Five days ago, we reported on the untimely passing of Barry and Michelle Obama’s private chef. He allegedly drowned while paddle boarding off the coast of their sea-level mansion. The O’s press team initially reported that the power couple was absent, but that was a lie.

Related; Did The Obama’s “Clinton” Their Personal Chef?

The story has evolved, much like the tale of Nancy Pelosi’s husband and the alleged hammer-wielding intruder. The new account, which we can assume is also a story, is that they were on the island but not at the residence.

Somewhere, but not paddleboarding.

According to the Daily Mail, everyone is waiting on toxicology and other details from the autopsy to determine what factors may have played a role in the death: drugs, alcohol, a heart attack. I’m assuming that Tafari Campbell was fully vaccinated, but we can assume that any suggestion that he suffered from a vaccine related-injury will be hidden.

So, the Obamas were home, just not in the home, with binoculars, looking out over the water. This does not discount the unlikely but ever-amusing theory that Campbell was suicided (Clinton style) out of convenience to the political machine. Anyone close to power-people that dies suddenly will be considered at risk of knowing or hearing things that, were they to achieve escape velocity into the public domain, could be problematic.

And their deaths are always suicides or accidents.

A young, healthy, fit-looking married man with children, a dream job, and access to very influential people,  likely more than capable of managing a paddle board in ten feet of water, just drowned.

It’s suspicious; that’s all I’m saying.

 

 

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We know that Joe Biden cannot tell the truth, but the bigger problem may be not perceiving the truth. Most politicians will tell you what they think you want to hear, but Joe Biden doesn’t care what you want. He will do what he wants, and the hell with the consequences. He will twist the facts, create his narrative, and the media will repeat it so that half the country believes it as the bible. The rest of the country knows it is to use Biden’s words, malarkey. Joe promised he would not raise taxes on the middle class and grow the economy from the ground up and the middle out. His promises are pure recycled garbage, like his two plagiarized speeches that forced him from his first two runs at the White House.

Biden has hit the road with pale campaign events touting the successes of the economy because of Bidenomics. The facts do not back him up. Joe came to Auburn, Maine, on Friday to brag about his economy, even saying the radical MAGA Republicans must impeach him now that they cannot complain about the economy. Sorry, Joe, but that is not a joke. We must impeach you for a lifetime of corruption on the backs of hardworking Americans. The economy in Maine is horrible. Gas prices are rising toward the $4.00 mark. A quick trip to the grocery store used to set you back $75, but now you better bring a C Note. The only things growing in Maine are the number of roadside pot shops and the number of illegals sleeping in the shelters in Portland. Joe has nearly killed our Lobster industry, and the rising cost of living keeps the traffic down on Rte 95. Times are not good in Maine or the rest of America.

The Fed raised interest rates for the eleventh time this week. Mortgage rates under Trump were 3%. They are 7% under Biden. Higher is not better, Joe. A $300,000, 30 year mortgage at 3% is $1,200 monthly. That same mortgage today at 7% will cost you $1,996. Bidenomics will cost you $800 a month or almost $29,000 over the life of the loan. Those are facts, Joe.

Joe brags about inflation coming down to 4%. Inflation was at 1.2% the day he took the oath, and he drove it up to nearly 10% in his first year. That is nothing to brag about. At the same time Biden is bragging, Kamala Harris is telling us that most Americans are a $400 unexpected expense away from bankruptcy. These two people are our Executive branch, and they are completely opposite in their message. The facts are that inflation is coming down, but real prices today are 16% higher than in 2020. That is Bidenomics.

Maybe they are not labeled as taxes, but the buying power of Americans has shrunk by $10,000. The lower and middle classes feel inflation the most, so how can he claim that he is growing the economy from the bottom up? He cannot, but he does. Lie, repeat, lie again, and repeat. That is what Bidenomics is. Joe is now on vacation for ten days. That is good news for America. Hopefully, he does not cause us any harm for the next ten days.

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I have to admit, my Jettiness series has had a lot of jet-powered stuff but I have NEVER come across a jet-powered barbeque grill. Your simple, ordinary home barbeque, normally using briquettes or propane, is now using a jet engine?

Yep, the British madman Youtuber, Colin Furze, surprised me with this choice of something to tinker with just to have some fun:

 



 

Now, before becoming a blogger, I was starting to concentrate on being a foodie. Though I never got the level of being on Gordon Ramsey’s show for home cooks (“MasterChef”) or even being a line cook in a local eatery, I was having fun and trying new stuff. THIS, however, was never in my dreams to have as a tool.

And it does look a wee bit hard to control, and I think that the “sear” on the bangers and burgers is more than most would want (or Ramsey). But hey, why not?

 

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Students in Dover, NH, have access to over 110 library books that feed young imaginations interested in careers in drug use, sex work, and sexual assault involving a minor. They’ve also got some how-to fiction on self-mutilation, suicide, child molestation, rape, explicit sexual battery, and graphic violence.

To that, we can add tasty mind-expanding examples of gore, sodomy, BDSM, child sex trafficking, excessive drug and alcohol use, bestiality, necrophilia, and even cannibalism. Yum!

Also – no, we’re not done yet – divergent gender ideologies, alternate sexualities, more violence, more drug abuse, and more sex and nudity, including masturbation, oral sex, explicit sex, profanity/derogatory terms, and even … controversial social and religious commentary. Everything a growing mind needs … to become a perverted deviant moron with limited reading and writing skills.

Let’s just say these are not well-written tomes.

Parents wondering why their once seemingly normal child has suddenly developed mental health issues can look no further than the public schools, libraries, and their online access reading portals, after all, who needs a school system that teaches you academics or even useful or productive skills or a foundation to build them when taxpayer money can instead feed garbage to young minds soon to be terribly wasted.

It’s like having Dover Career Day, every day or any day, where young minds can seek “learning opportunities” that help them become domestic abusers, rapists, drug addicts, or sex workers.

Math, reading, history (even re-written), science – what nonsense. These are just a cover for the systemic perversion of future generations. The diminishment of any ability to achieve outside the walls erected for them by the educational and political elite, a bow softened by the temporary and increasingly unfulfilling pleasures available through alcohol abuse, drug use, and casual or abusive sex, all learned – very likely – before their minds can even comprehend it.

And why not! There are, after all, plenty of kids in the elite and private schools to run things. And someone’s kids need to fill the ranks of the worker and welfare classes, so Dover is here to do its part.

There are more than one hundred examples of how to get them there from here, but let us pick just a few to whet your soon-to-be ruined appetite.

Graphic language and subject matter warning. Note: some paragraph breaks indicate a pull quote from a new section of the same book, while others may just be for formatting purposes.

 

From the Book ‘Scars,’ by Cheryl Rainfield: This book contains violence involving self-mutilation, inexplicit sexual activities, and profanity.

Pg 41 I slash again and again, flesh opening up to expose little white bubbles of fat until dark blood wells up to cover them and spills over my arm in wide, curling arcs, thin and hot. I barely feel the pain- just air rushing into my lungs, the thoughts slowing down. …She’s the only thing standing between me and the black endlessness of despair. She’s the only thing keeping me from using my knife for permanent relief.

 

From Boy Toy, by Barry Lyga: She taught me how to make love, and she taught me how to fuck, and she taught me the difference. We ended up doing more of the latter than the former. …One time, in the panting aftermath of our afternoon session, she lay on the bed in unconscious imitation of that Playmate from Zik’s Playboy an eternity ago.

 

Beloved, by Tony Morrison: All in their twenties, minus women, fucking cows, dreaming of rape, thrashing on pallets, rubbing their thighs and waiting for the new girl. …She waited a year. And the Sweet Home men abused cows while they waited with her.

19 “After I left you, those boys came in there and took my milk. That’s what they came in there for. Held me down and took it. I told Mrs. Garner on em. She had that lump and couldn’t speak but her eyes rolled out tears. Them boys found out I told on em. School teacher made one open my back and when it closed it made a tree. It grows there still.” …”They used cowhide on you?” …”And they took my milk.” …”They beat you and you was pregnant?” …“And they took my milk!”

