Canada represents the cutting edge of progressive thinking where socialized health care meets socialized mass murder under the guise of your having asked for it. An agenda hidden behind the dubious ramblings of social engineers mumbling about empathy and dignity.

Medically assisted dying cries about compassion while simultaneously making people confined by the public health apparatus miserable enough to want to kill themselves. Canada, for its part, has proven that the safeguards it promised would prevent abuse are meaningless as serial killers doing business as medical professionals come out of the public health woodwork to call the locals to their deathbeds.

The Pied Pipers of a socialized public health care scheme that increasingly leaves them with no other choice.

 

Assessing patients for assisted death when they really need other support is frightfully common (in Canada). In a study of “MAiD” assessments on 54 patients who didn’t have terminal illnesses, two-thirds had concurrent mental illness, a fifth had difficulty finding treatment for their afflictions, and over a third were simply not offered treatments.

 

Not even the economically prudent pain pill, which is more amenable to the budget than a procedure they can’t get for six to twelve months or at all because experts, boards, or commissions denied them a treatment (remember how the left said death panels were a conspiracy theory). They are abandoned to a life of government-managed discomfort, waiting to die, by a system that might then ask if perhaps now would be better than later.

Related: Slippery Meet Slope: Wait Six Months to Get Health Care or … They Can Help You ‘Kill Yourself’ Next Week!

As with all such things, mission creep sets in, expanding the meaning to encompass more conditions.

 

[I]n seminars conducted by leading euthanasia providers in Canada, providers have admitted that patients are indeed citing poverty as their driving factor for requesting euthanasia. One woman requested assisted death because she could not afford the vitamins, special diet, and physiotherapy that would relieve the symptoms of her non-terminal illnesses. Other patients with chronic pain, diabetes, cardiac issues, anxiety, and depression have requested assisted death simply because they could not find housing. The provider in charge of these cases stated that these people have “no other options,” as referrals will get them “not very much, and certainly not very fast.” The provider also made no mention that these applications were being discouraged or denied.

 

Make them miserable enough, and they will beg you to let them die in a framework with too many willing to find a way to make it happen.

 

Although physicians are required to have a second practitioner sign off on assisted death requests, the law allows them to ask as many physicians as they like until they find someone who agrees with them. Since providers have varying opinions on what qualifies one for assisted death, as well as what justifies cognitive ability to choose assisted death, it isn’t difficult to find a provider who will agree to kill a patient. [Ellen] Wiebe, for example, stated that she would consider a patient on a five-year waitlist for an effective treatment to have “irremediable suffering.”

 

How large of a leap is it to enable a scheme like this and then ensure the circumstances by which an increasing number of people, handicapped in any number of ways by deliberate government policy, pursue assisted suicide to escape the tyranny of low expectations in a State that once existed to do nothing more than preserve and protect their natural rights and – in the case of US States and the Nation itself – “promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.”

Canada is well down the path, as are Hawaii and Oregon. Vermont has had its feet on the road to death for years, and New Hampshire has a bill proposing we line up behind them. Who among us will stand up and make the case that while there is nothing wrong with compassion, there is when you pretend it can come from a government that has admitted there are too many of us in this world and they’d be okay if a few billion just dropped dead.

And then asks if -out of compassion – they can help.

 

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I am a Granite Stater to the bone, but I have fallen in love with Maine over the last few years. My partner and I have deep roots in the Pine Tree State as she was born in Maine and spent much of her childhood in Central Maine. I enjoyed many vacations camping along the rocky coast, and three years ago, we found our summer home on Bear Pond.

The Pond is a magical spot because of its beauty and serenity, but more for the people we have met and now call best friends. The People of the Pond, as we call them, are the true gem.

Having a vested interest and spending four months of the year in Maine is a blessing and a source of frustration. Seeing the dysfunctional state of Maine politics but having no say as non-residents is a complex and challenging position. Writing this blog is my way of spreading the story of what the Liberal-leaning politicians of Maine are doing to harm this beautiful state.

Maine is a vast state with demographics that are very similar to many states in the Northeast. The population concentration in the major cities is very Left-thinking and, therefore, dominates the politics and policy of the less populated rural areas. The Conservative folks in Central and Northern Maine are the victims of the policies from Portland, Auburn/Lewiston, and Augusta. We share the frustration of the good people of Western and Northern Maine.

I have written a few times about the ultra-liberal Marijuana and absurd Abortion laws in my Conservative View From New Hampshire blog, and I am sure we will touch on them again. Today, I want to discuss a current movement to remove Donald Trump from the Maine Primary Ballot in 2024. This tactic has been debated in many states, and Colorado was the first state to remove the former President. The Maine Legislature held an 8-hour hearing last week to allow both sides to present their case on removing Trump, and the Secretary of State was to have decided by last Friday. Because of the Colorado decision, Maine has delayed action until both sides can provide additional testimony before a decision is made.

Delaying a decision based on that of another state compounds the lousy decision to consider the issue in the first place. Proponents of removing Trump are citing the 14th Amendment and claim that Trump was involved in perpetuating the January 6th assault on the Capitol. If true, these people say that Trump is ineligible to hold the office of President. Trump has never been charged with insurrection and, therefore, never found guilty. It is a fundamentally bogus claim with no reason for the contemplated action. Mainers should be monitoring this story as it develops in Augusta as the Legislature attempts to meddle in the election. Voters deserve to vote for their candidate, and the Legislature has no right to filter and prevent candidates from the ballot.

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Just before leaving town for Christmas break, the US House gave Americans a last-minute holiday gift: a nearly trillion-dollar military spending bill filled with lots of goodies for the special interests and the military-industrial complex. Unfortunately, the rest of America got nothing but coal in its stockings.

With Constitutionalists like Rep. Thomas Massie on the House Rules Committee, Speaker Johnson made the unusual move of bringing the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) under suspension of the rules, which bypasses the Rules Committee but requires two-thirds of the House to pass the bill.

Considering that Speaker Johnson tossed into the “must-pass” bill yet another extension of Section 702 of the FISA Act, it’s unsurprising that he wanted to rush the bill through without the possibility of amendment. Section 702 allows the government to intercept and retain without a warrant the communications of any American who is in contact with a non-US citizen. It is clearly a violation of the Fourth Amendment, which is supposed to protect Americans against unreasonable searches and seizures.

Section 702 was “legalized” under President George W. Bush during the “War on Terror” after it was revealed that Bush was using the National Security Agency to spy on Americans illegally. We were told at the time that government must be granted these authorities because we were under threat from terrorists. It would just be a temporary measure, we were promised, and then the authority would expire. That was fifteen years ago, and here we are, re-authorizing the government to continue to violate our liberties.

As with the rest of the violations of our civil liberties after 9/11, like the PATRIOT Act and the creation of the Department of Homeland Security and the TSA, the federal government soon turned its terrorism-fighting tools inward, targeting Americans rather than foreigners who we were told wanted to harm Americans. That’s why the FBI’s so-called domestic terrorism watchlist continues to expand to include Christians and those skeptical of big government.

