Tuesday • November 26 • 2024
Vol.XVI • No.XLVIII
Manchester, N.H.
The growing intensity of cargo transportation from China to Canada, as well as the need to withstand climate change, necessitate reducing greenhouse gas emissions and minimizing damage to the environment. Various stakeholders involved in the process of air or sea freight from China to Canada are looking for the most potent sustainable practices for the delivery of large quantities of goods. And some of them are already demonstrating their effectiveness today.
Decarbonization Measures in the Shipping IndustryEnvironmental sustainability is one of the main concerns for many industries, national governments, and international organizations. They understand that the total costs of environmental pollution far outweigh the expenses on measures to prevent such a situation. Therefore, intensive research and testing of new methods do not stop for a day. The transportation industry may benefit both from its own practices and from recipes tested in other industries. In particular, Air and Ocean freight services resort to the following environmental sustainability initiatives:
Carbon emissions reduction is not only encouraged but also controlled by the governments of different countries. In particular, two important indicators came into force in Canada recently:
Regular reports and extensive documentation sent to regulators are becoming an essential mechanism by which the shipping industry is encouraged to comply with environmentally friendly practices.
The best solutions for decarbonization and environmental sustainability are being standardized and become accepted practice everywhere. Thanks to the work of regulators and the active position of civil society, they are being implemented very quickly. This gives hope that all measures to protect the environment planned for 2050 will be implemented.
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The saga of the State Thugs vs the Peaceful Noone Family continues with this sentencing hearing after Shalon Noone was found guilty of the bullshit “Child Endangerment” charge earlier this Summer. If you missed the trial video, see it here.
Since it was charged as a “Class A” misdemeanor, Shalon is appealing the charge “de novo”, which means “from the beginning”. That means she’ll get a whole new trial in “superior court” in front of a jury this time. So, this sentencing hearing will not really mean anything unless she decides to not move forward with the appeal.
Here’s the full sentencing video from our Odysee channel:
The robed man, Judge Guptill sentenced her to 45 days in jail, all suspended on the condition of good behavior for a year.
Stay tuned here to Free Keene for the latest.
Whether you’ve said it, written it, or thought it, sometimes someone comes along and puts it all together in an easily digestible manner that you have to share. This is that.
Matt Kim lives in Georgia, and he’s read the 98-page “indictment” of President Trump. That sort of commitment often results in some thoughts, which Mr. Kim has and has shared on X (formerly known as Twitter).
Mr. Kim is Asian, so the Left’s organ grinders and their narrative monkeys will be banging their little cups to raise money to shout him down.
While we wait … a bit of straight-forward, unvarnished truth.
Responding to the Georgia Fulton County Trump Indictment as a local resident pic.twitter.com/ipaWcmDLz9
— Matt Kim (@MattAttack009_) August 15, 2023
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All is not well in the inner world of President Joe Biden. For a full third of July, the president took a break, leisurely spending days puttering at his $2.74 million beach house in Rehoboth, Delaware.
During this period, he didn’t engage in official travel, such as factory inaugurations, fair visits, military inspections, or supply chain briefings. He wasn’t even out in public licking ice cream cones. Instead, he was parked under an umbrella on the beach, his wife by his side to prevent any wandering off or child sniffing. The regime news media pretty much left him alone.
As August arrived, President Biden had already used up 40% of his time in office on vacation, albeit working vacations, with a few phone meetings, according to his official calendar.
Yes, the president has been phoning it in for much of his first term.
Biden has now returned to his presidential duties, but his workdays are brief, and his interactions with the media are short-lived. His time before cameras is kept short. (RELATED: STAR PARKER: The Reason For Our Nation’s Decline Is Crystal Clear)
This week, Biden embarked on a tour of the Southwest, with the first stop in Arizona, a battleground state. There, he used his executive power to designate nearly one million acres as national monument land, saying he was addressing historical injustices towards Native Americans.
This move resulted in the cessation of any new uranium mining in the area, which unfortunately leaves the nation reliant on foreign sources, specifically Russia and satellite countries like Kazakhstan, for a crucial national security mineral.
Biden’s speech in Arizona was brief and predictable, touching on his criticisms of Republicans and their MAGA ways, as well as his consistent harping on climate change. However, even this routine speech had its flaws, as the mention of the Grand Canyon as one of the “Nine Wonders of the World” stirred controversy and led to the need for damage control efforts by his press office.
At his next speech highlighting the successes of Bidenomics in New Mexico, he seemed to suddenly start whispering and babbling incoherently, something that occurs with greater frequency as he tires.
Although carefully scripted, Biden’s Southwest swing could not hide the physical fragility and cognitive decline of the leader of the free world. His shuffling gait and unclear sentences are now widely recognized indications of his deteriorating dementia.
Throughout his tour, there was a noticeable absence of challenging questions from regime-approved reporters. Sensitive topics like a bag of cocaine found in the West Wing, legal issues faced by his son, or allegations of political interference with the Department of Justice’s attacks on his greatest political rival, Donald Trump, remain unaddressed.
This is likely the best condition we can expect to see Biden in, as he approaches his 81st birthday on Nov. 20, a mere 100 days away. It’s unrealistic to anticipate that his coherence will improve over the next four years.
Aging impacts individuals differently, and I don’t mean to imply that elderly individuals cannot think or communicate effectively. However, there are undeniable signs that Biden’s abilities are, in fact, diminishing rapidly.
In response to his deterioration, there appears to be a gradual introduction of the Kamala Harris backup plan. She’s now in the batting cage, as she will need to assume a more prominent role by the midterm elections. (RELATED: STEPHEN MOORE: ‘Bidenomics’ Is A Bust)
Yet, the Democratic Party recognizes that Harris presents a challenge for American voters. Americans don’t really like the unserious vice president.
Since the onset of Biden’s presidency, efforts have been made to manage the narrative around Harris, downplaying her propensity for gaffes, which are similar to Vice President Dan Quayle’s own verbal goofs during George H.W. Bush’s administration. While Quayle’s gaffes were relatively concise (“Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child,”) at least he kept his sentences short.
There’s a Quayle-level solecism, and then there’s Vice President Harris describing the very nature of time itself:
“The governor and I, we were all doing a tour of the library here and talking about the significance of the passage of time, right, the significance of the passage of time. So, when you think about it, there is great significance to the passage of time in terms of what we need to do to lay these wires. What we need to do to create these jobs. And there is such great significance to the passage of time when we think about a day in the life of our children.”
With the mumbler-in-chief and his giggling gaffe-machine at the top of the ticket, the Democratic Party is not presenting the best of what their party could offer America in terms of leadership during the difficult days ahead, and this will impact all their candidates down the ballot.
