Thursday • December 26 • 2024
Vol.XVI • No.LII
Manchester, N.H.
So here is one of the “leaders” of the NewHampshire House GOP … Ross Berry, who is the Chairman of two committees … whining about the Democrats’ LIES. In other words, he is playing DEFENSE. That’s what losers do … they are always on the back foot, explaining, complaining: that’s not true, that’s not fair, that’s not cricket, stop scaring women!
Winners play offense. In this case, calling the Democrats who support late-term abortions what they are: SAVAGES, BARBARIANS, INHUMAN … telling voters explicitly what the Democrats support: ripping a 7 or 8 or even 9-month old baby out of the womb and killing it. But … NO … can’t do that … the “insiders,” the “pros,” the “activists” say the suburban white women wouldn’t like that … MEAN TWEETS, ARE YOU CRAZY! … WE’VE GOT TO GET THE WHITE WOMEN IN BEDFORD BACK IN THE FOLD.
So instead we get whining from the NHGOP’s “leaders”: not true! not true! stop it! stop it! PATHETIC.
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The City of New York has a lot of problems, but Mayor Eric Adams has announced a new agreement between his administration and American Express. Together they will track your eating habits so the Carbon Cult can calculate CO2 emissions they will try to “reduce.”
Were American Express cardholders consulted? No. But a progressive government doesn’t ask. It tells.
Yesterday, New York City announced its plan to track the “food choices” of New Yorkers using credit card data from individual store purchases. According to the mayor, tracking individual food choices is a step towards “reducing the CO2 output” of New Yorkers.
The Adams administration has announced a plan to begin tracking the carbon footprint created by household food consumption as well as a new target for New York City agencies to reduce their food-based emissions by 33% by the year 2023. [Did they mean 2032 – I.C.?]
Adams is toeing the UN and WEF line as NYC joins with dozens-plus other cities in an invasion of privacy (or an act of tyranny, if you prefer) disguised as a social-responsibility exercise. CO2, as you all know, is a trace gas essential to life on the planet, but the left has successfully targeted and isolated it as a demon summoned by your (once) affordable Western Lifestyle. As with every other alleged program to ‘reduce carbon emissions,’ the real target is you.
If unchallenged, the Big Crapple will attempt to add other card companies to expand its systemic oppression of citizens in the name of [whatever advances Marxism].
As for priorities, I bet crime has a significant carbon footprint. Perhaps you (Mayor Adams) could do something about that to help save not just the planet but New Yorkers. You remember them. They – for reasons that remain a mystery – elected you to serve them, not serve them up. Not that you need to play along. This plot only affects American Express Card holders, so leave home without it. Stop using it. Maybe even cancel it.
Preven the surveillance.
As for the rest of you, unless you want the City working with credit card companies to track your purchases with a broader range of cards and purchases, you may want to have a word with the local ‘city councilor’ about the direction in which they’ve taken your government. You’re New Yorkers. That should come easy enough.
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These are the final numbers posted online for SB272 Support: 2010 | Oppose: 2911 | Neutral: 2 Next steps, the Committee with have a vote on this probably next week and then on to the House for a full floor vote either on May 4th, 11th or 18th which it must pass (OTP) or will die.
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As you can see, we that supported the bill were outnumbered. So, I have to question, has NH gone to the Dems and dark side, or are we who love God, Liberty, Freedom, and our State just too busy, unconcerned, or just don’t care (not being mean and not pointing to any one person, just asking the question)? Also, a real check of why we get outvoted on an online question that takes 30 seconds to fill out! What we need to do is learn, get stronger, and get more people to be involved.
We all have differences, but what I am learning and seeing from the Dems is that stay lock-step when it comes to a few KEY bills that have real meaning, like abortion, parental rights, stealing our kids, school issues, and becoming a police state (maybe a couple of others as well). All the other issues are ones that we can compromise on or tweak to be beneficial to all.
Let’s find a way to get more people out there. Let’s force ourselves to get out of our comfort zone. Let’s contact all House legislators by email and, in a short NICE email ask them to support SB272 when it comes to the House Floor. I look at all emails sent to me, so I am sure they do as well.
Lastly, none of this really matters without God on our side, so let us pray, pray, and do some more praying and just maybe God will bless NH and keep NH safe. And let’s talk one on one to people and maybe educate them on the truth of the matter/s.
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HB 639 is, An ACT “relative to the legalization and regulation of cannabis and making appropriations therefor.” We’re not there yet, but Big Weed is excited about the overwhelming support from the NH House, and it seemed like a good time to sketch out a thought or two.
I will not get into the mental health or public nuisance issues here. Others have covered it, and there are legitimate concerns, but my position – as with alcohol – is that responsible adults should be free to engage in recreational use without harassment or government involvement until something goes sideways. As with marriage, government entanglements and all the baggage that comes with that muddy things up.
Making the state fat and happy (fatter and happier) on new taxes from licensing or sales is also a long-standing concern. Once we cross this bridge, the money will pile up, leading to more government, regulation, taxes, and inevitably less liberty.
I feel confident that was not what the liberty supporters were after.
There will be a big new bucket of money…Republicans might use the expected revenue to offset, reduce, or eliminate other taxes. Might. But they will also use it to grow the state budget and state meddling — more spending on things that will whittle away at the public sphere.
Democrats will always raise taxes regardless of revenue, so weed windfalls will result in a larger, more oppressive, and meddlesome government on a much faster track – as fast as possible if history is any indication. The sort that will make you want to get stoned to get away from it for a while.
By legislating the circumstances for the government-approved ‘legal’ enjoyment of marijuana, we give it resources to oppress us in other ways.
In the interest of allowing law enforcement to focus on violent and property crimes, generating revenue for education, prevention, treatment, and recovery related to the use of both legal and illegal drugs and for other public purposes, and advancing individual freedom, the people of the state of New Hampshire find and declare that the use of cannabis by a person 21 years of age or older should be legal and subject to reasonable regulation and taxation.
As if the government has ever been any good at educating anyone about anything, but it is nice to see an admission that this money will fund more government, but that is not the greatest danger.
The bill states clearly that vendors may not collect or store any identifying information about their customers and may only view ID to verify age, but page 14/15 of this forty-page pig of a bill states that sellers are required to provide informational handouts to customers as a reminder that,
(f) Unless federal statutory law or case law has changed and such a warning is no longer
accurate, a disclosure that:(1) Cannabis is illegal under U.S. federal law, and
(2) Under the United States government’s 1986 Gun Control Act, any ‘unlawful’ user of a controlled substance is prohibited from purchasing or owning a gun
It is not the weed vendor’s job to ask if you own firearms before the sale. As a responsible, law-abiding adult, it is your job to be the law-abiding adult. If you have guns and buy weed, the Feds may decide you are a felon. If you lie on the background check, the feds may decide you are a felon. HB639 is clear that you will be violating federal law in these circumstances.
So, as baby steps go, I can see why Democrats would support a leap to legalizing the sale and use of marijuana. The selective gun-grabbing potential is significant.
