Tuesday • November 26 • 2024
Vol.XVI • No.XLVIII
Manchester, N.H.
A simple nick on the neck (not by TMEW or me) was enough to get us “DCYF entangled” into caring for the Granddaughter. Yet, there is a highly monied, highly politically organized, and narcissistic movement (yes, the Trans-Authoritarians hell-bent on helping in reducing our traditional American norms to rubble) that demands that much more harmful acts should be blessed.
Blessed to the point of criminalizing Parents for NOT doing what a child is demanding (re: under the philosophy of “Childism” – an off-shoot of Critical Race Theory that maintains that simply being a Parent makes you an Oppressor to your now “victimized” child).
Some norms, however, still remain on our “books,” and many are codified into law, taking into account that children are incapable of making decisions that are considered to require “adult reasoning.” Well, except for one, and I’m betting that regular ‘Grok readers know what it is:
(Image H/T: Powerline)
Sorry, that last one should have read, “Can I take hormones and chop off my genitals and make believe that I can be something I can never be?” What should also have been part of it could have been, “Can I read your Porn mags?
Again, “transgender” connotes that doing so actually can do that – it can’t, but the Trans-Authoritarians are working hard to persuade us all that it is possible. Failing persuasive means they are perfectly fine with employing emotional bullying to make you.
Yet, NH State Rep Mike Bordes and others decided that keeping Parents in charge of their children is a negative and promptly not only sided with Democrats but signed on (wrote?) the amendments that gutted the rights of Parents to be in charge of their children. I’m betting he’s perfectly fine with this, too:
Just mind-boggling.
(H/T: Hot Air)
Elections in 2024 aren’t that far away…
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They’re flying so thick and fast it is amazing.
Take heart – there will be a Meme Overflow and almost certainly a Friday Meme Overflow-Overflow. Last week’s Overflow-Overflow.
Remember, ridicule and mockery are effective weapons:
Now, let the mockery and mayhem begin.
*** Warning, a few possibly off-color ones, in case tender eyes are about ***
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https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/enemedia-compilation-dangerous-to-democracy.mp4
This, and similar, clip aggregations have been making their way around. One has a slew of hosts telling people to be careful about looking for health information on the twitterverse. The wording, time and time again, is precisely identical across dozens and dozens of broadcasts.
Biden White House asked Facebook to tweak algorithm to push mainstream over conservative news: memo | Just The News
Biden Administration Ordered Facebook to Change Algorithms to Suppress Conservatives › American Greatness (amgreatness.com)
Knowledge, as the saying goes, is power. Even greater power, though, is the ability to convince people to not read / listen to / etc. something you don’t want them to see, or to automatically disbelieve it if it does cross their path. Or merely to successfully distract from important things (not to say that an actual revelation of aliens wouldn’t be massively important, but I have my doubts about it):
And leave us not forget the willing blindness of people – those “useful idiots” that Yuri Bezmenov described.
Who will, once The State turns on them, be shocked as it consumes them.
What I have predicted, and will again, is that once it’s clear to the sheeple that the gates have been closed their hottest fury will be for us, who warned and warned and warned… because they viewed us with such disdain for being paranoid nut jobs and yet we, the unwashed deplorables, had the temerity to actually be right when they were wrong.
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PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA
Massachusetts Bill Would Implement “Most Egregious Gun Control” in U.S. – The New American
I recently went in to get fingerprinted and photographed for my MA LTC. Not that I go into that state much, but I do sometimes – and I’d like to be able to have the choice to carry legally. Now, I’m not so sure about the license. And if these bills pass into law… maybe that LTC gets cut in half and sent in. More on the gun grabber behind this:
Who’s the liberty-hating mind behind Massachusetts’ “Lawful Citizens Imprisonment Act”? – Bearing Arms
From the above article (links in original):
Regardless of where you live, letting Representative Michael Day and his legislative aide know your thoughts is important, as he has attacked the very fiber of the most important Amendment in the Bill of Rights.
Michael Day can be reached at:
Michael.Day@mahouse.gov and info@electmikeday.com
Email to Day’s legislative aide: Talia Quinn Talia.Quinn@mahouse.gov (be nice, Ms. Quinn is collateral damage to Day’s treasonous actions)If you’re feeling real bucky, sending Day some letters and or post cards, letting him know you’re thinking about him while he’s on summer break, I’m sure would be appreciated:
Representative Michael Day
State House
24 Beacon St.
Room 136, Boston, MA, 02133Given what I was told about Day’s office’s reaction to online trolling – I mean, er commentary, and communications on social media, here you can find his accounts to express your feelings directly to him in a public way:
Representative Michael Day (@representative_day) • Instagram photos and videos
Representative Michael Day (twitter.com)
State Representative Michael Day | FacebookDo take some time to stop in and show the Gun Owners’ Action League some love and support. The state organization is tackling this affront to liberty head on and they could use all the help they can get! These freedom squishing-policies tend to migrate, so let’s stop it where it is now!
For more information about Michael Day’s modern day take on Democrats’ Massive Resistance to civil rights, visit GOAL’s page dedicated to it HERE.
As I understand it, if this passes into law, gun ownership in MA is going to become extremely difficult… and legally dangerous. The state of my birth, where the shot heard round the world was fired.
There’s a reason I call guns & ammo “tyrant vaccine”:
Get the bumper sticker! (You may need to adjust to PG-13 as the image upsets the woke types at Zazzle.)
Show why you own guns! They’re TYRANT VACCINE. Bumper Sticker | Zazzle
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I’d say this should be filed under CLUELESS as they do the very thing to Trump, except I know they’re not clueless. The Left is insane, but their fiendishly clever too. Also: remember that they only care about the opinions of their Fellow Travelers. Calling out their hypocrisy, while historically important, has no effect as they do not value our opinion.
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The True Story of the Atomic Bombs
A classic from Bill Whittle. Another:
I remember, years ago as an hourly employee in a defense contractor, some wit had done a bit of graffiti in the men’s room with the Enola Gay flying away from the mushroom cloud, and the caption: “Developed and built by lazy, illiterate Americans. Field tested in Japan”.
Now, having had my fun, yes, I am a Japanophile. There is, IMHO, much to be admired in that ancient culture. Honor, for example – something we have precious little of today. But I have ZERO sorry for dropping the bombs. None.
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South Africans are about to learn the Zimbabwe lesson.
MHO: When, not if, starvation hits, don’t send them a single bite. Not one packet of seeds, not one sack of fertilizer. Only use those as trade to get the remaining whites out.
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Simple questions for Pfizer
Watch the body language of the Pfizer people. They’re extremely uncomfortable.
I used to joke that I was sure that Pfizer had a “saline special” shot for their employees. Now, while I can’t claim with True Knowledge that these lots for employees only are that, the mere fact that they produced lots only for their employees is exceedingly telling.
BOMBSHELL: Spokesperson Admits During Tyrannical Australian Senate Hearing that Pfizer Employees Were Given Special Batch of Vaccine, Different from What was Distributed to Public (VIDEO) | USSA News | The Tea Party’s Front Page.
