Earlier this year, a mullah in the city of Karaj blamed the lack of rain on the exposed heads of Iranian women. Those same women have been protesting these past eight months or so, refusing to wear hijabs, and burning them in the streets.

This is happening in a place that expects animators to make sure female characters in cartoons are drawn with hijab “because of the consequences of not doing so.”

This cultural revolt doesn’t get much attention from the Presstitutes in American media. It runs contrary to the dogma that drives their daily pilgrimage. Once thought to be passable truth-tellers, corporate media in the US is little more than a government cheerleader at best and information ministry at its worst. Rising each day to provide messaging cover for American elites.

Our short attention spans need not be distracted by an actual women’s rights issue that has persisted across time into the modern era. Women who,

“deserved the vocal and energetic support of Western feminists and the United States government in 1979. They didn’t get it. Neither did Aqsa Parvez, whose Muslim father choked her to death with her hijab after she refused to wear it; or Amina Muse Ali, a Christian woman in Somalia whom Muslims murdered because she wasn’t wearing a hijab; or the 40 women who were murdered in Iraq in 2007 for not wearing the hijab; or Alya Al-Safar, whose Muslim cousin threatened to kill her and harm her family because she stopped wearing the hijab in Britain; or Amira Osman Hamid, who faces whipping in Sudan for refusing to wear the hijab; or the Egyptian girl, also named Amira, who committed suicide after being brutalized for her family for refusing to wear the hijab; or the Muslim and non-Muslim teachers at the Islamic College of South Australia who were told that they had to wear the hijab or be fired; or the women in Chechnya whom police shot with paintballs because they weren’t wearing hijab; or the women also in Chechnya who were threatened by men with automatic rifles for not wearing hijab; or the elementary school teachers in Tunisia who were threatened with death for not wearing hijab; or the Syrian schoolgirls who were forbidden to go to school unless they wore hijab; or the women in Gaza whom Hamas has forced to wear hijab; or the women in Iran who protested against the regime by daring to take off their legally-required hijab; or the women in London whom Muslim thugs threatened to murder if they didn’t wear hijab; or the anonymous young Muslim woman who doffed her hijab outside her home and started living a double life in fear of her parents, or all the other women and girls who have been killed or threatened, or who live in fear for daring not to wear the hijab.”

The regime in Iran has ordered that women who are not wearing hijab will be forbidden from riding the Theran Metro (subway). Maybe they are afraid they, too, will experience a drought if they let women choose. Or perhaps they are like Barack Obama who, in  2009 said, “Moreover, freedom in America is indivisible from the freedom to practice one’s religion. That is why there is a mosque in every state in our union and over 1,200 mosques within our borders. That’s why the United States government has gone to court to protect the right of women and girls to wear the hijab and to punish those who would deny it.”

No word on when we can expect the same government to protect the rights of Christians.

On a related note, when the annual drought festival starts, perhaps pro-mask-mandated Democrat women across the state can take the spiritual advice of Mohammad-Mehdi Hosseini Hamedani and cover their heads and faces. You know, for the good of the community.

 

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In January of 2023, the EPA’s ENERGY STAR® “certified” a new Smart Grid product line with the potential for EPA-approved partnerships to make fabulous fortunes under a form of “Regulatory Capture” employed over electrical markets.

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The EPA claims their new Smart Home Energy Management System will save energy, save money, and the climate but fails to explain which source of scientific research was utilized by EPA for their government-owned energy management system that could be worth trillions of dollars. This isn’t a product that anyone could voluntarily purchase. It must be mandated for use by everyone.

To understand why the media imposed a total news blackout on the EPA’s new Smart Grid product line requires knowing a little about the obscure Office of Electricity that Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham created after a blackout had left 50 million customers in the dark back in 2003. The Office of Electricity was supposed to be all about securing America’s National Grid from cyber threats with a joint US and Canadian initiative, which appears to have morphed into something altogether different.

Gone from this DOE program was the typical language concerning cyber-security to protect our vital infrastructures. The Office of Electricity website now has an ‘about page’ speaking about the impact of implementing electrical deregulation from the 1990s before going on to disclose, this little-known DOE initiative had received hundreds of billions of dollars under Obama’s America Recovery and Reinvestment Act in 2009 – while it sought to address the uncertainty of future technological options and changing customers preferences and policies.

Which is Orwellian techno-babble designed to appear as if electrical customers actually wanted to purchase EPA’s superior goods and services.

The apparatchik had to suppress the new strategy of the Office of Electricity because the public would have questioned allowing private investors to contribute to “keeping the lights on more reliably and efficiently and reducing cost” in a scheme that had the DOE providing matching funds to private parties in a Smart Grid initiative that was directly tied to National Security policy issues.

What we’re talking about is one agency producing two distinctly different Smart Grid policies. One version by the Office of Electricity was to protect our national grid from penetration by a foreign actor. While the ENERGY STAR® Smart Home Energy Management System will expose American’s personal business and privacy to Samsung, a South Korean multinational that was the first corporation to receive certification for a Smart Energy application by the EPA.