I guess the next question has to be, why are Republicans pushing it before addressing the federal issue of gun rights and marijuana?
The feds will not view any legal NH use as lawful with respect to firearms. While the bill does state that no state agent or funding may be used to assist in the seizure of cannabis whose possession is legal under state law – should it become law – there are no protections from federal prosecution for marijuana possession or recreational use and firearms.
I’m okay with casual adult use without fear of prosecution, but passing this law creates a severe risk of a federal indictment, fines, jail time, and a loss of your second amendment rights. Until we solve the second problem, we should wait on the first.
Or is the thinking that by adding New Hampshire to the list of states embracing decrim or legal possession and use limits, the Feds will have to cave? All I can say is how is that working out on free speech, assembly, freedom of religion, the rights of parents, and even the second amendment?
Absent a commitment from the state to protect New Hampshire gun owners and evidence they will, this smells like a setup to me.
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Not quite 70 years ago, my mom and dad drove the family car-a, Studebaker- from Milton Freewater, Oregon, to Star, Idaho, to attend the 4-day Thanksgiving celebration that my mom’s family had staged every year since the family farm began back in the 1860s. You could stand on the front porch and look 20 miles in any direction and still see the Dixon farm. We had great fun each thanksgiving-running after the farm’s dogs, chasing the goats, swimming in the pond.
This particular celebration was pretty much like the rest except for one memory that I wish I did not have. When we first entered the house and first entered the “sitting” room, I saw two men, about my father’s age of 31/32, sitting in my uncle’s two Victorian chairs. The entire four days we were there, I never saw them move. They just sat there.
My mom took me by the hand and ushered me over to where they sat, and introduced me to both men. They were her adopted brothers.
I only made eye contact once with each of them. They did not smile. They looked at me with very hallow eyes.
I remember feeling scared to even be around them.
Many years later, I figured out that what I was seeing in each man was horror at a level I did not know even existed. It was as if they had seen pure evil, and it had sapped all of their strength.
And their will to live.
Indeed, they both committed suicide one day. A Saturday. They walked together into my uncle’s cornfield, and each pulled their own trigger, each ending their own life: together.
Many years after I first met my two uncles, my mom called me up and told me to watch a TV show called “BAND OF BROTHERS.” She told me that although the show certainly embellished what happened, it was largely based upon actual events and that my two uncles were part of EASY company, which the show followed from Normandy to Berlin.
One episode -an event my mom told me actually happened-helped me understand why my uncles had become the hallowed out, empty men I saw at Thanksgiving. (During WW2, my mom worked for the State Department, decoding German war messages. She had access to all sorts of top-secret materials and knew the story of what happened to my uncles from those reports.) Between the show and her input, the story unfolded:
Rumors had abounded throughout the army that HITLER had death camps. None had, at that time, yet been found. My two uncles’ platoon was on a routine patrol when a strong odor of death and burning flesh overwhelmed their position. They had been in major combat for the prior four years and they were no strangers to the odor. All it meant was that they needed to move in the direction from which it came to complete their patrol.
The stench got stronger and stronger. Finally, they came out of a thick stand of trees and saw in front of them the pure evil I saw in their eyes: a place of horror, of torture, of satanic death. They saw piles of naked corpses-men, women, children- piled 10 and 12 high. They saw emaciated, near-dead, starving men and women and, again, children. They could see, off in the remote part of the camp, the smoke coming from still-operating cremating ovens. Over the next few days, they went into rooms that had gold fillings, rings, and necklaces. They found a room that had nothing but women’s shoes–hundreds if not thousands. They found a room where torture obviously occurred.
They had seen what Satan was capable of the prior four years. But nothing they saw before even remotely compared to what they saw in this place.
Their command, after nearly a week of having them patrol the camp, realized that the effect on my uncles and their buddies was too much, so they moved them into patrolling the nearby town. What they had seen in the death camp had unhinged them. What they saw in town caused them to completely crack.
The prisoners in the death camp had arrived by rail. My Uncles saw the tracks go right into the camp. They knew that the Germans had been quite brutal to the prisoners in the transports. A rail car that should hold maybe 20 to 25 was crammed with 100, 120, maybe even 150. The prisoners could not sit down. They were crammed so tight that all they could do for the days it took to transport them was to stand with no ability to move. They had no water. No food. Many died en route. All defecated and urinated where they stood. The smell and the cries of misery had to be deafening.
In patrolling the town, the Soldiers saw that the train track that they knew transported the death camp prisoners went right thru the town and right next to a Catholic church. When interviewed, the churchgoers claimed that they were not Nazis but good people who were bullied into submission by Hitler’s troops. They also claimed they knew nothing about the trains or the camp. However, the track went right next to the church.
Over time and continuous questioning, it finally, came out that, in fact, the churchgoers were aware of the trains. It came out that the railroad cars in fact went by the church on Sunday when services were in progress. It came out that the Priest ordered the choir to sing as loud as possible to drown out the cries of misery that rose up from the train cars as they passed by.
The anger of the American troops was uncontrollable. They had to be physically restrained not to kill every last churchgoer. These “good people” claimed to be Christian; claimed not to be Nazis, yet train after train after train went by their church services, and they did NOTHING.
The churchgoers said-in their defense that if they tried to stop the Nazis, they would lose their home, their jobs, and their lives. The American troops, of course, had endured being shot at and killed for years. Indeed, the only reason the Americans had to endure such war was that these “good” Christian Germans were cowered into doing nothing.
The thought of “good” people who did nothing in the face of evil is what sapped the life out of my uncles. They lost all faith in God. They lost all faith in mankind. They found peace only in the company each provided the other. Suicide called, and they answered.
My mother told me that her brothers(my uncles) -along with a whole raft of people in the state department-had given special names to the Nazis in this death camp(and all the others) and town.
A NAZI IN THE FIRST DEGREE was the high-level Nazi in government, business, in banking that ran the entire Nazi show. My uncles hated this group and fought against them for the entirety of the war. But they never thought that they were this evil. Truly seeing what this group did was unsettling.
A NAZI IN THE SECOND DEGREE was all the rank-and-file crazy loons who became passionately fascistic. They were the goose-stepping morons that the Nazis, in the first degree, used to do their dirty work.
My uncles were familiar with this group, too. They fought them and killed them. But, until the camp, my uncles never understood how evil they were.
A NAZI IN THE THIRD DEGREE, however, was truly what made my Uncles suicidal. These were the folks they found in the Catholic Church.
They claimed that they were not Nazis. They claimed that they did not believe in Fascism. They claimed to be Christian. Yet, when confronted by the horrors of the death camp, the misery of the Jewish prisoners, the cry of the dead and dying, they did absolutely nothing other than sing louder to drown out the “noise” of death.
