In the first part of this series, we looked at the massive amount of evidence from Pfizer’s own “confidential” documents illustrating almost Nazi-like experimentation on innocent people via COVID mRNA shots.

Rather than a highly skilled scientific response to the inevitable growth of a novel virus, we find a highly coordinated effort to inject billions with a, known to Pfizer, lipid nano-particle delivery system that compromises immunity more than enhances it.  Dr. Wolf asks the question – how do the vaccines act as a bioweapon? Who was mandated and why? Of the adverse events, why are they primarily in Western countries?  What do these findings indicate about this being a bio-weapon aimed at Americans rather than a miracle vaccine developed to save the world?

Means and Malice

Of the malevolent findings, the most prominent is the action the vaccine takes against human reproduction.  Among Pfizer’s areas of study were the reproductive responses in rats.  They found that vaccinated rats suffered numerous degradations to their male and female organs and hormonal levels. Wolf notes the incongruity – this is a respiratory virus, so why is Pfizer looking at how they affect reproduction in lab animals?

Furthermore, we learned from Pfizer they listed twenty-six different types of menstrual irregularities or injuries suffered by women and the attack on male developmental characteristics in utero.  The cold descriptions and thorough documentation accompanying these are reminiscent of those found among the Nazi scientists who ran experiments on Jews and other captives intended to advance their war machine.  In the book “The Paperclip Conspiracy,” the author tells of Jews being forced into extreme cold temperatures, altitude tolerance, as well as racial reaction to various diseases, sterilization, and drug testing.  The conspiracy came when Western powers, in the case of Project Paperclip, spirited Nazi scientists away to their countries rather than have them stand trial at Nuremberg for war crimes.  American military and intelligence coordinated by putting paperclips on the files of scientists they wanted to retain.  Most famously, the one-time head of NASA was a former Nazi, Werner Von Braun.

Wolf begins connecting some dots.

Pfizer is a German-Chinese owned company.  They bought BioNtech mere months before the start of the pandemic.  BioNtech was also co-owned by Germans and Chinese.  Both companies then signed a Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU) with Fosun, a Chinese pharmaceutical company essentially controlled by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).  This MOU transferred technology rights to Fosun for producing the vaccines.  Thus, China was making the vaccines distributed in the west.  They did this through fifteen labs they put in to production between 2019-2021 in the west.  Of the thirteen two are located in the U.S., one in Princeton, NJ and the other in Springfield, MA the rest in Europe.

Curiously, the vaccines China gives to its people are not the same as they give Americans.

Mandates and Manipulation

Here in the U.S. where mandates were enacted the target subjects, aside from being nearly everyone, Wolf notes special heat was placed on key members of society.  Among them are college and university students, especially those at elite schools like her alma mater Yale, where she has friends who are distraught at what she’s uncovered.  The military also mandated the enlisted, many of whom either quit or were forced out for refusing or being disallowed religious exemptions.  Then there were the first responders who provide the nation’s medical care.

Add the 24/7 psychological pressure applied by network media via COVID fear propaganda (remember the constant death toll tickers), funded by Pfizer, and it becomes exceedingly clear this was by design not out of an abundance of caution to “stay safe”.

Her husband, Brian O’shea, was trying to tell her this at the beginning of the pandemic.  He had the luxury of twelve years working in military intelligence.  Whereas she originally considered him “crazy” she could see things more clearly, not just from the admissions within Pfizer, but thanks to her time in politics.  One of her roles was to reverse engineer the outcome by encouraging manipulative messaging for the desired political goal.  What she witnessed in media (t.v., news papers, magazines, social media, etc.) was textbook political-style emotional manipulation, not emergency medicine.  Her 2,500 volunteer medical professionals confirmed as much in their 58 reports.

Mens Rea

Wolf concludes the real villain, aside from Pfizer and associated Big Pharma cohort, is China.  The documents reveal China knew from two separate studies.  The first, a Chinese study from 2018, showed lipid nano-particles damage mammalian fertility. In 2021 a study in Hong Kong, also controlled by the CCP, showed the first injection enlarges the heart in rats and the second injection causes catastrophic multi-organ system failure.

The Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) for Pfizer shots showed 46,000 adverse reactions.  Of these 36,000 happened in the U.S., approximately 7,000 happened in western Europe, so more than 90% of the vaccine injuries happened in the western world, with prior knowledge by Pfizer, Moderna, BioNtech, etc..

Though I agree we should look there not just for the source but for means, motive and methods related to this crime against humanity, the blaming of a nation or people is erroneous.  The Chinese people, many of whom hate the CCP, had literally nothing to do with COVID or the response.  They are not the enemy.

At one point Wolf describes the forces of COVID acting in “lockstep” which is a key term given the Rockefeller Center published a paper in 2010 which included a scenario “lockstep” describing in almst precise detail a pandemic originating from a flu-like virus in China, spreading to the west, massive amounts of economic turmoil, supply chain issues, etc.  It’s as if they war-gamed it ahead of time.

Here at the Chronicle we offered the Plan-demic series explaining the less than subtle maneuvers of the global controllers, such as Gates and WEF head Klaus Schwab, and how the 1918 Spanish Flu acted as a dry run for it’ s100 year anniversary party in COVID.  This “truther” video, also from 2010, matches up to the Rockefeller document with uncanny similarity.

The real war is one of ideology. In this case elitist sponsored and directed socialist-communism vs. good old-fashioned western liberalism.  In the last article in this series we will look for hope these super criminals will see justice in this life.

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The Biden-regime is not yet feeding Christians to the lions … but just give them some time. In case you haven’t been paying attention … you know, if you have been focused on the really important stuff like supporting the UniParty’s illegal war against Russia, or the NHGOP’s jihad against local zoning, or the NHGOP legalizing pot, etc. etc. etc. … the Biden-regime is waging a war against Christians. From Fox News:

President Biden’s Justice Department offered what critics are calling a sweetheart plea deal to a vandal who admitted to defacing a Catholic church with profane graffiti, destroying a statue of the Virgin Mary, assaulting a church worker, and resisting arrest.

A plea agreement reviewed by Fox News Digital shows that the DOJ recommends zero jail time for the perp, Maeve Nota, a 31-year-old transgender individual who vandalized the St. Louise Catholic Church in Bellevue, Washington, following Roe v. Wade’s overturning last June.

Nota sharply contrasts with the Biden administration’s earlier approach of throwing the book at pro-life protesters outside abortion clinics.