So rather than debating whether we want a government more like East Germany than the one our Founders imagined, Section 702 was tossed into the military spending bill.

The NDAA also contained a $600 million gift to the corrupt government of Ukraine. As opposition to further spending on Ukraine’s failed war with Russia increases in the House, Republican leadership decided to add what may be the last parting gift to the military-industrial complex. As with most foreign assistance, however, Ukraine will likely see very little of this money. Most of it will be laundered through the military contractors and lobbyists who line every corner of the Beltway.

The NDAA also pushes us further toward confrontation with China, authorizing more than $100 million to train Taiwan’s military and a further nine billion dollars to continue sending US military ships to harass China in its backyard.

I believe Speaker Johnson is intelligent with a bright future in House leadership. He has inherited a broken system and a legislative body that operates without any guiding principles. I sincerely hope he will begin to listen to the increasing voices in the House who are questioning the warfare-welfare state. We are more than 33 trillion dollars in debt, with interest payments on that debt dwarfing all other government spending. A crash is coming. There is no time for more “business as usual.”

 

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My dog Cosmo gets mirrors. He looks into them and knows that the dog he sees is him. Not a threat, and incredibly handsome. He knows this. This awareness does not always translate to windows or shadows.

He will bark at his shadow on a fence until it goes away. He’s funny like that. Reflections in windows are different from mirrors. Not as clear. This sometimes confuses him, and Austin City Councilor and now Congressman Greg Casar is like that, too.

Confused.

He barked a lot when it was fashionable on the left to hate the police (more than usual, summer of love, you may recall) and defunded them in Austin. He helped cut 100 million from the budget, which he said were resources that could be reinvested in the “community’s safety and well-being.” More barking. Greg moved on (politically) to Congress, where he is known to yap with the brain trust lovingly referred to as The Squad, which explains why he has asked the police to increase patrols around his Austin home.

He defunded them to make Austin safer, and I guess his community is not safer.

 

‘It’s come to our attention that Anti police king of the defund movement in Austin @GregCasar who only last week called APD an agency with racist practices has requested enhanced patrols around his house for the next week,’ the association wrote.

‘Maybe he should hire private security like his fellow squad members do. Sure seems like he wants the police in his neighborhood, just not yours.’

 

 

Would it be racist to refuse his request?

Racism is a lot like my dog looking at his reflection in a window. Sometimes, it seems like a mirror, and other times, it looks like a dog outside in the yard. It is confusing. The racist Austin PD (APD) doesn’t get to decide. They had better start doing more to protect his ass if it can find the resources, but that will mean fewer of them to protect the rest of The Community. That would be – at least in theory, the gerrymandered 35th in Texas.

The 35 runs down I 35 from Austin to San Antonio by no work of the left – but it has been a Democrat district for the ten years that it has existed and will likely remain one given that it begins in Austin and ends in San Antonio.

 

 

That squiggle is not Cesar’s fault. Still, he is on the hook for his defund antics, his ongoing disrespect for Peace Officers, his choice of congressional friends (Sandy Cortez has his back), and this recent request for heightened diligence from the racists he defunded to keep him safe.

His support for showing no support for the APD resulted in a slew of retirements on top of the defunding because smart cops who’ve put in the time knew their city was more interested in making them into the next viral political smear than having their back—a problem duplicated in nearly every (probably every) Democrat-run urban area from sea to rising sea.

Since the summer of Love and Defund Mania, homicide rates have risen an average of 10% across 45 US cities. According to FOX7, Austin ranked 15th on that list. I couldn’t find Austin on the list of 40 cities at the link FOX7 provided, but a general search for crime data showed a rise in homicides and property crime consistent with other urban areas post-defund, and there are more than 45.

It is less safe because they have fewer resources. Greg Casar is directly responsible for that in his community, and now he wants the APD to divert more of what is left to ensure the area around him is safer.

Greg Casar is an assh*le, and he’s barking mad (as in crazy) if he doesn’t see that.

 

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The war on common sense isn’t limited to gender conflict. The same people taking things away from women are keen on robbing everyone else of something. Washington State Rep. Amy Walen has proposed a bill banning gas-powered landscaping equipment. My first thought?

As a card-carrying member of the “just leave me the hell alone foundation,” I find these incessant incursions into every facet of life offensive. Who “the you know what” thinks they can effectively micro-manage everything? Democrats, that’s who. And always, in the void that passes for the head-space between their ears.

 

State Representative Amy Walen (D-Kirkland) pre-filed legislation that makes sweeping additions to the Washington State Clean Air Act. HB 1868 bans “gasoline-powered and diesel-powered landscaping and other outdoor power equipment” for “contributing to climate change.” The bill lists a number of unintended health consequences tied to the tools, as well, including the claim that they cause asthma.

The bill gets to the ban by empowering the Department of Ecology to “adopt rules to prohibit engine exhaust and evaporative emissions from new outdoor power equipment” by either January 1, 2026 or sooner, if the state determines it’s feasible to do so earlier. Washingtonians are expected to upgrade their equipment to zero-emission alternatives. Government work, however, is partly exempt.

 

Infowars frames this correctly as both a war on small businesses (who can’t absorb the regulatory and equipment costs) and a war on minority businesses. Yes, Amy, it’s racist!

 

Though Democrats argue their legislation should be viewed through an equity lens, this ban has a disproportionate impact on Latino and black business owners. Nationwide data stated 22.8% of landscaping companies are owned by Hispanics and 14.7% are owned by blacks.

The cost to transition to zero-emission alternatives is burdensome, too, even with financial assistance provided in the bill. For some businesses, it could still be prohibitively expensive. This financial burden could disproportionately affect minority-owned businesses, potentially leading to a reduction in diversity within the industry, if Democrat talking points are to be believed.

 

I’ve seen more than my fair share of evidence on these pages about how the Left’s priorities hurt the people whom they claim to help. This is not much different. Whaling Amy Walen is an environmentally #woke legislator in a Democrat-majority state. She has submitted a resume-plumping bill that will harm the locals, including minorities, for net-zero environmental gain. This is about her, not the environment, and that’s easier to figure out than what a Dem poll worker is doing with a suitcase full of mail-in ballots.

Aside from the cities where there isn’t too much leaf-blowing (for example), Washington state is a big lot of empty. The sum of its “landscaper” emissions is puny. China will have erased all assumed gains in total before I finish writing this post. Great harm for no benefit. Inane and grevious.

Replacements for gas-powered rigs will have higher manufacturing and decommission footprints, with much of those emissions offshored to foreign lands where Washington State Elites burnishing their climate bona fides will never see them. Lands and waters have been ruined for generations by Chinese Communist-owned rare-earth metals mines with no safety controls for workers or protections for the indigenous populations and resources around them. You’d think a bunch of globalists would have the sense to know how bad this is, you know, globally, yet they remain silent or ignorant.

If you want to make a real difference, ban imports from China, including silicon for solar panels, assembled panels or components, wind turbine bits, lithium batteries or their parts, and a million other shocks the climate is heir to from Chinese manufacturing. And don’t forget their slave labor.