In a shocking revelation during a Senate hearing in Tyrannical Australia, a Pfizer spokesperson revealed that the pharmaceutical giant had imported a special batch of COVID-19 vaccines solely for their employee vaccination program.
And from the same article, the agreement the Australian government had with Pfizer prevents revelation of the actual terms of liability indemnification:
“Senator, any indemnity agreements between Pfizer and the Tyrannical Australian government are confidential and we are not able to discuss that in this forum,” said Thiru.
“Why are they confidential? Because as a taxpayer, I paid for those injections even though I didn’t take any. Why are they confidential? From taxpayers, 26 million Tyrannical Australians. What are you hiding?” Roberts asked.
Related to the Jab:
Spike in Miscarriages and Stillbirths Directly Linked to Covid Shots, Study Finds (substack.com)
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/yeadon-believe-them.mp4
Remember what they were willing to do:
“Errors”:
And more:
Senator Rennick: “What percentage of profits does Moderna allocate to help people who have been injured by the vaccine?”
Moderna: “Zero, Vaccine injuries are not our problem, but the government’s”.
What’s that expression? Privatize the profit, socialize the risk?
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/moderna-and-vaccine-injuries.mp4
And on the Jab (and Covid) in general:
Remember this video?
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/naomi-wolf-they-knew.mp4
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BATF: Burn All Toddlers First.
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Hundred million pounds of nothing!
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Give him chops for being willing to look, see, and change his mind. Learning can only take place with a HUMILITY mentality – the ability to recognize and admit that what you knew, and perhaps believed with all your heart, was wrong.
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My Tree in Israel just sent out a new recipe. Again, best olive oil ever – and while, in full disclosure, I am friends with one of the founders, I receive no compensation for plugging them.
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Pick of the post:
You must – MUST – grasp by the core of your soul that the Globalists intend this. TINVOWOOT.
Trump’s total number of votes in PA – a process that, by definition, should only go UP as votes are tallied and reported, goes down by 19,958. The Potato’s total goes up by… drum roll please… 19,958.
And yet, in line with so many of the above images about the thickness of the other side, when you point that out there’s a dismissal of “oh, that’s a glitch”. Yeah, a glitch that happened multiple times in multiple states. And was that glitch ever undone? Should be easy enough to do. Right? Right?
And we’re totes gonna vote them out for real in 2024. What a joke. Is there anyone with three functioning brain cells that talk with each other that actually believes this?
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Monday Musical Memory:
Kodo – “O-Daiko” – HD (japanese drummers – Taiko – tambours géants Japon)
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Palate Cleansers:
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Last year, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) announced a new pistol brace rule. The idea was to turn millions of Americans into felons overnight while creating a trap. Even if you tried registering your “short-barreled rifle,” you’d only be telling them where to arrest you.
Filing requires you to provide the ATF with your name, address, and all sorts of stuff, including fingerprints.
Any request that goes unapproved for 88 days is automatically declined. At that point, the ATF’s default response is to engage in an enforcement action against you, and you’ve sent them all the information they need to find you, arrest you, and confiscate your property, because you tried to comply with their rule.
The violation is a felony; up to ten years in prison and 250,000 dollars in fines. And this is the ATF, so hide your dog (you can’t hide the gun you already told them you have).
Hi, my name is Bill. I have an unregistered firearm that you can confiscate at this address. Please don’t shoot my dog.
I asked if New Hampshire would use HB1178 to protect us from this overreach – should it survive the likelihood of a lawsuit? HB1178 prohibits “the state from enforcing any federal statute, regulation, or Presidential Executive Order that restricts or regulates the right of the people to keep and bear arms.” It has some holes that need patching, but as written, the State could stand up for law-abiding gun owners or prevent action on any rule that does not exist in New Hampshire law.
If they wanted.
I’m sure Sununu’s donors and homers could expect some air cover, but we’ve been more honest – see also unkind – when the Gubbnuhhas have been less than an ideal advocate for liberty. The odds we’d get equal protection are thin, unlike states like Montana, which was unequivocal. It wasn’t going to let the Feds enforce that in their State.
But it looks like the Fifth Circuit may have saved Sununu and Formella from having to lift a finger in defense of Granite Staters who disagree with them on other issues.
The court ruled 2-1 that the ATF targeted stabilizing braces without giving the public the chance to weigh in on the regulation. …
Judge Jerry Smith noted that the ATF did provide a public comment period on the proposed rule in 2021, but that the final regulation was so different from the proposal that it amounted to “a rug-pull on the public.”
Judge Don Willett agreed and added that the rule might violate Americans’ Second Amendment right to bear arms.
The Fifth Ruling only covers the Eastern District of Louisiana • Middle District of Louisiana • Western District of Louisiana • Northern District of Mississippi • Southern District of Mississippi • Eastern District of Texas • Northern District of Texas • Southern District of Texas • Western District of Texas, but it’s a Federal Court so there’s reason to pause action anywhere else.
There are also other lawsuits pending, so enforcement of the final version of the rule seems unlikely, while the process of letting government employees (judges) decide if other government employees (the ATF) stomped on rights that exist in the absence of both.
But it’s a step in the right direction and should please the animal rights folks. If ATF isn’t engaged in additional actions against law-abiding citizens, fewer household pets are likely to get wounded or killed by government agents.
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The New Hampshire Liberty Alliance (the “NHLA”), founded in 2003, is a non-partisan coalition working to increase individual freedom in New Hampshire, by monitoring bills in the legislative sessions and encouraging private charity, a civil society, and citizen involvement.
The NHLA reviews liberty-sensitive bills in each legislative session. Bills are evaluated based on their effects on civil liberties, personal responsibility, property rights, accountability, constitutionality, affordability, regulation, fiscal impact, and taxation. From this evaluation process, it publishes a weekly handout called The Gold Standard, distributed to members of the House of Representatives and Senate prior to their votes, to try to give them an understanding of whether a given bill is pro- or anti-liberty.
The Gold Standard reports then form the foundation for the NHLA’s annual Liberty Rating, a report card by which Representatives and Senators are “scored.” The Liberty Rating is based on pro-liberty and anti-liberty votes (typically via roll call votes) and their impact on the State of New Hampshire. Pro-liberty votes protect individual freedom of choice and personal responsibility, recognize the superiority of freedom over coercion, respect the citizen’s right to self-government, promote good government, and recognize the value of voluntary economic decisions. Anti-liberty votes replace self-governance with interventionist ownership, assume agencies backed by force are superior to voluntary choices backed by personal accountability, and assume a better economy can be designed by a central authority that compels communities to pay for policies people may not willingly support.
The voting scores and grades for the 2023 legislative session were announced at the NHLA annual Liberty Dinner held recently. And the numerical voting scores and grades for every State Representative and State Senator appear on the NHLA website. Grades range from A+ to CT (constitutional threat).
No Senators, but 103 Representatives, were rated CT. A “CT” grade is described as “considered unfaithful to their oath to uphold the New Hampshire Constitution and the principles of liberty.”
