Sunday • November 24 • 2024
Vol.XVI • No.XLVII
Manchester, N.H.
For those interested in disaster preparedness, there are numerous lessons throughout “Contagion.” Many miss the movie’s intent if they only watch it once.
It teaches more about the ramifications of a viral pandemic than any other movie in the genre, yet it has some major facts omitted or misrepresented. I will address those in a moment.
The movie is about the emergence of a new, highly infectious pathogen and how those responsible for mitigating its spread must go about doing their business with minimal rending of the “social fabric.”
The ripping apart of “social norms” is the inevitable outcome when inhibitions, regard for criminal law, moral, ethical, and personal standards, and values are cast aside as a direct result of fear, denial, ignorance, and psychological responses that, once they coalesce into muddled confusion, cause many people to panic. Conversely, those who keep their wits about them are often compelled to aid anyone in need.
When faced with deprivation, especially shelter, food, water, and restrictions from free movement (i.e. being unable to drive into another state), many people’s psychological dynamics are disrupted. The human mind severs ties to inhibitions that keep us emotionally well-adjusted when there is no threat present. In principle, the brain ignores all the “programming” done by parents, schools, peer groups, churches, and life’s circumstances, etc., and reverts to primal instinct. If in need of food and water, those driven by instinct would do anything to obtain what they seek, even if that means taking out a close friend to gain access to supplies he/she has stored up over years. For lack of a better term, I will call this state of mind Catastrophe Denial Syndrome (CDS) and it is most prevalent in those who have failed to prepare for a cataclysm so severe it shreds societal norms.
This is not a constant, of course, and indications are that many people would simply give up in the face of a major calamity. Once that happens, their chances for survival plummet.
As “Contagion” progresses, we see Matt Damon’s character and the girl playing his daughter go through the phases of an evolving pandemic that tears up “social norms,” yet they keep their wits about them. Social norms begin to unravel when the CDC gets involved and begins implementing processes to contact anyone who may have come in contact with an infected person. Any time federal government agencies arrive, the dynamics shift, sometimes to the resentment of those in power locally who have been pushed aside.
In “Contagion” the CDC is alerted to the plight of Gwyneth Paltro’s character and that of her son. While the movie made no mention of it, the CDC can go to an outbreak only if invited to get involved unless a virus infects so many so quickly that their intervention becomes a matter of national security. But those writing the “Contagion” storyline erred.
Even though there were only a couple of cases, as more presented with symptoms at the local E.R., the CDC would have sent a small army into the Minnesota town to do the “cover interviews,” which involves questioning everyone who may have come in contact with Gwyneth Paltrow’s character or that of her son. The need for more help was evident when Kate Winslet’s character spoke with Lawrence Fishburne’s character by phone and he asked when she had last had a meal not from a vending machine and told her to get some rest. By that point, the epidemic had stricken many not only in the town but in the state and nation, then globally. It is unlikely that the CDC would have sent just one epidemiologist in the first place. They would have sent several of them to conduct interviews.
The impact on social norms is evident in the scene in which Kate Winslet’s character is meeting with what appears to be the town’s city council. The discussion gets contentious when a cynical, councilwoman, becomes negative and confrontational, if not outwardly hostile. In a real scenario such as this, a reaction like that would not be out of the ordinary. From the Councilwoman’s viewpoint, the breakdown of social norms sends her into denial when Winslet’s character starts making decisions without that woman’s input. This is a problem for CDC and NIH (the National Institutes of Health) personnel who are invited into a town or city to address the problem. In the interest of getting the contagion under control, Kate Winslet’s character had to push back by citing facts, such as how most humans touch their faces more than 3,000 times a day, and that is how they get infected. Viruses of this type can enter the body through the nose, eyes, mouth, or even a cut in the skin.
To its credit, the movie gave us an object lesson in something every “preparedness expert” will tell you is their prime and inviolate directive: No matter how much you believe you can trust another person, you must never, under any circumstances, tell anyone that you are preparing or that you have a suitable bug out shelter in preparation for any calamity that might befall the nation. That may seem very selfish, but adhering to it may be what determines whether you survive or not. Lawrence Fishburne’s character mistake, though different in context, came when he called his fiancée and told her to leave Chicago. Strongly insisting that she tell no one. When she ignores the admonition and tells a close friend about the outbreak, she, too, insists that her friend tell no one, yet the news winds up on Facebook and the crisis are made public.
In addition, in various scenes when Damon’s character took his daughter out to shop, the chaos they encountered completely obliterated the social fabric. That became even more relevant when what appeared to be National Guard members were doling out meals ready to eat from trucks. When the supplies ran out, violence superseded chaos. This scene had some subliminal messages, as well. You may have noticed the tents with the FEMA logo on them. Their presence tears what is left of the social fabric because it creates a new and unwelcome reality.
In my view, and I’ve been studying survival since the first attack on the World Trade Center in 1993, it was almost too mild of a reaction when the food ran out. A component of primal instinct is mob mentality, and that was observed less than it should have been.
Nonetheless, this movie is a great choice, even if not perfect.
ICYMI – Written by Amil Imani – March 2014
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One of the features of Mao’s communist cultural revolution was student zealots (Reg Guard) willing to rat out anyone from teachers to neighbors to their own parents. Anyone who dares to contradict Mao or his tenets. Modern America has that too.
The #woke warriors or rainbow guard troll the internet looking for people or things to cancel, but there’s a more insidious Red Guard comparison from a School District in Maine.
Kristen Day said students affiliated with one of RSU 14’s Civil Rights Teams harassed her daughter. When her daughter refused to speak about her sexuality, two students affiliated with the club began to bully her and call her homophobic.
“They insisted she was gay because she dressed gay and listened to gay music,” Day said of her daughter, who was a 7th grader at the time of the alleged harassment.
“She was then called homophobic because she wasn’t at least bi,” Day said.
“She’s not political, but she does not want to talk about her sexuality in school,” she said
Remember, silence is violence. It’s a fascist/Nationalist/Marxist mandate to give the approved Sieg Heil when called upon. Failure to comply resulted in mob attacks during BLMs Summer of Love and has long been a feature of every proto-Marxist Democrat party proxy thugs. That includes the ones doing business as above-board non-profits, the SPLC, and, more recently, the Public Schools.
Cities, Counties, and States have them operating as social justice commissions wielding police-like powers under the mandate to reduce hate speech or hate crimes (neither of which truly exist). These are front groups for unconstitutional usurpations of primarily first amendment rights.
Our own Skip Murphy has lawsuits against his school district which, blindly following a state-funded left-leaning lobbying group doing business as School Board Association, implemented a policy that included compelled speech. A policy they had no authority to adopt and no legal right to enforce.
In the case of Maine’s Windham Raymond School System, a student who just wanted to be left alone learned firsthand that no such right exists across the diversity and equity landscape. Not only will you be made to care you will declare it when commanded.
Civil Rights Teams (CRTs) operate in Maine schools as a project of the Maine Attorney General’s Office, and the nominal goal of the student organizations is to reduce “bias-motivated” bullying and harassment in schools.
Day said her daughter was harassed about her sexuality by students affiliated with the school’s CRT under the pretext of opening a discussion about student sexuality.
CRT members also created surveys for their peers to take with questions about sexuality and gender, and they pressured them to don “pronoun” pins, Day said.
Tasked with creating a civil environment, the Rainbow Guard created a hostile one.
Both CRT and the porn-grooming literature culture are embraced there (surprise), so you won’t be alarmed to hear that a male teacher is alleged to, on at least two occasions, informed the class he was uncircumcised.
I wonder what lesson he was teaching that made that bit of information relevant.
No worries. Not long from now the Rainbow Guard – which I suspect will make a nice breeding ground for future members of the Gaystapo – will require you to share that information, and if you don’t, they might beat you to death and then find out anyway.