 

Haunted, by Chuck Palahnuik: A collection of short stories told by a group of individuals locked inside a facility together. This book contains aberrant sexual activities involving minors; explicit sexual battery; graphic violence including gore; cannibalism; profanity and derogatory terms; sexual nudity; abortion references; drug and alcohol use; self-harm including anorexia and self-mutilation; and alternate gender ideologies.

96 Percodans. OxyContins. Vicodins. Glass vials of crack and heroin. …I bring a bottle of red wine spiked with Vicodin and Prozac. …My version is all about little Kenny’s long slide from the spotlight to the autopsy table. How he lost his innocence to a long list of network executives in his campaign to become Danny. To keep the sponsors happy, he was farmed out as a sexual plaything.

He took drugs to stay thin. To delay the onset of puberty. To stay up all night, shooting scene after scene. No one, not even his friends and family, nobody knew the depths of his drug habit and perverted need for attention. Even after his career collapsed. Even becoming a D.V.M. was just to get access to good drugs and sex with small animals. The more wine Ken Wilcox drinks, the more he says his life didn’t start until Danny-Next-Door was canceled.

203 They all looked, the firing squad and the uncles and the officer, and there in the dirt was half a cock. Shooo-rook and the officer had cut off his own erection stuck down the throat of this dead woman. The zipper in the officer’s pants was still erupting with his seed, exploding with blood. The officer reached one hand to where his cock lay coated with dirt. His knees buckled.

Heroine, by Mindy McGinnis: https://tinyurl.com/wxpfan33 A teenage girl becomes addicted to oxycontin and heroine after sustaining a sports injury. This book contains drug abuse; alcohol use; profanity; and sexual commentary.

232 I Stop cold. Jadine is pulling needles out of her purse. They’re on a roll like lottery tickets, and sealed in paper like a Band-Aid. It looks sterile and proper, like we’re playing doctor or something. But this isn’t a hospital, and Jadine is no nurse. Josie has gone white, but she does what her sister says, mixing the Oxy, I already crushed with water, then filling a syringe. “Okay, so,” Jadine says, as she flicks the syringe. “This is actually really simple. Look at my arm.” She holds it out, thin and white, her veins easy to spot when she makes a fist. She tells us how to find a good vein, how to make sure it won’t roll, how to tell if you’re in it or not. “Who’s first?” she asks, needle in hand.

Josie and I look at each other, and Jadine laughs. “Look, kids, all the needle does is take out the middleman. The Oxy goes Straight into your bloodstream; you don’t have to wait for it to get absorbed.” It’s pure logic, not taking into account the wicked edge of the needle, the slant of the tip and the drop of Oxy-infused water glimmering there.  …

At least Jadine knows what she’s doing. I roll up my sleeve and do as she says, making a fist, then watching as she finds a vein. She shows us how to pull back on the syringe So we see the blood flowing into the water, proof we’ve hit a vein. I’m used to waiting for my Oxy, and I almost enjoy those ten minutes or so of anticipation, knowing that relief is on the way and all I have to do is relax and enjoy it. But then Jadine pushes the plunger and I get everything, all at once, pure bliss in a rush that almost lifts me right up off the ground.

Fuck waiting. One glance at my face and Josie is rolling up her own sleeve, though she doesn’t watch as her sister finds a vein and does the same for her,  using a new needle. She makes a small noise, something in between either pleasure or pain, and I don’t know if it’s because of the poke or what comes after. “Better?” Jadine asks, rubbing the inside of her sister’s arm almost tenderly.

“Better,” Josie agrees automatically, her voice soft and dreamy. “How ’bout it, Edes?” Jadine asks, but at some point, our host has dropped Off to sleep in her chair. Jadine gets to her feet, tearing Off a few more needles from the roll in her purse. “I’ll leave you a few, sis,” she says. “Thanks for the ear, and let me know when you’re ready to graduate.” “Graduate?” Josie looks up from the string of needles tossed across the table. “To heroin,” Jadine calls over her shoulder.

A Stolen Life, by Jaycee Dugard: This book contains explicit violence; gore; nudity; inexplicit sexual activities; and mild/infrequent profanity. This book contains aberrant sexual activities involving child molestation, rape, and references to beastiality; sexual nudity; violence; drug abuse; references to animal cruelty; and mild/infrequent profanity.

needs to release the “monkey on his back.” I can’t help but cry, but they are silent tears. He fucks me as hard as he can it seems like. He uses that word a lot. My head is being pushed in between the couch and the pullout bed. I feel like I can’t breathe. He is calling me a fucking whore and a cunt and other things. I want to be somewhere else, but I am here and I must not panic. It hurts more when I try to struggle, so I try not to get away from him, but it’s hard not to want to push away from his sweaty disgusting body. Everything will be okay I tell myself. He will be the nice person soon.

Sometimes when Phillip stays up for days and days and goes on a “run,” he talks about bringing Nancy in to “party with us.” I do not like the sound of that at all. How could I look at her the same way if I had to have sex with her, too? …Phillip also wants to watch his dog, Cesar, have sex with me. He says a dog’s penis is not as long as his and it wouldn’t hurt me as bad. …Why would anyone have sex with a dog? How did Phillip get such crazy ideas?

When he took Katie Callaway, kidnapped and raped her, he used the same excuses he did on me. He had a sex problem he needed help with.

And she said she had caught him once torturing an animal, and I said was it one of my cats, and she nodded her head a few times in the affirmative and then said, “No, no it was a mouse I caught him torturing,” and I said, “A mouse?” …Yes, she didn’t want me to go through all that, but to turn a blind eye to what she knew he was doing to an eleven-year-old girl. How could she entertain little girls in the van and videotape them doing the splits and other things, all for her husband?

 

Tricks and Traffick, by Ellen Hopkins; Teenage prostitution, lap dancing, 3-way sex, going between hetero- and homosexual sex and heavy drug use.. Rates a 5, complete review: https://www.ratedbooks.org/product-page/tricks-by-ellen-hopkins

Tricks page 323 “Get the fuck away from me.”…The guy is right behind me, beer breath hot on my neck. Iris didn’t lie. You really are a knockout. His arms wrap around me, and his rough hands go straight to my boobs. I try to knock them away but am no match for his strength. You like it rough? ‘Cause I’m just the guy to give it that way No extra charge. The words burn into my ear. “What? What the fuck did you say?”

A sudden burst of will pushes him back, away. I turn to face him. He advances, a thin line of spit leaking from his mouth to his chin. I stare at evil. I said, no extra charge. Already paid two hundred dollars for a good time with you. Might as well make it very good. He’s on me, yanking my hair, pushing me to my knees. He flips me over. You’re even prettier from behind, know that? I hear his zipper lower. It is the loudest sound ever. “Don’t,” I try, but it sticks, pasted to disgust, lodged in my throat. Useless to plead. Useless to fight. He yanks down my shorts in a single swift motion. He is on me. Humiliating me in every possible way, right here on the kitchen floor.

As promised, he is rough. Biting. Pounding. Shredding. Ripping. “Please?” The word bounces off him, ping-pongs weakly in my ears. Trying to fight him only fuels him. For a fleeting second, I think maybe someone will come through the door to save me. And then, despite everything that’s happening to me, I laugh out loud. Save me? What did he say? I already paid for a good time with you. I’ve been sold. And just who would sell me? The answer is all too obvious: Iris. My mother. And as he finishes, all sticky and stinking and revolting, something else suddenly becomes crystal clear. This day was exactly like that other day.

…I use wet paper towels to clean the mess on the linoleum. Under the sink, I find the Pine-Sol, carry it to the shower. It stings, which means it’s working. I scrub my body over and over, washing away all evidence of this afternoon. On TV, they want you to call the cops. Tell. But what do say? “Hey. My mom took money to let some guy rape me.” Who’d believe that?

 

That’s only eight of the over 110 books available in this area of “study” (and not just in Dover). And this is not gender-affirming literature. It’s junk porn for kids, centered around heterosexual abuse, drugs, rape, sodomy, suicide, and violence. And you paid for it.

I suppose the question you’d like to ask next, assuming you live in Dover (or wherever such quality reading material – including some that have pictures- can be found), is who you should thank. Who can take credit for assembling this reading list and encouraging students to invest their time and brain cells in reading it?