The following are the numerical voting scores and grades for the State. First are the NH State Representatives from Belknap County, the notional home of the ‘Grok:
[An “Incomplete” grade overrides a letter grade if 50% or more of scored votes were missed due to absenteeism, incomplete term or otherwise missing roll call votes.]
And the following is the listing of scores of the State Senators covering Belknap County:
Note that the highest-rated State Senator in the entire state was Keith Murphy, with a score of 69.0 and a grade of B-.
See Related:
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Every year, thousands of young adults and many mid-career professionals decide to become licensed nurses. Why do they do it? Besides the fact that there always seems to be a shortage of qualified workers in the nursing field, the pay is excellent, and new entrants to the discipline can choose the place where they wish to pursue their careers. Benefits for new hires are also among the best for graduates in any area of expertise. What are some of the ways that can help a future nurse speed up the process of becoming qualified and gaining enough experience to land a prime position?
Fortunately, there are many practical tips that make life a bit easier for anyone who chooses the profession. Some of the best ones include being proactive by volunteering at a local hospital to get a feel for the job, researching the top schools, applying for college loans to cover tuition and related costs of a four-year degree, joining online forums, and exploring the various career paths within the job category. Consider the following suggestions if you plan to build a career as a nurse.
Do Hospital Volunteer Work ASAPThe summer between high school and college is a great time to inquire about volunteer hospital work in your hometown. Many collegiate admission offices even suggest doing such work to gain insight into the way healthcare establishments operate. The requirements are usually quite simple. If you are a high school graduate, over the age of 18, and are enrolled in a four-year nurse training program at an accredited school, you can sign up to spend between 10 and 40 hours per week performing all sorts of hospital chores. Expect to do a little bit of everything, from registering incoming patients to helping with customer service inquiries over the phone or online.
Use Loans to Pay For CollegePaying for schooling is one of the two biggest hurdles to entering any profession. For future medical professionals, the most efficient tactic for dealing with the financial side of education is to get a student loan. Today’s lenders offer reasonable terms, fair interest rates, and other conditions that working people can live with. Taking out a loan to cover books, lab fees, tuition, and transportation is also the most frequent way of paying for a nurse’s four-year course of study at a college or university.
Additionally, it’s easy to apply online and get all the information about rates, terms, and repayment periods within a short period. On the academic side, earning good grades is a challenge for everyone in a collegiate program that leads to licensing. However, for students who feel they need to repeat a course or get extra tutoring help, there are multiple opportunities to do so. The great majority of students graduate within four years unless they’re attending special five-year programs that offer special credentials at the end of the coursework.
Research Your Favorite Schools & ProgramsDon’t omit the research phase of your preparation. It should include several hours of checking out the pros and cons of at least five college programs to which you might apply for admission. Everyone has a short list, so create yours and then get busy comparing reviews, expenses, faculty ratings, daily student life, and other factors that play a part in your final decision about where you’ll hang your academic hat as a nurse in training.
Join a Reputable ForumThere are hundreds of nursing-related chat and discussion forums you can join. Some are much better than others, so take your time finding a room that is moderated by a licensed medical professional, does not charge a membership fee, includes many participants, and features educational discussions about subjects that interest you. Note that some chat forums focus on how to get admitted to a collegiate program, while others are geared to assist students who are already in school. Join several rooms to get an idea of how the daily discussion goes. Don’t spend more than about 15 minutes at a time in a session. After about a week of lurking and minimally joining in a few conversations, select one that suits your needs and that you can attend several times per week.
Deal With Legal TroublesNo matter your age, it’s imperative to deal with any legal issues that stand between you and a nurse’s license. The situation is typically not a problem for young adults. But those in their 20s and 30s who choose to enter a nurse training college program can have one or more marks on their legal record. Ask a lawyer if you could get any misdemeanors expunged from your record, especially if they happened before you turned 18. Be prepared to show documentation that you attended diversion programs for any impaired driving citations. Take your lawyer’s advice about how to handle violations other than driving and low-level substance possession matters.
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Have you heard of “Boy Toy”? It’s a book Dover School Library retains on its shelf. The plot of Boy Toy is centered around the sexual abuse of a boy by his female teacher. Not only is the story filth but page upon page is laced with profanity.
Imagine content and words only fit to be written on the bottom of a toilet seat targeting these children’s minds. Such are the books recommended by UNESCO/UN, which influence government schools.
The path that our public school UNESCO/UN curriculums since WWII have traveled reminds me of the allegory of throwing a frog in lukewarm water so he won’t jump out before you boil him alive. Our youth have suffered this increasing heat of fatal indoctrination that is stealing many of our children’s minds while simultaneously striving to take away parental control. The goal is for the state to take sole possession of your children. These recommended books in the Dover scandal, along with many other thought our state and nation indicate the temperature in the boiling.
Teachers must follow the curriculum or lose their jobs. But at some point, the moral responsibility to protect children needs to supersede. I can smell the “moral pollution” the Dover school is propagating to minors all way here in Merrimack. All my life, I have tried to live up to the moral: “ If you see something wrong and you don’t oppose it, then you become part of it.” If Dr. Harbron and School Board members are sitting on the fence, ignoring such garbage, they would certainly do well to follow this moral.
Too many parents still don’t realize their children are in hot water. Google the 4 part series by Duke Pesta called The “SOCIALIST DESTRUCTION OF EDUCATION.” Seriously, consider getting your children out of public schools!
I recommend Dr. Pesta’s Freedom Project Academy.
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Elected officials in Vermont at both the state and federal levels will not have to take the stand and explain their part in a years-long multi-million-dollar Ponzi scheme to defraud foreign investors. The state has settled out of court.
The Vermont state government is trying to sweep its EB-5 Ponzi-like scheme under the rug.
Just days before the state was devastated by continuous rainstorms, we were informed that the civil lawsuit against the state by eight EB-5 investors had been settled “out of court.” The storm’s statewide destruction moved the settlement entirely off the radar screen, possibly, forever.
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Several of Vermont’s most senior political members — some now retired, and some senior state officials — may rest easy. They will not be called to testify about what would cause the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services to close down a state agency.
Then Governor Peter Shumlin and Vermont’s members of Congress all have ties to a development plan in Newport, Vermont, that used the government’s EB-5 program to swindle millions for foreign investors. But it wasn’t just a cash-for-green cards scheme. Vast sums of public money were redirected in the name of the swindle. The Newport Resort would need access, and crafty pols used theirs to spend your money on infrastructure.
If you missed it, back in early 2016, we reported on the funneling of millions of dollars, laundered through the Feds, to “projects” in Newport, Vermont.
From 2014 through 2015, over 17 million dollars was awarded by the FAA and DOT to remodel the airport serving the tiny town and the 4600 residents. It caught our attention (see Les Otten and the Balsams Boondoggle), introducing us to Bill Stenger and Ariel Quiros. ..
Senators Sanders (I) and Leahy (D), and Congressman Welch [sold it as] Expansions “that will bring people for business, tourist and recreation opportunities throughout the region.”
They were very excited to announce all those funds secured for the runway and then a taxiway expansion(s) to this local airfield.
