On May 7, 2022, Ms. Sidney Powell (a former DoJ prosecutor) gave a deposition to the “House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol pursuant to House Resolution 503.” Mainstream media has not covered it; it does not suit the official narrative.

And why hasn’t Ms. Powell tried to spread the word? She signed an agreement to be gagged as part of a plea deal (which I think has to do with Jan 6, not sure).

I’ve chosen only a small portion to print here (I downloaded a copy months ago – it’s about 50,000 words).  If you wish to see the rest, you can contact me.

So, is there any conflict of interest by me (Mary Maxwell) in publishing this, given that I am currently a candidate for the January 23 Republican presidential primary in New Hampshire? There is a prejudice on my part to believe Sidney Powell. She totally won me over with her 2014 book “Licensed To Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice.” She is my hero of the 2020 affair.

Editing.

I have not “edited” this thing. The usual sign for elision, three dots, was used by me to indicate that a small portion was deleted, to spare the reader from non-essential chatter: I use “&&&” to imply a substantial omission, but in fact, most of the deposition is not here as you can guess from my presenting only 2.6k out of 50K words. As for the italicized headings, I made them up to lure you in.

[‘Grok] – reformatted to make it easier to read, but no other edits from us.

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SELECT COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE THE JANUARY 6TH ATTACK ON THE U.S. CAPITOL, … DEPOSITION OF SIDNEY POWELL
Saturday, May 7, 2022, Washington, D.C. [Greatly abridged, otherwise no alteration — MM]

Good morning, Ms. Powell. My name’s ____ I’m senior investigative counsel.
A Good Morning. You’re too young to be senior investigative counsel.
Q I think you’re gonna actually make me blush, ma’am. &&& I believe you were involved at some point in trying to get an executive order signed that would allow for the seizure and inspection of voting machines; is that correct?

Litigation was a means of getting to the truth I had hoped. I mean, that’s the way our court should have functioned.

A We were looking at the possibility, and I drafted the foreign interference findings if I remember correctly or at least had a hand in writing those, to support the use of Executive Order 13848 on cyber security to secure the voting machines hopefully in three to five cities where the voting irregularities were the worst, and then have them imaged by a bipartisan professional group that understood what they were doing. We even suggested the use of it being videoed if I remember correctly so that we could get the evidence of whatever happened and lay all this to rest.

And one of the things I really appreciated about — most of this was discussed on the December 18th, that meeting is one I have more recollection of than any others because it was the most pointed. A. … I didn’t have a broader strategy than getting the information I needed for the litigation other than like I said, my primary goal was to get to the truth. Litigation was a means of getting to the truth I had hoped. I mean, that’s the way our court should have functioned.

It wasn’t going to work for me to do anything with campaign people because they were politicians.

Q but did you have meetings with campaign staff in the time shortly after the election?

A I had one very short meeting with some campaign folks right after the election. That was kind of along in the timeframe where I realized it wasn’t going to work for me to do anything with campaign people because they were politicians.

[I] was gonna follow the truth and the law wherever it led, including on any Republicans.

Q Tell me what you can remember about that meeting that you just eluded to where you realized they were politicians and they weren’t really going to be of assistance to you?

A I don’t remember much about it other than it was very short. And I mean, they didn’t even want to look at me when I walked in the room.

Q Were they — were you able to at least share your perspective and your views on things?

A I don’t recall being able to do that.

Q Had you been invited to that meeting?

A Only by Mr. Giuliani, and he wasn’t much more welcome there than I was. Yeah. I was definitely persona non grata. Q. Do you have any idea what that was based on?

Well, I mean, part of it was I was the only female in the room. And part of it was that they know I wasn’t impressed with them and didn’t bow and scrape to them and was gonna follow the truth and the law wherever it led, including on any Republicans.

Threw the president under the bus…

A No. White House counsel was not there.

Q Was Jared Kushner there? 20 The Witness. Yes. Jared was there. Was Jason Miller there? Do you know that name? He might have been. I don’t know. You mentioned some meetings with Pat Cipollone. Earlier, you said that one of the reasons you felt like you weren’t welcome there was that the people in that meeting knew that you weren’t impressed by them. Why was that? Why weren’t you impressed by them?

A My impression was that they didn’t want to do anything, that they had thrown the President under the bus, that they had told him they were prepared for whatever post-litigation activity was needed, and they hadn’t done squat. And they knew they were gonna lose, and they were moving on to their careers on K Street or whatever big deals they’d made.

They were all looking at their next job, which they probably lined up before the end of the campaign.

MS. MURPHY: Why do you think these people thought they had lost?

A I think they — in retrospect, I think they knew they were gonna lose.

Q They knew they were gonna lose, but you didn’t believe the President was
going to lose; is that correct?

A I don’t think he did lose.

Q So the schism — the difference between you and this group of people is that they believed he was going to lose, but you did not believe that he had lost?

A I would call it more of they were acting in their self interest as opposed to the interest of the country or the voters. It was a very self-interested bunch.

Q They were self interested because they were accepting a loss that you didn’t believe was a real loss, or — can you explain a little bit more why you think they acted in a self-interested way?

I definitely think some Republicans had a role in getting rid of President Trump.

Q And you believe that plan was executed by some of these people who were Republicans as well as who else?

A I don’t know that those people in the room had any part in executing the plan, but I think they had realized that what was going to come down. And I definitely think some Republicans had a role in getting rid of President Trump.

I’ve been on the criminal justice reform kick since I wrote “License to Lie.”

Ms. Murphy. Great. Thank you so much, Ms. Powell, for clarifying that for me, with that I yield back. Ms. Powell, I want to ask about your interactions, if any, with Members of Congress in connection with the — with your election challenge efforts. Can you identify the Members you’ve had interactions with Yes. between November 3rd and January 6th with respect to the election challenge efforts?

A … I guess by way of background, I should tell you that I’ve been to the Hill a number of times. I’ve talked with a lot of them about different things related to Flynn. I’ve talked to them about criminal justice reform. I supported the act — whatever the second step act was or first step act to, you know, promote criminal justice reform. I’ve been on the criminal justice reform kick since I wrote “License to Lie,” and realize that we over criminalize, over incarcerate, and that falls predominantly on the minority communities when we do that, and there’s nothing good about it. …

President of the United States couldn’t get what he wanted in his own house.

Q Understood. I’m focused — or I’m really interested only in your conversations with Members regarding the challenges to the 2020 election.&&& . Was that the December 21st meeting at the White House? A Probably. Q I think we have some emails from you about — well, let me try and put it in some context so maybe it will refresh your recollection. …You were invited to the White House, you went to the White House, and then you were blocked from seeing the President?
A That sounds right. There were a number of times something like that happened.

Q Oh, it happened more than once?

A Oh, yeah. Uh-huh. Yeah. Q How did it — I think we’ve seen in your documents WAVES authorization for the 21st, and maybe communications with White House ushers or someone else, telling you you were cleared. A Yes. I was cleared to come into the White House, and then I was not allowed to go into the meeting with the Congress people.

Who told you you couldn’t join the meeting?

A. …Mark Meadows steered me off in another direction. And did he specifically tell you that you were dis-invited from that meeting? Essentially, yes. I don’t remember the exact words, but it was very clear. Okay. Tell me what you remember about that interaction. …

A One of the things that was very obvious and very upsetting to me as a citizen of the United States of America is that the President of the United States couldn’t get what he wanted in his own house.

I was showing him things he hadn’t seen before, and he was pissed.

Q Were there instances in which the President specifically reached out to you to set something up and then his aides blocked you from — or someone blocked you from actually going forward with the meeting? A Yes, siree.I think there were at least three times when he was expecting me, and I was not allowed to go through….

Q If we scroll down a little bit to the first-in-time email which is dated December 20th at 9:51 p.m. — do you see that? A Yes.

Q So this seems to describe an incident where you came to the White House to provide information to and brief the President and that you were blocked. You said you were, again, blocked from seeing the President. Do you see that? 20th? A Yeah. Yep, yep, yep.

Q Okay. So this wasn’t the first time that happened, it sounds like, December..&&&

Q — an email. And you see Mr. Meadows says: I was not aware that a meeting had been set up with POTUS — A Yeah. That was kind of the point of the meeting, I think.

Q What do you mean? A I mean, the President wanted to talk to me by himself. I don’t think he felt like he needed his hand held by Mark Meadows all the time.

Q Did he tell you that, the President? A No. Q So why do you say that was the point of the meeting, that Mr. Meadows would not know about it?

A Because it was supposed to be just me and the President. … Q And did you share with the President that you didn’t think he was getting your unvarnished or complete information because of people around him? Yes.

Q How did he respond when you said that?

A I don’t remember his specific response other than he was — well, like, for
example, the night of the 18th, I can give you that example because the night of the 18th, I was showing him things he hadn’t seen before, and he was pissed.

[Trump] was extremely frustrated with the lack of, I would call it, law enforcement by any of the government agencies that are supposed to act to protect the rule of law in our Republic.

