John Kerry was for the war in Iraq before he was against it … remember? Well … Sun-King Sununu has Gold-digger Kerry beat. He was for the six-month abortion ban before he was against it and now he is for it again. Got that? Fresh on the heels of trying to gut the six-month abortion ban, the shameless Sun-King is now embracing the six-month abortion ban:

And it’s not just his position on abortion … Sun-King actually supports abortion up to birth and perhaps “post-birth” as well … that he is lying about. Sun-King claims … or more precisely his Low-T pipsqueak spokesperson claims … he went on Lemon’s show to expand the GOP base. LIE. No persuadable voters watch Lemon. Sun-King did Lemon because he is a narcissist who gets a dopamine surge by seeing himself on television.

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Security Clearances and Top Secret are terms that we have heard far too often in the last few months. From an FBI raid on Trump’s Florida home, Mar-a-Lago, to Biden’s garage and beach house, to Mike Pence’s home, classified documents that never should have seen daylight appear in odd places. Jack Teixeira, the 21-year-old junior enlisted airman with the Massachusetts Air National Guard, who has been charged as being behind the leak of classified U.S. military and U.S. intelligence documents had a high-level top security clearance that raises even more questions about why he had access to such documents in his work as an IT specialist. There are many failures in our government’s handling of classified documents. First, far too many people with security clearances allow them access to information they do not need to see. There are over three million people in America with high-level top security clearance. That is nearly one in every hundred people. The clearance process is far too loose to ensure a good level of National Security. Once someone gains a high-security clearance, they can access documents far beyond their purview. Teixeira had documents concerning our Military and foreign countries, both allies and adversaries that someone whose job was IT Tech never should have seen, let alone obtain hard copies. We do not know the motives of Teixeira posting classified documents online. He had developed an online relationship with a group of young men, and it appears he was using the documents to impress the group and solidify his leadership. The government has a right to be enraged and aggressive in prosecuting Teixeira to the full extent of the law. Still, the Washington power center is embarrassed by the information released. The documents expose lies about what the Pentagon knew about the Chinese balloon threat. They knew about more balloons and more capabilities than they divulged. The information revealed that American troops were on the ground fighting alongside the Ukrainian military, fending off the Russian assault. The explosion in the amount of information labeled classified or top secret and the number of people with clearance has occurred since 9-11. Before the attack, our intelligence agencies had little communication and cooperation. To correct this problem, information was centralized, but the classified/top secret stamp got overused. Because of the tags, more people were given clearance to perform their jobs. In typical government fashion, to correct a problem, they created another. But the most alarming issue that has come about from the spotlight on classified documents is the number and magnitude of the lies and corruption in government. Whether it is unearthing the government conspiring with Social Media to spy on Americans or control the flow of information or the corruption and laundering of money sent to Ukraine. Billions of dollars were sent, and there has been resistance to any form of accountability. The government, especially the Executive Branch, has suffered from a credibility issue, and the leaked information worsens that issue. You can choose which facet concerns you the most and who is the perpetrator or the victim. Still, Teixeira’s recent discovery and arrest have shown us there is much to do to resolve our handling of government information.

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One of the many flanks in what appears to be a globalist war on America is the frequency of infrastructure and supply chain incidents. Industrial accidents, derailments, cattle, chicken, egg, and other farms burning to the ground.

Chemical spills or chem or plastic plants burning. It makes for excellent conspiracy stuff, which makes for great truth as of late. Having some MSNBC zombie ape the approved narrative in response has become the siren song of legitimacy.

That’s not a universal truth, but COVID-era fraud has elevated the odds that if the government or their media muppets are denying it, keep looking, it is probably true.

As for the pig pile globally, there have been over 860 incidents in the past few years involving the food supply, more than three dozen potentially toxic transportation or supply incidents involving chemicals, plastics, or the like (in 2023 to date), and a handful of incidents involving fuel and energy supplies or infrastructure that are traceable to at least one link or story.

And it’s all normal! Ha!

For the record, this is not our data. We did not curate it. And I have not followed every link, but I did try to clean up a few by removing the Google Docs garbage, so if anything broke, let me know. There are still a few that land on the redirect page before taking you to the story – I didn’t have time to clean those up, but what I checked was legit.

I have also created a reformatted .xls file of today’s data that you can reference and I will attempt to do the same for the other data when I share that. Things have a way of disappearing, and we should do what we can to preserve the research for future use.

I will be sharing more like this. View all of the source data and links here if you want.

 

2023 Services/Shipping/Chemical Spills

 