You could start with the School Board; Carolyn Mebert, Jessica Rozzo, Kathleen Morrison, Michelle Clancy, Micaela Demeter, Maggie Fogarty, Robin Trefethen Michelle Muffett-Lipinski, Jack Gosselin, William Harbron; City Council; Robert Carrier, Dennis Shanahan, Lindsey Williams, Linnea Nemeth, Michelle Muffett-Lipinski, Robert Hinkel, Deborah Thibodeaux, Debra Hackett, Fergus Cullen.

And let’s not forget the Dover Book Review Committee:

• William Harbron, Superintendent, and his book committee
• Christine Boston- Assistant Superintendent
• Peter Driscoll- Principal
• Siobhan Mehalek- Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment
• Kristen Whitworth- DHS Librarian
• Eric Schlapak- Teacher
• Susan Spence- Community Member
• Matthew Cox- Community Member

And, of course, Book Committee chair Matt Mayberry, who I am told was instrumental in keeping the book Tricks, by Ellen Hopkins, in the High School!

Be sure to thank him as well, all of them. Thank you for realizing that what children in public school need is not math or reading skills but an innate lust for a tawdry lifestyle centered on drugs, violence, sex, and abuse. After all, no great civilization can exist without an underclass, and how kind of you to decide that it should be the children of others whom you are being paid to “educate.”

 

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The Biden Administration launched a new office of the president. Its official title is the Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy (OPPR). Its offical purpose is to “Coordinate the Administration’s domestic response to public health threats that have pandemic potential.”

So yeah, there will be more pandemics, only this time, they tyranny will be pre-prepared.

 

Coordinate the Administration’s domestic response to public health threats that have pandemic potential, or may cause significant disruption, and strengthen domestic pandemic preparedness. This includes ongoing work to address potential public health outbreaks and threats from COVID-19, Mpox, polio, avian and human influenza, and RSV.

Drive and coordinate federal science and technology efforts related to pandemic preparedness. Specifically, OPPR will oversee efforts to develop, manufacture, and procure the next generation of medical countermeasures, including leveraging emerging technologies and working with HHS on next generation vaccines and treatments for COVID-19 and other public health threats. During the height of the pandemic, the Biden-Harris Administration made historic investments in COVID-19 vaccines, tests, and treatments that were made widely available. OPPR will continue to leverage these investments as it drives future progress in combatting COVID-19 and other public health threats.

Develop and provide periodic reports to Congress. As required by statute, OPPR will develop and provide to Congress a biennial Preparedness Review and Report and Preparedness Outlook Report every five years.

 

The head of the department is a retired Major General Paul Friedrichs, who “is currently Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Global Health Security and Biodefense at the National Security Council (NSC). Prior to joining the NSC, Dr. Friedrichs most recently served as the Joint Staff Surgeon and the medical advisor to the Department of Defense (DoD) COVID-19 Task Force.”

A Ministry of Medical Truth and Consequence funded and operated out of the White House. What could go wrong?

They did, after all, do such a bang-up job with COVID. A military-style national mobilization that tramples people’s rights as a means to inject hundreds of millions of Americans with a dangerous biological agent without transparency or accountability.

You can read the press release, but my sense is that the OPPR was created to shield the weaponized and politicized Public Health Industrial Complex from scrutiny. An added layer of military protocol with its own Pandemic DEF CON, hiding behind National Security.

Public entities were able to pry tens of thousands of pages of documents from the FDA and CDC, which have proven damaging. And while the corporate media hasn’t shown much interest in them, except to ignore them and continue their cries of conspiracy and misinformation, the government’s own records are out there.

They needed another bulwark even though the CDC, which answers to the Chief Executive, has had pandemic response protocol for decades.

Will FEMA answer to Major General Paul Friedrichs, who has many more credits to his name, including “As the United States’ representative to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Committee of Military Medical Chiefs, he worked closely with many of America’s closest allies and partners throughout the pandemic and in developing medical support to the Ukrainian military.”

So many questions the media will never ask or answer.

And is it just me, or does Major General Paul Friedrichs look like a creepy pedophile?

 

HT | Leo Hohmann

 

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Historically, Grand Juries, an institution inherited from England, were designed to act as buffers between over-zealous and/or overreaching prosecutors and anyone from the public who might be accused of a crime. In other words, it was originally designed to protect individuals. The members serving on a Grand Jury (the “Grand Jurors”) are lay people from the community.

A Grand Jury often meets for months at a time and usually considers multiple matters, while a trial jury, called a petit jury, only meets to hear a single case before it.

A petit jury is usually comprised of from 6 to 12 members, while a Grand Jury is usually comprised of from 16 to 23 members, depending on which federal or state law is applicable.

A Grand Jury will examine proposed criminal cases based upon presentations by the prosecutor and testimony of witnesses. In current practice, an accused who is the subject of a Grand Jury proceeding may not even know that he or she is the subject of the proceeding, and does not even have the right to appear and make his or her case for innocence before the Grand Jury votes on whether to issue an indictment (called a “true bill”) or refuses to issue an indictment (called a “no true bill”).

And anyone who does appear before a Grand Jury generally does not have the right to be accompanied before the Grand Jury by counsel- so one can often see the spectacle of a person testifying before a Grand Jury with their counsel outside in the hall and they must leave the Grand Jury room (where secrecy prevails) and step outside from time to time to consult with counsel.

An indictment only indicates that at least a majority of the members of the Grand Jury have determined, based upon the presentation by the prosecutor and the testimony of witnesses, that there appears to be sufficient evidence to bring criminal charges to trial, and that the prosecutor can proceed with a criminal case. It is definitely not a finding of guilt or innocence. Guilt or innocence is ultimately determined by a petit jury (or a judge if a jury trial has been waived by the defendant).

Not every criminal case is based upon an indictment from a Grand Jury. Some criminal cases may be brought by the issuance by the prosecutor of a charging document sometimes called an “information” or simply a criminal complaint.

Finally, many non-lawyers possibly have not heard what is common knowledge among lawyers: that a prosecutor directing the activities of a Grand Jury could indict a ham sandwich.

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The Northwood Republican Town Committee endorses James Guzofski in the Rockingham 1 Northwood Nottingham Republican primary special election on Tuesday, August 1, 2023.

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The Northwood Republican Town Committee normally doesn’t endorse in primary elections; however, we feel strongly in our support for James and have chosen to endorse him wholeheartedly. We have supported him in the past few years in his runs and wins onto the Northwood Select Board and are thrilled at the job he is doing serving on that board as well as all the other ways he serves the Northwood community.

Our economy is in great decline. We have record inflation and rising energy costs which are financially crippling us all. Our schools are failing our children, while parental rights are eroding, and our individual freedoms and liberties are being chipped away at. It’s truly a time of uncertainty, and we need a NH State Representative who will listen to us and be our voice in the NH State House.

In addition to the great work James Guzofski does on the Northwood select board, James also serves on the Northwood Fire Department as Chaplin, where he sees firsthand the dedication and commitment of our first responders. James has also served in the Ministry for 34 years and knows the importance of listening to people. James is regularly found around Northwood seeking out feedback and concerns from community members so that he knows how to better serve our community.

James wholeheartedly believes in our freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and our Second Amendment rights which he will protect and defend. James is a tireless fighter for truth and freedom.

The past few years, we have seen the great job James has done serving on the Northwood Select Board and how he has made such a positive impact in our community. This is why the Northwood Republican Town Committee is officially endorsing James Guzofski; we know he is the candidate we want and need as our New Hampshire State Representative and that he will be the best choice to be our voice in the NH State House.

This is a crucial special election that could determine the control of the New Hampshire House of Representatives. We need everyone in Rockingham District 1 Northwood Nottingham to come out and vote for James Guzofski on August 1, 2023.

Cheryl Dean

Northwood Republican Town Chair

 

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Democrats campaign on civility, holding political opponents to that standard but rarely any of their own and only under extreme circumstances. As in, when the “you took them out of context” BS won’t fly. So here’s one for the “adults” in the room who ran on unity blah blah blah.

 

A local school board president in California has been inundated with threats that left-wing activists will dismember her, kill her children, and slaughter her pets. Her crime? Saying that teachers should not keep parents in the dark if their children begin to “identify” as transgender. …

“The next morning, our district got a phone call” from an anonymous caller threatening “to kill me, and they said that they were going to dismember” school board president Sonja Shaw, the official revealed on “Washington Watch With Tony Perkins” on Monday. Police alerted Shaw to the threat shortly before a previous interview on the show last Friday.