Q Yeah. And definitely we’re going to talk about the 18th. I’m just wondering if you ever had a private conversation with him in which you shared your frustration that you weren’t able to… A Well, while I can’t remember any specific words, my impression was he was certainly fine with that, he was — he was, you know, comfortable with me and trusted me. That much was very clear. But I don’t remember specific words.

A I don’t remember. Somehow I knew about a meeting with Rudy and the President about the machines and the general issues obviously, but I don’t remember how I came by that.

Q Do you remember what the issue was that was creating the urgency for you to meet with the President face-to-face? A It was whatever the status of the evidence was at that time with respect to the machine fraud and getting access to the machines to — to image them. I mean, time was going by, and I don’t know whether Dominion had already come out with its Trusted Build problem — program by then or not.

So there was evidence at risk of being destroyed, and frankly everywhere there was any evidence at all by any voting machine company.

But, for example, in Georgia, they were already trying to wipe the machines and, quote, get them ready for another election. So there was evidence at risk of being destroyed, and frankly everywhere there was any evidence at all by any voting machine company. …So my concern was that we needed to get lawful access to machines and have a professional, nonpartisan or bipartisan group do them — do the images while they’re being videotaped, so there could be no question about the integrity of the process, and collect the evidence.

Q I note for the record that Mr. Schiff has joined the deposition.

Ms. Powell, the reason I’m curious on this is that you had had a very lengthy meeting with the President face-to-face on the night of the — or well into the night on the 18th, correct?

A Correct…. A Well, I know on Friday he had asked me to be special counsel to address the election issues and to collect evidence, and he was extremely frustrated with the lack of, I would call it, law enforcement by any of the government agencies that are supposed to act to protect the rule of law in our Republic.

I was fricking outraged and appalled that anyone could tell the President of the United States that what he directed was not going to happen…

A. if we were going to access the machines, time was a-wasting, and we needed to get after it.

Q And so, on Monday morning, on the 21st, you said to Mr. Meadows: It’s imperative I be included in the meetings scheduled today with you, Rudy, and with the President, about the machines and any of these issues. &&&

Q When you left the White House on the night of the 18th, do you understand that there was sort of a plan or strategy in place; had the issues that you had come to talk about been resolved? A Yes and no. Q Okay. Why do you say that?

A I was clear on what the President wanted, but — he wanted the same thing I wanted; he wanted the truth. Whether it meant he needed to walk to the helicopter, as he put it, with his head held high and know that he had lost fair and square, or whether he needed to fight for the preservation of the Republic in what I would call a Lincoln-esque fashion. So — but when I left, I knew from what Cipollone and Herschmann, and whoever the third guy from White House Counsel’s office…, had said, I mean, they flat out told the President he could name me anything he wanted to name me and no one was going to pay any attention to it.

Q Okay. And so how did the — so how were things left?

A So it was left that, from my perspective, nothing was really resolved. … I made a call to Mark Meadows the next morning, saying: Hey, I’d like my key and my White House pass. And his response was: Well, that’s just not going to happen. And that was pretty much the end of that conversation.

But I knew at the same time that the President still had his concerns, and as a citizen and an American, I was fricking outraged and appalled that anyone could tell the President of the United States that what he directed was not going to happen, or that he could do that and no one would pay any attention to it.

[M Maxwell’s comment: See?]
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Shenna Bellows, the Secretary of State for Maine, has been making the circuit of media news shows basking in the adoration of the Liberal talking heads. Bellows has turned her fifteen minutes of fame into a two-week media blitz.

Unfortunately for the Pine State Politician, she is no match for the folks in the national media, and she is getting caught up in her past that she hoped was buried forever. Shenna has practiced the holier-than-though persona that she is playing for the cameras. She is the keeper of the Constitution. The role of protecting Mainers had fallen to her, and she accepted the responsibility with all the zeal of a true American hero. The problem is she is a sham. This action to keep Trump off the Maine ballot is an embarrassment for Maine, shows how divided the state is, and is exposing a past that will now fuel the impeachment efforts by Republicans to remove Bellows from office.

Bellows knew her decision was flawed, so she ended her verbose 34-page conclusion with a one paragraph suspension of her ruling pending court challenges. The Secretary was playing both sides of the fence. She made the move to appease the Left of Maine, and her suspension was her built-in defense when the decision blew up. And it has.

Trump has already challenged the Maine decision in the Maine Supreme Court. The left-leaning court could rule against Trump, but that is highly unlikely. Nearly every Constitutional expert believes any court ruling will be unanimous in shutting down any removal of Trump, including Maine. Time is of the essence, as the primary in Maine is on March 5.

Papers have been filed to begin the impeachment of Sheena Bellows. Bellows has had a short career in Maine politics. She was a state senator for four years before being appointed to the Secretary of State position by the Legislature. The Trump decision is one of the reasons the Right is moving to impeach the Secretary. The other is what Bellows did before her public career.

She was executive director of the Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine between 2018 and 2020. She served as the executive director of Maine’s American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) between 2005 and 2013. But less than a decade ago, she found herself in a far more subdued role: Interim Executive Director for Learning Works, a non-profit founded by socialist activist Ethan Strimling. It was this job that was the focus of complaints against Bellows.

Representative Sobolesky filed an ethics complaint against Bellows and wrote in a letter to the Maine Ethics Commission:
“What occurred appears to be election interference of the highest order. It would seem that Secretary Bellows did not act ethically and instead did what was best for her preferred candidate and the Democratic Party instead of the voters of the state of Maine.”

Trump claims in his challenge of Maine’s ruling that Bellows should have recused herself from the decision process. Trump and Sobolesky are pointing to Bellow’s position in Strimling’s non-profit.

Soboleski filed his complaint on January 1, accusing Secretary Bellows of bias in her decision to bar former President Trump from the 2024 GOP primary ballot in Maine. Strimling, the former mayor of Portland, was the ringleader behind the ballot eligibility challenge filed with the Secretary of State’s office, providing a pretext for Bellows’ ruling.

If Bellows is to continue her role in Augusta, she must beat the Ethics charge and the Impeachment action. With the Maine Legislature predominantly Democrat, she has a better chance of keeping her job than her decision holding up in court. Either way, her career is badly bruised.

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New Mexico’s Attorney General, Raúl Torrez, has filed a lawsuit. In the suit, “Torrez claims that Meta’s platforms, Facebook and Instagram, are a breeding ground for predators who target children for human trafficking, the distribution of sexual images, grooming, and solicitation.”

 

Teens and preteens can easily register for unrestricted accounts because of a lack of age verification. When they do, Meta directs harmful and inappropriate material at them. It allows unconnected adults to have unfettered access to them, which those adults use for grooming and solicitation. And Meta’s platforms do this even though Meta has the capability of both determining that these users are minors and providing warnings or other protections against material that is not only harmful to minors but poses substantial dangers of solicitation and trafficking. For years, Meta has been on notice from both external and internal sources of the sexual exploitation dangers its platforms present for children but has nonetheless failed to stem the tide of damaging sexual material and sexual propositions delivered to children. In short, Meta has allowed Facebook and Instagram to become a marketplace for predators in search of children upon whom to prey. Meta’s conduct is not only unacceptable; it is unlawful. This action seeks to force Meta to institute protections for children because it refuses to do so voluntarily.

 

We know that META can identify and filter, block, shadowban, and cancel anything it chooses, demonstrating a willingness to flag, segregate, quarantine, and even take down content at will. That is part of what is intriguing about the story. Torrez office and New Mexico (NM) Law enforcement have been investigating this for some time and “has asked a judge to prevent Meta from removing evidence of alleged child sexual exploitation from Facebook and Instagram, which it says is related to legal action it is taking against the company.”

Meta has said it can and will do what they should have done to prevent the need for any investigation in the first place, but the NM AG needs the evidence and wants a judge to tell Meta they’d best not delete or destroy it or make it inaccessible.

 

In the new court papers, Torrez said that one day after his office filed the lawsuit, Meta deactivated the accounts set up and used by investigators.

This was “even though the accounts at issue had operated for months without action by Meta, and even though investigators had previously reported illicit and unlawful content to Meta through its reporting channels”, the document states.

It adds: “Meta’s disabling of these accounts prevents the state from continuing its investigation into Meta’s activities. [The state] no longer had access to data within those accounts.”

 

We can hear the sound of the pants-zipper being pulled back up, but we do not see it happen and are too late to witness any wrongdoing.

At the same time, the story begs other questions. New Mexico is a blue state. The Governor is very liberal. The AG is a Democrat. Without looking, we can suggest that the public schools are all-in on the gender-grooming project that directs (to borrow from the AG’s lawsuit) “harmful and inappropriate material at them, [and] allows unconnected adults to have unfettered access to them, which those adults use for grooming and solicitation.”

Public schools are the preferred choice of pedophiles, given the unfettered access to victims, with significantly more cases of abuse than any other occupation, with the possible exception of anyone in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts or politics.