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A great example of what I am getting at here was my email sent to NH Speaker of the House Sherm Packard and NH House Majority Leader Jason Osborne concerning a Right To Know for Belknap County Legislative emails:
—— Original Message ——
From “Skip” <Skip@granitegrok.com>
To “Sherman Packard” <Sherman.Packard@leg.state.nh.us>; “Jason Osborne” <Jason@osborne4nh.com>; Jason.Osborne@leg.state.nh.us
Date 3/18/2023 1:26:38 PM
Subject Right To Know Demand for the Legislative emails of the NH House Representatives from Belknap CountyGood afternoon NH House Speaker Packard and NH House Majority Leader Osborne,
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Jason’s first listed email is his official email as seen here – a private email address – so I used it. I also used what I thought was the format of the “@leg.state.nh.us”. However, this was the result (emphasis mine):
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From MAILER-DAEMON@cloudhost-4403025.us-midwest-2.nxcli.net
To Skip@granitegrok.com
Date 3/18/2023 1:26:41 PM
Subject failure noticeHi. This is the qmail-send program at cloudhost-4403025.us-midwest-2.nxcli.net.
I’m afraid I wasn’t able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I’ve given up. Sorry it didn’t work out.<Jason.Osborne@leg.state.nh.us>:
3.13.178.213 does not like recipient.
Remote host said: 554 5.7.1 <Jason.Osborne@leg.state.nh.us>: Recipient address rejected: Access denied
Giving up on 3.13.178.213.
Now, my message still reached him – an official email to an official within NH Government. Using a private email address. Should that be the case? And yes, perhaps he does have an @leg.state.nh.us account and I got the name wrong. It happens but this still serves as a great example (so let’s assume I DID get it right IF it exists).
So here’s the issue:
What if that Right To Know was meant for Jason’s emails dealing with official business? His email looks like a campaign address and not one that would match up with his official duties within the NH House. Because his official emails are government records, putting in an RTK to get them should be relatively easy; I have done this many times before for various parts of Government here in NH. All those emails are centralized and under the control of NH Government, whether by an NH IT server or outsourced to a private company. With a NH based Governmental domain (e.g., @leg.state.nh.us, jonos@sau73.org, dlafond@gilfordnh.org, or shackett@belknapcounty.gov).
PLEASE know that I’m NOT accusing Jason of anything and I’ve never constructed an RTK for any of his emails. Since I just sent it today (that would be yesterday by the time this goes live) and unexpectedly got a reject on the @leg.state.nh.us email. it serves as a great Object Lesson (his email address, not him personally).
But what can I do with “Jason Osborne” <Jason@osborne4nh.com>? Even if I KNOW there is something in one of his emails that is important and submit an RTK for it, there is nothing I can depend on to get that particular email with his address. He could say “No”, I’m not going to give it to you – and my only remedy would be take him to court, and spend a lot of time and money, and hope that a judge would order that the email administrator for that domain satisfy the order to fork it (or others) to me.
The problem is that if the need is for that is immediate, if the process is dragged out, it becomes moot (unless another court case is filed to roll something back). Essentially, using personal email address is a way to avoid accountability and hide such demanded information – they effectively (de facto) are not subject to valid RSA 91-A processes. You know, like what Hilary did with her personal email server in a closet that she famously said “what, wipe it with a cloth?” (and showing how little regard she had for openness and transparency).
And we have no way of telling – using personal email addresses instead of official government ones.
And that has happened in my recent RSA 91-A demands at the Belknap County Delegation. I have to ask, and then Trust, any Rep using a private email address as their “official” one is giving me a correct answer. Given what I’ve seen over the years (and lately over HB357, the “give them 4 years instead of 2 year term”), Trust is complicated first and hazardous at worst; I don’t know if I’m getting a correct answer.
By sending an RTK to a superior that then gives it to their IT folks (like I have also done lately during the “Gunstock Incident”), the individual Representative (in this case) is cut out of the loop. GENERALLY, IT folks tend to be more honest…
So look at how Belknap County Reps are with respect to official Government email addresses:
Out of the 17 Representatives, only 5 are using the @leg.nh.state.us domain, 10 are using private emails, and two have no contact info at all.
This is not a privacy issue – this is a Government problem. Those in Government are accountable to we citizens (and not the other way around – a trend that seems to be desired and accelerating). Deliberately making it harder to do, like these Reps are doing, needs to be corrected.
The post Belknap County Delegation – Showing a Loophole in RSA 91-A that Government Officials or Staff Can Exploit? appeared first on Granite Grok.
Recently, a federal judge was addressing a room full of law students when the event turned ugly. Stuart Kyle Duncan, a judge with the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, had been invited by the Stanford chapter of the Federalist Society. This group of students is not yesterday’s Federalist Society. The Federalist Society has had a history of exploring both sides of an issue and exchanging ideas to learn from each other.
The presentation ended abruptly when the students shut down the Judge with their catcalls and heckling. Many of the students walked out of the event, further disrupting the Judge’s time. The students were joined by Tirien Steinbach, associate dean of DEIJ, and her comments were critical of Judge Duncan. The issue the students and associate dean had with Duncan was that some of his rulings were adverse and hurtful to the LGBTQ community immigrants, Black voters, women, and others.
On Friday, Judge Duncan spoke to Reuters about the incident and said the student protesters were “idiots” and “bullies” while calling on the school to apologize for his treatment. He also commented on Steinbach’s involvement.
“The administrators’ behavior was completely at odds with the law school’s mission of training future members of the bench and bar,” Duncan told the National Review.
Stanford responded to the incident with the following apology. “What happened was inconsistent with our policies on free speech, and we are very sorry about the experience you had while visiting our campus,” Stanford president Marc Tessier-Lavigne and law dean Jenny Martinez wrote in a Saturday letter to 5th U.S. Circuit Judge Stuart Kyle Duncan, a 2018 appointee of former President Donald Trump. There was no mention of Associate Dean Steinbach in the carefully worded response.
There have been a couple of interesting happenings since the incident. Both involve students and not the Judge. First, the school felt obligated to offer the students involved in the protest counseling sessions. These sessions do not address their poor behavior and reflection on the university. This counseling is to help them resolve the trauma they faced by having to endure such hateful speech from Judge Duncan.
The second is even more bizarre for students that may soon be a part of the judicial system, either as lawyers or future judges. They are demanding anonymity and to have their names purged from any reference to the incident by Stanford. They were so brave to shout down a sitting Circuit Judge but not to be identified as part of the ugly end of the presentation to the Federalist Society.
These young people are in for such a shock when they leave the safe culture of Stanford and get into the real world. Their only saving grace is their generation is making such a mark on society that they may never leave the cocoon.`WOKE thinking might make these young people feel warm and fuzzy and that they are good stewards of the earth, but it is doing nothing for them to face reality. It is going to be a hard fall for this generation, and maybe we are all to blame for letting it happen. We do have the power to change course, and we must rise to the challenge or live with regret as we watch this experiment fail, as our forefathers warned us.
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First, I am merely an “enlightened amateur”. Please vet & check on your own. Caveat emptor. Consider these to be priming the pump for your own investigations. I know this is a long post; I am attempting to put out a lot of information as a resource. Read or skip sections depending on your interests.
Second, I fear spicy time is very close, but even a month of food, water, etc., puts you well ahead of most of the sheeple. IMHO, set your minimum sights on a three-month period.
Third, two things will be critical for having the best chance of making it through:
And please follow both me, Nitzakhon, on Gab… as well as my blog host Granite Grok and also on Telegram Tommy Robinson Official plus his Urban Scoop site. And don’t forget posts sometimes get cloned on American Reveille as well, which is a good site to check out in general.
FYI, here’s a link to the last Survival Sunday.
NOTE: These will be somewhat sparser than normal – slammed work-wise. But trying to keep going to get info out.
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Top of the fold:
Just a comment: It feels – based purely on intuition – that things are about to shift into overdrive. The potential Trump arrest, the poke-poke-poking of Russia, Iran about to become a nuclear power with Israel determined to stop them, the banking crisis with more and more bad news about the economy and it being a shaking house of cards, China seeing all this and going to a war footing, Biden’s corruption coming out… the list is long. And need I mention the seemingly increasing Jab deaths and drips of information; on Telegram, on some channels, more and more Jab fans are switching sides and blaming it for their ill health, or the bad health – or deaths – of loved ones.