Amy should propose regulations to limit the influx and influence of all Chinese products and interests. Kick them out of your universities. Stop taking funding or grants from Chinese investors. Stop giving grants to Chinese researchers. Take back any land they bought or, and here’s an idea, go to China and protest their record-setting, planet-choking emissions at the source.

I’m sure your organs will go to someone who needs them.

 

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The NH Patriot Hub is sponsoring a large networking event centered around connecting Constitution coaches/instructors with citizens who are interested in learning more about their rights and our great US and NH Constitutions.

We will begin the event with a prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, a few words about Benjamin Franklin’s influence on the US Constitution, and a 15 minute video on the Monument to the Forefathers.

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Then we will break out into small groups so you can meet the Constitution coaches/instructors on a personal level.

You will have the opportunity to invite one of the Constitution coaches/instructors into your community to hold a Constitution class with your friends and family members and learn and ask questions together.  We will offer suggestions on places where you can have the class, or you can decide, with your coach, to hold it via zoom.

Once you have an understanding of this incredible document, you will be empowered to go out into your community and to the state house and hold your elected officials accountable to their oath of office, which is to uphold the NH Constitution and protect our God-given rights.

Next, we will hear a few success stories from citizens who knew their rights and are now holding their elected officials accountable to the NH Constitution.

Birthday cake, socialize, sign up for Constitution classes, and visit our information table.

 

Please Register for this FREE EVENT

January 17, 2024 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
The NH Patriot Hub – www.NHpatriothub.org
Doors open at 6 pm
The event starts promptly at 6:30 pm
Centerpoint Church 20 N State St Concord

The event is free – donations are welcomed

Hope to see you there!

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We think of thieves as conducting their work when no one is looking, such as breaking into a house while the owners are away. But the most successful thieves have done their stealing in plain sight, on a grand scale, while the owners were home and often with their tacit approval, though with sleights of hand that few are able to detect.

Such a theft occurred when Woodrow Wilson signed the Federal Reserve Act into law on December 23, 1913.

A central bank such as the Fed has a remarkable character. According to establishment boilerplate, its purpose is to stabilize the economy and ensure prosperity and “full employment.” The decision-makers at the Fed are of necessity selected for their superhuman brilliance and neutrality of judgment, thus qualifying them to adjust the amount of money available to the banks so that they may, in turn, serve the interests of a public numbering some 330 million people.

If, for some reason, certain members of the public don’t reap the benefits of this policy—or worse, end up losing their jobs, their savings, their businesses, and their homes—it’s not because the Fed itself is a bad idea. How could it be? Without the Fed as an emergency lender, bankers threw the economy into panics in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

But there’s another side to the Fed’s character that is somewhat less wholesome than its public image and is best revealed by the way it was founded.

The Bankers’ Dream

Before the Fed’s founding, bankers in general and Wall Street in particular complained about US currency’s lack of “elasticity.” “Elasticity” in this context is one of the great euphemisms of human history. According to lore, this missing feature of “hard” money, such as gold or silver, was responsible for the panics of 1873, 1884, 1893, and 1907. The supply of the coins that were behind the paper banknotes couldn’t be increased when needed. Gold and silver were, therefore, said to be inelastic. Because of this inelasticity, the legend persisted that banks were having trouble meeting the demand for farm loans at harvest time, as G. Edward Griffin explains in The Creature from Jekyll Island:

To supply those funds, the country banks had to draw down their cash reserves which generally were deposited with the larger city banks. This thinned out the reserves held in the cities, and the whole system became more vulnerable. Actually, that part of the legend is true, but apparently no one is expected to ask questions about the rest of the story.

Several of them come to mind. Why wasn’t there a panic every Autumn instead of just every eleven years or so? Why didn’t all banks—country or city—maintain adequate reserves to cover their depositor demands? And why didn’t they do this in all seasons of the year? Why would merely saying no to some loan applicants cause hundreds of banks to fail?

The Morgan and Rockefeller bankers on Wall Street dreamed of having a central bank that could supply money when needed as a “lender of last resort.” A central bank would also control the banks’ inflation rate. If bank reserves could be maintained at a central bank and a common reserve ratio established, then no single bank could expand credit more than its rivals, and therefore, there would be no bankruptcies caused by currency’s draining from overly inflationary banks. All banks would inflate in harmony, and there would be tranquility and profits for all.

The bankers who traveled a thousand miles to meet on Jekyll Island in November 1910 understood they needed a cartel to bring their dream to life. And they needed the threat of state violence for the cartel to work.

Thus, included in their secret meeting were two politicians serving as the bankers’ advocates in Washington. The bankers planned to establish their cartel over the Christmas holidays, while the American public was distracted, though for political reasons, it was delayed until 1913.

The public would be a hard sell. Americans were profoundly suspicious of Wall Street and cartels. They distrusted anything big in business or government. A central bank operating for the benefit of the big banks had no chance of becoming law, unless it was promoted as shackling Wall Street itself. This could be accomplished, it was widely believed, through a government bureaucracy of overseers.

The Pujo Committee

Frequent speeches by Wisconsin senator Robert LaFollette and Minnesota congressman Charles Lindbergh brought public outrage over the “money trust” to a boil. LaFollette charged that the entire country was under the control of just fifty men; Morgan partner George Baker disputed the allegation, claiming it was no more than eight men. Lindbergh pointed out that bankers had controlled all financial legislation since the Civil War through committee memberships.

The government, acting as the sword of justice, decided to act, with most people oblivious to the fact that the executioner and the accused were one and the same. In response to the accusations, it formed a new subcommittee, which held hearings from May 1912 until January 1913.

The Pujo Committee was headed by Louisiana congressman Arsène Pujo, then roundly considered to be a spokesman for the “oil trust.” The hearings followed the usual pattern, bringing forth immense quantities of statistics and testimonies from bankers themselves. Though the hearings were conducted largely because of the charges brought forth by LaFollette and Lindbergh, neither man was allowed to testify.

Under the direction of Paul Warburg, the principal author of the Jekyll Island plan that in its essentials became the Federal Reserve Act, the banks provided 100 percent financing for something called the National Citizens League, the purpose of which was to create the illusion of grassroots support for Warburg’s brainchild.

University of Chicago economics professor J. Laurence Laughlin was put in charge of the league’s propaganda, ostensibly to bring a measure of objectivity to the discussions. John D. Rockefeller, whose representatives at Jekyll were Senator Nelson Aldrich and bank president Frank Vanderlip, had endowed the university with $50 million.

Woodrow Wilson was an outspoken critic of the money trust in his 1912 presidential campaign, all the while receiving funding from the very trust he was condemning. Wilson said:

I have seen men squeezed by [the money trust]; I have seen men who, as they themselves expressed it, were put “out of business by Wall Street,” because Wall Street found them inconvenient and didn’t want their competition.