The EPA claims their ENERGY STAR® brand is providing simple, unbiased, and credible information that customers rely on to make well-informed decisions, but can’t disclose when Congress authorized them to develop a business brand of products that had foreign entities competing against American businesses.

Back in 2003, DOE’s main policy objective was the reduction of electrical demand on our national grid, promoting the conservation of electricity in America’s Industrial Sector as the most cost-effective means for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Several major DOE research programs were operating in the Pacific NW. Those projects involved many of the same agencies and private sector players that had, in 2009, begun a Pacific NW Smart Grid Demonstration Project.

What the American people hadn’t realized was that DOE had dropped the pretense of trying to reduce GHG emissions and were now making money off of allowing corporations to pay for polluting.

By 2006, the original DOE policy of electrical conservation had been flipped upside down, and the new government policy had become all about carbon-credit trading schemes and pushing for Smart Grid applications that had less credibility than Bernie Madoff’s investment programs.

In 2009, Obama’s Energy Secretary Steve Chu released the EPA: Lead By Example guidelines, which directed state-level bureaucrats to claim that ENERGY STAR “certified” products were saving 25% to 50% more electrical energy than similar products. An easily provable lie!

Obama’s Energy Secretary Chu was now also in charge of the $100 billion Save Energy Now boondoggle, which funded 200 “industrial assessments” by universities to increase profits and productivity for a few select corporations. The media had to bury that fiasco in order to hide its connections to a much larger and far more corrupt initiative from back in 2003.

What was that secret?

The West Coast Governors Global Warming Pact was created in the wake of the California Energy Crisis of 2000-2001 when utilities used phony “Power Trades” and “Fiber Swaps” to drive up electric rates on the West Coast by 50% as authorities sat silent. The media had to bury the West Coast Governors scam because California’s disgraced governor Gray Davis was two weeks away from removal from office when he signed on to that secret pact.

The three governors created the West Coast Governors Global Warming Pact in 2003 after the US Senate had rejected the Kyoto Protocols. The Natural Resource Defense Council provided the sole media release on the West Coast Governors scam at the time, which didn’t contain a single word about California’s failed electrical deregulation plan, the Energy Crises, or that Governor Gray Davis had been recalled from office. It did include statements from Climate Solutions, a non-profit group that had just released its second Poised For Profit report on electrical energy efficiency and Smart Grid technologies.

At that time, Climate Solutions was operating the Harvesting Clean Energy program, which was allegedly searching for cost-effective energy solutions for industrial customers and corporate farms in Washington State.

Untold billions of tax-payer dollars were spent in the search for advanced energy-efficiency technologies, which was essentially all flushed down the toilet in favor of worthless Smart Grid efforts and bogus UN business-driven enterprises controlled by groups like the Clinton Global Initiative. While the average person couldn’t find a single informative article about our energy policies, universities are utilizing bogus data the public has never been allowed to question. Nobody could actually say what was being bought and sold, but if involves Smart Energy, there will always be a lot of green involved.

..

 

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It seemed like a good idea at the time. Not that long ago, Democrats were desperate to unseat the Republican president, the man responsible for such unbearable anguish among liberals and progressives. They saw Joe Biden as their best opportunity to do that.

They called him an elder statesman, a diplomat. They said he was experienced and well-respected. He was also gushing with promises to unite the country, but they didn’t really care about that. They just wanted to beat Trump.

Biden was none of the things they claimed. But they didn’t want to hear the truth. After choosing him, they closed their eyes to many red flags that began to pop up. They ignored the warning of Barack Obama’s Secretary of Defense, who wrote that Biden was “wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.” Even disturbing comments by Obama, himself, went unheeded. According to Politico, Obama said of Biden: “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f- things up.” Besides those clear warnings, questions were beginning to surface about Biden’s mental acuity. And credible allegations of influence peddling also began to percolate before his election. All of it was ignored by the press, the DNC and Democrat voters.

But that election is ancient history. Today, Democrats have real concerns about Biden’s ability to win another election. The man they once touted as their champion has become a burden, an anchor around the neck of the DNC. The polls confirm it. Americans across the board believe the country is on the wrong track, and less than 40 percent of Democrats want Biden to seek another term.

What’s behind Joe Biden’s reversal of fortune?

First, even committed Democrats can no longer deny Biden’s obvious confusion and mental decline. They’re realizing that elections do have consequences, and many have come to understand the catastrophic consequences of entrusting their lives, the lives of their families, and the country’s future to an addled and corrupt politician.

And though they may find it hard to admit, just like everyone else, they’re also feeling the economic pain of today’s high gas prices and rampant inflation. They know deep down that it was directly caused by Biden’s policies.

Likewise, Democrats are also parents. Many have school-age children. Like other parents, they must be livid about the increasing numbers of teachers robbing their children of their innocence, covertly introducing them to adult sexual practices of all kinds. They are, or should, be outraged by the insidious attempts to foster distrust between young students and their families, going so far as to encourage gender transition without the knowledge or consent of parents. And it must infuriate those parents when they’re labeled domestic terrorists for protecting their children, for forcefully objecting to those school policies.