There is no longer any rule of law in America … which means there is no longer any America. The law is merely a weapon to stifle dissent and force compliance with the regime’s orthodoxy. Stated more succinctly, in the hands of the Left the law is a weapon of domestic terror.

The only hope is for Red Americans living in Blue States to leave those States and move to Red States (and Purple States … real Purple States, i.e. NOT Blue Hampshire) and make those States unpalatable to Blue Americans by pursuing policies and passing laws that are anathema to Blue Americans AND turn State governments into a shield to protect Red Americans from the tyrants … elected and unelected … in Washington DC.

 

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Just a few years ago, Alaska was the poster child for global warming. The canary in a coal mine, as Tony Heller reminds us. But something happened. The climate changed, and Alaska has fallen from alarmist grace.

‘Coldest stretch of air in nearly 40 years for Easter’

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – As Peter Cottontail hops through Southcentral Alaska, not only will he be dealing with hare high snow depth, but potentially one of the coldest Easters Anchorage has seen on record.

Cold air continues to spill into the region, ahead of a polar low over the Northwest Arctic Borough. That area of low pressure lacks any upper-level support that will kick it out of the region: as a result, colder air will stay with us in the coming days.

• ‘Anchorage reaches 100″ of snow for season, experiences coldest Easter on record.’
• Anchorage has seen almost double its usual snowfall since December
• Anchorage sets new record for amount of snow on the ground in April

 

Suspension of disbelief is the only thing keeping the Climat BS from swirling down the bowl. Coldest Easter in April and the most snow on record. It’s a problem, even for the snow and cold is evidence of warming crowd. The kids will never know snow cabal is painfully silent as well.

Increased snowfall over land comes with other problems. It adds snow pack to glaciers which then become bigger glaciers trapping much-needed sea-level rise on land where it does them no good.

It also puts the global in not so much warming. We had some amazing weather last week in New England, with one day up around 90 degrees. This week is much more temperate. But from the Left coast to the Rockies and inland, they got smacked with cold and snow all winter long. Records were set. Children who were never expected to “know snow” did!

With Alaska being cold and snowy, it proves that climate change is real (yes, the climate changes), but not always the way the fearmongering alarmists like.

It is at times like this when they remember that Alaska is where that Sarah Palin broad came from, and there’s not much else to say about it, not until the climate changes in a way that supports the approved narrative.

 

HT | RCSB

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NHPR has joined NPR’s hissy-fit boycott of twitter:

What the NHGOP should do … BUT WON’T because they are LOSERS … is to stop talking to NHPR. It’s a simple choice: either stand with the elites, such as NHPR, or stand with GOP voters who are sick and tired of being lied to, mocked by and demonized by NHPR.

Of course, the NHGOP will choose the elites … because it is more important to them to get a pat on the head, and a that-a-person from the elites than to represent GOP voters. So they’ll continue to let NHPR use them as punching bags and portray them as caricatures. LOSERS … they are such losers.

And, of course, the NHGOP will defend their prostrating themselves to NHPR as reaching out to all voters … you can’t win with just Republicans … BLAH, BLAH, BLAH, BLAH, BLAH. Dear Losers, you are NEVER going to get NHPR listeners to vote for you … they think you’re Nazis … and a big part of the reason they think you’re Nazis is that you aid and abet NHPR telling them you’re Nazis.

Instead of wasting their time trying to convert hard-core Communists … i.e. NHPR’s loyal listeners … the NHGOP should be focused like a laser beam on voters who might actually be persuadable. But identifying and connecting with such voters is hard work and LOSERS don’t like hard work, so the NHGOP will keep pretending that kowtowing to the Communists at NHPR will get the “suburban white women” to vote GOP.

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Nothing about the transportation net zero push to Electric Vehicles adds up, which has had us suggesting their ulterior motives. No cars for the little people forced pedestrianism, and now the WEF is pushing scooters (ideal for their 15-minute cities).

Not a whit of which will by your choice. And it all starts with recent rumblings about city parking.

 

It turns out that the WEF has found a new enemy: parking spaces. You see, parking spaces slow down the climate progress and “hold back urban mobility.”

 

The thrust of this idiocy is that (cities) are wasting resources and real estate by adding parking spaces that should be used for things like bike or scooter ride sharing or electric vehicle charging stations (or idols to WEF leadership?). But according to details provided by Igor Chudov on his substack, innovative city experiments with fewer parking spaces resulted in businesses leaving. Fewer jobs, fewer opportunities. Chudov, who also lived in a 15-minute city for over twenty years (Moscow!), says (reformatted),

 

I used public transportation and walked to stores and school instead of driving. I had no other choice. People lived in small apartments due to the urban density needed to allow stores to be located within walking distance. The upside is that almost everyone was thin there, although people were far from healthy for many reasons. The downside is that it was majorly inconvenient and limiting compared to my life in the USA, as I discovered after I moved.

 

First, yes, urban density living is indeed (if you had doubts) an inherently Marxist/centrally planned solution, and second, it is based on their choices, not yours. Chudov adds that the push for less parking includes calls for more ride-sharing and … scooters. My first thought was that if you made large college campuses untraversable for the handicapped and said, shut up and use a scooter, it would be ableist—less mobility for the mobility impaired.

It is also, along the same vein, body shaming. Forcing people to walk, bicycle, or scooter – even if some of them are electric – will involve a good deal more cardio than resting your fat ass in an EV, which – if you’ve been following – won’t belong to you. You’ll be getting in and out of someone else’s Lyft or Uber/EV (or whoever the state-sanctioned, party-approved vendor happens to be) as defined by the limited mobility Tsars).

If these modes are too tiny for you to squeeze your white colonialist ass into in the first place, take a walk – especially where winter means snow and scooters are useless. Or, stay inside and watch MSNBC. Order takeout – but remember that those choices affect your social credit score.

So, yeah, this is a nod to the idea that the ultimate end to the EV conversion plan (as we’ve been saying) is no cars for you because the people at the very top of the ideological food chain (handing buckets of narrative water out to for the useful idiots to carry) know there isn’t enough material or time for any of this foolishness.

Never was – and that’s the point. EVs equal forced urban density and walkability, even if you can’t walk.

And if you think the ruling class that can’t party without private air travel intends to give up their cars, that’s not happening. But making it too expensive to live in a rural location or to use any but the approved modes of transportation – that will happen if you let it.

 

[From 210-2020] urban areas have grown denser, changing from an average population density of 2,343 in 2010 to 2,553 in 2020.  Additionally, 225 urban areas qualify based on the 2020 housing unit threshold that would not have qualified based on the new population threshold alone. …

Of the nation’s four census regions, the West Region remains the most urban, with 88.9% of its population residing within an urban area, followed by the Northeast Region, at 84.0%. The South and Midwest regions continue to have lower percentages of population living in urban areas than the nation, with rates of 75.8% and 74.3%, respectively.