Leahy also personally complained to a Senate Committee about delays with the EB-5 program (being used to support the Ponzi scheme).
All while the project developers were giving campaign donations to these political allies.
Newport, Vermont resident Bill Stenger has his fingers in all these pies, and like any good “developer” has invested his fair share of dollars on the local crop of politicians. He gave $4000.00 to the campaign of the current governor, Peter Shumlin, and his resort project, Jay Peak, shows a $2000.00 donation to Shumlin in 2012.
He gave Patrick Leahy $4800.00 dollars in 2010
Peter Welch got $1000.00 dollars in 2014.
Ariel Quiros gave $2000.00 directly to Shumlin, $14,000.00 to the VT Democrat Party, and another $12,000.00 to the Vermont State Democrat Federal Campaign Committee- which funnels donations to support the campaigns of Vermont’s…Senators and Congresspersons.
And Q Burke Mountain Resort gave Shumlin $2K in 2014.
And according to this report, the same Jay Peak developers have donated a total of least 71,900.00 dollars to Vermont Democrats since 2011.
It looks like the Vermont Democrat party, the governor, a congressman, and two Democrat US senators were getting “paid” to support the schemes, but none of them will have to testify or explain what they knew and when they knew it.
In the end, over 800 foreign investors were swindled. An out-of-court settlement returns over 16 million to them, and while the summation of the civil suit hints at releasing close to 40,000 pages of documents related to the Ponzi scheme, does anyone expect to see proof of complicity between Vermont Democrats, corrupt developers, and the deliberate fraud perpetrated on the investors and US taxpayers?
I’m not holding my breath.
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The day after America celebrated its independence and its founding principles of self-governance and liberty, across the pond, Britain paid tribute to its values of collectivism and statism by commemorating the seventy-fifth anniversary of the National Health Service (NHS).
Children’s choirs sang “Happy Birthday” at a thanksgiving church service celebrating the NHS at Westminster Abbey. In attendance were the prime minister and the opposition leader, among others. The notion that the NHS is the closest thing the United Kingdom has to a state religion has never been truer.
However, behind the pomp and pageantry, the NHS is a god that has failed. The reality is that the NHS should be one of the United Kingdom’s biggest shames, as it constantly lets down both patients and staff while placing a substantial burden on the taxpayer.
The number of people waiting for treatment in England has reached unprecedented levels, with a backlog of 7.4 million—about one in eight of the population. Alarmingly, over 371,000 people have been waiting for over a year to receive treatment. The UK has significantly fewer hospital beds, doctors, nurses, CT scanners, and MRI units than the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development average. In addition, the UK has the second-highest rate of treatable deaths in Western Europe. How can anyone believe this system deserves to be eulogized?
Yet the NHS worshippers can’t admit that the system is failing as they hang on to the lie that the NHS is an example of socialism working. Instead, they turn to conspiracies, claiming the NHS is failing because the Tories are purposefully underfunding it to push privatization as a viable alternative. This is far from the truth: NHS funding is at record-high levels, above the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development average.
The argument that the Tories are trying to privatize the NHS has been pushed by mainstream news outlets for over four decades, from the Times in 1980 to the Byline Times in 2023, who claim that this is all a move to transition to a US-style system.
Nevertheless, the truth remains that when compared to not only the United States but also the rest of Europe, the UK continues to exhibit a significant level of statism in its healthcare system. As Dr. Kristian Niemietz, head of political economy of the Institute of Economic Affairs, points out,
After more than four decades of moral panic about secret privatisation plans, the UK still has an unusually state-centred healthcare system. Even if we include general practitioners, dentists, pharmacists and optometrists, spending on non-NHS providers still only accounts for about a quarter of the NHS budget. Spending on private providers (i.e., companies such as Bupa) in the way most people probably understand it accounts for less than one-tenth of the budget, a figure that does not show a rising trend. Private hospitals only account for one in ten hospital beds in the UK, compared to three out of ten in Austria, four out of ten in France, six out of ten in Germany, seven out of ten in Belgium and ten out of ten in the Netherlands.
Yet despite the facts, NHS fanatics would rather blame the issue on privatization boogeymen than address the point that the socialized centralized system has little accountability, cannot efficiently allocate resources, and provides patients with very little choice or freedom.
The reason why these NHS fanatics are fine with ignoring the facts is because they see the NHS as more important than human life and prioritize their dogma over reality. We could see this during the pandemic, when “protecting our NHS” was prioritized and the whole country clapped outside their houses every Thursday during the lockdown.
Meanwhile, very little coverage is given to the fact that the lockdown effects killed more people than covid, especially due to delayed treatments from the accumulated backlog. Instead of considering that the NHS’s inability to deal with the healthcare needs of Britain is a flaw in the system, NHS fanatics turn a blind eye.
NHS supporters are putting their fingers in their ears and are causing unnecessary suffering and costing people their lives. What does it matter that healthcare is “free at the point of use” when many are denied care altogether due to the waiting lists? While patients are quick to thank the NHS whenever healthcare goes right, they don’t apply the same logic to its countless failures. Those who dogmatically defend the NHS should try explaining things to the elderly person waiting for a delayed ambulance or the cancer patient waiting for delayed treatment.
Is it worth having worse healthcare outcomes in comparison to more market-based European countries to protect “our” NHS? Are they protecting people needing care or are they protecting the myths of socialism? The case seems to be the latter.
Jess Gill | Mises Wire
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The natural (biological!) physical advantages men have over women, even mediocre C-team men like Will Thomas, are beginning to prove troublesome. For example, swimming’s World Governing body kicked Thomas out of women’s events last year.
In a seismic move for Olympic sport which will mean that American swimmer Lia Thomas can no longer compete in elite races, swimming’s rulemakers announced that transgender women must now establish that they “have not experienced any part of male puberty.”
Fina, world swimming’s governing body, also announced plans to establish a new “open” category of competition to include transgender women that, according to president Husain Al-Musallam, would involve “some of our biggest events.”
Post-pubescent males must compete as men or in the new melting pot category.
British Cycling had to give men the boot from women’s competition until they’d found a diplomatic way to explain why men can’t just decide they are women and win all their competitions. And it looks like Fina has found the out they were looking for – even the British government is beginning to see the light.
“This is the right and sensible decision to take,” said Nadine Dorries, the Culture Secretary. “Fairness must always take precedent over inclusion and should be unequivocal. Also important that trans women are able to compete in own class, this is the solution.” …
Al-Musallam said swimming’s new policy was “based on real science” and there is confidence it will prove robust against any legal challenge in being “necessary and proportionate to achieve a legitimate” objective. “Our athletes must come first,” he said. “Of course, I understand why transgender athletes would like to compete in a category of their choice. However, I have an obligation to every single one of our athletes.
“Equality is also a key principle for us. This is why we are faced with such a delicate balancing act. We have to protect competitive fairness, and also the past records and achievements.”
Real science!
Competitive fairness.
The nerve of these people. And now British Rowing has jumped into the queue.
