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.

 

Visit NHPatriotHub.org for News & Information

NHPatriotHub.org is a website that helps NH citizens  to connect with like-minded people, get involved, and stay informed about what’s happening locally and around the state.  The site includes an Events Calendar, a blog, and links to grassroots groups around the state.

Check out the “get involved” pages to find out how you can make a difference.

 

 

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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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 buffet-style 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:

1. Mentality: first and foremost in survival is having a flexible mentality and cultivating the ability to adapt. Vanity has no place in survival.
2. Develop a meatspace network of people that are likeminded: cultivate your community ties and build alliances with neighbors (note: don’t babble about the Jab or globalists or depopulation, or start pointing political fingers when doing this)… and remember, the first rule of PREP CLUB is that there is no prep club.

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 – SITREP Edition.

 

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Apologies for missing the last one.  Time!  Between tax preparation and a deadline work-wise, just no time to do it.

 

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Top of the fold:

Anti-TikTok RESTRICT Act could actually imprison Americans for criticizing GMOs – NaturalNews.com

IIRC it was Eisenhower who said that proposed laws should be looked at in terms of how they could be misused, not just trust in the good intentions of those who wrote it.  And more recently, look at the leak of classified info.  How… convenient.

The Leak Was the Op – White House and Congress Demand New Powers, Think Restrict Act, in Aftermath of Classified Intel Leaks – The Last Refuge (theconservativetreehouse.com)

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Massad Ayoob: Short answers against Gun Control & how to defend the 2nd Amendment. Critical Mas EP47

 

 

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‘Unprecedented’ situation as two African countries report outbreaks of Marburg virus (france24.com)

See, I told you so.

The Next Pandemic

 

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Oddments – random thoughts on prepping:

 

1. Understand – most Leftists hate you. Take that into account as you prep, as you discuss with others, etc.
2. When some version of SHTF happens, these people will turn on you with a white-hot hatred. Not just because you have preps and they don’t… but because you were the perceptive ones who saw what they did not, and worse you took action, outclassing and outsmarting their uber-intellectual educated selves. You saw, and prepared for, what they dismissed and derided as impossible while feeling morally and intellectually superior in that derision.

 

 

3. I see and hear lots of ads for gold and silver and overall endorse the idea.  Here’s the problem: The Potato (or more precisely, his handlers) may simply do an FDR.  And your purchases through websites or dealers are on record.

 

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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)

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:

When Bugging In Can Get You Killed – Ask a Prepper

Consider scenarios.

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Major US Banks Are Collapsing. What’s Next? – Ask a Prepper

Consider the dichotomy here – cash out helps you, and threatens the economy further.  RTWT.  Related:

The System is Down! – Contemplations on the Tree of Woe (substack.com)

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Homemade Laundry Soap – Orange Scented – Farmhouse on Boone

Been told – by one person so far – this works well.

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Is Prepping Over? – Ask a Prepper

If you can look into the woods and see medicine and food, if you can defend yourself and your family, if you can find and purify water, grow from seed, raise animals, make friends, make trades and preserve food, then you are going to outlast the buyers with ease.

Not just physical goods.  Skills.  Knowledge.  And a network of people willing to cooperate.

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Related to Spicy Time:

8541 Tactical – Mildot Range Estimation

Range estimation is a key skill in the sniper’s toolbox. If you don’t know how far away your target is, you have little chance of hitting it on the first shot. One shot, one kill…right? There are many methods of locating the target’s range. For the purpose of this period of instruction we will be covering range estimation with the mildot reticle and it’s variants.

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Who Will Win America’s Next Civil War?- WhatIfAltHist (bitchute.com)

Video.  Even if we win victory will be messy like nobody can imagine.

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Screw the Blue

Bureaucrats and cops are callous, officious f*cks who do not care about your feelings and will stomp you into the ground over the pettiest of bullshit.