COUNTRY	TYPE	#	DATE	EVENT	LINK
China	Chemical	1	1/19/2023	Fatal explosion and fire at chemical plant in Panjin Haoye Chemical China	LINK
US	Chemical	2	2/2/2023	Chemical spill prompts hazardous materials investigation in Irvine California	LINK
US	Supply	3	2/3/2023	Chicago: 230,000 square feet of domestic production, assembly and warehousing space of a wood and metal manufacturer destroyed in fire.	LINK
US	Supply	4	2/6/2023	Furniture Factory completely Destroyed After Massive Fire	LINK
US	Chemical	5	2/9/2023	Birmingham firefighters on scene of chemical spill in UAB lab – Birmingham Alabama	LINK
US	Chemical	6	2/10/2023	Chemical Fire After Train Derailment in East Palestine, Ohio	LINK
Italy	Chemical	7	2/10/2023	Salumificio COATI Verona Italy. More toxic chemicals are released into the environment.	LINK
US	Chemical	8	2/10/2023	February 10th, 2023 – United States – In Oregon, near Newport, an estimated 2,000 gallons of diesel spilled when a locomotive’s fuel tank was punctured. The derailment involved a Portland & Western Railroad train at a Georgia-Pacific mill in Toledo, about five miles east of Newport.	LINK
US	Chemical	9	2/12/2023	Texas officials investigate chemical leak that triggered shelter-in-place order	LINK
US	Supply	10	2/14/2023	Montgomery Texas Train Derailment Occurs Just Days After Ohio Disaster	LINK
US	Supply	11	2/14/2023	CSX train derails in South Carolina; Norfolk Southern faces more scrutiny over its derailment	LINK
US	Chemical	12	2/14/2023	Fire crews respond to chemical spill at NH’s Stonyfield Farm – Londonderry New Hampshire	LINK
US	Services	13	2/15/2023	Marines Catch FBI Trying to Sabotage Substation in Idaho, and Kill Them.	LINK
US	Chemical	14	2/15/2023	A Truck Carrying Nitric Acid Crashed in Tucson Arizona. Residents Now Have to Shelter in Place	LINK
US	Supply	15	2/16/2023	Huge 5 Acre Fire Breaks Out At Warehouse Storing Plastic Plant Pots In Kissimmee, Florida.	LINK
US	Shipping	16	2/16/2023	Train derails in Van Buren Township; Haggerty Road back open	LINK
US	Chemical	17	2/16/2023	Oklahoma Tank Fire Sparks Yet Another Chemical Incident – Catoosa Oklahoma	LINK
China	Chemical	18	2/18/2023	Explosion and fire at a chemical factory in Houjie City, Dongguan Prefecture, China.	LINK
US	Supply	19	2/20/2023	‘Mass Casualty Incident’: Explosion Rocks Metal Factory in Bedford, Ohio	LINK
US	Supply	20	2/21/2023	Massive Fire at Brooklyn NY Lumber Warehouse	LINK
US	Supply	21	2/21/2023	Coal Train Derails Monday night in Gothenburg, Nebraska.	LINK
US	Supply	22	2/21/2023	Massive fire at Elkem Metals, Alloy,WV	LINK
US	Chemical/Supply	23	2/22/2023	Emergency services respond to uranium fire at National Nuclear Security Administration complex in Tennessee	LINK
US	Chemical/Supply	24	2/28/2023	Train Carrying Propane derails near Manatee-Sarasota county line; no evacuations	LINK
US	Supply	25	3/1/2023	Massive fire and multiple explosions reported at Metal fabricator plant in Cleveland, Ohio.	LINK
US	Chemical/Supply	26	3/4/2023	Train derailment in Springfield,OH, hazmat teams deployed	LINK
US	Chemical	27	3/8/2023	West Virginia train derailment: Freight train strikes rockslide, spills diesel into river; 3 injured	LINK
US	Supply	28	3/9/2023	Train derails in east Calhoun County, Alabama as Norfolk Southern CEO testifies before Congress	LINK
US	Chemical	29	3/13/2023	Union Pacific train derails in central Kansas, Small fire, leak of denatured alcohol results from 13-car derailment	LINK
US	Chemical/Supply	30	3/16/2023	Train Hauling Corn Syrup Derails In Arizona; No Injuries	LINK
US	Chemical/Supply	31	3/16/2023	Train Derails In Washington Reservation Leaking Diesel Fuel: Officials	LINK
US	Chem/Water Supply	32	3/26/2023	Drinking water advisory: What we know about the hazardous spill in a Delaware River tributary	LINK
US	Supply	33	3/27/2023	Runaway train carrying iron ore derails in San Bernardino; hazmat crew responding	LINK
US	Chemical/Supply	34	3/28/2023	Train derails in rural North Dakota and spills chemicals	LINK
US	Chemical/Supply	35	3/29/2023	Barge carrying toxic methane submerged and sinking in the Ohio River.	LINK
US	Chemical/Supply	36	3/30/2023	BNSF train carrying ethanol in Minnesota derails and catches fire, forcing evacuations in small town	LINK
US	Chemical/Supply	37	3/30/2023	Cause determined for Nouryon Chemicals leak; crews planning to wrap up efforts	LINK
US	Chemical/Supply	38	4/9/2023	Norfolk Southern Train Derails In Alabama, Temporarily Traps Crew Inside	LINK
US	Chemical	39	4/10/2023	Truck hauling contaminated soil from East Palestine derailment clean-up site crashes	LINK
US	Industrial/Supply	40	4/12/2023	Industrial fire prompts evacuation order in Indiana city	LINK
US	Industrial/Supply	41	4/14/2023	Sparks kicked up from an CSX train travelling through Stony Point, Haverstraw & Congers causing multiple large brush fires burning in Rockland County; nearby homes evacuated	LINK
US	Chemical	42	4/15/2023	Train carrying hazardous materials derails in Rockwood, Maine	LINK
US	Chem/Ind/Supply	43	4/15/2023	Evacuation ordered for half-mile radius around Pinova Plant due to large fire	LINK

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OK, a couple days late but here it is. The Grandson brought home some form of a nasty stomach flu from school last week and both he and TMEW had it over the weekend.  I thought I was “home free” as Monday morning I was still well – and then I wasn’t.  So, I’m late in putting this up. My number went down – and Tom had a great recovery:

 

So Tom gets a pretty good rebound this week and I get a slow down.

However, food was not at the top of my list the last few days so I’m expecting my own rebound. Perhaps.

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April 18 is Theft Day for 2023. Also known as tax day, income taxes are due. Behind the IRS tax form is a gun. The IRS has 4,487 guns and 5,062,006 rounds of ammunition (2017 GAO data). Why? Because income tax is theft. 

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As promised in the last Monday Memes, I have an overflow. My meme cup runneth over.  Fairly certain about a Friday Overflow-Overflow.

Also, for those prepper-minded, my last two Survival Sundays:

Survival Sunday – Sunday PREP Edition – Granite Grok

Survival Sunday – Thursday SITREP Edition – Granite Grok

Now, let the mayhem, mockery, and ridicule resume:

 

*** Warning, a few possibly off-color ones, in case tender eyes are about ***

 

 

I’m sure someone will take offense at the above, of course.  Too white, too blank, too beyond their humor.  Something.

 

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We’ve Had Enough

 

 

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Certainly, there is a lot of evidence that this was planned looooong before the “lab leak”.

 

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Pick of the post:

 

 

Prescient.

 

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The Age of Conspiracy

 

 

I need new conspiracy theories.  All my current ones have come true.

 

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Palate cleansers:

 

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The list of things that are bad for the planet is a lot shorter than people have been led to believe. In truth it consists of Marie-Antoinette-like globalists and the political muppets who use your money to fund their destructive agenda. Wait, no. It’s not. It’s rice!

Yes, rice. One of the cheapest bulk foods available to keep billions from starving is bad for the environment. At least that’s what AFP (not that one, a different one) is saying.

 

VIDEO: Rice is to blame for around 10 percent of global emissions of methane, a gas that over two decades, traps about 80 times as much heat as carbon dioxide. Scientists say that if the world wants to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, rice cannot be ignored. pic.twitter.com/46GgkaGPgK

— AFP News Agency (@AFP) April 16, 2023

 

There are plenty of problems with this, not the least of which is that methane – like most of the scams – is overrated as a threat.

• Methane warming exaggerated by 400%
• Methane: Much Ado About Nothing
• The Misguided Crusade to Reduce Anthropogenic Methane Emissions

The second link notes that increased co2 has resulted in massive plant growth, which, when it rots, releases methane which, given the abrupt decline in solar activity at the end of the modern warm period, means less ozone to help it on its way. Measured increases are a product of natural forces that random acts of environmental virtue-signaling will not change were change even necessary (it is not).

And yes, the gas stove ban that wasn’t a ban that will ban more than half the gas stoves was about methane. Rice, and farming in general, has been a target for years, but is going after rice going to hold global warming water?

According to the World Economic Forum, half the world’s population lives on rice as their primary food source, with Brazil being the only major producer of this essential foodstuff outside Asia.

 

 

These folks are a bunch of rice racists, but neither China nor India is likely to stop growing and selling rice which means over 50% of the alleged emissions continue and likely increase as they pick up the slack from any nation that falls for this idiotic ploy.

And rice still gets more expensive.

In other words, much like fossil fuel use and environmental concerns, Western Countries will force their people to tighten their belts, do with less, and pay more for zero environmental gain.

And that’s deliberate. The Western environmental movement is mostly about punishing rich countries to the benefit of poorer ones. If a few million people starve to death or die from poised food and water, depopulation is on their bucket list too.

 

HT | NewsWars

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Would you be surprised to learn that the newest form of gun control has its roots in the IRS? Same. We weren’t either.

Back in 2004, the IRS mandated the use of something called a “Merchant Category Code” or an MCC, as a way to classify different types of businesses and identify the types of goods or services that a company sells.

Soon, gun-grabbers figured out that a special MCC could be created for a business selling firearms, thus – another defacto gun registry that the government could easily access. Some of the worst proposals call for using these codes to flat-out ban purchases.

It doesn’t take too much creative thinking to see how people who hate your liberty will use this kind of tool.