The legal definition of grooming in the lawsuit applies to the activity in public schools. Those legally defined as children have access to or are allowed to view explicit material, including images (cartoons count), normalizing the exposure and sexualization, complete with the mental health complications that come from exposing those with little or no concept or capability to conceptualize or understand it.

The usual suspects are operating freely in the state, talking about banned books anyone can order on Amazon right now and have delivered in printed form in a day or two or received electronically in seconds. As far as I can tell, the public school grooming culture is alive and well but not of concern to the Attorney General.

To be clear, what the NM AG is dealing with (in many cases) is pictures of naked minors being sexually exploited en masse and without restriction on META’s platforms, and that needs to be stopped, but then so shouldn’t the significant human and child trafficking that current open-borders policy has facilitated.

In other words, we appreciate the interest – and who doesn’t love to see META sued – but some consistency would be nice.

Stop exploiting children, even when it dovetails with your party’s culture war politics.

 

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Long ago, an unknown Chinese philosopher’s words described the biblical root of liberty that we call Americanism: “The well-being of a people is like a tree, agriculture is its roots, manufacturing, and commerce are its branches and its life; if the roots are injured, the leaves fall, and the branches break away, and the tree dies.”

This “tree” that produces ordered liberty is the fruit of biblical wisdom. Josiah Holland’s words draw a picture of liberty in the process: “God gives every bird its food, but he doesn’t throw it in the nest.” Godly wisdom summed up in a word: self-reliance. Self-reliance weaves fibers of strength into the backbone of our American Republic. In recent decades, there has been a tearing down of this virtue by a nefarious cabal to disrupt the civilized order.

The injured root of agriculture was first attacked in 1933 with the Soviet-inspired Agriculture Adjustment Act (read Dan P. Van Gorder’s book, Ill Fares The Land). It featured attacks on the self-reliance of our farmers that have now grown into the Department of Agriculture. American manufacturing and Commerce have suffered decades of socialistic bureaucratic laws hindering production and transportation. The poison of bureaucratic law deserves the title of the fourth branch of government, for these executive branch agencies are the source of thousands of laws while Congress, the lawmaking branch, looks the other way.

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America’s tree is rooted in Judao/Christian ethics of the Ten Commandments and the gospel of Jesus Christ. Enduring strength that has withstood two hundred years of war against God and the Constitution. Miraculously, America still retains the sovereign power for our leaders to rule our own destiny. Will you be the water that allows the roots to go deeper by doing your part? Will you engage our representatives and demand enforcement of our laws, which pass on to posterity? Or will you be part of the silent majority that has gradually enabled progressive forces? Silence enables the recreation of our nation upon the satanic roots of humanism that are now killing the leaves and branches of liberty!

Silent majorities in state and federal congressional seats of power will not be shaken from silence by the silent majorities of constituents. In the long run, silent mobs are more dangerous to the life of liberty than the violent mob. Edmund Burke’s words challenge silence: “When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” Courage begets courage. Truth needs friends in Washington, D.C., and your state capital. The constituents must speak, and the representatives will follow.

 

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Concord has a new City Councilor named Ali Sekou. Congrats to him. He is also the president of the IQRA Islamic Society of Greater Concord. His Mosque sits on a piece of property adjacent to the First Congregational Church at 177 N. Main St, in whose lot (some) his Mosque attendees are alleged to have parked.

The church has been closed and unused for a while – I’m not clear how long, but parking is always an issue if you’ve spent time trying to access anything on Main Street in Concord. Given how little parking is available to anyone regardless of their religious affiliation, that empty lot most certainly looked inviting, and it was close.

There would be no good reason not to use it until the property was purchased by developers looking to add much-needed housing – and there are few in Concord who can’t shut up about the need for MORE HOUSING!

From Patch.com.

 

 Their first proposal included 34 one- and two-bedroom apartments with rents expected to start at $1,400 monthly. The pair purchased the building and related parcels for $625,000 in October 2023 and planned on spending about $5 million renovating the building.

The Coalition purchased the building and connected parcels for $800,000 in December 2020.

 

Ali is a smart guy. The dude speaks four languages, is well-educated, ran for office supporting new housing development, and is suing the city to prevent the 30-unit housing development on the First Congregational Church property next to his Mosque.

The lawsuit lists several injustices, claiming  the zoning board “acted unlawfully and unreasonably when it purported to find that it could reach the merits of the applicant’s second variance application,” “discouraged the public from repeating comments,” and that the development would “significantly alter this and create an intensity of use foreign to this property and area.” There are other concerns, not the least of which should be why a politician who ran for public office to address the housing crunch opposes new housing. It’s got a very NIMBY-like feel to it, with him being the mosque president.

It does get cold in Concord despite all the global warming rhetoric. Rain. Snow. It might be challenging to encourage new people to attend the Mosque, given the distance you might have to walk—all that noisy construction. It adds a disincentive to attend when the destination is inaccessible except by foot on city sidewalks, sometimes covering blocks depending on the hour and the day, but not to the 30 families who would be living next door for short money in the current New Hampshire rental property market.

Downtown. High walkability score. Everything is accessible, especially the Mosque! It’s right next door!

Of course, since the developers purchased the property, any available space for parking at the church has been cordoned off. One Concord resident I spoke with said there’s a no parking sign. I suspect there’s more to the story, and we love anonymous tips and whistleblowers (hint-hint).

I’ve no dog in this fight, not my city, so we wish both sides of this lawsuit the best. But NIMBY or parking, the current climate favors new housing, so good luck stopping that.

 

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Nikki Haley is a warmonger. She wanted, as Governor of South Carolina, to shift more of the tax burden to the working people; i.e. her proposal to cut the state income tax and raise the gas tax. And, among other things, she SUPPORTS AMNESTY. According to Miss Nikki, illegal aliens aren’t really illegal because they are coming to American for the right reasons:

Nikki Haley says it's inappropriate to call the illegal immigrants 'criminals':

"We don't need to be disrespectful. We don't need to talk about them as criminals. They're not, they're families that want a better life." pic.twitter.com/ypMi4H1Oya

— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) January 4, 2024

This, among other things, is why the GOP Establishment loves Miss Nikki and why she is seen by the Left as the least worst Republican … SHE IS NOT REALLY A REPUBLICAN:

You thought Democrats were going to dump Biden for Gavin Newsom, but they're not. They're backing Nikki Haley instead. pic.twitter.com/KcpNMFdZAm

— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) January 3, 2024

 

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On Tuesday, January 9th from 1:00 – 4:00 PM, there will be two gun control bills heard in the New Hampshire Senate Judiciary Committee. There is also a pro-2A bill that will be heard. If you can do it, show up AGAINST these bills.

The gun control crowd is spending a LOT of money this year to push their draconian, out-of-state legislation and will be paying people to be there.

It doesn’t matter that New Hampshire is consistently one of the safest states in the country. It doesn’t matter that New Hampshire has ‘Constitutional Carry.’ What matters to gun controllers is out-of-state legislation that will intentionally harm Granite Staters and infringe upon your fundamental human right to self-defense.

The gun control bills are listed below:

Senate Bill 571 – AN ACT requiring a background check prior to any commercial firearm sale.

This bill has been resurrected from the depths of Hell for at least a decade. And as always, this bill will make it so anyone who provides firearm training, other than those who are already FFL dealers, will NOT be able to provide firearm SAFETY training. Year after year after year, we have explained how this bill harms those who seek gun safety training but year after year after year, gun controllers don’t care. They claim to be all about gun safety but when it boils down to facts and reality, it’s more about control. They care nothing about actual gun safety.

Senate Bill 577 – AN ACT imposing a waiting period between the purchase and delivery of a firearm.

This bill seeks to stop law-abiding Granite Staters, who pass a federal background check, from taking the legally purchased firearm home for 3 days. If you’re a woman with a stalker or abusive partner and don’t have a restraining order, you’re out of luck when it comes to protecting yourself and practicing your fundamental human right to self-defense. NH’s 2A doesn’t mention anything about a waiting period, neither does the Constitution. The only people who want a waiting period are those who seek to enable criminals.

The only good bill to support is below:

Senate Bill 322 – AN ACT relative to licenses to carry.

When ‘Constitutional Carry’ was passed Granite Staters no longer had to ask permission from the government to carry a firearm how they see fit.  Some Chiefs of Police decided not to sign their names on the pistol/revolver licenses (PRL) of those who still sought to get a PRL for reciprocity purposes in other states. This bill will require those who issue PRLs to sign their name to them.

You can email and/or call the committee members below:

First Name	Last Name	Email Address	Phone
Daryl	Abbas	Daryl.Abbas@leg.state.nh.us	(603) 271-4151
Sharon	Carson	Sharon.Carson@leg.state.nh.us	(603) 271-3266
Shannon	Chandley	Shannon.Chandley@leg.state.nh.us	(603) 271-3092
Bill	Gannon	William.Gannon@leg.state.nh.us	(603) 271-3077
Rebecca	Whitley	Becky.Whitley@leg.state.nh.us	(603) 271-3092

 

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The thought-police wordsmiths over at the United Nations have been busy working on the correct vocabulary when commenting on a wide range of things, including events for which Human beings were ill-prepared.