My Uncles knew a simple truth: without the DO NOTHING” mentality of the Catholic Church goers, the Nazis could not have come to power; could not have killed so many American soldiers; could not have murdered the 6 million Jews. It is this group that my uncles abhorred beyond all the others. Having fought Hitler for 4 years, having endured life and death combat where they and their buddies were exposed daily to being shot, bombed, or set afire, they simply could not abide folks who said, ” I need to keep quiet and let the Nazis do whatever they want or otherwise I could lose my home, my job, and my pension.”
This is the group that broke my uncle’s spirit. NAZIS IN THE THIRD DEGREE.
This past Sunday, during Easter mass at the Catholic church I love to attend, the choir was singing particularly well. One singer was designated to hit a very high pitched note. She did it well. It permeated the entire church. And for no reason at all, when I heard her high-pitched note, the history of my uncle’s experience in Germany popped back into my head. And not in a good way.
Right now, don’t we have in our country NAZIS IN THE FIRST DEGREE: A “ruling” class of very wealthy and powerful people that are doing everything in their power to bring evil into our world? Perhaps Nazi is the wrong term. The folks in this group are spewing a dogma that is far more extensive and evil than what the Nazis spread in Germany. For lack of a better term, maybe I should call them “WOKE IN THE FIRST DEGREE.”
I think my uncles would ask: How are they any different than the evil beasts that filled the Nazi agenda in the 1940s. The Nazis back then sought to destroy everything that was right and good in the world. Our current “WOKE IN THE FIRST DEGREE” is doing everything it can to give life and strength to the powers that will our destruction: they are destroying our life: family; childhood; Constitutional government; manhood; womanhood; history: economy… everything patriots have valued since we declared our independence from the tyranny of the English ruling class.
And I think my uncles would also ask: don’t we have “NAZIS/ WOKE IN THE SECOND DEGREE”… People who accept hook, line, and sinker the odorous crap of the pure evil that comes from the first degree as if it was the sweet smell of their personal heaven.
I think my uncles would see both groups. And wonder why they exist. And, more importantly, why they, my uncles, fought so hard and endured so much in WW2 if all that was to happen was that our country would be turned over to the same evil they fought against back then. They might ask how we could possibly allow “WOKE IN THE FIRST DEGREE” OR WOKE IN THE SECOND DEGREE TO EXIST, TO TAKE OVER OUR LAND.
It is a horrible thought for me, but I think my Uncles would answer their own question by pointing their fingers at me and saying that I am responsible because I am one they would brand as “WOKE IN THE THIRD DEGREE”: a “good” person, a Christian person, a patriotic person who sees, understands, and even rejects the evil coming from the woke in the first degree, and from the woke in the second degree, and DOES NOTHING TO STOP IT.
While I sat in my Church, listening to my Choir, I had a really hard time explaining to myself why I was any different than those folks back then.
Back when I practiced law in California, it was not so. In 1981, after 6 months of trial in department 55 of the Los Angeles superior court, the jury awarded my client-her name was Annette- the largest punitive damage award ever made in Los Angeles County against a health insurer for racial discrimination in the handling of her injury claim. 42 years later, my last case, a jury awarded my client a multimillion-dollar judgment against a very famous golf course in Palm Springs for racial discrimination. I handled numerous cases on behalf of women who were sexually harassed, abused, discriminated against in the workplace. I put lawyers in jail who committed fraud. I put pedophiles in jail for imposing their “love’ on two- and three-year-old preschoolers.
When I retired, I guess I figured that evil would just go away. I certainly thought it would leave me, my family, and my friends alone. Allowing me to spend the last days of my life in a rocking chair, watching my grandchildren pitch and catch and hit home runs.
I was wrong. Evil takes no vacation. Any thoughts to the contrary are simpleton and dangerous. Doing nothing in the face of evil is “WOKE IN THE THIRD DEGREE,”…no matter your age, your past, or your future. And for me, “WOKE IN THE THIRD DEGREE( SINGING LOUDER TO DROWN OUT AND IGNORE THE CRIES OF MISERY FROM MY FELLOW AMERICANS) IS JUST NOT ACCEPTABLE.
I am 72. I am arthritic. I lack the memory I once had. 5 of me today would not win against one of me 50 years ago. But it doesn’t matter.
One of my favorite songs has lyrics that do matter: the singer, in character, portrays the voice of a desperate man who sees evil in the world and laments to God to fix what is broken. He moans; he groans, and most importantly, instead of finding a solution, he blames God for all the problems in the world in a very disrespectful tone. He concludes by admonishing God in a very demanding tone- to fix human society. He Cries out, “THIS PLACE IS A MESS. GOD, YOU GOT TO DO SOMETHING.
Then he pauses, changes into the character of a loving God, and belts out the reply:”I ALREADY DID. I SENT YOU.”
I did not write this article to tell you about myself. I certainly did not write it in the hopes of appealing to the ‘WOKE IN THE FIRST DEGREE” NOR THE “WOKE IN IN THE SECOND DEGREE.”
I write this article to the good, decent, hardworking Americans who look at the world and see the evil that these two” DEGREES” ARE FOSTERING. The studies I have read show that 80 percent of Americans dissent from the mantra coming from the first degree and the cancel culture of the second degree.
It is to you-the 80 percent- that I write this article: to ask, to plead, TO IMPLORE each of you: isn’t it time to cancel your membership in the ” WOKE IN THE THIRD DEGREE” club?
To be clear, I do cite my own experience. I do confess my sin. But I do so only to define “us”. We are the ” WOKE IN THE THIRD DEGREE.” And it’s time we quit that club.
THE WOKE NEED TO AWAKEN.
And to do that, “we” must all realize that we are not the minority. The polls all show that 80 percent of our world does not approve of what the First Degree and Second are doing. The Woke, in the First Degree have loads of money and power and has used it to make “us” feel like we are alone and that what they are promoting is an overwhelming wave that “us” cannot resist or overcome. But they lie.
Turn to your left. Turn to your right. When you have thoughts that the horrors that ARE being preached by the woke culture- by our own government-are wrong, realize that “us” is “us”; we are not alone.
When “us” stands up to the forces that want to destroy all that makes this country good and decent, “us” will not stand alone. Ever.
IT IS ONE MINUTE TO MIDNITE. WHEN THE CLOCK STRIKES 12, OUR WORLD WILL BE OVER. Doing nothing is no longer an option unless “us” has lost all hope of the America that was. That is. That still could be.
I wrote this article to ask “us” (you and me) to stop being a part of ‘WOKE IN THE THIRD DEGREE. Our country will not survive unless those of “us” have chosen to do nothing exit this very worthless club known as the ” WOKE IN THE THIRD DEGREE” and become the “CAPTAIN DOWDS IN THE FIRST DEGREE.”
WE FOUGHT THE BRITISH.
WE FOUGHT THE GERMANS.
WE HAVE TAKEN AN OATH TO FIGHT AGAINST ALL ENEMIES, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.
Your country is calling.
Lady Liberty is calling.
Let’s bury “WOKE IN THE THIRD DEGREE.”
GOD BLESS!