 

Most of America by population (about 80%) is already in or near these urban plantations. That leaves 20% living rural, and disenfranchising you doesn’t concern the elites at all. What is a problem is that 91% of US households have at least one car or truck. The plan is to make them unaffordable and, in some places, illegal to buy or even own – in just over a decade – which can’t be done even if we had the raw material and ignored the harm that mining and processing, and manufacturing will do to the people and planet they claim to champion.

And again, the elites don’t care. They will say whatever they think will get them from here to there, and, ideally, which suggests that the goal for 2035 is not an EV in every driveway. It is a legal means to silence questions and dissent so they can say “we” sacrificed and did it, and no one can be the wiser.

They will report lower CO2 (which won’t be true) and a better, safer world (between non-stop acts of information terrorism), which you can access on your digital tracking device while in line to get your ration of bread and a can of beans.

 

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Biofire has just announced its new ‘smart gun.’ It’s approximately the size of a toaster, but I’m sure that can be reduced over time. It has to be stored in a ‘smart dock’, which has to be plugged in.  So, not really designed to be carried away from home.

The company claims that it will still work if you’re wearing gloves.  I don’t quite see how that’s possible (it relies on ‘capacitive’ fingerprint recognition technology — something that might require you to train the device on particular pairs of gloves), but in the demo on its web site, you see someone picking the gun up and shooting it with gloved hands.

Will it be possible to bypass the electronic system by permanently disabling the lock mechanically?

Did I mention that it runs on a battery? (This could give the phrase ‘blue screen of death’ a whole new meaning.)

Look, ever since the idea was floated (about a decade ago), gun owners have produced a litany of practical objections.  The company thinks that it’s overcome these objections.  Whether that’s the case remains to be seen.  Gun writers should be producing hands-on reviews in the coming months.

But my bottom line is this:  My life, and the lives of the people I carry a gun to protect, are at least as important as the life of the President.

So when I see the Secret Service using this technology exclusively — carrying no ‘dumb’ guns as backups — then it will be time for me to consider using it.

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On behalf of Camp Constitution, Rev. Steve Craft and I recently presented a donation of 1,500 pocket copies of the U.S. Constitution to the Alton-Barnstead, NH, Schools.

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I authored an article for our blog on the subject and shared it on a number of Facebook groups to which I belong.

Most of the members of these groups were encouraged and motivated by our act. But not all. I encountered an irate person whom I will call “Forward Government Thinker” or FGT. FTG took exception to our act of generosity and civic-mindedness:

“Hallie, you can take your pocket copy of the constitution, roll it up and smoke it?”

This is not the first time I have encountered people who hate the U.S. Constitution, and their argument against it is similar. “And what are you planning to replace it with?” was my first reply.

FGT: Words on parchment from over two centuries ago DOES NOT apply to our lives in this day and age. Those that resist change and forward movement are the roadblocks of our society.”

This is their classic argument: “Something 200 years or older has no validity.” I once debated a man who made the same argument. I asked if the U.S. Constitution were written in 1848, would it also be obsolete? He answered in the affirmative, and I thanked him for refuting the “Communist Manifesto” written by a white Euro-centric male.

FGT thinks that I am a roadblock to society. Roadblocks serve a particularly important function:  It prevents people from driving off the road and getting injured or killed. Our Founders gave us Constitutional roadblocks not to curtail freedom but to prevent tyrants from imposing their will upon us. I think the term “roadblock of society should be there next to Hillary’s “Deplorables.’

My reply to FGT:

I disagree. The U.S. Constitution is as valid today as it was when it was ratified. So, what do you suggest we replace it with? Is freedom of speech, trial by jury, freedom of the press all words on parchment that do not apply to our lives today? What kind of change do you want? A nation with an all-powerful government that controls all aspects of our lives. Or what George HW Bush wanted: “A New World Order- a U.N. as envisioned by the Founders of the U.N.?”

FGT: “(A vulgar acronym) Hal, it needs an overhaul. Think of the preamble as the USA’s mission statement. Just as many large entities have done to refresh their brand, revision is necessary. That’s why we are stuck in the good ole days/good ole boy mentality. Many things that worked then do not work now. The U.S. Constitution is antiquated and does not align with our country as we stand today. Expecting our country to make forward progression without a forward-thinking government is absurd.”

My reply: “But you refuse to tell me what you want to replace it with? And, just what is “forward thinking government?”

I am not refusing anything. STOP living like it was 200+ years ago…science and technology have advanced us in many ways! Yet you live in the past, which prevents forward thinking! (Vulgar acronym), Harold! When were you born?

My reply: “You want to get rid of the U.S. Constitution but have nothing to replace it with except with some blind faith in “forward government thinking” There is nothing forward about “forward-thinking government.” It will always lead to tyranny. Science and technology have nothing to do with human nature, which never changes.”

I forgot to tell FGT that I was born in 1959.

And I continued: “At least FGT is honest about the desire to see the U.S. Constitution trashed and relegated to the dustbins of history. There is a well-funded attempt by people who share FGT’s disdain for the U.S. Constitution and people like me, who, as FGT puts it, “are the roadblocks of society” to hold an Article V Convention. These people were clever enough to have some of their well-paid operatives appeal to conservatives who do not hate the U.S. Constitution, and another group of their well-funded operatives appeal to those on the Left who hate the U.S. Constitution and pretty much everything else about the United States except their trust funds. (The teachers and professors in the government school and state colleges have been successful beyond their wildest imaginations.) So far, thanks to members of the “roadblock community,” they have been unsuccessful, especially in New Hampshire, where they have invested hundreds of thousands of dollars.”

FGT: “Before you lose your shirt…understand that taking the time to practice the pause helps more than you think. Here is something for you to chew on…I voted for the former twice. Then I took the time to pause and reflect on the J6 attack on our democracy. DJT and his disrespectful cult members have all but ruined the GOP! DJT will go down being known for infamy, infidelity, indiscretion, idiocies, and imploding the Republican Party!”

My reply: “My shirt is in my possession, but thank you for your concern. You still have not told me what you want to replace the U.S. Constitution with. We are not a democracy; we are a republic. I have issues with many in the Republican Party, but Biden, Harris, and their cabinet, which resembles a freak show, is a national disgrace. Biden, a liar all of his political life and over the past ten years, an employee of the Communist Chinese government, is a supporter of eight-year-old children getting sex change operations. Harris, who started her political career as a mistress for San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, not only openly supported the Black Lives Matter and Antifa riots, but she also raised money to get the terrorists bailed out of jail-one of which, upon release murdered a person.”