After efforts to create a firearm-related MCC failed in recent years, a number of high-profile politicians sent a high-pressure letter to the major credit card companies last September. And just weeks later, the International Organization for Standardization (IOS) approved the creation of a new firearms-based code.

Unsurprisingly, Everytown was thrilled, “Today’s announcement is a critical first step towards giving banks and credit card companies the tools they need to recognize dangerous firearm purchasing trends.”

To them, of course, all firearms purchasing trends are dangerous, so we know where this is leading. And while people can still use cash for in-person purchases – or better yet, real money like gold and silver in some situations – neither of these are valid options for online retailers.

An article by Free Range American summed up the danger:

Watchdogs are concerned the banking industry has been recruited by the feds to use the coded transactions to create and maintain a database of gun owners that can then be accessed by the government. Indeed, it has been publicly stated that the purpose of the new code is to track “suspicious activity” related to firearms and mass shootings.   

In response, a handful of states started considering a bill called the “2nd Amendment Financial Privacy Act” to ban the use of these merchant codes in a way that distinguishes a firearms retailer from general merchandise retailers or sporting goods retailers.”

In other words, these states are attempting to just ban the use of the newly-authorized code.

This kind of legislation was signed into law in Idaho, and is on the governor’s desk in Mississippi. It passed the state senate in Florida, and is still pending in Texas and North Carolina.

We’ve been watching this new kind of state legislation all year, and are surprised as to how much impact it’s already having – prior to a single state even putting a ban into effect.

Last month, all the major credit card companies – Amex, Visa, MC, and Discover – announced they were putting a “pause” on implementation just because a handful of states were considering and potentially moving forward with a 2nd Amendment Financial Privacy Act.

A MasterCard spokesman confirmed that the state legislation is the reason for putting this on hold:

“There are bills advancing in several states related to the use of this new code. If passed, the result will be an inconsistency in how this ISO standard could be applied by merchants, issuers, acquirers and networks. It’s for that reason that we have decided to pause work on the implementation of the firearms-specific MCC.”

This is clearly an early win for the states. Rather than waiting for the entire scheme to get implemented first and then trying to stop it with a lawsuit or legislation later, they found a path forward that creates problems for implementation, and put a stop to it, at least for now.

But let’s not overstate the win. This is on PAUSE, they want us to let our guard down so they can regroup and push again. But that should be a huge green light for 15-20 more states to get on board and ban this practice now so it never gets off the ground.

As Samuel Adams so wisely put it,

“Instead of sitting down satisfied with the efforts we have already made, which is the wish of our enemies, the necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude and perseverance.”

 

 

Michael Boldin | The Tenth Amendment Center

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If inequity in transportation infrastructure looks like a distraction, it is. A made-up thing that, if it were real, would be the result of Democrat rule, which makes the Left spearheading so-called remedies that much more ridiculous.

But when has that ever stopped a Democrat? Just ask Mayor Choo-Choo Pete Buttigieg.

 

“We’ve got a crisis when it comes to roadway fatalities in America,” Buttigieg said. “We lose about 40,000 people every year. It’s a level that is comparable to gun violence – and we see a lot of racial disparities. Black and brown Americans and tribal citizens and rural residents are much more likely to lose their lives…”

“There are a lot of reason related to discrimination….even related to the way the roads are designed and who has access to a safe street design that’s got crosswalks and good lighting.”

 

Historically, the US used to lose more than 40k lives a year on the roadways, a number that started to slide downward in this century but has resurged to its historical norm. The most likely cause is risky behavior, so is there evidence of that?

Ethnicity and road-related fatalities have some history. So-called indigenous populations dominate transportation-related deaths as pedestrians as a result of speed, youth, and alcohol involvement. Black youths come next, followed by Hispanics.

It is true that young people of color are dying while driving or being struck by other drivers, and they are more likely to get struck by a car or on a bike if they are brown, young, poor, or working class, especially if you are American Indian or Alaskan native.

 

 

 

 

We see similar results for both daytime and nighttime fatalities (whites did rank second highest in daytime fatalities), so is this some sad systemic racist vehicular homicide plot?

Bad drivers are more likely to harm themselves or others regardless of the roads or conditions.

 

 

 

 

There is no denying the trends, but again, why does it have to be something intangible at which Democrats can throw more of your money? Obama’s first-term stimulus boondoggle spent hundreds of billions on transportation infrastructure which the data above suggests was either an investment in systemic racism or another left-wing laundromat boondoggle.

All those people of color died anyway.

Dems are also obsessed with ending affordable transportation and 15-minute walkable cities, so the timing is suspicious.

We should also ask, how is it that decades of incontestable Dem rule over urban areas resulted in more discrimination (today) than in decades past?

It’s a scam, a trap, a distraction—a way to blame others for problems they’ve caused or watched from their protected perch. But since that continues to work for them, making them richer and more powerful in the process, why should they stop trying?

 

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Iranians are proud of their historical friendship with the Jewish people. The bond of friendship goes back to the landmark action of King Cyrus the Great of Persia. In 537 BCE, having conquered Babylon, the benevolent King Cyrus freed the Jews from captivity and empowered them to return to the Promised Land and build their Temple.

Iranians want to distance themselves from the Islamic regime in Iran and the likes of Ahmadinejad, Raissi, and Ali Khamenei. Iranians wish the world to make a distinction between the Iranian people and the despicable Islamic regime, its wicked followers, and traitorous lobbyists.

Iranians stand for the rights of the Jews, as well as equal rights under the law for any and all religious and secular people. “A friend in need is a friend indeed” is an apt saying. It is time for Israel to reciprocate the historical assistance of the Iranians in their hour of need. It is payback time now. Israel should give the Iranian people a helping hand by supporting freedom-loving Iranians.

It is the Iranian people who can best end the tyrannical and menacing mullahcracy that is posing a deadly threat to all concerned.

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New Hampshire Independence PAC Chairman Matt Sabourin dit Choinière was this week’s guest on “Free State Live”, the weekly video show hosted by Free State Project movers and liberty-loving NH natives. Of course, they discussed peaceful NH independence. Watch the full episode here:

Earlier this year, a mullah in the city of Karaj blamed the lack of rain on the exposed heads of Iranian women. Those same women have been protesting these past eight months or so, refusing to wear hijabs, and burning them in the streets.

This is happening in a place that expects animators to make sure female characters in cartoons are drawn with hijab “because of the consequences of not doing so.”

This cultural revolt doesn’t get much attention from the Presstitutes in American media. It runs contrary to the dogma that drives their daily pilgrimage. Once thought to be passable truth-tellers, corporate media in the US is little more than a government cheerleader at best and information ministry at its worst. Rising each day to provide messaging cover for American elites.