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Meagan Gallagher, CEO for Planned Parenthood Northern New England (PPNNE), suddenly walked out on her employer in April 2021. A year later, I wrote about how Planned Parenthood Northern New England is in disarray after they closed a facility in Vermont. Soon after that, they closed four more facilities in Vermont and one in Claremont, New Hampshire. They were still without a CEO and things were going from bad to worse.
Related: Planned Parenthood Northern New England Is in Disarray
Finally, after a long 17 months without a CEO, during which they lost their lobbying efforts to stop New Hampshire’s Fetal Life Protection Act from becoming law, PPNNE finally hired CEO Judith Selzer in September 2022.
Five months later, on the 50th anniversary of the Roe V Wade ruling by the US Supreme Court, one year after the ruling was overturned, Selzer wrote an op-ed bemoaning the loss:
This Jan. 22, we should be celebrating the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. Instead, our country is confronting a stark reality in which younger generations have fewer rights than the last, and one in three Americans no longer have the right to safe, legal abortion in their home state.
Anti-abortion forces want us to succumb to despair and darkness. But our hope, grit and unwavering faith that the long arc of reproductive rights will again bend toward justice burns brighter than ever.
There’s no chance I’m going to succumb to the overturning of Roe and just sit down. Instead, the fire in me burns brighter.
As the new CEO of Planned Parenthood of Northern New England, I am channeling my grief and outrage into efforts to rebuild a system of care that truly ensures every person has access to safe, legal abortion, no matter what.
However, in February 2023, after only six months of employment, after saying “There’s no chance I’m going to succumb,” Selzer did “succumb to despair and darkness,” she “channeled [her] grief and outrage,” and left her job, voluntarily or involuntarily. They are again without a CEO.
What are the chances they will be able to find another CEO after having two CEOs in a row walk out on them within two years, the second one after only six months? Something is seriously dysfunctional with this organization besides their extremism on abortion. They are imploding and it will be interesting what disaster awaits them next.
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Good News. The Bidenistas have introduced a new program called the Welcome Corps (that’s ‘corpse’ for Barry Obama fan club members). It allows you to sign up and take in “refugees.” Don’t worry. There will be enough for everyone. It looks like your government has been bringing them here at your expense.
The US and the UN have alleged “invasion camps.” Waypoints” built to house “migrants,” at least some of whom are then moved in busses from camp to camp through Central America to the southern US border.
[The]United States via the United Nations has established what amounts to a conveyor belt of camps across Central America to allow migrants to move north in large numbers to our southern border. This is happening with the direct involvement of the Department of Homeland Security. DHS Secretary Mayorkas just visited camps in Panama as part of an ongoing effort by the Biden administration to double the capacity of the existing infrastructure.
The Biden administration isn’t ignoring security on the Souther Border. It is “securing” a multi-nation migration action aided by the UN and paid for by you to flood the United States with illegal aliens whom you may now sponsor – because we have a housing crisis. It’s the best time to add millions of effectively homeless people who don’t speak the language, are unfamiliar with the customs, and may lack basic skills, including the ability to read or write.
All while we experience record economic instability, inflation, and the ever-looming recession.
No worries, your stretched-thin budget can embrace more mouths to clothe and feed from South and Central America – or other places like Ukraine, Afghanistan, Somalia, or wherever else the US can grab bodies to dilute poisonous white colonialist America.
A recolonization in their preferred demographic and, hopefully, electoral image while laundering more money through progressive-leaning organizations.
The Department of State is funding a consortium of non-profit organizations with expertise in welcoming, resettling, and integrating refugees into U.S. communities to support the Welcome Corps. This consortium is being led by the Community Sponsorship Hub, and includes Church World Service, IRIS – Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services, the International Refugee Assistance Project, the International Rescue Committee, and Welcome.US. This consortium will offer expert guidance and support to Americans joining the Welcome Corps. …
Community organizations and institutions may also apply to participate in the Welcome Corps as Private Sponsor Organizations (PSOs) to mobilize, support, and oversee private sponsors. As the Welcome Corps launches, a range of organizations are stepping forward as PSOs including Alight, Every Campus A Refuge, HIAS, Home for Refugees USA, IRIS – Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services, the International Rescue Committee, Rainbow Railroad, and WelcomeNST. With strong support from private philanthropists, the consortium will make funds available to qualifying PSOs to support their efforts. To complement the work of both PSOs and the consortium, the Department of Health and Human Services will continue to support U.S. states as they build infrastructure and outreach capacity to welcome and support new arrivals’ integration into their new communities.
Phase I and II appear voluntary. In what phase will the Feds try to require us to house their invading army of migrants?
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This past weekend was filled with violence in many of our major cities. We saw planned mob violence on Chicago streets and hundreds of young people destroying storefronts in Compton, CA, only to steal all of the inventory once inside. The videos were graphic and showed no concern for people and property. In the Windy City, a twenty-year-old woman was in the wrong place. She was trying to get into her apartment building when she was surrounded by dozens of “protestors,” who hit and kicked her until she fell to the ground. Her mother reports that she was not seriously injured and will recover.
The police were overwhelmed and helpless. Most officers stood back as observers. They know officers, DAs, or politicians do not back them.
Outgoing Mayor Lightfoot says she cannot agree with the term mayhem but saw a number of protestors in the wrong place and acting out. It is not their fault.
Mayor-Elect Brandon John said, “In no way do I condone the destructive activity…However, it is not constructive to demonize youth who have otherwise been starved of opportunities in their own communities.”
The outgoing and incoming mayors refuse to assign culpability to these rioters. It is society’s fault for failing these youths, which is why they act out. Nothing to see here, folks. Move along. What will happen in these pits of humanity for these people to say there is a problem?
This ignorance is not just at the city level. State Senator Robert Peters said, “I would look at the behavior of young people as a political act and statement. It’s a mass protest against poverty and segregation.” The voters of Chicago and Illinois put these individuals into office. It is fair to say that these voters are getting what they deserve.
The networks and CNN, like the politicians, did not see anything newsworthy this weekend in Chicago. Combined, these four networks gave zero minutes to the Chicago violence. By the way, ten were killed and 26 injured in other violent acts in Chicago.
These were not political protestors. These people were hellbent on creating chaos and destruction. The destruction of the ARCO station was one of three simultaneously happening in Compton. These acts were coordinated on Social Media.
The video was clear. Dozens of young people gathered outside the gas station Mini-Mart. They broke through the glass door and scattered throughout the store, clearing off the shelves. They left nothing and destroyed the property once the shelves were stripped bare.
There was no politics involved at any of the violent sites. These rioters were not making a statement. They were looting, destroying, and causing chaos and fear. Unless you watched FOX News over the weekend, you might not know about these destructive activities. Ignoring violence does not make it go away. There is something wrong with America, right to our core. These rioters obviously get no guidance from home and parents and have no respect or fear of the law. If nobody is held accountable for these acts, what will prevent them from repeating their actions? That was a rhetorical question. Nothing will stop this destruction, and it will only escalate.