Learn from this.  They’ll Follow Orders.  As will FEMA:

The FEMA Death Camps: Where Will They Take You? (askaprepper.com) (bolding added):

Perhaps to one of the 800 secret death camps FEMA has scattered throughout the territory of the United States. Some, like the one located just outside Fairbanks, Alaska are large enough to house up to 2 million people. But Alaska has less than 800.000 residents. So, who do they plan on taking there?

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One item that will be impossible to find after the collapse…Get yours now if you can use it.

 

 

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Primitive Ways To Build A Shelter – Ask a Prepper

Good to know for the worst-case.  From the same site:

1800s Pioneer Items You Should Still Have At Home (askaprepper.com)

Steel + Flint – Ask a Prepper

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Dugout Shelter Under 10ft (3m) of Snow – Solo Camping in Survival Shelter During Snow Storm

 

 

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Don’t Be an Idiot: Are You Smarter about U.S. Government than a Brand New Citizen?

 

 

I remember when my immigrant wife was starting to study for her citizenship exam.  Having heard through her immigrant friends and ESL classmates how ignorant we native-born Americans are, she’d ask me questions from the citizenship exam.  And I’d know 99% of them.

 

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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:

1. When does it start?
2. How bad will it get?
3. How long will it last?
4. What will the aftermath look like?

 

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Something is coming, but what is it?

 

 

Shot:

 

 

 

Chaser:

 

 

(Link to AZQuotes per their policy)

And CHAOS… it’s what’s for dinner:

The Biden 10-Step Plan for Global Chaos › American Greatness (amgreatness.com)

 

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I have 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

 

Coastal Foraging – Mussels, Clams, Crab and Lobster – Clean and Delicious Cookup Autumn 2022

 

 

Talks about the “R” rule for foraging shellfish.  There’s an old joke:

A Rabbi is walking along the street on Yom Kippur (a fasting day), and sees one of his congregants at a restaurant feasting on raw oysters (not kosher).  He rushes up and starts castigating the man:

Rabbi:  Eating?  Eating non-kosher food?  And on Yom Kippur???

Man: What, there’s no “R” in Yom Kippur?

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If You Know Foraging, How Difficult Is It To Live off the Land?

 

 

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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):

Dimmitt dairy farm explosion ‘by far the deadliest barn fire for cattle overall’ (newschannel10.com)

As if beef prices weren’t already going into orbit.

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A personal note: Unfortunately, there are several medications I critically need.  One, in particular, is a very common medication these days.  Yet my pharmacy texted me to make sure I was “still in the market” so that they could pre-order it and make sure that they have it in stock when it’s time to refill.  Same for the associated hardware with that medication; just got the text today.  (You might be able to put 2 and 2 together here.)

Huh?  This is like a pharmacy asking if you’ll need a refill on, say, a high blood pressure medication that’s prescribed to hundreds of people in the area – and checking to make sure they have it in stock for you when your refill is due.

These common things should be in stock, period.

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Gardening, Food Storage, Animals, Food Preservation, Health, and Related:

10 Fruits & Vegetables You Can Plant Once — And They Will Keep Coming Back Every Year (gardeningsoul.com)

Amen!

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Introductory guide to sowing seeds

 

 

And related:

 

The Secret to Healthy Seedlings How to Transplant Them

 

 

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How To Freeze Dry Eggs – Farmhouse on Boone

My wife doesn’t see a crisis nor need to prep.  And is angry that I have done so.

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Bunch of images – dumped en masse:

 

 

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How to Grow, Thresh, and Mill Your Own Wheat for Bread

 

 

450 square feet yielded 25 pounds of grain, so roughly .06 pound per square foot.  (No idea if this is good or not.)  His channel:

Vegetable Academy – YouTube

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10 Smoked Meat Recipes – You’ve Gotta Try #8 – Smoked Meat Sunday

OK, I think I need to get a smoker.  Somehow.