Joe Biden backs the teachers’ unions and fully supports the sexualization of children. Asked to comment on Florida’s prohibition of transgender ideology in the classroom, he called the ban “almost sinful.”

Then there’s the border issue. Democrats have stood by silently as millions of unidentified foreign citizens continue to flood across Biden’s open border, a border that was secured by the last administration. Maybe they do see those illegal immigrants as future Democrat voters. But do those votes outweigh the death and suffering brought to America by the criminals and gang members hidden among Joe’s invitees? Do future Democrat voters outweigh the countless America deaths caused by the drugs freely flowing across the border? No doubt, many Democrats have already suffered because of Biden’s border policies. Besides all that, the threat of another major terrorist attack on American soil has increased significantly, thanks to Biden’s open borders. Surely, more than a few Democrats have been weighed down by those concerns.

It must have been a gargantuan effort for patriotic and well-meaning Democrats to support Joe’s weight for the past two years. To lighten their load, and for the good of the party, they had to shed many of their own convictions and perhaps a bit of their conscience. We have to wonder if, for them, there’s not one last straw that will finally break the camel’s back. What will it take for them to say they’ve had enough of Biden’s policies? Maybe it will be the growing anarchy spreading to their own neighborhoods, or the FBI infiltrating their own churches or synagogues.

Conscientious Democrats who are tired of carrying Biden’s weight might be asking themselves if they’re willing to again compromise their own integrity and common sense to support him through another election. They might even be questioning the likelihood that any Democrat president would reverse Biden’s policies and restore our country to normalcy – to the greatness it once was.

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Tell a lie, have a ton of witless followers, let them retell the lie, and this is how the Left controls this country. This narrative is why half of Americans have no idea what is happening, and this is why 35% of Americans think Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are doing a good job

This narrative is why Eric Swalwell is still in Congress.

Swalwell is a fraud, and he is an actual traitor. He had an affair with a Chinese spy, Fang Fang, and when he was alerted that the FBI was going to arrest her, he facilitated her speedy return to China before she could be detained. He was sleeping with Fang, a Communist Spy, exchanging pillow talk about his day on the Intelligence Committee. That Eric, is the act of a traitor or just another Representative from California.

Swalwell tweeted this about the 21-year-old alleged leaker from Massachusetts, Jack Teixeira: “FBI just caught one of the biggest traitors in America’s history, a right-wing anti-Semitic lunatic…”

We already addressed Swalwell calling anyone a traitor as laughable, but what facts does he have to make judgments about a man we know virtually little about? Swalwell is supposedly a lawyer but apparently skipped the class on innocent until proven guilty and don’t sleep with spies. They have to split that class up as it appears to have too much content for a man from California to comprehend.

Swalwell has a very active Twitter account. Let’s look at the impact of this one Tweet:

• 2.4 Million Views
• 9,685 Retweets
• 1,361 Quotes
• 41,000 Likes
• 264 Bookmarks 

That is tremendous attention for such a polarizing figure who loves to point his finger at anyone quickly but never takes personal accountability

Swalwell fails to point out that the FBI did not find and apprehend Teixeira. They arrested him at his parent’s home in Massachusetts only after his identity was discovered by the New York Times. He also fails to point out the deceit of the Biden Administration over the American people exposed in these documents. Swalwell does not comment on the weakness of our security system that a member of the Air National Guard could access and copy this sensitive data.

There are so many Tweets on Swalwell’s account that you wonder how he gets any of the people’s work done. That may be a good thing for his district, but the tone of many of his posts is accusatory. Swalwell always points a finger but rarely apologizes for his missteps or accepts accountability.

You would think that someone who has had so much negative press that they would keep a low profile. Not Eric. He assumes that people have very short attention spans and that his importance outweighs his faults. He could not be more wrong. He entered the Presidential Race in 2020 but did not last a week. There was nobody excited to see him on the debate stage or to see him drop out. He is a non-entity.

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RECENTLY, a bill to legalize recreational marijuana (HB 639) passed in the State House by a vote of 272-109. This was done on a Roll Call vote, which shows how each representative voted, and it is documented on the NH General Court website.

HB 639 will now go to the Senate for consideration.

The committee testimony delivered thus far by the bill’s sponsors we’ve heard before: focus on the tax revenue that marijuana sales could generate for critical services like schools, law enforcement, and drug addiction treatment programs; lament how we are currently losing out on potential revenue from surrounding legalized states; convince everyone that legalization is inevitable.

Guess what the bill’s sponsors never talk about? They don’t mention the decade of data we now have on what happens in states that legalize this federally prohibited drug because it highlights the tragic underbelly of recreational legalization. The data show significant rates of Cannabis Use Disorder in many age groups, starting as young as 12 years old, and off-the-chart rates of emergency room visits for those suffering a mental health crisis.