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Do you want to take control of your energy bills? Do you feel empowered by the idea of going solar all on your own?
It’s a great idea you have. Solar panel installation can save you thousands of dollars over the next two decades. Not to mention, you’re helping the environment by choosing to use clean energy.
There’s only one problem.
It’s not that easy to do the installation all on your own, and you’re not sure if you should hire professionals. What do you need to know to decide if solar panel installation is right for you? Let’s break it down.
Benefits of Solar Panel InstallationA solar panel installation is a fantastic option for homeowners who are looking to reduce their electricity bills. Solar energy benefits are many, such as reducing the cost of energy, improving the environment, and increasing the value of your home. Solar panel installation will allow you to generate your energy from the sun. Energy can use to power lights, appliances, and other electronic devices.
When the sun is shining and energy is plentiful, you will be able to store it in a battery for later use or send extra energy back to the grid for others to use. If you are looking for an efficient and eco-friendly source of energy, then solar panel installation may be right for your home.
Assess Compatibility With Your HomeAssess compatibility with your home when considering solar panel installation. Ensure your roof is structurally sound and placed at a correct angle to ensure the most direct access to sunlight.
Make sure the materials the solar panels may come into contact with won’t damage them – things like tree branches or electrical wires. Talk to an inspector or electrician to make sure your home can handle more load. Consider your area’s sunlight availability.
Solar panels function best in brightly lit areas. It makes the least cost-effective options in regions or during times with reduced sun availability. That’s why it’s important to check the pros and cons and make sure solar panel installation is right for your home.
Potential Investment ReturnsSolar panel installation should be weighed against the initial cost of the system to determine potential returns. While solar panels come with a high initial cost, they can yield a large return on investment over the lifetime of the system. Solar panels will last between 20-30 years and provide long-term savings in electricity bills.
Tax credits and rebates can also reduce the cost of installation. Net-metering arrangements allow users to feed their excess electricity back into the grid. It can provide an extra source of income. A solar installation is a worthwhile investment and can provide much savings in the long run.
Types of Solar Panel SystemsThere are many different types of solar panel systems available for home installation, and each one has unique advantages. Grid-tied solar, off-grid solar, and hybrid systems all have benefits that homeowners should consider when deciding if solar panel installation is right for their home.
Grid-tied solar panels are connected to the utility grid, allowing homeowners to sell excess energy back to the utility company. Off-grid solar systems are not tied to the grid and need more maintenance.
Hybrid solar systems use a combination of grid-tied and off-grid systems and can provide reliable power during an outage. Homeowners should consider their energy needs, budget, and desires when selecting a solar panel system.
Investigate Local Regulations for Solar Panel InstallationCheck local regulations before installing solar panels to ensure compliance with the panel installation process. Regulations vary from municipality to municipality, requiring a permit before installation. Other municipalities offer payments for homes and businesses that generate renewable energy.
Depending on where you live, there may also be specific laws and incentives for solar panel system installation. Knowing local regulations can help you make an informed decision about installing solar panels.
Also, take advantage of the potential savings. Investigate local regulations for solar panel installation to ensure a successful and cost-effective outcome.
Cost of Installing Solar PanelsIt is important to consider the cost of solar panel installation. It requires significant upfront costs for both the panels and their installation. Depending on the size of your roof and the type of panels you decide to use. Solar panel costs can range from a few thousand to tens of thousands of dollars.
Regarding the installation costs, there may be extra fees such as permitting, inspections, or financing fees. But, the long-term savings on electricity bills may make solar panel installation worthwhile. Incentives may also reduce the cost, making it more affordable. Evaluating your energy needs and budget is the best way to determine if solar panel installation is right for your home.
Choose a Reliable Solar Panel CompanyChoose a reliable solar panel installation company to ensure quality panels and installation. Research several companies to compare warranties, customer reviews, and the types of panels they offer.
Take a look at certifications and accreditations from the company to make sure they have been professionally vetted and certified. Ask questions of the company and make sure they give satisfactory responses. Pay attention to the detailing in their proposals to see what locations they are willing to install panels in.
Good customer service and reliable deployment of a quality product are essential. Make sure you look at the combined value of the solar panel and installers also as the price.
Learn About Home Panel Installation TodaySolar panel installation can help homeowners save money and reduce their carbon footprint. It can offer a return on the initial investment within a few years. If you’re interested in learning more and seeing if solar panel installation is right for your home, contact a local solar installation company.
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School administrators across New Hampshire are providing sensitive mental health information to Keene State /Behavior Health Improvement Institute. For more information, go here.
Why is BHII collecting mental health personally identifiable information on public school students? What are they doing with the PII? Who has access to this information? In Lisa Logan’s article, SEL + ESG = Social Credit System, knowing who has access to your child’s mental health records is important–especially since students and parents did NOT consent to any of this.
Prior to Keene State accessing this data, Plymouth State and Antioch University was gathering mental health data on students in New Hampshire. This has been happening for years without any parents knowing or consenting. But did you know that this information can be shared with the federal government?
The student privacy law school administrators cite when it’s convenient for them, has a large gaping loophole that allows district administrators to open up the gates of data-mining without your knowledge or consent. Once that information is disclosed to organizations like BHII, they can then re-disclose this information without your knowledge or consent. . All personally identifiable information on education records (mental health, psychological records collected at school)) can be re-disclosed to federal data warehouse NCES/IES because of the Obama Executive Order, EO 12866, that allows personally identifiable information to be released to the National Center for Education Statistics/IES and outside 3rd party vendors.
Who will have access to your child’s mental health records without your knowledge or consent?
That’s what I’m trying to find out. I sent a Right to Know Request to BHII, and The New Hampshire Department of Education. I want to know who has access to these records.
If and when I get some answers, I will be posting that information here. Please stay tuned. There is more disturbing information coming!!
In the meantime, I would suggest that EVERYONE who reads this article, contact Commissioner Edelblut, and the elected officials below. Tell them that parents deserve answers. Why did BHII ask for mental health PII, and who has access to it?
Re FW Request for information
It’s important that everyone demand some answers. Just about every ethical code governing mental health professionals requires informed consent before disclosing mental health PII. What is going on in our schools? This violates The New Hampshire Constitution, and our right to privacy!
If you are reading this article, and you live in the state of New Hampshire, YOU NEED TO SEND an email to our elected representatives asking them to demand some answers!