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Zero waste urban gardener #shorts

 

 

I’m getting the book.  And from the recommendations, this:

The Seed Saving Bible: Learn Expert Techniques on How to Best Harvest, Store and Preserve the Seeds from Your Favorite Fruits, Vegetables and Herbs to Build Up Your Seed Bank for Years of Future Use

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Several, quick-hit style:

Preserving Meat Long-Term, The Old-Fashioned Way – Off The Grid News

Smoking Meat For Long-term Storage – Smoking Secrets For 2020 – Prepper’s Will (prepperswill.com)

Basic guide on how to preserve meat by smoking (lakesidesmokers.com)

Curing and Smoking Meats for Home Food Preservation | Bradley Smoker

Some basic steps to learn how to preserve meat by smoking (americanoutdoor.guide)

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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):

Amanpour on PBS After Nashville Shooting: Gun Rights ‘Bizarre Indeed…A Cult Indeed’ | Newsbusters

So belief in being able to defend yourself is a “cult” in their eyes.

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Archives: State Knife Laws | American Knife and Tool Institute (akti.org)

Useful!  I actually have a knife that’s shorter than my normal one for when I go into MA.

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Aussie Gunsmith Issues Stark Warning to US Firearm Owners on Gun Control (resistthemainstream.com)

A smart man learns from his mistakes.  A wise man learns from the mistakes of others.

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How to Prepare for a Home Invasion – Home Defense Tips

 

 

Others by the same guy (links only):

2 Home Defense Mistakes That You Should Stop Doing – YouTube

How to BRIBE a Corrupt Police Officer | Jason Hanson – YouTube

How to Escape a Stalker | Jason Hanson – YouTube

This Homemade and Improvised Weapon Could Save Your Life – YouTube

How To Pocket Carry a Pistol – YouTube

How to Disarm a Gun Pointed at You – YouTube

How to Be a Human Lie Detector | Behavior and Mind Reading (Pt.1) – YouTube

How to Be a Human Lie Detector | Behavior and Mind Reading (Pt.2) – YouTube

Jason Hanson – Spy Secrets That Can Save Your Life – YouTube

Don’t Get Seduced by a Woman – Honeypots and Honey Traps Explained – YouTube

And related:

You Are A Target Just By The Way You Walk: Jocko Underground 009 – YouTube

10 Signs That Someone is Lying: Jocko Underground 033 – YouTube

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How To Looter-Proof Your Home – Ask a Prepper

Good against burglars too.  Speaking of the home:

 

PATREON SHORTS – Backplate Shooting

 

 

Another related:

 

Don’t Fall Victim To This Home Invasion Tactic | Home Defense | Navy SEAL

 

 

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Bayou Renaissance Man: Critical advice from Massad Ayoob on riots, mobs and self-defense

Includes two important videos.

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Trump Pushes National Reciprocity: ‘2A Must Apply Across State Lines’ (breitbart.com)

I’m not a lawyer, but I’d think this is a no-brainer to achieve.

 

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Hunting & Fishing:

 

Liver as bait

 

 

WTF are you fishing for???

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Fishing 101: A guide for beginners

 

 

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5 TIPS That Will CHANGE The Way You FISH (Special Guest)

 

 

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Concluding thoughts if I’m moved to comment:

As you can imagine, compiling these takes a lot of time and effort.

Any suggestions on how I could monetize this somehow – not, though, to the detriment of the Grok?  Nobody seems to be buying my Zazzle products.

Best Hardcoreright Gift Ideas | Zazzle

Best nitzakhon_now Gift Ideas | Zazzle

 

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Limited Finances? Here’s How to Prep in 2023!

 

 

By definition, unless you’re a multi-millionaire, you have limited financial resources.

 

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Palate cleansers:

 

 

Pretty close to the top of the list of NOT MY JOB!

I can see it now… “Honey, have you watered the cobra today”?

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OK, ok, I’m sometimes very cynical about relationships…

 

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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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A former director of strategic communications for Planned Parenthood of Southern New England has reportedly committed suicide just five days after police raided his residence as part of a local child porn investigation.

 

The Blaze reports Tim Yergeau, 35, of New Haven, reportedly killed himself five days after police raided his apartment as part of a child pornography investigation.