Our short attention spans need not be distracted by an actual women’s rights issue that has persisted across time into the modern era. Women who,

“deserved the vocal and energetic support of Western feminists and the United States government in 1979. They didn’t get it. Neither did Aqsa Parvez, whose Muslim father choked her to death with her hijab after she refused to wear it; or Amina Muse Ali, a Christian woman in Somalia whom Muslims murdered because she wasn’t wearing a hijab; or the 40 women who were murdered in Iraq in 2007 for not wearing the hijab; or Alya Al-Safar, whose Muslim cousin threatened to kill her and harm her family because she stopped wearing the hijab in Britain; or Amira Osman Hamid, who faces whipping in Sudan for refusing to wear the hijab; or the Egyptian girl, also named Amira, who committed suicide after being brutalized for her family for refusing to wear the hijab; or the Muslim and non-Muslim teachers at the Islamic College of South Australia who were told that they had to wear the hijab or be fired; or the women in Chechnya whom police shot with paintballs because they weren’t wearing hijab; or the women also in Chechnya who were threatened by men with automatic rifles for not wearing hijab; or the elementary school teachers in Tunisia who were threatened with death for not wearing hijab; or the Syrian schoolgirls who were forbidden to go to school unless they wore hijab; or the women in Gaza whom Hamas has forced to wear hijab; or the women in Iran who protested against the regime by daring to take off their legally-required hijab; or the women in London whom Muslim thugs threatened to murder if they didn’t wear hijab; or the anonymous young Muslim woman who doffed her hijab outside her home and started living a double life in fear of her parents, or all the other women and girls who have been killed or threatened, or who live in fear for daring not to wear the hijab.”

The regime in Iran has ordered that women who are not wearing hijab will be forbidden from riding the Theran Metro (subway). Maybe they are afraid they, too, will experience a drought if they let women choose. Or perhaps they are like Barack Obama who, in  2009 said, “Moreover, freedom in America is indivisible from the freedom to practice one’s religion. That is why there is a mosque in every state in our union and over 1,200 mosques within our borders. That’s why the United States government has gone to court to protect the right of women and girls to wear the hijab and to punish those who would deny it.”

No word on when we can expect the same government to protect the rights of Christians.

On a related note, when the annual drought festival starts, perhaps pro-mask-mandated Democrat women across the state can take the spiritual advice of Mohammad-Mehdi Hosseini Hamedani and cover their heads and faces. You know, for the good of the community.

 

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In January of 2023, the EPA’s ENERGY STAR® “certified” a new Smart Grid product line with the potential for EPA-approved partnerships to make fabulous fortunes under a form of “Regulatory Capture” employed over electrical markets.

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The EPA claims their new Smart Home Energy Management System will save energy, save money, and the climate but fails to explain which source of scientific research was utilized by EPA for their government-owned energy management system that could be worth trillions of dollars. This isn’t a product that anyone could voluntarily purchase. It must be mandated for use by everyone.

To understand why the media imposed a total news blackout on the EPA’s new Smart Grid product line requires knowing a little about the obscure Office of Electricity that Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham created after a blackout had left 50 million customers in the dark back in 2003. The Office of Electricity was supposed to be all about securing America’s National Grid from cyber threats with a joint US and Canadian initiative, which appears to have morphed into something altogether different.

Gone from this DOE program was the typical language concerning cyber-security to protect our vital infrastructures. The Office of Electricity website now has an ‘about page’ speaking about the impact of implementing electrical deregulation from the 1990s before going on to disclose, this little-known DOE initiative had received hundreds of billions of dollars under Obama’s America Recovery and Reinvestment Act in 2009 – while it sought to address the uncertainty of future technological options and changing customers preferences and policies.

Which is Orwellian techno-babble designed to appear as if electrical customers actually wanted to purchase EPA’s superior goods and services.

The apparatchik had to suppress the new strategy of the Office of Electricity because the public would have questioned allowing private investors to contribute to “keeping the lights on more reliably and efficiently and reducing cost” in a scheme that had the DOE providing matching funds to private parties in a Smart Grid initiative that was directly tied to National Security policy issues.

What we’re talking about is one agency producing two distinctly different Smart Grid policies. One version by the Office of Electricity was to protect our national grid from penetration by a foreign actor. While the ENERGY STAR® Smart Home Energy Management System will expose American’s personal business and privacy to Samsung, a South Korean multinational that was the first corporation to receive certification for a Smart Energy application by the EPA.

The EPA claims their ENERGY STAR® brand is providing simple, unbiased, and credible information that customers rely on to make well-informed decisions, but can’t disclose when Congress authorized them to develop a business brand of products that had foreign entities competing against American businesses.

Back in 2003, DOE’s main policy objective was the reduction of electrical demand on our national grid, promoting the conservation of electricity in America’s Industrial Sector as the most cost-effective means for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Several major DOE research programs were operating in the Pacific NW. Those projects involved many of the same agencies and private sector players that had, in 2009, begun a Pacific NW Smart Grid Demonstration Project.

What the American people hadn’t realized was that DOE had dropped the pretense of trying to reduce GHG emissions and were now making money off of allowing corporations to pay for polluting.

By 2006, the original DOE policy of electrical conservation had been flipped upside down, and the new government policy had become all about carbon-credit trading schemes and pushing for Smart Grid applications that had less credibility than Bernie Madoff’s investment programs.

In 2009, Obama’s Energy Secretary Steve Chu released the EPA: Lead By Example guidelines, which directed state-level bureaucrats to claim that ENERGY STAR “certified” products were saving 25% to 50% more electrical energy than similar products. An easily provable lie!

Obama’s Energy Secretary Chu was now also in charge of the $100 billion Save Energy Now boondoggle, which funded 200 “industrial assessments” by universities to increase profits and productivity for a few select corporations. The media had to bury that fiasco in order to hide its connections to a much larger and far more corrupt initiative from back in 2003.

What was that secret?

The West Coast Governors Global Warming Pact was created in the wake of the California Energy Crisis of 2000-2001 when utilities used phony “Power Trades” and “Fiber Swaps” to drive up electric rates on the West Coast by 50% as authorities sat silent. The media had to bury the West Coast Governors scam because California’s disgraced governor Gray Davis was two weeks away from removal from office when he signed on to that secret pact.

The three governors created the West Coast Governors Global Warming Pact in 2003 after the US Senate had rejected the Kyoto Protocols. The Natural Resource Defense Council provided the sole media release on the West Coast Governors scam at the time, which didn’t contain a single word about California’s failed electrical deregulation plan, the Energy Crises, or that Governor Gray Davis had been recalled from office. It did include statements from Climate Solutions, a non-profit group that had just released its second Poised For Profit report on electrical energy efficiency and Smart Grid technologies.

At that time, Climate Solutions was operating the Harvesting Clean Energy program, which was allegedly searching for cost-effective energy solutions for industrial customers and corporate farms in Washington State.

Untold billions of tax-payer dollars were spent in the search for advanced energy-efficiency technologies, which was essentially all flushed down the toilet in favor of worthless Smart Grid efforts and bogus UN business-driven enterprises controlled by groups like the Clinton Global Initiative. While the average person couldn’t find a single informative article about our energy policies, universities are utilizing bogus data the public has never been allowed to question. Nobody could actually say what was being bought and sold, but if involves Smart Energy, there will always be a lot of green involved.

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It seemed like a good idea at the time. Not that long ago, Democrats were desperate to unseat the Republican president, the man responsible for such unbearable anguish among liberals and progressives. They saw Joe Biden as their best opportunity to do that.

They called him an elder statesman, a diplomat. They said he was experienced and well-respected. He was also gushing with promises to unite the country, but they didn’t really care about that. They just wanted to beat Trump.

Biden was none of the things they claimed. But they didn’t want to hear the truth. After choosing him, they closed their eyes to many red flags that began to pop up. They ignored the warning of Barack Obama’s Secretary of Defense, who wrote that Biden was “wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.” Even disturbing comments by Obama, himself, went unheeded. According to Politico, Obama said of Biden: “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f- things up.” Besides those clear warnings, questions were beginning to surface about Biden’s mental acuity. And credible allegations of influence peddling also began to percolate before his election. All of it was ignored by the press, the DNC and Democrat voters.