For Democrats to win in 2024, Vice President Harris is going to have to be much more tightly controlled and President Biden will have to be sent back to the basement, where he spent most of 2020. Even then, this ticket looks less viable with each passing day.
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Must-see tweet by Charlie Kirk showing all the ways the GOP could have and could be fighting back against the Police State but aren’t. Instead all we get is so-and-so going on Twitter and expressing “strong disapproval” or so-and-so on going on Hannity and “hammering the DOJ,” … blah, blah, blah. This failure to actually fight backs gives the Communists Democrats the green-light to go after Trump. It makes the GOP complicit.
It also begs the question … WHY NOT actually fight back? The answer is they want the Communists Democrats to succeed.They are happy to have Trump die in some Georgia prison so they can go back to their controlled-opposition grift.
Do you really think that things would be that much different under a President Christie, Haley, Pence, Scott from the way things are under the Biden-Regime? Do you really think any of them would close the border when their donor-class masters want it open? That they would defy the donor-class and cut off the gravy-train to corrupt oligarch Zelensky? Etc.. etc., etc..
It’s not Democrat vs. Republican. It’s the System versus the rest of us.
Republicans did nothing about Bill Clinton flying to islands with minors
Republicans did nothing about Hillary Clinton smashing devices
Republicans did nothing about James Comey brazenly lying
Republicans did nothing about Andy McCabe plotting a silent coup against a sitting…
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) August 15, 2023
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First, thanks for all the Facebook birthday wishes if you’re on that platform and happened to notice. They pile up, and I always try to thank each and every one for the well-wishes. If I’ve not yet responded to you, I will. Eventually.
If you’ve got an itch to “give me something” other than a hard time (which I appreciate no less or no more), I’d not object to a donation to our fundraiser.
I know cheap chipshot to raise a few bucks, but what can I say? My real job is officially ending in September (or so I’m now told), and I don’t want to have to look for a new one if we can reach our goal of having me run GraniteGrok, Grok PAC, Grok everything. So it’s time to give the fundraiser another kick in the pants.
Maybe this will put the “fun” back in and raise some “funds.”
I’ve managed to survive to 60 despite working hard not to, so if you can give $60.00 or $600.00 ($6,000.00?), that’d be great.
Six dollars is fine, or if you can’t swing it, buy me a beer the next time you see me (which could be never, so that’s affordable). I’m also good with you just continuing to read and share the stuff our writers produce daily. That’d be a gift that keeps on giving.
Or any combination of the above.
We try to be flexible despite what the harpies on the Left say.
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Your choice or choose none of the above. No obligation; no salesman will call. For those who have already donated, thank you so much for your support.
Now go celebrate something. Use my birthday if you need an excuse. If you don’t need an excuse, then as you were.
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The Ron DeSantis campaign has turned into an absolute train-wreck … and the train-cars keep piling up. In many ways, Governor Ron DeSantis was the antithesis of Governor Sun-King Sununu. DeSantis admitted that he was wrong to have initially gone along with the lockdown/mask-up “science” and vowed it would never happen again … we have yet to hear anything even remotely resembling such an admission from Governor state-liquor-stores-are-essential-health-clubs-are-not Sun-King. DeSantis’ Florida is where woke goes to die. Sun-King’s New Hampshire is where woke flourishes.
There are myriad more contrasts, but it suffices to say that under Governor DeSantis, Florida went from a “purple” State to a solidly Red State, while under Governor Sun-King, New Hampshire became much bluer. Yet here we have Candidate DeSantis debasing himself by praising Sununu. Sad. So sad.
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The most recent Trump indictment; Per Daniel, our UK Correspondent, the British press is covering this issue like the liberal (anti-Trump) American press, rather than laughing at us as a banana-republic; where are the strong reactions from other republicans? would republicans react more strongly toward the Dems than they did toward Hilary if they were to win the white House? How much power does the media have in squashing the evidence against Hunter and the Big Guy?
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Joe “a few cans short of a sixpack,” Biden (as in nothing left but the plastic rings) said something else monumentally stupid. He “challenged anyone to ‘Name me a single objective we’ve ever set out to accomplish that we failed on.'” Let’s just say that challenge was accepted.
Was it Biden or his handlers that are responsible for that line? ‘
I don’t think the Big Guy misreads anything without the original being approved by a committee. It is probably a room full of people that answers to Barack Obama. A scripted life with unlimited money and an army. And the best bits are when he falls off script.
Or, maybe they did write that into his speech. The Obamas hate the Bidens, and Barry is, after all, the guy who said not to underestimate Joe’s ability to F! something up. Add to that his ability to be walked face-first into an F-up, which is easier now that he’s a victim of elder abuse – which is no excuse for all the criminality, fraud, and corruption that rape the Democrats don’t want to talk about (he actually grabbed a woman by the pu**y), China, Ukraine, his creepy child sniffing, and then there’s his laundromat, Hunter.
Joe Biden is everything wrong with politics and politicians, but he is still bold enough to ask questions to which he should know the answer but does not. A clear sign the man is not well or fit to run a lemonade stand.
Here’s Straight-man Biden setting up the punch line and then getting punched.
“Name me one in all of our history. Not one!” Biden screamed during the speech, which also incidentally came on the second anniversary of the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, which saw the deaths of 13 American military personnel in Kabul.
Biden, on the second anniversary of his botched Afghanistan withdrawal:
“Name me a single objective we’ve ever set out to accomplish that we’ve failed on! Name me one!” pic.twitter.com/7v5faTFddv
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) August 16, 2023
Tom Elliott has the best one-post list ‘response’ I could find.
— Schools will open in 2021 — Will spend $7 of every $10 in education funding on “pre-school only” — Masking only to last 100 days — Will never mandate vaccines — Don’t worry about “vaccine passports” — Will always defer to “the science” — CDC will drop vax requirement for foreigners when science permits — Will end Covid — Will “cure cancer” — Won’t govern as a “radical socialist” — Will adopt a “White House cat” as president — Will resolve gun violence — Will end “forever wars” — Will get out of Afghanistan peacefully — “I won’t traffic on fear and division” — Will “heal the soul of America” — Will “fight as hard for those who voted against me as those who voted for me” — Will fire anyone in his admin who treats people with disrespect — Will end “tax breaks for race horses” — Will cut the deficit — Will cut the debt — Will revitalize & rebuild the economy — Will not politicize the DoJ — Will always tell the truth
Ok, @JoeBiden, since you asked:
— Schools will open in 2021
— Will spend $7 of every $10 in education funding on “pre-school only”
— Masking only to last 100 days
— Will never mandate vaccines
— Don’t worry about “vaccine passports”
— Will always defer to “the science”
— CDC… https://t.co/ZlTkCI3uw3— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) August 16, 2023
Feel free to add more in the comments. That can’t possibly be all of it.