The tapestry of America, indeed the world, seems to be fraying, and I feel it’s coming apart faster than the Globalists want. They excel in slowly-slowly. They’re getting faster-faster. The question, then, is what will happen in their attempt to distract us again? More importantly, what will they create to distract us again?
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Oddments – random thoughts on prepping:
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Prepper Site URLS:
Most have daily articles; revisit daily. Please recommend others in the comments.
Ask a Prepper, how to prepare, survive and thrive, latest news
Mother Earth News
The Organic Prepper Home – The Organic Prepper
SurvivalBlog.com – The Daily Web Log for Prepared Individuals Living in Uncertain Times.
SHTF Blog – Modern Survival
Survival World – Everything You Need To Know to Survive
Homestead Survival Site – How to Live Off The Grid in Comfort and Style
Urban Survival Site | How to Survive a Disaster in the City
Mind4Survival – Survival and Preparedness
Gray Wolf survival
Sustainable Living (sustainablelivingideas.com)
The Classic Survivalist – Surviving in a Modern World
Primal Survivor – Practical and sensible prepping advice
Em Off-grid – We & Our Off The Grid Life – Em OffGrid
Resource for Practical, Daily Prepping Skills for SHTF & Survival (geekprepper.com)
MorningChores – Build Your Self-Sufficient Life (new)
And three aggregate sites listing their top favorite sites & links too:
TOP 50 SURVIVAL & PREPPER BLOGS
The 50 Best Survival Blogs
Prepper Website – Preparedness • Survival • Alternative News
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Specific, one-up articles:
What You Need to Know About Radiation Sickness (theorganicprepper.com)
My understanding is that, for most, fallout is the biggest issue. Lots of good advice here. As to radioactive iodine specifically, fill up your thyroid now with “good” iodine.
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How To Treat And Heal Wounds With Sugar – Ask a Prepper
Good to know. Related:
10 Herbs for Wound Care: A Prepper’s Herbal Medicine Cabinet (theorganicprepper.com)
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Essential Survival Know-Hows Modern People Have Forgotten (askaprepper.com)
I can do most of these, though I’m sure a real expert would scoff. Read the comments too – I noticed the bow-and-drill fire method didn’t mention, as of when I read it, a second handpiece to keep your other hand safe.
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Why You Should Put A Silver Coin In Water – Ask a Prepper
Amazing stuff, silver.
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8 Sustainable Toilet Paper Alternatives (and a Few Emergency Options) (morningchores.com)
When ya gotta go…
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75 Emergency Supplies List You Should Always Stock at Home (morningchores.com)
It’s a long list. Remember, you can only do / prep as you have the means to do so. Related:
8 Basic Disaster Preparedness Tips for Every Homesteader (morningchores.com)
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43 Fascinating Survival TV Shows to Add Some Excitement to Your Nights (morningchores.com)
I’ve heard of several of these; the only one I’ve watched is Survivorman (and I need to get the DVD set). As with everything, the problem is time.
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Related to Spicy Time:
Rule Five Civil War Friday | Animal Magnetism (frombearcreek.com)
Interesting long view on the coming unpleasantness. And note this:
Look at this from a strategic sense. By and large, the left is concentrated in a few small geographic areas. For the most part, these areas are heavily urban, and dependent on the outskirts – red country – for electricity, gasoline, food and clothing, indeed most of the requirements of a modern lifestyle. It would not be terribly difficult for a military force or even a well-organized militia to shut down imports into even a large city. The blockage wouldn’t have to be leak-proof, but even preventing fifty percent of a major city’s food and energy imports would have that city melting down within a matter of days.
As an abstract and purely academic thought, I have read news reports of how some strategically distributed boxes of roofing nails can shut down roads quite handily. And for quite some time.
The above echoes this; The 2nd Amendment is Obsolete, Says Congressman Who Wants To Nuke Omaha | Monster Hunter Nation:
[B]ecause the guys who build that, grow that, and ship that, well, you just dropped a Hellfire on his cousin Bill because he wouldn’t turn over his SKS. F*ck you. Starve. And that’s assuming they don’t still make the delivery but the gas is tainted and food is poisoned.
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14 Ways to Use Emergency Communication When Disaster Strikes (morningchores.com)
I’ve learned Morse code (well, at least the letters and numbers… working on the punctuation) and am attempting – key word, attempting – to get the kids to learn it too. The problem is, at their age, nothing that I say is important is important to them.
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How to Make (and Cook On) a Swedish Fire Log (morningchores.com)
For when you’re in the woods. More:
21 DIY Rocket Stove Plans to Cook Efficiently with Wood (morningchores.com)
Survival Cooking: 18 Off-Grid Cooking Methods without Electricity (morningchores.com)
Not just for outside, and a couple of ideas I’d not considered! Related:
Bug Out Bag: 15 Life-Saving Essentials to Pack (morningchores.com)
Got to be able to carry all this. Balance preparation with that. On water specifically:
How to Purify Water as a Life-Saving Emergency When SHTF (morningchores.com)
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CRAZY Survival Hack | Start a Fire With a Plastic Bag
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Short of years and untold wealth, you cannot possibly be fully prepared for everything (I have to keep reminding myself of that). But even some preparations, ideally at least 90 days of food, water / water purification, etc., puts you head and shoulders in front of the vast majority of the sheeple who will be in jaw-gaping astonishment when the SHTF. The only relevant questions are:
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“Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men, without a consequent loss of liberty?”
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I just started a FORAGING group on Gab. I will check 2-3 times a week to see if people have asked to join.
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Foraging: One-up articles
Beginner’s guide to foraging: 12 rules to follow – Tyrant Farms
Good rules. From that site:
16 common edible weeds growing in your yard… with recipes! – Tyrant Farms
I concur with the “note all edible weeds are worth eating” – though starvation can move that line. Their whole collection of foraging articles:
Foraged Archives – Tyrant Farms
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Printable Foraging Guide – Temperate North America (judyofthewoods.net)
Foraging for Food: a Monthly Guide (liveabout.com)
The month by month aspect looks intriguing. More:
50 Edible Wild Plants You Can Forage for a Free Meal (morningchores.com)
Foraging 101: What to Eat (and Avoid) – Cleveland Clinic
All About Foraging and Harvesting Reishi Mushrooms (morningchores.com)
How to Get Started with Urban Foraging and Connect with Nature in the City (morningchores.com)
DIY: How to Make Acorn Flour (tyrantfarms.com)
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3 Ways to Make Homemade Aspirin Using Willow (morningchores.com)
Herbal medication knowledge in general too.
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7 Brilliant Uses for Tree Resin (morningchores.com)
Related:
25+ Survival Uses Of Resin – Ask a Prepper
How to Make Candles out of Pine Resin (With Pictures) – Ask a Prepper
How Our Forefathers Made Glue Out of Pine Resin – Ask a Prepper
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Foraging (permanent feature):
Foraging (practicalselfreliance.com)
Wild Harvests (arcadianabe.blogspot.com)
Southern Appalachian Herbs
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Books (permanent feature):
Feasting Free on Wild Edibles (old but good)
The Lost Ways (much more than just foraging)
The Forager’s Guide to Wild Foods
THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO EDIBLE WILD PLANTS FOR BEGINNERS
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Shortages (broadly):
Just a comment: My local Market Basket has been out of one of my kids’ favorite lunch meats – really, the only sandwich meat they’ll eat – for several weeks. Apparently there’s none to be had in the pipeline. And while their box juice is back in stock, it’s not in the normal spectrum of flavors that they used to have available. Tomorrow, time to get to a different chain that normally carries that meat and see if they have it.
And WOW, the beef prices!