Remember the Early Obama-era overseas contingency operation and man-caused disaster? The UN has taken the latter to heart.

 

A natural hazard, such as a hurricane, earthquake, or flood, only becomes a disaster when it impacts a community that is not adequately protected, and whose population is vulnerable as a result of poverty, exclusion or socially-disadvantage.

There are also disasters that result from natural hazards, like wildfires or desertification, that have a devastating effect on natural resources, laying waste to ecosystems and wildlife habitats. Some of these originate from man-made hazards, like chemical spills or nuclear leaks. This destruction can have serious effects on the communities that co-exist and rely on these resources, causing economic and cultural losses, and ruining lives and livelihoods.

Still, those aren’t natural disasters.

First, isn’t the use of the word man sexist and bigoted? If you’re thinking the language that should read person-caused .. wait! Person has “son” in it and, as such, is also sexist and bigoted. We can’t call it a human-caused hazard ‘cuz “man.” They/Them?

You see the problem.

Here’s another one.

What about They/Them caused disasters around rare-earth metal mines in Asia and Africa? Countries like China are poisoning the land and water, as well as generations of the indigenous population, to feed the West’s suicidal obsession with solar panels and lithium battery packs, of which there are not enough “natural” resources to make viable for any energy transition except a world with less or no energy.

Surprise! They have words to describe that like ‘Green Energy, ‘Net-Zero,’ Progress, Evolution, but none of them properly describe or portray the environmental destruction created and advocated by the United Nations’ environmental and energy agenda.

The United Nations has led a decades-long policy path that has diverted trillions globally away from people in need for pointless CO2 reduction strategies that have led to China’s massive growth in land, air, and water pollution. Total contamination in response to UN directives and priorities is a Disaster.

Perhaps, instead of insisting we all rethink how we view damage and loss of life from any event, we reimagine a world without the disaster that is the UN, the WHO, the IMF, the WEF, and the World Bank. All of them have done enough damage to the world and its people to have earned a declaration as a global terrorist organization.

 

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Camp Constitution will hold its 15th Annual Family Camp at the Singing Hills Christian Camp https://www.singinghills.net/ Plainfield, NH. from Sunday July 14 to Friday, July 19, 2024

Returning instructors include Pastor David Whitney of the Institute on the Constitution; Professor Willie Soon, world-renowned astrophysicist and climate realist; Catherine White of The Constitution Decoded; Alex Newman, author and host of the Sentinel Report, and Rev. Steve Craft, Camp Constitution’s chaplain.

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Guest instructors include Tucker Carlson and Julie Wilkinson, who played the abortion nurse in the movie “Unplanned: The Abby Johnson Story.” In addition to the classes, the camp will offer marksmanship courses, martial arts, hiking, basketball, volleyball, wiffleball, optional field trip,s and swimming, chess, gaga, and corn hole tournaments. Campers and staff end the day with an evening campfire.

Camp Constitution’s annual camp is a family camp open to entire families, unaccompanied minors, and adults. The cost for the week which includes lodging, meals and class handouts is $300 for those 13 and over. $200. For campers 12 and under, and three and under with parents are free.  The camp offers an “Early Bird” discount of $50, per person by registering by May 1.   A link to the camp registration:  http://campconstitution.net/camp-registration/

 

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With a sick smirk on his face, Chuck Schumer addressed the press today and spilled the Democrat plan for the Border. He mocked the 60 Representatives whom Speaker of the House Mike Johnson led to the Southern Border to get a firsthand account of the situation.

Schumer snickered as he said it was nice to visit the Border, but if they really wanted to make a difference, they would be in D.C. working with Democrats on legislation to solve the border crisis. That statement sounds great and is encouraging until you realize he is not discussing our Border. What Chuck wants to get done is a comprehensive bill to address the Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan Borders and to allocate billions of dollars in aid for Israel and Ukraine. Chuck has no interest in our Southern Border. No wonder he was smirking and snickering. He was looking into the eyes of Americans and lying to them. It was shameful for anyone but deplorable for the Senate Leader.

Karine Jeanne-Pierre rambled today in the White House Briefing that Republicans are solely to blame for the crisis at our Southern Border. If Republicans would pass the Immigration Reform written by Democrats, DHS would have the resources to solve the problem. Again, it sounds good until you dig in and realize what solving the Border means to Democrats.

The solution means lots of money. Not money to build a wall or put troops on the Border to keep people out. No, it means money for an infrastructure that will allow more people to cross the Border and be processed more quickly. It means more judges on the Border to cut down on the 7-year wait to have an asylum claim heard. If Democrats had their way, the judges would approve asylum, grant them citizenship, register them to vote, and have them sign a preselected Democrat mail-in ballot for 2024.

The sleight of hand aside, there is no compromise on the Border situation. Republicans want the Border closed and secure. The Democrats want it open and a fast track to citizenship for illegals. Those two beliefs are on opposite sides of the mountain. Joe Biden can say he needs more money to secure the Border. Lie. KJP blames the Border Crisis on the Republican House because they are blocking all of Biden’s efforts. Nice try…..Lie. Schumer says the Republicans must return to D.C. to negotiate a bill to solve the Crisis. Smokescreen……Lie. Mayorkas keeps saying the Border is secure. Stupidity…….Lie.

The House passed H.R. 2 last year, and Chuck Schumer will not bring it to the floor for debate. Who is obstructing? KJP says the Republicans do not want comprehensive Immigration Reform. KJP, have you read H.R. 2? I didn’t think so.

The Democrats are concerned about the Border, just not ours. They want American dollars to be sent to Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan to secure their Borders, but they want our Border open 24/7. The Border is a colossal scam perpetrated by the Democrat Party and the help of the mainstream media to con the American people. It is working, but the walls are crashing in on this play. With 4 million illegals a year, America cannot withstand the assault. Like the Pandemic, the illegal flow has spread to every state, and Americans have had enough. This legacy, along with Bidenomics, will topple Biden and prevent him from a second term.

 

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Concord, NH —In an effort led by American Action Fund and New Hampshire Hazlitt Coalition members Tom Mannion, John Potucek, Matthew Santonastaso, and Michael Granger, the New Hampshire State House of Representatives has passed Defend the Guard legislation on the 2nd day of the 2024 Legislative Session.

“Defend the Guard legislation simply requires an official declaration of war by US Congress for the activation of the New Hampshire National Guard, and thanks to efforts made by many in the NH House, this America First legislation now moves to the New Hampshire State Senate. This is a great first step, but we have more work to do.” -Ted Patterson, VP of the Grassroots Department at American Action Fund, a project of Young Americans for Liberty.

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US Congress has not officially declared war on any nation since World War II, but since then, our nation has continuously been at war. Our servicemen and servicewomen have fought and died in unconstitutional conflicts conducted overseas for decades. Thousands of lives have been lost and trillions of taxpayer dollars have been wasted. Granite Staters and our representatives now have an opportunity to safeguard our valued servicemembers from unconstitutional conflict.

“With all the turmoil happening overseas it’s more important than ever that the citizens contact their State Senators urging them to pass HB 229,” said American Action Fund Northeast Manager, Matt Soss, “The people need to let the entirety of the New Hampshire Senate know that Granite Staters support our troops!”

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New Hampshire’s licensing cartels are a thing of legend for folks who’ve been around long enough to read about them, but most folks won’t realize it until a lack of a license interferes with their day-to-day. Things have improved, are improving, but the cartels who control occupations are “out there, Jimmy.”

That’s a reference to The Last Boy Scout and satan Claus. The malevolent evil that lurks in the everyday, waiting to pounce. Licensing boards are like that. Cartels. Occupational fiefdoms define who can legally do what sort of work, with rules that don’t always make much sense. Back in 2019, in a post titled, “In NH You Need a License to Shampoo Her Hair but Not to Perform Her Abortion,” I opened with,

 

Governments are stupid. How else do you explain this?  To get licensed as an EMT in the state of New Hampshire, you must complete 150 Hours of ‘Education.’ To be a Hairdresser the requirement is 1500 hours.

 

And closed with,

 

If you want to professionally shampoo a woman’s hair before her abortion (not cut, color, or style, just shampoo), you need a license from the state ($25.00) and roughly 150 hours of training. To perform an abortion in New Hampshire, you need tools and a willing patient.

Something’s not right about that.

 

There have been some changes. Abortionists can shampoo and cut hair and then perform the abortion without a license to do either. In the last session, the legislature passed a law allowing the state to accept licenses from out-of-state—you no longer need to relicense here. But the Cartels are still out there, Jimmy, and they can be vicious.

 

The case erupted when the [North Carolina Board of Examiners for Engineers and Surveyors] discovered [Wayne Nutt] was using his decades of experience as a working engineer to offer opinions about the designs of public works. State officials claimed he could be found guilty of a misdemeanor unless he obtained his own engineer’s license from the state.