And whatever you do, Joe, don’t accept any invitations to go swimming with the Obamas at Martha’s Vineyard. It’ll be difficult. We know how much you like to swim. They’ll call it paddle boarding, but a better description might be waterboarding.
HT | Newswars
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The New York Fire Department recently reported that so far this year, there have been 108 lithium-ion battery fires in New York City, which have injured 66 people and killed 13. According to FDNY Commissioner Laura Kavanagh, “There is not a small amount of fire, it (the vehicle) literally explodes.” The resulting fire is “very difficult to extinguish, and so it is particularly dangerous.”
Last year there were more than 200 fires from batteries from e-bikes, EVs, and other devices.
A fire ignited at an e-bike shop and killed four people near midnight on the morning of June 20. Two individuals were left in critical condition. The fire commissioner has warned New Yorkers that such devices could be very dangerous and typically explode in such a way that renders escape impossible. (RELATED: SUZANNE DOWNING: Biden’s Climate Change Fantasies Are Infiltrating A Key Government Department)
FDNY also reports that in just three years, lithium-ion battery fires have surpassed those started by cooking and smoking as the most common causes of fatal fires in New York City. It’s happening all over the country as these blazes have become commonplace. Cars and e-bikes are randomly blowing up in driveways and garages.
Now let’s be honest: 13 deaths in a city the size of New York with some 8 million people is hardly an epidemic. Regulations should always be based on a cost versus benefit-calculation, or there would be no cars at all.
And yet the same scaremongers on the left who have zero tolerance and want bans for small risks when it comes to everything from swimming pool diving boards, gas stoves, plastic straws, vaping, fireworks and so on, have a surprisingly high pain threshold when it comes to people dying or suffering critical injured from “green” electric battery fires.
Or consider this: In 1965, Ralph Nader almost single-handedly helped ban the popular Chevrolet Corvair — famous for its engine placed in the back trunk of the car. Nader’s bestselling shock book “Unsafe at Any Speed” declared the car was deadly. But there was no real evidence of that claim, and to this day, there are no reliable statistics on how many passengers — if any — died in Corvairs from rear-end accidents.
What is indisputable is that EVs will cause far more deaths than Corvairs ever did.
One other example: There have been more fatalities in just one city in a single year from lithium-ion batteries in cars than all the people who died from the 1979 Three Mile Island nuclear plant accident — which was zero.
Yet, after the accident, thanks to the environmentalists’ fear campaign (with the help of the blockbuster anti-nuke movie “The China Syndrome”), no domestic nuclear plants were built for three decades. That is despite the fact that nuclear plants emit no greenhouse gases.
But with EVs, the greens are pushing aside any concerns about the collateral damage of deaths and injuries. Biden wants to mandate that nearly ALL new cars sold in the U.S. be EVs by 2032. If that happens, many thousands of Americans may die or will be inured from electric vehicle fires. (RELATED: DAVID BLACKMON: IRA Subsidies Are Driving Investment Decisions In A Dangerous Direction)
All this is especially hypocritical because once upon a time the left’s mantra was “no trading blood for oil.” Now they are willing to trade blood in exchange for getting Americans to stop using oil. An irony of all this is that because of all the energy needed to produce windmills, solar panels and electric batteries, new studies are showing that the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions to this “net zero” transition is close to zero. It turns out, green energy causes some pollution, too.
For the record, I’m not in favor of the government banning EVs or e-bikes or just about anything. I just believe that we should make policy decisions based on real and factual risk assessments, not false scares and sensationalism.
As for the future of EVs, maybe it’s time for Ralph Nader to write a sequel to “Unsafe at Any Speed.”
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One of modern history’s fastest “refugee” relocations happened when a small plane of illegal aliens touched down on Martha’s Vineyard. Within 36 hours, give or take; they’d been frog-marched away from the exclusive New England Isle of the Rich and Famous. New York City isn’t as lucky.
The Big Crapple was already in a sad state after years of misrule by Mayor Bill de Blasio. Eric Adams hasn’t improved a thing, but he is the benefactor of years of Democrat Party open borders policy, though not by choice. If he had things his way, they’d have all stayed along the border where he likely thinks they belong.
But in the name of equity, border Governors have included cities like New York in the bounty of “immigrants” accumulating in their states. Bussing of flying them to places like Chicago, Washington DC, and New York City. With nowhere to put them – in between rants about what horrible people those governors are – the City and Mayor Adams have had to put them up at local hotels, which is crimping the City’s style.
In May, New York City Mayor Eric Adams complained that 50% of the city’s hotel rooms are now occupied by illegal migrants. This is a massive loss in tourism dollars for the city.
As if the crime, homelessness, and drug problem were not. A local government official issued a travel warning for NYC just a few years ago. That’s still a thing, but now they’ve got drugs, crime, and destruction of property in the hotels. It’s very New York, as is fine dining at swanky lib-run eateries. But the City isn’t paying restaurant owners to feed illegals (yet), and despite their liberal rhetoric, they are not doing their part.
Earlier this month, the Redbury Hotel, a Manhattan landmark that’s home to two restaurants owned by Danny Meyer, began housing asylum seekers in partnership with New York City. On Friday, Union Square Hospitality Group announced that nine-year-resident restaurant, Marta and Maialino (vicino) — the newly relocated spot that started in the Gramercy Park Hotel — will have their last service on August 25.
It’s a dramatic move that comes as the hotel is the latest Manhattan property repurposing as housing for asylum seekers. The city is struggling to address an influx of at least 90,000 migrants from the southern border since last spring.
Danny Meyer was reportedly all-in on the Pandemic response, requiring proof of vaccination to work or eat in his establishments.
He has donated at least 178,000 dollars to Democrat candidates in a baker’s dozen years so it is safe to say he is all in on a liberal agenda from which he’d mostly sanitized himself until the open border and sanctuary city policies drove him out of the Redbury Hotel.
He’s no doubt suffered a loss of business, revenue, and profit as like-minded progressives have chosen to hide from the human casualties of liberal immigration policy on display at the Redbuty Hotel – where Meyer isn’t the only New York Elitist who is displaced morally and physically by the influx. But he can pretend.