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Gardening, Food Storage, Animals, Food Preservation, Health, and Related:
The Double Cup Method to Start Seeds
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10 Spices That Make Your Food Last Longer – Ask a Prepper
Some new to me. From the same site:
24 Baked Goods That Last For A Long Time – Ask a Prepper
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Smoking Meat Week: Smoking 101
And some other videos on smoking / preserving meat:
Smoking Meat Week: Smoking 101 – YouTube
Meat Preservation by Smoking – The American Frontier – YouTube
How smoke preserves food – YouTube
Salting, Curing and Smoking your own meat – YouTube
How to Dry, Cure and Smoke meat All in one video – YouTube
Beginners Introduction to Cold Smoking Meat & Food – YouTube
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Benefits and Dangers of COFFEE GROUNDS and WOOD ASH in the Garden // Beginning Gardening
And other assorted gardening video links:
How To Build A FREE DIY Garden DIP IRRIGATION System With Milk Jugs! – YouTube
337 lbs of Potatoes! NO digging, NO watering, and VERY LITTLE work! – YouTube
How to Grow Onions, Harvest Onions & Cure Onions from Start to Finish l Walla Walla Onions – YouTube
How to Grow Potatoes in a 5 Gallon Bucket (Part 1 of 2) – YouTube
How to Grow Potatoes in a 5 Gallon Bucket (Part 2 of 2) – YouTube
How To Grow Garlic – The Definitive Guide For Beginners – YouTube
How to Grow Spinach Organically – YouTube
Growing mushrooms at home is super easy with a bucket – Anyone can do it – YouTube
How to grow a TON of Ginger from store-bought Ginger Root! – YouTube
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Pros and Cons of Eating Duck Eggs vs Chicken Eggs – Mother Earth News
Depending on how hungry you are, you won’t care. Ideally, if you have the space, I’d have both. And without a doubt, save the shells to add to your compost. These plants, in particular, will want that calcium:
40 Calcium-Rich Plants You Can Grow at Home (morningchores.com)
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5 Best Meat Rabbit Breeds for Homesteads & Which Tastes the Best? – Top Outdoor Survival
We have rabbits in our yard. I refer to them as “Emergency meat”.
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DIY Poor Man’s Greenhouse – Ask a Prepper
This project can take less than 30 minutes if you have all the necessary supplies within your home’s compound. However, it might be longer if you must gather supplies outside your compound. Related:
3 Methods for Heating Greenhouses for Free – Mother Earth News
How to Build a PVC Greenhouse – Mother Earth News
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https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/132/289/635/playable/aa3c45fa85d09730.mp4
The only thing about the above video is the use of rooting hormones. What if you don’t have those available?
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The 9 Best Foods to Can for an Emergency (morningchores.com)
Got to learn to can properly, though. Still haven’t figured out my pressure canner. Grrrr. Manual is just not clear to me. Round-about related to preservation:
Burying Food for Preservation – Is It Still a Good Idea? (morningchores.com)
And related:
How to Make and Hide a Survival Cache (morningchores.com)
Off-Grid Refrigerator: 12 Ways to Live Without Refrigeration (morningchores.com)
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Solar Food Dehydrators – Mother Earth News
A good friend of mine has an “industrial strength” dehydrator, and also a freeze drier. All good, but if there’s no electricity?
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19 High Calorie Crops to Grow in Your Survival Garden (morningchores.com)
Survival is all about maximizing calories in and minimizing calories out.
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Links on old-time food storage (permanent feature):
Thanks to the Canning and Preserving group on Gab, I now have these links:
Preserving foods by drying | How to dry foods safely (uada.edu)
USDA-Complete-Guide-to-Home-Canning-2015-revision.pdf (healthycanning.com)
Canning | SDSU Extension (sdstate.edu)
Food Preservation– Canning | Consumer Food Safety | Washington State University (wsu.edu)
Canning Timer & Checklist App | OSU Extension Catalog | Oregon State University
National Center for Home Food Preservation (uga.edu)
Canning Recipes | Ball® Mason Jars (ballmasonjars.com)
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Topical Books (also permanent):
Charcuterie: The Craft of Salting, Smoking & Curing
Salumi: The Craft of Italian Dry Curing
A Guide to Canning, Freezing, Curing & Smoking Meat, Fish & Game
The Prepper’s Canning Guide
Pickled Pantry
Fermented Vegetables
Hydroponics and Greenhouse Gardening: 3-in-1 Gardening Book to Grow Vegetables, Herbs, and Fruit All-Year-Round
Hydroponics for Beginners: The Complete Guide to Hydroponic Gardening, Designing and Building Inexpensive DIY Hydroponic Systems…
The Aquaponics Guidebook: Combining Aquaculture and Hydroponics Combining Aquaculture and Hydroponics
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Self-defense (broad) & Hunting / Fishing:
Democrat Senators Call on Payments Companies to Track Gun Sales
Fascism: private entities doing for the government what the government is limited from doing themselves.
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How to Make a Basket Fish Trap (morningchores.com)
Related:
How to make a minnow trap from a plastic bottle
You can use minnows to bait the basket fish trap!
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Miscellaneous thoughts:
20 Self-Sufficiency Hacks You Can Implement Right Now (morningchores.com)
And build a community of local people.
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What to do When a Natural Disaster Strikes and How to be Prepared (morningchores.com)
Most importantly, have a plan for common things that can happen.
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DIY Home Biodiesel Production: Make Your Own Fuel – Mother Earth News
The availability of this versus the potential cut-off of gasoline in a STHF situation, is making me consider a diesel for my next vehicle.
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Concluding thoughts if I’m moved to comment:
7 Stores Where You Can Buy Cheap Survival Food – Ask a Prepper
I’m observing, reading this, a separating line between groups of preppers. It’s not impermeable, but I think it’s there.
First, let me state clearly – I absolutely endorse gardening and raising your own fruits & vegetables as you can, learning to forage, hunting & fishing, etc., regardless of which side you’re on, to the best of your ability to do so. But here’s the line:
Will things disrupt and then return to something approaching current-normal within a year or so, or will we reset to a pre-electrical world where it’s about an Amish lifestyle for generations?
Regardless of which camp you’re in, stockpiling food, learning things, building community ties, etc., are all good things, so don’t misunderstand me. But which camp you are in will determine a lot of how you plan. Think about which side of that line you’re on.
Related to food stock-up:
10 Long-Lasting Foods From The Chinese Store – Ask a Prepper
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Please check out my MEMES collections; last one here. Mockery, ridicule, and the wrapping of uncomfortable truths inside humor can penetrate the cognitive shields of normies far more effectively – IMHO – than dry facts and figures.
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In a major pivot, Alu Axelman has decided to write a book that could be consumed easily in one sitting by the average reader. In only around 15 minutes, a person of average intelligence can understand why the US Constitution is fatally flawed.
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The Canadian Cancer Society has some questions about adequately screening biological men who identify as women for cervical cancer. And no, they didn’t mean trans men (biological women who identify as men but have a cervix). They mean biological men who have no cervix.
If you’re a trans woman, you may not have given much thought to Pap tests and cervical cancer. And if you haven’t, that makes a fair amount of sense. After all, in order to get cervical cancer, you need to have a cervix — that is, the organ that connects the vagina to the uterus.
If you’re a trans woman and have not had bottom surgery, you aren’t at risk for cervical cancer.
Seems straightforward enough until we get to this.
If, however, you’re a trans woman who has had bottom surgery to create a vagina (vaginoplasty) and possibly a cervix, there’s a very small risk that you can develop cancer in the tissues of your neo-vagina or neo-cervix. The risk depends on the type of surgery you had, the type of tissue used to create your vagina and cervix and your personal health history. Talk to your healthcare provider to figure out your specific cancer-screening needs as part of your overall pelvic health following surgery.
It can be difficult to make cancer screening a priority, especially when there’s not a lot of information out there about cervical cancer risks for trans women.
Dr. Bryam Bridle, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Viral Immunology in the Department of Pathobiology at the University of Guelph, so it is a subject of interest to him. Brindle,
“is suing the university and researchers for $3 million, alleging in a statement of claim filed in late 2022 “overlapping conspiracies” of harassment on social media and efforts to remove him from the university, a “significant loss of standing as a virologist, immunologist, scientist and academic”; loss of income and equipment; damage to his teaching career; mental anguish; and endangering his life.”
Without looking, I’d guess he’s been clinging bitterly to the old gods of science, and the Evangelists of the new pantheon are unhappy with his resistance to their proselytizing. Kudos to Dr. Bridle for resisting the urge to ‘culturally appropriate’ despite the threat of occupational crucifixion. Objections that include pondering with a critical eye the Canadian Cancer Societies’ suggestion that biological males screen for cervical cancer.