“State licensing boards nationwide increasingly act as if they are boards of censors, deciding who may or may not speak about the topics they regulate,” charged IJ attorney Joe Gay. “Today’s ruling is a powerful reminder that in this country, we rely on people to decide who they want to listen to. We don’t rely on government boards to decide who gets to speak.”

 

Wayne had some thoughts about the “municipal plumbing” in an area where several houses were flooded. He used his wealth of knowledge and experience, and some math, to explain what he thought was the problem, and the cartel tried to claim he was “engineering” without a license.

 

The judge’s ruling concluded that the state board was in violation of the First Amendment with the speech restrictions it demanded. …

“At its core, this case concerns the extent to which a law-abiding citizen may use his technical expertise to offer a dissenting perspective against the government,” the judge said. “Stating that dissent required the speaker to use his expertise in several ways. He had to do some math. He had to apply recognized methodologies. He even had to write a report memorializing his work. Some of that work may plausibly be considered conduct. But it ends up providing him the basis to speak his mind.”

 

The unelected Board threatened him and demanded he not “publicly offer opinions about engineering without a license.” Had this gone the other way, we expect it would have been appealed, but free speech is in a precarious position and under attack from many quarters. The uniparty machine may be run by the Dems, but it is a bipartisan beast, as is that thing which stands against it. But the latter does not have a police force or standing army or FBI, CIA, or DHS. We cannot send IRS or EPA officers to eat out their substance.

Speaking your mind has become like checking the “company” in a room before telling a dirty joke where you don’t know what “dirty” even means. The cabal has made everything so toxic people self-censor, many without even realizing it or how that rewires your brain toward silence and compliance.

Our congrats to Mr. Nutt and the Institute for Justice for the win. You’ve done the people of North Carolina a kindness, not that this will stop petty bureaucrats, but at least you’ve got recent precedent you shouldn’t need to defend yourselves.

Next up, was his using math in public racist?

 

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The Boston Globe, Michele Wu (Boston’s mayor), Ibram X Kendi, and others cite racism in the forced resignation of Claudine Gay.  This is a patent lie. Claudine Gay was put in her position by the Harvard Corporation headed by Penny Pritzker, who was an early financial supporter of Obama for his presidential campaign back in 2008.

That campaign was successful in harnessing the attention of 17-25 year olds using social media which became a weapon to use to keep them engaged using certain narratives.  The University of New Hampshire received millions of dollars to help shape those narratives and to make them seem realistic. It was chosen as the location to introduce the “Dear Colleague” letter signed by Russlynn Ali of the Department of Education Office of Civil Rights.

Emails obtained by KC Johnson show very clearly that Russlynn Ali’s goal was to “change America forever” and to get rid of due process – a civil right.  Those emails discuss Notre Dame, Stanford, and Yale Universities – all private campuses. Russlynn Ali left DoE OCR in 2012 to work with Laurene Powell Jobs at XQ Institute which touts “DEI” and “Reimagining Education.”

Administrations were convinced they had to hire Title IX coordinators who’d been accredited by Brett Sokolow’s ATIXA, which he registered on April 1, 2011 – just days before the April 4 launch.  The University of New Hampshire Prevention Innovation Research Center became a strategic partner with the White House, targeting private campuses for its purpose—St. Paul’s School in New Hampshire, in particular. The NHCADSV was involved as its partner, and so were Congresswoman Ann Kuster and Senator Jeanne Shaheen. They could raise millions under federal grants if they promoted this narrative, which, in turn, they could use to help the 2016 elections.

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The White House hired interns from Harvard, Tufts, the University of Maryland, and elsewhere for “Civic Engagement.” These worked with narratives, social media, and # engagement, getting awards for social entrepreneurship.  The White House worked with Political PR companies as well. (SKDK, Precision Strategies, Blue Crab Strategies, and Hill Impact in particular).  This was always about recruiting young people on campus for political agendas to get federal money from the Government and to extort private educational institutions.

First, it was the Campus Survivor Movement with a full recruitment scheme going on with SurvJustice, It’s On Us, End Rape on Campus, Know Your IX, PAVE, and NHCADSV.  Then BLM, MeToo, and Times Up were added. And lastly, DEI.  Not one of these holds up to scrutiny. Behind every single one is a profiteering racket. They are businesses that figured out that they could get grants, hire PR, hire ambassadors, train recruits, and use them to increase their businesses and grow them further, all without paying any taxes because they were “non-profits.”

To add fuel to the fire, they worked with journalists and turned them into influencers for the AP, the Boston Globe, the NYT, the Washington Post, New England Newspapers, and Conde Nast publications that would reach the demographic they wanted: the 17-25-year-olds and their parents. They used political donors to fund propaganda documentaries and then gave themselves awards and rewards for their work. They partnered the recruited ambassadors for the cause du jour with major retailers: Target, L’Oreal, Uber, etc.

Who paid for all of this? The public. The taxpayers paid for the federal grants which went to campuses with “non-profit” enterprises. The families coughing up tuition fees that have escalated to accommodate hoards of badly trained, inexperienced administrators. The political donors whose money would find its way into political PR funds being used for the propaganda.

Who benefitted? Not the public. Not the students. It has been, from inception, a money-making extortion racket designed to rob the public purse and private schools, their donors, and their educators.

DEI is a business. It’s a WEF business, in fact – that means it’s a business that benefits the “stakeholders” of large corporations and large law firms.  Don’t take it from me. Take it from the WEF site itself.

The Campus Survivor Movement was a business as well. It was also a WEF-tied business – Klaus Schwab’s daughter, Nicole Schwab, started the Gender Equality Project in 2009. She was a Harvard alum. Female students were useful for this cause.

The “rape” narrative would get them engaged. UN Women was fully behind it, out to get the “Harry Potter” generation. They hired SKDK and Emma Watson for the job. #HeForShe was launched in 2014.

So was BLM. SKDK launched the #OscarsSoWhite campaign in 2016.

They were ready to bounce off the success of #ItsOnUs in 2014, which was used for “The Hunting Ground” propaganda documentary, a 2016 Academy Award winner with Lady Gaga singing the theme song on the stage. This was all backed by the White House.

The newspapers and magazines that have promoted this nonsense are mostly if not all, partners of the WEF as well.

So was FTX — exposed to be a complete sham and tied to MIT and Stanford Law School via Sam Bankman-Fried — an MIT graduate — and his parents, Barbara Fried and Joseph Bankman. They were all star-struck with celebrities and fancied a life in offshore Bahamas using other people’s money, which could be funneled into election campaigns via straw donors. Michael Kives of the Obamas’ agency, CAA, and a close friend of the Clintons, was there to facilitate. His wife described his wedding in Palm Springs as a “Michael Kives production” — branding, product placement tie-ins to celebrities and politicians were the name of the game. His wife, Lydia, had attended Stanford Law and spent her summers interning for Obama’s WH legal counsel.

Next time you see someone like Gloria Allred, Sam Bankman-Fried, or Elizabeth Theranos promoted on the front of Forbes or Time Magazine, give some thought to the PR companies behind that promotion and who they are working for.

Penny Pritzker was the Commerce Secretary under Obama. She went to Qatar in 2014. Qatar is a large donor to Harvard. Qatar hired winners of the Pritzker Prize to design museums.

Claudine Gay joined the board of trustees for Phillips Exeter Academy in 2017.  She graduated from the prep school in 1988 and went to Princeton before going on to Stanford and then Harvard.

How did she get into Princeton if her work included so much plagiarism? Kendra Stearns O’Donnell was the principal of Phillips Exeter Academy in 1988 when Claudine Gay graduated.  Ironically, she, too, was a graduate of Princeton.

After Gay graduated, Kendra Stearns O’Donnell received significant attention (rightly or wrongly) for her handling of a sex scandal involving a teacher and child pornography. 

“Exeter officials tried to quell the scandal at the 990-student school, where tuition is $17,050 and dozens of graduates each year go on to Harvard and Yale. Principal Kendra Stearns O’Donnell fired Bateman, ordered him out of his apartment and sent a letter about the case to 25,000 faculty, students, parents and alumni. Stephanie Casale, assistant director of communications, defended firing Bateman before his October trial: “The question … was not whether he was guilty or innocent. It was: could he continue to be an appropriate role model.”

History repeats itself at Phillips Exeter Academy.

Governor Maggie Hassan (now Senator) is married to Tom Hassan, who was principal of Phillips Exeter Academy when it covered up sexual abuse – keeping two sets of records.  There was a media blackout as Hassan was running her campaign to become Senator in 2016.  Only last year did a math teacher get prosecuted.  He was found guilty of sexual abuse during the final years of Tom Hassan’s tenure.

Tom Hassan is also a graduate of Harvard (and Brown). His pay increased after he allowed a teacher to “retire” in 2012. The teacher, Rich Schubert, admitted to sexual abuse of a student and went to work on Maggie’s Senatorial campaign.