As tenants of the Redbury, our two restaurants, which occupy the lobby floor, have been eagerly anticipating the hotel’s full post-pandemic reopening. Now, as the Redbury partners with the City to house asylum seekers, it’s become clear that the timeline for that reopening has been extended indefinitely. While we admire and respect the Redbury’s decision, the viability of our business relies significantly on hotel-related F&B operations, including event venues and the lobby bar, spaces that are now unavailable for our use.
I doubt The Redbury has many choices, forced to fill the rooms with illegals at reduced rates set by the City – which could threaten all manner of code violations unless it agrees. A sort of “I am altering the deal, pray I don’t alter it further” arrangement. They play ball, or the City considers more aggressive measures to take over the hotel and fill it anyway.
But it is a deal that Meyer, suffering the effect of the policies he claims to support, can escape, moral posturing intact, freed, at least temporarily, from the teeming unwashed that washed up upon his shore. It is an increasingly common problem for the Libs, Progs, and Dems.
The one-percenters living on Martha’s Vineyard, liberal elite if not to the last than at least in the majority, came face-to-face with that when the plane landed. Still, they rallied quickly and relocated the huddled masses to someone else’s backyard (Maybe even to The Redbury Hotel in New York City.), for which the Boston Globe awarded them Bostonians of the Year.
That is, after all, how Left-Wing Morality works. It works for them, or it doesn’t work at all.
HT | TGP
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The saga of the Elizabeth Gurley Flynn state historical marker drags on. Flynn—a labor leader, feminist, founding member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and an avowed member and chairperson of the Communist Party USA—was recognized this spring with a historical highway marker in her hometown of Concord.
Related: Maybe We SHOULD Put Communist Elizabeth Gurley Flynn’s Historical Marker Back
Facing immediate backlash, the state removed “the rebel girl’s” marker soon after erecting it. The state now faces a lawsuit claiming it didn’t follow the rules for removal.
As state leaders debate whether or not to recognize a Communist who left the Granite State when she was about 10 years old, led the Communist Party USA, and received a Soviet state funeral in 1964, let’s not overlook the Concord capitalists who built companies and invented products that improved lives.
Putting their own ingenuity to use, these inventors and entrepreneurs made a lasting impact on the New Hampshire and American economies. Comrade Gurley Flynn became a celebrity through her writing and organizing. These capitalists, on the other hand, received far less attention while helping to build the New Hampshire and U.S. economies, create jobs, and advance their fields.
Levi HutchinsIf you set an alarm to help wake up at a certain time this morning, you can thank Levi Hutchins. Born in 1761, Hutchins lived in Concord from 1772 to 1777 and 1780 to 1855. And it was in Concord where Hutchins invented the first American alarm clock.
Trained as clockmakers, Hutchins and his brother Abel opened their clockmaking shop on Main Street in Concord in 1786 and were successful businessmen. Hutchins understood the need for many to wake up on time for work, including himself. While alarm clocks were already in Europe, Hutchins was determined to bring one to America.
In 1787, Hutchins designed and built the first American alarm clock. It was constructed in a 29-inch by 14-inch wooden cabinet, and each clock could only be set for one specific time (in Hutchins’s case, 4 a.m.). Hutchins never bothered to patent his clock or mass-produce it. But he did wake up on time for the rest of his life and tinker his way into the history books.
Sylvester MarshA stalwart of New Hampshire’s significant tourist economy, the Mount Washington Cog Railway was the first of its kind in the world when Sylvester Marsh designed and built it.
Marsh was born in 1803 and lived in Concord for the last five years of his life. An American entrepreneur, Marsh’s inspiration for the railway came from his near-death experience hiking Mount Washington in 1852 during a storm. Locomotives at the time weren’t able to climb Washington’s steep incline, so Marsh had to invent a new railway—the cog rail.
Though some state lawmakers laughed at Marsh, the Legislature gave him exclusive rights to a Mount Washington railway in 1858. And since 1869, the Cog has made regular trips year-round to the top of the tallest mountain in the Northeast as one of the Granite State’s oldest, most popular attractions and a boon to its economy. (Marsh is mentioned in the Cog Railway’s historical marker in the White Mountains but doesn’t have one of his own.)
Benjamin Ames KimballNortheastern railroad giant and Concord resident from 1854 to 1920, Benjamin Ames Kimball, born in 1833, was a railroad engineer, mechanic, and manufacturer, as well as a consequential figure in railroad expansion in New England.
Starting as a draftsman in the shops of the Concord Railroad, Kimball worked his way up to designing locomotives and running the locomotive department. He left to found his own manufacturing company and later returned as a director of the Concord Railroad. In 1879, Kimball led the merger of the Concord Railroad with the Boston, Concord, and Montreal Railroad, forming the Concord and Montreal Railroad in 1889. Serving as its president from 1895 to 1920, the Concord and Montreal Railroad was the principal railroad in the state under Kimball’s leadership.
The leading railroad figure in New Hampshire, Kimball is credited with overseeing a booming system that accelerated the state’s economy and facilitated increased tourism to the Lakes Region and the White Mountains.
Benjamin HoltGo to any construction site in the country, and chances are you’ll see Caterpillar Inc. equipment on the job. The origins of both the company and the machinery can be traced back to one man: Benjamin Holt.
Born in 1849 in Concord, Holt was an inventor who owned more than 45 patents. He’s best known, however, for inventing in 1904 the first successful track-type tractor—called the “Caterpillar”—a product that Caterpillar Inc. still uses.
Determined to create a vehicle to help farmers, Holt and his company, Holt Manufacturing, designed a track-laying system that would allow heavy tractors to move over soft soil and mud. With his track-type tractor, Holt became the father of mechanized farming.
During World War I, Holt even supplied treads for U.S. and British tanks.
Holt Manufacturing later merged with a competitor to form Caterpillar Tractor Co., which eventually became Caterpillar Inc., the largest manufacturer of earth-moving equipment in the world.
Though Holt did not receive a state funeral in Moscow, he fed more Soviets than Concord-born Communist hero Gurley Flynn ever did. During the Great Depression, the Soviet government needed agricultural equipment that its socialist command economy couldn’t produce. So, they bought American tractors and combines from Caterpillar.
Mitchell Scacchi | The Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy
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Scanning the networks on Monday night to see what topics were getting attention, I was unlucky enough to catch Rachel Maddow and Hillary Clinton on MSNBC sharing a good chuckle about Trump’s fourth indictment. If there were two more repulsive women in politics today, they would also be on MSNBC or CNN.