Note how FGT deflected from opposing the U.S. Constitution to her disdain for the Republican Party.

FGT: “Your shirt was left right on the floor. Amend! Evolve! History should be taught exactly as it happened. That’s the point. Happened is past tense. We don’t live in our past, we reflect upon it and hopefully learn from our mistakes. Our Constitution, as written, is antiquated and archaic. It doesn’t have to be rewritten in its entirety, but it certainly has opportunities for amendments.”

First, FGT wants to trash the Constitution but cannot or will not tell us what we should replace it with, and now just wants to amend it.

My reply: “And just what amendments do you propose?”

FGT failed to offer any proposed amendments but was terribly certain the Constitution needed amending.

Another person with the same mindset of FGT posted: “Why is a Reverend (an ecclesiastic devotion) handing out political materials to a public school system (secular institution)? Shouldn’t there be a separation of church and state; especially during a public (non-church sponsored) event?”

My reply: The U.S. Constitution is not political material, and the Lemon Test is a dead letter thanks to the Shurtleff v Boston decision. Free speech is just that, regardless of who is saying it.

And another posted:  Seems like he is just stirring the pot.

My reply: “No, just exercising the rights I have as an American citizen protected by the U.S. Constitution.”

The U.S. Constitution was written by far-sighted men who had a keen understanding of human nature and history and that is why they gave us an incredible document that granted limited powers to the three branches of the federal government. James Madison, who is known as the Father of the Constitution, wrote in Federalist Papers 51:

“If Men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and the next place, oblige it to control itself.”

It is hard to blame FTG and those that share FTG’s perspective. Contempt for the U.S., its organic documents, and its history are taught at most, if not all, of our nation’s government schools, private prep schools, colleges, universities, Hollywood, Corporate America, and the media -A.K.A “Fake News,  However, thanks to the efforts of Hillsdale College, Praeger University, The National Center for Constitutional Studies, and literally hundreds of organizations large and small like Camp Constitution,  the tables are being turned. Let us hope and pray that America can have a rebirth of freedom and that the likes of FGT will come to have a love for our unique Constitution and our exceptional nation.

Readers, who would like a pocket copy of The U.S. Constitution may E-mail me campconstitution1@gmail.com

 

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They’re flying so thick and fast it is amazing.  Take heart – there will be a Meme Overflow and almost certainly a Friday Meme Overflow-Overflow.  Last week’s Overflow-Overflow.

Remember, ridicule and mockery are effective weapons:

1. Ridicule cannot easily be fought
2. Ridicule makes the enemy angry, and angry people make mistakes
3. For those in the “squishy middle” a Thought Splinter (and Part II and Part III and Part IV) can often be hidden inside humor.

Now, let the mockery and mayhem begin.

 

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

 

 

 

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From this blog post:

That’s it, it’s that simple. If enough, even a quarter of the workers, recognize that they are being suckered into imprisoning themselves by taking the CBDC and they rebel, refuse to accept it, you get past that initial response, that initial repudiation and the powers that be seek to find another way; they look to accommodate you and those like you. But if you give in this one time, right here, you are done. You will never exert the power of the individual again, not as a union, not as a political party, not as a professional. You will condemn yourself to a slave from that moment on.

Damn you all, for once in your lives fight back!

Start planning now.

 

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Internet Of Bodies | The End Of Privacy

 

 

Maybe it’s just me, but this eagerness to be all cyborged-up for the possibility of a couple more years of life is creeping me out.  Not just the tech itself, which is bad enoug, but the eagerness for it.

Where is your survival instinct?

 

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Not sure this is an actual quote, though it does sound like him.  Acerbic and to the point.

But it’s not idiocy, it’s vanity.

 

 

The longer I live, the more I cam convinced that the vast majority of the sheeple believe what they believe – “safe and effective” as one example – because it makes them feel good about themselves.  And whether on this, or anything else, if you understand that for them to change their beliefs and thus throw their self-perception of themselves as good, moral, educated, and intelligent people into doubt, which is very rare, THIS is why so many are so incurious.  And I believe, with all (im)modesty, I had an insight recently.

In an essay here, I quoted the Dune universe:

“NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF THE HUMAN MIND TO BELIEVE WHAT IT WANTS TO BELIEVE, NO MATTER THE CONFLICTING EVIDENCE.”

― BRIAN HERBERT, HOUSE HARKONNEN

If you’ll permit me a rephrase, taking into account the Dune-driven difference between a person and a human (first chapter of the book, which actually uses animal not person, but let me be gracious in this), and then try to examine all liberal actions, woke policies, etc., in this light:

NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF A PERSON’S MIND TO BELIEVE WHAT IT WANTS TO BELIEVE, HEEDLESS OF ANY CONTRADICTORY EVIDENCE, WHEN THAT BELIEF MAKES THE PERSON FEEL GOOD ABOUT THEMSELVES.

 

I think that works.  I think that works surprisingly well.

 

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https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/wef-4th-revolution-hubris.mp4

 

These people want to be like gods themselves.  Hubris.  Sheer, overweening hubris.  Goes hand in hand with the INTERNET OF BODIES video, above.

Paging Nemesis… we’re in Tower of Babel territory here.

 

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PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA

 

mRNA is in food already per this tweet by attorney Tom Renz.

Since 2018, apparently.

OK, so apparently there are NH producers of beef – and others nationally – that say that they don’t, and won’t, put mRNA into their beef.  Now it becomes HOW to patronize them, especially for people who don’t have chest freezers, or space for one.  Most farms, as I understand, won’t ship…

Let’s start organizing how to do a mass purchase and then distribute.  As we do, we need to make clear why we’re doing it.

 

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Pick of the post:

 

 

Ebola has an across-outbreaks average death rate of 50% – or even higher – depending on where you go for information.  That’s coin-toss territory for whether you live or you die.

 

 

Run Death is Near was ruled TOO DANGEROUS to use in this situation.  And it’s the standard medical treatment for a disease that has a less-than-one-percent Infection Fatality Rate for people younger than 70%.  A disease for which multiple known treatments exist (*cough Ivermectin cough*).

Explain it to me like I’m five.

 

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Palate Cleansers:

 

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Escher is gleeful.

 

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Legislators need to hear that the people of New Hampshire support parental rights. On Tuesday, the House Education Committee will hold a hearing on SB272.