It is my understanding that trans women can have what is essentially a tunnel surgically implemented into their groin area. But, it is also my understanding that these ‘tunnels’ are not seeded with any cells that are specific to cervical tissue. As such, it would seem to be a misnomer to call any cancer that develops in this ‘tunnel’ a cervical cancer. Cervical cancers typically arise from cells that are unique to a biologically genuine cervix.
The result is something of a “which came first” scenario: it’s the chicken or the egg applied to the cervix and cervical cancer. Given that the new science forbids naming illnesses after their point of origin or discovery, it seems pigheaded to presume that names of cancers be restricted to the cells of the organs they inhabit.
Testicular cancer, breast cancer – cancer of the spleen, pancreas, mouth, lungs, blood, or brain. The people of the great reset will have to make compromises to appease our cultural cancer. Describe certain acts of arson or assault as nonviolent and others as insurrection. A mostly peaceful murder resulting from a well-intentioned act of political justice is a suicide. And showing porn to your own children is a crime, while exhibiting it to the children of strangers is a crime unless it is in a public school, in which case we must call it an “education.”
Assuming that cancer needs to be detected in an actual cervix to be cervical cancer is just a 20th-century tall tale. A chestnut from a bygone era. Especially when the leading lights of public health have redefined their purpose from improving the quality of life and longevity to population control and eugenics.
They don’t say that, but in the same way that a lump of non-cervical cells appropriating the name “cervix” could get cervical cancer, so then should the idea of modern public health connote planned genocide.
Or is that too honest for the political science of the new gods?
HT | Mark Crispin Miller
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How the Uniparty, the Establishment, the System … whatever you want to call it … is pushing Woke Hampshire’s Sun-King Sununu! Because he is a willing shill for their agenda and their LIES … no limits on abortion, biological boys and men competing in girls’ and women’s sports, COVID-tyranny, the 2020 election was pristine pure, etc., etc., etc., … and his latest: WAR, WAR, WAR, FOREVER-WAR, FOREVER-WAR.
More specifically, His Majesty Silver-Spoon has an op-ed in mega-billionaire/globalist Jeff Bezos’ regime-mouthpiece-rag, the Washington Post, scolding Republicans who don’t support the Ukraine-Forever-War as having “lost their moral compass.”
Sun-King begins with the familiar and fatuous claim that a Ukraine-Forever-War is in America’s interest because Putin supposedly aims to conquer all of Europe and will, unless we stop him in the Ukraine. Anyone who knows anything beyond the Uniparty’s propaganda knows this is a lie … for one thing, Russia and Ukraine were working on a peace deal in early 2022 that the warmongers in NATO opposed. Hardly the actions of a nation planning on driving its tanks all the way to the Atlantic Ocean.
More importantly, Russia obviously is NOT a threat to conquer all of Europe. Sun-King Sununu and the warmongers simultaneously tell us on the one hand that UKRAINE IS WINNING; PUTIN IS HUMILIATED; blah, blah, blah … and on the other hand that today’s Russian Army is the modern-day equivalent of the unstoppable Wehrmacht … that would be the same Russian Army they tell us is losing in Ukraine … and poses an existential threat to all of Europe. People like Sun-King think that they are so smart and the rest of us are so stupid that we will believe their contradictory propaganda.
Sun-King obviously knows NOTHING about the history of the Ukraine if he really believes that this war is not a territorial dispute. In 1954, Kruschev “gave” Crimea from Russia to Ukraine, which at the time while nominally a “socialist republic” was merely an administrative unit of the old Soviet Union. Nobody asked the Russian people in Crimea if they wanted to be part of Ukraine. The history of the Donbas is much more complicated, but suffice it to say that much of the Donbas has been and remains more Russian than Ukrainian.
Some more relevant history: in 1991, the West in order to facilitate the breakup of the Soviet Union gave oral assurances that NATO would not expand westward. Those assurances obviously have not been honored and preventing Ukraine from joining NATO is one of the reasons Russia invaded. So, yeah, it is about territory … whether Ukraine becomes territory of NATO or remains a neutral buffer State between NATO and Russia.
Sun-King also claims that NOT assisting Ukraine would embolden China to invade Taiwan. Again, Sun-King does not know what he is talking about. The United States does not have the capability to simultaneously fight a proxy-war against Russia and a direct war with China. Depleting our military readiness by giving Ukraine essentially a blank check is what emboldens China.
Perhaps the most fatuous statement in Sun-King’s op-ed is this:
For generations, oppressive authoritarian rule has quashed religious freedom and limited individual opportunities across the globe. The United States should stand with freedom-loving people and help support emerging democracies wherever they are. The days of being coy on foreign policy are over.
Is Sun-King really unaware that Zelensky outlawed the Russian Orthodox Church … i.e. that Ukraine does NOT allow religious freedom? Is Sun-King really unaware that Zelensky outlawed opposition parties and took over television news stations in order to “prevent misinformation.” Ukraine is a kleptocracy, Sun-King, not a democracy.
This op-ed is so lacking in facts and manifests such shallow, flawed reasoning that I can believe that the famously lazy Sun-King may actually have written it himself. Whether he wrote it or just put his name to it, this Forever-War propaganda should absolutely disqualify Sun-King Sununu from being considered a serious candidate for President of the United States.
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Of the 0 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 0 and opposition of 0 with 0 being of interest.
Of the 27 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 7 and opposition of 7 with 1 being of interest.
| Position | Bill | Title | Committee | Day | Time | Room | State Analysis |
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| Oppose | HB467 | relative to public playground accessibility. | Commerce | Tue 3/21 | 9:15 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill requires public playgrounds in use on or after January 1, 2024 to have solid rubber or rubber composite surfacing for accessibility to the playground and each piece of equipment. |
| Support | HB477 | to prohibit municipal inspections of owner-occupied units of multi-unit housing. | Commerce | Tue 3/21 | 9:45 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill prohibits municipal inspections of owner-occupied units within residential structures of 4 units or less. |
| Support | HB117 | relative to the termination of tenancy at the expiration of the tenancy or lease term. | Commerce | Tue 3/21 | 10:00 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill adds the expiration of the term of the lease or tenancy if over 6 months as grounds for an eviction. |
| Support | HB466 | relative to water bottle filling stations in schools. | Education | Tue 3/21 | 9:15 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill repeals the state board of education’s rulemaking authority to adopt rules pursuant to RSA 541-A relative to requirements for the installation of water bottle filling stations. |
| Of Interest | HB83 | relative to county commissioners’ authority on county buildings. | Election Law and Municipal Affairs | Tue 3/21 | 9:35 AM | LOB Room 103 | This bill increases the expense thresholds for county commissioners’ authority to purchase real estate and repair, enlarge, or erect county buildings. |
| Support | HB252 | (New Title) exempting certain agricultural operations from certain municipal noise ordinances. | Energy and Natural Resources | Tue 3/21 | 9:30 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill exempts farming and agricultural operations from municipal noise ordinances. |
| Support | HB188 | relative to the duration of physical therapy. | Health and Human Services | Wed 3/22 | 9:15 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill removes the requirement that a physical therapist refer a patient to a health care provider if there is no documented improvement after 25 days of treatment. |
| Support | HB223 | relative to prescription refills. | Health and Human Services | Wed 3/22 | 9:30 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill creates an exception to the 34-day limit on prescription refills of schedule III topical androgens if the prescription specifies it is being used for the treatment of chronic low testosterone replacement therapy. |
| Support | HB500 | relative to prescribing opioids via telehealth medicine. | Health and Human Services | Wed 3/22 | 9:45 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill modifies the procedure for physicians, physician assistants and APRN’s to prescribe certain non-opioid and opioid controlled drugs by means of telemedicine. |
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The Daily Wire’s Jordan Peterson interviewed international migration expert Michael Yon and Dutch independent journalist Eva Vlaardingerbroek recently to discuss the farmer’s crisis in Holland. If you weren’t aware the Dutch farmers have been under the yoke of their purportedly conservative government’s “climate crisis” policy changes for nearly ten years.