There are upticks in teen and veteran suicide rates, which also show that marijuana is the most prevalent substance found in post-mortem toxicology reports. There are explosive increases in child neglect cases and accidental child poisonings. In addition to all this, health professionals in states that have legalized marijuana are sounding the alarm on this public health train wreck. For more about what’s happening in Colorado and Vermont, read my Jan. 23, 2023, op-ed in NH Journal (bit.ly/3mgoIR0).

So what are three myths that our pro-legalization legislators are trying to sell us?

1. Legalizing recreational marijuana will reduce black market activity.

FACT: Recreational legalization does not curb black market activity in any way, particularly in states that tax the product. Oklahoma currently supplies the majority of black market marijuana in the US because they passed a law that allows for unlimited growth of medical marijuana products and criminal cartels immediately swarmed the state. Rest assured, the black market knows how to beat the retail price.

2. Legalization will bring in revenue for schools, law enforcement, and drug addiction treatment.

FACT: It is estimated that for every $1 legalization generates, it costs $4 to mitigate the negative fallout. Legalization results in an increased need for law enforcement produces more drug addicts who need treatment, increases crisis health care demand, results in more marijuana in middle and high schools, and increases the need for youth mental health services. Consider this solemn point: In order to make a substantial profit off marijuana, our state is going to have to sell a lot of it to its citizens. Moving this drug into the hands of the highest number of consumers is the business plan, which is objectively shocking from a public health standpoint.

3. Legalization is inevitable.

FACT: Legalization is not inevitable. Despite what we’re told by the marijuana lobby and activist legislators, recreational legalization is being rejected by states. As a matter of fact, over the past two years, there have been five states who have said no to this bad idea; North Dakota, South Dakota, Arkansas, Delaware, and Oklahoma. Oklahoma’s recent decision was particularly interesting because voters decisively rejected a recreational legalization ballot measure by more than 61% — despite the marijuana lobby outspending the pro-public health groups by millions of dollars. Oklahomans were already sold a bill of goods with regard to medical marijuana, and they were not ready to be fooled again.

Although New Hampshire has wisely held out on recreational legalization, our state has been under a nonstop onslaught for years from marijuana lobby groups and activist legislators who are willing to sacrifice public health over their own self-dealing financial interests in marijuana. To make matters even worse, our state is already selling highly-addictive, high-concentrate marijuana products that contain over 90% THC in our state-sanctioned Alternative Treatment Centers. In many respects, New Hampshire isn’t just poised to jump over a cliff with regard to recreational marijuana legalization; we’re already hanging on by our fingertips with our current laws.

Granite Staters deserve to have an objective, thorough debate on recreational marijuana legalization. We deserve to have legislators who uphold their solemn responsibility to act in the best interest of all citizens. Most importantly, Granite Staters deserve to have legislators who will not gaslight us with false promises.

It’s time for our elected representatives to learn a thing or two from former Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating when he said: “Well, it’s bad for brains, it’s bad for health, it’s very bad for children. So, what are we doing?”

Good question.

Now is the time for all of us to start asking our state senators, and Governor Chris Sununu, the very same thing.

 

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Last week the state got jiggy with the threat of wildfires. Warning! That’s always a concern when the weather improves, the snow melts, and folks start burning all the downed brush from winter storms. But is it that dry?

Related: 2023 Prediction: Drought Headlines Across the Region Regardless of the Weather

In some places, sure. Leaves from last autumn are still around. We had several late-season storms that left a lot of fuel in the form of branches, trees, and other flammable debris in the canopy and down on the ground. And let’s be realistic – it is always critically important to be responsible when you burn anything outdoors (assuming you are able).

Towns in NH have rules that require you to go to the local fire department to get a burn permit though those rules have improved. We used to have to go every time we wanted to burn; then the permits were for two weeks, and now – thanks to COVID, they write you a permit for the entire year. And while you used to have to call the local FD to make sure it was okay to burn, you can check the state Forestry Twitter feed, and if they are good, you are good.

Burn but responsibly no matter what, so what’s what so far in 2023?

We are slightly above the 120-year average through March.

According to NOAA, New Hampshire has received 10.69 inches of precipitation through March. The 120-year mean 1895-2023 is 9.73 inches.

 

January was well above average.

 

February was below average.

 

March was Baby Bear. Just right (9/10th of an inch above the 120+ year mean.

Looking forward, April has been much wetter in recent years, with May and June much drier.

July – wet.

But we’re in an El Nino year, which – as I noted here – might mean below-average precipitation this summer. I don’t have NOAA’s predictive bucket of partisan goat entrails, but I took another quick look at the trends and could see no El Nino, La Nina pattern for the Granite State.

We can make a general observation. Precipitation has been higher during the modern warming period (which has ended).

 

 

Annual totals have been down since then, along with the flattening of tide gauge data off the coast of Portsmouth.

 

 

 

But let’s not get distracted. The media drought festival is coming! Time to manipulate the locals into using less water which – honestly, thanks to political priorities that have driven up the cost of this sometimes human right, they are likely doing already.