These two cable networks are not about the news or the truth; they are also not about quality people. The people on these two flailing stations look through the lens of the cameras and into the soul of America and lie to them incessantly. This is the perfect environment for Hillary Clinton. She fits in seamlessly, and they treat her as superhuman. Besides being a First Lady, Hillary Clinton was a mediocre Senator and Secretary of State. Because of her time spent in Washington, Hillary felt entitled to be the first female President. It did not and will never happen. Hillary’s time has passed, but the Left still treats her with celebrity status. We on the Right see Hillary Clinton as the epitome of a Gaslighter. I think she is so delirious she believes everything she spouts.
On this night, Rachel Maddow was to give Hillary enough softball questions to allow Mrs. Clinton to showcase the highest level of hypocrisy she could muster, and there would never be a challenge from Maddow. They chuckled and scoffed at the plight of Donald Trump and the impact of the four indictments on the former President and the country. Here are two of the most powerful women on the Left having a friendly chat on National TV, and neither will admit the truth. Neither will entertain the possibility the four indictments of Donald Trump are purely a political play by Joe Biden and his weaponized Justice Department.
Clinton claimed she finds no joy seeing Trump put through the legal food processor. She does find satisfaction in seeing the system work. Are you serious? These comments from a woman and her husband, who have been the benefactors of a broken justice system for years. This is the woman who financed the bogus Russian Dossier used to impeach Donald Trump. This is the woman who bleached and took a sledgehammer to her illegal server to destroy all the emails and info subpoenaed by the FBI. This is from the woman who has denied her loss to Trump in 2016 and feels she was the actual President of the United States. Just like Stacey Abrams in Georgia, the two women claimed the election was tainted, and they were the winners. Trump is indicted for this in Georgia, but the system is working according to Hillary. Apparently, it wasn’t working for Hillary and Stacey. This is such a farce, and Hillary and Maddow are the best people to evaluate a farce.
What is wrong with people on the Left, not the politicians, but the everyday citizens who cannot see through this smoke and mirrors? Even if CNN and MSNBC are their primary source for news, can’t their logic and common sense let them see the light? It is sad how gullible and naive half of our country is that they will believe whatever their favorite talking head expounds, but that is what they prove every night, and that keeps CNN and MSNBC on a respirator.
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I’m not sure this qualifies as man-made in the religious sense of climate change, but men made the powerlines that some locals captured on video—sparking, popping, followed by fire, which the high winds then took for a devastating ride.
(Maui News/AP) “I heard ‘buzz, buzz,’ “ the 49-year-old resort worker recounted. “It was almost like somebody lit a firework. It just ran straight up the hill to a bigger pile of grass, and then, with that high wind, that fire was blazing.”
Treu’s video and others captured the early moments of what would become the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century. Now the footage has emerged as key evidence pointing to fallen utility lines as the possible cause. Hawaiian Electric Co. faces criticism for not shutting off the power amid high wind warnings and keeping it on even as dozens of poles began to topple.
It’s beginning to sound a bit like California’s Camp Fire.
(Bloomberg) It could take weeks or months to determine the cause of the blaze that destroyed the seaside Hawaiian town of Lahaina, one of the deadliest wildfires in US history. But attention is already focusing on whether power lines owned by Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc. played a role, with the stock plunging more than 40% since the fire began. While many things could have provided the initial spark for the flames, which were fanned by high winds, electrical lines have a tragic history of triggering fires during wind storms.
The story is getting around, but back to Maui News.
A class-action lawsuit has already been filed seeking to hold the company responsible for the deaths of more than 100 people. The suit cites the utility’s own documents showing it was aware that preemptive power shutoffs such as those used in California were an effective strategy to prevent wildfires but never adopted them.
This is starting to sound a lot like the Camp Fire.
When Governor Moonbeam (Brown) made stupid claims that the wildfires ravaging his state, yet again, were due to the “Climate Change” hoax, President Trump shot back an incendiary and burningly accurate tweet, igniting his own firestorm. …
First, we heard from Mercury News that the point of origin for the “Camp” fire was a remote road where fallen power lines had sparked a blaze that was fanned by 35mph “Santa Ana” winds into the rapidly spreading inferno, which consumed the small town of Paradise, CA, and its surroundings, …
Maui’s Fire Department then allegedly mishandled the fire allowing it to get worse. So, yes, ‘Men’ were involved, but Climate Change had nothing to do with it, and that’s a problem. Pursuing lawsuits for wrongdoing is a greater good than pretending someone’s SUV is Skokie is to blame. They’ll still lay that blame, but it won’t be able to keep its head above the rising waters of litigation.
HT | Epoch Times
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People who profit from prostitution are typically its boosters. They call it sex work, describe it as a right, and dress it up as a noble calling. That sounds great, but what legalized sex work actually looks like is slavery, trafficking, and sexual assault.
And we don’t have to look far to see the truth.
From 1980 to 2009, prostitution in Rhode Island was decriminalized. Prostitution was not prohibited or regulated by law if it was performed indoors. The lack of laws or regulations created a unique and permissive legal, economic, and cultural environment for the growth of sex businesses. Although a few counties in Nevada have legalized prostitution, no other state or county has decriminalized prostitution in recent decades. During the twenty-nine-year period from 1980 to 2009, sexual exploitation and violence against women and girls were integrated into the economic development of Rhode IslandÕs urban areas.
It might take you an hour to read the research paper, but it’s worth the time if the topic is of interest (a summary can be found here), and it should be. Last year the people of Burlington voted to “bar the city council from regulating sex work.” It’s not legal, but they are prohibited from enforcing any laws or imposing any regulatory or public health controls.
Hands off is how I read it, and that’s very bad news for girls and women, which the Rhode Island study bears out.
From the summary.
The Burlington law does not prohibit State or Federal investigations, arrests, or prosecutions, so it is different from the RI issue, which the state legislature corrected in 2009 after nearly three decades of crime, human trafficking, sexual assault, and abuse.
In a separate Study, another female researcher investigated Legalized Prostitution in New Zealand, the Netherlands, and elsewhere with similar results. Women are trafficked, poorly housed and treated, and moved around from brotherly to brothel. But the second study looks into the politics as well as the groups that advocate for “sex workers.”