Benjamin Strong Runs the Show

When the Fed began operations in late 1914, the man in charge of the system was Morgan banker Benjamin Strong Jr., one of the Jekyll Island attendees. Strong served as president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from its inception until his death on October 16, 1928. Strong, in the Morgan tradition, was an anglophile who inflated the US money supply from 1925–28 to keep Britain from losing gold to the US. Details of Strong’s reign and the precrash conditions he created can be found in Murray Rothbard’s America’s Great Depression:

The long-run tendency of the free market economy, unhampered by monetary expansion, is a gently falling price level, falling as the productivity and output of goods and services continually increase. The Austrian policy of refraining always from monetary inflation would allow this tendency of the free market its head and thereby remove the disruptions of the business cycle.

The Chicago goal of a constant price level, which can be achieved only by a continual expansion of money and credit, would, as in [Benjamin Strong’s policy of the] 1920s, unwittingly generate the cycle of boom and bust that has proved so destructive for the past two centuries.

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This Christmas, amid the turmoil in the world, we may feel that we’re on the edge of another “fullness of time” moment. How should we best posture ourselves at this critical juncture?

“But when the fullness of time had come,
God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law,
to redeem those who were under the law,
so that we might receive adoption as sons.”
Galatians 4.4-5, ES

 

With New Hampshire’s unexpectedly controversial first-in-the-nation primary on January 23rd, we recognize a fast-approaching crossroads in a country coming apart at the seams. The turmoil of the elections is also reflected in the culturally divisive issues that will continue to play out in our state legislature this upcoming lawmaking session, as proposed bills impacting life, educational freedom, and gender come up for debate.

God’s people have been no strangers to having to wait for God-ordained “fullness of time” moments. Will we fully cooperate with Him and be patient as he unfolds His plan at His pace this new year?

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To provide some context, the roughly 400-year period between the Old Testament prophet Malachi’s ministry and the arrival of Jesus lasted longer than the United States has existed as a nation. The Israelites had every reason to be discouraged. Although they had been freed from Babylonian exile since the 6th century BC, the nation had not coalesced and thrived as their post-exilic leaders had originally hoped. And then, in the early 60’s BC, the Roman Empire became their newest captors. Although the vassal-king Herod undertook massive building projects aimed at placating the Jews such as the expansion of the Temple in Jerusalem, true God-followers would have abhorred Herod’s stop-at-nothing cruelty and his extremely “political” leadership. When would breakthrough come for God’s people? Where was the long-awaited Messiah?

In our own American story, we remember how close we came to dissolving as a country only seventy years into our national existence. With Confederate victories commonplace during the first half of 1863, the battle of Gettysburg in July would serve as a “fullness of time” moment for Union forces that would change the tide of the war in their favor. At the epicenter of that moment was a New Englander, Maine’s Colonel Joshua Chamberlain, on a hill called Little Round Top. Sick from dysentery and malaria, with little remaining ammunition, and outnumbered and surrounded by the advancing Confederate troops, Chamberlain and his men miraculously repulsed the Confederate charge with fixed bayonets and a flanking maneuver that tricked the enemy into retreating. Several of Israel’s supernaturally-tinged Old Testament battle victories come to mind.

Like God’s people of antiquity, and like our fellow Americans of just seven generations ago, this Christmas we 21st-century Granite Staters find ourselves again in need of a breakthrough of Biblical proportions. We need a distinctly God-initiated interruption of our story.

We are perplexed by our culture’s militant rejection of what to us is the common-sense defense of the vulnerable: the protection of innocent life in the womb; the safeguarding of young hearts, minds, and bodies from destructive, sometimes-irreversible “solutions” to complex identity & sexuality issues; and the prioritization of parental authority in the formation of our children.

We fear disruption, upheaval, and even violence related to the upcoming presidential election of 2024, even while some wonder if our election process maintains any integrity in the digital age.

We struggle to make sense of disruptive events on our own southern border and conflicts on foreign shores, be they in the Ukraine & Russia, in Israel & Gaza, or in Armenia & Azerbaijan, to name a few. The related, polarized conflagrations on our own streets and campuses shock us.

Lastly, we mourn the apparent death of any national capacity for rational debate on the merits of issues, a capacity seemingly laid to rest by media sound-bites and a surprising lack of intellectual curiosity and understanding by a social-media driven public.

How will we move from partisan bickering to effective, morally sound solutions in any of these areas?

Just as Christ came at the “fullness of time,” and just as God has faithfully provided courageous leadership like that of Col. Joshua Chamberlain so many times over in our country, we can trust that He is still weaving His overarching redemption story into the fabric of our national narrative, including right here in the Granite State.

The same prophet who 460 years before Christ’s birth foretold that the Messiah would come to refine God’s people (see Malachi 3.1-6) also said:

“For from the rising of the sun to its setting my name will be great among the nations,
and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering.
For my name will be great among the nations, says the Lord of hosts.”
Malachi 1:11, ESV

So we find ourselves at another “fullness of time” moment, leaning into God’s promise that He will make His name great both in our nation and in every nation of the world.

While we certainly can’t control when God decides to act or how He’ll act at such a time, we can control our engaged obedience in the waiting.

This Christmas, as expectant as the Jews were for the Messiah and as Civil War-era Christians were for a just end to fraternal bloodshed, we too are waiting for a God-ordained “fullness of time” interruption of our national story. In the meantime, we must remain vigilant in prayer, actively engaged in the issues, and increasingly obedient in the stewardship of our own souls, relationships, and resources.

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It is Christmas again, a time to rejoice, but I find myself grappling with a pain from last year that runs deep within my heart. On a quiet morning like today, one year ago, my heart was shattered as I held my dearest Louie for the last time.  I cradled Louie in my arms as he ventured into the great beyond.

It is with a mix of sorrow and gratitude that I share these words – not seeking condolences, but simply wanting to celebrate the beautiful soul that meant the world to me – a tribute to the extraordinary spirit that was Louie.

This ache in my heart has not dulled with time; on the other hand, it has allowed me to reflect on Louie’s warmth and profound impact on my life. He was more than a pet; he was my confidant, source of joy, and steady companion through all the highs and lows of life. In every wag of his tail and every gentle nuzzle, I found a friend who understood me in a way words never could.

I remember our unique bond as I travel across the memories we created together. Louie wasn’t just a dog; he was family. His loyalty was a constant, his presence a balm for my soul. I could feel his spirit forever etched in every part of my being in the quiet moments. I find solace in knowing that time hasn’t dimmed the vivid colors of our journey.

The pain of losing a pet is because of the depth of love we share with them. Louie left an indelible mark on my heart with his expressive eyes and boundless affection. While the ache of his absence lingers, so does the warmth of his memory.

To those who have experienced the loss of a beloved furry friend, I understand the heaviness in your heart. Our pets may be gone, but the love they gave us lives on in the memories we hold dear. It’s a flame that flickers in the corners of our hearts.

As I light a candle in honor of Louie’s memory, I invite you to join me in celebrating the joy, companionship, and unconditional love our pets bring into our lives. In these moments of reflection, let us remember Louie and all the cherished pets who have left paw prints on our hearts.

Rest in peace, dear Louie. Your memory isn’t a fading photograph but a living, breathing presence. Your memory will forever be a beacon of love, guiding me over time. I will always love you.