But that election is ancient history. Today, Democrats have real concerns about Biden’s ability to win another election. The man they once touted as their champion has become a burden, an anchor around the neck of the DNC. The polls confirm it. Americans across the board believe the country is on the wrong track, and less than 40 percent of Democrats want Biden to seek another term.

What’s behind Joe Biden’s reversal of fortune?

First, even committed Democrats can no longer deny Biden’s obvious confusion and mental decline. They’re realizing that elections do have consequences, and many have come to understand the catastrophic consequences of entrusting their lives, the lives of their families, and the country’s future to an addled and corrupt politician.

And though they may find it hard to admit, just like everyone else, they’re also feeling the economic pain of today’s high gas prices and rampant inflation. They know deep down that it was directly caused by Biden’s policies.

Likewise, Democrats are also parents. Many have school-age children. Like other parents, they must be livid about the increasing numbers of teachers robbing their children of their innocence, covertly introducing them to adult sexual practices of all kinds. They are, or should, be outraged by the insidious attempts to foster distrust between young students and their families, going so far as to encourage gender transition without the knowledge or consent of parents. And it must infuriate those parents when they’re labeled domestic terrorists for protecting their children, for forcefully objecting to those school policies.

Joe Biden backs the teachers’ unions and fully supports the sexualization of children. Asked to comment on Florida’s prohibition of transgender ideology in the classroom, he called the ban “almost sinful.”

Then there’s the border issue. Democrats have stood by silently as millions of unidentified foreign citizens continue to flood across Biden’s open border, a border that was secured by the last administration. Maybe they do see those illegal immigrants as future Democrat voters. But do those votes outweigh the death and suffering brought to America by the criminals and gang members hidden among Joe’s invitees? Do future Democrat voters outweigh the countless America deaths caused by the drugs freely flowing across the border? No doubt, many Democrats have already suffered because of Biden’s border policies. Besides all that, the threat of another major terrorist attack on American soil has increased significantly, thanks to Biden’s open borders. Surely, more than a few Democrats have been weighed down by those concerns.

It must have been a gargantuan effort for patriotic and well-meaning Democrats to support Joe’s weight for the past two years. To lighten their load, and for the good of the party, they had to shed many of their own convictions and perhaps a bit of their conscience. We have to wonder if, for them, there’s not one last straw that will finally break the camel’s back. What will it take for them to say they’ve had enough of Biden’s policies? Maybe it will be the growing anarchy spreading to their own neighborhoods, or the FBI infiltrating their own churches or synagogues.

Conscientious Democrats who are tired of carrying Biden’s weight might be asking themselves if they’re willing to again compromise their own integrity and common sense to support him through another election. They might even be questioning the likelihood that any Democrat president would reverse Biden’s policies and restore our country to normalcy – to the greatness it once was.

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Tell a lie, have a ton of witless followers, let them retell the lie, and this is how the Left controls this country. This narrative is why half of Americans have no idea what is happening, and this is why 35% of Americans think Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are doing a good job

This narrative is why Eric Swalwell is still in Congress.

Swalwell is a fraud, and he is an actual traitor. He had an affair with a Chinese spy, Fang Fang, and when he was alerted that the FBI was going to arrest her, he facilitated her speedy return to China before she could be detained. He was sleeping with Fang, a Communist Spy, exchanging pillow talk about his day on the Intelligence Committee. That Eric, is the act of a traitor or just another Representative from California.

Swalwell tweeted this about the 21-year-old alleged leaker from Massachusetts, Jack Teixeira: “FBI just caught one of the biggest traitors in America’s history, a right-wing anti-Semitic lunatic…”

We already addressed Swalwell calling anyone a traitor as laughable, but what facts does he have to make judgments about a man we know virtually little about? Swalwell is supposedly a lawyer but apparently skipped the class on innocent until proven guilty and don’t sleep with spies. They have to split that class up as it appears to have too much content for a man from California to comprehend.

Swalwell has a very active Twitter account. Let’s look at the impact of this one Tweet:

• 2.4 Million Views
• 9,685 Retweets
• 1,361 Quotes
• 41,000 Likes
• 264 Bookmarks 

That is tremendous attention for such a polarizing figure who loves to point his finger at anyone quickly but never takes personal accountability

Swalwell fails to point out that the FBI did not find and apprehend Teixeira. They arrested him at his parent’s home in Massachusetts only after his identity was discovered by the New York Times. He also fails to point out the deceit of the Biden Administration over the American people exposed in these documents. Swalwell does not comment on the weakness of our security system that a member of the Air National Guard could access and copy this sensitive data.

There are so many Tweets on Swalwell’s account that you wonder how he gets any of the people’s work done. That may be a good thing for his district, but the tone of many of his posts is accusatory. Swalwell always points a finger but rarely apologizes for his missteps or accepts accountability.

You would think that someone who has had so much negative press that they would keep a low profile. Not Eric. He assumes that people have very short attention spans and that his importance outweighs his faults. He could not be more wrong. He entered the Presidential Race in 2020 but did not last a week. There was nobody excited to see him on the debate stage or to see him drop out. He is a non-entity.

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RECENTLY, a bill to legalize recreational marijuana (HB 639) passed in the State House by a vote of 272-109. This was done on a Roll Call vote, which shows how each representative voted, and it is documented on the NH General Court website.

HB 639 will now go to the Senate for consideration.

The committee testimony delivered thus far by the bill’s sponsors we’ve heard before: focus on the tax revenue that marijuana sales could generate for critical services like schools, law enforcement, and drug addiction treatment programs; lament how we are currently losing out on potential revenue from surrounding legalized states; convince everyone that legalization is inevitable.

Guess what the bill’s sponsors never talk about? They don’t mention the decade of data we now have on what happens in states that legalize this federally prohibited drug because it highlights the tragic underbelly of recreational legalization. The data show significant rates of Cannabis Use Disorder in many age groups, starting as young as 12 years old, and off-the-chart rates of emergency room visits for those suffering a mental health crisis.

There are upticks in teen and veteran suicide rates, which also show that marijuana is the most prevalent substance found in post-mortem toxicology reports. There are explosive increases in child neglect cases and accidental child poisonings. In addition to all this, health professionals in states that have legalized marijuana are sounding the alarm on this public health train wreck. For more about what’s happening in Colorado and Vermont, read my Jan. 23, 2023, op-ed in NH Journal (bit.ly/3mgoIR0).

So what are three myths that our pro-legalization legislators are trying to sell us?

1. Legalizing recreational marijuana will reduce black market activity.

FACT: Recreational legalization does not curb black market activity in any way, particularly in states that tax the product. Oklahoma currently supplies the majority of black market marijuana in the US because they passed a law that allows for unlimited growth of medical marijuana products and criminal cartels immediately swarmed the state. Rest assured, the black market knows how to beat the retail price.

2. Legalization will bring in revenue for schools, law enforcement, and drug addiction treatment.

FACT: It is estimated that for every $1 legalization generates, it costs $4 to mitigate the negative fallout. Legalization results in an increased need for law enforcement produces more drug addicts who need treatment, increases crisis health care demand, results in more marijuana in middle and high schools, and increases the need for youth mental health services. Consider this solemn point: In order to make a substantial profit off marijuana, our state is going to have to sell a lot of it to its citizens. Moving this drug into the hands of the highest number of consumers is the business plan, which is objectively shocking from a public health standpoint.