Transgender women will not be allowed to compete in the women’s category of British Rowing events, the sport’s UK governing body has announced ahead of a change in policy due to come in later this year.
Only athletes “assigned female at birth” will be allowed to compete in the women’s category in competitions under its jurisdiction, or be selected to represent Great Britain or England at international events, British Rowing said in a media release published Thursday.
But will they ever kick intact men posing as women out of women’s locker rooms?
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Many Americans today are willing to buy what they are told. That is the lesson of covid. We bought what the government was selling, uncritically so. The American press, from the perspective of their value is their reporting of facts without bias, is dead.
The publication of news that is done has become propaganda. What we are seeing is manipulation of the news cycle for political advantage. And we are eating it up with a spoon. Our ability as citizens to view events with a critical eye appears to be gone or at best greatly diminished.
The current American regime is the most tyrannical, least constitutionally loyal in the nation’s history. Each time there is building momentum in the Biden corruption investigation there is a legal-media intervention. Here are some examples from the recent breaking bad story timeline.
1. On March 17th Hunter Biden admitted the laptop is his. The significance being the laptop’s content, while disgusting, is also valid evidence of his “business” dealings.
a. On March 18th Trump announced he was going to be indicted.
2. On June 8th the FBI FB 1023 documents came out showing $5 million for Hunter and $5 million for the big guy.
a. June 9th the Trump Mar-a-Lago indictment.
3. On July 31st we got Devon Archer’s testimony.
a. August 1st was the Trump January 6th indictment.
The point here is to illustrate the coincidence of coordination of breaking bad political news for the regime with the immediate follow-up of legal bad news for Trump. The appearance is a repetition of coordination between the Biden DoJ actions and the receipt and publication of bad political news for the regime. The timing of the distractions raises questions. Could this regime be more destructive of our republic?
Something we are seeing is egregious differences in prosecutorial zeal. We are seeing Trump believes, along with about half of the electorate, the 2020 election was flawed. The observations include but are not limited to:
· There were changes to election law allowed outside extra-constitutionally.
o Laws are supposed to be changed by the legislature, not by the courts.
· Zuckerbucks were a factor in polling place operation in some areas.
· There were bags of ballots showing up in some locations.
· There was the True the Vote data analysis.
· There were postal worker affidavits that were sat on until it was too late.
· There were the Twitter files.
· There was Facebook coordination, the violation of our first amendment rights through governmental coercion, and or coordination of social and news media outlet reporting.
One purpose of the prosecutions is to ensure discussing whether the election was fair, legal, and acceptable will no longer be tolerated. That is what these Trump indictments really are. They are intimidation, by the regime, of the opposition party. The message is; if the Democrats win, the election is fair… because the Democrats won. At best, this is the denial of Trump’s right to free speech, and by extension, that’s true of the rest of us.
We need to impeach the entire Department of Justice. Why did none of the indictments include any charge of incitement? If Trump is guilty of all this “stuff” and he caused January 6th, why is there no incitement charge? If the President broke the law, why did they not impeach him? The House did so twice without evidence… which resulted in a lot of wasted time and money, as well as two acquittals in the Senate.
From 2004 we went through the hanging chad fiasco. In 2016 it was Russia collusion. With respect to the election stealing claims, the shoe was on the other foot. The RNC has a video montage out about the complaints after those elections.
So now we cannot challenge covid, we cannot challenge climate, and we cannot challenge elections in which the Democrats win. We should stop and think about our direction of travel… We seem to be dangerously lost.
The Democrats need to own undermining confidence in our institutions. Our ruling elite seem to have decided; we, the electorates no longer have a say in anything that happens in this country. Think about it. The federal government determines how much water your faucet can put out, whether you can buy a gas stove and requires car companies to make only electric vehicles. The list is nearly endless… completely fascist and entirely Democrat driven.
They are increasingly bold in the use of every tool of government to suppress dissent. They are taxing us to increase their power to suppress us. That’s the definition of tyranny.
Read the Declaration of Independence… It contains a list of tyrannies of the King… It articulates what we tried as remedies and explains why independence was the required next step. How is today’s situation so much different?
The Trump indictments are problematic. Should there be a conviction, it will move us closer to dissolution of the nation by half. There is a large portion of the country which will not accept a conviction of Trump on these charges by the political opposition.
The American system of government only works if the losers of elections consent to be governed by those who won the election. The actions going on now may well result in a large portion of the country withdrawing their consent. That is what happened with the Civil War.
The problem with this election is there are now so many people who believe the electoral system is so corrupt and Democrats have so much partisan control of the voting system that we no longer trust the outcome. Many believe the courts stymied the submission of evidence of wrongdoing instead of airing the grievances and adjudicating the facts.
The American republic is rooted in federalism and it only works when we believe in and support the American values and principles. We are traveling quickly down a very dangerous road.
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We all want to protect the environment. But lefty pols are making reckless promises to “transition” entirely to renewables — wind and solar — within a few years. Never mind that Joe Public will get clobbered with huge electric bills, blackouts, unaffordable car prices, and layoffs in many industries. Getting to green nirvana on the Left’s timetable will be hell for ordinary people.
When politicians go green, vowing zero carbon, the public should see red.
Some 10 million New Yorkers who rely on Con Edison for their electricity were warned last week that their electric bills are going up 9% next month and could double by 2025. A $70 bill will surge to over $140. Ouch. That could keep you from turning on your air conditioner or clothes dryer. (RELATED: FRANK LASEE: The Climate Hucksters Are Saying The Quiet Part Out Loud — They Want Fewer People)
You can thank the state’s Democrats, including former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Gov. Kathy Hochul, who are pledging to make Con Ed 100% carbon-free and nuclear-free as well. The ruinously expensive transition has to be paid for by Con Ed’s consumers. That’s where much of the $11 billion in rate hike money is going.
Worse, expect more rate increases and blackouts ahead because, in New York, wind and solar will fail to produce enough power to meet the public’s needs, according to energy expert Daniel Turner of nonprofit Power the Future. When supply falls short of demand, prices rise.
Energy titan Harold Hamm explains in his eye-opening must-read book “Game Changer,” “I’m not against renewables. I am against dismantling the current system for another system that doesn’t exist yet.” Hamm, founder and chairman of petroleum company Continental Resources, explains that “net zero” has become one of the Left’s favorite mantras. But “it has zero chance of working.”
The costly mistake New York is making is being repeated in other states. The North American Electric Reliability Corporation, a government-certified standard-setting group, cautions that around the country, fossil fuels are being removed from electric grids too fast to meet electrical needs.
The Electric Power Research Institute, an industry group, reports that technology does not yet exist to produce an adequate, dependable supply of electricity without carbon.
Biden’s climate ambassador John Kerry is being pilloried by the Left for admitting that “50% of the reductions we have to make to get to net-zero … are going to come from technologies that we don’t yet have.”
Politicians cavalierly push for net-zero, ignoring these facts.
The Pew Research Center finds that two-thirds of Americans want a mix of energy sources, while fewer than one-third think “getting the U.S. to net zero carbon emissions as quickly as possible” is important.