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To say it has been a wild year would be a gross understatement. Thanks to Joe and the rest of the gang that can’t shoot straight, we have had no shortage of topics in 2023. The difficult task has been to avoid redundancy as the disappointments and failures of Team Biden filled the headlines. I wanted to report good news but would not fall into Joe’s trap.

Talk about inflation slowing? When it approached 10%, it had to slow. There’s nothing good about high prices. Write about gas prices coming down. They are still 50% higher than when Joe took office. Should that be happy news? How about record numbers of Border crossings? Wait, those are not good numbers, but those of a President who destroyed our sovereignty. No, there was nothing positive to report from Joe Biden’s White House. So. what will Santa bring us for 2024?

I think 2024 will make 2023 seem like a slow walk in the park. We have the primaries that start in a few short weeks. Ordinarily, that would be enough to keep us busy, but this year will be a primary season on steroids. On the Democrat side, we do not even know who is participating. Biden will not be on some ballots by choice, and Robert Kennedy Jr. has opted for a Third-Party bid, which should petrify Biden. We are yet to know how Joe Manchin will participate and disrupt plans for the Dems.

The Supreme Court has work to do before any Republicans cast a primary vote. Colorado was the first state to remove Trump from their ballot, and Maine may follow suit. Both states will probably have to reverse their unwarranted decisions, but only after SCOTUS gets involved. That is not the only court involvement in the 2024 elections, as Donald Trump still has to navigate 91 indictments in multiple courts and states. You can bet the house that the DNC will try some other tactics to keep Trump away from the White House.

There is no guarantee that Biden will be on the ticket come November, and nobody on either side wants to see Kamala Harris in the driver’s seat in the Fall. If that drama is not enough, we have the Impeachment Inquiry that will expose America to the sins of the Biden Cartel. It’s hard to believe Biden’s approval numbers can drop further, but with many people hearing the facts for the first time, it will drive those numbers down.

Biden will also have to deal with the fallout from Hunter Biden’s court cases and Congressional hearings. To use Joe’s own words, it is evident that Hunter has broken many laws, and the only question is, will he sing to save himself or take the fall and wait for Dad to pardon him?

All that stuff is election-related. We still have the economy, the Border, Ukraine, Israel/Hamas, and all of the assaults by Joe Biden on our personal lives. 2024 will be a whirlwind, but one thing is guaranteed. There will be nothing positive to write about with Joe Biden until he drops out of the race or loses in November.

 

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Steven He, according to this YouTube Channel profile, is a “Chinese-Irish actor and Comedy Sketch Creator. Professional Failure The Creator of “Emotional Damage” CEO of Failure Managment.” He is an Asian guy who makes fun of Asians.

Steven has 11.3 million subscribers, so he’s not just some dude on the platform. That’s an impressive number, and we think we know why.

‘If Santa was Asian’ is funny.  Note: White people are not allowed to laugh out loud – but you might.

 

 

 

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Merry Christmas, and what did we just find under the tree? It looks like GraniteGrok is expanding a bit more across the Northeast. And why not? We regularly comment on the decline of the states around us. VermontGrok is doing well, with new content almost daily. Why not do the same for Maine?

You might know why.

We have a handful of local sites that do not generate much local content. Many of our NH MicroGok sites (MGs) were inspired by locals looking for a web portal to publish local content, but then the work of creating it became a reality. Not much happens. Frequent Op-Ed writers who had previously provided regular material suffer a writing drought. Others move on to projects that keep them away from the keyboard.

It happens. I get it. This is not a hobby for the faint of heart. Sticking your head above ground regularly lends itself to the opposition – often from your own party – taking a swing at you. You need thick skin, and we have our fair share of folks here who have it (hint: always looking for more).

The other issue is the big picture. State, national, and global issues – with plenty of local relevance – are more appealing to the author and generally get more clicks. However, the point of MGs is to grow a local audience that also makes time for those bick-click posts.

With that in mind, I will add a few more changes to the dynamic. We’ve got the basic details of the site upgrade worked out. That will roll out sometime next year. Early is better, but I’ll let you know. As part of that, we are making a few changes. The structure will allow us to add the Ad-Free VIP portion for donors of 100.00 or more who were promised a year as part of our ongoing fundraiser and any new subscribers (we are still not at our 2023 goal, by the way). Disqus as a commenting platform will be replaced with the WordPress equivalent (existing comments on ‘Grok will be migrated from Disqus).

We will be adding MaineGrok.

The header of every page will include filters (links) to sort content by all the satellite sites but also by ”NH, New England, The Nation, and The World.’ Part of that shift will include limiting the MG pages to local content only. There’s no point in them if they are just a dumpster for Mothership content about non-local issues.

If you go to Windham, Lakes Region, Monadnock, or SeacoastGrok (Windham, Manchester, Hollis, or Nashua), you will see stuff relevant to that city, town, or area. Vermont may have national content, as our Vermont Authors do that sort of thing, but almost always with a tie-in to the impact on Vermont. The MaineGrok page will have a similar exception. And if you can tie local interest to the national issue, we’ll let those slide. But posts about Joe Biden banning gas stoves aren’t going to get mirrors on Hollis Grok unless the author asked someone in Hollis (other than themselves) for their opinion.

Note to MG authors – that’s your ticket, so punch it.

VermontGrok has been a great experience so far. We could use a few more contributors and need more Op-Eds from Green Mountain State Locals, but we have readers there and in Maine, where they’ve begun swirling the same progressive drain as Vermont. The goal is to embargo that content to its state or local silo unless we find a Main Page appeal. You’ll see much of it on our Main Page until we’ve completed all the planned transitions.

One more thing. The political landscape has been shifting significantly since the response to COVID. We are increasingly less about left and right and more about us versus them—the people vs. the elites. Globalist Progressive terrorism is the leading threat to human liberty. As such, our focus – which has always been and will continue to be filtered by our nation’s founding principles – should evolve to meet the threat.

I think we need a new tagline that demonstrates that, and I’m open to suggestions.

At present, it is “Dominating the Political Bandwidth in New Hampshire.” I want something that focuses on this new division of the masses. The players may mostly be right and left or conservative and progressive, but those lines are increasingly blurred. The fight at every level, from your hamlet to the UN, has long been cascading toward what protects individual rights and what is offensive to them.

If you can encapsulate that for me in a handful of words (remember, it’s a tagline), I’ll send you a Grok hat for free (Red or Blue, Your Choice). I may yet come up with one myself, but if yours inspired that, you’d still score the swag. I may even send a hat to the top five, even if we don’t use them word for word. (I have plenty to give away). Email me. steve@granitegrok.com Subject: New Grok tagline.

And thanks for reading, donating, and sharing.

Merry Christmas!

 

 

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I watched and listened to the Archbishop of New York, Timothy Cardinal Doyle, on Fox and Friends on Friday, and it may have been the most impressive few minutes I have ever witnessed from any member of the Catholic Clergy. He was on the show to deliver his Christmas message, and deliver he did.