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Senate Bill 272 would establish a parents’ bill of rights in education.  Opponents of the bill are arguing that parents don’t know what’s best for their children.  Here’s how you can make a difference:

#1: Show up for the Rally for Parents’ Rights this Tuesday morning at 9 AM in front of the NH State House in Concord. A large crowd will send a strong message that NH supports parents’ rights!
#2: Email the House Education Committee to show your support.  Be clear, concise, and polite.
#3: Go online to register your SUPPORT for SB272.  This takes just 2 minutes!  (Date of hearing is 4/18 and committee is House Education.)

We understand that not everyone can make the trip to Concord.  Please join us if you can.  If not, please take steps #2 and 3.  It will take just 5 minutes of your time to complete both!

 

 

Cancel Culture Hits Concord

The Holiday Inn in Concord NH disappointed us this week when they apparently caved to left-wing demands that a private event at the hotel be canceled.

The pro-family advocacy group Cornerstone had scheduled an event featuring Chloe Cole, an 18-year-old woman whose voice is quickly becoming one of the strongest voices against child gender transitioning.

Despite the setback, Cornerstone plans to move forward with the event, – now scheduled at Murphy’s Tap Room and Carriage House in Bedford. This is a free event (although donations to Cornerstone are encouraged.) RSVP here.

 

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FREE Constitution Study Group State Representative Deb Hobson invites you to join a free online study group on the US and NH Constitutions.  The group is currently focusing on the writings of John Locke.  The next session takes place on Monday April 24th at 7 PM. Contact Deb via email to be added to the mailing list.

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Vermont amuses me. It’s like watching drunks play Jenga, but in this case, it is socialists pretending that socialism here will be different. The university system, for example, is a money-losing inefficient mess, but no one wants the changes needed to make it “work.”

And it doesn’t need to work. Socialism doesn’t work. Dysfunction within what in most states is the breeding ground for Marxists (college campuses) is the norm. There will always be more things on which to spend other people’s money than there are people or money. And it’s difficult to pretend to support things like free tuition or school-debt forgiveness -massive welfare programs, etc., when there are not enough people or things to tax to pay for it.

This is the trap and, ironically, one that springs in parallel to a deliberate plot to reduce the number of potential future taxpayers needed to fund the ever-expanding state whose priority is always to feed itself before any of the programs or promises it makes.

Cuts are baked in and inevitable.

In the case of higher education, Vermont is on the cusp of consolidating public colleges and universities to (cough-cough) “unify the state colleges, streamline academic offerings and achieve financial sustainability.” Part of that process included a decision to shift to an all-digital library system.

Many in the forward/Progress camp took unexpected exception to the idea of all online libraries. In the wake of the ensuing kerfuffle, the President of this collective college endeavor has resigned “for personal reasons.” He has been replaced in the interim by an apparatchik named Michael Smith, whose credits include working “for years in a number of state government positions, most recently as the secretary of the Vermont Agency of Human Services during the COVID-19 pandemic.”

Joy!

He is either well-regarded for his bureaucratic sleight of hand, or someone hates him because changing the palace guard doesn’t make the solvency problem disappear. The balance sheet isn’t balanced, and it matters not which collectivist you put at the helm. You either charge more, tax more, or cut something and not just the person of color you replaced with a pasty white guy. But the digital-only library idea is on hold, so there’s that.

 

“We knew this work would be difficult -– in fact, none of this work is simple or easy but we are making steady progress and will be ready to launch Vermont State University in July,” Sophie Zdatny, the current chancellor of the Vermont State Colleges System, said in a statement announcing Grewal’s resignation.

Smith says he is “excited to work with the faculty and staff and welcome the inaugural class who will help chart this new path forward” [so that] “Together, we are making history and securing a legacy that will serve generations of Vermonters.”

Do you mean the generations of Vermonters not yet born who are already on the hook for taxes to pay for the laundering of money through Pharmaceutical companies, “green energy boondoggles, and was in Ukraine?

Those generations aren’t going to have much to offer, especially with that oppressively expensive heat standard y’all are so hyped on, or the idea that a rural state should ban cars and trucks that don’t run on electricity that isn’t there.

Calling me a hater won’t change any of that.

 

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So Tennessee’s two insurrectionist DEMOCRAT State Reps have been widely exposed as a fugitive and a fraud. But the more exposure, the better. Hence this post.

Let’s start with the fugitive, Rep. Justin Jones:

BREAKING: Video shows reinstated TN State Rep Justin Jones stopping cars and assaulting drivers in summer of 2020https://t.co/DZbJEZIYer

— Jack Poso (@JackPosobiec) April 13, 2023

Of course, I am using the term “fugitive” simply because it starts with the same letter as fake. In today’s America, only Trump supporters and pro-lifers can be fugitives. Jones because he is of the Left, was simply ” mostly peacefully protesting.”

And here is Rep. Justin Pearson … who either checked his inner Jesse Jackson while attending Bowdoin or checks his inner Alex Keaton while serving as a State Rep:

Tennessee Representative Justin J. Pearson is a total fraud

Pearson in 2016 vs 2023: pic.twitter.com/iPLXFFJ6r2

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) April 11, 2023

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Just in time for summer flu season, remember when we didn’t have those – It’s Arcturus. Omicron sub-variant XBB.1.16 is “causing havoc” across India, with a small number of cases appearing in other counties. OMG! Lets … do nothing, please.

How dare you, the wing-nut Karens might say. What about the community? Do you mean those that are more likely to get it because they got vaxxed and boosted? The people who listened to you and wore masks and got addicted to testing for COVID, and lined up for The Jab that made them more susceptible to every virus.

Maybe we need a different headline. Just in time to shore up declining “sales” at Pzifer, It’s Arcturus XBB.1.16!

 

Officials are now urging states [in India] to increase testing for the virus.

Figures from Our World in Data, run by Oxford University, show how new daily cases reached 3,108 on April 4 – 242 more than the previous month.

The Arcturus strain was first detected in late January and is currently being monitored by the World Health Organization (WHO), with officials noting some mutations of concern.

 

Elsewhere amongst the watchdog media, we find this.

 

XBB.1.16, dubbed “Arcturus” by variant trackers, is very similar to U.S. dominant “Kraken” XBB.1.5—the most transmissible COVID variant yet, Maria Van Kerkhove, COVID-19 technical lead for the WHO, said earlier this week at a news conference.

