes of calculating business profits taxes.	Ways and Means	Wed 1/17	12:00 PM	LOB Room 202-204	This bill directs the state to distinguish between C corporations and S corporations for purposes of calculating the business profits tax and to exclude flow through items on the Schedule K for S corporations from corporate income for purposes of calculating the tax.
Oppose	HB1571	relative to requiring insurance coverage for glucose monitoring devices for people with diabetes.	Commerce and Consumer Affairs	Thu 1/18	11:15 AM	LOB Room 302-304	This bill requires insurance coverage and Medicaid coverage for glucose monitoring devices for people with diabetes.
Oppose	HB1094	relative to insurance coverage for pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders.	Commerce and Consumer Affairs	Thu 1/18	1:15 PM	LOB Room 302-304	This bill removes the prospective repeal of a reference to treatments for pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders in the requirement for insurance coverage of certain biologically-based mental illnesses.
Oppose	HB1296	relative to insurance coverage for diagnostic and supplemental breast examinations.	Commerce and Consumer Affairs	Thu 1/18	1:45 PM	LOB Room 302-304	This bill provides that certain insurers that provide diagnostic and supplemental breast examinations shall not impose co-payments, deductibles, or other cost-sharing requirements.
Support	HB1017	relative to duties of county sheriffs and the appointment of special deputy sheriffs.	Criminal Justice and Public Safety	Thu 1/18	10:30 AM	LOB Room 202-204	This bill requires county sheriff’s or deputies to have a presence at all federal law enforcement actions in the county. The bill also clarifies the appointment of special deputy sheriffs.
Support	HB1026	relative to resisting arrest.	Criminal Justice and Public Safety	Thu 1/18	11:00 AM	LOB Room 202-204	This bill establishes an affirmative defense to the crime of resisting arrest that the arrest was unlawful or constitutional.
Support	HB1372	relative to prohibiting torture.	Criminal Justice and Public Safety	Thu 1/18	11:30 AM	LOB Room 202-204	This bill establishes a criminal prohibition against torture, which is defined as an act committed by a person acting under the color of law specifically intended to inflict severe physical or mental pain or suffering upon another person within the person’s custody or control, other than the pain or suffering incidental to lawful sanctions. This bill is intended to supplement the federal law located at 18 U.S.C. sections 2340, 2340A, and 2340B, which apply to torture committed outside of the United States.
Oppose	HB1570	relative to administration of school building aid funds by the department of education and making an appropriation therefor.	Education	Thu 1/18	10:45 AM	LOB Room 205-207	This bill transfers moneys from the education trust fund to a new building aid fund. It also directs the department of education to contract with a vendor to conduct a facility assessment of public schools and public chartered schools.
Support	HB1546	relative to government purchasing.	Executive Departments and Administration	Thu 1/18	11:30 AM	LOB Room 306-308	This bill prohibits any state, county, or local government entity from contracting with or purchasing goods or services from companies that discriminate in hiring, promotion, or job assignment on the basis of sex, race, sexuality, national origin, ethnicity, or ideology, including but not limited to permitting diversity, equity, and inclusion statements. This bill further provides an enforcement mechanism.
Oppose	HB1486	relative to proxy carbon pricing in state procurement.	Executive Departments and Administration	Thu 1/18	2:00 PM	LOB Room 306-308	This bill requires the department of administrative services to consider proxy carbon pricing in transportation costs and building project costs.
Support	HB1278	relative to qualifying medical conditions for purposes of therapeutic cannabis.	Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs	Thu 1/18	9:30 AM	LOB Room 210-211	This bill adds debilitating or terminal medical conditions to the qualifying medical conditions for therapeutic cannabis if a health care provider certifies the potential benefit to the patient. The bill also removes certain limitations on a qualifying visiting patient’s access to cannabis.
Support	HB1240	relative to eating disorders as a qualifying condition for the therapeutic cannabis program.	Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs	Thu 1/18	10:00 AM	LOB Room 210-211	This bill adds eating disorders as a qualifying medical condition for the use of therapeutic cannabis.
Support	HB1349	relative to generalized anxiety disorder as a qualifying condition for the therapeutic cannabis program.	Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs	Thu 1/18	10:30 AM	LOB Room 210-211	This bill adds generalized anxiety disorder as a qualifying medical condition for the use of therapeutic cannabis.
Support	HB1350	relative to therapeutic cannabis possession limits.	Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs	Thu 1/18	1:00 PM	LOB Room 210-211	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	HB1231	permitting qualifying patients and designated caregivers to cultivate cannabis for therapeutic use.	Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs	Thu 1/18	2:00 PM	LOB Room 210-211	This bill permits qualifying patients and designated caregivers to cultivate cannabis for therapeutic use.
Support	SB356	relative to the return of property collected in the course of a police investigation.	Judiciary	Thu 1/18	1:00 PM	SH Room 100	This bill provides for the automatic return of seized property following certain dispositions of criminal cases, subject to certain exceptions.
Oppose	HB1072	relative to prohibiting employers from using polygraph testing.	Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services	Thu 1/18	10:15 AM	LOB Room 307	This bill prohibits employers from using polygraphs unless the employer is in law enforcement or meets other exceptions.
Oppose	HB1110	relative to requiring certain employers to use the federal E-Verify system of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services.	Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services	Thu 1/18	11:00 AM	LOB Room 307	This bill requires employers with 25 or more employees to use the federal E-Verify system of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services.
Oppose	HB1226	relative to employment protections for freelance employees.	Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services	Thu 1/18	1:30 PM	LOB Room 307	This bill provides comprehensive rights and responsibilities relative to freelance employees and hiring parties.
Support	HB1246	relative to allowing for payment of wages in gold or silver.	Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services	Thu 1/18	2:30 PM	LOB Room 307	This bill allows employers to pay the weekly or biweekly wages due to employees in gold or silver.
Oppose	HB1217	relative to an exception to allow the state or a municipality to use video monitoring to identify the cause of damage to historic covered bridges.	Criminal Justice and Public Safety	Fri 1/19	10:30 AM	LOB Room 202-204	This bill allows the state or a municipality to use video monitoring to identify the cause of damage to historic covered bridges.
Oppose	HB1587	relative to the installation of video surveillance equipment in special education school buses.	Criminal Justice and Public Safety	Fri 1/19	12:00 PM	LOB Room 202-204	This bill requires video surveillance equipment to be installed and operated on all vehicles provided through services related to a student’s IEP. The bill also requires school districts to develop a privacy policy for resulting recordings.