Send an email to all of these people, and let them know that you are aware of the data mining going on in our schools! Let them know we demand answers. Who is accessing personally identifiable mental health information on students in our schools?
rick.ladd@leg.state.nh.us
glenn.cordelli@leg.state.nh.us
rep.alicia.lekas@gmail.com
lynchford@comcast.net
Mike.Belcher@leg.state.nh.us
Margaret.Drye@leg.state.nh.us
Valerie.McDonnell@leg.state.nh.us
Kristin.Noble@leg.state.nh.us
Katy.Peternel@leg.state.nh.us
Arlene.Quaratiello@leg.state.nh.us
Mel.Myler@leg.state.nh.us
patricia.cornell@leg.state.nh.us
RepTanner@gmail.com
dluneauNH@gmail.com
Art.Ellison@leg.state.nh.us
stevewoodcock.rep@gmail.com
Muriel.Hall@leg.state.nh.us
Peggy.Balboni@leg.state.nh.us
Corinne.Cascadden@leg.state.nh.us
Hope.Damon@leg.state.nh.us
Kevin.Avard@leg.state.nh.us
Regina.Birdsell@leg.state.nh.us
jeb.bradley@leg.state.nh.us
Ruth.Ward@leg.state.nh.us
Timothy.Lang@leg.state.nh.us
Carrie.Gendreau@leg.state.nh.us
Donovan.Fenton@leg.state.nh.us
Melissa.A.White@doe.nh.gov
Louis.F.Edelblut@doe.nh.gov
Christine.M.Brennan@doe.nh.gov
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An epic rant by Jesse Kelly, and it is spot on. In my words, not his: The Republican Party’s “leaders” are corporate-WHORES who would rather lose than fight. And this assessment is especially applicable to the NHGOP whose “leaders”
are comfortable serving as punching bags for Adam Sexton, NHPR, and the rest of New Hampshire’s Leftist advocacy media and, worse, pretend that doing so and clucking “bipartisan,” “bipartisan,” “bipartisan” while the Communists (aka NH-Democrats) call them misogynists, transphobes, Nazis, etc. etc. etc. is a viable political strategy.
The Low T GOP pic.twitter.com/0oWJ8Klv8X
— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) April 17, 2023
The
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It started with former NH State Rep Jan Schmidt. She’s a progressive mouth-breather politically and a poster child for the party mascot on social media. She also branded GraniteGrok as a hate site way back when which was repeated by several of her fellow mouth-breathers.
They say we are a hate site, which is amusing since most of them have never read a word we’ve written. I you asked them to cite examples, they’d hurl generalizations while gesticulating uncontrollably, shouting about racism or some such thing. It’s all very amusing to us and easy pickings on slow days because the fruit -rotten as it is – hangs so damn low.
Schmidtler, for example, announced one day – that we hate women, which is a strange thing to say about a website that has had (and has) many women writers and shares op-eds by women and always has (and yes, we know what a woman is). But how would she know? She’s never spent any time here and admitted as much. She just assumed that because we disagreed with her politically, made fun of her antics, and posted her voting record, we hated women.
The Southern Poverty Law Center – the Alpha and Omega for such things – disagrees. Given the opportunity to label GraniteGrok as a hate site, they opted for anti-government. Skip wrote about it here. Boiled down, our failure to toe the line on approved narratives (which we may even dare to contradict or debunk) makes us an anti-government group.
They misspelled “free speech advocate,” but that’s okay. Donors do not give to the SPLC so it can reward a defense of natural rights, constitutional values, or the distrust of any government that framed the founder’s vision for the American experiment that the SPLC and Jan Schmidt worked to undermine.
I am opposed to anarchy and a well-documented fan of limited government, which means I can’t possibly be anti-government, but I have not a care about the musings of the SPLC or Jan Schmidt or the regurgitations of her mouth-breathing political posterity. I am, however, inclined to avail myself of the opportunity provided by both to amuse myself and our readers.
Jan and her drove should be required to issue a retraction. According to the SPLC, we are not a hate site. We’re anti-government. Feel free to publish your apology and retraction at your convenience (that will be never), and we’re okay with that too. But if the SPLC can’t call us that, neither can you.
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John Kerry was for the war in Iraq before he was against it … remember? Well … Sun-King Sununu has Gold-digger Kerry beat. He was for the six-month abortion ban before he was against it and now he is for it again. Got that? Fresh on the heels of trying to gut the six-month abortion ban, the shameless Sun-King is now embracing the six-month abortion ban:
And it’s not just his position on abortion … Sun-King actually supports abortion up to birth and perhaps “post-birth” as well … that he is lying about. Sun-King claims … or more precisely his Low-T pipsqueak spokesperson claims … he went on Lemon’s show to expand the GOP base. LIE. No persuadable voters watch Lemon. Sun-King did Lemon because he is a narcissist who gets a dopamine surge by seeing himself on television.
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One of the many flanks in what appears to be a globalist war on America is the frequency of infrastructure and supply chain incidents. Industrial accidents, derailments, cattle, chicken, egg, and other farms burning to the ground.
Chemical spills or chem or plastic plants burning. It makes for excellent conspiracy stuff, which makes for great truth as of late. Having some MSNBC zombie ape the approved narrative in response has become the siren song of legitimacy.
That’s not a universal truth, but COVID-era fraud has elevated the odds that if the government or their media muppets are denying it, keep looking, it is probably true.
As for the pig pile globally, there have been over 860 incidents in the past few years involving the food supply, more than three dozen potentially toxic transportation or supply incidents involving chemicals, plastics, or the like (in 2023 to date), and a handful of incidents involving fuel and energy supplies or infrastructure that are traceable to at least one link or story.
And it’s all normal! Ha!
For the record, this is not our data. We did not curate it. And I have not followed every link, but I did try to clean up a few by removing the Google Docs garbage, so if anything broke, let me know. There are still a few that land on the redirect page before taking you to the story – I didn’t have time to clean those up, but what I checked was legit.
I have also created a reformatted .xls file of today’s data that you can reference and I will attempt to do the same for the other data when I share that. Things have a way of disappearing, and we should do what we can to preserve the research for future use.
I will be sharing more like this. View all of the source data and links here if you want.