Like New York Dems, President Joe Biden is ignoring the commonsense majority. He vows to end fossil fuel production and use. Last week, Biden’s Department of Transportation floated radically increased fuel mileage standards, doubling them in less than a decade. DOT Secretary Pete Buttigieg boasted new standards “means more money in Americans’ pockets” and more energy security for the entire nation. Wrong on both counts.
These extreme mileage standards will force automakers to switch to manufacturing primarily electric vehicles, depriving customers of choice and forcing cash-strapped buyers to settle for a clunker instead of a new car.
Electric vehicles cost about $53,000.
Biden’s romance with electric vehicles is a gift to China. It controls 85% of the metals needed to make EV batteries, according to Hamm. (RELATED: DAVID BLACKMON: Biden’s EV Push Could Be The Death Of American Automakers)
China is also flooding Europe with cheap EVs, and they could capture 20% of the European EV market within the next few years. Hamm predicts the U.S. is next. No wonder the United Auto Workers are stalling endorsing Biden.
Citing heat waves and wildfires, New York Times alarmists warn against supporting a Republican for president in 2024. The Times claims Republican contenders reject “the scientific consensus” that the United States “must transition rapidly to renewable energy in order to limit the most catastrophic impacts.”
Sorry. There is no scientific consensus on moving to net zero. Industry experts show it would cause severe, self-inflicted hardships.
Next time you vote, size up each candidate’s energy IQ. Avoid the ideologues who don’t give a damn whether you can pay your electric bill, afford a new car or even keep your job. The environment can be protected without destroying America’s standard of living.
| Daily Caller News Service
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The Babylon Bee is a popular parody website where, occasionally, its humor becomes a reality. If you see a headline from The Bee, you have to remind yourself that it is based on humor, but in the last few years of Biden’s America, the Bee tracks closer to reality than most would like. The Biden Administration has no clue or perception of the truth. They feel they can say or do whatever they want, the media will support them, and Americans will buy their narrative. So far, the Biden approach has worked, but it appears the House of Cards is crashing in on the Biden Cartel.
Just last week, in two separate events, Joe Biden and his Vice President, Kamala Harris, spoke about Bidenomics and the state of the economy. Biden was bragging about the success of his policies bringing about historic recovery. At the same time, Harris told how most Americans are a $400 expense away from bankruptcy. Harris’ assessment does not sound like a rosy economic recovery. This disparity makes you wonder if these two ever speak with each other.
Another more serious faux pas occurred this week and involved the Secretary of State Antony Blinken. This is not the first time Blinken had thrown a curve ball when a fastball was called for. The subject involved is the jailing by Vladimir Putin of his primary political opponent.
It was revealed, in a typical Friday news dump, that Russia has just announced that government opposition leader Alexey Navalny was convicted on charges of “promoting extremism.” The sentencing makes it official, and he will serve an extra 19 years in prison in addition to the nine years he’s already serving for so-called parole violations, fraud, and contempt of court. It’s Biden-esque.
The reaction on X, the new Twitter format, by Antony Blinken, was swift and showed an ignorance of the unethical actions of his Boss, Joe Biden, who is employing the same tactics as Putin against Donald Trump. Blinken took to X and posted a condemnation of Putin’s actions against Navalny.
Blinken Tweeted on X:
“The United States strongly condemns Russia’s conviction of opposition leader Aleksey Navalny on politically motivated charges. The Kremlin cannot silence the truth. Navalny should be released.”
You will not find any such tweet by Blinken condemning Biden for the same action as Putin against Trump. This omission shows how tone-deaf Blinken is or how hypocritical Blinken and the rest of Biden’s Administration can be. It is bizarre and plays on the fact that half of the American population is ignorant of the reality of the news cycle and relies on the gaslighting they are fed from the White House.
We have discussed ad nauseam the lack of credibility of the Biden White House, and they continue to build on their book of lies. It is a sad statement of today’s political climate, but it can only be done with the support and collaboration of the mainstream media. If Joe Biden has shown the affinity to do one thing well, it is his use of the volatile atmosphere that a diametrically aligned country will present. The great unifier has actually proven to be the greatest divider.
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The government got one right on light bulbs. Therefore the government is right/truthful as a rule, and conspiracy theorists are wrong about most things, including Ivermectin.
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See Nuremberg 2 on protocols which included hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin.
Nuremberg 2 and the related US law explain the reason for the national government’s counterproductive propaganda against these two – the COVID “vaccine” experiment (EUA) was illegal with alternatives available.
Please also consider Nuremberg 1, 7, and 10, in relation to further national government COVID-response: abuse.
See attached matrix for NH’s appalling COVID “vaccine” results:
1) See also this on group-insurance results, from which one can infer the COVID danger was exaggerated and the COVID “vaccines” were dangerous to our normally healthiest demographic (employed people).
2) And this on CDC and FDA criminality.
3) And this on widespread hospital medical malpractice, coincidence with national government perverse incentives (in Medicare and Medicaid):
In Cheshire County, eight people died with COVID in 2020, fewer than one per month (10 months). COVID “vaccines” began in NH December 14, 2020. During 2021 and 2022, 123 died with COVID in Cheshire County, more than five per month. At Keene Center (roughly 85 residents), 10 died of COVID in the month following their December 30 “vaccine” clinic (vs eight in 10 months, 70,000+ residents).
Recently exposed (FOIL) Pfizer data sent to FDA showed that the third most frequent adverse event of the “vaccines” was COVID itself. See the Daily Clout for continuing other details in this exposure.
The three articles cited above reflect what was known in late 2021.
How long will you two (Dan and Sean and the Keene Sentinel) continue to be willfully blind?
Edited from an Email to Dan and Sean at WKBK Radio
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Forget the foreplay; Mike Pence is a weasel. His VP staff was littered with left-wing insiders who deliberately undermined the Presidency of Donald Trump so that they could have themselves a President Mike Pence. It seems unlikely Pence knew nothing about it.
Yes, Tucker Carlson exposed him, but since then, the evidence of his subterfuge, whether as principle or patsy, continues accumulating.
The most recent revelation is that Pence knew he could decertify the sketchy election and send the electors back to the states. But if he had done that, the US House would have re-elected Donald Trump via the 12th Amendment. The Dems didn’t want that, nor did the Neocon Never-Trump Establishment. They’d been working for four years to unseat the man and replace him with Pence.
Where’s the proof? Congress amended the Electoral College Act so the VP could no longer do what Pence should have done. There’s no reason to amend it unless Pence had the authority, which he did. He also had an obligation, but it was not the people or the Constitution. It was to the Donor class and Machine Politicians. That’s why he should not be President, but since you asked, Emerald Robinson has “receipts.”
“Do you know Olivia Troye? Do you know Jennifer Williams? Do you know Katherine Seaman and Josh Pitcock?”
Or you can go back to the Tucker Carlson beating; either way – it is clear Mike Pence, who had no backbone s governor, or as VP, would not be much different as a President at a time when we need someone who will push back on the political machine hell-bent on robbing us of our rights and liberties by any means of which they can conceive.