There’s always a quid pro quo.  And there’s always a secret club with these “elite” schools.

Boston Globe, NYT, and co appear none too happy that the “elite” club where Democrats can go to raise money for political campaigns from wealthy donors has been exposed as the empire with no clothes.

 

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It happens to most of us from time to time, at least to me, but when it’s someone like the just resigned Professor of Harvard University, Claudine Gay, or Nikki Haley, running for the nomination for President of the US, we should expect better.

In these cases, it happens to be on closely related subjects, the Hamas/Israel war.

Ms.Gay went to testify before Congress on the issue of antisemitism in American universities and totally outed herself as an anti-Semite. She tried to excuse accepting radicalized liberal students’ support for Hamas and naming Israel the aggressor and the terrorists as “free speech”? Standing behind Hamas, who are Terrorists and initiated the conflict with an unprovoked, unjustified, murderous attack on Israeli civilian men, women, children, and babies, can not be justified by any human with the least concept of human rights. But there she was right before our American Congress, spouting her pander to the terrorists as if it would buy her any slack if they invaded Harvard.

Given all that has unfolded, I question why any University would allow Muslim organizations to exist on compasses where they work to radicalize our students and create ever more anti-Semites.

Now then, Nikki, and here again, trying to sound like the tolerant humanitarian suggests we accept Palestinian refugees from Gaza here in America. Has she no understanding of what Islam is, what its objectives for not only Israel is but also for America? In case anyone has any questions, it is the total destruction of both nations, the eradication of all Jews worldwide, and a Muslim totalitarian-dominated America. These refugees from Gaza are the people who elected Hamas to govern them with the promise to destroy Israel and kill the Jews; these “refugees” have no love for America, would have no sense of gratitude to us if we took them in, and would surely work against us just as they do against the Jews.

How could not Haley, who was our US Ambassador to the UN, not know this? Has her desperate drive for the nomination come at the cost of risking the millions and millions of lives it would cost if Islamic power archives its goals?

Any questions any readers might have can easily be answered by getting a copy of the Koran and reading it. It was written in the Dark Ages by a barbaric culture that was ruled by absolute totalitarian power and has never changed since then. Its basic ideology is misogyny, homophobia, and antisemitism, just for a start.

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Pershing Square CEO Bill Ackerman took to X to share some thoughts, not just about Harvard, anti-semitism, racism, and anti-racism, but a deep-dive analysis of DEI, the appointment of Claudine Gay as President, and inside baseball at Harvard, which he suggests should result in its full board tendering their resignations.

It is a well-written look at Harvard after October 7th and an eye-opening excursion for Ackerman. He shares with us his discovery of how sinister DEI is and offers a great deal of thought, some of which looks like this.

 

An ideology [DEI] that portrays a bicameral world of oppressors and the oppressed based principally on race or sexual identity is a fundamentally racist ideology that will likely lead to more racism rather than less. A system where one obtains advantages by virtue of one’s skin color is a racist system, and one that will generate resentment and anger among the un-advantaged who will direct their anger at the favored groups.

The country has seen burgeoning resentment and anger grow materially over the last few years, and the DEI movement is an important contributor to our growing divisiveness. Resentment is one of the most important drivers of racism. And it is the lack of equity, i.e, fairness, in how DEI operates, that contributes to this resentment.

 

He later announces that (FYI – ODEIB is Harvard’s Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging).

 

The ODEIB should be shut down, and the staff should be terminated. The ODEIB has already taken down much of the ideology and strategies that were on its website when I and others raised concerns about how the office operates and who it does and does not represent. Taking down portions of the website does not address the fundamentally flawed and racist ideology of this office, and calls into further question the ODEIB’s legitimacy. Why would the ODEIB take down portions of its website when an alum questioned its legitimacy unless the office was doing something fundamentally wrong or indefensible?

 

As an aside, does inclusion not also mean belonging? I’m not a Harvard grad, didn’t graduate college at all, though I wasted some money on it. I don’t suppose being included is as warm and fuzzy as belonging, but Ackerman is correct. That office needs to go away. After the discovery of the UNH Bias-Free Language Guide, the University did something similar. It retooled web pages and made some things disappear, but as I noted then until you cut that budget, close that office, and perp-walk those activists out the door, the poison was still in the well.

And it is still in the well, has seeped into corporate culture, and is tainting culture and the nation. Harvard’s embarrassing few months of anti-semitism are – as Ackerman notes – but a canary in a coal mine. The real issue is DEI and the culture that has allowed it to metastasize. “The techniques that DEI has used to squelch the opposition are found in the Red Scares and McCarthyism of decades.” DEI is oppression in the name of anti-oppression. Racist in the name of anti-racism. A means to creat class division in pursuit of Socialism – whose only goal is Communism.

Ackerman’s remarks amount to several words, far too many to share outside its original tweet, but thanks to embedding, we don’t need to do that. We can share the tweet, and so we have.

There’s a lot there, and I think you’ll find it worth your time and attention. Click ‘show more’ for the rest. If you are not on X, I’ve copied it into a PDF you can view here.

In light of today’s news, I thought I would try to take a step back and provide perspective on what this is really all about.

I first became concerned about @Harvard when 34 Harvard student organizations, early on the morning of October 8th before Israel had taken any military…

— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) January 3, 2024

 

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To all those who are sending in memes, thank you!  Keep them coming please, as it helps me gather weaponry to fight the Left.  Please do share this post, and if you share an individual meme, consider mentioning you saw it on the Grok!

TGIF!

Speaking of, from this week, Monday Edition and Wednesday Edition.  Also check out my latest Israel-focused meme & commentary post if this is a subject of interest to you.

 

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

 

 

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There’s something that feels to me, just infernal, about this obsession with bug eating.  Some time ago I saw a video of Salma Hayek eating Mexican crickets.  Apparently that’s not the only creepy-crawly she eats.  And something in that video struck me as just wrong – no, not just the fact that she was eating them.  Call it intuition, but it was the glee she seemed to have in doing so that gave me shivers.  Later, I found out she’s married to the head of Baal, er, Balenciaga – of this infamous fame.  Add in Nicole Kidman’s seeming glee at eating bugs in her own infamous video… plus legions of other notables.

 

 

And through a good friend comes this:

KILL Switch (coldfury.com)

The more electronic they make these things, the less I like them.  Back when I worked in automotive it was all presented as “value add” features for the driver, but now I’m wondering if there was – even then – a more nefarious purpose.

 

 

 

 

 

Remember, overall the flow only goes one way.

 

 

It’s not just the weapons.  It’s the strength and courage and willingness to use them.  Remember…

Steel isn’t strong, boy, flesh is stronger.

And understand… I’m not chomping at the bit for this to happen.

 

 

 

 

You’ll own nothing, and be happy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It would be great to have some midwives weigh in on this.  I’ve sent in a request to:

NACPM

 

 

There are no words in my – or I think ANY – vocabulary to adequately capture the rage I feel about this.

 

 

A person I know in Europe verified this… and it got pulled ONLY because social media became aware of it and raised a storm over it.

 

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PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA

 

 

Between honeypots (the adult kind) and pedoville traps, just what percentage of our politicians and other notables are compromised?  Especially now with the Epstein lists getting rolled out.  I was astonished at Stephen Hawking, for example… though from the piece where I saw him in a picture there are, discretion used, some things he liked to watch.  But this might explain one reason there’s so much rage at Trump:

 

 

 

 

There’ve been a lot of rumors about how pedo, or just plain kompromat, is used to get leverage on politicians, officials, and business executives.  If Trump truly is clean of this – and it seems to be so – how great their anger at not being able to leverage him.

And there’s a lesson in that for our own behaviors.

 

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I’m confoozled.  How can any person with three brain cells that talk with each other not look at this and not conclude something very fishy happened?

 

 

We don’t know they’re of “equal” importance but it IS odd.

Now let’s back up a little.  Pasteurization – plus refrigeration – were critical things in terms of being able to provide shelf-stable milk.  I don’t think there was the knowledge base to know just how much more nutritious raw milk is at the time.  But now that we know, it does seem odd that there is a literal war on anyone producing, selling, and buying raw milk even with contracts and signed acknowledgements of risk.  For example:

Police raid farm of former raw milk seller Michael Schmidt who says he is obeying law; among three farms hit by crackdown in 2021 | FarmersForum.com

Amish farmer raided by feds wins court battle against USDA mandates – COSAction (conventionofstates.com)

Again, I acknowledge there do seem to be risks as well as benefits to the stuff.  But if I sign a contract stating that I am aware of risks – enumerated and explicitly named, as they should be – and still want it… what’s the problem?

 

 

 

 

 

Words mean things.  That’s why the Left works so hard to change and/or compromise their meanings.

 

 

 

I started, a long time ago, a book by the “controversial” author of The Bell Curve, entitled:

Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950

I got distracted but should return to it.  Among the myriad other books I want to read.

 

 

The problem is that they believe – TRULY BELIEVE – that they do.

 

 

Follow the money… and how much for the “Big Guy” again?