… Shaw looked at her district email account, where she said she saw messages stating, “You’re going to die,” with a series of profane epithets. “Your children are going to die, and your animals are going to die.” For a “point of reference, they would name what kind of animals I had,” Shaw added.

“I also got notification that people who identify as being in the terrorist organization Antifa posted on their website, ‘We declare war on Sonja Shaw,’” Shaw told Perkins, adding that the group posted her address. “They said, ‘We know where you sleep,’” the same message an angry mob screamed outside the home of then-Fox News host Tucker Carlson in 2018. “They said things like, ‘Use all force possible to stop her.’”

 

There’s an awful lot in there for the Dems to denounce. We’ve got discrimination, hate crimes, criminal threatening, and doxxing – which should get at least a few of them uppity. Nothing gets NH Democrat women wound up like sharing their actual voting records … or being pro-choice, anti-grooming, pro-self-defense, pro-free speech, a tax cutter; the list is too long; I’ll stop there. My point is that his woman, in elected office, has been threatened with harm and death by reliably left-Wing pro-Democrat activists, as have her family,

And not a peep out of these pro-civility people before politics Democrats.

Shouldn’t there be lengthy debates on their social media or videos on Tik Tok or Instagram pleading with these activists to stop the H8?

No outrage.

Well, I suppose that once they’ve heard the story, they will be outraged … at Sonja Shaw. She is the head of a school board, elected by … parents and taxpayers, whose 4-1 majority was clear in its position. It happens to be a position they do not share; therefore, whatever passes for expression can’t possibly be called hate or incivility. Sharing her home address is not doxxing. It is necessary so the mobs threatening to dismember her can find her home and family.

But no worries. Come election or re-election time; they’ll be all about people over politics or civility or being the adults in the room.

It’s all complete bullsh!t, but it keeps working, so that thing about fooling some of the people some of the time might need an edit.

 

 

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There’s a lot of censorship of information about the corruption of America’s political system. The point is our system of government has been corrupted. If this assertion is true, we need to do something about it and do it now.

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Last week Laura Demlo, FBI Section Chief of the Foreign Information Taskforce, testified before Congress. She said the FBI knew in 2019 the Hunter Biden laptop was real. Even though the FBI knew it was real, the FBI advised social media companies it might be Russian disinformation.

You should care about this because polling done after the election shows a significant number of voters, enough voters to have reversed the results of the presidential election, would have changed their vote if they knew this or if they believed it was true… which it was. That makes what the FBI did both consequential and premeditated election interference.

October 14, 2020, was less than a month before the general election day, but we did not have an election day; we had a voting season. So a lot of people voted without the opportunity to have the information from the New York Post story. Worse, there was no way to change their vote.

On that day the FBI held an emergency meeting with Twitter to discuss the Hunter Biden laptop. It was an emergency because the New York Post released the Hunter Biden Laptop story earlier in the day. The story was before the public though not yet widely disseminated and accepted.

The New York Post story asserted: The Post had verified the laptop. And its contents were real, which was blockbuster information in and of itself. The story went on to say the device held evidence of a host of crimes including then-candidate Biden taking money from the governments of China, Ukraine, and Romania.

With the Post having broken the story, how would the rest of the media respond? We now know the FBI held a series of meetings with media outlets. It was a coordinated political damage control effort.

In the Twitter meeting, a Twitter manager asked the FBI directly, “Is the laptop real?” The FBI agents in the meeting initially said yes. Later, as the meeting progressed, another FBI member said, “No, we’ll offer no comment.”

From that point forward, the official FBI response became either “No, we offer no comment.” or “The laptop could be Russian disinformation; we aren’t sure so we are not going to comment.” But the FBI did know for sure. They knew the device was Hunter Biden’s laptop. The FBI knew the contents had not been altered.

The position of no comment, or we’re not sure, was used as justification to ban all mention of the laptop and its being real. That’s what the media did. They suppressed the story and censored the information. They were complicit, whether knowingly or unknowingly, in the FBI’s election interference.

Then on October 19, 2020, Politico ran a letter signed by 51 former intelligence officials that said the Hunter Biden laptop had all the classic earmarks of a classic Russian information operation. One might ask how such a letter sprang forth.

Perhaps we should ask Anthony Blinken. Perhaps he could help us understand how this letter originated. Perhaps he could help us understand how it got circulated for signature and then got disseminated to the media.

It turns out that the letter, the Politico story was false. It was generated by the Biden campaign. Have we ever had any other Democrat Presidential Candidate who made claims of Russian disinformation? How many repetitions, over how much time does it take to see a pattern? The idea of Russian disinformation regarding the laptop became “settled” proof in the media.

The FBI plus the Intelligence community plus the media, the team moved the ball across the goal line. Joe Biden is president as a direct result. Maybe that’s not stealing an election. Maybe there’s another name for it. But it does not change who the occupant of the Oval Office is, does it?

There was a poll from Harvard Harris in late October 2020 that showed a majority of Americans believed the laptop was Russian disinformation. It wasn’t. This is an American example of the “The Big Lie.” The FBI knew the truth. The FBI said nothing.

A separate poll from Tip Insights showed 60% of Americans were not going to follow the story of the Hunter Biden laptop; logically, why would they? It was fake news. In the Tip Insight poll was another conclusion: If the voters had known the laptop was real, and the information on it was unaltered, a majority of people would have voted differently. But people did not know, and the rest… is history.

The facts now show the 2020 election was not free and fair. Say what you will about voting irregularities, but the voters were knowingly manipulated by a government agency with the help of the press. That happened. We had a Presidential candidate engaged in corruption with our enemy China.

There is a long history of bias in the media. The media is slanted to the Left. They spread false information and suppress facts when they don’t like where they think it might take us. We can understand that. We all have a right to listen to the sources we put our trust in.

But why did the FBI do this? What exactly are we paying the FBI to do? They are a law enforcement agency. They are supposed to be apolitical. That’s what we pay them to be. But today, that’s not true. So what should we do about that?

Do you remember back in 2019 when the Inspector General of the Department of Justice (IG) came in with a report on the FBI? Well, he told us as a result of his investigation FBI Director James Comey leaked classified information to the press.

Comey leaked to damage then-President Trump. Did Comey get indicted for leaking classified information? The IG found The FBI director broke the law because he wished to harm Trump; he did not like Trump for personal political reasons. That’s from the IG report.

The IG also said in the report findings, “Comey set a dangerous example for the over 35,000 FBI employees.” The danger is that those employees watched their director engage in personal partisan politics and get away with it.

This makes them think, if he can do it, why can’t I? Do we want our FBI employees spending their time picking political winners and losers? That’s not what we hired them for… not why we pay them. What’s the purpose of the Hatch Act?

The problem is: When we have the federal government and executive branch employees engaged in such political activity, our republic is over. At that point, we live in tyranny. The deep state has taken control.

We the people, no longer matter. So the IG was correct. This is important. And it isn’t about Republicans or Democrats. This is about our freedom, our lives and yes, even our ability to pursue happiness as we understand it.

Isn’t what we are seeing now exactly what the IG pointed out as dangerous? There are credible allegations of Joe Biden and his family engaging in corruption. How can we have confidence in Biden’s decision-making? Is he acting in your best interest or is he working as directed by foreign actors?

The FBI leaders and employees chose to bury the information along with their media partners. We, as voters, were not allowed to give our informed consent in the 2020 election with respect to the choice for President. That’s tyranny.

The FBI changed the result of the election and maybe the fate of the country. The FBI decided for you who would occupy the oval office. This story is important; it is ongoing. The same players are still in place, in the same offices, at the same agency today. If anything, their arrogance has grown, and the threat has expanded.

It is vital that we fix this problem. The weaponization of our federal bureaucracy against us is exactly what caused those extremist founders to separate their colonies from the King of England to form our nation. We have to agree on whether or not we can govern ourselves.

Do we want the responsibility that comes with citizenship? If not, get out of the shackles and try to find some that you find comfortable. Once you are in them, getting out requires all your blood, your treasure, and your sacred honor. So, which side are you on?