The names of organizations advocating legalized prostitution are another source of confusion. Sex industry apologists calculatedly appropriate the titles of human rights or public health organizations. Although theirHuman Trafficking names are similar, the Global Alliance Against Trafficking in Women (GAATW) promotes prostitution as sex work, while the Coalition Against Traf-fickinginWomen (CATW) works for the abolition of prostitution and other forms of discrimination against women. Other organizations that accept or promote prostitution as a reasonable job for poor women include the Dutch Foundation for Women (STV); Coordination for Action Research on AIDS and Mobility (CARAM/Cambodia); European Network for HIV/STD Prevention in Europe (EUROPAP); Transnational AIDS/STD Prevention among Migrant Prostitutes (TAMPEP; Netherlands, Italy, Ger-many, and Austria); CARE International; North American TaskForce on Prostitution; Anti-Slavery International; Human RightsWatch; Amnesty International (USA); Amnesty for Women, Hamburg; Rights of Entertainers in Asia to Combat HumanOppression and Unjust Treatment, Hong Kong (REACH OUT); Bangladesh Women’s Health Coalition; Medecins sans Frontieres; From Our Streets with Dignity (FROST’D), NewYork; Coalition Against Slavery and Trafficking (CAST), Los Angeles; Prostitution Alternatives Counseling and Education (PACE), Vancouver, Canada; Nueva Era en Salud, Panama.
United Nations organizations such as the WHO, UN/AIDS, and the International Labor Organization (ILO) have also supported the legalization of prostitution and have generally regarded prostitution as work (Lim,1998; South African Press Association, 2001).In 2001, Gilles Poumerol, WHO’s Southeast Asian advisor on sexually transmitted infections, promoted the decriminalization of prostitution in Asia (Deutsche Press-Agentur, 2001). Unfortunately, names cannot be trusted to tell the whole story.
These groups all have a vested interest in the byproduct of sex work, which makes them – for lack of a better term, pimps. In some cases the pimp is the state.
Prostitution has been proposed as a development policy for newly industrializing and developing countries. Often, those promoting prostitution are sex industry businessmen and government officials. Sex businesses such as escort prostitution, mas-sage brothels, strip clubs, phone sex businesses, and Internet prostitution have been described by Lim (1998)as the sex sector of a state’s economy. In some countries, profits from the sex sector are included in estimates of its economic activity.
For example, int he Netherlands, the sex industry constitutes 5% of the GDP (Daley, 2001). Women in Dutch prostitution tell us that although legalization of prostitution was promoted as a way to improve their lives, they view it primarily as a way for the State to tax their earnings (Schippers, 2002). Often they do not think that their health has benefited or that they are offered more protection under legalized or decriminalized prostitution.
In almost every case where prostitution was legalized as sex work, the girls were beaten, abused, raped, or otherwise harmed, while crime increased in the neighborhoods where sex work was practiced.
I’ve not looked, and perhaps it is too soon, but the sanctuary city of Burlington, in the sanctuary State of Vermont, is likely home to an increasing number of trafficked immigrant girls or will be. Organized crime and less organized gangs will be drawn to the income opportunities of unregulated sex work, and the women -some of who will live like slaves – will pay the price for what a bunch of dim-witted progressives thought was a liberty or privacy issue.
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The most destructive natural disasters are never 100 percent natural. Human choices, land use, and government policies play a big role in how harmful hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, flash floods, and wildfires are to the affected communities.
And after catastrophes like the wildfire that destroyed much of the historic Hawaiian city of Lahaina last week, it’s worth taking stock of how much of the disaster was the result not of natural or accidental factors, but of policies and institutions that can be changed.
Though details are still emerging, it’s becoming clear that government failure did much to make this disaster worse—and possibly even started it. While the so-called experts are blaming climate change—and in the process demanding that government grab even more power and authority ostensibly to someday give us better weather—the destructiveness this fire was the product of an all-powerful and all-incompetent régime.
The specific origins of the fire are still being investigated, but there is much we already know. The city of Lahaina sits on the west coast of Maui, Hawaii’s second-largest island. It is surrounded by grassland, much of which the state owns.
Nearly a decade ago the Hawaii Wildfire Management Organization, a research nonprofit, warned the Hawaiian government that the area around Lahaina was extremely fire-prone due to frequent downslope winds, steep terrain, and dry grass. Little was done to address these risks. A subsequent report in 2020 added that an invasive species of exceptionally flammable grass was prevalent in the surrounding fields and that passing hurricanes created strong winds known to fuel wildfires on the islands.
Early last week, Hurricane Dora crossed the ocean south of Hawaii. By early Tuesday morning, August 8, winds as fast as sixty miles per hour were blowing down the slopes of the West Maui Mountains into Lahaina. Around sunrise, a large fault was detected in the power grid, indicating a downed power line. Twenty minutes later, the first reports of fire came in from the area around Lahainaluna Road, uphill and upwind from the city.
The area where flames were first spotted is full of electrical infrastructure, mostly operated by Hawaiian Electric, the state’s monopoly electricity supplier. This included a substation and a multitude of power lines. Most of the land in the area is owned by the State of Hawaii except for a parcel belonging to the estate of one of Hawaii’s last princesses. This parcel housed a solar farm supplying electricity to the Hawaiian Electric substation. Early last year, NPR published a glowing article about the solar project, praising it the direct result of government regulation crafted to help transition Hawaii to 100 percent renewable power by 2045.
But on the morning of August 8, as winds hammered the old wooden utility poles, this highly electrified area in the dry grasses above Lahaina was quickly becoming dangerous. Yet no formal procedure was in place to shut off sections of the grid in the face of severe fire risks. As a result, twenty-nine fully energized poles fell across West Maui that day.
But even with downed poles in the way, the first firefighters on the scene met with some early success. Around 9 a.m., the county fire department declared the fire “100 percent contained.” But the message to residents included an ominous request. The county’s water pumps were powered by electricity, much of which was frantically being turned off to deactivate the downed lines. Officials asked the public to conserve water to preserve water pressure.
But by midafternoon, a flare-up brought the fire back to life on the Lahaina Bypass, a major road that heads straight into town. The flames moved swiftly into Lahaina at 4:46 p.m., one minute after the county government finally sent out an alert to warn the city’s population, largely without power, about the flare-up that had occurred over an hour before.
To make matters worse, county officials failed to activate emergency sirens, leaving residents unaware of the danger bearing down on them. And as firefighters heroically rushed toward the flames to try and save their community, they found that there was little to no water pressure in the fire hydrants, which quickly ran dry.
With a single backed-up highway leading out of the city, many residents of Lahaina had nowhere to go. Some scrambled into the ocean to escape the smoke and flames. But in the end, many couldn’t get out. At least ninety-nine people have been confirmed dead at this writing, making this the deadliest American wildfire in over a century. In addition, 2,207 buildings were destroyed, with property damages expected to reach $5.5 billion.
To review, a power company shielded from competition by the state placed electrical infrastructure among highly flammable state-owned grass fields above the historic city of Lahaina, which the government was twice warned were highly susceptible to fire. And once a fire broke out, a combination of defective water infrastructure, terrible communication by government officials, and only one escape route doomed the people of Lahaina to the worst wildfire experienced in this country in over a hundred years.