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Democrats in the Vermont House voted on Wednesday to spend $2 million to set up a pilot program establishing “safe injection sites” for addicts (H.72) – a misnomer, as it turns out as floor testimony revealed there are multiple ways users ingest their drugs at these facilities.

One lawmaker asked, “People are snorting fentanyl and smoking it, and I’m just wondering if that will be allowed at the centers, and also something like smoking methamphetamine.” The answer from lead bill sponsor Rep. Taylor Small (P-Winooski) was, “Yes! The people who would be using such facilities would be able to use pre-obtained drugs in a variety of ways.” Sounds safe, so much for protecting the workers in these places from secondhand meth and fentanyl smoke. Needless to say, these sites are controversial. But they are on the radical leftist Santa-letter wish list, so of course, Vermont needs to be the first kid on the block to have one…. Or two, as this initial case may be.

Supporters argue that giving addicts a safe place to get high under the supervision of healthcare professionals who can intervene in the event of an overdose saves lives, facilitates a path to treatment, keeps this sort of activity off the streets, and saves the public money by reducing emergency ambulance calls. In an ideal world, maybe.

Opponents’ concerns are more practical than ideological.

First of all, these sites are illegal under federal law. A small detail. While H.72 protects users and workers at these facilities from state prosecution, it doesn’t and can’t protect them from federal prosecution. Wouldn’t it make more sense to invest this $2 million, which comes from a legal settlement with five drug makers, in some other program that is not a federal crime to implement? That might even create some synergy with a federal program to get better results. Apparently not.

Moreover, the example of successful, safe sites cited by supporters are in New York City and have fully functioning ancillary support systems in place. For example, the benefit of an addict using a safe site as a springboard for getting treatment only works if treatment services outside the site are available. In Vermont, they are not. Without such support in place, these sites are little more than legally sanctioned drug dens. So, would it not make more practical sense to invest this $2 million into expanding the availability of treatment services – those with a proven track record of effectiveness — to better meet existing demand? Apparently not.

Similarly, asked about legal liabilities when addicts drive to and from these sites, potentially under the influence of something, Rep. Small stated that the overwhelming majority of addicts who use these sites live within a walkable ten-block radius of the site. That’s in New York City. Where the population density is, shall we say, a little bit more concentrated than it is anywhere in the Green Mountain State? According to Patti McCoy (R-Poultney), the 10 or 20-block area in Manhattan where these sites are contain twice the entire population of our state.

Where in Vermont are there enough addicts who would be willing to go to a safe site to get high within walking distance of their home to make such a facility cost-effective? We are talking about two locations serving 0.05 square miles within the 9916 square miles of Vermont. Even if this experiment sees some success in the pilot phase, is it possible or practical to scale the program up to equitably serve our whole population? From a funding and staffing perspective, no. So again, is the best use of this $2 million to help solve our opioid crisis? It is not.

Another significant concern is that these sites will become magnets for crime and drug dealers. The sites themselves do not provide drugs to the users. It’s BYOD! So, users will have to obtain their illegal substances before entering the site. From whom? A drug dealer nearby is probably taking advantage of the site as a marketing tool. And where will users get the money for their drugs? In many cases from theft, probably from someplace nearby. So, who wants one of these in their neighborhood? Bueller…. Bueller….

The counterargument to this concern is that police will be able to focus their attention on the areas surrounding the sites. But if they do, who’s going to go to them in the first place? It would defeat the ostensible purpose of having the things.

The Democrats and Progressives who supported this bill (not a single Republican voted for it) are going to do their best to spin opposition as some sort of callous disregard for the lives of addicts and a turning of backs on the very real opioid overdose crisis our state is facing. Our biased capitol press corps will probably do the same. This is bull. Don’t fall for it.

Those who voted no on H.72 overwhelmingly demonstrated sympathy for those suffering from addiction, their families, and our communities at large. Many shared their own experiences with family members or friends. This is, however, a question of how best to invest $2 million in settlement money in order to have the most positive impact on helping people in crisis.