And don’t forget the progressive golden rule of science. Your experts are partisans “on the take,” while theirs are not.

 

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My father taught me much of what I came to believe. Because of him, I lived the first 66 years of my life with the naive belief that this country was exceptional. Because of him, I learned always to question authority. Because of him, I learned that there are some things worth fighting for.

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I love him for all of that. He is a part of my very being. I miss him terribly; I wanted to talk to him so many times during the last three years. But he was lucky; he left this world still naively believing in the exceptionalism of this country. Unfortunately, I have lost my naiveness.

Three years ago, when the governor decreed that we were not allowed to leave our houses, that we were not allowed to go to work, that our children were not allowed to go to school, and so on and so on, I literally lost my breath. I could not breathe; I was in a state of shock, disbelief. I suddenly understood how someone like Hitler could come to power. And then I became afraid, not of a virus, but of my government and my fellow citizens. I forever lost my sense of security; my country, my fellow citizens, was no better than any other nation throughout history. I think that has been the worst loss for me…no longer believing in my country.

So now you are asking, ”what is historic about April 18?” On April 18, 2020, I attended my first protest at the age of 66. I started to breathe again as we approached the state house in Concord, and I saw the hundreds of other Americans who understood what was happening and that it was all wrong.

On July 3, 1776, the day before we declared our independence, the colonists had more freedoms than we had in April 2020. The colonists could breathe fresh, clean air without covering their faces; the colonists could break bread with their friends in person; the colonists could worship in person; the colonists could comfort family in person. Overnight we had lost all those freedoms and so much more; it seemed to me that no one cared.

Luckily I was wrong. From the hell of our covid tyranny did come the brave organizers of that protest, who went on to create ReopenNH, now known as RebuildNH. I am eternally grateful to them. They helped an old woman to breathe again; they helped an old woman to believe again; they helped an old woman to find her courage. They are heroes, 21st-century patriots. They gave me back my life. Thank you.

As the old adage says, “Freedom is not free.” It is fragile and fleeting. It must be fought for every single day by every one of us.

“We the People” must find the courage to be free, to resist the allure of socialist propaganda, aka tyranny. Otherwise, I fear that this greatest experiment of humankind will “perish from the earth.”

 

Editor: Here are a few of the many archived images from that day.

 

 

 

 

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Convenient events have transpired while your government advances speech-stifling legislation. The Teixeira leak arrives as The Restrict Act, a law peddled as addressing the security concerns surrounding TikTok, advances to undermine your first amendment rights.

Because, as J.B. Shurk at American Thinker reminds us, you are the biggest threat to their power.

 

For years, conservative websites struggled to survive financially as shadowbans and stealth blacklisting eliminated advertising revenues and throttled user engagement.  Online trolls infiltrated comment sections posting inflammatory content that could be used as false flag justifications to legally threaten or otherwise punish conservative forums.  Conservative content creators and their readers strenuously objected to the organized censorship war being waged against them, but few politicians, reporters, or pundits cared.

Now the cat is out of the bag, and neither government agencies nor their corporate co-conspirators are hiding their embrace of viewpoint discrimination.  The FBI continues to flag more language — including words as innocuous as “red pill,” “based,” and “Chad” — as extremist rhetoric.  Google blocked Right Side Broadcasting Network from covering President Trump’s Democrat-engineered Manhattan arraignment on YouTube, claiming that the censorship was necessary to combat “elections misinformation.”  A revolving door now exists to fill social media companies with employees from the ranks of the FBI, CIA, and Homeland Security.  Meanwhile, Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum has announced the hiring of millions of “information warriors” tasked with the mission to “seize control of the Internet” and serve as “digital first-responders” combating “misinformation.”

 

The deservedly maligned Restrict Act has arrived to systematize this oppression.

 

The Restrict Act is nothing short of a betrayal of our democracy, as it seeks to impose a digital Iron Curtain, allow the government to monitor our every move, censor our online speech, and crush any dissent under the guise of national security. The Restrict Act is an affront to… pic.twitter.com/2MMa82fHKN

— Tulsi Gabbard (@TulsiGabbard) April 13, 2023

Sundance at The Conservative Treehouse reminds us that the recent leak of classified information alleged to have exposed lies about the war in Ukraine is likely itself an op, or at the very least, a crisis they won’t let go to waste.

 

The intel leak is the operation created by the Intelligence Community to support new expanded powers for the Fourth Branch of Government.  It should not be a surprise to discover the institution now leading the charge to give more power for U.S. intel agencies, is…. wait for it…  The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. …

According to SSCI Chairman Mark Warner, ‘The Restrict Act’ will give more power and authorities to the Executive Branch to deal with internet danger.  Now the SSCI sees the classified intel leaks as evidence for the importance of the Restrict Act.