3. Legalization is inevitable.

FACT: Legalization is not inevitable. Despite what we’re told by the marijuana lobby and activist legislators, recreational legalization is being rejected by states. As a matter of fact, over the past two years, there have been five states who have said no to this bad idea; North Dakota, South Dakota, Arkansas, Delaware, and Oklahoma. Oklahoma’s recent decision was particularly interesting because voters decisively rejected a recreational legalization ballot measure by more than 61% — despite the marijuana lobby outspending the pro-public health groups by millions of dollars. Oklahomans were already sold a bill of goods with regard to medical marijuana, and they were not ready to be fooled again.

Although New Hampshire has wisely held out on recreational legalization, our state has been under a nonstop onslaught for years from marijuana lobby groups and activist legislators who are willing to sacrifice public health over their own self-dealing financial interests in marijuana. To make matters even worse, our state is already selling highly-addictive, high-concentrate marijuana products that contain over 90% THC in our state-sanctioned Alternative Treatment Centers. In many respects, New Hampshire isn’t just poised to jump over a cliff with regard to recreational marijuana legalization; we’re already hanging on by our fingertips with our current laws.

Granite Staters deserve to have an objective, thorough debate on recreational marijuana legalization. We deserve to have legislators who uphold their solemn responsibility to act in the best interest of all citizens. Most importantly, Granite Staters deserve to have legislators who will not gaslight us with false promises.

It’s time for our elected representatives to learn a thing or two from former Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating when he said: “Well, it’s bad for brains, it’s bad for health, it’s very bad for children. So, what are we doing?”

Good question.

Now is the time for all of us to start asking our state senators, and Governor Chris Sununu, the very same thing.

 

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Last week the state got jiggy with the threat of wildfires. Warning! That’s always a concern when the weather improves, the snow melts, and folks start burning all the downed brush from winter storms. But is it that dry?

Related: 2023 Prediction: Drought Headlines Across the Region Regardless of the Weather

In some places, sure. Leaves from last autumn are still around. We had several late-season storms that left a lot of fuel in the form of branches, trees, and other flammable debris in the canopy and down on the ground. And let’s be realistic – it is always critically important to be responsible when you burn anything outdoors (assuming you are able).

Towns in NH have rules that require you to go to the local fire department to get a burn permit though those rules have improved. We used to have to go every time we wanted to burn; then the permits were for two weeks, and now – thanks to COVID, they write you a permit for the entire year. And while you used to have to call the local FD to make sure it was okay to burn, you can check the state Forestry Twitter feed, and if they are good, you are good.

Burn but responsibly no matter what, so what’s what so far in 2023?

We are slightly above the 120-year average through March.

According to NOAA, New Hampshire has received 10.69 inches of precipitation through March. The 120-year mean 1895-2023 is 9.73 inches.

 

January was well above average.

 

February was below average.

 

March was Baby Bear. Just right (9/10th of an inch above the 120+ year mean.

Looking forward, April has been much wetter in recent years, with May and June much drier.

July – wet.

But we’re in an El Nino year, which – as I noted here – might mean below-average precipitation this summer. I don’t have NOAA’s predictive bucket of partisan goat entrails, but I took another quick look at the trends and could see no El Nino, La Nina pattern for the Granite State.

We can make a general observation. Precipitation has been higher during the modern warming period (which has ended).

 

 

Annual totals have been down since then, along with the flattening of tide gauge data off the coast of Portsmouth.

 

 

 

But let’s not get distracted. The media drought festival is coming! Time to manipulate the locals into using less water which – honestly, thanks to political priorities that have driven up the cost of this sometimes human right, they are likely doing already.

And don’t forget the progressive golden rule of science. Your experts are partisans “on the take,” while theirs are not.

 

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My father taught me much of what I came to believe. Because of him, I lived the first 66 years of my life with the naive belief that this country was exceptional. Because of him, I learned always to question authority. Because of him, I learned that there are some things worth fighting for.

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I love him for all of that. He is a part of my very being. I miss him terribly; I wanted to talk to him so many times during the last three years. But he was lucky; he left this world still naively believing in the exceptionalism of this country. Unfortunately, I have lost my naiveness.

Three years ago, when the governor decreed that we were not allowed to leave our houses, that we were not allowed to go to work, that our children were not allowed to go to school, and so on and so on, I literally lost my breath. I could not breathe; I was in a state of shock, disbelief. I suddenly understood how someone like Hitler could come to power. And then I became afraid, not of a virus, but of my government and my fellow citizens. I forever lost my sense of security; my country, my fellow citizens, was no better than any other nation throughout history. I think that has been the worst loss for me…no longer believing in my country.

So now you are asking, ”what is historic about April 18?” On April 18, 2020, I attended my first protest at the age of 66. I started to breathe again as we approached the state house in Concord, and I saw the hundreds of other Americans who understood what was happening and that it was all wrong.

On July 3, 1776, the day before we declared our independence, the colonists had more freedoms than we had in April 2020. The colonists could breathe fresh, clean air without covering their faces; the colonists could break bread with their friends in person; the colonists could worship in person; the colonists could comfort family in person. Overnight we had lost all those freedoms and so much more; it seemed to me that no one cared.

Luckily I was wrong. From the hell of our covid tyranny did come the brave organizers of that protest, who went on to create ReopenNH, now known as RebuildNH. I am eternally grateful to them. They helped an old woman to breathe again; they helped an old woman to believe again; they helped an old woman to find her courage. They are heroes, 21st-century patriots. They gave me back my life. Thank you.

As the old adage says, “Freedom is not free.” It is fragile and fleeting. It must be fought for every single day by every one of us.

“We the People” must find the courage to be free, to resist the allure of socialist propaganda, aka tyranny. Otherwise, I fear that this greatest experiment of humankind will “perish from the earth.”

 

Editor: Here are a few of the many archived images from that day.

 

 

 

 

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Convenient events have transpired while your government advances speech-stifling legislation. The Teixeira leak arrives as The Restrict Act, a law peddled as addressing the security concerns surrounding TikTok, advances to undermine your first amendment rights.

Because, as J.B. Shurk at American Thinker reminds us, you are the biggest threat to their power.

 

For years, conservative websites struggled to survive financially as shadowbans and stealth blacklisting eliminated advertising revenues and throttled user engagement.  Online trolls infiltrated comment sections posting inflammatory content that could be used as false flag justifications to legally threaten or otherwise punish conservative forums.  Conservative content creators and their readers strenuously objected to the organized censorship war being waged against them, but few politicians, reporters, or pundits cared.

Now the cat is out of the bag, and neither government agencies nor their corporate co-conspirators are hiding their embrace of viewpoint discrimination.  The FBI continues to flag more language — including words as innocuous as “red pill,” “based,” and “Chad” — as extremist rhetoric.  Google blocked Right Side Broadcasting Network from covering President Trump’s Democrat-engineered Manhattan arraignment on YouTube, claiming that the censorship was necessary to combat “elections misinformation.”  A revolving door now exists to fill social media companies with employees from the ranks of the FBI, CIA, and Homeland Security.  Meanwhile, Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum has announced the hiring of millions of “information warriors” tasked with the mission to “seize control of the Internet” and serve as “digital first-responders” combating “misinformation.”