2023 Services/Shipping/Chemical Spills
| COUNTRY | TYPE | # | DATE | EVENT | LINK |
| China | Chemical | 1 | 1/19/2023 | Fatal explosion and fire at chemical plant in Panjin Haoye Chemical China | LINK |
| US | Chemical | 2 | 2/2/2023 | Chemical spill prompts hazardous materials investigation in Irvine California | LINK |
| US | Supply | 3 | 2/3/2023 | Chicago: 230,000 square feet of domestic production, assembly and warehousing space of a wood and metal manufacturer destroyed in fire. | LINK |
| US | Supply | 4 | 2/6/2023 | Furniture Factory completely Destroyed After Massive Fire | LINK |
| US | Chemical | 5 | 2/9/2023 | Birmingham firefighters on scene of chemical spill in UAB lab – Birmingham Alabama | LINK |
| US | Chemical | 6 | 2/10/2023 | Chemical Fire After Train Derailment in East Palestine, Ohio | LINK |
| Italy | Chemical | 7 | 2/10/2023 | Salumificio COATI Verona Italy. More toxic chemicals are released into the environment. | LINK |
| US | Chemical | 8 | 2/10/2023 | February 10th, 2023 – United States – In Oregon, near Newport, an estimated 2,000 gallons of diesel spilled when a locomotive’s fuel tank was punctured. The derailment involved a Portland & Western Railroad train at a Georgia-Pacific mill in Toledo, about five miles east of Newport. | LINK |
| US | Chemical | 9 | 2/12/2023 | Texas officials investigate chemical leak that triggered shelter-in-place order | LINK |
| US | Supply | 10 | 2/14/2023 | Montgomery Texas Train Derailment Occurs Just Days After Ohio Disaster | LINK |
| US | Supply | 11 | 2/14/2023 | CSX train derails in South Carolina; Norfolk Southern faces more scrutiny over its derailment | LINK |
| US | Chemical | 12 | 2/14/2023 | Fire crews respond to chemical spill at NH’s Stonyfield Farm – Londonderry New Hampshire | LINK |
| US | Services | 13 | 2/15/2023 | Marines Catch FBI Trying to Sabotage Substation in Idaho, and Kill Them. | LINK |
| US | Chemical | 14 | 2/15/2023 | A Truck Carrying Nitric Acid Crashed in Tucson Arizona. Residents Now Have to Shelter in Place | LINK |
| US | Supply | 15 | 2/16/2023 | Huge 5 Acre Fire Breaks Out At Warehouse Storing Plastic Plant Pots In Kissimmee, Florida. | LINK |
| US | Shipping | 16 | 2/16/2023 | Train derails in Van Buren Township; Haggerty Road back open | LINK |
| US | Chemical | 17 | 2/16/2023 | Oklahoma Tank Fire Sparks Yet Another Chemical Incident – Catoosa Oklahoma | LINK |
| China | Chemical | 18 | 2/18/2023 | Explosion and fire at a chemical factory in Houjie City, Dongguan Prefecture, China. | LINK |
| US | Supply | 19 | 2/20/2023 | ‘Mass Casualty Incident’: Explosion Rocks Metal Factory in Bedford, Ohio | LINK |
| US | Supply | 20 | 2/21/2023 | Massive Fire at Brooklyn NY Lumber Warehouse | LINK |
| US | Supply | 21 | 2/21/2023 | Coal Train Derails Monday night in Gothenburg, Nebraska. | LINK |
| US | Supply | 22 | 2/21/2023 | Massive fire at Elkem Metals, Alloy,WV | LINK |
| US | Chemical/Supply | 23 | 2/22/2023 | Emergency services respond to uranium fire at National Nuclear Security Administration complex in Tennessee | LINK |
| US | Chemical/Supply | 24 | 2/28/2023 | Train Carrying Propane derails near Manatee-Sarasota county line; no evacuations | LINK |
| US | Supply | 25 | 3/1/2023 | Massive fire and multiple explosions reported at Metal fabricator plant in Cleveland, Ohio. | LINK |
| US | Chemical/Supply | 26 | 3/4/2023 | Train derailment in Springfield,OH, hazmat teams deployed | LINK |
| US | Chemical | 27 | 3/8/2023 | West Virginia train derailment: Freight train strikes rockslide, spills diesel into river; 3 injured | LINK |
| US | Supply | 28 | 3/9/2023 | Train derails in east Calhoun County, Alabama as Norfolk Southern CEO testifies before Congress | LINK |
| US | Chemical | 29 | 3/13/2023 | Union Pacific train derails in central Kansas, Small fire, leak of denatured alcohol results from 13-car derailment | LINK |
| US | Chemical/Supply | 30 | 3/16/2023 | Train Hauling Corn Syrup Derails In Arizona; No Injuries | LINK |
| US | Chemical/Supply | 31 | 3/16/2023 | Train Derails In Washington Reservation Leaking Diesel Fuel: Officials | LINK |
| US | Chem/Water Supply | 32 | 3/26/2023 | Drinking water advisory: What we know about the hazardous spill in a Delaware River tributary | LINK |
| US | Supply | 33 | 3/27/2023 | Runaway train carrying iron ore derails in San Bernardino; hazmat crew responding | LINK |
| US | Chemical/Supply | 34 | 3/28/2023 | Train derails in rural North Dakota and spills chemicals | LINK |
| US | Chemical/Supply | 35 | 3/29/2023 | Barge carrying toxic methane submerged and sinking in the Ohio River. | LINK |
| US | Chemical/Supply | 36 | 3/30/2023 | BNSF train carrying ethanol in Minnesota derails and catches fire, forcing evacuations in small town | LINK |
| US | Chemical/Supply | 37 | 3/30/2023 | Cause determined for Nouryon Chemicals leak; crews planning to wrap up efforts | LINK |
| US | Chemical/Supply | 38 | 4/9/2023 | Norfolk Southern Train Derails In Alabama, Temporarily Traps Crew Inside | LINK |
| US | Chemical | 39 | 4/10/2023 | Truck hauling contaminated soil from East Palestine derailment clean-up site crashes | LINK |
| US | Industrial/Supply | 40 | 4/12/2023 | Industrial fire prompts evacuation order in Indiana city | LINK |
| US | Industrial/Supply | 41 | 4/14/2023 | Sparks kicked up from an CSX train travelling through Stony Point, Haverstraw & Congers causing multiple large brush fires burning in Rockland County; nearby homes evacuated | LINK |
| US | Chemical | 42 | 4/15/2023 | Train carrying hazardous materials derails in Rockwood, Maine | LINK |
| US | Chem/Ind/Supply | 43 | 4/15/2023 | Evacuation ordered for half-mile radius around Pinova Plant due to large fire | LINK |
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OK, a couple days late but here it is. The Grandson brought home some form of a nasty stomach flu from school last week and both he and TMEW had it over the weekend. I thought I was “home free” as Monday morning I was still well – and then I wasn’t. So, I’m late in putting this up. My number went down – and Tom had a great recovery:
So Tom gets a pretty good rebound this week and I get a slow down.
However, food was not at the top of my list the last few days so I’m expecting my own rebound. Perhaps.
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As promised in the last Monday Memes, I have an overflow. My meme cup runneth over. Fairly certain about a Friday Overflow-Overflow.
Also, for those prepper-minded, my last two Survival Sundays:
Survival Sunday – Sunday PREP Edition – Granite Grok
Survival Sunday – Thursday SITREP Edition – Granite Grok
Now, let the mayhem, mockery, and ridicule resume:
*** Warning, a few possibly off-color ones, in case tender eyes are about ***
I’m sure someone will take offense at the above, of course. Too white, too blank, too beyond their humor. Something.
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We’ve Had Enough
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Certainly, there is a lot of evidence that this was planned looooong before the “lab leak”.
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Pick of the post:
Prescient.
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The Age of Conspiracy
I need new conspiracy theories. All my current ones have come true.
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Palate cleansers:
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The list of things that are bad for the planet is a lot shorter than people have been led to believe. In truth it consists of Marie-Antoinette-like globalists and the political muppets who use your money to fund their destructive agenda. Wait, no. It’s not. It’s rice!
Yes, rice. One of the cheapest bulk foods available to keep billions from starving is bad for the environment. At least that’s what AFP (not that one, a different one) is saying.