 

Undercover DC ads,

 

It’s a sneaky way to push Restrict Act legislation to a vote, (like the lynching bill Smollett-Harris)
It’s worse than the Patriot Act & written by Mark Warner. It’ll end citizen journalism. Natl security isn’t an issue. Didn’t a large balloon gather data above military bases? pic.twitter.com/KBKTVMc0Yz

— Congress Needs Mandatory Retirement Law (@PhillipsNanl) April 14, 2023

 

Here’s the screen grab from Kash Patel.

 

 

 

No way, indeed. To quote Baby Herman from Roger Rabbit, it stinks like yesterday’s diapers. But the Restrict Act is real, and while we have, at least numerically, a Republican majority in Congress, expecting them to step up and block this in any meaningful way – useless amendments are expected to put a patina on this tyrannical turd – is a fantasy.

And it won’t stop intel leaks. Hillary’s abuse of protocol gave everything that passed through her home-cooked server to the Chinese government in real-time. For all we know, that was deliberate.

Democrats hate America, and they hate you. As J.B. Shurk noted, “Make no bones about it: the federal government’s number-one worry is you.” They can control everything else, so you are job number one, and the Restrict Act gets them closer than they’ve ever been.

 

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Dear Paul Halvorsen, After receiving the letter from Stephen Endres in your office, who states that there are no records of Merrimack County Prosecutor Catherine Ruffle being informed by Concord City Council member Amanda Grady Sexton of witness tampering by former AG Michael Delaney during the trial of NH v Owen Labrie (which had been claimed by NH State witness Chessy Prout in her letter to the US Senate Judiciary Committee in Jan/February 2021), I looked into contacting the Administrative Offices per your original email suggestion.

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However, the only contact is Catherine Ruffle herself: https://www.courts.nh.gov/your-visit/find-court/merrimack-superior-court

I believe that you, as a publicly elected official, have a responsibility to pursue justice even for misconduct which preceded your tenure and even if it involves those who still work in positions as public officials with your court or with the City of Concord.

I draw your attention to the following statement:

“While the Board of County Commissioners is generally responsible for overseeing all aspects of county government, the elected County Attorney is solely responsible for overseeing the functions of the County Attorney’s office, including its investigative, prosecutorial and law enforcement functions,” Commissioners Chairwoman Tara Reardon wrote in a letter distributed Monday.

Catherine Ruffle was Merrimack County Superior Court Prosecutor. She is the Clerk for Merrimack County Superior Court.

Amanda Grady Sexton is the Chair of the City of Concord Council’s Public Safety Committee, on the Rules Committee, and she is the Director of Public Affairs for the NHCADSV, which trains police in “best practices”. She works with police and prosecutors to shape the message pretrial per her own statements in the NCVLI publication “Pretrial Publicity Friend or Foe – Advice for the Experts,” which she co-authored with Steven J Kelly.
Steven J Kelly is an attorney who was introduced to the criminal trial of NH v Owen Labrie courtesy of Concord Police Detective Julie Curtin, who introduced Laura L Dunn (who introduced Kelly) to the Prout family, having taken instruction from her at UNH in Spring 2015. This is documented in articles in the Union Leader, Women’s Media Center, and State Witness Chessy Prout’s “memoir” – “I Have the Right To” with introduction by Congresswoman Ann Kuster.

Police Detective Julie Curtin was a police officer for the City of Concord at the time of the investigation into Owen Labrie, at the time of his trial, at the time of his appeal, and worked under AG Gordon MacDonald’s direction in 2018 and 2019 when Gordon MacDonald represented the State to deny both Owen Labrie’s Supreme Court Appeals.  Gordon MacDonald also blocked the release of corrupt police officers’ names from being made public, and his deputy AG, Geoffrey Ward, deleted the files of 28 or more police officers before the Laurie List was published.  Gordon MacDonald has had to recuse himself from cases involving corrupt police officers in his position as New Hampshire Supreme Court Chief Justice.

Police Detective Julie Curtin received a complaint about her that was denied by the NH Supreme Court in 2006.

Police Detective Julie Curtin admitted in the trial of Owen Labrie that she was trying to “catch” him and to get him to make a statement before rumors spread. The records show very clearly that Police Detective Julie Curtin did not abide by professional codes of conduct and that she falsified a SANE nurse report (corrected by the SANE nurse in the trial) for her affidavit which she then used to obtain electronic Facebook/texts etc. which she then tampered with causing the defense to provide unredacted versions.

Police Detective Julie Curtin obtained files from St Paul’s School without a warrant (documented by Lacy Crawford in her memoir “Notes on a Silencing”), which she did while she was working at the direction of AG Gordon MacDonald and Assistant AG Jane Young during the Grand Jury Criminal Investigation of St Paul’s School which yielded not only a contract for the NHCADSV but also several suits for Chuck Douglas (Chair of the NH Judicial Selection Committee) and Amanda Grady Sexton’s partner Steven J Kelly Esq.

Concord Police Chief Bradley Osgood admitted last year in an unrelated federal case that the City of Concord approves budgets for police investigations and payments to witnesses for the Grand Jury – leaving Judge Landya McAfferty quite astonished, per Concord Monitor, at the lack of regard for ethics and codes of conduct.