As one opponent of H.72 explained, “At this time, the state of Vermont does not have an adequate substance abuse continuum of care infrastructure required to support an overdose prevention consumption site. We need to make investments in prevention, education, recovery, and treatment. These are the evidence-based, trauma-informed practices that save lives and bring our loved ones home to us safe, stable, and healthy. For this reason, I will be voting no on H.72 and urge this body to do the same.” And, I’ll add, the benefit of not being a federal crime. This is rational, common sense, investment-oriented policy making.

To paraphrase Majority Whip Mike McCarthy’s (D-St. Albans) response to this argument, “Who cares? I want an Oompa Loompa NOWWWWW!”

Unfortunately, H.72 is yet another example of how the Democrats and Progressives who control our legislature govern from a philosophical foundation of rainbows and unicorn farts and the belief that if we all just clap hard enough and truly believe (and throw enough money), Tinkerbell will come back to life — when the real solution is to pick her up and get her to a hospital as fast as possible.

Here’s a link to the roll call vote if you want to see how your Rep(s) voted.

 

Rob Roper is a freelance writer with 20 years of experience in Vermont politics, including three years of service as chair of the Vermont Republican Party and nine years as President of the Ethan Allen Institute, Vermont’s free-market think tank. He is also a regular contributor to VermontGrok.

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Hello, Friends of Freedom!

Happy New Year to you all as we enter a season of unprecedented change in our great country! We have all heard the phrase, “This election of our Presidency will be the most important election of our lifetime.”

I never embraced that phrase completely, but with deep reflection on what has transpired in the last administration in this country, it is apparent that it may ring true for us and our nation’s future generations!

I want to continue my series on the Separation of Church and State, but I want to remind everyone reading this article that elections have consequences! And the consequences for our country have never been more dangerous than they are now. The rise of “wokeness” destroying our free speech rights in the name of tolerance, the open border, the imposing debt, and the involvement in corrupt regimes in other countries has us doing a balancing act that we cannot help but topple over soon unless we see real change. Not just change in an election but change in governance and laws that are destroying us now from within.

Let us pray and put legs to our prayers with action in the arena of voting and running for office. Let those who love our country serve her in public office—ok, enough said!

We left off with learning that the Founding Fathers were keenly aware of NOT creating a state-sanctioned church. However, they were not ever expecting the principles of faith not to be lived out in society and given preference for educational purposes.

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To quote George Washington in his Farewell Address, “Of all dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, the firmest props of the duties of men and citizens? The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them.”

Note that in this portion of the speech he associates patriotism with the embracing of religion and morality in public life and policy. His speech also warns Americans to reject the idea that morality could be preserved apart from religious teaching. Again, he says, “Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education, reason, and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.” He understood that religious beliefs were the basis of morality, and that a secure and free government was hinged upon religion, he asked the question. Let it be simply asked, where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are instruments of investigation in courts and justice? The answer to this question of course, was if public institutions were separated from religious principles, people would no longer have a secure basis for their future as laid out in the Constitution.

Another great quote by a preeminent Founding Father was by John Adams in regard to the Constitution, where he states, “We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

Noah Webster, a great educator and orator, bears the title of “Schoolmaster to America” and was a Founding Father as well. He was the first to call for a Constitutional Convention. He states in a textbook he authored for public schools, “All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery, and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.” It is clear in his mind there was no need to separate religious instruction from children in public schools.

Another well-known Founding Father was Fisher Ames. He was an advocate of sound education in America’s founding. He was observing the proliferation of children’s books for the purpose of teaching moral values, character, and knowledge. He did not oppose any of them but was quoted as saying, “Why then if these books for children must be retained as they will be, should not the Bible again be the place it once held as a school book?” He was concerned for the place of faith and values to be continued in the educational process of America’s youngest citizens.

So, of course, there are many other Fathers who shared their perspectives on religious places (specifically the Bible, in the culture at large. I share this week’s article to reiterate the importance of the role of religious knowledge and education in creating the kind of country our Founding Fathers had in mind. Next week, we will actually deal head-on with the phrase Separation of church and State. I will show you its direct origin and its original intention.

Have a great week!

Until Next Time…

Allen

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I’ll leave it up to you to decide which is worse: the lie, the cover-up, or the harm to quality of life or loss of life. I’m inclined toward the latter, but we cannot escape how the former  – and its water carriers caused the latter. Without truth, inquiry, debate, and science, people were injured by what they were told would protect them from harm.

We are not revisiting the hundreds of articles or research. You’ve read them or can find them. This is about Tucker Carlson’s latest segment at TCN. Bret Weinstein, whom many of you may follow, spent an hour with Tucker, exploring facts and frauds around COVID. Again, much of it is information we know or thoughts we’ve shared, but it was how he shared it. Clear. Concise. It’s brilliant.

You should watch it or watch it again.

Why mRNA was so Bad

On the topic of the mRNA platform, he very succinctly describes the problem after acknowledging that, in theory, it was a beautiful discovery with potential. The problem is that by design, it can cause your body to attack itself. He explains how the human immune system defends the body by attacking foreign proteins everywhere they are found. The COVID injections create foreign proteins. If the mRNA gets into the circulatory system, it can land in any organ or all of them, producing proteins in cells that the body will attack.