Yergeau worked at the abortion chain for approximately four years from 2018 to 2022 as the director of strategic communications for Planned Parenthood of Southern New England. An Instagram profile that The Blaze identified as his shows numerous photos of his pro-abortion advocacy, including wearing a Planned Parenthood T-shirt and participating in pro-abortion events.

 

Wait! There’s more.

 

Yergeau had a large social media imprint and left behind many posts on his Instagram account devoted to liberal causes, including the LGBTQ movement.

He also posted about his hatred for Glenn Beck, the founder of TheBlaze.

At the time of the police raid, Yergeau had been working as the communications director for the Long Wharf Theatre, but it has since scrubbed its announcement of his hiring.

 

Any bets on his position regarding porn in public school libraries and teachers grooming kids? I’m guessing yeah, to both from Tim Yergeau. Posts about book banning and support for the DOJ scrutinizing parents who speak out at school board meetings. And I’m sure he is a registered Democrat voter.

Stereotypical left-wing pedophile.

What seems odd to me is that someone who (for lack of a better word) ‘enjoys’ child pornography would be in the business of ensuring there were fewer children to exploit.

Self-loathing?

Speaking of which, The Long Have Register, which has more details on the botched raid, the cops busted in on his neighbor’s apartment before they searched his, never mentions his employment at Planned Parenthood.

Both investigations (botched raid and local kiddie porn) are ongoing, but since right-wing hating pro-LGBT Yergeau killed himself, is it okay to suggest he might be guilty as he would have been charged?

 

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There are many potential reasons for and sub-stories about the Democrat National Committee’s (DNC) decision to hold the 2024 Convention in the Homicide Capitol of the country. The DNC has named Chicago to host the convention that should start the reelection campaign of Joe Biden.

That is if no indictments are waiting for him to leave the Presidency behind. The DNC plans to spend $90 Million to hold the convention, and the reason for the hefty number is the amount spent on security. The Chicago Police Department is already understaffed and cannot keep Chicago’s residents safe. There is no way the Chicago Police can ensure the safety of even the high-profile attendees, let alone the delegates.

Chicago claims it symbolizes the principles of the Democrat Party. The claims do not specify if the lawlessness and record homicides are part of these principles, but they will have to account for them at the convention. It is thought that the strength of the union’s presence in Chicago is drawing the convention to the Windy City as the DNC sees a need to shore up the relationship between the union brotherhood. The city of Chicago has a problem with its image regarding business, big and small. The companies leaving Chicago are contributing to the wind!

Just this week, Walmart announced the closure of four stores in Chicago. The company can no longer assure the safety of its customers and employees. The company can no longer absorb the millions of dollars lost due to theft. Walmart is not the only company pulling out of Chicago, but the list is growing.

McDonald’s is feeling the pains of the challenging business environment in Chicago. CEO Chris Kempczinski recently said that crime is “seeping into every corner of our city,” and he’s frequently asked, “what’s going on in Chicago? We have violent crime that’s happening in our restaurants … we’re seeing homelessness issues in our restaurants. We’re having drug overdoses that are happening in our restaurants,” he said last month at the Economic Club of Chicago. “So we see in our restaurants, every single day, what’s happening in society at large.” Though McDonald’s is not leaving yet, individual restaurants may be in jeopardy.

Boeing, Caterpillar, and Citadel also recently announced moves out of Chicago. Boeing is leaving for business and political reasons as they feel D.C. is a better fit for them as they move more to defense contracts.

Tyson Foods is the latest company to close its Chicago offices. They are closing numerous facilities and centralizing their operation under one roof in Arkansas.

The bottom line is these companies leaving is a negative signal about the business environment in Chicago and may influence other interested companies to look elsewhere. They also take employees with them or leave unemployed people behind. People pointed to Mayor Lori Lightfoot and her lack of attention to the Chicago crime situation, but with the election of Brandon Johnson, they may have taken a further step to the Left. None of this puts out the Welcome Mat for the DNC and the attention the convention will place on Chicago.

 

 

 

 

 

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