Sorry, one more.
In the days leading up to J6, I was informed by trusted sources that Pence wasn’t going to contest the rigged electoral college results. I couldn’t believe it. How could he backstab 74 million people & allow fraud to overthrow our executive branch?
But then I was told why…
He cut a deal with the Koch fundraising network to be their lead horse in 2024 if he backstabbed Trump and the MAGA movement in 2020.
To those that say he didn’t have the power to contest fraudulent ballots and allow state legislatures to conduct further review, then why did they change the Electoral College Act in 2022 to explicitly state the VP could no longer facilitate that exact process?
Because Pence could and he knew it, but he took the blood money anyway.
I’m a big fan of AFP, but they’ve been sending many mailers, making the case that Trump can’t win. AFP National gets a lot of money (or used to) from Koch. Given what we know, a Koch/Donor class backroom deal with Pence isn’t out of the realm of possibility.
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The Climate Cult, infused with many millions to promote climate change stories as if they were unbiased, non-partisan political drivel, has lost its collectivist mind over July being hot. It’s been hotter, and that wasn’t your fault either.
Related: NASA: Water Vapor from Massive 2022 Underwater Eruption Could Warm Earth’s Surface for Years
Tony Heller has a clip from The Morning Post, May 8, 1912, about the prevalence of icebergs in the Atlantic. I also have a subscription to Newspapers.com, so I followed his link to check it out. Here’s the headline and subheading.
And here is an image of the full-page story.
If we zoom in on the reporting, we see that a few weeks earlier, the Titanic struck one of those icebergs and sank into infamy.
They also report that Greenland’s temperatures had been recorded at 94° degrees the previous summer.
The warm Greenland Summer caused the icebergs to multiply into one of which the Titanic collided. It was 94 degrees in Western Greenland in the summer of 1911, so let’s hop into a different way back machine and look at where atmospheric CO2 was in 1911 – 1912, given that it is the foundation of the climate cult’s mythology.
Not much to see except that it was a lot lower than it is today. While the media is reporting Global Boiling, the temperature across Greenland this week are milder than usual, running around 6-12 deg Celcius in the south. That’s 42° to 53° degrees Fahrenheit.
Not 94°.
There is an endless stream of hyperbolic headlines in the Machine Media about the temperatures in Greenland. None of them that I saw mentioned warming in 1911, which was nearly double that reported today.
It puts a hitch in their global warming step.
Most of the hottest days, months, and years on record were from that era before Global Warming was invented as a political ploy to undermine free-market capitalism.
Two more points we need to revisit. First, the actual drought is CO2.
And Second, the current percentage of CO2 and man-made co2 in our atmosphere.
Oh, and it was 94 degrees in Greenland in 1911, and CO2 was less than 300 ppmv. Today can’t even begin to compete with that.
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America has always prided itself as a country of laws based on our Constitution and enforced equally regardless of the individual. That fundamental principle separates us from a Banana Republic like Cuba or Venezuela.
President Joe Biden has found a way to obliterate that separation, and his effort to destroy this great country has brought us closer to being a Banana Republic. Joe’s continued crusade to weaponize the Department of Justice and the FBI against his political foes has made us one of the greatest Banana Republics. The law is no longer blind but twisted to suit the needs of Biden and his administration.
We got a glimpse of the power of a corrupt government and DOJ when Biden unleashed that power on parents who disagreed with his Department of Education and the Teacher’s Union. We saw the power when the FBI implanted agents into Catholic Churches to uncover radical Catholics who may threaten the country. We saw the power when the President’s son and the Biden family were protected by the DOJ while concocting bogus laws to indict former President Donald Trump three times since Trump announced his re-election campaign. Under the control of the soon to be impeached Attorney General Merrick Garland, the DOJ has indicted Donald Trump three times on Federal criminal law violations. The three indictments, and the one modified, have been used to embarrass Donald Trump, force the former President to use $40 million on legal fees, and split his focus between mounting legal woes and his re-election campaign. The one thing that should concern Democrats is each time a new indictment comes down, Trump’s approval rating amongst Republican voters goes up and has drawn him even against Biden in the general election polls. The indictments have also been planned to mask the legal troubles of Hunter Biden and the mounting evidence of Joe Biden’s connection to his son’s extortion of money from foreign individuals and countries. The comparison between Joe Biden’s America and Banana Republics is in America, we typically let the election box be the means of electing our leaders. Under Joe Biden, he is threatening his political competition with jail time or at least a mountain of fake indictments that will break the financial backs of most people, but not Donald Trump. Maybe Trump speaks with a bit of tongue in cheek when he says he is one indictment away from securing the Presidency. Even if in jest, Biden should heed Trump’s words. Most legal pundits indicate how flimsy the current string of charges are. Most of the charges are antiquated and appear to be designed to confuse rather than convict. They are vague, nearly impossible to prove as many involve a defendant’s state of mind rather than actions. Jurors will be forced to delve into the mind of Donald Trump, and that is an untenable task. Americans who are aware of the Trump and Hunter Biden proceedings can see how differently the law and accountability are applied to both. It is enough to turn an average citizen am. Joe found the beanbag with no problem. Let’s see how he fares with a banana peelThe post America Has Slipped On A Banana Peel appeared first on Granite Grok.
Garnet Harper couldn’t get a doctor or hospital in Canada to perform a much-needed kidney transplant because he hadn’t received any vaccinations for COVID-19. He had viable donors, but Canadian Health Care policy prohibits transplants for the unvaccinated. He died at the age of thirty-five.
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In February 2022, Garnet was diagnosed with stage five kidney disease. Two of Garnet’s brothers offered to donate their kidneys, but the hospital refused to consider them as Garnet would not disclose his vaccination status.
Canada’s current public healthcare policy denies organ transplants to those who have not received at least two doses of the experimental COVID vaccine.
As a result, on May 22, 2023, 35-year-old Garnet died of a bleeding stroke during his sleep, leaving behind his wife and five children.
Someone in the Canadian Health Care system, knowing that Harper would soon shuffle off his mortal coil, must have contacted a local organ donation agency.
In May, Trillium Gift of Life Network (TGLN), the Ontario organ donation agency, called Meghan Harper to harvest her husband Garnet’s organs as he lay dying because the hospital refused to provide organ transplants to unvaccinated Canadians.
“They call you while you’re sitting next to your dying loved one and they ask you if they can have his organs,” Megan told independent journalist Monique Leal.
TGLN was unaware of the patients medical status. They didn’t know he was denied a transplant, or so the story goes. Whoever had denied him one, or some bureaucratic Canadian Health Care flunky, didn’t bother to inform the donation agency, the result of which is this rather curious set of circumstances.
Connor Harper, unvaccinated, age 35, a married father of five, is ineligible to receive a transplant, but his unvaccinated organs would be a great gift to someone else once he dies. The news has resulted in a nationwide call to Canadians to refuse to donate their organs.
Pastor Henry Hildebrandt had some questions about discrimination of this nature. What’s next, he asks, denying Christians? It sounds absurd, but during COVID, Christians were denied their right to assemble while BLM and Antifa were praised for gathering to burn down black neighborhoods.