 

 

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It’s been said you can judge a society by how it treats its prisoners. Of late, the American prison system has become nearly as bipolar as its political system.  Republican states remain relatively staunch in holding fast to existing criminal codes. States run by Democrats; they would like you to believe, are the most benevolent toward prisoners due to simply letting them out early or not even putting criminals in to begin with.  Is this, in fact, beneficence?

Famously blue California recently released thousands of pedophiles less than one year after their lawful incarceration, with over 200 of them living around the state capitol.  If this says anything about our country, it is that we have lost touch with what even prisoners consider the most offensive of human acts – the grooming and sexual exploitation of our most vulnerable citizens, children.

Sex trafficking of minors, a once nearly verboten topic of discussion in polite society, is now one of the most talked about. Thanks in part to whistle-blowers like Tara Rodas and movies like The Sound of Freedom, the American public is waking up to the stark reality all around us. Human trafficking is an estimated $150 billion a year industry. To put that in perspective, that is more than the GDP of Ukraine and twice that of Serbia. There are currently so many millions being trafficked it stands at more human slaves than at any other time in history, including when slavery was legal worldwide.

Tara Rodas recently shared her testimony with Judicial Watch, where she described first-hand experiences with children being trafficked thanks to current federal policies.  After voicing her concerns to her supervisor, she was told, “We don’t get sued by traffickers. We only get sued if we keep children too long. Understood?” This sort of callous enforcing of policy begs the question – if America is opposed to exploiting children, why is that the policy?

Included in her testimony is this appalling statistic – since the Biden Administration took office, there have been nearly five million border crossings of which the locations of some 85,000 children are currently unknown to federal authorities.  Never mind the many hundreds of “gotaways” who represent known criminals who have successfully crossed into the United States, also unaccounted.

These numbers give some idea of the scope of the problem, however, the child exploitation industry does not thrive thanks to brazen criminality. The lesser-known practice of grooming is becoming equally commonplace in our towns, schools, libraries, and media thanks to a concerted effort by many who have worked hard to blur the lines between acceptable and unacceptable interactions with children.

Thankfully a panel of 18 experts set out to develop a Scientific Grooming Model (SGM) intended to help adults, teens, and children to know the five stages of grooming and what to look for, specifically clusters of behaviors, frequent use of certain behaviors and the most severe which includes sexual content and education.  Of note, groomers are not typically the unkempt men we see in police mug shots. They are “charming/nice/likable” often with “insider status/good reputation/pillars of the community.” 

Understanding Stage One is to know how they Select Victims.  Among the characteristics they look for are:

• Minor lacks confidence/has low self-esteem.
• Minor is lonely/isolated.
• Minor is troubled.
• Minor feels unwanted/unloved.
• Minor is not close to parents/parents are not resources for them.
• Minor lives with a single mother/needs “father figure.”
• Minor has a lack of supervision.

In Stage Two, they seek to gain access via such places as schools, youth groups, scouts, and sports.  After which, they work on isolating the child or children.

Stage Three focuses on Trust Development. Aside from being charming and gaining power, trust, and access via seeking positions like teachers or scout leaders, we find they often:

• Engages in childlike activities (e.g., stories, games, sports, music).
• Gives minor rewards/privileges (e.g., gifts, toys, treats, money, trips).

It’s not difficult at this point to see how Gays Against Groomers became a group that focused primarily on the Transgender manipulation of kids in schools, and Drag Queen Story Hours as types of grooming.  Given the model, Gays Against Groomers and Parents are not operating on opinion but science, as scientific models are reliable, repeatable, testable, and provable. To use the parlance of our times, “follow the science” if you want to stop the sexual grooming of America’s children.

Given the magnitude of the problem, what can you do? For starters, you should familiarize yourself with the model. Secondly, you should listen to the entire testimony from Mrs. Rodas, who asks everyone to contact their representatives and speak up about the wanton trafficking in our towns. Her warning is they will be coming to your town soon if they aren’t there already.

Finally, you can equip yourself with enough information and courage to share this info, namely the model, with your town boards (as I did here in Hartford last Tuesday [go to minute 6 of this link]), especially the school board.  They should act to make sure these things are not taking place in our schools.  If they don’t, then you need to talk to the voters of your town to vote them out.

There is virtually nothing as reprehensible as the sexual grooming and exploitation of children. This is something the prisoners living in America have made clear.

 

 

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In the heart of Texas, where the sun’s rays shine strongly, is a man whose loyalty to Collin County residents and conservative values is unwavering – Wayne Richard. He intends to challenge the incumbent state Representative Matt Shaheen in the upcoming GOP primary, fuelled by Shaheen’s vote to impeach Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton – an utter act of betrayal of all we Texans stand for.

Attorney General Ken Paxton’s figure in Texas politics shines brightly as a beacon of service and honor. His solid commitment to the state and its people has left an indelible mark, earning him the respect and admiration of countless Texans—those who dare to go against such an esteemed figure risk the unyielding judgment of the electorate.

Wayne Richard is deeply connected to our community. As a successful Plano businessman, he understands the struggles hardworking Texans face. But what truly sets him apart is his unwavering dedication to the principles that have defined the great state of Texas for generations – conservatism at its core. And more than anything, Wayne Richard recognizes the significance of Paxton’s legacy and stands firmly aligned with those who champion his cause, vowing to defend General Paxton.

With a heart full of love for his constituents and Texas, Wayne aspires to represent the 66th district in the Texas House of Representatives, putting America First, just like former President Trump. Wayne’s commitment to conservative values has made him a prominent figure in Collin County, where Republicans rally behind him to challenge Shaheen in the GOP primary.

So why is Wayne taking this step now? He believes Shaheen’s vote to impeach Attorney General Ken Paxton betrayed our conservative principles. Ken Paxton has been a staunch defender of traditional values and a steadfast advocate for Texas. For Wayne Richard and countless others in Collin County, Shaheen’s vote goes against everything they hold dear.

In the eyes of many conservatives, Paxton’s impeachment was seen as a betrayal of the State’s core values. It has shaken the unity and trust that Shaheen had established with his constituents. They put their trust in him to be their voice in the political arena, fight for their principles, and uphold their great state’s integrity. But his vote left them feeling let down.

Wayne Richard is a fervent supporter of Paxton and his conservative agenda. His potential campaign isn’t just about Shaheen’s vote; it’s about ensuring that the GOP remains faithful to its conservative doctrines, undeterred by outside pressures.

Wayne Richard stands firm for what is right, so he’s considering running in the GOP primary. He understands the importance of having a genuine conservative leader who will never waver in defending Texan values. While Wayne’s campaign will address Shaheen’s impeachment vote, his platform will encompass many other traditional issues. From securing our borders to protecting religious liberties and safeguarding our Second Amendment rights, Wayne aims to rally the Republican base behind a vision that echoes the principles resonating with many Texans during Trump’s time in office.

As fervent supporters of Wayne Richard, we are filled with hope and excitement for the journey ahead. His potential challenge represents a call to arms for all conservatives in Collin County. Together, we can send a powerful message – that we stand united in our firm support to keep Collin County conservative again.

As mentioned, the implications of this challenge reach far beyond the primary. Wayne Richard’s leadership can showcase Collin County’s unyielding commitment to conservatism and set the course for the future of the Republican Party in our state.

Wayne Richard does so with utmost care and consideration as he studies the merits of a potential campaign. He understands the weight of this decision, and his utmost desire is to serve the people of Collin County with honor and integrity.

So, my fellow conservatives, let’s rally together and stand firmly behind Wayne Richard as he embarks on his new endeavor. Together, we will shape the future of our district, our state, and our great nation. Wayne’s journey has just begun, and we must proudly stand by his side every step of the way. As Texas Republicans, we eagerly await the outcome, supporting Wayne as he leads the charge to reshape the GOP in the image of Trump’s conservatism.

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One man stands above the crowd in an administration where incompetence and corruption are the criteria. Merrick Garland holds a position that we expect to be beyond reproach. As our Attorney General, Garland is the head of the Department of Justice and chief law enforcement officer of the Federal Government. The Attorney General represents the United States in legal matters and gives advice and opinions to the President and the heads of the executive departments of the Government when requested. The job description requires someone with a spotless reputation and the ability to interpret the law without regard for party affiliation. We do not have such a man with Merrick Garland. He has proven in two-plus years to be a tool of the Biden Administration.