 

 

 

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Pick of the Post:

 

 

This is not an appeal for aid to Israel.  This is a wake-up call to the Christians (and others) that think that by giving away The Sudetenland Israel they can buy their own safety.

First Saturday, then Sunday.  That is to say, first the Saturday People, then the Sunday People.  Islam wants the whole world.  Their Koran says so.  They say so.

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/british-mosque-preaching-until-you-are-strong-enough.mp4

 

Palestinians: We will conquer Europe and all infidels (rumble.com)

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/islam-wants-the-west.mp4

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/The-west-is-next.mp4

 

Have the moral courage to take people who openly say they want to conquer you at their word.

 

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When I first heard of Joe Biden declaring January as Human Trafficking Prevention Month, I thought this was a story from the Babylon Bee site. I felt that even Joe Biden could never be so tone-deaf as to mock the most significant human trafficking operation in history by recognizing a tragic situation with a White House Declaration honoring its existence.

During Joe Biden’s first administration, every month sets a new record in illegal crossings, apprehensions, and get-always. Nearly 1.2 million illegals cross the Rio Grande. These people are scattered across America before they can undergo a proper background check. There have been dozens of Aliens who have been stopped on the Border and who were known to be sponsored terrorists. There is no way of knowing how many terrorists managed to avoid detection and are now living among us. That makes our Border a failure of National Security. And only one person is responsible for that failure, and that is President Joe Biden.

There are two key issues in Biden’s proclamation putting a label on the Month of January. One is the concession or appeasement of certain blocks of people or special interest groups; the other is a continued effort to sever our connection with our history and traditions. This thought line came to me last week when I saw an online post by the Bidens wishing all a happy Kwanzaa. I reacted to the post by searching to see if there was also a post celebrating the Feast of Festivus. My thinking is both “holidays” have the same historical significance. One was created by a Black man in 1966, and the other was the product of a famous sitcom.

Neither has deep-rooted historical significance, but there is a vast difference between the two. No group, other than Seinfeld groupies, knows what Festivus is, but not acknowledging Kwanzaa will get you labeled a Racist. This fear of being targeted as a Racist is why we have significant thoroughfares in cities like Minneapolis or Washington D.C. painted with BLM or Black Lives Matter. Nobody in America after the George Floyd death would dare say anything negative about the Black Lives Matter movement even though a couple of years after its inception, it was exposed for the money laundering pyramid scheme that it was.

The hypocrisy of Biden to even touch the topic of human trafficking is appalling. The Mexican Cartels are making billions extorting families from around the world in exchange for safe passage across the Border into America. There are horrid stories of women raped during their journey, and the U.S. government has lost nearly 30,000 juveniles who have crossed the Border and have now fallen out of the system. These children are suspected to be involved in the sex trade or the illegal, underage workforce. For Biden to attach himself to this month-long focus is to put himself in focus for his utter failure at our Southern Border, and now our Northern Border as it too is currently being breached.

Being tone-deaf to the complaints and wants of the people is bad enough, but to be absolutely deaf to the criticism Biden faces on nearly every policy front is inexcusable for someone like him who has been in the system for half a century.

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You’ll likely have heard the latest shot ’round the world. But, if not, a Democrat legislator in the New Hampshire House, speaking to his fellow members, said that while he supports transgender people, he could not condone surgical intervention on children.

Rep Jonah Wheeler (D – Peterborough) passionately mirrored the thing most everyone to his right whom I know finds objectionable about the transgender agenda (more than the grooming). These are children, and this damage is permanent.

 

Watch: @jonahowheeler, one of the more progressive members of the @NHHouseofReps, explains why he is supporting the amended version of HB 619, prohibiting gender transition procedures for minors #NHPolitics #WMUR pic.twitter.com/8TwoEFPRY5

— Adam Sexton (@AdamSextonWMUR) January 4, 2024

The gender-surgery zealots at Dartmouth Medical won’t be pleased.

 

I. Any referral for or provision of genital gender reassignment surgery to an individual under 18 years of age is unprofessional conduct and is subject to discipline by the appropriate licensing entity or disciplinary review board with competent jurisdiction in this state.

II. A minor or the parent of such minor aggrieved by a violation of this chapter may bring an action in the superior court for damages and injunctive relief against any person who has committed or attempted or threatened to commit such violation or any person who has aided or abetted the same.

 

The Bill, HB619-FN, passed (199-175). It moves to the State Senate, where it is in less danger than at Governor Sununu’s Desk. Sununu has advanced so-called gender-affirming legislation in the past. I’m not clear on his position regarding the surgical mutilation of children, but the bi-partisan House vote is significant. So is what happened after. Rep. Judy Aron reported (of Rep Wheeler) that,

 

After his visit to the well to speak in favor of this bill, he was immediately verbally attacked in the back anteroom by members of his own caucus, prompting the House Clerk, Paul Smith, to intervene. So much for the “Be Kind” and “Diversity and Inclusion” crowd.

 

So much for those “People Over Politics” signs we’ve seen sprout up with Democrat names on them as election day looms. Dem Reps Murphy and Rung put politics before children (as did Rep. Thomas), voting to let adults coerce children into life-altering surgical interventions. I’m not saying that Murphy, Rung, or Thomas were involved in berating Rep. Wheeler in this incident. My point is that their politics always came before and over people. This vote, their voting record, and social media antics prove that.

Perhaps by People over Politics, they mean like a pig on a spit.

HB619 also puts the brakes on chemical transition and the use of hormone blockers on children. (Correction: Puberty blockers were not banned.)

But as Rep Aron noted earlier today, that wasn’t the only good news.

 

The House killed HB264-FN (191-185), which would have allowed transgender people to alter historical documents – their birth records. The House also killed HB368-FN (190-185), which would have given certain privacy protections (like protecting medical records from subpoena) for transgender people seeking gender-affirming health care in NH. There were many issues surrounding the legal ramifications and possible lawsuits resulting from this type of legislation, especially if one parent objects to said care and sues the state or medical practitioners over the transgender healthcare received by their child.

 

I am reminded of how the transgender agenda, like the gay agenda that preceded it, claimed that it only ever wanted to be equal—the same. And a lot of people fell for that. That they would be treated like everyone else – except where everyone else treats everyone else like crap and gets on with their lives anyway; people can be mean, and we all get to see it but don’t be mean to openly LGB folks – and for clarification, I mean the activist class of this movement. Their equality was to be a step above. Not just acceptance but reverence.

You could be an ass to anyone else but them. Their equality rose to a level of inequality where – in this case, the transgender movement – they get extra special treatment, more privacy, benefit from legal protections no one else gets, and the power to define the speech and thoughts of others. Compel it.

You lost a lot of support with that line of thought, much like you will lose support if you insist on adults having the right to alter children surgically – permanent body-altering surgery before they can even begin to understand how that will impact the remainder of their lives.

Thanks to House Leadership and the slim Republican majority, as well as the 21 NH House Democrats who voted to protect children.

Three Republican members, for the record,  voted Nay. I know one of them and have asked why they opposed the bill. I will update this post when I get their response.

 

UPDATE

Belcher, Mike(R) Carr. 4 – Was a Yea on HB619 and a Nay on the amendment. That was my mistake – and I apologize for the error. Bickford, David(R) Straf. 3 Wolf, Dan(R) Merr. 7

And thanks again to Rep. Aron for her timely (next day) NH House legislative updates (read this week’s here and here if you missed them).

 

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We learned that today we were able to finish up all of the leftover 2023 retained House bills and were successful in passing some really good bills… and killed some bad ones, too. It was a good two days!

We also learned that while yesterday (1-3-24), the majority of Democrats attended the House session wearing face masks, by the end of today (1-4-24), most of them had ditched their masks. It made me think of what is on the plaque at the base of the Statue of Liberty in NY harbor, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free…”

We learned that our first bill of the day was a big one. HB263-FN, which would have made Medicaid expansion permanent, without the 7-year sunset that the Democrats agreed to last spring in HB2 and the governor signed into law in June 2023. We killed this bill and kept the sunset provision with a vote of 191-183 (and it was roll-called). I happen to enjoy sunsets… don’t you?

We learned that our first close vote of the day was HB267-FN, with a vote of 189-188 to kill the bill (the Speaker did not vote). The Finance committee recommended killing this bill because they felt that asking for $250,000 to fund a Department of Environmental Services position to monitor cumulative impacts of polluting emissions when applicants seek permits for waste projects should have been in the initial budget and requested by DES last year. Of course, this position is not a one-time thing and would be a permanent position in DES. Rep. Karen Ebel (D – New London) said that she believed $250,000 was a modest amount of money to request. The folks sitting behind me pointed out that this represented the cost of a used Lamborghini. Everything is relative, and seeing as this is a permanent DES position, there’s a cumulative impact right there.