VIDEO: Rice is to blame for around 10 percent of global emissions of methane, a gas that over two decades, traps about 80 times as much heat as carbon dioxide. Scientists say that if the world wants to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, rice cannot be ignored. pic.twitter.com/46GgkaGPgK
— AFP News Agency (@AFP) April 16, 2023
There are plenty of problems with this, not the least of which is that methane – like most of the scams – is overrated as a threat.
The second link notes that increased co2 has resulted in massive plant growth, which, when it rots, releases methane which, given the abrupt decline in solar activity at the end of the modern warm period, means less ozone to help it on its way. Measured increases are a product of natural forces that random acts of environmental virtue-signaling will not change were change even necessary (it is not).
And yes, the gas stove ban that wasn’t a ban that will ban more than half the gas stoves was about methane. Rice, and farming in general, has been a target for years, but is going after rice going to hold global warming water?
According to the World Economic Forum, half the world’s population lives on rice as their primary food source, with Brazil being the only major producer of this essential foodstuff outside Asia.
These folks are a bunch of rice racists, but neither China nor India is likely to stop growing and selling rice which means over 50% of the alleged emissions continue and likely increase as they pick up the slack from any nation that falls for this idiotic ploy.
And rice still gets more expensive.
In other words, much like fossil fuel use and environmental concerns, Western Countries will force their people to tighten their belts, do with less, and pay more for zero environmental gain.
And that’s deliberate. The Western environmental movement is mostly about punishing rich countries to the benefit of poorer ones. If a few million people starve to death or die from poised food and water, depopulation is on their bucket list too.
HT | NewsWars
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Would you be surprised to learn that the newest form of gun control has its roots in the IRS? Same. We weren’t either.
Back in 2004, the IRS mandated the use of something called a “Merchant Category Code” or an MCC, as a way to classify different types of businesses and identify the types of goods or services that a company sells.
Soon, gun-grabbers figured out that a special MCC could be created for a business selling firearms, thus – another defacto gun registry that the government could easily access. Some of the worst proposals call for using these codes to flat-out ban purchases.
It doesn’t take too much creative thinking to see how people who hate your liberty will use this kind of tool.
After efforts to create a firearm-related MCC failed in recent years, a number of high-profile politicians sent a high-pressure letter to the major credit card companies last September. And just weeks later, the International Organization for Standardization (IOS) approved the creation of a new firearms-based code.
Unsurprisingly, Everytown was thrilled, “Today’s announcement is a critical first step towards giving banks and credit card companies the tools they need to recognize dangerous firearm purchasing trends.”
To them, of course, all firearms purchasing trends are dangerous, so we know where this is leading. And while people can still use cash for in-person purchases – or better yet, real money like gold and silver in some situations – neither of these are valid options for online retailers.
An article by Free Range American summed up the danger:
Watchdogs are concerned the banking industry has been recruited by the feds to use the coded transactions to create and maintain a database of gun owners that can then be accessed by the government. Indeed, it has been publicly stated that the purpose of the new code is to track “suspicious activity” related to firearms and mass shootings.
In response, a handful of states started considering a bill called the “2nd Amendment Financial Privacy Act” to ban the use of these merchant codes in a way that distinguishes a firearms retailer from general merchandise retailers or sporting goods retailers.”
In other words, these states are attempting to just ban the use of the newly-authorized code.
This kind of legislation was signed into law in Idaho, and is on the governor’s desk in Mississippi. It passed the state senate in Florida, and is still pending in Texas and North Carolina.
We’ve been watching this new kind of state legislation all year, and are surprised as to how much impact it’s already having – prior to a single state even putting a ban into effect.
Last month, all the major credit card companies – Amex, Visa, MC, and Discover – announced they were putting a “pause” on implementation just because a handful of states were considering and potentially moving forward with a 2nd Amendment Financial Privacy Act.
A MasterCard spokesman confirmed that the state legislation is the reason for putting this on hold:
“There are bills advancing in several states related to the use of this new code. If passed, the result will be an inconsistency in how this ISO standard could be applied by merchants, issuers, acquirers and networks. It’s for that reason that we have decided to pause work on the implementation of the firearms-specific MCC.”
This is clearly an early win for the states. Rather than waiting for the entire scheme to get implemented first and then trying to stop it with a lawsuit or legislation later, they found a path forward that creates problems for implementation, and put a stop to it, at least for now.
But let’s not overstate the win. This is on PAUSE, they want us to let our guard down so they can regroup and push again. But that should be a huge green light for 15-20 more states to get on board and ban this practice now so it never gets off the ground.
As Samuel Adams so wisely put it,
“Instead of sitting down satisfied with the efforts we have already made, which is the wish of our enemies, the necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude and perseverance.”
Michael Boldin | The Tenth Amendment Center
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If inequity in transportation infrastructure looks like a distraction, it is. A made-up thing that, if it were real, would be the result of Democrat rule, which makes the Left spearheading so-called remedies that much more ridiculous.
But when has that ever stopped a Democrat? Just ask Mayor Choo-Choo Pete Buttigieg.
“We’ve got a crisis when it comes to roadway fatalities in America,” Buttigieg said. “We lose about 40,000 people every year. It’s a level that is comparable to gun violence – and we see a lot of racial disparities. Black and brown Americans and tribal citizens and rural residents are much more likely to lose their lives…”
“There are a lot of reason related to discrimination….even related to the way the roads are designed and who has access to a safe street design that’s got crosswalks and good lighting.”
Historically, the US used to lose more than 40k lives a year on the roadways, a number that started to slide downward in this century but has resurged to its historical norm. The most likely cause is risky behavior, so is there evidence of that?
Ethnicity and road-related fatalities have some history. So-called indigenous populations dominate transportation-related deaths as pedestrians as a result of speed, youth, and alcohol involvement. Black youths come next, followed by Hispanics.
It is true that young people of color are dying while driving or being struck by other drivers, and they are more likely to get struck by a car or on a bike if they are brown, young, poor, or working class, especially if you are American Indian or Alaskan native.
We see similar results for both daytime and nighttime fatalities (whites did rank second highest in daytime fatalities), so is this some sad systemic racist vehicular homicide plot?
Bad drivers are more likely to harm themselves or others regardless of the roads or conditions.
There is no denying the trends, but again, why does it have to be something intangible at which Democrats can throw more of your money? Obama’s first-term stimulus boondoggle spent hundreds of billions on transportation infrastructure which the data above suggests was either an investment in systemic racism or another left-wing laundromat boondoggle.
All those people of color died anyway.
Dems are also obsessed with ending affordable transportation and 15-minute walkable cities, so the timing is suspicious.
We should also ask, how is it that decades of incontestable Dem rule over urban areas resulted in more discrimination (today) than in decades past?
It’s a scam, a trap, a distraction—a way to blame others for problems they’ve caused or watched from their protected perch. But since that continues to work for them, making them richer and more powerful in the process, why should they stop trying?
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