While it is possible for the healthcare professional administering the injections to ensure the mRNA remains in the shoulder muscle as advertised millions of times, they did not. Perhaps hundreds of millions of times.

Add to this every other lie told of which they were keenly aware. It increases the chance of infection and spread, is more dangerous to children than the virus, masks would not protect you and likely increase the odds of disease, and distancing was never science (unless you mean the theoretical middle-school student variety). Natural immunity was better, and very few had anything to fear. Cheap existing treatments the experts demonized were more effective. Lockdowns did or will do more damage than perhaps even the injections. The Pfizer EUA formulation was not the same as the trial version (what of a trial there was), but it was as ineffective and dangerous.

Many at the top of the COVID tyranny food chain knew or suspected these things but shouted down and censored those who dared to air such suspicions in public. Another enormous error, as Bret Weinstein notes in this clip.

 

#Solidarity https://t.co/m5jhrvbO9q

— Matt Orfalea (@0rf) January 13, 2024

 

Tyranny became a global cure for the disease of Democracy with COVID, but they screwed up. Suppressing the odd peasant doesn’t attract a lot of attention. Shutting down world-class experts created Health Care Icons for the resistance. Brilliant minds connected to each other and the public in ways that had not previously been considered. The opposition has an A game, while team globalism can’t stop the evidence of how many lies they told and how often.

 

The Death Rate Lie:

 

PRESIDENT TRUMP: Well, I think the 3.4% is really a false number. Now, this is just my hunch, but based on a lot of conversations with a lot of people that do this, because a lot of people will have this, and it’s very mild. They will get better very rapidly. They don’t even see a doctor. They don’t even call a doctor. You never hear about those people.

Nobody is Safe – Pandemic of the unvaccinated.

 

 

And, Fauci vs. Fauci.

 

 

The internet they seek to control is lush with examples, but the mRNA is still out there, and Pharma is paying the same players to support disproven public health shibboleths. Their narrative proteins are looking for new human minds to infect and the means to overcome the rise of ruling-class information immunity.

Naturally, they’ve been working on the children only because we let them so, as dangerous as mRNA might be, the people behind it are the actual threat, and they have not given up, so neither can we.

 

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A New York statute targeting Chick-fil-A for its Christian faith turns American history—and Constitutional law—upside down.  The “Rest Stop Restaurant Act” seeks to compel food service providers to stay open seven days a week in publicly-owned rest areas and other facilities, or be denied contracts to provide services.

This is not merely an attack on the faith of a private business chain; it is an open war against fundamental constitutional liberties.

New York Blue Laws

Historically, American colonies widely implemented “Blue Laws” that forbade trade on the Sabbath day—Sundays.  Blue Laws compelled days of rest: New York banned Sunday sales of goods in 1656, and enacted the first official “state Sabbath law” with the “Statute for Suppressing Immorality” of 1778.  New York now seeks to compel businesses to sell goods on the Sabbath, a sort of Established Church of Mammon.

It is hard to imagine that courts will approve a government’s power to compel business opening hours any more than compel speech (or abortion).  Supreme Court precedent firmly holds the opposite: states can impose a day of tranquil rest. New York is flouting well-established law. In the 1961 seminal case of Braunfeld v. Brown, liberal Justice Earl Warren observed:

[W]e cannot find a State without power … to set one day of the week apart from the others as a day of rest, repose, recreation and tranquillity [sic] — a day when the hectic tempo of everyday existence ceases and a more pleasant atmosphere is created, a day which all members of the family and community have the opportunity to spend and enjoy together, a day on which people may visit friends and relatives who are not available during working days, a day when the weekly laborer may best regenerate himself. This is particularly true in this day and age of increasing state concern with public welfare legislation.

Compelled to Work?

In contrast, New York Democrat Assemblymember Tony Simone argued that allowing a restaurant to be closed is “just not in the public good” and that “not only does Chick-Fil-A have a long, shameful history of opposing LGBTQ rights, it simply makes no sense for them to be a provider of food services in busy travel plazas.”  This openly discriminatory statement follows a previous New York effort to prevent Chick-fil-A from opening facilities at these exact locations!  Despite attacks on the chain by leftist extremists, it remains the most popular fast-food chain in the nation, favored for its outstanding customer service.

This fast-food statute perverts Justice Warren’s concern for public welfare, advocating round-the-clock business over rest.  Instead of boycotting Chick-fil-A for its Christian views, its attackers are demanding it open its doors and earn more profits.  Chick-fil-A has observed the Sabbath since its 1946 founding so that employees can “enjoy a day of rest, be with their families and loved ones, and worship if they choose.”

This sounds much like the value upheld as a legitimate state interest by Justice Warren, who also warned of the potential for abuse:

[W]hen entering the area of religious freedom, we must be fully cognizant of the particular protection that the Constitution has accorded it. Abhorrence of religious persecution and intolerance is a basic part of our heritage.

If the purpose or effect of a law is to impede the observance of one or all religions, or is to discriminate invidiously between religions, that law is constitutionally invalid even though the burden may be characterized as being only indirect.