We learned that the transgender agenda did not fare well in the House today. The House killed HB264-FN (191-185), which would have allowed transgender people to alter historical documents – their birth records. The House also killed HB368-FN (190-185), which would have given certain privacy protections (like protecting medical records from subpoena) for transgender people seeking gender-affirming health care in NH. There were many issues surrounding the legal ramifications and possible lawsuits resulting from this type of legislation, especially if one parent objects to said care and sues the state or medical practitioners over the transgender healthcare received by their child. Finally, HB619-FN passed (199-175), which would prohibit minors, age 18 and younger, from receiving gender transitioning procedures/surgery. This one made national news almost immediately. A very brave and rational Rep. Jonah Wheeler (D-Peterborough) spoke at the well about his support for the transgender community, but at the same time, he could not support life-altering and irreversible sex change operations for kids. After his visit to the well to speak in favor of this bill, he was immediately verbally attacked in the back anteroom by members of his own caucus, prompting the House Clerk, Paul Smith, to intervene. So much for the “Be Kind” and “Diversity and Inclusion” crowd. Kudos to Rep. Erica Layon (R-Derry), who spoke so well in support of NH putting “a pause” on gender transitioning surgeries and treatments in NH (like hormones and other drugs) for minors until we have real data to ensure that no permanent harm is done to these kids. This bill also redefines conversion therapy and removes restrictions on this practice. Almost all votes on these bills were roll called.

We learned that HB396 passed 192-184. This bill allows for the state to recognize biological sex, such that it permits classification based on biological sex in lavatory facilities, locker rooms, sporting competitions, and detention facilities. Rep. Kristine Perez (R-Londonderry) did a great job and put in a lot of work in her amendment (2023-0441h) to this bill to make it clear. The House passed the amendment with 194-182. Someone truly needs to help Rep. Eric Turer (D-Brentwood) and Rep. Marjorie Smith (D-Durham), as well as others in their caucus, who simply cannot seem to understand or define what the term “biological sex” means. Trying to answer their request for clarification of the term “biological sex,” Rep. Bob Lynn (R-Concord) gave a brief biology lesson with regard to XY and XX chromosomes in humans. Hah, and you thought these folks “followed the science”! I mean, isn’t that what they keep telling us?

We learned that HB194-FN passed 194-179. This was the bill that would direct the division of archives and records management to compile and maintain a list of public monuments, update that list every ten years, and make that list available publicly online. It was argued that this was an unnecessary bill because the Director of the Division of Historical Resources says towns already have their own lists, and we don’t really need to spend the money and resources to do this at the state level. Proponents say it will assist those doing historical research and planning trips to visit them. As far as I am concerned, I don’t like such a list… it could easily become a list of targets for those who seem to enjoy defacing and damaging our treasured monuments, as we have seen happen in the past across the country. I hope the Senate kills this one.

We learned that a voice vote killed HB434-FN, which was a bill that would have allowed people to fly drones in state parks for a $25 fee. Aside from the testimony regarding interfering with people enjoying their time in state parks, even the Audubon Society didn’t like this one because they claimed it would disturb the wildlife. In any case, this bill just didn’t fly.

We learned that HB199 died with a whopping 319-53. This would have eliminated useful thermal energy from renewable energy classes. Many people/municipalities statewide rely on Renewable Energy Credits (RECs) that come from biomass (wood or waste to energy) plants. So, the proposal to ditch this classification for RECs went up in smoke.

We learned that the “Defend the Guard” bill, HB229, passed 187-182 after adopting an amendment (2023-0045h) made by Rep. Diane Pauer (R-Concord), Rep. Michael Granger (R-Milton Mills) and Rep. Tom Mannion (R-Pelham). This bill limits the activation of the NH National Guard to active combat areas to only those times when the US Congress has passed an official action pursuant to Article 1, Section 8, of the US Constitution, thereby not allowing our NH National Guard to be placed in harm’s way in foreign countries in undeclared wars. This bill does not in any way prohibit the guard from participating in training exercises outside the US, training with foreign countries, or performing humanitarian or civic assistance, nor will it prohibit the governor from consenting to the deployment of any NH guard member under Title 32 of the US Code. There are more details in the bill, but essentially, it prevents our NH guard from being sent into combat without a declaration of war. An important note is that the Finance Committee waived this bill off coming to them after this vote and requested that it be sent along to the Senate.

We also learned that two bills from the Transportation Committee were Tabled. One would allow nonresident aliens (HB375-FN) to obtain an NH driver’s License, and another one that would give REALID NH driver’s licenses to those people applying for asylum without identity verification or vetting (HB570). Tabling votes were 185-179 and 187-180 respectively. There just seems to be this continued effort to give noncitizens living in NH drivers licenses; which would otherwise be fine if it also didn’t also give them the key credentials to vote in our elections!

We learned that there were two gun bills pulled off the Consent Calendar by Rep. Jason Gerhard (R-Concord). One was HB144, which would have allowed the restoration of firearms ownership to nonviolent felons. This bill was unanimously killed in committee because there already is an annulment procedure for state offenses. There is no annulment procedure for federal offenses, though, and we don’t control that. The House agreed with the original unanimous committee vote, and ITL’d the bill 297-63. The other was HB512, which would have exempted firearms, firearm accessories, and ammunition manufactured in NH from interstate commerce and federal regulation. This bill would have put manufacturers in serious conflict with state and federal law, and again, the House agreed with the original unanimous committee vote and ITL’d the bill with a vote of 286-69.

Finally, we learned that we got all our work done and won’t have to come back to session until February when the 2024 early bills start emerging with committee recommendations for the House to vote on. Let the games begin, and may the odds ever be in our favor.

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In a story that seems to be becoming increasingly common as time goes on, The Western Journal reported this week about a Canadian EV owner experiencing some massive sticker shock over the cost of replacing the damaged battery in his electric vehicle.

Now, those of us who have always driven internal combustion engine (ICE) cars have, at one time or another, been faced with big repair bills for some of those vehicles. I can remember spending $4,000 on a new radiator for a 10-year-old Infiniti QX 50 with 220,000 miles on it that I just couldn’t bear to part with several years back. I did finally retire that wonderful vehicle when faced with the prospect of a $6,000 tag for a rebuilt transmission.

So, all cars will eventually cost you or your insurance company big money to repair — no one is saying that’s unique to EVs. But where EVs are concerned, it’s the magnitude of the price for replacing a damaged or worn-out battery that is often quite eye-popping.

I wrote a story in September about a fellow in the U.S. deciding to junk his paid-off EV when he got an estimate of $30k to replace his battery. We now see frequent reports that auto insurance companies are charging higher rates for EVs than for comparable ICE cars due in large part to this extravagant battery replacement cost.

If you think that $30,000 is extravagant, well, get ready because it apparently isn’t even close to the worst-case scenario. Per the Western Journal, a Canadian man, Kyle Hsu, paid roughly $55,000 Canadian ($41,583 US) in 2022 to buy a brand new Hyundai IONIQ 5. But, less than a year later, Mr. Hsu was involved in what seemed to be a minor accident resulting in superficial damage to his beautiful EV.

Unfortunately for Hsu, it turned out that the battery protector cover on his car’s undercarriage was warped, a problem that could, in certain instances, cause the battery to explode. This meant that he would have to replace his car’s battery pack in addition to fixing its structural damage. Hsu says he was shocked when the estimate to replace the battery came in at $61,000 Canadian, or about $46,000 in US dollars. That’s almost $6,000 more than he paid for the car when he purchased it brand new. (RELATED: DAVID BLACKMON: Climate Fascists Are On The March)

Even worse, because the damage was caused by an accident, the bill was not covered by the car’s warranty, leaving Hsu with the alternative of filing a claim with his insurance carrier. But the resulting insurance implications were enormous, with Mr. Hsu facing a rate increase of up to 50% if he filed the claim. His only other choice would be to foot the repair bill himself and now have over $87,000 US dollars invested in a $41,000 car.

This is insane. This is not sustainable. The EV industry simply cannot have stories like this one popping up with increasing frequency and hope to sustain growing demand for its products.

When you combine horror stories like this one with:

• range anxiety that pops up any time the weather isn’t perfect;
• the lack of charging infrastructure;
• the unreliability of the infrastructure that does exist;
• the non-recyclability of the battery materials;
• the increasing restrictions on charging due to the massive load EVs place on the grid;
• and all the other significant issues EV makers have yet to address,

you see an industry that is almost doomed to failure before it really gets up and running.

I frequently remind readers that EVs have been around since the 1880s. They are not a new idea in any sense of that word. If they were really the answer to displacing ICE cars at societal scale, it seems likely they would have already done so. What we see popping up with increasing frequency now in the form of stories like this one are simply manifestations of the reasons why that has not already happened.

EVs today are what they have always been: A niche product, a luxury item suitable to fill discreet purposes for the upper 5% or so elites in any society. The technology simply is not there yet to make them anything more than that.

David Blackmon is an energy writer and consultant based in Texas. He spent 40 years in the oil and gas business, where he specialized in public policy and communications.

The views and opinions expressed in this commentary are those of the author and do not reflect the official position of the Daily Caller News Foundation.

 

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