 

The deservedly maligned Restrict Act has arrived to systematize this oppression.

 

The Restrict Act is nothing short of a betrayal of our democracy, as it seeks to impose a digital Iron Curtain, allow the government to monitor our every move, censor our online speech, and crush any dissent under the guise of national security. The Restrict Act is an affront to… pic.twitter.com/2MMa82fHKN

— Tulsi Gabbard (@TulsiGabbard) April 13, 2023

Sundance at The Conservative Treehouse reminds us that the recent leak of classified information alleged to have exposed lies about the war in Ukraine is likely itself an op, or at the very least, a crisis they won’t let go to waste.

 

The intel leak is the operation created by the Intelligence Community to support new expanded powers for the Fourth Branch of Government.  It should not be a surprise to discover the institution now leading the charge to give more power for U.S. intel agencies, is…. wait for it…  The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. …

According to SSCI Chairman Mark Warner, ‘The Restrict Act’ will give more power and authorities to the Executive Branch to deal with internet danger.  Now the SSCI sees the classified intel leaks as evidence for the importance of the Restrict Act.

 

Undercover DC ads,

 

It’s a sneaky way to push Restrict Act legislation to a vote, (like the lynching bill Smollett-Harris)
It’s worse than the Patriot Act & written by Mark Warner. It’ll end citizen journalism. Natl security isn’t an issue. Didn’t a large balloon gather data above military bases? pic.twitter.com/KBKTVMc0Yz

— Congress Needs Mandatory Retirement Law (@PhillipsNanl) April 14, 2023

 

Here’s the screen grab from Kash Patel.

 

 

 

No way, indeed. To quote Baby Herman from Roger Rabbit, it stinks like yesterday’s diapers. But the Restrict Act is real, and while we have, at least numerically, a Republican majority in Congress, expecting them to step up and block this in any meaningful way – useless amendments are expected to put a patina on this tyrannical turd – is a fantasy.

And it won’t stop intel leaks. Hillary’s abuse of protocol gave everything that passed through her home-cooked server to the Chinese government in real-time. For all we know, that was deliberate.

Democrats hate America, and they hate you. As J.B. Shurk noted, “Make no bones about it: the federal government’s number-one worry is you.” They can control everything else, so you are job number one, and the Restrict Act gets them closer than they’ve ever been.

 

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Dear Paul Halvorsen, After receiving the letter from Stephen Endres in your office, who states that there are no records of Merrimack County Prosecutor Catherine Ruffle being informed by Concord City Council member Amanda Grady Sexton of witness tampering by former AG Michael Delaney during the trial of NH v Owen Labrie (which had been claimed by NH State witness Chessy Prout in her letter to the US Senate Judiciary Committee in Jan/February 2021), I looked into contacting the Administrative Offices per your original email suggestion.

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However, the only contact is Catherine Ruffle herself: https://www.courts.nh.gov/your-visit/find-court/merrimack-superior-court

I believe that you, as a publicly elected official, have a responsibility to pursue justice even for misconduct which preceded your tenure and even if it involves those who still work in positions as public officials with your court or with the City of Concord.

I draw your attention to the following statement:

“While the Board of County Commissioners is generally responsible for overseeing all aspects of county government, the elected County Attorney is solely responsible for overseeing the functions of the County Attorney’s office, including its investigative, prosecutorial and law enforcement functions,” Commissioners Chairwoman Tara Reardon wrote in a letter distributed Monday.

Catherine Ruffle was Merrimack County Superior Court Prosecutor. She is the Clerk for Merrimack County Superior Court.

Amanda Grady Sexton is the Chair of the City of Concord Council’s Public Safety Committee, on the Rules Committee, and she is the Director of Public Affairs for the NHCADSV, which trains police in “best practices”. She works with police and prosecutors to shape the message pretrial per her own statements in the NCVLI publication “Pretrial Publicity Friend or Foe – Advice for the Experts,” which she co-authored with Steven J Kelly.
Steven J Kelly is an attorney who was introduced to the criminal trial of NH v Owen Labrie courtesy of Concord Police Detective Julie Curtin, who introduced Laura L Dunn (who introduced Kelly) to the Prout family, having taken instruction from her at UNH in Spring 2015. This is documented in articles in the Union Leader, Women’s Media Center, and State Witness Chessy Prout’s “memoir” – “I Have the Right To” with introduction by Congresswoman Ann Kuster.

Police Detective Julie Curtin was a police officer for the City of Concord at the time of the investigation into Owen Labrie, at the time of his trial, at the time of his appeal, and worked under AG Gordon MacDonald’s direction in 2018 and 2019 when Gordon MacDonald represented the State to deny both Owen Labrie’s Supreme Court Appeals.  Gordon MacDonald also blocked the release of corrupt police officers’ names from being made public, and his deputy AG, Geoffrey Ward, deleted the files of 28 or more police officers before the Laurie List was published.  Gordon MacDonald has had to recuse himself from cases involving corrupt police officers in his position as New Hampshire Supreme Court Chief Justice.

Police Detective Julie Curtin received a complaint about her that was denied by the NH Supreme Court in 2006.

Police Detective Julie Curtin admitted in the trial of Owen Labrie that she was trying to “catch” him and to get him to make a statement before rumors spread. The records show very clearly that Police Detective Julie Curtin did not abide by professional codes of conduct and that she falsified a SANE nurse report (corrected by the SANE nurse in the trial) for her affidavit which she then used to obtain electronic Facebook/texts etc. which she then tampered with causing the defense to provide unredacted versions.

Police Detective Julie Curtin obtained files from St Paul’s School without a warrant (documented by Lacy Crawford in her memoir “Notes on a Silencing”), which she did while she was working at the direction of AG Gordon MacDonald and Assistant AG Jane Young during the Grand Jury Criminal Investigation of St Paul’s School which yielded not only a contract for the NHCADSV but also several suits for Chuck Douglas (Chair of the NH Judicial Selection Committee) and Amanda Grady Sexton’s partner Steven J Kelly Esq.

Concord Police Chief Bradley Osgood admitted last year in an unrelated federal case that the City of Concord approves budgets for police investigations and payments to witnesses for the Grand Jury – leaving Judge Landya McAfferty quite astonished, per Concord Monitor, at the lack of regard for ethics and codes of conduct.

Police Detective Julie Curtin was the investigator into Primo “Howie” Leung at Concord Schools, and yet your office has not prosecuted that case for four years, and the investigation appears to be left hanging after Curtin’s initial report.

Police Detective Julie Curtin admitted to Lacy Crawford, per Lacy Crawford’s public accounts, that she is aware of backdoor deals regarding St Paul’s School. Not only is she aware of them, but my research indicates that she is a beneficiary of them and that there is most likely a kickback scheme going on that involves Police Detective Julie Curtin, Amanda Grady Sexton/NHCADSV, Prosecutor Catherine Ruffle, civil attorneys and the AG’s office itself.

For the record, I was contacted in February or March 2020 by an alum of St Paul’s School who was the victim of an intercept call orchestrated by Detective Julie Curtin, who had obtained the files of an old girlfriend of his from his time at St Paul’s School, cold called her and then trained her for an intercept call to this man. He was threatened with criminal charges but advised that he could avoid these if he paid a significant amount of money – which he did.