Are you an organ donor in Canada? I believe it’s time to put that on hold until our government stops fatally discriminating against its citizens. My heart goes out to the family of the late Garnet Harper and to Sheila Lewis who is still struggling to get care. pic.twitter.com/yzJ14JUby0
— Pastor Henry Hildebrandt (@aylmerpastor) July 25, 2023
A general call to change your organ donor status might work. Cut short and already typically inadequate supply. But this is The People’s Republic of Canada. They’ve got an organ donor program already. It’s called Medical Assitance in Dying (MAiD). With a tweak of the rules and a wink and a nod from the government, a growing bureaucratic army of caregivers will sweep out across the countryside to convince the disadvantaged and mentally deficient (definitions that broaden based on political priority or need) to give up their lives for the good of the corrupt banana republic Canada.
That’s me being cynical. I’d like to think that we’re past all the nonsense, but governments do not give up on schemes that marshall control. And while ours was created to protect rights, even it has managed, in a few short centuries, to flip that experiment on its head, mostly by using its institutions to convince people it knows better.
The COVID response was proof it does not, but not everyone or enough of anyone is convinced. And in the Great White Horth, they are killing people over, and in Canada, as Ontario MPP Randy Hiller notes, it is “Only the tip of the iceberg … Our governments are and have been engaged in social murder. Unfortunately, many people believe recognizing these facts and speaking out is more dangerous than becoming the inevitable next victim.”
It’s not something that makes them uncomfortable, so they’ve no problem with more of it.
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In 1964, Leonard Read wrote a genealogy from the perspective of a pencil, demonstrating the vast, complicated web of the structure of production that is handled by the division of labor on free markets. The pencil explained that no one knows how to make a pencil because of the myriad production processes involved:
My family tree begins with what in fact is a tree, a cedar of straight grain that grows in Northern California and Oregon. Now contemplate all the saws and trucks and rope and the countless other gear used in harvesting and carting the cedar logs to the railroad siding. Think of all the persons and the numberless skills that went into their fabrication: the mining of ore, the making of steel and its refinement into saws, axes, motors; the growing of hemp and bringing it through all the stages to heavy and strong rope; the logging camps with their beds and mess halls, the cookery and the raising of all the foods. Why, untold thousands of persons had a hand in every cup of coffee the loggers drink!
The pencil then detailed the remaining work required for pencil production, which included making flat cars, rails, and railroad engines; shipping the logs; developing communication systems; supplying heat, light, and power; building a factory; forging mining tools; mining graphite; and shipping the materials to one place. Continuing, it described the supplies needed to paint the pencils and the process of painting, labeling, and adding brass tips; mining zinc and copper to make the brass; and fabricating the eraser.
While the division of labor required to fabricate a pencil is impressive, consider how many more steps are required to manufacture complicated things such as smartphones or computers. Yet each step requires one particular resource—energy.
When people discuss fossil fuels, they typically weigh the pros and cons of the electricity in their houses and the fuel in their cars. They usually do not consider what was required to build those houses and cars—much less the pencils they use to write. Fossil fuel advocate Alex Epstein writes in his book Fossil Future: Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas—Not Less about the machines needed to build houses:
Today’s unprecedented shelters are possible only because today’s shelter-building industry, like the food industry, employs a massive staff of fossil-fueled machine laborers that cost-effectively do incredible amounts of work for us.
These machine laborers include:
- excavation machines that enable one human to dig up and move massive amounts of earth to make room for the foundations of sturdy buildings;
- grading machines that enable one human being to easily flatten uneven, bumpy patches of land to make them suitable for large, level structures;
- lifting machines, such as cranes, that can lift enormous amounts of weight that, if they could ever be lifted before, took years of slave labor;
- the machines we call power tools, which enable human beings to combine their dexterity with large amounts of power for precision tasks such as hammering, fastening, and sawing;
- compacting machines that make the ground under buildings solid;
- cutting machines that clear trees to make way for human habitation;
- paving machines that build the amazing roads that interconnect our shelters;
- mining machines that extract all the raw materials involved in our amazing buildings, from iron and coal for steel, to aluminum, to copper, to sand; and
- high-heat machines used to transform mined materials into vital usable materials such as cement, steel, and plastics.
Without these completely unappreciated fossil-fueled machine laborers radically increasing humans’ productivity ability, high-quality shelter would be out of reach for the vast majority of people in what is today’s empowered world.
And that’s just the building of shelter.
A discussion of fossil fuels’ unique cost-effective benefits as they relate to house construction could easily stop there; however, if we also apply Read’s genealogy, it becomes clear that each one of the listed machines also relies on complex systems of machines and processes that require energy. In Read’s pencil analogy, he lists the hydroelectric power that runs the mill he discusses, but without the unique cost-effective energy source of fossil fuels, one could never reliably power every step of the process. This also applies to more complicated goods such as phones or computers. And as Epstein explained, the process of building the high-quality shelters that we take for granted today would be impossible without fossil fuels.
Speaking about the Austrian school of economics, Robert Murphy stated that “their capital theory and business-cycle theory are the best I have found.” The Austrian school’s capital theory is vital. While others ignore what is required for the structure of production, the Austrian school does not. Fossil fuels should be a priority in the world today—not because they are the most efficient at the level of the consumer good but because without fossil fuels the entire structure of production of the modern economy falls apart.
Connor Mortell | Mises Wire
Author: Connor Mortell
Connor Mortell received his BBA in finance from Texas Christian University and his MBA from Florida State University. Connor worked as a legislative aide in the Florida House of Representatives from 2019 to 2021 and then spent two years working as a teacher, initially teaching kindergarten and first grade, later teaching middle and high school. Connor was a 2023 summer fellow in residence at the Mises Institute and is currently a PhD student at Texas Tech University.
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I want to thank all those who came out and voted in the special primary election on August 1st. I realize how precious your time is, and I am deeply grateful that you chose to use your time to exercise your Constitutional right to vote.
I am honored and humbled that you chose me to be your candidate to represent you in the New Hampshire Statehouse. I want to thank Jessica Sternburg for running a hard and, most of all, a very professional race. She is a bright and rising star in the Republican party. I look forward to the great things she will do in the future. As Republicans, we gave you a choice of candidates to choose from, whereas, on the Democrat side, they chose their candidate for you.
I want to make one thing perfectly clear. I am running to be YOUR State Representative. My complete focus will be to represent the issues and principles that are near and dear to your heart in Concord. I am running to serve the people of Northwood and Nottingham first and foremost in the State House. I will make it my priority to be on the House floor to vote and to represent your voice for every bill being presented.
This is going to be a highly contested race, probably like none other in our States history. There will be a variety of individuals and organizations looking to engage with you. Be assured that no matter what you see – hear or receive by mail – I will be YOUR representative and will be only beholden to YOU! Our Issues – Values – and Principles will always be my main priority.
I am honored to have received your vote of confidence last Tuesday. I will make you proud of that vote and I look forward to winning the General Election on September 19th.
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