The DOJ teamed with Randi Weingarten and the Teacher’s Union to target parents who dared to rise and speak up against their local school boards. It did not matter whether the issue was mask mandates, school reopening post-COVID, Critical Race Theory, Transgender issues, or the exclusion of parents from decisions about their children, anyone who dared to speak was labeled a Domestic Terrorist. These people who were only looking out for the best interest of their children were now potential targets of the FBI.

Garland used his power to slow walk anything to do with Hunter Biden in an effort to push investigations past the statute of limitations. He helped to disavow the Hunter Laptop so that it was not acknowledged before the 2020 election when it would have done irreparable harm to Biden and given a second term to Donald Trump. It appeared that the game plan worked until the plea bargain Hunter thought he would sign and start fresh blew up in a Delaware courtroom. Hunter and his legal team got greedy and sought immunity from future charges that may materialize for the First Son. Hunter is used to having his way with women until he stood before Maryellen Noreika, who tore him down to size.

As slow as Garland was with Hunter, he was lightning fast with Donald Trump. There have been three indictments to this point against the GOP front-runner for President. Each of these indictments would put Trump in prison for life, showing the overreach of the Justice Department to eliminate the threat of Donald Trump on the 2024 ballot. There is no hiding what Biden and Garland are doing with Trump, and the timing of these indictments has been to mask any negative instance that Biden may be experiencing. This corroboration between Biden and Garland may be the only transparent thing in the Biden White House.

As bad as Garland has been as Attorney General, it is comforting to realize that we dodged a bullet when Garland was nominated for the Supreme Court, and Mitch McConnell held up his approval process. We could have had this petty corrupt man in the Supreme Court for life. Garland and Mayorkas are in the sights of Republicans for impeachment inquiries and a possible impeachment trial in the Senate. Schumer will never allow the Senate to vote to impeach, but the procedure will showcase to the country the many sins of Merrick Garland.

 

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I have long argued against the ‘conspiracy theorists’ who believed that the elites wished to cull the world’s population by drastic numbers. Many of my libertarian, conservative, and voluntaryist colleagues believe that the top politicians, bankers, and powerbrokers in the world want to decrease the amount of humans by billions. I have consistently argued that it would be illogical for the elites to reduce the number of sheep and tax slaves they control. Here, I will present some evidence in favor of the theory.

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The way that democracies around the planet have been structured in the past centuries has allowed greater access to power, decentralization of authority, and an advancement of the human civilization. However, by and large, today’s systems, and in particular the American system, struggle based on one simple flaw— lack of highly experienced, intelligent brain trust.

Noam Chomsky, the esteemed Philadelphian intellectual, posited that the way US society, and many nations’ societies, work today is through the establishment of a class society, with an elite, governing a generally misled, misinformed, underinformed majority populace— a power elite and a proletariat. The power elite has served in much the same function as for all of human history under various names, including czar, duke, mandarin, praetor, and magistrate. The clear stratification of sociopolitical structures has created countless cults and elite cliques obsessed with guarding the reigns of power.

The tendency for power stratification was certainly true through antiquity, the agricultural and industrial revolutions, and into the 20th century. With the advent of information technology like the Internet and social media, there is great capacity and a pressing need for radical change. Similarly, great advances in health care and quality of life have ensured that humans live longer lives, with average lifespans having increased to over 70 in most societies on the planet, many over 90. The pyramidal stratification of power is no longer conducive to stable, prosperous societies. Regardless of whether a society is authoritarian or liberal, totalitarian or democratic, powerholders must vary to a greater degree.

The modern sociopolitical structure in the United States involves a group of people who have attained the highest rungs of the power ladder and then stayed there. Career politicians in Washington often are incentivized to sit in their positions for decades. This has created a structure known in the USA as the Deep State, the Uniparty, or the Establishment. Federal officials have no risk of being replaced in the typical election cycle. They are bureaucrats, infesting the organizations and industries in which they specialize with a corrosive influence that tends towards partisanship, graft, nepotism, and corporatism— especially with federal investigative bodies that do not pay close attention to monitoring and policing good governance within federal institutions.

This pyramidal structure, the old system, is envisioned by the Great Pyramid, often depicted in conspiratorial or symbolic ways, presenting the image of society with the ruling classes at the top in ever-narrowing levels. This is, naturally, an authoritarian and non-democratic model, tending towards exclusionary, stagnant, corrosive sociopolitical power structures. There are few leaders, and hence, few with leadership experience. The number of people who pass through the eye of leadership and give up the reigns of power is few. There is an incentive for individuals to cling to power in this system because the only other rungs are below the powerholders’ position.

Times have changed. Rather than a society of few leaders, we should strive to have one with many holding leadership experience— a magisterial emerati. Emeritus designates someone holding an honored position, such as a professor emeritus in academia. In this sense, a better way to depict the sociopolitical structure is by the illustration of an hourglass. The population is split into three general categories— those without leadership experience in the bottom conicular, those currently holding the reigns of power at the chokepoint of the hourglass, and the magisterial emerati in the top inverted conicular.

Through this way of approaching sociopolitical structure, consider the prevailing Great Pyramid system in context. The power holders in are at the chokepoint between the top and bottom, between those with leadership experience and those with none. Between the informed and sophisticated and the clueless masses. In the current paradigm, too many people get stuck at the chokepoint and seek to stay there. It is alluring to be in power— there are many seemingly great benefits of being in the limelight and having perceived control. But we should not, as societies, be encouraging, incentivizing, and allowing people to sit in these power positions for so long. It is dangerous, especially when there is not a strong ethical system and limited to no ethical oversight.

Any society is more strongly served by a larger group with leadership experience, a larger body if magisterial emerati. That top conicular of people who have held positions of power, have sat in that power chokepoint and then risen further, must be filled with equal or greater strength than the lower group of the non-experienced. When there are more magisterial emerati, the current powerholders receive better advice and feedback from the entire population. There is less pressure on them to make trivial decisions, and they are freed to consider more important issues. They are able to make better decisions when the entire society is more experienced in terms of leadership and how to use and acquire power. The brain trust of the society is larger and stronger, with increased dynamism. The society is better able to withstand external pressures and can react and respond with greater alacrity and awareness.

To achieve this large experienced group if the magisterial emerati, the sociocultural aim must incentivize sharing, compassion, cooperation, and collaboration. There must be a sense of altruism and willingness to help others. Individuals must know that once they have relinquished seats of power, they will still be able to maintain and increase their quality of life. In this way, once positions of power are achieved for an individual, they must want to allow others to gain that similar experience. In this way, the individual powerholder must become aware that there is honor in stepping aside to allow others to learn how to hold the reigns of power, so that they can be better citizens.

In a republic, which is the form of government in the majority of countries on the planet today, the more informed and intelligent a citizenry, the stronger the republic. This model of practicing powersharing is a great way to ensure more resilient, antifragile countries.

 

 

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Chinese influence operations in American Education have focused primarily on Colleges and Universities. For example, after years of warnings, UNH ended its Confucius Institute in 2021 (UNH is still getting CCP grant money through 2024). But China has also invested millions in public schools.

Parents Defending Education has released a lengthy article with links and details tying hundreds of schools to Chinese money through Confucius Institutes and Confucius Classrooms.

 

In March, Parents Defending Education uncovered that a nonprofit linked to Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology had received more than $1 million in financial aid from Chinese government-affiliated entities over the course of a decade.1

Further research reveals the People’s Republic of China fostered relationships with American K-12 schools through grants, sister school partnerships, and other programming since at least 2009. Parents Defending Education tracked affiliations in 143 schools across 34 states and Washington, D.C.—and at least seven are still active. Financial exchanges between K-12 schools and the Chinese government range from a few thousand dollars to, in Thomas Jefferson High School’s case, more than a million dollars. Disturbingly, the Chinese government’s ties appear to target school districts near 20 American military bases.  …

The Chinese government’s effort to forge ties with American schools through its Ministry of Education is one facet of the Chinese Communist Party’s broader soft-power strategy to influence policy in nations throughout the world. Expanding Confucius Classrooms in the United States has been a top priority for the Chinese government, the United States Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations found.3

The State Department designated Confucius Institutes a “foreign mission” of the Chinese Communist Party in 2020.4 As noted in the State Department’s report, these programs are funded in part by the Chinese government under guidance from the Chinese Communist Party’s United Front Work Department, “the Chinese Communist Party’s overseas propaganda and influence operation.”