As Vlaardingerbroek explains the government has repeatedly issued demands of the farmers in regard to what are and are not acceptable practices. Long one of the most efficient farming people in the world, responsible for the largest relative agricultural output on the planet, the Dutch farmers are facing catastrophic consequences thanks to the ever shifting sands of their leader’s policy changes. After years of bending over backwards to appease their government’s demands the farmers have reached their breaking point.
Citing environmental concerns the farmers are now being told some fifty percent of them will have to “voluntarily” sell their land, which in reality is a coercive means of grabbing the land by the government says Vlaardingerbroek. Current Dutch policy forbids them from selling in the open market essentially leaving them one choice – to sell to the government. This has led to massive protests by the Dutch farmers, similar to the truckers who protested Trudeau’s COVID anti-freedom vaccine demands last year that saw Trudeau freezing the bank accounts of those who protested.
In Holland the farmers have taken to the streets using their tractors to block traffic by way of protest. This has seen Dutch and German police brought in for law enforcement with the usual counter protesters, in this case the Extinction Rebellion clan, tossing their bodies into the fray. At one point the German police used Dutch water hoses to extinguish the Extinction Rebellion offensive who were stepping over the bounds of simple protest.
Yon’s concern for the Dutch farmer’s is one of replacement by the now ubiquitous illegal immigration at the borders of virtually all western nations. His eye witness account reveals fighting age men from Afghanistan, China and other middle-east and Asian countries coming into Holland for reasons that are unclear given the language barrier and lack of crisis in their native lands. Yon’s study of war and historical use of unfettered migration to weaken a nation has him suspicious the goal is to simply displace the Dutch farmers with a heterogeneous population prone to tribal affiliation, thus lacking a larger solidarity with other immigrants as well as the farmers, which prevents any meaningful rebellion against the globalists in government who wish to destabilize the country in favor of the World Economic Forum / George Soros “open society” model.
Vlaardingerbroek and Yon agree the battle can still be won given the superior man power and cultural support within Holland who largely favor the farmers. However the window of opportunity is closing and the farmers need active measures joined by sympathetic countrymen who have the guts to exercise their God given right to oppose a tyrannical government. A tyranny displayed not just by policy overreach but a now famous moment when Dutch police fired on a sixteen year old boy driving a tractor away from the protests, which caused an international outcry largely suppressed by an equally fraudulent media.
Peterson presses the pair by playing devil’s advocate for those in the Dutch government by asking what are their goals? Vlaardingerbroek and Yon explain they’re two-fold: 1) To capture the Dutch land 2) To use the land to create a tri-state smart city that effectively acts as a 21st century technocratic ghetto. The plans for the tri-state smart city are already in development.
Listen to the entire Peterson interview here and share this article and/or the video with your family, friends, colleagues and representatives. Legislators should be made to aware of this situation and the ramifications for the rest of the world including Vermont and New Hampshire.
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The Novavax COVID jab got Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) from the public health ‘watchdogs’ at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), despite being flagged last summer as presenting some small risk of heart inflammation.
July 2022 (emphasis in the original).
“Authorizing an additional COVID-19 vaccine expands the available vaccine options for the prevention of COVID-19, including the most severe outcomes that can occur such as hospitalization and death,” said FDA Commissioner Robert M. Califf, M.D.
Novavax’s version is another spike protein injection advanced in the hope that the public health industrial complex could convince the vaccine-hesitant (see also smart people) to line up and take two for the team—all with the knowledge that there was a known risk of heart inflammation.
The Fact Sheet for Healthcare Providers Administering Vaccine (Vaccination Providers) includes a warning that clinical trial data provide evidence for increased risks of myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle) and pericarditis (inflammation of tissue surrounding the heart).
Part of the approval process required Novavax and vaccine providers to report issues to the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System, which the FDA had been ignoring or dismissing long before with the help of the media and politicians. In other words, not much of a demand to get an EUA on an old COVID-19 vaccine whore in a new dress.
FDA greenlighted the EUA in July 2022, and in late February of 2023, new research suggests that,
Using pre-pandemic rates of heart inflammation in the population, the researchers calculated that the number of post-vaccination cases was higher than expected.
Reporting odds ratio values of higher than one indicate a higher-than-expected rate. For myocarditis following Novavax vaccination, the ratio was 5.2. For pericarditis, it was 24.75. For myopericarditis or both conditions at once, it was 14.4.
Novavax’s Nuvaxovid vaccine does not use mRNA, but like Pfizer and Biontech, it does use nanoparticles. Common among all three is their complete lack of respect for the mythological gender spectrum. Despite sex being a social construct, the COVID vaccine science continues to cause heart damage to young adults born biologically male more than any other.
Emphasis mine.
The median age of individuals was 35.5 years old, and most were males (38; 62.3%). Chest pain was the most common co-reported event 43 (70.5%). The median induction period was 3 days after immunization. Increased disproportionality for myopericarditis was found for NVX-CoV2373 (ROR 14.47, 95% confidence interval [CI] 11.22–18.67) and mRNA vaccines: BNT162b2 (ROR 17.15, 95% CI 16.88–17.42) and mRNA-1273 (ROR 6.92, 95% CI 6.77–7.08). Higher values were found in males.
We are not, however, allowed to make any connection between an apparent chemical war being waged on men and an increase in sudden deaths and all-cause mortality. That’s just a conspiracy (like the lab leak?).
Nothing to see here.
Remember, minor side effects are a sign that your vaccine is working, except the COVID vaccines don’t work. The morning after, the COVID vaccine pill (Paxlovid) doesn’t work as advertised. Remdesivr didn’t work as advertised. The pandemic protocols didn’t work as advertised. The political response didn’t work as advertised.
I’m sorry, old ground again. They did not work as advertised, but they did work as planned, and we can add the Novavax Jab to the list.
HT | Dr. Kat Lindley
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The following was published on the Ides of March 2023 from an undisclosed location east of the once-viable Mississippi River.
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The Members of the United States Continuity of Government Committee, having met in 2023 as a constitutional convention, do hereby propose these amendments to the Constitution of 1787.
They will replace, by deletion, the now obsolete Amendments I through X, which had been called The Bill of Rights.
These will be called The Bill of Mights in recognition of the fact that might makes right.
The Bill of Mights
I. Congress may make any law respecting an establishment of religion, and may abridge freedom of speech and freedom of the press to accord with community standards. People may not assemble in an insurrectionary manner. People wanting to submit grievances shall have the right to apply for a court order granting them permission to do so.
II. A well-regulated militia, being a necessary apparatus of the state, shall be formed by conscription and shall counteract the people’s crime of keeping and bearing arms.
III. Soldiers may be quartered in homes exclusively by permission of Congress.
IV. The searching and seizing of a person’s body, house, papers, or electronic material may be carried out per an order of government, provided that a justification be furnished ex post facto.
V. Persons held to answer for crime may be required to act as witnesses against themselves and may be subjected to double jeopardy. The owners of property seized by the state shall receive nominal compensation.
VI. Accused persons shall be given the assistance of a Public Defender and may be told of the evidence to be used against them.
VII. The right of natural persons and corporations to file lawsuits shall be honored. Priority of common law shall not be assumed. The fact finder is the state-appointed jury whose validity and judgement shall not be questioned.
VIII. Bail and fines shall be determined by the judge. Punishments shall be inflicted according to their suitability for the security of society.
IX. This enumeration of certain Mights shall not be construed to deny or disparage other Mights retained by the government.
X. Powers not yet delegated to the government are reserved.
The manner in which these ten amendments will replace Amendments I through X is by signature of the president of the United States, during national emergency.
— Mary Maxwell’s website is ConstitutionAndTruth.com. Her book, Boston’s Marathon Bombing, is linked here. It contains her civil RICO case, Maxwell v FBI et al., as an appendix. Please contact her at MaxwellMaryLLB@gmail.com
This clip of French protestors getting beaten lends verisimilitude to the above Bill:
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CBS got an inch in its pants to follow the lab-leak breadcrumbs, but not to Wuhan, China, and the Institute of Virology. Not exactly. The lab leak theory has, for lack of a better term, leaked, and when you can no longer hide the truth, job one is to affix blame.