This was government failure through and through. In Human Action, Ludwig von Mises explains that on the market, the ultimate source of profits is foresight—the ability to anticipate future conditions. And economic loss occurs when market actors fail to anticipate the future. This possibility of riches if one succeeds and the guarantee of painful failures if one doesn’t force producers and service providers on the market to constantly weigh risks and opportunities.
Government immunizes itself from the profit and loss system and, therefore, from much of the need to weigh risk. Sure, some county officials may resign because of this. And the share price of Hawaiian Electric may dip. But the people of Maui will be forced to keep compensating the very organizations that have failed them. And there’s nothing natural about that disaster.
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The DeSantis Super PAC has an ad attacking Trump for attacking Republican Governors, one of whom is his excellency, Chris Sununu. The ad even says, “The way you win as Republicans is to unite Republicans.” Is it? Then why are you attacking one?
Related: If They Really Want Donald Trump to Lose the Primary’ Kiss-of-Death’ Chris Sununu Should Endorse Him
By the way, I think they should attack Trump. He’s not perfect. He made mistakes. And this process is messy. The Founders went at each other like wet cats in a burlap sack. It is in the best interest of the electorate for their fighter to actually fight. The Big Ring in DC is not for mild manners or polite people. And down there, they don’t stick to issues or leave their opponents’ families out of it.
When Democrats lose an election, they invest all their resources and time into destroying or undermining the winner. When they win an election, they commit all of their resources and time toward advancing their agenda while trying to destroy viable opponents in the next one.
They send the FBI to your home at 5 am. When they indict you, it’s not election interference. And you think saying Trump was mean will move the needle?
Two words. Peaceful protest.
The Dems send mobs after you; they try to get you to abandon your rights. Try to leave town; there’s no escape. They’ll burn down black businesses and neighborhoods in the name of black folks. Leave disarmed citizens with no police protection. They literally disarmed them with the promise of security, then bitched about needing to gut the police force for their protection, and crime shot through the roof.
And let’s be honest. The Republican party has a lot of progressive policy sympathizers in it (and cowards), one of whom happens to be Chris Sununu. He’s done some good things, he was better than any Democrat and more than a few Republicans, but he’s done some terrible things because he is a by-product of a ruling-class political family that thinks it knows better than the voters the DeSantis PAC is trying to court.
Luckily for DeSantis, many of those voters don’t know that, so there is an opportunity to make Trump look mean, but defending Sununu isn’t going to get the undeclared voter off the couch to vote in a GOP primary in February unless it is for Donald Trump. And if you want that vote, you need to be stronger on the issues and better at pushing back against the very sort of Republican Chris Sununu is just in DC.
What the hell are you going to do about China? How about the out-of-control ‘pubic’ schools, the border, the illegals in the country, the weaponized intelligence agencies, the Neocons, the debt, Ukraine, domestic energy security, foreign drugs and gangs, the FBI – and are you mean enough and tough enough to stop the jackbooted bureaucracy from crushing the states whose primaries you’d like to win?
Everyone down there is going to hate that agenda, so if you win, being mean to Republicans will be a requirement, and the primary voters know Trump is not faking it. When he says he’s fighting for us against them, he means against all of them.
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If you can’t sell that, you’d be better off attacking Chris Christie – he’s the one that’s actually sucking your polling air out of New Hampshire. Trump is at 49%. No one else is close. All combined, they still lose by almost ten points. And you don’t think his voters know what Trump is like.
Too bad DeSantis can’t fire those PAC guys. What’s next, mentioning the indictments? Trump will be up by 60 points.
Get a clue.
HT | NHJ
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We are just over a week away from the first Republican primary debate, and Donald Trump was out there bragging how he’ll thrash Joe Biden this time. Candidate Nikki Haley is waving the flag that the real opponent they’re all running against is Vice President Kamala Harris, as Biden is likely to drop dead early-second term.
Respectfully, both are going after the wrong targets.
I’m going to veer away from Vermont politics for a moment and make an observation/prediction about the U.S. presidential election: Joe Biden is not going to be – and was never intended to be — the Democrats’ nominee for president in 2024. So why is he there? To keep Kamala Harris, and perhaps some others, from being able to run at all, and to allow a small group of far-left elites to hand-pick the next President of the United States.
Everybody knows Joe Biden is no longer mentally with it (if he ever was). He’s clearly not capable of being president. The Obama cabal is running the White House, and while Biden has been a useful puppet for the extreme Left, they know he’ll be a terrible candidate in 2024. Another run against Trump is a crapshoot at best, and if a different Republican wins the nomination, Biden will lose to a fresh face/fresh start candidate for sure. There’s only one possible choice worse than he is: his vice president.
Harris has even lower poll numbers than Biden. She is annoying. Confusing. Incompetent. People don’t like her. She’s associated with the unpopular Biden. And she got blown out of the 2020 primary after garnering about one percent in the polls. She doesn’t have the excuse for gaffs that she’s 138 years old. But as the sitting vice president, in a primary, she would be a presumptive nominee, and as a Black woman, the Democrats denying her that spot would look, well, kinda racist and sexist at the same time. Rock/Hard Place.
Moreover, a long, open primary could get ugly and unpredictable. There would be debates flush with fringy candidates reminding voters of all the crackpot policies that have destroyed blue states/cities and the country as a whole. Even worse, from a Leftist perspective, a moderate like Joe Manchin could emerge as the front-runner. Can’t have that!
But as long as Biden is the declared nominee, neither Harris, Manchin, nor anybody else who might be taken seriously (sorry, RFK Jr.) can begin to build a real campaign. Can’t make speeches about how you’d lead the nation, raise money, hire a campaign team, etc. That would run contrary to etiquette.
Instead, Biden’s fake run sets up a late-game “bait and switch” that will allow a small group of elites to hand-pick the next President of the United States. No presumptive nominees. No real primary. Not even a campaign for the candidate; just for the dark money super PACs who will pick (have already picked?) the winner. It’s basically a repeat of The Basement Strategy that worked so well in 2020, but this time I’m guessing, California Governor Gavin Newsom.
Here’s the mass-psychological game I think the Democrats are playing….
The national electorate is dreading an inevitable rematch between Biden and Trump. Except for a small minority of hard-core Trump supporters who want to see a revenge rematch, voters are looking forward to this about as much as opening day for the Broadway musical version of the movie Ishtar. (Not really a thing, thank God, but given recent theater history, you never know.)
An Economist/YouGov poll conducted June 10-13 found 59 percent of voters don’t want Biden to seek reelection, with only 26 percent favoring a run for a second term. Similarly, 56 percent don’t want Trump to run again, with just 33 percent in favor. Independents came in with 64 percent against Biden and 59 percent against Trump. Nobody wants this.