 

If you read far enough down in either or any article that attempts to inform the public about BB.1.5 or 1.16, you will learn that “We haven’t seen a change in severity in individuals or in populations,” or that “hospitalizations, ICU admissions, and deaths have not yet risen due to the variant.”

But boy, does that thing spread! And you never know, do you? Actually, we do know. Given how wrong the whitecoats have been these past few years, even if we discount your politicization, no one should take anything you say at face value. But it’s not hopeless. Perhaps, in the future, you could lead with “the latest covid variant hasn’t resulted in a rise in hospitalizations or ICU admissions.”

How about you ignore it altogether since it behaves a lot like the common cold or flu?

No chance?

 

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Several auto manufacturers have moved to eliminate AM radios from future models, especially electronic vehicles (EVs). Automobile companies cite issues with interference on the AM band created by the vehicle’s electric motor.

New EVs manufactured by BMW, Porsche, Audi, Volvo, Ford F-150 Lightning truck, Volkswagen SUV, and Tesla Model S have dropped AM radio. Ford announced plans to phase out AM radio in its new models, including some with gas engines. Ford will still offer the AM band in the Mustang Mach-E. Hyundai announced they would not phase out AM radios in their models. Hyundai has both gas-powered and EVs in its lineup.

Concern about this decision is bipartisan but for different reasons. Democrat Senator Ed Markey from Massachusetts, a member of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, has been a vocal proponent of keeping AM radio in car dashboards for, among other reasons: national security and public safety. According to Forbes.com, Markey said, “Despite innovations such as the smartphone and social media, AM/FM broadcast radio remains the most dependable, cost-free, and accessible communication mechanism for public officials to communicate with the public during times of emergency. As a result, any phaseout of broadcast AM radio could pose a significant communication problem during emergencies.”

The Right share the Left’s concern for the safety of commuters and urban or rural people who rely on AM radio for emergency broadcast information. Imagine all of the people in the last few months that have been victims of tornadoes and incredible rain events without the ability to get emergency info on their portable or crank radios. But the Right has another concern with a much darker motive than weight or cost to manufacturers. There is a belief on the Right that this effort to take another freedom away from people is to censor Conservative Radio. The Left cannot compete with Conservative Talk Radio, which is predominantly on the AM band. If you cannot compete, work with car makers to cancel AM.

Broadcast radio may seem like the wave of the past. However, radio remains a strong force in American media, with over 90 percent of Americans ages 12 or older still tuning in each week. Yet a startling percentage of the political and talk radio broadcast daily is conservative—91 percent.

100: Percentage of news/talk radio in Dallas, Houston, and Philadelphia that is conservative.
69: Percent of news/talk radio in L.A. and San Francisco is conservative.

Conservative talk radio did not experience significant growth until 1987, when the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to abolish the Fairness Doctrine. The Fairness Doctrine had previously required radio stations to present contrasting views. After the FCCs decision to stop using the rule, radio stations could choose to be either conservative or liberal.

The inconsistency of companies’ intentions with AM exposes the lack of need to eliminate the AM radio in vehicles. It also gives credence to the Auto companies working with the Left or responding to pressure from the Left to cancel the AM band. It is fair to say that Conservatives own the AM band, and we must do whatever we can to hold onto this media niche.

 

 

 

 

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“Something for free” is the greatest ploy ever used to deceive human beings. When something is offered for nothing, is it really free? Or is it like prescription drugs that has side effects? Consider the “something for free” strategies of Karl Marx, one of the greatest con-artist in all history.

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It is not by accident that he proposed in the Communist Manifesto the strategy for “Free Public Education” as one of the ten steps to enslave the people of a nation: “Free education for all children in public schools.”

Today, imagine the mental anguish of a conscientious school teacher who loves to teach the truth. Each year he/she is forced to follow a politics of destruction aimed at our children’s minds in order to keep their jobs. Would you like to replace the 3R’s with the teaching children what to think not how to think? They are tasked with teaching Climate change, CRT, globalism, LBGTQ+ while simultaneously ignoring patriotism and the Christian foundation of our Constitutional Republic. Beware of those bearing gifts.

Did the words “Live free or die” die in the minds of the tens of thousands of NH people who accepted government lockdown as legitimate because Executive mandates made it so? Moving back again along this road to the state controlling children, it is enlightening to consider that by 1983 the National Commission on Excellence In Education issued this historic report,

“If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre education performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war.” Is this one of the side effects? Is it not fair to conclude this is the result of “free” education?

During these chaotic times, a voice crying in the wilderness, Tom Anderson, a great American patriot, warned that: “Freedom and Morality are indivisible. The foundering fathers knew true liberty could only take root if combined with faith and virtue. Marxist politics planted in the minds of our school children, along with twenty-six court decisions based on “separation of church and state,” is bearing its contrary evil fruit as adults. Because there is no foundational wisdom, the masses mix up free with freedom all the more.

Today’s American electorate’s prime motivation at the ballot box is their own pocketbook expecting different results than higher taxes, more regulations and less freedom. The ingenious Marxist plot to destroy Americanist education, based on biblical Christianity, has resulted in a public mindset that prepared our citizens for the revolution in the American government initiated soon after WWII. Citizens have been taught to accept the Supreme Court and the Executive branch usurp the powers of Congress. Not through bullets, but by education, the submission of the people to authority is now complete.

For decades “Free Public Education” has come from UNESCO and the Department of Education. Beware, they have another costly gift for you:
https://thenewamerican.com/print/vouchers-school-choice-trap/

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Your children were given to you to nurture and protect. Now, increasingly, this right is being threatened, particularly by forces within the public education system.

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Go here to register for the Dartmouth event with Chloe Cole.

 

This coming Tuesday, there will be a public hearing on SB 272, the Parental Bill of Rights at 10 AM in Representative’s Hall. This bill would outline a parent’s right regarding their children’s education and upbringing within the school system. SB 272 includes vital language to prevent the covert, social gender transitioning of children by public school systems. You can sign in in support of SB 272 here.

Prior to the hearing, a rally for parental rights is being held on the State House lawn beginning at 9 AM. Come tell the NH government that you will fight to protect your children no matter what!

 

 

Last week, the Concord Holiday Inn caved to pressure from the woke mob and canceled their agreement to host our event with de-transitioner Chloe Cole.

The Holiday Inn’s behavior is just the latest example of a consistent effort to marginalize and silence the voices of young people like Chloe, who have been hurt by the progressive agenda. However, we are exploring all options to aggressively push back against this latest attempt to silence young people like Chloe for escaping gender ideology.