The Cardinal is an impressive individual with the gift of Irish charm, a spiritual presence, and a mastery of the spoken word. The Church could not have a better individual in the most incredible parish in the most visible dioceses in America. On this morning, Cardinal Doyle hit the mark with a mini-sermon that nailed the tone of America and what we crave so strongly from our Religious and Political leaders. It was a one-minute oration that melded the spirit of hope and the dire state of America and America’s people. It was perfect.

The Cardinal described the meaning and symbolism of Christmas. In a voice that spoke to your heart and soul, he told of how Christmas is the celebration of Light and how we celebrate the birth of Jesus, which shined a light on Bethlehem and the entire world. A light that exposed the darkness at the time of the birth of Jesus and the darkness that has engulfed us all for the last few years. It is not the place for the Cardinal to get political, but he talked about the depth of despair and darkness the world had sunk into with the pandemic and that the people of America have felt for the last few years. He talked about light equating to hope, the critical element needed in a country as fractured and divided as today’s America. The Cardinal’s words could not have been so timely, powerful, and needed.

We know how polarized the country has become. The pandemic changed this country dramatically and showed how much the government can exert its control. The effect of COVID was seen in how Americans lost their need and desire to socialize and how the young became more dependent on their electronic devices than human interaction. We have seen the weaponization of our government agencies against everyday Americans, specifically Conservatives. We watch the endless line of illegals penetrate our Border, and the Administration tells us that the Border is secure. We watch 100,000 young men and women killed by Fentanyl, and the Administration tells us the flow of illegal Fentanyl has been curbed. We see tent cities grow in major cities and then watch these people be swept off to a neighboring city when the Chinese President comes to town. We have lost confidence in an Administration that has lied to us far too often. We are tired of the treatment and demand better.

I listened to Cardinal Dolan explain that it is up to us to find our way to the light. We must dig down and not rely on the government to make us happy. We must rely on ourselves and each other to bring us the inner peace we require. We may disagree with our neighbors, but we can still love them. We must stop our dependence on a government that does not want to help but control us. We must take control of our journey.

So, as the light of the season shines on each of us, I wish you a Merry Christmas and hope and pray for us to be in a better place in 2024.

Here are the Archbishop’s thoughts from Friday.

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Christmas is a time for reflection, gratitude, and kindness. Let us take a moment to appreciate the blessings in our lives, the love that surrounds us, and the beauty of this festive season.

May the magic of Christmas bring a sense of wonder and awe to your days, reminding us all of the importance of generosity, compassion, and goodwill.

May the holiday season fill your home with warmth, your heart with love, and your life with laughter. Here’s to a Christmas filled with joy and to a new year ahead that brings even more blessings and opportunities.

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And for the many thousands of you who visit us every day and read what our authors share, make time to comment, and then share it with your groups and friends by email and in social media.

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Our success is impossible without you. Our growth and evolution need you. And we are filled with gratitude, not just for that gift at this time of giving, but every single darn day!

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Merry Christmas – Happy New Year – Happy Holidays

 

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She’s surging! She’s surging! Nikki is surging! Except she is not. The usual suspects … the Sununu cabal, Mikey Graham, WMUR, the NHGOP grifters, etc. … are desperately trying to create the illusion of a “surge” using fake polls.

For example, here is one of the NHGOP grifters, lobbyist Jimmy Merrill, amplifying WMUR pushing a fake poll:

 

 

It is not often … indeed, it is exceedingly rare … that Ross Berry is right. But even Ross Berry was able to see through this FAKE POLL that was rigged to help Haley and hurt Trump:

 

 

Pollster Rich Baris succinctly exposes the con-job:

The CBS News Poll (Trump +15) started this [surge] speculation and St. Anselm Poll (Trump +14) continued it. There were questions surrounding both these polls, the former being far more moderate than previous recent electorates and the latter surveying Democrats and including them in the sample when the deadline for registered Democrats under the Modified/Semi-Open Primary system has passed.

But then the UMass Poll was released showing Trump with a 30-point lead. …

Within an hour or so, ARG (American Research Group) released bare bones results showing Haley within 3 points of Trump. Folks, the coordination of messaging with the release of that poll right after the Trump +30 UMass Lowell Poll was released, is very suspect.

UMass Lowell put out crosstabs, a detailed methodology and met basic AAPOR standards of disclosure. The other did not and was pushed by Sununu-friendly media locally and anti-Trump media nationally, to include Mediate and FOX News, outlets which are ignoring the UMass Lowell Poll. …

This is very clearly intended to benefit Nikki Haley. …

 

 

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Recent public complaints by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) that New York costs too much for the working class (and should increase taxes on wealthier residents!) are rubbing salt in the wounds of her strident opposition to Amazon locating its headquarters in the city in 2019.

A pattern of urban sabotage by social justice Democrats is causing major U.S. cities to experience accelerating economic decline. Despite their efforts to blame white conservatives for this suicidal display, Americans see the true causes.

Chicago and Los Angeles have also chased profitable businesses from town while courting illegal denizens, driving up housing costs, and defunding police forces. Gov. Gavin Newsom faces stifling, nosebleed state deficits even as he tours the world touting the far-left policies that seeded California’s economic failure as a national recipe for social progress. Efforts to blame these gargantuan failures on Republicans fall on deaf ears. This is an economic activity of the social justice kind: Marxist deconstruction.

More Jobs Don’t Equal Less Investment

AOC has an economics degree from Boston University, but her public attacks against Amazon in 2019 suggest she needs further studies. She posted on X, formerly Twitter:

Amazon is a billion-dollar company. The idea that it will receive hundreds of millions of dollars in tax breaks at a time when our subway is crumbling and our communities need MORE investment, not less, is extremely concerning to residents here. It’s possible to establish economic partnerships [with] real opportunities for working families, instead of a race-to-the-bottom competition.

AOC’s upside-down pseudo-economics charged that Amazon was somehow going to suck money out of government coffers, but those tax breaks were offsets against much larger revenue receipts. Amazon’s massive investments in New York would have contributed not only revenue to repair subways but also more taxpaying workers to ride to reliable jobs: Amazon’s 25–40,000 well-paid workers would have owed city and state taxes on their incomes even if they commuted from New Jersey.

Amazon’s proposal was an “economic partnership [with] real opportunities for working families.” AOC pushes rent controls, reckless illegal immigration, higher taxes on residents, and reduced police funding, then cries foul when the resulting economic destruction unfolds. She recently doubled down, claiming that wealthy taxpayers are not fleeing New York City (they are) and that higher taxes will benefit the middle class she has destroyed: “The people who are moving out of the city are not by and large the wealthiest people. They’re the working class. They can’t afford to live here anymore.”

Marxists Like AOC Are Deconstructing the Economy

AOC has not created economic opportunities for anyone but ideological grifters. New York City is in economic and social freefall. The emergency room patient is being moved to the ICU, and its killer remains at large. Those jobs for working-class people who can “no longer afford” New York were generously offered by Amazon, then forcefully jilted by AOC, who claimed that achievement as a victory on X:

Today was the day a group of dedicated, everyday New Yorkers and their neighbors defeated Amazon’s corporate greed, its worker exploitation and the power of the richest man in the world.