Police Detective Julie Curtin was the investigator into Primo “Howie” Leung at Concord Schools, and yet your office has not prosecuted that case for four years, and the investigation appears to be left hanging after Curtin’s initial report.

Police Detective Julie Curtin admitted to Lacy Crawford, per Lacy Crawford’s public accounts, that she is aware of backdoor deals regarding St Paul’s School. Not only is she aware of them, but my research indicates that she is a beneficiary of them and that there is most likely a kickback scheme going on that involves Police Detective Julie Curtin, Amanda Grady Sexton/NHCADSV, Prosecutor Catherine Ruffle, civil attorneys and the AG’s office itself.

For the record, I was contacted in February or March 2020 by an alum of St Paul’s School who was the victim of an intercept call orchestrated by Detective Julie Curtin, who had obtained the files of an old girlfriend of his from his time at St Paul’s School, cold called her and then trained her for an intercept call to this man. He was threatened with criminal charges but advised that he could avoid these if he paid a significant amount of money – which he did.

For the record, I was contacted in February or March 2023 by an attorney out of state who had represented one of the complainants against Primo “Howie” Leung in a civil case against the Fessenden School Massachussetts. That suit was rejected by the judge and the attorney who contacted me suspected misconduct by Detective Julie Curtin in her role in the case. The attorney who took on the complainant was referred to her by Wadleigh Starr who brought the civil suit against Concord School District even though Robin Melone of Wadleigh Starr had been dropped from the investigation because of her role in defending Owen Labrie and Wadleigh Starr’s knowledge of Detective Julie Curtin’s misconduct in NH v Owen Labrie (evident in the motion for a retrial).

RULE 3.8 for PROSECUTORS:

I believe you are familiar with Rule 3.8 of the Prosecutor’s Code of Conduct regarding extra-judiciary comments either directly or indirectly via people working with police and prosecutors.  I believe by now you will also be familiar with Concord Councilwoman Amanda Grady Sexton’s very public statements about her role in shaping the message pretrial for police and prosecutors as well as Catherine Ruffle’s daughter, Brooke Ruffle’s Facebook post calling for her mother to go and get some “rapist butt” under a photograph of Owen Labrie as her mother was headed into a retrial hearing in February 2017.

What kind of operation is Merrimack County Superior Court to not admonish that kind of behavior from a Prosecutor and her family and for that prosecutor to fail to remove that post and then become a clerk of the court? Under the Facebook post there were other posts seeking for Owen Labrie to rot in jail, to die etc. Catherine Ruffle did not remove these at the time (and they may still be there. I and others have screenshots).

Why is it that nobody takes action against those who violate public trust by violating rule 3.8 as Catherine Ruffle so very clearly did by working with Amanda Grady Sexton to shape the message pre criminal trial, during criminal trial and post criminal trial of NH v Owen Labrie?

Rule 3.8 was violated again when Chuck Douglas, Steve Silverman and Steven Kelly worked with Amanda Grady Sexton to shape the media message in Doe/Prout v St Paul’s School.

Rule 3.8 was violated again when Gordon MacDonald, AG for New Hampshire, worked with Amanda Grady Sexton for the news publicity of the Grand Jury Criminal Investigation into St Paul’s School which yielded a contract for the NHCADSV and the placement of an ex police officer inside the school who would report to AG Gordon MacDonald.

Why is it that Merrimack County Courts, officials for the City of Concord Council, its police, local attorneys and the AG’s office under Gordon MacDonald have absolutely no regard for Rule 3.8?

[5] Paragraph (f) supplements Rule 3.6, which prohibits extrajudicial statements that have a substantial likelihood of prejudicing an adjudicatory proceeding. In the context of a criminal prosecution, a prosecutor’s extrajudicial statement can create the additional problem of increasing public condemnation of the accused. Although the announcement of an indictment, for example, will necessarily have severe consequences for the accused, a prosecutor can, and should, avoid comments which have no legitimate law enforcement purpose and have a substantial likelihood of increasing public opprobrium of the accused. Nothing in this Comment is intended to restrict the statements which a prosecutor may make which comply with Rule 3.6(b) or 3.6(c).

[6] Like other lawyers, prosecutors are subject to Rules 5.1 and 5.3, which relate to responsibilities regarding lawyers and nonlawyers who work for or are associated with the lawyer’s office. Paragraph (f) reminds the prosecutor of the importance of these obligations in connection with the unique dangers of improper extrajudicial statements in a criminal case. In addition, paragraph (f) requires a prosecutor to exercise reasonable care to prevent persons assisting or associated with the prosecutor from making improper extrajudicial statements, even when such persons are not under the direct supervision of the prosecutor. Ordinarily, the reasonable care standard will be satisfied if the prosecutor issues the appropriate cautions to law- enforcement personnel and other relevant individuals. [link]

Compare the above excerpts of Rule 3.8 with Amanda Grady Sexton’s statements in this article, where she talks about the dangers of live reporting, important editorial decisions, keeping tabs on the media, and using the trial as an opportunity:

And Amanda Grady Sexton’s statements and bio statements here.