 

One of the operations assisting in this influence is the Asia Society which “tailor(s) Chinese culture and language immersion programs to U.S. school districts. They also collaborated on funding Confucius programs in universities and K-12 schools.” Asia Society gets lots of money from Asia, but also has support from  “Open Society, the Carnegie Foundation, Ford Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation,” as well as” the Confucius Classroom Network with funding support from the Chinese International Education Foundation, an organization created by Hanban.”

 

2021 seems to be when these influence-peddling operations began to get noticed and cut, which suggests to me either victory on the part of China or they’ve found another avenue for influence. Before that happened, Keene High School accepted 10,000.00 dollars from the Asia Society, which advances the CCP goals as noted above.

 

 

 

Chinese Language Learning. Useful when the conquerors get here. Locals can identify the dissidents. I’m kidding, sort of. It was one grant and only one public school that the researchers identified in N.H. But China doesn’t give money away without an agenda. They invest in their geo-political and economic priorities.

Maybe we need a few classes on that, hmm?

 

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Karine Jean-Pierre is the worst press secretary ever to step behind the podium in the Brady Press Briefing Room. She insults the legacy of outstanding secretaries like Tony Snow, Dana Perino, James Brady, and even Jen Psaki. If not written in her binder, she is lost to find a coherent answer, and with the many scandals surrounding the Biden Administration, KJP has become creative in her non-answers. The Biden Justice Department has helped Karine considerably by prolonging investigations. As long as an inquiry is ongoing, she can refuse to answer any questions about it. How convenient, and to think Joe still contends he has no influence on the independent Justice Department….what a crock! This entire Presidency will go down in history as a crock of lies and deception.

KJP has had to field many questions about Hunter Biden and his almost daily escapades. On Wednesday, she addressed Hunter in her preface in an attempt to avoid any direct questions. You must listen to Karine carefully, as her words always have hidden meanings. An example is her line that Joe and Hunter never discussed Hunter’s business dealings is now Joe and Hunter have never been in business together. Subtle, but it makes all of her previous statements untrue. Wednesday, the First Son may have derailed the Biden White House and any chance at a reelection run. Karine would not touch Hunter’s activities in a Delaware courtroom, so her excuse this time was that Hunter was a private citizen and not a topic for the Briefing room. Hunter Biden is many things, but being a private citizen is not one of them.

Let’s look at a few examples of why Hunter is not a private citizen:

• On Wednesday, Hunter arrived at the courthouse in Delaware in a convoy of five vehicles. Most of the cars had Secret Service Agents as passengers. Private citizens do not get Secret Service protection.
• Hunter Biden had been living in the White House to avoid being served papers from an Arkansas court regarding the child support case involving the grandchild Joe Biden refuses to recognize.
• When Hunter was living in his beachfront home in Malibu, the Secret Service was spending $30,000 per month for a home nearby to house the agents guarding Hunter. Private? Not even close!
• When Hunter was escorting his father to Ukraine, China, and Russia to negotiate (extort is more appropriate) million-dollar bribes, he traveled on Air Force II. Private citizens fly commercial and not on Air Force II.
• When Hunter was negotiating a plea deal on gun and tax violations, he was not doing so as a private citizen. He was doing it as the son of Joe Biden, President of the United States, and that is why it was such a shock when this judge in Wilmington, DE held up her hand and said, stop, not so fast there, Mr Biden. This might be the first time anyone has ever said NO to Hunter. It was a beautiful move that restored our faith in the system, even for a fleeting moment.

So Karine, do not insult the American people unless you need more proof. Hunter is as much a part of the Administration as you are, and you both give the President a difficult road to a re-election bid.

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The Los Angeles Times published an op/ed Friday in which it perhaps unintentionally poses the central proposition of the mythical energy transition: “whether our expectations should evolve in the name of preventing climate catastrophe.”

The op/ed is appropriately titled, “Would an Occasional Blackout Help Solve Climate Change?” It is a headline that tacitly admits a truth about the transition that boosters of renewable energy have been careful not to publicize: That the notion that generation sources with extremely low energy density like wind and solar cannot hope to be viable alternatives to generation with extremely high energy density like natural gas, nuclear and coal. It is a notion that defies the laws of thermodynamics and physics, and those are laws, not suggestions that can be discarded as a matter of convenience or, as in this case, in pursuit of a hyper-political agenda.

This kind of propaganda is designed to condition readers to accept the lowering of their own living conditions in the name of saving the climate, or, as this writer poses is, “preventing climate catastrophe.” It is the kind of propaganda Americans and citizens around the world have been bombarded with as we have experienced the current hot summer. (RELATED: DAVID BLACKMON: A Backlash Against Net-Zero Policies Is Finally Beginning To Take Shape)

It is probably no accident that this piece in the Los Angeles Times comes just a few days after the New York Times published a piece by economist Paul Krugman titled, “Why We Should Politicize the Weather.” The theme of the propaganda is clear: Most of the legacy media has been following Krugman’s advice throughout this summer at the behest of boosters of climate alarmism.

Propaganda in the name of hyping a “climate catastrophe” (it was a mere “emergency” just a few years ago, mere climate “change” a few years before that) is widespread, indeed ubiquitous.

Meteorologists in Europe, Canada and other countries are now being encouraged to report land temperatures rather than the ambient air temperatures on which they’ve always based their reporting because the land measurements are usually several degrees warmer than the air we breathe. Many weather reporters in the EU countries have begun reporting temperatures in degrees F rather than degrees C because the Fahrenheit scale produces larger, more frightening numbers.

All in the name of hyping climate change. All in the name of politicizing weather and conditioning citizens to accept a downgraded quality of life. The bonus is that you get to feel good about yourself while you’re sweating and fanning yourself in your dark living room with the stench of rotting meat in your dead refrigerator because you are suffering all of this in the name of “doing something” about climate change.

It is a proposition about which the climate alarm movement has remained relatively quiet before this year. But the messaging began to shift in January as it becomes increasingly obvious that, even with all the billions in subsidies enacted by western governments, rising demand for energy is still outstripping the ability of renewables to displace fossil fuels and nuclear. Even as these governments in Europe, Canada and the U.S. force citizens to accept the steady deterioration of their grid reliability and quality of life, saddling future generations with mountains of debt in the process, governments in China, India and most other developing nations pursue national energy abundance and security.

This dynamic explains why, when U.S. Climate Czar John Kerry’s recent mission to China to try to kickstart moribund bilateral climate negotiations predictably ended in failure. China is going to do what is good for China, regardless of the propaganda of the climate alarm movement that Kerry amplifies at every opportunity.

Americans and Europeans and Canadians see this all happening and increasingly wonder why they must continue downgrading their standards of living when rising emissions from China alone far outstrip any reductions achieved by the west? This is a question to which the climate alarm movement has no good answer, other than to continue ramping up the fear tactics and propaganda.

That is why this previously quiet part of the energy transition agenda has been rising to the top of the alarmist message platform in 2023. No one should think the rhetoric will do anything other than keep ratcheting up from here.

 

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How many times do you hear a Democrat happily say “Sure, we can deep-six that tax. And do you want to kill another one?”. PERHAPS if they are looking to horse trade for something more valuable but only “if”.

So is San Francisco’s Democrat Mayor London Breed starting to see the wisdom of letting people keep their own money?

San Francisco Mayor: We Should ‘Get Rid of Most Taxes’ to Attract Businesses

During a portion of an interview with CNBC’s Deirdre Bosa aired on Wednesday’s broadcast of “The Exchange,” San Francisco Mayor London Breed stated that if she could, she “would get rid of most taxes on the books” tomorrow in order to help attract business to the city. She argued that the tax system needs a complete overhaul so that it works for the city and businesses.