Instead, hundreds of thousands of undocumented, unemployed migrants have collected in New York City, exploited by Democrats who have no more plans to feed or provide for them than they do for the working-class families being displaced and economically decimated by foolish economic initiatives. This pattern of economic destruction reflects the Marxist ideological policy of deconstruction — tearing down the economy, schools, families, and everything else that is decent to implement the farcically imagined utopia that will guarantee that “everyone has everything” while doing (and owning) nothing.

America’s three largest cities are witnessing a massive exodus of businesses, investments, taxpayers, and tax receipts as a direct consequence of reckless policies of overt economic and social sabotage. The instigators of this economic destruction are unrepentant in their shameless disconnect from the working class they claim they are liberating.

How much worse can it get?

 

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

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Personal injury lawyers specialize in providing legal representation to individuals who have suffered physical or psychological harm. This is due to the negligence or wrongdoing of another party.

They are also known as plaintiff attorneys. These cases typically fall under tort law, which covers civil wrongs and damages caused by one party to another.

In this article, we will discuss what kind of cases do personal injury lawyers handle. Keep reading.

Car Accidents

Car accidents are one of the most common types of personal injury cases. They can be caused by various factors, such as:

• reckless driving
• distracted driving
• defective vehicles

This personal injury lawyer helps individuals injured in car accidents seek compensation for medical expenses, lost wages, and pain and suffering. Case diversity is very important for a lawyer to be successful.

Slip and Fall Accidents

Accidents involving slips and falls happen when someone trips, slips, or falls on someone else’s property because of potentially dangerous conditions. These accidents can result in serious injuries, such as broken bones, spinal cord injuries, or head trauma.

Personal injury lawyers can help victims of slip and fall accidents hold the property owner liable for their injuries. They are very helpful to get the maximum compensation for personal injury claims. This is because insurance companies can be very devious with their claims.

Medical Malpractice

Medical malpractice refers to the negligence of healthcare providers that harms a patient. This can include:

• misdiagnosis
• surgical errors
• medication errors
• birth injuries

Personal injury lawyers can help victims of medical malpractice seek compensation for their injuries. They also hold healthcare providers accountable for their negligence. This is where lawyer case specialties can be beneficial.

Product Liability

If a defective product causes harm to an individual, they may have grounds for a personal injury claim. Product liability cases cover defects in a product’s design, manufacturing, or marketing that injure the consumer. Personal injury lawyers can help victims of defective products hold manufacturers and distributors accountable for their negligence.

Workplace Accidents

Employees who suffer injuries on the job may be eligible for workers’ compensation benefits. However, if the employer’s negligence caused the accident, a personal injury lawyer can help the employee seek additional compensation for their injuries. This may include damages for pain and suffering, lost wages, and medical expenses.

Know What Kind of Cases Do Personal Injury Lawyers Handle Today

Personal injury lawyers handle a wide range of cases, from car accidents to workplace injuries. They play a crucial role in helping individuals seek justice and compensation for their injuries.

Knowing what kind of cases do personal injury lawyers handle is essential. If you have been injured due to someone else’s negligence, consulting with a personal injury lawyer is important.

They can guide you through the legal process and fight for your rights. With their knowledge, expertise, and support, you can increase your chances of receiving fair compensation for your injuries and begin to move on from this difficult experience.

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I heard a rather shocking pronouncement from Town Council Chairman John Farrell at the 12/18/23 public meeting. “Don’t believe everything you read in the paper,” Farrell says, “because it’s all one-sided.”

I did not attend this session of the council, as my children are Elementary aged, and we enjoyed the showing of the Polar Express with the North School Community. Rather, I listened at home, and boy am I glad I did, as I almost fell out of my chair when I heard that statement.

It is ironic that he chose the term “one-sided” as that is actually the most appropriate way to describe the manipulated information flow that proceeds from the Town Council and many of our malfeasant elected and appointed officials.

“One-sided” would be citizens emailing the Town Manager and Town Council and not getting a response from their elected officials to the majority of inquiries and communications they send off.

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“One-sided” would be a Town Manager and Town Council that consistently have failed to produce information and documents upon simple citizen request, forcing citizen’s to file right-to-know requests to compel the town to release information that should be readily available to the public, but apparently have to be redacted to cover Town wrongdoing.

“One sided” would be giving a citizen 3-5 minutes at public comment to speak, and then Councilman Jim Butler spending the next 20 minutes personally attacking that citizen for asking too many questions. Ironically enough, “one-sided” is exactly what Councilman Butler promised to be when he said he would like to control the narrative during a July Public Meeting of the Town Council.

“One-sided” would be Town Manager Malaguti’s baseless sexual harassment complaint against former Town Councilwoman Deb Paul, which a NH judge described as “frivolous” no less than a half dozen times in an opinion stretching over 15 pages.

“One-sided” would be Council Chairman John Farrell unlawfully refusing to produce that document for former Councilwoman Paul, thereby costing the taxpayer thousands of dollars in an attempt to cover up the Town Manager’s malfeasance.

“One-sided” would be the Town Manager attempting to use an internal investigation to dissuade the State of New Hampshire from finding that Town Hall employees engaged in illegal notary activities.

“One-sided” would be the voters rejecting an appointed treasurer year after year and having all 5 of our current Council Members reject the will of the people by advancing it to a warrant anyway because members of Town Hall have (highly questionable) concerns.

Let’s expand beyond the council, shall we?

“One-sided” is a Planning Board that does not want public comment unless the law prescribes it, Supervisors of the Checklist who don’t respond to citizens, and a Treasurer who cannot articulate why they should no longer be elected because “elections are mean.”

This March, vote for new Councilors so that we can start believing what we hear from the Town Council again.

 

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This article is for persons who are discouraged by the fact that new burdens are added every day to the list of which issues should occupy one’s time and energy. Perhaps you should write down what it is that you hope to accomplish and note how much effort you’ve been putting into this or that.

Was it a good investment? Should you shift gears?

Of course, this article is also for me. I’m trying to decide what to focus on henceforth. Looking back over the last eight years, what would I have done differently?

False Flags

A lot of my time in the past eight years went into writing books about three false flags. At the time of Jahar Tsarnaev’s trial in 2015, I started to write about the Boston Marathon bombing case. Gahd, it was so easy to see from court transcripts that lawyers and judges were having a ball, making a fool of the citizenry. And The Boston Globe needs to be awarded a gold medal for keeping a straight face.

Then, in 2017, having attended the relevant Inquest hearings of the “Sydney siege,” I put together a book that proved (in my opinion) that the 2014 hostage-taking episode in the Lindt Cafe was fraudulent, a psy-op to train Aussies to fear Muslims and hate “terrorists.” Like the Boston case, it was pure, pure Hollywood. I’d hate to think how many cops had to play a stand-down role. (Don’t they get sick of this? Do the wife and kids know Daddy is faking his heroism?)