“The NH Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence often hears from victims and their attorneys who are heading into court and are looking for advice about pretrial publicity and ways to influence media coverage throughout the trial. In recent years, New Hampshire has had a number of sexual assault and domestic violence cases that have captured the attention of the national news media. As a result, the Public Affairs team at NHCADSV has developed strategies or proactively working to shape the media’s coverage of crime. Publicity of any kind can be a mixed-bag, but when used effectively, pretrial publicity can be a powerful tool for creating a narrative and controlling a message.”  -Amanda Grady Sexton

She has provided national training to prosecutors, civil attorneys, law enforcement officials and victim advocates on crisis communications, message development, and effective strategies for working with the media.

Take into consideration that Merrimack County Superior Court issued a restriction on media reporting from the trial of NH v Owen Labrie after a motion was filed that included the NHPR Journalist Paige Sutherland’s innocuous tweets. So the civil attorneys who worked with Amanda Grady Sexton and WMUR (Merrimack County Superior Court gave exclusive TV rights to WMUR (Amanda Grady Sexton’s husband is the Political Director of WMUR) got an NHPR journalist restricted while Susan Zalkind for Vice Media was welcomed and was given the Prout/Doe v St Paul’s civil suit before the school was served, as was the Concord Monitor and NBC Today Show.

Take into consideration that between the verdict of NH v Owen Labrie and the Sentencing of NH v Owen Labrie, Amanda Grady Sexton (whose organization, the NHCADSV, is a beneficiary of the Adam Walsh Act Sex Offender Registration Management Federal Grants)used her public official title to pen the following Op-Ed.

For the record, Amanda Grady Sexton orchestrated a national social media and phone call campaign to block ABC/GMA from airing an interview with Owen Labrie in July 2019, which had content that would have exposed attempts to bribe Owen Labrie.  Her efforts to shut this program down just so happened to coincide with the mediation of a lawsuit against Dartmouth College by Steven J Kelly Esq & Chuck Douglas Esq (Rapuano & Does v Dartmouth). That mediation resulted in a settlement a couple of weeks later, in early August 2019, for $14 million, of which the NHCADSV appears to have received $2.865 million (20%) while Chuck Douglas Esq & Steven J Kelly Esq received $4.9 million.

The Rapuano & Does suit led to the suicide of Professor David Bucci, who was mentioned 31 times in the lawsuit whose publicity was paid for using a grant from Times Up LDF/NWLC, which shares the same PR company (SKDK) as “Its On Us” which worked with the Prout Family, NHCADSV to block ABC/GMA from airing the interview with Owen Labrie.

The NHCADSV and Dartmouth both have non-profit obligations to the State of New Hampshire to report conflicts of interest. Governor Sununu is on the board of the Board of Trustees at Dartmouth, and he approves the budget for the NHCADSV, whose IRS form 990s are opaque, to say the least.

I firmly believe that Professor Bucci would not have been driven to suicide had Amanda Grady Sexton not abused her position as a public official to deny Owen Labrie his first amendment rights and to speak for himself on ABC/GMA.  The misconduct of civil attorneys would have been exposed, the misconduct of Concord Police would have been exposed, and the false statements of the NHCADSV and prosecutors would have been exposed.

You have a duty to the public interest.

 

 

Editor: This email to Merrimack County Attorney Paul Halvorsen has been very lightly edited (links embedded, punctuation/style) with minor reformatting for publication in this space. Emphasis is in the original.

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

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

Means and Malice

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

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

Wolf begins connecting some dots.

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

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

Mandates and Manipulation

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

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

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

Mens Rea

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

 

HT | RCSB

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

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

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

 

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

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

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

My reply to FGT:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

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

Remember, ridicule and mockery are effective weapons:

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

Now, let the mockery and mayhem begin.

 

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

 

 

 

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From this blog post:

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

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

Start planning now.

 

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Internet Of Bodies | The End Of Privacy

 

 

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

Where is your survival instinct?

 

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

But it’s not idiocy, it’s vanity.

 

 

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

In an essay here, I quoted the Dune universe:

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

― BRIAN HERBERT, HOUSE HARKONNEN

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

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

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

 

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PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA

 

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

Since 2018, apparently.

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

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

 

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Pick of the post:

 

 

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

 

 

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

Explain it to me like I’m five.

 

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Palate Cleansers:

 

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Escher is gleeful.

 

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

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

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

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

 

 

Cancel Culture Hits Concord

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

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

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

 

Visit NHPatriotHub.org for News & Information

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

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

 

 

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

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

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

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

Cuts are baked in and inevitable.

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

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

Joy!

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

 

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

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

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

— Jack Poso (@JackPosobiec) April 13, 2023

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

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

Tennessee Representative Justin J. Pearson is a total fraud

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

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) April 11, 2023

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