An Unconstitutional Effort

New York’s insulting effort to compel Sunday openings is constitutionally dead on arrival as it collides headlong into solid legal precedent.  Braunfeld and other precedents banned Jewish merchants from selling their goods on Sunday; now, New York seeks to do the exact reverse.  Justice Warren did not identify a state power to compel commerce, let alone in derogation of established religious practice.  He did, however, roundly and specifically condemn precisely the kind of overt prejudice exhibited by the New York legislators supporting this discriminatory bill.

 

John Klar is an Attorney, farmer, and author. Mostly farmer… And Regular Contributor to GraniteGrok and VermontGrok.

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In 42 years of practicing law in California, I encountered firsthand what I labeled the BILLIONAIRE-OCRACY. Simply put, California was ruled by a very select and distinct group of very wealthy people who ran all the companies. The faces of the ruling class had names like Willie Brown (the man behind Kamala Harris), Nancy Pelosi, and Gavin Newsom.

But the real power was in Silicon Valley ( Google, Apple, Oracle, Microsoft). Just outside of Reno, the Power Corporations located themselves in an enclave far away from the citizens and installed their control towers. There seemed to be two types: Companies owned by individuals or families and Companies owned by extremely powerful folks like BlackRock and Vanguard. State Street. However you or I viewed it, these folks were extremely powerful, extremely wealthy, and, with little effort, were able to control every aspect of their worlds, including the State and federal governments.

As a trial attorney, I got to know a great deal about this “ruling” class. The fundamental aspect of this “class” is that they believe that they are “ENTITLED” to do whatever they want to do.

ENTITLED is a word that truly should stick in your thoughts. But make sure you clearly define it and understand it as it applies to those folks. It is not what you think. You need a working knowledge of European history-especially the attitudes and beliefs of the then-ruling aristocracy, you know the kings and their “divine” rights attitude.

Here is what I believe is true after interacting with this “class” for 42 years.

Way back in the Middle Ages and continuing well into the 20th century, there grew up in countries like England, France, Italy, etc a ruling class of royalty. They amassed great wealth and power, and they developed the notion that because of their wealth and power, they were superior to the nonwealthy. This superiority was divine- God made them better than the masses, and the evidence of this was their vast wealth and fact of birth.

It is hard to convey to a modern American what this attitude looked like. Our revolutionary ancestors knew it all too well and rebelled against it in 1776. Imagine some individual who, because he was born the son of a Duke or an Earl or a Prince, could walk into your house whenever he pleased, confiscate your money, your food, and even your daughter or son, and do so with impunity because of his superior birth.

Such folks gradually died out as the Industrial Revolution created a new class of powerful and wealthy folks-the Rockefellers, the J P Morgans, and Henry Ford. They could not really claim to be superior by royal birth (in America, at least), but they could claim the same sort of superiority as the former royal figures using modern genetics theory. Charles Darwin gave them their Theory: they were superior to the rest of us because of natural selection. Nature had simply endowed them with superior genes, and because they were chosen by nature to be superior, they were not only wealthy but destined by their genetics to rule society.

Nietzsche came along and caught their fancy-he wrote extensively on the “supermen” who, because of genetic superiority, were destined to rule the world.

Karl Marx, of all people, moved the needle for them as well- people often reflect on how he promoted the thought that the oppressed workers of the world need to revolt and take over. However, he also added that there exists a super race of folks who are needed to “control” and direct the animal urges of the masses. (The head of the WEF recently said that the Chinese model is the best one for the future of mankind. When Xi Jinping came to San Francisco, many of the billionaire class showed up, gave him a standing ovation, and treated him like the “savior” they viewed him as.

In short, to understand the Billionaire class, you have to, I believe, understand that they see themselves as different…genetically superior to you. They see themselves as endowed with superior intellect, superior thoughts, superior bodies, and superior everything – to the point that they see you as being in a different genus and species.

In all of their “I’m better than you” world, there is no thought of America. No thought of the United States Constitution. No thought about Christian values respecting life and the dignity of individuals.

The life-sustaining “force” for them is that they are the BILLIONAIRE-OCRACY,  and they are endowed by natural selection to rule the world.  Everyone else is lower than a snake’s belly in a wheel rut and needs to be eliminated or forced into the slave class.

I remember watching these folks take over California.

They wanted cheap labor; they wanted no unions. The “inferior” middle-class American middle class was an irritation, depriving them of their rightful ruling status. Lawyers asserting the rights of these folks were an abomination and need to be drawn and quartered ( currently, the federal government is writing into almost every new regulation coming out of the various agencies’ criminal penalties on any lawyer counseling or asserting a challenge to the regulations).

“Get rid of them! “they cried out. Replace them with people who work cheaply, do what they are told, and know zero about their rights.  So, they opened the borders and brought in peasants from the hills of Mexico. And they kept them illegal( I knew some who had come to the USA when they were five and at 65 were still illegal) so that constantly these folks were in fear if they did anything the padrone did not like, they would be deported.

And when Ceasar Chavez tried to unionize the farm workers, the billionaires freaked- a Mexican asserting human rights!