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More recently, in 2021, a friend challenged me to prove that the Sandy Hook massacre actually did occur, as I claimed it did. Thanks to the friend, I was forced to look at the several court cases involved. Oh no! Not another legal hoax! Yes, it was a hoax, and yes, Alex Jones is playing a part in it even now, with the nonsense about his having to pay millions to families for “defamation.”

So, should I have turned off the tap in 2015 and not wasted a lot of water to prove that false flags are false flags? Yes, I now believe that I mis-invested my time. Especially as my work has never been taken up. As far as I know, no one is promulgating my books. The majority of people are still happy to believe that the Marathon bombing, the Sydney siege, and the “killing” of 20 children at Sandy Hook School were done by, respectively, Tsarnaev, Monis, and Adam Lanza. (Those last two guys have absolutely no verifiable bio.)

I’m not sorry for contributing what I could to the outing of psyops, but eight years down the drain means eight years in which I could — maybe — have done something different to help society. (I’m Catholic, ever fueled by guilt, thank God!)

Granted, the false-flag work did provide me with training and confidence-building, for the tackling of other issues. I had no trouble jumping right into the psy-op known as vaccinating for Covid and the “Hollywood” production known as Jan 6. No trouble at all; the media’s perfidy is as plain as the nose on your face. As is Congress’s perfidy, likewise.

Oh My, Both the Media and Government Are Against You

Well, then, here is the real story that can be derived from my eight years of running around as a truther and perhaps your eight years, or more, of doing similar. It is that we live in a country (for me, that means both the US and Australia) where the institutions that should do the heavy lifting for truth — the media and the government — are not doing that. I can put it this way: Rupert Murdoch sucks.

Okay. Rupert Murdoch is the media. But who is the government? Why, it, too, must be Rupert Murdoch!

How the hell did it take me eight years to notice this? Maybe the fact that Rupe’s two jobs have two separate labels deceived me. After all, our brain is wired to grant reality to any entity that has a name — media, government, hosiery, whatever.

This is normally a good thing — naming is essential for physical objects. If you learn that there is a species of mammal, the kangaroo, whose baby, known as a joey, rides around in its mother’s pouch, you now have an education about that, even if you have never seen a joey in real life.

It works for abstractions, too. You can get a taste of such abstract things as rivalry, treason, peace, frugality, or “mafia-like arrangements” as soon as their label is invoked.

The Changeover

My generation grew up learning about government — not the Rupey kind. Thus, we became aware of such realities as following one’s oath of office and respecting the Constitution’s balance of power. Wait. Those things are abstractions. But are they real? The abstractness of a concept is not the measure of its reality. What I’m trying to get at here is that our brain, upon hearing a term, calls up the image that we have been taught.

Then you need to ask the question: Is the label misleading? Should we now be lulled into thinking that officials obey their oath of office just because the abstraction is present in our cerebrum? I’m fairly sure that, decades ago, it was standard practice — members of government felt it necessary to abide by their oath. Somehow, that practice is not compelling anymore.

Today, members of the government do what they do by absorbing the prevailing office culture. In actuality, they are obeying a new boss — whom I identify roughly as “Rupert Murdoch.” Mr. Murdoch, or a group of men like him, may have been able to organize this whole changeover in subtle ways. (Ask Diane DeVere about Tavistock.) They have earnestly studied human nature and know how office-culture works. They also are dab hands at bribery and intimidation.

If an old-fashioned American comes along now and yells, “We’ve got to follow our oath of office,” he or she may look a bit stupid. People will say, “Come on, man, get with the times. Those constitutional things don’t work anymore.”

In fact, someone started a group called Oath Keepers. It’s for soldiers who are proud that they swore an oath — as was required at their initiation ceremony — to defend the US Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic [read: Rupe]. Oh, and swore not to commit war crimes. The Oath Keepers also invited police persons to join, although a cop’s oath is more geared to serving the people.

Then, lo and behold, some Oath Keepers showed up at the January 6, 2021 “event” at Capitol Hill and were arrested for sedition and other dubious crimes related to protesting dishonest government. Immediately, they were trashed by the mainstream media. You have to really concentrate to stop yourself from believing that the Oath Keepers are something other than stupid, rough, selfish, and — wait for it — disloyal.

The leader is presently serving a long sentence for “Jan 6.” Hey, doesn’t that prove that a court had good evidence and persuaded a jury of it? Oh dear, there goes that label-matching process of your cerebrum again. “Court” and “evidence” make you think something nice happened—that warm, fuzzy feeling.

No. Court and evidence are now part of Rupe’s toolkit for achieving what he wants. They are not what you think. Ask me about it! — Jahar, Monis, Adam. Everything Rupe wants, he can get from a court, including the highest courts. I hope I’m not being too disrespectful when I say that I look upon the US Supreme justices as the Praetorian Guard of the globalists.

If you want to know what I think of Australia’s High Court, please see my chapter on the Argyle case (in my 2023 book “Society Is the Authority”) for the secret token that allows all judges to participate in child trafficking.

My Christmas Gift to Myself

That settles it. I’m poised to abandon the false-flag territory for the new concept: “Rupe is not just the mainstream media; he is also the US government, at least for the moment.”

Ah, I’m writing this on December 24, 2023, so I see that I’ve given myself a Christmas gift — a new theme to work with. Perhaps I’ll gift-wrap it and put it under the tree and surprise myself in the morning.

Sadness: I see that the man on Loudon Rd who sells Xmas trees near Everett Arena still has a huge number of them left. I imagine it’s because people are TOO SAD to celebrate.

Note to fellow GraniteGrokkers: Disquis does not allow me to comment. So I do hope for your comments, but won’t be able to reply. My email is MaxwellMaryLLB@gmail.com. Danke.

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Here are a few inconvenient truths. Election fraud is real. Mail-in and absentee ballot fraud is real (and an epidemic). Anyone can use mail-in ballots to commit election fraud, but Democrats keep getting caught doing it … to each other.

 

The suspect was identified as 32-year-old Abdul Rahman of Queens’ Floral Park neighborhood, who could face up to seven years in prison if found guilty of 140 charges against him. Rahman is described by outlet the Gothamist as a man “active in Democrat and South Asian circles.”

 

If they are doing it to each other, we know they are doing it to Republicans. Now! The accused – Abdul Rahman, isn’t sporting your typical South Asian name, but that’s the name he gave them. (Related: Election Fraud Investigations Against Democrats Underway in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Jersey.)

 

In all, Rahman is facing: 20 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree; 20 counts of criminal possession of a forged instrument in the third degree; 20 counts of falsifying business records in the second degree; 20 counts of offering a false instrument for filing in the second degree; 20 counts of criminal possession of a forged instrument in the second degree; 20 counts of illegal voting; and 20 counts of offering a false instrument for filing in the first degree.

 

Mail-in ballot fraud was always real, prolific, and persistent. Everyone knows this, always has, and always will – yet the left continues to cling bitterly to it, and you know why. It is easier to steal elections, and it can be prosecuted at the discretion of AGs and DAs whom George Soros has simultaneously tried to buy up.

But hey, 2020 was legit, and 2024 will be too. No worries.

 

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