“Well, first of all, I would — if I could do it tomorrow morning, I would get rid of most taxes on the books. I want to also be clear that businesses need to pay their fair share. But not at the expense of losing business as a whole. So, I would completely reform the tax system to make it more fair, to make it more equitable, and to make it work for both the city and those businesses. I would also make sure that the streets and the city is clean and it’s safe, because we need to make sure that, as people come here on public transportation, as they move around the city using different modes of transportation, that they’re getting to work safe and they want to be here.”

“Not at the expense of losing business as a whole…and it’s safe”.

Well, she’s bitten off a lot, hasn’t she? San Fran used to be a destination city for high tech and tourism. Now, it’s a haven for crime, homeless, mentally ill, and crime gangs. Oh, and feces. LOTS of feces on SF streets and sidewalks. Oh, and carjacks and break ins. Defunding the police and having Soros lawyers (e.g., save the criminals and criminalize the victims) hasn’t helped, either.

Small list but big effort on execution.

The taxes – I didn’t expect to hear that from a Big City Democrat: get rid of them. Democrat history (and no small of Elitist Republicans to boot) is that they all see citizens and companies merely as ATMs ready for the plucking. Why?

Putting Government first.  It’s clear that with the results of the last few years on full display, the normal Narrative failed. Democrat policies failed. She’s now having to pick up the pieces (and feces). And lessen the filching – a realization that the Democrats (San Fran has been a Democrat bastion for a long, long time) have taken its residents for granted and NOT seeing things from their viewpoint. Only from a Progressive Government’s top-down approach.

Seriously – how often do you hear a Democrat taking ownership of Democrat policies and the negative results from them?  Methinks rarely.

Let’s see if the other SF Dems will allow it to happen. After all, it really is about lessening the power of Government – now think about that admission!

(H/T: Breitbart)

 

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Have you been following the story of the cancellation of Nigel Farage by Coutts?  Coutts is an exclusive private bank owned by National Westminster Bank (NatWest). Farage was a driving force behind Brexit. He’s the British equivalent of Donald Trump.  Britain’s version of the deep state has never forgiven him.

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Coutts dumped Farage as a client, canceling his accounts.

But wait, it gets better.  Coutts then lied about the incident.  NatWest claimed the Farage cancellation was because he didn’t have enough money to qualify for their services.  That was false.  But wait, there’s more…

There have been articles about the financial attack in the British press.  The Wall Street Journal (WSJ)  is now following along.

The WSJ is reporting Coutts ditched Farage because of his pro-Brexit and anti-woke views.  It goes on to relate a story about a charity dinner where Alison Rose, chief executive of NatWest, sat next to the BBC’s business editor.  Ms. Rose told him Mr. Farage was axed because he wasn’t a profitable customer.  The journalist wrote that story citing a “trusted and senior source.”

Mr. Farage, for his part, acquired and shared from a 40-page Coutts document including a list of his political views the bank felt created “significant reputational risks of being associated with him.”  The document describes Farage’s views as “xenophobic and racist,” saying he was “considered by many to be a disingenuous grifter…”

The story mushroomed, causing Ms. Rose to resign from NatWest. The BBC has apologized for its incorrect report.

Again from the WSJ, An email laying out the decision… included in the document published by Farage—pointed to “controversial public statements which were felt to conflict with the bank’s purpose.”  The bank sensed the danger from axing [Farage]… it could face negative coverage if Farage decided to “go public…”

What should be readily apparent from this incident is the risk of banks cutting off customers for having the wrong political views. Make no mistake; this happened in the UK, but it can just as easily happen here.

A problem with acting on “reputational risk” is it is a one-way street.  Let’s do the same exercise with Jeremy Corbyn, the former Labor leader, as the object.  Mr. Corbyn is a notorious socialist and anti-Semite.  Have you ever heard of a company declining to do business with him because of damage to the company’s reputation?

Look, with Brexit, the issue enraging Leftists is Mr. Farage represented the majority of U.K. voters.  These Leftist banking executives are enforcing the will of the minority.

Most recently, Mr. Farage has gone on the offense.  He is demanding the entire NatWest board of directors resign while pledging to help others similarly injured by leftist prejudice in banking.

What’s your position on cancel culture?  Are you a win at all costs, there’s nothing too bad that can happen to the opposition kind of person.  What qualifies as sufficient reason to bar someone from the banking system?  Remember, we are really close to Central Bank Digital Currency and cancellation with the click of a mouse.

 

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Most people today have little to no familiarity with any of the principles that influenced the founders. Below, you’ll find six important resources hand-picked by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. You can also find links to each in this podcast episode – “The Founders’ Education.”

The government-run school system teaches virtually nothing about the principles of liberty – and natural rights. It teaches little to nothing about the founding principles underlying the Constitution.

This ignorance is a big part of why things have gone so far off the rails – and it shouldn’t be surprising, either. Jefferson put it this way:

“If a nation expects to be ignorant & free, in a state of civilisation, it expects what never was & never will be.”

Understanding the Constitution requires much more than discussing what it takes to be eligible for president or reading charts with titles like “How a Bill Becomes a Law.” It requires that people know the foundations upon which the document was constructed – which benefited from ideas extending more than a thousand years.

Thankfully, we have some help from the founders themselves.

In 1783, a committee to the Confederation Congress put together a list of over 300 books considered crucial to the founding generation. The authors of the list included James Madison of Virginia, Thomas Mifflin of Pennsylvania, and Hugh Williamson of North Carolina. Plus, Thomas Jefferson also had a similar list at that time (the “1783 catalogue”) – and he was rooming at Madison’s boarding house, where they most certainly conversed on the subject of a reference library for Congress.

Years later, Madison and Jefferson worked together on another essential reading list as members of the University of Virginia Board of Visitors.

Here, Madison and Jefferson – along with George Loyall, John H. Cocke, and Joseph C. Cabell –   gave us six essential resources to understand “the general principles of liberty and the rights of man in nature and in society.”

Here they are – starting with two foundational books:

1. John Locke – An essay concerning the true original extent and end of civil government

You may be familiar with it under the name Two Treatises

Many of Locke’s ideas found their way into the Declaration of Independence, including the notion that governments derive their just power from the consent of the governed.

“The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.”

Podcast – Illegitimate Government: John Locke on Tyranny

2. Algernon Sidney – Discourses on Government

Sidney is a guy that almost no one knows about today, but they should. This was on pretty much everyone’s list of essential books at the time of the founding – including Madison’s 1783 list, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams – and more.

Thomas Jefferson called it “the best elementary book of the principles of government, as founded in natural right, which has ever been published in any language.”

It’s hard for us to imagine a better endorsement.

Podcast – Jefferson’s Favorite Book on Government?

The board also recommended four sources for understanding “the distinctive principles of the government of our own state, and of that of the U.S.”

3. Declaration of Independence

First of these is the Declaration “as the fundamental act of union of these states.”

Podcast – Declaration of Independence: Usurpation is Treason

4. Federalist Papers

Next are the Federalist Papers, calling them “an authority to which appeal is habitually made by all.” They said these essays are “rarely declined or denied by any as evidence of the general opinion of those who framed, and of those who accepted the Constitution of the U.S. on questions as to its genuine meaning.”

5. Virginia Resolutions of 1798

The next source recommended by the board is the Virginia Resolutions of 1798. Passed in opposition to the Alien and Sedition Acts, these resolutions penned by Madison and passed by the Virginia legislature lay out the constitutional justification for “interposition.”

Article – A Christmas Gift from James Madison: The Virginia Resolutions of 1798

6. George Washington’s Farewell Address

The final essential source is George Washington’s farewell address, or his “Valedictory Address,” as they called it. In this address, Washington covered topics including foreign policy, factions, and the danger of debt.

Podcast – Warnings Ignored: George Washington’s Farewell Address

Education Takes Work

Unlearning the government-school propaganda we’re fed from cradle to grave isn’t easy. And, as Abigail Adams wrote, “Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardour and attended to with diligence.”

But we have the tools. You can find a recent Path to Liberty podcast covering more of the “Founders’ Education” – plus links to all 6 of these recommended sources right here.

We hope this is a useful guide for you to continue your own education in support of the Constitution and liberty.

 

Michael Boldin | The Tenth Amendment Center

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