The Teamsters came in and crushed him. And then made deal after deal with the “ruling” class. (I represented some farmers in the Imperial Valley and was involved in the Chavez v Teamsters for several years). They wanted to make money off Indian gaming, so they got Arnold Schwarzenegger to agree not to tax the first 2000 slot machines in each casino. They wanted close relations with China as they wanted Chinese money to flow through their companies. And they wanted Chinese laborers to build their devices. So, they arranged for the right people to be elected and made sure those elected folks passed the legislation they needed.

Somewhere along the line, they decided that they just did not need the traditional white men and women who were not billionaires. They wanted compliant people who kept their mouths shut and did what they were told. After all, being genetically superior, they are ENTITLED’ to whatever they want.

So they came up with the “environmental movement” that imposed regulation after regulation on middle Americans and thereby made the cost of living beyond what the middle class could afford. It takes ten years to break ground on any housing based on all the regulations. They passed the “greenhouse Gas emissions laws” that literally stopped all construction of homes until a complete revamp occurred, replacing the single-family dwelling with the Chinese model of high-rise concentrated housing (ten or more 35-story condos all grouped and serviced by public transportation).

They wanted such folks with their “rights” and guns gone. A house I bought in the early 2000 for $450,000 is now $900,000. Meanwhile, the City of Santa Ana, a population bigger than any city in New Hampshire, allows migrants to live in garages so long as there is water (a hose), electricity (an extension cord), and sanitation (a bucket).

I and millions like me left.  I filed too many lawsuits in favor of the illegal immigrants, and they shut me down in the Courts and in my business(One of my best clients called me up one day and told me that the owner had instructed that I could not get any more work because I was not gay and that I had filed too many lawsuits asserting the rights of illegal immigrants.  One judge openly told me that he had to rule against me as he had received pressure from very high-up people who had targeted me for my beliefs in Constitutional rights.

These wealthy folks- the BILLIONAIRE-OCRACY-were very, very successful. Go to Fresno( speaking English is likely to get you shot). Go to Stockton( run by Marxists passing out universal basic income in the heart of the California agricultural empire that feeds the world). Go to Oakland( homelessness is a growth industry).

All the white middle class is either gone, shuddered their businesses, or are living in their cars or RV’s. Meanwhile, the BILLIONAIRE-OCRACY businesses thrive with their cheap labor and their total control along the Chinese business/government model.

Apple, for example, to be able to hire cheap Mexican labor, built a company town adjacent to their ” 5 billion dollar campus” to house the illegals who mow the lawn and cook the meals. Houses in the area sell for over 2 million. Rents for one bedroom are $3500. Making 15 dollars an hour or less means no roof.

To sum up,  the BILLIONAIRE-OCRACY took over California, got rid of all the folks like you and me, and replaced us with a compliant slave class that greeted the Chinese premiere with open and loving arms.

Guess what? They were so successful in California that they wanted to bring what they did to California to the rest of the USA, including New Hampshire.

Joe Biden has served them well. They would love him to return.  For a few measly millions in the Biden family pockets, Biden gives them everything they want- unlimited money flow, Government contracts, and wars they can profit from; but most importantly, he gives them the status they think they deserve: Whatever they want they get. And right now, what they want is a USA where the middle class with its guns, its constitutional rights, and its American freedoms is gone. They want to replace all those middle-class Americans with cheap, compliant labor from any and all places they live in the world.

They made a good start under Obama, and when Trump got elected, they thought, “Hey, he is one of us. He is a billionaire; he has milked the system; he has hobnobbed with all the right people.”

Instead, Trump slammed the BILLIONAIRE-OCRACY. He slammed their viewpoint. He championed the middle class. He brought life back to the Americans born in the USA, and he restored their rights. He denied the billionaires their special privileges.  Most alarming to them, he told them that they were no better nor worse than anybody else. Not genetically superior to anyone. He slammed their scheme to replace all of us with cheap, compliant labor, and he slammed them for sending businesses overseas.

To the BILLIONAIRES, THIS ELECTION IS CLEARLY AN EXISTENTIAL ISSUE- either they are entitled to be the superior class that runs the country, or they are not. And the “are not” scares the crap out of them( the thought that you or I might have a say in our Government scares them no end).

Take a look at the effort to stop Trump. Who is leading it? Who funds it? You cannot watch any TV station or watch any YouTube broadcasts without being bombarded with “I hate Trump” ads.  I am told that these ads have cost more than 350 million. Yet they are relentless. And ostensibly, they are by Republicans or self-described Conservatives. They have now apparently chosen Nikki Haley to be their “stop Trump” savior. She is one of them, after all: illegals are good; China is great; war is needed.  They are pouring huge amounts into her campaign. But who are they?  Her ads are being paid for by three major PACS. If you go and look at who funds those PACs, OMG-its a bunch of Billionaires- the Koch family, the head of PAYPAL, etc. Isn’t this the BILLIONAIRE-OCRACY DOING ITS THING ALL OVER AGAIN? 

I left California to get away from the BILLIONAIRE-OCRACY.  Stupid me-it came to New Hampshire. I have no place left to go. I will be holding a Trump sign at the four corners in Hollis. If you drive by, don’t see the word TRUMP” on my sign; see ” I don’t want the BILLIONAIRE-OCRACY  to finalize the job of destroying my Country because they think they are genetically superior to me – if you feel the same, honk twice.