Despite these setbacks, our event with Chloe Cole is still occurring. Murphy’s Taproom in Bedford has graciously agreed to host the event, which will occur there at the same time as originally planned, Tuesday, April 18 at 7 PM.

 

Go here to register for the event at Murphy’s Taproom, Bedford.

 

 

 

SB 272 will have a hearing in the House Education Committee on Tuesday, April 18, at 10:00 AM in Reps Hall.

SB 272 – Action Steps:

1. Sign in now in support of the bill.
2. Contact your representative to vote YES.
3. Attend the rally for parental rights.

 

 

 

 

Come join parents and speakers to rally in front of the State House for the rights of parents in the Granite State. Join us in telling the NH government that you will fight to protect your children no matter what!

We encourage you to make and bring signs that display our message and requests. Some ideas include:

1. I know my child and my child knows me.
2. Placed in My Care
3. Loved No Matter What. Protected No Matter the Cost
4. Not the government’s kids
5. A Parent’s Love Protects
6. Parents should be innocent until proven guilty

Reformatted

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Dartmouth Health sent their white-coated doctors to the public hearing for HB224 in front of the NH Senate Judiciary Committee. HB224 would remove all legal and civil penalties from the Fetal Life Protection Act, which restricts abortion after six months of pregnancy in New Hampshire.

Related: David Daleiden Uncovers Horrors in Training Program Offered at Dartmouth-Hitchcock

These doctors professed to be very concerned about their ability to hire and retain obstetricians, most especially specialists in maternal-fetal medicine, with those penalties hanging over their heads. Dr. Ilana Cass said she was worried her medical students would leave as soon as they graduate if the penalties remained in force.

I blew the whistle on Dr. Cass to the committee and exposed the reason she fears these penalties. Dartmouth hosts a Ryan Residency program which trains medical students in all types of abortion, including late-term abortion. The program also teaches pro-abortion political advocacy. Here is a capture of the Ryan Residency curriculum from 2017 on the Wayback Machine.

The Ryan Residency training program is based out of the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) which has been performing horrific fetal tissue research as documented on Pro-life San Francisco’s website.

One UCSF researcher was funded by the NIH for 12 years to perform ghoulish experiments with humanized mice until the Trump administration defunded it in 2019.

There is also a Ryan Residency training program at the University of Pittsburgh. In 2021, David Daleiden released a video about ghoulish experiments being performed on late-term aborted babies at the University of Pittsburgh.

The Fetal Life Protection Act restricts the type of abortions in which Dartmouth Health can offer training. It also restricts them from collecting body parts from healthy, viable babies in the last trimester of pregnancy for ghoulish science experiments.

Fortunately, HB224 was killed in a 14-10 vote along party lines by the New Hampshire Senate on Thursday. Thanks to our Republican state senators for voting to protect babies from being killed in abortions in the last three months of pregnancy.

Watch the testimony for HB224.

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If you missed it, Public Radio and its affiliate internet footprints are abandoning Twitter. The platform has begun tagging them as “state-affiliated” or “government-funded media,” and they are outraged. How dare you label us!

They may have a point. While they get taxpayer money to support their operations, most funding comes from so-called private charities or viewers and listeners like you. The fact that many of those “charities” launder money that favors the government’s message is irrelevant. The fact that the reporting overwhelmingly aids and abets a partisan progressive government message is irrelevant.

But here we are, and I find it quite amusing.

The folks at Maine Public, Vacationland’s state franchise of Nancy Pelosi Radio, just announced their departure.

 

The false implication of government influence on journalism originating from public media organizations like NPR and, by association, Maine Public, strikes at the very foundation of public media. Our editorial independence and the integrity of our journalism and journalists speaks to our core values shared by everyone in the organization. As stated by NPR’s CEO John Lansing, “Actions by Twitter or other social media companies to tarnish the independence of any public media institution are exceptionally harmful and set a dangerous precedent.” We agree.

 

I’m not about to audit Maine Public’s reporting, but I have little doubt the results will reflect core values that suggest, if not extensive, influence, a complete and utter lack of ideological diversity that results in the same outcome.

And it’s not just that nearly every employee will likely have carbon-copy progressive political profiles or interests; there will be an absence of any effort to hire people who think outside that tiny blue box.

It results in not just those microaggressions that concern you so much but open hostility, what you’d call a hostile and intolerant work environment (even if you happen to be black, female, or gay), and no safe spaces.

The media culture is likely so toxic that no one with a different opinion would even bother to apply there unless desperate and willing to play the part of cookie-cutter left-leaning apparatchik.

It may not be as intolerant as a University campus, but ideological diversity in media is an illusion. And that truth doesn’t end at the doors of NHPR, Main Public, or any similar outfit.

But?

I don’t think Twitter should be tagging them or anyone else, but if you’re flagging accounts as government funded, you will have to do it to everyone else, many of whom get even more or most of their money from one or another Federal agency.

• Most College and university accounts, both public and private, should be flagged.
• Alleged experts in every field who write or speak to issues resulting from their government-funded research will need a scarlet letter.
• Almost every Left-Side recognized climate or public health “expert” would need to be flagged.

It could get out of hand quickly. Especially if we started tagging every mainstream outlet that took gobs of ad money to lie about COVID or the safety or effectiveness of the mRNA “vaccines.”

My advice is this. Don’t tag anyone. Free speech, like individual liberty and free markets, comes with risks. Embrace them and engage them with more of the above, not labels that lead to less. But there’s nothing wrong with continuing to point out that if the integrity of an outlet hinges on the impropriety of its funding, then in the name of equity and inclusion, that blanket should cover as diverse a range of sources as possible -meaning all of them.

And then flag anyone who insists that’s not the case.

 

 

 

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So I previously posted about the Teixeira leaks … more specifically, how the UniParty and the regime-media have been feeding us LIE after LIE after LIE to justify America’s illegal, undeclared war against Russia.

But there is something even more important to be learned from the Teixeira leaks … America no longer has a free press … more specifically, the vast majority of the media are simply mouthpieces for the UniParty and/or the Biden-regime:

What's the only thing more surreal and twisted than watching "journalists" become the leading advocates for more online censorship?

Watching them do the FBI's work to hunt down leakers, then march to the Pentagon to demand it do more to prevent future transparency and leaks: https://t.co/5OLaDkOeTl

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 14, 2023

The Media Exposed Its Allegiance to the Government by Doing the FBI's Work for Them

"It was the New York Times and The Washington Post that did the FBI's work and found the leaker and led the FBI to him!" exclaimed @ggreenwald.