Preferably on your political opponents and ideally on the biggest threats to the uniparty. In other words, this isn’t about honesty, integrity, or accountability, they are looking to pin this on Donald Trump, and it’s as plain as the nose on both of its faces.
“We’ve got new details to share with you today about an investigation into U.S. funding the Chinese research lab in the city at the center of the pandemic,” co-anchor Michelle Miller announced. “It’s raising questions about how closely past administrations were following the use of the money.”
That last sentence in the lede is the giveaway. Someone who was president before the current arrangement should have been paying closer attention to the expenses, and they don’t mean Barry Obama. If this was going on and he missed it, that’s not his fault. Nor are the Biolabs in Ukraine or anything else. He’s B’rock O’Bama, the smartest man in any room. The myth, the legend, the myth. Forced to leap buildings in a single bound with the dead weight of Joe Biden tied to him for eight years. How he managed to get anything done at all is a miracle, and that’s what it was.
The Beer Summit. Remember that. 6/11/212. Being invisible during a crisis takes a lot of effort.
Anyway, not him. The guy between Barry and the cabal of Marxists working China’s Joe Biden puppet. That guy. I think CBS will be looking very closely at the books to see what was going on while Trump was tweeting.
So, no, I don’t think the serail fraudsters at CBS are taking this lab leak thing seriously, but they are using it to promote an approved line of inquiry. CBS is legendary for that.
And that’s just some recent stuff. How about Dan Rather and the Bush National Guard Story right before an election. CBS helped hide the hunter Biden Laptop story which was credible and has since risen to the top of the cistern alongside the lab-leak conspiracy.
Anyway, some in the new media are hopeful that this turnabout by CBS, alongside all the other signs (we’ve shared a few) but I’m not convinced it’s anything but cover for another Trump hit, if not soon, then during the heated parts of the season.
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Trust – such an ephemeral thing. Now, I did include Speaker Packard on a previous email concerning a Right To Know. Didn’t hear back. So I’m making it more explicit in now both of the Republican Leaders are now responsible for Following The Law act accordingly. After all, they can instruct the proper IT people who take care of NH House of Representatives emails to fork them over.
—— Original Message ——
From “Skip” <Skip@granitegrok.com>
To “Sherman Packard” <Sherman.Packard@leg.state.nh.us>; “Jason Osborne” <Jason@osborne4nh.com>; Jason.Osborne@leg.state.nh.us
Date 3/18/2023 1:26:38 PM
Subject Right To Know Demand for the Legislative emails of the NH House Representatives from Belknap CountyGood afternoon NH House Speaker Packard and NH House Majority Leader Osborne,
Please find attached (and replicated below), an RSA 91-A demand for all of the official NH Legislative emails either sent to or sent by Belknap County Representatives using the leg.state.nh.us email domain. The period of time is from 1/1/23 to 3/20/23, inclusive.
Partial deliveries of the Responsive Records will be accepted.
-Skip
Skip Murphy
Founder, co-owner
GraniteGrok.com | Skip@GraniteGrok.com |
Dominating the political Bandwidth in New Hampshire
Pursuant to the Right to Know Law (RSA. 91-A:4 (I) ), I am demanding access, within 5 business days, to the below enumerated governmental records for the period starting January 1, 2023 to March 20, 2023, inclusive. Otherwise, if this cannot be fulfilled within that mandated window per RSA 91-A:4 IV b, please advise when the Responsive Records will be made available.
New Hampshire has made it clear that information held by the Government is the Peoples’ information with very few exceptions:
[Art.] 8. [Accountability of Magistrates and Officers; Public’s Right to Know.] All power residing originally in, and being derived from, the people, all the magistrates and officers of government are their substitutes and agents, and at all times accountable to them . Government, therefore, should be open, accessible, accountable and responsive . To that end, the public’s right of access to governmental proceedings and records shall not be unreasonably restricted …
June 2, 1784
Amended 1976 by providing right of access to governmental proceedings and records.
Amended 2018 by providing that taxpayers have standing to bring actions against the government
From RSA 91-A (excerpted, emphasis mine):
91-A:4 Minutes and Records Available for Public Inspection. –
I. Every citizen during the regular or business hours of all public bodies or agencies, and on the regular business premises of such public bodies or agencies, has the right to inspect all governmental records in the possession, custody, or control of such public bodies or agencies, including minutes of meetings of the public bodies, and to copy and make memoranda or abstracts of the records or minutes so inspected, except as otherwise prohibited by statute or RSA 91-A:5. In this section, ” to copy ” means the reproduction of original records by whatever method, including but not limited to photography, photostatic copy, printing, or electronic or tape recording.
I am demanding any and all emails (with any such attachments) for the enumerated period above from the NH Legislative email addresses associated with the following NH State Representatives from Belknap County:
Per RSA 91-A:4 IV(c) If you deny any portion of this request, please cite the specific exemption used to justify the denial to make each record, or part thereof, unavailable for inspection along with a brief explanation of how the exemption applies to the information withheld.
As you are aware, in 2016, the New Hampshire Supreme Court ruled that a governmental body in possession of records is required to produce them in electronic media using standard common file formats: Green v. SAU #55, 168 N.H. 796, 801 (2016) . Unless there is some reason that it is not reasonably practical to produce such, explain why it is not practical to comply.
Please also note, per RSA 91-A:4 III, III-a, and III-b, you are required to maintain the safety and accessibility of such responsive records. This also includes such responsive records (e.g., emails, query files, data files, et al) which may have been deleted from respective Inboxes but are still available on the applicable email server(s) or in your / email host backup system(s).
Please let me know when these records will be sent to me for inspection. You may email the responsive records to me at Skip@GraniteGrok.com. If the volume turns out to be substantial, I have already set up a Dropbox folder to use in uploading those responsive records.
Thank you for your lawful attention to this matter.
Sincerely,
Skip Murphy
GraniteGrok.com
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The most important thing to do now is to continue to support the principles of neutrality, particularly in Switzerland. Support the protestors that are demanding for a return to the Swiss neutrality of the past and all others that are bringing light to the fact that this is sadly occurring. I do not plan on returning to Switzerland until it returns to its former glory. Let’s Make Switzerland Neutral Again!
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Introducing the new Eversource Math! We double your rates and give you triple the power outages in return! And these aren’t your parents’ power outages!
We want to thank Bill for this Op-Ed. If you have an Op-Ed or LTE
you would like us to consider, please submit it to Editor@GraniteGrok.com.
Oh no, these are the new, green outages that last for days and days, where you suckers customers get to experience the joys of truly Green Energy living.
No electricity means less power generation, which comes from dirty, stinky fossil fuels. So while you peons customers are living the Greta [Thuneberg Lifestyle (you’re welcome!), we’re padding our Green, carbon diversification account! A win-win for us, your woke power company.
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Pfizer made tens of tens of billion on a “vaccine” (that continues to reap financial rewards) despite not preventing infection or spread with side effects up to and including sudden death. Pfizer responded to that failure with Paxlovid, which you also paid for and didn’t work.
I know this looks like a road we’ve been down before. Paxlovid doesn’t appear to clear the virus but it suppresses symptoms. But have you seen the streaming service onslaught of commercials? The tagline is ‘If it’s COVID, PAXLOVID. If you don’t pay to avoid commercials on streaming (like Hulu), they are impossible to avoid—every break, sometimes more than once.
“If it’s COVID, PAXLOVID!”
Why? Because the US government bought millions of pills at $530.00 a dose for another emergency use authorized drug that doesn’t work, and they need to move those pills. With roughly 70% of the country with at least one Jab, there’s plenty of opportunity for folks with COVID-Vaxx depressed immunity to get COVID then Paxlovid.
But, again, Paxlovid does not appear to clear the virus, so after day 5 (that’s $2,650.00 in pills prepaid for by taxpayers), suppressed symptoms might begin to re-emerge. By the end of week two, you have COVID again, which might be worse. More COVID? No F****** way Paxlovid. In fact, maybe skip it altogether.