For the record, I was contacted in February or March 2023 by an attorney out of state who had represented one of the complainants against Primo “Howie” Leung in a civil case against the Fessenden School Massachussetts. That suit was rejected by the judge and the attorney who contacted me suspected misconduct by Detective Julie Curtin in her role in the case. The attorney who took on the complainant was referred to her by Wadleigh Starr who brought the civil suit against Concord School District even though Robin Melone of Wadleigh Starr had been dropped from the investigation because of her role in defending Owen Labrie and Wadleigh Starr’s knowledge of Detective Julie Curtin’s misconduct in NH v Owen Labrie (evident in the motion for a retrial).

RULE 3.8 for PROSECUTORS:

I believe you are familiar with Rule 3.8 of the Prosecutor’s Code of Conduct regarding extra-judiciary comments either directly or indirectly via people working with police and prosecutors.  I believe by now you will also be familiar with Concord Councilwoman Amanda Grady Sexton’s very public statements about her role in shaping the message pretrial for police and prosecutors as well as Catherine Ruffle’s daughter, Brooke Ruffle’s Facebook post calling for her mother to go and get some “rapist butt” under a photograph of Owen Labrie as her mother was headed into a retrial hearing in February 2017.

What kind of operation is Merrimack County Superior Court to not admonish that kind of behavior from a Prosecutor and her family and for that prosecutor to fail to remove that post and then become a clerk of the court? Under the Facebook post there were other posts seeking for Owen Labrie to rot in jail, to die etc. Catherine Ruffle did not remove these at the time (and they may still be there. I and others have screenshots).

Why is it that nobody takes action against those who violate public trust by violating rule 3.8 as Catherine Ruffle so very clearly did by working with Amanda Grady Sexton to shape the message pre criminal trial, during criminal trial and post criminal trial of NH v Owen Labrie?

Rule 3.8 was violated again when Chuck Douglas, Steve Silverman and Steven Kelly worked with Amanda Grady Sexton to shape the media message in Doe/Prout v St Paul’s School.

Rule 3.8 was violated again when Gordon MacDonald, AG for New Hampshire, worked with Amanda Grady Sexton for the news publicity of the Grand Jury Criminal Investigation into St Paul’s School which yielded a contract for the NHCADSV and the placement of an ex police officer inside the school who would report to AG Gordon MacDonald.

Why is it that Merrimack County Courts, officials for the City of Concord Council, its police, local attorneys and the AG’s office under Gordon MacDonald have absolutely no regard for Rule 3.8?

[5] Paragraph (f) supplements Rule 3.6, which prohibits extrajudicial statements that have a substantial likelihood of prejudicing an adjudicatory proceeding. In the context of a criminal prosecution, a prosecutor’s extrajudicial statement can create the additional problem of increasing public condemnation of the accused. Although the announcement of an indictment, for example, will necessarily have severe consequences for the accused, a prosecutor can, and should, avoid comments which have no legitimate law enforcement purpose and have a substantial likelihood of increasing public opprobrium of the accused. Nothing in this Comment is intended to restrict the statements which a prosecutor may make which comply with Rule 3.6(b) or 3.6(c).

[6] Like other lawyers, prosecutors are subject to Rules 5.1 and 5.3, which relate to responsibilities regarding lawyers and nonlawyers who work for or are associated with the lawyer’s office. Paragraph (f) reminds the prosecutor of the importance of these obligations in connection with the unique dangers of improper extrajudicial statements in a criminal case. In addition, paragraph (f) requires a prosecutor to exercise reasonable care to prevent persons assisting or associated with the prosecutor from making improper extrajudicial statements, even when such persons are not under the direct supervision of the prosecutor. Ordinarily, the reasonable care standard will be satisfied if the prosecutor issues the appropriate cautions to law- enforcement personnel and other relevant individuals. [link]

Compare the above excerpts of Rule 3.8 with Amanda Grady Sexton’s statements in this article, where she talks about the dangers of live reporting, important editorial decisions, keeping tabs on the media, and using the trial as an opportunity:

And Amanda Grady Sexton’s statements and bio statements here.

“The NH Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence often hears from victims and their attorneys who are heading into court and are looking for advice about pretrial publicity and ways to influence media coverage throughout the trial. In recent years, New Hampshire has had a number of sexual assault and domestic violence cases that have captured the attention of the national news media. As a result, the Public Affairs team at NHCADSV has developed strategies or proactively working to shape the media’s coverage of crime. Publicity of any kind can be a mixed-bag, but when used effectively, pretrial publicity can be a powerful tool for creating a narrative and controlling a message.”  -Amanda Grady Sexton

She has provided national training to prosecutors, civil attorneys, law enforcement officials and victim advocates on crisis communications, message development, and effective strategies for working with the media.

Take into consideration that Merrimack County Superior Court issued a restriction on media reporting from the trial of NH v Owen Labrie after a motion was filed that included the NHPR Journalist Paige Sutherland’s innocuous tweets. So the civil attorneys who worked with Amanda Grady Sexton and WMUR (Merrimack County Superior Court gave exclusive TV rights to WMUR (Amanda Grady Sexton’s husband is the Political Director of WMUR) got an NHPR journalist restricted while Susan Zalkind for Vice Media was welcomed and was given the Prout/Doe v St Paul’s civil suit before the school was served, as was the Concord Monitor and NBC Today Show.

Take into consideration that between the verdict of NH v Owen Labrie and the Sentencing of NH v Owen Labrie, Amanda Grady Sexton (whose organization, the NHCADSV, is a beneficiary of the Adam Walsh Act Sex Offender Registration Management Federal Grants)used her public official title to pen the following Op-Ed.

For the record, Amanda Grady Sexton orchestrated a national social media and phone call campaign to block ABC/GMA from airing an interview with Owen Labrie in July 2019, which had content that would have exposed attempts to bribe Owen Labrie.  Her efforts to shut this program down just so happened to coincide with the mediation of a lawsuit against Dartmouth College by Steven J Kelly Esq & Chuck Douglas Esq (Rapuano & Does v Dartmouth). That mediation resulted in a settlement a couple of weeks later, in early August 2019, for $14 million, of which the NHCADSV appears to have received $2.865 million (20%) while Chuck Douglas Esq & Steven J Kelly Esq received $4.9 million.

The Rapuano & Does suit led to the suicide of Professor David Bucci, who was mentioned 31 times in the lawsuit whose publicity was paid for using a grant from Times Up LDF/NWLC, which shares the same PR company (SKDK) as “Its On Us” which worked with the Prout Family, NHCADSV to block ABC/GMA from airing the interview with Owen Labrie.

The NHCADSV and Dartmouth both have non-profit obligations to the State of New Hampshire to report conflicts of interest. Governor Sununu is on the board of the Board of Trustees at Dartmouth, and he approves the budget for the NHCADSV, whose IRS form 990s are opaque, to say the least.

I firmly believe that Professor Bucci would not have been driven to suicide had Amanda Grady Sexton not abused her position as a public official to deny Owen Labrie his first amendment rights and to speak for himself on ABC/GMA.  The misconduct of civil attorneys would have been exposed, the misconduct of Concord Police would have been exposed, and the false statements of the NHCADSV and prosecutors would have been exposed.

You have a duty to the public interest.

 

 

Editor: This email to Merrimack County Attorney Paul Halvorsen has been very lightly edited (links embedded, punctuation/style) with minor reformatting for publication in this space. Emphasis is in the original.

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