God bless!

 

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NH Representatives File Bill To Stop Solar Radiation Modification (SRM) and Other Forms of Weather Engineering Experiments such as Stratospheric Aerosol Injection (SAI) in New Hampshire’s Atmosphere.

Concord, New Hampshire – Two motivated NH House Representatives, Jason Gerhard, Merrimack – District 25, and Kelley Potenza, Strafford – District 19, have introduced “The Clean Atmosphere Preservation Act” NH House Bill HB 1700. The three-page bill establishes regulations to prevent the intentional release of polluting and harmful emissions into New Hampshire’s atmosphere. This bill aims to bring forward a subject many experts have warned us about for years, as well as the necessary transparency for NH citizens so we can educate and unite to stop this destructive environmental onslaught we are experiencing.

“We already have legislation passed in 2021 that should inform the public when this occurs. Unfortunately, that has never occurred in the three years since its passage. It is time to take legislative action to flat out stop this pollution,” stated Rep. Potenza. HB 1700 cites pollution released during cloud seeding or weather modification activities and associated electromagnetic radiation, all defined as pollution by scientists. “Even Verizon and AT&T define what we are referring to as pollution. To be clear, we are not worried about snow-making cannons, since we know what comes out of those, or looking to regulate domestic airplane engine emissions as some have disingenuously suggested,” Rep. Gerhard said.

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In addition to New Hampshire’s existing Weather Modification policy, the Federal Congress is partnering with foreign governments and international organizations such as the United Nations to establish a global governance framework for “mandated” experimentation of Solar Radiation Modification (SRM) and other forms of weather engineering experiments such as Stratospheric Aerosol Injection (SAI) to block sunlight and assist in global cooling. You can find the alarming Congressionally Mandated Research Plan and an Initial Research Governance report at: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/CongressionallyMandated-Report-on-Solar-Radiation-Modification.pdf.

The types of experimental activities advanced by Washington, DC, which incorporate satellites and space, are like something out of a science fiction movie. According to the Tenth Amendment of The United States Constitution, HB 1700 would prohibit SRM, SAI, cloud seeding, weather modification, and other types of weather experimentation in New Hampshire. “The Clean Atmosphere Preservation Act” safeguards state security and sovereignty and protects the health and safety of our environment, wildlife, agriculture, etc., all while preserving our natural resources.

HB 1700 will be introduced in a House committee public hearing next Tuesday, detailed below. Please contact the committee with your testimony or register your support if you cannot attend in person: https://gencourt.state.nh.us/house/committees/remotetestimony/default.aspx.

Hearing Date: January 16, 2024 Time: 1:30 PM Address: Legislative Office Building, 33 North State Street, Concord, NH 03301 Committee: Science, Technology and Energy (https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/house/committees/committeedetails.aspx?id=15) Room: 302-304 Bill: HB 1700 – an act prohibiting the intentional release of polluting emissions, including cloud seeding, weather modification, excessive electromagnetic radio frequency, and microwave radiation and making penalties for violation of such prohibition.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 12, 2023
Press Release Contact: Representative Kelley Potenza, Strafford – District 19 Email: kelley.potenza@leg.state.nh.us
New Hampshire House of Representatives The General Court of New Hampshire 107 North Main Street Concord, NH 03301

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Don Lemon announced a deal to do a program on X, as have Tulsi Gabbard and some sports guy of whom I’ve never heard, but the addition of Lemon is of most interest. The former CNN critter will provide the left with an excuse to use the platform that Leomn calls “the biggest space for free speech in the world.”

The petty tyrants obsessed with censoring ideas with which they disagree have a problem. They’ve insisted that X, in its Musk-Owned post-government-controlled censorship state, would collapse, die, become a wasteland for hate, and a place for intolerant MAGA Republicans and Nazis as if Nazis don’t have free speech rights in America.

We don’t have to like it, but they do.

These progressive exhortations (in reality) prevent them from having to address how censorious platforms like Facebook and Instagram allow child pornography, pedophile rings, and child sex trafficking but not diverse opinions on the effectiveness of masks, lockdowns, or more invasive chemical interventions.

Laptops owned by Biden’s named Hunter or unsecured servers owned by Clinton’s named Hillary. These subjects are commonly referred to as election interference. And you’d be right to insist on a double standard, two sets of rules, or a two-tiered system of injustice, which the old X (when it was known as Twitter) would have had to filter, alter, shadow-ban, or censor.

And while there might be Nazis and child traffickers on X, it now has Don Lemon, who, regardless of his success there, has opened the door to more capable progressive commentators, all of whom have the right to speak their minds. The Lemon and I won’t agree on much, nor will I find a lot of common ground among most die-hard progressives, but if they flock to X to see Lemon and whoever follows his lead, they’ll need to rethink at least two problems—their hatred for Elon Musk and their position on X and Free Speech.

If it’s anything like the mental health crisis they had with unmasked people during COVID, the online therapy services stand to rake in a fortune.