Paxlovid is trending. Just a reminder…. 44 severe drug interactions (including statins,) toxic to liver and kidneys, contains an HIV drug with a black box warning, increased risk of rebound infection, poorly tolerated due to metallic taste, costs taxpayers $530+
— Mary Talley Bowden MD (@MdBreathe) March 16, 2023
I was aware of the cost, the millions of doses pre-paid for by the Biden Administration, and the COVID Rebound – because the drug does not appear to clear the virus – but the dangerous drug interactions are new to me, as are the toxic liver and kidney risks.
According to GoodRx, Paxlovid contains Ritonavir (a drug used to treat HIV/AIDS patients) known to cause liver damage.
If you go to Paxlovid.com, you will find this warning.
PAXLOVID is not approved to prevent COVID-19, treat severe or critical COVID-19, or to be used for more than 5 days. There are certain medications that should not be taken with PAXLOVID.
Further down the page is the list of drugs that cannot be mingled with Paxlovid.
There is also a warning not to use Paxlovid if you have kidney disease, so there’s the kidney link.
Before taking PAXLOVID, tell your healthcare provider if you:
All for what? COVID rebound?
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Interesting and the phrase from my previous post kept coming back: “It’s Not a Flattering One”. To recap from the Daily Sun article (emphasis mine):
“We serve at the will of the sheriff. He doesn’t have to explain anything to us. We got discharge letters served to us by a deputy, which I guess is required, but he didn’t even speak to us,” Grenier said. Grenier also categorized the hiring of three of Wright’s political supporters, Rich Mann, Jim McIntyre, and Rep. Doug Trottier (R-Belmont), as a political “quid pro quo.”
Recently, McIntyre was promoted to chief deputy, and Trottier to sergeant. As a state representative, Trottier sits on the Belknap County Delegation, and recently brought HB 357, which would double the term of office for Belknap County attorney, register of deeds, treasurer and sheriff. Rep. Travis O’Hara (R-Belmont) recently applied for a position as a dispatcher, but did not get the job.
This was a “work-alike” to a similar bill that was passed last year to boost the same positions there for Rockingham County from two to four years. I don’t have any really good ideas as to WHY that should be but certainly one why not:
Two years may be short enough to get rid of bad people in an office. Four years may be WAY too long. And NH doesn’t have a recall mechanism for any office. So, we’d be stuck with someone longer than necessary.
Now the bill was “laid on the table” (think: “died”) so it isn’t going to happen and I should just let it go. However, given the Reps involved (NH State Reps Trottier (R), Juliet Harvey-Bolia (R), Mike Bordes (R), and Steven Bogert (R) ) as Sponsors, I wanted to watch the testimony and listen for myself as to why it got tabled – and heard at least two reasons why it shouldn’t have moved forward:
To that latter point, if you are short for time, wasn’t true. I know – I phoned.
Here’s the video of the NH House testimony on it. In order: NH State Rep Steve Bogert, Belknap County Sheriff Bill Wright, Kate Horgan of the NH Association of Counties, and then Bogert was recalled to answer more questions – which gave rise to this post.
Now, two things for context:
So listen closely yourself and think “what’s missing here?”. Note that I’ve started the video at the HB357 hearing time: 26:47. My takeaways/notes:
Weasel Words #1 The nuance/impression that was left hanging in my mind after he was done was that the Delegation had discussed the bill and were either unanimous in support or at least a majority of them supported it. Selective wording Hold this thought for a couple…
Backstory – the history is that the previous bill had been passed through committee but during the floor fight (debate) on the NH House floor (ALL the reps and not just the committee) made it clear that no bill like this would be for ALL counties all at once. Each County, like what Belknap was doing now and Rockingham last year, had to bring their own case forward AND do it with the support of its County Delegation (the Reps in each County). THIS committee made that point over and over again.
“…sponsored by legislators from Belknap and in your testimony, you made the comment that Belknap County has support from their Delegation. Could you expound on that and clarify what exactly what you mean by that statement?
Hogan: It is my understanding, and I would defer to the sponsor, to confirm this but that their Delegation discussed this bill and supports this bill but I would defer to the Representative from Belknap County to confirm that.
Oopsies – caught red-handed. As a lobbyist, she made the required impression in trying to the Committee to believe that the bill had the requisite support. The “I would defer to” was the admission she was making it up (I think), trying to get out of a jam, and putting the onus on either Bogert (who was present) or Trottier (who wasn’t).
DID the Delegation discuss it and was consensus achieved?
Bogert: “the bill itself did not officially come up before the Delegation in a Delegation meeting. It had been discussed individually and as you can note that four of the sponsors are from the Delegation itself.
Trying to get out of the hole he dug for himself, that last bit.
Another Rep asked, “Were any of the Delegation opposed to the bill?”
Bogert: To my knowledge, no
Verbiage is right from an old-time snake oil salesman. And very checkable – I called a few. ALL of them said, “No, I oppose the bill“.
So , there was NO consensus. And NO, not all individual Reps were contacted. And no, the four Reps sponsoring the bill are not a plurality.
So it seems that Bogert, and perhaps the others in on this, didn’t WANT to know who didn’t support the bill because then he would have had to admit it. Plausible Deniability and obfuscation.
Lied by Omission by not telling the WHOLE truth (which would have been talking about the Delegation and ALL the Reps’ stances). He, Wright, and Hogan, in my opinion, tried to mislead the Committee.
For that, Wright and Bogert should suffer a consequence. The problem, under the Law, is that I don’t know of one other than slashing the Sheriff’s salary as part of the budget process (which won’t happen) and keeping Bogert off any other Delegation Committees (which, given Harry Bean as Chair), won’t happen either.
But I’m quite sure that doing this bit of shoe leather work will make me the bad guy, once again.
Right, Chair Harry Bean?
Tried to get away with something and got caught.
All it takes is a normal citizen, thinking logically, to look into something and ask some simple questions. And you know what THAT takeaway is?
What else are they trying to pull without anyone else knowing about it?
The solution is always MORE speech and Big Flashlights rather than Governmental Dark Corners.
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The Left’s gender war-on-women freight train has been gaining speed lately as they lose things left and right: scholarships, jobs, awards, and their history. If you’d like to see the final form, especially regarding sports, Vermont just showed you their cards.
Related: Vermont Principal’s Association Not Interested In Actual Diversity
Title IX was created to ensure that girls and women had the same opportunities in sports as men. A few decades along and all the recent ‘boys can be girls’ business has folks wondering what that means for Title IX. Here’s your answer: “Vermont bans a high school from athletics for objecting to boys in girls’ sports.”
The end of sanctioned inter-state competition without which there can be no pursuit of scholarships, especially for young women. I’d say it’s a bit ironic that as more boys play on girls’ teams, fewer girls will be on teams, let alone winning games or awards. And for some, it won’t matter, but if a scholarship is the only path to a college or an elite school, the Vermont Principal’s Association just damned poor, underserved communities of girls, the very thing Title IX exists to serve ….unless they bend that Marxist knee.
Treat sex and gender as we say, and we’ll let you lose to boys who are stronger and twice your size. Hey, you might not get hurt, and you may even win once and a while, and that’s a risk they are willing to make you take.
In other words, the advances of Title IX have been erased, and if you don’t like it, play with dolls or bake cookies (right, Hillary?).
Update: The original featured image was incorrect and has been replaced after publication.
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A couple of years ago, the New Hampshire Goldback was created after the original Utah Goldback proved incredibly popular at the 2020 Porcfest. A gorgeous, spendable, interchangeable type of gold money available in denominations as small 1/1000th of an ounce of 24 karat gold, the NH Goldback has taken the NH freedom community by storm – giving even cryptocurrency serious competition.
Now, the company behind the Goldback, Alpine Gold, has launched its first physical branch location and they chose Manchester, NH!
I decided I needed to see it for myself, so I set an appointment with Adam Van, the manager, and got him to answer all my questions about the services they provide the community, and the entire eastern portion of the United States. It’s pretty cool – watch the interview here:
Give them a call at (801) 770-2565 x1201 and stop in to see for yourself.