The first party to break that sense of impending doom, which will only get more frustrating and intense as time goes on, by putting up someone credible who is not one of the two above-mentioned political versions of microwaved leftover fish from last week is going to be rewarded at the ballot box.
So, at some point, probably in the summer of 2024, Joe Biden will withdraw from the race for health reasons, or if the charges against Hunter get too hot, maybe citing the legal distractions as being not good for the country or some such thing. The point is he’ll be gone, off eating ice cream and shaking hands with invisible ambassadors in a closet somewhere. The Democrats will “scramble” to find a replacement. “Oh no, what shall we ever do? Who will save us?” A majority of voters will breathe a collective sigh of relief that election day is no longer a political Sophie’s Choice.
It won’t matter that Newsom (or whomever the Dems put forward, but I’m betting Newsom) has destroyed his state with a litany of inane woke policies. Yes, housing costs in California may be through the roof, homelessness out of control, crime is riddling the state’s cities, there’s an app telling pedestrians where all the human excrement is on the sidewalks, rolling blackouts are a thing, and taxpaying/law-abiding citizens are fleeing to other states mostly run by Republicans. The late bait and switch guarantees a campaign so short none of this has time to get out – and that’s the point — especially with a complicit press running interference.
Newsom (or whoever) will simply be the none-of-the-above option that spared the average, not-very-political voter from having to hold their nose and cast a ballot for one of two octogenarian re-treads facing criminal charges they didn’t like the first time around. That’s the trap being set, at least as I see it. The question for the debates is, will Republicans step into it?
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Rob Roper is a freelance writer with 20 years of experience in Vermont politics including three years service as chair of the Vermont Republican Party and nine years as President of the Ethan Allen Institute, Vermont’s free market think tank.
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Another day … another indictment of President Trump. But there is one thing that NeverTrump and MAGA seem to agree on … they think that it’s all somehow going to go back to normal. NeverTrump would have you believe that all that we need to do is put them back in charge of the GOP … and that somehow “their” nominee is going to prevail in all those “swing-States” where elections are rigged. It’s almost a religion. Just move on past Trump and the magically … election-month, Zuckerbucks, drop-boxes, mail-in-voting, Regime-media and Big-Tech censorship, Deep State interference – all go POOF! It all just disappears and we go back to “normal.” Delusional. Totally delusional.
Of course the leaders of NeverTrump know better. They’re content with being “controlled opposition.” Just give us back our grift!
MAGA is equally delusional. If the “opposition” is willing to imprison its main political opponent in order to hold on to power, what won’t it do to hold on to power? The first step in solving any problem is admitting and understanding the problem. Polls are meaningless when the Communists Democrats control the narrative and, in addition, have the ability to generate millions of votes from people who aren’t getting polled … ask Dr. Oz how that works.
Rome went from republic to dictatorship. But that just can’t happen here? It’s happening before your very eyes,
People like to knowingly say “it’s always been this way,” but it really hasn’t. Taken together w/the DOJ/FBI role in the Russia hoax, their coverup of Clinton’s textbook obstruction of justice rap (if smashing hard drives w/hammers after they’ve been subpoenaed isn’t obstruction,… https://t.co/5t1ayEfWE9
— Martyr Made (@martyrmade) August 15, 2023
DOJ has so far arrested and charged more than 1,100 American citizens on bogus charges for protesting Joe Biden’s bogus election more than 2 1/2 years ago. DC US Atty Matt Graves, a Biden apparatchik, STILL arresting people every week.
Yes republic. https://t.co/e2UGpJ5Q6w
— Julie Kelly (@julie_kelly2) August 15, 2023
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We live in a world where elite capture by the Chinese Communist Party is a growing national security threat to America. One of their many tells is claiming something is a threat to The Demcoracy. We hear it from The Left all the time, but how about from Jonah Goldberg?
Goldberg was a reliable defender of Federalism and an opponent of smiley-faced left-wing fascism. That is how it seemed. I mean, I bought the books, and they were great. But when Donald Trump won the nomination of the Republican Party in 2016, one of the “institutions” he exposed as a fraud and water carrier for the progressive project was National Review. Trump just had to be Trump, and they did the rest.
Sure, they still do some good work, but their stable of authors has since gone down the Never Trump rabbit hole, including Goldberg, and while this probably helps his Deep State street cred, no one living outside that circle will be impressed.
“Large donors actually have a strategic view about moderation, who can win, and who can’t. Small donors are really just venting their spleen with their credit card.”
CNN’s Jonah Goldberg: “Large donors actually have a strategic view about moderation, who can win, and who can’t. Small donors are really just venting their spleen with their credit card.”
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— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) August 10, 2023
It’s a direct attack on Trump who, despite having less money than someone like Ron DeSantis, Trump got most of his form small donors. DeSantis got his from the GOP donor class, whom Goldberg informs us, has a strategic view. Of what? The path to globalization and the end of individual liberty? I agree. The monied elite are all-in on the UN, WHO, Digital Currency, social credit world that just happens to be the thing that China wants.
Remember them? Sworn enemy of the United States with whom they admit being at war for decades? Check this out, donor class.
WASHINGTON — The House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party announced last week a significant breakthrough in the CCP’s decades-long “unrestricted warfare” against America. The panel will investigate two companies that at the forefront of Wall Street’s long-running and concerted efforts to help our mortal enemy weaponize U.S. investors’ money against them — and the rest of our country.
Following important testimony recently by former Reagan National Security Council Senior Director for International Economics Roger Robinson, the Committee’s bipartisan leadership declared that: “As a direct result of decisions made by [BlackRock and MSCI], these Americans are now unwittingly funding PRC companies that develop and build weapons for the People’s Liberation Army…
I’m sure Goldberg has thoughts on that as well and thinks it’s all bunk but this guy just told us that.the very thing that makes Democracy .. Democracy, is bad for Democracy.
Let it not be lost on any reader who has donated a portion of your paycheck to a political campaign that, unless you are a member of the top 1% of the 1% who is a billionaire (there are only about 800 such people in the United States), Jonah Goldberg is calling you the “biggest problem for democracy.” … [which] serves as the crystallization of how the ruling class (with CNN as its mouthpiece) views the peasantry it presides over in American “democracy” — which, in fact, is a façade for reasons I have elaborated on elsewhere.
An oligarchy of wealthy elites (can we call them the nobility?) is best suited to manage the democratic process. A way of thinking that leads to what? The end of Democracy actually and the Republic with it.
How far you have fallen, Jonah Goldberg.
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