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Lost in the recent climate summit at COP28 in Dubai was the shift by environmentalists and governments toward a nuclear energy future. Calls to eliminate fossil fuels and cows predominated as usual, and John Kerry demanded that all coal-fired plants be banned. But a very substantial lane change took place as well: nuclear-powered options were granted a seat at the climate table.

Observers of climate summits may be forgiven if they’re confused over the direction the world is being led to combat the alleged climate-change Armageddon – clearly, the attendees are. Envoys to Dubai flew to the summit conspicuously in jets, dined on meat, and condemned China for its coal-fired plants while calling to manufacture more solar panels and EVs – which are heavily dependent on Chinese coal energy. In the shuffle to redistribute energy resources, it is inevitable that relatively cheap and clean nuclear power would eventually poke its head cautiously into the climate fray.

A Nuclear “Renaissance”?

Environmental purists have long scoffed at nuclear power as an ally against greenhouse gas emissions, but it appears the failure of the renewable energy pathways to deliver the promised salvation has induced the climate obsessives to reassess their Utopian objectives. In what is being diplomatically whitewashed as a nuclear “renaissance” rather than an about-face reversal, global and industry leaders are openly embracing the “nuclear option.” An international agreement signed by 22 nations while at COP28 pledged to triple nuclear energy capacity by 2050. Signatories included the US, Canada, Britain, and the UAE, which touted its own massive investments in nuclear reactors at the climate summit.

This dramatic shift in official climate policy may be driven by the recognition of the frightful shortcomings of renewable energy manufacturing or numerous claims that humanity is already past the point of no return from global warming impacts. Yet a forceful reality for conference attendees – and the world – is that China and other nations are proceeding full steam ahead with nuclear capacity. Perhaps Western nations are fathoming the consequences of being left behind on energy.

China Is Ascendant

Greta Thunberg howls against fossil fuels while demanding more renewable manufacturing – dependent on fossil fuels. The one-issue obsession with carbon dioxide has clouded futurist visions to “save” the world, into what may well prove to be a sort of modern collective energy suicide. Banning oil, natural gas, and coal before the alternatives have been created and implemented is dubious policy. Yet the carbon-focus foible means toxic chemicals spewing from Chinese manufacturing plants have been ignored, as have the consequences of shutting down oil and gas production and distribution. Also overlooked are the economic impacts of reckless government spending.

The most dramatic oversight of the climate agenda, though, may be national security. China is an amused partner at the table – pledging climate policy commitments while ramping up coal-fired plants and nuclear power. China views coal as a national security resource, as it has enormous quantities of black gold. It also understands the power and profitability inherent in nuclear energy, and is currently constructing all six types of fourth-generation nuclear reactors determined by an international consortium to be safer than traditional reactors.

Nuclear Utopia?

Dreams of Utopia invariably crash down with earthly gravitation. Few but the most extremist environmental groups now insist that nuclear power is off the table, especially as new inroads into nuclear fusion are developed. Proponents of climate change action are increasingly coming to terms with the factual reality that renewable energy manufacturing cannot possibly provide the baseload of power the world requires. This leaves nuclear power as not only a viable option, but the planet’s only known hope for anthropogenic rescue from alleged human-caused global warming.

 

John Klar is an Attorney, farmer, and author. Mostly farmer… And Regular Contributor to GraniteGrok and VermontGrok.

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We can only hope that the other faulty pillars of leftism collapse this year the way the Electric Vehicle market has in the past year. Dealers don’t want them Inventory is backing up, manufacturers are losing billions, and now Hertz is not only not going to buy 100,000 of them, it is dumping many of the EVs it has.

 

“The elevated costs associated with EVs persisted,” Hertz Chief Executive Officer Stephen Scherr said. “Efforts to wrestle it down proved to be more challenging.”

The company hopes that its decision to sell off 20,000+ electric vehicles better balances “supply against expected demand of EVs,” it said in a regulatory filing.

Morgan Stanley analysts said told Reuters that Hertz’s move should be a warning to the entire auto industry about the reality of the electric vehicle market, that they are not that popular and expectations for their growth need to be significantly reduced.

They cost more to buy, a lot more to insure, are expensive to repair, and, in many cases, are a total loss from what might otherwise be a minor accident. You can’t trust them indoors (or shouldn’t due to lithium battery fire risk). Their advertised range rarely meets expectations. Most EVs will never run on non-fossil fuel electricity, and their manufacture and disposal are less than green.

An EV is a lot like any other high-end status vehicle except that it is an expensive and impractical lifestyle accessory with a government mandate.

A pushy Biden Administration commanded automakers to include them to meet revised efficiency mandates, but consumers are losing interest in an investment of that size given the other cost and reliability concerns. Short of buying it for them, the market has plateaued, and that, too, is a concern. Woke states and municipalities have expanded their taxpayer-funded fleets with these turds, and with new models piling up, Biden could easily propose a bailout that puts taxpayers in double jeopardy. The Feds will fund incentives with your dollars to encourage cities and states to pick up the excess inventory, with taxpayers on the hook again for the higher costs of ownership that is scaring off consumers.

And if you are thinking this might be a good time to get in cheap on a used EV formerly in the possession of Hertz, rethink that. The only thing worse than the EV market is the used EV market – another reason to stay away.

 

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