"They love leaks when the CIA and Homeland… pic.twitter.com/uKVjtdLYzX

— The Vigilant Fox (@VigilantFox) April 14, 2023

But just keep telling yourselves that 2024 will be different than 2020 … that all we need to do is nominate Trump or all that we need to do is “move on” past Trump … and that magically the media that routinely LIE to us will suddenly become truth-tellers, that the ballot-harvesters will disappear, that the Democrat mega-billionaires who are literally buying votes will go back to buying super-yachts.

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• These are the most liberty-critical hearings for the week
• Click on the bill number to read the bill.
• Click on the committee name to email the committee your thoughts.

Of the 41 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 0 and opposition of 2 with 2 being of interest.
Of the 20 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 6 and opposition of 6 with 1 being of interest.

Position	Bill	Title	Committee	Day	Time	Room	State Analysis
Of Interest	SB54	relative to purchased power agreements for electric distribution utilities.	Science, Technology and Energy	Mon 4/17	10:00 AM	LOB Room 302-304	This bill allows electric distribution utilities to issue requests for proposals for multi-year agreements for energy, in conjunction with or independent of any attendant environmental attributes from electric energy sources.
Oppose	HB74	relative to an employee’s unused earned time.	Commerce	Tue 4/18	9:00 AM	SH Room 100	This bill requires an employer to pay an employee for unused earned time.
Of Interest	HB530	relative to withdrawal from a cooperative school district.	Education	Tue 4/18	9:00 AM	LOB Room 101	This bill clarifies the process for the vote on withdrawal from a cooperative school district.
Oppose	HB250	(Second New Title) relative to the accidental death benefit payable for a retirement system member.	Executive Departments and Administration	Wed 4/19	9:00 AM	SH Room 103	This bill increases the amount of the state retirement annuity payable upon the accidental death of a retirement system member, but which shall not exceed $85,000. The bill also provides that future accidental death benefits are funded from state general funds.
Oppose	SB255	relative to the expectation of privacy.	Judiciary	Wed 4/19	10:00 AM	LOB Room 206-208	This bill creates a new chapter detailing a consumer expectation of privacy.
Support	HB360	an act legalizing cannabis for persons 21 years of age or older.	Judiciary	Thu 4/20	1:00 PM	SH Room 100	This bill legalizes the possession and use of cannabis for persons 21 years of age and older.
Support	HB431	permitting qualifying patients and designated caregivers to cultivate cannabis for therapeutic use.	Judiciary	Thu 4/20	1:15 PM	SH Room 100	This bill permits qualifying patients and designated caregivers to cultivate cannabis for therapeutic use.
Support	HB610	expanding the definition of providers who can certify patients of the therapeutic cannabis program.	Judiciary	Thu 4/20	1:30 PM	SH Room 100	This bill expands the definition of provider under the therapeutic cannabis program to include any individual licensed in New Hampshire to prescribe drugs to humans who holds an active registration from the United States Drug Enforcement Administration to prescribe controlled substances. The bill also requires, for issuance of a registry identification card to a minor, certification from 2 providers, one of whom shall provide pediatric care.
Support	HB473	relative to penalties for controlled drug violations.	Judiciary	Thu 4/20	1:45 PM	SH Room 100	This bill changes the penalty for certain schedule I, II, III, and IV drug offenses.
Support	HB611	relative to eligibility criteria for the therapeutic cannabis program.	Judiciary	Thu 4/20	2:00 PM	SH Room 100	This bill removes the requirement that severe pain be resistant to other treatment options in order to be considered a qualifying medical condition for therapeutic cannabis.
Support	HB639	relative to the legalization and regulation of cannabis and making appropriations therefor.	Judiciary	Thu 4/20	2:15 PM	SH Room 100	This bill establishes procedures for the legalization, regulation, and taxation of cannabis; the licensing and regulation of cannabis establishments; and makes appropriations therefor.
Of Interest	SB111	relative to the town council-town manager form of local government.	Municipal and County Government	Thu 4/20	10:15 AM	LOB Room 301-303	This bill clarifies that towns which adopt town council-town manager charters have the same powers and authorities as city councils under RSA 49-C. It also requires that town clerks be elected regardless of the form of municipal government.
Oppose	SB132	prohibiting cities and towns from adopting sanctuary policies.	Municipal and County Government	Thu 4/20	3:00 PM	LOB Room 301-303	This bill prohibits any state or local government entity from establishing sanctuary policies.

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In an increasingly rare 9-0 decision, the US Supreme Court has given the Administrative Statr a little pat on the bottoms of the Federal Trade Commission and Securities and Exchange Commission, though the decision has broader implications.

In its new red tape-cutting decision that is a defeat for the Biden administration, the Supreme Court took steps to rein in the so-called administrative state and reaffirm the separation of powers doctrine that prevents any specific branch of the government from exercising the core functions of another. The idea behind the doctrine is to discourage the concentration of power and make sure there are checks and balances. …

The litigants challenging the agencies argued they should be able to contest the way the tribunals are constituted in federal courts without first having to launch a lengthy, expensive challenge within the administrative system.

At issue were two cases in which the objects of both agencies’ “affections” argued that bureaucratic “in-house adjudications carried out by agencies are unfair because the tribunals, unlike regular courts, lack fixed evidentiary rules, allowing the agencies to function as prosecutor, judge, and jury. They argue that the tribunals are unconstitutional because they are not politically accountable.”

 

The unanimous opinion was written by Justice Kagen, who

 

“noted that both Axon and Cochran [the objects of both enforcement actions] challenged the constitutional authority of federal agencies, claiming that ALJs are “insufficiently accountable to the President, in violation of separation-of-powers principles.”

The challenges are “fundamental, even existential,” as the litigants argue that “the agencies, as currently structured, are unconstitutional in much of their work.” The function of the court here is not to resolve those challenges but “to decide where they may be heard,” the justice wrote.

The result is that victims of agency action have the right to bring their complaints to federal courts to escape “extensive and expensive investigatory proceedings,… with no end in sight.” Enforcement actions that trap you in an endless bureaucratic loop until you lose simply because you no longer have the resources to fight. A well-worn and highly developed deep-state tactic.

It should send a message to every agency that – I feel certain – engages in similar skullduggery, but I can’t say if it will have the far-reaching implications it should. Other branches of government have the power to tell SCOTUS to F- off, but it is a practice never exercised until it interferes with their business as usual. And I do not expect that the Biden administration will exercise its executive power at the request of the courts to restrain agencies meant to answer to it – especially if they happen to agree with the practice or the action under scrutiny.

In other words, this is probably not a change we can believe in.

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